* ES ns Wn ov A reunion of the blue und the gray at the World's Fair is proposed. The Massachusetts Bureau of Statis. | ties finds that 126,000 acres of Mussa. chusetts farms have been abandoned. Delaware is said to have more living ex. Governors than any other State in the Union, Five of them—B. T, John P. Cochran, James Ponder, John W. Hall and Charles FP. still engaged in active business, Biggs, Stokley—are A many have determined to try a novel ex- periment, meat for their employes, they have es. tablished a of for rabbits. The rabbits will be sold to number of manufacturers of Ger. In order to procure cheap number breeding places the men at the lowest possible prices, The experiment is looked upon with favor in Germany. sentiment in New York “On the contrary, if the ques. “There is no annexation this country,” protests the Tribune. tion came up in any practical form there would be a powerful opposition to it. And if nexed, it is possible that Canada begged to be an her request would be declined with thanks. Even the million Canadians now in this coun- try are not agitating the question of sn- themselves, nexation. Having annexed they are not at all anxious to let others " in. " - Senator Higgins, of Delaware, savs that the whipping-post and tats tate, the pillory owing are still retained in his the fact that the State lies in the neigl borhood of three great cities, and th has to adopt unusual means to protect self from becoming the asylum nals from these great centres. self opposed to the pres rvation forms of York Tribune, their preservation has a puns ner criminals give The wi ipping of t lay, Dune, is merely nominal and resembles the brutal past when the cat-o'-nine-tail first established. of punishment was There are, according to recant reports, 135 medical colleges in the United States whose diplomas health authorities, ent are to the right to practice m cago has eight of ti Louis and Cincin five, Atlanta four, annually graduate 5000 United States accordingly } cal school to every 460.0 Germany, with her numerous universities, one for every 2,000,000; Great Britain 1 © one for every 3,000,000, and France one for every 6,800,000. “It will be from these presents,” Louis Star. 8S wil leges, on the ommen gs. “ths endeavor, eas of effete Europe.’ “It is a significant fact.” “that fifteen are employed on the daily press of New the ministers Bays Congregationalist, York City, writing on religiot It does not 1s topic 2 indicate missionary zeal or the part of the newspapers, but it shows that religion is a matter of gr Wing popu lar interest, and that the which is most to constituency valuable the secular press demands to know what is going or in the world of religious thourht and life. It is encournging to note that scandals concerning ministers and churches nc longer monopolize the columns devoted to religious matters. Another ble fact is that the greatest number of books published last year in this country, remarka next to works of fiction, were on religious subjects, while a large proportion of the novels also were written with religious aims. No subject occupies so large a place in current thought as that which God and their future destinies, and no other sub. Ject ix so steadily increasing its hold on public attention.” concerns men's relations with In its career of more than seven cen. turies, the Corporation of London has bad at its head a number of peculiar men, states the New York Times, but the present Lord Mayor, Joseph Savory, | Seems to be more kinds of an ass than is usual, oven among city Aldermen. His exploit in writing a letter to the Czar about the Hebrews, which was returaed i unopened, and his attack upon General | Booth were enough themselves to settle | his status, even by the feeble intellectual | standards of Mayoralty succession, but be bas been caught now in a thing which covers him with ridicule. He preached the sermon to the young men at Poly. technic Sunday week, which was print. ed in full by a shorthand report in the | course of a few days, It was then dis. covered that the sermon was idention! with one preached by Spurgeon In 1864 ~=No. 562 in his printed series. Savory then declared that he had never seen the sermon in question, whereupon the two ~ were published fn parallel colums, mak- dng the plagiarism uomistakable, ! of the Missouri | been proven by Jay Gould is quoted as saying that an advance of one mill per ton per mile in the rates would increase the net earnings Pacific Railroad over 2,000,000 per annum, Probably no town in the United States ever jumped into popularity so suddenly as did the little railroad