rr Wei Given Up. THE CRY Official Advices From the Japanese Com mander---The Last Barrier SURRENDERED T0 JAPAN, Chinese Forts and Fleet at Wel-Hal- IS “ON TO PEKIN.” Hemaining Between the Capital of China and Cap- ture---The Japs May Delay the Ad. vance Until Spring, Intelligence was received at Yokohama, Japan. of the su and rer ler is con niote, rrender of the ( Wei-Hal-Wei war ships at Captain Nuaros, of the Japanese squadron, it Wel-Hai-Wei, rep f tha enemy's he ted Jay AT JAPAN'S MERCY. The Situation at Wel-Hal-Wel Just Before the Capitulation. lads T rs tres vend JAPAN BOUND TO ENTER PEKIN No Peace Treat Except in the Chinese Capital--- What Japan Will Demand. d 5 4 Japans 8 r that or) regarded by u been eaptured. Then . demand pos. session ofl Korea, the lian. ung penins Ie and Port Arthur, together with pecuniary in | " ; ar i3 that England and Russia may forestall this programme by ut peace in their own wa To Arrange for Peace. ra that Hung Chang r Sir Robert Hart, will soon i gh ( re I Ar | A ir ¥ i y x the a fs - China's Latest Order for Arms, fr A Ha AL i ( WAS SHORT $363,000. Claims Against the Estate of the Dead Ireasurer of Illinois, “t : 13] | : ol tire I hs ag al Ca 1 § SU pos of rt dis . Tre tw ) 00 | at s 3 { | ’ 3 Tage is mat F. M. Blount and Carl Moll, cashiers Chicago National banks, have filed in t County Court claims for the full the shortage [ was a banker in Carlyle, and worth £150,000, if that ANY Is ay get $125,000 EICHTEEN FEET OF SNOW. The Danish Peninsula Gets Ita Share of Winter. A Borin dispateh says that the harbor Dantzic is frozen over. Thelen is so thick that vehicles ; on it from shore to shore At Copenhager ple can walk on the jest the ships that are loebound in the harbor Near Kiel six large steamers are be fast in the In North Jutland, eighteen feet de tunnels had to cut through the snow and the inmates of buried houses dug out. I'he Berlin prisons are overflowing who committed misdemeanors in obtain rheiter reported Oo Denmark, the snow js he A North Carolina Fish Story, A special despateh from Pollockville, N. C, says that the excessive cold weather benumbed the trout in the North River, Countless num- bers of the tah could be seen floating on the top of the water, and people picked them uj in large quantities, One party secured one thousand and there were 130 barrels shipped by express from Jacksonville, some of then weighing forty pounds and selling for six and eight cents wach, ’ FROZEN TO DEATH. Fatalities Attend the Unprecedented Stor in Maryland, Reports (rom remote portions of Maryland continue to emphasize the fact that the lato storm was almost unprecedented in the State, James Brunner, a colored man, of Charle County, was found standing in a fence cor ner on the public roadside frozen to death Two men were found dead on the rallrond track between Oxford and Easton. They wore indentified as hands on a dredge boat frozen up at Oxford, and, being discharged they tried to make their way to Easton aud poriahed in the attempt. In the town of Hjorring | with persons | der to | SAFE. | LA GASCOGNE She Was Swept Far North La Gaso | While Disabled, | ene is safe, The hig Fren | eight days overdue and 16! Havre, Hard " days out dropped anchor at the Now Y r just before midnie | | all well on board, and a sigh of relief up from two continents, Del \Y was broken piston rod and to the which swept the woek or more, and | many a stanch craft, | the officers and crew of La Gasoe ne br { the ship and passengers through the | and made port without help | From the time they left Haves 26 until the day she reached I no transatlantic steams | masted schooner, the : terrifie North Atlantie brought for rt they rand saw one which St. Plerre Miquelon, Nova Reotia geen a large steamer off the Banks 0 I ly in distress It was the third lay out, about 10 « LA OASCOONE, in the morning when a violen } ade : 1 nade the big vessel trem it | 49% feet of length f wing was a series of violent concussior The women fainted and men bit their lips for all knew something had happened The Gascogne oame to a full stop, The passen gers congregated in the sale n, di > 18811 4 the accident, but they were relieved wi en one of the offfcurs informed them that it w as nothing more serious than a Lire nk in the piston rod of Intermed i which could easily be re paired I'he hatches were battened cept for the intolerat