DEATH GF JOHN BRIGHT. LONDON, March 27.—Mr. John Bright died at 8.30 o'clock this morn ing. His end was peaceful and pain- leas. He bad lain in a comatose con- ditwon since yesterday. All of his fam- ily were present at his deathbed, In the ITouse of Commons to-day the Right Hon Witllam H., Smith, the Government leader wilh much emo- tion, referred to the death of Mr, John Bright, Iie said tbat he would post. pone his remarks on Mr, Bright until 'riday, when Mr. Gladstone would be present, Mr, Morely thanked Mr. Smith for his consideration in regard to Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright represented the Central Division of Birmingham in the House. The funeral of Mr, John Bright will take place on Saturday. The in- terment will be in the Quakers’ Bary- ing ground at Rochdale. The ceremo- nies will be as private as possible, The scuiptor Bruce Joy has taken a past of Mr. Bright's face. Political deputations will follow the funeral. Only personal friends will be admitted to the meeting in the House, At political meetings throughout the country last evening sympathetic refer- ences were made to Mr, Bright, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, speaking at Bradford, said that no greater or purer man ever adorned political life in England. Iords Harris and Spencer, addressing a popular meeting at Staf- ford, paid high tribute to Mr. Bright, The United Ireland says of Mr. Bright: *ireland will forget all the grievances against him at the open grave, and will remember only the priceless services of his oid days, when his heart was warm, bis mind bright and his eloquence irresistible. The real Bright died three years ago.” A DISASTROUS FIRE. CENTRAL WAREHOUSE DESTROYED——NINETY THE AND COFFEES LOSS ESTIMATED THE ORAND IN CHICAGO PER CENT. WERE TEAS BOND THE $1,500,000, Cnicaco, March 26.—The Central Warehouse, at the corner of Rush and North Water streets, took fire at about 4 o'clock this morning, and, with its valuable store of teas and coffees, burned to the ground, entailing an estimated loss of between §1,250,000 and £1.5.0,000, As the water irom the dozens ef em nozzles soaked down the contents of the the basement was soon filled with water, and when 40,000 cases of lea began to boil, streams of tea ran from the windows and doors. The dock, for a distance of 100 feet, was flooded with the amber colored liquid tbat poured like a small cataract into the river. The steam arising from this perfumed the air, blocks away. The building was a six-story brick structure, which cost, when built 1872, §560.000. Ald. Manniere, the manag: r, Is satisfied that the fire was of incendiary origin. fire in the structure within a year whieh can be accounted for in no other way. About 90 per cent. in values of the contents was tea in bond, as it was a Government warehouse, Besides this, OF IN AT Téa the coffee and other miscellaneous articles, ous cities in all parts of the country, which makes ii extremely difficult to accurately estimate Individual losses, a= insurance was, doublless, placed elsewhere in some cases. An effort was made to ascertain at the firms, The Custom House books indi- cated that there was not a pound of tea in the building, as a permit for the removal of the last of it bad been issued, It was very evident that this statement was incorrect, as the oil fac- tories of all who were in the peighbor- hood would testify, At the sture of Messrs, Fitch and Howland, who are among the heaviest losers, stated that there were house between 35,000 and 40,000 cases of tea. The wide discrepancy between the that of the merchant was exp alned by Mr. Mauierre, wlio sald it was true the tea had just been released from bond, but, notwithstanding that it had thus passed frome the Government officers’ hands, it was still in the warehouse awaiting removal when the fire took place, The Oldest English Country News. papers. The first English country newspaper was the Lincoln, Rutland an. Stamn- ford Mercury, which made its first ap- pearance in 1695. The Salisbury Post. man made its first appearance in 1716, Its prospectus of September 27th of that year ran thus: ‘This paper contains an abstract of the most material oceur- rences of the whole week, foreign and domestic, and will be continued every post, provided a sufficient number will subscribe for