as : Pleuro-pneumonia is said to have been effectually stamped out of New Jersey. The Southern papers claim that exedg tive delay caused the yellow fever epi- demic. A revival of the spelling match mania, which raged in 1874-70, threatens the Philadelphians, Canada cackles over the fact that she laid down 11,000,000 eggs in the United States last year. Again has an outery for Queen Vieto- ria's abdication in favor of the Prince of ‘Wales arisen in England. Senator Ingalls, of (ahisus, prophesises the peaceful acquisition of Canada and Mexico by the Un Professor Henry estimates that the loss from smutty corn a¥erages, in an ordi. | nary year, half a bushel per acre. It is believed, from present indications, | that there will be a fine display of the industries of this country at the coming World's Fair in Paris, European soaps suffer considerably from cheap Japanese competition, and it is stated that the Japanese have com- | menced to make cheap imitations of German toilet soaps, The postal authorities say that the | amount of postal matter received under the frank of Congressmen is so small as | to be of no importance in connection with the work of the office. The canal four miles long through the | Isthmus of Corinth, Greece, is just ap- | proaching completion. History tells us that the work was begun under | Emperor Nero over 1700 years ago. The Pennsylvania Central Railroad trains kill 100 Jer ey City (N. J.) people | a year, and don’t work very hard at that, The average settlement is $2000 each, which is called a very liberal figure. General James Craig, who died re- | cently at St. Joseph, Mo., was one of the few men whom history records us | having been defeated by a single vote. This happened when he ran for Congress | in 1880, The Black Hill country is making a pame for itself as a horse-growing re gion, and itis predicted that within ten years it will be as famous for its horses | as the Blue Grass district. It already boasts many fine horses of the best brecds known in the world. It has hitherto been thought that Buenos Ayres was one of the most ex pensive cities to live in, a medium-sized | house reating there for $1500 a year. 1f | is learned, though, that an eight-room house on the outskirts of Sydney, New | South Wales, brings $1750 a year. The pupils in the city schools of Des | Moines, Iowa, express theiraffection for their teachers by bringing them presents of fruit. As the amount of fruit brought | indicates the intensity of the affection, | some of the teachers are talking of | quitting their present occupation and of going into the wholesale fruit business, | Several of the scholars, to show their | originality, contritute pumpkins, red | peppers and potatoes, Little Dave Keller, aged seven, of | Marshall, TIL, has been sent to the insane | asylum. Dave was a very bright boy, | and made such wonderful progress in his studies that his parents and teachers de. cided to push him forward. He was al lowed no time for play or exercise, but was kept at his books, At last his eyes glared with a meaningless stare, his tongue babbled idiotic nonsense, and his overtasked brain was wrecked. dh One may get an idea of the careless. ness prevailing among people by consid- ering the figures of the Dead Letter Of- fice in Washington. During the past year nearly six million and a quarter let ters and packages were received there, either wrongly addressed or unclaimed. This 13 at the rate of over seventeen thousand for every day in the year. The amount of money contained in them was over $10,000, and the checks and drafts footed up $1,333,000, A great many queer things are found in New York, but one of the queerest is the following funeral advertisement, which we copy from a recent issue of the World : MARJIONE. ~EveLixa, infant daughter of Prof, and Elen Man jione, aged # months, Funeral from their residence, No. 9 Crosby st., yesterday at 2 P. M. 1b was accompaniad to the ferry by 20 pleces of music and 20 carviages, Interment in Calvary Cometery, ——————— The gossips say that Mr, and Mrs, Cleveland will come to New York to live after next March. Mr, Cleveland is estimated to be worth a million, having in | the | ing | the smoker exclaiming: | He died in the smoker { reached Grenada, to which it proceeded af- | ter the robbers had made