NEWS OF THE WEER ~The bodies of Bridget Rowe, aged 47 years, and her daughter, Elizabeth Reed, aged 26, were found on the 17th in a field near Metuchen, New Jersey. The women were dissipated characters, death while tramping homs fron. New Brunswick, in January last. —A great ice ‘‘shove” in the St. Lawrence river caused much damnge to property in Montreal, on the 16th, flooding the low lying streets and cel- lars, ~— By the breaking ervoir two and a half miles above the the 20th much property in the vil- lage was destroyed, and a number of persons were drowned, Eleven bodies have been found. The loss on Property is estimated at $200,000, —--Abt St, Louis on the 17.h, Marlin son, for whose arrest bench warrants were issued the day before, appeared and gave bail in $300 each. Burdett and Chase, acquitted a days ago of the charge of obstructing trains, were indicted for tl fence. — Agent Bigelow, of the Carpet Company, at Clinton, chusetts, on the 16th, notified th lectmen of that town that, in view of personal violence to workers for the company, and threats of future vio- fence, he deemed it his duty to a work for the present mills. By this ac persons are thrown « The cause of the strike of 80 dyers. ~—There have been no new « ments in regard to the murder of Tillie Smich, at Hackettstown, New Jersey, Munnich Haring, young men arrested on suspic been discharged, a more careful amination of t! ing the case tending to nocence, -~A telegram from Cent 3, says that on the 17th, the Superintend- ent of the Ohio and Mis pi Rail- road served notice on all station and foremen that their wages would ba reduced in consequence of business pression resulting from the western railway strike. The cut in the wages of station agents varies from $5 to $15 per month. —Our Consul General at Rome tele- graphs to the State Department tha from the 8th. to the 10.L inst. thers have been 16 deaths from cholera Brindisi. —The total number of dead from the tornado in Minnesota foots up 74 jured, 213. Mrs Hogue was killed a woman visiting ber ‘fatally by hightning near New Castle, Pe sylvania on the 16th. A storm ported in Dakota by w hundre of trees were leveled and large numbe: of cattle killed, Gzarry, 16 same of- Sait Bige! ” » W Massa. Na Lon aut of en HSION sUSD SUSAN lavalon BVeiog «3 | 41 and the on, have f X It tances altend- 1€¢ Ci UES show + RN 3 FEN 3 a+ oL frids Haul « — Robert Sm ed in Nicholasy 17th tort James lee, i : millo Gouzales, eon der of a ranchman in on the 16th Brackett, was laughing when the dro A fire at Luis Ouispo, C; fornia, on the 18th, destroyed Andrews Hotel, the post-office several other large buildings. $120,000. -— While eight kegs ol were being unloaded [rom Clintonville, Wisconsin, on i, they were exploded by the accidental dropping of one of the kegs. One man was killed and six were Injured, two fatally. Whileexperiments were being made in compressing steel at the iron works of Singer, Nimick & Co., in Pittsburg, the same day, a mould con. taining 1000 pounds of molten steel exploded, scattering the metal 1n are directions. About twelve men injured, six of them severely. ~John Carpenter, under s: ute nce of death in New York for the murder of his wife, committed suicide.on the 19th in bis cell by cutting open his jugular vein and the arteries in his arms. had twice previously attempted suicide, The wife of Charles Cole, in Covington Kentucky, committed suicide by taking poison on the 18th. She had been mar- ried only two months, but it is sald her husband treated her cruelly. Henry Faenzer, aged Cars, a grocer of Newark, New banged himself on the 19th. :8t money in his business, ~A boy named Thompson was drowned by his boat being carried over the dam at Shelburne, on the 19th, and Hugh Foster was drowned while trying to rescue him. — The bodies of Mrs, Flynn and an old woman named Minogue, who had been visiting her, were found on the ha 111 he mi - ivi i . } Pexas, uli 3; y fell, at 8 yall Loss giant pow A train the 1 a ae Je . ie had | ts He 3 I Y bh Lemont, lllinois, The women disap- peared two weeks ago. It is supposed fell into the pool while walking ong the edge of the quarry after dark, ~The flood at Montreal is described as the worst which ever visited that sity The greater part of the business whole country along the south shore. In the lower section of the were forced to the upper stories of their fiouses, where many are without fire ate prospect of relief in the shape of provisions. 