THE NEWS, The bodies of the ten sailors recovered from the wrecked steamship Jason were buried at Wellfleet, Mass, — Charley Blusher of Louisville, Charles Yokes, of Covington, fought with five-cunce gloves for a purse of $0600 and the lightweight championship ol Kentucky. The fight took place three miles from Louisville, Slusher won in the thirti- eth round. —— James 8. Irwin, one of the old est and best-known lawyers in lllinols, died in Pittsfield, aged seventy-four. He was © personal friend of and associate with Lin coln and Douglass, —— Receivers were ap- pointed in Albuquerque, N. M., for the At jantic and Pacific Railroad. —A banquet wus given in Quebec to Hon, Wilfred Laurier the Liberal leader, —— Dr. W. H. Waters who interfered in a duel between Charles Clay and Aaron Shannon, in Thomas and Kate Kinney, an aged couple burned to death in their home, -J. R Milgap, dealer in boots and shoes in Paris, Texus, assigned his stock to James T, Hoover for the protection of home creditors amount of £11,426. —— Hon, Marius Schoon- eighty-three years. £ burglar, who says ne is Simon Wisman, of Poiladelphia, was captured while escap- He says he is thirty-seven years old, and be bas the sallow appearance of a person who Fire destroyed the Opera House block in Sedalia, Mo. Seven business houses were burned, The jail of Mineral county, W, all of whom made good their escape. of them was Wm. Rhive, a e¢razy man, way train a few days ago and tried to swallow a red-hot poker. the five, including Rhine were vival of the Kpow-nothing movement, - Judgments amounting to been entered against J. M. Harris, a made clothing dealer of the store was closed by the sheriff, Levi largest claim. ——Two miners, named Leavitz and Jobn Zioka, both were killed in the Twin Shaft at Pa., by a fall of coal and rock. engaged at the time in propping an roof in one of the lower lifts in the shaft The National Bank of Augusta, Ga. , and conducted under one management, an ar- rapgement haviog been made between H. B. Plant, of New York and J. B. White, of Au- gusta, large stockbolders in the institutions —— Daniel Webster was killed, and his wife and three children poisoned. in Geneva county, Ala, by eating & zine vessel. ——The Pan-American Railway was sold by the sheriff of Vietory county, Tex. for $11,000. —— Mayor Waoser, of Jer- sey City, bas ordered the street and feasance. Miss Huldabh Arnold, as Quaker- ess, died at Milford, Mass, aged 102 Danijel Moore, a loom boss at Wilson's woolen mill, at Trenton, committed suicide He was crazed bas been with wheels in the power-room. sick with the grip, and of the famous trout pavilion at Bay, Lake George, is dead, aged seventy-one years. He was one of the best-known hotel men in Northern New York. Four men were killed and a number in jured trains, near Lawrence, Kansas The Easton Trust Company, of Easton, Pa, as trustee for the holders of £50,000 in bonds of National Switch and Signal Company, of South Easton, foreclosed the mortgage, owing to the Switch Company having de faulted on the payment of the $1,500 interest due October 1st, 1883. The company was started three years ago. The Park Hotel in Bhamokin, Pa., was totally destroyed by fire. The inmates were obliged to make hasty exit from the burning buliding, but no one was injured. Loss $10,000 -——At Cleve- land, Okio, men and women proceeded to tve City Hall, and when told there was no work or provisions for them, denounced the city government and threatened trouble, — The Montgomery Iron Company, of Port Kennedy, Pa , made an assignment. Liabil- ities, $330,000. ——William D. Lovitt, a ship- owner, and reputed to be the wealthiest man in Nova Seotia, died of preumonia mn IIIs mn ss. Barbara F. Dauboer, of Elizibeth, N. J., fell over a stove at her home sod was fatally injured, Richard Kittenreiner, an electric light Hoeman of 8t. Louis, was killed ty the fal of a pole, Three large buildings in San Franciséo, composing what is known as ‘Printers’ Row,” were burned, the loss reaching about $2.0,000, Wa. Rixoie was found bursed to death in & bon-fire, near Middletown, Pa. It is sup. posed that he fell in the fire when drunk