3ill is en. All London is talkil his circus. His levees : been thronged, and Buffaid tirely forgotten. S——— English statistics give a notable de- crease in their convict population during the last twenty years. The total numbe of convicts under sentence of penal tude was 6405 in July; twenty years ago it was 11,600. Neil W. Price, suthor of several popular songs, including ‘Stick to Your Mother, Tom,” and “A Boy's Best Friend is His Mother,” has died at Chattanooga, Tenn., in the most abject poverty, from the opium habit. I ——————————— Africa requires 2,000,000 blankets to supply the native population alone, Be- sides this there is a demand for woolen clothing for the ever-increasing white population. This has to be imported, although the Cape wool is of the best quality in the world. The magisterial tariff in England for kissing ladies against their will is con- stantly increasing. The operation for- merly cost about five dollars; but the price of kisses hes nearly doubled of late, and a tailor who chased a lady creditor | round a table and kissed her at the end of the chase was recently mulcted in ten dollars, including costs, Thomas Lamb, a United States pris- oner received at the Omaha Penitentiary from Texas in January,’ 1880, on an eighteen months’ sentence tor smuggling, the President. has been pardoned by Lamb, who is an Englishman the of land in Mexico, where his wife and four is owner of an en ous tract live, which is said to be valued children at $1,000,000, and yet he attem; increase his wealth by crime, The from of leading aocumer translation En important business in St, Louis. glish into Spanish is quite is also much correspondence re lating to mines that must be translated. A recently received a letter i orderi plies, in which the two lan cuAes strangely mixed. called for a certain number of Rine hes " It + clerk to guess t took some time mt monkey wren were waLiad, but his guess was rect. It is said that never inthe past years has the United States been so abroad The old been disappearing at a the last Trenton a bitt represented by a navy present, wooden rapid Gar or S Th and the Vandalia at Samoa was er blow, All held shadowy way. the Are now only n + There Eur dition of affairs which has not before since 1820, is but can war ship in pean waters, a con occurred The United States knows very little about the man average citizen of agement of affairs in the sister republic of Mexico news creeps into the papers which causes Every little while a bit of us to modify our views, Thus we are accustomed to think of our continent be. ing free from the old-world vice of main taining armies composed of men forced into service in time of peace, but it seems Her army, small as it is, is made up in part that the system prevails in Mexico. of forced recruits. A number of these the other day, while under the charge of an escort, mutinied, severely wounded a The mutineers were subsequently arrested and sent to the City of Mexico, to be shot for their crime. cally wrong in Mexico, observes the San Francisco Chronicle, or she would not be lieutenant and killed a sergeant, Something must be radi. compelied to resort to force to keep up her small army, Miss Kate Drexel, the Philadelphia heiress to over $5,000,000, who was ad. mitted a8 a postulate into the severe or. ders of the Sisters of Mercy, has now taken the white veil, her first six morths of probation having ended. This step is a new one toward the black veil, which, about three years hence, will separate her from the world for life. “It would be a mistake,” says the New | York Sun, ‘“to attribute to undue influ. ences the disposition Mise Drexel is mak. ing of herself and her millions. It 1 simply the patural development of the life she has led since her infancy. Her father was a deeply religious man, So was her mother, a Miss Longstreth, who died when Kate was only two years old, but found time to sow in her mind the seeds of a mysticiem which was carefully cultivated since by her stepmother, a Miss Bouvier, whose family was of the strictest religious habits such ws are still to be found in highly cultivated French families nowadays. Sister Drexel will devote her life to the education of Indian and colored girls, and a few years from now will probably be heard from as the ~ Buperiorem of a useful branch of her or- 5 by birth, | cases of salmon, phoning ean be maintained is uncertain; 750 miles is a common daily occurrence, but two gentlemen quite recently carried on a protracted conversation between