JAMES G BLAINE
BIS DEATH AT WASHINGTON
AND SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Br glnnlngof Hi Political Career. Speak
er, Senator, Secretary cf State, Tresi
dentin Candidate and Bittcnnn. Hi
Bereavements and Ill-Fntcd Hour in
Washington The Blaine Household.
Mr. Hlntne .lied at his home in Wah
ington, P.C., Friday morning, at 11 o'clock.
Tb end ramc peacefully.
He was surrounded by lis family at the
last moment.
Death came painlessly and quietly. It
approach waa made evident to t tie family
Inlly two hours before ita occurrei.ee,
ANr0. THAI.Nr yeoM 1 AIT FUOTCK.PAril,
TAKKX IN '.2.
Between 8 and 0 o'clock Friday morning
the first dnncerotis symptoms were observed.
Mrs. Trice, the trained nurse, had cone for
her breakfast, leaving the patient temporar
ily alone. Maine had passed a resiles night
and had been pronounced "not well" by his
physicians, but beyond a perceptible in
crease of the languor which had marked
his condition during the previous few day
there was no very alarming change to be
Doted. When the nurse returned from her
breakfast, however, her experienced 'eye at
fince saw that the end was drawing near.
Both physicians were immediately tele
fraphed for, and arrived in a few minutes.
The powerful heart stimulant, nltro-glycer-Ine,
which had several times before
brought the patient back out of the valley
of death, was powerless now.
In the meantime all the family had been
summoned Into the death chamber Mrs.
Blaine, the devoted wife; Miss Haltie
Blaine, his unmarried daughter; Vrs. Dam
rrnh, his married daughter, James (J.
I.laine, Jr., his only surviving son, and
Miss Dodge (Hail Hamilton), his cousin.
In silent, tearful sorrow they witnessed
the closing scenes. The patient lay so
quietly that even the doctors were hardly
able to say when he died. No word of con
iciousness. no look of recognition passed.
At 10:45 he lay so still tbat the window
hades were raised to give more light, to
enable the physicians to determine if life
till lingered. Fifteen minute Ur they
proclaimed him dead.
The news was instantly flashed a;l over
the world.
Young Mr. Blaine was in the act of writ,
iug a note to President Harrison to inform
bim of the event, when the President him
self arrived, accompanied by his private tee
retary and Secretary of Plate Foster. All
the rest of the Cabinet quickly followed ami
the excitement throughout the city became
general as the news spread. Both houses of
Congress adjourned and the former associ
ates of the ex-Senator and ex-peaker of
both political parties united in eloquent
tributes to hia memory.
The physicians have officially made pub
ic the canse of death as Bright' disease,
aggravated by tubercular disease of the
lungs and followed by he art failure.
HIS WONDERFUL MEMORY.
Btorles Illustrating Mr.Blaine's Remark
able Faculty for Remembering Names,
Face and Events.After Many Yeara.
Washinotiin, Jan. I!?. Senator Saw
yer, of Wisconsin, tells the following a
to Mr. Blaine'a wonderful memory for
names and facea:
"In 1874 Mr. Blaine made a speech In
Wisconsin and was my guest. J gave a
dinner In bla honor, to which I invited
Mr. Myer, of Fond du Lac. In 181,
more tnan 16 years afterwards, Mr. Myer
came to Washington and I took him to
call on Mr. Blaine. Before we got there
we met Mr. Blaine and, when within
bout 40 feet of him, he walked quickly
forward and without any hesitation said;
'Mr. C. L. J. Mver, hew do you dbi' "
A gentleman of the party with Senator
Buwyer, said:
"I was with Mr Tthiln l.
uuMitr, u., auring a cumpaign
Mr.
maine naa lived there, and he g
srreat reoention H rmn,i..i fr
got a
1 the
eld residents. Finally some one brought
- wu wuum uiey aula ne would uot
remember. Mr. Blaine replied: "Yes. I
do. Give me a little time.'' Pretty soon
be remarked to the man : 'I never aaw
So but once,' and then be told
is story: When a boy there was great
excitement one day because a convict had
escaped from the Columbus penitentiary
end bad been tracked into thai neighbor
food. Police arrested him and Mr.
