# a S_— ————— SAT ———" ——— ————— A ——— A The best data attainable gives the ‘Republic of Columbia a population of 8,540,000, An English penny-in-the-slot machine gompany has been mulcted in damages by the victim of a machine that didn't work. According to the Baltimore Manyfae- turers’ Record, the assessed value of Southern property increased in value to the extent of £270,000,000* during the year of 1800 The Dominion of Canada proposes to settle the Behring Sea question by buy- | | | Thirty-two out of the 102 gounties in IMlinois have actually decreased in popu. lation during the last ten years, 1 N——————— Statistics show, alleges the New York World, that one-fifth of the native mar- ried women of Massachusetts are child. | loss, It is said that in no country save | France can a similar condition of affairs | be found. *‘Adirondack"” Murray, who is plead- | ing for the preservation of American for- | ests from the rostrum, does not regard | the lumberman, but rather the sportsman { who idly builds destructive fires, as the ing Alaska. ‘‘A simpler way to settle it," opines the San Francisco Chronicle, t‘would be for the United States to buy Canads.” Mexico's tariff of $2.50 per hog has failed to suppress the American imports of that article of food, Boston Cultivator, but it has sent up the price in the City of Mexico from eight to remarks the twelve cents per pound. A man was recently sent to prison in New York City furnish $500 bonds to keep the peace, As there him this was practically imprisonment because he could not no one to furnish it for was for life, so after a couple of months the man was called up and discharged. The Dutch haven't sel any new fashion Wilhel- mina,” after all, the Boston Transcript ulR in calling their Queen “King has discovered. Wasn't Isabella always spoken of as one of the “Kings” of Spain, and did not the Hungarians shout as a rallying ery, “We will die for our King, Maria Theresa!” The Boston Cultivator thinks it strange that ‘though Germany is opposed to the importation eof American admits our beef. dressed beel to Hamburg were well re. p rk, she Recent shipments of ceived, and sold at remunerative prices, It was pronounced much superior to the Australian beef. many demand cheaper meat. The masses in Ger. They will welcome shipments of American beef, and before long will force the Govern ment to admit our pork.” The United States Senate is a remarka- Ite members stand as follows as to age, ac ble body in more ways thao” one. cording to a table compiled by the New Orleans T'imes- Democrat: gat 88 1 at 8&5 1 at 82 1 at 81 lat? Batis 1 ati? f at Eat 1 at 4 at iat 70 Sath lath 1at atk Sati Bath Sath Sat 1at# 1 atl 1ats 76 It 7“ 7% 71 Five members are octogenarians, nine teen are over seventy, and twenty-one “The hasty legisla tion bred of youthful zeal is scarcely have passed sixty. likely to pass the Upper Ilouse,” ex claims the Times Democrat Collector Phelps, of San Francisco, Cal., in the gressional Committee, spoke Con. of the opium smoking of the Chinese and ol testifying before bow they had introduced the habit among white pegple. He would have a stringent law against the sale or use of the drug. A pew law would be useless, declares the Report. opinion have already greatly reduced the use of opium. We mean that the habit Is not spreading nearly as fast as it was, The old law and publi ft is a vice that cannot be practiced in secret, penetrating for that, while the apparatus Is clumsy and not easily carried about o concealed. have succeeded opium and The morphine habit {rightfully prevalent and will spread. No gressional committees or laws will stop it. vice. The fumes of the drug are toc the pipe is con Word comes from Brazil that the youngest Republic on the American con tinent proposes to hold a World's Fair of ita own, It wants to celebrate Colum bus’s discovery and at the same time lof the world know how Republican institu tions are working out there, The Bm zilians have no idea of conflicting with the celebration at Chicago. Their notion is at that their exposition may be made an auxiliary to the Columbian Exposition of the United States. They propose to open it Javuary, 1803, at Rio Janeim. That is the summer season in Brazil, Af. ter a few months their Mea is to close and transfer their whole exhibit to Chi. cago lu time for the opening of the Fair, The Braziliaus are anxious for the United Btates to extend them a friendly hand. They think the co-operation of this country will