LADIES’ DEPARTMENT, | Extracts From the Diary ol nn Washington olte, * You conld write seven volumes about Washington,” a young lady said, who knew it thoroughly, and felt that every man born with a gold {or even a steel) pen in his hand should add his quota of comment. The precision of her state ment as to the quantity leaves no room for doubting its acenracy. But as the volumes are at present not forthcoming we must content ourselves with a few extracts from the unpublished diary of a young belle. “ January 13.--Since the New Year re- ceptions I've been to a dozen dinndrs and dances, two or three receptions every day and made about say nothing of those which Aunt G and I have received. My head's ina whirl, and I'm dreadfully happy February 1.— well-filled who is goal it up. The 8) pay with a tom. One dollar | “500” cut from revenue Stamps and past. ed nearly over the real The gillie w y thi 31 1 dollars mn } Px weketho tor BAYS, RL am i falo and have reward, You take the poe ketbook. or 1,000 dollars, slips of few good] bi ls on the to lls with the are used. give He will ¢ r to seek sorue se over the m the Iriek hi i honght that he » ht AN had exp 1 The ’ “enve lope "18 a dodge ed at agricultural fairs stands in a ecarmage tion on a platform. 811 ine Or ooo In He SAYS, each open. places a § dollar | one aud “Who w dollars for a choice ¥ i sticking out in plain view, taker found, He places 18 will give five dollars for the buyer 8O124 WN the Envedls bib ir, “Now.” he eries, “I will give yon an opportunity to obtain a 100 do Har bill for half its price. This is preli minary to my in ness, and I take this means of adv ing myself” A slit is ent inthe of the envelope, and the folded lengthwise, i and seized bv .the fing pays his 50 dollars and takes the enve 1 The hill fingers, and he, seems to pull it from t h e saving as he does chose the wrong enveld pe. er has made as dolls ars cle Wr. The “bounce” “what fools these operator gels up in and cries, “I am here as the ag Dr. Montgomery's lightning extra and I have a new method of adver rising, Instead of covering the JOT. . A ope, + Sof ft : 3 oy sO, » mortals be.” his wagon at with startling snnouncements, 1 AWAY money to the peop le, distribute twenty these boxes and sell you the extractor for 3 dollars a box.” The operator pre- tends to be selling soap in boxes, places pieces of revenue stamps large number of boxes with sticking out. The stamps money, and easily deceive crowds, The boxes are figured gilt paper. taining the money the diamonds point one way, and those containing stamps the other. The ones in which the money has been placed are carefully selected from the others, and the “gril. | lies” are allowed to pay 3 dollars apiece for worthless revenue stamps. Before | the sale begins the buyers are told that | they must not open the boxes until the sale is concluded. The operator knows that they will open the boxes as soon as they get them in their hands, If they give look like covered with crowd will simply langh at them, The operator in the mateh trick which cries, “Who will ‘give me 2 dollars apiece for these matches?’ “Cappers” buy the matches and he inquires “are vou satis fied?” They reply “ves” and.he them 3 dolla apiece back for matches. He then sells several matches at 3 dollars apiece and buys them back 1 at 4 dollars, By this time the “gillies” are interested and they buy at 5 dollars, “Are you satisfied?” asks the operstor. “Yes.” “Wall, 80 am 1.” and off but matches for their money. The ring dodge is old, but victims are easily found. The operator says to his | vietim “My mother is dying and I have It cost 15 dollars, 1 will sell it for 5 dollars.” The ring bears some initials or date inside and the buy- er thinks that this fact is an indication of genuineness. The ring is silver, { plated with gold and costs 4R cents. apparatus sells a roll of what appears to | be genuine bills amounting to 4,000 or | 5,000 dollars. The operator goes toa registering counts the | money in the presence of the elerk or | proprietor and putting it in an envelope | asks that it shall be placed in the safe, The operator borrows 25 or 50 dollars While not new, the ' dodge is successful, number of pawn tickets printed. He | fills these out, for instance, for a dimmond | ring valued at 250 dollars, upon which 40 dollars bas been secured. The ring The | operator tells