A CHRISTMAS CV.ROU .
Listen, tbe bell In the steeples
In jubilant glalneaa ring.
To srelcome the coming of Christmas
And tbt birthday of tha King
XV bo was born in tha lowly manger of
Bethlehem long ago,
Whan tha song of tha herald angels
Waa sung to tba world below,
Tbon hast clad Thyself in raiment
Of spotless white, on earth,
Like a bride on her marriage mornlnj,
T- oelebrata Christ's birth.
Oh, were our lire ai spotles.
Our hands unstained with tin,
And the latch of each heart were lifted
To let ths Christ child in.
Sting ot thy pine anl holly.
On earth, thla Christmas day,
And wreathe in their green the altar
Whereon our gift we lay;
Clfta of moit grateful homage
Laid low at the feet of the Kln, 1
Who leant from Hit throne to listen,
To the ound of our worshiping.
Ering to the dear Lord't altar I
The ioul'( white flowera to-:lay,
I-et the rose of the lore shed inveu
tiweet a tha breath of May;
Let the lily of faith eternal
Lift ita cupi ot myrrh to Uim
W hose lore it the star that leads m
Through ways that are dark or dim.
Du, earth tend bsc'c to heaven
Tue grand and gloriout stra'n
That startled the wondering shepherJs
On far Ju lea's plain.
Glory to God in the highest
King it again and again
On earth be peaoe, on earth ba peie,
tiooJ will, good will to nun.
Euent. RexforJ.
LILY'S CHRISTMAS.
v uri.Eit ponntsT nnxvES.
fOFIEIl than cov
erlet of eider down,
tlio first tnow of the
season hnd drifted
down over llie rocky
pnstutes and brown
wooden fences o.'
Cullikoon Fatm, and
Ibe old red lurm-
bnuse retired it.'' picturesque) chimney
lacks and sloping, cedar shingled roof
painst tho hillside, at if It wero especi
ally meant for an nrtist's delectation.
Above the cluster of blossoming fish
geraniums la tho window, one could just
see a ro:.ud, dimpled face, looking out
toward the sunset.
Old Mrs. Carton, driving by on her
way from the mill, caught a glimpse of
it, and called to Old Trumpet tu
"Whoa!"
"Poor thing:" Mid Mm Carson, "I
e'pose she's dreadfully lonesome, I
ues I'll just stop and change the time
' dny with her.''
Mrs. Harry Had Ion herself answered
the knock, ami though tlie put her
bravest face on it. Widow Canon could
sec that she hud been cry in.
"Folks gone, eh'' said Mrs. Carson.
"Yes," laid tho younj wife.
"S'posc you'd )ia' line to ha gone,
toot" taid Mra. Carson.
'Hurry said we couldn't afford it,"
answered Mrs. Harry, in a low voice.
'He was obliged to go to take care of
the old folks; but I should have been
nly a useless expense. Of course," she
added, with a sudden lpspringlnir of
the bitterness of her inmost soul, "I
know I am only a useless expense all the
time. The; told me so when the; went
way."
"Told you so!"
Mrs. Cirtou looked over the top of
bcr spectacles iu atuazemeut.
"Ob, not in so msny words!" said
Mrs. Harry, winkiug her eyes very hard
to get lid of certain moisture on the
lashes. "Tiiey are too couaiderato and
polite for that. But their actions speak
louder than words. I never am trusted
to do anything. No 'Lily is too in
experienced. ' 'Lily don't understand
these things.' 'Lily mustn't strain her
back, nor spoil her hands.' Nothing is
Intrusted to my coarse, and here I am
left all alone until Harry gets ' ick from
the Georgia Hot Springs, with nothing
to do but tu reflect on my own incapaci
ties." And Mrs. Harry got up and paced to
and fro, like a very pretty duodecimo
edition of a raging lion.
'Ain't Juliana Joyce comin' to run
toe shirt factory I" inquired Mm. Car.
or.
