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KeUey. WEXGJEas ZUAXB Variety eatertala Xiie utcr Xo daiy Forecast," from the Washington office: For Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana: Generally oodj with northeast wind, increasing la farm. X0 eastern Texaa and Arkansas: Fair, followed by rain; easterly winds. Th almanac maker must be op to I data. Corner barrooms are not calculated to make adjaceiit homes haipy.

The rebellious lioors of Morocco should be sent home on their uppers. Patient men frequently miss their opportunities, and they ore regarded aa a Job lot. The clerks who hare easy times are those employed by merchants who do not advertise. Prize fighters are not always willing to fight. They are generally roped in when the comes.

Men who hold op railroad trains for gain may hare been holding up sedan chairs at the world's fair. "After dinner, try Qld iays a reommender. Might as well try Hail, Columbia, or "Sweet Spirit, Hear My A. correspondent who went with the boomers writes vividly of Iisappoint pnt, In the trip." "But, he is not the only one, dear, no. The heaviest anchors weigh about 77 hundred weight, says an exchange.

That is why it is not easy for a ship Jn the river to 'weigh anchor. Wind is a power touch to be feared. When it is not blowing down houses and wrecking ships it may be filling the speeches of the statesmen in the halls of congress and blowing the wrong way. Chicago has just opened forty eight night schools. This will give the Re publicans of tbr town a chance to le ii iTov to mark the Australian bal lot.

Lowell News.) Only men who can pass civil service examinations will be allowed to vote. It is said Senator Allen, of Nebraska, has accomplished the feat of speaking fifteen hours on a stretch. It must have been a terrible stretch, when it Is considered how short a time it takes for a man to tell what he knows that other people do not know; Brazilian peace and prosperity must be retarded while Rio de Janeiro is being bombarded. Let the Mello ad go and bombard something else. It is bad manners to open fira on a city full of defenseless women end children Just for the sake of holding oSce.

There Is a growing demand in New York for the abolition of her coroners, and the state legislature will be asked to sit on them. (Philadelphia Ledger.) but the hoodlum voters will not allow it. They want a coroner who will be easy on them when they commit murder in their playfulness. "Do yon think the action of the New York Bar Association will injure the candidacy of Judge Maynard? was a. question put to Lieutenant Governor Sheehan by a reporter.

It elicited this reply: "I do not. On the contrary, I thfr that what the association is doing will makes votes for (New York Tribune.) Bar associations are not always for the best, especially when they become too familiar. Floating: There is a story of a gentleman who inadvertently slipped a blue poker chip into the church collection plate, and then called upon his pastor with an apology for his careleRS j'ness and a silver dollar instead of the chip. "Oh, no, said the man of God, knowingly, "that's not enough. A blue chip is worth $5 in your game." An Oklahoma divine was even shrewder.

The collection will now be taken." he raid, "and I wish to remark further that poker chips don't go any more. Get "em cashed before yon come and bring the money. I am forced to this decision by the fact that some of the brethren have been shoving off chips I of their own make on us snd letting the langh be on ns when we went to i get them cashed at the Dewdrop For tune parlors." A principal of one of the grammar schools In Savannah, an old time Trish pedagogue, relates an incident which is well worthy of repetition and is indiea tlve of the aptness of the youth. One day, while be was Instructing his class in geography, the bishop of the diocese happened irv and, as is the custom, propounded some questions to the scholars. "What parts of the globe comprise the old and new world?" was readily and correctly answered; and when asked who was the discoverer of the new world, one powerful chorus answered: "Christopher Columbus." "Now, my little men," said the bishop, "yon have told me who discovered the new world, bat can any of you tell me who discovered the old world?" A dead silence for a few seconds, when a little chap, named Ma boner, the son of a shoemaker, held op his hand.

"WelL my "little man, said the bishop, "let os have your answer." vThe surpriee of the teacher and bishop can To Imagined when the youngster replied la a voice showing confidence In his answer: "Adam and Eve, my Press.) The kid was right enough. Christopher Columbus simply discovered the American Indians who had already discovered THE TUB Cm AXD A LAXD BCSUEiS. Above Canal street the river is constantly building land on this side and cutting away the Algiers point. To meet this change of situation the wharf front has from time to time been moved into the river, leaving new accretions of solid land behind it. Few people sot directly concerned with the river front pay any attention to the extensive changes which are going on there, and, as a consequence, the number is comparatively small that have observed how the city is gaining territory in one place whilf it loses it in another.

