The Stabler Family

EARTHQUAKES HAVE SLAIN MANY THOUSANDS SINCE THE RECORD BEGAN A.D. 157 - Pontius and Macedona, Asia, 150 cities and thousands of lives destroyed 742 - Syria, Palestine and Asia, 500 towns destroyed: loss of life incalculable. 836 - Constantinople overturned; all Greece shaken. 1135 - Catania, Sicily, detroyed: 15,000 killed. 1268 - Cilicia, Asia Minor; 60,000 killed. 1456 - December, 5, Lisbon; 30,000 killed 1531 - February 26, Lisbon; 30,000 killed. 1626 - July 30, Naples; 70,000 killed. 1667 - Schamaki; 80,000 killed 1692 - June 7, Port Royal, Jamacia - 3,000 killed. 1693 - September, Sicily; 100,000 killed. 1703 - February 2, Tokio, Japan, 200,000 killed. 1706 - November 3. Abruzzi, Italy, 5,000 killed 1716 - Agiers; 20,000 killed. 1726 - September 1, Palermo, Italy; 6,000 killed. 1731 - November 30, Peking, China; 100,000 killed. 1746 - October 28, Lima and Callao, Peru; 18,000 killed. 1754 - Cairo, Egypt; 40,000 killed. 1755 - November 1, Lisbon; 50,000 killed. 1759 - October 30, Syria; 20,000 killed. 1773 - June 7, Santiago, Guatemala, completely engulfed. 1783 - February 5, Messina and other large Italian towns; thousands killed. 1797 - February 4, country between Santa Fe and Panama; 40,000 killed 1812 - March 26, Caracas, Venezuela; 12,000 killed 1822 - August 14, Mein, Italy; 14,000 killed. 1855 - Tokio nearly destroyed 1857 - December 16, calabria, Italy 10,000 killed. 1859 - March 22, Quito, Ecuador 5,000 killed. 1860 - March 20, Mendoza, S. A.; 7,000 killed. 1863 - July 2, Manila: 1,000 killed. 1868 - August 15,Peru and Ecuador; 23,000 killed. 1875 - May 18, Colombia, S. A.; 14,000 killed. 1881 - April 3, Selo, Italy; 4,000 killed. 1882 - October 16, Anatolia, Asia Minot, and other towns destroyed. 1885 - July 8, Cashmere; 70,000 homes demolished. 1886 - August 31, Charleston, S. C.; 98 killed. 1887 - February 24, coast from Corsica to Lyons and Geneva, Switzerland, Italy and France; more than 2,000 killed. 1887 - May 5, Hawaii; 167 killed. 1888 - March, Yun Nan, China; 4,000 killed. 1891 - Multitudes killed in Japan. 1902 - May. St. Pierre, Martinique, Earthquake and eruption of Mount Pelee; 40,000 killed 1906 - April, San Francisco and adjacent towns. Nealry 1,00 killed. Estinated damage, $250,000,000. 1906 - August, Valparaso, Chill.Estimated 500 killed. Estimated damage. $50,000,000. 1907 - January, Kingston, Jamaica. Over 2,000 killed. Estimated damage, $15,000,000. 1907 - June, Hsingkiang, China, 4,000 killed. 1907 - October, Karatagh, in Russian Turkestan, 1,500 killed 1908 - March, Chilpancingo, Coatepec, Concepcion and Tetililla, in Mexico. destroyed; 100 to 300 killed 1908 - December 28. Messina. Catan ia. Reggio and Calabria, well-nigh destroyed. together with many small towns of Sicily. Loss of life may reach 100,000.

PETITION WRITTEN IN VERSE. Georgetown Bridge Advocate Indites a Poem to Commissioner Macfarland. The District Commissioners receive a good many communications on a good many subjects, but it is not often that they are advised in verse. Commissioner Macfarland, however, yesterday found in his mail the following from Mrs. Frederick L. Moore, of Georgetown, on the subject of the proposed bridge over street. Mrs. Moore's husband led the bridge advocates at a public hearing before te Commisioners Wednesday morning and combated the rock Creek culvert idea.

