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The Great Ocean Steamers.

AAAV NAVE ~SV~N
Letters to Louisville Journal
What leviathans they launch upon
The bosom of the deep these days in the
shape of steamships, far stretching and
swift sailing palaces, defying the dan
gers Of
'Thou vast ocean, on whose awful face
Times iron feet can print no ruins trace
The Furnessia is the largest vessel
ever built in England, except the Great
Eastern. There are not more than q
half dozen larger ships ahoat in all the
aotillas of the world. Her dimensions
are: Length, AS feet; depth from bot.
tom to quarter deck, 46 feet some inch
IS; tunnels or smokestacks, IL feet in
diameter, or SO feet in circumference:
tonnage, $500 tons, OF 10000. 900
pounds; engines, $500 horsepower;
diameter of the propeller, 20 feet
5 inches. She can carry l,50O
passengers, but. of course, most
Of these would be stored in the steerage.
Thirteen hundred and fifteen were
taken to our country or the last trip.
The full complement, or Crew." in
GLIDING all from captain to cabin boy.
numbers 1875. The officers and men
are under strict military discipline and
the captain has warrant to place any
malefactors in irons. The officers ap-
pear in full uniform epaulettes according
TO rank and the sailors have their pecu-
liar garb all marked with the arms of
The anchor given to which the ship be-
longs. Officers are not allowed to talk
with passengers or to deviate in any
way from a straight line while on duty.
This is all the better, since so many
lives are in their hands. The services
Of the surgeon are furnished free. The
meats arc kept in an immense refriger-
ator, the temperature of which is kept
at zero; so it now every day in that
section of the ship.
The menu is made up pretty much
rs it would be at any hotel ashore, saw
\ few sea features, such as "sea biscuits"
and coat bread" which is nothing but
the flour from oats done up in water,
very simple, but healthy, and II great
Scotch staff. There is a we'll stocked
library of standard works in serviceable
red leather, for the entertainment Of
passengers. A pretty picture is the
dining saloon, with its row of circular
PORTFOLIOS. The round glass of the
portfolio is encased in a circle of bur-
nished brass on the outside of the ship
and through q frameway of curled ma
pie. Sitting ut the table you look
through the port-hole at a bit of sky
and trembling blue waves-a beautiful
water-color plaque.
The expenses of these ships for a
round trip range from $4,000 to $7O,-
300 often times. The machinery in
this ship cost $250,000, and the entire
ship, FULLY equipped for the sea, repre-
sents an outlay of $3.50, 900. Com
pare these figures with the old sailing
vessel statistics and have a summary of
the strides of civilization in the inter-
vening time. The walls of the music
room are lined with panels of walnut
and satin wood, and the seats up
holstered in brown Exotic
plants bloom in ornamental boxes and
creeping vines fling themselves in rustic
aounces over rustic baskets depending
from stained glass s~kylights, through
which all the colors of the rainbow
play in fair weather.
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The shipments,of Southern pig-iron
Itosths Eastern states whore it under
sails Pennsylvania iron is . striking
tAct connected with the conditions Of
- iron trads. The Pennsylvania iron
.nakers say they cannot afford to make
pig.i.oa Tor less than e1S q ton, and the
price ought MOTTO go below $40 . ton;
bnts Tennessee furnace owners say they
! make il for SO a ton and get a
proAE When rates 1t transportation
aretew. tennessee iron can be shipped
10 Cincinnati and even to Pittsburg and
sold u profit. Ohio iron sent TO the
Fast undersells that made in Pennsyl-
wants, .dnd Tennessee IRON sent to Gin
<dnnati nndersells that made in Ohio.
Tho inevitable result q these prices
must bes in the end, to transfer the
business OF iron-making 70 those re-
agions where iron can be made cheapest
the districts in the South where ore
and coal a.e found alongSide, and lab
or and living are cheap.
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Senator Sherman introduced q bill to paw
4703 to each non-commissioned officer and
privates of the Greedy expedition or their rep
resentatives; this sum to be in lieu of commu-
tatons of fuel and quarters and extra duty
pay.
Hon. ]. B. Gillian spent a morning on the
floor Of the house and was generally introduced
by Gen. Washburn.
Tho house committee on Indian affairs has
decided to report adversely the joint resolution
providing for the Improvement of Indians by
giving them citizenship.
A fire at Newport, Ark, consumed five build
ing and the greater portion of the stocks of
goods. LOSS, 100000.
Buildings in Baltimore owned by Mr.. John
McAfee, l. R. Baird, James Hayden, Charles
| Whenman, James Boyd and Samuel Loanes
were burned. Loss, $5o,OW; partially IN
sured.
At Woodstock, N. B., o fire started in Nc.
Dougel's tailor shop, and destroyed thrcs
wooden buildings en- Main street. Loss,
$4,000.
John Lecoq, a Belgian horse trader, arrived
in New York on Thursday by the steame,
Heindel, of the White Cross line, with four
very large stations. Their average weight is
over 500 pounds, and the largest, a bay, tips
the scale at 200 pounds. Three are bays and
the other a darple gray.
The wife of Hugh Miller of New York got q
verdict of 5000 against her father in-law,
Rev. Alexander Miller, whom she charged with
SANDER.
John s Kinkead, the first governor of Alas
ka, in a report to the president, says he was
cordially received by the people, who were en-
.husiastic over the prospect of at least having
\ civil government. The mining interest. he
says, is of the highest Importance, and he pre-
diets that within the next decade the produce
lion of the precious metals in tho dis .rict will
DO an important factor in the finances of the
general government.
DR.. Henry Leo, alias DR.. l. Lonick, claiming
to be a travelling surgeon of the Bellevue hos
pltal. New York, was arrested at Helena, Ark.
on a telegram from Chief of Police Davis OF
Memphis. DIR. Leo swindled two Memphis
merchants through means OF forged checks
pulporting to be certified by the assistant cash.
Ter of a bank at Buffalo, N. Y.
Ayoung lady, exceedingly handsome, named
Alma Bishop. aged twenty-four years, died at
the house of a Mrs. DIR. Rutledge, St Louis,
under mysterious circumstances. Miss Bish.
op came to ST. Louis four months ago from
Miami, Mo, and became q book agent Her
subscription book showed a rare list of names.
supreme court, Journalists, physicians and
ministers. DR.. Rutledge, IN whose house she
died, said that the young lady died Of infiam-
nation OF the stomach. A coroner's jury, how
ever, decided that she came to her dQath from
puerperal peritonitis, the effects of q criminal
abortion performed by some person or per-
sons unknown.
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mainder Of his gallery, one hundred pieces, i
given to the Cincinnati museum.
lriso.,laaeous HsN. Ho.ea

