= OLD SERIE { NEW SEHR PET WR SAR RU AN SE 1 14; £9 7% Bd LIbaie in dr pe Parker's log fiLtne- When fl Was paaced on the railroad car vad discovered that it was placed bes! + the coffin of the dead man's father! Fue Bs Get ¥ oe y Bad died the same week, The wile! her aed nother was on the train with i 1 v 1 naver ras Has ©OF an HOFET arg was also on the same Dg Bad not vet 14 DoE Foi ENDING DESPATCHES FROM A TRAIN MOVING THIRTY MILES AN HOUR. 1 corner of the baggage-car on the Morris branch of the New York, Hartford Railroad a legraph operator stood beside his key ling messages, and from the sounder Passengers in w Haven and de him receiving them, train watched and wondered for train was rushing at the rate of thir- i and it was manifest operator was talking to the rest Several! of the passengers espatches and enjoyed the them sent from the » invention which is on of months on has worked ion of its inventors i Lil hour 1 a test line, and wtisfact ne are now about closed it it on of the The invention is a he car itself are running along the bottom of ] wire of the ing carried along the in- l was » it, it would be over- several i Lines, one, Unt 1 2 A000 i Rt copper mplete ciread nless attention of the copper wire srator's desk, where is the ey and relay, or, if it is and mzzard” there is a tele- he more modern on. In this last the ope f the rattling click of the nly the 5 soft whistling h comes from the ordina- ear-piece. There is no con- 3 sla + 1 2 the electric plant on + 3 vilar Yieit al itaide piant, but along acks covered op se- is nothing DICK COpDer wires ps iden fron wooden strip the miles this wire from the regular rate of two the line or at in it aoy the ordina- is sont is canght up . 3 ube below 1 iron 1 ull § the It matters not on the track or mov weet § Site T speed Lhe induc. ind the communication is } TAD! h In question, ¢ wire is laid only on the g track, there is difficulty in get we between the wires is about wt culvert the track | in a eable on the bdttom and across a draw bridge the in the same way by cable : 8 the train le k where the ground wire in the main track thi up 1 that when wi out. This was ) ¢ operator by saying that ind wire was using eet away to carry on the con- plication of the inven- sound die i Deal nm superintendent is in con- jeer sit sther fogs obscure the signals or wether it be night or day .every tos under the direct orders of one man. Pi make use of the in- trument for personal business and send bo spatches from the train in motion and receive answers by the same channel. A stock ticker could be placed in a car and m a long transcontinental run specuia- kept up from the start to the Le ers tion be As MH ——————— A Eat Prince and Princess of Wales are now on a visit to Ireland and have thos far been well received except at Cork, While the Prince and Princess of Wales were being driven in procession, a nationalist threw a vegetable at the roval carriage. The vegetable struck one if the footmen with considerable force, {3 i NS a. & 25 TE rendered by the su. Hates in the id & A A decision was me court of the Unitand ' 6f Francis Dodges ot. al. Hents vif i & "My & | yg Foie} i ti} FEL AIOE, SA DOWIeR, which presents he gquostion of the liability of 2 married voman for ceriain debts contracted by | hor husband nominally as her {rustee,| court holds that neither the Tabi i= provisions supplies a dwelling! wouse where a husband, wife and chile] dren are living together, nor a promis-| novy note given by the husband, describ | } 1a Lu ¥ Lal 8 py tent for such supplies, can be charg id im equity upon the wife's separate es sate without clear proof that she con tracted the debt in her own behalf or 18 payment. he carriage moved across its path the he people who followed and cheered ¢ royal carriage, and the police several times fired at the roughs. No injuries tre as yet reported. Immediately after the procession was over a meeting of the Vork mational} league was held, The meeting declared that the loyalist at- tempt to get up a fictitious demonstra: tion of welcome in honor of royalty had proven a failure, and passed a resolution congratulating John O'Connor, the Tip perary member of parliament, who man- vi tory he had achieved for be nation: | muse. The prince and