— r About 400 people are annually killed fn Chicago, Ill, at grade crossings of railroads. Spain has been steadily making a de- ficit for fourteen years past, and what is worse, seems to be making a bigger one each succeeding year. The German Government is preparing a bill to regulate emigration. It is in tended chiefly to restrict the activity of agents, who will te prohibited from carrying emigrants at the expense of foreign States. Californians expect that within a year or two their State will become noted as a centre for the cultivation of flowers for perfumery purposes, and thus become a rival to France and Germany, which have monopolized this business heretofore, The country that has the cheapest coal, declares the San Francisco Chronicle, can depend upon winning the race for manu- facturing Statistics that the average price of bituminous coal supermacy. show per long ton at the mouth of the pit in the United States $1.12, while Great Britain the average is $1.60, is in The final accounts of the Paris Expo. sition have been made, and the results shown are exceedingly satisfactory. The total receipts, including the amount of $5,000,000 received from the State and municipality, was estimated at $8,600. 000, but the actual income was $10,000. 000. $1,400,000 greater than was expected, while the expenditures were $1,500,000 less than The receipts from admissions were the estimated outlay. The firing of guns with ith naval triumph for the Unite yut damage the boast of the San Francisco Examiner. Beveral of the large ¢ of their danger they w English 7 ships carrying own ~there being a ¢ rounds would send the vessel to the bot- tom. The Mianton be to hurt ftsclr. ymoh will evidently able something else than of the *‘‘whaleback” McDougall, of West at his type of IZ The inventor steamer, Captain Buaperior, Wis., thinks th wessel will make a more formidable man- of -war than anything afloat, especially for coast and harbor defense. He has bad a number of pictures made of his idea of a belligerent whaleback. They are to be so constructed that action they can be entirely summerged, a amall turret and the ! in except bow. In the bow are to be stationed two heavy guns, one of which can be run out and fired, while the other is drawn back for loading. The vessel has been patented in this and all foreign countries. A chivalrous man is trying to awaken a little interest in Mrs, Columbus in this anniversary of the discovery that made her consort famous. He she was a Miss Palestrello, which is in. finitely more distinguished than plain Mrs. Columbus, gator, and as a girl she made many haz. ardous voyages in company with him. tells us that Her father was a navi- Bhe possessed a fine education and was a | It may be | possible that she suggested the Western | brainy, ambitious woman. excursion to her lord and master, and spurred him on to his discovery, like plenty of other good wives to whom the husbands owe their fame. — EE Bays the Gossipper in the New York World: “One who witnessed the drill by Tiffany & recent blaze which threatened the great | Jewelry store tells me it was one of the | best specimens of human mechanism he | sign of fire the | ever saw, At the first store was cleared of customers and the clerks took positions assigned them in practice. At the first signal the heavy fron shutters were closed, next the hose was uncoiled, and at the third command the jewelry was deposited in the various sales, flicting orders or excitement, There was no confusion, no con- This ad. mirable drill undoubtedly saved the firm from a heavy loss, as, had a panic taken place, the result may easily be imag- ined.” This has been a great season for sport in the hunting regions of the New Eag- land States, the New York Sun. One taxidermist in Bangor has re- eeived filteon moose heads for mounting this season, all of them being unusaally large and fine. A fur buyer in Farm- ington who returned a fow days ago from a purchasing trip among the trap- pers of Maine, New Hampshire, and Ver- mont brought more than a score of bear skins, a great number of fox skins, in. cluding a very fine gray, thirty beaver, about ns many fisher, a quantity of otter, sable, coon, and cat skins, five or six hun Ired mink, and as many skank, He bought about two thousand muskrat skins in New Hampshire. The animals had been killed this season. announces | rapidly decreasing i its utter ext i of | and other devices to catch and kill ] birds are f{ i Are any | exterminated fire | Co."s clerks during the | The Russian Czar has an income of $25,000 a day, which makes President Harrison's $137 per diem look rather