.E
Redfeld gives up the Sphinx county records
and the war cloud vsnishes.
Elisha Hyatt, q Washington, Ind, banker,
has assigned for 100000
The official canvas Of Montana shows 49,.
$50 votes. Toole, Democrat, has 1919 major
ity.
At Indianapolis, Shoemaker asked tina.
further proceedings In the Blaine libel suit be
stayed
The City Bank Of Schenectady, N. Y, sus-
pended The bank had = paid-up capital Of
Lieut.. schwatka says the Yukon river in
Alaska is as long a. from Salt Lake CITY to New
York, and as broad as from Philadelphia te
New York.
Al a meeting Of the Board Of Erin in Chica.
go, the highest authority in the society of the
Ancient Order Of Hibernians, tho expulsion OF
Henry I. Sheridan from the latter body was
ordered, on the ground that he had endeavored
to convert it into . quasi political organization.
Rev. W. R. Coovert Of P~ittsburg, at a spirit.
ualists' meeting at philadelphia, offered to give
$500 to any one of them who could produce q
phenomenon Of slate writing that he could moi
demonstrate to BIO . fraud Awealthy spiritual.
ist present accepted tho challenge, and al ar.
rangement will be made for public trial.
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One Cabinet Place Settled.

Washington Specis} Confirmation was fur
1ished of a rumor that came from Albany to
ihe effect that Senator Bayard had been offered
my place he desired in Cleveland's cabinet, and
he preferredthe treasury. In his speech in reply
10 Beck on the silver question, John Shelman
said the senator from Delaware, who, according
to all the newspaper reports, was to be the
next secretary of the treasury, would find
that the democratic party must meet the finan-
publican party would if it continued in power.
Bayard sat facing Sherman from Ransom's
seat in the middle isle of the chamber. He
smiled, slightly bowed in acknowledgement of
the allusion made to him, and went on with a
b incident made a stir throughout the cham
Der, and was accepted as good evidence that
'ne place in the next cabinet is surely settled.
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The flTa Or THE NEWS
xsw..