The river gives nothing without taking tribute for it to the full amount. As a result of these chances the city has acquired proDertr for some dis tance up from Canal In these possessions is embraced a large body of land between Poydras and Lafayette streets, and extending from the new Southern Pacific freighthouse to a newly opened street along the rear of the wharves, paved with Belgian block. It fronts on the street facing the river all the way from Poydras street to Lafayette, and runs back from the front, so it Is stated, 140 feet. It is, then, a body of land some 300 feet by 140 feet There is no property in the city more desirable for commercial purposes, and it is, in all probability, worth as it stands $150,000. Doubtless that is a low price for it.

The City Council is proposing to lease it out for a term of ninety nine years for a price which has not been named, to be occupied by an electric light plant. Several questions arise just here. Is it advisable for the city to go into the business of holding lands for rent? The city government is only the agent of the people. The city has no business to own or hold any property that is not used for public purposes. The steamboatmen are constantly complaining for lack of room for their business.

Is not this land in question necessary for the unloading of freight? Moreover, it is given out that this property is leased already to the wharf company. Can the Council alter this lease, even by consent, without advertising it to public competition? Is not this land needed by commerce for public uses? and ought it to be diverted from that end? These are all important matters to the public interest, and the entire subject requires consideration before it shall be disposed of. It is very certain that the land in question is extremely valuable, and it should not be given away forfa trifle. If it is worth 100.000 to day, it will be worth 1,000,000 in ninety nine years, and that is too long a time during which to give away this property for a trifle. The present Council has developed a strong desire to make away with public property for immensely long periods.

Councilmen seem to entertain a very poor opinion of the future of the and they want to discount the next century at a low rate and put it out of the power of the next few generations to have anysay in the affairs of this These are all Important questions suggested by the proposition to dispose of a most valuable piece of public property, and they are presented to the public for consideration. TflB STATE FCXDLNQ LOaED IB THE STATE TilASUL Elsewhere the Picayune this morning prints the answer of Hon. John Treasurer of the State of Louisiana, to'tbe suit brought by the State Funding Board to compel him to respond to the decision of the board to pay out the surplus arising from the interest fund in the process of retiring and discharging the State's obligation in certain State bonds. At appear Lhat tiie tfiate Funding Board, ui compliance with the law, was proceeding to apply the surplus referred to above to the payment and cancelling of State bonds, when the Treasurer gave notice that he would not pay any moneys out of the treasury upon the order of the board, unless such order should be based upon an act of the Legislature to that effect, or upon a. decree of the court.

In order to test the law in the premises, and to ascertain its meaning, the Funding Board applied to the Civil Dis met court, in this city, for a man damus to compel the Treasurer, who is a member of the Funding Board, to perform bis functions therein. The petition of the board was entertainec by the court, and the Treasurer was ordered to show cause why mandamus should not be issued, hence the Treasurer's response. The principal reason which Treasurer Pickett offers for refusing to recognize the warrant of the Funding Board for the withdrawal of money from the treasury is that such demand is not backed by a specific act of the Legislature appropriating the money. He rests upon article 43 of the constitution of 1S79, which declares as follows: "No money shall be drawn from the treasury except in pursuance of specific appropriation made by law." The case is now in the hands of the court, and a deliverance on its merits will be awaited with interest. It is rather a peculiar fact that while the complaint is brought in behalf of the Funding Board ajrainst the Treasurer by the Attorney General of the State, the Attorney General is, by virtue of his office, the law officer of the treasury.

The Attorney General, therefore, acts for both the complainant and the defendant in this case. It is an interesting incident. THE DEATH OP MARSHAL MACMAHON. In the death yesterday of Marshal MacMahon, France lost one of the most distinguished of her soldiers and one of the few historical characters connected with the events which led to the fall of the second empire and the inauguration of the present French Republic, whose reputation has remained nnbesmirched by political in trigue. AllhoDgn for nearly seven' years President of France, and for a time, previous to the war with Prussia in 1870, Governor General of Algeria, MacMahon is not entitled to be considered either a statesman or a diplomat.

His fame was earned en tirely by hi military services, which were of such a distinguished character as to earn him both, rank and fame, and the high executive positions which he held were merely the rewards forced DAILY PICAYUNE 1 upon men. him by hi grateful country MacMahon has won distinction in all the wars in which his country has been involved for nearly half a century. He first came into prominence in the Crimea, when he captured, by a spirited assault, the key to the defenses of SebastopoL He greatly dis tinguished himself in Algeria, and in the Italian war, in 1859, he gained a decisive victory at Magenta, which won him his baton as Marshal cf France and the title of Duke of Ma genta. During the Franeo Frussian war MacMahon did good service. Although he was defeated in attempting to defend Alsace, he was compelled to retire only before overwhelming odds.

