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New York, that in general the farmers there
are very poor and entirely discouraged."
An American writer, Mr. Maitland, in a late
number of the Nineteenth Century, declares
that the farmers of the United States have to
run in debt to live. "In every State of the
Union," he says, "mortgages on farms in-
crease with surprising rapidity." The New
York World, basing its statements on the
figures of the last Census, gives a table which
shows that there has been an increase of $260,-
co0,000 in mortgages on farm lands during
the last nine years.
The statisticians estimate
the private debts secured by landed property
in all parts of the United States at $6,000,000,-
ooo. After that, is it surprising that the Amer-
ican farmer emigrates to Canada, and that the
Canadian farmer, disdaining Liberal counsels,
refuses to change his lot for that of his unfortu-
nate neighbor?

New York Sun (Dem.), Dec. 4.-It must not be supposed that the advocates of continental union are exclusively recruited from the old Liberal party. An increasing fraction of them consists of men who have habitually voted for Conservative candidates, but who cannot shut their eyes to the consequences of Canada's commercial and political separation from the United States. In the exodus of young men from the Dominion, which has attained tremendous proportions, in the portentous increase of their public debt, which is nearly four times larger per head than that of the United States, and in the prostration of their trade resulting from the loss of the natural market for their surplus products, they recognize arguments for annexation which entirely outweigh any traditional sentiment of loyalty to the British Crown.

that the American is better than the British | federation, 29. This may properly be regarded system of government; it is only the cry of as a substantial expression of sentiment in traders and farmers who have become con- favor of annexation, for besides the 992 who, vinced, by the stern logic of experience, that in spite of the cry of treason, voted openly for under present conditions there is more money annexation, it must be believed that among for them in union with the United States than the 1,614 who voted for Canadian indepen-. in the maintenance of the British connection. dence there were a great many who underIf we destroy the conditions that have given stood perfectly well that independence was the birth to this conviction, if we restore to the first step on the road to political union with Canadians the same practical freedom of the the United States. Annexation is clearly only American markets which they formerly en- a question of time. If Canada were alive to joyed, there will be a speedy end of the annex- her own interests it would be only a short. ation agitation in the Dominion. It is for our time, but the word "treason" leaves a bad Democratic rulers to decide whether we want taste in the mouth, and not until the term is Canada on our own terms or not. The main accurately defined and thereby explained away tenance of the agricultural sections of the can we expect to see a general movement in McKinley tariff is the essential condition. favor of political union.

PANAMA.

Indianapolis Sentinel (Dem.), Dec. 2.-Annexation seems a very live issue in Canada at present. Why it should be is not exactly clear. Canada can't annex herself to the United States London Engineering, Nov. 25.-Whatever of her own motion, and up to date the United faults may have been committed by M. de LesStates has shown no disposition to extend her seps-and they have undoubtedly been many an invitation. It is extremely doubtful whether and grave-there is no reason to believe that the United States would ever consent to take he is the richer for the unfortunate enterprise in our northern neighbor. It would certainly of which he was the moving spirit. In the seem that there is very little to gain by such a general scramble which took place for a share course. To be sure, Canada has many things of the plunder he bore no part, and probably in common with the great republic south of the worst that can be alleged against him is the St. Lawrence. Her trade interests are, or that in the first instance he undertook a work more properly should be, with the United for which he was totally incompetent, while in States; and would be but for our absurd his later appeals he affected a sanguine feeling tariff and navigation laws. Canada's rail- that the facts in his possession did not warrant. road systems, too, are closely allied with But although such offenses as these are often those in the United States. But when this regarded leniently after the first burst of has been said about all the ground of common indignation has subsided, they become interest has been covered. On the other hand very grave when they lead to the utter there are many reasons why governmental squandering of £52,000,000 sterling. M. union would be undesirable. In the first de Lesseps fixed his eye on the end he place the new people would be practically un- wished to attain, and took little heed to the Brooklyn Citizen (Dem.), Dec. 3.-Are Can- acquainted with our system of government. It means. He saw in imagination a traffic that ada and the United States one in sentiment, would be impracticable to invest them at once would yield an enormous revenue, and as the and can they become one in national feelings? with full citizenship of the United States, for expenses mounted up his estimate of the tolls No patriotic American would consent to have they would be incapable of exercising that right to be obtained increased in a like proportion. this country become a portion of France, Spain, properly. If the Canadians were to be natural- His faith was unbounded, and seemed to infect or Germany, no matter what advantages might ized in a lump it would demoralize American all below him, or else surely the work would accrue. Should not every Canadian feel the politics. The temptation to curry favor with have been done on a different basis. Before same in respect to annexation with the United such a large mass of voters by making all the canal could be really commenced in good States? This is the real question. The United manner of concessions would be too great earnest it was absolutely necessary to provide States does not wish to purchase subjects. If for most of our politicians to resist. When for the fearful floods that rage over its site, Canada desire to join us, this country will it is, remembered that Canada can give and yet scarcely anything was done to mitundoubtedly be willing to assume her debt and the United States points in corrupt politics, igate these. The soft, greasy clays of the to compensate England for the losses which and that partisanism there is divided very Culebra section wanted draining to enathe British Empire thereby entails, but it has largely on race and religious lines, it will be at ble the banks to stand firm, but this was no desire to purchase votes for annexation, once seen that the danger from this source neglected, and the main cut carried forward either directly or indirectly. The Canadians would be almost inestimable. Canada, too, is only to be filled again and again. The great who still feel loyal to Great Britain, but who loaded down with land grant and railway sub-anxiety seemed to be to get the canal so far sell themselves to this country for the sake of sidy legislation, which annexation would com-excavated that the French nation should be prosperity, are not wanted. In saying this pel the United States to assume, and every- morally pledged to its completion. When it we do not deny that annexation would be body knows that we have a surplus of that sort was at length found that a level cut from sea of great advantage to the United States. of obligations already. Another point of objec- to sea could not be made, the design was modiOn the contrary, we practically admit its tion that cannot be overlooked is that Eng-fied by the introduction of locks, and financial advantages when we say that the United land would not be at all likely to sit idly by security was invoked by the parade of a conStates would be willing to incur considerable while her only colonies in the new world tract with M. Eiffel, whose name carried great expense to obtain Canada. It would be a were being transferred to another. While weight in France. The want of organization, source of pride to us that our country extended policy might command that she make no however, was not confined to the engineering to the Arctic Ocean, and was double, or nearly show of warlike opposition, common decency plans. The business affairs were in an equally double its present size, even if this extra terri- would dictate compensation to her for the loss deplorable state. Contracts were drawn and tory did contain very little cultivatable land. of territory, the fixing of which would involve let in the loosest possible fashion, and without Moreover, we would obtain material advant- almost endless complications and inextricable any definite estimates to base them on. So ages from Canada. It would be easier to regu- confusion. The advantages to be derived from ignorant were the officials that some contracts late immigration and to collect tariffs, if our annexation would be so small in comparison were sublet, it was stated, several times, boundaries extended farther to the north. with the disadvantages that it is extremely and at each stage a very considerable proporCanada's mineral wealth is considerable and doubtful if a serious proposition looking to tion of the whole fell to the shares of those would supply our furnaces and factories as well even the peaceable absorption of the Dominion who transferred their responsibilities in this as her own if she were united to us. The would receive the respectful attention of Con- easy fashion. In some sections a price per cubic separation of the two countries brings endless gress. The anti-annexationists of our neigh-metre was accepted to include the excavation .complications; fishery disputes and difficulty boring country seem to have erected a straw in regulating railroads, for example. More- man, from whose knocking down they expect over, Canada separates us from Alaska, and to gain a partisan advantage. perhaps this separation prevents the development of that territory. In short, union would benefit both Canada and the United States. The question is, are they sufficiently one to make union in the real sense of the word possible?

