of the colored population ‘I he wealth of Alabama is estimated at $20,000,000, A m—— Out of the fifty-one descendants of the King and Queen of Denmark, but one, the Duke of Clarence, is dead, to the San Francisco Chronicle the steady influx of Japanese According into the United States is not viewed with pleasure by the working classes, At the beginning of the present cen- tury there were in the United States five Now there are more than be fifty millionaires. 7000. How years hencel many will there British farmers are asking their Gov- ernment to take steps to protect them from the field-mice, which are invading the country, particularly Se stland, in great numbers, and devastating the crops, The San Francisco Chronicle avers that “‘had any prophet twenty years ago pre- that the place of French wine as the popular dicted German boer would take drink of Paris, he would have been re- garded as a candidate for an insane ssy- lum; yet this change has come to pass.” An element in the Southern industria pituation not to be lost sight of, the Washington Star remarks, is the failure of railroad management to pay Eleven companies with a mileage of over a thousand miles of completed road AVE in less than two years gone into the 1 J hands, ceivers’ {mit that t t i an Terr it raax 1 the and a ceeping ) The : | ‘ tia . ¥ All i " 5 Lb 4 > | Af " 10 - | M | 5 says that if the {armer Ma y i live sha , 88 the M N with no furnitur to speak i coarsest of il, BO DUnQays, | shirts, no top carriages no : ot other articles of luxury, ; 1 ma yoney just as fast as il vd { West Mr. Libby t [4 thal a year Montana would ire a Mais ia i : gru Rong at Lis native Sia The males are in the majority in the United States. The Census Barean ha recently completed its classificatio { the population by sex aad nativity, i finds that in 18530 ther vere in t United States 32,067.85) ma and 554,370 females In the decad crease of males was 25.68 per $ while that { females was 24.00 cent Of the 62,622.65 sbhita enumerated bod 372 703 wer the United States I red pe 3 including in t ate y , Japanese and civilized Indians, numbered 7,638,360, In endeavoring to find causes for t present deplorable « Liti of affairs existing in that portion of Russia cou monly known as **the famine distr , one almost inevitably «¢ les, alter even a slight examination, writes W, ( Edgar in the Forum, that other and more we b, es tha that usually given (the unfavorab weather of last year) are at the bottom of it. The longer the investigation is cont grows the impression that fundamentally the system of communa yw ners! ip i land is responsible for the situa The “mir” or community has simpiy ex hausted itself and the thirty Ars Ww have elapsed since the ema At f the serfs have been more tha sufll t to demonstrate that the entire foundat upon which Hassian agricaltars med is radically weak, aud that the pra . result of holding land HO 1 least in Russ A, I8 a nn plete add wu failure, The climate of the United States is much the same now that it was a hu dred years ago, though perhaps a little milder, for astronomers tell us that the North Pole is actually m wing south = which is good news for the explorers of the futureand yot the aborigines ol America lived to a good old age before “sanitary woolens” were invented, or Ia fact, if we are to believe the historians, they overcoats had come in style. wore legging, moceasions and bunting shirt of deer skin with the hairy side turned toward the body, and caps made of the fur of animals, and they did wear, When were wet through, for you know mackin toshes and umbrellas are the products of an effete civilization,” they were about as comfortable as none at all, and when frozen stiff, as they often were on a win. ter's morning, “Lo” might as well have donned sheot iron stove pipes lnstead of his primitive trousers aad been