Blaine said he waa one of the crowd
round. The man was taken to a black-
Emith ahop and had fettera riveted on him
y the blacksmith. 'You,' turning to the
nan, 'and I walked home to Lancaster
together after tbat.' "
Three Men Killed in Collision.
Two freight train collided on the Santa
Fe road near Millsdale, nine mile south ef
Joliet, ill., and Engineer A. II. Kaun and
Richard Mitchell and Brakeman M. J. Ma
honey were killed. The other trainmen
scaped without injury. Bo b train were
badly wreoked and the pecuniary lees will
be heavy.
Out of population of about 80.000,000
in Prussia, only about one-tenth of them
possess, it 1 said, an income of 000 mark
year, whlcfl I equal to about 1226.
THE PRESIDENT DEEPLY MOVED
He Orders an Adjournment of the Cabl
net Meeting and Issues a Froclamatiot
for Official Mourning.
WAsni!oTc.K,.inn. m. The cabinet was
In session when the news of Mr. Blaine's
death wa announced to them. President
Harrison was deeply moved and said he
felt unable, nndcr the circumstances, to
enter upon the consideration of any
pnblic business with the members of the
Cabinet, most of whom had been associ
ated with Mr. Blntnr In the official
family relations, and therefore the meet
a 1 lne 1 an,n" was adjourned.
The President later Issued the follow
Ing proclamation:
It Is my painful duty to announce to the
People ot the United Plates th death ot
James Gillespie Blaine, which occurred In
this city to-day at II oYlm k
For a tull feneration thin eminent citizen
has occupied a conspicuous and Influential
position In the Nation tils first puhllc eer
vice was In the Legislature ot Ms state
Afterward for 14 years he was s member
ol the N.itlc ,al House ef Hrpicsentativt
and was thru times chosen Speaker In
1M7D he was elected to the Senate Here
signed his seat lu that hotly In 1KH1 to ac
eept the position of Secretary of State In
the Cabinet ot President Oarfleld After
the tragic death ot his chief he resigned
and, devoting himself to literary work gave
to the public In his "Twcnly Years In Ton-
fjress" a most valuable and enduring con
rlbutlon to our polltlcnl literature In
March. 1H80. he avaln twam Hnrr.i,t
State and continued to exercise this office
uuiu .rune, insv
nop, diplomacy and literature, uls
has added new lustre to American
renins
cltt7.cn-
mil.
As a suitable expression of the National
appreciation of his great public services and
ft the general sorrow caused by his death
1 direct tbat on the day of his funeral, nil
the Sepsrtraents of the cxei utlve hianch ot
the Government at -Washington he closed
and that on all public, buildings throughout
tfcs United States, the National hag, shall
be dismayed at balfsutf, and that for a
period of an days, the department of State
be draped In meurnlng.
The Mourning t nlversal.
WisniNOTOR, Jan. ST. Tbe Leglsln
ture of the various States that are at
present in session all adjourned to-day
pen learning of Mr. Blaine'a death.
From all over the country come expres
sions of sorrow. Telegrams of condo
lence are reaching the Blaine family by
the thousands.
FKETl'H OF MR. BLAINE'S LIFE.
Jnmes Gillespie Blaine was born on the
Slst of January, 1830, at West Brownsville,
Penn,. in a house built by his great-grandfather
before the War of the Revolution,
which still stands. The Gillespie and Blalnes
were people of standing before the Revolu
tion. Colonel Blaine, who was commissary
general ot the Northern Department of
Washington's army during the Revolution,
was Jnmes O. Blaine's great-grandfather.
Whn eleven years old, he went to live with
uncle, Thomas Ewinz, in Ohio, where his
mother's father, Meal Gillespie, an accom
plished scholar, directed his studies. Later
he attended Washington College, at Wash
ington, I'enn., graduating at the age of sev
enteen. After leaving college be tan rht school at
Clue Lick Springs, Ky. It was as a profes
sor in the military school there that he made
the acquaintanca of the lady a school
teacher from Maine who afterward bevime
bis wife. Later be went to Philadelphia,
where he taught school and studiellnw.
hut after two years he abandoned law stud
ies, went to Maine, and became proprietor
ami editor of the Kennebec Journal.
At the birth of the Republican Party he
was a delegate to the Philadelphia Conven
tion in ls.'itt, which nominated Fremont.