Brooklyn Times (Rep.), Dec. 5.-The demand for consolidation with the United States, so far as it exists in Canada, is an economic and not a political demand. It is not the appeal of citizens who have become convinced

of both soft ground and rock; the contractor then proceeded to get out the earth, claiming his payments each month, and when he had finished this he threw up the job, leaving the San Francisco Chronicle (Rep.), Nov. 30. rock untouched, and paid his forfeit money, Monday evening there was an immense gath- finding himself very much to the good. It was ering at Sohmer Park, in Montreal, the largest not for want of surveillance that such things public place in the city, to hear a joint debate were done, for there were 800 French enon the political future of Canada. There were gineers on the isthmus that wrote "chief " over 8,000 people present, among whom were after their names, and who probably drew most of the leading politicians and professional salaries in accordance. On all sides there was and business men of the city. After the speak-waste. Money was spent lavishly in influencing ing was ended a vote was taken, with the fol- public opinion in favor of the project; work lowing result: For independence, 1,614; an- was done in the wrong order; it was done by nexation, 992; colonial system, 364; imperial'inefficient means, and often done twice over.

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Everything was sacrificed to effect. At each | same age in the precincts of Mulberry street, | in the Kentucky distillery bonded warehouses
annual meeting there must be a large total of certainly more than half civilized and most of the make of the season of 1890, upon which
excavation to parade before the shareholders, evidently tending to well being and prosperity. the tax matures within the next six months.
and keep them content. M. de Lesseps read Perhaps there is no particular moral to be The demand for the corresponding time,
them the figures and repeated his assurances drawn from the comparison of two brothers for that age and class of whiskey, will
that in 1889 the canal would be complete, when living in different places. Did you ever read probably not exceed 4,000,000 gallons, and
every one of his 800 engineers must have known Zury, the Meanest Man in Spring County"? the owners were preparing to export a large
this to be impossible. It really seemed as if I'm going to be a wholesale man," said Zury, part of the clear surplus of about 15,000,000
M. de Lesseps thought that the Panama Canal aged about sixteen years—and he kept his gallons of the year 1891. There are about 25,-
was like that at Suez, a matter of “extraction" word, with very good results. Ours is a o00,000 gallons in the bonded distillery ware-
-so much digging and dumping.
wholesale country, but Italy-beautiful, pas- houses of Kentucky, and over 28,000,000 gal-
lieves in retail.

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THE DRINK QUESTION.

RING?

Dec. 4.-The situation is undoubtedly in many
respects the ugliest the republic has known,
but there is no reason why the republic should
not triumphantly emerge from the trial, and,
in truth, all the stronger for its purification.
To those, however, who are in the thick of the IS THERE TO BE ANOTHER WHISKEY
present imbroglio it may well seem as if the
institutions of their country were once more in
the revolutionary melting pot. The peril of
the existing crisis, as was pointed out a week
ago, is that the nation may come to believe
that the powers vested in the executive, legis
lative, and judicial departments of the Govern-
ment have been designedly pooled to prevent
the exposure and punishment of official corrup;
tion. If a conviction of that kind gets hold of
people at large, there will be some very prompt
and uncomfortable results. It is, unhappily,
true that pretty nearly everything which has
happened this week has tended to create such
a conviction. Just enough has been disclosed
to show that the Panama rottenness is even

Cincinnati Times-Star (Rep.). Dec. 3.-A heavier tax on whiskey would be advisable, if it could be collected; but there's the rub. The fad that is now being most vigorously worked by the Whiskey Trust bulls is a proposed in crease of the whiskey tax and the proposition is persistently urged upon the newly-elected Democratic statesmen. It is even hinted that a formidable whiskey ring has already been formed among Democratic statesmen in anticipation of the enormous profits to be realized in case the tax is advanced from 90 cents a gallon to $1.30 or $1.40. They claim that such an advance would increase the revenue to the amount of $40,000,000 a year. It is said by the Wine and Spirit Gazette, a paper that keeps well posted on the condition and prospects of the whiskey market, that several Congressmen have been let in on the ground floor of the advance in whiskey tax scheme. The

Gazette says:

worse and more widespread than was at first
suspected, and to excite an overwhelming
popular demand for the whole truth. But
here arises the difficulty that those public
servants who honestly want to probe the iniq-
uity to the bottom are split into two fiercely
antagonistic divisions on the question how it
Last year the Internal Revenue from distilled spirits
ought to be done, and a great swarm of jour-
was about $83,000,000. We have repeatedly demon.
nalists, politicians, and lobbyists who dread an strated in these columns that an increase of the tax
investigation are utilizing this split to stave it has invariably resulted in a proportionate decrease of
off altogether. This creates
an ugly and the revenues from that source rather than in an in-
crease. In 1867 Congress increased the tax on dis-
angry muddle, in which evil motives are sus-
tilled spirits to $2 a gallon under the pretext of paying
pected on all sides and criminous imputations off the enormous war debt. The next year the total
are scattered broadcast, and the timid bour-amount of spirits produced and returned for taxation
fell to less than 17,000,000 gallons, or to little more than
geoisie begin watching for the appearance of half the product of the previous year. As a large
that sinister figure in France's history the quantity of this remained in bond, with the tax un-
paid, the total revenue from whiskey in 1868 amounted
to $18,655,631. In 1869, when the rate was reduced,
the whiskey product returned to 54,000,000 gallons, and
yielded a revenue of upward of $45,000,000.

saviour of society.

ITALY'S BACKWARDNESS.

Is it likely that the incoming Democratic Ad-
ministration is going to place itself in the
position of encouraging the formation of a
ring that will be apt to wreck the party? The
scandalous frauds committed when the whiskey

I, this year, enough has been added to make
the total stocks in these warehouses exceed 78,-
000,000 gallons. These figures would indicate
a four years' supply of Kentucky whiskey, but
they are deceiving in this much, that the
annual consumption, estimated at 22,000,000
gallons, comprises all kinds of Kentucky spirits,
while the stock of more than 78,000,000 gallons
in bond consists nearly altogether of ageing
whiskies, of which the annual consumption
does not exceed 16,000,000 gallons, so that
there is in reality a supply sufficient to meet
the demands for five years to come. The same
may be said of the stock of Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and West Virginia whiskies. Why,
then, this present and apparently insane spec-
ulation in whiskey?

