During the year 188% nearly 700 ! disappeared in Philadelphia, a large ‘percentage of whom were never heard of. There were a greater number of lynch. ings in this country last year than there had been in any previous year since 1880, except 1884, I ——————————— The New York Herald doubts if it is good policy for any American tourist to goto Cuba, as lawlessness is rife and Americans are hated. The City of Mexico is full of tramps, and the anti-American papers satirically refer to them as “prominent Americans visiting the Capital.” \ The Cleveland Plain Dealer is prepared to see spectacle makers grow rich out of the next generation, as so many school children are obliged to wear glasses. The Legislature of Ohio will be asked to pass a law prohibiting any minister of the Gospel from being present at an exe- cution as the spiritual adviser of the con- demned, Boston's January dividends amounted to $12,500,000, a million and a half more than those distributed in Philadelphia. On an even distributivn this would give every Bostonian $30, and every Philadel. phian $11, Russia built a railway especially to se- cure the trade of Persia, and is now ex- cessively angry with that country for opening the river Karun to trade, by means of which other foreign nations will be enabled to compete with the Russians, The Bermuda Islands are at last to be connected by telegraph with the re- mainder of civilization. A line from there to Halifax, 750 miles in length, will be begun in the spring, and the British Government will pay a subsidy of $60,000 per year. The Chmmese ‘Immigration Bureau of San Francisco, which has fora long time been doing w large business evading the law and helping Mongolians to land in this country, has finally shut up shop. It would seem, infers the Chicago News, as though the chinks in the fence had finally been stopped up. It has been noted in the Chicago Times as a strange coincidence that I llis Phelan, an ex-Confederate soldier, was elected Judge of Probate in Waterbury, Conn., at the last election, and on the same day a Union veteran was chosen a member of the Alabama Legislature in the same district where Phelan formerly lived. A recent judicial ruling upon the | question, When is a man drunk, is: | ““When consciousness becomes modified | in any degree whatever through the influence of alcohol, and when, or as long as, mo exercise of independent nervous force is adequate to restore it to 8 normal state, the man so affected is drunk.” With the first of this year Germany abandoned the old pound weight and adopted the metric system in its entirety. America, which set the example of the metric system in her decimal coinage, still lingers behind, says the New York Telegram, in adopting this convenient and logical progression of weights and measures, Cremation societies are being #ug- mented in this country by women of the | better class, who are joining them | rapidly. In New York, Brooklyn and Boston particularly there are a great | many well-known women enrolled among | the cremationists, and the movement is endorsed by a stil groater number who have uot taken pains to become mem. | bers, : H : : The Michigan cattle breeders propose to ask the Legislature to enact that all | meat supplied to State institutions shall | be from animals fattened and killed in Michigan. They also ask for a meat in- | spection law, which shall provide that all cattle killed for consumption within towns of more than 3000 inhabitants shall first have been inspected alive and on foot, During 1888 the namber of failures in the United States was 10,500, against 9740 in 1857, Dut the aggregate liabill. ties of the parties failing in 189%, where about ten per coot. less than In 1847, while the aggregate assets of the failing traders aro only four per cent. smaller, This gain in the ratio of assets certainly “Gadicates increased healthfuloess in commercial conditions,” as a leading au. thority on the subject puts it, | of | and restaurant, announcing that a | roll call was about to be taken. TARIFF BILL PASSED. The Senate Adopts the Substi. tute for the Mills Bill. Boenes in the Chamber During the Final Vote. By a strict party vote of