Three- fifths of the cotton crop is now iproduced by white labor. Tha cost of constructing the Nicaragua Canal is placed at $64,000,000, Six State Legislatures are considering bills that propose ‘‘restrictions” upon the railroads, American whalers captured ouly 168 of the big fish last year, which was a falling off of fifty percent. Professor Graham Bell says that the congenital deaf mutes of the country are increasing at a greater rate than the gen. eral population, * The New York Jerald and other lead- | ing papers of the nation stroagly favor | the project of a National Zoological Gar- den st Washington, the Government to penson all school teachers who have faithfully served for fifty consecutive years, The forty million hogs raised in this | | and country are valued at $200,000,000, The Mississippi Valley claims to have raised three-fifths of the number. John Bull's navy is growing apace. Six new monsters will shortly fly the | Each of these vessels has | white ensign. cost the British close upon $1,500,000, There is a Mormon settlement in Min- nesota which is said to be steadily grow- fog. They have six missionaries at work among the Scandinavian settlers of the | Btate, The punishment for a person who pulled the nose of a King 200 years ago was to be boiled to death in ail, but | these days the police court judge would probably make it thirty days. n aining in favor f the dead, and Cremation is slowly g as a means of disposing o its use seems ly proper, thinks the New York Telegram, in the case of those dying of contagious diseases. eminon It is a popular sying that rich men's sons don’t amount to much. Of six thousand rich New York who have sons there are not twenty who are not.hard at work building themselves up. men in American apples aro sent to England, Germany, France, Italy, Spain. Aus- tralia, Asia, Africa, South America and Mexico, and if the Eskimos want a few barrels, boasts the Detroit Free Press, all they have to do is to speak up. The Helena (Montana) Live Stock Jour nal aunounces that one of the largest sheep companies in the Territory has de clared a dividend of twenty-nine per cent. for last year's business, They say this year they expect to increase it. The courts of California have decided that a Chinaman’'s queue must not be cut off when he is sent to prison; oug they are cut off just the same. No warden will allow that a heathen pig tail is more sacred than American unplaited hair, It is a mistake, the Atlanta Conetifu tion informs us, to suppose the term black man is offensive in India. The natives of that country pity the Eng lish for having white faces, and formerly painted their criminals white as a pun. ishment, The Carthusian monks, by order of the Pope, have refused a London fer of $15,000,000 for a monopoly ef the man- ufa tare and sale of the charttreuse liquor. The monks for many years have jealously g arded the secret of the man- ufacture of this noted li juor, Bays the Chicago Times: “The elec tion of William Saunders to the London council by nearly the largest majority obtained by any candidate is noteworthy, He advocates the doctrine that all the city and imperial expenses should be met | by a tax on land values only.” A crying baby at New York saved the | The | house was on fire, snd baby's eyes | lives of a bhouselul of people. smarted 80 from the smoke that she raised yells which aroused the slecping family. This interesting incident puts the squalling baby In & better Light, Ina late case on trial in Chicago the | Judge said: “If I found 4 private de tective following me [ should do my best to fix him so that he could never follow any one else. There should be a law to punwh any one employing these ghouls, who would swear ssoul away for $20.” The terrors of war constantly be come more terrible, observes the Washington Star, Extralite is the latest, It Is a new explosive that is as safe as sugar to make, as sand to earry, and does not explode from fire in the open air, but only by percussion in a curt. ridge. Bolivia and Paraguay are likely to come to blows about a scientific fron. tier. Bolivia Islan! locked, and, as a necemsity of existence, demands a water outlet on the Paraguay