small, During the present financial year the English War Office expects to save over $185,000 on sccount of favorable con- tracts for bread, meat and forage. Emin Pasha claims to have discovered the much sought source of the River Nile, but as he does not tell where it is there is a suspicion, suggests the New York Press, that his source of the Nile is in the imagination of his mind. A recent issue of the Bradford (Eng. land) Observer contained the following advertisement; “Lawyer wants an office boy; must be smart, and not averse to Address IP 112, Obser. How beautifully, comments prevaricating. ver office.” the Chicago Herald, this little incident answers the brash Britons who are con- stantly telling us that the sort of man of which this lawyer is a type is only to be found in this country! The net indebtedness of the world in 1800 £26,917.096,000, of of States aguregated which amount the debt the Govern. ment of the United 3.40 per cent. ; the total debt of the sev- constituted eral States and Territories, with that of their respective counti 108, 1.36 per cent., and the total debt of all the foreiga countries. 95.24 per cent Assuming that five persons constitute a I family, the average debt per family for the year above named was 878.15 in the United States, Harper's Magazine contains an article on the “Old Shipping Merchants if New pa satian Ness In American The busi- reiguers, and 4 28 3 hands that were the doers pearance on | derstand Close observers say that the sparrow is in number, and that rmination is only a question time, Pot hunters, air guns, traps fast doing their work of devas. f +) naan 1 Re { ann of the Known insect foes to the same growth, so that with the sparrow pines the St. Louis Star. | Stayings, we may not ouly have greater fruit crops, but a return of our native sweet song birds, which were driven out of the groves of this region at the in- coming of the sparrow, Jones's Mines, perhaps the oldest iron mines in Pennsylvania, are to be aban- doned. They received their name from David Jones, a Welsh ironmaster, who purchased in 1735 about one thousand acres of land in Carnarvon Township, Berks County, upon a part of which tract the mines were worked. Jones made a fortune out of them for himself and his descendants. Two miles from fine old faily mansion, which was built by Morgantown there still stands the Jonathan Jones (a son of David), who was acolonel in the Revolutionary Army, Until recently a large foree of men were employed at the mines, but the expense of following the iron ore is considered too great in the present condition of the iron trade, and the pumps and other ma- chinery are to be withdrawn and the shafts allowed to fill with water. The New York Independent laments The American people have shown so much aptness and skill in almost all other lines of industry snd business enterprise that it is mortifying to have to confess that we have been greatly be. hind other nations in shipbuilding. With the finest timber in the world in great abundance, with ‘all kinds of metals in great supply, with rolling mills and steel mills and other metal works, wo should be first in ship: building, It is gratifying, however, to be told by a foreign shipbuilder, who has visited our shores twice within a decade, that we have taken a long step forward in shipbuilding in this period, He says the quality of our American. built warships is almost as good as that of the British warships, and they are built quite ne cheaply, If we can build as cheaply now we ought to be abie to build more cheaply after having bad a little more experience. togethe ri { court then said that the | may and what may “TWO IMPORTANT CASES. Decisions by the United States Supreme Court, The Governorship of Nebraska and the Anti-Lottery Law, Nn ante. BO 2 JAMES ¥. 1 The United | Washington bas decided in favor of States Supreme Court at Boyd | in the Nebraska Governorship Cfse, | The « i pinion was delivered by Chief Justice Fuller, and ito reading was listenal t ) atten | Uvely by a crowded court roon All Justioes sustice irre in | aithough Justices Harlan, Gray and Br ' » of reasoning I. the court excepting the I the opini Free Qian 1 of the Supreme ig that Mr. Boyd td States and H6 Was ola 4" inti was antitls rT it Boy slected and whoo) had been by ths that Thayer FY is reversed OF until his het i a ow ral 8 ure. non ipromme ( The elaborate urs The Anti-Lottery Law Sustained, " held Lottery a the | the decision in Rapier, pubidishers of the New Orieans States spa i" Die Peg ster, who =» on charges of sending thro newspapers containing lottery advertise meats. By common