insure the success of their celebration, The matter has been in. formally brought to the attention of the State Department and of Congress. It » 4 to ask an appropriation of ,000 for a United States exhibit, but Bo morphine and the syringe | It seems destined to be the national | " . | terminates them; dream of the old days | be regarded as superficial. chief destroyer. The high schools in Germany seem to A paper has been signed by 407 German university professors declaring that the education i now given in high schools affords a poor | foundation for scientific medical studies. Java The Chinese are no more welcome in countries. They introduce the consumption of opium to the than in many other icpoverishment of the poorer classes, Chinese money-lending also works untold mischief among the poor, who have to pay such high interest that ruin and misery befall most of them when they once take to borrowing, and this re. sults in an increase of crime. The Auti-Kidoaping National Committee recently issued in new League's New York an address to the public stating that many sane persons have been proved in court lately to be illegally im. prisoned in lunatic asylums, and that inflicted without trial and hard to escape from. such imprisonment is easily They say that rich people whose property is coveted and persons whose spouses wish to get rid of them, The usks all who know of such cases and are specially committe all who feel themselves in danger of such liable to kidoaping. incarceration to write to the Secretary, Miss C. C. Lathrop. In the record of railroad accidents it is apparent, observes the New Orleans Picayune, that several have been due to the inefficiency of some of the telegraph operators employed. At its last session the Georgia Legislature took the matter ap, mainly at the request of the Macon Division Order of Railway Telegraphers, passed a law providing that in the future all railway telegraph operators must be 10t less than eighteen years of age before they can accept such positions, and, furthermor®, they must passan examina tion as to capability before the chief train dispatcher of the road upon which em ployment is sought. A delegation of Ten nessee operators will present and push a similar measure before the Legislature of that State. of these bills means the disappearance of They claim that the passage the boy operator and a corresponding decrease in the number of accidents re sulting from the employing of inefficient, railroad it immature and inexperienced telegraphers. It would be well, 18 contended by the promoters, if not only Teonessee, but every State should adopt such a law, The New York Herald “This Indian question is intensely interesting says: aud pathetic. There is also an clement of tragedy in it from which we recoil. We have about a quarter of a million of red men on our territory. Their ances- tors were originally the possessors of the | We rich lands which we now occupy. have multiplied and they have decreased. apportioned to them large areas in differ- ent parts of the country-—north of Tex ww, in Dakota, Arizona, Montana and Washington and told them tostay there and behave themselves. But there is no in the forests; whally on fish, and it seems impossible game they can't live for them to adopt our customs, dress and mode of life. They are restless and un. easy; chafe at the fate which slowly ex- when they were the proud owners of { everything and the whits man was an un. | welcome intruder, and indulge the hope that the Great Spirit will some time re. We are a young, vigorous and aggressive peope. The continent is none too large for our purposes, and the red man has only a few more yoars to live. He hasn't kept up with the procession; by little and little he is dropping out and dying on the road side. He can't understand the situation, and once in a while puts on war paint, sharpens his tomshawk and flercoly ro- sists the inevitable. He presents a very curious spectacle, belongs to the past, but lingers a kind of ghostly presence, reminding us of thedays not so long ago when we ourselves were a slender min. ority and he was in the controling major. ity. What a pity that when he meets the multitude nm the happy hunting grounds he can't report that we have treated him fairly and kept our promises, If he tells the truth he will say: The white man made treaties and broke them, He has lied to mo and starved me. When 1 rebelled hie shot me, and here I am.” store them to their rights, | | | | | | of