nn a va et rns "The Philadelphia Farm Journal gives this very sensible advice: ‘Let the boy buy and sell occasionally. What he loses in money he will gain in experi- ence, worth more than money.” Englishmen are increasing nearly seven times as fast as Frenchmen. At the be- gioning of the century France had a population of 27,000,000, 16,000,000, are almost the same, or about 38,000,- 900. and England Now the numbers of each the connecting all It is asserted that when present comprehensive plan of Eogland'’s West India possessions by sub- marine cable is completed fully one-third of her defensive fleet for the of these with. protect on colonies can be done away Though the Falls of Minnehaha have gone dry, Minneapolis, Mion., msde ar- rangements to supply an artificial cat- aract there during the session of the Na. tional Republican Convention by laying pipes to connest the rails with the city water works. Bo easily attracted are salmon by the electric light that fishing by means of it is said by some one, in the Boston Tran- script, to be simply wanton murder, Fears are expressed that the wholesale slaughter of the fish by the employment of the light will result in their gradual extermination. Every year travel through the Nation- al Yellowstone Park becomes easier, and more is done for the comfort and con- The particular are greatly improved, and the adi- venience of the visitor. roads in appropriations for roadmaking are ler the ciously applied un supervision o Liecutenar Corps, Ut -_ "gr n y The progress made tion of the " foro pon 1CT Ramillies, the la steamship the Engines the f vessels intruste private builde tons, and is 13,000 } Pound this fi plates ine thirte *an Ing thirty tons. 0 eighteen incl plates, which are to be p bettes after the vessel is weigh about thirty-seven tons, It is natural for Chicago to attemj things, and it now proposes to at Ja “the The design, « sculptor, is ‘‘of liberty” throned on by female fir the prow T stand, C repr ture and posed to largest er tc be 150 feet in basin of diamete columns eagles.” a half.ci: the which will » fountain is flanked on each side high surmounted ster will be furnished the rear b Aarge, state, I witl be est twelve. done in Paris. twenty The Atlanta Constituti the other day m.says: “Only in Fi ¢ that he had sold mn a truck farmer rida was boasting one season £812 worth of cucumbe His firm his statement, and when the matter ’ ra froma quarter of an acre, neighbors con- is looked into there will be other e ually wonderful revelations of the possibilities in truck farming. A spondent whe recently newspaper corre. visited Young's Island on the coast of South Carolina re. ports that no cotton is grown for miles around, The farmers to did not have time to fool man whe can control as much All money 1 him that they with it, Every a4 half an acre devotes it to truck. satisfied tl and each vear they go ciasses are there is big iat in it, deeper into it, The climate enables them to raise the same year on the same land two crops of eabbages, a crop of corn and a erop of peas or beans, expenses and profits. A leading farmer states that it costs $150 to mise an acre of cabbages, $100 for an acre of pota- toes, $90 for an acre of peas or beans. OL this, #70 in the first, 860 in the seccnd and $57 in the third he paid for fertilizer. Perhaps $150 will seem a big expenditure for cultivating one acre, but the cabbages on that acre sell in New York for between $500 and $600, go ghe profit justiffes the expense. On Young's Island 4000 acres are now under cultivation, and the truckers have no fear of overproducticn, They are prosperous and cothusinstic over the Now, let us see about expenditure for normal schools was in spent and is still spending untold mil. school, generations to come, for knowledge Electric lighting on a commercial | scale dates from April, 1882, About 5,000,000 incandescent lamps are now in use in the United States, and arc light. ing also has made great The electric lighting of railway trains has be. progress, come frequent, The reduction in the scale of French railway tariffs has produced an immedi. ate revival in the constructive engineering industries. All