“ae ENON — TT ith NEWS OF THE WEEK the band of the Virginia Military In- stitule, was found murdered on the putskirts of Richmond, on the 27th. Two colored women have been ar- rested on suspicion, and it is sald that a breastpin found near the murdered ane of them. Henry Eberly, a porter, 33 years old, shot and killed his wife at their home in Jersey City, on the even- ing of the 27th, and then shot himself in the head. He was still alive on the 28th, but it was not thought that he would recover. The couple were never known to quarrel, and no reason 1s known for the tragedy. Mra Ebert was discharged from an insane hospital zbout three weeks ago. The police were making an investigation on the 28th to ascertain whether Ebert killed his wife and then shot himself, or whether his wife did the shooting, Christ Penzell, an ex-Councilman and heretofore a respected citizen of Lo- gansport, Indiana, is In jail charged with beating his wife, While drunk he beat her over the head with a wash- wwl until it was broken. The attend- ing physician thinks the woman will die. —Patrick Kinahan and Lawrence Culpin, miners, were killed by a fall of rock in the Logan Notch mine of the Hanover Coal Company, near Wilkesbarre, on the morning of the passenger train on the Cincin- hern Railroad struck a hand ‘incinnpati en the morning of the 48 ling Christian Ebert, a svc tion man, and dangerously wounding George Thesing. Car in 4 —The boller used for healing water in the Kirby House, in Mllwaukee, Wisconsin, exploded on the morning of the 28th, wrecking the rear end of the building. Mrs, E. M. sistant cook, was illed, and twelve others, nearly all women, injured, three dangerously, It accident was caused by the freezing of ’ Evandale, Ohio. Martin J. Herron, brakeman, was fatally and two others severely scalded, --A passenger train ran mto a coal train on the Amboy Division Pennsylvania Ra'lroad, between Bridge Station and South Amboy, on the morping of the 20th ult. Enpgi- neer Joseph 11. Smith and Daggage Master Charles Hunt were slightly in. jured, None of the passengers were hurt, A coal train on the Delaware and Hudson Raliroad jumped the track at Plymouth, Penna., on the evening of the 20th ult, The eungmme and twenty cars were wrecked, The engi- neer and fireman jumped and escaped injury. —Paul Bodin, a passenger on French steamer La (Gascogne, was ars rested at New York on the 20th ult. for smuggling 16 pieces of diamond jewelery. He was held for examination in default of $3000 bail, Henry A. Herdman, once a respected bookkeeper in the Citizen’s National Bank in Kan- sas City, Missouri, was, on the 29th ult., sentenced to six years’ Imprison- ment for forgery. He was in Chicago a month ago while attempt~ ing to buy $10,000 worth of Govern- BT. Charles A, Logau, young: men, were rival suitors for the hand of Elizabeth crime. His downfall is attributed to his infatuation for a woman. ~Willlam Nassauld died on the 29th ult., in Brooklyn, of hydrophobia. was bitten by a Newfoundland dog last August, —{(zlanders has appeared among the horses near Bloom, thirty miles north east of Eau several animals have died of ease, —Joseph H. Orr, who was acquitted of arson in Wilkesbarre, Penna., on the 26th ult., and caused the arrest of Andrew surance detective of Elmira, tt the dis- Reid, in- for per- 20th ult,, for the arrest of farmer at Oxford Junction, Iowa, The two men met at the girl's home on the morning of the 20th ult,, and had a desperate fight, the victor to have the prize. Cusiey was successful, driving his rival away at the point of a revolver. Logan was the favorite with the girl, and ou the after- noon of the 29th ult, she shot and killed herself. David Randall, of Tur. ner’s Falls, Massachusetts, a gardener was shot and killed on the evening of the 20th ult., while sitting bya window in his house, by some unknown person, Leonard Blessing, a bachelor, 82, years a well-known Chillicothe, Ohio, was found murdered in his cabin, on the 2Uth ult, —Thomas Kearny, 65 years old, a laborer, was killed at the Clear Spring Colliery, at Wilkesbarre, Penna., on the 30th ult, ln coming up the shaft he made a mistep and fell under some loaded coal cars, —No, 8 well of the Wheeling Natu- ral Gas Company, near Burgettstown, Penna., exploded on the 30th ult,, set- ting fire to the derrick and burning five men, one dangerously. ~The oil well at Cygnet, Ohlo, the barned until the 30th ult,, when the flames were ex- It is estimated that consumed, 350, ~The schooner Julia, of Kingston, loaded with barley, went