consent the cas made test suits as to the constitutionality of the re indicted ugh the mails were | Lhe law, Chief. Justice Fuller announced that, owing to the death of Justice Bradley, to whos the writing of the opinion in the anti | lottery cases had been given, the court would postpone any elaboration of its views and to the expression of the geaeral ground on which the decision procesis, The pinion In ex-parts Jackson held that the power vested in Cone grees 10 establish postofficss and postroads embraced the regulation of the ea tire postal system of the country, and designated what not be excinded. The power granted Congress was complete, and carried with it power to forbid the use of the mails in aid of the perpetration of crime ooniine itself | or immorality, The court says there is no distinetion be tween mala prohibita and mala in se, ani that it must be left to Congress in the exer. tise of a sound discretion to determine what shall be exclude), There is no abridgment of the freedom of the pros, for the reason that the Government does not prohibit com. munication by other means, but simply through the Government agencies which it controls THE NATIONAL DEBT, An Increase of Over a Million During January, The monthly debt statement ismal from the Treasury Department at Washington Faows an increase in the aggregate of the debt during the last month of $1,910.016 There was an increase in the Interamt-boaring debt of 8710; a decrease of $1,205,098 in the surplus cash in the Treasury, an | a decrease of $1,008 in the non interest bearing debt. The otal debt, less 831, 30% 450 net ensh balance or surplus and the F100,000,00 gold reserve greenback redemption fund, is L017. Of the surplus in the Treasury National bank depositories hold B18 044,897, Against $20,254,008 a month ago, Srewnucy gold coin and bullion assets AERTegAte $182 758.964, or about four mili. lone more than a month ago, Silver assets AgETeaate M21 088.507, an increass of seven millions during tae last month, Against these coin und bullion nasets there are $190. 063,700 in gold oertifiontes and $407 ROR In wiver certificates outstandin he The Government's rocsipts uring Janu. AY agaogate | 830,549 728, Against 837.05), . Vil In January, 1801, The Customs receipts during the last month were $17,450,955, or #6, 500,000 Joss than in January, 1591, and the intsraal revenue receipts wore $11.49, U3, or about a quarter of a million less than In January a during the last mon were 85,633.52 and for the past i months of the current flsoal yoar $211,047. B40, agninet §24,981,300 in Jan: ol FE. TT8, 170 during the months of the THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. THE explosion of an aleohol condenser in the hat factory of the J, Rummel) Company, Newark, N, "J. caused the death of threo persons, injured several others, and partially demolished the building, : DEMOCRATS in the Connecticut House of lopresentatives at Hartford resisted an ads Sh mip declared by Republican Speaker "alge because of the la kof an quorum and proceeded to organize the House. R pre sentative Callahan, of New Haven, was elected Speaker un animousiy and sworn in. Representative Markley was elected Clerk pro tet, In New York City, after little more than an hour's deliberation, the jury found Car- lyle W, Harris guilty of murder in the first degree, in having poisoned Helen Neilson Potts his unackn wiedged schoolgirl wife on January 81, 1591. ALL sixteen men who were blown out t« sea on the New York City Street Cleaning Department's tug and scow have been res. cued, The last to be picked up were two sallors on Beow No. 5 The British steamer Ethelburga took them om board 160 miles from Sandy Hook Fhoy had been adrift for seven days without food or water. Tre third annual exhibition of the New York Poultry and Pigeon Association held at Madison Bquare Garden, New York City GOVERNOR ABBETT reappointad Justice Beasley, and named to sucosed Judge Knapp on th Bupreme Court beach Was Chief Werts New Jersey Senator TWO HUSDRED AXD Pirry of the 80 000 prisoners 0 Deer [siand, in B Mass.) Harbor, refused to work, and, gath ering sticks and other weapons, stormed the workshop to procurs knives They were clubbed nto subunission by the polic I'ne dedication of the ( Momorial Hospital took p Penn. The hospital was nished by the Fivol Co oost of $05, ore Kx), CHARLES FE who al | State, Washington, a claim for aight Ward frog ong Ridge an ) ites On psd A mor blast Nrmingham ing on a soaff might feet fro ' » scaffolding gave wav an round. The mer ' AD were work f the walls fr ddenly Ie men fiery wi narte otter ex tive inl ATI