After serving as Speuker of the M'tine leg
islature, he was sent to Congress and begau
his National ciireer in IWiJ, with the out
break of the war. During the Forty-first
Forty-s eond and Frrtv-thir 1 Congresses be
was eipeaker of the House.
Mr, Blaine's administration of the Speak
ership is commonlv regarded as one of the
most brilliant and successful in tin annals ot
the House. He had rare aptitude and equip
ment for the duties of presiding officer, and
his complete mastery of Parliamentary law,
bis dexterity and physical endurance, his
rapid nispstch of business, and his Arm an 1
impartial spirit were recognised on all sides.
It was during his occupancy of the Speak
er's chair in ISM tnat he took the floor an t
succeeded in defeatiuj; the passage of tne
original "Fores bill."
The political revulsion of 1874 placed the
fleinocrats in control of the House, and Mr.
B.aine became the leader of the minority.
The session preceding the Presidential con
test of IS7ti wa a pdi-iol of stormy and Vt
uement contention. Oil the 2 1 of May a
resolution was adopted in the House to in
vestigate an alleged purchase by the Union
Pacific Railroad Company of certain bonds
ot the Little Kockand Fort Hmith Kiilrond
Company. It soon became evident tbat the
investigation was aimed at Mr. Blaine. An
extemie I t,uineH4 correspondence on bis
part with Warren Fisner, ot Boston, run
ning through years and relating to various
Iranwiiour, had tnllen into the hands o. a
clerk named Mulligan, an t it was allege I
that t lit production ol this correspondence
would confirm the imputation against Mr.
Blaine. When Mulligan was summon! to
MR. ULSINI'I B1RTRPLACB
Washington Mr. Blaine possessed himself of
the letter, together with memorandum
tbat contained a full index and abstraot. On
Many Mexican Miner Killed.
Fire broke out in tbe Conception mine, at
Atorci. State of Ban Lull Potoai, Mexico.
Thirteen poraons bay already been recover-
eo, inenrenui rages, ana at latest advice
other workings had collasped and further
subsidence waa momentarially expectrC.
Th lose financially will reach l,000,u00.
A 6-riAB-oi.D Arkansaa negro boy i e.
citing people by reading correctly book In
all language. He oan turn to any dealgnat-
n.Te0' ,!Lil,bi1'
at M reedily a ear practiced dlvin.
nianevnuon to ttie public I passim through there roid rin
interests, nta mirkeri nhint ht. i- .
sited Yintri.,1 r. " ' . - . mi ...i . limine arm ami pleasantly
h " ih.Pi,rJ .H.,,. .,""n... u:r. "' him about hi. coning holl
his countrymen and the admiration of the i it" T ,l.en!'v1'', 'J'" """"
wor d. In the varleil m,,.,,it. i i.-i., . I I he death of Mr. tlarfle hi el tn
5tTfl . NyM ,
the flth of June, ISTd, he rose to personal
explanation, and after denying the power
of the House to compel the prolurtion
of his private papers, and his willingness to
go to any extremity In defense of his rights,
he declared that he propose J to reserve noth-"V-
Holding up the letters he exclaitne.l.
.. 'Tha"J; Gol. I ant not ashsmsd to show
them. There is the very orlennl package.
And with some sense of humiliations with a
mortification I do not attempt to conceal,
with a sense of outrage which I think any
mnn in my position would feel, I invite the
confidence of 40,fll)0,(l of mv countrymen
while 1 read these letters from mv desk "
i ne demonstration closed with dramatic
scene. Josinh Caldwell, one of the origina
tors of the Little Hock and Fort Smith Rail
road, who had full knowledge of the whole
transaction, was traveling In F.nrope and
both side were seeking to rommunlc.tte
with him. After finishing the reading of
the letters Mr. Blaine turned to the Chair
man of the Commltt-e and demanded to
know whether he had received anv dispatch
from Mr Caldwell. Receiving an evas.ve
answer Mr. Blalnn assertsd, as within hia
own knowledge, that the Chairman had re
ceived such a dispatch "eompletoly and ab
solutely exonerating mi from this charge
and you have suppressed It"
In 187.1 Mr. Blaine wss appoints I to the
Senate to fill the vacancy causo l by the re.
signatlon of Senator Morrill, and the next
winter was elected bv the Legislature to the
succeeding term. His career in the Senate
was both brilliant and distinguis ic I, as it
bad been In the House. He was cillo.l from
the Sennte to enter President (larft ild's
t'nbinetas Secretary of State. It was while
pot leaning
matting
lay that
ratal bullet.