The communication is headed "A propos of the Georgetown Bridge," and reads:

Now, remember, dear Commissioner, no matter what they say. The women pulled the wires for the meeting held to-day. And, you know as well as we do, when we grasped that metal-string. We meant to keep on pulling till we made you door bell ring. You admitted our proxies - heard what both sides had to say. Thus giving equal chances, in a fair and honest way; And that is what we wanted, for our Three Wise Men will see How far superior the bridge to tunnel plan must be. The tunnel might prove well enough, but life is very short. And Congress don't do always what the District thinks it ought; And, while we wait for millions, we'll wear out a bridge or two, And so, we trust our Three Wise Men the bridge We will not grumble even though it be a second-hand. We'll gladly welcome any bridge that's strong enough to stand. And that will give an entrance far away from Rock Creek dump; (for that disgrace there's Somebody we women want to thump.) Perhaps you'll want to bridge a "Great-deep-gulf" to heaven some day. so practice on our gulf, and it may help you, in a way. If we're tampering with the jury-well. "All's fair in love and war." Though this is neither - for between the factions there's no jar. But - it, upon this question, you make the wiser move. And give the bridge the preference - there may be a case of love.

The communication was signed "Virginia C. Moore, 1680 Thirtieth street. 7 p. m. January 25, 1905." Mr. Macfarland will refer it to the Board of Commissioners.

Health Recipe From the Hartford Post. The nervous woman, heaven pity her! She make herself and everybody around her perfectly miserable. Sometime there's a cause for the nervousness and then she's to be pited, and sometimes it's just a habit one gets into a being unreasonable and fussy, and generally looking on the blue side of everything.

When the nervous system gets out of order the whole system lags in sympathy. The digestive system, the liver and the heart all refuse to do their work. Every nervous woman should eat five or six times a day. She should eat three meals, have a lunch between meals, and never omit the warm drink taken just before she goes to bed. Gentle exercise and work are as necessary to the woman with nerves as food and fresh air. An active interest in life will be her salvation, but generally the woman in such a condition thinks she isn't interested in a thing in life, so she must keep at work until she develops an interest.

A celebrated physician has said: "If you wish never to be nervous live with reason, have a purpose in life and work for it; play joyously, strive not for the unattainable, be not annoyed by trifles, aim to attain neither great knowledge not great riches, be not self-centered, but love the good and thy neighbor as thyself." A celebrated and charming actress, whose age it would be rude to chronicle, but who still looks quite young, though she is a grandmother, gives the following of youth and beauty: "You must work until you are tired, sleep until you are rested, have plenty of fresh air, live in cool rooms, take a daily sponge bath and eat the simplest food."

[two columns] [first column] (1). WHAT IS, S BEST. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox). I know as my life grows older And mine eyes have clearer sight. That under each rank wrong, somewhere There lies the root of right; That each sorrow has its purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed. But as sure as the sun brings morning, Whatever is, is best.

I know that each sinful action, As sure as the night brings shade. Is somewhere, some time punished, Though the hour be long delayed. I know that the soul is aided Sometimes by the heat's unrest; And to grow means often to suffer; but whatever is, is best.

I know there are not error In the great eternal plan, And all things work together for the final good of man, And I know, when my soul speeds onwards, In its grand eternal quest. I shall say as I look earthward, Whatever is, is best. (2). Neither Zola, nor Rostand. The

[second] [three lines clipped, some words are not readable] and Theodore Rose[sevelet] President of the United states Edward VII., King of Great Britain Ireland; William H. Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, Emite Loubet, President of France; Christian IX., King of Denmark; Kuang Hsu, Emperor of China; Leopold II, King of Belgium; Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria - Hungary; George, King of Greece; Mutshito, Mikado of Japan; Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands; Nicholas II., Czar of Russa; Alfonso XIII., King of Spain; M. Ruchet, President of Switzerland; Abdul Hamid II., Sultan of Turkey; Oscar II., King of Sweden; Carl V., King of Norway.

(2.) The Boer War - this war began October 11, 1899. It was caused by the aggressive policy of Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary. The beginning of the war was marked by brillant victories of the Boers, but the overwhelming numbers of the British, under the leadership of Lord Roberts, compelled the Boers to break up into small contingents. though these little bands fought with bravery and persistance, and were in strategy superior to the enemy, they could rarionally hope to accomplish little against such odds. The leaders were accordingly reduced to the necessity of at last signing the terms of peace May 31, 1902. The troops put in the field numbered 300,000, of which 250,000 were British and 50,000 Boers. The British lost 30,000 men; the Boers 10,000. The British are estimated to have lost $3000,000,000, the Boers, $10,000,000.