the victim that he cannot | obtain money to pay the advance, and | “pawn ticket’ pawn ticket for 20 dollus. A tickets may be sold before the fraud is { detected. In some instances the “crook” getually puts up his watch and sells a number of counterfeit tickets on it Pawnbrokers are sometimes defrand- ed. “The sharper shows the “uncle” a ring with a genuine stone in it, and asks wish of a dying man is sacre replied the doomed man, “1 want to | learn English,” — Paris Paper. {and turns to go out. ln turning he sue changing his mind, he comes back and The ‘uncle” subse paw nbn oker, Mechanical dodges are not infrequent “eapper” approaches the operator “Mister, will you oblige me The opemtor seillie” BAYS, only be opened by those who | knew how it worked. He also explained the manner of opening it to the victim [The “capper” tries in vain to open it the victim laughs, The “capper,” that vou can't The victim accepis the The victim's open it in 10 seconds n bet and the money is put up. he upon the box and it Ax % not Oped, He loses his money, and when the 10 seconds are up the operator he wa him that he did not wh hand enough on the end A “grafter” his vietim a trick Knife. By pushing in aspring the blade cannot opened The CRpPeY comes up and asks to take the knife to sharpen apengil. He tugs at the blade and af TOL Appar ntly breaking his nail, BAYH, “No « can open this knife” “My friend can,” replies the operator. “Yes, assontx the “1H bet vou 10 dol The victim takes the neantime the has back mite a slot, and er pushing the spring ind that the blade remains Presses show 5 be Hie yioting capper ul pie nit is little trick is plaved with a top If it is a top the spindle can ut and a piece of white paper i The CRpper is playing when the operator Somes s victim and preks it up. He bit of paper, and with a victim asks, “What is inside A p 1e¢e of p aper, “Th ere Is no thing r inside knows there isnot side,” remarks 3 dollars there 1s SEINE an opportnnity dollars, as PPOs 8, dollars and of course { the ton wer piece of paper hid “eapper” shows, d with three cop form pda od under OY d n tell ball of paper is carries the ball r finger nail trickery ame lays two cork or table and n boxes. The box botl in his manipula the corks several apparently without noticing it iit both he stl Comes ont micave mail Da i er is of them and the about ie victim bets that he ca h one poennwes are ¥ 3 ! : nae: ICH one in he Tact 1s, the operator 3 1 nnaer a ong y 3 Mi 1 part in the 1 wves them trick is to hh corks are TERR FEN which operator bw % AROCKS Ole « roo le that he it there lipped inh aceepts two corks. under another cord fingers when he A top o0ta d upo mn it ih to stop at a high or low number by push ing the up or down It is loaded and it [ ] wainst it eat trick. + the reverse sides are t CRITI d knocked the first and my an a In he Away, SOE I shape pi nade spindle : n, mgh there is thou wand who 1s aware of . Ast] wmrper 1s walking to he depot with his victim on : “Come into this a cigar with we.” owner of the They take clgnrs y 10 dol WF COMES in, 1 althe ie? i h RIOre deal. throws Just then the capps and buying a cigar, offers a 10 dollar bill m payment. “Gentlemen,” says the cigar dealer, “I can’t change both bills.” tell you what we'll do,” remarks capper, “we'll guess at on dice to see who shall pay for all the i rs. Then dice are shaken np and red with the box on the counter or 50," says the capper the operator. It is, could be no other down a +} the 14 “1 guess “Twen 1 V-0One «I SAYS CoOnrsy number, ing,” remarks the capper. “Excuse me a moment. I'll be back in a very short | time, and we'll try again.” While he is absent, the operator shows the victim that it must come 21 every time. The capper, when he returns, is anxious to bet that he can guess the nearest, and puts up a sum as a wager. A dice with a five Opposite the six, and loaded so as to turn upright, is substituted for one of he regular dice. The number is 24, and he vietim knows he has been swindled. Another capper comes in at this juncture and prete nding to be a detective, SAVE, and un- less you stop it and clear out at once, TI arrest every of youn." The victim | may be a country merchant, and nearly | frightened out of his wits, he is glad to escape with the loss of his money. A sharper enters a railroad car and picking out his victim tells him that he