blundering, | and | somplication {| and BELGIUM MOURNS Sudden Death of the Heir to Her Throne. » Young Prince Bandouin's Sad anc Mysterious End, Prince Baudouin, nephew of King Leopold | and heir to the throne of Belgium, is dead, He died in Brussels at three o'clock in the | morning. The cause of his death was alleged to have been an attack of bronchitis, The death of the Prince caused a tremen- | dous sensation and created consternation in all classes in Brussels. There were all sorts of rumors circulated, as the public was sn- tirely unaware that the Prince was ili Funeral decorations in the shape of crape, black flags and other mourning emblems ' have been displayed everywhere through the uity, An official bulletin issued by the Court | physicians states that the Prince died | of congestion of the Jungs For some time past, it was added be had been suffering from influenea, but, in spite of the remonstrances of his | hysicians, the Prince insisted upon passing | iis nights recently at the bedside of his sis | ter, Princess Henriette, He persisted in go- ing for a drive, in the course of which he eaught fresh cold, and was forced to take to his bed. | During the night unfavorable symptoms | sot in, o father-confessor of the Prince | was summoned, who administered the last | N sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church to the Prinoe, who from that time onward sank rapidly. King Leopold and Queen Maria spent the greater part of the night at his | bedside The death of the Princes plunged the whole of Belgium, and especially the city of | Brussels, into mourning. There wero charges of unsuspecting doctors, death was due to n of smallpox, bronchitis, Another rumor was to the that sma turia | effect that the sudden death was simply a | duplication of the sad and mysterious taking | dolph, heir to the Austrian throne i Belgium Court by command of Archduke Ru A bean from the King Leo off, January 30, 1880, of the tiful German governess, banished | pold, was named as in some way connected | with the Prince's illness | eordon of police in order to | beautiful girl, about | until after the funeral i Prince, attired in the handsome uniform of a | | Captain of the Royal Heligian | lay in state on the bed whereon he died. sur. {| dents in the vicinity of the building were Only a remoant remains, and we have | dam and every minute crept nearer the Vail The Prince was upon the point of Lelong betrothed to his cousin, Princess Clementine, born at the Castle Lacke and third daughter of his pold Ie was Princess news of Pri Baud withheld from his Henriette dangeronsly wick of inflammation of the lungs in the palace of the Count of Flanders, which is surrounded by a strong prevent the awakening Princess, a QIN sister who is usual noise in the streets from the suspicions of the suffering twenty years of age, and whose death is hourly expected Parliament adjourned. All the theatres and public institutions closed, not to reopen The body of the Carbiniers, roundad by lighted candles By the death of Prince Baudouin, his brother, Prince Albert Laopold Clement Marie Meinrad, born April & 1575, and who j« pow studying under the direction of a sumber of tutors preparatory to enlsring upon a military career to tl throne of Belgium Princes Baudouin Leo; Charles Antolin h of the of Flanders, King Baud born in Brussels on June & 19% He was a Captain of Beigian Carbine and a captain of Prussian cavalry, being at tached to the Second Regiment 9 Jano. | verian Dragoons The son of King Leopold, of Belgium, the Duke f Bra bant., died in Januar: when only tenn years old The King hus threes daughters, « worn the eldest, Louise, was married in 1890 Prince Philip of Haze Coburg and Gotha and the second, Stephanie is the widow of Rudolph, the Crown Prince of Austria, whoss death so time ag cnnsed 0 much sensation, 7 younges' girl, Clementine, is unmarried becomes heir the wid Philippe Marie Lotia was the som brother of fin was . J omangy Count Laopold Prinos ony 10 | Fr) DAMS SWEPT AWAY, | | States man-of war Charleston A Historic Bailding in New Jersey Destroyed by Floods, Ono of the historical spots in New Jersey bas been destroyed by a freshet that has in undated the lower portion of Morristown and of water over four miles in circumference. | On the bank of this Jake is the fron foundry | formerly owned by Stephen Vail, the builder of the first steam vessel to cross the Atlant In this building the first telegraph instru ment invented by 