FIERCE FIRES. Much Property Lost in Three Big Blazes. Three Factories and Ten Stores Destroyed in Brooklyn, Fire destroyed the wall paper factories of R, H, Hobbs & Co. and Walther & Co. the carpet factory of Sperry & Baales and ten stores, and burasd out about twenty. five families in Brooklyn, N. Y., a few after. noons ago. The loss was estimated at about £700,000; insurance two-thirds that amount, One person was injured by jumping from a window, So serious did tha tire become that six engines were called from New York City and assisted in fighting the conflagration. Policeman Maude, of the Adams street station, was passing four story hrick building occupied by R. H, Hobbs & Co, as a wall paper factory, about 4:55 o'clock, when he saw flames coming out of a window on the first floor, An alarm was sent out, but the spread so rapidly that a second and then a third call followed. Beforsthe first engines arrived the fire had gained great headway. It spread from Hobbs's buil ling to the tenements on either side, and then, driven by the wind, reached back to Tiffany place, tha turning everything in its path and spanning ] the narrow thoroughfare with tongues of flame. Ibe big paper manufactory of Waldeman A. Walther & Co, No, 1 Tiffany place, caught and the adjacent stair-pad carpet factory of Beales & Co., as well as a number of tenement housss, While the district is mostly occupied by manufacturing establishments they are sandwiched here and there between four and | five story tenements, The efforts of the pants buildings, assisted by other residents of the neighborhood, to rescus their household goods, created much confusion, and the cries of children and the frightened oot sereams of women could be heard above the din of the | engines, The area devastated by the fire runs about | three lots front from a point on Columbia street, opposite Irving piace, tarough the bleck to Tiffany place, then from that poiat on Tiffany place to Harrison street, covering about half a block, and thence through to Hicks street, upun which buildings on about two lots front, are destroyed When the paper factories had sumed the blaze became less numerous streams of water play bad an appreciable effect, been flercs ani th ug upon it Big Blaze in Boston. At Ti shop of H. 3S, Rot in Borden 80 p. m, fire was discovered in th inson & Co, bollermakers, East Boston, Mass, and by the time the fire apparatus reached the place a li was in progress. The whole building was soon a mass of flames, which, driven by a strong westerly wind, goon spread to oH. Murray's plaaing mill adjoining. The fire soon communi. cated to the followiag buildings: Towle & Foster's stair-building shop, Grabam & Cameron's carpeater and house- building establishment, H. Drake & Son's carpenter shop, and McHugo & Snow's box factory. At midnight the fire hai burnei over a territory of about four acras and consumed seven buildings. The insur ance carried was small, owing to the high rates charged by the insurance companies, who considered the district a very danger. ous one. The losses amounted to over £300. - O00, and the insurance to half that amount, #Flreet vely blazs Pawling (N. ¥) Has a Big Fire, Twelve business firms and six families were burned out by a fire at Pawiing, N. Y The Pawling National Bank and the Dutcher House were saved only with the greatest aifficulty, and but for a time change he wind the entire vilhyge would pt away As it is the Taine portion 1s In ashes aratus was inadequate to cope, een he streets ful hous ) : i taken out of bus p uring the Hire three Jur but nope fatally is estimated at $75 000, aloul 33,000 insurance THE CINCINNATI Successiul Launch of United Cruiser No, 7 States THE CINCINNATI United Btates Cruiser No. 7 was sucoess ully launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard aftern since, and as the vessel smoothly down the ways it received ts new names, Cinclonati, from Miss Stella Mosby, daughter of the Mayor of the Ohio netropolis It was shortly Miss Mosby, pronouncing “Cincinnati ' broke a bottle wer the bow of the ves) Then the last of the os were kno AWAY and cruiser No, 7 of the United States Navy shot proudly out upon the Wallabout Bay. The Cincinnati was gayly decorated from stom to stern with flags, and made a noble