princess, after thie conclusion of the procession, depart- sd for Queenstown, The missile thrown was a potato, the oational weal of Erin. ; The New York Medical Record gives some statistics regarding the increase in the number of annual deaths from can cer, which in view of Grant's illness, are especially interesting at this time. It appears that in this country the statistics of New York city show that the numbes of deaths from cancer in 1809 was 504 } ' of pop i lation, in The estimate YeRrs by the 3oard of Health that the rate of deaths every million 415 and 1n 1883 was G78, was made ten ago City four hun Aq from cancer was a little over yn inhabitants, r dred per milli ing to the last reports it is about 530 per mil- lion. These figures, however, ; 1 large hospital majority. in deaths from 262 in a | vives ahnnt tha Eiveés about Lhe York ten Years i in the face of i Blatl the death rate { absolutely and re of the world, But reater susceptibility to merly has not vet TL 8 It aceon: iVing have increased Vine nol sons who reach these ages, tion would show, perhaps, thatth ber of persons reaching the age a ble to cance the mornis i 48 comioriavie person in fuslle Uy peas © awoke as fresh ¢ had been us nor had the patien lated foods. The b sued shortly i stated that he was at i i Aas ug lish. His pn 3 ¥ : ¥ 5 W fap 5 and Dis lemperaiure n ment er rr HEL Lis Voice Clears Was fala sir r Lox vi th 2 i On the ¢ OTe Gi ithe man wh ia } un hour to live a few days ago f his library fire, re {and dscussed th his family. 1 W3 hat Senator Chall tun that Gen. rant was actaally s Oo ing from an ulcerated sore thi ator Chaflee said he h he General would the green and n a the Catakiil Mr. Jesse Gran ing i i ALE0 ii ther was prov al ie Was purseRs of vitality, and he of a wonderful fund believed that the General would live to) the days when every one jaugh over thought he was dying, and the disap puintments he occasioned by srviving a On behalf of the President, i - is t | said that he will soon be re ady to now make number nents to throughout the land, tate the fillin fices now held by Republican incumb a important appoints small In four thot and ove postoffices up order to facili- g of the and of ents, the Postmaster General 1s working the force of his office at night. The President is not yet wholly free from the importunities of the officeseck- ers, but the number has so signaily di | minished that he gets more time 10 call} | his own. The growlers now are the hotel keep-| ers. All of these admit that at this time] four years ago when Garfield was Presi-| dent they did a better business. imi The Philadelphia Times remarks : The Legislature reached the end of its hun- dred days on Wednesday last, with a record of thirteen bills passed finally, two of which have been vetoed and one recalled to prevent a veto, The session has cost the tax-payers in the neighbor hood of three hundred thousand dollars, Pennsylvania tax-payers are a. patient lot, it is true, but even they wight be expected to question whether thirty thousanc! dollars apiece for very indiffer- ent laws isn’t more than the coramodity is worth. Bsns se wi ahd -——- A bold theft was committed at Buffalo where the Church of the Mesdah was robbed of a fine piano, Persons living near by remember seeing; some men drive up in front of the church on Fre day last, take the piano out, load it on the wagon, and drive away, The where abouts of the piano are still a mystery. ip 0 F The supreme court of the United State: rendered a decision yesterday in the ’ GEN. GRANT'S GREAT EBCAPE. The Sun says now that it is quite prob- able it's not cancer, but ¢ else, from which vor, with whet horror Gen, Gr trouble is somethi he is likely 0 If and fami y must Toc k at iw Ua have be the terrible con- him of oc mistaken di; Okie when his attend- their was eating up his About a month ag 1ad minds that a cance: ing physicians } ily made up tongue and fances, hold to di Was s the , i Yi4 ilitration, i i OC | 880. THE HYGIENE A¢ The following act relating of physiology and hyg en schools of eatioual insti L. in tLestudy fie pabli he comu Wi ution Id the common wenith, has the legislature: Buc, 1. Beit ed and house of re; t monmeath Pennsy assemly met, acd is he the authority of the same, gy