erations ey, and IPWAT i, , knives, ning of nts did 3 against ttle from pt that it alleged ind riot- LERA., w Cases f immi the bay landed al ind were on, whers the Nor nn officis Swedish has just by the ED, received of Liv pened to nporarily 10lera at USBIA. ) to Octo. f cholera ue broke | appear- ermitted s begun, syed has 3 _prome- ch 'servi- night o} ife, chila it of the landed at ve had 8 A KOOGA, = n Demo- dates, se- tient for | so Hesaid to Cristotoro Col looking maps and examining globes . pear fal. the ex, i y re . sailing for? |" and that pleas: them farther and farther away from tho ! dollars In money to . voyage, and SOLUMBUS SAILED WFSTWARD With FAITE AND HOPE. . i i § The Sunday Sermon as Delivered by The Brooklyn Divine. z re A i Texr: “Lift up thine eyes westward.” Deuteronomy 3il., 27. SRE ay Ro God said to Moses in Bihle times, and NI ber e m n four vearsago. Nations bad been chiefly towar | the east. - Buf while Columbus, as his name was called after it was Latinizad, stood studying het and reading ¢o8- God said t him, “Lift up thine. * The fact was it mnst bave seemed to Columbus a world—liks a cart with ons wheel, . scissors with one blade, like a sack on side of a camel, ding 8 sack on the other side to balance if, Here was a bride of the world with no bridegroom. | . 1 donot wonder that Columbus. was not with half a world, and so went to eal with work to find the other half, ' The pieces of ~ carved of Eur wood that were floated to the shores arope by a westerly gale, and two dead Kuman faces. unlike suvthing he bad seen before, likewise floated from the west, were to hiwa the voice of God saying, Lite up thine eyes toward the west.” Old navigators said to young Columbus / It can’t be done.” Tha republic of Genoa ' ‘maid, “It can’t be done.” 1 Alphonso V, said, “It ean't be done.” A comm ties on mari tin afiairs to whom .the subject was sub- ted, declared, “It can’t be done.” Vena: tians said, “It can’t be done.” After awhile the story of shis poor but ambitious’ Colum- bus reaches the ear of Queen Isabella, and ] buy him a decent that he may be fit to ap- 2 loyalty. » interview in the palace was success- Money enonch was borrowed to fit out ‘expedition. There they are, the ships, in the Gulf of Cadiz, Spain. If ‘you ask me which bave been the most famous boats of the world, I would, say, first Noah's be ¢ bulrushes, in whieh Moses ated the Nile; third, the Mayflower, that put out from Plym Fathers, and now these three vessels that on ; ship, that wharted on Mount’ Ararat: sec- d, the boat of bul this the Friday morning, August 3; 1492, ara Rriday ng, 492, ‘on the ripples. = * There is the Santa Maria, only dinety feet | long, with four masts and eight anchors, . ‘The captain walking v the deck is fifty-seven old, his hair white, for at thirty-five e was gray, and his face is round, his nose aquiline and his stature a little taller than the average. od 4 ; and a few landsmen, adven rs who are ready to risk their necks in a wild expe- dition. * There are enough provisions for a i tain Colum where are you #2: $F do not know.” *How long before you will get there?’ ' *‘I cannot say. “All ashore that are going!” is heard, and - those who wish to remain go to the land. For sixteen daya the wind is dead east, 1 t pleases the captain becauseit blows coast and farther on foward the shore of another counwy, if there is any. To add intersst to the voyage on the _ twentieth day outa violent storm sweept _ '/ ‘the sea, and the Atlantié ocean tries what it SE cas do with the Santa Maria, the Pinta and the eral opinion on shipbdard ? * only one that could take them back home in | na, ‘The mutinous crew would have Columbus had it not been for the gen- “that he was the safety. Fae : Phe promise of a silk waistooat and forty the man who should firsy sed them somewhat, but. ba i ke el yf el i mi a clock, just lon enough after Thre to make it Sure that it was Friday, and so give another blow at the world’s idea of unlucky days—on Fri-: day morning. October 12, 149% a gun from: the Pinta signaled “land ahead” Then the ships lay to and the boats were lowered, and Captain Christopher Columbus first stepped upon the shore amid the song of birds and the air a surge of redolence and vook session in the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Gh 5 80 the voyage that begin with the sacra. ment ended with “Gloria in Excelsis D=o." From that day onward you say there can be nothing tor Columbus but honors, re- wards, raphsodies, palaces and world wide applause, Nol nol ‘On his way back to Spain ip was so wrenched by the | ‘ship { ; a2 threatened with destruction that he wrote a brief account of his discov ery and put it in a cask and threw