"I suppose so. There's another
trouble, I should like to have gone into
(ba ahirt factory like the other women
around bere, and earned a little pocket
anoney for myself. But Harry said It
eras too bard work for me. I knew
Harry1! mother wanted hiin to marry
fuliann. Juliana is so capable and effl
lent, she says, and then she looks at me
and sighs like a blast furnace. I don't
Cko Julian Joyce, but I suppose I shall
bare to put up with her company this
winter."
"Juliana ain't attractive," shrewdly
lemarked Mrs. Carton, "but she's
proper, smart and stlrrin. 'Tala't every
ne can manage a shirt factor; with a
forty-bone water-power and eight-and-twenty
bands. Expect ber to-night,
out jnut"
Tea." said Mrs. Hartv. ale-hlnn.
Mrs. Carton went her war, Mrs.
narry sat with her chin In her bands,
her blue eyes gazing wistfully out over
the snow. :orered landscape. Bhe was
very, very unhappy yet her marriage
with Harry Haddon bad been a penuloe
love-match. Her reverie was Interrupted
by the appearance of the poitmsster's
little son with a letter.
"From Harry," the cried, joyously.
A long, loving letter it was, yetaa un
satisfactory one.
'You will have to spenl your first msrrlnl
Christmas without me, my Lily," wrote the
young busbanl. "Mr father l si muc!i
worse that it teems qu'te Impracticable to
leave him, and my mother declares the will
not stay alone In this 'foreign country,' at
aha ealla it, without me. Tha doctir thinks
that a erupts of months in Utorgia will ba
ot inestimable benefit to both ot thsm. But
my heart aches when I thin'i of you alone
there. Y ju ha I better go tt y our sister,
Mrs. Conynham, until I rolurn. Life at
Calllkoon will ba by far too roiuh for you."
Mrs. Harry had hardly pursued thee
words when there cmuo a loud knocking
ot the door. It Tta Julians Joyce,
wrapped iu furs like on Esquimau.
"Is it you?" cried Mrs. Harry, swal
lowing down her gref until a more
convenient season. 'Come in. Your
trunks"
"I hain't got none," Interrupted Miss
Joyce. "I've come tj say I ain't comin'!"
"What!" exclaimed Mrs. Harry.
"Cau't," laid Miss Juliana. "My sis
ter's lost her wits, up to Smoky Town.
Santa Clatjs' Tree.
8!n a asnjof S.inti Clati'i '
A-riding up t'ae strait,
"With tiny aleili, an I silver bells
Ami rein leer anil and ft i t ;
Am', when hit pack is opi-ni I,
Thi children all will tin;,
Hurrah! hurrah for SanU Qaust
Our jo ly Winte.' Kmr.
She's violent. And my brother-in-law,
he's telegratted to say tuat unless I come
right awny be and the children's lives
won't bo safe. I could always manage
Mirandy in ono of bcr crazy turns, I'm
dreadful sorry, but it can't bo helped.
You'll hev to shut up tiie factory until
Henry gets back. It's a pity, tno, with
business jest lookin' u;i, und all them
New York orders comin' in. If llenry'd
the sense to marry a mote capable
woman"
"Isn't that tho clock striking five?"
raid Mrs, Hurry, quietly. "If you ex
pect to take the tetura train to Smoky
Town, you will have no time to spare."
MistfJoyce chuckludos her sleigh bells
jingled down the road.
"I give her a piece of my mind for
once in a way," thought she. "What
possessed Henry Haddon to marry a wax
dox like that, I don't kuo! I could
have managed to hire some one to take
care of Mirandy, I guess, but I'd just
like to sho Henry what a mistake he
made."
Mrs. Harry berself closed the door
after the loud voice and squeaking boots
of Juliana with a sensation of relief.
