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ABOUT THE FAEM. Uinta for Farmers and Busy Housewives to Appreciate. An important legal question -will probably arise soon over the right of fruit growers to spray apple and other fruit trees with water containing Paris green, while the trees aro in blossom. Bees searching the flowers for honey take the poison into their systems and are killed. This is, perhaps a fortu nate fact, for if the bees merely col lected honey, instead of manufacturing it, this poisonous honey might be stor ed in their cells, and poison those who consumed it. The spraying, even of the apple, need not be done while the trees are in blossom. It is true that the coddling moth usually deposits her eggs in the blossom end of the apple, but until the fruit is as large as a wal nut, the blossom end is turned up wards. After this the weight of the apple bends the fruit over. Between the time of blossoming and the fruit bending down with its own weight, the spraying may be done without danger of injury to bees. There is, therefore, no incompatibility between the fruit-growing and honey producing industries if the proper pre cautions are observed. Before the young pigs are put up to fatten is the time to select and separ ate from the others those intended for breeders. These are better not to be fattened, or at least corn fed while growing. If they have a run in the orchard after the best fruit is gathered, and a little soured milk every day, they will make a long, "rangy1' growth, as unlike as possible to the sleek and fine-boned animals 6hnt up in the pen and given no exercise. It, however, takes pretty good feed ing to bring a March or April pig up to the proper size for dropping her first litter of pigs when she is herself a year or thirteen months old. Breed ing from young sows always tends to drop the litter later each season, until the pigs become so late that it is not best or even possible to breed them before the following spring. This is one reason why when a good breeding sow is found it pays to keep her breed ing three or four years. Her pigs will be more numerous and stronger than those i from a young, growing sow. If the sow is of some large, coarse breed, she will grow until she is two-and-a-half or three years old, and all the time become a better breeder. Buckwheat is a crop that has received less attention than most other grains, for the reason that the best farmers have a prejudice against it, on account of the shedding of the seed and its ap pearance in the following Spring grain crop. Hence buckwheat is usually sown on the poorest, latest land, and if anything is made from it the fact is considered as so much clear gain. But this year we have seen some buckwheat grown where fertilizer was applied, that grew more thickly and filled out better than any other we ever ' saw. It is not threshed yet, but is estimated to yield thirty to thirty-five bushels per acre. Buckwheat is usually sown about the first of July, and soon after this the Summer drought generally comes on and dries up mineral manures, so that they do crops little good. The present year was an exception to this i rrri .1 t. i -r l? J ruin, xiiv puu&puaiu xci uiuer maua the buckwheat one or two weeks earlier than it would have been, often with this crop a very important con sideration, as it is liable to injury from early frosts. If there is a wet time about the season of buckwheat sowing, we shall always advise applying a little phosphate with the 6eed. It will pay on this fully as well as on any other grain crop, but in a dry season it might do little if any good. The generally bad condition of many of the roads of the country has turned attention to the consideration of their improvement, and discussions are car ried on in some of the most important periodicals of the day. There is great need of better public roads, and if legislation is required then it should be attended to, for farmers are com pelled to pay very severe taxes in the indirect way of repair upon vehicles, because of injuries sustained in travel ing over poor roads. Even if the ex pense of putting roads in repair is equal to the amount paid for repair of vehicles, it is a better investment, for the reason that there is pleasure at tending riding over smooth roads in comparison with jolting along over poor ones. Gen. Q. A. Gilmore has proven by experiments with the dynamometer that four times as much load can bo hauled on a good road as upon a poor one. Thus it is easy to estimate the addition! cost above the wear and tear, because if roads are in a condition that upon one four times as much can be drawn as upon another, then by using the good road three-fourths of all the time required in making trips over a poor road would be saved. Farmers should consider the demands in the question of the condition of the roads, and should lend all the encouragement iwcessary to secure the best results It is not always best to adopt that penny-wise-and-pound-foolish policy to avoid direct taxation for the proper , repair of roads, causes an indirect tax of increased labor and repairs. Let the agitation of the subject be con tinued until there are brought forth aome fruits in the shape of belter roads, that give comfort in being trav eled over. Perhaps no advice that has been given causes so much failure and dis appointment in fruit culture as that - embodied in the brief sentence, "Prune fr gummer for fruit." The physio logical p'rinciple upon which this ad vice is based, ia that which recognizes barrenness in fruit trees as the result of an undue amount of wood growth, and that any process that will secure a reduction of growth will induce fruit fulness. The removal of foliage from a tree in active growth will weaken its vitality by causing a corresponding check to the extension of roots, but the removal of the mere points of strong shoots has no practical effect in check ing root growth. The roots grow and the sap seeks outlets in other channels, forming new 6hoots, which, in no way, increase the fruitf ulness of the plant. "While it may be confidently stated that, as a practical rule, summer pruning for fruit cannot be recom mended, it is also true that there are certain periods in the growth of a plant when the removal of a portion of the shoots would tend to increase the development of the remaining buds, without causing them to form new shoots. For example, if the grow ing shoots of a pear tree are shortened one-third of their length, toward the end of June, the check will immediately cause the remaining buds on these shoots to push into growth and pro duco a mass of twigs. If this prun ing 13 delayed until August and the season subsequently proves to be warm and dry, the possibilities are that the remaining buds will develop into short spur-like shoots, from which blossom buds may be formed ; but if the season continues wet, and mild growing weather extends late into the fall, these same shoots will be lengthened into weakly, slender growths, which never mature. There is no certainty as to the proper time to summer jsrune, be cause no two seasons are precisely alike, and trees vary in their vigor from year to year. The natural and perhaps almost un avoidable tendency of farmer's meth ods during a season of depression in agriculture is to restrict expenses as much as possible, employ less labor, and put their land in grass or other crops most easily and cheaply grown. In this way the balance between pro duction and consumption is restored, and after a year or two good prices reward the labor of the husbandman. Unfortunately, however, when this era on high prices comes and, indeed, because of that fact, farmers have less to sell than usual. It would obviously be better if farmers were