it over. board that the world might not lose the ad- vantage of his adventures, ors awaited him on the beach, but he undertook a second with it came all maligning and persecution and denunciation and poverty. He was called aland grabber, a liar; a cheat, a fraud, a ziver of Nations. Speculators robbed of his good nano, courtiers depreciated his discoveries, and there came to him ruined health and im- prisonment and caains, of which hs said while he rattled them on his wrists, *'I will wear them as a memento of the grati- tude of princes,” = Amid keen appreciation of the world’s abuse and cruelty, and with “body writhing in the tortures of gout, he groaned out his last words, “In manus toas Domine commendo spivitum meum’’ Into Thy hands, O Lord, I commend my t. Of course hehad regal obsequies, That is the way the world tries to atone for its mean treatment of great benefactors. First * buried in the church of Santa Maria, Seven years afterward removed to Seville. :Twen. ~three years afterward removed to San omingo, Finally removed to Cuba. Four postmortem neys from sepulcher to sepitleher, : What most impresses me in all that wondrous life, which for the next twelve . ‘months we will’ be commemorating by ser- mon and song and military ade and World's Fair and congress: of Nations, is something I have never heard stated. and that is that the discovery of America wasa Religious discovery and in tha name of ‘ Colmmbus, by the study of the proph. Micah and called by God to carry Christianity to the sands ot the earth.” - Atheisin has no right here; infidelity has no right here; vagabondism has no right here, And as Godis not apt to failin any. of His undertakings (at any rate 1 have never heard of His having anything to do with a failure), America is going to be 2d apd trom the Golden Gate Cali fornia to the Narrows of New York harbor, and from the top of North America to the foot of South America, from Bering straits jo Cape Horn, this is going to be Immanuel’ A divine influence will yet swesp the con. tinent that will make inignity drop like slacked lime, and make the most blatant in- fidelity declare it was only joking when it said the Bible was not true, and the worst atheism announce that it always did bes lieve in the God of Nations : “1¢ would not do for our world in its Jost end ruined state to have communication with other. worlds, : If would 1 their ; But wait until this ‘world is fully will be; and then Perhaps “Yithe Admiral, went into a hospital and halted ymouth with or Fhigeim tb “There are two doctors in this flset of ships: pos | the shrinkage in exports has ceased, an in- ok as ness would have been too: for mortal man toendure. * “He had no idea that the time would come when a Nation of sixty million people on thisside of the sea would be joined by all ths inteiligent Nations on the other side the sea for the most part of a year reciting his won-. derful deeds. 1t took centuries to reveal the result of that one transatlantic voyage, When Manhattan Island was sold to the Dutch for twenty-four dollars neither they who sold “or bought could. have foreseen New York, the commercial metropolis ot America, that now stands onit. Can a man ou SEATOR SHERMAN RECOUNTS REPUBLI- CAN ACHIEVEMENTS—THE PARTY OF FREEDOM, PROGRESS AND PROSPER- ITY—DEMOCRACY WEDDED TO DE- LUSIONS OF THE PAST. : > The career of thé Republican Party was begun, continued, and has not yet ended as one of ubprecedented legislative industry. It has never been anything but a working party devoted to the highest welfare of the Nation. It is a distinguishing characteristic of the policies of the Republican Party that while they were undertaken in the heat of the Civil War they were designed to promote-the pacific development of the industrial energies and resources of the country. : One of the fint landmarks of Republican legislation was the: Home- stead Act. This Jaw had been pending in Congress for many years while the Democratic Party was in power. It had been vetoed by two Democratic Presi- dents.” It had been strenuously sup» ported by leading Northern Democrats, but had been opposed by the South in the interest of slavery. A Republican Congress enacted it in May, 1862, and corverted it into a great National policy, as ber eficient as it was _ progressive, for creating a prosperous class of indepen- dent freeholders in the Western. reaches of the Union. The Homestead Act, supplemented by Pacific railway legisla. tion, attracted settlers, stimulated immi. gration and transferred the centre of in. dustrial power from the Kast to the West. Evenin war times the founda tions were laid for that marvellous ma. terial prosperity, of which the first fruits were to be the