OUR TFOREIGK COMMERCE “The Nation's Trade Account for the Fiscal Year, The Balance of Trade in Uur “1 ‘od 1 J 0; Nn Favor $202,944,342. 8. 3. Brock, Chief of the Bureau of Sta. istics, has completed his statement of for. eign commerce for the month of June and the fiscal year ending June 39, 1502, Jtis a remarkable and gratifying showing of the foreign value of our commerce, which is unprecedented in the history of this coun- try I'he aggregate vi » of the im- ports and exports of merchandise attained its highest point, amount. ing to $1.857,726,010, as against $1, TM, 307,006 auring the seal year 1801, increase of od OM, and an in- Crease S83 ISs3, This is also a very large over the average annual increase for the lust ten years from 1882 to 1891, which was $23 421.517. Since 1880 our comm has making tre- mendous strides. Thore was an excess in the value of the exports of merchandise over the imports of $303, 9044,342, a very large balance of trade in our favor, I'he valnaof o during the last fiscal y as $544. 016,190 $17 606 over t an of $370.19 since Inoreass ree been I unporis ol Ar Wa 1801 WCIease oO wis for the t XS 1] 10t equalied I'he total n in the Uni June 30, 1893 455 in 189], an increase © Germany came | ! Ita HLM: Sw &reland, 55 55! was G9] 30 Russia, Norway, England wd Wales, ——— THE NATIONAL GAME, iri ns hay ww in the any other is a great mixed in last inning and by It may be luck, In nervy ball team of good, uex Ie : with ux Philadelphia Club's feat of winning y entire first season series from the Louis ille team is not unprecedented. That very ug happened to the Philadelphia in 1553, ir very first season in the League, when + Bostons won all of the ten games of the : them playing the ries fron Coxsipenlca the untirie! pitching material when the season opened. Ward has made a won wd with his Brooklyn team. y handled his team in a man ner to completely overstadow Chicago, Ewing, of New York, Comisky, of Cincinnati rial re He has certain Anson, of and even Tur second championship season of the big Leagus han begun There is every reason to believe that it will be a much more exeiting and eventful race than the memorable cam. jaign just closed. The teams all start better equalized, and those that have been markedly weak have made mighty, and probably suo cessful, #fTorts to strengthen. A Cricaao correspondent, who is a close observer and wellposted baseball man, attributes the loss of interest in Chicago to poor playing, and suggosts that the best rego. ady would be to move Anson to some other sity. He is as nopopular in Chicago as Comisky was in ater days In St. Loos; in short, the Chileago people aro tired of Anson, RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS Vey Clubs, Won, lost, ot' Cin Won, {et Brooklyn... 5 J Now York 1 J4 Louleville, # JU Pittaburg. J4 Chieago. .. § S71 Boston, ... 9 ATSE. Lous, 1 OWING to the shortness of the orop dn Calitornin, especially hoy prices up In the past few days, and or. ists who held their fruit are getting a Nich ware sell cents por pound, or bring $60 ton WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. —— nt Tre World's Fair Dirsctory has expended million dollars Tur famod “Six Nations” in State will be ra resented hibit at the Worl up to date approximately seven and a quarter | New York I's Fair. Brrong being sent to Chicago, the Argen- tine Republic's World Fair exhibits will be exhibited in Buenos Aires. I'ne Secrotary of Michigan's World's Fair Commission has estimated that 230,000 people from M chigan will visit the World's Fair Tue World's has asked make an country, Fair Commission for Peru ronment ald to enable it to exhivit of l.ving animals of that Gov Ir is proposed to hold world’s fairs in Ber lin in 1398, and in Paris in 190, but definite action has not yet been taken by the Na tions concerned IN Denmark's exhibit at the World's Fair will be a fine array of porcelain ware anda notable art display, including reproduct ! t of many of the Thoswaldsen sculptures, ous I'ne work of assigning spac» to the thou- sands of exhibitors ia the vari World's Fair buildings has been entered upon and will be pushed to a finish as rap POs sible IL] ly as SEVERAL mey will probably village, which i World's Fair, Sixty or seventy nati their manner of living will be show Amazons of the King of Daho be seen in the Dahomey wing made 1nke be DISCOVERY Detober claimed the =1st Pr a National Holid President » pioneer i he sywtam AL the mture of tha Zz {it is peculiarly yorinte that the » the Loot WH Dons: in h as shall imorsss upon our youth the patriotis duties of American citizenship In the churches and in the other places of amembly of the pen ot there be ex wressions of gratitude to Divine Providenos for the devout faith of the discov erer, aud for the Divine care an | guidances whica has directed our history and so abundantly blessed our people : In testimony whereof, | have hereunto set my hand and csnsed the seal of the United Hiates to be affixed, Done at the City of Washington, this 21st lay of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundre! and ninsty-two and of the indepandencs of the United Bates the one hundred and saveatsenth BENJAMIN HARRISON By the President. Joux WW, Fosren, Sec relary of State, Laos Da su pie OFF IN HIS TINY BOAT. Captain Andrews Salis