The Japanese-Russian War-The war between Japan and Russia began on the night of February 8-9, 1904. In the eight leading battles on land the Japanese had the advantage. In fact, throughout the war Japan's forces were encouraged by the most wonderful success. The greatest battle in history was fought during this war, that of Mukden, a 16-day contest, lasting from February 24 to March 12, 1905. Kuropatkin, the Russian general, lost 110,000 men and an immense quantity of supplies, the Japanese sustaining a loss of 60,000 men. There were ten important naval engagements. It was immediately after the great battle of the Sea of Japan that Roosevelt began negotiations to bring the belligerents together. His efforts were finally rewarded when the Peace Commission signed the treaty at Portsmouth September 5, 1905. The total number of forces engaged during the war was about 1,540,000. Of these, the killed, permanently disabled and invalided have been computed at 625,000; 375,000 Russians and 256,000 Japanese. It has been estimated that the war cost Russia $1,075,000.000; Japan about $475,000,000. In ships, the losses were as follows: Russia, 68; Japan, 24.

(3.) (a) The Wilson tariff law was passed in 1894, as a result of the tariffreform campaign inaugurated by President Cleveland in his famous message to Congress in December, 1887, and culminating in his election to the Presidency in 1892, and the control of both houses of Congress by the Democratic party. It made a marked reduction of the tariff, but failed to carry out in their fullness the principles for which Cleveland and Wilson had contended, the bill having been subjected by the Senate to a great number of protectionist amendments, which the House was compelled to accept. Mr. Cleveland permitted it to become a law without his signature. (b) The Dingley tariff law was passed in 1897, at an extra session of Congress, called by President McKinley, who had been elected on a sound-money and hightariff platform in 1896. It is still in force, and is te highest protective tariff we have ever had, higher than even the McKinley tariff, which was enacted in 1890 and which, at the time, led to a violent reaction against protectionism (c) The Hay-Paucefote treaty between the United States and Great Britain was ne-

POSTAGE STAMPS OF GREAT VALUE Ramance in the Little Bits of Printed Paper - The Rarest Stamp. From the Strand Magazine. Not a little of the fascination which the study anrd collecting of poatage stamps holds for enthusiasts lies in the fact that the story of their origin and subsequent history is in many cases of an exceedingly romantic character.

The single known copy of the rarest stamp in the world, valued at [l]2,000the one-cent British Guiana issued in 1856 - was discovered by a young collector in the colony among some old family papers stored away in an attic. Knowing nothing of its scarcity, and not being favorably impressed by its appearance, he sold it to another collector for a trifiling sum, the purchaser being also ignorant of his great bargain. Ultimately it found its way to Europe and now reposes in the collection of M. Philippe de la Renotiere of Paris, who purchased it many years ago.

The value of [l]1,4500 is placed upon the famous "Post Office Mauritius" stamp, which was crudely engraved on a small copper plate by a local watchmaker of Port Louis, and issued September 21, 1847. A total of only 500 copies of each of these stamps were tediously printed off one at a time from the plate, and the majority of these were used on invitations to a ball sent out by Lady Gomm, wife of the governor of the colony.

It is not until nearly twenty years after their issue that the first two copies of these rarities were brought to light by a young stamp collector of Bordeaux. The most perfect used copy of the 2 pence post office Mauritius was sold by auction in 1904 for no less a sum than [l]1,4500. and is now included in King George's collection.

To the story of the watchmaker who designed this stamp may be added that of the baker's boy who engraved a stamp of the Republic of Corrientes, now forming part of the Argentine federation. In 1855 it was decided by the authorities to issue stamps, but they could find no engraver to cut the die or prepare the plates. While one of the officals was discussing the situation with the head of the state printing office on his veranda one morning a baker's boy arrived with the daily supply of bread, and overhearing the conversation, volunteered to undertake to South America he had been apprenticed to an engraver in Italy. Ultimately the boy was given the work to do, and he turned out a stamp which, although crude, served for all postage stamps issued in Corrientes from 1855 to 1880.

Probably few people are aware of the fact, by the way, that his majesty (then Prince of Wales) was responsible for the design of the 1903 postage stamps of Canada, university ackowledged to be the most artistic stamps of the late king's coronation the postmaster general of Canada, then on a visit to England, took the opportunity of consulting his royal highness on the subject of the proposed new issue of postage stamps for the Dominion. The prince at once took the keenest interest in the work, designed the stamp in conjunction with a member of the Royal Philatellic Society, and superintended the preparation of the "master die" in this country. The Edwardian stamps of Canada can therefore lay claim to the distinctionof being designed by a king.