snd hygiene, which vigion of the subject s resent of rel special ref renee to the ef drinks, stimuolan's sud the Huma ti system, sha ie ol the 4 1d by law WU He Bi died as regn tars, echools, d at ar hir tn ali dep of the «om: ional in i par Timmins ol hie Win wenit “ by tat wealth, SBC, Lara ewbiong the com nOnwea th VISIONS 10 any Arie jer ¥ in isbricts ws sitruciion with each sted Rive B & ae of aleoholi Lice Npan phys livision sl referer ‘drinks, the hu ine part of dire Ore, couly of edocstion and busrds institutions receiving eommonwenlth thos wi £ KA IR] ty mn reno: r ed suffi Warrant y q i a it makes bin shudder to think | 1 month ago his physicians nave By od nig JOWARY « arc yunty wiraged at the fail i pieuro-pneumo- They nsiantly the county, callie in £4 wae 340 ia Among fig i! MG 18 spreading, and al no adequale meas- ures are be ing lekeu it y preveut it, much as eradicate it, said that overone Qin ither become to i not be long be Mon- buy and kill ie ex pissed] wel that EE it w ¢ number will be doubled. 3 ERCP ing raised to ex. % too slow to be ing f i adopilad posed cattle, but it come d TOUS IDean to {44 i of the di effective, and every Jor " y is 1 + Tr i ® more Vig vo SOREC, BURNED T0 DEATH. wg Man Lose Their Lives Near Reading, Philadelphia, Apri 18 —A dispatch from Reading says that about 4 o'vluck this morning a fire occurred in a 2-story frame buitdiog on the Alsace truck farm wned by Avgustos 1. Wetzel, sitoated several mules from that city, in whier var persons—Harry sod Coarles Weiz- el, aged respectively 11 and 13 years, avd Charles and Froderiek Hetminges, wed 16 and 20 years respectively —were burned to death. The building was but 4 short distance from the residevce oi Mr. Weeizel, and was cocopied by the nale hired he!p, bein: heated by n 8bve on the Lawer flour, 1 0e eanse of the fire wes a mystery uniil some time aftorwards bout 40 years of age, who has been a «ibijuet of Charity in "he veighborbood, prineipelly st the hands of Mr, Wetarl, appeared and related that he came to the place about 11 o'clock last night, and entering the building made a bed for nimseif nud fell aslee;. About 8 o'clock his morniog be awcke and foond the fire neatly out. He put on some coal and ‘hen concluded to wa k over to a veigh bor's hoose a mile snd a hail distant When he reeched thore he saw the fire, A ter telling his story in an innocent way he was arrested snd locked vp. ——————— A ——— SITUATION ON THE ISTHMUS, Panga, April 17.- Tt is reported that Sipoyan has agein fallen into the hands of the rebels. Meny radicals are being i nprisoned at Boena Ventura, contrat to the conditions of surrender. The Gov drnment troops at Poena Ventara are muntinous. Communi-ation across the fathmus is nuinterrupted. The health of the American troops continnesexcelle: t A ramor wails here that a b 3 rebels had been drowned at Colon. (idee tuils to confirm: the report The Jolomhien forces sre not marching on the city of Panama, be ing without trans tions Ventura, apd Gen A guia is #0 ig with great moderation restraining his tollov ere and rying ¢ ametlioe The rumor: vireo toi oe at Colon thet A) thee atone to burn Panama are without fousdatl +. Mails and ambit te are vin wre mer hing on from the inte "the state on the water jal polate. id a AR VED we educal money (rom he first M mday who has Dot persed | ination in physio ial reference to drinks, stimo the human system Spc. 4. Ail wills 0 a the 1 Inws i! © prov § B00. tie event District Court, now ty, made an smuosing sight that might have tern seTioUs'y than i room with anol L beds, in one of the Being ont iste the nig tryiog to S«@ as much 0 «8 possible, and baviog Pittsvarg lager, it is | mitie befundled when he tel. Telling his own #f awoke quite early the feeling thirsty he got ¢ gan 10 search for ioutn seemed sort of change, ing able to find the plicher tnofght it ought tu be, potsession of his clothes, four snd strock a light, The fi wet his gaze was a lot o on the floor pear geutleman’s habilaments « ny. To say that wouldn't express the felling: or. He wis domounded ments reflection, during ow hi run back 10 the night bel pared memory, and he came to 1 clasion that be had bloud wrong room. Then he proceeded himse f very quietly, so as nd turn the occunan's of tue When about resdy to vacate he emale voice appare: ty sued from beneath the bed © clavming : “What are You doing there The frightened juror quickly bolted out of the duor without deiguing to max € ah aukwer to the question propounde tim, and seat down stairs bs the bar u quench his thirst, He told the joke ou sitmselif to his friends at the breakfast table. The blunder was made by goin, to bed on the second floor instead of the third floor, a 4 Le question, Sephan fie walker a unt tha HPPA re iE fhe the oib is BUA » ay OR fae ME ig fain Vere, €ex- yy A Md A HORRIBLE OU { RAGE. Baltimore, April 12.