P——— ———— i —————; — The United States contain more than 1700 distinet and separate railways, It is now held that there were two distinct epidemics of cholera in Europe last year. Mortality is greater among the Alas. kaus than among any other citizens of the United States. The Congress of Colombia at its late session appropriated $150,000 a year for the encouragement of foreign immigra- tion. General Harrison 1s the only surviving ex-President of the United States; Mr. the only living person who the office of Vice-Presi. Morton is has occupied dent. The Courier-Journal lcarns that Pro. fessor Wiggins lays the blame for the cold weather, the chylera and the rest of the ills with which the earth has recently been tween Jupiter and Mars, afflicted on the conjunction be- Travel from the North to Florida has never been greater than during the pres- ent season, declares the Chicago Herald, and the large sums of money that have been invested in railroads and hotels to ! accommodate this travel are paying good dividends. he recorded by the Detroit Free Press, is a bill requiring all the butterine that market mark being evideace colored to the that he is not buying the genuine article. to be purchaser No special provision seems to have been made for the protection of those who are color blind. The St. Louis Star-Sayings is con. vinced that a little learning is not so dan gerous a thing after all. Eaglish insur ance statistics show that fifty per cent, of the authors and statesmen, forty-two the tha tomes the lawyers, per cent, of cent. of clergymen, thirty per twenty-seven per cent, of the teachers and twenty-four per reach cent, of the doctors the age of seventy. With France still in a many looking the tail of troubled and the Czar of ferment, Ger- for some one to tread on Italy all the Russias its coat, financially hiding in a bomb-proof cellar it was a great sight, exclaims the Washington Star, to see President Cleveland bow and smile to hall a million represanta- tives of the happiest and most loyal peo- ple in the world, The Chicago Herald that French worn out ponies on the nileges syndicate is buying up froatie :r for ex- port to Paris, the intention being to con vert them into food for the people of the gay metropolis. Hippophagy in France has evidently become a disease, for » healthy stomach would bardly crave the flesh of spavined horses in preference to the healthlul beef trom the Chicago abat toirs, According to the Baltimore American Mr. Cleveland has a middle-aged Cab inei, Their ages are thus given: Cleve- land, fifty-six years; Stevenson, fifty- eight; Gresham, sixty-one; Carlisle, fifty-eight; forty-one; Herbert, fifty; Bissell, forty-six; Lamont, Olney, fifty. Morton, Secretary Herbert's short arm eight; Smith, thirty eight; sixty, can sympathize with Secretary Greslfam’s short leg. It was a Federal bullet in the Wilderness mer and a Confederate bullet near At. that shortened the for- lanta that shortened the latter. Baron Bleichroeder, the Berlin banker, is dead, the system for the purpose of restoring specie pay- the syndicate which undertook justment of Austria's currency ments, He was the author of that por- of the di- rected the currency of foreign exchanges as to draw the flood United States, which now has amounted to nearly $100,000,900 in There is no reason, however, to suppose that gold shipments will cease account of Bleichroeder's death. tion movement which so of gold from the two years, oa A mathamatician, who evidently has abundant leisure, has been figuring, re. ates the New York News, on the size of the mortgage we should now be earrying if Columbus had pledged this country for the cost of his outfit, Btarting with the asumption that the expenditure cost Isabelle $40,000, he adds joterest compoundea every six months, At the present time the amount foots up nearly 271 quadrillion dollars, Taking the population of the United States at 65,000,000, the little obligation reaches nearly 417 million dollars for each inhabitant, Jt is con- sequently a great relief to know that Columbus never set foot on North America. It would be very embarrass. ing to have a musty mortgage for that dizzy figure presented, with the cus. © tomery notice of foreclosure. latest legislative break in Missouri, sold in ! pink, this | millionaire He was one of | ad- | The small towns furnish more murders than the large cities, in proportion to population. ————————————— It is estimated that at least fifty per cent, of the barns burned are fired from smokers’ pipes, cigars and cigarettes. Many New York brokers are said to have earned in commissions more than $1000 per hour during the Reading cyclone, There are now well equipped canning factories in almost every State in the and Union whose products of land sea are preserved in air tight cans. In Canada they call this country “The States.” Then why, asks the New York Independent, may not the riddle of a name for our people be solved by calling us ‘‘States-ment?”’ The operation of the English system of tithes for the of a Btate Church is the case of twelve support illustrated by large farmers in the parish of Tendring, who have had to raise $3000 & year among them for tithes. In commenting on a recent novel of New England life by Miss Mary E. Wil. “The dialect has evidently been taken direct kins, the London Academy says: from the life; it is singuiar how nearly it resembles that commonly heard in the | Weald of Kent and Sussex.” — Says the Minneapolis Times: Defalea- tion is altogether too common. established good name and unblemished character, a lifetime of fair dealing, all Hy the reputation which business men would once have spent years of self-denial to obtain, begins to lose its We lo We go about asking whom we can tri commercial t everybody, 1 3 x vaiue. JX ASKRNCS a Flying foxes are distressing the culturists in some parts of Australia a local paper that says at the pre rate of increase it is greatly feared they will soon become almost as great s men~ of the foxes, about four miles from Erina, New 100.000 of ace as the rabbit pest. A camp South Wales, contains fully the pests, ‘‘and when disturbed they rise like a cloud obscuring the sun.” In the last fifty years four Vice-Presi- dents have succeeded to the Presidential chair. Joba Tyler was the first; be suc- ceeded William Mill. Was served out Genaral Henry Harrison. ard Filmore the second, and Zachary term. Andrew Johoson and Chester A. Arthur Presidents