equally comlortable, that was all these garmonts Some Paris sugar refiners not long ago alleged that their loss of sugar hy thefts of bees amounted to $80,000 per aanum, The official statistics of France have shown that in 1891 about 72,000 persons in that country, and " (4) died of starvation i the number of those who became insane from misery amounted to 75,000, A gentleman of Concord, Mass, bold- ly asserts that pie of various Kinds is a brain stimulator, and he cites Emerson, Gladstone, Carlyle, Molier i others as giants who thrived on pie. Formerly nearly every man wore boots, but now shoes are the prevailing style of footgear, The change has had a great eflect on the leather market. The cur. taliment this season will amount to one million sides of finished leather, A striking fact about the Chinese use of tea, which is told on the authority of a Chinese cfficer, is that it is employed for preserving the bo lies of the dead. A corpse placed in the centre of a chest f tea, he says, will **keep” for year He further asserts that tea which has wen employed | his capacity is often exported for loreig consum pt . the DOXes | marked L WAY KRO y tO Lhe ative Ihe 1 1 St Wkin pid strid i imuiatin wen in rev | censu t V ) the Na » i Dou =1000 ea i ev i wand 1 Pp ’ i i ] a1 Aaa : ! ) veaith, w A sold I'i vealth {Gn ’ 3 i |) £5 0 ! va : t . A 4 3) wedicts ) . x City Ww t y 1, 8} y In a } t A! \ : “]d ie Wi t A y Ar t ) » ] 3 ‘ I \ ! VO | \ andl ) ' ia ry ’ , i Ia ALY with w= A i tat of t t i { 1 wit { : i that ves ! { A century is a shor : Ww 1 to pass i the belief that ¥ A XK pw ied { writing ay | gu was for a Ww nan yf W-LUAY 8 rm 11Y, iL leav i ol it tru ' R Kas f New J Am A Agricultarist, ‘that neariy a rpora Le w AY AW f pid { lew x re 4 r Wid materia : 18 . i : it % & x : sry R44 : gp} ra £ { 3 al i i 5 w ela | would it, for a vivocs ANY v which would { ti i AlN and int { A r ev gr | WRiIKS i ir ' We iefived pal rs 3) m | bad w t t It tr that t Aver pat “ 1a OD i little use Ary at a : { this nat . it ceria § sible to » « siru A ia that ¢ ArEim it an CAD i i : fa a t 4 158 m : public spirited fellow pons I reme or wi % New 1 OF farm | worke 1s Hd years ago i } id ! tage { RELY five hundred feet ron At an $ X pH §¢ yf less 1 ¥ 4 DOr pat four | ¥ tru i Rint that w i Wor sisted » 1 it Ans of . Lhe i i } r AnD ‘ iLL a | xt to th ned, and a horse, » i A gat § Ww, to : Sen up the Ar ad 1 between th lines; the iron seraper was then brought into play, and the work of making a path was done, with the exception of the trimming up, which was performed with a hot Near New York many of the towns are 8 e together that there is practi AMIY Do division 1e 1 8 to be seen by the casual obmerver In most th these macadamized roads run- to the cases are ning the whole distance through Certainly there 1s nothing of such s road. city. will prevent the path 1 speak being constructed at the side of In some places it is done, and the expense is 80 small and the improvement so great that, from a pecuniary standpoint solely, it has been considered a good invest. Publi its piace, but we all Know ment spirit ia all very well in that it is pos sible for three or four close fisted men in a town to prevent improvements which are phaicly for the gool ol the whole community, Some way of converting these shortsighted peape is what we want, Gravel paths are wed in Ohio, and coarsely sifted conl mbes makes an excellent covering for sidewalks,” | SHOT BY THE ROBBERS, The Dalton Bandits Loot a Train in Indian Territory. Over $75,000 in Booty Secured After a Fight, Missouri, Kansas and Texas train No a northbound, was robbed at Adair, twe nty miles south of Vinit 1, Indian Terri wry, A few nights ago. For a week it has beon known that the notoriou Dalton boys with several associates, making a party of eleven were in the country and the rails md