8. F. B. Morse wasstationed | when the initial message over a telegraph wire was sent to Boston in 1835. The build. | ing is an antiquated wooden structure, and | during the ne five yours many New York capitalists have endeavored to purchase it | for ite historical associations About 4 o'clock in the afternoon the res notified by a loud noise that the joe on the lnke was breaking up and that the dam was in danger. Tons of water swept over the building Soon a break was noticed in the dam, and almost before the spectators could reach a place of safety the dam gave way with a thunderous noise, and car with it a large portion of the old building. Speedwell Lake empties into Lake Pooabontas, and the broken joe and debrfes crashed through this body of water, and five minutes later had broken the dam of the latter and completely inundated the low lying districts of Morris town Many horses and cattle were drowned and over two score of houses hall sabmerged and the cocupants had to be taken out lo boats. ————— A RIOT IN CHICAGO, Two Young Men Assaulted by Drank en Greeks Many Persons Injured, During a small riot that took place early in the morning at the corner of Harrison and Clinton streets, Chicago, two young men, Lawrences Casey and Richard Caskets, iit, £9 4 | has nominated Judge John Lathrop, of the | Buperdor Court, to succeed the late Charles | Devens as Justices of the Supreme Court | at the Chambers | House of Representatives | land, Md. the train THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States, Coroner Tukonore W. Brax, a well known lawyer, a member of the last Btate Legislature, who was defeated for re-election last November, committed suicide by cutti his throat at Norristown, Penn. inancia trouble was supposed to have been the cause. GOVERNOR PATTISON was Inaugurated at Harrisburg, Penn, He sent to the Senate the names of F. Harrity for Secretary of State. W. U, Hensel for Attorney-General and William MeClelland for Adjdtant-Gen- eral, Evaesge D, Ramsay was given a verdict at Boston, Mass, of $20,000 against the Bos. ton and Maine Railroad Company for per sonal injuries, GOVERNOR Russkii. of Massachusetts, Frank Wark, aged fourteen years, of Butler - Valley, Penn., killed himself be cause his father would not permit him | to attend a revival meeting three times a | week, i Bexator Prarr, of Connecticut, and | Benator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, wers re elected by the Legislatures of their States; | Dr. Gallinger was slected Senator from New Hampshire to succeod Senator Blair, Cranres E. Prarr, an old and wealthy citizen, committed suicide by shooting him self with a revolver in the woodshed of thi | old family homestead at Milton, just outeids of Rahway, N. J Muon damage was done by a rainstorm ir the Middle end Now England States. Heavy freshots have occurred at Wassaic Y., washing away the bridges, Tw: women and a team were swept down with » bridge and drowned Groner KexpaLL died from hydrophobis Htroet Hospital, in New York City, after suffering terrible agony. Tue population of the State of Masa chusetts for 1800 ix 2,235 40, an increase of 455. 858. or 25.57 per cent INNO. the population at that time being 1, 783, 085, Tue loss by the freshet in the Housatonie Valley of Connecticut is estimated ab $1, (00, x0 snes South and West, Tux Rev, A M Ford, of Hortonville, Wis, was sentenced to five years at hard labor, snd, in addition, will pay a fine of $500 for the crime of raising currency from denomination to another Tax Chicago (11 its charter Born Houses De Ola Gas Trust Is to give up of the Arkansas Legisiatu: balioted for United States nator, the sult being the re-election of James K. J who received Democratic vot Republican and Union Labor v vided My every tes bedng 4d Oraven Tmxox, sa colored wa banged by a mob one mile north of Fayette, rapiet Goversor Hoos and Lisutenant Gove ernor Pendleton were inaugurated at Austin Texas, Mus. D. M. Avsrix, wifeof the proprietor of® the Wickham House, was sho! and in- stantly killed at Findlay, Ohio, by Wharton Rharkey, who then shot himself through the head and died at onos Zenviox B Vasce Democrat, was re elected as United States Senator in each branch of the North Carolina Legislature at Haleigh FIrTREX THOUSAND visitors witnessed the trades display of Augusta (Ua) merchants Over 100 foats were in line representing every industry in the city Jonx Bann, Treasurer of MeDonald County, Mo. for twenty years, is short in bis