w— George W. Cable says that the Ama. can literary taste is rising. In Algiera, North Africa, twelve mills fon acres of barien land have been re- claimed and planted in vineyards. One of the finest possibilities of unis versity extension in the United States, argues the Washington Star, is in the aid it will give to ambitious workingmen. The number of students now registered at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, is 2601, the largest number ever of learning, and leading Harvard by twenty- eight. attending any American institution Charles A. Berry, a prominent railroad man of St. Louis, Mo., believes that the | time is not far distant when railroad colleges will be established, as the road business ‘‘requires as much techr knowledge and skill as law or medicine.” has Secretary of War Elkins amended regulations so as to confine the enlistment United States tween the ages of sixteen and eightee in the Army of boys be- years to the grade of mus learn music, and then known vacancy. The opening of the graduate course iu philosophy at Yale to stu lents of both sexes is an important step in the higher education of women. It will lead to similar privileges at versities which have hitherto grees to women, predicts the San cisco Chronicle. The poultry product States last year amounted 01 ). 000: no less t) eggs were imp 9 500 “yo . 00, while the tion for the past 216,326. marvels the still call occupation, What calls ‘‘a the Ne [ork most mely article" Independent appeared recently in a Japanese vernacular paper, g inclination which lamenting the stron 1: f young men disg Men waste their energy in d r © ay toward political without any aptitude for politics irren: qu stions. Suc turn their attentior sphe res of action ¢ noble. Sach ad vic e is the careful follc the future young wing ol Says the “A good deal in circulation if amounts benefited that many persons hoard smal of it, though th ATE NO mote by this saving than if it silver o1 pape Fe These women, many who keep every gold piece hoarders are chiefly they find in the pockets of their husbands and hold on that comes to them well that this to every one in any other way. It is just as should be so, as handlers of much money prefer paper to any kind The ladic their gold picces of coin. long as possible ol Protection leprosy is becou Louisiana. A young lady, of the resident contagion us source ol concern in connected with one old Creole in Iber ville, recently dicd of the disease at the te ' barely o families of Louisiana hospital for lepers in New Orleans which she had been brought month ago. Cases of leprosy, it seems, are not uncommon in the parish of Iber. ville, and there it was the girl, who was only tweaty years of age, contracted the loathsome disease. Local treatment was of no avail, and as a last resort she went to the hospital in New Orleans, where her case was found to be past human relief, Beveral Ohio, have been farmers near Wapakoneta, made the vietims of two very smooth fruit tree men through A well dressed man, driving through the country sell. 6 very ingenious scheme. $og fruit trees, would stop at a farmer's house. While there he would be taken very ill and ask the farmer to hand Nim | a grip, | a bottle of medicine out of which, however, the latter would not find. send somebody to town for a prescrip. tion, giving him a fountain pen and a | fruit tree blank on Which to write the proscription, and as the medicine was of such a nature as to require the pure chaser’s signature the unsuspecting farm. er would sign it. Just here stranger No. 2 makes his appearance from the opposite direction, going to town, He stops for a drink of water, and as he is coming back at once and is visiting in tho neigborbood, he is asked to take the proscription to town, Shortly after he has gone No. 1 flads his medicine, re. covers, and goes to town. In a fow days the farmer has a note to pay aad the proscription never comes back. | there has been an increase { in the production of the | livery, | carriers could take, not only the mails, | years ago, has n He would then ask him to go or Ee hhh The penal institutions of all kinds in this country are supported at an annual expense of $15,000,000. ————————— Many of the more enlightened Turks are having English governesses to teach i their children English and French, According to the report of the De- | partment of Agriculture at Washington, of one-fourth potato in the | past ten years, The President of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture favors the Governs i ment's adopting the county free mail de- | EB } mounted | believing that the but weather reports. Michael Biddulph, Member of Parlia- ment for Ross (Herefordshire), England, who made his maiden speech after he had sat seven vears as a member, twenty » ’ . These made in that 1st made another. are the only two he ever [ew years ago lng Bayou, nea ous Texas, of water the other day, and in an odd way served to remind citizens of the of the war, foot of Milam street baffle flew past the head of a were 1 Pp was wal I 0 electri + heavy plate glass behind mystery was