miles from Oswego, New e life- waler, —W liam Che'ett, 41 years old, who lived with his New York, committed sulecide on the Henrietta Kiseh committed sulcide at her home in New York, on the 28Lh, by hanging herself in a closet, She was well connected, and had just returned from Europe, where she had spent the past year. She had been It time. Ilda Winsuski, a young woman employed as housekeeper by John Row, near Bowling Green, Kentucky, on the 28th, attempted suicide by herself in the breast, The ball went antirely through her body, and was cut out from under the skin of the left side f the back, “She was in love with John Row who was recently sbol in Texas, and who was brought Young Bow had recovered from wounds, and was about to return Texas.” —It is saiec wnat one vo he richest lead of pure Galena ore even discov. ered in Southern Wisconsin has just been struck at Jordan Centre, near Monroe, lowa couuty. days ten thousand pounds of mineral ore were taken out, Including chunk weighing 1500 pounds, his one —A farmer pamed Irby on the 20th ult., shot and killed two colored men who attacked him on his farm, pear Mariboro county, South Carolina, A crowd of colored mmiiroad laborers broke into the jail at Oakland, Florida, on the morning of the 28th ull, and carried away William Williams, killed Gustave Neils on the morning of the 26 hh ult, There no trace of Williams, and his friends say he has been lynched. i8 —A telegram from Chicago says the Aparchists of that city have prepared a rabid eireular for distribution among the workingmen here, It is with the single werd “Fight.” circular denounces the Anarchi trial and execution and declares noth- ing but force will win. It urges “‘preparation’” for the ‘*‘revolution.” “Whoeyer joins us,’ says the circular, “must take all consequences upon him- self and must be ready to sacrifice everything for the cause, even should it be his life.” ~The cold weather in the west continued on the 28Lh, but a rise in the temperature was believed to be at hand. The Mississippl river at Lacrosse, Wisconsin, was closed on the evening of the 27th, the temperature being 20 degrees beiow zero. This is the earliest closing ever known. St. Paul the temperature at 8 o'clock hea led The xt a? 3 Lad degrees below zero, At Galena, Illi- ing of the 27th. At Chicago, on the morning of the 28th, it was 2 above zero, Dr. Wm, G, Wright, who on Oc- tober 16th fired five shots at Paul Jar- dine in New York, was on the 28th pronounced insane by a jury in the Court of General Sessions. Twelve years ago the doctor entered journal- ism and was for several years employed at the Associated Press office in New York, ~Henry K. Miller and Lous F Huth had a discussion with an un. known Anarchist in a saloon in New York, about 2 o'clock on the morning of the 20th. The Anarchist, becoming angered, drew a ravolver and shot Mil. ler in the neck and Huth in the left hand. They were taken to the hospital and their assailant was soon afterwards arrested. His name was ascertained to be Willlam Dowling. He had a slight bullet wound in one of his feet. Miller and Huth say that, after shoot. ing them, he attempted to rifle the money drawer, when Miller fired a shot @t him and he ran away. ~The botler of a steam saw mill, 2ear Dennison, Illinois, burst on the 28th ult., killing Edward Gilky and fatally injuring Joseph Clark and Syi- vesier Norman. Two others sustained glighter Injuries, - Early on the morn! ult. a switch engine on Lailroad burst its of the 20th Bee Line steam-pipes at in im a as gone Lo hat an testifying against It 18 said Ilerbert New York, Itis alleged —Paul Wolf, the young rested In Chicago for t blow up States Attorney Grinnell a bomb, had a hearing on the 20 Justice White fined him $50 and pl: bonds to keep the claimed he was drunk and man ar- lire ' i pes —George IHucklebridge, who stabbed by the crazy Chinaman on 20th ult., on a Rio Grande train, died in Salt Lake, Utah, on was the the 20th ult, — While August Gunther, employed in the Hancock Chemical Work at Hancock, Michigan, was on the ult,, driving a pail into a sca ng X= him fatal jury. —Two little boys were playing in a on the 20th ult, Oue of the boys, named Hau- ser, was fatally burned, He about four years old, His companion James McLaughlin and Robert ult, ing such a haul that their boal was nearly laden to the water's edge. They got the vessel, and the life crew e00k, The vessel, sured, will to pleces. An excursion train struck the rear 1 of a ireigh siding, in Fitchburg, Massa 30th ul