and at Sedan he was desperately wounded and taken prisoner. With the crushinz of the Commune, in 1871, MacMahon's military career practical ly ended, and although he became President of the republic, and exercised the functions of that position with dignity and patriotic devotion to the best interests of his country, it is not to his career in that high oSIce that he owes his distinction. Although MacMahon was an avowed Monarchist and Conservative, and had little in sympathy, with republican methods and institutions, he did not attempt to use his office to plot for the restoration of the monarchy, and when he resigned, in 1S70, it was more in disgust at his inability to sympathise with the aims and aspirations of his official advisors than because of failure to carry out personal plans and aspirations. MacMahon's whole career has been patriotic and honorable, and M. Thiers is quoted as having referred to him as "le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche de notre Like some others of his contem poraries, MacMahon had outlived his usefulness to public life, but he had avoided the mistake made by many others of striving to keep before the world after his star hajl set.

Instead of presenting a pitiable spectacle by impotent striving for power and place, the old Marshal of France has spent his declining years in dignified retirement, carrying his laurels unblemished to the grave. France mourns with justice the loss of a valiant and illus trious son. THE C0TT05 CHOP. There exists at the present time quite an extraordinary difference of opinion as to the sue of the cotton crop. The Government reports point With monotonous regularity to a very poor yield, and warrant the supposi tion that a crop but little, it any, larger than last year will be made, and yet unofficial but generally accepted authorities are quite positive in the assertion that the yield will' prove very much larger than last year.

A few days, ago the crop estimate of the American Trading Society was published, placing the probable yield at 7,600,000 bales. Yesterday Mr. Henry Neill issued his estimate, which favors a crop of 7,700,000 bales. Both these authorities are highly thought of In the cotton trade, 'and Mr. Neill's opinions on the crop yield carry great weight in Europe.

How to reconcile the wide difference in conclusions manifested by these offi cial and semi official authorities is seriously' puzzling the cotton trade. Were the Government reports unsup ported by the crop movement, less im portance would probably be attached to them, but, as it is, the crop movement to date has not pointed to the large figures published in the estimates referred to above, while it certainly has in some measure substantiated the Government reports, although the trade is not' prepared to credit all the dam age those reports indicate. With the authorities at war, it is not surprising that the widest di vergence of views prevails in the mar ket. This has led to some very ex citing scenes at the various centers of speculation daring the past few days. The excitement has run high, and the opposing forces of bulls and bears have been so evenly matched that, although fluctuations have been frequent and considerable, the net changes in prices have amounted to nothing at all.

There is every reason to believe that the cotton producers have a prosperous season before them. They have grown their crop more economically than ever before, and even at present prices they are, or ought to be, making money. They are also selling their seed at good prices, and are picking their crops at smaller cost than usual. It has even been estimated that the saving in harvesting expenses and the increased value of seed represent a gain of at least 2 cents per pound on cotton marketed compared with the big crop, year of two seasons ago. There can be no question but that the producers are less in debt to the merchants than usual, and, therefore.

they are in a position to market their crop with more deliberation. That some of them are holding back for higher prices there appears to be no good reason to doubt. There is also some ground for thinking that the burning of cotton gins and other sorts of coercion have kept cotton back, but whether or not all this accounts for the large shortage in receipts compared with the movement that the large esti mates of the crop Just published would appear to warrant is the question now puzzling the trade. THE DEMOCRATIC PAETI AXD SIL YEIS3r. The civiliied world is regarding with astonishment the failure of a majority of the Senate of the United States to act upon a great public question which is demanding the most urgent attention, and upon which the major ity is said to be agreed.

The Government of the' United States is founded on the maxim that the ex pressed will of the majority is the law. The extra session of Congress was called in order to secure the repeal of the Sherman silver law. The House of Representatives, after duly consider ing the matter and fully debating it. adopted the repeal by an enormous ma jority. It has been given out that a majority of the Senate is also in favor of the repeal, but that this majority Is utterly unable to take any action, or bring tne question to a vote, because a minority of the Senators will not consent.

This is truly a most remark able innovation when the majority must gain permission of the minority oeiore any action can be taken. NEW, ORLEANS, 3VEDNESD AY OCTOBER .1 .1.1 .1 I ail th thirty and odd years when the ltepublican party controlled the benate and dominated the Government it never once was given out that a ma jority could not adopt apy measure upon wmcn its force was concenrraiea. But now when, for the first time in a generation of men. the Democrats bold dominion in both houses of Con the pitiful statement is put forth that a majority no longer rules, but that a small squad of Senators, who are chiefly silver miners, opposed to the will of the majority, can paralyze the Senate and stop all legislation. Never was a more remarkable statement made concerning the administration of free institutions under Democratic control.

