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I ISFMAIN CROFT A Deficiency in Nearly Every Country 011 the Continent. The Losses Will Have to be Made Up by the United States, The United States hopes to reap some benefit from the misfortuno of Europe in the failure of her grain crops. Mr. James H. Smith, the Commercial Agent of the State Department at Mayc-nce, says in a recent report that this country wm nave 10 do looked to to supply the European deficiency. The average wheat crop of Europe annually from 18S1 to 1S86 is put at 1,211,072,102 bushels; in 18S8 the crop amounted to 1,210,370,925 bushels. This year it is estimated to be about 15 per cent. less. The grain harvests of Austria-Hungary are said to ba the worst of the last decennary. The consequence is that Hungary lias a deficit of about 12,000,000 hectoliters "(34,000,000 bushels) in wheat, and Austria about 3,000,000 hectoliters, making a total* of 42,600,000 bushels for tho Austro-Hungariau Empire; 31,240,000 bushel^of ryo less, 34,080,000 bushels of barley less, and 31,210,000 bushels less of oats than in 1888. Austria-Hungary is ono of the countries to which those countries of Europe which do not produce grain enough for their own needs look for their supplies; but Austria-Hungary will have no wheat to export this year, or at the most very little, which may be made possible by an abundant potato crop, leading the people to use potatoes much in the place of bread. In rye and oats there will be no capacity to export. In Prussia the harvest did not come up to original expectations. Rye turn 3d out to be better than for several years past, but in wheat, barley and oats the yield vras not up to that of the preceding year. Wheat gave . 87 per cent, of an average harvest; rye, 87; barley, S2, and oats, ta. In Silesia more wheat was cultivated than before, but the yield was only 75 per cent, of an average harvest. Rye is officially put at 75 per cent, in the estimates, but that figure is thought to be too high. Silesia requires a great deal of rye, and will be compelled to impart a considerable quantity. Barley did very poorly, and the product is much worse than that "of the year before. For a fine yield of potatoes the prospects in Silesia are good. The Saxon wheat crop is estimated to be 80 per cent, of an average harvest, the rye crop 70 per cent. Barley and oats are reported to be satisfactory. Germany never produces grain enough for its own consumption, and has always to look abroad for a large supply?to AustriaHungary, Russia,Roumania,the United States and India. This year Austria-Hungary will not be able to supply her, aud Russia and Roumania have experience unfavorable harvests, the Russian wheat crop being about one-half as much as they harvested last year. Potatoes, fortunately, promise well, and when bread becomes dear poor people turn to them for their sustenance. The Russian crops have been on the whole poor, and it is remarkable that those districts which showed the best results last make the worst showing this year. Bessarabia has harvested but one-third of a crop this year, while last year the yield was 125 per cent. Likewise unfavorable are the reports from the Charkow, Poltava, Kursk and Kiew districts, which had good harvests last yoar. Hie quality of the grain, however, is fine. In northern districts the wheat crops have been better, but an average crop was not reached in any one of them. The rye and barley crops were a little better than the wheat crops, but not much. The wheat yield of the different countries in percentages, the average crop being taken as 100 per cent, shows the following comparison between this year aud last: Country. 1S.13. 2S38. Austria W3 107 Hungary 72 110 Prussia t>7 01 Knrmiv S'f) Franconia and Punbin 105 87 Eavaria S$ !() > j Bavaria, Palatinate 85 75 j Baden i-o bo Wurtoinburg?Spring wheat... . 01 13 " Summer wheat.D3 94 I Italy 80 75 Switzerland 100 78 v France 103 SO , England 100 7(3 Poland 85 Bessarabia 30 135 Cherson 70 130 Central Russia 50 90 Moldavia B0 130 Wallachia 70 110 Egypt 70 110 The average in wheat for all Europe is 81 this year, compared to 93 iu 1883 and 110.5 in 1887. i AT TEE WHIPPING POST. Thirteen L<ashes Laid Upon a Wife Beater's Back. John Eisenburger, who was sentenced at Baltimore, Md., to thirteen lashes and a term of thirty days in jail for brutally beating his wife, has been introduced to the whipping post. Eisenburger was brought out from his cell clad in only trousers and shirt. The latter was removed, and Eisenburger was forced against the crosslike post with his back ex posed. His legs were fastened to the post | and his arms were stretched along the cross- j piece, his hands being fastened, one to each end, thus stretching his skin and rendering I it more susceptible to the lash. The preliminaries were quickly arranged, and Deputy Sheriff Roseman, mounting the ' platform and raising his arm slightly aloft, brought down the lash with a sharp, quick movement upon the bare back. A great long welt showed where it had fallen. Eisenburger winced, gritted his teeth, and then set himself to receive the other twelve lashes. They fell at short, regular intervals of about one second each until the bakers dozen ordered by the court had been administered. Eisenburger endured the ordeal without a murmur, never opening his mouth throughout the whipping. There were thirteen fresh welts across his back, which were rather gory looking, the blood having spurted from the places where the ends of the cat struck and broke fhe skin. TURNED INTO TRAGEDY. A Terrible Accident. Results from a Proposed Gas Well Display. The citizens of Jerome, a small town in Indiana, arranged for a gas well display the other night, and took for the purpose the Diamond Plate Glass well, just drilled there, and the strongest well in the State. A sixtyfoot four-inch pipe was laid from the well, and to this was attached a four-foot elbow vertically. When the torch was applied the end which projected upward was pushed over on the ground and the immense pressure hurled the sixty feet of pipe among the spectators with terrible force. Most of the younger people in the crowd oWa fn occona fvnm fVio rnnrirKr flomec which burst from the pipe, but several were caught. Among these were Chusa Warmon, pastor of the Friends' Church. The flames struck him full in the