A “Nibilism tn Russia appears to be un. erushable. General Boulanger charges his recent defeat to the ambition of local candi- dates. In our Territories aliens cannot own more than twenty per cent, of the stock of any corporation, Se The tax on oleomargarine is bringing nearly a million dollars a year into the Federal Treasury. Michigan capitalists within the past few years have invested $1,000,000 in southern timber lands. The New York Commercial Advertiser | states that late statistics show an unfortu- nate increase in the number of army de- serters, A Boston company is trying to intro- duce wicker-work coffins. ——— ing can equal them. A number of reindeer have been im- | ported from Norway and turned out in a | of Scotland in the ! forest in the north hope that they may become acclimatized. The United States Postoffice has a standing reward of $200 for the arrest and conviction of every person who robs, or in any way interferes with, the United States mails, The Limited, has been formed for the pur- Chinese Amusement Syndicate, pose of establishing a switchback railway, a merry-go-round, and providing other amusements of a similar character for the Chinese. The engineer sent to Europe by the New York Departmrnt of Public Works to study pavements has returned with a report in favor of asphalt pavements He says that the only perfect pavement is asphalt. The number of cotton mills now in the Soult as 1880 has deulled, while the number of spindles aud dency being to build mills of greater compared with poms has more than trebled, the 1 % capacity than formerly, The effect of the destruction of trees is now perceived forcibly by the farmers of find that their efforts to irrigate their lands are hindered Southern California, who by the insufficiency of water in the rivers. The insufficiency of water, the San Fran. cisco Call states, is caused by the cutting down of the forests on the mountains. Even the church bells in Germany go The old Dutch chimes in the Garrison church into mourning for their sovereigns. at Potsdam had their airs changed to funeral strains on the death of William I., and they have only just resumed their usual lively tunes at the expiration of the year's mourning for Emperor Fred- erick. “‘Five million immigrants, men, women and children, have been landed at Castle with baggage, bundles and other paraphernalia, since 1873, and not a passenger or piece of baggasc has been lost in all that time,” was the remark made by Immigration Garden wharf, their Commissioner Stevenson in the hearing of a New York Star man the other day, Can any other city in the wide world match this simple statement? A famous newspaper correspondent has been studying the peculiarities of great men in this country and in Europe. He finds that all the greatest men of the world have big noses. Bismarck and Pasteur have but Gladstone stands without a rival. The great Englishman's proboscis is big all over. For thickness, breadth and solid- ity it cannot be matched anywhere in the world. Napoleon always selected big. nosed men for his generals. Gladstone would have delighted him. tremendous noses, The amount of humana blood spilled in bringing the Paris Exposition to com. pletion is something enormous. The records show that during the erection of | the buildings no less than 6350 men were | treated for injuries of one kind or an- other received while at work on them; legs, 200 were badly injured in their eyes, 114 were scalded or badly burned, B50 had fingers cut off. The death roll from falls foots up 24, though this is sald to be far below the actuality, I The New York World announces that on the South Devonshire const of Eng- land a hotel is to be erected for the ex- clusive use of bridal parties. It will fill a long-felt want. Heretofore the bride. groom and his bride have been obliged They claim | that, from a sanitary point of view, noth. | | often defeat themselves, 300 workmen were injured as to their | Says the New York Sun: ‘We may see potentates from Europe, Asie, Africa, South America and the isles of the seas at the International Exposition here in 1892." An eleven inch steel shell costs the United States Navy Department $135, making, remarks the Detroit Free Pres, a full-sized eleven inch bombardment an expensive matter, Modern diplomacy is by several per cent, cheaper than is mod- ern warfare, An appeal for wives has just been ad- dressed by Mayor Wheelwright, of Tacoma, Washington, to Mayor Hart, of In his petition Mayor Wheel. Boston, wright says that there are about ten men to every woman in the Territory, and ‘‘that the Mayor and Common Council { of Tacoma appeal to the people of | | Massachusetts to send all the women of | | marriageable age that can be spared to the Territory and city, with a view to of industrious young men, who would be | | glad to marry.” -— I the most Ferdinand Guzman, famous bandit in Spain, is a dwarf who at one He time kept a small store