to deviate at all from a steady and. uniform course of cropping to make their great est efforts in the time of greatest dis couragements. Then they would have a large instead of small amount of produce to sell when grain and other farm products bore the highest price. It is the lack of available capital that most seriously handicaps a major ity of farmers. It is this which inten sifies the competition in crops grown with least labor and expense. Few farmers nave money enough left after purchasing land to pay for working it in the most profitable manner. Often they can only stock it with nominally cheaper because inferior animals, and these do not pay their keep. There is equal difference in the kind of crops grown. Some are expensive, requir ing an outlay fully as great as the orig inal cost of even high-priced land. But where the farmer follows these expen sive crops judiciously and skilfully, working himself as well as superin tending the labor of others, it is always found that these costly crops are more profitable than those more cheaply grown. If there is failure it is from attempting without experience to grow crops that the farmer knows nothing about. "We have thus known of farmers who in a fit of enthusiasm began market gardening or small fruit growing without previous experience in either, or under circumstances where no one having; experience would at tempt such an experiment. That fail ure attends such injudicious efforts is no argument against either market gardening or fruit growing, if begun under proper conditions. Lack of Knowledge ana skill is therefore more frequently a cause of failure on the farm than is lack of capital. It takes a plethoric purse, often refilled, to conduct fancy ex periments in farming1. Yet these experiments, tried under proper con ditions, guided by 6kill and intelli gence, are often profitable. Unless the saving of money be no object whatever, then the inexperienced fancy farmer had better not attempt the more expensive crops. They are beyond his reach, and he should con fine himself mainly to those crops grown most easily. Farms adjacent to large cities are sooner run down, and the soil becomes poor and unproductive much sooner than remote farms. One great reason of this is the ready market a large city affords for every thing a farm can pro duce, and the temptation to the farmer to dispose of hay, grain, 6traw and husks is so great that the farmers do not keep as many cattle, horses or sheep as they would were they not so convenient to a ready market. The consequence of this is there is less barn yard manure made to go back to re plenish ihe soil, and year after year the land is thus robbed and impover ished until the f arm is put in the list of "worn-out lands." It is no gain, nor is it any economy, to sell from a farm in a way that de stroys the fertility of the land. Some farmers defend their methods by say ing: "Oh, I always buy some kind of commercial fertilizer to take the place of the barnyard manure that I would have if I did not dispose of my straw, husks, etc." "Well, what do you know about the component parts of the fer tilizers you purchase? Do you know your land needs just what these fertil izers the kind you get are Baid to contain? Do you think their use is as ;.-c io LoiioIIt both the crops and the and as the genuine barnyard manure? Do you expect to keep up the fertility of the soil by the constant use of com mercial fertilizers I If you do, banish such an idea, and remember if there is anything in connection with farming that is worth imitating your ancestors in,it is the application of barnyard man ure, the great and only truly reliable soil fertilizer. If you have an abundance of hay and straw, it will pay you to buy up sheep at the stockyards in the fall, and also cattle and feed them through the winter. Their manure will more than pay for their keeping, and they can be side be disposed of in the spring at a good profit. It is indeed a poor farm and an indifferent farmer who does not have every other year a pasture or meadow land that is so rich that he can break up in his order of rotation of crops to follow with grain. Many practical authorities have concluded it is best to keep the barnyard manure hauled out and spread on the land about as fast as it is made, as the land will thus get the benefit of many elements that are lost while it is under going fermentation. Of course, in advising this, reference is had to pas tures and grass lands ; if thus spread on plowed lands before acrop has got started, much of the liquid element is lost. Does the farmer, who to his sorrow notices that his land is getting poor and his crops each year getting less, and his work becoming harder even to get these light crops, pause and consider why, perhaps the adjoining farm has been at the same time improving, and is yielding larger and better crops than it did a few years ago? No. "Well, there is simply this difference. One farmer has "run" his farm with an aim to keep up the fertility of the soil, the other simply to get all he could out of the soil; in short, one farm has run up, the other run down. Farm Notes. Renew the orchard when it needs it. Keep all your fruit growing up to a regular standard. Agents for English fruit dealers are already buying apples on the trees in New York state. Manure the grape vine. Do it in the fall. It will serve them as a mulch in addition to acting as a fertilizer. Ashes makes a splendid fertilizer for young grass that is Just springing up, and enables it to root well before cold weather comes. If you take plants from the ground and immediately put them into a high temperature, you will regret it, if you care anything for the plants. Cottonseed meal is more nutritious than linseed meal, but the latter is pre ferred, owing to its beneficial effects on the animals in regulating digestion. "Whenever you find a man's name on a package of fruit that is invariably honestly packed, that name will be worth a good deal of money to its owner. If you happen to have a furnace in the house, you will not be able to keep apples in the same room with the fur nace. Apples must not be kept in too high a temperature. The fruit that is to be kept through the winter should be put away care fully, and then carefully watched all through the winter that that which do- cays may be removed. Apples are used as food at the ex periment stations in making tests, and the results demonstrate that if they cannot be profitably shipped to market they may be fed to stock with advan tage. It will add to the appearance of the yard and garden if all the dead plants are pulled up and burned, or other dis posal made of them, with a view of getting them out of the way and out of sight. "When you go to town and the city, we presume that you sometimes go through the market. Do you grow any of the vegetables, and varieties of vegetables, that you find commands the highest price. The Flemish Beauty pear has be come almost worthless in eastern New York, on account of its susceptibility to the attacks of a black fungus which develops upon it in patches which crack open and grow bitter. - "When storing cabbage for winter, place them in a trench, with the heads down and stalks up. If the trench cannot be made on high ground, place the heads on the ground and bank up well so as to 6hed the water off. Poultry is everywhere the best meat for summer eating, and especially, so for farmers who cannot always get fresh meats of other kinds. Old hens past the age of profit will usually bo found better eating than the half -grown chickens of this year's growth, unless the latter are of the breed for broilers. No Boquets. A circular has been addressed to the artists of the Dresden State Theatre warning them that for the