the railway companies have in the past fow weeks been enter- ing into heavy contracts tor the supply of locomotives and rolling stock. The city authorities of Chicago have granted permits to the Chicago City Railway Company to use overhead trol- The Bcientific American avers that this will enable the facilities for the ley wires, company to provide abundant transportation of visitors to and from the great exhibition grounds. American manufacturing methods are attracting more and more attention in European industrial circles, boasts the New York Times. branch of industry in which we are liable In almost every to foreign competition, attempts are be- surers ing made by foreign manufac organize and conduct their ests ments on the same systems that are pursued in this country and with similar appliances. Two items in an Edinburgh newspaper § mor ils the parapet of a suicides will be less frequer : been ti they have Come, pleasing rest, eternal slumb oaos must seal th Seal mine, that Ci Saviour,” Germany laurels foremost country in education, excl France has taken overtake German progress in the education that sh her people eis now only a li ehind her great riva Twenty five years ago not fifty per cent, of the recruits drafted into the French were able to read; at Arn y $ Laem In 1872 there were present ninety per cent, of able nd 55,000 public schools; at are to read write. present are above 67.000, In at an increase of twenty 1872 thero present there per cent, were 76,000 teachers; are above 106,000, An increase In 1872 attending of forty per cent. there were 3,836,000 pupils public schools; at present there are 4,406,000, an increase of twoety.one per cent, Or, 11,000 new schools were built, nearly 600,000 more pupils are being taught and 30,000 more teachers are employed at present than there were twenty yoars ago. The total 1872 near $11,000,000; at present it is upward of $25,000,000, or an increase of 127 per cent. All this the Republic has done. The French Republic has lions upon the army and navy. But on account of that it does not forget the And, without a doubt, the Republican school will outlive the Re. publican army and be a blessing to all wakes fee, {| Arrests ACROSS THE WIRES, Interesting Late Dispatches About Important Events. The United States Senate Rejects the Chinese Exclusion Act, Tho United States Senate ‘passed its own Chinese bill exactly as reported by the Ben ate Committee on Foreign Relations, and sent it to the House for conference, The Geary Total Exclusion bill was killed by a vote of forty-eight to fourteen. The Chinese question was debated until 4 PF. M., when a voto was taken on the ques tion of substituting the Senate bill, waich continues in foree for ten years the present restrictions against Chiness immigration, for She Geary House bill, which absolutely pro hibits Chinese from coming to this country, The vote stood: Yeas, forty-three: fourteen, as follows : Yeas— Allison, Bate, Berry, Brice, Batler, Call, Carey, Carlisle, Cockrell, Coke, C quitt, Callom, Dawes, Dixon, Frye, Gorman Gray, Hansbrough, Higgine Hise OK, Jones, (Ark.), Kyle, McMillin, McPherson. Man derson, Morgan, Paddock, Palmer, Poffer Porkins, Pettigrew, Piatt, Proctos : tansom, Sawye ¢, Sherman, Bq bridge, Vest, Vilas, Walthall and burn—forty-three Nays—Allen, Blodgett, Chan Her, Dubois, Felton, Jones (} Mit ders, Sh up, Stewart, Warren Wilson —fonrteen The f lowing is the text That all laws now in for reguiati Chinese nay A, Wash- Daniel, AR nel, San Her, and of the bill: W prohibiting and he coming into this country of and persons of Ch descent are hereby continued in fores f period of ten years from the passing gt persons neds roa of this Tragedy of a Wooden Leg ory tha ¥ DRG Aw woman unhra decepti Next aed bad pra Cannin wher he tise upon morning ham vi f N Maggio asked het Magiio i to Dynamite in Paris warred in Paris, France as nights ago, at Very's svard Magenta, th piace - pr Wired ) killad, and his wife njurad, oaliar under mediately after ti watch arrested who were Appar 1s NY making their A waiter in the restaurant said that since Ravachol's arrest M. Very had received no fewer than fifty sixty letters