and Was unable to help himself, A portion of a bridge over the Westfield river, at Chester, Mass., wos carried away by ice, blocking the traffic of the Boston and Albavy Railroad, Pant of the west wall of the diaing-room building at the Wernersville Asylum, Wer. nersville, Pa., collapsed owing to the bigh winds. It will delay the work of putting on the root i Asa itrain of loaded coal cnrs was passing over the private bridge of B.rmiogham & Keating, over the Des Moines river, at Boone, lows, oue of the SPRUS gave way #nd the cars were piled In the river below, Win. Palmer, a brakeman, waMaught in the wreck aud killed. A despatch from Ithaon, New York, says that the body of Miss Yeuriog, who was drowned in Cayuga Lake several weeks ago, wae washed ushors near McKinney's Station on the Auburn branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Mrs. Yearing went rowing with Instructor Merriman, of Cornell College, some six weeks ago, and failed to return, They were undoubtedly drowned together dy the cupeizing of their boat, * NGOME TAX Decision of the Ways and Means Committee. 2 PER CENT. ON INCOMES. Ten Cents More a Gallon on Whisky, Including That in Hand, and Two Cents a Pack on Playing Cards. The Vote was Six to Five. A two per cent. tax | $4,000, an additional tax of 10 cents a gallon on incomes on whisky apd a tax of two cents a pack on | playlog carde was the decision reached uy { the Democratic members of the w ays and | means committee, This conclusion was not unexpected, inns | much as the committee bave been known for tome time to be evenly divided on the pro- position to tax incomes, with Mr, Turner, of | Georgia, position doubt, The committee met at the Treasury De- partment ut 4 o'clock and determined to set | tie the question of an cecupying the only of income tax before ad- | journment. It was represented by of the gentlemen ae favored the proposition that mn general income tax would yield the government an anpual §30.000, t 000; that the #4, 00 would limit it to a class amply able to afford it, and thet in view of deficit that wiil be caused by the reduction in such revenue of 1 making exempg tions the large customs duties there was no alteroative but it. Some of the gentlemen who opposed the tox argued at length that the poiltioal effect would be fatal to the Democratic party, and that it would Le betier to the tax © corporations only and ralse additions! to adopt admit the | revenue neee ssury from other sources, New York, losisted that be comes whether large or sn Mr. Cockran, of an income tax ought t« inid upon all all, apd the other course was unwise and unden in that it did not fall on all alike, . THE YOTE 6 T¢ When Chairman Wilson put the proposi- tion (« the present voted aye, These were Messrs, Millin, Byoum, Tarsuey, Whiting, and Turner, and it was carried, plies to the pet earnings of corp well as to incomes. however, apply to inberitences, althe a vote, 6 of 11 Representatives Mi Bryag Thetnx ap- rations as private It does not, ugh that suggestion was one of the earliest | vanced when the matter first ug in the « 1d came consideration BgO. The additions] tax of 10 cents a gallon whiskey pow in Ix With a view to making the tax fall as lightly ommitiee a incilades this whiskey period three years, It bonded it was decided to extend the foeight years, It is now was decided that the allowance for ‘ou age age’ is techbnieally used 10 express the lost by evapo and frow ration FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Benate. 150 Day.—The session of the Senate only 20 miout«s, and half of { tbat time was given to the consideration of | executive business, Nothing of any publi ! interest took place in the open session, ex sept the offering of a resciution ou the Ha { wailan question by Mr. Frye, 8 member of the committee on foreign relations, whieh i» pow investigating that subject iI6te Dax.