future it will be considered a breach of disci pline to accept offerings of flowers and other tokens of admiration, or in any way to recognize the presence of the audience during the course f the per formance of serious operas and dramas This regulation has been in force for some years at Vienna and at other places in Germany. Tough Subjects. There are between five hundred and six hundred Chinamen in Sunday schools and missions in New York They are there chiefly to learn to talk English, for there are only fifty-three of the number who are out-and-out Christians; that is, members of the churcheB. A religious worker among the mongolians says the church people have got to realize that the Chinaman is a pretty hard subject to christianize NEWS IN GENERAL. It is said that Jay Gould proposes to recon struct and Increase the efficiency of tbe New York elevated roads. Secretary Tracy will urge upon Congress the adoption of a positive policv with regard to the opening of navy , yards long since closed. The sale of the Pillsbury Flouring Mills at Minneapolis to an .English syndicate is now probable. A decision has been rendered at Washing- ton to the effect that Chinese Jaundrymeu are prohibited from returning to this country u they go home. The effect of the admission of the new States mav be summed up as robbing New York of her prestige as arbiter of the politi cal fortunes of the whole country. George Francis Train emphatically refuses to be interviewed in his cell by experts to de termine his sanity, lie says he knows his own mind better than any expert. G. A. Gillette of Boston, who forged a check on a Vermont Bank and secured over 3000, has been sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. The Mexican gunboat Democrat arrived at Guvamas with 300 men of the 21th iufantry on board. These troops have been ordered into service iu the campaign against the Yaqui Indians. The Yaquis refuse to sur- render. The government is making arrange ments to transfer them from the state of So- nora to the state of Siualoa. The Pittsburg Window Glass Manufac- urers' Association have decided to advance the price of glass five per cent, this fall. The manufacturers say that the Eastern, Western and Northern districts will make a corres ponding advance in prices. ; A new gold field has been discovered along the banks of Pul Priucepulka river at a dis tance of 170 miles from San Juan del Norte. The field covers an area of several square miles. A company, with a capital of $30,000, is being formed in Managua to carry on oper ations in the new gold field, and a police force has been sent thither to maintain order. Judge Butler of the United States Circuit Court in Philadelphia filed an opinion in which he reverses tlfc verdict of the jury for about 91,500 in the suit of the city 1 against the Western Union Telegraph , Company. The suitwas to recover $13,005, with inter est, as license fees for the' years 1885, '80, '87, and '88, at the rate of $1 per pole per mile, ami 2.50 lor every mile or wire. A tiw days ago Hon. Jesse M. Bowells, a member of the Peuu. Legislature and prom inent Knight Templar, had his skull frac tured by a stone, thrown by Captain Decatur Atirams, a wen-Known steamboat man. inc men quarrelled over a freight bill, and Bow ells called Abrams a liar, when the latter picked up a boulder and crushed Bowells's skull, lie is still living, but win die. A Drams is under arrest. Both men are widely known in river circles. - A telegram from Charleston, West Va., gives details of a second attempt to assassin ate Deputy . United States Marshal J. O. Hager, who had but recently returned to his duties. He attended a corn husking in Baleigh countv, and while eating supper a man named Boal shot him three times with a revolver. One shot took effect in his left cheek, another entered the breast, about two inches above the heart, and the third the left arm. The shot in the breast will probably cause his death. The news from the Harlem county war is that Howard and his party are iu night on Marten's Fork, about 12 miles from Harlan Court House, and that the Law and Order crowd are in hot pursuit. It is evident that Howard is losing strength, and it is only a matter of a short time when he will be killed or captured and his gang broken up. It is iranorflllv KoHavai! that. TTrtwanl will Ha killed before manv hours. Affairs in Guatemala are in a bad state. A revolution on a large scale, said to be backed by .New York parties, is imminent, me rev olutionists make a pretence of counting on Mexican aid, but government officials say that Mexico will not back any revolution. Letters to El Pabellon Nacional (newspaper) state that a war between Guatemala and San Sal vador is imminent. The Nicaraguan government is disposed to found a city to be called America, at the Atlan tic terminus of the Nicaraguan canal. A com mission of engineers has gone to San Juan del Norte to survey the locality of the pro posed city and set off building lots. The Sunreme Court of Ohio have refused to grant a motion for leave to file a petition In error to the Superior court in Cincinnati in the case of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Davton Road against Edwin jr. Kvart. The latter obtained a judgment of $600 against the pompany for being ejected from a train by the conductor, who refused to nonor a ticket attested by the company's agent and purchased in a scalper's office. This decision settles the case and the money will have to be paid. Foreign. -It is stated that Arch-Duke John of Aust ria will join the staff of the New York Her ald. , X lie AJ 1 1 U 1.31.1 Dill L- ic x k viii uvt vi Liverpool, has foundered at sea, 33 lives be ing lost. .' The death is announced, from Paris, of Charles Louis Marie Lambert de St. Croix, the French statesman. He was 61 years of age. Dispatches from Athens admit the cruel ties of the Turkish troops in Crete are ceas ing, but say that the political persecutions continue. The iurv in the case of Gallagher, charged with being implicated in the murder of Po lice Inspector Martin at Gweedore, failed to agree upon a verdict. Emperor William has offered the munici pality the sum of 500,000 murks for a monu ment in honor of his grandfather. Emperor William 1, provided it De erected near tne castle. In accordance with the convention be tween Russia and the Vatican, the bishop of Vilna will be pensioned and will reside in Borne, and the present vicar-general of Vilna will become bishop. Mr. Goschen, iu a speech at Hull, instanced the Cretan difficulties as an example of the troubles that would be almost certain to fol low the granting of home rule to Ireland, the circumstances of the two countries being almost identical. Mr. Chamberlain, speaking at a private caucus at Birmingham, referred to his desire to retire from political life. He said that, considering the abuse that had been heaped upon him, he had more than once renectea whether "the game was worth the candle." Only love of country had. induced him. to continue in puouc nie. Mr. John Morley, speaking at Bristol the other night, referred to Mr. Chamberlain' career as a lamentable illustration of the ''rake's progress" from ultra-Radicalism to ultra-Toryism.. He warned the Liberals not to be drawn by Unionist catechising into framing a constitution for Ireland, as they were under the fire of a set of men who were only pretending to be acting iu good faith. A bill has been introduced in the Bundes- rath empowering Prince Bismarck to grant a concession to Crerman contractors lor a monthly steamship service to East Afrlea. The bill provides that the subsidy to the line shall be 900,000 marks annually, but that the maximum period for the payment of the sub sidy shall not exceed 10 years. It further