So far from being able to effect the repeal of the Sherman law, the air is thick with reports of compromise. But the compromise which may be agreed upon will be all in favor of the silver minority. The concessions will ail be on the side of the repealers, who, it is claimed, are in a majority, but, accord ing to their own confession, a hopeless and helpless majority. Was there ever such a paradoxical statement? It is said that the majority must sub mit to the minority in order to save the Democratic party from a disastrous split, No such split can bring sucn calamitous results as a demonstration of the fact that the party has so little cohesion and discipline as that a small squad of filibusters can overthrow and paralyze its power. The Democratic party, for the first time in thirty years.

has been recalled to popular favor. It is on trial. It is expected to restore the country, which has suffered so much from extravagance and centralism, to DrosDerity and home rule. If it shall fail it will not soon have another trial. It will be ground to powder between the two radical extremes of socialistic Populism on one hand, and despotic and arbitrary centralizing Republicanism on the other.

That is all there is of the matter. The Democratic party has its own destiny in its own hands. Should it accomplish its own downfall, it will know where to put the blame. THE GOYEEXOE'S APPEAL FOE A he Governor has issued a proc lamation calling upon the people of the State for contributions for the relief of the sufferers by the recent storm. It seems bite, for such an executive appeal, in the beginning, counsels of even the most charitable were divided upon the probable amount of relief required.

Some who have proved most efficient in the work of providing for the sufferers did not at first be lieve' it would be necessary to make a general appeal to the State, much less beyond the State's limits, and it Is learned that advice to that effect had been tendered to the Governor, who would have been ready at any time to make a general call for help. Now that such an action has been found necessary, it is hoped that relief i will come in liberally from all quarters. An entire industry has been pretty nearly wiped out on the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi, but chiefly In the former State. Fishermen with their families, to the number of quite, 2000 souls, have been killed, their houses wrecked on shore, and their shipping wrecked on the water. They have iosti everything necessary to the conduct of their business, and, by consequence, the survivors are helpless.

Funds are much needed to these people to get again to their work and become self sustaining. well as to support the bereaved and dependent women and children. The people of New Orleans have done a noble work, and are still doing It, for the relief of the sufferers. It is hoped that the people of thetate at large will respond liberally. THET TTXEE PEIZE FIGHTS.

An official opinion, if not an authori tative condemnation, was yesterday delivered in the course of a suit in the Civil District Court, in which the Cres cent Athletic Club is the defendant. The club is being sued for State taxes due and unpaid. Attorney General Cunningham appearing for the State. In the course of his complaint the Attorney General charged that the club had conducted prize fights in open violation of the law, and that the money pledged by the club to Bob Fitzsimmons, the prize fighter, to in duce him to fight in the precincts of the club, but not paid, and for which certain promissory notes have been issued, had been offered for an unlawful object, and, therefore, the said notes are null and void. While this is only an allegation, and not a judicial decree, and possesses no authoritative force, it Is in line with the contention of the Picayune, that prize fights have been fought in this city under the pretense of being con tests of boxing skill with gloves, and.

coming from the highest law officer of the State, it is significant. Money contracted to be paid for procuring a prize fight to be fought La this State, contrary to law, Is immorally and unlaw fully pledged, and the pledge is null and void. Should this position be sustained by the court in the case mentioned, that will go far to settle the illegal status of pretended glove contests which are really prize fights. THE G0TEEX0E OP MISSISSIPPI EE PELS SLAXDEE. Governor J.

Stone, of Mississippi, has addressed the editor of the New York Sun an official letter repelling and resenting slanderous reports concerning the people of Mississippi and Louisiana, published in the Sun. It is aa follows: Executive Office, Jackson, October 15, 1S03. Editor New York Knn: Mv attention has been called to an editorial iu your paper of the 10th insU in which some harsh terms are employed In denunciation the State Governments of Mississippi and Louisiana for "permitting organised, gangs' of incendiaries to terrorise the community." While I know voa have been imposed upon by egregiously false representations, I cannot hold you harmless unless you attempt to repair the wrong yon have innocently done the people of Mississippi and their State Govern oent by the publication of sneh slanders in your esteemed and widely circulated paper. Erer since these lying publications commenced have employed all reasonable mesas to ascertain what foundation there is for them, and who tbe author; and, I feel fully warranted in saying to yoa over my own signature tnat, so tar as can oe ascertained, not a gia or ginbouse in the State of Mississippi bas been burned by lzatlon, since the ginning season of 1SU3 commenced. Only one gin has ever been reported, even by the space writer, to have been burned by wuite caps la this State, and the owner of the gin, a' good and reuabie citizen, promptly correqiea the staement and declared that he had no sucn thought, and that there was not a.

white can la Utatoorne county. How. Sir. ivdlior. the Sun has always been looked unon here as a fair, conser vative and reasonable paper.