18 six feet deep. Merchunts say the ‘osses wil amount to millions of dol- fars. ~The French cable broke on 18th 220 miles from Duxbury, Massa- shusetts. ~—mtate Veterinarian Bridge and Sec- tary Edge on the 19th, viited the ‘arm of B, L. Fry, at Masonville, Lan- saster county, Yenna,, where 30 out of 110 head of cattle have died of pleuro- pneumonia. To prevent the spread of the disease, one steer was killed and sighteen animals were inoculated with the virus, The rest will be inoculated A8 Soon as more virus can be obtained. — Henry Smith, 30 years of age, was savagely beaten by three roughs in {front of his boarding house in Chicago, in the 18th. . His recovery is doubtful, He was employed in Maxwell Brothers® | box factory durlpg the recent strike, t and on the 17th he argued with‘some of { his fellow-boarders that *‘it was every { man’s right to belong to a union or not, | as It pleased him. " Hence the assault, { Two of his assailants have been ar- | rested. Policeman Curtis, while being | beaten by rougls, shot and mortally wounded Michaesl Boland in Chicago, fon the 18th. Two colored women, { named Mary Love and M i quarrelled and fought with dirk kuives iat San Angelo, Texas, on 18th, Mattie was gashed in four places an Mary in ten. Finaliy the latter hua Ler tongue **cut out near the root,’ and she is not expected to recover, Jealousy caused the trouble, At | Anthony, Kansas, on tne 10th, a mob of forty men surrounded the Sherifl’s house, where two brothers named Weaver were held in custody for the | killing of a man named Adel, and at- | tempted to capture them. The gaard rushed the prisoners into the basement ! of a new school building adjacent, but | the Stent! being captured by the mob. the deputies surrendered. The Weaver brothers were about to be strung up to the rafters, when the tramp of preaching foolsteps was the 1 i ] Aap heard. The m.b thereupon riddled their victims with bullets, killing both on the spot, and then rode off, Two Mexican horse thieves were caught and lynched by ranchmen nzar Corpus ( { | on the 18th, Moeim dristl, 1eXas Keils who bad murder 1 a welt v 4 & While 1 "ni veil . : an, colored, iy | and fish arnia ialione, near Axton, captured and Virginia, on the same — William Snedecker w Eatontown, New Jersey, on the charge of murd Jack,” wa oJ CK, . § COlnie who neugecsel T iti! A000, 81! ia placed Fhomas Oceanport, ingo Jack's 'n issued for the 6k damage is ¥) fort evelient x " fart nord ive hundred and out 30 (0x) TE iazieion, the " ii i on the West Penn Railroad ran into an liarmarsvilla on th was thrown 0 an embank- down Lhree hands were $e Voki ik } Opel Hh } uy &A Gd i DEAL Po injured, ween $4 John Amal Pittsburg that of the Iron and arew Carnegie, ser, have .m of an bank, 3 reported fr Jarrett, Workers, and ti tonalre i contemplation i5¢ CO-Operatli stock is to be t nizations int r, Anzation and Vie store DOT Org clusively, and no THON W : the stock. successful ot} If J wort of scheme is the er st the country. —The State Doard of Pardons at Harrisburg, Pa., on the 20th, refused a pardon to Ellis P. Phipps, of Philadel- phia Almshouse notoriety, — William Snedecker was. on the 20th, arrmgned at Freehold, New Jer sey, on the charge of killing “Mingo Jack.” Several wilnesses testitied i that Sgcedecker said | ¢f the lynchers, but they admitted that { be was drunk at the time, Snedecker sald he did not believe he ever said so, { drank or sober, bail. —The City National | liameport, | 20th. The cause is said to bs 4 defal- The stockholders say the de- full, losses, positors will be paid in | was assistant cashier and bookkeeper of | the bank. —The Secretary of the Treasury on | the 20%h issued a call for ten millions of i Three per Cent, bonds. mature on June lst, —An attempt to move an engine out of the round-house of the Lake Shore yards at Chicago, on the 20th, was prevented bya large crowd, A con ductor drew a revolver, but did not use it. The Superintendent gave up the attempt to move trains, Governor Ogleaby was in consultation during the day with the Sheriff and the Lake Shore officials. He said he would not inter fere until the Sheriff had exhausted his powers, Its understood that a posse will be organized to protect the moving of trains, ~The ordor for a *‘tle-up’’ on the street railways in New York City was rescinded on the 20th, by the “Empire | Protective Association,” and travel { Third avenue. the flood at Montreal places the aggre- | gate at $1,785,000, to whieh should be | added $20,000 for repairs of streets and | $20,000 for losses by the gas and elec | tric. light companies. The water is | receding steadily and the river 15 cleat | of ice at several points. **All along j the St. Lumbert shore in the city and | extending far back info the fields the | country is white with the ice deposited i there,” ~The impeachment trial of Keeper { Laverty, of the State Prison, before the | Senate of New Jersey, resulted on the { 21st in uis conviction on the { charging him with criminal { with Minnie Schaefer. I’residen Griggs his office of disqualified from