provides that Prince Bismarck shall select the ports at which the steamers shall call. WELL-KNOWN LAWYER SHOT. Serious Result of an Altercation in a Wash ington Saloon. Edward Blunt, a well-known young law yer, a gentleman steeplechase rider,and own er of Seymour, bt. swithin, and other race horses, 'was shot and seriously wounded in the Shoomaker wine rooms, VVashiugton, by George Mantz, formerly proprietor of a notorious saloou in that city, iut now a po litical worker in Maryland. The men met in the saloon by chance, and Mantz called Blunt away from his companions to the rear of the store. Here an altercation arose, and when the attention of those in the front part of the place was attracted by the disturbance, they saw Blunt retreating with a large pocket knife in ins nanus. .Mantz xoilowed turn up, JJlunt's friends interposed and induced hnn to leave the place. As they were going out, Blunt glanced back and saw that Mantis was still close to him. He told Mantz that if he attacked he would use the knife, and the next instant Mantz had drawn a revolver ami be gun firing. One shot took effect in Blunt's right hip and another in his side. The wounds are serious. Mantz asserts that Blunt was advancing on him with a knife when he fired. Blunt comes of a well-known Maryland family, and has a good reputation CONFEDERATE VETERANS. Organlzation to Build a Home for Disa- meet and Homeless uomriiaes. l inccn Hundred .conieuerate veterans as sembled -in O'Brien's Opera House, at Birmingham, Alabama, and organ ized a state association. The object is to raise money by popular subscription to build a homo for" disabled and homeless confeder ate veterans, Telegrams and letters from Jefferson Davis, Joe E. Johnston, " Wade Hampton, and others were read. The stage was decorated with the national colors on the right, and the worn and faded Confed erate Hags on the left. The veterans cheered the Stars and Stripes, and kissed the faded Hags of the confederacy reverently. Gen, E. W. Pcttus was elected president of the as sociation, with a vice-president from each congressional district. PRINCESS HATZFELDT NOW. American Girl Elevated to the Banks of "Royalty, Marriage of Mill Clara Elizabeth Hunt ' ington of New York to Francis de Halz feldt Wildenhurj. Clara Elizabeth Huntington, daughter of Mr. and Mre. Collis P. Huntington of New York, became Princess Hatzfeldt at the chapel of the Roman Catholic Oratory in South Kensington Oct. 28, the bride having accepted that religion with her husband. The chapel walls were banked with flowers, and, although the Huntingtons being iu mourning and invitations limited to imme diate friends and relatives, a distinguished gathering was present. The ceremony was performed by . lit. Rev. W. L. Patterson, bishop of Email us and of St. Mary's, West minster, assisted by the clergymen of the Oratory. Low mass was celebrated and a semi-chorus service given. The bride wore a travelling dress of green velvet trimmed with sable and toque to match, also trimmed with sable. Her ornaments were diamond ear rings, the gift of her mother, and diamond shoulder knots, the gift of her brother. The bridemaid was Miss Sherrill of Washington, who has been travel ing in Europe with Miss Huntington and Mrs. John Sherwood for several months. Miss Sherrill wore heliotrope velvet with toque to match. The best man was Lieut. Count Her man Hatzfeldt, son of the German ambassa dor to England and cousin of the groom. Those present were the father and mother of the bride, Princess Galrielle, the groom's mother: Count Hatzfeldt. the German am bassador, tne groom's uncle ; L.ady Herbert of Lea, godmother of the bride: Count and Countess De Althau, sister and brother-in- law of the groom ; Mr. and Nrs. Thomas II. Isniay, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Stephens, Sir WilliamMackinnou and Mrs. Mackinnon, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Guedella, Count and Coun tess Lutzen and Mrs. John Sherwood. Prince Alfred De Hatzfeldt Wildenberg, the father of the groom, was not present, having beeu takeu ill at Weisbadcn on his way to London. The presents were pearls and diamonds. bracelets and silver mounted travelling bag from Prince Hatzfeldt, diamond necklace, Princess Hatzfeldt; parure of diamonds, two rows of solitaires fastened with dia monds, large diamond locket and diamond solitaire and bracelet, Mr. Collis r. Hunting ton; large -diamund . sun and diamond ear rings, Mrs. Collis E.. Huntington ; diamond shoulder knots, Mr. Archer Huntington ; Bible and rosary, specially blessed by the Pope, Lady Herbert of Lea. godmother of the bride; solid silver inkstand and tray aud antique Roman lamp, Messrs. Berynian and Turnbull; Queen's birthday book, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen; loving e'up of gold on standard of ivory, Mr. Whitelaw Reid : gold repousse tray, copy of antique, Mr. aud Mrs. Thomas Ismay. After the ceremony the party drove to the German embassy, where breakfist was had, after which the bridal couple left for Cast Schonstein, the family seat of the Hatzreldt's on the Rhine, where they will spend the honeymoon. The- castle is 900 years old, and has been occupied by the Hatzfeldts in an unbroken line for that period. The groom's full name is Francis De Hatzfeldt Wildenburg. He is 36 years of age, and has had the reputation of being one of the fastest men in Europe. He was deeply in debt before his engagement to Miss Huntington. PERSONAL. The name of Archduke John has been stricken from the Austrian army list. Rutgers College has conferred the decree of LL. D. upou Hon. William Walter Phelps. The Paris Gaulois savs that the marriage of Prince Murat to Miss Caldwell has been postponed. Hon. Daniel Clark of Manchester. N. II.. Judge of the United States District Court, has celebrated his 80th birthday. The Court has ordered Dion Boucicault to pay the sum of 30 monthly as alimony to his" divorced wife, Miss Agnes Robertson. The well-known firm of Fowler Bros.. phrenologists, has for years been managed by Mrs. Charlotte Fowler Wells, a sister of the Fowlers. . .. Lieut. J. M. Trotter, Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, is in Boston to attend the annual reunion of the Fifty fourth and Fifty-fifth Regiments. George W. Shaw, of Bradford. Vt., who was graduated from Dartmouth in 1887, has hren appointed Professor of Science and Elocution in Pacific University, Forest Grove, Ore. Some friends of ex-Presideut Robinson of Brown University are to present an oil por trait oi mm to tne college gallery of portraits in Memorial Hall. The picture is being painted in .Boston. Assistant Secretary of State Wharton is slowly recovering from an attack of tht slow fever. He is confined at the. summer resid ence of his father-in-law, W. D. Pickman, at Beverly, Mass., and will not be able to go out tor some weeKs yet. Lord Dagniyi, against whom Phyllis Broughton, an English burlesque actress, brought an action for 10,000 damages for breach of promise of marriage, has paid 2500 and the costs of the action into court and thus settled the ease. Jay Gould has not brought health back with him from his Western trip. He arrived in New York very much worn out, aud would see no oue except his sou George. His vital ity anncars to be almost exhausted, and he is watched over constantly by a physician. It is understood that his sons George and Ed ward are to come to the front on the Stock Exchange, backed up by bis counsels and experience. The Springfield Republican announces that "rror. Mathers condition win incapacitate him from further active work. The recent surgical operation was successful, but it can only result iu prolonging his life by tempor arily checking' the malady. Prof. Mather's services to Amherst