Charleston, 8. C., and Omaha, a distance of about 1500 miles. Dr. Symes Thompson, in recent lec tures in London on ‘‘Heredity,” pointed out the route taken in the inheritance of consumption. The disease follows the sex of the first sufferer, Thus, if the mother is of a phthisical habit, the daughters are likely to inherit the tend. ency to phthisis in a much more pro- nounced form than the sons. A Brooklyn girl, who is an heiress, but whose property is in care of a trust com- | pany, applied to the President for money with which to buy a sealskin sacque. He refused, on the ground that it was a luxury. The girl then applied to the Supreme Court through a lawyer for per- mission and it was granted, and in less than two hours the young lady was wear- | ing the best one she could find. Manchester, England, is having a great ship canal constructed by a com- psny who employ 12,000 men at the work, and in several years that busy become a manufacturing city will sens The effect of this up ingland, and that port port. mn Liverpool is discussed in will doubtless feel the competition of Manchester. But Liverpool is busy with securing an abundant water supply from Wales. » a wonderful aqueduct tunnel un- These new waterworks will in- der the river Mersey, and the estimate of 8 3 s K{( otal cost is $8,500,000, missionary work or exploration ; rous work, as the natives are savages an 14] y white, ut risk. The Brit- instance, sends villages of the shelled and | that can be ars y inocu- civilization, which may fronts the consi i The Ameri can farmer knows no pests like the The rabbit problem still agriculturists of Australia. rab From imported some bit pest as it exists in that country a few English rabbits, years ago, the breed has increased until fre sxpanses of the country are literally overrun with them. Apparently incredi ble stories are told of the number and ravages of Australian rabbits, but they the facts. The he i 4 cepa one of the of Parliament of the colonies always k are no exaggeration the rabbit issue on hand as standing orders of business, but it has never found a remedy. Some time ago it offered a prize of 825,000 to any one that would suggest an effective extermina M. Pasteur, the responded with a plan by which the ani- tor. French scientist, mals were to be inoculated with a fatal But after two years of experimenting this has the Government has withdrawn its offer. infections and contagious disease. failed, and just It has often been charged that the peo- ple of the United States, proud of the commanding position of their country in the western hemisphere, and conscious of their overshadowing strength, have been unfriendly, bigoted, and contemptuous in their attitude toward the weaker nations to the southward. the IT this was ever true, Leavenworth Times declares, it is The universal and hearty interest shown in the Pan-Ameri. can Congress, and the cordial welcome everywhere extended to the delegates from the Spanish-American countries and the Empire of Brazil demonstiate the de- true no longer. | sire of the American people for more in- | | timate relations with their neighbors be. | tween the Rio Grande and Cape Horn, Intelligent Americans understand now that there are other nations this side of progressive citizens, and that the Argen- tine Republic, Chili, and Brazil, for example, arc making almost as rapid pro- gress in many respects as the United States. If the fruits of the Congress at Washington fal! short of reasonable ex- pectations, it will not be on account of any lack of good-will on the part of the American : Li the Atlantic which not only possess abun- | dant natural resources, but energetic and toward the other nations BR——— a » * GREAT FIRE IN BOSTON A Fearful Conflagration in the Heart of the City. Elie at ate arya Pwo/Acres of Valuable Property Burned. Nearly Just as was awakening to the most essentially Pukitan of all feast days there cameo from fhe old city i the storm the ringing of belly, not in thanksgiving, but in warning, heralding to the business men in all parts of the town that flames wore raging fn the midst of the most valuable coramercial district of Boston and that some of the terrors of 1872 were again before them. For nearly four hours they saw costly buildings and merchandise go up in lame und smoke, they saw structures that have been : in comparatively recent years, with every improvement and safeguard nst fire, splinter and crash together as though the ; and it was only after this long fight | the fearful odds against