Taectric lighting wires have killed over 200 persons during the past two years, The fires in London last year averaged about five ‘a day--a material decrease compared with 1887, In Paris, France, a big company has a monopoly of the funerals, This com- pany handles 50,000 bodies yearly, General Boulanger seems, according to the Chicago Merald, to have won the greatest victory ever recorded in politics. The United States, with over 60,000, 000 population, has 5000 students of theology, while Germany, with 43,000, 000, has 7000, The United States Court at Mont gomery, Ala., holds that cotton-future but valid trades. The mild winter of 1883-9 has not | Eight | proved an unalloyed blessing. sleigh manufacturers in and about New York State have failed. In some parts of the West they define | city describes him as a a White Cap as an immoral and good for-nothing man who takes upon him- self the duty of punishing all other im- moral and good-for-nothing men, Last year fifteen Chinamen were married in Queenslacd—one to a native of the colony, one to a Victorian native, two to Scotch to Irish women and eight to English women, womrn, three Water competition is felt by European a8 well as American railway lines. In France it is the canals which cut under the railroad tariffs, and the French lines are urging taxes on the canals to even up things, Recent statistics show that the ber of colleges and institutions in the country is the same as it was ten years num- ago, but the number of students has in. creased 11,161 to in the same period. from 62,816 Says the New Orlexns Times. Democrat : “In the present state of our coast de. fences a foreign force would find but little difficulty in entering any of our great ports or landing on any eligible part of our coast.” te —————— The Corean Kingdom bachelor is not spoken of as a man buta ‘‘person.” He becomes a man only when he marries. Such a rule ia the United States would promote marriage, the N York Graphic, failure or no failure, declares Philadelphia Inquirer believes that if the plan of instructing pupils in the af- fairs of the day with the aid of the daily newspapers were more generally prac- ticed, we should have fewer juvenile pedagogues and more bright scholars, A correspondent of the London Times says that the word ‘‘teetotal” had its origin through a stuttering temperance orator, who urged on his hearers that nothing less than ‘“te-te-te-total” absti. nence would satisfy temperance reform- ers. Some one at unce adopted *‘teeto tal” as a suitable word, and it sprang into general use. A singular exhibition has just been held at Meningen, Germany, It consist. ed of 250 newspapers coutaining articles upon the death of the Emperor William L, representing no fewer thaa fifty-four languages, among which, of course, all the European, with their dialects, were represented ; while Bengali, Hindi, Guz. zurati, Chinese, Japacese and Hawaiian may also be fourd, : An old fellow in a Wisconsin town who has been running a private bank for some years was recently requested to publish some sort of a statement. So he posted the following on the door of | his bank: “Notice—This 'ere bank has | got $50,000 behind her. She don't owe nobody a red cent. Good paper dis counted as heretofore, and nobody pro- poses to cut sticks for Mexico or Cana- da.” There was no run on that bank. According to the report of Adjutant General Drum the organized militia force of the United States consists of 106,506 men, of whom 8307 are commis- sioned officers. But back of this force stand 8,104,028 available men subject to organization in case of war, Thus showing, the New York World thinks, ought to cause foreign nations to think twice before knocking the chip off our broad shoulder, There will be an important congress of the Scotch-Irish race in Columbia, Tenn, on the 8th of next May. Distinguished orators and scholars of that race will read papers commemorating the deeds of the Scotch-Irish. Columbia was chosen as the place of meeting because it is cen- tral in location, and was the home of two famous Scotch-Irishmen, Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk. The date chosen is the most delightful season of the year in that latitude, and every effort will be made to insure the comfort attend. The congress will be a revels. tion to many people, in that it will show numerous and influential the Scotch. | | Vineyard and South shores of in this country are. In Philadel phis the other night, n young lover eat down on the front door step of his sweetheart’s house and