—The public session of the Senate cocupied only an hour and an addi tional ten minutes in executive session | closed up the labors of the day. There were only two matters of public interest in the ip oceedinge. One was a resolution offered | by Mr. Hoar, calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the sums { paid out of the Treasury to Mr. Blount as | commissioner to Hawaii, and as hs as- i thority for making such payment. The other was a motion made vy Mr. Gray to take up for consideration the House hill to repeal the federal election laws. Mr. Hoar's reso lution went over without debate. ¥ | 171m Dav. The United States Senate | not in session to-day. ’ to was House. 151m Dav. ~The only business accomplished | by the House was to swear in Mr. Adams, a | sul essor 10 the late Representative O'Neill, i of Pennsylvania, and to act on the resigna- | tion of Representative Fellows and Fiteh, of New York. Contrary to expectation the | tariff bill was not ealled up although Mr. Wilson sat patiently waiting his opportunity | on the Hawaiian matter, 16tu Dav.—-In the House, Mr. adopted the same tactics as on Wednesday, { and started the Hawalian ball rolling by consideration being raised by Mr. MeMillin, of Tennessee, the House settled down to a ! o'clock, when as the Republicans declined to vote and the Democrats were unable to place adjourned, onstration of ite inability to transact publie hostile minority. After a session of four hours spent in an attempt to reach a vote on a report of the Committee on Rules, it was realized that, inthe absence of some forty or fifty Democratic members, and with the He publicans to a man declining to vote, it was impossible to make any progress, and that there was nothing left but to adjourn, nn sonata OLIVER TWIST PEACHED, A Bey Used by a Gang of Barglars Betraye Them to the Police. A telegram from Weston, W, Va, says a bad gang of burglars aud housebrenkers, who have been operating in Lewis and Braxton counties for several weeks, have been rounded up through the confession of o thirteen-year-old boy John Sims, who was employed by the gang to enter houses for them, after the fashion of Oliver Twist, Wednesday night the gang wanted Sims to enter Harrison and Warren's hardware store. The boy refused, when they made him drunk, and put him through a window, making him open a door. For this treats ment the boy divaliged their names to the THREE DIED WITH HIM. at Omaha, A fire fo a cottage owned by Jobn Cum- mings, at Omaha, Neb, at about 2.15 io the morning resuited In four fatalities, The fire and four bodies were discovered huddled to- gether in the corner of the bedroom. They were the remains of Mr. John Cummings and wife, one child three years oid, and Mrs. Margaret Fox, mother of Mra. Come mings. Coroner Maul was summoned and 100k charge of the remnins, The story of the fire, as related by Tommie Mr, John Cummings had been ill which the family were seated the who the Tommie at futher time, WHE readiog a book, rose from beside the stove nud went io Mr. Cummings np, which was standing trble, and the house immediately overturned the center 100K fire, Ar, Cummings elesed the bedroom door and according to the story of the boy, held it tightly shut. The four human beings were the on burned to a crisp Mr. Nathan, a next-door fn Woman cry neighbor, beard **My child, my ehiid is burp house, he saw the mother trying to raise the window and make her escape with the child in ber arms, It was, however, impossible for her to get and from the give the alarm to neighbors, and if possible, (0 rescue out, she soon disappeared rushed t« the ili-futed prisoners. No belp was able to reach the unfortunates, however. the d by the firemen. and Bre witt unin flames had been subdue then a borribie and piteous Hele met their gaze, Four skelete ns, nenr'y all of the flesh burned from the bones, were Iy- ing together in the corner. A cording 1 story of the boy be endesvored 1« open the burn When the fire burst : the the door and release those in im, but in vain, room in which be was, be was driven } the street ummings was a hesvy drinker, and bad been sullering from excessive drink that he tremens, and ig for some time, It is supposed bad an attack of delirfun insane state when he comunitted deed, The damage done 14 giight, the fire room where the snd other furniture the house MCRrorly geiting beyond the irasedy occurred ihe bed