College have been in valuable. He has been especially successful in securing gifts for the institution, but his work as a professor has placed the art de partment of the college in a high rank in com parison with other institutions, liis retire ment nt this time, while President Seelve is away for his health and Prof. Crowell has been afflicted with blindness, is au especially severe blow to the college." Ex-Qucen Nathalie of Servia is a very de cided person. She was approached recently by Gen. Bclimarkovitch with an offer of a sum of money which she might herself fix if she would accept certain conditions which he proposed, sne rcpneu la&i sue am noi, understand that she had any right to a dowrv. fivfrl either bv the Treasury or taken from the Civil List, allotted to her son, and that she consequently considered the offer wiih-ii ne maae ncr as niguiy ouensive, ami that he could treat her like King Milan, who was bribed to remain outside of Servia by a pension which was not legally due him. The General was furious, but could not prevail on the plucky little woman to alter her de termination CONTRACTS FOR THE CRUISERS. Two Will be Built in Baltimore The Third Not Decided. Secretary Tracy has awarded the contract for building two oi tne aouu-ton cruisers, jjronosals for which were opened on Satur day, to the Columbian Iron Works & Dry Dock Company of Baltimore, for the sum of $1,225,000. The contract lor tne third one will be awarded to cither Harrison Lorring of Boston or N. F. Palmer & Co., of New York, each of whom bid $674,000. They were to agree between themselves which should have the contract, but as yet nothing has been heard from them at the department. Messrs. Palmer & Ce. are now at work building tbe Concord and Bennington and the machinery for the Maine, the hull of whifh is hm'lilin"- at the Brooklvn navv vard While in Washington, Mr, Palmer told the secretary that he had been greatly and agree? ably surprised upon the occasion of his last visit to the Brooklyn yard, Ije had found tho work on the Maine anyanced farther than he had expected, and said that petter or faster work could not be done in any private ship-building yard iu the country. MANY DISASTERS REPORTED. Schooners Arriving: at New York Tell of Gales and Wrecks. Forty schooners that have been battling their way to the port of New York for sev eral weeks againt gales and big head seas have arrived. The A. Crosby, from Turk's Island, lost her deckload of ivory nuts, her taffrail aud some of her sails Oct. 24. The Ringdove from Charleston, lost most of her deckload of lumber off Hatteras. The Welcome R. Beebe, from Charleston, with rnilroad ties, lost part of her cargo and most of her sails. She passed the lower mast of a vessel offBarnegat. The M. S. Beernent passed a waterlogged and abandoned schooner off Hatteras. A schooner of about 300 tons, bottom up, In the track of coast ers was passed off Cape Charles Monday by the steamer Cky pf Birmingham, in Jo day from Savannah, The Edward Stewart, from Fernandlna, was rim into by an un known schooner off Baruegat, and all her headgear was carried away and her cut water and figure head smashed. NEW -ENGLAND NEWS. It is said that no new buildings will be erected at Bar Harbor this winter, but con siderable work will be done in repairing and improving property. The new woolen mill at Flander'a Mills, in Dexter, is all ready for the machinery. The building is a very substantial structure, with a capacity for four setts of machinery. - Benjamin Hunter, a prominent resident of Strong, Me., died recently, aged 79 years. He had been Town Treasurer and Chalrmau of the Board of Selectmen for many years. He also represented his district in the Legis lature. The syndicate which has purchased the Eagle Hotel in Concord consists of Samuel S. Kimball, Samuel C. Eastman, Henry J. Crippen, Edson C. Eastman, William B. Fiske and Rufus P. Staniels, who will organ ize a stock company. Hon. G. W. Collins of Bridgewater, Mass., has operated four starch factories this fall, all of which are now closed. He has bought about 65,000 bushels of potatoes, for which he paid nearly $12,000. He also owns five shingle mills, and will this year ship twelve million shingles. News has been received in Hartford of the death in Springfield, Mo., of Henry C. White, formerly lieutenant commander in the United States navy. He resigned several years ago.. Dr. Albion E. Cobb, who was arrested in Biddeford, Me., on the charge of criminal assault, was arraigned in the Municipal Court waived examination aud furnished bonds for his appearance for trial. Arthur S. Hamilton and City Marshal Tarbox fur nished bail. Frank Kibbe. aged 17. son of Randall Kibbe of Somers, Conn., was instantly killed the other day while hunting by the acciden tal discharge of a gun, which was dropped by a companion. One of the landmarks of Hartford, the great palace built and owned by Cornelius J. vandcrbiit, is ogam to be occupied as a resi dence. Ira Diraock, President of the Nono tuck Silk Company, is the purchaser, and will soon take possession of the mansion with his family. The Nashua Saddlery and Hardware Com pany has been organized with a capital of $50,000, and will begin business on East Hollis street in that city. The Cheshire Improvement Company of Rindge, N. H., has erected a vinegar factory 100 feet long by 40 wide aud three stories high, including basement. W. D. Cadwell and E. M. Snow, agents of the cotton manufacturing companies at Nashua, have gone on a loug Southern trip to inspect the mills in that section. It is estimated that the town of Gllmanton in Belkrap county, N. H., has 5000 barrels of choice apples this season to put on to the market, mostly of the Baldwin variety. The Wood Manufacturing Comnanv has been organized at Groveton, N. H., with T. C. McNally, President, and one-third of the power at Soule's dam purchased to be util ized. The Kimball Brothers of East Manchester, shoe manufacturers, employing over 200 hands, are to have an additional factory built with a capacity double that oi their present shop. George A. Comins. a furniture manufac turer of Concord, will erect at Beecher Falls, in West Stewartstown, on a plant of five acres, a hard wood lumber mill, with a ca pacity of 6,000,000 feet a year. Mr. Albert A. Payne, formerly a well, known merchant of Portsmouth, died in Worcester, Mass., at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. H. E Putnam, where Mr. Payne had resided since 1844. The Trustees of Pittsfield, N. H. Academy have received $1276 from the estate of the late Mrs. Frances French of that town. The in stitution now has property and cash pledges to the amount of $11,000. The soldiers' monument which is soon to be placed in the park at Cornish Flat, N. H., will cost about $1000. It is composed of Sunapee granite, is six feet high above the base, and represents a soldier standing at pa rade rest. Governor Burleigh has nominated Hon. John L. Cutler of Bangor a member of the commission authorized by the last Legisla ture to inquire into the system of taxation of Maine and other States. WASHINGTON ITEMS. The President has appointed John C. Slo cum of Florida to be surveyor-general of Florida. Ex-Secretary Bayard and Miss Mary Cly mer will be married Thursday, Nov. 7. The ceremony will be solemnized it the residence of the bride's mother, instead of at the parish church, St. John's. It is to be a quiet affair. The hearing of the case of Consul Lewis of Morocco was concluded at the state depart ment. Lewis will be exonerated and will re turn to his post of duty, having disproved all the charges against him. The decision may not be announced for several days. A letter from Chairman Cooley of the in terstate commerce commission, received from his