River, Paraguay Satin Jovontior and resists such a de But for Brazil there would have war already, | not a few people are worrying. SAMOA AND THE SAMOANS. A Look at the Land and the Peo. ple So Much Talked About. The Interest Which This Country Has in Samoa. It is probably safe tosay, asserts the San Francisco Chronicle, that ninetenths of the people of this land are in a state of intense geographical darkness as to the location of the Samoan Islands A good many people imagine that the islands are a few hundred miles west of San Francisco, but lots of other ordinarily well-informed folks dispute that statement without, however, being able to afford any specific information as to the location of those little coral-founded mud- heaps over which so much diplomatic fuss is being made, If you draw a circle on a good map ot the Pacific Ocean and include within the bounda- ries of your ring the junctions of the thir- | teenth and fourteenth parallels of south lati- | tude and the one hundred and sixty-nine and The Rev. Edward Everett Hale wants | longitude west of Greenwich, you will find one hundred and seventy-third meridian of that you have fenced around that portion of | the globe in which Bamoa is to be found, The little irregular-shaped dots on the sur- face of the ocean are the islands over which Nine of Theso number of smaller comparatively valueless islets, but they are rarely heard of. The islands which make up the Kingdom of Samoa are called the islands are inhabited. prizes. Theres are a APIA HARBOR FROM AMERICAN Tutuila, Opolu, Manus, Olosinga, Offa, ] pona. Anuu, Savaii and Ajolima. Of these islands by far the most imporiant is Opolu, and its great port, Apia, is the capital city { Samoa. Opoiu is the second island in size. It is about thirty-eight miles long and a li Joss than eleven miles broad, At Apla is the sont of government, and ithin the city limits are the residences of ut all the foreigners on the island, Greatest in sire is Bavaii, being about forty miles long and twenty miles broad. The greater portion of Savailan surface is occupied by two mountain ranges of voloanic origin. In the interior of the island there are numerous lava beds, and consequently there is a dearth of animal life. The inter est of the United States, however, is at resent centered principally on the island of utuila, becaose treaty righta have there given us possession of the harbor of Pago Pago. The island is fully 17 miles long, and at its greatest width measures about 5 miles The harbor of Pago-Pago is ie of the island, and the indentation mad: by it almost makes two islands of Tutuila fu, Ma ttle on the south «+ NATIVE CHURCH, PAGO-PAG Samoan commerce has decreassd some. what during the past two years, due to the great disturbances there, but it is not so small as some peple might imagine. In 1585 the total amount of trade was £2610, Of this Germany secured $381.612, the United States, $146,000 and Great Britain the remain der, £115,088 There is no reason why, if free from internal troubles, the Samoan Islands should not have a trade worth annually fifty times as much as the foregoing figures. The soil is rich and is covered with the most luxn riant tropical vegetation, The masses of timber right up to their summits, most of the trees being of valuable varie tien. Fruits such as on'y the tropics can pro duce are everywhere--oranges, bananas, mulberries, coconnuts, pineapples, limes, and bread fruit Cotton grows to perfection there, and sugar cane will prosper wherever planted. Callee can be made the staple product, The Famoans are really a fine looking people, especially the men. They are tall, well proportioned, muscular and red- headed, the latter peculiarity being due to the habit they have of applying lime to the hair as a cleanser. Their ¢ othing is generally of the east elaborate description, and in the ma jority of cases consists simply of a cloth or shaw! twisted around the waist and falling to the knees or thereabotits, This garment covers the elaborate tattooing which is found on every Samoan, and which is never A BAMOAN HUT AT PAGOPAGO, sen above the waist nor below the knee, There Is but one design and that is followed strictly in all