Yon havo none as a great wrong by publishing taeae laisenouas, ana you cannot cooler upon tbe people of th State a greater favor than to furnish me with the name of your correspondent, that It may be to the public and let the people of Mississippi uow to tneir sianaerer is. The do not believe that the Sun would knowingly misrepresent them, but they do know that utey have been grossly and wicjceaiy misrepreatea. ana I or appeal to you tor ths same of the author. A. lew gins have been Doated: bv whom no one knows: possibly by some crank or unn uwu; out it is a iact taat win not contradicted that aot a ainrie sin tnat was posted has been burned ox other wise uioiesieu.

Uy complying with my request you will comer a laror tnat will De duly appreciated. Respectfully yours. J. AL STONE, Governor of Mississippi. What Governor Stone says of Mississippi is also true of Louisiana.

While a number of cotton gins have been posiea witn notices of threats to burn, very few have been burned, and either the entire affair has been mis i i cmevous men to scare tne people, or, if there was any plot, those impli cated ia it have been thoroughly in timidated by the resolute and deter mined attitude of the people to protect themselves and their property and rights. But whether or not there was anything serious in the matter, the effect all the same haa been to send abroad reports exceedingly injurious tt the Southern people. It Is possible the entire affair is a scheme to propagate slanderous statements" to hurt the Southern Democracy with the Northern people. IS THERE HO PLACE ShCTEE FEOM AEKV0.HS? The City Council did the proper thing last night to recommit the committee report on the application for a barroom at the corner of Carondeiet and Berlin streets. In the butane as sections of the city drinking saloons are to be expected, but in the residence portions they are a nuisance and in every way objectionable.

The present crop of barrooms is enormous, and those coming into existence promise to overspread the entire city. At the rate by which they are being multiplied it will not be long before there is a barroom for every block in New Orleans. In some there are already half a dozen or more. When it comes to sticking 'them in among churches, schools and private resi dences, the Council ought to have some consideration for common propriety, and particularly when a great number of the people of tbe nighborhood earnestly oppose the opening of such drink ing shop. If such protests are not to be regarded by the committee, then the people who are endeavoring to protect their, homes and neighborhoods from invasion by groggeries are only advertising themselves to the successful liquor seller so that he may know who are opposing him.

The Council has done well to sit down on the com mittee in the ease mentioned and in vestigate the merits of the case. THE JEPFEESON IXTESTIQATIOX. The Picayune this morning prints the report of District Attorney Leche, who conducted the investigation of the Jefferson lynching. Mr. Leche states what is already known, that although he examined all the witnesses who were supposed to be able to.

give information upon the subjects sought, he was able to obtain no facts of importance. From his report is learned what was not previously known to the Picayune, that the District Attorney was steered on to the witnesses who were supposed to know most by a re porter of the Times Democrat. It was at his solicitation that reporters of the Picayune and other parties were ram mooed. As no information of value was elicited, it appears that the advice volunteered to the law officer was of little value. Mr.

Leche relegates the matter to the Grand Jury, and the Picayune hopes that tribunal will be able to discover facts which up to this moment have been successfully Texas Women's Congress: The "Women's Congress of Texas, of which Sfrs. Sydney Smith is president, and Mrs. A. II. Mohl la secretary, will assemble at Dallas, Oct.

23, and continue In ee si on until Its business shall be concluded. The Texas state fair and Dallas exposition will then be Tn full blast and give opportunity for a general gatnenng. This congress is made up of representa tives from the various women's organized societies In that great state, and subjects of general interest to all will be aiscusseu Wamen'a clubs and associations in au parts of the United States are Invited to send delegates Cowboys on a Rampage. A gang of well armed men rode into the village of Blackwell, O. a few nights ago, and proceeded to "take the At first It was feared that they were bank robbers, but they turned out to be only a harmless company of cowboys.

They went to a saloon and filled themselves full of whisky, for which" they paid with threats of pi yl. which, in the vernacular of that country, means sudden death. They lnraded a hotel and ordered dinner with their pistols, amusing themselves while It was preparing by shooting ont the lights and riddling everything In sight with bullets; and when they had dined they galloped through tbe streets, scattering bullets In every direction. Nobody was seriously hurt, except an unoffending negro, who was well nigh killed. It is a way that these gentle people have of amusing themselves.

Assaulted the Inspector. The office of building inspector of Chicago does not seem to be a specially desirable place. Inspector Barnes had occasion to find fault with tbe manner in wnich the foundations of a new building were being laid the other day. when one of tne contractors attacked him with a ahovel. Barnes knocked the man down, and at once all the masons tock a hand in the row and pounded the inspector with shorels, stone hammers and trow Va Be was In a bad way until the mer chants of the neighborhood rallied to his assistance and rescued hlin very much tbe worse for his experience.