appearanos as she rode upon the water with ber beautiful lines and freshly painted sides The cruisers Pulladelphia snd At'anta, the double turreted monitor Miantonomob, the dispateh boat Dolphin, the dynamite cruiser Vesuvins and the Italian cruiser Giovanni Bausan, all of which took part in the naval parade last month, were in the Navy Yard and their crows were interested spectators'of the launching of the Clneinnati, The Clocinoati is a stesl-protected cruiser, Her length on load water Hae is 300 feet, her axtreme breadth forty-two feet, and she has a displacement of 3185 tous, and a mesn draught of eightesn feet Bhs will be one of fastest vessels in the navy, as her average spss! will be nineteen knots. The Cinclaonati will have twin serews and vertical triple-expansion engines of 10,000 horse-power, with a steam pressure of 100 pounds Her total coal capacity will be 675 tons which will enable her to steam 1500 miles at full power without reconling. The encines were designed by Commodore George W, Melville, Chist of the Bureau of Steam Engineering of the Navy, ani Eagle meer William 5. Dungan has bad charge of their coastruction The eruiser’s armament will consist of one six-inch bresch. loading rifle, ten flve-inch rapid-fire guns, eight six-pounder and four ope-pounder rapidfiring guns and two Gatling guns, Besides, she will have six t tubes above water, or construction was authorized by an act passed September 7, 1958 but her keel was not laid until 1990, I'he cost of the Cine cionat’s hull and macuinery was Umited to L) fo w ns }i¢ { sipped after 2 o'clock when the name of wine ‘ked flames | and | of thess | a | COLLAPSE OF A STRIKE, New Orleans Emerges From a Ite markable Labor kxperience. The big strike at New Orleans, La., bat collapsed. It was a most ambitious labor movement and nearly succeeded, The inter ference of Governor Foster killed it. The strike was altogether on the question of unionism, and was an attempt to prevent the employment in any trade or industry of any but union men. The Amalgamated Council organizad all the trades in New Or leans, sixty-one in number, into unions last spring, and then set about raising wages and reducing the hours of labor and compelling employers to take only union men strect car hands struck and won a victory, and strike after strike followed dur ing the summer and fall, the men being vie torious in all of them hen the teamsters, loaders and warehousemen struck to compel the merchants to employ only union men, The Amalgamated Council took up their fight and ordered a general strike of all trades out of sympathy. In order to bring the merchants to terms it was intended practically to paralyzs New Orleans, to affect every industry, bring the matter home to every man, Ww man, and child in the town, so that they would unite in insisting that the merchant oncede thelr demands, As a strike it wasa (here could have been no more complete one, Only four men in 1500 or. fered out refused the orders of the council, For a week New lights, cars or carriages. The factories w slosed, business killed, steamboats tied railroads, nowspapers and theatres crippled Neither the Mayor nor the police seems | sapable of doing anything. The city was Irifting rapidly to anarchy when Governor Foster assumed charge and restored order. His proc'amation had the desired effect, Some 25,000 men wers idle for a losing £500,000 in wages. The employers probably lost fifty per cent. more. This is their busiest season of the year, The receipts of produce average about $1,000,000 a day, of which about balf has been diverted by the strike, and including the shipments the lirect to New Orleans for a week's nearly complete suspension of business wil be between $5,000,000 an &4,.0% 000 SUCCASH, » Obey Orleans was without wees, joss C——— gssonr A. D. Horkixs irginia Experiment Stat on, 1» Europe with « bug which, stroy the pine-trea beectie that has x y damaged the West | THE MARKETS. Late Wholesale " Produce Prices of Country Ouoted in New York BEANS AND PEAS Ama, Ca Green peas, | Creamery St, & Penn Bt. & Penn. firsts Westorn, firsts Western, seconds. Western, thirds State 4 If tubs and pails, 1sts Half tubs and pails, ! extras. ... W. Factory, W. Factory an State factory white, fan Full cream Full cream, g Part