désires to sell him a book. He has two { books, and he says, “I will give you a one and make a handsome sum beside. See, I will place this 10 dollar note inside this one.” Suiting the action to his does and turns over his The victim the bill sticking out He takes tl hat book for it. What he thought was the bill proves to be a ten cent shin plaste r. The latest “racket” to nse the term of confidence ihe n is a bold and dangerous one, The sharper selects a victim whom he suspects drinks. He has two bottles brandy, one of which is dosed with mor phine. The vietim drinks of the doe- tored brandy, and in a short time be- comes insensible, when he is relieved of his money. This is outright robbe AY It has been practiced on the trains ont York for the past three weeks, Every one is familiar with the tricks practiced to draw victims into three-card Epos Generally the player pretends to have been robbed himself, and simply (wants to show his victim how it was | done. Syracuse Courier. he books several times. | what appears to be Rey 8008 ——————— Troops Struck by Lightning, A terrible experience, almost unique in military annals, is recorded by a cor responde mt at the Cape of Good { Hope in connéetion with the march of the Diamond-Field Horse to the scene of operations in Basutoland. The men had outspanned for breakfast, when a heavy thunder-storm suddenly burst over them, 80 severe in its effects that forced to abandon their at- tempt to procurea meal, and remounted in the hope of riding out the storm. Toward three in the afternoon, however, | it broke upon them with increased vio- lence, the rain falling apparently in sheets and the flashes of lightning ap- | pearing continuous. At last a flash struck the troop, flinging seventeen | horses with their riders to the ground, Those who were not killed n the case of seven of the men. The { number were blackened and many of the The greatest diffi- A ————— DIN 50 Some peaple think that justice a | usively or almost exclusively But that is a very restricted It Hes quite as much in the Short courting, — “Rachael, the Lord | said the “The Lord's will be done,” was NEWS EPITOME. Eastern and Middle States, to express sympathy for Ireland, Governor Leptow, of New Jersey, has vetoed the bill providing for the employment of pris oners 0 work on public roads A ont New York. Pie Belmont ofl works at Philadel) Toss, $100. 000 tv of Arthur Btrabos, a New York eivil i other aromated This makes the sation socioty has Deen organised in his have been reduced to ashes; fur bo the day at the Pa I has taken place there engineer, was ¢ in Washington, eleventh cremation whi fvony ClaMnen: AIN, TOF Many yours an adito vial writer on the New York press, is dead in his A REMARKABLE Granoe case ia attracting wil ki fraternity al More ntly a sp ad atten 1 the medi a i cinity Biba than five German re, Arrived at nd after | every offort of UNCLE AnD tanners and i convention of ifactnrers has been in session Pa Western and Southern States, Mo Dia JAY Alsbuare em Alterwand, if 3 Ky. ary at the ingn JE prisoner WhS recently, and, @ at the THE co of Harry Fre hich collided with gi Prosident Hayes and party, a verdict that the noe of Freol ers Jur H CIR, ther train cont to the neglige & earednetor, in not were read over to dispatcher Ex Sexaroxn Axa for United forty-oig Madi By in th § CAMERON was : Biates Senator from Wisoonwin Lith ballot in th As th Wisconsin leg Republica we Repahlicas was equivalent to an election, A mins Ro f the § A ¥iny a fine new biol the extent Moon Francisco are thronged Two men, ft Kansas (ity of In y and Bankes srromtod a more criminal court for butter, hav nealed to 8 high Tae North Carolina the bill § RArim have ap gpirituon ro, adopted by a popular will go into effect Ovtolx iY an Missour of th AN pounds in the flor Fos ban ¥ fatally. y explosion of iu ping 0 of An at Chics ited § rons inja parsons } 4 ust Fischer view to foun From Washington, Tue Senate in executive session confirmed ali of President Garfleld's nominations of officers without delay cabinet Tue members of the with the exception of Postmaster-General James, quali new cabinet, fied before Chief Justios Carter, of the Spree eonrt of the District of Columbia, and entered upon the duties of their office. Postmaster General James qualified before Judge ILawren son, who acts sa notary public for the office