Bhe went back to the fire an I candle,
and with one trim little foot poised on
the fender, re-read ber husband's letter,
'Now la my opportunity," she said to
berself. "It is a great undertaking; but
sural I can do what Juliana Joyce could.
I'll stop embroidering those slippers for
Harry's Christmas and make him a pres
ent of something far better the con
sciousness that bis life-selection bas not
been a mistake!"
.
A week afterward, Juliana Joyce
shrilly bailed the tinware peddler who
traveled from town to town along that
remote locality, an J who hat just co.w
from Callikoon Center.
"Hay, Dick Peppercorn!" snM she.
"How do the shirt hands like the fac
tory shuttin' down till Harry Uaddou
getsbnekt"
"I ain't la no position to je Ign." an
swered the tinman, "seem' as it ain't
sbet-down."
"Not shet down!" almost tcresmcl
Juliana. "Why, who's a runnln' It? It
cau't bo Benhndad Jenkins, 'cause "
"It's Mra. Harry Haddou," said Tep.
perenrn.
"Git out. Tou're a-fonlin' me I"
"I'm a-speakin' gnspei truth and noth
In' els," protested Mr. Peppercorn.
"She keeps the books, and she cives out
tho materials, and sect to packin' the or
der boxes, and the checks bit the time,
an 1 sho jest set there at the dctk all
dny Ions, I'ke a cat n-watchin' a mouse
hole. An' ole Bill Bojne, the cutter, ho
allows she's a better manager and a
quicker hand at Hures than Harry him
self. And that's sarin' pretty consid'a-
b:."
"Well, I Jo declare for't!" slowly
uttered Juliana Joyce. "1 didn't think
It was in hcrl But she sho can't keep
it up long. She ain't uei that sort ol
thing."
"Don't know absut that," gruntcJ the
tinman, as he packed a bunch of dipper:
where the wbeeltiro should not spatter
tbem with mud. "She's got nu amag.
Bin j a son; of Santa Clautt
The jolly little fellow I
He hat a twinkle In bit eye,
Hit lanlt It soft and mellows.
And, when hit pack it optne ',
1 wonder what there'll be
That will bj jutt tha very tbinj
To hanj Uion our tree.
in' sight o' grit."
Old Peppercorn was right. Mrs.
Harry Hnddon has fouud bcr level at
last. Lute and early she was at her
post.
"It would be a sorry home-coming
for Harry," she tuoiijut, "to find tho
factory shut up sod, his bread-winner
gone. I don't prqtend to be a business
mail, but I believe that I have some com
mon sense, and I can surely accomplish
what any other woman was expected to
do."
Nevertheless a strange sensation of
loneliness came over her on Christmas
Eve, when she sat alone by the blazing
j logs on the hearth of the old farmhouse.
"Ain't we to have no Christmas, Mrs.
Harry!" Hannah, the hired pirl, bad
asked, with an aggrieved countenance,
and the young wile bad answered, cheer
fully "Of caurse, Hannah. But the turkey
must be the very smallest la the yard,
and one little mince-pie will do for you
and me. I'll just put up a few sprigs ot
ibe mistletoe that Johnny Barton brought
me from Calllkoon Swamp, and we won't
let the blessed day pass by without some
good cheer, lonely though we are."
Poor dear!" thought Hannah, wist
fully regarding ber young mistress' pale
face. "It's pretty bard on ber to be
alone this Christmas Day of all others!"
She was boiliug down kettle of cider
apple sauce in the kitchen, when a chime
ot tleigh-bells sounded as lar at the
front door and then stopped. .
"You go to the door, please, Mrs.
Harry," she nailed out. "I've got toy
apple-sass a-b'ilm' away like all creation,
and it'll bo sart'in sure to scorch it I
leavo it a second now. I guess llkelv it's
Kciihy .Martin pnme for tho pumpkins jot
promised him."
Slowly she withdrew the frosty bolt,
that clicked beneath her touch, and
turned the key in the big, foot-iquart
loot.