cases. Bamoan laws against tattooing are very stringent, and violations are punishable by imprisonment and a heavy fine. The chiefs and Pineal men wear garlands of flowers around r necks and in the additional the fact that there ia but Ji to " ton which to live well eo ne Rg banthtiona, ft aves, who are im mon Islands and F are the | hills are | , mittee of the The Bamoang have a peculiar Yirioty of what thoy call dances. There fs but little real dancing. however, for the performers are seated the greater part of the time. Eliza- both Scott Parker thus describes some of the dances she saw on the deck of dn American man-of-wae at Apia: “The dance is per- formed mostly in a sitting posture, and con- sists in all conceivable motions of the head, body and arms, the rear rows furnishing the music by clapping hands in various measures and in perfect time, The movements of the eight dancers were performed with the utmost precision and grace, and thro. h it the whole party sang. Many of their wild melodies are really beautiful Every figure of the dance has its significance, Bome, ns Joading and firing a gua. sewing, rowing, were palpable, but the greater part was unintelligible to us. This performance continued for an hour or more, after which ! SAMOAN HOUSE AT TONGA. | some plays were given, always accompanied by the weird singing and clapping of hands One play represented dogs quarreling over a bone, and the deep grow!s and snarls of the men representing the big dogs, as well as the shrill bark of the chief's daughter, the little dog, were very natural, as well as their ae tion. Another play represented a mother moaning over her dead baby, Bhe wa erying with one eye shut, =» Ha moan oustom, when the father coming in discovered the misfortune which had be fallen his house. Thereupon the grief was even more violent than that of his spouse, and be indicated that nothing could solace him but rum. When be bad gained suff cient control over his feelings he asked the mother what was the cause of the child's death, and her reply created great merri ment among the natives, She sald it had died ‘waiting for the American man-on-wai to come!’ The entertainment finished in frenzy of motion, a throwing up of bands a whirl of the body, and a hearty pealof ntlv a kedd What in Samoa parab eo damage Noaragua cana then be in the between Au add en sirategioal value } does not want them: =! and New Zealand not want them: it on dependent; it sirnia rinousy MY asses thint SLATION. Retorm in the House LEGI Four New Revenue Mile Presented Your new Tariff bd in the House fathered respec : Tennessee, Hreckin da { bara The McM ‘ and Means Commi calendar on the mmitiee Mills bill, with chemical schedule except that it makes ties duty free and red Learns and other stro it ron and on of rails. This McMillin Wi) oat committee to redo : In case the Hon wall enough i Kentucky, Democrats on Another taxes by making duty free, repealing the tob docing and equalizing the of and worsted goods as the Mille Bill did dreckinridge Lill will, it is est mated, reds the revenues nearly $42.000 G0 Next comes the Cx { Hepreser nh ated by wool wiles bi regs ried 1 A Mr. Randall after the preceding two Lille, It repeals all the internal taxes on tobacco and ita manufactures and is nated t the revenue over thirty millions Finally comes a b ll for a bi by Mr which leaves a small tax on and dealers in cigars and ola wise repeals what Mr. Handal these i et reduce measures were referred Whole THE COUNTRY'S CHIMES. Bell Ringing Features of the Com ing Centennial Celebration The bell ringing feature of the celebration of the centennial of Washington's inaugura~ tion, April 80, 1780, promises to be genera) all over the United States It is contem plated that every church ball shall st a clinging at nine o'clock in the morning, and with loud vociferousnes: proclaim the hun dredth anniversary of the practical birth of the nation On that day, 100 years ago, the church bells rang to call the peo | ple together to pray for the success snd pros | perity of the country un ler General Wash | ingron's Adminsteation. The successful ex. periment of a ceniury of popular govern- ment, during which the i enjoyed