home at Ann Arbor, Mich., says that he is steadily recovering from his late illness, and expects within a short time to return to his official duties at Washington. The "four years' rule," under which post masters were, it was said, to be allowed to serve their terms before being suspended, seems to have been practically abrogated. Of 31 changes in presidential postoffiees in one day 10 were enforced resignations, and 19 were absolute removals. In the other twp cases the offices had just beeu raised to the presidential class. A treasury warrant for $293 has been is sued in favor of Honore Levernier, company B, 1st Wisconsin cavalry, now residing in Chicago, the amount due him as his portiou of the reward offered by the government for the capture of Jeff Davis. The President has appointed Edward F. Potter postmaster at West Gardner, Mass., vice Albert A. Nupton, removed. The President is expected in his meB3age to remind the Republicans in Congress so for cibly of their civil service reform pledges in convention as to thwart the anti-civil service reformers in their efforts to thwart the re form. Sir Julian Pauncefote has not resumed ne gotiations with Secretary Blaine since his return from England, although he will do so as soon as he has obtained the latest informa tion as to Canada's desires in regard to the fisheries in Behring sea and extradition. Walker Blaine said today : "The story of the alleged conference at the department on Sat urday, between representatives of her maj esty's government and Secretary Blaine, grew out of a visit of courtesy by a member of the British Parliament, Sir Julian Goldschmidt. Accompanied by Secretary Edwards of the English legation, Sir Julian called to see my father and mate arrangements for a social call upon tbe President." Secretary Noble, under date of Oct. 26, has written a long letter to Gen, Fairchi-d, chair man of the Cherokee commission, in which he virtually serves notice upon the cattle men who have leased from the Indians lands within what is known as the Cherokee out let, that they must vacate the lands, with their property, on or before the 1st of June next, this date being fixed iu order that they may escape without injury or suffering to their cattle. . WANTS THE NAVY YARDS USED Secretary Tracy to Urge the Adoption of Nome .Positive policy. In his forthcoming report Secretary Tracy will, it is understood, urge upon Congress the adoption ,of some positive policy with re gard to the various navy yards. The people interested in opening those now closed, and maintaining them in a state of activity, have presented their arguments to the secretary, and these have been submitted to the chiefs of the several bureaus for their examination and report. For the Portsmouth yard an estimate for $150,000 has been submitted by the bureau of yards and docks, and by the several bureaus of yards and docks, en gineering and construction. estimates amounting to $300,000 for the Boston yard. Secretary Tracy will probably ask Congress to open the yards for the construction or re- frnir of ships, or the establishment of traili ng ships, with barracks for apprentices, or else close them entirely, and dispose of tin property and plants, KRUPP COMING TO AMERICA, He Intends Establishing a Big Gun Plant - Near Pittsburg. There is explicit and authoritative confir mation of last week's report that Herr Kruop of Essen, Germany, is negotiating for an enormous river frontage for a gun works on the Monongahela river, in the fourth pool above Pittsburg. J. B. Finley of Mononga hela City and Charles G. Mcllvaine, a Pitts burg lawyer, have been conducting the nego tiations to purchase five miles of river front. Lawyer Mcllvane admitted to-night that such a deal was on the programme. He likewise acknowledged that the ground desired was near Monongahela City, and that it was wanted as a manufacturing site. Reliable information was received from another source that Krupp wants a location in a country not likely to be embroiled in Euro pean roubles, and so he is coming here. Commander Goodrich, U. S. N., in chargo of the naval station and war college, New port, R. I., has been granted a year's leave to engage Jn private business. DR. TALMAGE'S G00DBY. HE EMBARKS FOR THE LAND. HOLY Impressive Farewell Sermon. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., of Brooklyn, ou his embarkation for the Holy Land bv the steamer Citv of Paris, addressed his millions of friends through the press, tak ing lor his text Acts xx, 38 : "And they ac companied him unto the ship." To the more than twenty-live millio'n peo ple in many countries to whom my sermons come week" by week, in English tongue and Pby translation, through the kindness of the newspaper press, I address these words. I dictate them to a stenographer on the eve of my departure for the Holy Land, Palestine. When vou read this sermon I will be mid-Atlantic. 1 go to be gone a few weeks on a religious journey. I go because 1 want for myself and hearers and readers to see liethlehein. find Nazareth, and Jerusalem, and Calvary, ana an me oiuer places connecteu wun tne Saviour's Jlfe and death, aud so reinforce my self for sermons. I go because I am writing the "Life of Christ," and can be more accu rate and graphic when I have been an eve witness of the sacred places. Pray for iny successful journeying and my safe return. I wish on the eve of departure to pronounce a loving benediction upon all iny friends in high places and low, upon congregations to whom my sermons are read In absence of pastors, upon groups gathered out ou prairies and in mining districts, upon all sick and in valid and aged ones - who cannot attend churches, but to whom 1 have long ad ministered through the printed page.' My next sermon will be addressed to vou from Rome, Italy, for I feci like Paul when he said : "So, as much as iu me is. I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also." The fact is that Paul was ever moving about on land or sea. He was an old sailor not from occupation, but from frequency of travel. I think he could have taken a vessel across the Mediterranean as well as some of the ship captains. The sailors never soolfed at him for being "a land lubber." If Paul's advice had been taken, the crew would never have gone ashore at Melita. When the vessel went scudding under bare poles Paul was the only self-possossed man on board, and, turning to the excited crew and despairing passengers, lie exclaims, in a voice that sounds above the thunder of the tempest and the wrath of sea : "Be of good cheer." The men who now go to see with maps and charts and modern compass, warned by buoy and lighthouse, know nothing of the perils of ancient navigation. Horace said that the man who first ventured on the sea must have had a heart bound with oak aud triple brass. People then ventured only from headland to headland and from island to island, and not until long after spread their sail for a voyage across the sea. Before starting, tbe weather was watched, and, the vessel having been hauled up on the shore, the mariners placed their shoulders against the stern of the ship and heaved it off, they at the last moment leaping into it. Vessels were then chiefly ships of burden the transit of passengers being the exception; for the world was not then migratory as- is in our day, when the first desire of a man in one place seems to be to get into another place. The ship from which Jonah was thrown overboard, and that iu which Paul was carried prisoner, went out chiefly wi'h the idea of taking a cargo. As now, so then, vessels were accustomed to carry a flag. In those times it was iuscribed with the name of a heathen deity. A vessel bound for Syracuse had on it the inscription "Castor and Pollux." The ships