their escape, ap- | ington, | whom | how | harmed, | follow held him as a shield, | were white men. | and the other was of { tenn inches high, | sult of very | ow marsh, about | Both | swamp op to} DARING TRAIN ROBBERS A Bold Attack on a Mississippi Express Car. Desperadoes Kill a Brave Passenger and Secure $3000, A daring train robbery, resulting in the death of a brave passenger, took place on the Illinois Central Railroad about one mile north of Duck Hill, Miss, about eleven o'clock at night. As the train started from Duck Hill at a quarter past ten o'clock two men boarded the engine, and covering En- gineer A. J. Law and Fireman George Evans with their revolvers, ordered them to ‘Pull out quick.” The men obeyed and the train was run a distance of a mile, when astop was ordered. Then Law and Evans were told to dismount and were marched to the expross car ahead of the robbers. A knock at the ear door causal it to be opened by Express Messpnger Hill. After firing three shots the robbers entered the car and secured about £3000, all the monéy the messenger had in charge, The firing was caused by the appearance upon the scene of Conductor P. B. Wilkin- | the passenger car | | through the smoker and out upon the plat- son, who rushed from form to ascertain the cause of the stoppage. The conductor immediately returned, and | shouted: “Come out, gentlemen, and belp us! The train robbers are upon us” There was but one response from among passengers ~ Mr, Charles Jackson, Tenn, who, with Wilkinson and Traveling of Con ductor of the train. One of the other passengers { had an unloaded Winchester rifle, which he | load! and handed to Hughes, | and Roba were also armed. As soon as the three brave men made their i Sppenranee rapid firing began on both sides, 1 ughes was struck twits, the first shot strik him in the lsft arm and another penetrat- ing his stomach, inflicting a fatal wound, Hughes ran back through the front door of “Boys, | am gone!" just as the train parently unbarmed The victim was on his return from Lex- Miss, whither he had gone to mest his sister's family and a young brother, all of were upon the train. He was the only support of a widowed mother Conductor Wilkinson is przdled to know the robbers could have escaped une as he saves he was within twenty feet of them and fired five shots, Hughes fir ing theese and Hobaa one Mossenger Hill was armed with a Win chester rifle, and when one of the robbers en- tered his car raised the weapon to fire, but Engineer Law bogged him not to shoot, Engineer Law says of the robbers One was tall and slender ordinary sire were poorly dressed and showed themrelves to be hard characters. The tall one wore sandy chin whiskers, | don't know whether be had a mustache or not.” Express Messenger Hill gives the follow. Ing description of the robber who entered the car: ‘He was a tall man-five foet and wore a white slouch He had beard on the side of hat no i his face and the mosk coversad it below his He had a large nickel-plated pistol, | nose which looked unusually long The bore was | very large and the barrel was round, appar { ently for a cap and ball { hair, cut very short, The man bad dark It looked as if it had been country barber. He wore a gray ordinary clothes. He put the money taken from the mesenger in a sack larger than the one used on the express oar, but of the same material Both of the cut bv a | robbers were masked,’ The soene of the robbery was an open fifty yards from woods roblers ran eastward and into the A pose was organized to join ir the chase, Bloodbounds were used to follow the tral The description of the tall man with sandy {| whiskers is a good deseription of the man whe recently robled a train on the Northeastern road —————————— NEWSY GLEANINGS, Derrorr RIVER is to be tunneled, BosTox wants a zoological garden. Dawascus, Syria, is to have street cars. Tae population of India is now 200,000, | engaged in extinguishing a fire that ha 000, Tur White Caps are extending their opera. tions, Rome. teachers, A mEVIVALOf the tulip mania is threatened in Holland, Pritaperrnia is stirred up about badly- built houses, Tre Ohio cabbage trust has come to a disastrous end. JacxksosviLLe, Fla, clean bill of health at last, been sold in Bt. Louis thisseason. Tux now Texas §3,000,000 Capitol