its encouragement, If 200 subscribe 1t shall be delivered to any public or private house in town every Monday, Thursday or Saturday motning, by eight o'clock in winter apd by six in summer for $1.50 each. Besides the news, we perform all other matiers belonging to our art and mys- tery, whether in Latin, Greek, Hébrew, algebra, mathematics, ete.” By 1783 the number of provincial papers bad increased to fifty, A vivid description of the state of the roads in this country in winter time two cen- turies ago is given in the following ex. tract from the “Collections for Huse bandry and Trade.”” March 10, 1603 : “The roads are filled with snow, and we are forced to ride with ths paequet over hedges and ditches, Is day sevon-nights my boy with the pacquet and two gentlemen were seven hours riding from Dunstable to Hockley, but three miles, barely escaping with their lives, being often in holes and forced to be drawn out with ropes, A man and woman were found dead within a mile hence, and six horses lie dew! on the road between Hockley and Brickhill, smothered.” NEWS OF THE WEEK. Burns Hargett, 12 years of age, got his foot caught between the rollers of a corn crusher, at Frederick, Maryland, on the 23d, and was drawn into the machine to the hip, Death followed in a short time. William Driver, a ¢co'ored man, employed at the mill of J. M. Anthony, uvear Denton, Maryland, fell agalust a circular saw on the 256th, One of his arms was cut off at the shoulder, and he died In ten minutes, A despatch from Malden, Massachusetts, save the scaffolding at the new stand pipe on Waitt’s Mount gave way on the morning of the 25th and precipitated a number of workmen 35 feet to the ledge below. Frederick owes was fatally and David Lune strom, Augnstus Peterson and Gusta- vus Lawson were badly hart, —A despatch from Pineville, Ken- tucky, says that Alvis Turner and Jeff King were going toward the Gap on the 25th, and James Burch was com- ing to town, and at their meeting Alvis Turner fired at Burch, the ball only striking Burch’s gun. Burch re- tarned the fire killing Turuer, and then King fired on Bureh, killing him, King made his escape. Frank Bea- bam, a watchman on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, while in his box near Rileysville Station, near Luray, Vir- ginia, on the evening of the 23d, was shot through the Bead and killed, John Cameron, who lives in the neigh- borheod, has been arrested. Charles Smith, who keeps a low dive in Che- Hayes, who went to the house to quell a disturbance. ~Near Mount Vernon, Kentueky, on the 23d, James Baker shot and fa. tally wounded Moses Catiif, It ap- pears that Catliffi's wife rau away with another man, Catliff recaptured her at the depot and began beating Baker remonstrated and Catliff shot at him, Baker then shot Cathff, thony Nicely, the father of the Nicely brothers who are now in jail in Somer { set, I’a,, charged with the { old man Umberger, who was robbed of | $15,000, was on the 25th arrested as an | accessory after the fact, Umberger’s | pocket-book was found in his posses. | sion. It had been given to him by his | son Joseph just before his arrest, | —Owen McGoldrick, aged 50 years, and his son James, aged 20, while | crossing the railroad tracks in Meri. i den, Connecticut, in 8a wagon, on the { evening of the 25th, { train and killed, Mra, Mcliregor, | wife of Rev, Dr. McGregor, a Baptist ster of Buffalo, was burne | death 1n ber parents’ house at St, i Lawrence Station, New Brunswick, on | the evening of the 24ih, was anf. { fering from sciatica, and was applying | kerosene as a remedy pear an cp ‘un fire place when her clothing caught fire, Her sister was badly burned In trying { Lo gave her. | mint ail She | «=A despatch from Cheboygan, Mich. | igap, says tha straits above there are i open and boats can now through by taking the north passage or enter ing Lake Haron bound up. This is an 8 six weeks earlier than last get 41] opening year, a farmer, near Colombus Grove, Ulilo, { another girl named Michael, who had been employed to do housework by the { family. In the evening both girls were working upstairs and the Michael girl was examining a revolver, woile Miss | Gettman's back was Lurned. Suddenly | the pistol was fired, just as she turned i around, the ball sinking ber In the | right cheek, below the eve, and