WHO ELECTED CLEVELAND?-The esteemed

Recorder, in commenting on the demand of
the liquor-dealers that Mr. Croker have the
naming of the Collector and Postmaster of
this city, is moved to say: "Surely some one
should save Mr. Cleveland from his friends."
Oh, no! Mr. Cleveland does not want to be
saved from his friends, the liquor-dealers. He
knows he could not have been elected without
their active support, and if he is wise he must
know that the success of his Administration de-
pends upon recognizing Tammany Hall, whose
main strength the liquor-dealers are, as the
only Democratic organization of this city.-
New York Wine and Spirit Gazette, Nov. 30.

MISCELLANEOUS.

THAT PITTSBURGH CRUSADE.
New York Voice, Dec. 8.-The crusade in

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Pittsburgh against houses of ill-fame resulted F. Marion Crawford in the New York Trib. last week in an order from the Mayor issued to the Department of Public Safety to enforce une, Dec. 4.-If there is any truth in the trite The law is exsaying that variety is the spice of life-and the law against such houses. there is much real truth in most trite sayings tax was $2 a gallon are still fresh in the minds frequented by persons for lewd and unchaste plicit that "all houses of ill-fame, all houses -the existence of a man who within a few of the business men of 1868-70. The $2 tax be deemed disorderly months passes from the unvisited regions of Southern Italy to the pavement of New York was a veritable bounty to moonshiners. It houses," and the inmates shall be arrested and made the temptation to defraud the Govern- brought to trial. For years this law has been must be very highly spiced indeed. It is hard ment irresistible. to imagine a more complete and sudden contrast than that between the wilder parts of Dispatch from Cincinnati, New York Times, Calabria and the streets of the metropolis. Dec. 7.-The Whiskey Trust is again commandThe moral distance which separates Wall street ing public attention. The rumor that certain or 5th avenue-from salt mine worked by Congressmen of national repute intend to ask the Albanian peasants is undeniably greater than next Congress to place a heavy tax on whiskey that which lies between the great city and the has stimulated the Trust to efforts in the line of uninhabited wilderness. After all, we com- discounting the proposed increase of tax. Durpare places more by their relative civili-ing the last two weeks the whiskey interests zation than by the figures of their census. here and in Kentucky have been agog on acconnt Few indeed, have not felt a thrill of enthusi- of purchases of whiskey which have been made asm in reading the history of Italian Unity- on a heretofore unheard-of scale. These purbut few have not felt a chill of disappointment chases have been managed in such a manner and regret in contemplating the present re- that for a time it was difficult to learn from sults of the great struggle for independence. whence the orders came, but now it has I remember, when a little boy, that I was become clear that the Whiskey Trust is the made to stand upon a chair and join in a cheer principal operator; all others are simply for President Lincoln and Victor Emmanuel smaller speculators. Why should any just thirty-two years ago. And now within a one want to buy Kentucky whiskey or few days I have walked grass-grown streets of roofless and windowless unfinished residence houses just by the walls of Rome, and I have traversed New York in all its length and breadth, and I have seen what thirty-two years have done. And to make the contrast wider, within a few months I have seen the wild, uncivilized Albanian of Calabria at work in his salt mine and driving goats among his jagged hills, and I have seen Calabrians by the hundred of the same generation of men and of the

spirits of any kind in large quantities?
Kentucky distillers and the wholesale distribu-
tors of their products are said to be staggering
under a tremendous load, the result of continu-
ous overproduction carried on from the season
of 1889 to the present day. The ordinary
demand for Kentucky spirits of all kinds at
living prices is within 22,000.000 gallons per
year. There are now, besides a rather full
stock of tax-paid whiskies in the hands of
jobbers, nearly 20,000,000 gallons of whiskey

a dead letter until under the connivance of the
police, 1,300 women have held sway in one of
the city's wards, and the evil has become in-
tolerable. The Law and Order Society and
the various ministerial associations have been
for weeks besieging the Mayor to enforce the
law, and the vigorous way it was finally done has
aroused a sensation all over the country. A two
days' notice was given the proprietresses
of these houses, some of whom have grown
wealthy and own valuable real estate in and
around the city. There seems to have been
considerable gush over the women and their
reputed inability to find shelter when turned
out of their vile resorts, and the demand has
been made upon the preachers by the Mayor
and others to find shelter for them. The
preachers offered to do so for such as gave
evidence of repentance and intentiou to lead
moral lives hereafter, but it is evident that if
the city officials had for years, contrary to law,
allowed the evil to assume such dimensions,
they were the ones, not the ministers, to find
shelter for such as needed it. There has been
too much sympathy wasted, on the assump-
tion that these women are wicked because they
have been of a too confiding nature and have
been betrayed and abandoned by wicked men
who, equally guilty or more so, escaped all
punishment and social condemnation. We be-
lieve that such men ought to be outcast from

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decent society. But the statistics of prostitu- ments, the application of the principle is and the Pacifics was one of disaster to others tion show that the women who go to the bad comparatively recent. That principle some and profit to himself. The same inflation tacfor such a reason constitute a very small, al-authorities claim to trace back to the old Chi- tics followed close upon his getting hold of the most insignificant, proportion. Far the largest nese shipbuilders, yet it is within the present Western Union Telegraph Company. He number have fallen because of their love of generation that its application has become was a systematic cornerer at every oppordress and display, and have deliberately re- general in shipbuilding in Europe and America. tunity, from the tannery to the stock sorted to such a course to gratify it. The sin The construction of steamers with water-tight exchange, both inclusive, with a long is the last one that society can trifle with for compartments was a victory for the naval archi- list of intermediate stations. And when sentimental or other reasons. Everything is tect over the conservatism of the seafaring he could not corner a profit by making securiat stake in holding it in check, and the men, profession. We have heard an official con- ties for a property artificially scarce he worked like Rev. Dr. Rainsford (who also wants the nected with the United States steamship inspec- in the opposite direction by emitting them in churches to run saloons), who are pleading tion service say that the older sea captains were such profusion as to break down values in the that these houses should not be molested for inclined to scout the value of the compartments hands of original holders. He never created fear of scattering the blazing faggots (as they despite demonstration that they involved sim- anything except shares and bonds, and those express it) and extending the conflagration, ply a principle common enough in nature. In so plentifully as at times to amount to an inunhave lost themselves in a figure of speech. the end the compartments convinced the cap-dation. He aimed not to increase the real The business exists because it pays. It is not tains, who are now zealous for them as they value of any single thing he took hold of. He lust but avarice that causes it. Make it un- were once sceptical or indifferent. was simply a gigantic financial octopus, and profitable and you put an end to nine-tenths of woe to everything on which his tentacles the vice. License it or tolerate it and it prosfastened was the rule during the whole of his pers and increases. "business 19 career. He never let go till nothing was to be gained by longer adhesion. Unlike many other great absorbers, he retained to the last every dollar. One may look in vain for his name on the list of donors to funds for uments. the building of universities, hospitals, or mon