solved. The dress. wed a top i screened river gravel on its road. ng « bed. pinched i { these little round pebbles it sh Whenever a car wheel like a rifle bali, ¢ was made in the to Mrs. John a being with writes epti nn Is Mary She is the only surviving child of the Revolution and also in the War of 1812. for Revolution, and died in Vt. in Mra. youngest of seven children, and was born in 1809, health, father’s return from the war in 1814. Woonbury, of Elizabeth, Roger Huntington, who served in He drew a pension MADDY YOArs as a soldier of the Hartford, ninety-two, 1850, at the age of Woodbury was the She is very feeble, but in good and remembers perfectly her There is a boom in zinc-mining in In. diana. As long ago as forty years a German resident of Carroll County, who of the old country, found evidences of the mineral Rock Creek, but failed to anybody in his discovery. had worked in the mines on interest About 1000 acres of land in the vicinity of the creck have been leased recently by a company that ol money out of deposits of zinc that ap. to be present in the soil, The of the treasure war one of those roving fellows who are eternally scratching the hills for ‘speci. mens.” An analysis of some of the rock found by him on the bank of the sreek showed traces of zine, and, more fortun. ate than the original prospector, he in. duced capitalists to make an investiga. tion, which proved to be satisfactory, Shafts have been sunk on the land, Ex. perts pronounce the deposits unusually rich in zine, and Rock Creek may yet become famous. There seems to be no reason why the mineral should not be mined in Indiana, for the adjoining State of Missouri is quite rich in zinc strata, expects to make a great deal pear second discoverer SNOW, HAIL, RAIN, WIND. A Variety of Storms Devastates the West and Northwest, A Train Runs Through a Shower of Mud in Kansas. City, Mo., says: train the here the A dispatch from Kansas When the through Pacific other morning it presented a remarkable ap. pearance, being © ywered thick. The headlight of the engine was en- tirely the were 80 over express on Union Railroad arrived with mud an inch car windows that no light could go through them, Ths trainmen say that at a Kan., near Topeka, the train ran int shower of mud, which came down for some time from the clouds I'he mud is suppose y have been taken up by a watersp A snow horses and rado was badly drifted a il the roads The trains « J Pacific were behind t vaused by a train coversad, and plastered asd a great loss of The blocked, Rallroad \ SHOW ng derailed by a t I'he snowstorm also prevail and west of N rado say the sixteen A furiot Minn, the with ir tel fein or ariiting bar VeRTrs | are much stirred up over the | manian Military School, at | members of which are pledged | fo A heavy rain | continued fo rain known e loo dee and = wer | it wera disl MinKs fatally injured f 4 4 Nebraska, whste 1 y sam will prings general havoc and wind storm, a h he bridge on the Union in ao lismay nvYyY i Pacifi Fastern dition oaused by washed ou Railroad [he blizzard continued most of the night around Miller, South Dakota, and sn loop were to be seen Hun wandered with the drifts eight feet dreds of head of storm and perished An unparalleled storm of rai bail raged at Aberdeen, I'he fall of snow and in consequence railroads were badl up. While seeding will be greatly delayed, farmers and all others ars well satisfied, and encour is felt Snow and shovelers and north, The minfall in 8 as the greatest ever known stock m Bouth Dakota was simply tremendous, ly tied agement plows wore work west Dakota w April, A SUICIDE CLUB. Five Cadets at Krajova Killed Them. selves In One Week, The authorities at Bucharest, Roumenia, discovery of a the Row Krajova, the to commis suicide as soon as their names should be drawn, The eadets belonging to the uppar class in Roumania, and the members of tale club were all the sons of prominent fami Lies The club is said to have originated In of the cadets having read the existence of such a © called the attention of his associates to the matter, and at first, in jest, they entered into a compact of a similar kind, he sur vivors have confessed that they ware pot really in earnest when they began, and were greatly sh god wi whose name was drawn drew a pisto vat a word of warning, and shot himself dead The others then fe t bound in honor to fol. low his example, whenever their names came out in the fatal lottery. Others were ad: mitted to the ciub, aati! it numbersad nine teen momber: succession took their own lives in one week, all in the same manner, by shooting with a revolver, and all without apparent notice. The au- thorities became alarmed, They wara lke wise urged to a strenuous investigation by General Labovari, the Minister of War, to whom the parents of the dead youths made earnest complaints, The result was the dis covery of the Baicide Ciab The surviving members of the club have all been place in rigid confinement, and will be tried on the charge of marder, The Roumeanian military system permite, and oven requires, ths fighting of duels under