face, and he fell to the ground a corpse. He was burned to a crisp. Frank La Rue's leg was broken. John Hague was fatally burned, the flesh falling from his body. Hiram Overman's skull was crushed in the flight for life. He was dead when found. The little town was in mourning. The flag on the village ball was nailed at half mast and all business was suspended. FATAL FAMILY FEUD. Three Killed and Three Wounded, in \Vest Virginia. A bloody family feud is now raging in Lincoln County, "W. Va. Floyd Dingess, a son of a justice of the peace and a prominent man, married one of the Hall girls. Ho quarrelled with his wife. They separated, and the next day Dingess and his wife's brother met, and Dingess was shot dead. Alfred Blumfield had married Dingess's sister. He swore to be avenged on Hall and fatally wounded one of the Hall brothers. A few days ago Brumfield and his wife were waylaid and Mrs. Brumfield was shot through the head and died. Brumfield was terribly wounded. Two days later Purvis Brumfield was shot. Then George Dingess, a brother of Brumfleld's wife, was shot through the leg in a fight with one of the opjf* jpeeing party. , * ' THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Kastern and Middle States. The Bishops of the Episcopal General Convention held in New York city adopted the eighteen resolutions involving changes in the prayer-book and the House of Deputies passed sixteen of them. General Lester B. Faulkner's trial at I Buffalo, N. Y., on a charge of making a false report of the condition of the Danville National Bank to the Comptroller of the Curj rency, resulted in a verdict of guilty, and he j was sentenced to seven years1 imprisonment. The 250th anniversary of the settlement 1 of the town of Stratford, Conn., was cele! brated by great popular rejoicings, and the ! unveiling of the soldiers' and sailors' monu! ment. An explosion in the Scottdale Iron aud Steel Works, Penn., killed one man, and | badly burned two others. j By the fall of a staging at a church in I Rockville, Conn., one man was killed and ! another fatally injured. The Mount Mansfield Hotel atStowe, Vt., '< has been burned to the ground. The loss is $105,000. The cause of the fire is unknown. The President has appointed Stephen Moffitt to be Collector of Customs for the District of Champlain, N. Y. The delegates to the International Congress visited the chief places of interest in I Aifw'c inefifiifi'nnc worp insnpnt^d. and some of the delegates made speeches. Three Chinese highbinders tortured one of their countrymen almost to death in New York city for refusing to tell where his employer's money was hidden. The Protestant Episcopal Convention at New York city adopted the proposed change in the Prayer Book in connection with the Nicene Creed. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, has ; arrived at New York from Europe. The Rev. Dr. Talmage is about to start for Palestine, to be gone two months. His object is to obtain fresh material for use in a life of Christ, which he is writing. His pulpit in Brooklyn will be supplied by ministers from other cities. John Fitzgerald, alias Liverpool Jack, convicted of kidnapping men in New York city and sending them to become virtually ! slaves in Central America, has been sentenced j to nine years in Sing Sing prison. i Samuel W Hodges, an ex-Alderman of I Boston, was run over by a team at Stoughton, Mass., and instantly killed. The three-story brick building of Oliver Brothers' mill inPittsburg, Penn., has been burned. Loss $300,000. In the election which has been held in Connecticut, the prohibitory amendment was defeated. The New York Committee on Finance of the International Exposition of 1892 have made a report suggesting that a public subscription be taken for a preliminary fund of 15,000,000. The General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of North America has met in convention at Pittsburg, Penn. The Council embraces S46 churches ana ~'ou,wu members. South and West. A terrible explosion has occurred in the Calumet and Hecla copper mine at Red Jacket, Mich., by which three men were instantly killed, two fatally injured and seven more badly hurt. Charles Sanders, colored farm hand, was shot and instantly killed by his employer, David Strange, in Woodford County, Ky., because the man had cursed him. Charles Hartman, a saloon keeper at Sandusky, Ohio, shot and fatally wounded his wife and then killed himself. Jealousy was the cause. Smallpox is raging at Socorro, New Mexico, and eighty-seven fatalities are reported. The city is quarantined. Fire bugs are again at work in Helena. Mont. The old vigilante warning, u3-7-77," is posted on the sheets, and special officers are searching for the fiends. The savage warfare between the McCoys and Hatfields, the two Kentucky factions, has been renewed, and a number of people have been killed. In a railroad wreck, eight miles from Rome, Ga., the fireman and a brakeman were killed, and the engineer was fatally injured. The trial of Boyle, the Catholic priest at Raleigh, N. C., for felonious assault, has ended in his conviction and sentence to death. Felix Kampf cut his son and daughter to death at Charleston, W. Va. He was drunk, and the children refused him shelter. By the bursting of a boiler near St. Thomas, Dakota, three men were killed and one fatally injured. Later returns from Montana give a Democratic majority of seven on joint ballot in the Legislature. Toole (Dem.J, for Governor, has a majority of about 800. Carter (Rep ), for Congress, has a majority of about 1200. General Chalmers, Republican candidate for Governor of Mississippi, has withdrawn. By the bursting of a steam pipe in the Galaxy flour mills of Minneapolis, Prank Banks, assistant engineer, and Joseph Evans, fireman, wore killed. George T. Rice, an aeronaut, made a balloon ascension and parachute descent at Mount Vernon, Ohio. In dropping he fell into the Ohio River, and was drowned. It was his 100th ascension. Mrs. Fritz Katz, a young wife, poured a half bottle of carbolic acid down her baby's throat and then swallowed the remainder herself. Both are dead. The mother is supposed to have been crazed by sickness. Tl'achino'tnn. Tee Postmaster-General has appointed David P. Liebbardt, of Indiana, buperintendent of tha Dead Letter Office, Post Office Department, at $2500 per annum. The