from the Anarchist's friend threatening his life and CRON or | property in revenge for the betrayal Very died shortly before midnight, Three bave been made, including a man y Just after the explosion of the wine shouted at the next corner. **Vive wmrchie™ A revolver and knife wore ound on him, He professes to know noth. log of the perpetrators of the explosion, wh Triple Tragedy, George Moore, of Dennison, Ohio, shot his wife, killing ber inst Edward MeoClelland, a saloon-kesper, badly wounding him, and then fatally shot himsesif Moore was employed by the Pan-Handle Rallway and worked at night, McClelland boarded at Moore's house, Moore and his wife had had a great deal of trouble lately, growing out of jeal ousy on Moore's part When Moors returned from work he found his wile sitting at work at her sewing. machine, Without saving a word, he drow & revolver and shot her through head, killing ber instantly, He ran into an adjomning room, where Mo. Clelland was desping, and fired two shots at him, one striking him in the forehead, Moore then ran from the houss 10 the resi dence of his mother-in daw, near by, and shot himself through che head, Blew Of His Head. Edward Crosman, a well-to-do farmer, of Middle Hope, N, Y., committed suicide the other morning by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. He had been at the Middle. town Insane Asylum all winter, and was brought home in a much improved con. dition. He was thirty-five years old, and leaves a widow and two children, antly, also A Brockport Banker Suspends, Jobn H. Kingsbury, a private banker at brookport, N. Y., has made a general as signment. The Habilities to depositors will amount to 885000, most of the creditors being Brookport business men, who had deposits ranging from #100 to $10,000 each, The amount of assets is not known, owing to the lliness of Kingsbury, Killed His Nioce and Himself, of Pape City, U Hope Fueling, Na Bes 3 niece, of whom ho was sud hen put a bullet into his own brain, the | then | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Bastern and Middle States. Tnx Reapportionment bill, amended to give New York thirty A ssemblymon, Kings nineteen and Btouben and Dutchess two each, passed the special session of the Naw York ogislature at Albany, which then ad. Journed sine die, Farmer James Tua x, of Clarence, N.Y., and his pretty stepdaughter Busan Chase, aged sixteen, quarreled about Leonard Bhad, one of the farm hands, whom she had promised to marry, Trusx entioed his step daughter into the barn and with an ax or heavy hammer pounded her head into a jolly. Then ho drew a razor from his pocket and cut his own throat from ear to ear, dy- ing Instantly ne Excixeen Josern H, Gray was thrown among the machinery of his engine and crushed to death by the collision of the ferry. boat Cincinnati with the brides in at New York City. : AMBROSE BERLEY, aged twentyfour. son of Andrew J. Besley, un well known | man in Bouth Brooklyn, N. Y in a fist fight with David Ryan ty. The two young me ( opinion about somes matters in dispute be tween then for some time, and they decided to settle it by a resort to their fists Hirax D. Uprrox presided Hampshire Republican State ( Concord. The names of Harri were loudly cheered. The uninstructed her slip bont killed 1 twan. aged t n had a difference of wns wer the New onvention at dl Blaine were Jersey Tren the Tur Now vention met at delegates to Minneapolis. It wa through and through go to Minneapolis unin Ture Maine Re met Han ox presses the continue yalty at evotion of Maine Repu ns "to th rrent man and | t Hove the answored’ tion of Pres at wt Liss and “'b F Blain - A Der J ors fi at is kn MY w tals, acres « Pe | pear Oxf netrygoet r free « nage ux PF. Avra ninated for G { Illinois (field ininstructed, exoep! » vote for Pala Hate in Spring The ness portion A. LaxpERFYRL: Wise na waALuKae rested the city bills f Tur Alabama Republican posing factions at Montz result was two conventions Une wing vened at the Capitol and the other at Court House, The Capitol convention accomplished ita work of selecting candi dates to the National Convention A reson lution was passed indorsing the National ad