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Seizure of a British Schooner at Portland, Me. The Vessel and Oargo of Mackerel in Charge of Customs Offloials. There is great excitement here, says a dis-' patch from Portland, Me, This morning Captain Jesse Bills entered nt the Custom [ HOUSD his schooner Sisters from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, with a cargo of 80,000 mackerel, taken last Wednesday, and consigned by W. A. Kellain, of Yarmouth, to F. F. Clement & Co,, of this city. Captain Ellis signed the ouatomary oath that his report and manifest oorrootly described the cargo of his vessel, Fii'Sli Deputy Collector Colesmith then asked for the manifest. \ I have not any,\ replied Captain Ellis, Mr. Colesmith expressed hi3 sorrow that the Captain should have been caught without his papers, but told him nothing conld be done in his case, that ho must in the usual course pay the fine imposed by law. \How much!\ asked the captain. \Five hundred dollars,\ replied Mr. Cole- smith. \The little sohooner won't bring that,\ said the captain, who presented a picture of distress; Nothing could bo done for Mm, and Sur- veyor Bradbury sent Inspootor Home to take formal charge of the schooner. This done, Captain Ellis and his crew were allowed to go ondiseharging their cargo of 20,000 maofc- erel. I t was pathetic to see the Captain aud crew of the wretched little sohooner dis- charging the cargo that the Government of the United States will claim. Cap- tain Ellis counted out the fish, but he hod little heart in his work. He was asked what he had to say. In a broken voice he re- plied: \Nothing.\ Alone and tending the windlass was one of the crew, who was more inclined to talk. He said: \I'll get my pay, won't I? It can't be that I'll be left hero without a dollar. What have I done? What has the skipper done? We didn't doanythihg more than common. They won't take the schooner from us. will they?\ Another of the orew thought it must be all right, because the fish areasgood as fheyican be, Sooretary Bayard hasibeeninformeoV of the seizure. •v^i'i?f J^#! l >-8PW s %J'.tf .ftb-B' /Pjdrtlana'': theSistera-ftill do sgoqd,;,•ShV cranes 'here- from-a.port so near Digby that the fellows : up there will hear of it; The matter having been referred to Secretary Bayard, he will be obliged to take notice of it,\ Capt, Ellis is a well made, broad-chested young fellow, with a frank, honest face After thinking the matter over he concluded that matters might have been worse. He said: \This is pretty rough on me. being my first trip as master. Wo caught the fish last Wednesday and thought we'd make a good thing of it. We were in a great hurry and forgot everything.\ \What do you think of the fishery dis- pute?\ \It's bad for us poor fellows; bod for both sides. We just want to make a living and we are seized.\ \Have you notified your owners?\ \No; Ishallatoi.ee ,\ \What do you propose to do?\ \Stay here until I get orders to board the schooner or do something elso. I want to say one thing more,\ he added; \If it hadn't been for this excitement and the seizure of the Ella M. Doughty, I'd have been let alone. My poor little schooner was soized because of the troubles at Digby.\ The following is the law under which the Sisters will beheld: \If the master of any vessel loaded with merehondise and bouud to any port in the. United States fails, upon bis arrival within four leagues of the const thereof, or within the limits of any collection district where the cargo of said vessel, or any part thereof, is intended to bo discharged, to produce such manifests as are heretofore required in writ- ing to the proper officer upon demand therefor, or to deliver such copies there- of according to the directions of the preceding sections, or, if ho fails to give an account of the true destination of the vessel, which he is hereby required to do upon re- quest of such officer, or gives a false account of such destination in order to evade the pro- duction of the manifest, the master shall, for every such neglect, refusal, or offensq, be liable to a penalty of not more than 4000.\ A Washington dispatch.says: \Messrs. Goorge W. Biddle, of Philadelphia, and Wil- liam L. Putnam, of Portland, Me., have been retained by the United States Government t o represent its interests in the trials arising from the seizuro of the fishing vessels, David J. Adams and Ella M. Doughty, by\ the Canadian authorities for alleged violation of the customs laws. In tho British House of Commons, says a London dispatch, Mr. Osborne Morgan, Under Secretary, said, in regard to the seiz- ure of the fishing schooners David J. Adams and Ella M. Doughty by the Canadian au- thorities, that a cable message had been received from Minister West, at Wash- ington, saying that a dispatch was oh the way t o London embodying com- munications on the subject with the United States Government. The Under Secretary added that \when the communications arrive they will be considered in a friendly spirit with duo regard to the complete maintenance of the fishery rights of our fellow-subjects in Canada.