new Chinese Minister has presented his credentials to the President. The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed Sidney G. Brock, of Missouri, to be Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. The Swiss Government has made an apology to the United States for the indignity offered to Charles E. Coates, who was arrested and confined in a filthy cell without, any charge having been perferred against him. Edward O. Leech, of the District of Columbia, has been appointed Director of the Mint, vice Dr. J. P. Kimball. The President has made the following apSointments: Cyrus Anderson, of Kansas, to e Register of the Laud Office at Oberlin, Ivan.; Alfred Lundvall, of Nebraska, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Religh, Neb.; Charles R. Drake, of Arizona, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Tucson, Arizona. United States District Attorney Owen A. Galvin, of Boston, has sent his resignation to the President. Senor Camaano, lately President of Ecuador, has arrived in Washington. He is accredited as the Ecuador delegate to the Pan; American Congress, and to the Maritime Conference. Foreign. The First Regiment, Connecticut National Guard, accompaniod by Governor Bulkeley J and Senator Hawley, arrived at Montreal. I Boulanqist leaders were attacked and | beaten with sticks at a political meeting in Paris. The British steamer Ernmoor went to the bottom in a West India hurricane and nineteen men were drowned. Seven of the crew j were rescued after three weeks' struggle in an opeu boat. E. C. Baker, represeuting Victoria, B. C., in the Dominion Parliament, resigned his seat as a protest against British inaction in regard to the Behrins: Sea seizures. The Earl of Zetland, tlie new Viceroy of Ireland, took the oath of office at Dublin Castle. The harbor laborers at Plensburg, GerI many, went on strike, leaving many vessels to remain unloaded. Sir "William Tindal Robinson*, a blind j member of the British House of Commons, ! committe1 suicide in a fit of insanity at Brighton, England. Flames in the business section of Antwerp. Belgium, destroyed twenty houses, causing a heavy loss. Thirty farmers, tenants on the Smith Barry estate in ^ipperary, Ireland, were arrested for refusing to pay market tolls to their landlord. The next French Chamber, according to the tast estimates, will stand: #02 to 866 R<? i i publicans, 100 Royalists, 58 Bon&partiste, 4S Boulan gists. General Boulanger has removed himself and his effects from London to the Island of Jersey. A terrific gale has prevailed in the Irish Sea, causing a large number of shipwrecks. The British gunboat Enterprise was wrecked on the Island of Anglesea, North Wales, during the recent galo. Everybody on board was saved. The steamship City of Paris reports that on her passage eastward her decks were swept by heavy seas. A female steerage passenger and her child were swept overboard and drowned, and ten other passengers were severely injured. The Grand Jury of Kingston, Ontario, has returned a true bill in the case of Twitchell, son of the United States Consul there, charged with burglary and assault. Six Chinese highbinders were executed as the result of a conspiracy at Sarawak, a British settlement at Borneo. T. Tandy, General Freight Agent of the Grand Trunk Railroad, dropped dead at Montreal, Canada, of heart disease. Boxes of poisoned candy were sent to three clergymen in St. John, New Brunswick. Mrs. Macrae, wife of one of the clergymen, died in great agony. The United States warship Galena has arrived at the island of Navassa, where the fatal riot recently occurred. A terrible hurricane has visited the island of Sardinia, in the Mediterranean Sea. One hundred persons were buried in the debris of buildings shattered by the storm and thirtv oersons were killed. t a rrrp-d ATTWO Jjill J-lXl XI Jj IT kJi The New York Electrical Execution law, which came up before Judge Day at Auburn on a habeas corpus proceeding in the case J of Keinmler, the Buffalo murderer, has been sustained. Thz Triennial National Congregational Council opened in Worcester, Mass. Fire in the wholesale grocery establish- j ment of William Edwards & Co., Cleveland, j Ohio, destroyed the upper part of the build- j iug and most of the stock. Loss $l!i5,000. Attorxey-Ge.veral Rogers, of Louisi- j ana, has made public the statement that I Major Burke, ex-State Treasurer, deliber- j ately issued or failed to destroy State securi- j ties to the amount of $400,000. Major Burke j is now in England. Mayor Orvvan, of Horace, Kansas, was | burned to death in the caboose of a freight train cn the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The caboose caught fire from the engine of a passenger train. Four successive failures of crops in Stevens County, Kansas, have rendered the people there destitute. There is an epidemic of typhoid fever at Aurora, W. Va., and in that vicinity. Scarcely enough people to nurse the sick remain well. The magni/icent stone residence of Clem Studebaker at South Bend, Ind., which cost about $300,000, has been almost entirely destroyed by fire. Mrs. Studebaker was dangerously injured. The east wing of the prison at Jackson, Mich., has been burned, and fire destroyed the jail at Pineville, Ky. A number of Knights Templar were en- I tertained at a brilliant reception by President Harrison. Sir Benjamin Samuel Phillips, ex-Lord Mayor of London, and the s?cond member of j the Jerrish faith to occupy the position, has ' died in that city. A riot occurred at Bristol, England, on the arrival of a number of laborers to replace ! COO gas stokers who were on strike. Cardinal Taschereau, of Quebec, pre- : sided at the creation of several canons and the unveiling of a statue to the late Bishop Guignes at Basilica. Over 150 priests were nresent. AMERICA'S CONVENTION. The International Congress to Meet at Washington. The delegates to the International American Congress at Washington assembled at the State Department, and at 12 o'clock, by appointment, proceeded in a body from a waiting room to the diplomatic reception ""nm IT A** A flinTf Tirara nrncari tfl/1 fA tary Blaine, who delivered an address of welcome. After the preliminary ceremonies at the State Department the delegates were escorted to the White House, where they were j presented to President Harrison. Short complimentary