resumption of specie pay: ments and the cancellation during a sin- gle ‘generation = of - two-thirds of the National debt. A who preaches a sermon, or a woman Who ‘distributes tracts, or a teacher who instructs a class, 8 a passerby who utters encourag- ine words realize the inflnitudes of useful t2 Every move yon make for Gol, however insi nt in your own eyes or in the eyes of others, touches worlds larger the one Columbus discoverad. Why talk abont un; important things? There ars no unimpor- tant things, Infinity is made up of infini ‘After the battle of ‘Copenhagen, - Nelson, at the bed ot a wounded sailor who bad lost his arm and said, ‘Well, Jack, what is tus matter with you?” and the sailor ravlied, “Lost my right arm, your honor,” and Nel- son looked down at his own empty sleeve and said: “Well. Jack, then you and I are both spoiled for fishermen, Cheer up, my brave fellow!” and that sympathetic word red the entire Sospital. Eu : ‘While studying the life of tis Italian nav. igator, I am also reminded of the fact that while we are diligently looking for one thing we find anoth Columbus started to find India, but found America. Go on and do your duty diligently and prayerfully, and if you do not find what you looked for you will find something batter. Hargreaves, by the upsettinz of a ma. chine and the motion of its wheels while up- set, discovered the spinning jeany. ©0, my friend, go on faithfully ani promptly with your work, and if you do not get the success you seek, and your plans upses, you will get something just as good and perhaos batter. Another look at that career of the ad- miral of the Santa Maria persuades me that it is not to be expectad that this world will do its hard workers full justice. If any man ought to have bean treated well from first to last it was Columbus. He had his faults. Let others ict them. Bub a greater soul the c:nturies have not pro iuoced. This contineui ought to have besn called Columbia, after the hero who dis. covered it, or Isabelliana, after the queen’ who furnished the means for the -expe li Jon. aoe The world did got do him jus 1 wrhile he was alive, and w should is fae y be expected to do him justice DY he was | tered:to the interests of the Nation. At dead? | Columbus in a dungeon! What a | the'opening of the War the Democratic onghty Comubus In irons] What a | party, under the direction of Southern In one of the last letters which Columbus | Slave owners, was committed to the pol- gent fo} bis sony Je wrote this Jamenttativa: icy of a revenuc tariff tending in the sf ive nothing of ths revenue dus me, i \ Ilive by borrowing. Tittle have I profitad direction of abayiute’ free; trate, The by twenty years of service with such toils and gerils since at present I do nos own a roof in Spain, If I desire toeator sleep, I have no recourse but thes inn, and ror the most times have not wherewithal to pay my’ bill.” Be not surprised, my hearer, it you suffer injustice. : List us be ‘sura that we have the right pilot, and the fight chart, and the right captain and that we stars in tae rignt di- rection, It will ba to' each of us wh» love the Lord a voyage more woudszriul for dig. ‘ covery than that waich Columbus took. Aye, fellow ~~ mariners, over the rough sea: of this life, 'through the fogs mists of earth, 838 you not already the outline of the better country? Land ahead! Land ahead! Nears . er and nearer we come to heavenly waoarf- age. "Throw out the p.anks, and step ashore into the arms of your kindred, wao have been waiting and watching for the hour of your disembarkation, © Tarouzh the rich graces of Christ, our Lord, may we ail have such blissful arrivail of the South, having what: they consid- ered the cheapest of all labor in their slaves, were the natural allies of fres trade England. One of the economic curses of slavery wherever it has existed has been its inevitable cffect in develop- ests and in preventing the diversification of industries. Southern planting inter- ests and economic policy blocked Na: tional development of industries, policy of a low tariff, which had always been Southern rather than Northern, was abandoned when the Republican Party was confronted with the necessity of ‘obtdining an’ incoine adequate for méet- ing the cost of a great war. FOUNDING, A GREAT NATIONAL POLICY. “If legislators had considered the tem. porary exigencies of war time alone they might have adopted the principle of high revenue taxation. They were broad. minded men who looked a long way be. yond the requirements of a Treasury budget. They established a tariff system, which would not only ‘ars the Govern- ment with immediate power to levy and collect. enormous. resources. of income, but which would