has been accepted by the receiving board Prange chickens have appeared in Kansas | in almost unprecedented numbers, Tax English Derby winner, Ormonde, has been: sold to an American for $5,000, EXTENSIVE preparations are being made | to meet the threatened famine in India, DAKOTA has an acreage sufficient to make | eighteen States of the size of Massachusetts. | Kerry, the motor man, dosn't own one penny 's worth of stock in his alleged inven. | tion, Ir is said that there will be great suffering | in the southwestern counties of Kansas this year. Tur o of the Church of England of all grades, from archbishop to curates, num ber 28 000, Tux roller skating craze is now at its height in Washington Territory, Oregon and Manito’ a Ax order for steel rails has been placed at $20 a ton, the lowest price ever reached is this country. Tux United States has 658 street railways: Europe, 221; Germany, 47; Great Britain and Ireland, 117, A spw iron bridge at Bridgeport, C oe was tested 7 4 marching twelve nr large ele pd bition of goats at T AT the recent axhibition at Tra Switgerland, more then one thousand " were male shan. : snl. TT bhp le A outside sources Kamen W Tur State of New York is the second bariey-producing State in the country, the largest producer of hops, yam | They fell | were killed, Hughes, | Pas. | senger Agont Roban, started for the front | Wilkinson | in the lip four months ago by a cur. | Wappanucket, Mass, | effects of rough treatment at the hands of i Berks and Lancaster Counties, Penn, ibe | “Both | Both | | murder of a man named Stegall at 1 bridge, | slightly. | twomortally injured and eight more seriously | hurt Fraxce bas advised the Pope to leave | . | the death of Jonathan Mason, a lad of the Ix the South there are 16,000 colored school | | slapping him on the jugular vein, | Company, st St Louis, Mo, for false im bas been given a! | Bt. Louis, the company paying him $800), Oven 100,000,000 feet of pine luraber have | | ville, Texas, was burve |, and King, his wife | bodies of the eight victims were taken from | the ruins and buried in one grave, | in West Virginia, show an average majority | for the Cleveland electors on the face of the THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Thomas & Bows’ tack works, at Norris town, Penn., has been burned. Loss, £50,000, Rear Apsinan/Wirniax Epoan Le Roy, of the United States Navy, better known as he “Chesterfield of the navy,” has died in New York city, of paralysis. Except Rear Admiral Rogers, Admiral Leroy had seen more sea service than any other admiral in the navy, having served his country at sea twenty-eight years and one month, Tuomas N. Hanr, Republican, has been elected Mayor of Boston, defeating Mngh O'Brien, Democrat, by 2000 majority, Owing to the school book question, about 15000 women voted for School Board candidates, Miss Marre Ross, an aged woman living near Amontown, Penn, was bound, burned and tortured by three masked men until she revealed the hiding place of her money, The thieves got but $4. CAaroLINE ScuMiTt, a young married wo- man, leaped down an air shaft in New York City with her two little children in her arms fifty feet, Both children were killed and the mother fatally injured, Engr Durrnawm, of Badsburyville, Penn, started a fire in the hollow of a trees and went to sleep near in The tree fell and crushed him to death. Two members of a skating party on Dwy- er's Dam, ithaca, N. Y., Edward 8B. Nevins, of Orange, N. J., and Miss Maggie Sullivan, a teacher—were drowned bY breaking through the ice, Jons Waanrox, a brakeman on the Penn- sylvania railroad, was thrown from a train at Milkham, N. J., by a tramp and both Tie United States war ships Galena and Yantic bave sailed from New York for Haytl IT is estimated that 10.947 women out of a total registration of 21.500 voted for mem bers of the School Committee in the recent Boston municipal election. A poy named Joseph Btephenson has died of hydrophobia in Philadelphia, He was bit CuanLey Boanpwman, the fourteen year- old son of Edward Boardman, a farmer at bas died from the his school teacher Ax epidemic of diphtheria is raging in Two men and a boy were burned to death by a fire which destroyad McSweeney's tat tress factory at Providence, RU 1. Sonth and West, Tax Maryland Central BEzilroad, running | from Baltimore to Delta, Penn, , forty miles has been sold under foreclosure for $400,000 The company will be reorg snized with a capital stock of $400,000 and a funded debt i of E850, 00x) Joux Mantis, of Chicago, shot and killed | Mrs. Meme, a married woman with whom he was infatuated, and then killed himself, Buenrry Roneny Joxes, of Wabash, Ind, | was killed by John Fleming, an escaped con viet, whom be attempted to capture, A VERITABLE volewno, ejecting fire and lava, has burst out with activity at Charles, Mix County, Dak, within a few | miles of Hot Springs, which discharges into the Missouri River near Fort Randall Goverson Monxsovss, of Missouri, has | sent State troops to Bevier on account of In cendiary acts done by striking coal miners | there, Orpen has been restored in Birmingham, | Ala. The jail is under military guard ; e1nor Seay approves the action of Sheriff | ashes ov. | | Smith in defending murderer Hawes against | the mob. Six more victims are dead, mak ing fiftesn in all Two boys named Ollie Bedman and John Wright were drowned in the river at Cin. | cinnatl, Ustren Srares Bexavon Boroen, South Carolina bas been reelected, Tie seventy third birthday was celebrated in various ways by the chil dren of that State, a State holiday having | been made therefor, i Noan Tavron, of of Indians | colored, charged with the Har risonburg, Miss, was taken from jail by | a mob and hanged As Strohl & Hamane's feed mill at Trow Ohio, was about to start, Henry | Hamans stopped the steam, when the boiler | exploded, killing him and a customer whe was standing near by. Wallace Strohl am one boy were fatally injured and anothersoy Everything is a total wreck, ex cept the grinder. By an explosion of gas in a conl mine ngs Canyon City, Col, while workmen were previously broken out, two men were killed Josgrst Laup, eightsen years old, onused wmme age, at Martimsburg, W. Va, K by Tue Stone and Lumber Company, of Columbus, Ind. has assigned with liabilities of #00,000, The assets are $106 000, Tie case of ex-Mewenger David RB Fotheringham against the Adams Expres prisonment in connection with the celelirnted Jim Cummings robbery, has been settled at Tup residence of John R. King, of Cook and six children perished in the flames, The CoMprLeTe returns for Presidential electors returns of 54, The vote for the highest elec tors on each ticket was: Travers (Demo erat), 75.548: Pollock (Republican), 75,052, Miss Arron Byros, a teacher, and Mis Lewis, her pupil, ware killed by a train while sttempiting to walk along a railroad trestle near Alexanders, N, C. Vice Paesmpexr-erecy Levi P, Monros and Mra Morton arrived at Indianapolis, Ind, on a visit to General Harrison, and were received at the door of the Harrison mansion by the President-elect, Coronrow, the great chief of the Southern Utes, has died at Ouray Agency, on Green River, Utah, of posumonia, at the age ol sventy, He was the leader in the Mesker massacre and in the Colorow war a year ago. GOV RBAOR JACKAON, of Maryland, sole Sjeretat V hitney as or m He Gatling "guns — Annapoiis to protect the polio Folly, and United States launches and guns were sd to Hackett's Point, where the Folly was sur. rounded by forty piratical oyster dredgers. Tux schooner Bis Church, of New London, Bd ean Vie, ad ha Sapa. n View, Va, n, the mate and two Portuguese sailors were EL. Hanren, who stole the funds of the Bank to use in ation, A norLER aw gin, tear Monteomery, | British and Arabs at Suakim, Egyt | artillery began the work | redoutt was nearly destroyed by the heavy } The | | his child were suffocated { escaped in the confusion. i Duninc a performance at Hobenmauth, | tided | Paris of 80,000 more #9 Jottery bonds | commercial { ironclad in the Gulf of Juan, Greece, a | exploded ast killed an officer and five men i dent, | Finances and Customs, and M | Chine ! Eleven of the band were taken port ure dutiablo on both dredges and ma | chinery. Tue Engineer Commissioner of the United States reports that 1671 miles of telegraph and telephone wires in the city of Washing- ton out of 4250 are under ground. He rec- ommends that each company be required to place ite wires under ground in its own conduits, Tur Agricultural report for November shows the average price of corn to be ide. o bushel, compared