shot himself. ‘‘He followed an old Japanise custom,” comments the Atlanta Conati- tution, *‘In Japan it used to be the fashion for a gentleman when he was very mad with another to rip out his own bowels in front of his enemy's house. It was supposed that this action hurt the feelings of bis survivor, But it won't work in th's country.” It is feared that lovers of blanc mange will have to go without their favorite delicacy another year or else pay a very { high price for the material from which Sea moss gatherers along the Massa- Almost none is it is made, chusetts are in despair. | being secured. They attribute the dearth | of : ; | weather with no ice. Reports from other eontracts are not gambling transactions, shores more distant are of complaints of | little or no moss at this time, when there | the moss to the unusually mild should be plenty, A Chinese passenger agent is one of | the railroad novelties furnished by the Pacific States, He has been lately in Los Angeles, Cal., and a writer from that good deal better mannered and better dressed than a large He is known by the not-particularly-Oriental name of “‘Charley He kid gloves, sports a gold headed cane, and his Morever, he is described as a good talker and a He got his training in a railroad office at Omaha. percentage of white Americans, Sloan.” WOArs linen is immaculate. generally intelligent person. A K The population of the United the 1st of January, 1880, was, estimates the New York Zribune, probaby close to 64,300,000, For the immigration during the previous twelve months had been 518,518, as officially reported, and at the rate of increase maintained for three previous decades, with the actual immi. gration added each year, the population should have reached the figures above given, gration during the year and a half re At the same rate, if the immi maining should amount to 800,000, the population at the date of the next cen sus, July 1, 000, 000, 100,000 each month, exclusive of in gration, or about 3300 every day. 1 ui wi be about 67,- The increase is now more than ami- A recent little incident in the Indian Territory explains, states the Herald, why the Weat is ‘great It well known to our readers that the Ok- for some time * and why it grows so quickly. will be lahoma “boomers” have past been trying to settle tory, but have been hindered by armed force. In the present instince their ad vanced guard got a start During that new of thirty six they had laid the time town, hours, marked out a town lots and divided the ground among out themselves. When they were seized they were holding a town meeting and considering a proposition to advertise light plant. | for bids on an ele tri Evi light stands hagh smong the things considered unecessary by the Western settler. dently the electri W. Beott Glore, forseven years largely interested in the Frankfort Lottery of Kentucky, has recently died of paralysis of the brain at the age of forty-eight years. He left a fortune of $150,000 for a widow andone son. All of the lot tery offices in Louisville that he was sole owner of have been closed fatality, says the Cincinnati Enquirer has followed the owners of this lottery. Ex-Governor Bramlette, one of the founders, fell dead of heart disease be- fore he realized any of its profits; C, M. Briggs, another, met the same fate; Wiley Barrow made a fortune in it and died suddenly while on a visit to Colorado ; Charlie Howard, one of the founders, and who also was one of the starters of the New Orleans lottery, was thrown from a buggy in New York and killed; E. L. Stewart who had a long legal contest about the lottery, fell dead on the street, A strange and George Miller, a prominent owner, | died of delirium tremens. Under the heading ‘Unconscious Sul. elde” William Hosea Ballou makes some gruesome statements in the North Ameri can Feview about the water supplies of great cities. He says, for example: “A number of cemeteries drain into Brook. lyn's sources of water supply. Long Island City pumps its water out of an underground frog pond. Jersey City, Newark, Elizabeth and Hoboken secure their water from the dirty Passaic River, Albany and Kingston have muddy sup- plies of water. Philadelphia pumps up Schuylkill sewage. St. Louis is bur. dened with mud and Sith from the Mississippl. Boston's water system is polluted by a poisonous vegetable growth. Chieago sewage so completely invests lower Lake Michigan that in sum. supply extant.” statements made States on |! Chicag® | in the terri- | TRAGEDIES ON THE RAL Railway Casualties in Various