were provided with anchors. Anchors were of two kinds ; those that were dropped into the sea, and those that were thrown up onto the rocks to hold the vessel fast. This last kind was what Paul alluded to when he said: "Which hope we have as an anchor ' of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that withiu the vail." That was what the sailors call a "hook anchor." The rocks aud sand bars, shoals and headlands, not being mapped out, ves sels carried a plumb line. They would dron it and find the water fifty fathoms, and drop. it again ana rind it rortv iathoms, and drop it again and find it thirty fathoms, thus dis covering their near approach to the shore. In the spring, summer and autumn the Medi terranean sea was white with the wings of ships, but at the first wiutry blast they hied themselves to the nearest harbor, although now the world's commerce prospers in January as well as in June, and in mid winter, all over the wide aud stormy deep, there float palaces of light, trampling the billows under foot, and showering the sparks of terrible furnaces on the wild wind; and the Christian pnssen ger,tippetcd and shawled, sits under the shel ter of the smokestack, looking off upon the fdiosphoresceut deep, on which is written, ti scrolls of foam and fire: "Thy way, 0 God, is in the sea, and thy path in the gre:tf waters !" It is in those days of early navigation that 1 see a group of men, women and children on the l)cach of the Mediterranean. Paul is about to leave the congregation to whom he had preached and fhey arc come down to see him off. It is a solemn thing to part. There are so many traps that wait for a man's feet. The solid ground may break through, and the sea how many dark mys teries it hides in its bosom! A' few coun sels, a hasty goodby, a last look, aud the ropes - rattle, and the sails are hoisted, and the planks are hauled in, and. Paul is gone. I expect to sail over some of the same waters over which Paul sailed, but before going I want to urge you all to embark for heaven, The church Is the drydoek where souls Is to be fitted out for heaven. In making a vessel for this voyage, the first need is sound tim ber. The floor timbers ought to be of solid stuff. For the want of it, vessels that looked able to run their jibhooms into the eve of any tempest, when caught in n storm have been crushed like a wafer. The truths of God's Word ore what I mean by floor timbers. Away with your lighter materials. Nothing but oaks, heweu iu tbe forest of divine truth, are stanch enough for this craft. You must have love for a helm, to guide aud turn the craft. Neither Pride nor Am bition nor Avarice will do for a rudder. Love, not only in the heart, but flashing in the eve and tingling in the hand Love married to work, which manv look upon as so homely n pride Love, not fike brooks, which foam and rattle, yet do nothing, but Love like a river, that runs up the steps of mill wheels, and works in tbe harness of factory bands Love that will not pass by on the other side, but visits the man who fell among thieves near Jericho, not merely saving, "Poor fellow 1 you are dreadfully hurt,' but, like the good Samaritan, pours in oil and wine, and pays his board at the tavern. There must also be a prow, arranged to cut and override the billow. That is Christian perseverance. There are three mountain sources that sometimes dash against a soul in a minute the world, the flesh and the devil : and that is a well built prow that can bpund pvpr thcin. F-pr lack of this, many have put be$ and never have Started again, It is the broadside wave tliat so often sweeps the deck and fills the liatohos; hut that which strikes (n front is harmless. Meet troubles courageously and vou surmount them. Stand on the prow, and as you wipe off the spray of the split surge, cry out with the apostle : "None of these things move me," Let all your fears stay aft. The right must conquer. Know that Moses, in an ark of bulrushes, can run down a war steamer. Have a good, strong anchor. "Which hope we have as an anchor." By this strong cable and windlass hold on to your anchor. 'H any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father." Do not use the anchor wrong fully. Do not always stay In the same lati tude and longitude. You will never ride up the harbor of eternal rest if you all the way drag your auchor. But you must have sails. Vessels are not fit for the sea until they have the flying iib, the foresail, the topgallant, the skysail, the gaflsail and other canvas. Faith is bur can vas uoist it, and the winds of heaven will drive you ahead. . Sails made out of anv other canvas than faith will be slit to tatters by the first northeaster. Strong faith never lost a battle. It will crush foes, blast rocks, quench lightnings, thresh mountains. It is a shield to the warrior, a crank to the most ponderous wheel, a lever to prv up pyramids, a drum whose beat give strength to the step of the heavenly soldiery, and sails to waft ships laden with priceless pearls from the harbor of earth to the harbor of heaven. But yqu are not yet equipped. You must have what seamen oall tuo running rigging. This comprises the ship's braoes, halliards, clew lines and such like. Without these the yards could not bo braced, the sails lifted, nor the canvas in anvwise managed. We have prayer for the running rigging. Unless you understand this tackliug you are not a spiritual seaman. By putting on these ropes you hoist the sails of faith and turn them every whither. The prow of courage will not cut the wave, nor tbe sail of faith spread and flap its wing, unless you have strong prayer for a halliard. One more arrangement, and you will be ready for the sea. You must have a compass which is the Bible. Look at it every day, and always sail by il.as its needle points toward the Star of Bethlehem. Through fog, and darkness, and storm, it works faithfully. Search the Scriptures. "Box the compass " Let me give you two or three rules for the voyage. Allow your appetites and passions only au under deck passage. Do not allow them ever to come up on the promenade deck. Mortify your members which are upon the earth. Never allow your lower nature anything better, than a steerage pas sage. Let watchfulness walk Xht decks at an armed sentinel, and shoot down with great promptness anything like a mutiny of riotous appetites. Be sure to look out of the forecastle for icebergs. These are cold Christians floating about In the church. The frigid zone pro fessors will sink you. Steer clear of Ice bergs. Keep a log book during all the voyage au account of how many furlongs you make a day. The merchant keeps a day book as well as a ledger. You ought to know every night, as well as every year how things are going. When the express train stops' at tbe depot, you hear a hammer sounding on all the wheels, thus testing the safety of the rail train. Bound, as we are, with more than express speed toward a great eternity, ought we not often t try the work of self examination!' Be sure to keep yoiir colors up! You know the ships of England, Russia, France aud Spain by the ensigns they carry. Sometimes it is a lion, sometimes an eagle, sometimes a star, sometimes a crown. Let it ever be known who you are, and for what poit you arc bound. Let "C'hristian"be written ou the very front, with a figure of a cross, a crown and a dove; and from the masthesd lit float the streamers of Immanuel. Then the pirate vessels of temptation will pass you unharmed as they say : "There goes a Christian bound for the port of heaven. We will not disturb her, for she has too many guns aboard." Ruu up your' Hag on this "pulley: "I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation." When driven back, or laboring under great stress of weather