thirty-two to thirty the United States Senate, at two min. utes before eight ». a, adopted the amengl ed substitute of the Finance Committee the Mills bill, passed by the House Ju 1888, The Senate substitute was re attention of that body until ment of the first session, and vhile several y Senators h the Republi ments proj reassembled in December, Democratic Senators, ng Brown and Payne, voted cans for a number of ay by. the Finance Com itol v large he Senhte ht Ao animated and attractive wn that all debate must and voting on the amend Just before that hour the n to fill up with the great people who in Washington turn out for any kind | of entertpinment. The ladies were present | in great {orce and several social parties were | made up to experience the novelty of a night session. Members of the House came flocking over and rapidly filled up the sofas from which Presi dent Ingalls, by a recent order, has ex- | suicide | memorandum in hisdrawer: ‘Cash shortage, cluded the employes of the Senate, All of the amendments proposed by the | Finance Committees were A sey and they included several of great importance. There | was also adopted, on motion of Senator Flumb, a provision for the appointment of a permanent commission on the tariff. Among | the amendments adopted was one Increasing the rates on oranges. lemons, limes, ete, from twenty-five to thirty-three per cent | according to the bulk of the kages. i At 6 o'clock the Benate had thinned out so that jess than a quorum was present. flood of amendments was then poured in b Senators Call, Morgan, Vest and George. Roll | call after roll call was demanded, until the | Senate lost its patience and the presiding offi cer enforced the rule which requires that a demand for the yeas and nays shall be sup- ported by one-fifth of the Senators present Among the amendments offerad by Senator George was one to piace on the froe list the fools imported for the use of workingmen, Since December hearings have alse been granted to the representatives of many in- dustries, and the result has been some im- portant modifications of the subwtitute as | originally framed. These changes are noted below: Aldrich’s amendment to insert in Paragraph 20! the words, “white pine $1.50 | per 1000 feet, board measure,” was agreed | to, Mr. Vests motion to admit pine clap boards free of duty was rejected, Senators Brown and Call voting sgainst it. Mr. Aldrich's motions to insert after Pars graph 209 the words: “Heeds, 10 per cent. ad valorem; chair cane. 15.” and to increase the rate on sawed boards of mahogany, ete, from 18 to 20 per cent. ad valorem, were agreed to. Mr. Vest moved to put on the the free list wood unmanufac- tured and sawed boards of mabogany, etc. Rejected, yeas 21: nays 50. Mr, Ther. i man offered a proviso (which was agreed to) to Paragraph 207 taxing fresh fish 1-8 cont per pound; that the duty shall not apply to fresh fish caught by citizens of the United States on the high seas or in the open waters of the lakes forming a boundary between the Unite States and Canada Numerous amendments from the Finance Committee were agreed to as follows: Reduc. | ing the duty on nickel in ore from 5 to 2 cents per pound, and on nickel in matte from 10 to 5. reducing the duty on cocon matting from 10 to Scents per suare yard: and on cocoa mats from 5 to 4 cents per square foot Inserting in Paragraph 417 (which imposes a duty of 15 per cent ad valorem om manufac tures of leather. gutta percha, ete) the words “vulcanized India rubber, known as bard rubber” The amendment to Para. raph 402 geisting to gloves was agreed to, ‘aragraph 412 walf skins, ote! was amended by mcreasing the ad valorem rate on sheep | and goat skins from 20 to 25 per cent | and on skins for MOTUOCOD from | 10to 15 per comt. The amendment to Para graph 5:1 (as to stockings, hose, ete) was agreed to. The rice paragraph was finally amended by making the rates | 12 1, 1-2and | 1-4 cents on cleaned, uncleaned, paddy and | broken rice. An amendment putting rough diamonds, etc. on the free list was agreed to The amendments were disposed of right and Jeft, Mr, Ingalls wielding the functions of the chair with lightning rapidity, and