Parts of the Country, California Bandits Rob a Train and Commit Murder, The Coroner held an inquest over the body of Charles F. Gabert, who was killed in the | train robbery near Pixley, Cal, ti other evening, He was a native of West | Virginia, aged twenty vears, and was in: | stantyy killed. Testimony given by P. T. Fol. gor, engineer, and C.J. Alder, fireman, | showed that when leaving Pixley | two masked men boarded the engine | with shotguns and ordered the engineer to pull out. They fired a shot when two mils out and ordered the engineer to slow down. The euginesr and fireman were taken Lack by the robbers to the ex- | press car, and a bomb was thrown under the car, The explosion nearly turned the oar over, The messenger cams out when or | dered Une of the robbers entered the ear, while | the other held the fireman, engineer and messenger under cover, Meanwhile Hrake- man Gabert came up on one side of the car and Bentley came up on the other side to sen the cause of the delay. When they were ap proaching, one robber exclaimed: “Stop,” | and fired. Gabert received a heavy load of buckshot in the heart and head, killing him instantly. The robbers then and fired at the was struck by abdomen and ri then marched the engine and backed away into It was thought that the affair was not work of professionals, as it was poeedlesly murderous, The robbers secured only $400, Armed parties were scouring the country in i search of the robbers A dispatch received from Bakersflald says that the had been overtaken by the officers who went in pursuit, and that one of the former was killed and one captured alive under the csr man Bentiey shot In the The robbors men upon the darkness Lt the reached other several robbers The Bodies Were Burned Un A wer ident occurred to a train from Bangor to St. John's, near Boyd's Mills, two miles sast of Kingman, Me. The following were & iad | hn English Campiwil us a Hi mail cle a stance, tearing up £ Gown telegraph all means tend tt tele of Passenger Train Wrecked. north! the "Nn un pasenn ar train n road was thn a broke: § wal Dy rai pas of them Dale was it is Deller 4 ihe toon Car turning ver i he passengers suffered intensely from the cold during the delay caused § Killed in a Collision Two freight trains ool ville and Ohio | Knoxw . Ten and | el oars were dom One 8 wrecked shed th e caused by a misunderstand MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Tue novel “Robert Elsmere” has been | dramatized, Paviixe Lvcoa, the singer, was born in {| Vienna in 1540 Kare Craxrox, the worth $1:6,000, Oscan B. Gruasox, the horse tamer, Is to £0 to ths Pacific lalands Tur New York Herald is trying to run | Wagner music out of town BOUTH Arnica supports six English theat- rical companies and one circus Mur, Tussavy's famous whx works in London have been sold to a syndicate Mrs, LAxorey has had eno igh of Macbeth and is now playing Rosalind Maco Mrronnil's new play, “Ray," Is one of the best she has ever appeared in, Mapaxe Parrt Is to vikt the United States this year and give thirty concerts Apoxis Dixey will produce the long promised burlesque of “Faust” next season Faxsy Davexponr save she will continue to play “La Tosa" al through next season BARA Beasuandr recently made ber first Appearance at Home, I[taly, wm “Ca milla, Ix Vienna “The Yeomen of the Guard” is being sung in German under the title of “Der Capitan Wilson.” American actress is Lady | an orchestra to give weekly symphony con certs at Tremont Temple, i Tir actress Jananswchek, who has been | playing in America for many years, was porn in Prague, Austria, in 150 | Mne, WJ. Frongxcr will retire from the 1 at the end of the present season, and | € t will make her home in the Harlem section of | | mans in December last, jotham. Mur, Mamie Avr, first wife of Nicolini, | i She obtained a divoros | Lirtiax Russert, the opera bouffe queen, will not dine without a salad if thers In one to be had, and Clara Louisa Kellogg's favor | | ern portion of Corea, ite dish is pork and beans. Mux. Exma Fania, a young prima donna from San Francisco, had a really splendid debut in concert in London. Some of the | eritios compare ber to Van Zandt, Mrs, Benwano-Beene, the Anderson, Potter and Langtry of gave 1500 three penny who were feasted in Victoria time ago, Miss Susanxan Wanrern, who com the maroh whioh was ugural ball of William lives near Sykesville, Carroll County, Mary. land, and Is over ninety years old, Witson Banners will sail from England next October for this country, where be will tour next season, He