skims, Part s Part Full State and Penr Western Frost Fresh, prin Sea FRUITS ANS BERRIES —F Apples Red sorte, bbl ®roen sort Nweel var per bbl tien per per bush, , kel, pe Mew oo » . oking, per bbl Grapes, up rive Dal, 510 'p river, Niagara, 5 Ib Up river, Concord, 5 Ib Peaches, Jorsey, extra, basket, Poor to fair ed Plums, up river, per crate State, 101b basket ...... Cranberries, Cape Col, bb Pears, Bartlett Sov Comm Hors State 1802 fair to choice 1591, prime OPP H mmon to good Hd odds IVE 1501 POULTRY FowlgwJorsey Penn Western, per Ib . Spring Chickens, local, Ib, ... Southern per Roosters, old, per Turkeys, per ib Ducks—N, J per pair Southern, per Western § Noathern, ves Hiate b.... Geese Pige iw DRESAED § FRESH KILLED, Turkeys Young Od mized we Tome, fair to Kens 'hila L. I. brollers ‘ "ea Fowls—8t and Peun , per Ib Western, per 1b bid In Ducke—'Waestern, per Ib .... 9 Eastern per ib ... ...... 17 Boring, L. 1, peri. ... 8 Gemsse Spring Eastern per 1b 18 Hquebs Dark, per doz $0 Light, per dos. ....v..c0 3) VEIETANLES Potatoss—Stata, per bbl, ,,.. Jersey, prime, per bbl, Jersey, Inferior, per bbl, Io I,m bulk, per bbl, , ! Onbibage, L. 1, per 100,,,, Onions Kastern, yellow bbl Eastern, red, per bhi Stata, per bbl... Wquash—Marrow per barrel, Cucumbers, pickies, per 1000 Long Island, per 1000, ,,, Tomatoes, per orate. ......... Lima beans fair to prime, bag ? Egg plant, Jersey, por obi, Sweet potatos, Va, per bbl, Bouth Jersey, per bbl, ,.. Celery, near by, doz. bunches GRAIN, ETO, Chic per ib pe % et LLL tt =EE te &aa86s - Ryo—BUats. .cocoissnsississs Barley —Tworowsd State... Corn—~Ungraded Mixed, ,,.. Untes<No. 3 White, ......... Mized Western.,....... Hay ~tool to Choles,,..... Mtraw-—loug Bye........0.. Lard-City Bteam.,........ LIVE STOOK. Boeves, City dressed, ,...... 8 Miich Cows, com. togood,, 25 u Calves, ty dressed. ........ 3 8 o por 100 Ibs. .couiiiee Lamba, por TY so Hogs Ld) CREE RLS Dressed par EE ER EET) E3088 8aER § &&ass The | signal | and to | CONDITION OF CROPS The Monthly Report of the De- partment of Agriculture. The Average Yield of Cotton, Po- tatoes, Tobacco and Hay, The crop returns of November to the I) » partment of Agriculture, with thoss of Oc tober, indicate the yield of the vear of th principal food products, und point approxi mately to the perfected estimates at the close of the year, The vield of lint is gen rally short in proportion to weight of seal wotton, and the staple is short, thourth generally clean and of good color. The No vember returns to the Department of Agri ulture indicate a very light crop, with short gutherad generally in wondition, Local estimits range from tw fit four«fifths of a full crop. Many make it the worst crop sines 1550 Inn fow favorable locations a fair crop is promised, On the At 54 Is attributed to alternating he 1 drought A wold and wet spring wa miinued dry weather, prod and deficient frultaze, wong in region is well advanced and the crop partly marketed A killing frost reduced the top crop. There is great unevenment of growth and range of production is very wide, On correspondent in Alabama says some fields will r quire twenty acres to make a bale, while some in Mississippi are estimate] at a bale per acre, In the Mission good growth of ment of bolls The cold and wring drought and boll worms, foroed cotton into J bolls. The weather is favorable for gather. ing, but unfavorable for maturing The crop retur: wamber to the I partment of Agriculture, those of tober, indie Your « principal fo y ots, at nt mately close of thes ve by November and promise little more bushels, wh wheat, by ton nearly dred shrinkage» it J prin ht w the staple, Bor 0 | 8 to antic const the kk AVY rains an ’ 1 this is also a develo; Are o stands, early rains joints with poo Valley and injurious ors dele Me : _APHrox Approx the inves five Hi ACTOARO J med no mii exoseding with a of the yields a much com looseness in variability 4d 3 1 BAR jedayed LIER » plant SH mmer Missour by the } rely $s fYivania wa estimated potat per acr It #5 In Maine wk, 5 nayivania, 6!ir Mich fgan, 70 in Minn 51 in lows and 47 in Kansas The oroy is almost everywhers light, The tubers are small as a rotting considerably in New Y throughout the West The yield of tobacco is less than last yeas the average being reported at 692 pounds pes acre of all kinds, against 754 last year f h average yield of bay is 117 tons per ac pearly the same as in 159! The bushels Now ¥Y and and ruse gd we —— I —— LAUNCH OF THE OLYMPIA. 