them, and after rein- forosments had come from more than a scoro | | of the adjoining towns, that the fire was con | troled. { Therestood at Bedford and Kingston stroets a wolidly built six-storied owned by Jordan, Marsh Co., the great | dry house, and occupied in part by them and in part by Brown, Durrell & Co, wholesale dealers in notions, and the Woon. { socket Rubber Company. It was regarded i ns thotoughly fireproof. Not very long after 8 o'clock A. MM a Jotter carrier | saw a glare in the upper part of the building and scarcely had board the | discharge of a field of artillery, the flames | bitrst through the shutters und sashes of the structure and sent the debris about his ears, There was no time for hesitancy, but it seems | that there was some, for the alarm {from the firealarm box nearly op te the burning building was not rung in mprdyid minutes after the discovery of the fire. It was raining as hard as Boston has sxperienced in many years, there was a very high wind blowing, and everything was fav. arable for a rapid extension of the blase Great buildings were all about, jammed wits valuable inerchandise The flames, which, it was subsequently ascertained, started in the elovator shaft had full . opportunity obtain A pow- erful draft, and in almost as short a time as i# requires to write it the interior of the sclifice was as a furnace. There was nothi human which could stop the progress of the flames northward ti party walls A the adjoining bi ng of the Shoe and Leather Exchange, and which were making this structure as dangerous to the su snd ing property as the first one proved to be Meanwhile a few engines had arrived for some reason the firemen did not seem to appreciate the enormity of the dangr They first sent in an alarm for sssdstance but iL was not until the destraction of the Shoe and Leather Exchange was inevitable that the firemen were aroused. Thus the fire had a beadway of quite half an hour before a foree of firemen which would have been adequate at the beginning of the conflagra tion arrived on duty. The high wind lahned the flames and forced them across Bedford treet, a distance of not more than seventy foot, where they were dammed by the cornet building and forced again westward across Kingston and along Bedford street to Chaun- oey, where the fire was stopped for a tine in the store of Farley, Harvey & ( the upper stories of which were burned, Thro stores along Chauncey street were alwo de stroyed. Ou the south side of Bedford street the flames leaped across Kingston street from the furnace that still raged in Brown, Durrell & Co.'s building to the big sandstons structure owned by F. Lo. Ames and oocupied by Taylor Brothers, completely destroying it It was not long bafore steamers from Wal tham, Cambridge. Malden, Melrose law rence and Haverhill arrived, and some ti after the Providence fire Inddies made their appearance with on gine, Then Walthcm ta. and it was with full ap the pathos of it all that arrived There nt up when work, thoug y recover fr y had visited ther f th pluekines not done . to ugh the on penil in its gu pre min © the engine n the boys can they had soa the great own City it the ( Was who had more than ral eo up to this their backs, and, with a whoopand a hurrah meant all ave defeat ireen, MANY of them badly moored at flares again with a will, and assisted] by the storm, made furtd of the fire unlikely Up ¢ i of available men was {oo small to surround the district and to fight the flames from all quarters. The heat from the fame, too, was more than it was possi bie for human flesh to withstand, so that the battle for the salvation of property was con- tinned with the flames always in the van and the firemen in their rear endeavoring to quench them from the most unlikely point The scene in Bedford street at 11 o'clock was appalling Bricks from fallen walls covered the street to a depth of five feet, and two helpless engines and a walter tower which had fallen victims 10 the great ava Janche of stone and brick mutely of the terrible struggle which had taken place to stop the progress of tion. At that hour the fire had supreins yeession of many massive buildings, and the farme froestone Hoek oorunwing the northwest OVIDer OF Ralston And oediora steels was in an extremely dangerous condition. The firemen worked in and around it at mo mentary risk of being engulfed beneath the tottering walls "1 ts upper story was or time Iw things pr went the r progress me the number At 1 o'clock the fire was confined to the upper | stories of the two large stone buildings at the corner of Bedford and Chauncey streets, occupied, one by Farley, Harvey & Co, and the other by Smith, Hogg & Gardner, At times it burned out for a moment, but under the welldirected streams of the firemen was | The fire was then completely | soon subdued under control A eareful estimate of the area burnad over before the fire was under control places the | number of square fest at 75,000, or about one acre and three-quarters, Seventy buildings were burned, most of them being mammoth wholesale business houses of stone and briek, fortified by every known modern appliance for the prevention of loss by fire. The aggre gate Joss is variously estimated at from #4 W000 to 86.000 (00 The soone of the fire was identical with | that of the conflagration of 1578 when the total of losses were $75,000,000, The alarm was rung out, too, from the same box, No LJ During the fire fourtesn firemen wes knocked down in Ki street by frag- | , but all escaped ser firemen And hospitals suffer: fo from lacerations, bruises and broken a — 3 AN FATAL GAS EXPLOSION. S—— Children Killed and Adults Fatally Injured, Two Three wore of the most inconsequential mates | of the firemen, who were nade desperate by | Wg building, | roar of the fire | | within before there was an explosion in the | u story, and, with a flash like that of the told | destruc | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Eastern and Middle States, Wertisorox Hawr and R, A. Smith, well- known old farmers, were drowned near { Woonsocket, R. 1. Tux main building of the Hecla Iron W orks of Brooklyn has besn destroyed by fire. Loss about , 000, Isavor H, Burrzpacs, retail clothing dealer of Philadelphia, has assigned. The liabilities are estimated at from $150,000 to $200,000, AX explosion occurred at the Allegheny Bessemer Steel Works, in Duquesne, Penn. A ight Superintendent nuned William and a man named Cooper were killed and a number of others injured. Prixoxrox defeated Yale by ascore of 10 to 0, winning the intercollegiate football as scefation champlonship, Jacor H, HaLoerMa x, ex-Minister to Swe. den, has died at Harrisburg, Penn, in his sixty-ninth year, and passengers of the steamer Santiago, on the American ship A. J, Fuller They | had been compelled to abandon the steamer in four boats, which were picked up next day by the ship | entering the tunnel at Pattenburg, N. J, a 1andslido from the side of the mountain Frery-xixe persons comprising the crew | i burned in midocean, arrived at New York | | Germania at Long Branch, N, J, Messns, Kenopren, the famous bankers of Vienna, have failed, with Habilities of 2,500, 000 florins, Anour 7000 dockmen and lightermen went on a strike at Bristol, England, causing the trade of the port to be paralyzed. M. ConrviLiaxn, the proprietor of the Ant- werp Cartridge Factory, which exploded last eptember, and engineer, M. Delaunay, have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment, the former to four years and six months, and the latter to one year and six months, Ax explosion took place in a colliery at Bochum, Germany, by which fourteen I. sons were killed and four injured. LATER NEWS, Ar the Merrimac County Farm, in North Boscaween, N, H., a woman named Bennett seized un slight, delicate woman, from Chester, Sarah C., Wood carriad her to a bath-room, threw her into a tub, held her down, and, turning on the cold water, finally drowiled her, Ar the investigation of the wreck of the one of the | resound seamen swore that in his opinion the WiniLE the Lehigh Valley coal train was | | wrecked eight cars and a boiler house, and | killed the engineer, William Bigley. Tig large three mastod schooner Germania, | of Bremen, from Stettin to New York, went ashore off West End, Long Branch, The life | saving crew went to her assistance, but sho | broke up in the surf, The mate and three of | the crew were saved. Captain Windhorst, | eight sailors and the cook were drowned. The { captain is said to have been drunk. The | schooner was very old. The bodies of four of the lost sailors were washed ashore near Sandy Hook, Tag three-months-old daughter of W, A, Reyburn at Atglen, Penn, was found dead in | bed with the family cat on the child's mouth : and nose. Death was caused by suffocation South and West, | Ar Anaconda, Montana, J. F. Holdite was | shot and killed by his son, who afterward onmitted suicide Lysax R. Casey, of Jamestown, has beens elected as the ssoond United States i Benntor for North Dakota, fue