certain circumstances, but in the present case the members of the cub are to be prosecuted os murderers in having deliberately ajded and abetted unjustifiable suicide, and it is prabable taat the ringleaders at loast may a convicted aud shot according to military w, Tux above club formed among the cadets one some time ago, of 1h in Amerioa, He Five cadets in st winter in eastern Nevada was of the State and very dry over the w and | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Mus, Minnie Exo, aged thirty-two, was shot dead at Lawrence, Mass,, by her worth- less husband, Peter Eno, a Boston and Maine brakeman. The murderer fle |, GOVERROR Annerr, of New Jersey, bas refused to approve the bill legalizing the Reading Railroad coal ¢ ymbine. He refused to sign It becsuss of its doubtful consti- tutionality and ale because ny sssurancs that coal would not ad vance could be secured from the allied ratlroads WaiLk attempting to light his pips at an electric light, as he was told to do In M joke by a fellow.-workman, a town, Penn, wu Hungarian at Johns instantly killed A TERRIFIC cyclone struck O wrecking ten h and a « woman was killed and a number of seriously There which arried ap, XN. Y.. urcl ne fritarnd people njured, pie in the church foundation and Ware Sixteen peo lifted from its twenty feet nway, was A FIERCE forest fire raged near He lberton in Cumberiand County N I'he fi over several hundred acres of vy The burnt territory | and half as wide » burned 3 ing umber iy amie in NINETEEN - YEAR New ar Creamer, book keeper in for the Wall streot banking I’ the aid # yle, with outsider than §5 creted in a collar 1 Ox) M3 WHS A 1 taken tires sti { to death Tun Diliax + at the World's Fair ground hicag vas strack by a ay was ob rial 1 AURAL IBADDer ! State Conve nina ted del mtion at Miz Harrison an neapolis ! Tre home illiams on ton and near St Mo... was fire His children perished he Clas Lous tiree Hion water swept away one span of the new seventy -five-thousand-dollar bridge now being built Des Moines River, at Ottamwa, lowa Gueat damage has been done by fo M ssid ppt A storm flooded Rome, other places in Georgia, which was one of the worst in forty years. Hailroad traffic was interrupted, crops damaged and bridges de stroved by rising rivers in the vicinity of Dalton, Ga. ; Cartersville, Ga., and Birming ham, Ala across the » 4 i A cyorone did much damage in Faulkne r | County, Ark. CATTLE are dying by thousands in Texas owing to drought Tux first results of the war for the exter. mination of horse thieves in Eastern Mon- tana and Wyoming came to light, when the body of a man was fount on Alkali Creek about ten miles from Billings. He had been shot through the head, ani had been dead several days Me man is supposed to have been a Wyoming astler™ on his way to Canada, Washington, Sexaron Mints, of Texas, was appointed a member of the Committes on Coast De fences. Mines and Mining, Patents and Postoffioss, to fill vacancies created by the retirement of Mr. Chilton, his predecsssor. Warrernaw Rein, United States Minister to France arrived in Washington. Mr. Blaine accompanied him on a visit to the President, with whom he had a chat in re. gard to his diplomatic work, Tux President left Washington for a few days’ snipe shooting at New Church, Va. He was accompanied by Lieutenant Parker and Geurge W, Boyd, of Philadelphia, the As. sistant General Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Tre President has recognizgad the right of fioain to object to the establishment of a United States consulate at Pona'e, in the Caroline Islands, and has accordingly re ealled Mr. Rand, who was recently ap pointed Consul at that place, Ix the House of Representatives Mr, Wil. son, of West Virginia, closed the debate on the Free Wool hill anl the measures was then passe! without amendment by a vole of 192 to sixty Tie Navy Department invitad Jrapaeste for the purchase of the following con. demned vessels: The Galena, st Porte N. H.; the Cohasset, at Newport, Intrepid, at Brookiyn, N.Y, yoming and Speedwell, at Nor- PresipexT Hanmisox has dimissed fiom office C. M., Leavy, Appraiser at San Fran- cisco, Cal., for complicity in Custom House frauds, Onpens were issuod from the Navy De partment directing the Yorktown and the Adams to proceed from Ban Puget Bound The ultimate the vessels is Bering Bea and Charleston, also at been ordered to Astoris, destination of The Francisco, Oregon nn have Brorerany NOopLe sent a Bpecial Agent of the Ik Okla Chey. April partment in of the until homa, postponing the oper enns and Arapohoe reservation 14. Foreign. Fraxore and Great Britain decided to pro- lonz the Newfoundland vivendi over the present season, Tue inquest on the body of Mrs, Desming began in Melbourne, Australia; her hus band and alleged murderer identified by fifty-two persons, who had known him der fifteen aliases A FIORT O and Yaqul Indians at th Mexion, Two Yaqu § Were wounded, No soldiers wer: Presioest Hannon remembered the “Arbor Day” of Maryland and the Distri of Columbia. With “Baby” McKee and | tle Mary Lodge McKee, hie went out into