The police came up in time to arrest two of the ringleaders. ii The Fair is Paying. The world's fair is now ont of debt. The enormous receipts of Chicago day cleared off tne whole remainder of the bonded Indebtedness, The Illinois Trust and Savings Bank on Tuesday last signed a receipt for the whole amount, SIO 76, and whatever eomes la after that time is clear profit. The attendance is said to be beating the record right along, and the prospects are that tbe stock Loiders will realise a neat dividend on tneir investment.

The Chicago day attendance was 751,020, 1 18, 1893. i 1 1 RELIEF For the Destitute Sufferers by the Great Storm. The following contributions In cash were received at the Picayune oflice jester day; Previously S4.CG3 3ii Opelouaa La through lu A. aanaos. isa.

AAnary uema cr it Tlmpson, through Augusta Wilson McDonoga High School Is" a. 2 Mis H. A. L. Floyd, of Ea3t Feliciana parish.

Mary Stannil, Coushatta, La Heary A. V. Boberu, Mansfield, La 63 00 50 00 20 00 10 (W 5 OH 2 lO Total S4.S43 47 Donations. An order for six barrels of rye flour from Kansas City Hay Press Company. One package of dry goods from Mrs.

Peter Blaise. T1MPSOX, Oct, 1833. Office of the Picayune. New Orleans, Geo. Nicholson.

Editor: Dear Sir Inclosed pleawi find draft far So of which is a contrihutioi from Mr. E. B. Ilamlett, of La'wjwnville: the rest is the proceeds of an entertainment given on the 14th by the people of this place. It Is sent for the sufferers from the recent storm.

Our town is not a large one, but Its cltlseos have worked heartily in their effort to send a little help to the stricken district. If yoa will place this with the Picayune relief fund yoa treatly oblige. Very respectf ally. PERSONAL AXD GEXKEiL SOTES. Mr.

A. IL FW was In JS'ew York on the 13th. Mr. E. A.

Bappannler left yesterday for the world's fair. Mr. A. Hutchinson and wife are at the Windsor Hotel, New York. Mr.

W. Van Benthuysen and family kave left New York for Chicago. Bartholdi. the famous sculptor, sailed from New York for home last Saturday. Judge Boss, of the United States cir cuit court at Los Angeles, sentenced two more Chinamen to deportation on Wednesday.

Prince Bismarck Is improving dally. He is receiving hundreds of congratulatory telegrams from Germans abroad, many also coming from Americans. Miss Anna Bowers, who secured a vain able claim In the Cherokee strip, died on Thursday at Guthrie, from the effects of exposure while waiting at the line. Hon. Otto Thoman and Charles Getzla ger left yesterday arternon ior a viu to Chicago, and will be among the In telligent observers of the closing glories of the fair.

Charles Jenner, F. It has given to the Tennyon family a bust of the late poet laureate. It was executed by Thom as Wooiner, R. A. It will be placed in Westminster Abbey.

Mayor Denny, of Indianapolis, IncL, an hour after he took tbe oath of oSce on Thursday, ordered the chief of police to close the gambling houses and to keep the saloons closed on Sunday A Times dispatch from Lorenzo Marques says that there are rumors of flghtiug between the Mata.be le and the troops of the chartered companies In Mashona land, but no details are obtainable. Postmaster Bock bill, of Fort Wayne, 'has been sustained by the post master general In bis dismissal of three letter carriers, who appealed on the ground that he bad violated civil service rules. Tomaso Salvia), the famous Italian actor. Is In New York, having come over quietly. to be preeent at bis son's marriage.

He was a day too late. He will visit the exposiUon' before returning home. Dr. Joseph Parker, tbe eminent Congre ationallst preacher of London, says tbat the bishop of London ought to be ex pelled from the English church for for bidding one of his clergy to attend a temperance meeting. Lieutenant Hoffmelster.

tbe social dem ocratic officer who was tried for bis socialism and acquitted In Wuerzburg this week, will be dismissed from the army. The ostensible reason for bis wamimi will be that he is Insane. Behring sea sealers are now preparing to kill seals with alrguns. The arbitra tion regularities forbid tbe use of firearms or explosives In August, but say nothing of airguns, which are said to be quite as effective, and are used In killing wnaies. It Is reported that Mr.

El Us Mills, who has just sailed for Honolulu as consul general, is engaged to marry Miss Marie Afong, daughter of the Chinese millionaire, of that city, and sister of Etta Afong, who is to marry Commander Whiting. TJ. S. N. Prof.