6 Now in the Water and Named for Washington's Capital Crulser No Cruiser No. 6 was launched a few days age at Ban Francisco, Cal. The yard was gay with bunting soon after noon Markham and marty of official jalle Dickies, male way to the sloping At asignal Mis (Governor his stall, accompanied by a Miss Agana up the gan g- and way feck of tha war Dickie broke a bottle of wine over the bow the battieshin and Cruiser No, 6 beoams the Olympia, and the largest war ship ever constructs! by the Union Iron Works glided Joon the ways The Olympia is a protectal craiser of the first class, and was authorizsl Ly the same act of Congress that appropriated the money for the construction of the Cincinnati, The Hit of her cost was put to $1,800,000, ex- clusive of the cost of the armament or of Ady premiums that she may earn because of inoreasad spead over the guarantees, Miss Anna Bells Dickie, who christened ner, i» the daughter of Mr. George W., Dickie, one of the owners and the manager of the Union Iron Works, visors their voven! ’ ol I A $500,000 FIRE. Business Portion of Camden, Me, Has Been Wiped Out, The business portion of Camden, Me. has been visite 1 by a ball million-dollar fire, The fire was discovered in the top story of Cleveland's Blok, on Main street, about 3 a.m. Ald was at once summonsl from Rockport and Rockland, but arrived too late 10 tw of much use Dynamite had 0 be used to stay the course of the fire, The fire swept both sides of the ain treet, and a territory of nearly four acres yuneed by Mechanic, Washington and J wan streets, Thirty-five buildin 2s, all but me being wooden, were entirely consgmed, ad eighty busiomses firms lost everything, IN A LITTLE WATER, Husband and Wile Drowned in a Creek a Foot Deep, Joseph Townsend and wife, aged sixty one and fifty five, while driving across the Moulthrope Bridge over the Calilooon Bridge, near Calliovon, N, Y. were suddenly pitated into twelve inches of water, A fell upon them, pinioning them face downward in the water, where thes he SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LI 8ON NOVEMBER 20, ron Lesson Text “Paul's Kirst Miscionary sermon” Acis xiii, 20.48 Golden Text: Actsy Hi, 20-Commentary, op | 26. Paul and Barnabas on their first mis in our ¢ v iy dow y J urney having arrived at Antioch in isidia are found in the Eynagogus onthe Sabbath day, and being invited Peul begins at the oxo us Egypt, and briefly reviews the nation's his tory up to David, and then passes st to the seed promised to David « the Baviour of lsrael mentioning John the Bapt st and bis precching as the Jesus Our lesson ors 0% this salvation =i. He ER #TY of Israel trom ones ven Jesus, herald of by his sayins that especially for lurael, then testifies that the rulers at Jar. ¢« hot believing the yprovhet fi end in 5 synagogue every | t as the prophets h femped their delis ! Inn, is wa an ir ] ge Are Know a to Gol froe xv. 18), and the Holy Bpir band 1 the Old Tes aarings, death ar I Was y dead | His Isaiah hed 1X. man, =» man David's seed, immortal ol an immoral i ba 110 gn lorever wees 1 His resurrect ess than 59 and east i Were He Was a period of ’ during iways speaking of ngd OR CON red t ' rest ning again in glory (1 ( nies of mr (Ul Cer, § rist is Lhe Prom ine Makes make the y on Joy th & redempt share His glory we must first obla giveness of mos, This is true of Jew the, Individual or Nation. Sin is barrier between man and God (lw Lut Jesus has stepped in Detween, Lord hath Ia on the ble, ® Fully has He made atonement, ani free:y « He offer to every woileves ail the benefits of that great rede mptio Tae jaw cannot save, but Christ is the end of the jaw for righteousness 10 every one that be heveth (Rom, vill, 3 4; x 4; HL, 26. Jas tified is more than forgiveness, it sving of the record that was agains that thet e is nothing left of it (Col, 1, i4 $0. 