~A special from Snow Hill, Worcester county, Md. sia es that about dusk last evening Mrs. Geo Hill, the wife of 8 farmer liviog aboot 4 wiles from that village, was assaulted by Robert Collins, a negro. Meeiing her iv « lonely spot near her home the brat beat her into losansitiiity and theo oul ruged her person in (he most horrible manser. Mes Hill reguived couscous vess shortly aiter and gave the alarm A large party of armed men started § pursuil and in 8 short time racked the scoundrel to his boose, whuh vey sur rounded. It was first agreed (0 resort lo iyuch jaw, buy wieer council proveile and a deputy sheriff took prasessian 0 the and conveyed Lim to jail t —— trial, i MAAS Mb 5950 While David Roth was returning from Paxinos to shamosin his horse bucame snmabageaive, throwing tim VIO entn upoo the track of the Penvsylvard. mil road, Atte mm me t a fro ght dashed by. Tie ubforiunal® ma» rea w. re soatternd wiong the due for » ba dred yards, und 1wo hoors were rogue rie ew BO nod an tiga ob 's paren s, were ili st the ume, ha fon $i ————" hb at the point of death Ly tle ovenrrence. Ruth was « horwe dewier aud lived in Bhemokia, The great suceeses atiending #30 Freer sd visew here, and the wide 101 iw thie old soidie re es that the Leu fx vislie Of 1He vYeleTh fesleg 1 150308 rel ¢ will uot uniy be la y valuable, from au fail of interest ig 1L@ scenes Guat ago. Tue weeilug will gseihier nuusbers of the most Cis ed men Of Lue land, The Presi- bh his Cabinet: the “War Gos aud present Governors of ad siates, distinguisbed officers aud soldiers { both armies, and mes promicent In trie Ouninciis of the pativn, will senor the woasion with their presence. Not only {rom the vicnby ul the feild will the vel but [row Sates Nortn, East, . soldiers and ois of thelr attend i y} film aigh fed view, aod iL © paul “43 i Vers ~ Lingus deat, wi “ruors’ i» Talis OO, sauih ud Wes JC BeN +O. Ihe Pilgrimage is made under the an- spices «f toe first and other Corps of Poiott ac, but the invitation covers every Micer ad soldier In the late War, 1: order to accommodates the visitors he Peunsvivania Radead Company will sel excursion tekots from atl p duis on ite jiues tu Gettysburg, on May 2 and 4, good 10 reture autil the Guth incin- sive, at greatly redaced rates. ml — THE COMING CATTLE QUEEN. Arrival in Claongo of a Dashing Celebrity n Waslungion Terriory, iin * aEsuUranves Las 3 o—-, Chicago, April 18 Among thedravers who alighted from a cattle train cab ose at the sock yards to-night was a tail, najestic-lovking woman of about thi ty years, Thougn vot a beauly she wonld nave commanded attention in a metro: politan thoroughfare. “Men sre all frands,” she said, with a laogh. “I wouldnt marry the best one f 1nem tint ever lived, 1 prefer to be their superior by remaining in such «irs onmstances that I cat always buy their ab ravd esteem” Mus Mary Meagher ans tne rame to fhich the lady answer. ed, In Washington Territry she is (own 8s the coming cadle queen the ompunion eels brits to Misa ILE of Dene vor, In the trai she had ten car Joads entitle which bad eadured the experi- ment of a 2 500.amve ride Miss Meagher values the stock at $10,000, and says il fis trip is financially suc essfal she will r teven we voor as practicable fom Waila Waila with 300 additions] hed, She miptoys = nimber of cowboys and 8 the ower of u large bert of eattie, Ww tie rates ¢ of which shie gives ber pers nal a tention, he Se 0'E HUNDRED HORRES PE Rad Blah, Cal Aver, 168. i alled yoserdey ot th reach of SF Stanford a Ying, aud were dry ¢ At davilght this ov orning were discovered io bei dre. a"
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