Territorial Asylum st Blackfoot, Idaho, has been destroyed by fire, Fifty. seven out of sixty-five inmates were rescued while eight parsons were killed The is estimated at $300 (XK Huv W Jom Larne of Elizabethton, Tenn. shot and fatally wounded Daniel Hyde a wel known young man of that place, for betray ing the minister's daughter, It is announced that the Afro-American League's Convention, called to meet at Nash pect. will meet instend nt » date remaining the same y 15 al Silver Convention met in St General A. J. Warner, of Ohi chosen President Ox a train st Taltie, Ark, a conflict o curred between colored passengers and the white train crew, and one colored man was killed and several others fatally wounded Ar Houghton, Mich. drift in the Huron mine miners. Alexander Steinbach, one « had the top of his head blown off, yet he asked] for his partoer, and said he if his partner was killed An EXPO killed two § f thet m iA w A $e Tur North Pacific whaling fet arr San Francisen, The cate ten years was i POO J School Scnoot, TRAUSTERS WwW. Wioniaiax tered the High at Petersburg yd before the pupils horsewhij } for whipping his en Yes rawhide WARRANTS were bmsued for the arres Cand G. V. Fredericksen, of (7 W. F. Bidgood, their with obtaining about lent land transactions pei Lh nastier oar with ¢ book keeps £1. 0000% 1 toner Russel found guilty of r sry fixed their @ penile natural - i ihn wn Act A bbwery punishmen wnt in ih mry is the frst mt "Habit a walkin "hn aged sixty years fe and sustained trath has occurred af was thrown Ir the track by a washout. The sagineer two brakemen were killed Parnick M ix, sentenond to five Years imprisonment at Denver, Col, for grand lar cency, made a partial confession that he was of four men stlectad to throw bombs at the Haymarket riot, Chicago ran and (31 ne Berwin, Ir of baving at suspICIon Nix men were arrested dian Territory, om robbed the Santa Fe train A POILER ex near Auburn and fatally Charles Webb oioded on John Bridges’s far Kan instantly killing Bridges wounding William Carr an Jonx McGory and John Carroll, a 1 year-old jad were drowned in the River at Benwood, West Va. MeGolf dr his team into theriver to wash the wag but be got beyond his depth, and the team with the wagon and occupants were swept Away Washington, Presroest Harmison has a Hitchoook, of lllinols, to be | Marshal for the Northern i Ole Arnery C. Ringway, of Hlinois, has been appointed confidential clerk to the Com missioner of Pensions, to succeed Miss Ada | Tanner, resigned | Bponerany Tracy has made arrange | ments by which the Navy will be furnished | with the brown prismatic Jota for large guns and the new smoke powder for smaller arma Surpisrexoexy Ponren, of the Census Office, has appointed T, H. Wines, specia | agoat for the collection of statistics for the eleventh census relative to pauperis and erime, Tae President has appointed Otis H. Rus well Postinaster at Richmond, Va Tue International Marine Conference adopted an amendment that sailing vessels under way shall keep out of the way of sail ing vessels or boats engaged in fishing Tur Pension Commicsioner has jssued an order that great care must be exercised in | the reject on of appliestions for pensions, | and that all letters | be dgned by the Commissioner Mepicar Dmecror Fraxces M Winted Frank nited Ntates District of Illin- Gux Navy, will be placed on rotired list, Foreign, A prraron from Constantinople stales that ths steamship India, with 500 Mohum- the Aegean Mea, and that of all on board only the Captain and two passengers survive cigar factories in Havana, Cuba, na iar he aly ons. that dows hot one bebomg 10 the combination or manufacturer? rejecting claims must | ! there are 215 000 000 Roman Catholics in the | world ¥ELL, until recently Su wm-Ueneral of the | medan pilgrims on board, had been sunk in | cals in this gr AP vessel was purposely Jost One Italian laborer was killed and another fatally injured by a bank of earth caving in on them at Brookline, Mas LATER reports put the number of builds fugs burned in Lynn, Mass losses at about £1, 300,000, at 230, and the Ar least eight were killed and twenty lpjured by a cyclone in Beaufort vounty, N, C persons Four little girls, children of of Ellioteville W Ya. powder in an abandoned shaft Hugh Dunn found a keg In som of they exploded it and were blown to ator heir mother lost her reason when t the fate of be iren Fiowreexs and complicity in the ton, Wis Bix of the 1 Olen were arrested boys in jail has R mite] su N wUDGE Brazilian Re - ¥ . - eadopted by the new Tur New fund of $5, 0 Cuanres H New York «nn Lhe Sixth ( ity C.K Km»g. editor of Utah ity United the Datly 1 Ogden was shot on thw Dey Marshal Exum count of the publication of as of Ex wi St ts art LB ims wile ing upon the chiara Tie steamehiy h arrived at Francis brought news that { San hina and merican shi borough wr rocks off Siu Ka crew being dr BY the fall of » Balisbury miners were Killed was kod by running Hamar, nineteen wed] ne heavy timbers at the mine, at Ishpeming Mich, tw Tux State's Attorney in the Cronin mur der case completed the opening argument for the prosecution at Chicago Tax annual report of General Hepburn Solicitor of the Treasury, shows that during the last flecal year 45860 suits were instituted, of which twenty nine were for the recovery of $94,515 from defaulting public officers P. D. Anmovn, the big Chicago pork packer, testified before the Benate Committee on the dressed -beefl monopoly, THE steamer Alagoas arrived at 82. Vin. cont, Cape de Verd Islands, with the exiled Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro, on board, Twexry people ware killed and one hun. dred wounded by the fall of a theatre gallery fu Japan, - NEWSY GLEANINGS. Tuner French papers in Montreal recently taclared in favor of a Canadian republic Tuner nvsonen Boulangists will soon visit Genera! Boulanger on the Island of Jer wy, ts ihe Propaganda in Rome ACCoRnix Tux youngest officer in Queen Victoria's | mrvice i a Second Lisutenant of exactly vightesn Tux newspapers of Italy are raising sub. sori on American soll by 50,000 men, 200 field Tene are 16 310 newspapers and months, and of 710 in 00,000 roubles to be at the rate of 15,000,000 Nivprv.oxe social Democrats have been om trial at Eiberfeld, Germany, for ws to erect A monument to Columbus Donise the last two years the Italian | nerensed wry has § guns and 6000 cavalry, gan of 400 tn’ waive yoars. 1 OQ or Yellow, ‘| Oute=No. 2 White, ......... Ryo State THE POSTORFICES. Postmaster General Wanama~ ker's Annual Report. The Work of the Department For the Last Year, The first annual report of Postmaster General Wanamaker has been submitted to the President. At the outset complaint is made that the Postmaster-General and the First Assistant Postmaaster-General are sere loudly hampered by a8 mass of technics] and routine duties which interfere with the prope: performance of more important work. After showing that the other assistants are all equally busy, he recommends the creation of office of a Fourth Assistant Post. master-Gensral, to be in direct charge of th great divisions of the rail WHY rail the foregn tail the order office, the registry and sup plies dividons, and the dead Jetter office. He also rocomunends that a new office be made to be known as General Becretary, who is 10 that the details of the admin carried out He thinks that for a man of ty & salary of ¥10,.000 id not be ton large These twos hoe thinks, wou | enable the Departinent to better the money noe stration are proper executive abil un Ven render Heferring to his cor; Telegraph Company nfess to expond with ihe Mr. Wanamaker says a disappointment in that the with the We Union Tele pany did not 10 8 sche pred to subanit this report at large BOTY rte Sern lead with whereby ths i ui wmve the benefit of nr spOroval i L POpPaAr rates respectfully by nscted thal DOORN nek ogriminta ne Mower Thies ‘ostaster J senera ntra DOL €X- be ascertained AKT Dias nt LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. Many People Rescued and Mach Property Saved in a Year neral Superintendent Kimball of the in his annual report sve that at the close of the last fiscal year the establis} LifeSaving Service neat embraced 220 stations, 172 Atlantic. 45 on the lakes 7 on the Pacific and 1 at the Falls of the Ohio, Lou Ky The work of the crews during the year is somunarised as follows: Number of disasters, 5235; value of property involved $6 416775: { property saved, $5054 440; value of property Jost, $1,302 835; sumber of persons involved, 3436; number of persons lost, 42: number of persons succored, 87: das of waccor afforded, 1796; number of vessds to tally Jost, 63; number of vessels otherwise sided by crews that is worked off when stranded, repaired when damaged, piloted out of danger. ete. 510; number of vessels warned from danger by signals of patrol men, 217; number of persons rescued whe had fallen from wharves, plers, etc. being wville value « THE MARKETS. 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