also tend to foster and diversify the industries of free labor. Now, while honest men may differ over details of the tariff controversy which bas been conducted 1m this coun- try over a hundred years, they must at ee lpr TRADE GOOD ALL AROUND. All Sections of the Country are Pros: + “t= perous Now. : _R.G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: Once more it must be said that trade indications are entirely favorable. = Even crease of $1,500,000 appearing here last week while imports continue surprisingly large and foreign exchange declines. Government crop reports for October 1 were, on the whole, much more favorable than was ex- vected, and the markets disclose a ‘public belief that the facts are more favorable than the Government estimates. : Trade throughout the country is somewhat larger than a year ago, and in all the great branch- es of manufacturing there is extraordinary activity. Money isin greater demand at almost all commercial centers. but there is sowhere any stringency, the supply being ample for legitimate bus ness, and collec: tions, as a rule, are exceptionally good. Boston reports an activedry goods trades, busy shoe factories, steady business in leather and lumber, and very good trade in furniture. At Philadelphia the iron mark- et decidedly improves; Western orders tor coal cannot be filled because the roads are blocked, and good orders for the spring trade are reported in dry goods, while the wool market continues active; trade in jew- sire is fair, and paints and oils are active. At Baltimore the infrequency of Southern failures is gratifying, collections are more satisfactory and trade in some lines show a. material increase. Pittsburg reports a stiff- er market tor manufactured products, with improving DIOSpects in the giuss « business, window glass being more active. 2 Chicago again reports an increase in Te ceipts, those of wheat, oats and barley hav- ing doubled, while the receipts of corn are about 15 times last year’s. In wool a gain or 40 per cent. is reported. = In cattle and hogs 5 por cent., and some increase in flour dressed beef, butter and cheese. Business was never more prosperous and Eastern _shipments of merchandise are of enormous magnitude. : Trade is remarkably strong at St. Louis, the corn crop proving larger than was an- ticipated. usiness is larger than last year at Kansas City, receipts of products being libéral. At Minneapolis nearly all branenes show increase over last year. and the output of flour, 230,000 barrels, is the largest ever known in a week. Re Exports of breadstuffs, provisions, cotton, oil and cattle in’ September were but’ $40, 315,746 in value, against $59,451,347 last year, more than $14,000,000 of the decrease being in breadstuffs, for last year's move- ment was far beyond all precedent. The. fall in prices since last year, 24 cents in wheat, two cents in cotton, one cent per gallon in oil, and about $20 per head in cat- tle makes a difference of about $6,000,000 in the value of exports for the month. Re- cently there has been an improvementin exports with lower prices. heat is an eighth stronger than a week ago, but corn is one cent. lower, oats 1% cents, hogs 20 cents and lard: 15 cenis per 100 pounds, cot- ton an eighth lower, with sales of more tliicn 1,100,000 bales for the week, and oil a quar: ter lower. Improved crop Teor and heavy fEovement of products push prices down: ward. The iron output October 1 was 153,027 tons Weekly, against 151,648 tons Septem- ber 1, and it is especially encousaging that ‘the stocks’on. band decreased 85,234 September. SALES on and woolen mills are fully employ- ‘many of them cannot fill their orders hough running their machinery night and day. Sales of woul this'year at’ the three haye been 000 to the proviced a most efficient instrument for the collection of the large revenues ‘needed for war expenses and the prepaid _ payment of the National debt. They must also recognize, without dissent, the extraordinary expansion of domestic manufacturing and the development of foreign and internal trade which have accompanied protective legislation. They must also concede that the benefits of a high tariff have been generally dis- tributed in the course of time so as to be equalized among| all classes’ through tho cheapening of prices for consumers. They must, moreover, be prepared to admit that. the protective system has promoted that wonderful diversification of industries which now affords resources of remunerative employment for the largest and most prosperous body of working people on the earth, It is characteristic of the malign genius of the Democratic Party that after all the mir- ecles of American industrial progress have been