Bayard IL report i !, have informed Cleve.
land That he WI. sacsss tha treasurv portfolio
4 ssner'. sossanits.. Ia. boon appointed to
: gu - Of tAauguranon ceremonies.
fsAl1nsters commissioned: GeoigeF. Potts.
eissearg. Iowas Augustus Nieustadt, Rudd,
Svn. sud Nm. Hawley gave . dinner recently
10 Gen T,erfv. There were present Senator's
Sherman, H6ar, Plat and Frye and Congress-
nan STRAIT Gen. Terry commanded Senator
Hawles's regiment early in the war. The little
dinner partytwas one otthe social gems OF the
reason. .
Possofices Aeatablished: Dako.s-Oonway,
Mslsh county. Postmasters Commissioned
FsasAhT. Fritts. Blue Lake, Oak ; William Har-
,ey, Split RocS, Dab, Absolom Heller, Long
Lake, MIMI; George j. Clark, Elroy, Wis. ST.
las Ecker, Rhodes Corners. Wis, ; James Fran
~, Conway, Dab
A clanse has tsesn inserted in the army ap-
propriationsbi.l By the house committee on ap-
preparations, creating . now Office, to be known
= ss~sistsnytasaief signal officer OF the army.
WIZ n tGhavs the rank Of colonel. Its under
stEdy AIss Lieut. Greedy will DO appointed to
sH,eB position, should the clause DO retained in
Z Senator sabin has taken Ma. Tisdaleis small
and pretty residence on Thirteenth street, cor
ner oiC Tho senator says he enjoys the econ
sonaios OF . poor man, % he now feels himself
n " s,lca his recent financial reyerses. He
hfs his horses here and he uses them, q car
[r51esss being his only recreation from one of the
Busiest lives any public man ever spent here.
Assistant Postmaster General Henry D. Ly-
mas tss been offered the vice presidency Of
he Bell Telephone company, and will tender
his resignation in . few days to accept what is
! much better salary. John M Doris, who
aas been in the postofice department for
many years rs clerk in charge Of the Minne-
sofa railway mail service. is an applicant for
If congress having come in contact with Mr..
Doris, have Q high opinion of his fitness for
the place and have unanimously Endorsed
aim.
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Hurests Of rors1eu Few.


The London Times demands repression o.
dynamite plotters in America
A reward Of $4,000 is. offered for the discoy.
cry Of the persons connected with the London
bridge outrage.
The steamship Carranza, from Rotterdam fol
Lisbon, foundered OF the Isle of Wight Eleven
persons were drowned.
Mrs. Weldon, the celebrated London litigant
has got another verdict. She was unlawfullJ
put out OF q theater, and brought a suit fol
damages.
1t is rumored in newspaper circles that
James Gordon Bennett is to start 4 daily pap.
or in London when the new Mackay-Bennett
cables get to work. 1t ID to be devoted mainly
70 american news, and will probably be a SORT
OF English edition of the Herald. !
The London Times devotes a leader to the
New Orleans exposition. 1t says: seThe exhihi.
ton symbolizes the complete reconciliation be.
tween North and South. It is an event in the
history Of the South deserving Of the h~eartiest
congratulations and bright with hopeful au-
CURES. The article concludes with wishing
the exhibition every gu ccess.
A dispatch from Dongola says prior to Gen.
Wolseley's departure for the front he held ;
farewell interview with the mudir, in the course
OF which the latter said: 'You will find the
people glad to see you. The rebels are scatter.
ing. Berbereens are returning home and will
not fight You will find all supplies you 70.
qulrs, with any amount of cattle
The marriage of Baron L F. Lagerfelt, the
Swedish consul in Pittsburg, and Miss Mary
Dotey of steubenville, Ohio, took place 1t St
Paul's church steubenville, recently. Baron
Iagerfelt is the son Of Baron Otto tagerfelt,
and the nephew of the colonel of the First
grenadiers Of the yalSwedish Guards. Miss
Dotey is the daughter OF the president of the
Jefferson iron works.
Le Blanc, member Of parliament for Laral
county, and y. A. Cornellier, Q. C., ono of the
crown prosecutors for the district, have boep
arrested at Montreal on q charge of tampering
with the grand jury at the criminal a~ssizes. II
Is alleged that by undue influence they obtained
. return OF mo bill" against Henry Butlner.
director of the Exchange bank, charged with
obtaining undue preference by Withdrawing de.
posts after the suspension of the bank.
The latest German blue book has been the
sensation of the week in London. Itshows that
the German colonization of Africa has been
virtually due to England's hauteur and he,
posing as the natural protector Ind proprietor
OF all newly-discovered countries. ismarck
demonstrates thatif England had agreed to his
hrst modest request that German traders be
protected in the interior, over which England
claims sovereignty, he would have been salts,
fed
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A Se9ssS4E1yttohSFMk1d0lrs contain'
m hi remarkably silly Ioye-letters,
Published q few weeks ago, were SO dis.
pleasing TO hissson that he applied for
q injunction, stopping their sale. which
wasgranted, but not before about 200
Scspiisss were sold. These 200 copies are
Ynusworth what 10000 would probably
aasvs sold for; indeed, 70 precious have
they become TO their possessers that
they can not be bought for any price.
large sums having been unavailingly Of
Jared for them.
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Few Governor OF Mont.n..