holding any oflice of honor, trust or profit hereafter in “The old gentleman stageered to bis seat and his two young sons, weeping copiously, folded their arms aflectionately about his neck, Tt ite chamber and the galleries, thronged with silent as death at the touching After a moment he retired counsel and Lis conviction was two thirde—14 yeas were Republican, all the ine Democratic | IDE Democratic, { that he be deposed from State prison keeper, and the State. @ Dent BULLS exaclLly 1 +3 and all the ays be- out ol Hiram On James Harvey Davis and a boy thetlat a HAI #4 LTowned win aped believed that ITALIC Will the The Pate ng and Finishing Company New Jersey, were hu Los ¥ ery e material an ins 4 at nger, v covel 1 3 Osh, i iver 1d, th ' t 260.1 r 3 wel GAC K Wala, discussior a .iong nil to prevent an th of Ju ¥. he Senate y 21st confir Hiam LL. Wes be Governor of Utah. —The New York embiy on the passed the DI repealing the of the vroadway Surface Rall- | way-——ycas 100, nays 18. The blll now goes Lo the Governor for his signature, —Johin Welsh and William Stokes were dangerously injured on the 2lst | by a fall of slale at the Crabtree coal mines, near Latrobe, Penaa, # Ww hentucky, } A AS 21st, clhiarier n- was Two ~The town hall at Cornwall, tario, which contains the jail, partially burned on the 2lst, ners were burned to death. Eddie and Charley Kinsmeyer, | aged 12 and seven years, and Charley | Kallerbach, aged ! Quincy, [llinos, last September, and it { was thought they had been kidnapped. | On the 20th their bodies were found in a sand bank on the river side. They were probably killed by the falling in of the bank while digging a cave, man for the wholesale dry goods house of Marshall, Field & Co., of Chicago, | pute in Miiwaukee on the 20th. The dead body of Laura Stern, aged 18 years, was found in the public | #¢hool grounds at Brunswick, Mis. uri, on the20th. Foul play is feared. i a few nights ago al the Dolores Silver Mines, in the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, The mining camp { miles distant from the town of Valle. cillo. A band of mountain bandits at- tacked the camp for the purpose of | robbery about one o'clock in the morn. ting. R. J. Bogusch, superintendent, and W. 8, Toal, engineer of the mines, both Americans, rallied a hundred or more Mexican miners and charged the bandits, The battle lasted an hour, The camp was finally saved by citl- zens from Vallecillo, at whose approach the bandits retreated. Five dead and eleven wounded bandits were left be- hind, About a dozen miners were se- verely wounded, ~The independent coke manufac turers, operating nearly 800 ovens in the Connellsville region, and employing 6000 men, have followed the example of the Coke Syndicate, and advanced wages from five to sixteen per cent, to take effect May lst, 1 A fire broke out on the 224, in the | Bix-story briek building extending from | the United States, Also, request {the President to Inform the House ro wv — A BOTTLE OF WHISKY. | to No. 66 Crosby street, occupied by August, Bernbeim & Bauer. wholesale | clotbiers; J, W, Goddard & Sons, im- porters, and several other firme, { upper floors were burned out and the lower portion of the bullding was | flooded with water, The police esti- | mate the loss at $100,000, A. H. An- i drews & Co, ’s school furniture factory, { in Chicago, was burned on the | Loss, $100,000. The Ely & i Block, in Danielsonville, Connecticut, { was burned on the same day, { $40,000, The Senate has confirmed E. G. { Rose to be Governor of New Mexico; Loss, | torney General for the Interior Depart- ment; W,. 8, Rosecrans, Register of the at Hong Kong. —The Senate 21 coullrmed John IH. [ Monmouth county. to rison Keeper for the unexpired term of P. H. Laverty; Waters P, Commis of the State Fund; and Richard J. Byrnes, Judge of i the lunterior Court of Common [leas ! for Atlantic County. iE pa Patter 1 be Slate O Pris HOT While Mrs. Albert Neff was plant- ing vegetables in her garden West Newton, enna. , on the 22d, her house caught tire and her four children were iperously, if not fatally burned at Any Addl . 