station of West. wrt, Decatur County, Ind., which has I ’ vw? ’ the exact center of population of the Union. consus to be the The New York Herald estimates that ‘the tea crop this year will be short of the usual product by about 27,000,000 pounds. And in consequence of a little Dd of 27,000,000 pounds shortage, the importers propose to run up the price matter ten cents a pound.” There is some excitement in England over the discovery at Cleveland, in York. shire, of natural gas. The firm on whose land the well has been opened were bor- ing for salt, When the gas was struck a column of water over a hundred feet up nearly high was thrown and continued at that height American experts have pronounced the In tho district iron foundries which for four hours, gns the genuine article. are salt works and will find the gas an economic fuel, if the supply proved as abundant as is claimed for it, That is a novel scheme proposed by n lo new scientific societ organized for advanced investigations int A «¢ has been issued «CT it8 auspices, Blorntis afidential the Chicag: , Ana sent ountre like Ri JUDLTY Ke a Dr. Heber Ph llips Brooks and others leading men of the Clevel nd, Des ew, Ny ‘ ACWLONn social and professional society after his death, inlists may dissect it to a success! on record for the member of the » allow any scientist to han after he has departed from this o sphere. In short, the so iety 1s terial embodiment of a desire lon tertained on the part of specialists to have the privileg brains of eminent men What Americar achieved to any great extent conditions of American life encourage, observes Lierald, are real country which the dwellers shall @ the winter, and where their principal ties snd their more serious expenditures shall remain. Until very lately the city house has been the rich American's real home, When men who have retired from busi ness make their homes in the count when people who now live in town pleasure learn to spend three months in town and nine in the country, instead of Vice versa; when State roads and electric railroads make the country more aces ble, and the expenditure in the country of money made in town makes the rural life Wall rect or ‘che Swamp” ceases to be con districts more intere sting: when a time spent in money getting in I J a ® sidered *‘successful,” there will be less difficulty than there is just now in provid ing that the city man's grandson may have such a share of real country that his grandson when it comes his turn | drowned, FIVE HUNDRED DROWNED. A Ship Load of Emigrants Finds | a Watery Grave. Awful Scenes Aboard the Sinking Utopia in Gibraltar Bay, The British steamship Utopia, from Italian ports bound to New York, with 700 Italian emigrants aboard, collided with the British fron-clad Gibralter sank soon after anchored days ago, and ward off Ragged Staff Rodney, in Bay a fow On entering the bay the Utopia, colliding with the Rodney, British iron-clad Anson. within a few minutes diately lowered from the and also from the Freya. Of the 850 persons, passen gers and crow, on the mosiadip Utopia 811 have been saved, leaving 565d as drowned or missing, In ad- dition to this, two of the rescuing party were making the probable loss of fife by ran into The Utopia sunk Boats were imme- British iron-clads Swedish man-of war i the scoident 571 | The rapid inrush of | rays of | orests of The Utopia, after pulling clear of the iron. clad, drifted about before wind and sea, water through the rent in her side caused her to settle down in five winutes from the time of the first impact Un shore the news of the disaster spread quickly. A large crowd soon gathered on the Parade, and great excitement prevailed Little could be seen, howey or, save the loom ing hulls of the men-of-war and the white he search-ights falling upon the the waves. The shrieks of the Utopia's passengers and erew could be plain. { ly heard above the roaring of the gale life | to come to town may have something | worth fetching. _— Welshmen are looking forward with | peculiar interest, notes the New York Observer, to the census of 1891, because, for the first time, a clause has been in enumeration of all serted directing an persons who speak Welsh and Eoglish | in Wales and Monmouthshire, and of all Welsh-speaking persons in Eogland as | well, It is generally maintained there are more Welsh speaking people in That newspapers, there were ever before. there ars more periodicals, pamphlets and books published in the Welsh language, and, Welsh readers now than at any period heretofore is very certain, and admitted on all hands. The other assertion is neither so improbable as it might appear at first sight, when we consider the num. ber of Welshmen settiod in the orineipal English towns, in America, and in the colonies and various other parts of the world. It is computed that of the 1, 600,000 inhabitants of Wales 1,000,. 