accounts to the extent of £000 Terrxn, of Colorado Squire, of Washington and Vest, of Missouri, themselves in the Legidatures of SEXATORS Voor. hoes, of Indians Jones, of Arkansas were chosen fo United States Senate by weed the thelr respective States tusk y t of C. F. Verran, of Upper Ban Oda has disappeared, leaving a about $5000 in his a mts as township treasurer, Joux K. Avorrorre, editor of the Ham- flton (Ohio) Daily Demoperal, was caught in £ puff eho | the fly wheel in the engine room of his new He was a and at one killed ty ty hat « building and insta prominent Mason of i tine postmnaste Tux funeral serviess of King Kalakaua were held in San Francisco, Cal The re mains were then placed on board the Unitsd for convey ance to Hawall B. P. Horomixsox, the Chicago grain operator, known as “Old Huteh,” was foreed by his son to retire from business, having Jost his vast fortune of S20. XN.000 in wild | spreulation | rendered homeless scores of poor people. Two | | miles above the city is Speedwell! Lake a body Ex-Coxanussmas Havspnovon was elect. od United States Senator at Biscaarck, North | Dakota, to sucosed Pierce on the seventeenth ballot. The Democratic vols went to Haus brough Ture Supreme Court of Colorado renderad a decision in the Speakership contest of the Speaker White is considered duly elected and Hanna im | peached for overstepping bis authority, AT Maguire's Crowing, near South Brook ran over and killed James E. Owens, age! seventy-nine, and his wife Nancy, aged seventy-four, Washington, Tux President House to the Diplomatic Carpe. Ir has been reported to the Senate that Commissioner John | render an account to the Treasury ment for services as Commissioner from 188 to 1800) Tux fugeral of George Bancroft was held in Washington and was attended by many people of note Carraix Gerona 8 Axoenrsox, of the Sixth Cavalry, now stationed at Fort Myer; on the Virginia side of the Potomac, opposite Washington, has been detailed as Superin- tendent of the Yellowstone National Park, in place of Captain Boutelle, now with his command at Pine Ridge Guxenal Cravsony MoKexven, on duty inthe War Department, bas been ordered as Adjutant-General of the Department of Missouri at Chloago, under General Miles, relieving Colonel Corbin, who is ordered to | report to General MeCUook at Laos Avgelos, Cal. Tour House Committee on Public Bulldings and Grounds has ordered a favorable report on the bills firing $000.00 for a puliic | building at Chioago, LL, $200,000 for one at Providence, RL, and $100,000 for one at Newburyport, Conn, Hist, Tur Omaha, flagship of the Ajusdron, has ordered to proceed to where will receive a new com plement of officers and men, A wr in | destroyed by fire, Jave a digner at th White | jot Davenport did not | Depart | the cruiser Newark, on her recent trial trip, was submitted to the Becretary of the Navy, It shows an indicated horse-power of about $000, an excens of 500 horse-power over the contract requirements, and entitling the contractors to nearly $600,000 premium, Tne Postoffice 1 ritment has offered & re- ward of a $1000 each for whe apprehension of the fifteen bandits, who recently robbed a trato on tne rallroad between Brownsville and Isabel, Texas, Tue thirteenth edition of the digest and manual of the rules and practice of the Hous of Hepresentatives has just beep wed THE President has nominated Marcus W., Acheson to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Judicial Circuit, and Colone Daniel W, Flagler to be Chief of Ordnance of the Army. Tre President bas appointed commissioners to test the coinage of the mints for the calen dar year 1800, Foreign. Tue Spanish Cabinet has decided to do away with all treaties of commerce with other countries, except that with Morocco A 08 of Parnellites tried to assault T, D. Henly at Mullingar, Ireland | Briour shocks of earthquake were felt at | Geneva, Bwitzeriand, Three persons were | drowned soon afterward, while skating on the ioe in the harbor; and it is believed that the earthquake shocks so disturbed the ice as to cause the drowning. IT transpires that the lates Duke of Bed. ford, of London, Eagland, shot himself dur- | suffering from extreme paln and weakness { A verdict in accordance with the facts has been rendered Avvices from Tokio, the capital of Japan, say that the House of Parliament has been It was a spacious wooden building. which was only opened by the Mikado in November last Tux sudden and rapid thaw caused a lagd slip at