There, outlined against, the black-blue
heavens rode a beautiful youag moon,
instinct with orange light. All around
It lay the white winter world, an 1 on tha
atep the realiz itlon of all her hopes and
dreams stood a tall, muffled figure, with
shining eyes.
"A merry Christinas to you, Lily! My
Lily!"
"Huryl"
Did she faintf No, surety not; and
yet the first she knew she was lying on
the sofa in front of the tire, with Harry's
dear, tender fnca b.-ndio over her.
"I dieamed all this lat night," she
murmured "all all! And now it has
come true!"
Hurry Haddon bad taken advantage
of a tu Iden and unlooked-for improve
ment In his father's condition, and had
travelel nivcht and day to spend C.irist
mas with Lily.
"And I have ma le tip my mind to
bring you back to the Hot. S.irings with
me, darling," he said.
"But I cannot go!" said Lily, with
sparkling eyes. "I've a great deal too
much to do."
"Where is Juliana Joyce?"
"She is not here; she has never been
here."
Then Lily told her tale.
"And jou hive managed the factory,
Lily alone!" he cried, almost Incredul
ously. "Yes, alone; and tho foreman says,
Harry, tha; we have never bad a more
successful season. ''
"It doe not seem possible, Lily."
"But itia possible." she said, smiling.
"I am not such a brninleas toy as your
parents think, Harry not so useless an
appendage as "
She stopped short. She was Ion mag
nanimous to reproach him In this, her
hour of triumph, even by the merest
implication.
"You see," she addej, "I simply fell
back on practical good sense. Even
Juliana Joyce could huve dune no more
than that."
"There is not one woman in a thou
sand who would have had the courage to
do this thing!" exclaimed Harry.
"Lily, you me the greiteit treasure man
ever wont I'd give a hundred dullari
to see my father's face when he reads
the letter I shall write to-night to hear
my mother's communis !"
"Have I pleased you, Harry?"
"More than words can express,- dear
little wife!"
"Then," said Lily, "that is enough
for mo."
Miss Juliana Joyce was compelled to
forego the sweetnesiof her expected re
venge. The old people down at the Georgia
Hot Springs could scarcely believe tua
evidcuce ot their own senses.
But Lily was happiest ot alt.
"God Is kinder to us than we deserve,"
she said to Harry, at, side by side they
walked home from church that C.irist
mas morning. "To think that I am so
blessedly content this day, whose soli,
tudo and loneliness I feared with such
exceeding dread I If I were to live a
thousand yean, I am quite sure that I
never could have such another happy
Christmas Day!"
And Harry quite agreed with her.
(lirMm.M Turkeys.
Christmas turkeys have their necks
twirled in this.
"If I must die," plea Jed the turkey,
"let mo ba buriel decently. P.eate
don't eat with your knife I"
Few thiols look so cheeriest and
comfortless and unhappy as a turitoy in
holiday attire.
Among other holiday advice, a con
temporary tells "how to stuff a turkey."
The average citizen, however, Is a good
dual more concerned about ho to stuS
the family.
A butcher man hit patron mat
An 1 aaid: "How dli your turkey self"
Tua patron aaid, in aooenU gla li v
"ItaetUad beatot all I've bad."
Tae butcher said: "1 think 'twas ii
If you would settle now (or it."
Paula Clans Going tie Hounds.
TELEGRAJ1C BRIEFS
Happening Tbe World Over.
OLXAHINOS 07 INTEREST TEK8E
Ll TOLD, BOTH DOMEbTIO
AND FOREION,
WaeMnrea Kew.
The senate confirmed the following nomi
nations: V. It. Cheney of New Hampshire,
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo
tentiary to Switzerland; O. M. I.ambertaon,
ef Nebraska assistant secretary of the treat
nry; I. A. ltenton, maraliall ot the Territory
ofl'tah;r. J Flanne. rrreiver of public i
moneys at Natchitoches, l a.; Thomas Krai
er, register of the bind ofllce at farramento,
tel.; M. II. Hofeof Ohio, assistant commis
sioner of the general land olflce; judges of
probate iu tl'nli, Charles Koute. Juab coun
ty; W. W. Wallace. Sevier county; C. A
lli-rnian, Toole county.