with 44c, last year. The reduction in the seven corn surplus States has been from 30c. last year to 28¢, this year, The average of wheat is (lc, compared with (8c, last year. Oats have fallen ‘from 0c, last year to 28¢. this year, and potatoes have fallen from 08¢. to 60c, Parley has ad vanced from Ole, to Hbe., rye from bdo, to Hbe., and buckwheat from Sie, to Ge, Tue President has nominated W. H, Morris to be Postmaster at Birmingham, Ala, in succession to Postmaster Throckmorton, who was killed during the recent rioting there, Tur Republicans are now sure that they will have a majority of five in the next House, and the candidates for the Bpeakership are hustling on that bass, Tickers to the Harrison and Morton Inauguration ball are to bo #5 each. Tur River and Harbor Appropriation bill as reported to the House appropriates $11,906,850. Warren I. Braco, of Alabama, has been norsinated by President Cleveland to be an Interstate Commerce Commissioner, Tax House Democratic caveus after a session lasting over three hours, adopted a resolution for the admission into the Union of Dakota, either as one or two States, asthe people of Dakota shall decide, and for the ad- mission of the States of Washington, tana and New Mexico also Tux Benate has confirmed the nomination i of Hon. Perry Belmont, of New York, 10 be | Envoy Extraordinary snd Minister FPleni- potentiary of the United States to Bpain, vice | Jabez 1. M. Curry, resigned, Tie Department of Btate has been officially | Melshroeck, | the Belgian Minister to this country, that he | informed by Mr. Baunder do has boen appointed Minister to Spain, and that Mr. Garmer Weldewick has been chosen to succeed him in the United States, Foreign, IT has just been discoversd that £240,000 bas been stolen from the Spanish govern- ment's deposit bank in Madrid, The robbers | { are unknown, Trinry persons have been bitten by mad wolves near villages in the neighborhood of Arsowa, Austria. A majority of them have | already died after suffering great agony. the 1 he The enemy's right A BATTLE bas taken place between combined fire of the ships and “forta Arabs replied, wounding one Egyptian, Tug Pope has declared in an official doco- | ment that the people of Ireland were diso | badient, and that they preferred ‘the gospel of Dillon and O'Brien to that of Jesus | Christ.” ix a fire at the Dorchester (Nova Sootia) waitentiary Deputy Warden (Keeffe and | Many convicts {| Emin Pasha Bohemia, 8 female lion tamer was attacked by the brutes and frightfully Incerated. She | died soon after being rescusd, Tug Panama Canal Company bas been over another crisis by the sale in Bix gypsies bave beens frozen to death in Boskowity, Bobemia ALL the Treasury officials of Spain have been imprisonsd pending an investigation | into a robbery of $240,000 from the govern- ment banks Tie Swiss Federal Council has ratified the | treaties with Germany and Auvdria Jawrs TiLvyenor and Maurice Bartedo, two boys, were drowned while skating near | Hamilton, Canada, ® Du nisc target practice on board a French gun MM. Hamurn has been elocted President of Switeeriand and M. Ruchonnet Vice Presi. MB Hammer was the Minister of I. Ruchonnet was the Minister of Justice and Police, Tax French bave destroyed a band of yirates at Bac-Ninh, Tonquin risoners and shot. Part of the town was destroyed by fire in the effort to break up their haunts PROMINENT PEOPLE, Warren is just eighty-one years old, JErrinsox Davis has beoome quite feeble. | Mus. Hanrisox is an enthusiastic china | painter, Rongnrr Gannerr, the erratic millionaire, is improving in health, Exrenon Wittias has every leading per dissected for him daily Jf & visit Wo England next year, Mas. Dox CaMenox is one of the most at- tractive matrons in Wasington, Tux Queen of Portugal is known among ber subjects by the title of “Angel of Pity.” Tax Duke of Cambridge has completed his fifty first year of service in the British army. Dyussurin, the coal king of British Co { lumbia, bas an income of from $3000 to $3000 a day. Tux Crown Prince of Greece will be mar ried to Emperor William's sister Sophia the first week of May. Cuizyr Jupar Haxwax, of the Parnell Commission and the chief defendant in the case are vegetarians, Mus Banas Mackay wi, under the new French law, pay one the largest