BAYS United State 3 Ire decision | Ants Lottery } take this act » him Hasivrox Gray the United States, died a Kingston, Ten: He had ter at Gray's Hi sinee his President Polk AT the head of Bquas wich Creek, Col. at thirteen feet a chimney of ore has been discoversd which is a perfect mass of shining gold. It is esti- mated as worth from $12,000 to 815.000 a ton Tug private banking firm of Marc Gresr & MeCarn, of Raton, New Mexico has made a general assignment Wittiax Proegerr was bhangel at West Irvine, Ky., for the murder of Henry Hail during an election in 1990 Robert Carleton was also hangad for marder at Headerson, Ky. lost postmaster in few days ago nea served as postma appointment by Crippia ' Washington, Tie relatives and logal representatives of Charles W, Riggin, one of the ) the Baltimore who was killed in Valparaiso, have formally flied at the Department of indemnity ALOT from the Chilean Government, Paesiorxt and Mra. Harrison gave a din ner at the White House to the Diplomats Corps Tux United States Treasury Department's monthly statement of changes in the circu lation during January shows a net increase during last month of $15 073 800 Presioesr Hanmisox bas caused to be published the reciprocal trade agreoment between the Unite Germany. It admits feathers, hides, bors: bair, fat, oils, certain animals eto, free while the duties on many other articles are greatly redocod, Sm Juiiax Pavscerore, the Minister to Washington, and Postmaster. General Wanamaker have signed a parcels post convention batwean the United Mates and British Guiana SecrErAnyY Nonie has designated Lucios | I. Bridges, a law clerk in the office of the Assistant Attorney-General for ths ln terior Department; Francis A. Weaver, Chief of the Land and Raliroads Division, and William D, Bayly, a clerk in the Pension Offion, to not as a Hoard of Promotion in the Interior Department, Tur President has appointed Professor George F. Harker, of the University of Pennsylvania, as one of the Commissioners to test the coinage, Tux Senate decided to seat Benator Cal, of Florida, by a unanimous vote, Tur nomination of James H, Beatty to be District Judge for Idaho has been confirmed by the Senate, INR Peurmng Hea negotiations have teen intrusted to Hon. John W. Foster as tue representative of the Administration, re Heving Mr. Blaine of this duty, Tux President isusd his proclamation promulgating a reciprocity treaty with the Hritisn West Indies colonies, Trmidad, Winllward and Leeward Islands, ote, Foreign, Tre conversion of the debt of Argentina Di been completed, It amounts to $48,000, TWENTY persons fost their lives as a result of election riots at Ln fa Pesth, Hungary. A BOAT to Her Ma Dorie ble Toutnet aad ie (ohh Bay, . drowniog four of her crew, | elra called « n Minister B | qos 140 days for wounding Riggia, publi signed and | Ntates and | British | LIBUTEN ANT BuUPELDT, 0f the United Htites Navy, has died at 1 apetown, South Africa, He had gone thers ou a World's Fair Commission, Tur Anti-Slavery Confersnos Act ratified by the United State at the Forel Ministry at Brussels, Belgium, in conforms ity with the resolution of the United Mtates Benate, CuiLeax Minister of Foreign Affairs Per- tan at Valparaiso and thanked him for Secretary Blaing's de. spateh accepting Chile's reply to our ultima tum, THIRTY barges were moorings by drift lee at Breslau, Germany. Boveral of the barges sank, and for Ly pore sons were drowned, including ANY Wornen and children, Jupce Foster, in Valparaiso, ( hile, sentenced the Baltimore seamen's asin lan ts Carlos Arena got 920 days for wounding Coal Heaver Turnbull for sublie disor ler. for earrying a knife and for giving a false name. Joss Ahmuds got #% days for wounding Turabull. Frederico Rodrigues torn from their disorder and carrying a knife, EMPEROR WILLIAM personally urged larga German manufacturers to send exhibits to the World's Fair in Chicago, ill AT an meeting in Dublin of the MeCarthy. ite section of the Irish Parll Lnentary party Justin McCarthy was re-slected President, Mixmsren Egan's house in still guarded by Chilean pol of the assailants of the have been made more sev Er —————— Santiago in GRATEFUL TO EGAN. Balmacedist Refugees Testify Their Thanktiulness to Him Jom the gift The card is about wipe and It oot FOX a —————————— THE LABOR WORLD. strike New cutters will £5000 my it 1 Worl Cage have a I's Fair, Chi- Two labor recestly to the NS tnd have been elected ionrd at Derby, Eog Kinyers Ong until apprent they Lecome He gave Union, of Louisville, shed a cooperative laundry of £300 (Firs' nas estab With a capital 3 | Ix 1853 unly hour day