and staterooms the the the confir The w n ni n pe WA BA | 0 Ba = h t! 1 had a » i ab it 4 EL in all and both 1 out to the and The repairs to the piston rod = i iloing it with steel bands I on loose or broke after a day or two's had to be made over again A Gasocogne [Assen forty-four i re Worn ngers i { the passengers were Fr [ey } an NEW SWISS PRESIDENT. Dr. Joseph Zemp Now Chief Exec utive of the Sturdy Little Republic. Ww nt of na oon. "3 Of t coun 1 Ent uch, in mm he received raGusting ! tered \ i t tot ni- ti ished himsel a cellent soholarship and fin. shed his studies, taking his doctor des Lae with — i law practioe, In 1863 he was elected represent the Cans ton of Lucerne in the State Council of the Federal Assembly, and since that time he has held a numb prominent political posi- wan? tions. Dr. Ze belongs to the Conservative Catholie party, and is recognized as its leader. He Is a man of great firmness, but without animosity, and his conscientious lairness toward everybody made him the unanimous choles of both the chambers of Federal Council, In personal appearance the new President Is a very handsome ma Ho does not look so much like a lawyer as he does like a sol dier, His presence is easy and dignified. VALUE OF FARM ANIMALS. General Decrease in the Farm Prices of Horses Throughout the Country. The estimates of {nr 1805, show a decrease in the number of horses as compared with January, 1804, of 187.831, or 1.17 per cent.; a decrease in mules of 19. 128, or 0.81 per cent: an increase in miloh sows of 17,129, or 0,10 per cent. ; a decrease in yxen and other cattle of 2,248,952, or 6.18 per sent. ; a decrease in number of sheep of 2.- 758,953, or6.11 per cent.; a decrease in "he number of swine of 1,040,782, or 2.80 per wnt. In value horses have declined 24.1 per cont. ; mules, 28.5 per cent. ; miloh cows have increased about 1 per cent.; oxen and other cattle have lost in value 4.1 per cent.; sheep have declined 20.2 per cent., and swine, 16.9 per cent, The decline in the farm prices of horses is general throughout the country, The ex- ceptions are to be found in the mountain and Pacific States and Massachusetts, The range of horses is from $16.18 per head in Utah to 874.18 in Massachusetts, The avers age value of mileh cows has increased from $21.77 in 1504 to 821.97 for this year. The aggregate numbers and value of animals are as follows: Horses, number 15808 318, value $576,780 580; mules, number 2.583 108, value $110,027, 984; mileh cows, number 16. 504.620, value $362.601,720; oxen and other eattle, number 34,864 216, value $452, 999,120, sheep, number 42,204 064, value #66685 767; swine, number 44,165 716, value #219,501,267, The total value of lve stock on farms (a 81,810.440,008, a decresse of §361,870,448 from the total value of 1804, 1» animals for January, A Shosking Confession, William Brusseau arrested at Detroit, Mioh, charged with the murder of Dr, H. E. Pope, has confessed. He implicates Mm Pope and says that she wae when he beat the doctor to death a hatchet, only a four reported at having pparent- of Her Course | th liner, from ork ht of the 16th day, went due to a gules disaster to Cantal: ’ aptain Baudelon and ught gules on January BDO ke Hoek mother of the sl 2 irl has made a : family he last occupant being | - ileal of n her onlleasant enough, it was slow, and up | 2AMEY, : y d r, who ha , th , a recent date 2ipen sive. Charles i” ha a gion, ol Grand many that are, strictly speaking, rel- | } . yon aD ve The new route is by way of Alexan- | so phew. - w L . eg ad un ler | 108 of Washington [here 8 pient | axlooy Ia me © ._ria and the new ¢ lectric railway which y Oe! ry . + pH . aba li a of Colonial furniture , but Washing- ! hs t did t.nds passengers in twenty minutes at | n SH i 1 1] i { ath tell funsiv ton never saw it, [he re are pe riraits, : ft F the loctors ha we very gates of Mount Vernon, And | flow 2 £ yun 0K TTA EE Ww disinaton engravings, ete., and a valuable col- 1 at Ythe 1 1 of 1 a is a beautiful and novel ride from | ** flew about bo hasley i» ri, wn lection of Washington q autograph | 1 2 human 1 : ie quaint old town, The hpe lea ls | and his career na " » er. 2 oy p letters, which are mounted in the fore it of Alexandria on Fairfax street | occasion he took some ploy | HO" | mer state dining-room. There are WORRIED BY BEASTS 1d follows closely the river bank un- | Alexandria