A stamp round which centers one of the foulest political crimes of modern history is the so-called "death-mask stamp" of Servia, issued in 1904 to commemorate the accession of King Peter I. The dastardly assassination of King Alexander and his Queen Draga by miitary officers, June 11, 1903, wiped out the Obrenovitch dynasty from the throne of Servia and paved the way for the present king.

After the tragedy one of the most famous of French stamp engravers was commissioned to prepare a stamp from a design by a Servian artist, showing on a single plaque the twin profiles of Kara Georg, the founder of the dynasty which bears his name, and King Peter, his descendant.

The stamps were issued at the time of King Peter's coronation in 1905, and hardly had they got into circulation when it was discovered that the "death-mask" of the late King Alexander had been skillfully and subtly introduced into the design, and on the stamp being inverted could be plainly traced in the reversed features of the two heads.

This discovery at once caused an outery, the stratagem being ascribed to ex-Queen Nathalie, mother of the murdered Kings, and her supporters, but all connivance in the plot was indignantly repudiated by the engraver, and the mystery of this extrordinary happening has never been satisfactorily cleared up.

3 NOTES AND QUERIES. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Vareity of Information on a Wide Variety of Topics - Replies to Inquires from All Parts of the Country - Their Questons. Please give a full account of Alsace and Lorraine, by whom named, and what do the states from their earliest occupancy of the two states from their earliest occupancy is desired. J. A. HELMAN, Emmittsburg, Md.

Alsace had a dense population of Celts a century or more before the Christian era. The Ill and its tributaries are the principal streams besides the Rhine. Eighteen centuries ago it began to be filled with Germanic settlers, who were called Ill-Sassen, i. e. dwellers on the Ill, and hence the orgin of the name. After the defeat of the Alemanni, near Zulpich, in 498, Alsace became known under Frankish rulers as the duchy of Alsatia. In the ninth century it was part of Lothaire's empire, and in 904 was annexed to Germany by Henry the Fowler, and although claimed as a Frankish possession, remained for several centuries in the possession of Germany. A revolt of the Alsatian peasantry, the most violent outbreak during the religious conflicts of the sixteenth century, was quelled on May 17, 1525, by the sanguinar victory achieved by Duke Anthony III, over the peasants. Part of Alsace was alloted to France by the treaty of Westphalia, in 1648. Strasburg was seized by Louis XIV in 1681, and the whole country came under French authority by the treaty of Ryswick, in 1697, with the exception of Montbeliard and Mulhausen, which were acquired by France subsequently. German was the language of the masses, while the speech and modes of life of the upper classes were French.

The inabitants of Lorraine are mostly Germans, but only in a small part, part is the Vosges and Metz, has the German language maintained itself. This part is, therefore, called German Lorraine. Under the Roman emperors this country formed a part of the province of Belgica Prima. It was conquered by Clovis, and on the division of the Frankish kingdom under his sons, belonged to Austrasia. When the empire of Charlemagne had been repeatedly divided among his descendants, the division of kingdom of Lothaire, son of the Emperor Lothaire I, received the name of Lothars Ryk in low Ferman, or Lothart Regnum in Latin, from which arose the name Lotharingia in medieval Latin, and hence the name. After his death, in 869, Lorraine was divided between France and Germany, but subsequently the whole of it was attached to the latter empire. It was partially ruled by France and Germany until 1766, when it was fully annexed to the former country. By the treaty of May 10, 1871, portions of Asace-Lorraine were ceded to Germany by France, and this new German country is known as Elsass-Lothringen. It has not been annexed to any particuar German state, but it is a Reichsland (Imperial land) immediately subject to the Emperor. It is divided into three districts, Eber-Elsass. Unter-Eslass and Lothringen. "Olsass" means "the country of the Sassen (settlers) on the Ill.

Kindly tell me what the picture in The American counting room, "A Petition to the Doge," represents, and give a short history of the Ducal Palace in Venice. HTIMS M.W.

The petitioner is craving some boon-perhaps asking for the life of release of a condemned prisoner. It was the only way of gaining the attention of the doge. "Doge" was the title of the elective chief magistrate who held the office (termed dogate) for life. The first of them in Venice, Paolucclo Anapeste, was called to the dignity in 697, when Venice had scarcely risen to the importance of a city, and he and his successors ruled it as sovereigns with nearly absolute power. When the state grew mightier, both on land and sea, through commerce and conquests, the nobles continually strove to check the power and influence of their elective head, and the government became more and more republican, until the dogate became a magistracy, and finally a mere title. One of the most noted of the doges was Sebastiano Ziani (1173), who introduced the custom of marrying the sea (Adriatic) by throwing a ring into its waters, on Ascension Day. The office was destroyed with the state, in 1797 by the French under Bonaparte. Lodovico Manin, elected in 1788, was the seventy-third and last doge.