or Lh hat WORK AND WORKERS, were oon The Macungie, Iron Pennsy.vauia banked since the Lehigh Valley strike began, was put in blast again ibe Warren Foundry, at New Jersey, announces a 10 per tion in wages, which the three ployes will prot ally accept, I'he riversice Ohio, period ployment, Crane Company's furnace at whi has been Phillipsburg, cent redud hundred em. Stee] Beswood Wores, at 3 have closed down for an indeflln Six hundred people are out of Reguiar meetings of the vari the Railroad Fed Pa. other sirike in us orders in tation were held io Easton but nothing was said the or done abw.t Lehigh Valley Tbe Iron Car Company, a new orgapiza. tion supplants the Iron ment Company, ssnounces that in Huntingdon, Peuna., will early date wl Railroad. bieh Lar Equipe Lhe works resume atl an I've Cleveland Rolliog Mill Cc mpany has kbut down its wire mills in Cioveland, Oboe The big sheet mili bas boss clos «i indefinite iy. Eight hundred men are aflected J. 8. Bunett, proprietor of o tannery in Littie Falls, New Yo.k, bas notified his 460 empioyes that their wages will be reduced 10 per cent, owing to the dullness of trade, A dispateh from Bellaire, Obio, says tht the i600 coal miners in that vicinity bave decided to strike this week against the pro- posed cut in their wages from 70 to 6) cents per ton, the latter belug the price pail the Wea Virginia mivers, The fueman employed on the Toledo, St Louis and Kansas City Railroad claim that the Receiver of the company has made wholessle ots in wages, disregarding a yearly contract, aud they propose to submit the matter to Judge Hicks, of the United Bates Cour., at Toledo, The United States Court at St. Louls, re ceived a petition from the employes of the "Clover Leal,” asking that it “allow them to They claim that “the Receiver has reduced wages systematically until at present it is impossible for some to A Denver despatou says that the Arkansas Vailey smelter in Leadville will be started up Gext week and that ety will then be able to ‘‘Heceat developments indicate the discovery of gold ia the veins that will allow the mine overs prices of silver, END OF THE BIG STAMPS, of The Old Year, Postmaster-General Bissoll has given his last order for the printing of the Columbian postage stamps, known in the department as the “big Columbians.” This order was for 165,000,000, and it completes the 2,000, 00.0.0 contracted for by Mr. Wanamaker, The following circular has been sent to postmasters In this conneetion : “Attention is Invited to the following facts relative to Columbian stamps and envelopes : “First—They will be good for postage without limit of time. ‘'Sevond.--None will be furpished to postmasters alter Decomber 30, 1803, “Third-~These stamps have bean pure posely sent to postmasters without re quisitions from them, and all requisitions have Leen filled with these stamps exelu- sively between November 18 and December 30, sve, ‘Fourth-~The stamps 80 supplied must be kept for sale, as permission will not be given to return them or the Columbian en velopes for credit on the pretext that there is no sale for the particular fssue. It is only by depleting their stock by sale that other stamps will be furnished, series of stamped paper, MIDWINTER FAIR California's Great Exposition Opened to the Public, A Magnificent Show in Golden Gate Perk, Overlooking the Pacific Ocean--Criental Architec~ ture and Western Products, in the aud bunting and banners are to end of the Chicago Fair was in Shortly afterward it the Park was selected asthe loeation forthe fair, io wae ahead in mutier and Golden Gate be one of the prettiest Op the 24th of fully BL O00 ipaugurated by of earth, imme diately after which the work of graging com the in slrue of Lhe globe, of propie, the enterprise was August, in the presence turniovg the first shoveliul menced, followed in a few weeks by snuguration of work on the five ain Lures, Administration, Mar ufine These turers 1he Dern bre and 1 Arts, Agricultural and Horticultural, Fine Arts and Mechanic Arts Buildings, all which are grouped around 6 ivlogram in centre of which is ap eel in height, sever A! artictically ornamental