addresses were made by several of the delegates, which were replied to by the President in the same courteous tone. The scope and purposes of the Congress, as stated in the law passed May 24, 1888, are to consider: First?Measures that shall tend to preserve the peace and promote the prosperity of the several American States. Secondly?Measures toward the formation or an American Customs Union, under which the trade of the American nations with each other shall, so far as possible and profitable, be promoted. Thirdly?The establishment of regular and j frequent communication between the ports of the several American States and the ports of each other. Fourthly?The establishment of a uniform system of customs regulations in each of the independent American States, to govern the mode of importation and exportation of merchandise and port dues and charges, a uniform method of determining the classification and valuation of such merchandise in the ports of each country, and a uniform system of invoices; and the subject of the sanitation j of ships and quarantine. Fifthly?The adoption of a uniform system ; of weights and measures and laws to protect j the patent rights, copyrights and trade marks or citizens 01 eitner country in me | other, and for the extradition of criminals. Sixthly?The adoption of a common silver coin, to be issued by each government, the same to be a legal tender in all commercial transactions between the citizens of all of the American States. Seventhly?An agreement upon and recommendation for adoption to. their respective governments of a definite plan of arbitration of all questions, disputes and differ ences that may now or hereafter exist between them, to the end that all difficulties and disputes between such nations may be j peaceably settled and wars prevented. Eighthly?And to consider such other sub- I iects relating to the welfare of tne several States represented as may be presented by anv of said States. The countries represented and their delegates are as follows: Argentine Republic?Vicente G. Quesada, Roque Saenz Pena, Manuel Quintana, Bolivia?Juan P. Velarde. Brazil?Lafayette Rodriguez Pereira, J. G. do Amaral Valente, Salvador de Mendonca. Chili?Emilio C. Varas, Jcse Alfonso. Colombia?Jose M. Hurtado, Carlos Martinez de Silva, Climaco Calderon. Costa Rica?Manuel Aragon. Ecuador ?Jose Maria Placido Caamano. Guatemala ?Fernando Cruz. Honduras?Jerocimo Zelaya. Mexico?Matias Romero, J. N. Navarro, Jose Y. Limantour. Nicaragua? Horacio Guzman. Peru?P. C. C. Ze^arra. San Salvador?Jacinto Castlelanos, Manuel Valdivieso. United States?John B. Henderson, Cornelius N. Bliss, Charles R. Flint, Clement Studebaker, T. Jefferson Coolidge, W. H. Trescot, Andrew Carnegie, Henry G. Davis, M. M.'Estee, John F. Hanson. Uraguay ?Alberto Nin. Venezuela?Nicanor Bolet Perasa, F. A. Silva. Jose Andrade. Celestix Paul, who died not long ago a1 hid farm near Reggio Station, parish of St. Bernard, La., was said to have been 118 yean old. His daughter writes that he was eighteeD years eld when ho went to live on the farm where he died. That was just 100 years ago. John McPherson", Tresidellt ol "Lodge! oT the United Order of American Carpenters and Joiners, has been appointed by Mayoi Grant, of New York city, a member of ths Permanent World Fair Exposition Com- j mittee. . j TEE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Their Twenty-fonrth Triennial Conclave in Washington. A Parade of 17,000 Knights Reviewed by the President, The twcnty-fourtli triennial conclave of the Knights Templar of the United States opened at Washington with a grand parade, ! great in numbers and unique in character, j Tho National Capital wore a holiday garb. Tho days of chivalry, with all their pomp ' and display seemed revived. The I long columns of soldiery, with their j gorgeous plumes and uniforms, the | galloping mounted equerries, the fluttering banners, the martial music and the shrill and I commanding trumpet-calls were here. Only the fields of picturesquo tents, the mounted battlements and mailed warriors of the Middle Ages were wanting to make the picture complete. The streets of the city were thronged early in the morning with strangers and residents eager to witness tho grand pageant. The Templars formed early in the morning at their various headquarters, and, with bands | playing, marched through the crowded streets to the place of starting. Along tho line of march stands had been erected for the uso of tho families and friends of tho visiting Knights, and before 9 o'clock the choice places were occupied by spectators. A moderate estimate would place the number of visitors in town at about' fifty thousand. The number of Knights in the city has been estimated at from fifteen to twenty thousand, comprising over two hundred commanderies from all sections of the country. There were fully seventeen thousand in line. The twelve divisions of the procession formed in tho streets adjacent to the Capitol, and, debouching from the sido streets at the signal of command, filed into line and began the long march up Pennsylvania avenue. The parade moved over a line of march three and a half miles long, beginning at First and B streets and ending at Mount Vernon square, where the commanderies were dismissed. In front of tho White House a stand had been erected on the same site from which the President in Marcl> last revieved the long columns of soldierj and civic organizations that formed the inaugural procession. From this stand the President reviewed the Knights. Anothei stand was erected on K street, near the end of the line of march, for tho accommodation of the Most Eminent Grand Master, Genera' Charles Roome. of New York. Eleven o'clock had been fixed upon as the time when tho procession should begin tr. move, but it was nearly noon before the column started. The lino was headec' by Eminent Sir Knight Myron M. Parker, of Washington, Chief Marsha; and his staff, of which Sir Knight Harrison Dingman was chief. Then followed Eminent Sir William G. Moore, commanding and staff, and the Washington commanderies, e detachment of Cceur do Lion Commaudery, , No. 23, New York city, special escort to the M. E. Grand Master; Most Eminent Grand Master General Charles Roome and his personal staff. Following these were eleven other divisons made up of the commanderie? from