000 speak Welsh; that there are at least 80,000 Welsh-speaking natives of the principality in London alone, where there are twenty-cight Welsh chapels, and more than 130,000 in Liverpool (which has soventy-four Welsh chapels), Man. chester (with twenty. nine Welsh chapels), and other large centres of population, besides the great numbers who have crossed the Atlantic and are thickly seat. tered all over the mining districts, and forming a few agricultural settlements in the New World, therefore, more The sea was 50 beavy that the boats of the rescuers could not with safety approach the wreck: so they were « vin ped led ls to looward, where they picked up the people as they were swept from the decks As the Utopia's bows settled. a terrible was the boats Those still on board the sinking made a sudden rush rerigging, strug gi FOF Laer ves and vainly ses 0g places of refuge. Twenty minutes or the fore to HOEH witnessed from castle was submerg and a of persons gathered there, to lenp over boas eT | DOata and their efforts ried away by number not dared [ being res. failed in Were Car. who hi Pe « bad yasoend the rigring, the waves f with the bh UY the who wind and struggling Ith wreck EE ouledd and she be rocks, In Were res 2 Swedish juartermas of the and Manner was rapidly sink bosts of the ne A timo f the ‘le the jump into board the Ut who was res I iackols went rar ng nvinoed that her chi We were to anchor, danger, we n the bows of the m both A HAYS pr arg resins our Bromdeide « Ty {here was 3 wh was instantly followed by the Anson's ram tearing into the Ut pin We were about a quarter of a mile from shore at shout fr ves he Tom officers say they will never forget the that followed the collision. The Italians » thrown into a sate of complete and cowardly pani hey yelled franctically and fought madly to reach the forecastie A few of the married men dragged their wives with them, but the bulk of the single men were heoedless of the pitecus appeals of the women and children The fore and rigging were socom crowded and the vessel began to settle down. Pres ently an explosion, with a deafening report, vocurred in the forecastle, killing many aod throwing others into the sea, Luckily the masts held and rem the water as the vessel touched bottom From forty to fifty persons were rescued from the masts The only instances of man Tose among the people in the rigging Many men and nearly every woman clasnsd ohildres to their breasts they were graiually overcome by sheer exhaustion and and were compelled to drop their dens and often follow the:nse) vi Those on the lower rigging who ware ex posed to the fall forre of the waves Were swept away before the first of the ate nesaread bgt oid bur. Anson's boats was able to reach them. Some | hat | of the men had tied to themselves his wife or that | a child, ho ing to be able to font until they were an ved, The majority of Italians, however, behaved more like beasts than reasoning men Divers who made an examination of the wreck of the Utopin report that thers are bundrads of bodies in the steerage ani bs tween decks During the courses of the day the bodies of twenty-eight men and one woman were re soversd at Gibraltar, while at various othse points along the const the bodies of six men, eighteen women, seven boys and coe girl were washed ashore. One of the women, when her body was taken from the water, was found to have her arms Rrmly locked around the corpses of her child. The remaine of the unfortunate people were taken to a cemetery fn the Spanish lines, where an inquest was held. The authorities of Gilealtar are furnish. ng the rescued people ‘sith lodgings, food clothing, A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY, A Parisian Killed His Wife, Onild and Mother-in-Law, M. Herbalot, of the Boulevard Couroolies, Paris, Francs, believing his wife to be uo. faithful, at a late hour at night cat her before the | ned sense yards above | Beveral bodies wo tied t wether | | were washed ashore dead existence at the present moment than i THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. A TERRIFIC mine explosion oocurred near Ashland, Penn. Two men were blown te atoms, another fatally injured and others seriously hurt, Wire James Pollook and sen were riding in a carriage from Dallas, Penn ., they were overtaken by a whirlwind and the men and carriage