Will you kindly inform me why Bethel street, from Fairmount avenue to Fayette street, is not being paid and the ordinance for grading and paving has been signed by the Mayor? INQUIRE.

The City Commisioner is now making the prelimmary arrangements to establish the grade of the street, and is now advertising for that purpose.

In the stamp flirtation, what might be the sentiment of a stamp in the right-hand corner at the top of envelope, being place across the corner upside down? A lady was the receiver. LETTER-WRITER, Hagerstown, Md.

the "code" does not, specify any such arrangement. If it has any meaning, it is that of an earnest request for a reply. such a nosition is frequently the result of carelessness. Look underneath the stamp for message.

(a.) In addressing a young lady, should you say "Yes, miss" or "Yes, ma'am"? (b.) Is it correct to address a young unmarried lady as "Yes, miss"? MRS. G. M. T., Macon, Mo. (a.) The former expression is the correct one. (b.) Certainly. Our English word "miss" is the nearest approach we have to the French "mademoselle", which means an unmarried lady, a single woman, a girl.

Will you please give me a short history of Charlotte Bronte? SHANE-NA-LAWN.

This English novelist, who wrote under the pseudonym of "Curre Bell." was born at Thornton, in Yorkshite, on April 21, 1816, Her father, Patrick Bronte (orignally Prunt)y, was an eccentric man, and became curate of Haworth, Yorkshire, in 1830. Losing her mother in 1821, Charlotte was sent to a boarding school, where her health was impaireg by impure air and [all?] wholesome food. She then taught school until in 1842, when she and her sister Emiy went to Brussels to learn French. In 1846, with her sisters Emily and Anne, she published a volume entitled "Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell." She then wrote the wonderfully dramatic novel of "Jane Eyre," followed by "Shirley," "Vilette, and "The Professor." In 1854 she married her father's assistat, Mr. Nichols, and died the next year. Will you be kind enough to inform me whether or not a buck deer sheds his horns once a year? W. H. SHEARER

Some species of the deer do so, and others do not. The hart (buck) of the red deer sheds his antlers in the spring, and then retires to an unfrequented part of the grove or forest, while his new horns are growing, a full set appearing by august. The American elk, common in the Northwestern states, has tall, branching horns, sometimes six feet high, which ae shed every Februaury or March. The name is properly applied only to animals with deciduous horns.

(a.) What kind of coal is the best to use in a latrobe or other stove in a sitting room? (b.) What is the Susquehanna coal mostly used for, and what kind of coal is it? (c.) What are the prices of the different kinds of coal in Batimore? LOUDOUN.

(a.) A hard Susquehanna or white ash of No. 2 or No. 3. There is such a variety of this grade of stove that it is impossible to answer your question accurately, unless we know its size, the draught of the chimney, etc. The maker of the stove could readily tell you. (b) For heatiing purposes or for cooking where there is a good draft. (c.) The prices vary for the different grades from $5.75 to $9. To obtain a shedule of prices address E. Stabler, Jr. & Co., or some other leading coal dealer of this city.

Can you tell me who is the author of the story called "Cadet Days at West Point," and where the story can be bought, or be had? A. K. R.

We know of no work by that title. There is a "Manuel of Information about the Military Academy." written by Lieut. Ed. S. Farron, and the "West Point Scrap Book" of legends, stories, songs, etc., by C. E. Wood, a large volume, sold for $5.00.

Will you furnish me with an opinion as to the origin of the marks, resembling plants, on the enclosed stone, which was taken from a well ten or fifteen feet deep> GEOLOGIST, Hagerstown, Md.

The stone is a species of slate found beneath the Potsdam sandstone, and the fern-like impressions are dendrite coverings. Another stone was rested upon or against it, and the constant expansion and contraction of the soil has caused these two pieces of stone to rub against each other and thus form the "plant marks." Dendrite is the name applied to a peculiar mineral containing internally, or having it surface covered wit filamentary forms resembling moss, ferns, trees, etc. The moss, agate and mocha stone are examples.

Wha was the probable costume of St. Paul at the time of his conversion? ARTIST, Washington, D. C.