t front garden of the White House and plant thires trees ALLAN BriLLER children in Bellast of work for Freon Depot in fisheries modus wa wrod between Mexican troops (i A fabian mines killed and « i wife and two had been out de spondent, killed hi Ireland. He and was ip tho Pol some time Anarchists blew Ang Franox Hamburg, and Bison Tur stea Falkenbu ww Bremen, wore in « sen off Hol The Hansa was so bly wn eve damaged that she sank of her crow Nean named Travers the «l a girl i © Gua ial 5 und mur bod) RHODE ISLAND ELECTION. The Largest Vote Ever Polled ~The Hepublicans Sucoessful, ever po every raked Bull and Utte for Lasutenant-(3 State, are also elect small maj but there was no « x of Attorne The rities, (renerai ASOT Newport and Woonsocket a the Blate ticket eral and Providence Democrati WwW. T. C. WARDWELL. The Legislative returns showed a good Re publican majority in both branches already, with between 15 and 20 vacancies yet to be filled. lo the Renate the Republicans elected 23 members and the Democrats § members, 4 10 be chosen at the second election. The House stood 36+ Republicans and 19 Demo. crate 1750 be balioted for at the second slection. Most of the fallures to elect were in Providenoe and Newport, In the former city only 3 of 18 members of the Lagisiature were chosen, and ‘n Newport only 1 of 6 The other fatluros were seattered among the small towns, The control of the Lagislature by the Re. publicans gives them the choices of their oan. didates for Attorney General and General Treasurer, and ssoures the re-election of Nelson W. Aldrich to the United States Henate, FOUR LYNCHED, Swift Panishment tor the Marderers ot a Peddler, News reached Alexandria, Va, that Cap tain Patrick Kelly, aged fifty-five, an Irish poddier, bad been killed on Little River, near Fishville, by a gang of eight colored sradoes, 4 of them oaught and ha and a poms iN gon lg oR ged, murder was for the of the - " purpose of getting Francisco to | Baltimors | telegram to the | — FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, In the Senate, 67 Davy. ~Mr, Morgan, in speakinz on his silver resolutions, criticise] the act of July, 1800: Mr. Bherman made a reply on the part of the Republicans —— M1 Hout reported a bill providing for the appoint ment of two additional judges for the Court of Claims, in order to facilitate tie dispost. tion of causes in that court Ari Day. ~The discussion of 1} Appropriation bill (ths FEE Army officers to act as agents tinued —-The Senate having refer the Committee on Foreign Relations House Chiness Exclusion bill, ad jours Oot DAY.—The Bensate passed Lhe | Appropriation bill, Another v " the motion tw strike ou amendment authorizing the Pre tall army to act as Inds The motion was Jost-~twenty-five ely and the amendment is retain bil Mr. Wola nu 1 question Torn | ropriatio Indian airing on officers ht ite ed EB i House aGelmle wel n—— TION CHANGES CIRCUL! A Slight Net De rease Shows Treasury Statement $1.75 Tnited States 1 in Nati reas $07 tank notes Was ar {84 319.000 in si $1,448 in standard wily lars 102,029 in god coin, $2,450 1% in silver Treasury oertifiontes held in cash by April 1 amounted to $23 673 70 faring March of #5 522 630, silver certificates held in cash amounted to $3 580.7 an in orease of $300 546, and currency certificates held in cash were $1 350.000, or #1, 200 00 more than on March 1 The store of gold bullion in the Treasury on April 1 aggre gated $81 104.7577, and of sliver bullion $05, Lo Sa BLOWN INTO ATOMS, Nine Russian Workmen Perish at a smokeless Powder Factory, notes the Treasury A0 INCTeR Ne 5 Rt state of the most intense ox vn inton oth. Ro much has been heard here lately of the fiend teh work of Anarchists that for a every one believed that they had ater to destroy some of the public buildings, It was soon learned, however, that the ex plosion was due to an accident at the Ntgte factory for the manufacture of smokeless powder, where tons of gun cotton had explode’ he shook was tremendous. The whale pity was shaken, and houses swaye | on their foundations as though from the eects of an earthquake, The building in which the gun cotton had been stored was blown into spiin ters, Nine workmen were in the building when the explosion took place and every ome of them was blown io gr Fome of their Hmbs were found 250 yards away from the Ymilding Houses a mile and a quarter away from the scene were mais to oscillate by the shook of the sxplosion. Windows were shattered, and crockery and glassware were thrown to the floor and smashed, The loss from thes» canes alone will be quite heavy There te no possible way of ascertaining how the explosion oocurred. as every man in the gun cotton building is dead. It Ww thought that it was due to earelosss a —— wa Tur oldest inhabitant of Vienua, . lon Ponsa, has died at the reputed age of 117. Khe lived on charity, her a pension of $7.40 a month. She re tained ber [aculties almost until the end. A —————————— Petersburg, Russia, was thr itement the terrific explosion er night by a most time ted five
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