\ Eastern »nd Mldalo States, f WBNTY-TWO' Troy (8, Y.) collar and cuff manufacturing firms, have looked out their employes, comprising about 8,000 girlstind women. The cause of the look-out is a strike for higher wages of the 750 employes of one firm. About 10,000 persons are affected by tho stoppage. MAINS fishermen are greatly oxdited over the seizure of the sohooner Ella M, Doughty by the Canadian authorities for violation of the fishery laws. They talk of arming their vessels and resisting arrest if they are not proteoted by the. Government. COLONEL JOHN B. FOLSOM, grandfather of Miss Frankio Folsom, the young lady en- gaged to be married to President Cleveland, died the other day nt Folsbmville, N. Y. President Cleveland was the law partner in Buffalo of the Colonel's late son, Oscar, ALDERMAN JABHNE. convicted of, taking a bribe of $30,000 for his vote in aid of tho Broadway railroad charter, was sentenced in New York, on the 20th. to State prison for nine years arid ten months. The highest sen- tence possible for the offense is ten years and a heavy fine, Application for a stay of pro- ceedings was made by Jaehne's counsel to an- other judge, but refused. Jaohne utterly broke down after sentence was passed. He was conveyed to Sing Sing prison on theiSlst and began his life as a convict. He was put at work starching shirts In the prison laun- dry. THE New York Legislature has. adjourned for the session, A FISHING schooner heavily armed is re- ported to have left Boston for the Banks of Newfoundland, determined to resist any at- tempted seizure by the Canadians, LOUJS WILLETT was hanged at Kingston, N. Y., for the murder of Edwin Kelland, his employer, the motive being robbery. DR. DIO LEWIS, author and hygienio re- former, died nt his home in Yonkors, N. Y., on the 21st, aged sixty-three years. SAMUEL HAND, ex-Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, is dead. PETER S. OTTO was hanged at Buffalo, N. Y., for wifo murder. , A NEW YORK Commercial Agenoy reports that .though 250,000 men have been on strike m this country a t one time or another since April 24, there were at no one time more than 125000 t employees out, and that this number fell to 80,000 between May 12th and May 17, and to about 48,000 by May 20. The heaviest losses by the strike were from de- layed or cancelled contraots, and the build- ing trades suffered most. The total loss on building contracts in ten cities is estimatod at $20,400,000. .'s.'iC'i','.j» : , -South, and ^Vest.. January^' ISST* 'The iJemoeratic Senators, who left'the State so they would not be com- pelled t o take part in the proceedings, did not retjirn, but went direct from Kentucky to their homes. MRS. MARGARET DONNAN, a widow living in Lincoln county, W. Va., cut thethroats of her three daughters, aged twelve, ten and eight years, and then killed herself. She had become insane from religious excitement. A WARM personal canvass for the Gover- norship of Georgia is going on between Gen- eral John B. Gordon and Major A. O. Bacon. The two candidates have been hold- ing joint discussions on the stump, and con- siderable feeling has been displayed. THE Grand Jury at Belleville, 111., has re- fused to indict the Deputy Sheriffs who fired upon a mob in East St. Louis during the recent railroad strike aud killed six persons. WALLACE (Dem.) has been elected to Con- gress from the New Orleans District by about SjOOO majority. He succeeds the late Mr. Halm (Rep.) THREE men were hanged on the 21st, as follows: James Reynolds, at Sidney, Neb., for the murder of John Pinkerton and his son James Pinkerton; Leo Barnes, a gamb- ler.Jat Dover, Ark., for the murder and rob- bery of Charles Holhnan, and Lewis Kilgore (colored) at Raleigh, N. C, for the murder of Mattie Henderson, a disreputable woman. MARTIN IRONS, whose action prolonged the recent strike in the Southwest, is accused of misappropriating the funds entrusted to him by the Knights of Labor for distribution, and has become a fugitive, leaving many creditors behind. Doss and cats are charged with spreading smallpox in Indiana. Washington. THE rejection by the Senate of the nomina- tion of C. W. Button to be Postmaster at Lynchburg, Va., has been officially an- nounced. A BILL is before Congress to prohibit own- ership by foreigners of lands in the Terri- tories. THE House Committee on the Judiciary has instructed Chairman Tucker to report. favorably an amendment to the Constitution declaring polygamy unlawful. A WASHINGTON special of the 24th stated that President Cleveland's marriage to Miss Folsom had been first fixed for June 9. but that owing to the death of Colonel Folsom\ grandfather of the bride-elect, it might bs , postponed to July or August. JOHN C, CALLAHAN, a Washington painter, has entered a civil suit for $oM0 damages against cortain members of the Journeymen House Painters' Assembly, Knights of Labor, for boycotting him, thereby destroying his business. Foreign. AcONSPiRACYagaiustthelives of t'rinoe Alexander, the Bulgarian ruler, and M. Karavelof, the Prime Minister, has been dis- covered. UNITED (STATES MINISTER COX has just had a thimhours,' interview with the Sultan of Turkey in Constantinople, Tho