department, Parsipent Garrierp nominated ex-Socretars of the Goff, Jr., to be Unites Statos district attorney for the District of West post Navy Nathan Virginia, his position previous to entering the Hayos cabinet, fons by President Gar the Senate Fx Boer tary of the Navy Goff to his former post as of Waost John 1 Trisbee to be consul at Rheims and Lewis Rich. of Rhode Island Tie following nomina field have been confirmed pe district-attorney Virginia; mond, to be consul-general at ) Lonnie Tuy following nominations of United States tho President Grmvaquily Al cotmnls have been made by Rbanar M, Eder, of Nevada, at bert Rhodes, of the Romen Faniiok man, at Alep ut x District Edward Backus, of mritado at 1a Union: of Kansas, at of Columbia, at Illinois, at Para; John A. Halder Bangkok: Abbott 1. Dow f, Tudia: John F. Joune, of New Jersey, ivi Laredo, Moti one from New York city has sont to the treasury conscionce fand, Mone nominations by the President: Hudson, of Wisconsin, to be associat supreme court of Dakota; N. F, Dixon, Jr, to be United States for Rhode Island; Win, Faxon to be postmaster at Hartford, and Nehemiah D, Sperry postmaster at Now Haven, $100 8 A Justice attorney fers, Tux Senate in sosion confirmed the following nominations: 1. 8 1 CROAT aylor to be a member of the Mississippi River inprovemont commission: N. F, r., Wm, N. D. Bperry, Dixon, J Faxon and Fonrnzn nominations by Levi P, Morton, of New York, nary and minister plenipotentiary Wm. M. Evarts, of Now York, the CRYoy President : oxtraord] to France; Allen G. Thur. Howe, of Wis. consin, commissioners on the part of the United Bates to the international monetary conference Colt to be United | David D. MeClurg, surveyor of customs at Cincinnati, Ohio ; Lot M. Morrill to be collector of customs at Portland, Me, Funrgier confirmations by the Senate: Megara, | Evarts, Tharmeh and Howe, commissioners to the internations! monetary conference at Paris: D. D. McClurg, sfirveyor of customs, Cincin- wan deolded that the the AY a cabinet meeting it lawful money which national Hae notion aul banks purposes had deposited with the treasury fin of reliving thelr ecireunlating suis cannot ba all of process of retiring have n that turned to the banks, as thom amount of carreney logally begun must, under the law, be continued Hexiy GG. Prinson, assed under My at New York by the slant postmaster Jamos, was noninated for postmaster President Forelgn News, ols have beon lost on the Abendeon otland Ning vous ire coast, MX and shout 100 persons pave been drowned Putney rive persons have died of the plague in Kerbola, Nedjoff and Djagra, | n the provines of Bagdad, Pe valize the epidemic Tan loss of life sland of Ischia in the hres amacciola, Oue hundred and twenty six ¢ wve boon and 170 hospitals Hity wo autions have been taken to lo the Mad hundred houses have by earthquake on Hu torranean is appall ing fallen at Cas PROS I hav Fissuiros aovepred wonnde sent to the ad In the Wore i streets ntimeters wide Many poople fled from the town and enosmped in the felds A BALLOON and eight and ORITYING an aeronant m Nioe was passengers ascendad fro France rising to & groat height driven far out descend od swiftly an of the hiree of the passengers fell out balloon the soa, Finally the was carried along surface walter for nearly a mile of the car and were drowned. © The balloon rose again and land was reached the next morning Prison, Webrant and Carl Mea ¢ provisions of th nant of Ireland sig tytn rosin we , the prison Ail tweed aris Of the country n Dullin we OF an Ot real el P Hovis German goverun Qu SEN LARGELY Yiil f Denmark FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, Sennte Special Sesslon, Filial Affection of the Moors, A Portugese surgeon was accosted one day bY a passing young Moor from the couriry, who, addressing him by the appellation of foreign doctors in that place, requested him to give him some drugs to kill his father, and, as an inducement, promised to pay him well. The surgeon was a little surprised at first, as might be expected, and was un. able to answer immediately ; bat quick. ly recovering himself (for he knew the habits of the people well), replied with sang froid equal to the Moor's: * Then you don’t live comfortably with your father, I suppose?” * Oh, nothing can be better,” returned the Moor; “ he has made muoh money, has married me