fountains, siaiuary spd a wealth of snd shrubs This I» kn palms, flowers grand coun the court and seat wn as the Many t MEre Lge s nding or ® over 160 a the 4) COnCeRsions, (ere Yery <irection es, Are special Lulidings crected Ly Yerent Bintes, counties and ted at the cost ©f the Biates, counties or individ. tai, i for their exclusive exhibits The Manuiacturers and Liberal Arts Build. Its dimen. covering argest in the grounds $622 237 feet of grou ing is the slopes are joel 101.784 ua This building ie wih a square Mos ' effects which that style of trish in design, ithe picturesque Are ire rec. Hy lends pel! ibe Iargest, Is 5 scruCture It is nes Arts Building, (50 feet long by 200 nod The in the centre of the build. Mechanienl pecond wide sre Indian in design highly artistic in His rich oriental style, grand entrance ing. i» rectapguinr in form and is covered with rich decorntion, By the fenture of the « xposition i» the Horticultural snd It the Spanish mission style and is a low roof this g nr most siriking architectural Agricultural Building in ce be feel sign, #0 much in favor on const. great dotoe is 110 feet in diameter by 100 and around height this dome on the out side is a roc in Ihe extreme dimen. apd anpex 1 in width «garden sions of the main building Are fee his ! the California ever $00 feet in length by 19) structure coninins greatest display ¥ products of the soll of together, and that Is synonymous with ing that it ls such a display of agricuiiural and borticultural material as the United Htates has never seen placed on exhibition, The Five Aria Building I» intended for s permanent structure, constructed of brick and iron. It bs simple in plan, being & rect. angle, 12) fest long by 60 feet wide. The brick wails on the side are 47 feet high and to the apex of the pyramid it jo 8] feet It is an example of Egyptian architecture aod the sculpture snd columns are in harmony withit, The interior is arranged in two stories and representing the “stepped” con- struction of the pyramids, jut Eay- tains the offices of the exposition manage. ment, the department of publicity and motion, the foreign department, headquarters, the postoffice and information such that it is the most imposing. The design Is oriental In outline, and in the detail of its ornamentation is Binmese., It consists one of each angie of the square. Yhis building, like its namesake at the Columblan Expos. tion, which faced the Grand basin, di rectly in the rear of the allegorieal fountain, In this the souipture has tried to tell and much can HE of the Midwin- in- The concessional features railway, a Santa Barbara aquarium contain- ing a dozen sea lions, a reproduction of oid Cairo, a Turkish theatre, a moorish mirror mare, a reproduction of the celebrated Prater of Vienna, a Tomale house, a repro- duction of Anna Hathaway's cottage, and jast but by no means least, a "49 wining eamp. This camp occupies a space 450 feet long and 260 feet wide. In the centre of the camp is astreet 450 feet long, lined on each side with old-time shanties, which do service as newspaper offices, saloons, hotels, theatres and gambling-houses, as in the days of yore representing a typical mining town. mn oN i. One of the most active aids to President Peixoto's cause is Minister Menaonca, of Brasit, He makes frequent trips to New York, and bis unsleep ing vigilance and seo recy of movement have spoiled many a well. laid plan to send ald to the rebels. dss sms OI sir. Jean InarLow appears to be a very hospi. able woman, Sbe gives a dianer-party threo times a week. Her guests are 12 poor people PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. | Epitome of News Gleaned from Various Parts of the Btate Tug Republican State Convention, in ses #ion at Harrisburg, nominated Hon, Galusha A Grow, of Husquebanna eounpty, for Con. greseman-nt-Large to succeed the late Gen. ern] William Lilly, # Jupog ( LAYTON, commiseloner to ot Media, appointed a defermive the sanity of Professor Swithin Bhortlidge, wns srrested at Pottsville on the charge of perjury. W. W, Murphy Bethlehem on the house of BR. J. A Coroner's County Commissioner Allen wns arrested