the reading clerks performing their duties with the celerity of machinery, There were no speeches delivered and no demonstrations were given of approval ordisapproval, either on the floor the chamber or in the galleries At lost all the smendments were disposed Mr. Allison now moved the vote upon the bill as amended. It wasexact'y 8 o'clock The doorkeeper, from his beside the | President pro termpore of the Senate sounded | the electric call bells in all of the committee reoms, document rooms, the corridors | : The Henators were all in their seats excent. ing Mr. Allison, who stood beside his desk, : Awaiting the finality. It was very generally nnderstood on the floor that the vote would | be a party one, but as each name was called, | eyes were Dopai upon the Senator before he respo a The amendments agreed to mm Committe of the Whole were agreed to, the date on which the bill was to go into effect was changed from February | to July 1, and, amid considerable excitemen was taken, and the bill was of 32 to A MUNIFIOENT GIFT. . FATAL PRAOTIOAL JOKE. a Chair Sud. | three mzbts after inauguration day | ball room in the court of the Pension Build. EPITOMIZED, n and Middle States. Just been discovered that the late E32, naan i ar of to Soames’ vings ew an x in church circles, died a defuulter and trayer of heavy financial trusts, bargo Josephine went ashore at Polnt rion, with a crew of four men, hree of whom were drowned, Jonx MoNgiLL, who lives on a lonely road Jading from Bhamong Station to Indian Mills, N. J., shot his brothar-in-law, James Dellet, Jr. Death was instantaneous The tug Morse, one of the finest and Salant boats in New England, was stranded ofl Hull, Mass, in a hurricane. Her tow of two os was wrecked, Boven lives were Jout, The Hull life savers rescued sixteen n. RATHER than run the risk of catching wel. low fever, five potty officers of the steel cruiser Atlayfa, which sailed recently from the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Hayti, deserted, AT the annual auction sale of pews in Rev, Dr. Talmsee's Tabernacle the first choice brought $500. Bexaton McPuensox, of New Jersey, has been re-elected for the third time. Chances L. RUBSAMEN, a wealthy retired broker, committed suicide at his home in Hoboken, N. J. AX explosion of gas occurred ip the Sus quehanna coal mine at Nanticoke, Penn. Seven mine engineers were surveying, when the gas caught from one of thelr lamps. Two were killed, three fatally burt and two seriously injured, WiLiian C. Ssrrn, aged about thirty- two, a teller in the office of the City Treas urer of Providence, R. L, has committed by shooting himself. He Jeft a $1500," A vENsE fog settled upon New York and the adjoining cities, and several collisions | occurred both in the harbor and on city rail- WAYK, One man jumped from the *“‘L" {| structure in Brooklyn and was killed... An- | other was killed in New York Mrs, Hannisox, wife of the President | elect, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. J. | R. McKee, spent a fow days in New York | | City as the guests of Vice-Fresident-sloct | Morton. Miss Jeaxserre Parken, the twenty. | | year-old daughter of Engineer Parker, foll A | down an slevator well in Boston, a distance | of five stories, and was instantly killed. South and West. Tix deadlock in the West Virginia Senate was broken by the election of KB. 8. Carr, an independent, as its President. AL Harmisox, twenty-one years old, of respectable parentage, was shot dead ut Wil son's Landing, Ky. son's store with several companions, SY. Pavt, Mion, has Jost its principal piace of amusement, the Grand Opera House, | by fire. Total estimated loss, $100,000, SEVENTY-SEVEN politicians have been in | dicted by the Indianapolis Grand Jury for | | Suakin, Egypt. | tain garrison devolves upon Colonel Holled- | | Smith, ! violation of the election law Usiren Srares Sexaron Coke, of Texas, has been re-elected. Sexaron Crrron has been reelected by | the llinois Legislature, Tare O Senator Do M. W. Raxsow, of North Carolina, bas been re-elected United States Senator, A Mant occurred between the Focabontas (Va) and Elkhorn (W. Va.) miners, in which five white men and two