2 A elegram nee the int 4 bat 0 lial fu rob ivy 1a CLOts ————- FORTY-NINTH BENATE Oly DA CONGRE es J. 8 was received fro League of America, thanking or his Irish Home Rule Asure ring the Senate to pass a vole of tobim., A bill was srection of a fireproof Washington LO execu ii solutions fis passed for “Hall of Re- The Benate and whe t! ve Se urs alterwards, CHET 3, ie wirned. he n Treaty was No « aa] . Wagn Toronto: 318, of £1 at Charlotte New Hamp- Senate on the 21st, Mr. resolution, which, at his request, was referred to the Judiciary Committee, directing that commitiese to inquire whether any legislation was necessary, and, if so, what to require the United States Courts, when they take posession of railroad property in any Stata, to carry into effect the obli- gations of the charter of incorporation granted by such State, and {o prevent | violations of the same by such courts and the officers thereof, and the waste and sels and the receipts of such corpora. { tion in the interest of individuals, The bill granting the right of way through | the Naval Arsenal grounds at Brides. { burg. Philadelphia, to the Kensington {and Tacony Ral road | passed. The Senate then took up and | passed in quick succession about 500 private pension bills, being nearly all that were on the calendar. nthe U. Call offered a aN | railway limits was then passsed. After an executive session the Senate ad- | journed. In the U. 8. Senate on the 224, a large number of petitions were pre- | sented from local assemblies of the | Knights of Labor in opposition to the Frye Ship bill. On motion of Mr, Ed- | munds, and In view of Good Friday, the Senate dgreed that when it ad. Journed it should be until Monday, A | bill was passed appropriating $15,008 | towards a national monument at Ply- mouth, Massachusells. | tions, reported the bill to idemnify the Chinese who suffered at Rock Springs, | for consideration al an early date. A | message was received from the ident in relation to the labor troubles, After an executive session the Senate | adjourned, i HOUST In the Homse, on the 16th, Mr, Clements, of Georgia, from the Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs, reported back the Dingley resolution, calling on the President for any information in his possession relative to the exclusion of American fishing vessels from the right to enter porls of the Dominion of Canada for the purpose of trading, pure ising supplies or landing fish caught in deep water for shipment in bond to the United States, or doing other acts which Canadian or other British vessels are freely permitted to do in ports of | i | such vnwarrantable and unfriendly acts i of the Dominion authorities to the at- {tention of the Dritish Government, Randall, the resolution was adopted, | The rest of the session and also an | evening session were occupled by the { consideration of the vrivate bills. In the U, 8, House of Representa~ tives on the 17th, the bill granting the right of way to the Schuylkill River | East Bide Railroad Company through { the Arsenal and Naval Asylum grounds | in Philadelphia, was passed; also the { bill to authorize the establishment of | export tobacco manufactories, and for drawback on imported articles used in | manufacturing export tobacco, { bill appropriating $150,000 for the re- lief of the rufferers by | Alabama was discussed, In the House, on the 19th, a num- ber of bills and resolutions were 1n- troduced and referred. Among them | were bills by Mr, Hewitt, of New York, to ereate a Court Customs and provide for the trial of customs revenue cases; by Mr, Crain, of Texas, to provide for the distribu- ton of the proceeds of th: sale of the | public lands among the States and Ter- for educational purposes; | Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, to provide for the transportation of the Iaci and Central and South Atlantic mails, and Mr. T. J. bell, of New York, ] irreticy of t motion of Mr. the Com- Adjourned. vier of speedy ritories y $14 ue FOI he rules sod] Mr. ( n the Com- reported a bill nited States Dis- Mr. Caldwell, the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill to regulate cominercial sales of by sampie, price lists, ete, between residents of the several ates and Territories, Mr, Storm, of Pennsylvania, from the Co mille ivil Service Reform, ported a bill amending as to give honorably di w@idors a preferend ments, The Rive idered, 3 Ol i ROGGS $ h oD 3 * ‘ the statutes seharos ayy ae LL RELIE HE 1 point oO Was © pend House adjourn: Hou yy the {+ iii 4 H ¥ Be inuing conf fire the a cont A ih nted on ihe a CONS ional amendment giving the Preside OWer to velo specilic lems priation bills, and on & bill the adulteration of food, laid upon the tal Harbor bill was cons mittee of the Who! Adjourned, «it in appro- $ vo revent and they were River and in Com- 10t concluded, 1 tl Ihe Ne, EE A Burmese Fairy Story, * . tajes are popular among them, one which comes from over h was : Fairy and there is the border in Siam, whicl by a Siamese, The exaggerations hang together artistically and are in the same key, as it were. ‘There was once a king who heard that there was an enormous giant in a far country, and he declared that he should neve; rest till be got a hair of the giant's Bead. So he sent his fleet, and they sailed and they sailed and they sailed for weeks and weeks and weeks, and at last one day in the afternoon it became suddenly dark, and they stuck