Folkstone, England. which buried a cottage and killed three persons Tux latest reported death rate of London, England, is 20.2 per one thousand, and the supply of black horees, which custom mands to draw the funsral corteges sufficient for the purpose Tug Brazilian fe oe is ib Assombdy passsd a resolu ol the Provisional of Comunerce ten The President has reir of the Interior and the Minister dered thelr resignations, not yet consented 1 two Ministers A TERRIBLE explosion curred in a colliery at Jasinowat city of Charkow, in Europes than 100 of the miners were killed A svupen of Government joined the insurgents in Chil A TREATY of friendshi; MI Ieroe navigation has Mexioo and Ecuador , era iuts t y Lhe ement and beers negotianl between Wipesrreap distress exists in the district of Connemara, Galway, Ireland. The peo ple are op the verge of starvation, and un lowe prompt and effective relief furnished deaths from starvation must inevitably cur OA Besiaxiy Coxsraxy, Bras Minister of War, is dead Toe British Parliament reassembled in London. Mr, Parnell occupied his usual sent and declared his intention to still jead the Home Rule party Brroosasren weavers guild at killed himself at wife and father hearing the news to rob the City that their gul Tur insurgentsare n Chil Tix mot the imporoation many was lost 133 to 108 ian Fiscnee, of the Saxony Hadegorst, in Anhalt the Leiblg Hotel His followed his examples on had conspired 10 and feared Vere { the sitaation » prohibition of CAanpiNal f cisseubarg on August 4 pe fa DOr | A y e to be Primate of | bi and one the wealthiost of that Kingdom A xgw Ministry has been gil, The Ministry of Pu the Ministry of Posts The new M nistry is in fu President FLOODS SPREAD RUIN, The Rush of Waters Canses a Conneo- ticut Dam to Give Way, ’ n and beens abolished acoord with the have Wreck and ruin struck the Housstoule Valley at Birmingham, Conn. for the second time ina few days. This time the worst fears have been realized from damage by the floods, and a portion of that giganti wall of masonry known as the dam of the Housatonic Water Company, weak ened by the storm of last week crumbled before the swift current, letting t quan tities down into the valley ousss and barns are afloat, mills are damaged, the wa ter power is gome for a Jenmeoth of time that cannot be estimated and the desolation ap pears complete The freshiet grew heavy under the immense fall of water and 150 feet of the big dam A guard had besa posted at the | gn ahandoned military Ye RwWAY fre and when the first piece of ing went off the top he rushed to paper mill and sounded the Sry alarm tense excitement prevailed The splledriver of the Housatonic road, which was repairing the bridge damaged by the storm of last week, floats and out into the Sound. It was lost. Two hundred feet more of the trestle work were (EA te COP Wilkinson's in swept off, and the railroad company will not | oo 10 retired from offios, be able to run trains across the river for over amonth This is one of the most serious features of the Good a temporary fit of insunity and while | GEORGE BANCROFT DEAD. The Great Historian Quietly Passes Away in Washington. Career of a Man Whose Life Began With the Century, GRORGE BANCROPY. Washirvton and the entire country was greclly shocked on a recent evening by the | mows thas George Dancroft, the venerable | historian, was dead, It had been realized that Mr. Bancroft could hardly survive much longer the increasing infirmities incl. dent to his very great age but he had been in cheerful spirits and ap. parently better health this year sinos his | return from Newport, BR. 1. than for several | seasons past, 0 that his death was sudden | nominated by the Democracy for and unexpected to all save a few intimate friends who knew of the attack of fllness which sseried him off. Death occurred at 8:40 in the afternoon. The end was quiet and peaceful, and came after a period of un- consciousness lasting about twenty-four bours . Mr. Bancroft for some years been in the habit of spending about five months in Newport, RL, and passing the winter and colder season of the year in Wash. past had ingion, 1is whole lines was less than three days, He failed rapidly, and became unconscious in the afternoon, in which stat remained anti] the end It was decided that interment should take place in Worcester, Mass Mr. Ban. eroft's wife is buried © he where Sketch of His Carcer George Bancroft, whose years number those of the century, was the son