colored men were killed, and several wounded, Gexgnat Wiriaw H on Legislature has re-elected Wasmpuny was olocted to the United States Senate by the | Minnesota Legislature Besxaron Pron of Kansas reelected without opposition A iL providing for the execution sof criminals by electricity was introduced in the lllinois Legislature, Tug deadlock in the Arisona Legislature was broken, and the bill was carried to re move the Capital from Prescott to Pheonix, PACKS of wolves are working bavoc among the cattle in Northern Montana Ie Lo Kinngr, Sheriff of Boyd County, Ky. bas Joft for parts unknown, He was short $14,000 A coMpPaxY of United States troops has ejected over 60) families who had sjuatted has been ! in the Oklahoma territory. Washington. A MOVEMENT is on foot among politionl and personal friends of General Grant to ask of President-elect Harrison the appointment es Minister to China for Colonel Fred, Grant. Tur President has nominated Archibald | H. Orimke, of Massachusetts, to be United | Btates Consul at San Domingo, West Indies, Puesipesy Ixaatis, of the United States Renate, has refused to receive the electoral votes of Texas, Marylond and Delaware, as delivered to him by the messen to some clerionl irregularition his veces. fitates a reconvening of the Electoral Colleges of those States, Tux Harrison and Morton Inauguration | Committee has decided that the Insugura- | ton ball shall be practically repeated for nights of March 5, 6 and 7. An admission foo of #1 will be charged. All the gorgebus decorations and the music of the Inaugurs | tion night will be repeated, ¥ Tt Chairman of the | Nation : itten of the National Green. | obra i a ee 4 | out to do washing at Oglethorpe, Ga, leav- conference of National Greenbackers, to | | meet at Washington on March ©, Gronae 0, Joss, back party, has sued a call for a general Foun examiners and five samplers in the New York A child 1 be disregard of She SLA] Gt ht Secretat i: who has been personally investigating © Tur Army Retiring Board has that General Bwaim, now under sentence of suspension, is pot incapacitated for further servioe, THe annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Amociation has just been held in Washington, Usiren Srares Cowsvr, Wintann, at Guaymas, Mexico, has sent a dicpateh to the Htato Department denying the report that a number of American citizens bad been killed by Yagin Indians bear Ortiz thirty miles from Guaymas, clerks have com Tre Henate the of the Senate Tarilt n makes a Surmidable man 4 of 1% in t tod to . in tain upward of Tur Mra while burglarizing Wil | { gibar, Africa, says: owing | The | t's office have been reo | moved by Secretary of the Treasury Fair. | cause of the removal is sald to | Han ments regard ErLevex native icernen, British officer, Yi lio ry n arboys at Bulymah, frica, 131 of the enemy with 8 Maxim gun, Uwrren States Minister Pures had his Inst official conference with Lord Salisbury, the British Prime Minister. BEvEN persons were killed by a fall of rock in a tunnel at Abergwynfl, Wales, A Brimis cruiser has been sent to Samoa to protect England's interests there, ReisvoRCRMENTS for the German fleet at Samoa bave left Bremerha LATER NEWS, Neanrry 1000 Brooklyn street car employes have struck because of an alleged evasion of the ten hour law. Beven lines are tied up. Ricianp Barn, a Choctaw Ifdian, has been hanged at Fort Smith, Ark, for murder, Sexator Canrexten, of the Indians Logislature, has been unseated on the charge of bribery made against him. Tux J. J, Burns Company, rafiroad con. tractors at Battle Creek, Mich , has failed with liabilities of $1,000,050, TRE latest estimate of the amount embez: sled by J. A. Moore, the Connecticut Mutual Life's agent at Indianapolis, is $1,000,000, Ep, Frey has been hanged at Marietta, Ga. ; Charles MoGill at Cameron, Texas; Jim Beams at Eutaw, Ata, ; John Yancey at Yan ceyville, N, C., and Charles Blackman at Ellaville, Ga. All were sxecutad for mur. der, A PERSONAL encounter took place In Washington between Hepresentatives Crain, of Texas, and Barry, of Mississippl. Barry received a pair of black eyes. The matter has bern amicaldy adjusted, inaugural oommittes