for Spain from Atlantic City Atlant for Spain the other afternoon Captain Andrews sailed from City, N. J, in his tiny craft, the Fiying Dutchman, the smallest eraft ever built for the purposs, Fully three thousand people witnsssel tha start, The sen was calm As the boat touche the water at 5.90 a rousing chesr was given by the waiting throng "lve wapplies were quickly lowersd and stowed away in the compartments on either side of the dory At precisely 5.45 sail was raised and the canvas immadiate.y took the brees: He moving his hat Captain Andrews stood up and shouted to the cheering throng “Within sixty days I will be in Spain.” Le n Andrews stated just previous to going that he would set his course due eas: and would probably first sight Innd at Fayal in the Azores in about thirty days Every during the voyage before turning in To will fil out a Ase. blank, seal it in a bottle and throw it overboard, They will in the Indian ex- | | Cleveland include loeal incidents of the trip, DEMOCRATIC NOTIFICATION Cleveland and Stevenson Officially Informed of Their Nominations, Eighteen thousand persons attended Madi. son Bquare Garden, New Yor City, to wit ness the ceremonies of Adlai E nomination for President and Vice-President by the Der mrey Fhe unususl spectacle of a pomination to « notifying Grover and Stavanson of their notifleat andidates for Veesident Vice-Presi in the presence of an ons ng of people was a suc ress, It was the first time that the method of periorming this important and time-honored coremony in public has attempt and the citizens of New York approved by crowd vast auditorium t doors were , and within able particie of ‘ ion ol nnd REE font y gather bowen ie ti "n capacity The after 7 ¥. Mm every avai » its Tullest opened shortly twenty minutes FPAS Was oocn and standing had been re the om, except orvel for rmmen Democratic councils, friends, The boxe ing, and won the ntained a ma of and by the ane purpose of doing bono are to lead the De ming campaign 1t to receive official r hosen t women, actuated, en wh nocratic the « nnd wi party were ab tice that they had been I'he andi yd CHILE'S GENEROUS She Give ST5.000 Ina Attack on the mnity torth Haltimore Seams on | ' red the Chilean £4 init Foreign Affairs and ran the ents atin MITT Gt Haposit : of the ¢ vernment to adjustment Baltimore Mr. Egan ter ¥ ne t An yf. nlormed by Secretary Fos 1 th the Pre font ma I at thy ations received of the vernment, snd would be ready wemnity to the families and to the wounded sur ingemnit WAS h gratiiy disposit that he did td to make a Hberal of the deconsed vivors Senor Errazuriz addressel Mi note on the 18th pacing at the the latter the sum of $75,000 in gold and ask ause ito be distributed among the two seamen who lost ther and to the surviving members of Egan a disposal of ing him to the families of lives the erew wounded in the affair of On the 17th inst, Mr. Ean replied, accepting the offer The Baltimore indemnity pre in the diplomatic country According to Captain Schley’s report two of the Baltimore's men were killed in the Valparaiso riot, three seriously wounded and fifteen slightly injured, making twenty men killed and wounded, Chile's indemnity money could be divided into twenty parts of F750 each PAYS TO BE A PROPHET, Young Sitting Bull's Rich Haul in the Indian Territory, Ogtober 14 rdially finds no history exact don Sitting Ball, Jr., of the Cheyenne tribe in Northern Dakota, woo went among the In dinne of the Indian Territory a year REO As the prophet of the coming Messiah, has Just left the Comanche tribe to retara to his Northern home. The Comanches gave a ios dance in his honor bef sre he oft Young Bull has tound ne prophet basis ness very profitable. re was prosnted with 100 horses, 600 head of cattle and nearly » cariond oi biankets and costly trinkets, He married two of the Comanche itis although aiready having four wives in Novih Dakota. ——————s Traanowsens in Uline are being ex. horted smmsaries of the "Litarat’ to i oup t ta and grow sweet potatos ove tit will not be necessary for them to trade with the “foreign imps.” PROMINENT PEOPLE, Tue Pope can speak English, German and French perfectly, Evoene KeLry, the New York banker, has been decorated by the Pope Piance BisMAnck says he never know the cause of his dismissal from office SENATOR Preven, of Kansas dren and delights to see them around him chile gomboling loves Gexenar Joux Brower candidate for Prosideat, is welghs 270 pounds SENATOR Hoan, of Massachus cently been the guest of Lord Cl Coleridge, of England, he Prohibition glx feet and . has re- I Justice GENERAL Bxowpex, in Pennsylvania troops at H merly a Chicago journalist, COCKRELL, of Mis Montana, are the on who were born in the mman i of the id, was for. Power, of Benators JUSTICE LAMAR of the Supreme (° urt the United always sum nors mountains of New Hampshire Fiero paid $250,000 Chicago land ever paid in that « States, ManrsmaLL square feet of largest price for 800 recently -—the ty. Jous C, Fresmosr. son of Pathfinder, is a ' duty A FiOts DOW SHADY was on yan Wirntiax WarLbonr Ast he man ron Carton Hou of Wheat ( » and P fore nL 1a Os Hinds His Crushed ing Conditi } Yan erribly pasa NY With remarkable nerve he tied b kerchiof around the Ia " tighlenad it ¢ hand mb A New aid » lea tl take his arrival