4h. These versmare from les, x22:x ia | oun Loa w the on sl miquity Ise. suena a dest t Late file t f «2 that Gol MeV ai than t w iol | evil and look on in fquity, and that He sees the hearts of those who draw near with their mouth and honor Him with ther Hps, walle they have more respect for men than for Him. A salvation » so Tally provided ani so fresiy offsrad mast Five s of pur oannot be honestly receive! with true penitence and | humility, or it woull be better for us never to have heard than to have heard it and mada Hight of it or desples 1 it 42. The Gospel of the gracs of God always | makes people want to hear more of it, Its never old or unattraotiva itis God's own good news for the soul of man and finds a response in the beart It makes people for. get the loclemency of the weather anil the weariness of the body and brings then to. gether to hear more 43. “ontings in the grace of G1." This isa summary of the a vice of the apstiss to the new converts, and it is the bmi posse bie advios for every believer. [t sets aside all thoughts of our own goodness, and keeps us humble and grateful at the feet of Jesus, Bee Bom. Mv Boh, i, 8% 1 Tim. i 14, 1 Cor av, 10, «Lescon Heer, IT is not often that even the most accomplished swindler can count so many as three thousand victims. But of all the easiest forms of duping the human animal the matrimonial swin. dle is sald to be the easiest. So per haps we need not be surprised to learn that whole regiments of noodles answered the advertisement in a French newspaper which announced wnat 8 young orphan lady, witha splendid income, wished to marry a serious and refined gentleman. It was not until multitudes of these hoaxed persons, each of whom had pald a #6 fee to the intermediary, clamored for justice that the police | intervened. to speak | . | Corduroy is again in favor, All the jackets ar: quite long. Bable is always of extreme elegance, The bell skirt is having its koell rung, The Puritan is a quaint little bonnes. Passementerie trimming are more than ever in vogue, There are 1000 men to every 7 men in Greece Queen Victori 't new ing room Osborne « There macy OFZan ize heur. The costliest dresses 1n said to be vo matra. Miss has Eaglish Collie Braddon, the one hobby wl 134 tion Bret Harte's § is taking siter | ed Thi hom Maud 8. was hool fer women near An Ameri named as hb profitable The Western practice Hanscom was Ya oR for Elizabeth Deering r the first women 10 enter loor. Bhe is gol D. de ng “0 study gree, Anna Haydas Webster, the advo. " Greek art iress and this month to wd religious org want to 8614.00 1 veils "Ore Are more 10 the ble nowadays in | Women will do y substitute some t feather boas te high wit A brecze ‘'m NECK WoAr wear in strong yult” d lsastrously. makes them Mrs, Mary Cowden Clarke, is eighty. two vears of age, in her own villa at Genoa, Italy, and still often does some literary work with a|asm. Miss Harriett Monroe, the World's Fair the su { g lives all her early enthusi author of emboldened » the ode, by cess of her first poetic venture 1] of goin write a whole volume rhymes. The most highly; valued the Queen of Denmark's golden wedding was a crown of golden wheat ears and clover, bought with the pennies of 10,. 000 school children gift at Mahala Buckwalter, Ella N. Dealing, Clara M. Hicks, Sarah E. Pike evieve Bates were recently deaconcssess of the Methodist Church ai Calvary Church, New York City. and Gen. Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Brown Davis is a young Southern woman who won distinction at Washington as accomplished mathematician, She » reckoned among the first in try. The Brookiya (N. this coun. twenty-two women physicians, are permitted to practise. It has in con. nection a training school for nurses, In honor of Queen Isabella appemt hats, wraps, slippers, and jewels are ranged in antique patterns, and among the most elegant of autumn bonnets of black velvet are those called the queen, trimmed with the sofest and most deli. cate of yellow Isabella roses and jet ai. grettes, Miss Ruth Gentry, who won the fel. owship in higher mathematics of the Associated Cotleges, is pursuing her chosen study at the University of Berlin, which no German womnen has ever sue. oveded in entering, Miss Gentry is a pretty Western girl, pale and quiet, and ol the most unassuming presence, The French Minster of Public Instrae. tion has decided to preserve the home of Joan of Are in Domremi as a museum in which to illustrate her history, It will contain models of