The Syrian-Hebrew dress was that of a loose gown, reaching nearly to the ankles, with scarf-belt, a cloak or heavy mantle would about the body and thrown over the shoulder, trimmed or tasseled, a turban, skull cap or conical-shaped fez, and sandals. a variation of the dress was a sleeveness coat reaching to the knees, and one long under-garment, partly cloak and partly a robe or dress, These were in parti-colors or bright figured raiment. You know of the Tyrian purple, naturally. With this were worn soft leather or skin shoes, or elastic nature, low cut and braided. You are referred to the illustrated German work by Dr. Carl Rohrback.

Is there a drama or play bearing the title of "Damon and Pythias, "and if so, who is the author? Reference to an encyclopoedia does not give me the desired information. NUISANCE, Cumberland, Md.

Yes, there is a play in five acts, bearing the title, written by John Banim and arranged as it was acted by Edwin Forrest.

A receives a United States pension and owew B a debt. Can B attach the pension? If not . what course must B purse to ger the money? INTERESTED

A man marries a woman and they buy a small property, the deed being made in the wife's name. One hundred dollars is paid down, and the balance is secured by mortgage. At the end of eight years they separate, and are childless. The mortgage remains unpaid, excepting the interest and taxes, which they have paid jointly. The house was furnished by the wife with money earned previous to their marriage. If the holder of the mortgage is willing, can the wife hold this property and prevent the husband from selling it and her household goods? W. W. S. T., Cecil country, Md. Yes

Where does the article cork come from, and what is it? J. STEVENS.

It is the outer bark of the evergreen oak, quercus suber. It is not the true bark or skin of the tree through which the sap circulates, but a spongy layer of cellular tissue formed outside it. After a few years this outer covering falls off. In Spain and Portugal, the great cork-growing countries, this process is anticipated, for the bark is removed every six or eight years, the trees continuing to yield good crops for 100 to 150 years. 'Corks, as stoppers, were used in the days of Cato - 201 B. C. "Lighter than Cork" is an Horatian simile. The peculiar cork stoppers for champagne bottles were invented \by a Benedictine monk, name Perignon, at the Abbey of Hautvilliers, about A. D. 1670. The name is derived from cortex, the bark of a tree.

Will you kindly inform we what day of the week July 28, 1835, fell on? E. E. E. It came on Tuesday.

Note. - Among the lists of fast runnng by railroad trains is that of the flying trip of Baltimore and Philadelphia journalists from Philadelphia to Cape May by special train, eighty-two miles in eight-three minutes, on April 22, 1882.

Please give me the name or address of some agent of official of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

SUBSCRIBER, Havre-de-Grace, Md. Address Mr. Charles Montaque of this city.

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Baltimore American [sketch of Statue of Liberty and other items] AND COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1886 THE NEWS Weather indications for to-day; For District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. fair weather, southerly winds, becoming variable; nearly stationary temperature. For Eastern New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, fair weather, westerly winds; slight changes in temperature. For West Virginia, fair weather, southerly winds; slightly warmer.

David Nero, the colored religious imposter, who was to evangelize Africa, has been convicted in England - A terrific gale prevailed in the British Isles, doing incalculable damage. In the Campbell divorce suit yesterdy, while Colin Campbell was testifying, Blood, his irate father-in-law, shook his fist in his face and called him a liar. - The Presbytery of Victoria protest against French occupation of the New Hebrides. - Archbishiop Walsh has warned the British government against its present policy in Ireland. - Several of the Belfast rioters have been tried and convicted. - M. Goblet has very reluctantly consented to form a French ministry. - Mr. Joseph W. Harper, United States Consul at Munich, is dead. - Count Kalnosky received the Bulgarian delegation. - The Czar of Russia drank Emperor William's health at a banquet. - Russian and Turkish securties have tumbled on the Berlin Bourse, owing to a growing fear of war. - The jury in the case of Arthur Moreton, ailas Rev. Theodore Keating, on trial in Dublin, as disagreed.

The Police Board yesterday retired Captain Delanty, of the Southern District, on a pension, and appointed Lieutenant Claiborne, of the Western Station, to the postion. - A large number of weddings occured in the city and state. - The Baltimore and Ohio directors re-elected Mr. Robert Garret president. He made a statement, showing the progress and plans of the company. - Capt. Andrew Spier, of Cumberland, president of the Biaen Avon Coal Company, died in this city at the residence of Major Shaw. - A reception was given to Rev. Albert Studebaker, the new pastor of the First English Lutheran Church. - Mrs. John E. Owens has received from many friends messages of condolence and tributes to her husband, who died on Tuesday.