to be a. the suring | VWO OF three swords, suits of military { { it crosses Hunting Creck, at on | Tore urgenhy by Ra1AIn Ten Hp , clothing, articles of camp eqaiipage Bears and Panthers Spreading Terror imme the northern boundary of the | Plowing, but falling in wid £0 nel 3a brown suit of clothes, the cloth the Arkansas Bottoms ast Mount Vernon estate. Then it | cronies he was induce Po go Off 10T Bi ¢ which was woven on the place which Wi casts are maki futs across the road acres which | month's sojourn at the Wh a 8nd | he General wore at hie first ina 1gu- f ni tants along t 4 14 Washington enltivated before the Bevo- ne ver ohme hak BAL IS Way! oro? ration as President. ling tt Ar I fution, and here and there crosses and had ] gone by de vt hoor a a After the death of Washington in has dr J ars and | tecrosses the old Richmond turnpike, Washington was a great theo: iat t the | 1799, followed two vears later by the : : A re t I khich in Colonial and Revolutionary 4 Tend oy 4 farm De LT zo leath of his widow, the estate began Ba farmer i gween the North and South. From | Wh th bar ev rip wd he had it|gIven 2000 acres to his adopted daugh- Alrs Baker wa it A st t the electric ear windows the eye can br T . ' : . 1 I aded on a four- | ter, Nellie Custis, upon which she an tou Kot 8 : R . : : ollow the old road for miles bythe | “8 © ‘y ye “shart 1 it for the her husband, Lawrence Lewis, after | h tred : wows of ancient poplars planted on | PEI A 5 Barlev web ward built the beautiful Woodlawn ns a 1 i ; A HISTORIC ROADWAY. the ond "But barley he found was ap | mansion st Mount Vernon. y hu Ov hia 1 the Revolutionary | aks rain in the Alexand r. | will Washington left other large por- THE MARKETS Nor Sg onl ae OA FH (hase wal uo sald : | tions of his estate to other relatives, Rrmies marchea 8 uth ¢ in ds t and hare hu 8 4 the homestead proper falling to the Late Wholesale Prices of Country Pro. (W8Y the Northern citios 0 re, | after a whole Ae / rmping he 4 : sh 0 of Bushr a Washington, his duce Quoted in New Yor Ph New York : epads . in 1a gm " Joud , ne " nephew, who afterward became an As- 2 ora whit into eof inicat a brewer {or a Darrel of eer, Wild : Be . i ts Instios of the Supreme Court. with Ricl 1, Charlest und Savan- | sent home and stored In his cellar Fr PB rod Ww sl don it ie- nab The news of the transaction leake 1out, ' tn hic 4 y Ln ¥ g. / hts Auras. i & : ib. { the same night a dozen of ( ant , W . ot) n : ol n July, 1859, iW : $ oy or ) 1 f the 1 A zr . ; : rut! | Re Wa | y s i { ( W ern, t de r was largely given y 1 underbrush. The goil was worn it and no effort made to reclaim it, | Verily, the glory of Mount Vernon Dair | had departed. About 1854 several i y 1 | colonies of thrifty farmers from Ne . | Jersey ‘enneyivania, New Xork an traps a A He pas 4 TT ro a to a Pare ok | buy and reclaim these wornout lands. aR > | They bought tracts of from forty to i three hundred acres to each family I @ and by very much the same methods | that Washington used they have re- % 1 . habilitated the land so that now, out \ ps :..,2.mw - f the r al acreage of Mount Ver- 1 \ var nilgrimagen to att i & to Wellingt non, there is very little that is not { of ( r Philade “or ta ught of 1t highly improved and worth $50 to the oat } Pr { TI tor Befor $o00 per acre Pea M high to ed to 1 ind t posed of the entin aca Poa 1804 hoof-beats of his thor reds wi Charley Washington died in 1850 "a . : i he his tri-weokly visits to Alex 4 elected farm passed int Relies of Washington, W ’ an Wttend k after | oti hand At 1 Libby Prison War Museum, k t i . his business affa er years | fra iwellir Chieago, there are an old brown Groen 1 th old road res e tramp of | with the out velvet coat worn by Washington at ; RRBs other h , for it w er is thor- | pair. A laz his se 1 inauguration, a family um- 0 } oughfare that trickon - the r rella, much out of repair, two of his Or i ke. diery fl fr nin 1861, and | it with the R rds, tarnished epaulets, a iy Sol A rushed pell-r f drag Wellington to i rusty fie belt and a needle ho ; and numounted a I Bridge | ¢ Inst station | case car Washington. ; " o into Washington. I i frreat we R Little Hu: { ‘ spectacle the old tur: ever saw | ing Creek, wh stres divided the : * p is ” was the march of Sherman's army, | old River Farm of Washington's map | ra ' A which foliowed it on the march from ! from