the different States. At 12:30 President Harrison entered the reviewing stand in front of the White House leaning on the arm of Secretary Windom lie was followed by Secretaries Tracy, Nobla Rusk and Blaine, Attorney-General Miller, General Schofield and General Vincent, Assistant Adjutant-General. The} were accompanied by Mrs. Harrison, Dr Scott, Mrs. Scott Lora. Mrs. Halford, Miss Sanger and several Indiana friends. A few moments after tho President's arrival tho head of the procession filed arouni' the corner of Fifteenth street and marched with measured tread in front ol the reviewing stand, where President Harrison was kept continually dolling his hat in response to the salutes with which he was constantly greeted. Tho third division, composed of organizations from New York j State, was warmly applauded as it per formed some difficult evolutions in frout of the grand stand. The last commandary passed the Presidential reviewing stand at 3:30 o'clock. The procession fulfilled the remainder of. its long line of march and was finally disbaudea about an hour later. One of the incidents at the White House in the morning was the presentation to the President of the boy Knights Templar from Louisville, Ky. They wore the full-dress uniform of the commandery, plumed chapeau, baldric, 6word, etc., and made a very handsome soldiery apC-ance as they marched into tha East m. They were accompanied by Mr. Justice Harlan and were formally presented by him in a short address. The President responded briefly and gave each of the boys a hand-shake. The Grand Encampment began its session immediately upon arriving at Masonic Temple at the close of the parade. Mr. Myron M. Parker delivered an address of welcome on the part of the local Committee and introduced Commissioner Douglass, who welcomed the Knights in benalf of the city. To both addresses the Grand Master responded, and this closed the public exercises. The encampment then began its business in socrct conclave. MONGOLIAN THUGS. A Murderous League Revived, in San Francisco. Posters are distributed throughout Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal., calling for a meeting of the League of Heaven and Earth, j The existence of this league was only known to its members, and the issue of the call for the meeting caused much surprise among many of the residents of Chinatown. The league is said to be a powerful one. It was originally formed in China to bring about the overthrow of the Tartar dynasty and has been proscribed in that country since the Taeping rebellion. The objects of this league, like the Highbinders' societies, is blackmail and vengeance. Its victims are completely removed, no trace of tfcem being left to serve as a clew. "Within the last six months half a dozen Chinamen have mysteriously disappeared and it is believed their removal was ordered by the league. Not the slightest clew to their whereabouts has been discovered. SHIP AND STEAMER SUNK. Many Lives Lost Off the Newfoundland Coast. The transatlantic steamer Geographic, of the Bossiere Line, Captain Pausset commanding, bound from Montreal to Southampton, England, with cattle, she?p and a cargo of general merchandise, collided with the Nova.Scotian sailing vessel Minnie Swift forty miles off St. Pierre, Newfoundland, at 9. /%V?lnr?L- in t.Vip mominp. The Minnie Swift, sunk within two minutes, drowning, as nearly as can be ascertained, two women, three children and ten men. The others, with part of the crew of a Norwegian vessel who had previously been picked up, got on board the steamer, wliicn, despite all efforts, also sunk. Two boats containing about thirty-five persons, which put off from the steamer early in the morning, were missing. The third boat, with the captain and lifteen others, was picked up by the schooner Sister Bell, and taken to St. Pierre. I A DISASTROUS STOEM. Seven Vessels Wrecked or Ashore on i Ijakc Huron?Tlircc Lives Lost. A heavy northwest gale that blew over lower Lake Hur?n was disastrous to life and shipping, Two seamen were killed on Lako Huron, off Sand Beach, and a woman cook on the Wend the Wave was drowned near the mouth of the Detroit Iiiver. Tho boats ashore or sunk on Lake Huron and Lake Erie, near tho mouth of tho Do trolfc Paver, are: Rhoda Emily, ashore at Whtto Rock; C. H. Weeks, ashore and a total loss; Lady Franklyn, ashore, Lako Huron; Magruder, ashore at Sand Beach; Glasgow, ashore on Pelee Island; Wend the Wave, sunk by collision. The Empire of Japan has 37,000,000 inhab| itants who are islowly but surely adopting I western customs in dress as well as in civili' ration and methods of research. MADT PEOPLE KILLED. A Steamer Blown Up In the Mississippi River. The Survivors Bescued by the Crew of the St. Louis. Another terrible disaster is added to the long list of steamboat tragedies on the Missis sippi River. The steamer Corona, at about! ten o'clock in the morning, when opposite ! False River, about one hundred and fifty | miles above New Orleans, exploded her boil-1 ers with frightful effect, killing forty-six of the passengers and crew ana completely j wrecldng the boat, which sank almost imme- j diately. The loss of life would have been much j greater had not the steamer City of St. Louis, j commanded by Capt. James O'Neal, been in | the immediate neighborhood of the Corona i at the time of the diaster and saved all on board or who were thrown into the water , and sot killed by the explosion. L. T. Mason, Secretary of State for Louis- ! iana, who, with his wife, was a passenger on ! i the Corona, having got aboard at Baton Rogue, fourteen miles from the scene of the accident, states that he was in the cabin talking with Mrs. E. W. Robertson, widow of Congressman Robertson,at the time the explo- ; sion occurred. He immediately secured life preservers and succeeded in saving Mrs. Robertson and another lady. There was very little time for preparation, as the boat went i down like lead a few minutes after the explosion. The steamer City of St. Louis was coming down the river and was hailed. She rounded to and took on board the passengers and crew who were not lost in the river, and kindly cared fol- both the injured and the saved. [ Mrs. E. W. Robertson says she was wedged in the ladies' cabin as a result of the explo- | sion, some of the debris lying across her lower limbs, but was suddenly