in sixty eight trades had the eight. Melbourne, Australia; to-iay Over trades are working only eight hours THE average annual wages of farm hands in England is about seventy dollars, In this country the average is about two hundred Qoilars A CO-OPERATIVE cabman's society been formed In London, Eugland. The first to take shares to the amount of #250 was a tramway conductor has | Tux Spanish Prime Minister is endeavor- ing to secure Sunday rest for the workmeo and to prohibit the employment of children under ten yoars of age in factories or mines, Ax English syndicate is alleged to have purchased over thirty glass factories in Ger. many on about the same line and terms of. fered some years ago to American flint glass manufacturers LWO THOUSAXD railway employes, repre senting different organizations, met in the Academy of Music, New York City, and discussed matters of interest to them, pare ticuiarly the proposition of practioal amal- gumation, which was generally favored, Tur Empress of China is establishing a large silk weaving fastory in the park of the Imperial gardens of Pekin. This is done in pos wo SaGouraly the native silk industry, and also to provide employment for a num. ber of women and children out of work, nn I. OUR MILITARY RESOURCES, The Total Number of Men Available tor War Duty, The Secretary of War transmitted to the Bonate a statement showing the military foroe of the United States, organizsd and unorganized, ncocording 10 the atest returns received at the office of the Adjutant Gen. eral of the army. The abstract shows that the total number of enlisted men is 101.521, commanded by 8879 commissions | officsrs, besides 1248 staff slicers, making a total te of 111,48 men in the military service, number of men available for military duty unorganised is 8,007,008, 17 ins stated that Philip Armour, the provis. fon packer of Chioago, carries on the heavimt individual business of al man in the During the PROMINENT PEOPLE. Tur Brazilian Minister of War has ree signed, Witriasx D, HowerLs composes all of his stories on the typewriter, Gunnar Bexsasun F, Brriew's biography has been publisked, Mus, Horaney WARD received for “David Grieves,” her new novel, King Mwaxoca, of Africa, has prohibited slavery in his doMsinions auto. 8100000 Uganda, an goo i Tx late Khodive of Egypt was i Crom talker and spoke Eaglish, French and man fluently, JUDGE ABRAHAM Governor of Oklahoman barely read and write, Laixviesra, ti Gustemala has BEAY, the could JEFVERROR at twenty one recently written FRANCINGO elected President of much excellent poetry. AXDREW Lang, the Englis poet and emayist, is forty-seven and tall, dark and thin. His hair begun to turn gray Usirep BTATS of Chile of sma gray Lrown boar small bands and fest #8 low wiature, in 1 and hal LRIry GENERAL BouMITE General 'l died a CRIN DRIES Mus Hanmier died in New Urleat ’ » # Brady. of 2» Eminent Away Pea England's L IRusICN or ear, vet it dgemanded in a pu ——— i... YELLOW TACK ON the to the Fatal Fever BOARD, luffon's Crew Seven of Succumb York Harbor a few mornings tos and other Brazilian ports pole, ber commander, died alt Santos and the command dey the firet office At Santis five of the crew wer the hospital suffering Irom the disease in its worst {orm wo of the Austin Hub bard, ti teward, and John Brent both Englishmen, soon James Leahey a fireman, died a few days later. and was followed by James Heaner, a firemen. and by William Baker, the fourth of As the Buffon wasabout t ris, a fireman "Brien, a seaman; Eroest Whitely, the mess steward, and Albert Hobbs were stricken with the fever and removed to a hospital. Their o m dition was desperate when the ship sailed Un the voyage from Santos to Babia, Frans Bauman, x seaman, died of the fever and was buried at sea. The Buffon was Je tained at Quarantine and thoroughly tum kala e¢ placed in men second » en died ot sail, John Fob Ntephen | room Two Men Digging a Cistern Meot With a Horrible Death Beth Williams and Moses MoClelland met death in a mysterions explosion xt Cave City, Ky. They were digging a cistern and had reached a flat rock eight feet be low, Williams struck the rock with a sledge hammer, causing a terrible ex. ion, which buried McClelland benpath ying bowlders and killed him and threw Williams into a tree fifty yards away. Me. Clelland lived just long enough to tell what had happened. A bluish vapor with a sul was mel dwues from between two rocks, ON A BURNED BRIDGE. A Train Destroyed and the Two Ene Rineers Killed, The eastbound passenger train om the Texas and Pacific Railway was totaily
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