well, and endowed me with all his pos. sessions ; bit he cannot work anv longer, he is so old, and he seems un. willing to die.” The doctor, of course, appreciated the amiable philosophy of the Moor's reasoning, and promised to give him what he desired. He : ccord. ingly prepared a cordial potion, more calenlated to restore energy to the old man than to take it away. The Moor paid him well, and departed. About eight days after he came again, to say that his father was not déad. * Not dead,” bxclaimed the apothecary in well-feigned surprise; ‘he will die.” He composed accordingly another dranght, for which he received an equal remuneration, and assured the Moor that it would not fail in its effects. In fifteen days, however, the Moor’ came again, complaining that his { ther thrived better than ever. ‘“‘Don’t be discouraged,” said the doctor, who very profitable, ** give him another po- tion, and I will exert all my skill pre paring it.” The Moor took it, but re- turned no more, One day the surgeon met his young acquaintance in the street, and inquired the success of the remedy. * It was of no avail,” he re- plied « ournfully; ‘my father is in ex- cellent health. God has preserved him from all our efforts; there is no doubt that he is a warabout”— (a saint) w ee, Ostrich Farming, Ostrich forming at the Cape of Good Hope has made a wonderful advance in the past fifteen vears. In 4865 only eighty tame birds were reported in the colony, but in 1875 there were 40,000, and now there are fully 100,000. So grout has the demand been for these birds that the incubator has been pressed into service for hatching their eggs, The birds, as well as from the sale of feathers, are very great where the raiser has good luck: but there are, on the other hand, many farmers who invested all money they had in birds, and lost it all through mismanagement or otherwise The business of raising ostriches is ale ways more or less precarions, and prob ably always will be; consequently, where one man may realize a fortune in a few years, ton may lose all they invest in the + Laie? a—— A music teacher fell from a third. story window, and fonnd the piteh un- comfortably high. Popular trial shows the worth of evgry ar ticle; and thirty-four years constant use hae proven the great efficacy of Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup; it has no superior, THE MURDERED CZAR. How the Ruler of Russia Met His Death. Taw sixth attempt to kill the czar of Russis was successful, and was a terrible affair in all ite details, ‘The cesar was retarning in a covered carviage from the Michael pala we, at Bt. Peters. burg, on Sunday morning at about eleven o'eleck with his brother, the Grand Duke Michael, His estart consisted of a quarter troops of Cossacks, and soveral officers of the household socom panied him in sleighs, As the carriage was passing along the b Atk of Ehaterinofsl v canal, and at a point immediately opposite Wo the imperial stables, 8 bomb was thrown by a man who was standing behind a knot of pedes trigns who had stopped to noo the Sijparor go by. Ttexploded with a terrific crash right under the body of the carriage, the splinters fly soross the street, but doing ne injury beyond tearing away the back part of the oarriage. The driver, who had drawn up, descended from his box, and the Cossack escort, which was a fow paces in the rear, af once galloped up. At this time there were not more than twenty per. sons present, ‘The czar, on hearing the crash, at ance raised th window, opened the door and jumped out, and while he was drawing his fu le ak shout him a second bomb was thrown from the knot of lookers-on, exploding right at his feet, The smoke of the first explosion was still hanging about, and when the second bomb struck the pavement s dense cloud enveloped the carriage. There bowl of pain and anguish from the Cossacks, some of whom were killad and more wounded by the fying splinters and three or four of the lool tii Wiad a kero fell also This erash brought a squad of police, who were just going on duty at the imperial stables. As the smoke lifted, the « com Iving on his back beside the wreck oafviags, his lege torn and shattersd and wid pouring from ghastly wounds in his thighs His cloak and woaring apparel iterally torn from hie back, He was de pale and his ories to the officers of the household for help were scarcely andibla, Colonel