Providence Journal, Dec. 5.-The utter futility, not to say immorality, of most so-called moral crusades is strikingly demonstrated by the episode at Pittsburgh which has attracted public attention during the last two or three days. The story need not be retold here. What the city authorities attempted to do was to close all the houses of ill-fame, and in con

THE ONLY SURE ROAD TO SUCCESS.
Atlanta Constitution, Dec. 3.-Mr. Robert
Bonner, the New York millionaire, in a recent
interview, gave certain points in the history of
his life which the average young man can
York from Ireland at the age of fifteen, with
Bonner came to New
profit by if he will.
$5 in his pocket, and three suits of clothes.
He went to work as an apprentice, and the
was made by overwork, 121⁄2 cents for each ex-

self was deeply interested in the subject of rehis life. He was a diligent attendent upon the

New York Sun, Dec. 6.-Mr. Gould him

sequence of friction between the Mayor and only money he could save in the first five years ligion, more especially during the last years of emptorily that, for a time, it looked as if the tra hour. He kept out of barrooms and depos- services of Dr. Paxton's Presbyterian Church,

the Police Department this was done so per

inmates would be turned absolutely homeless upon the streets-an outcome of the agitation conducted by the friends of "social purity" conducive by no means either to morality or to humanity. The Mayor was puzzled and per

plexed when the unfortunate women descended in a body and upon his office and demanded some

sort of shelter. At first he made the not unnatural mistake of hoping that the clerical gentlemen who had been denouncing sin so loudly would lend a helping hand to the sinner; but they refused, and only a single Catholic priest was found charitable enough to extend aid or comfort to the outcasts. It seems to be a failing on the part of moral crusaders to shrink from any practical effort to remove the evils which they condemn. They demand the closing of houses of ill-fame, for example, but they have no plan other than this for stamping out the evil which leads to their existence, and they fail to see that mere proscription without

remedy must injure rather than improve society. It is not often, however, that their folly is so promptly exposed as it has been at Pittsburgh.

THE SAVING OF THE "SPREE."

ited his money in a savings-bank. Finally, he
started in business in a small way, and adver-
tised largely. It is his deliberate judgment
that the chances for a young man are just as
good now as they were in his day. As he puts
it, speaking of his own experience:

If the poor do not get on, it is their own fault. I
didn't frequent rum holes. I preferred savings-banks.
A sober young man has just as good chance as ever.
You can't eat your cake and have it too. You can't
Who can begin lower down than $25
spend and save.
a year, with board and washing and 12% cents an
hour for overwork?

A young man in Atlanta, or in one of our
country towns, would hoot at the idea of going
to work five years at $25 a year with board and
washing and 121⁄2 cents per hour for extra
work after a long day's toil. Yet Bonner tried
it, and at the age of sixty-nine enjoys life
with a fortune of several million dollars.

and his religious belief was unaffected by the skepticism of these days. A little essay on album is described as remarkable for its deep the Atonement which he wrote in a lady's devotional spirit and orthodox faith. He died

in that faith. So far as we can learn, there

His re

was not a trace of infidelity in him. ligious belief was as orthodox as President Patton's or Dr. John Hall's. He believed in the Bible as the infallible Word of God, in the life eternal, in future rewards and punishments, and his own everlasting accountability for his course and conduct in this temporal life. It was never charged against Mr. Gould that he was a hypocrite. Nobody could be further removed from hypocrisy than he was. He was not a man of any pretensions whatever. He never took any pains to change the injurious estimate of him which prevailed SOMETHING THE MATTER WITH THE ASSO- throughout his successful career. He left CIATED PRESS.—What's the matter with the people to draw their own conclusions from his Associated Press? One day it sends out the acts, persistently followed the line of conduct Prohibition vote in Illinois as 4,000, and in he had set out for himself. He did not seek Georgia as nearly 10,000, when it is 26,000 in to conciliate public opinion, though his repuone State and 900 in the other. Another day tation frequently was a serious obstacle to his it sends out a harrowing story about a runa-success, even although the terror of him which way in which Mrs. Cleveland barely escapes it incited may have been of advantage to him Boston Transcipt, Dec. 5.-The ability of death, when the story was made up out of sometimes in carrying out his schemes. Such a man would not be likely to profess a religithe Spree to survive the consequences of the whole cloth. Again it sends word to the counMr. Gould breaking of the main shaft in mid-ocean, is an- try that the Constitutional Convention in Kansas ous belief which was not sincere. other demonstration of the utility of water- is carried, afterwards admits that it is defeated must therefore have expected, during the later tight compartments. When the great shaft by about 1,500 majority, when the fact is it years of his life certainly, that his record on broke it tore the shaft tunnel to pieces and so comes about 50,000 short of being carried. earth would come before the Judgment Seat wrecked things generally that there was a It sends to the whole country an entirely ficti- of God at the last day. tremendous inrush of water. The full extent | tious account about the return of the saloons in of the damage done has been made apparent since the arrival of the Spree at Queenstown. An examination shows that the propeller is still in place, but the rear part of the hull has been so badly torn by the breaking of the shaft that the stern is deeply submerged. The gap made by the broken shaft as it bumped and thrashed about let a steady flood in, which brought up against the bulkhead that protected the post-office compartment. This bulkhead stood the tremendous strain to which it was subjected, having been strongly braced from within. Two or three compartmentsthe accounts are rather conflicting on this point-were flooded so suddenly and com- Chicago Tribune, Dec. 3. - Jay Gould did pletely that the second-cabin and steerage little good in the world. His immense wealth passengers had to run for their lives, and saved was accumulated by a smarter intelligence than nothing but the clothes they wore. That a that of other operators and by a leech-like ship so torn that the angry sea poured in fastening upon anything and everything that through the gap at will should be able to keep came within his reach. If he originated anyafloat until another steamer came to her relief thing for the benefit of his fellow-men it is not is a clear demonstration of the value of yet apparent. He built up no railroad systems, the principles on which she was constructed. except on paper. His mission was to wreck Though few steamers of any importance them by the process of inflation to the bursting are built to-day without water-tight compart- point. His connection with Erie, Wabash,

Kansas and the attitude of Lewellyn, Governor-
elect, and spreads a lying report about the
East Tennessee Land Company which it has
to contradict a day or two later. The Associ-
ated Press, under the new régime, is doing a
tall job of apparently purposeless lying.
What's up, anyhow? Can the Sun tell us?
New York Voice.