Tux Army Appropriation bill reported to | | the House provides for an aggregate ap- | | propriation of §94.000.415, which is $4885 less than the appropriation for the current | your. The estimates were $24,070,858, excly- | | sive of the provision for sea coast defences, | somion oon | | firmed the following nominations: John Tue Benate in executive Tyler Campbell, of California, now Consul at Auckland, New Zealand, to be Consul at Foo Chow, China; John Darcy Connolly, of | California, 10 be Consul at Anckland. A DISPATCH to the Paris Temps from Zan vessel, bound from Zanziter to Madagascar, ] “An American sailing | was fired on by a German vessel, and one of | | her masts was broken.” Tux last of the British troops have loft | The command of the Egyp- Uxitep Srares Mixwren Purirs and Mrs. Phelps bave been invited by Queen | Victoria to dine with her and to stay over | night at the Palace Tux Rev. Mr. Brooks, an English mission. ary, and sixteen of his assistants and follow. ers have vatives of Zanzibar, been massacred near Saadani, | Africa, by some of the coast tribes and | J.E V. Avvorn, an American citizen | who had lived in Samos for thirty-five years | and was Viee-Consul under the administra tion of United States Consuls Dawson and Foster, bas just died in Apla, Bamoa, Dunno the riot at bis trial for conspiracy | at Carrick-on-Buir, Ireland, William O'Brien, | the Irish agitator escaped. The trial, how. over, proceeded in his absence and be was con- | victed and sentenced to four months’ im. | prisonment without hard labor, fatally, by the bursting of a boiler pipe on the White Star steamer Hepublic in New | | York Harvor. AT the trial of the pneumatic dynamite | gun at Port Lafayette, N. Y,, out of eight as baving shown remarkable accuracy. A FEMALE nurse at the Cooper Hospital in Camden, N. J, was murderously assaulted | by an unknown man who imitated the meth. ods of the Whitechapel fiend, Hexny 8 Ives and George 1. Stayner, Wall street operators, were arrested at Now York city in a suit brought by the Cincin- nati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad for de franding the company of $2,563,398 97, R Invine Lariven murdered his aged | supper for the Insugural ball CONGRESSMAN BURNES DEAD Stricken With Paralyeis in the House and Soon Expires, Mr. James N. Burnes, Representative in Congress from the Fourth District of Missouri, died at a quarter to one A. M, in Washington, Mr, Burnes was stricken with paralysis the day before at the Capitol. The first of the Approsching attack was r. Butterworth in the Burnes's attention to a of the Bundry Civil bill, then under consideration, Mr. Burnes then remarked that his tongua appeared to be affected so that be had great difficulty in speaking. Noticing that his face red to be somewhat drawn on the left 0, Mr. Butterworth insisted on Mr. Burnes acoompanying him into the fresh air on the east portico, Mr. Barnes in a short time expressed him- self as feeling better and went to the room of the Gommities on Ap, tions, where he was induced to take some stimulants and lie upon a sofa. He soon began to breathe in a labored manner snd to lose cone sciousness. Messrs, Gallinger, Atkinson and Shaw, who are physicians as well as Repre. sentatives, were hastily summoned from the ball and a messenger was also despatched for Dr. Bowers, who has been attend ng Mr. Burnes during the winter, The physicians labored with their patient for an hour or mare when he suddenly expired. Mr. Burnes was a resident of Bt. Joseph e was born in Indiana August .9, 1535, his | nts removing to n 1837. Flatt County, Mo., He was a graduate of the Harvard law School in the of 1853 Appointed Circuit in 1556, he was a Presidential elector on the Buchanan and Breckinridge ticket the same | ear. From 1835 to 1872 he was Judge of the Jommon Pleas Court. He had been a meme ber of Congress since December, 18585, hav- ing been elected as a Democrat, THE INAUGURAL SUPPER, auguration Ball Will Eat A dispatch from Washington says that the decided to accept George C. Boldt's proposition to furnish the | Mr. Boldt is the proprietor of the Hotel Bellevue, Phila deiphin, where the dinners of the famous