George Joslin, a dro Dixon, a fireman engine, were burus the excursion + & ’ ry L546 4% a i on 1 ver, and Wil the ’ 1 uit, iain passenger passenger on LIAL «1. Duncan’s near Bluff, Arkansas, exploded nm the 20Lh ult, Kililng one person an langerously scalding ten others, -Bertie Dates and a Snyder vere struck by an engine while cross- of the Chicago and East- ern 11 Railroad, in Danville, diana, the 30th Miss was killed and Miss Snyder severely red. Samuel A. Anderson, an em- ploye of the Chicago and Northwest. nn ii 1018 14 on uit. 1 i run over and killed on the 3 He attempted to step on the { of a switch engine, The accl occurred within Ofty feet of and was witnessed by his wife, who it is feared will loses her mind. George Joslin, of East Euffalo, New York, wjured in the railroad disaster at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on the 30th ult., dled on the 1st. An explosion oc- Dodgeville and Dodgeville, was ih board dent home f HE ilroad, near 1sconsin, on the lst, INAan was ed and five burned. Toe laborers out an unexploded blast, men, named Widoey were fatally scalded by Utiv Ki young the 1st, ~{yeorge Norman, living neaz anna, on New siash ice, wind rising caused the boat to pitch ship a quantity of the ice, it impossible to reach men turned for larga block of ice was Seeing it shore, when drawn into the boat and slid under, The men struggied in the water for a time, but were soon overcome by the cold, in sight of a crowd on shore which could render no assistance, we { she iptain George Denham, of the ult... last of the 20th was bitten — A of hydrophobia. summer by a dog. easterly gale the 1st, or less snow, off East Sand- be seen al A wi § nor accompa A nied by more wich, She could only in- tervals on account of snow, despatch said she was a brig. Her sails were terribly torn and she could not be managed. No assist. ance had been rendered, as she could not be reached on account of the gale snow storm. A telegram from to take a bath in New Orleans, on the 20th ult, Instead going down the bath house steps, the Captain plunged headforemost in the lake. His bead coming in contact with some hidden of ~— While Vietor M, Locke, a stock- fast ou the 30th ult, he was startled by the entrance of two Indians with their hands. Mrs. Locke one with a stick of stove wood. Mean- east gale prevailed there on the lst, accompanied by blinding snow squalls, unknown schooner was sighted ashore between Pollock's Rip and Shovelful Lightship. It was impossi- Lie to get her name during the storm, season. The water was flying i { i i i i pipes under the East Tennessee Hails road in Chattanooga, on the 30th ult... fell, burying Alexander Wilkerson, Superintendent, and Bury Byson, a colored workman, They were dug out three hours afterwards, dead, ~**Jack” McCormick, a former well-to«do citizen of Rochester, New York, but reduced through dissipation to the condition of a tramp, committed suicide in the jail 1n that city on the 80th ult. A. B. Shipley, a prominent citizen of Fairbault, Minnesota, was found dead in his cellar on the 20th ult.,, with a bullet hole in his head, It is supposed he committed suicide. He was chosen City Treasurer at the last election, ~Willlam O’Brien, a well-known trapeze performer of Buffalo, New York, who was injured by a fall on the 224 ult.. died on the 30th ult. in Temple, Texas, ~A telegram from Hartford, Con- necticut, says G J. Dunham, of Kensington, tried to kill his sister on the evening of the 20th ult., with an axe, and then took Paris green. He died on the 30th ult. The girl may re- cover. A furmer named Clow, Jiyi near Amboy, Minnesota, shot an fatally wounded his wife on the 20th uit., and then committed suicide, The couple had separated on account of family troubles. Benjamin Cuslev and —A well dressed man on the 1st got in Newnrk, New Jersey, and walked towards the waiting room, When he got near the door of the room he drow a revolver and shot himself dead. By papers found upon him he was identi- fled as Michael Heber, of New York. He bad in his pockets a gold watch, $150 in cash and a bank book showing $2560 to his credit, ~The annual report of the Commis- siner of Agriculture rays the year has been one of prosperity and progress, and the operations of the Department have been successful. Pleuro-pneu monia has been restricted to the cattle in smaller areas of territory than for many years, and the continuation for another year of the present methods of Federal aud State action should aceom- plish its extermination. The seed