OBITUARY.

JAY GOULD.

From resolutions adopted by the employés of the New York Elevated Railroads.-We thoroughly disapprove of the insincere cant of censure, and we recognize that Mr. Gould was a great man; while we do not claim for him that he was faultless, we declare and proclaim the fact that he was also unquestionably a good man, all round, and a fair and just employer of labor, and we recognize with the deepest respect the great virtues of the loyal and faithful husband and father, and his tender care and devotion to his family, which important and conspicuous qualities some of his critics would do well to emulate.

As Mr. Gould himself said once that he had not time to deny the lies told about him, so may we content ourselves by practically ignoring the slanderers and calumniators, every one of whom would freely adopt the methods they criticise if they saw their way to such results. We plainly state the fact that this is an immediate, conscientious tribute of respect and honor, and, we solemnly declare, not originated, hinted at, or stimulated by any direct or indirect suggestion from any officer or person in authority over us.

Index to Periodical Literature.

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH.

BICGRAPHICAL.

Hannen (Sir James). VI. The English Bench and Bar of To-day. Green Bag, Nov., 3 pp. With Portrait.

With Portrait. Lind (Jenny). Ronald J. McNeill. Century, Dec., 4 pp. Millionaires (Early California). George Hamlin Fitch. Californian, Dec., 10 pp. With Portraits.

Salvini, the Autobiography of, Leaves from. Century, Dec., 8 pp. With Portraits. Tennyson the Man: A Character Sketch. William T. Stead. Rev. of Revs., Dec., 13 pp. Illus.

EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND ART.

Bacon vs. Shakespeare.

Architecture in Wood-A Protest. Gordon B. Kimbrough, Engineering Mag.,
Dec., 6 pp.
Part II. A Brief for the Defendant. The Rev. A.
Nicholson, LL.D. Arena, Dec., 20 pp.
Browning and His Art, Impressions of. Stopford A. Brooke. Century, Dec.,
76 pp. With Portraits.

Columbus and America's Discovery, References to, in Contemporaneous Hebrew
Literature. Dr. Alexander Kohut. Menorah, Dec., 14 pp.

Columbus, Spanish Memorials of. James Grant Wilson. National Mag., Dec., 9% PP.

Hayne's (Paul H.) Methods of Composition. W. H. Hayne. Lippincott's Mag., Dec., 3% pp. With Portraits.

Lowell's Letters, A Few of. W. J. Stillman. Atlantic, Dec., 14 pp.

Napoleon, Some Heads of. P. C. Remondino, M.D. Californian, Dec., 16 pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Pearce Amersen's Will. A Complete Novel. Richard Malcolm Johnston. Lippincott's Mag., Dec., 75 pp.

Playwrights and Literary Men. W. T. Price. N. A. Rev., Dec., 3 pp.

Press (the), the Freedom of, A Blow at. Hannis Taylor. N. A. Rev., Dec., 12 PP. Under the Constitution of the United States, as construed by the Supreme Court, Congress possesses censorial and despotic power over all written or printed matter which passes through the mail.

Hamilton W.

Special Correspondent's Story: The Surrender of the Virginius. (Journalist
Series.) Moses P. Handy. Lippincott's Mag., Dec., 8 pp.
Tennyson, The Influence of, in America; Its Sources and Extent.
Mabie. Rev. of Revs., Dec., 4 pp.
War-Correspondence as a Fine-Art. Archibald Forbes. Century, Dec., 14 PP.
With Portraits. Sketches of distinguished war-correspondents, etc.
Wellesley, Physical Culture at. Albert Shaw. Rev. of Revs., Dec., 5 pp. Illus.
Whittier and Tennyson. W. J. Fowler. Arena, Dec., 12 pp. With Portraits.
Some thoughts on the resemblances and differences in their characters and
their work.

Wit and Humor. Agnes Repplier. Atlantic, Dec., 7 pp. Distinguishes between wit and humor.

POLITICAL.

America, the Discovery of, The Civil and Political Relations of. Prof. Charles S. Walker. Amer. Jour. Politics. Dec., 8 pp.

Ballot-Reform, A Campaign for. The Hon. E. Burd Grubb. N. A. Rev., Dec., 10 pp. Political affairs in New Jersey, in 1889.

Diplomatic Carcer (a), A Plea for. Sheridan P. Read. Amer. Four. Politics,
Dec., 9 PP.

Gerrymander (the), How to Abolish. Proportional Representation as Tried in
Switzerland, and as Applicable in American States and Cities. Prof. John R.
Commons, Indiana State University. Rev. of Revs., Dec., 4 pp.
Allen R. Foote.
Industrial Independence (American), The Foundation of.
Amer. Jour. Politics, Dec., 9 pp. The necessity for, and benefits of, American
Protection.

Irish Question (the), The New House of Commons and. The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour. N. A. Rev., Dec., 11 pp. Forecasts the difficulties which the Gladstonian Administration is likely to encounter.

Negro Question (the), Mississippi and. Andrew C. McLaughlin. Atlantic, Dec., 10 pp.

Political Phantom (a), Chasing. E. F. Howe. Amer. Jour. Politics, Dec., 3% pp. Criticises the People's Party.

Prohibition of the Liquor-Traffic, Is It Practicable? M. F. Brown. Amer. Jour. Politics, Dec., 9 pp. Argues that Prohibition cannot prohibit.

Reciprocity with Canada, Benefits of. Erastus Wiman. Engineering Mag., Dec., 7 pp.

Wanted, A Policy. Lawrence Irwell. Amer. Jour. Politics, Dec., 13% pp. A study of Canadian politics.

RELIGIOUS.

Aristotle. The Theodicy of. Divine Providence. The Very Rev. Augustine F. Hewitt, D.D. Amer. Eccles. Rev., Dec., 8 pp.

Charities (Non-Sectarian). M. A. Selby. Amer. Eccles. Rev., Dee., 5 pp.

Jews (Two Great). Gustav Adolf Danziger. Californian, Dec., 7 pp. Jesus and Hillel.

Marriage (a Non-Catholic), The Assistance of a Priest at. Amer. Eccles. Rev., Dec., 8 pp.

Masses (the Three) at Christmas, The Theology of. The Rev. H. J. Heuser. Amer. Eccles. Rev., Dec., 9 pp.

Methodism in California. No. 1. The Rev. A. C. Hirst, D.D., LL.D. Californian, Dec., 13 pp. Illus. Historical.

Pope (the), When Is He Infallible? The Rev. S. M. Brandi, S.J. N. A. Rev., Dec., 9 pp.

Puritan (The) as a Christmas-Hater. Sydney Foxe. National Mag., Dec., 9 pp.

Religious Beliefs, The Effect of Scientific Study Upon. H. S. Williams. Century, Dec., 5 pp.

Religious Intolerance in the Republic. Christians Persecuting Christians in Tennessee. B. O. Flower. Arena, Dec., 9 pp.

