Many Georgia farmers are dropping fhe culture of cotton for that of tobacco. — — ——— | It is generally believed that the Rus. pian Government maintains spies all over the world who keep it posted about the operations of the Nihilists, - In most of the countries of Europe the manufacture of salt and tobacco is con. rolled by the Government, The Swiss Government now proposes to buy up all the match works of Switzerland and make their manufacture a Government monopoly. Genoa is preparing to celebrate the Nourth centenary of the discovery of America, by an Italian-American Expo- pition, the aim being to strengthen the | friendship and increase the business re- lations between the native land of Col- mmbus and that discovered by him, Now tbat they are beginning to realize fhe effect of outside competition in Eng. Band it 18 amazing, declares the Ameri. can the schools that are springing up in all direc- all of them, itinerant at least for a part of the year, Dairyman, number of dairy gions, and most, if not During the English Protectorate over Egypt irrigation has been extended in almost every direction, thus increasing the agricultural productions to a won. Last 400,000,000 pounds of cotton, or nearly the pumed in Great Britain, derful extent. year raised one-fourth of entire quantity con- It is stated that Japan rice shipped from Japan via the Pacific Railroad to Chicago, of T0000 miles, ata total cents per hundred pounds, while it w cost, if shipped via thence by rail 81.81: the cost fo Chicago via. the Francisc ’ ¥ from Japan less than from San Francise to Chicago. The Chicago Post exclaims: **As the e sailing world moves, and as surely as th vessel replaced the galley, as the swift locomotive took the place of the post horse and stage crach, as the trained lightni g coal, cumbrous, costly displaced the courier, so will and grimy, gi place to some more perfect, more eth itself from its liquid essence, cr | essence, evolved from distilled that kindred invisible agent that springs forth spontaneous and perfect } touch of the drill.” Pasteur, the French scientist, has an eye of wonderful power. A visitor to Paris, where he has gathered various kinds of his ‘‘menagerie,” in animals for the chemist experimental use, saw with a glance a fierce Spanish mastiff had been muzzled the brought before him, and looking the an- 4 which for his ferocity and chained. Pasteur had brut imal straight in the fearlessly took off his The fawned upon Pasteur, licked eye muzzle and removed his chain dog cowered at the gl and finally lay submissively before ham. Among the numerous petty principal ities of Baxe-Coburg Gotha. lation is less than 200,000, and its very Germany is the Grand Duchy of The whole popu existence would be scarcely known, but for the eccentricities of the Grand Duke who takes pains to let his hostility to the reigning house of Germany be known on all He, children, and his heir apparent is the Duke of Edinburgh, sister of the Czar of Russia, and at heart an intense Russian, especially in her dis. like of everything German. ble complications are illustrating the influence of personal prejudices in the politics of Europe. occasions, however, has no The posi. M. M. Cowley, a pioneer in the North. west, who for many years dealt in furs with the Calispel, Spokane, Ceur d'Al- ene, and Columbia River Indians, and is one of the best informed men matters pertaining to the tribes in the Northwest, says that the dying off rapidly. Indians are d’Alenes, for instance,” he says, was among them for a long time. have a magoificent reservation and fine farms and good houses, but the houses are killing They can't stand roofs, kane River, there were immense banis of the Cour d'Alene, Calispel, Spokane, and Columbia River Indians about there, They were engaged steadily in hunting and trapping all kinds of wild animale, I bought black and silver gray fox skins of them at $1.50 and $2 apiece, 500 marting a year at $10 each, fisher, grizaly, black bear, beaver, and other kinds of skins without number. Then the whites bad not encroached on them, and they were robust and healthy, It is a mis. take to try and civilize them. They must be wild or they are nothing. If we keep on civilizing them, we shall have no Indians. Apparently this is something the Government will uot un. derstand,” them. | ever