accomplished, it should turn back the hands of tims and take its stand to-day with the nulification leader of 1832 in proclaiming the uncopstitu- tionality of the protective tariff. Even Jackson's authority “Las not sufficed to convince . it that Calhoun was wrong, and the decisions of tho United States Supreme Court bave been of no avail to reconcile it to the prosperity of the American people under the protective system. MASTERPIECER OF FINANCE. ; The financial legislation of the Repub. lican Party constitutes a series of land- miarks of American progress, The great measures of the wur period were those providing for the issue and ultimate re- demption of the legal tender greenbacks, and for the establishment of the National bank system. These were followed, after the war, by the Refunding and’ Resump- tion Acts. - The general principles upon which this legislation was grounded as- sumed that public debt was to be regarded always as a temporary burden, to be paid promise made to creditors must be fully redeemed. Although a debt was con- tracted so vast in volume that one year’s interest upon.it exceeded the dnancial obligations incurred during the War of the Revolution, provision was made for its rapid conversion into securities bear tons ment of Swo-thirg Is of . | of a single genera he | od ox 0 uring the life “1 GREAT RECORD, | “In like manger the tariff has minis< cotton, sugar, tobacco and rice planters. ing two or three great agricultural inter- - This ‘| least agree that Republican legislation | as 1apidly a8 possible and that every "247,000,000 pounds | ing low rates of interest 3d for the pay- gate which industry would bear, and the purden of the debt was virtually carried by the generation which incurred it. The success of the Refunding Acts waslargely dependent upon the resumption of specific payments. = That was" a supreme act of good faith which established public credit on so high a plane that refunding operations were conducted with exstraor- i facility. : SE A yo of thirty years’ experi- ence with Republican flaancial legisla- tion the American people have the proud distingtion of being the only great Nation that pays its debts. They have also a currency which was brought by laborious processes to par wita gold. ‘They nave also a National bank system which has steadily grown in popular favor, and un- der which not a dollar has ever been lost to a noteholder, and ouly the smallest fraction to depositors. THE PARTY OF OBSTR UCTION. All these great policies huve been ac. complished without the ald of the Dem- ocratic Party. The Funding act of 1870, by which the rates of interest on the debt were changed by the conversion of all classes of National securities, was passed without a single Demogeatic vote in either House. The Desumption act of 1875 was opposed by cyerr Democrat in both Houses; The National Banklog act was dencunced as unconstitutional by the Democratic Party during the war, and its hostility to the system has not ceased to this day, when the repeal of the tax on State bank issues is deliber- ately proposed in its National platform. That party thirty years ago defended these fitate issues, although they werd not secured, had no uniform value throughout the country, were easily counterfeited and displaced greenbacks. It advocates a return to the same system now, and apparently from a deliberate preference for an inferior ctrrency. In like manner a majority of the same party fustead of co-operating with the Repub. Jican Party in adjusting the relations be- tween gold and silver so that both metals will circulate at par with each other, fa- vor unlimited free coinage by which gold will be drained ont of the Treasury and the country plunged headlong into mons ometalism on the lowest plans. THE TWO PARTIES IN CONTRAST, The Republican Party, while it has enacted great : policies, National, indus- trial and financial, has remained loyal to the traditions of humanity ' and honor which were the inspiration of its youth, It has maintained resolutely the integrity of the restored Union on the basis of uni- versal liberty and uncastrictdd citizen: ship, while the Democratic Party has sought to surbordinate National to sec- tional interests and to paralyzs emancipa.’ tion, that crowning act of justice and magnanimity, by conspiracies in the Southern States against majority rule. Honest elections for National lawmakers are guaranteed by the Constitutional Amendments, embodying the results ac- complished in the war for the Union. The Republican Party stands for the principle of equal political rights through- put the Union. The Democratic Party not only repudiated the doctrine when its representatives in Congress voted against the Constitutional Amendments ‘at the close of the war,but in its political practice it has continually followed the worst traditionsof slavery in fomenting race prejudice sand establishing minority’ rule. : The Republican Party throughout its history has been fighting the battle of free labor. In the beginning it was a popular agitation to prevent the exten. sion of slavery to the Territories aad subsequently it was a terrible battle with a slave-owners’ rebellion but in the end it has been a prolonged campaign in the interest of American labor menaced with destructive and degrading competition from the labor of less prosperous and en-. lightened European States. Since the first election of Lincoln 10,000,000 aliens | have found homes and workshops in America; yet notwithstanding this im- mense addition to the working force of the Nation, there has been a gain of nearly fifty per cent. in the average rate of wages, The result could never have been accomplished without Republican legislation for internal improvements and the operation of the Homestead law, and above all without systematic protection of American labor employed in home in- dystries. For this comprehensive Na- tional policy, which has not oaly con- verted the older Eastern States into hives of manufacturing and filled. the wide reaches of the West with the pulsating beat and throb of industrial energy and American enterprise, but has also created the new South with its boundless re- sources, credit 1s wholly to be given to the Republican Party. : The Democratic Party has never lost the impress of the domination of the siave powers . A. low tariff and free trade were the economic doctrine: of the Southern planters, and were em- bodied in the Confederate Constitution, The Democratic Party has remained loy- al to these malign traditions. = Its first and only President since Buchanan's election on a platform of ‘*‘progressive free trade” lost no time in giving the signal for 4 “tariff reform campaign, which, if successful ; would leave Ameri- can industry and labor without protec- tion and support. The party stands to- day fully committed not only to the low tariff cause to which both Douglas and Breckinridge were pledged by the plat. forms of 1860, but also to the extrava gant vagary of Calhounism that protec- tion is unconstitutional. As it was the friend and ally of slavery, so also itis the irreconcilable foe of free labor. The history of the two rival parties since Lincoln's election offers a startling contrast between survivals of the worst ‘and the best traditions. Equality of rights and sympathy for the mass of the common people were the leading princi- ples of Jefferson. A latter-day Democ- rey stands in the South for unequal rights and minority ‘conspiracies, and throughout the Union for a tariff policy by which American labor will be de= | graded to the Buropean level. ' Jack- | sons great strength lay in his intense devotion to the principle of nationality and in his ‘abhorrence of “sectionalisw. A latter-day Democracy, by the revival of the constitutional quibbling ot Cal- hounism and by its persistent hostility to National politics, repudiated his principles. What has been best in the tendencies of its history has fallen into innocuous destietude. What has been worst in the theories and practice of its | slave-owning and sectional leaders is. tenaciously preserved. 2 Republicanism, on the other hand, holds fast to everything that is enao- bling and elevating in its history. It is the party of National honor ' which has removed the foul reproach of slavery and redeemed the plighted faith of the Gov- ernment in financial legislation and ad. ministration. It is the party of equal rights, aa unsullied ballot and honest elections. It is the party of National policies of com prehensive scope and en. lightened self-interest by which industry is diversified, labor systematically pro: tected, and the prosperity of all classes and sections promoted. = Between its present policies and the traditions ot its glorious past there is unbroken contin- uity of patriotic action.