Mr. Blaine's
retirement fro n the Cabinet, in Decambsr,
j-i. rrom innt nate until lie entered Mr,
Harrison's Cabinet as Secretary of 8tut,
be was in private life excopt 'during his
campaign for the Presidency in 1HS4.
During his retirement Mr. Blaine wrote
his "Twenty Years in Congress," a work of
great historical value. It was in accordance
with hia original sungestion and due to his
earnest efforts that provision was made in
the McKlnley bill for the reciprocity trea
ties which formed such prominent features
of National policy. The Hamoan diltlrul-
ties, the complications arising out of the
lynching of Italians at New Orleans.and the
killing of American seamen at Valparaiso
were nlso disposed of while Mr. Blaine was
at the head of the State Department. The
events preceding and atton ling the recent
Minneapolis Convention are too recent nl
most to need recounting. Mr. Blaine was
induced to permit his name to be used as a
cindidnte, nnd reuu'nj 1 his placs in the
Cabinet. Whether in publio position cr in
private life, he alwars remained central
figure in National alTiirs.
BLAISE'S LIKK 1ST WASHI.XGTOt.
For nearly thirty yosrs Mr. Blaine has
been a resident of Washington. While he
never gave up his home an I borne life in
Maine, where he had a town residence in
Augusta and s summer residence at Bar
mm
MRS. 1AMK 05. T.M!fg.
Harbor, yet be alsr had a home In Washing
ton. It wa only a few years after roiur
there as a Member of Cinurress that he
bought the residenc?, 8!1 Fifteenth street-,
where he lived so many years. This
was alout the year ISfW. when he was
electeJ Hnaaker of the House for the first
time. The house hebou'ht was one of
row which had Just bwn unlit and was re
garded at that time as on ot the chief
architectural features ot the city.
He made bis home at ail Fifteenth street
for over ten years and then having built
the fine residence fronting on Dupont Circle,
he told the old houe and took nossssiion of
the new one. The death of Garfield an I Mr.
Blaine's retirement from public life caused a
change in his plans and be leas ?d his Dupont
Circle house to Mr. L-lter. He was
absent from ths city tor several years, al
though hespsnta portion of one or two
winters there aud occupied the house on La
fayette tquire adjoiuiug General Beate's
residence, which isowuelby the daughter
of ths lata Representative Hcott,of Pennsyl
vania, Mrs. Scott Townsend.
About the beginning ot his administration
he purchased bis late nome, whici is on ta
opposite side ot Lsfayette tquare, and is
BEAR WARl.tUTJW, MX.
known as the Seward House. Tne old plaoe
had been unoccupied for some years and
was In a dilapidated condition It was
The wealthleat cluss in the United Btate
is considered to be vastly richer than the
wealthiest class In lireat Britain. The aver
age annual income of the ricbe-t 100 Eng-
listi men is about auu.uuu, nut the average
annual income of the richeit 100 American
cannot be lew than 200,000-
Trlpists.-Qrover, Fraooes and Ruth.
Martha Janvier, wife of a well-to-do farm
r living near Athol, Md., gave birth tQ
triplet boy and two girl. Th happy
father, In the eostacy of bis Joy and patriot-
ta.bM.u..dtU.mOroy.r, Fncet u.d
,.
WW
considers! notoriously unlucky, two
tragedies having occurred within Its portals
Durinr Buchanan's administration It was
occupied as a clubhouse. One day Philip
Barton Key, the vcrnai and handsnms Dis
trict Attorney of the District of Columbia,
bad just left the clubhouse when ho waa
shot down by Congressman Sickles, of New
York. Mr. Key waa carried back to the
clubhouse. An Intrigue which Key had
been carrying on with Sickles' wife was
the cause of the encounter.
fjaaSpHvW'il ifiippw!
1 ; lis sflff w A m 3 mlwmm
vn. nrAtNK'g BumnRsjcg
Two years after this occurrence the hnm.
which was for a time unoomnie I, was taken
ny tne men necretary ot Ktt, William H.