will carry but six oar. Jonds of thirteen was the number | summoned Ore of Boston's millionaires is to establish | | Ing polit cal men and members of the aristo- | eracy THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Tr Baron 14 Yen Pang, a Chinese mer. chant said to bo worth $40,000, has arrived n New York from China. He has two branch | houses in New York and two in San Fran- | Cisco, Tre deadlock in the Delaware Legislature, which had continued for three wooks, has been broken, the House sending to the Senate 88 nominations for State Treasurer and Auditor the names of the present incumbents, William Herbert and James H. Boyes, whose nominations were at once confirmed | by the Benate, Govenxon Grey, of New Jersey, has | nominated Edwin O, Chapman as State So Jatintandont of Public Instruction, to take he place from which Colonel Fuller was de- posed by the Legislature, South anid West, Epwanp Quins killed his brother John by striking him on the head with a club during a quarrel at their home in Avondale, Ohio The murder was committed in the presence of their mother. Both men were Intoxicated, A CYCLONE in Shelby and Bibb Counties, Ala.. caused a loss of five or six lives and much destruction of property. The path of the tornado was twenty miles in length, and crossed a rather thickly settled country, Forty houses were unroofed or blown down and several hundred head of cattle and horses killed outright. The damage is estimated at ¥ 00, 000 Ix response to an invitation of the Na tional Tariff Reform League, in sesdon at Chicago, Mr. Cleveland declared his inab lity to attend, but expressed himself as heartily In acodid with the purposes of the Loeagu Tur machine shops, round house and car shops of the “Big Four” railroad at Cin cinnati were destroyed by fire. The loss is about $200,000 Hion winds caused a fire at Rock Rapids, Iowa, to spread very rapidly, until nearly the entire business part of the city was con. sumed. Twenty-one firms were burned out The total loss reached §; 3 AE, f John C resident Jesse Carnous, descen das Calboun, and one of the wea t of Pike ( ounty, Ark, committed su after hearing that his on y son bad been as rested in Toxas for murder Ioxarz Levenen, City Tax Collector of Bloomington, I., and his assistant. Harry M. Leohr, bave bean arrested, charge! with forgery and grand larceny A LABORER named Joseph Brogan, at Up son, Wis, killed his wife and two children. aged five and seven years respectively, and then committed suicide with a dull resor iWniLe Harry Br John Williams, and a third man. nan t BOWH, Were Py win Ww . the fall were irownsd n Mie wn FO Kanawha, t { constantly da into th Washington. of Ullal judgment y favor of the tr Pacifl npany in Ms suit aga thw ith holding vithholding s ha y & has g of Lewis Cam, presented to the i United States by Michigan for yin Statpary Hall, at the O i, has CLV EL prostration in the ev be was be Tur Canal vill, Tne President and Mrs Cleveland were entertained at a dinner by Neorefary and Mrs Vilas Hox, Eowand Paris, United States Minister to England, called st the White House and bad an interview with the Presi dent, Tux Houses adopted the conference report on the Direct Tax bill by a vote of yeas 118, DATE 5% It was then taken to the Senate signed, and five minutes afterward sent to the President Tre President has sent to Congres al orrespondence whi has taken tween t and Great ritalin in of Lord Sackville at Britain to the vrougnt n bv after } h ening in attack, how. ler and ned work resu Ts ’ . President has signed the Nicarague the plnce bes his Governmer regarat West as Minister of Gre United States the &n NE AYARD has received a cable gram from ¥inster Hubbard, at J Apan, ane pouncing that a treaty of amity, commerct and mavigation tetween the United Stated and Japan bad been signed by the represen tatives of the Governments AETARS Foreign, Kis of Bavaria, has been proved without a dou to be hopelesy RANM, died of Urenburg, Ory it Maxy fan Huis Evrron Wittiax OBuex, the Irish patriot. alter rafusing to permit his counsel to apologize for ealling Colonel Tamer a sneak thief in court, was sentenced to six months in jail without hard labor. This added 10 the former sentence makes his term of imprisonment ten months, Two thousand five hundred men were dis. charged a few davs ago from the canal works at Tavernilla, Panama. The cone tractors continue fo curtail the work on all the sections, There is a strong military foroe on the line of the canal to maintain order THIRTY TEOUSAND people witnessed the