The president has nominated B. Plat Car.
2enter of New York to be governor of Montana.
3. Plat Carpenter lives at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
He is a lawyer, about fifty four years old He
mas been state senator and Judge for Duchess
county. In 1882 he was nominsted for lieuten-
ant governor on the ticket with Folger, and ran
behind Folger by about40O. He was q delegate
to the Chicago Republican convention that
nominated Blame, he and Hamilton Fish, Jr.,
beng tho delegates from the Poughkeepsie
congressional district Both were chosen as
Blaine delegates. and were, in effect, pledged
to support Blaine. At Chicago they both turn
ed up as Arthur men Their action was Bit
terly denounced by their constituents, who
felt that they were grossly misrepresentsd.
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BY issrsportsd that great reduction
'SfsMheat acreage will be made the com
almost III over the world. II
isakrownthatsthe winter wheat acreage
inllt his country IS considerably lesstthan
!Ast ysar. II ii quite probable that the
glutaof uhsst this year and correspond
nEy low prices will not occur next
and thst the evil may correct it
Those who restrict their acreage
eesxt spring, in the northwest. may
ave occasion % regret theirilackse y
sssssnadHacein,thefatnfe ss
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0rs q She most Interesting facts
collated returns Of the
In The recent election is
~ comparative insigniicance Of the
5vcte sutsidasthe two great parties. OF.
thA1 I, 00O 600 votes cast all but about
D0U.Oo0 wsrs cast for Cleveland On
Blaine. i mother words only three per
esne.M She vote was thrown away.
sThisSwas j smaller proportion than the
tAiSdsparty and scattering vote in 1880.
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sscond financial writer. not unduly
nstsdownnor elated, ventures to say
lhatsrolong, with.an increased cona-
denceand demand inevitable from
'rtsonlumption of present products, thers
Nillsensne arevival o. business which
Vim reIumerate u for the long-con-
tinnusd ~depression. But this revival
VIII not come b observation, nor by 1
Epretsnce Of i; Il will come naturally
aaAd surely, not because 1t is invoked.
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It is probably not generally under-

1t is probably not generally under
stood that the most ornate house of
worship in the United States is the
Greek church at Sitka, in the territory
of Alaska. It is built on the plan of a
Greek cross, and the interior is a mass
of gold and silver, of the magnifcence
of which one enthusiastic writer says
he can give 10 adequate idea. The
walls are hung with pictures of royalty
and the priesthood, the gift of n Rus
sian princess who has taken this tempt
under her special charge.
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The farmer can better afford to raise

The farmer can better afford to raise
potatoes for IS cents per bushel than
to grow wheat for 81. Two hundred
bushels per acre is not a large average
yield. This would give $50 per acre,
Fifteen bushels is an average yield Of
an acre OF wheat. the potato CROP
will require a little more labor, but
with the late improved machinery the
cost OF ~cultivating and harvesting an
acre OF potatoes has been very much
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XhIslgsMOrleansF Fair VII orsn De
md viii ocntinus III The
2Wissseasd Spring. The best time 10
Jill Orleans WI 81 i January
1dNdAruazy 10 H. sble . take il
d. stpnL earniyals int preceding
1Lzsnks md the big fair ct the same
644es;sxohld 49, double treat. Ths
transportation rA&ss,ats NOV veryjnod-.
eAbpt Posssy nay q lower J
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Arrangements are now making which, when
contaminated, will be of great benefit to the
merchants Of the northwest and those on the
Pacific coast Those arrangements are for the
establishment OF what will practically be =
lie tothe Pacific ocean. The through line will
be made up Of two companies only. These
IRE the Northern Pacific and Baltimore & Ohio
Express companies. When perfected the ar
engagements will be for one transfsr only, and
that will be made at St Paul.
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- Cramin.l cateaaar.