in- come taxes in Foo, Grxenal Spixxen, whose autograph on our mbacks is famous, is with eath from a canoer Eonusp CrLanexcn BrepMAx, the Amer jean banker-poet, is small, wiry, active and alert, with remarkably bright eves Muss Erner, Mackexzir, daughter of Sir Morell, is a joprgalist by profession, and the correspondent’of two American papers, Tax Prince of Monaco will endeavor to ree vive gambling at the Casino by the revival of court festiv, long fallen into disuse, Mus Bovruworr has recently bad all he gol ete sith which she wrote her stories oon into two rings for her children, Mus, Harvonn, wife of the Premdent elects Private Guxenal, Hannon fs now through files of accumulated Soing and away the advice which have ving him, Mon- | | Stanley) | mouth of the | Bey | hostage point of the Soudw | discovery | {| to | temporary. ] . | also possible and probable, as will be evident | after reading a narrative of the knows Jour | ow rn ————— cons Btesem———— - STANLEY A PRISONER Held Hostage With Emin Pasha Suakim Demanded or the Explorers Will be Shot. HESRY M. STANLEY. Advices trom Egypt leave little room for doubt that Henry M. Stanley, the iotrepid { African explorer, and the plucky German | traveler, Emin Pacha, have fallen into the | hands of Osman Digna, the scourge of the Boudan, who is at present engaged in belp- ing to besiege the British and Egyptian gar rison at Buakim, Egypt. & In the letter received at Suakim from Os- man Digna, and which is supposed to have contained the announcement that Emin Pasha and a white traveler (presumably had fallen into the bands of the were inclosed copies of a dis trom n dervish londer at to the Khalifa giving the date of Emin Fasha's surrender as October 10, and a letter to Emin Pasha from the Khedive, which the iatter handed to Henry M. Btanley when be was at Cairo, General Grenfell recognized the letter which Ommnan Mahdi, patel ade Digna had inclosed as the original one which | khedive Thus beyond for the is virtusily be had drafted Stanley's capture | doubt, Osman Digma's letter was a reply to Major Rundle's request of last August for news of The letter amwertss that the fabdi has conquered the whole of equatorial provinces. The Lado letter states that one white man escaped Along with his Jetter Osman Digma sent {| several Snider cartridges, which, he alle id were taken from the white traveler Zanzibars in Stanley's expadition were armed with Saider rifles, but there were none in the possession of the dervishes. it is romored that Osman Digna in his otter expressed a willingness to surrender Emin Pacha and his white compafiion pro vided Egypt would agree to abandon Suakim, | If this proposal js not accepted it is believed that both captives will be killed The Brusse's Court Journal says that Eng- land will doubtless do everthing possibile to liberate Stanley, and that Mr. Gladstone too bitterly regrets the abandonment of General Gordon for Lord Salisbury to abandon Stan. ley and Emin Pasha The Congo State officials have not received | any information on the subject from the 3 Congo. The King of the Belgians is much agitated by the event and js receiving a great many dispatches regard. fog it. He admits having been a large sub- seriber to the expenses of Stanley's expo dition. Everybody in London belieyes thet Fmin and Henry M. Stanley are both prisoners of the Mahdi, Jt is at least cer. tain from Osman Digna's jetter that the Mahdi fs in possession of a number of things carried with him, and it is assumed that both the Europeans’ lives are too valuable from a view to be sacrified by In the light of it is shable that the Suakim fight will be indefinitely postponed. 1t has been known for some time, ever since the rumors have been current about ths resence of the White Pasha in the Bahrel- shazal, or in the district drained by the Ghazal River, that the TIO, oat the “invader.” who, be im was intending to Khartoum. The reports hitherto reached us effort that the White advance a were the of great probability, the defeats were only That Stanley has met Emin is neyings of two men. II ssi DIRECT TAX BILL. The Measure Passes the House by a Vote of 178 to DO. The House of Representatives at Washing- ton has passed the Direct Tax bill, with amendments which will require its return to the Benate, by a vote of 178 to W four Jess than two-thirds All the negative votes were cast Uy Democrats Phe bill lacked fourteen votes of the neces: two thirde to i i i { i E338 i E £ : the | which Stanley is known to have | this | Mahdi had went | various axpedisions up the White Nile in or- | der %o de | agined, Tie Ameer of Afghanistan, intends to pay - ! have that | Pasha | | had defeated the Mahdi's forces If the latest | rumors are true, and they bear the evidence | AS BAA ATI THE YEAR 1880, 30 31 23 23 24 25 #738 39 30 33 i "2 | H Id . . 