prosperity unprecedented in the | annals of nstory, may weil set nil the bells Ww ringing with joyful auksgiving strana A NEW SENATOR, General Gilman Marston Appointed from New Hampshire. General Gilman Marston has been tendered and accepted the appointment of Uni States Senator from New Hampehire Governor Bawyer from the 4th of March until the Legislature in June provides for the next six years’ term, He succeeds the Hon. William E. Chandler. His political i Republic | Pennsylvania and New Jersey ' United States | reduce | Renate bill about $45 000,00) | by the Mouse Hill wonkl | pevenue { Unites] States has | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Mus, Josern Guoser, of Tarport, Penn. made a call on a neighbor, While she was away the house caught fire and Carrie and Joseph, three year-old twins, were burned to death, Evwann D, Crary, business manager of the Morning Call, at Harrisburg, Fenn, died at his father's house on South Pitt street, of blood polsoning caused by excessive smoking of cigarettes. He was in his twenty- third year, James Oraven, of Industry, Me. died a fowrdays ago, nge ninety six. He was a vot eran of the War of 181% Tie eightieth anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln was celebrated by va- rious clubs in New York city, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Jersey City, N. J., and New- ark, N, J, Bpeeches were delivered by Gen- eral Porter, Congressmen Hutter worth, Bou telle and 8, V, White, Theodore Roosevelt, Warner Miller and others. Gropor Dimock was killed by his eleven. year-old son, at Carbondale, Penn, during a | rebearsal of private thestricals, in which the father was the villain and the son the hero i of the play Army of the Massachusetts, Brarte officers of the Grand were elected in Tue Annual Conference of American | Newspaper Publishers has been held in New | York city. Ox the official trip of the United Btates gunboat Yorktown at sea off the capes of the Delaware. in Pennsyivania, the vessel developed a speed of 17.2 knots and at least HO horse power above the 3000 called for by the contract Naval officers on board pro- nounced ber one of the most valuable ves sols ever built for the navy Me., de IRAXD has been partially stroyed by fire Avorrit Bopwirz, a Bohemian aged thi¥ty seven, was killed by a train two miles east of Goshen, N. ¥. The Wells Frgo Ex- press Killed an Italian near Otisville, eX and Otto Myers, of New York, on his way 0 Hochester with two other n on, was fatally injured Ly a train between Goshen, x: XX. and Hampton Jouxsox's dynamite fa Penn , bas been destroyed Ly and John Harline, three, was thrown seventy-five feet from loaves a widow and three at Mt. Walt, € Xpios on age thirty. sver the top of a treo the factory He hildren factory an an em ye, South and West A CH tar Works Chatta astgrnin she was hor t into fragmenta ire were killed by of an sand bank at Ysiota, Texas PF. C. Witsox has i ocrats of : NOU vO boety DOF by wrth Congressional soooeed James N mins ted the § evada on the bill tec} I 40 ma orily resu of Monroe ht the Pitts mpany's irom r $0X, in Grawsn sd M sus unknown parties in was alone She was y mut and ber ne, isn her own i by rust ated wr son horrit od in Thue Neely Bock totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $35 00x { gens ravied about thirty saloons in various towns of Webster County, lows, spilling the liquors in the streets Manris LL. Coirrox and Jacob F. Bloom were killed by a train at Bucyrus, Ohio Their borse became frightened and backed the cutter, in which they were riding, upon the track. fo LS ARR Tenn. in Mem his, was Washington. Hexny J Hoxy of the B jer’ H trict of Columbia, died a few days ago from a complication of diseas He was in his sixty ninth year and was appointed Governor of the Home about four years ago, Tur Senate has confirmed the nomination of Colonel John C. Breckenridge to Le In- spector-General of the United States Army Tur Agricultaral Department balletin just fssned takes the proportion of cotton already marketed 84.5 per cent Tur President Stevenson, of [Hlinois, to ix of the Supreme Court of Columbia, vice William M ceased, AT a caucus of Republican Senators the Southern question was discussed, A STATEMEXT has: been ‘prepared by the Treasury Department which estimates that the House Tarif bill would the revenus about #65 000.000, the The reductions be on the internal gis .y PM, on tari 850. 