geome of Laweball at Naples, italy, letween | two profesional teams from this country, the All Americas and the Chiongos Esrenon Faas ms Josern, of Aostria has the heir presumptive, Archduke Frans, to Pesth to introduce him to the lead- have recently Frovinoee of persons ne In the th Tir Cologne Gagelle (Digmarck’s organ), | says that Germany will demand of the United States Government that it arrest and | punish Kien, the American » hom Germany | charges with having led the Mataafaites in | Samos at the tine of the repu se of the Ger: MM. Frevoiser and Moline have under: taken to form a Cabinet for resident Car not of France, Tne Duke of Newcastle has boon married in London to Miss Candy, a famous English beauty, A renrninLe famine prevails in the south. Thr Sultan of Morocco has ceded a piece of the coast near the Algerian frontier to the Germans, who will use it for a naval station, ELEVEN MARINERS PERISH, A Bark Goes Ashore and the Holms man Kills Himself The British bark Josie Troop, of St John, New Brunswick, Captain W. G, Cook, with a cargo of chalk, from London to Philadel. foo, about twenty mies north of Cape Hat IAA, Heit At seven o'clock in the evening, and with her cargo, a total Joss { Bons in the hotel, of whom twenty-two ase | harmed, | Middletown, Conn | Auditor of the Treasury, vice Allred E LATER NEWS, TraRhode Island House of Representatives by a vow of three to thirty-one bas passed Ballot Reform will, based on the Australian | sy stom, Tux discovery of the register of the burned Park Central Hotel in Hartford, Conn., dis. | pels many painful wacertainties as to the loss of life. A summary of (hvcesults of the dis ! aster shows that there were forty-two per dead, ten are injured and ten escaped un- Gronce Buiti, seventy years old, torn Ww and much property was atoms was | damaged by a premature blast in New York Two buildings of Wesleyan University, at , were badly damaged by the explosjon of dynamite bombs by fresh men who were Birthday. Nelson C. Hubbard, a freshman was dreadfully in ured, celebrating Washington's OscAR Evaxs, a bark contractor, shot and killed James Kirby, and mortally wounded A. L. Hoke, near Romney, W a woek ago Hoke horsewh piwed va. About Fovans, Tue highest price ever paid for a borss in America was given a few days since, when the trotting stallion Bell Boy sold for $51, Tax long des Legislature has 1x tion of Janus E Benator A HEAVY Georgia A was AV at auction at Lexington, Ky, in the West ws broken by the re-elec- Virginia | Kenna as United States snow fell in of snow witl there, trophe any v t “he ) cers of the road placed were alone nthe, The “rr Love, of ind is a de itlers on the Des Moline attended ness, died a in Washing- our it was the most The White with flowers, gave t million- of be em- i ae California Germany, ns wil od and will rest till May in the chur hapel there, when they will be trans prred to Ban Francis Praxren M tured by bandits Cul, has boon released on the payment of a Oh pEsTAa Rriz, who fn the Hemedios district, was Cap. ransom of £30,000 Tux British § The Queen's ope: rroased supplies for defensive purposes. of | nol vency 1 arliament has ressssmbiled ng speech asked for in. Wittiax Basser, | lomton and Everett ilder, ne flo Lt $674 rs fire broke out Mass, has g His Habilities are state! a A DisasTR in Warren, Penn, and, owing to the severity of the weather, resultad in a lows of over $70.00 to the town and the destruction of a block. Mus Janes Wasrcorr, the young wife of a prominent citizen and lumber merchant at Hapard’s, Penn. , and a servant, Jennie Walters, were burned to death, A priLoise in DBristol, Conn, was wrecked by an explosion of powder. Tue news of the signing by the President of the bill making four new Btates was re- | ceived in those States with satisfaction A telegram from Helena says that all Montana is celebrating, and Dakota is really beside borself with delight. From every bamiet large enough to have a telegraph office come despatches expressive of a state of jubilation bordering on insanity i Gexerat Hannisox has rented a pew in | the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, | Mr. Blaine will also worship there, | Dn. Fraxcis Waanrox, Solicitor of the | Btate Department, and a prominent author of legal works, is dead in his sixty-ninth Coxsvr Gesenat, Warren, at London, | England, has senit his resignation to the | State Department, 0 take effect immedi. | ately on the appointment of his successor, i Tun President bas nominated J. Lee Tucker, of New York, to be Deputy Fifth