—Senator;Joia Sherman, in the Independent. EEE———— EE ——— How Shall We Choose? y The fight this fall in the United States is America against the world. The Re- publican Party goes into the conflict only asking that the American people shall be true to themselves, and that we shall first look after and care for those of our own blood in regulating out affairs. If we have free trade our nfirkets will be supplied by the productions of other countries at whatever price they may choose to put upon them. If we have protection prices will be regulated on this side the water, aud our people will go on developing our resources without any regard whatever to what other Na- tions or peoples may say, think or hope. Where does our duty first lie? = With the foreigner or with our brother whose elbow touch we have felt during all the years? - : ; : The Democratic Party declared for free trade, but as time went on inter them, to assure us that the Democracy is really for protection—without undertak- ing to tell us what is objectionable in Republican protection as practiced for the last half century, save that there is too much of it. ; Up to two weeks ago the Damosratia Party declared, from Henry Watterson down, that the Democratic platform meant free trade. To-day that same Democracy 18 assuring the country that it means protection. Can there be any doubt as to what the party means? Does not every American citizen understand this assault upon American institutions? What is the honest citizen to do about this? He knows that protection has made this country what it is, and that on the three ‘occasions when we have tried free trade we have run upon a rock, Mr, Cleveland’s platform declares for free trade, unequivocally. Mr. Cleve- land himself, ifi his letter of acceptance, declares for a mild form of *‘unconstitu. tional” protection. If a man votes the Democratic ticket is he voting for fre trade or for protectionf What use has the country any longer {for this party, utterly without principle, which nevertheless stands ready to pro- fess adherence to any principle which it thinks will bring it votes?! What. use have we for this un-American organiza. tion, which finds nothing good 1a our own country and everything good in what Europe sends to us.—New York Com. wercial Advertiser. A Teesson in Wool Priecs, Production of wool in those countries which principally supply the world's market has enormously increased of late, as shown in the following table: i oun; Continent of Europe a produced......... 430,000,000 610,000,000 Australia producsa. 450,000,000 550,000,00) Cape of Good Hope produced ......... 70,000,000 129,030,000 ‘What wonder that wool should fall in price? = But in the free trade London marke$ the average price of all brands of wool declined twenty-one per cent. from January 4, 1890, to July 2, 1892, according to the London Xconomist of those dates. Between the same dates the average price of all the brands of wool quoted in the protected Boston market felt only 73 per cent., according to the Boston Commercial Bulletin. The McKinley tariff alone prevented Ameri- can wool {from falling as much as wool in London fell.—American Economist. : «I Kin Prove It.” -A citizen who lives on a corner, which is a popular rescrt for all the boys of the neighborhood, is engaged throughout the warm months of the year in a lively effort to protect his property from injury. ' Being unwili- ing to resort to grave measures of the law, he contents himself with occa- sionally confiscating a ball when the frequent and entirely unceremonious incursions of the boys in pursuit of it threaten to ruin his garden. When wild shots at the “duck on the rock” demolish his fence pickets and ren- der it necessary for him to carefully raconnoiter before he steps out of doors, he sometimes removes the “rock” after the boys have placed it in the alley for safe-keeping. "These little devices are not, very effectual, however. The other day, perceiving a boy engaged in chopping up the sidewalk with an ax, he went out and remonstrated with him. “Well,” said the boy, “I want my ball; it’s under the sidewalk.” “But you can't chop up the side: walk.” . «I wan$ my ball.” “See here, young man, I’ve a good mind to hand you over to a police man. Don’t you know you can be punished for injuring my property?” “I'didn’t injure your property. I never chopped your sidewalk, an’]J kin prove it.” a vi That boy’s turn for legal techni | calities would repay cultivation, | Bous expenses; preters arose, Dawnid B. Hill among | HORSES AND TRAINERS KILLED. A COLLISION CAUSKS THE DEATH OF CIYR MEN AKD FOUR HORSES. Fo The Boston express freight collided wi the Brattleboro freight at Harrison's Land- ing, Conn. on the New London Northern railroad. The men killed were Hinney and Gillen, of Ballston Spa. N.Y.; Edward of Norwich, {onn.; McKenna, residence un- known. Of the fifth man nothing is known. The race horses killed were Teddy R.Brock- away, Wonderful Cure and Jennie Maynard. The eollision was caused through an error of the operator. THE OFFICIAL BALLOT SETTLED. There is no longer any doubt that the size of the official ballot for Pennsylvania will be about 22x78 inches, varying in length asc- cording to the number of offices and eandi- dates in the several counties, and the bal- lot will be certifie from the State