were lifted from the ground and thrown against the trees, Fach of the men weighed more than 200 pounds, They were badly injured : I'HE remains of John C, Fremont Rockland ( ounty, buried AN explosion at the ( ‘rescent Pittsburg, Penn ‘ injured four GENERAL Prren J. CLasses of embezzling the funds the tional Bank, was sentenced by dict, in New York City, to six Erie County Peni ntiary, Tux Elizabethport Cordage Works, the second largest Industry of the city of Eliza beth, N. J., were « nnpletely destroyed by fire, throwing 600 operatives out of work, and entalling & lows of aver $400,000 National Cordage Company, the plant the Inte ware removed to Bparkill, N.Y. where they were Hteel Works Killed one man and fatally convicted Sixth Na Judge Bene years in the i which owned Many Cyan, aged sixty and Peter Cryan aged fifty, end brother burne to death in a ten ut hou in York City Ware working Kiser Were ne fire at a ledge In Dorchests r, Mass Thomas MeDonald accidentally caused the explosion of a dynamite cas McDonald was instantly killed, » ck Gowan was fatally and Mart Norton was slightly injured CG. A. Bivauam, of the ire Supreme Court, has resigned Tur old Government ship Ver mont, while lving fir iyn, was run d ool Wilkesbarre Tux with receiving in the Navy Yard yw by the steam and badly damaged Now Jer V gisiature adijou La ut da ITALIANS ha New "me hing Tur Kevat | South and West, y SG'% nam fornia Bena Wask orth nt BO O00 wot) the w At sib AEG Kile 3 sett while Judge's da i. HEux partner | i 3 started fe y reciskins Lhe ia 8 tomahawk scalped him and Josers Peamizx, a wealthy Detroit miller, was lured from } forged note and $15,000 was demanded by his captors for his relons Tune near Springvill I ministrations of Sconce healers, eh sene by { Daniel wa died two female who were { Doan a Christian to fee, children « rod Washington, ORoxns have boon sent to the various ree ceiving ships of the Navy to discontinue all enlistments, because the legal limit of men and boys has been nearly reached 825) Ir is pow impossible to give the vessels of the United States Navy in « wnmission their full complements of men The new oruiser Newark is about 100 men short, and soarcely a vessel in the Navy with complement of men ore is ite full Tur Bureau of the Amerioan Re pu bilics has information that overtures recently made by the Government of Canada to the Govern. ment of British Guiana for a reciprocity treaty were rejected hy the latter. on the ground that an arrangement of this chars acter with the United States was pre ferred Tax work of constracting guns for thes vessels Is progressing rapidly at Washing. ton Navy Yard There are now seventy. two guns in various stages of constraction The two tendoch guns for the srmorsd oruiser Maine at New York are almost com pleted, and the two twelvelnch guns for the const defence vessel will be finished in throes months Ma, Canon, Chairman of the House Ap propriations Committe, made a statement of the appropriations of the Fifty first Con Tue Government has a dificult task to handle just now iu the Bareay of agraving and Printing, where all the paper money an internal revenue stamps are manufactured, tween the United States of Amerion and the Republic of Colombia has been mada publ by Presiden A | nmsignment, Major-Goneral | : at Boutk | at any time last your Vorelign, Dawei, MoLeax, wholesale leather mier. chant, of Toronto, Canads, has made an His Habilitics amount to about $200,000, How. W, B.GLADSTORE made two speochos at Hustings, England, declaring that the Liberal party would never support Farnell, Tue Queen of Hawsll, being uphold by the Bupreme Court, has announced a Cabinet, with Bamuel Parker as Miister of State. Prixoeg Narovgon died at Napoleon Jose ph Charles Bonaparte Pop larly known as Plon Plon, was the woeond son of Jerome Bonaparte by the latter's second wife, Princess Catharine of Wurtem berg, and was born at Trieste, Hiyria, Bop. tember 9, 1822, Oa the same day the Prin. Ajaccio, Home, aly, cess Marianne Bonapart died at Corsica, Naziy Evvenp: has ben appointed Turk. ish Minister of Finavee in place of Ag p Pasha, who has resigned Thue Wilkes Linen Works Bootland, were partially de at Kirriemulr, troved by fire, | The Joss is estimated at about $250. 