xhs Criminal oalsndar.
At Chicago, Frederick Rassow, planning mill
owner. assigned. Liabilities, $4,000; assets,
$4,000
the New Orleans grand jury have indicted .
. number Of persons for the murder Of A. d.
Murphy.
Atthe insane hospital Of the Jefferson City
P~enitentiary, John Mason killed several of his
fellow inlnates.
At Gra1esend, Coney island, Rev. Paulis +.
Hicks {colored) is in durance vile because Of .
quartet OF wives.
Max Cohen, of Mulberry and Bsyard streets,
New York, was arrested for buying stolen
goods from boy thieves. Over $500 worth
OF goods were captured.
young man named Arch McIntire was
killed in Doniphan, No, recently, in 4 row
with some other young men. He resided in
London, Canada, and Ia said to have relatives
lin Chicago.
A hand-to-hand fight with knives occurred
It Chattanooga, Tenn. between Wesley Hem
lerson and John Wynick, heretofore good
friends Henderson Is still alive, but will die.
Wynick ia badly cut but viii escape with his
Nathan l. seins, aged twenty-eight years,
who worked in the Wisconsin Glass Works,
Milwaukee, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the region Of the heart. He died
within half an hour. He was conscious to the
last, and said he wanted to die, even asking the
doctor TO give him something to kill him. De-
%spondency was tho cause. He was separated
from his wife, who is reported to be living in
Pennsylvania.
The original complaint made against Joseph
G. Aackin for alleged participation in the
Eighteenth ward slection frauds, Chicago. was
withdrawn before tho United States commits
eioner in view Of this indictment OF the grand
jury embodying the same charges. Mayor
Harrison has accepted the resignation of Peter
Hansbrough, William j.. Cligen and John E.
Stearns, in the employ of the city and indicted
~ the federal grand jury for participation in
the alleged election frauds.
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1sosrd Of

The depot Of the Philadelphia Traction COM
10000. The building was used for the stor-
sge Of cars, q large number of which were
burned.
A fire destroyed the residence Of g. b.
Thompson near Lostne, Or, while himself
and wife were attending church. Two Of their
children, six and two years of age, were burned
10 death.
At Falmouth, KY, Buildings owned by
William Kennet, Joseph Woodhead md John
Pendergast were burned Total loss about
$4,000, the greater portion of which falls on
Rule Bros, clothiers. Insuranc, $4,000
The following parties burned out At Chip
pewa Falla, Wis, have gone into bankruptcy.
Lee d Larson, Dealers in generel merchan-
disc, made an assignment liabilities, $780,
counts, $4,000 ". Il. stoddard, clothing Ing
dealer, also assigned; liabilities about six
thousand dollars; assets, insurance, 10000;
salvage small Neither Of these parties would
have gone to the wall except for the unneces-
sary pressure Of creditors who pushed their
claims after the report of the fire had reached
st Vincent, Special Sunday morning the
splendid residence Of Jud La Moure, represen-
tative-elect Of the Twelfth legislative district
Isof Dakota, was burned. There are several
causes assigned for the fire, but the more prob
able one is that it originated from . defective
fue. 1t being some distance from Pembins,
assistance could not be rendered in saving the
building. MI. La Moure was not at home, be-
ing at Neche, wherehe was telegraphed for.
Considerable furniture was saved and fortu-.
nately for the houses adjoining, the wind was
blowing from q point which saved them. The
loss is estimated at IS, 500. There is an insu-
rance Of s2,3oO on the building and effects,
1880 on the house, and $500 on the furniture
intha Springfield, Mass, company.
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President Arthur was among the first
citizens Of New York to pay his taxes
this year, his check being for Sc, 1893. 85.
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The average salary paid a female school
teacher in Vermont is $5.O1 a week,
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Stock on the Mouse river, Oak,
ranges is said to be in very fine condi-
ton.
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n~.ll1ona,r. spr.ngsr,s neauest..

The will OF Reuben s. Springer of Cincinnati
been filed. The largest public bequest is
$50 shares of specially guaranteed stock of tie
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne l. Chicago railway to
the Musical Association o. P%ittsburg, which is
q $4,000 income, only to BIO used for the sup
port Of Music hall building. He gives also
$4,000 to the Academy of Music and $2,0O
to the Museum association, besides pictures
and works of art The final beanests are:
To St Mary's Seminary of the West,