writien. whose wife is | | covery, announces the New York Ledger. i interesting as | | brating it. | to be held at the Madison Square Garden | in October. The object of the exposition | and maintain a high standard of purity on all | “Take the Cour | “i They | tion of the kind which has ever been When 1 was located on the Bpo- | Africa has an estimated population of | 163,000,000 people, or 42,000,000 more than inhabit the three Americas, The proposition is made that ten cents’ worth of postage stamps should be taken as the equivalent of a special de. livery stamp if the words *‘special deliv- ery" are written under them, A company has been formed in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, with a capital of §5,- 000,000, to explore and develop the Col- onies are to be established and means natural resources of the Amazon. provided for reaching a market for a region heretofore practically unexplored, Hidden away in Galesburg, Ill. lives Mrs. Julia A. to a writer in the Epoch, is Carvey, who, according the author of a little jingle perhaps as famous as any It is the one beginning ‘Little drops of water, Little grains of sand,” etc. Bhe wrote the lines some fifty years ago, when she was Miss Julia A. Fletcher, of Boston. They became world.quoted and familiar, and at once Mrs. Carney's identity as their author has almost been completely lost. The fear ansing from the rapid growth of our population, that we should soon be obiiged to import wheat for home use, Cultivator necessary scare. Our wheat product per to the Boston an small, For the ten acre is ridiculously J years ending with 15890 it averaged tweve bushels per acre, 1 Irge surpi fifteen, hence the I fifteen buchels per acre is little more half What must be d » yield British farmers average. - : evn re va farm ae 18 to improve iarm- . IN AS [ast a p Lion Increases, his cline of New s, observes th ad « niy about sixty-two and cent. This was not because there was any decrease in the business of New crease of business at other ports. Be York, but solely owing to the in. +h matter of is the second city in the m ports, Philadelphia is ‘a good fourth, New imports arc less San Francisco though its \ 3 f A 1 " ’ third those of Boston, is the secon as to exports, and tl of the country i ports of Baltimore are but little less those of Boston. Those who recall the terrible of the Ashtabula disaster, caused by the s Lake Shore and Michigan ern Railway bridge at Ashtabula, will no d New move Ohio, December 20, 1876, be intereste 1, observes the Mail and Express, in the augurated by the Ashtabula Knights Pythias to erect a suitable monument on of that hor. Many burned and the lot where the victims Wh sleep. rible accident now silently of the victims were so charred as to be beyond recognition, and the little that remained of their shattered and disfigured bodies were | Chestnut Grove Thare ing to mark their silent resting place, er buried in the beautiful Cemetery of Ashtabula. is noth- tn tell to the world the tragedy of their | death, It is, therefore, the purpose of those who have this movement in hand | to erect a monument to the memory of the unknown and unrecognized dead, Chicago is not to have a monopoly of the celebration of Columbus's great dis. Every city in the Union will do rome- thing to signalize the quatrocentenary of this New York City has hit upon a unique way of cele- A great food exhibition is memorable event, is to improve the quality and to elevate and wholesomeness of our food supply. All the States and Territories of the Union will be invited to participate, and it is proposed to show the progress made in feeding the world in the past four hundred years, This is the first exhibi- held. Not even Eagland, the birth. place and home of exhibitions of all kinds, has ever hit upon one of this de. scription. Probably the reason is that England is a manufacturing country, and not, like the United States, a great food. producing country. This country is, in fact, the granary of the world, and af. fords material for one of the most inter. esting exhibitions of modern times, Ouly food products will be allowed on exhibition, producers and manufacturers only being allowed to exhibit. The ex. clusion of middlemen, it is thought, will furnish 1 guaranty of the bona fide char. acter of every article, and