released and found herself floating in the river. She sank twice, but was luckily picked up, escaping I with a few painful bruises. L. C. Rawlins, the pilot of the Corona, was asleep in the Texas at the time of the explosion. He says he does not know how it occurred and was awakened by the noise it made. He was painfully burned on both | hands. Captain Blanks, of the Corona, was in- j stantly killed and his body was not recovered. He lived in New Orleans and leaves ' a wife and family. The body of one of the barkeepers was recovered and taken to Baton Rouge. None of tho passengers or crew of the Corona could account for the disaster. Captain Blank was in immediate command of the boat at the time, and everything was working smoothly when the boiler suddenly collapsed. * I The Corona left New Orleans for the Ouachita River with a cargo of general mer- j chandise, the value of which is unestimated. The boat had recently been put in thorough repair for the winter trade and was valued Ann CfcU Many of the crew were on the steamer John H. Hanna, which was destroyed by fire at Plaquemine, La., last Christmas morning, with a loss of forty-five of the passengers and crew. Captain T C. Sweeny, one of the owners of the line, who assumed command on the death of Captain Blank, says the explosion was not due to a too high pressure of steam. He had just had occasion to examine the gauge and is positive there was not a pressure | of more than one hundred and thirty-five pounds. /The boat had a moderate cargo. 1 She was in midstream, just below the land- j ing dt Arbroth, and had just whistled to pass the City of St. Louis, fortunately coning down at the time. The explosion had a downward tendency and blew out the bottom of j the boat, causing her to sink immediately. The cabin was torn in two, the rear portion floating down stream and bearing a I number of the saved. Captain Sweeny hap- | pened to be forward, and started at once to | put out the flames which began to burn at several places. He says the boat would un- j doubtedly have burned had she not gone down immediately. None of the books, papers or other valuables were saved. The City of St. Louis, which was about 500 yards above, at once put out her boats, and she did noble work in saving lives. The Anchor liner stayed there several huurs, rendering all the assistance possible and taking on board the rescued passengers and crew. WVi?n nothing more could be done she went to Baton Rouge, 'where physicians were summoned and everything possible done for the injured. FOUB VICTIMS OF FLAMES. Destruction of a Restaurant With Loss of Life. A fire broke out about twenty minutes to three a. m. inR. E. Lott's two story restaurant at Winona, Miss. Nine men were asleep in the upper story, four of whom were corned to death. All of them were prominent citizens of their respective communities and.were en ioute home from Memphis,where they went to purchase goods. Every effort was made to save them, but the flames were well under headway before discovered and by the time sufficient help arrived the walls had fallen in. The bodies of the four victims were shipped to relatives. A UNIQUE UNDERTAKING. A Railroad President Starts on a Walk Over His Road. President D. J. Mackey, of the Mackey system of railroads, has just begun what was perhaps never undertaken by such an official. He has started from Mount Vernon, 111., on foot, and declares it to be his intention to po over the four hundred miles of the system *1 that way. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Wilkte Collins never kept a scrap-book,, Mr. Vanlerbilt pays his cook $15,000 a year. Frederick Douglass will write an African-American story. The King of the Belgians is contemplating a voyage to the Congo. Wilkie Collins left an estate valued at something under $50,000. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, is the finest linguist in Congress. Emmons Bl/ONE and his bride will reside permanently in Baltimore, Md. General Lew Wallace has received $45,000 for his story, "Ben Hur." The German Emperor has given his portrait to Lord Salisbury, th6 English Premier. Lord Tennyson says that one of his greatest regrets is his failure to visit this country. Henry Irving, the actor, has grown much stouter, and has placed himself on anti-fat diet. Wrvrinur ic n rrr-pst. hpliRVPT* in the benefit to be derived from pedestrian exercise. Robert Louis Stevenson, the noted novelist, is ambitious to become a successful playwright. Justice Field says that Terry's widow may attack him some time, ana she is a very desperate woman. Count Ap? Valley, the German Ambassador at Vrashington, is over sis feet high and built accordingly. Senator Iivgall& has purchased a new home in Atchippn/ Kansas, to replace the hou*e which wflrburned. Ex-Uovernob John A. Martin, of Kansas, died at TopSkaJfew days since. He was born in Brownsville, Penn., in 1839. Mart ,Ander*s, the leading American actress, has beeu'Btaying for some time at Iban with William Block, the novelist. Sir John iE. jf&l.us (the eminent English artist) has spr>nftjfcis vacation this year chiefly in salmon fishing, in which ho is an expert. ( Amy Levy, theeyoung English girl who had become famous in literature at a bound, died ; a few days ago SMidenlyat the age of twentyj three. I Chief JustiCT? Fuller is moving his i family from Chicago to Washington, where j they will occupy Senator Van Wyck's former home on Massachusetts avenue. The national memorial to the late German Emperor, William I, has; produced a lively competition throughout the Empire. The designs sunt in at present number 144 with orty-asven la rge models. I \ 1 r SHIPPING CATTLE. ~ u CONVEYING IilVE STOCK FROM NEW YORK TO ENGLAND. C { Floating Corrals and Nantical Cow- * boys?Interesting Facts and I Figures From the Ship- < per's Contract. 