the Mansion House Farm. A the South to Washington for the re- mile beyond this creek the ear stops | S04. cb view in 1865. Bince that day the old | at the gates of Mount Vernon. By i 1 [ turnpike has borne nothing more ex- | this route there is no more climbing } Coast eiting or sensational than the f the steep hill from the wharf t the o gk n je wag ns and hayricks of old Virginia. | visitor enters the grounds at foot XY A A Io the right, as the *‘ir ley” {f the western lawn and wal 1D a in Pein 100 1 = : crosses the bridge over Groat Hunting | long flagged path through the trees to | Clover mixed 0 Creek, is Fort Lyous, the strongest of | the near side of the old mansion. tra Long rye i all that great cordon which prot cted | MOUNT VERNON, Ont Washington in “he war days Near : LIVE POULTHS Fort Lyons is the old home, still stand- | ¢ Ltda ” . give as Sin brie in your Fowls, ¥ . ing, of the eeventh Lord Fairfax "ey 3 by Hi pr i} . A, a oo Muel less | k at : : a Rev. Brian Fairfax, who in Washing. | A wn 4 i ep : tz of th . hon I'u 10 ton’s day was rector of Christ Ch in 2 My a st a a : es Du f at Alexandria, of which Washington |: 3 the great proprietor, or under. (hoons 1 00 . ™ ‘ | stand the splend yr of his former en Pig: : was 4 vestryman. The old church is vironment The visitor goes throug * ot still one of the cherished landmarks in | th » old mansion He looks into the | I n Alexandria, and the edifico with Wash. | little stuffy rooms with their odd and | Cl r t 12 @ ington’s big square pew is carefully | ine " rons mixture of old and u tor 10 @ | preserved intact. Lord Fairfax's homo | a ; oS y Sg H En a t1 12 &@ I . : [nto urniture, ¢ gazes a ie | F 10 @ 1 ZA | elegant and extremely modern tinted | . Ducks, spring, L.L& East #ib 10 @ 15 / | and gold frescoes, at the rich and | OENERAL WASHINGTON'G COAT, UMBRELLA nad vu . : In brilliant Persian rugs with which the AND FIELD-GLASS Hqu ' ? LA Fatah 0 | ladies of the association have covered Ya ali thers hb Was 4 . Pokataon. Roan. ¥ Bhi ‘k= 38 | the floors, and he finds it difficult to| "0 Co He sondern] a gs ony White kinds, ¥ bbl. ....... 200 @ 2 | imagine this the home of the im-]|Fe 108 1n t-hieago to lit oul a ‘arge mu- Sweet, ¥ bbl iss 100 @AIH | | mortal Washington. To most visitors | %¢0™- Most of them are well pre- Cabbage, # 100 . 0 @ 70 | it seems a great pity that there has | served and bear evidence to the fact Ustons. ow, bby } a , Lu been such an effort made to impress | °f Washington's wealth and love of Squash Ernesto Poi... 100 @ ! A the public with the fact that Wash. | rich and beautiful clothing and arti- Hubbard ‘oat a ington led a luxurious life by means of cles of personal and household adora- Zainips, thoi ASRS agsuirrrk % a ‘i s the rich and modern Seappiags they ment. —— a . . . 3 y $4 Mm. Grd aT 3 | moo a wen wm wave ren | Rvs smd in he ol0 mein | Genego Washington's Bethy Sd ¥ bhi pra p- was culled Mount Eagle, and le still ia | Mount Vernon was reflected by his| Tt was George Washington's birth- Spring beans, ¥ crate . (a excellent preservation. A mile be-| broad acres, by his great farming | day. The bells were ringing and the Spinach . «400 @ 5m | yond the bridge and the (oad puters { operations, by his hundreds of slaves, | sannen were booming in commemora- Carrots. ... - (@ the “old Mount Vesuou ostate,” ! including artisans and mechanics of | tion of the Father of HisCountry. Lat. : GRAIN, ETC, | which in Washington's day comprised | all kinds, by the wealth of his { tle Ethel; aged five, wise and thought. a iii San nts : 3 “ 4 ia | BODO noren of as fine land as was ever hospitality and the maguii0enas hi ful beyond her years, was gazing out Wheat Ro, DRAB. ran mw p1. | known in Virginia, The csiate was his military and official career. 1here | of the window, apparently in deep MAY urs ioaitos urna id @ be. | divided into five farms, known ns! were no frescoes of gilt and tints in| thought. Suddenly she awoke from Corn=No. 3......00004s vv = @ 4 River Farm, Dogne Xan Farm, Man. Washington's day no wall paper, | hor reverie, and, turning around to a wevsiseme oh é i | sion louse Farm, Union Ferm snd | even. There was nothing but white: | hor father, said: *‘Paps, wha: are Malt—\Wontarn oo ‘wy = as I Muddy Hole Fatm. River Parma, | washed walls and ceilings. Nor were | {hoy going to give George Washing- Barley —Ungradod Western 62 @ 605 which tho railway eirikes first nod | there any Darghestan rugs or Ax-| ion for his birthday?" Seads—Timothy, P1100. ... 