dis- tributions have accomplished better re- sults than heretofore. The investiga. tions of food adulterations have been extended, ~There was a temporary water fa mine in Meriden, Connecticut, on the morning of the 1st. Ice about two inches thick formed on the water in the city reservoir, and the water being low the ice filled the mouth of the gup- plying pipe with leaves and other de bria, © pressure being Insufficient to force the water through, great in- convenience was suffered in the fac tories, In Baum & Bernstein's cloth ing store the pipes burst when the flow was restored, doing about $4000 dam- age to the goods, ~The public debt statement isssued on the 1st, shows an increase of $1, 400,350. Total cash in the Treasury, $504,600,165. The total coinage at the United States Mints during November amounted in value to $7,207,200, The number of standard doilars turned out was $3,400,000, — Jacob Sharp was taken to the court house in New York on the lst, from Ludlow Street Jail, He is feeble and cannct walk without assistance. The order granting a new trial was settled before Judge Barnett, and, by mutoal agreement between District Attorney Martine and W. Hourke Cockran, counsel for Sharp, it was decided that Bharp’s bond be fixed at $10,000. A few minutes past noon Sharp was dis- charged. — An affray occurred on the morning of the 1st, between the whites and negroes on Cat Island, Crittenden county, Arkansas, in which two negroes were killed and several others wounded, Nothing is known of the particulars except that tue trouble is alleged to have resulted from the insulting of some white women the day before, —Natural gas was struck at Yenia, eighteen miles south of Peru, Indiana, on the 20th ult. The dally flow is esti. mated at fourteen million cuble feet, The well is about 900 feet deep and 27 feet in Trenton rock. —At Reading, "enna., on the 1st, Jeremiah Heckman, a poor laborer, obtained a verdict of $18,000 against the Reading Cotton Mill, where he was permanently “disabled from doing work owing to carelessness on the part of the superintendent. Harding, sick for several days uw, Ohlo, sprang from his bed the evening of the 30th ult., and tried to jump out of who hi been in Ol Samuel 18 { Xen) shoot 4 policeman, who had undertaken to assist him across a shppery pave ment. Bhirle said lu court that he was formerly employed as watchman by the Wideonsin Central Road, but was tired of working for capital and vonld pot rest till he had murdered some policemen, beings whom the most obnoxious of all the hirelings ter of monopoly. 1514, Em Zad®1e teal Autocrat of the Turks. the superstition that is A study of Turkish might help to explain much mysterious in the dally from Stamboul to the newspapers of the Gilaour. progress the Turks have made of late years in the arts of civilization, Zad- kiel is supreme king over the length and breadth of the Ottoman From the highest to the lowest, all are a prey to the devoutest superstition. The office ot munedjim bashl, or court astrologer, still exists, til 1877 president of the council of ed- ucation, and during the short exist- ence of the Turkish parliament, nine years ago, was created a senator, His duties are not of a very complex kind, but they have an ir political and social movements. For every action of the sultan and his min- isters he | to calculate the ihe as 1 the window, His father-in-law, John Fisher, and a neighbor seized him, but he suddenly broke away aud cut their throats and escaped, He captured several hours thought that the die, At Webbervillie, the 30th ult Newel bs drunk, was annoyed by later, It wounded Michigan, « I'yler, some a1 hil rid BINA shoe shop, Beir threw iL at The named 1) He entered a and indow, sar-0id boy, iast Fron Ins 1 } v : 4 and HAC 1 lit the jall was burned and village jail Lt and serious, being Hecla 3 | Steam are now sent f the Calumet and two shafls of the thorities refuse to give the reports of the temperature at any of the shafls, water, but it is sald that this } News was received In I § f Carbonic { shafts of Hecla Mines, The mine au- ‘ There is talk of flooding the mine with be done until all other measures fa early ou the morning of the 24 of the partial destruction of Eminence, Ken- tucky, by fire. At last accounts about one-third of the business portion of the place bad been destroyed, and the fire was still burning. The fire i Duncan's jewelry store, and spread Miller's grocery, the Town Hall, Moody & Proctlor’s drug store, Marr & { Brewer's lumber and coal yard, O'Con i I's