South in robbing tb charge’ of the Thompspt, of Melrose, uy, finds that Jobn Page was killed nt Muyfield, by Michael Lick. Representatives of JUry at beranie The Intter has disappeared. keveral potteries met at Pittsburg and decided 14 present to the Nuticnal Potters’ fo Washington, Convention, which meets & proposition for the tion throughout the count f ad op the wage scale Two cnses of have Martin Madara, of So victims ure the two cerebro-¢pinal meningitis uo Leen the famil Gciscovered ith Shamokin sons and are the exist they precarious condition. Ihese are cases of spotted fever known to in CrMBERLAND County met Charles H Bgricullurai Society by electing W. H. McCrea, treasurer ; superin- in Carlisle M i ¥ and organized iia, president secretary ohn Stock H, Mil Charles H. Mullin, J ler, 1. Brenneman, W. H. St M Ww, E J 1 W. Coffey, Joseph ury and « directors are WwW. E MD onesifer, Niles Met Theodore r. The H. Bosler Fissel, G Rinesmith une, Y ood af Esq. The date inir was fixed for September 2 A po} I robbery « west of Belin's Grove at Cross roads po mig The re office pan country forced fore and away with walches and miscell A rewnrd « capture, Av f £100 doiinr Median an Bhortlidgs peti Bp the Court nimen de! Neanvry all en i ar Lost Cnees 8 Tur propositio wort} of bonds for agitating Pittsburg citizens Maskenp mes West Pittston guid wateh Assn u and roll INTOXICATED Whisky Hil, one man wns fatally and injured Hesny Bawa iamsport while temp grip Hox. Manrix Bxwa installed President J Max hanged himsel rarily insane from it AYSDUrg. aw air County Courts. Pevnsyl A Lehigh passenger tra i Mc vania freight collid ustain Btation and several pas injured Gexerat Bossy G vears Prothonotary succeeded io tha offi M Sheffer AT the firemen's Ba opyens 6 was re-elected ob eugiveer of the ! Mechanics Wagoner fire departroent « burg Bexsanwix Ess, Jn, ! Hampden ship, bad bis jef: band Brusiy itter that Towg. 1 is ; jure by a fodder © to be ampu- tated, Wire a population of 16.1 {0 the den of Pottstown for the year 1895 was us Males, €4: females, 60. clildres vears of ape, 86; tota’, 1M FIRE'S AWFUL WORK. Two Peopls Burned to Death and F ve Fatally Ivjured. The New Year was little more than twenty four hours old when Buffalo, visited by one of the most fatal fires in her Mrs. Annie Hackett's lodging bouse, 12 the tumble-down order. rooms. The beds were in ments and like box stalls in a stable, Shortly before 3 o'clock people passing heard the large panes of glass in the saloon crack and a moment later a cloul of thick binck smoke and a tongue of flame darted out of the piace. Almost at the same time bouse seemed to be alive with panic-stricken people. They rushed from one window to the other and called pitecusly to the crowd to help them to esenpe from the blazing building. There were bo ladders anywhere, no fire escapes on the bullding, no way to save the frepzied occupants, Two people were turned and about twenty others badly in. fared, at east five of whom are likely to die SHOOTING WAS GENERAL. Three Men Killed in Beparate Affrays in an Alabama County, News comes irom Talispoosa county, Ala, of three serious shooting affrays. At Denver, Jim Street and John Perryman, highly con. pected young men, were the principals in an impromptu duel, the result of a quarrel Street was fatally wounded, Perryman is under arrest, At Reedtown, a party of young men, who were drinking and baving a good time, got into a general fight. Pistol bullets flew thick and last, J. F. Golding was killed and an- other man wounded. It is pot known who fired the fatal shot. At Dadeville, the connty-seat of Tallapoosa, county, Deputy Sheriff J, A. Carlisle, shot and killed John Hogan, who was under ar. rest and resisted. Hogan bad cut another | i i 3 Sins m— CABLE § Sons CucLEks, which it was thought Lad been effectually stamped vut at Lege bas agnio Bppenred, Tux Matateles buve been completely sabe jugnted. King Lobenguin bes fled and b Warriors scatlered, 11 is thought that there wili soon be a de. eisive struggle at Rio Janeiro, as the govern- ment and batteries are strengthened being greatly Tuurars 10 destroy var ous public