e ra pany put guards on its night tr win It was expected that Prior ( re the point of attack, and until the tied for Adair no one thought there, Just as the train whistled, several men surrounded Night Operator Hayw i ! r | 00 at the station and ordered him to fl Kk would be train whi of an attack ur it, As they were armed he had no alternat ve and © wn plied As the condurtor stanpe i fi 1 | 6 train he was made prisoner, an | it later the entire crew wore doin ty a breastwork Tuere was a short fleht tive J, J in Kinney of the railro Dotee- j . HO PAD Y was shot in the sl ler, and Foli “- Captain Laflore in Wie arw named Johnston had his wat Recon the same bullet smbeddin ta f Arm : While this fight was going on, « imme diately after, a volley was pourel int the Pacific express ear, and Mess nger Groree P. Willi opeved the door. Th Vruiaeg ware compelled to stop firtne lest t ¢ some of train crow The ex sale was kiy robbed of #3 ¥ ' } messenger wa rdered open th " wale He riared that i id 1 it, mt went Wor fi Pe ir K Whi the exon was | the opera was i {into t and ordered to o 1 the stat \ . vinoed t on tha | The cast rawst wa ' § or $41 n When the 1 B Gon ¢ " at nt t F . ! ' pa ir. Ww, | . f 3 i Gott ¢ kil 9 bir i ' § " \ - } x 2 i x I. { . a " Dr. Y . { ¢ $ A ’ Pp v . ry. The =a t atter of + t ¥ or \ PQ BE i 2 ¥ } ) tt \ " CLONT Ww 1 h wt ™ a at Bot sin the § £ La ¥ : Kk wi Or even w nd * .l - w— — T ABOR WORI HE LABOR RLD, Tus k » " phia WA J r La PN Carved Ni A Hr [ 5 Er . . " . ' & . i ! a ra + * } \ a 5 to § Ny 4 t 8 i fa at MALE h ’ hy ~ | » v ig | r . \ i A ™ + e h y . # ! tr Tnx : ’ . - A a 1 . " . . ] d " th p | al ' t Board f A ® : 3 2 . : "trict £1 oY x t \ N N tat " nal 2 s ¢ n 4 yd a y R : i § ) xing ra ' vi \ ari ¢ \ % vA $ J ] Fi» t . J t } Y for { i ’ ’ ’ 4 lar ! y! W i 4 et of A ! W Kors ) , on i . ' i “e BEE Kn o i Lo $4 xx Inst yeu y ha \ f 10s ' the t ury I HE oat t trike oil ram nies N Y ork al the x granite i Eng | Mat eh ded in ‘ Ar nt ' | LE ractors a ald w— S—— FLOODS IN ALABAMA, Hundreds ot Acres of Crops Destroyed and Houses Swept Away The floods in the Warrior and Tombighes Rivers in Alabama caused by the recent heavy rains, were unprece lented at this sea son of the year. The overflow of the lanils in cultivation in the valleys of the two rivers was the most damaging in years. An ade ditional rise of a few ine ses spread the water over hundreds of acres of luxuriant corn and cotton, and the result was their total de struction Some of the largest plantations on the lowlands were entirely submerged, and tha tenants and owners driven out, There wee much destruction and suffering among tis tenant claw, mostly colored planters, wao have been driven from thelr homes Gavernor Jones lwued a proclamation, calling upon the citiesns of the Btate in sections not affected by the floods to cone tribute to the wants of the sufferers In sine the Mayors of the cities a sinted committees to solinit subscriptions I sir ald. The loss to the planters and farmers in the river bottom lands will aggre: te millions in stock, cultivated flelds and swept away by the waters, : THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, . Eastern anda Middle States, CHARLES Pansons, agod seventeen: Wil lie Day, twelve, and’ Fred Pitree, twelve, gov beyond their depth while bathing at New Portland, Me . abd were drowoed be- fore assistance could be rendered. EX-LIRUTENANT Governor Francis B. Loomis, of New Lemdon, Conn died in Hartford a few days ago. He was bora in Lyme, Conn., April 9, 1812. Tuenesa Bre Heany, fourteen, drowned while R. 1. SIXG, eighteen, and Louisa both of Provi lence, were bathing off Pleasant Biull, Leona H, Wex EL, aged twanty van, | Buperintendent of the Newhure (* i : " hn ; y | Paper lox M wnufactory, discharzed ail ta | employes nd then comunitted tiicide b | shooting, : | 4 