rang- { ing downward, making a fatal wound, | Miss Michael claims the shooting was accidental, { jealous of Miss Geliman purposely. Edward B. Rickard stole | behind his wife in one of the streets of { Cincinnati, ou the evening of the 26th, ishot her in the back and then ran jaway, IL 18 suppored the wound is | mortal, They were married two years ago. It 1s sald that Rickard, some years ago, killed a woman in SL Louis, iand was twice convicted of murder, { but esesied on a third trial threugh | disagreement of the jury, ~A despatch from Cheynune, Wyotn- | Ing Territorry, savs that James Grant | arrived at Fort Laramie as a recruit, ‘about 15 months ago. Gaining the confidenes of Joseph Rosenburg, a private soldier, who had saved several thousand dollars, he induced him to form a partnership to loan money to the soldiers from pay day to pay day at 10 per cent, per month, On the 234, Grant disappeared with all the fands ~Jt 18 reported from Pineville, Kentucky, that *‘‘Jeff’’ King, one of the outlaw leaders, has been captured, and Bruck, one of those wounded on the 25th, has died. As the factions have lost their leaders by death or capture, no farther trouble, at least for the present, is feared, ~ William Wharton, aged 26 years, a freight conductor on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was killed at Camden Junction on the 26th while making up a train. -A Take Shore passenger train struck a carriage containing Robert McCaffrey, aged 20, and Miss Della Love, aged 18, near Goshen, Indiana, on the evening of the 26th. When the train was stopped both were found on the pilot of the engive dead, A pas: senger train and a freight train on the East Tennesses Hallroad collided 20 wiles south of Atlanta, on the after. noon of the 20th, Eogineer Gillon, of the passenger train, was killed. Seven other train men and four were injured, none dangerously, =A despatch from Ari 20hay says Chitachua, a rebellious chief, and f{ifteen warriors are en. trenched 14 miles north of the San Carlos Agency, and are defying the military authorities, The Indians are charged with mu a teamsier and stealing thirty head of cattle, A Guelp rouniat ny; n was on the 26th, for embezzling $4000 from ‘his employer, He was released on ball, and purchasing a revolver went home and killed his wife and two daughters and then fled, His motive for commit. toe the muiders 18 unknown. -A fuel has existed for two years between Dolph Sisler and John Diet- rich, well-to-do farmers living near Stewartstown, West Virginia. On the 24th Allen and Alonzo Bisler and George and Florence Dietrich, all nearing manhood, attended Bunday school at Stewartstown. Soon the bad blood showed itself, and the ycuths drew revolvers upon each other, The few men present wera unable to stop the fight and the belligerents had the church, The net result was that George Dietrich was severely wounded by being beaten mn the head with a revolver, and his brother was also hurt, Melvin ©. Garlitz shot and killed his wife Leah ou the street, in Cumber~ land, Maryland, on the evening of the 26th, She was shot in the breast, face and neck. She and her husband bad been separated about two years, and she leaves a S-year-old child, The murderer escaped. ~A8 Mar.in Cochrane, Chas, Staff, William Kane and August Myers were filling a large mould with metal at the Bessemer department of Shoenberger’s mill, in Pittsburg, on the 25th, a sud- den jar of the ladle precipitated cone siderable metal from the bowl and splashed the men, Coclirane, it is feared, was fatally burned, The others received severe burns. ITarry Johnson, aged 13 years, and a playmate, found a small keg of powder in a barn, near Sioux City, Jowa, The Johnson boy dropped a lighted cigarette inlo keg. The explosion burned both boys | fatally. ~14. H. Harvey, who murdered his wife and two daughters In Guelph, | Ontario, on the evening of the 26th, was | arrested and arraigned in court on the | 27th, It is said that he is insane, John | Rosenbarger shot and killed Castiine in a row over a Lrivial matter, near Creighton, Nebraska, on the 26:h, | then burned his house to i and committed suicide. Summerfield the evening of the 26th, by James Bowers, Harry Payne, a ten- | year-old boy, was struck on the head, i in Roanoke, Virginia, on the evening {of 26th, with a bass bat, in