David P. Todd, of Amherst Col lege, has begun preliminary arrangements for an expedition in to view tbe next available total eclipse of the sun, which will come on Aug. 8 of that year. Tbe party is to be a large one and the apparatus very extensive, so as to embrace scientific research in every department relating to the eclipse. The regimental bum! muster, Kle'n, who was tried in Mayence for lese majesto and was sentenced on Tuesday to coiittue nient in a fortress for one year, left his home to day for Ehrenbreltstein, where he will serve his term.

Some 2U0 friends and acquaintances gathered at his house this morning, cheered him and escorted him to the railway station. When released. Kern will go to America to live. Another preacher laid aside from active duty is Dr. Cnarles F.

Deems, of the Church of the Strangers. Although uu able to walk, he has. been riding twice tMs week, and receives many friends who call upon him. His mind is as active as wnen In his pulpit, but he is not able to give expression to his thoughts with tbat fluency so popular in this, city for a quarter of a century. boine religious papers condemned Mahomet Webb for attempting to defend polygamy at the world's parliament of religions.

But The Interior (iTes byterian), of Chicago, says: "We think he did just rihu People were naturally curious to know what it is that Mr. Webb found 6o attractive In the religion of Islam as to Induce him to abandon the faith of his fathers. Mr. Webb satlsned that curiosity Senator Perkins, of California, ascribes his popularity to a simple little method he bas adopted. He says that he has a habit of asklg every second or third man he meets for tbe time of day, and Immediately setting his own watch according to the Information given him.

Senator Perkins asserts that the wear and tear on his own watch and the compliment paid to that of constituent are repaid, by the latter's vote and his support in different ways. Uonkey Is la Spanish burro. In Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and In Arizona, where the donkey Is as well known as the horse, he is always called by his Spanish name, on account of the fact that this section of the United States so recently belonged to the Mexicans, who, as everybody knows talk that language. The Spaniards and Mexicans also apply the term "burro" to a stupid or Ignorant person, just as English speaking races nse the word "donkey." Arrivals at Hotel Denechaul. T.

C. Williams, G. W. Carlisle and son, Jackson, Miss. B.

Basot and wife, Ms Comb City; Wm. R. Racine, James Eouhea.l, SinltV Ifayette, uu T. L. Bounra.

ada; E. K. Cooler. Natch. vrT.TV0" HoplOai.

Boston; i St Charles Hotel Thos. E. lrkirs, W. L. Eaf Lea.

E. A. Coffin, Geo. SeckenA York G. Henry.

Ornore. Wia. UaMg ani K.uSe; Louis William. NasarUbv Jones, port Giton, Miss. An iJL Gay and wifo.

J' Carier, Margate. jiT'JJV Kaiiey anj family, Misse. Hoen v1 Orleans. wweu, Hoiel Schmitt arrivals; Go Louis; J. U.

Suillmia. MltaitJf' Laag. John Iiioo, abS Central America: P. djn, St Louis; J. B.

ManJueli field. Kl Eikan, Allan IbJeU. New Tors; P. P. Ma F.

J. Jacksjn familv, Boston, Wm. J. ter. Milwaukee, 11.

U. Deun" SLf" Hawthorne. Loul nilef' UjltilulK Airivjus at Hotel Boyal: r. mer. Arkansas John iL a rhla; W.

M. Filppta. Oeor al inona. Miss. Albert ii.

CoraeKf Wk; John Campbell, Brooklya, H.V M. Sultzbach, bucrameuto Cal t1 Mrs. M. Miss Raj brook, Oscar A. Zua.t, Cumbr! H.

B. Stiusou, Cincinnati; J. B. iiant' Jacksonville, IU; jofcu W. ToaiaTr cago; Mr.

and Mrs. Jleuton Toc Newark, N. O. il. Van Bell, W.

W. OaveiiiLsh, Jackson, iTt T. B. Adaiusou aud wife, tsUaippi. UIllTH.

isya 310 yjiioeaui street, lim. uaUPU son. i MATZ On Tuesday, 17. ISM. a.

MAKTA ANA KVLttX, tuW Ute I'tter Aiati, aged yean, a aaUn Oemiauj. Tae relatives aad friends of tit tamilr J1ENGB On Yredofsday OoU 11, ism Till the members of Use SucletUa ot St. and St. Joseph, of Holy Vrinity Gmrci, a Ferdinand street, and also tb Sou of Isut una. and Southern Benevolent Atfaoclatke, respectfully invited to atteod tt facerai, kv ul place Irom her late residence; or CWrtrut anj freuctuneit streets, "kl (Waa da Alteration at o'cWt.