2 AM na, Hannisox continues to improve in | health at Loon Iake, N, Y sutenant Parker reached there from W ashington and n N. H., destr ying trees and grow | said the President would return to the | mountains as soon as Congress ad io ironed | Tur Congress Committee finished its in- | quiry into the troubles at Homestead, Penn {| A VIOLENT tornado struck the town of | Auburn { ing crops, | Tie National Educational Association ended its session in Saratoga N. Y | { NON-UNION men were set to work in the | big mills at Homestead, Penn Mr, Frick | took advantaze of the pres of the "i ers to bring in fifty or y wen, and { Were Kindied again in some of the tur | I'he non-union men can n small i after the strikers’ scrutiny of new was stopped by General Snowden { Ihe entire foro of assistant 1 the civil neers in the employ of the Carnegie it ompany sir kK ut of EyYiab thy { hie ed out men Tue body of Cyrus W, Field was buried e¢ that of his wif in ui fa 0 Lhe sack bridge( Ma } Cee South and West, AT Pa al Ky y of 1; i red m wl a i . ! fr f thie tter = fata wv ound f st Uo oat ze t re t 1 p Ve Nore Jost t i] { : toa r ¥ra } X I " ta ia inrg ’ Lor ald 1 . " y ts i : . a , ’ at 1! n ' 1 | ! y y a A ( 11 Ww v stad on ! i » ow x fatally wv 4 Wi : , Wile _ AS roy ‘ . aie | ' n A . ta at } i sit = Pp 5 ¥ J gas Ir he 1 pest hy ’ 4 path . v ad RE 2 TEA AW WAS inf nty a Federal t r the Cont 5 ge Distr ant ths ners assumed a more pen t fig Ntate Convention { the People's party at Bt. Paul Miw n ted Ig sativus Donn for (rovers Tue Governor of Alabama receive] wor from OGalpesville, Sumter County, stat that food su Mere “we stitute and wit t prov . f evens tewreont } MM AD . ¢ sking ! ! . , MARLES HLACKMAX, red, ba hance! % i vard In Cr { {for wile or Newrox } r r t Cali for and ex 4 yt fe California ; 3 fs a fow av wo, in his nth ¥ Mr Rn was bore Ind, and we West in 185 xr has been Jere! at Page “ gtom, again ritiah ( } st of tha staallpox prevalent at jon men were escorted back to t at Wardper, Idaho, by a strong ' » of Federal troops. There was no hos tile demonstration upon their Arriva Washington Cartaix Hara has reported to the War partment that the sinking of th Tilton Tr Sandy Hook, N. J. by a shot from a ten. inch rifle was beyond prevention SpeneTARyY FosTen has ordered ths ool lection of £500 fine from the American steam. violating the peutrality laws by Honduras, MT prose int er Ontert for adie the steamer | Honduras service % is the urgents in ris g the ir ately rep ue President has signsd the Peasion Ap propriation bill and the River and Har } At ropriation bi ue Senate passed the World's Fair b s vote of fifty-one to fourtesn Mr Peffor's proposition that liquor shall not be { on the Pair grounds, ani Mr Quay's in wing amendment were adopiel i shia has accepted the inn tation of the ited Btates to participate in the Inter tious! Monetary Coalerencse. The malts will mow be laid belore Congress ux nomination of Limiteaant Na ped 1 Lesnly, to be Judge Advooste Lin al of t Navy, has heen sent to the Senate I's President has signed the Indian Ag propriat nh als the Posto SUE priation hill 'ue proprietors | aving failed to comply with the requirements of the new buallding regulations, an order was issued revoking the lHoense of the new Nationa Theatre, Washington is now without a licensed play | hones | [ue President has withdrawa the nom | pation of William D, Crum (colored) as | postmaster of Charleston, 8, ( | Tue President has approved the act to em tablish an intermediate rate of pension be tween K¥ and 72 per month: the aot ex tending the privileges of the immediate transportation act of the port of Fornandina, Via. : the District of Columbia appropristion act and a number of private pension bills EE —— Foreign, A cameonran from London states that William Waldorf Astor is not dead, The report that he