Clover Club have been held for several years, The following is the bill of fare Blue Points, on ioe, HOT, Bouillon, in cups Steamed Oysters, Oysters, a la pouletts, Chicken Croguettes Bwestbread Pates, a la reine, Terrapin, Philadelphia style. COLD. Assorted Sandwiches Mayonnaise of Chicken, Lobster Balad, Cold Tongue, en Bellevue, Cold Ham, a la Moutmorency, Boned Turkey, a 'Americsing, Breast of Quail, a la Cycoron, Fate de Fole Gras, a la Harrison, Terrine of Game, a Ja Morton, SWEETS, Assorted los Creams, Orange Water loo Romany Punch Pyramid of N t naiesanos, Beehive of oy Republican, Pavilion, rustic Amorted Fancy Cakes THE LABOR WORLD. THE eight hour day is coming. Troy, K, Y., has 4500 iron workers, CANADIAN bakers average $0 a week. Inox founderies in Canada pay employs $155 a day. CioanMaxERs are on sirike in Baltimore | | for $4.50 per thousand, Last were built on the Clyde Krokvk, lows, bas adopted the eight-hour TeX seaman were seriously scalded, three | day for ali city ampioye. Tax daily hours of labor in breweries have | been reduced from fourteen to ten. DURING last year the sales of saddlery and | harness in 86 Louis amounted to $11,000,000, | | An eTort is being made to 2 the i toathor workers of Hon Fors and Philadel | are i "w., shots six hit the target. The gun is regarded | i Apovrr five hundred mechanics are now walking the streets of Dayton, Ohio, vainly | sooking work. Tur street raflwayr of New York city em- | ploy 11,726 men. whose wages amounted last | : | 10,000 Traixed fireman will soon be in demand | “ in the new | | centre stone an A Year to $0,308 155, for the high pressures « American cruisers Coat passers and firemen for England's navy are being largely recruited from the agricultural classes, Tuer are at Troy, NX. Y, 16,000 persons | working on collars and cuffs, and their an- mother at Jackson, Mich , in order to obtain | ! | a small amount of insurance money, ing will be thrown open 85 the public on the | Basvrr, Wakermerp, Ju, ooored. shot | and killed James W, Trainor, his employer, | in New Iberia Parish, La., and was promptly lynched, Many Ponrer, a colored woman, went ing ber four smell children in charge of the house. In her almonce the house caught fire and the children were burned to death, Tuner men were instantly killed and two fatally injured by a boiler explosion at wr lar Blaff, Mo, Coroxet. Rogen Joxes, Inspector General of the United States Army, died at Fortrels Monroe, Tur bill to remove the tersitorial capital of Areona from Prescott to Phoenix has pased both Houses, been signed by the Governor and reported to the Legislature Tox Fecretary of State has recived a telegram stating that the British Govern. ment has notified him of its acceptance of an invitation to the wartime conference, Bixver March 4, 1855, the Government has purchased bonds as follows: 4 per conts- Amount, $70,624,100; accrued interest, £524. 012; total cost, BTL681,827, 41 per conte Amount, 80% 551,000; accrued interest, $354. mn; total cont, §74,100561. Grand total ev pended, $146,814,688, Tux Pope's health fs causing alarm, He bes had a serious fit of wonconscioueness last. ing over half an hour, and the College of Cardinals is prepared for eventualition Bin WinLian Recmarn, ex-Chief Justice of the Court of Canada, is dead, AT Croseon, Saxony, a family of six per. sone was suffocated 10 death by the escape of Grxmnat Bovia nual wages aggregate $4,500,000, Tur question of prison labor has been ht before the New York | and will be fully debated at this Aron the Hodson seven thousand men and are waiting for the joe Larvest, but the at present ts decidedly gloomy. ind of iron and steel in i who FIGHTING A ROOSTER. Terrible Struggle of a Child With a Hoge Plymouth Rock. While driving out on the prairie road, near South Bend, Ind, Orlando Martin heard the screams of a litte child near the farm of Henry Kale, Martin at once got out of his vehicle and ran into the yard, and was sur- prised to see a large Plymouth Rock rooster standing over the prostrate form of a little girl The rooster was crowing in trinmph, and as Martin approached he saw that the cock had been fighting the little girl, who was