the various statues mised to ber memory, copies of the Rdortings showing various soenes in her fe, aud the pictures of her which are in the Pantueon, | checked | generally | contempiation ordained | has an | | and carrying a lyre, | muses,’ Y.) Hospital for | Women and Children has a board of sixty women managers and a hospital staff of | It is the | only hospital in Brooklyn where womes | RCIENTIFIC AND INDUS PRIAL. Fifty-one metals are now known to exist, The dragon fly can devour its own | body and the head still live, The bleaching of one piece of linen | requires forty-four distinct operations, Fish are thought to be very cold, yet their normal temperature is seventy-seven fegrees, The astrouomers say there are at least ; 18,000,000 suns, each as large and many larger than ours, in the Milky Way. There are seventeen different railroad gauges jn this country, varying from two feet to five feet seven inches in width, Hypodermie injections of said to be the new cholera remed the disease in Hamburg, Ger. many. The moth has a fur jacket butterfly none because f nails of the require at butterfly do the moth al movements of the Fi ist has obtaine yn 6 Japanese fruit a German chem- yn chlorophyil proven uy at thi W that th aul f existed on the globe past 6000 years approximates the grand total of 66.00 3, 000,000,0 )0,0 ¥), during It is proposed to construct a r top of Ben Nevis, the highe ain in the British Islands, where a me- observatory Las bed connectied the t teorological n main- for IOWEr Wor n with the . tainea years, a telegraph w 3 Lhe earth opp pmitions, ce those the approach s passing of The ap- to entirely supplaut us is expected 3 ren and gate tenders. Jightaing is simply the reflection ing of distant st far away for the noise cf the thu us, These st and develop thunder-sh resch rims into the JWErs, or nearer ordinary they may away in another directi A steam dynamo is the ted. In nrtoht Figo tion t this the The Muses. were demi-god Dats poetry, danc ¥ yn They ars t three Parnassus ar there were Clio was the muse of history % represented carrying a roll of manuscript. Melpomene was the of tragedy and is made to wear a and Thalia was ti lesque, She wore a mask aod carried a shepherd's crook. Then Calliog the muse of poems, called the chief of the Muses. { sivius tabuel muse mask SOmMmelimes CAITY & EWOrA Or club. we muse of comedy and bur- Cam hero somelime ana a study of =» 1epresentations sae carried a writing Urania presided over the tronomy. In sits beside a gi with one hand, she points upward to the stars presided over music. She was fig as playing the flute. The muse and oratory was Polyhymuoia, or Polym nia, generady pictured in an attitude of wearing =a the be, a comps win of song and laurel Love and marriage songs had Erato for their inspuaticn Erato wore a wreath and played on a large 1yre with many strings. Terpsichore was the last of the muses. She presided over dane. ing, and is represented as wreath crowned Moemosyne, mean. ing “memory,” was the ‘“wother of the wroath, The muses occupied a prominent place in the later mythology of Greece and Rome, sad are the subject of wery fre- quent allusion in literature, —New York Voice, — cr ——— “Compressed Tea. A novelty for travelers who enjoy the cup that cheers is “‘compressed tea." Tais is put up by certain Russian firms resident in China. It is made of the fine dust of tea-leaves, but is none the less expensive for all that, for it is com. pressed by the powerful force of steam machioery into compact tablets which take up about one-sixth the space which the same amount of loose tea-leaves would occupy. These tablets are in turn enclosed in tinfoil, thea in fancy paper wrappers, and finally packed in metal lined cases. Put up in this way, the tea is considerably easier to carry, and the fine dust of the tea which is usually sold at a low price is made use of ta good profit. Taese tablets of tea have been extensively used for some time in Russia, for every Russian enjoys his cup of tea and knows but little svout coffee, though the Turk, who is at his very doors, makes the very best coffee in the world, Thus far these tablots of tea have not been impocted to any extent into our country, New York Trbuse.
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