buiid- Inge iu Yaris ure coutinuaily Laing made by BLAr upd the slertuees of officials is bL you BDuoying 10 the pubiie, Geonoe Witiiam Evers of the hins arrived a Tesi trother Amerivan snbaseador 10 Vrutce, in erie, Its Lis intention to lease Gelce there for three years Apumphict urging J BLee with the Xe sicerabie attention in Paris, rence 10 form an sli. Bpais and Morocco 10 command Gllerrsnesn sen Las sitracted COL» bee al Bezers, Frunee, bave learned explosion suring that oe. g the Wore ger ofl & Nor. the approach EF On tw curried Ly io is 1b« Tih sain wilh (roops r garriscobs Lh the array well Calieo 10H Wii ile FAMILY A Mas and a B:rvant G 17] Found Dead — His Wife Unconecions. W. Beed, WHOLE POISONED lodepen- Long- into by Al and peigh- i% that all was manager « the p54 Lam . ken Broan wer omLpany, WRE rd Mr. Re Lind become €©G 8 B80h-~] “HW, bors wh suspic having been The ing. Tbe body not right in thie bu . vi Le LsUrning sinoe HSalurcay Lg evening. Lace . Beed was foun ing in a chair be- 1 stove tural gas. It was oll, 8 domestic, lving of her room. het i YELr-0.0 On Were i and the mother unconscious, RGA Mrs. Reed 3 Ded in a dyiog accidental Woisoning and are the theories current, but the EL nine at irning of OF INATSS Were ves were by fall foree 1 that no of the incredible, we Uruises dead, rendered ail This leaves the only cause 10 i and Miss Scott bad plainly been The coutents of the webs will be examined, Mrs Heed bas 10 throw any dead thirty-+lx hours, #lom not yet sufficiently recovered ligbt on the aflair, a — NOIED PEOPLE. ABOUT Bexaron Morkiry, ol Vermout, #83 years Giadsiones ‘Father of Congress.” of age—cue year younger than He is the real Mes Lema P fuse va shoes, shippers and « 1 Sle bas thes Ot Moniox epenas a small for ther forms of footwear, ed thi sot a Wrinkle can Le seen, Prree vee Great is generally conceoed 1¢ Barve made the Lost Ge Oi for the benellt 0! bis peop.e whom be ruied of ali fhe Linge of peculiar nistory, Eiv. 8. M. McGrioor, 0! Aberdeen, Scot land, one of the best suown clergymen cf the | Scoteb Free Church, bas aceepted a eall to the pastorate of Dwight L. Moody's church in Chicago. 70 a young man asking for his opinion, Dr, Oliver Wendel Holmes recently exumen ated == the best three books “the Bible | Bhakespeare's plays, and a good dictionary, | say Viorvester or Webster,” | A Doston newspaper man speaks of the | Hon, Josiah Quincy as the bes: listener he | ever knew, any BAYS that be is 201 always givitg interviews nor speechilying on all oe CasinGs, as some men do, but be saws wood, and his woodpile i» a Lig one.” Nix 8nock, who, on account of his wild extruvagaooe during the Burning Springs Oll excitement years azo became i kpows as “Uoal Oli Jimmy," !s r™ | charge of the Pullmao dinin c-cur **Continen. | tal,” now running Letween Parke rsburg nod Cinewnati Tex iriends of Joseph L. Dion, who was once the champion bilard player of Amerion, are raising a charity fund to maintain bim in A private asylom. It is calles "The Joseph Dion Charity Beadfit Func” and the collec ton i= being made in Loxes in all the billisrd- reome in New York, AXOTHER reprevectative of a foreign relig- fon, Avrusbowng Ras Telang, = highenste Brabmin, who bas tarred in America since the Parliament of Religion in Chicago, is studying the manners and customs of the American poopie. He is at present in San Francisco, and is said to be gathering ma terial for a book. nso sints LOoNG-MISTANCE telephone service is becoming common in this country, and a growing demand for it causes a gradual extension. The longest con- tinuous line now operated is from Boston to Milwaukee, a di as the line is run, of 1,300 milles. Five minutes is the unit of time upon which prices are based. Between New York and Washington the ser- vice costs $2 for cach five minutes® use, and between New York and Chi cago it is #9 for the same service. It is claimed that conversation may as distinctly heard at 1,000 miles as ; one mile, and that in these long-dis- tance communications the able buzzing so often heard service is not ced. Li» wUIOCTRCY
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