Seward, and he moved intu it with his fam
ily. On the night ot April 14, lW., while Mr.
Seward lay sick in bed in one of the upper
rooms, a big, oak cotnplexionod, broad
shouhterei mnn rang the door bell and
told the servant who admitted bim that
he bad a package of mediolne which the Sec
retary's physician ha I ordered to h deliv
ered to him personally. The srvaut re
lused to allow him to go upstairs nnl tin
Secretary's son, Frederick if. Seward, also
opposed him; but the stranger, unking a
feint of departure, suddenly sprang at.
Frederick and felled him to the Moor with
the butt of a revolver, almost on the same
instant slashing the servant with a knife.
He then darted forwarl aud reached the
sick chamber where Secretary St ward was
sitting up in bed. The knife gleamed again
and Mr. HewarJ, weak and helpless, was
stabbed in the face anil neck, but tht band
ages that swathed his neck save I him
from a mortal wound. As the murderous
intruder retreated he was again intercepted,
this time by Major Augustus H. Seward
and an attendant, but ha shook them olf,
and running down stairs, leaped on his
horse and rode oft. He was c iptured a
few riavs later, and being lully ideutitled
as Iwis Payne, one of the men
implicate I in President Lincoln's
death, was tried, condemnel anil ex
ecuted with his fellow-conspirators. Bo
great was the alarm excited by the attempt
on Mr. Seward's life that from 180? to lHiil)
a soldier waa kept constantly on guird In
front ot the old mansion. The Secretary re
covered, but his only daughter, who bat
witne'sed Payne's assault, was so territdy
shaken by tbe affair that she dial not long
afterward.
Secretary of War Belknap was tbe next
tenant ot toe house of misfortune, nn l for a
time the sober old edifice became gay with
the life of the Urant regime. Before a twelve
month ita evil genius bad again asserted It
self and Mrs. Belknap lay dead under its
roof after a brief illness. Then, after the
Melknane vacated, it again did duty, as in
the earlier days, aa a boarding-house, but
Washington ha I somehow got ths impres
sion that the place was uuoanny and that Its
tenants were dogged by an evil fate. For
a time the Commissary Ueneral's staff
held possession, then when they had
moved to tbe War Department's new build
ing it was again tenautlesi. It was about
this time tbat Mr. Blaiue, shortly after bis
, . --tflj.t.
Blaine's avoxsta RKSinsxce.
appointment a Secretary of State by Presi
dent Harrison, astonished his friends by
renting tne ui-o nenl House ror ten year
at -UHK) a yoar. Hs decorated anc" reno
vated it throughout, tearing down the walls
ol the room in wb cu tbe atte npt ou Mr.
Seward's lite took place, and by generous
expenditure transformed tbe dingy old
wide-roomed bouse into a magnificent mod
ern residence. Yet ail the chaiuns failed to
eradicate tbe characteristic attributed to the
mansion by the superstitious Washington
ianr. Becoming ita tenant, Mr, Blaine bus
encountered the greatest reverses to iiis am
bitions, and experience! tbe keenest sorrows
of bis ill.
It ', blmik's rnorEiuv.
Although known as a tnan of compara
tively large wealth, Mr. Blaine's life during
bis term as Seui-etarf of Stat i was fur
from bein; ostentatious. His home
on Lafayette square was well suited
tor entertainment, nut, owing to the fact
that what is called the "adminis
tration circle" has been almost constantly in
mourning during tbe past fcur years, it bis
been used but little for that purpose, Mr.
Blaine's fortune had its origin in tracts
of land in Western Pennsylvania,
w.iich were left by nis father, Epbraim
L. Blaine who had bimialt In
inherited them from the elder
James Uillesnie Blaine. The mint valuable
of these properties was a tract of coal land
near tbe Monongahela River. Mr. Blaine
made most of his money out of thess lands
and out of investments in West Virginia.
Mr. Blaius's last visit to tbe Capitol on a
public oocasion was when he attended, with
other members of tbe Cabinet, the Congres
sional funeral of Samuel J. Kan lull. Mr.