In the United States Senate yesterday bills were introduced providing for examinations of army officers for promotion, and for a monument to negro soldiers. Senator Blair made a speech favoring the constitutional amendment for women suffrage, and the correspondence on the Canadian fisheries matter with Great Britain was submitted by the President. - In the House of Representative a bill was passed amending the statutes as to the rank and pay of officers in the volunteer service, and the electoral count bill was discussed and notification given that the previous question would be called on it to-day.

The full correspondence in the Candadian fishery disputes is made public. It makes very interesting reading. The urgent letters and arguments of Secretary Bayard and Minister Phelps are treated with scant courtesy. They press the rights of the United States fishermen aggresively, and say that Great Britain will be held responsibile for all seizures and for all injuries done. the matter is now before Congress. - The Society of the Army of the Cumberland will meet in Washington on the 11th and 12th of May, 1887. - The Bell Telephone suit will be brought in Boston by the government. - Col. Wm. G. Moore has been appointed chief of the Washington police force. - The President still suffers from rheumatism - Thomas Moonlight, of Kansas, has been appointed governor of Wyoming Territory. - Mrs. Cleveland has returned to the White HOuse. - John C. Miller, of Hyattsville, Md., was shot on the streets of Washington by George N. Walker, brother of Major Walker, late chief of police. - Minnie Raymond, who was shot by John Roe, who subsequently killed himself, died yesterday. - Afternooon receptions occurred at the residences of Secretaries Whitney and Endicott. - Senator Gorman and State Treasurer Archer had a consultation at the Capitol.

The ocean steamship rate war continues in New York. - A seam of anthracite coal seven feet six inches in diameter has been stuck at Bauff, N. W. T. - Jennie Saxton, charged with forgery at Burlington, Vt. failed to secure bail. - The United States Commissioner in New York decides that mail on the top of a mail-box is not in custody of the government. -One hundred foreigners from the West were at the Union Station in Pittsburg, on their way back to their home in the old country. - Wellington Goddin, one of the oldest real estate dealers in Richmond, is dead. - Governor Lee has respited Cluverius until January 14. - Colonel Lamb has sued the Richmond Whig for $10,000 for publishing George A. Wise's card. - The Alabama legislature is rushing local option bills through without objecttion. - Isaac Lea, LL.D. a distinguished American naturalist, is dead in Philadelphia. - A New York saloon-keeper swore yesterday that he had been paying $2 per month for eighteen months for police protection while keeping his side door open on Sundays. - A riot broke out at Ameterdam, N. Y., among unemployed mill hands, several of whom were injured. - The steamers of the electric line, from Wilmingron to New York, have been wihdrawn.

There was a $200,000 fire in Buffalo, N. Y. - A dynamite explosion near Fort Smith, Ark., killed two and fatally wounded three person.- Leander Shellengerger has been found guilty, at Nebraska City, of murdering his eleven-year-old daughter. - A part of brutes in Texas disembowled James Connor, a colored man, on suspicion of robbing the mails. - Miners are leaving Pennsylvania for Colorado. - Another earthquake shock in Columbia. - The steamer Allentown is still ashore on Pedock's Island. - Missouri City was shaken up. - Five men of the steamer Knickerbocker were drowned off the Delaware capes while trying to a a schooner. - D. & J. Maguire, extensive shipowners of Quebect, are in difficulties, with liabilities of $500,000. - The jury in the trial of ex-Alderman McQuade has been completed. - Jansen, the wife murderer in Chicago, who has been starving himself, was forced to swallow food.

Which does the President prefer - aggressive politics or aggressive rheumatics?

Just for the sake of keeping his hand in, Jay Gould has bought another railroad.

The Patti company took away $7,600, the price of 1,520 sleigh rides. Just thin of it!

WILL a Daniel now be called to judgement - a just and upright judge? It is earnestly hoped that such will be the case.

SAN FRANCISCO's stock speculators seem to be sowing the wind and reaping the blizzard both at the same time.

A CHICAGO Socialist in New York announce that he believe he has no soul. His friends say he is a close observer, too.

How many people, we wonder, have read all of the President's message? Probably not one in a thousand. And yet, every citizen should read it.

ONE of the reasons that led Judge Fisher to resign was the bad air of the court rooms. this should call attention anew to a glaring evil that needs correction.

MADAME PATTI will doubtless be warmly received in Mexico, but a much warmer reception at the hands of the Mexicans awaits that bogus ticket-seller and spurious agent.