Ilepresptitative Antony, of Te as. intro
duced a bill repealing the act of June 27,
1MW, granting pensions to soldiers and sail
ora and to widows, minor children and de
pendent pareutaof roldiera and sailors. The
bill also proYirtea that all pensions granted
unilerllie act shall be discontinued.
Bids were opened at tbe navy department
for the construction of the sea going thipa
Iowa and llronklyn. The Ciamps were tba
loaeM bidders on both ve-els, which will
C't about :i,'KKi,0Xi each.
The House otnmittee on Ways and
Means paed a resolution, appointing a
tub (i. nihil tie ol live, to conduct the in
vestigation Into the tinunciul condition of
the Treasury,
Indian Commissioner Morpnn has written
a litter to the interior di'panruer.t stating
that a great many of the Indian children
will not go to tlieuovernuient schools, and
suggesting that force be u-ed to compe;
their attendance.
Among the bills introduced in the House
was one by Sir. Helizlioover, of Pennsyl
vania, calling on tbe public printer for a de
tailed statement ol the work of bit depart
ment, the iihiui of all bands employed in
tbe printing otbee, the salary they receive
and from what Stnte appointed.
Crime nml rnalile,
A double murder occurred at Yellow
fprh.ga, O. fioerge Koogler, white, and
l.ou Kris, colored, weie the victims. They
were found with their be;a crushed at the
borne of the woman, who wns a bud char
actor. Koogler was a wcli-to do fainier with
grow n children. Tbe motive of the oiinti
la yet unknow n, though supposed to bl
from jealousy.
In ibe I'nited States District Court at
Philadelphia t lie cases of four mail wrgou
drivers convicted of Mealing packagre Ibey
weie conveying from the o-lcflke to mail
traina have been disposed of lis follows:
thnrles Shrek, tW tine and two years and
lix months; John Hooper fllXI fine and two
years; liiclinrd Hi.von -'-S) fine and two
year, and James lliri-t. who turned State's
evidence, flu.) tine a;;-! nine mouths.
Arson and forgery trials at Wayne-born,
Ca., ended in a bloody light in open court.
Cbarlea N. Mc.Morrill. W. I.. McMorrill mid
'.V. I'. Jones were shot dead.
At Sou'li Creek. X. ('., Cohort Hogers, a
anile man, killed William llainiuond, col
ored, unci Tom Moore, colored, killed Kigert
directly afterwards.
Two maxked otitluws robbed the railroad
depot at Whitewater, Kiiu.,of IKS) and some
express puckngia. The agent was held up
. - -Sarltnl-
l.ahnr mill lnrintrlnl.
A 10 er cent reduction baa been ordered
by the I'hoonix Iron Company, I'boenx
ville, I'a., in all the mills ami departments
of Ibe plant xcept the puddlin i mill where
wages have been reduced from t'S 2"i to HI
per ton. Common laborers w'll hereafter
receive !" cents instead of ft 02 per day.
The reason given is depression in buines.
In acvordunce with the order issued by
the Kxecutive Committee cf the I'nitoU
tirren (lla-s lilowera' Association, tbe glass J
oiowera in uie cciiuoeruinci vvoraa, I.rign
ton, N. J., went on strike. The strike in a
tight agalut tbe non-union glusa munufao
turera of South Jersey.
At a meeting of the national association
of marble cutters and tetters, St. Louis, Mo.,
a committee was ordered to draw up a set of
resolutions asking congress to increase the
tariff on polished marble.
Kleail' UI an C'eininerelat.