of a New Eng. land clergyman. He was born in Worcester, Mam. on October 8, 1800, He reccived the best education which the times afforded. Af ter prelisuinary training in the famous old school at Exeter, be entered Harvard College und graduated at the early e of sevenicen He then went w Europe, and for some years was a close student under the best minds of the day. He studied German literature under Denecke, Italian and French Hterature under Bunsen and Artand: Arabic, Hebrew, and Scripture interpretation under Eichhorn: history under Planck and Hercen and the antiquitios and lit erature of Greece and Rome under Dissen, with whom be took 8 course in Greek philoso phy. His parents expected him to enter the ministry, but the charms of Hterary life over bore the attractions of a New England par sonage, and be chose history as his Gpecial branc In 180 the University of Got tingen gave him the degrese of FLD He made the acquaintance of irtorians of the day, including be studied at Heidelberg In 1822 he returned 10 the for a your be acted as FP Harvard, He aloo which were wall received was his only experience with clergyman. His early comprissd a wolume of shod in 182% a transiati in 15% of Hereen's "Politics of Ancient Gree and in IR an oration tn which he advo. cated universal suffrage and the foundation of the Btate on the power of the whole poo ple. He bad early determined upon his life work, the preparation of his great history, the first volume of which appeared in 1834, During sil his labor Mr. Bancroft took active “interest in contemporary public affairs In 1556 he was, without his knowl. edge, elected 10 the Lagiclature of Massa. chusetts, but refused to take his seat The followin: yesr ha declined election to the State Senate in 1888 he was appointed by President Van Buren Cols lector of the Port of Boston, [nn 1544 he was Governor, but failed of election by a sali margin. Oa the scoession of President Polk came Secretary of the Navy beid that office he established on responsibility the Naval Academy at An- napolis. Congress had pever been willin to establish the academy . Mr. Bancroft foun that be could order the place where midshi men should wait for orders; that be could di rect instrectors to give them lessons at sea; that be possessed the same authority over them at the waiting station on shore, and that the Secretary of War could assign for hisuse pont He used all this authority, and when Congress next met it found the midshipmen at a regular course of study at Annapolis. The thing was dons, i States. and r of Greek at eral sermons, That, however, the duties of a literary work poems pub n wesc] Jey he | and Congress accepted the situation, which down stream | : : Righteen mills, upon which the three towns | in the valley really depend for support, are | closed, and cannot resume for fully a month, | The dans was finished in October, 1870, and | was considered one of the stro in the country. The length was 657 feel, with an abutment of 167 feet, making 80 feet of solid masonry. The abutment washed away was about twenty five feet 35 height. The damage by the breaking of the dam will amount to fully 00,000, The waters of Still River, Danbury, Conn. which overflowed its banks, did considerable damage. All the manufacturing establish. ments alc its banks suffared. A number of small b were swept away, and also a number of small buildings. EE —————— END OF A FAMILY, —— The Father Drowned and the Mother Dies With Her Children, News has boon reos’'ved from Laebigh, In dian Territory, of the suicide of Mra. Mam mie Bradley and the murder by hor of hor boys. Mr. Bradley, sccompaniod by his | bas ever since been comtinued and developed, While st the bead of the Navy Depart. ment Mr. Bancroft gave the order for the seizure of California in the event of war with Mexico, and the order was executed be While acting as Secretary of War pro tem. he gave the order for the cocupation of Texas by the United States From 1546 until 18480 Mr. Bancroft was Minister to Great Britain, and be success. fully urged upon that Government the to the North German Federation, and in 1571 to the German Empire, whence he was re. called in 1574 at his own request Put it was os historian that Mr. Ban. eroft's name will live as long as the language in which he wrote, The first volume of his of the United States” was sid, in 1688 The othars peared st irregular intervals, his pu Qerlsing thats an dam
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