Di wiebky, of his suite, who was badly injured by the explosion which had shattered his sleigh, raised the emperoy from the ground, and with the ald of Cossack officers lifted him into a sleigh and conveyed him to the Winter palace Ihe bombs were simply thick glass balls filled with dynamite, All this did not thres minutes, As the prisoner was thrown into a sled and driven off under a strong guard, Colonel Djorjebly’s sleigh, bearing the wounded cmper ror and two or three attendants, drove rapia ily through the streets to the Winter pal where a mounted messenger had previously arrived with the news, Dy this thge the story was knows throughout the neighlx rhood of the palace, and aa the sleigh dro through the main gate the people stood b y uncovered, while hundreds and thousands flocked to the scene of & tragedy, The alarm had been sounded in the military and Police barracks and ina trice the guards the Winter gn y wore doubled and the he BOGH with soldiery chur the IRregRliions second LUCupy inca, on fine i news reached the stn rushed into the streets and made for oe palace, where squadrons of Cossacks and regular cay alry kept them at bay. General Melikoff, the military governor, was on the spot ten minutos after the car's arrival and he ad called out large detachments of cavalry and artillery and w fers in the olty and elves in resdi 8 moments the authori rising of Nihilists, but h a thing had contemplated i was qu wit of the question, the whole city being an armed camp before the clock struck twelve I'he firemen and fire police kept a sharp look for fires, a cipal government and municipal buildings put under close guard, Meanwhile the Cossacks and the police had charged upon the knot of peoples from which the two bombs were fl Neveral persons pointed to a man in the rough sheepskin garb of & peasant and declared that he had thrown the fired shell This was confirmed by the ossacks, who saw him huring it. Colonel of 06 Archemafi » 1 The man strog. glad desperetely, a as the now dismounted closed upon him, drew a revolver ss ing to shoot the Grand Duk: pe from death by the sec n was 1 short of miraculous), hand was struck dows, and in sn in. slant he was thro the earth and securely pinioned, the 3 ting irons upon him and the O r him with ropes. A large body of n A d police had gathered by this tis and sotive search was made for the other assassin, Ten mi after the first are ted bis fellow-oonspirstor fell into the hands of the polo He bad run from the soon lo the confusion that fi lowed the seo. ond explosion and concealed himself in an old building standing in & lane near the western wing of the impe A cordon of ¢ and CO drawn around stables was impossible The palioe routed of his hiding-place, and he was bound and sent off 10 the Sniygeon lave of justice under an escort of (Xk 1 and on belrg » been arvosted, any moment, d and on the acstion, glee slroels noe graphisd sil 1h CHT sia 10 hol thelr 8 DO UG Ving | ft 1h move with Warning There ties hall feared a gener troops at abt that fis 1 out ware eanort inten hose osonpw tie an 0 (RARoKs 1 ARNASNID Was beeny had ORCI i Ww tise prople We parently of. good birth carried upstairs on » litter Hnary the most ¢ ity ere present, but the His left leg was fearfully greater portion of the foot and sakle having been blown off; and his right leg Ws I om his body, He was sensi ble, with brief intervals of unconsciousness, to He had lost an enormous quantity of and the shock had utterly prostrated he doctors’ efforts to rally him were At 1:30 r ¥. the dmperial family wire summoned tothe bedside, where prayers for the dying were bein by the Greek patriarch and clergy, eavo-toking is said to have boon most g. The cesr kissed them all and gave them his blessing. He bore the agony of his wounds with heroic fortitude, snd said be Arust tod he was ready to die and that Id never forget that he had been Ph ding ber institutions and and order within her borders, it wan evident that the end wae enparors strength was waning, now and then the blood streamed roll wounds, When the doctors apoke in whisper of trying amputation, thodying man opened his eves and motioned them away, At 8:30 ». x. be breat his last. A council of state was for nvenod, and as the hh, who « his usual custom indeed by drove out of the palace yard the people hailed him as emperor, The Grand Dake Michael