1 a While the killing of cattle in the West * and the shipment of frozen beef to the * East instead of the live animals has 8 played the mischief "with the slaughter a house business in New York, the ship- ( ment of live cattle to Europe remains 1 one of the most profitable branches the 1 trade of cargo carrying steamships. Not * a week passes but from one to half a * dozen steamers leave this port with a 1 deck load of cattle on board. The de- * tails of a shipment ot cattle are interest- < ing. The ship is prepared to receive them by building a lot of substantial sheds all over the deck, except where gangways or alleys are left to enable the men who care for the cattle?the nautical cowboys?to get around and feed them. Of course, too, hatches must be left unobstructed. The bulwarks of these ships are seldom leiss than two feet high. The bulwark is J carried up by means of substantial wooden stanchions and boards to a height of six feet. This forms the outer wall of the sheds. A beard roof is spread from this inboard eight feet wide, that is supported by a substantial framework. The inboard side of the roof of the long shed j ?it extends from the poop to the foreI castle?is a foot or more higher than at the rail so as to give it a proper pitch. Along the front or inboard side of the shed is a strong rail, about as high as the i top of an ordinary manger. When the sheds are full of cattle the heads of the animals are fastened to this rail by ropes of sufficient length to enable the cattle to j reach down to the deck for food. t The ! whole shed is divided into stalls not less than ten feet eight inches long, and each stall holds four steers. The stalls are divided simply by extending rails from the head rail to the bulwark. The inboard side of the shed is open. The deck becomes a floating corral. Where i the deck is wide enough and unobstructed amidships sbeds are sometimes I built there as well. If the deck below the upper one is of iron so as absolutely prevent leakage through on | the cargo below, the 'tween decks I may be divided into stalls and filled with I cattle. The process of taking the cattle j on board is simple. They are nearly always fat stock, and not the wild long horns, and they are therefore docile. They are driven on to the pier and then I up a gangway in single file to the deck. A somewhat steep gangway leads to the lower deck. The cattle are guided to the stalls by the marine cowboys, who make them fast in their places, putting up the rails that divide the stalls as fast as the cattle are in place. These rails keep the cattle from slewing around ! fore and aft and interfering with each other. The contract between the ship and the shipper provides first of all that the cattle are at the owner's risk. He must | protect himself from loss by the sinking nf the shin or bv the throwing of , ?O ? .?I ? -V w . the cattle overboard in time of distress, | or the death of the cattle from any cause ' en route, by insurance. The insurance ' people inspect each ship and see that the cattle are properly housed and provided for. The ship provides all the fresh 1 water the animals can drink. The . shipper must provide his own food', and " this he does by putting on an abundance 1 of baled hay and corn in the ear. He is sure to put on a plenty, because the 1 ship carries it free, and should any sur- j plus remain the ship delivers it free on the other side, where it may be sold at a ( profit. ( The cattle are cared for by the shipper's ! ' men, who are carried free by the ship to j the number of one man to each twenty-five j cattle. These cowboyp are also returned : free, either on the same ship or by steer- : | age passage on a liner. It is part of the contract that the ship J j shall sail immediately after the cattle are j ; on board, -weather and tide permitting, i At sea the cattle are necessarily fed well, and at regular intervals, to keep them in ! health. The steamer sails with all the fresh water she has capacity for, and when 1 this is gone she furnishes distilled water. * j The usual contract is by the head. The ' I shipper pays from $15 to $25 a head for ' the transportation of his cattle, but just ; at present the rate is much nearer the higher figure than the lower. The freight is always paid in advance. ' j Those who have seen the cattle arrive ! I out?the usual landing place in England is at Deptford?say that it is apparent j that the stalls are not Gleaned during the ' ten or fifteen days it takes for a passage, but that the cattle are well bedded with hay. They arrive out with no bruises gen- ] erally. In one case mentioned to a reporter . the ship had rolled so that she had shifted her cargo, and came into port with a j heavy list to starboard, but the cattle > were in excellent condition, some of them j ' quite fat enough for Christmas beef, and j all in about as good condition as when they were shipped. As they were I obliged to stand up nearly all of the i time during the voyage, their legs ] were generally swelled somewhat on reaching Deptford, but spectators say ' that they walk up the gangway from the 1 i tJinnop r?r>wn nn the nier i ' I iUWCl UUV4 VMVUWW ?.? .. ? L ( without difficulty. They are turned out to pasture for a few days to rest, and are ^ then ready for the slaughter house. It ' is asserted on the best authority that 1 American cattle arrive in Deptford in much better condition than the Irish cat- 1 tie do from the short passage to Scotch j J and English ports. j] Cattle-carrying steamers vary in capaci- j1 ty from fifty to sixty on the upper deck ! 1 only to upward of 600, which are dis- j ] tributed on two decks. More cargoes of , ( less than 200 are shipped than of larger [ \ ones. The steamers always carry grain jJ in the hold. It is always provided that i( no greater weight of grain shall be taken j on board than the registered tonnage of j ! the ship. This is to make sure that the I ship shall not be loaded down too deep, jJ ?2ftie York Sun. j 1 A Rather Old Story. j ] Cowardice often parades behind the ; 1 mask of courage. A fellow, hearing the 1 s drums beat up for volunteers for France ! s in the expedition against the Dutch, 1 j imagined himself valiant enough, and 1 I thereupon enlisted himself. Returning < again, he was asked by his friends what 1 j exploits he had done there. He said \ 1 I that "he cut off one of the enemy's legs." : l I Being told that it had been more honor- { :ible and manly to have cut off his head, | < "Oh!" said he, "but you must know his ; < j head was cut off before." ! i MHMVMHMHHnBMHMHMBMWMMM ___ i Farming1 for Olive OIL \ '1 Olive culture, says L. 0. Brown in thei imeriean Agriculturist, has attained inormous proportions in Italy. It ia :omputed that the amount of oil pro-;, luced annually in the entire kingdom id hirty-three million gallons. France'^ jroduction, although much