Religious Thought in Colonial Days as Mirrored in Poetry and Song. B. O. Flower. Arena, Dec., 11 pp.

Tennyson (Lord) as a Religious Teacher. Archdeacon F. W. Farrar. Rev. of Reas., Dec., 3 pp.

World's Fair (the), Why It Should Be Opened on Sunday. Bishop J. L. Spalding, D.D. Arena, Dec., 3 pp.

SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY. Character (an Acquired), What Is? C. C. Nutting. Amer. Naturalist, Dec., 5 pp.

Harvest-Spider (The Striped): A Study in Variation. Clarence M. Weed. Amer. Naturalist, Dec., 11 pp. Illus.

Indigestion, The Hygienic Treatment of. M. L. Holbrook, M.D. Herald of Health, Dec., 5% pp.

Keeley's Present Position. Mrs. Bloomfield Moore. Lippincott's Mag., Dec.. 6 pp.

Lungs. The Origin of: A Chapter in Evolution. Charles Morris. Amer. Naturalist, Dec., 12 pp.

Mystic (A Chinese). Prof. James T. Bixby, Ph.D. Arena, Dec., 15 pp. The philosophy of Lao-Tsze.

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Paresis (General) of the Insane. 'Wages of Sin." Henry S. Williams, M.D., Medical Sup't, Randall's Island Hospital. N. A. Rev., Dec., 10 pp.

SOCIOLOGICAL.

Alcoholism, Is It Increasing Among American Women. T. D. Crothers, M.D.
N. A. Rev., Dec., 6 pp. Asserts that inebriety is diminishing.
American Institutions-Are They of English Origin? Leonard Irving. National
Mag., Dec., 8 pp. Answers in the negative.

Arbitration (Compulsory). The Rev. Lyman Abbott. Arena, Dec.. 7 pp. Advocates compulsory arbitration under certain conditions.

Building- and Loan-Associations as Related to the Future Political and Social Welfare of the United States. Seymour Dexter. Amer. Jour. Politics, Dec., 6 pp.

Chauvinism (American.) S. Rhett Roman. N. A. Rev., Dec., 2 pp. The American people are inflated with national vanity.

Divorce: From a French Point of View. M. Alfred Naquet, of the Chamber of Deputies. N. A. Rev., Dec., 10 pp.

Evictions in New York's Tenement Houses. W. P. McLoughlin. Arena, Dec.,

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Keeley League (The) and Its Purpose. John J. Flinn, Chairman Ex. Com.
National Keeley League. Amer. Jour. Politics, Dec., 13 pp.
Labor Troubles and the Tariff. Charles J. Harrah. Engineering Mag., Dec.,
9 pp.

Peace-Movement (The Modern). Alfred H. Love, Pres. Universal Peace-Union.
Amer. Jour. Politics, Dec., 15 pp.
What has been accomplished, etc.
Poverty, The Problem of. Washington Gladden. Century, Dec., 11 pp. Causes
and remedies.
Railways, Government Ownership of. T. V. Powderly. Arena, Dec., 6 pp.
Advocates the measure.

Socialists, Are We? Thomas B. Preston. Arena, Dec., 9 pp.

South (the), Industrial Development of. III. Types of Recent Progress. R. H.
Edmonds. Engineering Mag., Dec., 8 pp.

World's Fair (The) and the Death-Rate of 1893. James C. Bayles, Ph.D.
Engineering Mag., Dec., 9 pp. Discusses the danger to life and health conse-
quent upon the great crowds going to the Exposition.
UNCLASSIFIED.

Cable-Road (The) in New York. George Iles. Engineering Mag., Dec., 19 pp.
The building of the Broadway Cable-Road.

California Wild Flowers. Bertha F. Herrick. Californian, Dec., 13 pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Champagne Country (The French). Floyd B. Wilson. Lippincott's Mag., Dec., 7 pp. Illus. Descriptive of the vineyards, the making of champagne, etc. China-Manufactory (An Old American). Edwin A. Lee Barber. Lippincott's Mag., Dec., 8 pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Columbus, Age and Contemporaries of. Edward C. Mann. National Mag.. Dec., 31⁄2 PP.

Cornbury (Lord), The Administration of, 1702-1708. William L. Stone. National
Mag., Dec., 24 pp. Illus. Historical.

Dictum and Decision. C. G. Tiedeman. Columbia Law Times, Nov., 41⁄2 pp.
The distinction between dictum of the Court and the decision.
Evidence, Practical Test in. I. Irving Browne. Green Bag, Nov., 5 pp.
French Aid in the American Revolution. Moses Grant Edmands. National
Mag., Dec., 9 pp. Historical.

Gold-Fields (The) of Bendigo, Australia. J. F. Markes. Engineering Mag., Dec., 13 pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Hard-Wood Resources (Our Remaining). Charles Moier. Engineering Mag., Dec., 7 pp.

Heidelberg Home (A) and Its Master. Richard Jones. Rev. of Revs., Dec., 2 pp., Illus. Descriptive of the home of Professor Ihne.

Horse (The) in America. Col. Theodore A. Dodge. N. A. Rev., Dec., 7 pp. Irrigation Problem (The) in the West. H. M. Wilson. Engineering Mag., Dec., 25 pp., Illus. Various methods, etc.

Jamaica, Opportunities for Young Men in. The Governor of Jamaica. N. A. Rev., Dec., 6 pp.

Occultism in Paris. Napoleon Ney. Arena, Dec., 8 pp.

Mechanics (American), Are They Boasters? T. F. Hagerty. Engineering Mag.,
Dec., 8 pp. Answers in the negative.

Merchant-Marine (Our), How to Rebuild. Edwin Mead.
Dec., 6 pp.

Navidad. A Christmas-Day with the Early Californians.
Californian, Dec., 5 pp.

Amer. Jour. Folitics,

Don Arturo Bandini.

New York (Picturesque). Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer. Century, Dec., 12 pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Pagan Jurisprudence. Albert C. Applegarth. Green Bag, Nov., 2 pp. Quarantine, A Month of. E. L. Godkin. N. A. Rev., Dec., 7 pp. Gives his experience.

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"Relevant " (the Term), What Is Meant by? Austin Abbott, LL.D. Columbia Law Times, Nov., 2 pp.

Santa Catalina, An Isle of Summer. Charles Frederick Holder. Californian, Dec., 10 pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Yachting (International). The Earl of Dunraven. N. A. Rev., Dec., 15 pp. Yosemite in Winter. James M. Carson. Californian, Dec., pp. Descriptive.

GERMAN. BIOGRAPHICAL.

Bodenstedt (Friedrich). Adolf Stern. Westermann's Monats-Hefte, Braunschweig, Nov., 14 pp.

Carl Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, and Grand Duchess Sophie, Princess Royal of the Netherlands, on Oct. 8, 1892. (Their Royal Highnesses.) Julius Rodenberg. Deutsche Rundschau, Berlin, Nov., 2 pp.

