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ings and Sayings of Many People.
The four insane convicts who escaped from
the insane asylum at Auburn, N, Y., were re-
captured within ten miles of the city.
The “Wheelers,”
of Arkansas farmers, feel strong enough fo
demand certain legislation affecting their in-
terests during the coming year.
The body of Miss Maude Hull, of Carlisle,
Ia., which was stolen from that village
cemetery, was found by a detective on the
dissecting table of the Iowa College of
Physicians and Surgeons at Des Moines,
It was purchased, the latter say, in the regu.
lar way.
Alderman Peter B. Masterson, of New
York, died from injuries sustained by be-
ing thrown from his carriage while driving
in Central park with City Chamberlain Ivins,
The furniture workers of Chicago hitve
made a demand, which is indorsed Ly the
Central Labor union of that city, that the
Slowly but surely Russia is progressing in
Central Asia by extending her base of opera-
tions north of Afghanistan, where she is now
more strongly intrenched than she was last
year,
The missing bicyclist, Thomas Stevens,
who is going around the world on his wheel,
has been Heard from in (hina, where he was
stoned by the natives and narrowly escaped
with his life. He is expected to arrive in
San Francisco from Yokohama, Japan, about
the middie of January.
Col. Nelson B. Bartram, deputy collector
of the port of New York, who died on Clirist-
mas nigh t, was commander of the Union
league's colored re giment—the Twentieth—
during the war of the rebellion.
The Central Labor union of New York has
denounced the struck jury system and the
appropriation by the general government to
aid the militia in the several states
The excitement in Kentucky over the find
ing of gold threatens to interfere
dist¥ling business,
There is some desultory
about dividing the state,
The fi ay of Rabbi Falk
Builale
The difficulties ou the street railroads in
Boston are terminated without a tie up and
in a victory for the men,
talk in Califormia
took place at
The machine constructors are said to be
preparing to withdraw from the Knights of
Labor with 50,000 members,
A young man, said to be a Princeton grad-
uate, put his head under the blankets and
shot himself through the brain in a New
York boarding house,
The remains of the late William H. Van-
derbilt were looked upon by his family for
the last time and hermetically sealed in the
mausoleum at New Dorp, 8. L
Speaker Carlisle filled his answer to the
notice of Thoebe that he would contest
Mr. Carlisle's election to congress from the
Hixth Kentucky district. The answer denies
Mr. Thoebe's statements of fact in every par-
tienlar, and charges that the election in Ken
ton and Campbell counties, where Thoebe got
his big majorities, was illegal, owing to ir
regular appointment of the election officers,
and from the fact that more votes were
ountad than there are names on the poll
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Beatty, of Washington,
arrest in Jersey City,
improper use of the mails to obtain money,
N. J, Is
organs. The complaint is made by a lady of
ber was inferior to the one described in the
circular.
husband, on the grounds of cruelty.
being tried in Switzerland, which it is be
lieved can do no possible harm and may do
much good. The federal government has
assumed a monopoly of the sale of spirita
Distillers ars required to sell their entire
product to the state, which imposes strict
regulations as to materials and methods of
distillation. The retail price of liguors.is to
be raised and the government expects to se-
cure, after allowing for a certain falling of
in consumption, sore $2,000,000 a year from
the profits, Of this sum, $150,000, or T3{ per
, i# to be turned over to the cantons to
be speut in measures to repress the abuse of
alcohol.
The people in western Pennsylvania and
ad jacent regions in neighboring states are ex-
tremely anxious to learn how long the supply
of natural gas is going to hold out.
The South Caroling legislature bas de
clined to appropriate any money for the re-
lief of the sufferers by the Charleston sarth-
quake or the destitute farmers of Chester
county whose crops were destroyed by floods,
Washington territory is exultant. It is
claimed that the edelweiss, the famous flower
of the Alps, is to be found on Mount Rainier,
Columbus, 8. GC, reports a case of the in
telligent countryman who blows out the gas
and thereby becomes thosubject of a coroner's
inquest,
New Bouth Wales proposes to hold an in
ter-colonial exhibition, as part of the centen-
nary celebration, in January, 1888, in which
the mother country and all the colonies and
dependencies of the empire will be invited to
participate,
A board of survey, appointed by Rear Ad-
miral Chandler to inspect the United States
steamer Palos, of the Asiatic squadron, has
reported her to be unfit for service,
A strenuous effort is being made by the en
listad roen of the United States army to se-
cure a decrease in the number of years of
continuous service entitling them to promo.
tion from thirty to twenty-five, Petitions
on this subject are continually reaching con-
gress.
Another big legacy for Harvard univer
sity $400,000 this time,
Massachusetts ia happy in an apparent in
crease of about $05,000,000 in her valuation,
Canada's new law concerning American
fishermen in British waters is regarded b
the Intter as # reassertion of the '‘from +
land to headland” idea that will be freely dis
regarded,
The bodies of Johnson and Gibson, the fire
men victims of the Temple theatre fire n
Philadelphia, bave been recovered,
cent,
drunken quarral with = 2. dmTheaper,
kim.
and the county jail nt Detroit by
from ¥ ray tarsi cre frame 1a
ory.