American Minister presontad to the Sultan gifts sent! by President) Cleveland, consist- ing of a thousand views of scen- ery in difforont parts .of the United States, portraits of celebrated, and typical Indians, copies of the last census reports, etc, The Sultan was well pleased with the presents, and requested Mr, Cox to thank President Cleveland for the \unique and valuable gifts,\ A NEW ministry has been formed in Greece. ADVICES from China state that one of tho Imperial palacqs, built at a cost of 83,000,000, has boon destroyed by fire. During April 1J,000 persons died of Buiull-pox at Jassam. PRESIDENT HALLS , of the Frankfort (Germany) Olty Council, has absconded, after falsifying his accounts to conceal a defalcation of M50.000 marks. PREMIER GLADSTONE at last accounts was reported to bo gahiing new adherents to. his proposed bill providing for Irish home rule, and it was stated the measure would be likely to pass by a small majority. THE Turks and Greeks have been fighting on the frontier, many being, wounded on both sides. PROFESSOR LEOPOLD VO N RANKS , the celebrated German historian, is dead in his ninety-first year. HOW EMPLOYERS OUGHT TO TJBEAT EMPLOYES. LATER HEWS. . THE discovery of another big well in the Pennsylvania oil field has caused a tumble in potroleum. FIRE has destroyed the main building of Harrison's Chemical Works, Philadelphia— tho largest of the kind in the conufcry. The loss oxcoeds 8100,000. A CAN of kerosene exploded Si the house of Michael Feohan, a miner, near Mt. Pleas- ant, Penn. Three of his childre i, whoihad been playing with the can until it ignited, were burned to death. R. S. SPOFFORD, of Newburyport, Mass., attorney for the American Fisheries Union, says that the inland fishermen will unite with New England in opposing future treaties with Canada bearing on that industry. THE prospects are good for large Western grain crops. THE Knights of Labor convened in general assembly at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 24tb, ; representatives of the Order from alMyeri tho Union being in attendance. The discus- ,ri6n.jj^ad|iuj5^en^f^difl!erenpes ; betwgahj ffiffKuigntaanditradMlinwhW'a**cli5nge^ the laws of the order made necessary by a\ too rapid increase in membership, and the poworlessness of the General Executive Board to prevent strikes and boycotting, were the questions to which General Master Workman Powderly had directed attention in his call. THE President has vetoed four more private pension bills on the ground that the claim- ants were not entitled to the monSy voted them by Congress. The claims of all four bad previously been rejected by the Pension Bureiu. MANY Turks were killed and the Greek General Loris was mortally wounded in recent engagements on the frontier. The Greek losses before Grizovali were 150 killed and wounded. Quiet has been restored by an armistice. A FATAL PBOPflHT. Many Thousands o f Sheep Dead and Dying In Texas. Major Bash, a United States Army Pay- master, who has just returned to San An- tonio, Texas, from a trip through the centre of tho sheep grazing section of the State, re- ports that terrible drought prevails in Pre- sidio, Pecos, and Crockett Counties. These counties embrace an area somewhat exceed- ing the acreage of the State of Maine. Until a fortnight ago the larger part of this coun- try had not been visited by a heavy rain for eighteen months, and a recent rain proves to have done very little good, as the earth was so parched that the water, instead of filling the small streams and reservoirs, was soaked up b y the burning prairies. Major Bash says that for many miles, as far as the eye can reach, the country is bare of vegetation, not even weeds growing, Hundreds of small streams are entirely dried up, and water, even for living purposes, is sparingly dealt out at the ranches. He re- lates several instances that came under his observation, showing the terrible effect of the drought on sheep and cattle. On the Meyer- halff ranch, out of 6,000 cattle, 8,000 have died within the ,pastmonth, and the prairie is literally strewn with gaunt carcasses, sur- rounded b y hundreds of huge huzzards. On another ranch 3,000 sheep have died, while one of the largest flock masters was com- pelled to kill SjOuO lambs and a neighboring herder killed 1,200 lambs because their moth- ers were too weak from starvation to afford them nourishment. Bash describes the situ- ation in this far West country as terrible boyohd.deseription. The shepherds told him I,that unless rains' fell shortly every human * being and domestic animal would be com- pelled to vacate that district and move to the north of Texas. Toxt: \If ye bite nnd devour ono another, take boed that yo be not consumed one of an- other. \—Galatians v, 15. \Look not every man on his own thing*, but every man also on the things of others.