in Granada, became angered at some action tal by the authorities and took to the mou ains. He is hideously ugly in appea The ro- Spanish bandits does not apply to him at all. He about hi of the Europe sand ance and utterly unscrupulous, mantic chivalry attributed to has gathered 8 Crew m over worst cutthroats them he reigns supreme. The Spanish d Government has determing to him and his followers. The Chicago Herald observes human being, althougl dish for cannibals, appears indige stible the Canadis has been explori of ¢ covery of a tribe of cannibals, dritish Columbia, dining on a fellow being, and abstain from food for Hot dyspepsia, water is an excellent and the conclusio missionary, however palatable, is likely to lie uneasily on the cannibal stomach and set up dyspeptic symptoms unless some such precaution is taken, The Standard, of London, that . ‘ithe number of Americans taking a boli SAYS day in Europe this season is greater than and this New York Sun, by the records of the Euro. it has been in any past year,” statement is confirmed, adds the pean steamers at the port of New Mr. Henry Clews, banker, while refe: to this subject, spoke, and spoke as a financier, of the cost of the migration of Americans to Europe. ‘‘During the ‘this country he said * the Exposition,” had to abroad suffer from army of to the tune of not less t drain bordering upon from $150,000,000 to $175,000,000.” . : money for the American people to exper This is a big sum of on account of the French Ex) 1889: but it will not be A them to indulge in such lavish expendi ture in behalf of the American Expos tion of 1802. necessary for Orleans Times Democrat, The LC ALN New wl of how grew the “It is sad to re forest fires are constantly helping on work of deforestation in the country. It is more than likely that fire was the agent which served to denude countless millions of acres of prairie land in the United The grand timber belts by States of timber. of the country are being drawn on man to an extent that warrants the pre. diction that the timber supply of America will not last a century longer unless steps are taken to compensate for the continued destruction of the forests by fire and the woodman’s dxe. Maine, Michigan and making pleasant the homes of thousands | standpoint, it Minnesota have all had their forests enor. | mously reduced. There is enough ber in the Southern pine belt to last country for very nearly a century. lum. the | The | Southern people are not wise to sell these | lands now at prices that are not a tenth | of their actuai value.” It is marvelous, muses the Baltimore Sun, how the schemes of the over-cautious The official re. port of the railway accident in Russia, which nearly cost the Czar and Czaring their lives, carries its own moral. The cars occupied by the imperial party were armor plated, and weighed about three times more than ordinary cars, while the perils of travel were thereby increased in proportion. The signaling apparatus was taken out of the hands of the regular servants of the road and given into those of special detectives. The engineer and brakeman were under command of a Btate engineer, who was in turn directed by the chief of the imperial private police. The wreck was cwized by this police | chief's ordering the sudden increase of speed us the train was nearing a curve over a new and hastily constructed om. baokment. Withsuch a cheerful mixture wud red tape to Wonder that dn rie Sata ——— ———-——— A QUADRUPLE EXECUTION. Four Murderers Suffer the Death Penalty in New York. All Four Were Legally Strangled for Killing Women, TERN justios has overs taken four women mur- derers In New York. $ Charles Carolin, Pat. rick Packenham, John Lewis (colored), and James Nolan were hanged at the Tomlw prison on two gallows early in the morning. A large crowd had gathered In tho sur rounding streets, but order was preserved by | policemen, | noted | BOMerous and inside the prison only those duly guthorized by law and | the press representa tives were permitted to | witness the quadruple execntion, Packenham eleven minutes CAROLIN fan were exscutad at utes past 7 o'clock All died without flinching, as they said they would From the hangman's Was =n “beautiful It took only a remarks bly short time to send the four murderers from life to eternity The ouly approach to a blunder was in the case the job" 1 “hie like a man” . : y to enmge him Br ’ . 