butcher shop and a large carriage | factory. All except the laller were | com letely destroyed, and the flames were rapidly consuming it at last ac- counts, with places in sdiale danger, a A ¢ AONIEVIE began in » i Ne ¥ many other fm- hb from San ronal United I'ress dea; says Mrs. M uker's wife, who gave { diamonds to her lover, Seneca gustus Swalm, an surance agent, and | other property. amounting in all to { $20,000 has sued her father -in- law for £500.000 for alienating the affections of her husband, Swalm 1s still under | examination in the [Police charged with having forged McDonald's pame to the $10.00 worth of railroad bonds which wsmrs, McDonald stole from her father-in-law and sold to Sen ator Leland Stanford. ~ A slight fire occurred in the dwel- ling of Mrs, Alexander McBride, in Schenectady, New York, on the even- ing of the 1st, and during its progress some one entered the house and stole $2600 in money and valuable dia- monds, The fire was the work of an incendiary. «In Reading, Penna., Mary Lloyd, an orphan girl employed in a dry goods store, was discarded by Howard Potter, a wealthy young man to whom she was engaged. On the evening of the 27th uit., he called at her house, when she threw a glass of vitrol in his face, burning the flesh and disfiguring him for life. Charles E. Horn was arrested on the 2d, on suspicion of having thrown vitrol on Mamie Meehan, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on the 28th ult, ~Mra, John Evans, wife of an in- dustrious miner in Scranton, Penna., killed her 56-year-old sen with a hatchet, on the morning of the 24, just after her husband had left home for his work. She was prevented from killing ber 4-year-old daughter by neighbors, She 18 insane, and was sent to the 1n- sane Daspartment of the Scranton Poor- house, «<A United Press despatch from Youngstown, Ohio, says that James Donaldson arrived home at Now Bed- ford, Penna., two weeks ago from Europe, having been one of the passen~ gers on the steamer Alesia, which was quarantined at New York for two months for cholera. ‘“‘Upon arriving home his wife washed and disinfected his clothes, She soon sickened and died of a peculiar disease, which the attending physicians could not under. stand, The body became black in spots, In a or two Undertaker Duffy be came ted and is now seriously ill Donaldson died on the 30th ult., and now lus son, daughter and & dozen other residents of New Bedford are down. The physicians wre greatly alarmed as they know not what disease it 1s or how to treat it." ist was of the 2d flaed $150 1n Ohloago, WAS on n on charges of disorderly conduot and § gus Fon 800 s LEM SHU worth Au- yard carrying concealed weapons, While slightly intoxicated @ i {and he pu in which, r Mohammeda ified on v lishes annually an almanac of the wh or the bene ¢ . i i r¥ . 4 1 WHICH 1% L or the nails trimmed, buy ] to undertake Ne hie wy, and even Lo do nothing. th 1 -* . ris Wve KOTan No WOI'k 1 among the sul 1% Yery y gverage Turk pathological Ope } are cases of glcknes i wit] r holy mu As for the globul ts allegad revolution Mohammedan Corn. The d riloht HIRE tim are dispense prayers of a sheikh « An are ar ical retirement « nary for prayer and religion -_- okio's Prine pal Street, 1 $s ‘ fF A0WH Wee O An evening is species of lit ucation., long gayly ! shops, crammed with wares to captivate al ke the novice and the pnoisseur, look out upon an ejually end- { booths, that old curios the p. 5 CR Caon- less succession of torchiit display a | and new medley of Here atest thing in invenlions, percha rat, that for some Known (0 the vender squeaking witha mimicry to sl the original, holds an admiring crowd i th mingled trepidation aAppy reason BCAID EIS Ada e ound $440 and delight, There a native zoetrope, round of pleasure, whose top, fashioned after the type of a turbine enables a candle in the center to supply both illumination and motive power at the same time, affords to as many as can find room on its peep at the composite anlics of a con- seculively pictured monkey in the act of jumping a box, Then, again Iii is some flower stand, in the growth of whose shrubs, art has dared even to In. terfere with nature, and begotted forms which the parent plant would fail to recognize. while opposite this show is a booth that, among its other curiosities, has for sale little microscopes with legs, Thus from one attraction to an other you wander on for miles, carried along with the tide of pleasure seekers in a sort of ealized dream, shell i ingenious s— Lo _-— Mulch all late planted trees Salt as a fertilizer suits plums, Gypsum or plaster dusted over plum to the curculio and tends 10 prevent its work. 