rated with a sliver from prevent bleeding t subsequently picked up and where he died shortly after as to Truro, A FUNERAL PYRE. The Body of Morris Collins Cromat- ed LIK» That ao! Sheehy Morris well known Socialis The remains of Allen Collins, the » Who committed suicide with his written request reduced to ashes a fow nights ago, under the the Whitechapel Club, The ceremony took pisve in the open air on the shore of Lake Michigan, in In liana, A faveral pyre of oll soaked wool over ten feet high surmounted by a barrel of tar cov: ered the body, At 11 o'zlook the pile was lighted and amid weird ceremony the body was cre mated. The affair was cond ioted with great secrecy at Chioago, 1, were in accordance super ntendence of NINE MEN KILLED, Aurled by Falling Earth in an Irvin Slate Quarry A fatal hooldent cocurred at the Benduff slate quarry, In County Cork, Ireland, While the workmen were at work a por. tion of an overhanging bank of earth and slate collapsed, aad ten men were buried beneath the debris, Willin, a inds removed the carth amd a they reached them were i taken out was ta badly in wind | He was NEWSY GLEANINGS, Tnx plague is raging in Persia, ITALY has twenty-two crematorior, Disastnous floods prevail in Japan, THE cranberry « p promises to be large Tar British Parliament is to meet August dt} ANTI-CHRISTIAN tr tinue Mount ETxa’s i in Crean YELLOW ¥ Muxico Heavy Canadn Vera Cruz, rains Lave Tur outfl attention Tur chol through 18 wolf g era epidem it Europe wheat crop is ! eX pect Mouth Dakota thi season enjoying z the season It ha 1 in four years I Arkan Inundats Tis with New Aust Tie intly tains, wh using it i TRERE are 300.000 women ef dustral pursuits in Massachus ing twenty different occuoat percentage Ix hotest ing ELECTRICIANS are new pants for the small throughout the West of cables and electrical 1 this fall ng Secretary of the Unitad 8 ury estimates that it will cost § ry out the recently enacted law thirty days’ vacation to all the Dureav granting the employes of of Engraving and Printing KILLED BY LIGHTNING. A Man, His Wite and Three Children Dead at Richmond, Va wore killed by Found A family of few nights ago at five per SONS lightning a Uchmon 1, Va. They residence, just beyond the eastern corporate limits of the city, when struck, The bel. room was in the upper story. The building was isolated and the windows were raised The house was set on fire, and the tragedy was discovered by fire lsuing from the Poon. The persons killed were Dale Emmett, thirty-one; Alice Emmett, thirty-two, Lille Emmett, six; Norman Emmett, three, and a seven montas-ol { iniant. The father was A carpenter, who, wits his famil x, wont there trom Westmoreland County, Penn. ALOUL A year ago. When the rescuers reaches! the room by ladders My, Emmott, his wile and baby, lay in bad, walle near by were smouldering the renin of his mx and three year-old chi dren, tie family were buried next day, thre: horses carrying the bodies to the grave, were asleep in their two-story Axroxio Sepinto and Angel Santibara, of Victoria, Mexico, have Leen th aren and that two men were the keepers, | large and small, SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERRATIONAL JULY LESSON 51. Yon Lesson Text Peter and John fore the Council" Aq ' 1 17 20 8 wea Olden 12 fext Commentar 1. “And as they the priests and the and the Badduces preaching to the gether because of that Jesu who indead the Chri w RPTL ing was borne from LL wait | the and ths Hin r His retx WE prope aend JUG Fecelve Deng grieved [ie and prea he postles being sent cil might conler toget in thelr hearts, at least cause of their keepers Christ who had so } would not be strange ’ these Ovely many Matt ill so Lhe But that it pie, IPT as SI raitly spread no further among threaten them, pat tl forth to no man in this » Ax well stand by a river and tell it top flowin Whe § th people im agine a vain thing and the rulers take © sel ngninst the Lord He that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision (1 : 14: Isa vii bh Whatever is of God vet there are many who fgzht against Him IS, “And they oalied and cons manded them not to speak at all nor teanh in the name of Jesus And theses were the foremost religions people of the day with the high priest of Israel at their head (verse 61; the priest whose lips should keep knowl edge, and who ought to have been the mes. songer of the Lord of Hoste (Mal, I, 5. Lot any one now preach the whole truth conesrming Jesus and the resurrection as these apostles did and he will not fail to find wourinent religious ralers who will if possi. ble stop that kind of teaching. But let all faithful preachers and teachers eat (Eask, fh, 67) and “diminish not a word" Jer, xavi,, 9).«Loson Helper, oF spank hen Wine annot te sped | them EL ———— A The Iddands of the World There are about 100,000 islands, seatterad over the oceans. This country alone has 5,500 around its coasts, there are 365 in the bay of Rio de Janeiro, 16,000 be tween Madagascar and India, and some 1,200 off the eastern coast of Australia, between 11s mainland and New Guinea, ————— Some fconotlast has started the ry mor that the Marquis of Queensberry never saw a prize tight. Sometwsdy will be claiming next that “Lilly* Florence never played poker,
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