000 CHANCELLOR has removed the embar Lit tle landed at Hamburg vox Carmavy, of Germs 1Y. n American cat Tur Norwegian bark Imperator Hole, was totally wrecked on March 1 eastward of Boavista, the easternmost Verd Islands, Twelve of the or We Captain 16 to the of the { Tes were dr ORRENTIAL have rains prevailed in the iarge districts have ———————— THE LABOR WORLD, Ix Englas thom of laborer ror on Oven 20001 her organ glam ou May lay Luan witers it hiefly in the sflernoo un the Michigan pry unforts Firrees condoctors ral Railroad bave Jost t Hg sympathy for penniless who turned out to be spoilers Ix a suit for wages tried before a Justis lethishetn, Fenn, the fact was wrought oul that a carpenter was recsiving BS a month and board, and a blacksmith $10 month and board, and that their hours of abor were from 5 « WK in the morning un i 8 o'clock at night the carpenter, and rom the same hour in the morning until 7 vYelock In the eveing the blacksmith, lor every day in the year ———————————— i — THE GRIPPE'S GRASP, The Epidemic Has Got the 1 pper Hand of Things in Chicago Chicago, Ill The disease seems to br fou i in the grasp of the grippa. more prevalent than It strikes all classes of society Five hundred men employed on the West Bide street oar system are laid off with the epidemic, and the company is ba ily handicapped for help The Bouth Ride Company has 125 men on the sok list North Side Company has about seventy. five men out, while many of those at work are suffering from the disease ina mild form The large downtown stores are having a # experience. In one store employing 150 clerks, forty are siok. Ten per cont of the po Hoe foros is laid up, and Afty men in the Fury Department are off. Fifty out of 18 mail carviers in the Postoffice are suffering. All of the hospitals are overcrowded, About fifty sufferers applied for admisdon to the county hospital on a recent day, and nearly as many the day before. This insti tation is full, and many of the patients are compelled to accept accommodations on the floor, There is soareely a boarding house in the city but has from one to five ww Inid up with the disease. It has inva Reichstag De. Von Bostts cher, Vice-Provident of the Ministry of tate, said that the new sanitary ba a] inthe United States wore nade , and that, there! not the Mas. Joun Duss shot and killed a Mex! ean, three miles from Christi, | The | FOREIGN AFFAIRS a m— Topics of Interest Transmitted by the Cables, Cruel Massacre of Wounded Sol. diers by Chilian Rebels, ntiago gives sn offcks Chill, From oor A dispatoh from Ha version of the recent Lattle in this It appears that Colonel Robles, who manded the Government 4 ops being short of provisions, rashly abandoned a strong po 1206 4 iow #ition on Mount 8B tmastopol, and, with infantry, twenty-fi cavalry and » Runs, attacked a force of 2000 rebels. Ata critical moment the one my, by & decoy truce for a parley, opened a fearful fire af Ciose quarters, killing or woun Wirds of the Government tro 1H Robles was shot in the foot early in the bat. te. He secured soother mount sfier the bullet had been extracted from his wound; but he was again wounded, fn the of is, and was pinced in an ambulance. The rebels captured the ambulance and their Jeniowr threntenad to shoot all who were with wounded man unless Colonel Robles was in io a attendant Colonel Ro whereupon the nel was fired at by the ng riddled with ven balls, besides being hacked with Laye onets and indescribably mutilated A general Te of woul ensued Of unded me allowed to prooesd to Val miss was refused ww Col Hobles there ung two Colonel the GC Le pointed out MN, be at iames, the we [ARTI send the The } FUrgents inated sl 300 wounded, Their account of the ROL be procured at present President Balmsceda admit of the « which places t Tarapaca en ely in genls, uy dent the {»Overn 1 mn fel in the hands wE TR xn) wo t ’ su & A Double Tragedy, may mE i # 8 TA Twenty. Two Sailors Drowned towed was A BG Was » 2 St ariiirat y France an ¢ He it kh Hundred Dervishes Killed isasler occurred at the arsenal } From the rep Hat about 100 dervishes 1 by an explosion there whi de res of smmmmun and arsenal and and in the immediate neighborboed, ris re omivexd Wore a shiatliered the tYsrYih : L Appears t Kile yeod immense #1 Bon buildings ug Wholesale Poisoning A malo: kesper of Marseilles Fran maumed Moutet, has been arrested on the charge of poisoning with arsenic his wife, mother-indaw, grandmother, infant and a (rend who had jent him ney. co— THR calsson which bore the body of Gen eral Rherman in the faperal parade in New York has teen presented to the New Jersey Blate Arsenal, appropriately inscribed THE MARKETS, KEW YORK, «350 good. . 22 Calves, common to prime. . Kh . Lants Hogs FlourCity I Extra... ! Patents... ... Wheat—No, 2 Red Ryoe-State RR Barley —Tworowasd State. . . Corn—Ungraded Mixed. .... Onats—No. 1 White. ......... Mixed Western. . ..... 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