that it is the same ns is offered to the publie. Every article exhibited must bear the name and address of producers or manufactur. ers, under whose exclusive direction the exhibition will be held, KiLY « I bebail of the Li | tacked by Ballin SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. Verdiets Handed Down in a Number of Important Cases. The McKinley Tariff Bill De- clared Constitutional, The United States Bupreme Court ren- dered decisions in Washington affirming the constitutionality of the McKinley Tariff and Dinley Worsted bills, and, incidentally, of Speaker Reed's method of counting a quorum; it also denied the application for a writ of prohibition in the SBayward case, The decision against the Chicago Anarchists was affirmed and the right of Holy Trinity Church, of New York City, to import a rector was sustained The three cases in which importers sought to test the constitutionality of the McKinley Tariff act have been decided by the United States Bupreme Court The title of these three cases are: Boyd, Sutton & Co. and Herman Sternbach & Co., each vs, the United States and Joel B, Erhardt, Collector of the Port of New York, and Marshall Field & Co. va, Clark, Col- lector of the Port of Chicago The grounds on which it was maintained that the tariff was unconstitutional were that the tobacco rebate section of the bill had been omitted in its enrollment, after passage by Congress, and thereiore that the bill signed by the Fresident was not the bill passed by the legislative department of the Government, that the reciprocity fea ture was a transmission to the the law-making power and thers! vitiating the whole act, act was void provision The Court aflirmed the judgments of the New York and lilinois Circuit courts of the United States in favor the constitution executive of » void, the bouuty and | that because of the sugar if the act Harlan read ww opinon of the He said that the Cour Liven most ul and deliberate aller nr i as t tas act signed sident was actually the law | assed now ralsexi for the rnining wis ¥3 ( « t Court's dets by the Pre by Congress he ject of the ¥ hy urnal required to be ~ ongress, he sa not that it ght t neu ited U ¥ n ticity I kr ‘ t Air J gi t hye Against Great Britain, ving the } Ber Staten MN Yer: The Savwooxd case, inv United Mates over vy the United ainst the British Ge rene Jus. { the Court '} nent, § Lhe ODIY mem ter | was sought to District Court Barry outa Ly the Alaska in favor of the he petition for = wl jed nited States a t snd Calder vernment opposed the argument Att Miller and Solicitor General resented the United Stat The "No Quoram” Case, ‘ which the 1 was at importers States Su The “no quorum” case, in Worsted a meph & U the United legality of the Ding ¥ was also decided by yreme Court The IMngley act was passed by the lat Congress thre the action of Npsaker Heed in counting a quorum when there was a Quorum of members present bul not voting The importers maintained that Speaker Hood's action was in violation of the Constitution, and that the act passed in this manner was void The United States Cireuit Court for the Bouthern District of New York aecided against the United States and m favor of the importerson this ground, so that the case caine before the United States Bupreme Court This Court, in aa opinion by Justios Brower, holds that the “no quorum was valid, and that the House of Represen- tatives had a right to make such a rule, Ign May Import a Pastor, In the suit brouglit by the Church of the Holy Trinity, of New York City, to test the question as to whether or not it was a viola tion of the Contract Labor law for the church te fmport its rector, the Rev, E Walpole Warren, under a contract agree ment, the Supreme Court of the United States decided in favor of the church Last Hope of the Anarchists Gone, The Bupreme Court extinguished the last hope of the two imprisoned Anarchists by affirming the decision of. the Sarprems Court of lilinols in the cases of Samuel Fielden and Michael Schwab against the Warden of Joliet 111.) Penitentiary, THE PUBLIC DEBT, A Reduotion in the Aggregate for February of 82.407, 140, The monthly public debt statement just issued from the United States Treasury De. partment at Washington shows a reduction in the aggregate of the debt during the last month amounting to $2,407,140, There