550 545, The reductions by the Benate bill, internal revenue RELA TNO, tariff 818 UT 88, Tae President has transmitted to Congress the State correspondence with England and other governments relative to the Behring son floberion Tue nomination of Normisn J. Colman, of CorLoxet Governor retired), ome in the ie Adiair E Awociate Justios the District of, Merrick, Ae has nominated | Missouri, to be Secretary of Agriculture, has been confirmed by the Senate, Tue procesdings of the Senate on the Brit. ish Extradition Treaty have been made pub- lie, Carrary F. M Ravers has boon ordered to duty by Secrelary Whitney as command ant of the Navy Yard at Brooklyn, vice Ad: miral Gerhard: who has assumed command of the North Atlantic squadron. A SHORT executive session of the Senate was held, at which the following nomiha- tions were confirmel: Eugens EK. White, of Prestott, Ark, to te Indian Inspector; Care rol 1 Wright, of Boston, “to be Commis soner of La or. Pupstpent CLevriLaxD has nominated mem commbse'oned officers in the army to fll the vacancies in the list of lieu tenants Commnpone Gronue KE. Brixxar, at present in command the Mare Island iCal.) Xavy Yard, has been ordered 1 Hee retary Whitney to command the Asiatic sation, vice lear Admiral Chandier, de ! GALys and snowstorms were prevalent in {| Great Britain, Along the coast there wers | numerous wrecks, A bark was Jost off | Grimsby, and eleven people were drowned, Bean Apsinal CHaxpiLes, commanding the United Btates naval sjuadron fn Asiatic | waters, died a fow days ago st Hong Kong, { China, of apopiexy | A Max, thought to be “Jack the Ripper,” | the Whitechnpe: fiend, has been arrested in | Dundes, Heotland, for murdering his wife, Tur Berutin 4' Arrondissement bill has beers passed by the French Chamber of | Deputies, which is considered a victory for Minister Floquet and a set back for Boulan- | ger. Canpinar Joux SAPTISTE Rome, who was the second in Papal Bacred College, is dead FPrrra, of rank in the Tue Constitution of the Japanese Empire wis Fro immed by the Emperor ia person arma great popuiar re o.cing A mon stoned the guard which was escort ing William (lirien, the Irish agitator from Clonmel Jall to Trales, Ireland A snock of earthquake wax and Manchester, England, The earth trem ors extending to Wigan, Blackburn and Nock port They were accompanied by re peated rumblings A GoLosMiTH of Vienna killed children with evanide of potassium, administering the poison 10 the chi took some of it himself, and died agony. felt at Bolton his five Alter fren he in great Ine Boudanese have eva Egypt, alter desty ted Handoub, ving the town by fire, felt at of which violent state of erup- A SEVES Baples, Mount Ves tion Tue Portuguese Cabinet has res gned ¥ shock of earthqu Italy, in cons LAKE was § Up A 8 vis sin a of ter timate frie near Rimous and three of fin mes reported THE LABOR WORLD, New Yong pavers got £2 a dav. THE searnen's strike is spreading Tn Tar vear has op sed wilh sarpr sirikes ne labor riots are becoming serious, singly few Troon over 1200 baker shops in New York city AMES in London are AX cast steel for too's is advertised New Jersey's Child Labor law is operat £ satisfactorily Lass than S00 the Manama Canal BarLrivons's forts membership of 30,00 ERNONTY fat: w shovels per year Tuxnx is a general strike hands of Mamo, Swelen LAE January onl pirike in sevenliy o men are Jeft at work on trades-unions have a out some 600,000 en among the dock saw 18 9006 SLO men go on WiLsisarox (Del) morocco factories need the hides of 30.000 iaily. A MOVEMENT is on foot for the formation abor party goats of a new National Tur fre ight handlers of Boston have re- sol ved to ask for an increass Of pay. Ine average weekly earnings of working women are larger in Western cities ordnance foundry when Tax Washington jargest of its kind in the finished will Le the world A virey to be built Mexico Tux Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, of