was slightly wounded, The first announcement SL Petersburg had that the work of the assassins was complete was the firing of minute guns, the tolling of the ehinreh bells aml the hoisting of the national flag at half mast upon the dome of the Winder palace and the turrets of the principal build. ings, A minute later and flags at half mast and inverted flags (the latter is the old Russian custom) were dr un the flag. staffs on the houses of th and ge niry and court, government 1 officials, and the long roll of kettle tram mm Atored the tale in ovory street. At 4 r stra of the Qfivial Messenger was | issued containing the following announcement: * God's will has been done! At 3:35 o'elock this Sunday) afternoon the Almighty called the amperor. to Himself, A few minutes before his death the emperor received the saerament.” The wildest oxoite- ment prevailed in the neighborhood of the palace, but the people on the strocts as a rule received the news in sullen silence. There was no weeping or lamentation except among the soldiers, by whom he was much beloved, In the lower quaridrs, where the Nihilists are sup. posed to be pumerous, erowds gathered at the corners andl discassix] the tragedy, remarking an the police and military dispersed them: ‘They have done for him at last.” All places of public resort were closed for some dave. The police agents arrested several persons who were overheard denouncing the dead emperor sod spplanding the murder, CRT WAS ROPE io shattered, the ariy torn fr he last, blood aid touchi rigs REY W 5 WAN m0 i esonrt, The News In Washington, The state department received information from Minister wey at St Petersburg, and from Minister White, at Betlin, of the assassin. ation of the czar. On receipt of the news Seo- votary Blaine cabled the following: Foster, American Minister, Si. Pelershuryg: Express to minister of foreign affairs the sen timents of sorrow with which ‘the President and the people of the United States have heard of the terrible crime of which the emperor haa been the victim, and their profound sympathy with the imporial family and the Russian peo- ple in their great affliction, Brame, Secretary. Previous Attempts on the Cenr's Life, On the sixteenth of April, 1866, a student named Karagozof fired on the emperor On June 6 1867, his Kfe was attempted by a Pole named Berezowski while the emperor was visiting the emperor of the French at Paris, On April 14, 187%, four wore fired at him by a retired functionary of the finance de partment named Skolof as he was taking his morning walk near the Winter palace. In ad dressing the people who eame to congratulate him on his safety, the czar said: "This is the third time God has saved me On December 1, 1879, an attempt was made to wreck his train ‘whi @ he was traveling from Bt. Petersburg to Moscow, His train escaped, but the baggage train was blown off the track w an explosion, a funnel having been dug under the road-bad and filled with powder, On February 17, 1880, a mine was laid below the dining-hall in the Winter palace and fired about the time the czar and his family were in the habit of dining, Fortunately they had boen delaved on this oceasion, Five soldiors were killed and thirty-five wounded shots Sketeh of the Oear's Life. Alexander II. was born on April 29, 1818, His father was the late Emperor Nicholas and his mother waa the Princess Charlotte, of the Hohenzollern family, sister of the German om- peror, William 1, The young grand duke and future Spero, Alexander, was joven yoars of ago when his father became soverel gn of all the Russias, On the attainment of his sixteenth birthday Alexander was declared of age, and two years later he was admitted to the si of the ministers, He traveled mich at first through the various governments of Russia; afterward through all the countries of Eu except France. the oases Mario of Hesse, daughter of Louis IT, Tt was a love-matoh, according to the chroniclers, | On the seventh of Beptember, 1856, Alexander | was solemnly crowned emparat at Moscow. : He signalized his accession to the throne by in inauguration of many Smportant reforms changes, devoting himself strictly to home affairs. The work of Klexihders IE aii i i a8 Was y after Orimean war ho put It in The a huismelf with a: and who fod him with horrors 0 assure thelr in. fluence over him, and without securing his safely inourred