Blaine bail always a great respect and admir
ation for Mr. Randall, who had led the minor
ity in the House when Mr. Blaiue was tb
Speaker. His last appearanos before a com
mittee was wueu he protested to the Senate
Finance Committee against the passage of
the McKinley Tariff bill in the form in which
it had come from the House and brought.
Peculiar Coasting Aocideot
At Boston, Mass., Wlllium Teuney, a boy
of 11 year, ran again st a horse while coast
ing. Th animal fell on the lad and crush
ed him todeath. The body was horribly
mangled.
There i a wonderful grapevine at
Galllao, town In Southern France. Al
though the plant i only ten year, from tht
cutting It baa yielded a many s 1,287
bunches of fine fruit In a slnls year.
The man who hits Christ ha ever
thing God'i law requires of bim.
forward his policy of reciprocity with ths
other republics of this continent. Mr.
Blaine's last visit to the Whit House was
when he attended the funeral services ol
Mrs, Harrison.
tin. nr.stsjK'g Roi-sxrtot.n.
Of Mr. Blaine's six children, three-two
sons and a daughter were suddenly stricken
down by death aftfr reaching maturity. His
eldest son, Walker, a yo-inz man of
fine parts, who ha I glvnn evidence
is WAaiiisinT.it, n. t
of rare abilities nnl wis nnptra.-itlr
destine! to a brilliant future, died twoyeirs
ngo, Knimons, bis s.-cml son, a bright
business man, in manner au 1 oharaeler
closely resembling his 'ulnar, als die I su I
deuly in the heyday o." youth an I prosperity.
A third and crushing bereavement, was
the death of th eldest daughter, Alice,
who wis lunrnel to Lieutenant Colonel
John J. Copplnner. It followed closely
on the death of her brother, Walker
Blaine, whose funeral sue was at
tending when seir.il br ths fatil ill
nss. Of the three surviving children,
the son, James (i., llviile nil unfortunate
marriage, the results of whioh em
bittered the Uttsr y.sars of his father's
life. Due of tin daughters. Miss Margaret,
is married to M-. Walter Damroscli, the fa
mous New York mus.cal director, and tbe
other. Miss Harriet, is un nnrriel. Mrs.
mm
'fi..,
Bt.ISIR COTTAGE" AT BAIt RARRnR.
Blaine Is still an active and brilliant
Ittdy. She has baen a devoted wife to the
great statesman, who ii she married forty
one years ago when both were school
teachers in a country district with but little
to indicate the prominent place they were
destine I to fill lu the bijhest circles of tue
Nation.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Piui.AnKLPHlA'8 City Hall has cost about
f20,000,tKW.
I Russia has a treatury deficit of nearly
14, CO 1,0(10.
A British Feleratiou of farina-' clubs Is
to be forineJ.
The emigrants who left German ports for
the United Statei in 1B.IJ numbered Iflb.MO.
A MoRMOif colony Is settling In Mexico by
Instalments. About three tbousin I are to
emigrate to Chlbuabua soon.
There is Horse Accident Prevention As.
ociation in London, tbe object of waicb is
to keep slippery streets grareie l or eauded.
Nxvf OHLEiifa lemon Importars assert
that the fu nes ot sulphur usud in fumigat
ing ships ill quarantine there destroy the
fruit.
Alt" Indianapolis fireman lost bis mind and
killed himself through remorse over a man's
dea.li who "subbed'1 fur him at a fire tw
years ago.
Denmark exported considerably more
than IUJ,U.iO,0ih) pounds of butter last year.
Tbe trade has more ibau doubled iu the put
five years.
Illuminated walking sticks ore among
the latest applicttions o. electricity. A
small incandescent lamp is onoalo I in the
head of a cane and iau bj ignited by
spring.
Tiikre are now Vi.ODO ofTl-ors In the
French infantry. The military schools
graduate about, six hundred and fifty Pin
cers annually an I about the same number
are lost by death, disnussiou or retirement.
The Grand Duke of Baden has presented
the order of "Z u-hrmgen" to Dr. W. J.
Hoffman, of the Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, in recognition ot his distin
guished contributions to ethnological
science.
Some one has computa I that the college
endowment of Massachusetts foot up to
tlC.O.VJ.WX). The buildings and grounds are
worth .",IMJ,000, while tbe scientific appos
ratus ot all the higher institutions is worts
1,(JJ0,00C
TgM more buffaloes consigned to Austin
Corbin's game preserve, on Croydon Moun
tain, have arrived at their destination. 'I bis
increases tue herd to thirty-tnree, making
it, with one exception, the lurgest private
herd in the United St itas.