Mauslangbter was the verdict “rendered
inst th H of
Pi or un
The dissatisfaction iw the ranks of the |
Rages oF Sabor mv oy rs i |
many members favor a special meeting of
order.
Coral boatmen protest that excessive ter
minal charges in New York are driving
away the grain trade, and ask that $1,000,
000 be appropriated for canal improvements,
Justice Beasely, of Trenton, has denled the
motion for a new trial of Titus, the Hacketts-
town janitor, condemned to death for the
murder of Tillie Bmith,
The managers of the Reading railrord nave
been compelled to yield the position they
took in opposition to the men in their em
ploy. When the}deadlock was opened up
ward of 4,000 cars were waiting to be moved.
The deposits in the savings banks of Mas
sachusetts aggregate the very large amount
of $201,107,900, or in round
000,000,
The striking street
by placing dynamite cartridges under the
cable roads, and the people of the city are
afraid to trust their lives on the cars
of New York has added $5000 each to the
appropriation for the Metropolitan Museum
of Art and the American Museum of Natural
History,
in the afternoon on Sundays,
about $130,000,000 is paid annually by city,
they employ, making a total
officeholders throughout the country of $210,
000,000 a year,
Cedar Springs, Mich
man of his age now living, in James Hoag,
who is forty-five inches in height,
having been born in 1815.
least one-third Jess to harvest than the erop
of last season.
Reading company fifteen and
cents per ton,
of the superior court, has retired from active
politics by resigiing as a member of the Re-
publican state committee.
The oleomargarioe tax law is to be ful
Four hundred
ternal revenue officers in Atlanta,
A Hartford made toboggan has boen sent
as a Christmas gift to the Dean of Canter
bury by President Dwight, of Yale college.
York report receipts of £30,000,
sand dollars more are required to complete
the memorial,
A ploture of the late Samuel J. Tilden is
of Albany, the board having appropriated
$1,000 for that purpose.
The Ontario alections have not produced a
livening effect on the spirits of Bir John Mac
donald and his cabinet,
Governor Robinson says he doesn’t want
to be United States senator from Masa-
chusetts,
Ex-Senator E. H. Rollins, of New Hamp-
shire, wants to succeed the late Senator Pike
at Washington.
000 is believed to be in circulation in Boston
an gessignment,
$500,000. Inability to. float
the cause of the suspansion.
in: Newark,
wife. The lady kas no objection
ried a lawyer, she says, and not a minister
is suing
entertained at dinner by the Boston
chants, one by Benator Hale,
mer.
defense.
change is to put yachting on equal terms,
hibitive handicaps
A very strong letter has been addressed biy
the Hon. Henry A. Richmond,
the state civil service commission,
except on competitive examination and pro-
bation.
It is threatened by some of the Knights of
Labor in Chicago that unless General Master
Workman Powderly revokes his order for-
bidding the use of the funds of the organiza-
tion for the benefit of the condemned An-
archists his authority will not be recognized
by a majority of the local assemblies in that
city.
The British military authorities will have
in readiness for transportation to British
Columbia in April next twelve 80-ton Wool-
wich guns—monster pieces of ordnance,
which throw a projectile weighing 1,700
pounds with a charge of 40 pounds of
powder,
The city of Mexico had two sensations
the arrival of Mme, Patti and a duel with
swords fought between Prince Augustin
Itarbide and Senor Caresdo, the latter being
wounded in the shouldar, but not danger-
ously,
The proposition to erect the new county of
Unadilla from portions of Otsego, Chenango
and Delaware counties is to be again brought
before the New York legislature at the forth
coming session.
The Countess Buest, once noted as the
most beautiful woman in Germany, is dead,
New weather signals have been adopted
by the signal service bureau. They consist
of a square white flag, indicating clear or
fair weather; asquare blue flag, which in-
dicates snow or rain, and a black triangular
flag, to indicate the change in temperature,
If the triangular flag appears above either
of the square flags the thermometer will rise;
if below it will fall. A square white flag,
with a square black center, indicates a de
cided cold wave as before,
The Michigan soldiers’ home was dedicated
at Grand Rapids with becoming ceremony,
One of the men on trial for train wrecking
at Wyandotte, Kan, bas confessed the erime
of which they are accused.