the suunple on and contempt of his people He had alienated the nobles by his reforms; he vainly endeavored to become reconciled to them by sttewpling repromslons which alienated the Shortly afterward the Nihilists began ¢ operations throughout Russia, and the various aorpin which thoy made upon the emperor's life are wall known, Ou the death of i last fall, the czar married the Prisoess therine Dolgorouki, He had lived with her morganatically twelve years, and had two ohil. dren by her, The smperor has had a large family, Nisho. las, the eldest of the Jian, died st Nios in April, 1865, Alexander, the new oar, was born Mareh 10, 1845, and married on November 8 1806, to his de ad brother's betrothed, the Princess Dagmar of Denmark, The third son the Chand Puke Alexis, who visited America several years ago, The fourth son is the Grand Duke Viadimiz, the handsomest of all lv Romanoffs, and the most profligste, The fi son is the Grand Duke Herge Alexsndroviteh He was an aided camp and the sm favorite. The sixth son, Paal, is not vet of The only daughter is the wife of Prince Alfred, of Great Britain som————— The New Czar, Alexander Alexandroviteh, who from csare- vitch now so suddenly becomes cesar of all the Russias, was bors February 26 March 10, new style), 1845, and was married ob November 9, 1804, 0 Maria Dagmar, then ninsleen years id, dsughter of Christian 1X, king of Den- mark Ihe cpar is, therefore, brother-in-law of the Prince of Wales, who married the Princess Maria's Hoe sister Alexandra, and also of George L, King Christian's socond son, who was elee o) King of Greese in 1563, As to Alexander 111s po icy and ability, very little gan be said, for he has vot to show his quality, It is certain, however, that neither his home nor his foreign policy will be malded aller his father's. His dislike of the Germans has been has not hesitated to say that favoritism to them, to the prejudice of the native element, has beens just cause of dissatisfaction. Toward the end of 1879 he came to an open rupture with his on the Juestion of thelr common inheritance of rule over K5,000.000 people Like his father, Alexander 111s some six feet in height, desp-chested, broad-shouldered and seemingly of groat str I His eves are ight-gray, and his head is large and of a shape which phrenologists say indicat His mouth lssualdl, with good teeth auburn, and his complexion very fair, Petersburg he usually wears a uniform. but visiting bis wife's relations he wears d's plaid and neither gloves nor He is excellent family man, in Copenhagen, whe he and the Princess Dagmar are great favorites, they walk about in the most anceremonions manner. Their children are Nicholas, bora in i868; George, borg in 1871; Xenia, born in 1875; Michael, born in 18TH, and, it is believed, me younger child, As a child Alexander's sdoestion was such ss might Iw expected for a man in hus wsition, that is as thorough as was posadls de in Russias. or indead in the world. father w hue a3 B shop jewelry sod i Lt an hanth He Was an Mp pupil, and his knowledge of bath sivil and military affairs is consideralie. He is a grost reader of newspapers, especially when traveling, and be has taken porsonal interest in the publication of the state papers of Russia, A Charity is a first mortgage on every hnman beings possessions. Opportu- nities are very sensitive things; if you slight them on their first visit, you sel- dom see them again. The more virtu- ous 4 man is, the more virtne does he seo in others. He who loves to read and knows how to reflect has laid by a perpetual feast for his old age. tema —— {Pottstown Daily Ledger | A Michigan jonrnal relates the follow. ing: Amos Jamed Esq., proprietor of the Huron Port Huron. Mich, stiferad so badly with rlienmatisam that he was unable to reise his arm for three Five bottl of St. Jacobs Oil Lares hos i months ured him en In Chicago there are 5,420 factories and workshops, 7,411 stores and 1,770 miscellaneous places, employing alto gethér about 125,185 men, women and children. {Atchinsan Champion. } No Benefit, An Indiana pewspapoer Afr € 3 Ori F. Hy derle says that he had suffered very much with rheumatism and used many remedies without benefit. Heo found the dosired relief in Bt, Jacobs (hl. Tos 5: A good kidney pad is a Jarge bunch of greenbacks in the hip pocket. 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