now changing from starboard tack to larboard, aud then from larboard to starboard look above the topgallants, and your heart shall beat like a war drum as the streamers float on the wind. The sign of the ..cross will make you patient,' and" the crown will make you glad. Before you gain port you will smell the land breezes of heaven, ond Christ, the pilot, will meet you as you come into the Narrows of Death, and fasten to you, and say: "When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee; aud through the rivers, they shall not over flow thee." Are you ready for such ; a voy age? Make up your minds. The gang planks arc lifting. The bell rings. All aboard for heaven ! This world is not voilr rest. The chaffinch is the silliest bird in all Uie earth for trying to make its nest on the rocking billow. Oh, how I wish that as I embarked for the Holy Land iu the cast, all to whom I preach by tongue or tvpe would embark for , heaven ! What you all most need is God, and you need him now. Some of you I leave in trouble. Things arc going very rough with you. Y'ou have had a hard struggle with " poverty, or sickness, or persecution, or be reavement. Light after light has gone out, and it is so dark that you can hardly sec any blessing left. Mav that Jesus who" comfort ed the widow of Nuln and raised the deceas ed to life, with his gentle hand of sympathy wipe away your tears ! All is well. When David was fleeing through the wild erness, pursued by his own son, he was lie ing prepared to become the sweet singer of Israel. The pit and the dungeons were tbe best schools at which Joseph ever graduated. The hurricane that upset the tent and killed Job's children prepared the man of U to write the magnificent poem that has astound ed the. ages. There is no way to get the wheat out of the straw but to thresh it. There is no way to purify the gold but to burn it. Look at the people who have al ways had it their own way. They are proud, discontented, useless and unhappy. If you want to find cheerful folks, go among those who have beeu purified bv the fire. After Rossini had rendered "Wiiliain Tell" the five hundredth time, a company of musicians cumo under his window In Paris and serenaded him. They put upou his brow a golden crown of laurel leaves. But. amidst all the applause and en thusiasm, Rossiui turned to a friend and said : "I would give all this brilliant scene for a few days of youth and love." Con trast the me'lancholy feeling of Rossiui. who . had everything that this world could give hi. ii, to the joyful experience of Isaac Walta, whose misfortunes were iunumerable, when he savs : The lull of Zion yields , A thousand sacred sweets Y ui iurc we nwu mic iicuveuiy ueiag Or walk the golden streets. Then let our songs abound, And every tear be dry ; We're marching through Iramanuel's ground,, To fairer worlds on high. It is prosperity that kills and trouble that saves. While the Israelites were on the march, amidst great privations and hardships, they behaved well. After awhile they . . . ... 1. 1. 1 i , 1 prayed for meat, and tbe sky darkened with a large flock of quails, and these quails fell in. grcnt multitudes all about them; and the Israelites ate and ate, and stuffed themselves unt 1 they died. Oh ! my friends, it Is not hardship, or trial, or starvation that injures the soul, but abundant supply. It is not the vulture of trouble that cats up the Christian's ' life; it is the quails! it is the quails! I cannot leave you until ouce more I con fess my faith In the Saviour whom I have mnfhoil llo lu nit oil 111 nil . T nua nmt-a to the grace of God than most men. With, this ardent temperament, if I had gone over board I would have gone to the very depths. You know I can do nothing by halves. O, to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm constrained to be ! I think till will be well. Do not bo wor ried about ine. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and if any fatality should befall me, I think I should go straight, I have been most unworthy, aud would be sorry to Ihluk that any one of my friends bad been oh un worthy a Christian as myself, But God has helped a great many through, and I hope ho will help nie through. It is a long acoount of shortcomings, but if he is going to rub any of it out, I thiu k he will rub it all out. And now give us (for I go not alone) your bene diction. When you send letters to a friend , in a distant land, you say via such a city, or via such a steamer. When you send your pond wishes to us. send thorn via the throne of God. We shall not travel out of the reach of your proyers. There Is a sceue where spirits dwell, Where friend holds Intercourse with friend ; Though sundered far, by faith we meet Around the commou mercy scat. And now, may the blessing of God come down upon your bodies and upon your souls, your fathers and mothers, your com panions, your children, your brothers and ' sisters and your friends! May you be blessed in your business and in your pleas ures, In your ioys and iu your sorrows, iu tbe house and by the way ! And if, during our separation, an arrow from the uuscen world should strike any of us, may it only hasten ou the raptures that God "has pre pared for those who love him ! I utter not the word farewell; it is too sad, too formal a word for me to speak or write. But, con sidering that I have your hand tightly clasped In both of mine. 1 utter- a Hindi m affectionate aud cheerful goodby' THE FEViR INFECTED SHIP- 'erf Boys Confined on the New Hamp shire After Tracy's Order, It la said to be probable that a court of in quiry will be ordered to examine Into the circumstances connected with the death of Guy Andrews, oue of the apprentice boys on the United States training ship New Hampshire, stationed at Newport, U. I. The New Hampshire became Infected with fever several months ago. and secretary Tracy ordered that all the- boys be n moved" from the ship to quarters on Coaster's Harbor Island. After the order was issued, young Andrews was punished for some misde meanor by confinement on board the New Hampshire, where he developed symptoms of typhoid fever. He was then "removed from the ship to the hospital on the island, where he died after a long illness It Is charged that Commander Higginson, the chief officer at the Newport Naval training station, made a practice of confining the boys ou this ship after Secretary Tracy's order was issued. WILL KILL MOK SEM. His Testimony Convicted a Fellow China man of Murder. The attempted assassination of a Chinaman in San Francisco the other dav, led to a, pitched buttle between highbinders which would have had disastrous result-, if they had been good pistol shots, Ug Yuen was tried for murdering a Mongolian lat Julv. Mok Sen.) was the only witness who saw tile shooting, He was warned by Yuen's friends that if be testified they would kill htm. At the trial be gave testimony which oou victed the accused and will send him o the gallows, Yuen's society chose six men to kill Mok, They wavlaid him ou oue of the principal streets and opened lire, but did not kill him. . . . LIVING IN THE STREETS. Sixteen Thousand Soldiers Without Homes in Port-au-Prince. Minister Douglass, In a letter to his sou, Fred Douglass, Jr., states that 10,000 soldiers are living in the streets of the Havtian capi tal, cooking, eating, sleeping, and performing ail necessary duties there, and, as the weather is very warm, it is probable that much sick ness will ensue. His letter Is hopeful as to the future, but not at all glowing as to the present condition of the people of Haytl, At the njecting of the directors of the Wauregan and Notingiiam mills, Providence. L. P. Taft resigned as treasurer of both cor porations, and J. W. Dauielsou was elected to the po-dtion.