Este (Leonore von). Hermann Grimm. Deutsche Runschau, Berlin, Nov., 29 pp.

Forster (Georg), Memorials of. Albert Leitzmann. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Lit.-Geschichte, Berlin, Nov., 8 pp.

Great Dead (The). Deutsche Rundschau, Berlin, Nov., 2 pp. A notice of Tennyson and Renan.

Lasker (Edward), Memorials of. Correspondence During 1870-71. Deutsche Rev., Breslau, Nov.. 13 pp.

Lorenzo il Magnifico. Sigmund Münz. Westermann's Monats-Hefte, Braunschweig, Nov., 12 pp.

Schwann (Christian Friedrich). J. Minor. Preussische Jahrbücher, Berlin, Nov., 26 pp.

Thoraensen (Bjarmi). J. C. Poestion. Nord und Süd, Breslau, Nov., 11 pp. Weimar, A Princess of. II. Lily von Krebschmann. Westermann's MonatsHefte, Braunschweig, Nov., 18 pp.

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Chuquet (Arthur). A Sample of Objective Story-Telling. Ludwig Bamberger, Deutsche Rundschau, Berlin, Nov., 24 pp.

Florence and Dante. Otto Hartwig. Deutsche Rundschau, Berlin, Nov., 16 pp. (Conclusion).

Fröbel's (Julius) Antobiography. Dr. Heinrich Weber. Preussische Jahrbücher, Berlin, Nov., 25 pp.

Heidelbergensia. Hugo Holstein. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Lit.-Geschichte, Berlin, Nov., 9 pp.

Müller Songs (the). The Origin of. In Memory of Frau von Olfers. Max Friedlander. Deutsche Rundschau, Berlin, Nov., 7 pp.

Prodigal Son (The), A Peruvian Drama of. Johannes Bolte. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Lit.-Geschschte, Berlin, Nov., 2 pp.

Seneca (Kleist's) in Hungarian Garb. Heinrich v. Wlisloeki. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Lit.-Geschichte, Berlin, Nov., 2 pp.

Spain and Spanish Literature in the Light of German Criticism and Poetry. II. Artur Farmelli. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Lit.-Geschichte, Berlin, Nov., 57 pp.

Books of the Week.

AMERICAN.

Aladdin in London. Fergus Hume. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston. Cloth, $1.25.

Beauty of Form and Grace of Vesture. Frances Mary Steele and Elizabeth Livingston Steele Adams. Dodd, Mead, & Co. Clo h, Illus.. 1.75.

Bohemia, When I Lived in. Fergus Hume. Tait, Sons, & Co. Cloth, Illus.. $1.25.

Buddhism, Primitive and Present, in Magadha and in Ceylon. Reginald Stephen Copleston, D.D., Bishop of Colombo. Longmans, Green, & Co. $5. Christmas Every Day, and Other Stories, Told for Children. William Dean Howells. Harper & Bros. Cloth, Illus., $1.25.

Church (The) and the King. A Tale of England in the Days of Henry the Eighth, Dealing Largely with the Religious Upheaval of the Time. Evelyn Ever. ett-Green. Thos. Nelson & Sons. Cloth, $1.75.

Columbus and His Discovery of America. Herbert B. Adams, Ph.D., and Henry Wood, Ph.D., Professors in the Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore. Paper, 50c.

Dickens (Charles). Christmas Books. A Repri of the First El tions, with the Illustrations. and an Introduction, Biographical and Bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the Younger. Macmillan & Co. Clotu, $1.

Dramatists (The Old English). ames Russell Lowel!. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston. Cloth, $1.-5.

Fairyland, Scenes in; or, Iliss Mary's Visits to the Court of Fairy-Realm. Canon Atkinson. Macmillan & Co. Cloth, Ilus., $1.25.

Hindustan, the European Military Adventures of, A Particular Account of. From 1784 to 1803. Compiled by Herbert Compton, Editor of "A Master Marietc. Macmillan & Co. Cloth, Illus., $1.50.

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In Gold and Silver. George H. Ellwanger. D. Appleton & Co. Cloth, Illus. Intellectual Pursuits; or, Culture by Self-Help. Robert Waters. Worthington Co. Cloth, $1.25.

Jane Field. A Novel. Mary E. Wilkins. Harper & Bros. Cloth, Illus., $1.25. Matter, Ether, and Motion. The Factors atd Relations of Physical Science. Prof. A. E. Dolbear, Tufts College. Lee & Shepard, Boston. Cloth, Illus., $1.75. Millbrook Romance (A) and Other Tales. A. L. Donaldson. Thomas Whittaker. Cloth, 75c.

Napoleon's Conversations and Opinions. E. O. Chapman. Worthington & Co. Cloth, With Portraits, $1.25.

Philosopher (A Perplexed). Being an Eximination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's Various Utterances on the Land-Question, With Some Inciuen References to His Synthetic Philosophy. Henry George. Charles L Webster & Co. Cloth, $1. Pochahontas. A Story of Virginia. John R. Music. Funk & Wagnalls Co. Vol. iv. Columbian Historical Novels. Cloth, Illus., $1.50.

Presidents (Our); or, The Lives of the Twenty-Three Presidents of the United States. Virginia F. Townsend. Worthington Co. Cloth, with Portraits, Edition de Luxe, $5. Centennial Edition, $3.

Quabbin. The Story of a Small Town, with Outlooks upon Puritan Life. Francis H. Underwood, LL.D. Lee & Shepard, Boston, Cloth, $1.75.

Rome (Pagan and Christian). Rodolfo Lanciani. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston. Cloth, $6.

Sermons on Subjects Connected with the Old Testament. S. R. Driver, D.D. Charles Scribner's Sons. Cloth, 1.75.

Shelley (Percy Bysshe). Complete Poetical Works. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston. 4 vols., cloth, $7.

Centenary Edition.

Socialism from Genesis to Revelation. The Rev. F. M. Sprague. Lee & Shepard, Boston. Cloth, $1.75.

Statics (Graphic), The Elements of. A Text-Book for Students of Engineering. L. H. Hoskins, Professor of Pure and Applied Mechanics in the Leland Stanford, Jr., University Macmillan & Co. Cloth, $2.25.

Student and Singer. Reminiscences of Charles Santley. Written by Himself. Macmillan & Co. Cloth, 2 Portraits, $2.25.

Uncle Remus and His Friends. Joel Chandler Harris. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston. Cloth, $1.50.

Vassar Girls (Three) in the Holy Land. Elizabeth W. Champney. Estes & Lauriat, Boston. New Volume for 1892. Cloth, Illus., $1.50.

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Current Events.

Wednesday, November 30.