the | bands of a colored boy about the same { age, and dled from hus injury. i John Thuring has been arrested in {| Pittsburg charged with conspiracy to | kill ber husband, A man, whom, i is alleged she employed to do the deed for £20, informed the police, The husband had & $2000 insurance policy on his life, | ginia, on ne i =A well-dressed man, about 50 years { of age, went to the Hotel Parle, in St, {| Louis, on the evening of the 26th, sc- dres«ed woman, and registered as 8 M., Waite and wife, of Ficrids, and the i couple were assigned a room, During the night they drank a great deal of | bear, and had supper served In room. On the wornlug of the 27th the woman left the hotel and did pot re- turn. Later Walte was found in a dying condition, with a bottle of mor. phine near him. The morphine was put up by Powers & Weight nan, of Philadelphia, Soon after being taken to the City Hospital Waite died. The police are looking for the mysterious woman. A. F. Collier, 8 marble cutter, of Lykens, Pa, fatally stabbed him~ seif with a penknife, on the 27th, while | under the influence of liquor, -A man giviog the name of G, Dare rett has been arrested in Toronto, | Ontario. Lis belleved he 18 a8 swin- dler who is wanted in England and ‘eitlea in the United States, the guise Of a Catholic priest. In his | valise were six gold watches out of | which he kad swindled an Oitawa jew- jeler. He was negotiating for $1500 worth of diamonds from a jeweler when arrested, -The gross earnings of the entire eystem of the Unlon Pacific Ballway for February were $1,745,758, a de- | crease from the corresponding mouth { last year of $172,179. The net earn- { ings were $500,754, a decrease of $77 .- 188, The expenses Increased $04 000, At a special meeting of the directors in Boston on the 27h 14 was decided that it was inexpedient to resume tie pay. ment of dividends at present, proclamation opening the Oklaboma lands to setilement on and after April 284. In asecordance with the procla- mation the General Land Commissi. n- er on the 27th directed the estaolish- ment of two land offices in Oklahoma. ! The office for the western district will | be ut Fisher's Stage Station; that for the eastern district at Guthrie. The two districts are divided by the range line running through the Territory north and south, between Ranges 3 and 4, west of Indian Merlalan, Each district contains approximately the same number of townships, ~Uaptain Joseph Dealano, of the steam tug S. M. Johnson, has been arrested in Baltimore charged with firing a rifle, on the James river, and killing the five-year-c!d daughter of James Brockwell, of Tellington, Vir: gina, Captain Delano was shooting al geese. Mrs. Mary Short, a white woman, was found dead in bed in her house in Chicago on the morning of the 28th with her throat cut. Her husband, John Short, a colored waiter, has been arrested, A razor, whieh he had been carrying, was found under the body in the bed Mura. Short, who was a Nor- old country, and had been desirous of returning to Norway to take possession of her property. Her husband objected to her going, fearing that she would not return. «John Warren, ~ An attempt was made on the even. tng of the 27th te wreck a west-bound limited train on the Chicago, Santa Fe and California Railroad, near Chili. cothe, lllinow, Lies were placed upon | the track, but they were pushed aside | without damage by the pilot of the | i engine, The limited train generally carries a quantity of valuables through the Wells, Fargo Express Company, | and the officials of the road think rob- | bery was intended, On the28Lh a police man found two burglars at work on tke vault in the hardware store of Hilgus & Co., in Naperville, Illinois, | The burglars endeavored to escape, when the policeman fired at them, fatally wounding one. The other man was slightly injured, but e:caped. { —L. 8. Brown was arrested in Min | neapolis, Minnesota, on the 25th, for | counterfeiting. Ile is a sllver plater by trade, and his plan was to thinly plate the coins, He is an old soldier and draws a pension. Some days ago | F. W. Woolworth, manager for the | Woolworth syndicate, which owns five | ard ten cent stores In different cities, | mailed 76 checks, amounting in all to | $2500, in the public mail box in the | Stewart building in New York, Sam- uel