1 and hi { were sl piped : F the falling of the weight at the end of the hang. mansr Nolan di re they were ouiity of the or « ho : Packenbam and 1 quietly both wt bef that they ware h they were abogt ¥' 9 were nf sand | whie The bodies : down, placed in hearses and carried away for burial Justica was atisfiod, and the Tombs its wonted ai of gloom and misery reg nes ndemped £111 : Two other murderers n ite ATS & walls Hex with an lin who Madeline trying t terfeit bill band's story reapitedd by ernor for sixty the « is He was refuased n new ’ i by ‘ordinand Carolin murdered Bridget, on 140, 1888 at 47 oa the head his wife Ktanton with an street by axe while intoxieated Patrick Packenbam, who was formerly a New Orleans policeman, cut the throat of his wife, Margaret, Mar 13 at No. 212 West Twenty.soventh street hecasuse she re foesd him money with which to bay lgoor wice he was threatensd with arrest for beating the woman std attempting to throw his som out of a window, and an hour later bo committed the erime for which be suffered James Nolan Mrs. Emima Buch on November 20, 1858, at No. # Reoond avenue hecanss her intention of leaving him Jack Lewis eolored. deliberately killed Allon Jackson, a mulatto woman, on July 17, 158% at 84 West Third street, because she refused to live with him any longer. he hav ing previoudy shot her and made her a 5 crip THE SUN'S ECLIPSE. A United States Expedition to be Sent to Africa INGER shot she announced Captain Phythian, the Superintendent of | the Naval Observatory at Washington, says that the preparations for the expedition to | Africa to observe the total eclipse of the sun, | ; which occurs in Decomber next, are being actively pushed forward. The scientists are making their advance calenlations. lnstru ments are being purchased and regulated, and everything is being attended to that can Ix done in advance given by Congress for this work, E00, neces. sitates very careful expenditures, and it will be impossible to send the expodition to St Paul de Loando, where the obser vations will take place, except on 8 Government vessel, It was at first thought that the new cruiser Baltimore would be selected for this purpose, but it is now seen that she will not be ready for sea in time for the expedition, which will have to sail about October 1. One of the older vessels will probably be sent over with the sclentists, posdlily the Alliance, now af Norfolk, DIPHTHERETIO SCOURGE. A Reign of Terror in an Ohio Town Tite Disease Beyond Control, and No» i to 7 § yelock and Carolin and Lewis at three min. | The meagre appropriation | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Fastern and Middle States, Caries Kerren, of Philadelphia, and two girls named Mamie and Winnie Collie gan, aged seventeen and twenty years ree spectively, were carried over the falls at Easton, Penn., while boating. The girls were drowned, Rev, Frep A. Banxirz, of Middletown, Penn., a retired elergyman, and Charles H, Carpenter, of Philadelphia, were fishing from a boat on Bwatara Creek, near Middle town, Penn., when they were drawn into n whiripool and drowned. Mus. Many Hivox, and Mrs Emma W hite, of Byron, N, Y., were killed by an engine at a ratiway crossing in Rochester, N, Y, AL¥rep Porter, aged about years, of Dover, N. H., a student of Dart mouth College, was sccidentlally shot and instantly killed at Xenniston's Island, by Herbert E Towle, of Dover Tux Finance Committee of the World's Fair Committee met in New York city and organized: Josso Seligman, the banker, sub. mitted a plan to raise money without asking Congiess for help i nineteon Tae Pennsylvania Railroad Company has made arrangements to establish a pension system for its conployes, the first of its kind in the United States. The pension plan will be introduced in connection with the com pany’s relief association Toe body of Frederick Wiles twenty-six, was found hanging in a havi Virgil, N.Y. He was to have been 1 in a short time, Te IMPOrary insanity «11 : ioe] cn ned ft at arried 5 the Taw New Nts Narantoga and decided to State ention in : int rk Btate Committ odd the Den Use et hed | 0 MOCTati Cony (3etober Two cot regan and its leased ham, and a8 wooles Worsted Con i mills at recent fail wis bir t Brown, Ste 1ny, ana at of | Y xl, 1 HnsTiasx W Lv : wis N arn Was « 3] SrareTreasvnen CARTER, « hire, bas received N onto for 150.000 it being : ¥ 1.34 oe 1 f war obligation of the § f Now {amp Wittaax Rerres South and West, Axprew Joussox, al osmed Peterson, a blackseniti while fishing on Camp Lake, J. C arkoeper, and Lyoss was k Pauly fatally mang) : are wore wrecks! and = attle killed inn aused by the engine striking a Waris « tut brewery recently ind. fell, bur Martin Thom killed, John badly hurt Assrarany PosrMasts ington, Ind, has defaulted for $500 fugitive clerk took 800 of Postmaster § money, who is completely ruined theft : his bonden "TCR at af i & Dewey Hao has turned over the paper of which he was oditor Presioexr Hanmsox, Private Secretary Halford, Attorneyenoral Miller and Sec retary Rusk left Door Park, Md., for Indian apolis, Ind., where the President was to spend several days before returning to Wash. ington. Frank Monts, John Hell, James OBrien and Brodie Morris, miners, of Charleston, W, Va., were onught beneath a fall of slate in the mines of the Conneliton Coal Company in Fayette County and killed Dr. E. ParsGxs, said to be the oldest prac ticing dentist in the United States, diad a few days ago at