\ —Phillippiaus ii, 4. The labor agitation will'soon cease, and all theimills w\l oe reopened, and nil tho rail- trains resume traffic* and all our national prosperities start again. Of course it will be some time before the country recovers from the damage of tho strikes, Strikes always damage laborers more than they do capital-' iats. During this strike the laboring classes have lost—never to recover—one hundred mil- lion dollars. I t does not make, much differ- ence to every successful capitalist whether he has fifty thousand dollars loss or fifty thousand dollars more; but' when a man is dependent upon tho day's waites it . makes the difference be- tween bread and n o bread, between home and ho home. Spasmodically wages maybe higher,'but as a result of such things wages get lowor. Boycotting, violonceahqf murder never pay.. They are different stages of an- archy. The poorest use • you can put.a man to is t o kill him. To-niorrow, blew up all the fine residences on the Hudson River, and all the great houses on Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill and Ritterhouso Square and Beacon street, and all the stones and timber and brick will merely fall.back on the bare head of American labor. The worst ene- mies of the working classes are their demented coadjutors. The assassination of Lord Cavendish nnd Mr, Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, to avenge tho wrongs- of that unhappy country, had no result ex- cept to turn away the sympathies of millions of people from that afflicted land. The at- tempt two or three years ago to blow u p the- Pnriiament Houses of England badonly one result, and that to. turn out of employment thousands of the Irish who had work in England. In this country tho torch applied to factories that have dischargod hands, whether for good or bad reasons; obstacles put on the rail tracks in front o£ midnight express trains because they do not like the- President of the company; tho sudden throwing up of work on shipboard just be- fore they are going to sail, or in printing- office, just before they are going to press, or in the mines just before they are to> deliver the coal, or on the house scaffolding so that.' the builder cannot meet his contract—alltb^sf oplyi.cripples, American; labo> and pierceMits, heart. All the sudden trap3 set for empliiyi ers.nev.er yet put one farthing ih : the callous, jjgohJi^ie^ria^untSd ( ;0ne Shottf fyMjjM \>• of*. civllftatibV Mark' that, «iy brother; my' sistjer., Frederick the•.,',, -'Greatf.. admired a farm near his palace afe.'i Potsdam. The form was owned by a miller, ' Tho King offered him three times the value of the farm, but the miner would not sellit, because it wasthe old homestead, and he felt- about i t just as Naboth felt about the vine- yard when Abab wanted it. The King or- dered the miller to come into his presence. Tha King with a stick in his hand with which- he sometimes struck his officers of state, said to themiller: \Now if you don't sell that to' me I'll take it anyhow.\ \No you won't,, your Majesty,\ said the miller, \no. you won't.\ \Yes I will,\ said the- King. \ I am King and I've a right to take it.\ \No you won't,\ said the- miller, \if your Majesty takes my farm, Til sue you in the Chancery Court.\ And the- Jaw loomed up and the King backed down. But I have to tell you that tho most out- rageous wrong inflicted upon the working classes will yet come before the law. Vio- lence and against the law achieves nothing, but righteousness and according to law will achieve everything. I t is most important at this point in the discussion, in this series of sermons which I am preaching on Sab- bath mornings, and which I shall continue- , for three or four Sabbath mornings more, to- set forth the fact that the honest, industri- ous workingraen of this country have no- sympathy with anarchy or outlawry, and to prove it I read from the newspaper organ of the Knights of Labor. I read from the first page in large letters this vehement dis- claimer: \Let it be understood b y all the world that the Knights of Labor have no affiliating as- sociation, sympathy or respect for the band of cowardly murderers, cutthroats and rob- bers known ns anarchists, who sneak through the country like midnight assassins, stirring up the passions of ignorant foreigners, un- furling the red flag of anarchy and causing- riot and bloodshed. All their followers, sym- pathizers, aiders and abettors shall be sum- marily dealt with; They are entitled to no more consideration than wild beasts. Tho leaders are cowards and their followers are fools.\ So declares the chief organ of the Knights, of Labor. Well, all tb.8 agitation, as I say, will soon be gone, but there are some very important things to be uttered. Now, all this discussion of the philosophy of the sub- ject does not touch me a bit. I simply want t o know what is my duty and what is your duty in the crisis. Tne vast majority are- divided into two classes—employers and em- ployes. The chasm between the employer and theemploye is getting wider and wider. You know the time was when the master- builder, the boss w rkmenaud'the capitalist toiled side by sidp with the laborer at the same bench, B'^X there are niany people in this house who remember the time when the clerks of great commercial establishments boarded with the headman of the firm; that the chasm between the employer and employe is getting wider and wider, and thetempta-