The Nalionol l'lia Insurance Company,
es ablislyd 111 lH.'IH, one of the oldest insur
anoe corporations in New York, bas decided
to .i piidale its affairs. Ita outstanding rixkt
were reinsured in tie Commercial I'nion
Aaaiirsuce Company of Lomloii. The Na
tional bad agents in the principal lilies
throughout ilia Toiled States, except l'hilu
Uelphia and Hon t hern polnls.
The Newton National bank, Newion. Kan
sas, closed its doors potting upon them a
notice, "Hank closed in tho bands of lbs
g ivernniei.t." Tbe funds gave out and the
officers voluntarily closed the bank. The
tank was closed November -I, 18!K), In its
failure Involving banks at Guthrie, While
Water and other places, In July, 1801, it
waa reopened under an agreement with tbs
Old depositors.
I.eeUlallve.
A bill was introduced in the South Caro
lina houso ot representatives making it
a miaJemeanor for any rson to prevent
an employe from joining a labor organiza
tion or political club, or to threaten an em
ploye with discharge for connection t here
with. It Is understood that this is the out
growth of tbe recent Stute campaign, lbs
administration alleging that corporations
diacburgvd lueu because they were Tillman
Ites. Illaelere. AeeUrnn aad r'aillilea
Mra. Jennie Kuchims and bar two
daughters, at St. I'aul, weie burned to death
In their boarding house.
Kutherlne Donahue waa killed and Delia
Barry seriously injured at Huston, Mass., by
being run over by a freight truin.
Turf Newa
At the sale of trotters at Chicago good
prices were secured. M. J. Flsltchmsn, ol
New York, put np the biggest snoney, pay
rg t.1,426 for Matt e H.
I Ires
Alexander Ilrown's oolton warehouse was
burned at Baltimore, ld. l oss, ITflO.tiOO, In
sured. Spontaneous combustion is tbe sup
posed cause of the lire.
-BEYOND
PUB BOBDER8.
The bill providing tor the repression nl
Immorality In lleriin, one of ibe pet meas
ures of tbe Km per of, Is mw before tin
Reichstag, and His MnjeMy is hopeful thai
It will become a law.
Mr. Teteta of London, England, secretarj
of tbe North Atlantic Sloan. ship asociatioi
Ststes that the decision not to carry steerage
pssaengers on the vessels belonging to the
association afler January, 18!W, applies to
American citizens and residents of tbe Tut
ted Stales, at well as to persons who have
never been In America.
four new cases of cholera have been re
reported in Hamburg since tbe 12th Inst.
Another mill for grinding Indian corn
from America has.been started In Hamburg,
tbe third of its kind in Europe.
The Reicbstag at Berlin, adopted a motion
declaring that Hec tor A bl ward t, sentenced
to live mnnths'impii-onmcnt for libel, com
mitterl in bis notorious pamphlet entitled
"Jewish tlun," was entitled to immunity
from arret.
SE NATO It OIBSON DEAD.
He Faraea Away at Hot Springs After a
Distinguished Career aaa Civilian,
boldierand Politician,
f'aiidnll l.ee Gibson, I'tiiled States Sena
tor from Louisiana, died nt Hot Springs,
Ark, He bad been ill fur some months, hav
ing broken down from the e fleet" of a long
and inollcctiiul contest for re-election.
srxAToa r.v.sn.M 1. i.ri: fitiisos.
General Gibson was a citisen of New
Orleans. He wa horn September 10. lKiit
Spring Hi I, Ky. lie received bis edninlion
In Lexington. Ky.. in lerrc limine I'nrwn,
1. 11., at Ylr I ol It-re. mid in the law depart
ment ol the Tulime liniver-ity of .ouisiann.
lie wn-aide to ihe. Governor of Loiiisiami
hi ihe coitniieni'i-nioiit of Ihe Civil War ami
t-iiMimamled 11 company, regiment, brigade
mid division in the Confederate nruiy. At
Ihe time of bis death lie win one of tlie ad-ruiiii-ir
dors of the Howard Memorial Li
brary. New Orlenii-: I'p.sidc-nt of the Hoard
of Administrator of'ihe Tulime I'liiveeMiiy;
a tru-tee of the I'oiibodv Kd'l'ittioll l-'uiul
and a regpnr of the Smillioiiau Jiisiitutiou.