E. McEwen got hold of them in some way and tried to negotiate them, but was unsuccessful and was arrested, | -— Vernon G. Simpion, 30 years of age, of Norfolk, Virginia, died from | | the effects of gas asphhiyxiation, at the | Northwestern Hotel, in New York. | The police say his death was acciden- | tal, as the transom and the window of | | his room were open, and 1t was clear he could not bave meditated suicide. | Lieutenant Harvey JF. Bateman, of | | the Tenth United Sta‘es Infantry, was { found on the ralirodd track west Muncie, Indiana, on the 27th, with his head severed from his body. There ! are suspicions of fou! play. Of PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. EENATE. In the Senate, ou the 20ibh, the con current resolution calling on the Sink- ing Fund Commissioners for informa- tion as to the disposition of the funds intrusted to their care was received {from the fivuse through an errog { which was not discovered until some { time after the measure had been dis posed of by the Senate, It was re ferred by the Senate to the Finance Committee, and subsequently Mr, i Cooper moved to reconmder the vole on reference. Finally the whole mater { was laid vn the table, Dills were passed finally to permit the Incorporation of {savings banks without capital stock, and giving power to condemn property i for purposes. A large number of bills passed second reading. journed, $ 3 ool In the Senate, on the 27th, { tion was received from the : the return of the W herry Si resolution, and it was sent | conference report on the | School Ship bill was received and lad over. The McAleer nil increasing the salaries of the Jodges passed third reading The bills regulating the practice of wedicins and surgery, re- pealing the fence law of 1700, exilend- | ing the time for ratiroad companies to finish their roads, appropriating $27,500 for the purchase of the William Penn farm in Bucks county, were passed finally among others. Mr. Hine's Em. ! pluyers’ Liatality bill was | amended so as to make ils application i general. Adjourned. In the Senate on the 285th, | Mylin { resolution of last week providing for the i | Investigation of State supporting inst!- | tutions, The recommitted Ton i Coal bill was reported back amended, : a rescia House for king Fund ba kK. A Nautical © iL Mr. weight. { the provision of ihe Constitution that | corporations shall not engage in aoy { olher busiyess than that jor which they i were chartered was reported, amended i 850 a8 Lo make the act applicable only to the furnishing of powder to miners, | { The bill authorizing boroughs to con- | i struct sewage sysiems was reported | negatively. Adjourned. HOUSE. in the House, bills were passed fin- ally, among them the following: For the assessment and valuation of real {and personal esiate for county and | municipal purposes; to assess the grad. iing snd paving of streets on the owners of property abutting thereon, and to enable boroughs to construct sewage systems and assess and collect the cost thereof, The bill for the in. corporation of electric light and heat | companies failed on final passage. The bill in relation to foreign fdelity and | casualty insurance companies also | failed--the yeas being 52, the nays 125, | Among the bills read a first time was | that authorizing the transfer of licenses, | Adjourned. In the House on the 27th, the Senate | joint resolution for an amendment to | the Constitution classiiying cities ac- cording to population was reported | favorably, Mr, Gentoer introduced a | bill requiring bill posters to be licensed. The bill for the erection of the new county of Hazel was pased finally snd sent to the Senate, Medica! Ex- aminers’ bill was amended on teczond reading, one of the amendments pro- viding that at no time shall there be a majority in the Board re ting any one school of practice. Senate bill increasing the salaries of Judges was reported favorably, The Border Rald Ciaim bill was defeated. Adjourned, In the House on the 28th, the Sen- ate bills for the Imprisonment of tramps, and to prevent the spread of Soe Orta 4 4 floally. Adjourned, Horerul HEiR-—I1don’t know what the ah—Governor would say if he were living at my having to go around with only a few cents in my pocket, cher know. Guardian and indignantly — Why, he'd that you'd better IIe Ta Tr