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General Raum submits his annual riport of the work of the Pension Bureau......The Nicaraugua Canal Ca delegates present from every State and of Joliet, Ill., suspends; liabilities, $500. e trial proper of Professor H. P. Smith for heresy is begun in i Five persons are run down and three of them instantly kille y he Erie vesti uled train No. 5, at an unguarded crossing in Elmira......Vigorous warlike preparations are made by the Standard il Company to prevent the laying_of_the pipes of the United States Pipe Line through Hanc k, N. Y......Ex-Speaker Harvey Myers, of the Kentucky Legislature, is indicted for offering a bribe...... .The body of Robert W. Jones, one of the publishers of the Lowville, N. Y., Times, who has been missing since August, is found in a swamp in St. Lawrence County......A heavy snow-fall blocks trains on the Long Island Railroad......In New York City, the trial of Dr. Briggs for heresy is continued. The Senate Committee on Immigration takes important testimony regarding the cholera......Mrs. A. A. And Hospital for the erection Yuengling Brewing Compa

In Paris, important testim

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gives 350,000 to Roosevelt

1 ...ding.....It is said that the 1 to pay interest on its bonds, ven before the Panama Canal investigating Committee......M. Briss d s not succeed in forming a Cabinet... The Committee of the Internationa M netary Confer ce hol its first meeting; its proceedings are secret...... Herr R::hter criticises Chancellor i von Caprivi's speech on the Geman Army Bill.... The Journal, of Paris, publishes what it alleges is the ext of the latest Triple Alliance Treaty...... A Japanese warship is sunk in a collision.

Thursday, December 1.

The Nicaragua Canal Convention passes resolutions calling on the Government to aid the enterprise, and a ljourns..............It is rumored in Albany that Governor Flower has asked for the resignations of several appointive officials Henry M. Hoyt, ex-Go ernor Pennsylvania, dies in Wilkesbarre... In Trenton, N. J., argumen is begun in Chancery on the application for a receiver for the New Jersey Central Railroad's coal business. The Grand Jury, in the case of Lizzie Irden, takes further testimony, but makes no report ..In New York City,in the Briggs heresy case, the defendant enters a plea of not guilty......The Immigration Committee takes more cholera testimony .Typhus fever is reported.

It is reported that M. Bourgeois will aid M. Brisson in forming a French Cabinet......The Royal Ycht Squadron's challenge in behalf of Lord Dunraven is sent...... The Marquis of Rip confirms the previous report regarding the outline of the new Home-Rule Bil Friday, December 2.

The Grand Jury finds an indictment against zzie Borden, charged with. the murder of her father and step. other.....The body of the Rev. Dr. Scott, father of the late Mrs. Harrison, is buried at Washington, Pa..... Louis C. Dupont, a younger brother or the p-waer manufacturers commits suicide in Wilmington, Del......In New York ity, a son of General Lester B. Falkner commits suicide......Jay Gould dies at his home in Fifth Avenue;his estate is estimated at upwards of of $100,000,000; Wall St. is not affected. .The captain and crew of the British steamship Lonsdale, from Phila-. delphia for Copenhagen, are brought to New York-their ship having foundered at sea......The German steamer Spree is overdue......At Chickering Hall, Mrs. Annie Besart lectures on "Death.

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The Committee of the International Monetary Conference reports unfavorably on the de Rothschild plan......M. Brisson abandons his effort to form a new Cabinet, and President Carnot charges M. Perier with the task......The British steamer Greystoke sinks in the Elbe; her crew of twenty-five are believed to be lost.

Saturday, December 3.

The National Prison Reform Association meets in Baltimore: ex-President Hayes delivers the annual address......In the New Orleans lynching cases, the exceptions filed by the city are o erruled and the cases will go to the United States Supreme Court......T ms H. Pó, editor of a newspaper at Olympia, Wash., is shot by his wife, in Seattle......In New York City, Robert A. Pinkerton testifies in detail before the Senate investigating committee regarding the Homestead matter......The examination of Osborne. (State Senator, Poughkeepsie) charged with illegal registration, is continued before Commissioner Shields......The new building of the American Fine Arts Society, Fifty-seventh Street, near Eight Avenue, is formally opened. The University of the City of New York confers the degree of D.D. upon Professor Philip Schaff f the Union Theological Seminary.

M. Perier gives up the task of forming a French Cabinet, and M. Bourgeois is invited to try it......The German steamer Spree is heard from; she had broken her shaft when 1,000 miles out, and was towed into Queenstown by the steamer Lake Huron......The freedom of the city of Liverpool is presented to Mr. Gladstone.

Sunday, December 4.

The reports of Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior are made public......Captain E. H. Virgil, founder of the National Express Company, dies at Troy, N.Y.......Senator Gibson, of Louisiana. is said to be dying at Hot Springs, Ark...... The Erie Canal is closed for the season...... A serious cave-in occurs at Lost Creek, a mining town in Pennsylvania... In New

York City, Mrs. Besant lectures at Chickering Hall on Hypnotism". A child of the late D. E. Crouse, the Syracuse millionaire, is said to be living with her mother at a city hotel, and to be the claimant of the bulk of his estate as next of kin!'. Boys are arrested for painting.statues in Central Park.

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M. Develle, Minister of Agriculture, confers with President Carnot, with a view to attempting the formation of a new Ministry......Twenty-three persons concerned in the cholera riots in Saratoff, Russia, are sentenced to death. Monday, December 5.

The secon session of the LIId Congress convenes; both Houses meet, but adjourn without transacting any business of importance......The PostmasterGeneral makes his annual report......The United States Supreme Court affirms the decision of Justice Harlan in the Chicago lake front cases......In the suit of Mr. Arnot, of Elmira, against the Reading combination, the Master's report is in favor of the defendant......In New York City, the funeral of Jay Gould occurs at the family residence..... Lord Dunraven's challenge is received by the New York Yacht Club......An agent of Dr. Parkhurst's society is arrested on a charge of blackmailing a woman. M. Ribot forms a new French Cabinet......The Panama Canal Committee continues its investigations.

Tuseday, December 6.

The President's Message is read in both Houses of Congress......The Philadelphia Ledger building is badly damaged by fire...... The Indiana Road Congress begins its session at Indianapolis......Municipal elections are held in Massachusetts...... A child, by crying "earthquake," causes a serious panic among a thousand pupils in a Charleston public school......In New York City, Police Superintendent Byrnes makes serious charges against the Rev.Dr. Parkhurst, which are denied by the minister......Gardner, the agent of Dr. Parkhurst's Society is arraigned and held for trial.... The report regarding Monsignor Satolli's powers to settle Church differences in this country is confirmed......Jay Gould is buried at Woodlawn.

In the Monetary Conference the de Rothschild plan is withdrawn from consideration......The new French Cabinet meets...... The majority of the members of the Centre, of the Reichstag, vote to support the Army Bill......A Norwegian bark is wrecked in the Mersev......An earthquake shock is felt at Tunis......The composition of the new Canadian Ministry is officially announced,

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