Senator Gil. mm wui txiih n planter anil a
lawyer. lie was elected to the l-oriy-thinl
Congress fr.iiii the Second Louisiana d-s-tric
. hut was denied admission. He served
in the Iniir Kuccec'diiig Congresses na a llep
reoniativ. und 111 1S was sent by Ibe
Louisiana loiiioci'ii s to the United States
Senate, having mi opposition. Mi second
leriu wnu'd liMve expired in IS0.". and it was)
in seeking a re election by tli pre-cnt Leg
islature that bo lost hi Mrcnglu.
HOME TRADE IS HEALTHY.
The Foreign and Domeatio Business of
the Country Larger This Year
Than Ever Before.
M. O. Pun & Co.'s "Wee'tly Review of
Vrade" says:
The shipment of more than t.'I.Onl.OOo
rold to Europe early this week baa canned
tome natural apprehension in speculative
ir.arke s. It la true Hint the gold is de
manded by Austria uu ler such, circum
stance that on exceptional premium i
paid for it, but neither Austria nor any
oilier country could draw gold from the
l'nited States at present, unless there were
ieuvy sales of American securities by for
eigners. The exports of bread-tnfls, cotton, pro
visions, cattle and petroleum in November
amounted to 72.ti(i!l..l!i'J, indicating aggre
gate exports of about !)."i,fKi,ooo per month,
and an excess of merchandise exports over
Imports not less than S'.'u.OnO.Ooci. At tha
same time silver has been going abroad in
large amounts. It is clear that unless: se
curities had been moved this way un un
usual amount gold could not ha taken
abroad in ibe settlement of international
eichanires.
Hut tlie conditions of domestic trade ore
decided I v healthy, and tbe approaching
ciose of tlie year'will line) a larger volume
of business, both foreign and domestic,
than has ever betn known before.
It ia noted that tba freight movement,
both eastward and wesi ward, is nnnsual'y
heavy, und there are again signs ot a car
famine in the West.
The movement of gold does not, for tba
present, cause especial stringency in Ihe
money market here, because cutrency in
coming this way from tbe interior. Never
Ihelesj it it felt that any considerable outgo
at this season must affect prices of products,
and w hear, ia nearly a cent lower than a
week ago, with but moderate sales, though
corn ia about a cent higher and outs aub
stantially unchanged. In the cotton market
extruordiuarv speculation continues, w til
sales of more than l.UOO.noo bales for the
week and a slight advanct iu prices.
The busineas failure during tbe seven
days number for tbe 1'nilcd Stales 271), for
Canada 23, total .'104, as compared itii 2l7
last week; -tilt the week previous to tlie last,
nd 333 for tbe corresponding week ol last
year.
DIBAbTEBS IN JAPAN.
-1 Big Fire in Tokio, Many Miners KllleA
and Smallpox Basing.
The steamer l'eru arrived at San Fran
cisco, bringing news that the fire in Tokio,
November 11, destroyed nearly 700 houses.
Seventeen firemen were injured while light.
rig tbe conflagration.
On November 7 a portion of a lime-stone
mine in Nugayamura, Japan, collapsed,
killing 33 miners.
Smallpox is ranging furiously in Sapporo,
Japan.
Three escaped Japanese convicts recently
found shelter in tbe huuse ol a family.
They were kindly treated and supplied with
food for three days. On the fourth day.
during the absence of tbe son and duiigbtet
they murdered tha father, pillaged the
bouse and lied. Tba son on returning over
took Ibe men, shot and killed two and cage
.urtd lite tbiid.
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