ministration and declaring for President Harrison The Court House convention elected contesting delegates and adjourned He r books ’ mery the Tux Ohio Republican State Convention asssmbled at Cleveland and elected MceK in. oy. Foraker, Hahn and Bashnell as dele gates-at-large to Minneapolis by scclama tion. The convention declare! against free iver, for the MceKinley tariff and endorsed Harrison, The delegation goss uninstrocted A ticket headed by Samuel H. Tayvior, of Champaign County, for Secretary of State, was nominated Maton WiLLiam Wansen, of Kansas | City, was nominated for Governor by scoia mation | Convention at Jefferson City | Instructs the delegates to vote for Missouri Republican State The platform President by the Harrison's renomination, Two colored burgiars who assaulted two white girls near Goodletaville, Tenn, were eaught and lynched by a mob “Gor” Brexoen and Jack Burnett, horse thieves, were killed in a fight with five dep uty sheriffs in Northwestern Wyoming, and fifty horses stolen from the Big Horn country in Wyoming and Montana were found at their rebdezvous Foon sad relief supplies from the North for the starving Mexicans at Rio Grande City have been received at n Christd, Texas, Over 5300 families were fod, Jackson, Sevier and Knox Counties in Tennessee are in a panic over the operations of the White Cape. About fifty persons have been whipped. A them was a minis ter, the Rev. Mr, Jenkins, A ranuen named Wetherton and hie wife wore foully murdered in their bed while on a visit to the house of some relatives pear Amity, Ark. Washington, { Tin President nominated William' W. Ashby, of Virginia, as Consul at Calon { nwall), Central America, vice W illiam E. Sims, deceased, Tur President sent to the United States Senate a BIA declining, as Ineom- [hakie with public interests, to transmit at time the correspondencs relative to an international monetary conferance, Apsinal, WaLken has been orderad home won | \ in | passage | mittee by Becretary Tracy from the South Atlantic squadron, BENATOR BYANwoRD, of California reap. peared in Washington after a month's abe Bence, Tux following is a list of United States Benators who hia ve been appointed to serve on the Executive Committee of the National Democratic Campaign Comimittes MC Butler, Bouth Carolina: A H. Colquitt, Georgia; J. C. B, Blackburn, Kentucky: J K., Jones, Arkansas; W, B, Bate. Tennesses C, J. Faulkner, West V rginia;: David Turple, Indiana; Rufus Bloodgett, New Jersoy: J. 8 Virgini ¥ J. 8B, Kini; RR. Q Mills, Texas, Barbour, Foreign, the Havel Lakes, and During a Bwitzeriand, three boats y capiized seven of thelr occupants were drowned, AVACHOL AND Bimon, the Anarchists, have been found gullty by the jury at Paris, France, and sentenced to prison, at hard labor, for life, lavachol confessed to caus. ing the explosions in the Rus Clinchy and Joulevard Bt. Germain, squall « NEWroUuNDLAND declined a compromise with the Domiuion, Causdian sealers talked of sailing under German and Italian flags for protection, Tux Chilean Cabinet has resolved to the estimates on public bulldings and works, and also to practios a system of in every department of the Government. Tue Venezuelan Minister at has received a dispatch from 1 ment saying the revolution in bas been suppressed everywhere A PASSENGER train going at full speed on the Colonial Ratlway, betws New Bouth Wales, and Melbourne wrecked, snd nine persons ware killed thirty in- Jured, some fatally, Fox cut Soonomy n Sydney, Was Aan i tinne muinus Mf dynamits bon © Italy, in France, Be f alarm is increasiog in Paris Hexny M, St axrLey, the great explorer, who recently ar rived in London after a long tour in Australi a, has consent to & candidate in the Uni ar seat in Oritish Parliament IONS ¢ and tho eiection Fa tria DERICK FP. Deming, at M i { muraer log ERD, i IND Ci INT D ING LRLES the Senats » Senate us the wh ate on the Chinese td A Tus Laon reguest 1 s Nenate what inter us { wiaw award mtrods and faun Mr. Turpic nt Ly vrs war snd classi ral Ntates in of the HSOTrY examinat mination of T be Minister to France President, In the House, WD DAY ~The entire day was consumed personal explanations, Mr. Bailey, of