had expired was cabled to his New York agent by some malicious person for the purpose, i% Is thought, of annoying the family, Tur returns from the Midlothian district of Edinburghshire, Scotland, show that Gladstone is re elected to the British Paria. ment hy a majority of less than 790 votes The Liberal leader reosived 5730 and his Liberal Union opponent, 8077 Tre Argentine torpedo oatoher Rosales foundered in a storm off the coast of Uruguay. The officers were saved The orew, numbering seventy, at reports, were miming of - Winpsragan rioting in Spain has been onused by the ooteel duties, a Tre work of searching for the bodies of 1 Whose who lost thelr lives in the terrible dis aster at Bt, Gervalsles Bains, when the Sonassy Glacier broke loose from the wide of Mont Blanc and swept down the ravine in which bt. Gervais fu situated was con tinued Beventy.five per ony at the ho'sl, forty servants and forty-five peasanty of Los Fayet, were killed g A BALLOOK loft Havre, Frances with three passengers, all of whom were drowned. staying During an election row between the Par- pellites and auti-Parnellite County Cork, Ireland, one man and several ware seriously | Mhall, killed nt was njured, Girrs of money and clothing are urzently heeded at Bt. John's, Nowfoundlan the burned-out people being pra without Eheller ine Czar of walle aboard hi yacht, sent wo mperind Cham ber nin M 1 iH nin Lindho I . {i to him, The Chamberlain tri 1 on the cabin stairs and fell at the feet of the ( yar i taining injuries which result v how dea — - TY-SECOND CONGRESS FIF «3 i COX GRESS, In the Senate, 120111 DAY. Mr. Manderson int a bill directing the Becretary of affix the great seal of the United Stat the document entitled “The Administration of the Government of the United 8 roduced tate nt the Beginning of the 400th auniversary of the Discovery of America The Sundry Civil Appropriation bili was discussed 150r® DAY Mr, Washburn spoke in sup port of the Anti-Option bill ee (he proposal to close the World's Fair on Sunday was di cussed, 13187 DAY. ~The Anti-Option b put back upon the calendar, losing fa i t ous position Sunday closing of the World's Fair was discussed, 1320 Day. ~The World's Fair ria tion Lill was passed, The Quay pr so for unday closing of the Fair and the Pele amendment for prohibiting the sale of intox nor were adopted Committ The iz 1 ‘ m Bun ( t tee of the Whole w it that JUOr was red i apg or 1 Ge y 1oed Mi fuced tall y tow 1 Cas ) t Exp & req if a ig for a i | tors of the emp > I onl regard 1 H t ! but they { hear Mr werman introd 1 t jut f 4 f ’ known as the St " t he thly p Ki ON f : al f t 1] el |) t : i A bid 2 y i a In the Hons 1 tewart y 8 Pens \ Aris a ndi i » i J : and Ia Mae i law } _. mlery : 1 kY ' : we Mr. Whe submittal t ference report « os Milt Aca A por Li n i i De re ! » ag PT Lay ” : Mr. Beutiey a | was passed i priatis § ’ { the put 1 th oe ¥ ~N 3t | 5 — Mr » - LJ sotto a wa ¢ Lr tt i t f« a Appr mt 4 t oo herr Mr thw e 1 seated a Nisagresing reg 3 th ' Ap ‘ut : } A M * o fa Was Ye 1541 AY The re A Pi Con tional a THOR t MR Wa SOG eEs ™ Das The | ¢ var i tes t jer th i t wa by a vor ee The | then pr waned 1 st misiderat oon {ar w pore on vale bili 1201 Da Mr. Noott introduced a skiing 1 unlawful for a transport : ovnpany t arry aay body of armed whethe assuming 1 B01 as Gelectiy police for wn other than United States or Sate troops Mr. Raines introd W 1 bill appropriating, under riain condit Se 0 for the § I pom testing fn arronantios and a : J SUL gested by Hyland C. Kir the I ing Magazine for Fel ary, INE a Hous yielded the N t the Nava Appropriation bi ith Day Mr, Watson endeavored t Cre nsideration of a res m 1 ' vestigate the iabor troubles at t J {' Alene al and the « { e 1 ¢ but wa i ¥ fl in res 1 a Ww wi seler. General | formation as to wi ANY Dew oa J § has been estaldis & Mar % . the » int of pay 3 mile, and th priets Bes upon wi postal ser F ha not been pia i The 1 it WAS Wake fii to three The House w ft Int pillow the Wi # n . airy + Appropriatl | Mr. 1 in the cla A i the RIDSDG I it wer n 14 ii errant that in redation 1 1 World's Fa The H use then TOOK a "ih t x the night session was devoted to pet 1 Dusiness ——— -— POWDER MILL BLOWN UP, I'hiree Americans and Theee Chinese Killed in California An explosion occurred at the Judson Giant Powder Works near West Berkeley, twelve miles from San Francisco, Ca Just after 9 golock In the morning destroying the works and much property for several miles around, Five shocks were felt in San Francisco within a few minutes, the last four being of terrific foree, shaking buildings, cracking a namber of walls, and breaking piste glass in build. ines sight blooks up from the water frost Hix lives are known to have been lost three white men and threes Chinamen, Thousands of people visited the scene of the explosion next day and garsd wonderingly at the immense cavities dug in the side of the hill by the foree of the explosion, and at the wrecks of the buildings. Foe damage to the powder and chemioal works is sstimated at over $290,000 and bably $25,000 more damage was done in San Frascisco and Oak: land by windows breaking. ——— BURNED AND SUFFOCATED. Eight Children Lose Their Lives ina Buynisg Baliding, A terrible disaster at Barihampstoad Eagland, resulted lo the death of eight children, A planing mill baving caugh' flee the caretaker en leavoral to reac the bass nent, where his eight “hildren wers slosning, Fiva ware suffocatad on the staircase, while the other three wots burael t dest, The wifs was resousd frou: w., an upper | | * TORNADO SINKS A BTE Many Lives Lost Craft Frankie Folsom at PP On The river steamer Frankie Folsom, from Pekin, 11,, with seventy persons was sunk in Peoria Lake a few nig Twenty Jespite the efforts of the crew and cued passengers to mye them. When it wt th th was seen 1 v ened to vink the panic on board was heart Lo witness The passengers made frantic efforts to avold the awiul fate which stared thom in the face, and thelr appeals for help were pitiful to hear Professor Paine had been giving a pyro- technic display re for the past two weeks, and a good view of the extibition could obtained from the the northern par of the city, and large numbers on excursion boats and sm ywhonts took advantage of the free exhib It was a At over Peoria, 11) tion on lake Vie mile above the city, a represent 10 o'clock Unar ing death and ni w wide nm ( the } h that t : rh OF hut the Pleasure of her passengers wors arowned, FL par AMFR eoria, 6n board, his ago, the res. WHE sure rending AON destru Fars, a ation of se up b boat at reach » A THE M R LP AN ETS, Wholesale ( Onoted Late of in New Price Produce A AN A Sly ther: "3 : bern, pert Goess, W esters Nouthers 1 Igeons J $ DRESSED Ts Fi ures Mixed i . fiom inirt Fin : Kenshin tr ¢ Le. L brodlers wis-Nt and Ve Western, per I =e lect weights i) ks Western Eastery Spring 3a my Spur thera, ostcde 71) « LRITe Eastern shore hl : E wteorn shore, basket 186 Bquash Southern, mars per barrel, | Nouthern, yellow L. L, yellow, harrel Ia 1, white, barrel Tomatoes, Fla. carrier Asparagus, N.J dos bunches 1 Peas, 8. Jersey, i bbl, basket Long Island, perbag.... 1D Cucumbers, Charleston, crate Jersey, per basket String beans, LL. 1, ag. ... Tomatos, Bo, Jersey orate Maryiand, per crate, , al orate } LIVE STOR, Beever, Clty dressed, ...... 7 Mileh Cows, com. to good... 2 0 Calves, Clty dressed, ....... 8 Khoop, por 1000, .... 0.00. 578 Ei Tues susus aus 5 Hoge Live, por 100 Ibs. .... 615 Dressed ESE RRE sua " unas ORAIX, ®TC, Foun) ty Mill Extea..... 4 : saanssas susnsines tents Wheat-No, 7 Red yoifitate we FERRI RRR i a as Mixed. .... 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