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Va, Fieees XX BRAS aE eee REE A A Girl's Gratiinde «+ I have sanT 24 3 116 w home with we.” “No. laura, 1 bave no claim ou tu surely m this great world there ing for me Lo Ao—40 teach oy Cole JU ™ G14 8 some ETD h hava idl, HAVE (ee gave Cote we our school dear, slers over since 3 are Loo young to live alone, land brighten my father’s life tine,” And after much plea Minnie consented to go, { Poor little giril She had buried | father that day, The father who had lavished everything that wealth could ibny on his lovely daughter, had died and left her a penniless orphan, au | Lo fight the battle of life, Laura Goodwin, who had been Le: i chosen friend at school, had come {comfort Minnie in her grief and | brought her father’s cordial invitatio: {0 make his house her permanent | abode, He had been widowed himself and could sympathize with the young | girl's sorrow for loss, and readily sec onded Lis daughter’s generous impulse Aud soon after Minnie's adveut inl i the family there came another change. Laura, the stately beauty, found thas | ber heart had wandered from the home | boundary to rest ther ¢ { offered and lover a gentieman Ir to make her hag and Mr. sent to 3 innie M Hie, 1 1IE6 | you 20 Ler Wir A Ana . Her up 5 fey i accepled Oo00W Ler marrisg valling heavy fall wl x Po { roodwin's 1) Yham ur them, w tha above whencs rt ¢ HomnenT o 4 > r Ved will 1 Her! t you break your engagement. 2 + Fi pa ¥ ’ } att MAT Pavioe Will minister YOuUrs; : my” be”? nv # consent lo urmity, you » —— 1 would keep Laura?” » is my child; ber own } ve onl? YE. “Her face was got fore them a wo i “Hes | a8 mine—Oh, covering her hot blush: “Do n me 10 Le 4 { my heart its veli? Do you not know, {and she crept close to the bedside | “that as lau ves Her- I love you? Do 1 Ne Awa ’ Your wile OVE CALLS | ol force t * FLisper, ra | v ol turn be - © 1 # ¥ r appler, far hay pier in ministering sv FF rors anvireer gaver ——- i y you hao i i be in § The First lun on a Bank xury of the vobined with 8 ut rant of principle of &7 i i and inpcapacily {curry on the memorable contest witd Holland, produced the 0 run bankers that ever made. The | Government bad suffered a succession The extrava- of humiliating disasters, had dissipated a! gance of the court | the means that Parhament had sup- { plied for the purpose of carrying on of- fensive hostilities, It was finally de- | termined to wage only defensive war, | but even for that the vast resources of {| England were found insufficient, The { Dutch insulted the British Court, sall- i ed up the Thames, took Sheerness, and | carried their ravages to Chatham. The { blaze of the burning ships was seen in london, it was rumored that a foreign army had landed &t Gravesend, and | military men seriously proposed to abandon the Tower, The people accustomed to the secure reign of Cromwell, were in consterna- { tion. The moneyed portion of the cote | munity were seized with a panic. The country was in danger; Londen itself might be invaded. What security was there then for the money advanced to the Crown? The people fucked te their debtors and demanded ther de- posits. London now witnessed (he Lrst run upon the bankers! The fears of the people, however, proved groundless, for the goldsmiths, as the bankers were then called, met all demands that were made opon them. Confidence was restored by royal proe- lamation that the demands on Lhe ex. chequer should be made as usual, and the run collapsed. BEchipses in 1889, rst pos Was in the year 1880, there will occur tive eclipses, three of the sun and two of the moon, A total eclipse of the sun wil) occur January Ist, partly visible at Washington &s a partial eclipse, the sun setting eclipsed. The second eclipse, being a partial eclipse of the moon, will occur January 16th, visible at Washington, and generally in Europe, Africa, North and South America, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, The third will be an annula: eclipse of the sun, June 27th, invisible at Washington. The fourth will be a rtial eclipse of the moon, July 12th, visible x pS aningion, but visible generally In Europe, Asia, Africa, Ans tralia, the Atlantic ocean, nod the cast- _ portion of South America. The fi will be a total eclipse of the sun, December 21st and ol invisible a + Washington,
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