was an increase of $00 in the interest-bearing debt: a decrease of 81.700 851 (n the nonin terest ‘oaring debt and an increase of $798,745 In the surplus onsh In the Treasury, The total debt, less EI2 162.954 not casa In the Treasury and the $100,000 000 old reserve back ‘redemption nd, fs s840,180, oss, of ’ the sur. plus in the T) , national bank . tories hold $18,004,000; a decrease of about three guatiers of a million since February 1. Treasury gold coin and bullion as ae Aggragate 133.3 or $030,471 Jess an 8 mon ’ fiver assets aggregate #479,100,510, ploy Ap during the month of $4,000,018, Government rece during the last 1 Vip against $09. two millions a Nukrted less than Febru. arya feat ; and internal revenus receipts were $12, 180.0587, an increases of 82000 557 over February, 1891, tures during the last month wers $27 482 0B, adopted son {| cide is tha V rule | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. A STORM caused extensive damage to the New Jersey coast. High winds, rain and snow delayed shipping, caused broken bones and played havoe generally, Tue Rev, Dr. William J. Tucker, of An dover Theological Seminary, was elected Drestdon of Dartmouth College, Hanover, Tre Rhode Island Democrats met in State Convention at Providence, and nominated a ticket beaded by W, C.'T. Wardwell, of Brivtol, for Governor. The delegates to the National Convention were instructed to vote for Cleveland for the Presidential nomins- tion. A STORM raged along the New England coast with great severity, Eowanp Fosruine, flagman on a pushing engine at Pittsburg, Penn., shot and killed Michael Niland, fireman on the same loco motive, They quarreled while clearing the tracks of snow Ex-Coxonessmax Srernex T, Hors of the New York Castom House, was fount dead on the meadows a mile distant Pleasantville, N. J. The bo iy was lying in the tide water. How Hopkins came to his death was unknown ; from THE hearing by Attorney-General Hensal of Pennsylvania on the Heading deal wa begun at Harrisburg Tue fight between EF, Hopkin millions bas at ia Mass., by the Nearios and Tim Hopk ins. Searle pettied £3,000. 0 othy over Mra been payment of Turxopone Joxgs, si mitted suicide by Mount Holly, N. J from home in Trenton, live, The only cause years old, « himsel JA had ran away where his parent igned Tor Bw mng spondent Ex -Prestog University, Conn, a t the no South and West, ve + . Fag Mardi Gr Hanns suddenly { bis tha arf with an awl The I» essed the deed Washington Excagrany Tra ter to Nenator Hale Y has written a jong le Chairman of the Sab Committees on Naval Affairs, which has the tevenue Marine Transfer bill under sideration, in which he heartily indorses the measure and urges prompt cousideration by Congress Tur District of Columbia Appropriation bill was reported to the House. The aggre gate amount, exclusive of the Water Depart ment, is $470 590, which is $387 600 less than the tall for the current year, $1 587 500 less than the estimates of the District Commis sonore, and $5700 less than the amount recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury. The appropriation for the Water Department 1» $261,028 Tue United States Treasury Department's monthly statement of changes in the circuis. tion during February shows a net inoreas) during the moath of # 703, 764 Tux friends of Riggin and Turnbull, who were killed at Valparaiso, Chile, are arrang ing to bring their bodies home, and Becre tary Blaine has directs] Minister Egan to aid them Tae Controller of the Currency has called for a report of the condition of the National banks at the close of business March 1, A STATEMENT prepared by the Commis. siomer of Internal Revenue in regard to sugar bounty shows that 258% claims for bounty, amounting to #6.014,654, have been received, and that 945 claims, amounting to $2,952,000, have beon paid Tux conference at Washington of experts on the Bering Hea seal qumstion resulted Ina disagresment Sexon Moxtr, the Chilean Minister to the United States informed the Seorstary of State that in consequence of his election as a Deputy for Petoros, in the Province of Aconcagua, he will soon relinguish his pres. ent diplomatic place, but that ne will proba bly remain in Washington until his succes - sor shall have been appointed, House COMMITTER fixes pension appropr. atdons for 1R0E ot #104, 595,000, The estimate was $147,004 550 Figures for carrent year were 5185, 214,090, oon Foreign, Tux Greek Cabinet, of which M. Dalyannis was the Prone Minster, was dismssed I the King, who first summoned M. Tricon and afterward M, Constantipoulo to form a Cabinet fr tn Bf ig wan defen , in on naval a THurrE was a serious collision of trains on a railroad near Cuyambuca station in Bran, more than fifty being killed and a large nunbsr wounded, aration of their exhit and Ryas Tue Frankfurter (Germany) Zeitung has besn confiscated for its criticisms of Fase peror William's Brandenburg speech, DurisG the late storms off the const of Portugal eighty-thres married sailors and about #Afty unmarried men following the same vocation lost their lives, About 250 chilaren are thus left fatheriess, and the supports of a number of aged people were drowned, Tuner men were detected entering the landlord's room In a wine shop In Paria France, Two of them succesded in making thelr escape. The third man was chased along the street, The burglar shot and killed three men who joined in the pursuit, and then was captured, I HERE WAS IDUCKH BELONG ainong starving wor in Vienna, Austria, at a distribution of rend Traene have been many crimes in Vienna, Austria, attributed to the starving poor Tre Hon, Charles Foster, Secretary of the United States Treasury, arrived in Bouth. ampton, England, much improved in health, He went to Paris, France, immediately. BECRETARY FosTER, of the United Btates Treasury, visited the British House of Com mons in London. AL em WORLD'S FAIR NOTES, DESMARK it $5500 in # ing, ax a leading feature of its World's Fair exnitdt, a Danish dairy, complete and in operation Ax Ohio World's Fair comm estimated that the exhibitors from his will + pend upward of $5,000,000 in tae prop the Exposition. will spend mix OW hns Bate ESO eT Hemesyi, the well-kne has made application for feet in wh of rare A i not less extibit his ogical » Fair will resis. ¢ ne “World's Fair the Flhode mb 1 that building wonid wnhine the architecturs features of the | nt capitod bullding and of the one formerly used in Newport Ru is not Lhe case } the features of the "old stone mill” al New port, whi bh is of unknown origin and hick is alluded to in Longfellow’s Armor.” and those of the "Ar ness buliding in Provides sixty-five years ag ine Note UoR musn recently slats IniAr Dine » structure will “Bkeletor ade ere features { the eres regions UxE the rerpariabie position will be a resses from Angus 25h through The Cusirman of the Ger Rev. John Heary Barrows of Chiloago, has associated with him mem hers of sixteen different religious organiza tions. They have invited the representatives of all the great historic religions confer together and to show what light religion ha to throw on the great problems of the age Their plan has met the approval of Mr Giadstone, Cardinal Gibbons, the poets Holmes and Whittier, Archbishops Ireland Professor Drummond, Professor Godet, of switgeriand: Rabbi Maybaum, Berlin: Justice Ameer All, of Calcutia President Washburn, of Robert ( Constantinople, Bunyin Nanjie,k a learned Buddhist, of Japan, and scores of the lead ing scholars of America and Great Britain, SEVEN MECHANICS KILLED. A Misplaced Switch Cansed a Dis aster at West Milwankee Wis, The Watertown “local” train ran into and demolished the rear end of a train loaded with employes of the West Milwaukee (Wis) shops of the Chioago, Milwaukes and St. Pan! Railroad killing seven men and in Juting several others. The trains were moving n the same direction, the workmen's train having just left the main track on a short switch and strung iteslf out on a track paral lel with the main line. The switchman, Emil Bartel, failed to turn the switch after the workmen's train, and the local, a moment inter, passed on to the side track and tele. scope the rear oar, seven men killed were terribly man. glad, The engines of the looal reversed his machine, but not soon enough to avert the disaster. The work of recovering the bodies was begun at once, Patrol wagons and ambulances were soon at hand, and is hall an hour all had been resnyovad to the Juarius The engine and baggage oar of the looal and four cars of the workmen's train were thrown from the track, but none of the local's passengers were hurt, Bartel disap poarad, but was