depart: ment in the form described in the of instructions issued yesterday by Chair man Reeder; that is, each of the five politi- cal parties will have its electoral ticket ina separate column. The various county com- missioners are proceeding on this decision, and the ballots will all be ready.in time for all voters to cat their ballot on election day. HOMESTEAD'S BILL TO THE STATE.. . © Warrants to the amount of $353,242 64 have been drawn by Adjutant General Greenland for the expenses incurred by the. State by calling out the entire division of the National Guard during the early days of the trouble at Homestead. Of this amount, $305,905 34 was for individual pay;$5,265 02, to quartermasters for supplies; $12,180 98, horse hire; $838 58, transportation; $2.616- 89, surgeon general; $1,464 54, miscellan- $24, 971 34, commissary. the total expense will reach $600,000. A FARMER DRAGGED TO DEATH. Thomas Roy, a farmer living six miles west of Washington niet with a terrible . death. He was driving home from Wash- ington when his team ran away, throwing him out in such a way that the wagon gear: ing caught and dragged him along where the horses trampled upon him. About a year ago Roy met and made up with the wife from whom he hud been parted for twenty-five years. TERRIBLE WORK OF AN ENGINE, A carriage containing A. D. Maxwell, the two Misses Taylors and Miss Kate Hougha- went was returning frem Trevorton and while crossing the Reading Railroad near Shamokin an engine dashed into the ear riage. Maxwell received fatal injuries and Miss Taylor and Miss: Houghawent were terribly bruised. The former's sister was found under the wreck of the carriage, cov ered with blood. She cannot recover. ; THE SCHUYLKILL DRYING UP. ; The Schuylkill river 1s so low severa miles below Reading that boats have at | times become grounded at that voint, where {he river and canal are one. The river has not been so low as now for 50 years, and some miles above Reading it contains hard- Jy more water than a small creek. Wells are drying up and wheat sown last month is dying. Nei 00 ! : KILLED BY A HUNTING ACCIDENT. © Ten days ago Harry Croman, of Hunts- dale, was accident. y shot in the abdomen while out hunting with an Italian named Thomas Helm, and Friday he died from his injuries. This the second tragedy in this locality within a year. ReoexTLY Archibald Smith and a friend named Wyman of Wilkesharre, obtained an option on 250 acres of land in Schuyikill county. - In examining 1b Monday they circular struck a vein of anthracite coal valued at $3,000,000. The option cost them $10,000. Newton Rrop.cx, of Greene county, has been sentenced to psy a fine of and serve nine months in the Allegheny work house, and Nathaniel Chambersto pay a fine of $500 and serve three months in ail for illegal liquor selling. Jack RauseY. the outlaw who was with Frank Cooley when he was shot, and is now awaiting trial in the Uniontown jail, is net- ting a neat income by selling his photo ° graphs to curious visitors. A vrrrLE son of J. D. Brewer, of Greens burg, was accidently drowned ina spring Tuesday evening. : Ar Shenandoah, Michael McKee, aged 65, was instantly killed by being crushed be- tween mine cars on the Kohinoor dirt bank, and Jeremiah Burns, aged 15, was horribly mangled at Kllangon colliery by falling into revolvir g machinery. 5 GOV. PATTISON’S PROCLAMATION. The Recommendations as to the Cele bration of Columbus Day. The following is the full text of the pro- clamation issued by Governor Pattison de- claring Friday, Oct. 21, to be a general holi- day: * Whereas, In accordance with the joime resolution of the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of Americ, the President of the United States, by pro- clamation, has appointed Friday, October the 21st, 1892, the four hundredth anniver- sary of the discovery of America by Colum- bus, as a general holiday for the people of the United States, and Whereas, The President has recom» mended that the people’'on that day, as far devote ag possible, cease from toil, an themselves to such exercises “as niay express honor to the ‘discoverer, an appreciation ofthie great achievements of the four completed centuries. of Am life, and ‘Whereas; sylvania has a special interestin this an versary by reason of the magnificent proe ress made by the people of the State during he centuries since the discovery. Xi Now, therefore. 1, Robert KE. Pattison, best governor of the State of Pennsylvania, do recommend Friday, the twenty-first day of October, in the year of © Lord one thousand eight hundred and: nin= their 4 can The Commonwealth of Penn- our ty-two, as a general holiday. On that day
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