William Black, the novelist, doss bis
literary work in a room at the top of his
bouse, above the noise of tbe street, and
away from all unneoassary interruptions.
nr. niacas room, apart trom a row of book
shelves aud a desk, is almost bare of com
forts. Richmond, Va is to have an art
museum. The munillcent gift is from the
Valentine fainily.ot wbo.n'El. V Valentine,
the sculptor, is one, and is valued at about
$U'.(HX). It constats ot the Valentine
mansion, ft library, collection of pictures.
curios, manuscripts, tapestries, statuary
ana nrcnatoioeicai specimens.
The American tlet There.
Tbe city of London covers 087
an n are mils nf land, and vet. thorA
are American tourists who can see It '
nil In wn Hen- n r. S Vov- r. 1MA I
to take the evening mall train for
Paris. m
not good subjects: First boy (In
rt gallery) All these historical
pictures Is about foreign countries.
Why don't the artists paint pictures
of American history? (second boy
I guess It's 'cause Americans always
kep' thur clothes on. Good Newt.
sJT
EULOGIES IN CONORE8S.
fitting Words Spoken in the Senate and
Bouse, After Which Both Bodies Ad
journ for tbe Day.
Wasbiwotob, Jan. 7. The Kenate met
this morning In tbe gloom which the In
telligence of Mr. Blaine' death naturally
tast over the Capitol. Mr. Dale, of
Maine, one of deceased' closest friends,
formally announced the death. He said:
A very great man has passed from this
jartb. .tames O. Blaine Is dead. His areer
tas i so remarkable and his services so creat
hat In all the histories which mas lie writ
ten of his time be will stand as the central
Bgnre not only as to his own country, but on
politic and subjects that affected other
treat nations. He belonged not to any onn
Mate, but to all the country: the Pennsyl
vania, which save him nlrthplace and nur
tured him, and Maine, where he made hbs
tome, and where he became her first rltlr.cn.
and Which tilled his lap with all the
I '" winrn sne couin nestow, mourn him
. tin more to day than do the dwellers by the
, shores of the great gulf and In the caiifns of
the lar Slerrn. He was for years a (llslln
. gulshed member of the House of Repre-
seniaiives ami for sit years presided aa lie
Xpcaker. He was twice Secretary of State,
DDd was until ol lali r moml,., nl ..- ......!
! ent administration. 1 do not think there la
on Mrnator here who will not deem It Bt
llns. In view of these farts and ot the tact
Ilia! he died where his last peaceful look
Irom his chamber window might embi ace
this Capitol, where bis voire had been so
tpa tmrs heard, that we make a prece
dent at this time, and that, although Mr.
Hlalne was at the time ot tils death a pri
vate rltlren, this body take Immediate ad
journment. Mr. Cockrell, Democrat, of Missouri,
moved an adjournment and it was uiiaiil
Bioiisly carried.
In the House, after the rhnplain bad)
referred feelingly In his prarer to the
death of Mr. Blaine, Mr. Milllkcn, of
Maine, made the formal announcement.
Mr. Hulmun, Democrat, of Indiana, said:
The deaths which have been announced so
recently ot Illustrious citizens may well
brine to our minds the prophetic words of
the Hebrew King, "How are the mighty
fallen'" The drain of James O. Hlalne will
proloundly Impress the sensibilities of the
country. A great man Is dead. He laid the
foundation of his tame In this city. Hero
were his great and early triumphs.
How oflcn have we heard lu tht
ball the tone of his ringing
eloquence. Great In statesmanship,
knounnotonly in our country, but to the
statesmen of the civilised world And not
only ereat in statesmanship, not only one
of the Illustrious characters which have
Illustrated the value o, free Institutions,
list beyond that he was great In the held of
literature. As the historian of the grandest
epoch In Hie history of the world, he did ills
work well. His history, covering a period
of years, will eo down to posterity as one of
the brightest Illustrations of the period In
hlch he lived, and of the grandest event
ot which he was a part.