Savannah, Ga. He was born in Northampton, Mass, in 1808 Tue flourishing city of Colfax, TL, on the Tilinois Central, has been almost entirely de stroyed by fire Tur President was enthusiastically received and entertained by the city of Cincinnati, after which he resumed his journey to In dianapolis AT a session of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at Rome Ga, Colonsl Adolph Brandt, while opposing a resvlution, fell dead in the ball from an attack of apoplexy He was a prominent lawyer of Atlanta, and widely known throughout the State. Waite out hunting near Eidora, lows, Banker L. F. Wisner was accidentally shot and killed by his only son George, aged about twenty-three. Mr. Wisner was Presideot and principal owner of the Hardin County (Iowa) Bank. Bun Rexavd has been found guilty, at Purvis, Miss, of participation in the Sulli. S-Kirain prive-fght, and sentenced to $500 ne. Tare Republican State Convention of North Dakota has nominated E. 8. Tylor, of Pergo, for Governor; John B. Ray, of Grand Forks, for Auditor; Booker. of Pembina, for Treas urer; Flittie, of Traill, for State Secretary, and Corliss, of Grand Forks, for ono of the Supreme Judges, Tue United States gunboat Petrol did not quite develop the required horsepower dur. ing the official trial at Baltimore, She de. vioped 1080 horsepower, just twenty loss than the contract requirement. “Wire Horse,” the Chief of the Crow Indian tribe, has boon murdered by an une known assassin, His remains were thrown into the Yellowstone River, in Montana. Grxxnat Wirtiax Manoxe was noming- ted by acclamation to be the candidate fr Governor of the of in State BE a Fespuniicnts a Washington, Tux Department of Agriculture was closed fors account of the death of ex-LUom- ny. Watts at Carlisle. | Charge d' Affaires at Washington, Mr. fee nesto Bosch, bas addressed a formal invie tion to the United States Government to tak: pert in the second international cattle show of the Argentine Agricultural Soclety, to Ix held at Buenos Ayres. The show opens on April 20 and closes on May 11, 1880, BuremiNrenpesT or Cexsus Porter has appointed Charles E Tee of Little Bock, Ark., special agent on si. “uilding, Tur contractors of the new cruiser Baltl- more have notified the Navy Denartrient Washington that they are ready for the ofli- | ela) trial of the om], Mason J. B, Davis, Department Com- mander of the G, A, R, of Nebraska, died in Chicago a few days ago from dropsy, ruperinduced by a wound received at the Pat. tle of Gettysburg in 1855, Foreign, Kixa Homer, of Italy, has conferred the title of Count on Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, who is now in Europe, - Epwanrn Conroy, United States Consul at Porto Rico, is desd. He was one of the did ent members of the consular service, ha ving been appointed Consyl at San Juan, Porto Rico, April 21, 1500, from Pennsylvania. He was a native of Connecticut, | was fully eighty years of age AUGUSTIN ARROYO DE AXDA has been cho sen President of the Mexican Congress, by virtue of which office he tx comes Vice Presi. dent of the Republic, Thr betrothal Kassau to Pris of Emperor Wil sanounced of the Duke of Margaret youngest sister um of Germany Tuner minors in a colliery at land Hs nn LAC AS Londoner printed in mardered mmitted editor of the WRAY ngland Lis suicide dently ex Damen, Hungary and s number of DYNAMITE oartridge sox ol Ins Li PrerwoT " inj A FAMINE reslened in Montenegro r fu reof the oror ny WwW extensively LIETOA and other NEWSY GLEANINGS. DeExMARK produc Ls §) STAXLEY is still nearing Manvial jaw has: been proclaimed florida this year will be Kaxsas will produce an enormous or rete #1 & oi PEARLS Las Ladd MN. Evrres. makes $800 wonderful tower a day out of his TRE present crop is the heaviest we have ad for fifteen years Burris millions are still Sowing American enterprises Heavy losses of peaches are reported on the Delaware Peninsula ThE Pennsylvania Company are expending £2.000,000 on freight oars Gronsia bas pensioned a colored Confede - ate soldier named Kil Pickett Caniiaor borses, only fairly well matchad, nn Busnos Ayres bring $5000 a pair. Tox average daily prodection of coal is $15,555 tons, or 2.402.010 in coe week Wyosize and Idaho will soon ask Congress for tekets of admission to the Union inte - Ham vin The Struggle for Supremacy in the Black Republic Over, Hippolyte Conquers Legitime and Enters Port-au-Prince, The war in the little Black Republic of Hayti is over, General Hippolyte is the vie tor. Legitime held out with determination until two weeks ago. Minister de Besmnasl sons had assured him thet he had the sym pathy of France, and that should all other resources fail would receive substan { Yal, aid from the great European Republie, | Legitime finally told De Besmaisons the ‘re sources” had all given out, and requested the oft promised ald from Paris 1% best the Fremeh Minister could offer was an as yinm on the French cruiser in the