StTTinT On Monday, t. 18. jern 11 :30 o'clock p. J. 8Ttvrp? eldest oa of the late Michael htuinpf lrJj Frock, aged years It dm utiis sad Sin a native of thigcity.

he relatives and friends of the hunHj respectfully Invited to attend tuatol which will take place Wednesday. Oct. Ii 3 o'clock p. m. precisely, from ta Utt m.

oenoe or tne aeceasec. euraer Buterpe ana Bta. part streets. WTHB On Tuesday. Oct 17.

lwa I o'clock p. MARY KLIZaBKTH WlJl eldest daughter of Wise and iats aUr Smith, aged 17 years and 0 months, a of tMs city. Tbe friends and acquaintances of rb UmSf also I those of Bora. Wise and Caffty, tn respectfully invited to attend tb fuaeal, which will take place Thursday Ereiag 3 o'clock precisely, from the late reildaga of the deceased, 803 franklin street, tween Calliope and Ola streets, vita further notice. Drs.

Geo. i. A. G. Friedrichs, ORAL AND DENTAL SURSECS, 153...

ST. CJlASI.FnzZKT.M.U) F2'8S ZpWetf I AN 1PEEAL TO THE Whereas, the disastrous storm of fha lit 2d of October wrought destruction to tb eity of Bilozl. to ta extent of fully (300,0011, thereby mating It impossible for tha dUtect to render such assistance as the needs Ot afflloted require tbt loss most felt ii ti destruction or Injury of fully 100 bats gaged in fishing oysters and shrimp. Ttxm boats are Talned at from $400 $1200 ax. Our crippled Industry and general loss ttafea It Impossible to place deserving toe data a proper footing to earn a living tor tMr families.

Unless such assistance Is traiti them at once great destitution moat semrily follow in a short time. For the tuns being can supply Ufelr wants, but to eaibl to sustain themselves In the tutors and them and the 1500 to 2O00 people whs art pendent on them, we appeal to the good vO and charity of all. They need such kel at will enable them to repair their hosts, atla and seines at once. JOHN A. BOCSQTJEt, ol4 10c Mayor City of BUoxUMI riif niiDI IP iu inc.

ruui.iv. Office of tb Citizens Central Burs Belief Comndttet, Booms Chamber of Ooour 120 and 122 Onninw; Sow. Vhw Orleans, U. Tea central committee of dtiseos ft alleviation of the sufferers of the UU ftar hereby once more appeal to a generous jw" In hhelf of Its wards. We gratefully SfS nowledge the liberal gifts intrusted to our cart, proving once more that onr warm heart' pie always respond when help Is needed, th.

bvtkna so far received sit not adequate to the appalling misery ia the storm stricken districts, ana er money collected by the different xelangei snt this committee "together not sufacieat carry out the alms and objects for whlea have been organized. The provisions and clothing so far eisnw' have placed thousands beyond momentary but the. fiuestion cue from In" os is: these people be supported at the appdi winter And there la only ont reW Tv must be placed In a pocitlja em Ming tbcsi eum their own living. Their bouses must be repaired, eves nwaing to some extent our saflstance. lt tbHr an(1 and belp theis ut return to them the means to plj become once mors a uaful and thrifty of our commonwealth.

f.ot simply for but for Justice for thousands of our rI We plead. we.beg fur help for tbeso so to help themselves. To carry out our aims In this dlrcti 0 donations recelYd under the primary bKP0" of this great calamity are not adwa for days, but for months, these poor PP need our aaeiatanc and care, and nlf ayntea.atlo and euuci tiirated efort sha able to rescue thousands of our peopl tiem despondence and pauperism. In placing the facts before onr mfui monwealth, we fervently hope sod trust our appeal will I heeded and syuataseww answered; snd ail by one grand eflWt charge a duty which we 'owe to oarselvel ass testl'y in the face of this grea aJai' kinship to God and humanity. ItOBEUT Chairman.

llOS. JOHA FiXZI'ATIUCK. liaror iew DrlaSa HON. I It WIN JAMkU.Y. hon TJAboixKii wiuassat Collector of REV.

I. Zu UEUCHT. KEV. H. H.

WATlJiA GKX. ECUUTs BOKLAXD. AH OKI, iiLX.iHiAA, Treasorer. TrrJU lrlH Out too En8 President Chamber of Corns JOHN M. President urban Board jos.

I he touk J. IS. ATTKENJ TjoabtBO' President Mechanics, Dealers aaO Kxchantre. i Hl'iH IiOLld H. LtMAKiH.

WAL'iBIt L. KAS N. N. 1. liAKVKY.

HON. Lu H. MAKRETTfVir i FAiB m. hu JyTr JACOB TiAto jt CdB, CUSP oia 1.