The will of the late Robert L. Ingersoll, of
Pulaski, N, Y., ls to be contested by his first
wife, who procured a divores from him,
According ah futinnts of counsel for the
the heterodoxy of which
ped henrted Wick Sven in Jroutavilte
a drauken a a
tO. save. AT
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his gooduea,
A proclamation of the United States rela
tive to the real value of foreign sliver coins
notes that the rupee of India is worth but
04.0 cents instead of 55,7 cents, the sol of Peru
has fallen from 95.1 cents to TL7 cents; the
Japanese yen is to be reckone i at 78.4 counts,
instead of 81 cents, and the mahbub of Tripoli
has depreciated from 07.7 cents to 65.0 conts,
The milk producers of northern New Jer.
sey have formed associations and subscribed
expression of public opinion to bear upon the
by the New
Jersey railroads of the freight charges on
or consune,
Cincinnati merchants, upon reflection, have
arrived at the conclusion that the Reagan-
MeCuallum interstate commerce
city accordingly rescinded its former action
indorsing the measure and urging its adop
The appropriation for the running expenses
sprecates 251.
637.975.55. This is §704,2790,00 loss 1 Inst
Oscar Cook, one of the Adam
enger Fothe
The shipments to the Unitel
ber show an increase of 30 per cont
corresponding month last year
Wake Forest college, North
been given $30,000 in 6 per cent
first soHgage silroad bonds bn
Bostwick, of New York, to be kno
Bostwick endowment fund.
t is estimated that more
were lost In the late mow storm
Fifty bodies have been found in Maxony,
thirty in Thuringia and forty in southern
Germany.
in Germany.
Asbury Park, N, J, for the purpose of prose
cuting persons detected in violating
laws prohibiting the sale of liquors
Gen. W. W, Loring (Fereck Pasha) d
New York after an {liness of only
hours, loring had been in mi
service over fifty years
the state
lad in
Gen, itary
He was a colonel in
in the Confederate forces and commander-in-
chief of the army of the khedive of Egypt.
The late Senator Logan's funeral occurred
on the last day of the old year ig the senate
chamber at Washington, a very large num
ber of mourners following the dead genoral
to the tomb, The remains were placed in a
rary vault in Rock Creek cemetery in
gion and
san by friends.
Albert G
died of pneumonia at a New York city hotel.
f New York city, stepped
it and Mayor Hewitt was duly
infugurate rule the city.
At his New Year's day reception President
if Pra ance, expressed his oomfidence in
gation of prevailing peacefal rela.
04 \ the great powers, A hopeful
w outlook was also uttered by Herr
o HI ngarian prime minister,
{ili Poole and Joseph Font, of New
3 ok. wha were sentenced to Bing Bing for
life for the murder of John Ryan in 1877,
wore pag toned by Governor Hill
A avr iir Cras
Mavor Grace, ©
down and «
Dressmpkers of New York complain of
their long hours and low wages, and denounoe
the “bargain counters” as among the cause
The Messarcs trial at Philadelphis is over,
and the pastor bas been found not guilty.
pr if! be able to study the
behind the bars in
jall fe or a time
soon match between W
Budd, of
easy incomer
Graham, of
Towa, resulted
Jost Budd the
late. and C. B
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Chicago.
the record
champion quail eater ia fo
bird a day for
nd at
Une thirty ¢ days is
The folly of wing firearms to celebrate a
wliday with greater noise was illustrated in
New the killing of a young man by
his fried, the wounding of two persons in
their homes and of a man in the street,
last three were hit by random bullets,
ork by
Goschen Consents,
spox, Jan, S.-—The
ng the announcement that Mr. George
J. Goschen has consented to succeed Lord
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Democratic policy upon which it is necessary
to fight successfully the Conservative battle.
means by which to regain the services of
Lord Churchill in the cabinet, even though
the acceptance of Mr, Goschen be final,
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Died a Milllonsire.
81. Josern, Mo, Jan.
one of the wealthiest citizens of 8: Joseph,
overwork and the rupture of a blood vessal
in the brain. He was largely interested in
several wholesale drygoods and boot and shos
houses in Bt. Joseph, Kansas City, Omaha,
Jouncil Bluffs and Sioux City, and tor
of "Tootle's opera house, this city. His es
tate is believed to aggregate $3,000,000, all of
which he had accumulated by his own exer~
tions in the jobbing trade in this city. Hae
was also a large cattle owner, conducting
several ranches in the Indian Territory, New
Mexico and Texas, He was G4 years of age
Murdered or a : Yeh.
Doxarpsoxviuee, La, Jan. 3.—The
atrocious murder in the annals of this
was perpetrated yesterday between 11a m.
and noon in thé very heart of the town,
Mrs. Boulanger, a wealthy old French resis
dent, was murdered by an unksown tramp,
who struck her oni the head with some blunt
instrument, Robbery was dotnbtless the in-
centive for the erime, Mrs Boulanger had
no faith in the banks, and It was gonerally
known that she kept her money secrsted at
home, The murderer has not yet been are
rested,
Boston Bakers Displeased.
Bosrox, Jan, 5,The bakers of Boston are
organized nto an assembly of the in of
Labor, but having become dissa
the order, are about to withdraw in a way
and form an open trade union, which
be attached to the National Bakers’ union,
A prominent member of the order says:
“Weare d with the manner in which
0. A. 30, Knights of Labor, has conducted a
bycott against a firm here.” Other reasons
for dissatisfaction are ales given.
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