3450 | 6 Iso 1rsang igi Hi hy. % BR 187.18 19.90 21 42 3 Bag ava) persabaya.. || . od | | 2 | Bept i ar 134 5% 7 JO i314 158 P18 1520 21/22 23 jes 3 ! Et | 12345 6 17.8 gioiiisaingl {1448 15/17 181g 20] 12122 2% 34 2% #71 rn = A BE 1 i334 Nov. [56 7 8 gli : FREELY 18 1G 302122 2) 34 35 a6 27 98 25 30 31 i i {in 1234567 8 i gio 1g 141s 135.17 18 19 20 31 22 {33134 v5 96 27 38 25) 3 i : #7 a8 9.30, Eclipses for 1880, In the year 1880 there will be five Eclipses i =threaof the Sun, and two of the Moon, L A Total Eclipse of the Sun, January { Ist, 5:0 in the evening: partly visible at | Washington, as a partial eclipse; the sun setting eclipwed, i 2% A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, January ! 17th, 12:24 in the morning; visible generaily in Europe, Africa, North and South America, { and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Mags i nitude of the élipse, X 424 | 4 An Annular Eelipss of the Bun, June | | 28th, 350 in the morning; invisible in Amer. * { fea; visible in Bouthern Africa and Indian Coean, 4. A Partial Eclipss of the Moon, July 12; wisible 3:40 In the evening: invisible in | the United States: visible in the Atlantic {| Ocean, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the easterly portion of South America Magnitude of the Eclipse, 5852 5. A Total Eclipse of the Bun, December 224, in the morning; invisible in the United Bates: visible in the Atlantic Ocean (between) Africa and South America. whers it will be total, eastern portion of South America and Western Africa Pr (is) The Four Seasons. Winter begins 2ist, 1858, and lasts “5 days Spring beging March 10th, i889, and lasts “days Summer begins June 21st, 1850, and lasts 92 days Autumn begins September 224, and lasts 90 days Decrmber Morning Stars after Evening Stars. Venus, until April ah. Mars, until June 17th, Jupiter, after June “4th Saturn, after Febru. ary th, until Age gust 10th Mercury, until Feb- ruary 14th, after April 24th, until June 19th, after Au. gust Sth, until Co. tober 10th, after December th. Venus, Sith, Mars, after June 17th Jupiter, until June Ath, Saturn, urtil Febru. ary ‘th after Au gust 10th, Mercury, after 14th, until 24th, alter i June idk until Au- gust th, after Op tober 172th until De cember Sth, April Feb. : Planets Brightest Mzrcvny, January 3st, May Ist, July 20th, November 24; alvo March 12th, July 11th, Cotober dist, rising then just before the Sun: also January 20th, May 2ith, Sep- texnber 20th, setting then just alter the Sun. Vests, March Sta, June Sth, Mans not this year. Jurirmn, June 24th. BSaTUvnx, August 16th, Church Days and Cycles of Time. Reptuagesima Bunday.... February 17 Sexagerima Sunday . February 24 Quinguagesima Sunday coe evois i 3 Ash Wednesday Mineman | Quadragesima Sanday Mid Lent Sunday Palm Sunday Good Friday ..ce oivoeucnsssnee | Easter Sunday ...... NOIRE a | Low Sunday Rogation Sunday Ascension Day. ...... PR - Trinity Sunday | Corpus Christi.......... First Bunday in Advent PANAMA CANAL COLLAPSE. | Satielont Fands Not Sabscribed, and the Company Bankrupt | M. De Lesseps has formally announced the | failure of the Panama Canal loan in Paris | Only 180,000 bonds of the $00,000 necessary to tide the scheme over the financial crisis were sutsoribad * hot A Paris dispatch says: During anot | exciting scene at She Lanams Catt Com wmny's office, om a jor M. d Charles de Lesseps, his son, appeared. Yio announced that only 180,000 bonds had been | subscribed for, and that the company would | therefore commence returning the deposits company. The coming bankruptcy of the has of late been clearly visible even to many defenders. M. energy, It is, indeed, taking a and ult of his untiri 1 gh EH 0 Charitable view ta
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