harbor, This boon was readily accepted by Legitime, and he | placed himself under the protection of the | Freach flay Then the Northern capital, afler a o time's Generals The pent-up feeling of the mob showad iteslf by commencing to pillage. A vigilance com. mitles was inunedistely formed, and very SOO the turbulent blacks were suppressed, The city is now quiet Admiral Gherardi, of now controls the foreigners he troops entered the mpicte surrender by Legi- the United Blates situation, assuring with the American Hey Majesty's Slant uh eruiser Kergue. sirurted im Lal the moment i» y troubde and that will be at $F rines & Delieved that not men Jost their liv the war st end wa damaged History of the Straggle, ing more than a year | i Haya whicl bower the t A all ti is i i} July tery the Hay f tinn « 1 sna Inve later at Ports : ra A few Ang Fra When Salomor his spocessor wa Senator Legitiume was the choloe of the Tey, wi inf we pence had largely ful rising against Port-au-} niry burst § fovertiment « > bm itie Deo oi» es town of Mires dad jvie cant os of Legitime being « twordey Un the 25th of Januars of B ppoiyte cay red the seaport Grandseline and butcherad 500 army of Legitime in severa! encounters the utmost barbarity of croeity on both sides the f ment usually being defeats On March 1 Lagitime sent to the . reperal a con mittee sccompauied by M Henan ons the French Mis woposals They were pefused k his revesnge mn, on the Tih he surprised orapedled tc wl the troor of was displa TOE f the govern insure the head the town of Petite Rivi buresd its 600 houses in the recognition of Leg ny instroctad her si 8 ade of the Haviian ports ment refusad to re legitimate Powe Hippolite captured the towns of Marchand, Marmalade and St. Micha! in the first week of May. opening communication between St Marc and Gonaives. A week later two of Legitime's generals fed before the insurgents and Hippolvte rapidly advanced towered Port au Prince, while the army of Legitime was fast being reduced by panic and desertion Headed by our Minister, with the advice of Admiral Gherardi, the foreign powers werally declared Legitime's blockade inef fective and the downfall of his power be- came {rom that date only a question of time as to his powers of endurance while Germa respect his blood Our own govern ognize cither party as a Tie damage to the potato erop has been very common through New England Tux Centennial at Phila Seiphia oost 87,000, | Xi; the total receipts were $5,000,000, GERMANY is bent on concilisting Eaglaod n the matter of African exploration THERE are 32.000,000 teachers and schol. | are in the Sunda v.echoomw of the world Sovruenry CalMornia estimates her hooey | wrop at 2,000,000 pounds for this « ason. i Last year 5000 more vessels went through Long Island Sound than the year before Tie first Mahometan mosque ever built in {| Bugland has just been completed in Lon lon {| Wirrsix the past two months over $55,000, { M0 of specie have been exported from New | York, A TUXXRL | Simplon Mountain, between Switeeriand and | (taly BevenrEes out of the twenty-three surplus gradustes from West Point Military Acad | vmy still await vacancies | Tax Eifel Tower at the Paris Exposition was struck by s thunderbolt during a violent | orm. No damage was dons Dunne the foods at Salt Lake Neb, ns tmby was born while the water wits within a souple of feet of the mother's bed. Teng were many raliway accidents in Eugland, during the cununer, said to be due 10 the increase in the number of excursion trains, A rRospCTED canal sersss the upper part of Italy, connecting from the Adriatic to the Mediterranean, would take six years to build and cost BLES, 000,000, Rev, Amnam Manns died recently at Beartown, near , Penn, nine ty«one years. He was the oldest Mennonite minister in the country. Gs a f= to be pierced through the | FLOOD VICTIMS. Terrible Suffering Among Them Pre. dicted Unless Help is Given. The suffering among the victims of the late disastrous flood in the valleys of Rlate, Tuek- | er, Tygart, Loe, Sandy and other creck valleys debouching from Limestone Moun. tain, in West Virginia, the soene of the fatal cloudburst, still continues, with a prospect of still more suffering ss the nights grow colder, {| Many families are huddled in extemporizsed | buts built of rough boards, along the creeks and glens of the dismantiod territory. | Many are taken care of by the more for. | tunate, but poor hill farmers, who have opened their doors and their hearts | to their ruined neighbors, The | charitable of the neighboring villages and cities are doing all in their power to relieve the sufferers, Bat all the help they oan render will be entirely inadequate to pisos the hun- dreds in comfortable or even safe condition for the coming winter, There will bs terri. ble suffering among these pe when the ed weather sets in unless outside relief is ex. tended. 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