less, is still! ^ :onsiderable, being seven million gallons; ^ innually. The olive tree thrives best in; l rlrv snil nn sloncs toward the sun. suf iciently sheltered. It attains a height of| i wenty feet usually (to even fifty feet in' iome localities), and frequently reached in age which appears almost fabulous,! me specimen near Nice, recently care-1 essly destroyed, having had a positive ecord of five centuries, and measuring '^ hirty-six feet in circumference when h| ell. The foliage is evergreen, having anceolate leaves, which are gray underleath, and its flowers, which appear in Tune, are white and resemble ttiose of the :lder. The fruit is oval in shape, with t ligneous kernel inclosing an almondshaped seed. The flesh of the fruity vhich when ripe is of an intense violet-. Dlack color, yields about seventy per :ent. of its weight in oil. The gathering of the crop begins in. November and continues until May. The larvest is divided into three periods of ;wo months each, the first yielding 8 ligh-colored oil called "fine," the sec)nd a straw-colored oil called "superine," and the last a pale-colored oil ;alled "extra superfine." The fruit itf gathered from small trees by hand, and from large ones it is knocked off with! nr?]p?j Wnmpn and hov9 are enroloved for this purpose, for which as wages they eceive seventy-seven cents for every "! twenty quarts gathered. When the I' fruit is collected, it is taken to mills* . % where it is reduced to a paste. It is then placed in bags of esparto (Spanish rush); md squeezed under a press, the oil es-i raping into a receptacle underneath. rhis first pressure produces what is known as "virgin oil.'* The bags are vi then removed, soaked in boiling water ind placed a second time under the press,. thus yielding the ordinary oil of commerce. A third pressing follows, yield- ' ing an inferior oil used for illuminating purposes. The dangers to which the olive treesire exposed are frost, wind, hail, and the lacus, a little insect which appears in the' ' fruit, when it begins to get ripe, eating > through the little stem which joins the :. fruit to the branch, thus destroying annually more than six hundred thousand iollars'worth of olives. The olive ii ilso attacked by a disease called tne ; % morphua orfumago, which turns the entire tree black, and which lasts about ten years. There is as yet no known rexneiy. An acre averages from seventy-five to eighty trees, from which the proprietor receives a net profit of $26 annually.' A. great deal of care has to be exercised! lest the trees or roots should be injured in * > my way, thus producing decay. It will be seen that this crop can be made proStable only when the cheapest labor is ibtainable. / Against Flowers. In Bulak, a suburb of Cairo, is the na;ional museum of Egyptian antiquities, founded about thirty years ago by a Frenchman commonly known as Marietta Bey. One department is devoted to ani interesting collection of specimens of plants which have been found in the jepulchral monuments of that country. > J It is remarkable that, though the m * 1 II Ai i- 1 "* ' JOUUUCHl CUUCUUUU 19 UU^C, (U1U VyUliWUUD uany varieties, every plant is still to b& ' found growing in the valley of the Nile. Moreover, the closest examination fails to reveal the slightest difference between the plants that flourished fifty centuries igo and those which the traveler sees tolay on the banks of the river. The very [lowers which the boy Moses or the children of Joseph picked still bloom unchanged, even in color. There are to be seen here blue sprays of larkspur, which! loving hands laid upon the bodies of those who died a thousands years before Abraham and Sarah went down into Egypt. In the tombs of later date have been found, together with apparently simply ornamental flowers, as hollyhocks ind chrysanthemums, the various fruits, vegetables and grain for which the land tias ever been renowned, as figs, dates, olives, grapes, pomegranates, onions, beans, barley and wheat. Around the necks and upon the breast3 of those who iied at the time Solomon reigned in Jerusalem, about 1000 B. CM were found > garlands of celery, which does not ap pear to have been used at that time as a vegetable bf the Egyptians. All these plants, when they were prepared for the funeral ceremonies, were subjected to great heat by which their form and color were preserved, but their germinating power was destroyed. Hence ill the stories which have been told of wheat having been raised from grains which have lain in the wrappings of mummies for fifty centuries are untrue. Unscrupulous natives have sold to credulous travelers wheat in which modern 1 grains have been mixed wii;h the ancient, but only the modern grains can germinate.? Youth?a Companion. Curious Atmospheric Phenomena. A Boston lawyer, who has returned \ from a trip to Maine, tells of a curious \ phenomenon existing at the Livermoje?-' Falls in that State. At the foot~&f- oneof the dams the descending /ftatcr seems to be driven back with/so much force that half-way up the ^361 omn of water there is an ever-movihg line of water, [ike a crease in a piece of cloth. This on offnnnn' thf> surrotmdinff at iiosphere that is almost incredibly great. The phenomenon is not observable at all ames, but when, the "wave" is visible >n the falling v/ater, objects suspended n the air at ^ome distance from the falls ire observed" to vibrate perceptibly in a cgular mbvement. The vibration while Dercegtfblc at the time when the "wave" :aa -be seen, seems to stop almost instantly after the "wave" disappears, and ,t seems almost certain that the latter causes the former.?Boston Advertiser. The Green Fir. A correspondent of the Northwestern Lumberman says green fir trees will burn ike tinder. lie saw a green tree of that species at "Wkaicoiu burned half down, oy simply having an auger hole bored :hrough it, with an upward slant on one ?ide, so as to create an air draught, and itufied with kindling. The interior of :he tree being thus ignited, the trunk Durned like a torch. That struck the :orrespondent as decidedly against fir ;imber as a permanent investment. He :hinks that since numerous settlers have ecently gone into the Puget Sound region, and are clearing farms, the liability )f fires has greatly increased, and will :ontinue to do so in ratio with the progress of settlement. x /