DON'T read your neighbor's newspaper, A New Yorker, who it was proved had not paid is board bil for nineteen years, began his downward career by pilfering newspapers.

JUDGING from recent movements in the petroleum market two or three new Russian "gushers" must have been discovered in which the Standard Oil Company have no financial interest.

RARELY has Mr. Gould, directly or indirectly, received such a rebuke as that administered by Judge Gresham, in deciding the Wabash Railroad case. The action of the court will be hailed with general satisfaction by all holders of railroad securities.

[Howard Chandler or Chrizty. 1903?] Sketch of an man and woman, holding a red umbrella sitting on the ground. With several people in the distance.

[2 articles] [first article] A PLEASANT WEDDING RECEPTIONS. Mt. Delight, the Cheery Country Home of \R. Parker McFarland, the Scene, and the Event for His Son and Bride. A very delightful evening was spent Friday, the 9th inst., at Mt. Delight, near Mercersburg, the home of R. P. McFarland, Esq.. The occasion was a reception tendered by this venerable father to his son, our esteemed friend T. F. McFarland and his young beautiful bride. About seventy persons responded to invitations that had been sent them, notwithstanding the inclement weather, and none regretted having braved the ride through mud and rain to get there. All this effort was rewarded when inside the house by light and warmth and cheer.

Standing with the happy groom and his loving bride, helping to receive the guests, were Miss Nan McCullough, of Mercersburg, and Miss Blanch Bard, of Chambersburg, and. In the words of a guest, "truly a trio of beauty, grace and charm, in their handsome white gowns." Elegant refreshments, interspersed with with songs from Prof. Irvine, of Mercersburg College, and Miss Maud L. Ground, of Leitersburg, Md., and recitations by Mrs. Rev. J. G. Rose, of Mercersburg, all of which was very much enjoyed and applauded.

About midnight the guest reluctantly left the cheer and brightness of the old mansion and went out into the darkness, through rain and mud, to their various homes, being guided by a lantern in order to keep in the road and our of the ruts.

Mrs. McFarland is but the second bride that has been taken into this old homestead, which has stood and been owned by the McFarlands for nearly one hundred and fifty years, though a number of brides have gone our therefrom.

[second article] A Beautiful Wedding at Sandy Spring. More than one hundred of the friends of Chas. and Sarah E. Stabler were invited to their lovely home, "The Cottage," on the afternoon of the 18th inst. The occasion was the marriage of their youngest daughter, Mariana to Robert Hartshorne Miller, the superintendent of the Experimental Station of the Maryland Agricultural College.

The ceremny was that peculiar to the Society of Friends - and was rendered in a beautiful and impressive manner.

The marriage certificate proclaiming them man and wife, after receiving their signatures, was read to the assembly by Dr. Mahlon Kirk and was afterward signed by all present as witnesses to the solemn contract.

The contracting parties being well known and very popular, were the recipients of many elegant presents, both useful and ornamental.

Mr. Miller is one of the largest and most successful farmers in this vicinity, and when appointed to take charge of the Experimental Station, soon proved to be "the right man in the right place."

The bride, a beautiful blonde, wore white silk, was enveloped in a tulle-veil, and it can be truly said combined the "three graces" to remarkable degree.

After an extended trip north Mr. and Mrs. Miller will reside at Alloway, the beautiful home of the groom.

70 GIFT TO MR. JORDAN STABLER Business Associates Present Him With Loving Cup On Birthday. A pleasant surprise was given to Mr. Jordan Stabler on Monday night, when the members of the company bearing his name and the office forces and salesmen of the main and branch stores gathered at Mr. Stabler's house in a body, numbering about 50, to pay their respects to him upon the occasion of his birthday.

Mr. R. L. Bentley, the vice-president of the company, in a few well-chosen words presented to Mr. Stabler, in the name of those assembled and as a token of their esteem and regard, a solid silver loving cup, handsomely chased, and engraved as follows: [insert} Presented to MR. JORDAN STABLER On his Sixtry-fifth birthday, January 16,1905, By his associates in the Jordan Stabler Company.

Completely taken by surprise, Mr. Stabler in feeling terms thanked the donors for their valuable gift. After the inter-change of social greetings the party adjourned to the dining room, where the family, having been in the secret, a supper was in readiness, the center of the table being decorated wih an enormous birthday cake which blazed with the appropriate number of candles. At the end of a very enjoyable evening all present wished Mr. Stabler many happy returns of the day.