Michigan pay out each year over $m, 000 in dividends Ix the large cities of Europe poor people sweep the crossings, picking up a few pennies for their work Tux united «ii% are about form the interest of their trade Gexenal Masver Worksax Pownenry has beets spending soe thue among the winners near Reading. Peon $ Tie great dranbask to progress iu the chostew tion of the United Biates cruiser Toxnas is i want of skilled Iabor, Lowgts (Mass policemen have a society that pays $1 por work, twenty six weeks in the year, for sickuwess and #100 at death SBYDREY (Australia) workingwomen have opened a lug botel for Lhewsslves, where [| Loard and Jodgngs are furnished cheaply, Tom SOON 10 Naty SAND DOLLAR paper mill is 10, State of Coahuila, workers of New Jersey a Mate fwderalion in 10 ExGLisn swordmakers recently refused to | work for ten cents per hour, the scale that Germans aco ph cenis. Tux standard wages for New York oar | drivers or conductors is I per day, and the | w says they shall pot'work more than ten in | hours, Trxng are twenty-eight industrial schools 4 attended | | in this country which are | by women, To women only are adm 17 is clglmed that a Chioagostreet car con. | ductor has stolen thousands of dollars by knowing how 10 turn back the ister, He also the secret 10 other men for $25, IX the city of hilagel are 132 or tien. fy with fio are and 17,90 wan TE T000 yar 7 carpet Vou, 0m, I he forwer waot fifteen LATER NEWS, Tux Keeney House ani the Bronson blosk wero burned at Pike, N, Y. A domestic named Jennie Mack, with her little nieces, Pearl, perished in the flames, Ex -Bexaron WiLLiam Winpow, of Min. nesota, paid a visit to General Harrison at Indianapoliv, at the latter's special rejuest, Tuy engineer apd fireman of a locomotive were killed by the explosion of a boiler st Norristown, Penn, Bioxey T. Faincuiro father of the Seere- tary of the Treasury, died at his home, in Cazenovia, N. Y., from apoplexy, aged eighty years, Roppeers entered Pattison's store at Elk Lick. Ark. killed the clerk and took $4009 in money and valuables and escaped Tne Indians Senate has passed the Eleo- tion bill, embracing the principal features of the Australian system of voting MasxEp men murdered three women and a child with an axe at Mount Olive, N. C, banged at Alex murder of Charles bas been for the Lex andria, Minn, JONN Cheinie Gruokxaxs & Hzriew's block in Chip- pewa Fall, Wis, and three adjoining houses were burned, Loss $200,000, Tre House Committes on Appropriations, voting epublicans in the affirmative Randall to report iudes the total by a vote of 9 to 4--four Democrats “ with the five | Chairman authorized rably a bill which In re- ¢ peal of the tolaor stax, and which reduces the revenue by about §30,000,000 received his com- nt and immediately ff the Cabinet BrCRETARY COLMAN from the Presid fed an a member « Tue President has signed the acts for the net at res sNiG's rol mills elevator and were destroyed causing a Joss « gall the ad ould granary Canada, grain by the brink of and famine, and an appeal to the whol vilired world the frst have asked ForLy 500 000 Chinese are on starvation by reason of floods has been found time that the C foreigners for assistance in which m ate bh misfortune and started subscriptions —————————. NEOOLKATY ose officia's their troulides 1st indi w desperate is Lhe London Tux sum of £79, 175,000 appropriated for nsions at the last session of Congress will be insufficient to meet the demands for the current year, and a further appropriation of $5,000,000 is necessary. THE MARKETS, T FEW YORK. Feeves, ” Mich Cows, com. to good Calves common 10 primes. .. Kbeen EP Lambs POE a deuaas Hogw—14ve. . ..covevinnnanes Dressed... cocoons Flour-City Mill Extra... ¢ Patents 3 Wheat -Na £2 Red. Rye State... Barlev—3Na, 1... - t oro=Ungrade! Mixed. ... Ont No. | W hate PERS Mixed Westors... coe Hay-Na. | FERIA A Straw Long Rye. .... coco Lard City Sten, Putter tigin Creamery... Dairy fair togood CE EF ROR gi GBA LGLAGAEALEDASHEGEARSATD CERES e. FERN RE EAE Pern...... Cree wPPave SUE BEEES Corn-No, 4 Yellow... OateNo. 2 White... BosTON, Floure=Spring Wheat Ee Nant pai. 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