It would ai-em. Mr. Speaker, to be emi
nently proper and flttlnr that with the an
nouncement of his death here In this, the
theater ol his first achievements, this house,
put of respect to his memory, should ad
journ. I therefore move tbat tkc House do
now adjourn."
The motion waa agreed to and th
Bouse adjourned.
THE CAUSE OF DEATH.
'ntersticlal Nephritis, a Form of Bright'
Disease, Coupled With Lung and Heart
Treuble. The Fatal Attack.
WsSBiKOTo, Jan. S7. The physicians
have officially made public the cause of
death as Intersticial nephritis, a form of
Bright' disease, aggravated by tuber
rular disease of the lungs, and followed
by heart failure.
Dr. Johnston said that since the attack
ot heart failure on Sunday, December IS
last, there bad been no hope of Mr.
Blaine's ultimate recovery, flisdeath waa
but a question of how long his remarkable
vitality would hold out.
Following Is the ofllclul statement of
the attending physiclaus, Drs. Johnston
and Hyatt:
"The beginning'of Mr. Blaine's Illness
dates back some years. The earliest
sign of Ill-health were associated with
and no doubt due to a gouty tendency,
which manifested itsell in subacute
attacks of gout, disturbance of digestion
and progressive innutrition and anoetnia.
"Subsequent events prove tbat at tbl
time changes were going on in the art
eries of the body, which resulted later In
symptoms of obliteration of vessels and
In chronic disease of the kidneys. The
attack of paralysis in 18H7 was connected
with similar alterations In the blood ves
sels of tbe brain.
"During the summer of 1RK8 the evi
dences of tailing health were more de
cided, and in November, alter hi return
to Washington, his symptoma suddenly
assumed an aggravated form. From this
time, although there were periods of ap
parent improvement, he continued to
grow worse from week to week.
"The symptom were, nt first, more di
rectly connected with the kidneys, and
examinations of the urine showed that
there was a progressive intersticlal
change going on in tbe organ( and tbat
be had a form of chronic Bright'
disease. In December signs of
lung complications appeared, which
were no doubt connected with the
general disease; but a tubercle bacilli
were found in the sputa, It is probable
that there was some tubercular infection)
as well. Much of the distress which Mr.
Blaine suffered waa associated with this
disease of the lungs and his death was
certainly hastened by it.
"Toward the end of December, the
heart began to show signs of unusual
weakness from cardiac degeneration and
dilatation, and on December 18 he had an
alarming attacit of heart exhaus
tion; from this he rallied, but
others of the same nature
recurred on several occasions. From tbe
middle of January these attacks ceased
und the action of the heart was more
uniformly good. There was, however, a
dully loss of flesh and strength.
"For three day before Mr. Blaine'
death there was no marked change in bis
condition; each day he seemed somewhat
more feeble than on the day before, and
on the night before bis death he
did not seem to lie in any imme
diate dancer. Towards the morning of
Januarv 27 his pulse waa observeil to
be very feeble and his breathing more
embarrassed. As a result of tbe tailing
heart action oedema ot the lungs oc
curred, and he died without much suffer
Inp at 1 1 o'clock.
"During the whole of Mr. Blaine'a Ill
ness the digestion was well performed, and
liquid food, chiefly milk, was taken In full
quantities. His mind was generally
clear, except wheu clouded by uroemia
and disturbed brain circulation. Al
though unable to express himself in
words, be recognised all the member ol
his family up to within a few moment ol
his death."
The statement of the physicians will
not be supplemented by an autopsy, ths
members ot the fa mil v being thoroughly
satisfied as to the cause of death. U'hs
body will not be embalmed for burial, tin
family objecting lo any disturbance of it
Fair Buildinga Damaged.
Hundred ol feet of the annex roof of the
Manufacturer' Building at the World
IT1 .. : , . . .
ruir, viucago, cavea in Huturday. The acci
dent wa due lo tbe weight of snow and ice.
The damage J up in tbe thousand. The
udden thaw wa tbe cause. The otbar build
ing at tbe Fair are being watched with
anxiety. The Agricultural Building wa also
damaged.
Tux steam ferryboat Robert Garret!,
which ply between Brooklyn and New
York City, carries a many a 5,000 passen
ger at a si I trip. It is said to be the
largest steam passenger ferryboat In eai.
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