a i TN x 5 Yr h NEWS IN BRIEF. ~The late Emperor Willian. ia cred | fted with baving saved $12,000,000 ous | of his public allowance. i ~PDuring the year 1888 nearly 700 persons disappeared in Pulladelphia, a | large percentage of whom were never | ~The most remarkable eclio known is that in the Castie of Simonetta, two miles from Milan, It reports the echo of a pistol sixty times. Boulanger’s one dol to be his mother. Sunday afternoon in | Iie and ~fFeneral Ife is said Milan, King of Servia, has had a | pretty tongh time in governing his peity Kingdom of Jess than two mil. | Hons, He and his kin limited monarch $200,000, ~The greatest cataract in the world Falls being 165 feet. The highest fall | in the world is that of the | Yosemite in California, being 2.550 ~The wealth of this country 1s esti- | mated at $45,000,000,000, It is said | that 1855 persons own $3,000, 000,000, | and that 1,000 persons control fortunes | $20.0 10,000,000, concert | cham- For dinner | ta — During the interval at a Mme, Patti drinks a glass of pagoe (Pommery-Gireno). on a concert day she takes a slice from | a saddle of mutton, a glass of Leou- ville and a baked apple, ~The quic passage ever across the Atlantic was that of Etruria of the Cunard Line, being six } rty minutes from New York to (Queens 850 miles, made the ~-Lieorge OC. Hayden, 75 yeurs of age, mizer, who died recently louis, and was supposed to be very poor, was found to have $60,000 in cash, stocks and bonds. He is posed to have relatives in Maine, —The Chureh in Utah shows a membership of 127 204 —23, 00( The chureh has 12 apostles, | patriarchs, 3 seventies, 5.15: igh priests, 11,000 elders, 1,500 bishop and 4 400 deacons, being offic each Six persons, - The aggregate of land in the United States owned by members of the House of Lords and British Bypdicates 20,941,660 acres, a grester area i1han all of Ireland, 2.000000 more than Scotland, and over | a8 much asin England and Wales, Theodore berts and s8On in we sup- IH 3 MOTION OR NES an if alt John John- the Sing Sing pri of the galleries recently, when lost their balauce and fell 30 fe to the stone floor Johnson was fearfully injured, but Roberts was not even dazed, -— Ata type st in Lon don a month ago there were 126 entries and nearly all appeared, Tue first prize was for seveniy-nine words a minute, twen!y or thirty words less than have been achieved in the United States, ~ For the supper to be served at the inaugural ball in Washington, these were provided 20000 raw oysters, 20. O00 stewed oyeters, 8 000 chicken cro- quettes, 6,000 sweet bread pales, 3 galions of terrapin and other articles of food In proportion. 1s iat) « CODVICLS In were fighting in one they “ i writing conts r ~Colonel Robert G, Ingersoll, among 318 other multifarious duties as lawyer, telegraph director and after-ainner speaker, has undertaken to run a silver mine. lle is President of a company which owns and operates 8 mine at Sliver Clty, N. MM. ~The advertising card is of entirely modern origin, although the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans knew something about advertising. They accomplished the deslied result through the medium of posters, as several bills, painted i of the Pompeiian dwellings, — Moses Jacobs, who sells papers in the sireels of Des Moines, Iowa, is propably the richest newsboy in the West. He is I8 years old and has sold newspapers for the last fourteen years, during which UUme be has ac- quired $4,000 worth of real estate from his savings. ~The microscope is usually supposed to have been Invented in 1621 hy Cor. nelius Drebbel, a Dutchman, but M. Govi has found an old book, published in 1610, which proves that Gablec must have originated this instrument Galileo lnm. have referred to the microscope in 1014. ~The monde, which last year swore that Mrs, Mackay was papering the smoking-room of her “hotel” with bank-notes, will no doubt find the bit | of gossip very probable that she 1s awaiting the arrival from Paris of a gown which is embroidered all over with real pearis, and for which she has | agreed to pay £10,000, { ~The waters of nearly all the bot | springs in Black Rock region, Nevada, are so strongly lmpregnated with min. | etable or animal matter in a few years, | One enterprising genius has the bodies | of three Indians in soak, and when | they are converted to stone he ex- | Jocks to make a fortune exhibiting’ = The revival of beard wearing in England is said to be due to two cir: cumstances, An impulse was given to it by the example of the througs of heavily-bearded Germans and Russians | who flocked to the first great exhibi. ei Soe 1, Sh ery rit : en unshaven, from the Crimean war. A SS A A St a A 1 ops Tne population of the United States at the present time is estimated to be 64 000,000, The total increase is said to be 100.000 a month, exclusive of im. migration It estimate] that the census in July, 1800, will shpw a popu- lution of about 67,000,000, I -. ."t es . il go down in hi in LOY oe gs his of } PY First His Rae, i igott kind oblivion overlake 5 the champion Har and one : *g #4 4 i § | A aang O08 OF virit ay vag pear to have been part 14 I service he lied in so long as be fe was willing to lie {or aus ££ Wah Wilke VI is sO Ally ays for fo the GEver. yr about anybody—alw And it must 11 i be forever nell and Bgan, and lastingly to the shame of MacDonald, former the al lie in service of the League, whik would not have rasc the latter did procure Lim for the Lon Times. are blots on pages of so, for that matier, how. don Pigotis ihe history, and It is believed, other newspaper that manager of the Times, Af ever, there is no such man ins any rate hoped so, VERT in Lhe highest 510,158 The 1882, when % 10 the foreign overflow. { show an mmcreas Years are year the ( previous Last STAY lo our population, number was 25 784, 5 1n 1888 about a thousand Great Dritain, and Germany show a large fall- were 47. t is not probable that the u ! these sources will increase, In the future Russia, Austria, Hungary and ltaly are likely to furnish the large majority of in at least for a vy oy nt mMIgranis, 0 © decade Is country’s roads me, TEREST provement of the 18 not confined to any Dradstireet’s “We have seen attention the subject has attracled in the North and East; it is attracting no less attention Yor example, a proposi- tion to bold congress to consider the best means for improving the roads of the State has been brought forward in Georgia, and, judging from the com- ments of the State press, the proposal is being favorably received, The congress will be held in Atlanta in May next, and it is boped that a practical scheme of reform in road administration will be Ibe question is one which ad- dresses itself with peculiar fores to the comipercial and agricultural interests of the country. The merchant aud the agri. culturist alike find their account in a ready exchange of products, and easy marketingof crops, and il need not besaid that such a desirable consummation maybe very much retarded by bad roads, It is plain from indications, such as that to which attention has just been directed, that mterest in the question of rod improvement bas by no means colum- inated yet. n the img one section. Bays: what apparently in the South, bold a adopled. Tue work of taking the eleventh census of the United states will spon attract attention, the preluninary legal provisions having been arranged. The Philadelphia Inquirer says the sched ules of inquiries are to be the same as those of the tenth census, with sneh changes of subject matter and modifications as may be approved by the secretary of the interior. There is a limitation, how- ever, as to the number of volumes Ww be published. Instead of the twenty-two volumes of the tenth census there will The subjects covered will be population and social statistics relating thereto, products of manufactories, mining, agrweulture, mortality, and vital statistics, valuation and public indebtedness, and statistics relating to railroad corporations, ex. press, telegraph, and insurance come panies, It is expected, however that in spite of this hmitation in the matier of publications the eleventh census will be even more expensive than the tenth cen sus was, This increase in expense, it is expected, will be rendered necessary by the increase in population. An increuse of about 30 per cent. over tho popula: tion in 1880 may be reasonably looked for mm 1800. We shall then be 65,900. 000, mostiywise, being the Uhriltiest, tive, and the least and mosh easily governed people on the face of tbe earth, It is manly to persevere
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