0 ®@ dn ‘formerly known as Ol!*ton's Neck, wn | rainstor ‘carpets, s— —— Lard —Olty ‘steam eens re - @ 6! | bought by Washington in 1760 for §3 Thero is Born outbuilding Boi the A Deserved Fate, LIVE WOOK {an acre. It consisted cf 2000 pares. | grounds, which should have given the - rr : well-meaning Indios a hint as to what “Why did General Washington Devos, city dressed ie |! BUILA NY WASHINGTON A QUEER CASE A Curlons Instance Girl Whe Asleep Eleven Years. of a Heen There {8s a girl 'henolles Quentin, mn for the p of doubt has been thrown on enal slumbering case, not only in 180 in Thenelles and fts re Are two camps named Marguerite Bouy vial nt saint who is reported to have nse WE leven years, vicinity, 10 je milk, peptone, and evidently been caused by the fact that t) | Mileh cows, nom. to good... - a Onlves, city dressed... .. Country dressed, .......... Nheop, $100 Ibs. ...... viten un Lambs, e Hogs-~TAve, ¥ 100 Ibs... .. Drelsed............ deveiven metimes wit Haw in the north of France near haw A good de this phenom- Paris, but wheres one of the ballevers and the other of those who maintain that the so« called sleeping beauty rises at night and has HE new 1 popular way of i odd supper The matter has been inve ™Y + Iew an I I 5 od by a Parisian, who has seen the girl making the great American and found her ns lean as a skeleton and as pilgrimage to the home and SLT as a corpse, but still living. Her mother [A tomb of Washington is by with w Alexandria, Va, Lfnveysnoe through a br tooth in the girl's moutt Marguerite Bouyenval made away baby eleven vears ago and gendarme Weare sent to her house girl wa i tened that had an « of hysteri which lasted several hours, at the end which she fell into a trance he doubt thrown on the continuation of the trance | “tion with Mount Vernon by public MOUNT VERNON, IERE GEORGE WASHINGTON | h LIVED AND DIED, Dadreds Visit the Histerle Home: | Lead Dally “I'he First President Was an Extensive Farmer Relies of the Revolution, y of the ancient and quaint old town For than a intury the only means of communi- more has been by the river. eambonats have carried their hun- eds of thousands of pilgrims to the ‘ered spot, and though thal route was | " ‘ 1 tion of the estate comprising 600 nerve, and during his life it was occu pied by Colonel Tobias Lear, who lives in history as Washington's military | seeretary and Jife-long friend. Colonel | Lear was also tutor to the Curtis chil dren sand for more than thirty years was a member of Washington's family. It is said the first President built Wellington Hall for Colonel Lear's use, but whether this be true or not, | he certainly occupied it for most of his life, By his will General Wash ington made Colonel Lear a tenant for life, rent free, and he lived on the place until his death in 1816, His re- 3 , | mains now repose in the Congressious Cemetery in Washington, After Tobies Lear's death Welling ton Hall passed into the hands of the collateral branch of the Washington The Arst iandmacz of Revolationary futerest that is renchod nfior eutering upon ‘he videstate is We ling on Hall It stan is about toar miios ‘rom Alex. andris, on the Potomae bana. and oo the Father of His Country usea to cov: er his floors. The building is ealled the “‘spinning-room,” and in it is a great loom for weaving the good old- fashicued rag ceipels of our forefuth- era. | cupies n site almost as beantiful ns Aside trom these incongraitfer, howe Mount Vernon, Wellington Hall wae | ever, the old mansion is an int reste built by Washington in 1768 on a por- | ing, almost a hallowed spot Ihera are not so many relies of Washington but what there are are full of interest, The bed upon which he died, sent by the Lee family, and the other furnie ture contributed by various families, have enabled the ladies in control te fit up Washington's chamber very nearly as it was when its great occu ) There are a good view, but nod pant passed away. wany other relics on MARTHA WASHINGTON 8 BEDCHAMEBER. cross the Delaware on a dark, stormy night?” asked the funny man, “(Give it up,” answered the crowd. “To get to the other side,” retorted the funny man; and then the crowd killed him gently, butfirmly, — Halla,
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