lying on her back with her hands over her face aud screaming from pain and fear. Her hands, wrists and face were covered with blood. The rooster had savagely attacked her and kad attempted to get at ber eyes, as was evi. dent from the spur marks on the child's face, Martin's arrival had been timely, us the child was almost exhausted from ber contest with the rooster, The little zirl's name is hel, and she is two and a half years old, While ber mother was engaged in a remote place the child had started out to hunt eggs and had the encounter with the enrsged fowl. Her injuries are severe, but it is thought her eyesight will not be impaired, PROMINENT PEOPLE, Mrs, Jay Govrp left six children. Attorney | | Btates Senator from Florida, has | to that State to resume his practioe year 302 wemels, nearly all of steel, | Tux Prince of Wales is growing gray. Priscre Bismarck is in wretched bealth, ww Burigr chews up twenty cigars a y. Tae Carina of Russia is reported to be in- sane, Bexarorn Dox CAMERON is a statesman epicure, Gexenal Hannon carries $40,000 life insuranocs, Tur Khedive of Egypt has a groat fond. ness for cata, H. Riper HAGGARD, the novelist, has be- | come a vegetarian, What the Guests at Harrison's In- | wardrobe for a visit to this country. | MALEXANDRE CABANEL, the noted French | painter, is dead at the age of sizty six years, Tue Empress of Japan is laying in a ge Vicromia and Empress Frederick will visit the Queen of Spain at St. Sebas- tian, Jomx L. WarLzn, of Kansas, was the only colored man in the Electoral College this yoar, Evrva Wanexres WiLoox promises to stop writing poetry when she reaches the age of forty. Exreror Wintiax, of Germany, an- nounces that be will visit Alsace and Lorraine in April Tux Emperor of China has been presented with six railway sleeping cars by some of his French admirers J. T. TeowerinGe, the author, is now ve leasantly settled for the Winter with his amily st Naples, BindJonx A. Macpoxard, the Dominion Premier, bas investments in the United | Bates amounting to $1,500,000 Dr 1. B Cosover, formerly United gone back Gexeral J. C Brack, Pension Commis- sioner, has the reputation of being the most wounded man who survived the war. Axtuoxy Hicains, Senator-elegt of Dela ware, by lasting a peach, can tell its variety, | whefe il was grown, its age and its market | valoe Tax “Orange King” of Florida is J. H, Harris, of Marion County. His grove of 200 acres this year yields 30,000 xes of oranges, . ATTORNEY -GEXERAL GARLAXD is one of the hardest working men in Washington, He is frequently found at his desk as early 7.50 in the morning. Bexaror Geonge Vesy hasa weakness for Kentucky sausage. He was born in Ken tucky and has never recovered froma taste acquired in boyhood. JAY Gourn was terribly shocked by the death of his wife. It is said that the bome life of the great capitalist has always been exceptionally happy. Evwarp O, Worcory, the new Colorado is said to be the only lawyer who has ever made the Supreme Court of Colo rado reverse a decision, Sexaron Jaxus B. Beck thinks Kentucky Southdown mutton the finest on earth, and be has declared that a saddle of it can’t be cooked anywhere olse 50 well as at his own house, Tex sons of the late President Garfield are sing law in Cleveland, Obio, under rin name of Garfield & Garfield, and they are said to be succeeding better than they expected, W. D. Wasusvny, Senmatorelect from Ninnesota, is estimated to be worth upward of $10,000,000, and owns the second mill in the world, with a capacity of a day. G. W, CoiLoe's wedding present to Miss Drexel was a having for its a weird of changeful hue, By daylight it looks a lumi. nous green, and by night a deep red La Huse CraxG, the famous Viceroy of | the vinoe of Chihli, who takes rank next to members of the imperial family in China, has suffered a stroke of parsiysis, and | Is said 10 be in a critical condition, “Sn” Wintiax Coxnap Rexves, Chief | Justios of Aya 2a) z a eked bg PR en Fagin State and HRenan BUFFALO, s SR vain at Ahhh ct hh bh a i Fit Bt bd 1 = ERE ras anan WEBI sRav enemy + fh blll EL dhe ta WATERTOWN (RASA) CATTLE : #-
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