Lewis, removed, and James C. Perry, of North Carolina, to be sn Assistant Surgeon in the Marine Hospital service, Tour Chinese Minister and suite have arrived at Washington from Havana, Cuba. Hav, award of priority to Bell, Fovrnreex streets, containing 100) houses, | Webster County a few weeks ago, | In the spine I Milch Cows, com. to good, “ - DISEASE DEFYING DIAGNOSIS | Fifty Deaths from a Mysterious Malady in Kentucky A dispatch from Marion, Ky., says: A terrible diseass made its appesrance in It raged disastrously for atime and it was thought that it had spent its fury, as no new causes were reported for ten days. The disease, | however, has reappeared in more viclent | form than ever near Dixon, the county seat, Nine new cass have dleo developed near Freo Union. Four deaths occurred during { one day, and the other five patients were pot | expected to live, Five additional cases developed next Gay. The malady is confined to a strip of terre tory bordering on a small stream called Crab Orchard Creek. In one family of seven only the father escaped. Up to this time but two persons attacked had recoversd from the disease, one of whom is totally blind and the other a cripple for life. There have already been more than ffty deaths, At one come. tery on one day there were four burials Doctors have not been able to make a dingnosis of the disesse. The majority are inclined to the opinion that it is cerebro spinal meningitis of the congestive malignant type. The patient is taken with sharp pains which soon reach the brain and are followed by violent cramps and cone vulsions, from which death ensues, THE LABOR WORLD. BuiLpers favor trade schools, Tux Federation of Bookkeepers has 4000 members wealth to ber of her Fiance owss much industrial schools GREAT numbers of discharged canal labore ers are leaving Pansms, h glass blower averages operators varies y re have | in wages rRers piel ano eh On wheeler Tues Italian masons FOVER ATS 8 YOAT, BO- L lhelr conven orsterman’s national will take In nembersiip rt UUme an formed, whict fs, with a herbood of Locomotive Engineers od in August 17, INS, and at the has visions sud over menbers « sub-di New Jersey silk weavers bave had r wages repeatedly reduced within the few years. They used to get §10 a week; HY now get $9 Texxygsng iron makers plume themselves not a little over the fact that no holler wade of their famous charcoal cold blast has ever wn Lo «xj lestrength glass-blower in a ten. makes an average of $1.75 an orks seven hours a day, roaning op Deen En Eat) Tug dout fot furnacy wr. He w y stipend uj ed Ix the New York State Senate a bill has been introduced by Bemator Cantor “fixing the wages of day laborers for the State at §2 a day or twenty-five cents an boar.” MAX mechanics are largely educated in trade schools and the London guilds are now expending their accumulated wealth in the ectablishment of similar schools throughout England. WHAT is known as the Paving Cutters National Union was organized on June 1, INST, at Baltimore, Md., with eleven locals and 500 memlwes, At present there are thirty-six branches, with 1800 members OF the national labor organizations in the United States, the Brotherhood of Carpen- ters and Joiners has the most number of local unions, having 454, At the foot of the list is the International Boatmen's Union, with two subordinate bodies Bauxswicg, Ga, is $0 have the largest cotton press in the Southern Btates. It weights 250 tons, stands on a base twelve by twenty-four feet, connecting with four links thirty-eight feet long. each weighing nine tons. It required six months’ time to build it, 50 his da Grr Tux State of Michoacan, Mexico, is tosend an exquisite picture in feathers, represcnting one of the most picturesque snd poetic views of the lake of Patzcuaro, to the | aris Exposi- tion, A worker in wax is making 8 minis ture copy of the City of Mexico in that pliable material, also for the Paris Exposition THE MARKETS, hel Peeves, ... FEW YORK. - —. - abi £3 & a wgdEzcHn Calves common 10 primd.. .. ( 8 cena E REE Crore & a9 e ol EEE Dressed. ..... Flour—City Mill Extra. .... ZeSVea -r on Mixed Wostors....... Hay-—-No. 1 > TST, Btraw- Long Rye. .....ccuee utter Kigin Creamery .... Dairy fair to good. West, Im, Factory Pras ARRE Ran. HRE18%%12 No, § Northern. .... 8 Yellow. ..ovius Cortes Oates 3 Woke, BURTON, Flour—Spring Wheat pat's. Yellow, ...w No. 8 White.......... A EER “eave 2332 TE Ag = ry EE EE CAR 18-42 11 AE LEE LITE 3 Shsaen Ei EAA ERE TY
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