lexan, cited a recent article in the Washing ton Post, which, he said, reflected upon his action In quoram on the ol occupied nears mar was consumed to establish a mills me hour Another in discussing a bill tary post between Burlington and High Gate, Vermont, which finally went over without action The report of the Com. on Priating to expunge osrtain portions of the speech of Mr. Walker, attacking Mr. Hoar and Mr, Williams, of Massachusetts, wax then ealled up and went over Mr, Storer introduced a bill to provide for an international ratio betwaea gold and sii ver, and to suspend the purchase of silver buliton from and after July 1, 1804 Wp DAY, «Th» entire day was consumed In an attempt £5 procure a volte on the reso lution expunging certain portions of Mr. Walker's remarks from he Raecord., Mr, Walker had made allusions to Mr. Williams and Mr, Hoar, of Massachusetts, which ware considered objectionable. The Repub. loans declined to vote, thus breaking u quorum, and the Speaker refusad to count members tL as voting, Mra Day, «Messrs, Geary, Chipman and Hitt were appointed House conlerress on the Chinese billThe Diplomatic and Cone sular Appropriation bili was considered, Wire Day Consideration of the Diplo. | matio and Consular Appropriation bill was continued, rn Day. «No business was dons on aoe count of a lack of a quorum, ¥7ri Day. No quorum was present, The tat-Arms submitte | a — THE NATIONAL GAME, BrowxNinG is to play left fleld for Louls ville, CLEVELAND was the first team to play an erroriess game. Kerry's catching for the Bostons shows no deterioration Worry, who has played with Louisrille for ten seasons, has been released, Krrre, of the Philade strongly as ever he did in his i Fieros, of the New Yorks, catches sie's fast delivery without trouble. iphias, is pitching as fe wus. Cross, of Philadelphia, seems to be the most popular player in the country. THERE are alrea than vac off y more postponed games i ’ ¥ wit days on which to play them CHICAGO and Cleveland had the honor of playing the first twelve inning game of the | BeRSOT. | i | pomenal game Tax Brooklyn boys are in the pink of dition and hitting the ball as no othe OO team { isso far, Loxe, of B wion has been playing Long is now the star sho | stop of the profession. | It CAD | | athletes | ors cann Bro YN'S team Is like the old Detro mt out a victory though folding be poor at times, THERE are six ex-capta ton players There Nasi gel, BStovey and McCarthy. ins among the Bos Kelly Tue Bostons are an Every n and has the ability aggre kn As all around players aten, | and the good fielders heavy Tur spurt the bots 37] of 3 menced, is the event ORTETOP ( fered the smanlles ¥F THRE Per LEAG Last ¢ PROMINENT PEO Alexander ered a knighthoo Ture Inte ade, was « Lut aiways declined the hor Sexaron Brice, of Obic, gave a musioal entertainment at Washington one nigh nly, attended by the President a: wh 12,000 of OLher pe pie, Bou speculative mathematician ured it that William Waldor! Astor's # twenty cents a second, $17.28 & minute and about £100 an bour Sexon Manmixez on Roba. a Spanich pobieman, and Mme, Francisca de Barrios, widow of the late I's dent of Guetemala, ware married in New York several days ago, She is worth $8 000.000. Lovis Kossvrs, who is living in Turi Italy, is just ninety year old. Several of bis fellow countrymen visited him recently. They found him not only in good health, tat taking a keen interest im « verything going on in Hungary Miss Sanan N, Baxporrn. the ve ang daughter of the late Colonel T. J. Randolph of Bdge Hill, Va, and great-granddanghter of Thomas Jefferson, died a tew dave sinoe in Baltimore, Md, Nhe was the author of the well-known work, “The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson,” and other books Hamonr, Mixtvax Prox, the Southern Rout lives like a hermit on his farm near ‘usoaiooss, Als., but is the soul of hospitality when any one drops in on him. During the rammer he keeps open houss for his friends, on the understanding, however, that none of hem hall him as a poet or talk too musa “shop.” KIDNAPER'S KILLED, has fle out income nine
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