fast, and | could get neither forward nor back- ward. Now, the fact was that they had got inside a hole ina sort of carrot, the smallest vegetable in the giant's kingdom. And behold the next morn- | ing the giant's chiklren went out to fish, and as they went they picked up | two or three elephants on their way for | bait, but they were only able to catch a 8 Oil £ country-—' something equivalent wo the narrator. “And as they were going back they saw the carrol growing by the water's edge, and pulled it up to put it into the | curry, and inside it was the whole fleet, | After they got home the giant threw | the fish and the carrot into the pot in | order to boil them, when the fieet rose | out of the 100t to the top of the water | with all the men in it. ‘What ared those curious insects?’ said the giant, | peering down into the pot.” Then came a good deal more, which the nar- rator haa forgotten. “The men tried | it was that they wanted, but their voices were too weak, and he could not | hear a word they said. At length he | and a whole boat's crew marched in at | the hole and went ever such a long way | up inside, and then they all shouted | together and told him that they had | come from their king to ask him for a i hair of his head, So at last hie was able to hear what even then seemed to him only 8 whisper. Unlike his Kind, the giant was apparently as good-natured ! as he was big he gave them the hair, lifted them back to the sea, where the hair, when put on board the feet, nearly sank it, ‘after which he puffed out bis checks and gave a tremendous blow. which carried the fleet straight home, hundreds of miles, at one go Yi a AANA, That milk which stands too lo makes bitter butter, Bearch of Arctic Heroes, 4th On the ol tenant Schiuetzs, started February, 1 to bail the Lena oinrades, Just before his departure several of his friends met ia ti 29 Broadway, New York, to } godspeed on his journey. One Henry C. Ellis, of Ney York, sented lnm with a bottle of brandy a bottle whisky for his cold 18 handed S shiuelzs ¢ fine whisky and said « ‘1 want y to take shipmate and friend, George M rille was already in Ru way to the Lena on the same errar Schuetze, and it was very j the Arctic region of half dozen wit was sealed and labeled tect Boliuetze from templation, and to bear Melville the n of thie friends who had sent it. On Monday, March elze and Harber, whom im London, rkutsk their missi tween Irkutsk thelr friends saw York papers } Of the chance 6 paymaster's ofuce, pid * Ol him ie, pre- and of urney, ou this to my oid, iville, Melv s%ia on b robable that the iy Li piesence a nesses the bottle fi Tyre to Mm to Aes aX the 20th, Schu- he had joined to proceed on hey met Mely i ile be- When statement in the seussed the di i Ww hisky 8 alnul + ey fate bottle of 1 wv » » slim tha was yp vial ida t OINginag sige La main facts o -he ) ‘4 ’ wrapper. Un the out £ iSLOTY were fe New York 4 x 14 v Yauil, wrded y je s its 1 cached 2 in a sale deposi } Mis mere child, the pr clive { whisk . 1 4s ¢ that bottle of . 2 % } ¥ py 15 enotigh to torment Greely 18 vel a bouquet is open i he dreams of od agus s HE 1S al ure a A Gross Breach of Etigquet “Never touch ; wi you in gentlewoman to her the the olhe httle daughter. propoieties is one 18 might well lmpress upon tne r children. Among the rul- ing cl:sses in China, I am told, it co sidered A gross breach of etiquette, to bury the nose in the buds and bios soms of a bouquet, Surely, from an aesthetic point of view, any such prae. nose en Me said a my hearing A his lesson which all mo 1% Who has not sanled at the appear- lovers of the who, for example thrust their nasal organs deep down amid the perfume-laden lilies, and after many long-drawn iInbalations raise their face all golden with the pollen of the desecrated broom, To treat in this way flowers that are in. tended for another seems alinost a sac. rilege, To say nothing of the injury done to the petals by such »n invasion, there is something distastetul to sensi. into such close contact with nf§ matter how The enjoyment of the perfume of flowers is Keener and more refined when the fragrance is in- haled without touching the blossom brought “human face,’ Content is betier than money, and just aboul as scarce. The weather service of Great Britain dition. Statistics obtained by the House of Lords show that during a period of ten years 120 unpredictod storms visited British coast, or an average of one storm a month, Wollney considers that the results ob tained by Schiosing, Mantz, Gilbert, Warrington and others place it beyond all doubt that the changes which the hamous matter of soils undergoes are almost exclusively connected with the vital activity of mierobia,
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