arrested at 8 o'clock that evening K the mont} eptember, 186 aal Conmities ol beg en SLAIN IN ONE SPOT, An Appalling List of Muarders at Cumberland, Md, Thomas Higgine a Baltimore and Ohio engineer, was found dead on the Baltimore and Ohblo tracks on the outakirts of Camber. land, Md, the other night, and the Coron. | company had not men IN RIOTERS' HANDS. Mohs and Violence in the Streets of Indianapolis. Strikers Block the 8treets, and Stop Car Traffic. A dispatch from Indianapolis, Ind, eayw: Beveral times in the past twenty-four bours mobs have bad possession of the streets of this city, Men and women haye encouraged scenes and acts of violence, and one woman displayed in a crowd a black and red flag, flaunting It about her head and then hastily ocon~ cealing it in her dress. It was the out. come 10 the street-car strike which began recently because of the refusal by the President of the company to advance the wages of employes, Beveral attempts were made to start the cary, but the strikers interfered and the cars were pushed back into the barns, The Mayor took the view that he would not afford po. lice protection until he was assured that the snough Ww properly It received such as- i the man and ran the cars, i apperrec WW ald surances, and the police company, No attempt was made to run the electric ears, All efforts were o the horse cars, One hundre one car at the Grand © {ere a desperate £1 with the police and car reached Washington main thor fare of the city had swelled Car made its way a jaar where al jeast six thoussng pe Prominent atmnong its 1 lored man who was | o stop theosr, The offi " t mosntiraled on i strickers met ra Houw inter occurred When sire y one thousand LS fio few s burly ng to } 0 place hig under a ing yell the crowd the colored their gra Colbert headed hey waded Patrolman big stone stru the back of th rand laving be unded wommnd had the ules unhitched pushed the oss ther i street unti i there It sto west on Maryla: deep in the mud, a had their windows « one striker and pr their head for th ifs ad, Ar WRE On The 1 remenit by ber pres. e. When the car went back a gang boarded itand gave McHugh a beating, a negro strik- ing him with a stone, Constable Sorters ran bis rescus. There were no Brotherhood men in the crowd whom he knew to release the man, and Sorters agreed to take him homes. To this the crowd consented, and McHugh and his wifes were escorted home under Sor ters protection in another part of the city two women jumped aboard a oar, rushed 10 the driver, threw their arms around him, and then gave him a terrible beating, A policeman rescusd him, but the women got away. In other parts of the city the mules were unbitohed from cars and were stampeded, and the cars were derailed. Many arrests were made, but bail was furnished in every case Finally all attempts to run the oars were abandoned. The Mayor stands firm by his decision, and will again afford all the pro. tection to the company within his power, BIG CLAIMS ON CHILE. The Crew of the Baltimore Want $2 065 000 Papers have just been filed in the State Department by the crew of the Baltimore, asking for damages from Chile to the amount of SLOGS000. The claims are for the injuries received and the false imprison. mat undergone at the time of the riots in Valparaiso in 1591. The damages claimed aggregate $2,085, 000, as follows alse Imorisonment and Assault--John MeAdam, $80,000: John Downey, $80,000; Andy Boyle, £30,000; 0. Welland, £30,000, Very Grave Injuries—Jeremiah Anderson, $150,000; John Hamilton, $150,000, George Panter, $150 000 Seriously Injored Joseph Quigley, $100, 0; John MeBride. $100,000; William Lacey, S000; M. Houleban, #75000; William Kanifiold, $55.000; PF, MeWiliiams, $75 000; James M, Johnson $5,000; John Rooney, $5,000; James Gillen, 880,000; F, Clifford, #050,000; F. Fredericks 80,000, FH Smith; $00.00; Warren Brown, $80,000: BR, J J, Hodge, $50,000; John Butler, $50,000; C. C. Williams, $50,000 son, $30,000, LARGE PUBLIC BEQUESTS, A ———— A Philadelphia Woman's Gifts te Many Charities in That City, By the will of the late Mrs, William P, Wilctach every known charitable institution in Philadelphia, Penn, receives a bequest ranging in siss of from § to R200, The estimated «© be worth 81, the city of Phi of the
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