have died in office from natu. complete the list. Oaly ral causes, Two have been assassinated. fad of The most The doom of another educational The French Volapukists has is sealed. association dissolved. energetic apostle of the language which was expected to set right the confusion caused by the affair at Babel has recent 1y taken the post of Professor of German in a provincial college. There have been other setbacks and the great object of reforming the linguistic evils of the world has Paris is concerned, been abandoned as far as The silk hat, that most characteristic article of London attire, is said to be a indicator of prosperous or hard The Chancery lane and Gracechurch street, sure times in that city, denizens of those who are found about the Temple and the exchanges. if briefs are plenty and business blooming, flaunt it jn the But ironed and do the bad, and glossiest of new tiles, if business is slow the old ones are longer service. Just now, notes New York Sun, those of the hatters of the Eaglish me. business is tropolis who are not going bankrupt are growling and grumbling with all their might, The New York Advertiser says: “Be ginning with Grant's second inaugura. tion in 1873, a peripd of twenty years, during which six Presidents have been inaugurated, the 4th of March fell on The 4th of 1873, was a bitter cold and blustering pleasant days only twice. day, There was neither snow nor rain, but the temperature was so low that death reaped a large harvest among those who participated in the parade, The 4th of March, 1877, when Hayes was insugurated, was a miserably damp, pueumonia-breeding day. The 4th of March, 1881, when Garfield was in. augurated, and the 4th of March, 1885, when Cleveland was first inaugurated, were both pleasant dags. Mr. Harri. son's Insugural address was delivered in the midst of a pouring rain, and Mr, Cleveland's second oath of office was taken while the snow beat upon his bared head. There is no sort of justifl. cation for the retention of this date for this important ceremony, It will always be made a spuctacle, Surely it is not necessary to slay the people to celebrate the change in the administration of a Republican Government, Let the date be changed in the interests of bumasity.” A long | he | Tay lor's | two | THE NEW ADMINISTRATION, Cleveland Sends in a Bateh of Appointments, Senate Confirms a Lot of Nominations, The President Cleveland sent ths following nominations to the United States Sanate: James B, Bastis, of Louimana, to be En- voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- tentiary of the United States to France Theodore Runyon, of New Jersey, to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- poteotiary of the United States to Ger. many; Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, to tbe Commissioner of Railroads: John E. Risley, of New York, to be En. voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- tentiary of the United States to Denmark; James G, Jenking of Wisconsin, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh be Indiana; nite! Btates Ark (BIR LM i Territory ited States Marshal for the United ourt for the Indian Territory, Frank B. Barke, of lndiana, to be United States Attorney for the Dated f Indiana; Clifford L of the Indian Terri. tory to woney of the United States Ceurt Indian Territory: James W, Houw, Arkansas, Un ted States Attor ney for the Eastern distriet of Arkansas THEODORE Ernest FP. Baldwin, of Marylanl, to be First Auditor of the Treasury: Thomas Hol comb, of Dilaware, to be Fifth Auditor of the Treasury. James B. Eastis, appointed Minister to Fraooe, sa native of New Orleans, La, and is fifty-nine years old, Attended Harvard Law Bebool, 1858-54. He was in the Conleder- ate service first as Judge Advocate on Gen eral MceGruder's staff, later, to close of war, on General Johnston's staff Served in State Legislature prior to reconstruc tion. Was United States Senator from De cember 10, 1877, to March 8, 1879. Then be came Professor of Civil Law in the Univer. sity of Louisiana, but was again elected to the United States Senate in 15%, for the term ending March 3, 1801, Theodore Runyon is one of the prominent RUNTYOX, he was twice bean its candidate for Governor, at one time during the war, Early mn the war Be LOOK COMMANG 0 A FeZIment Of New Jor: troops and served with distinction, He Hives In Nowark, Wade Hampton, appointed Railroad Com. was born In Charleston, 8, C,, life ho served in he Btate ture, He from the United States Senate to about forty-nine years of age. He was born in Knox County, Indiana, near Vincennes, and nearly twenty-nine years ago went to New York, Heisa man of means, with a handsome country seat at New Rochelle, James G. Jenking, appointed Judge of the Beventh Judicial Court, is a native of New York, and comes from a fine old fam- ily. He is the grandson of Chancellor Wal- worth. His brothers are lke him, all law yers, one of them practicing in New York and another In Louisville, Ky. Judge Jenkins has resided in Wisconsin for the past thirty years, and has been for much of that time one of the foremost law vers of the Btate, The appointment of Walter D. Dabney, of Vv Irginia to be Solicitor of the Ntate Depart ment, is but the transfer of an official from pr department to another Mr. Dabney ns been connected with the Inter-State Commerce Commission [or sone time and has conducted the legal business of that com mission, Thomas Holcomb, of Delaware, appointed Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, is forty-eight Years old, and has been a lawyer all his lite, This will be his first office, He always been active in politics, The Senate has confirmed the following nominations: Josiah Quincey, of Massachu- setts, to be Assistant Secretary of State: has Isaac ¥. Gray, of Indisna, to be Eavoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Mexioa; James B Eustis, of Louisiana, to Minister to France: Patrick A. Colling, of Massachu- setts, to be Consul of the United Biates at London: Robert A, Maxwell, of New York, to be Fourth Assistant Postmaster-isneral; Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, to be Commissioner of Rallrosds; William Mc Adoo, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Sec retary of the Navy, and several Postmasters, Additional Nominations, baie The President also has sent the following nominations to the Senate: 1aterior-—-John 8, Seymour, of Connect cut, to be Commissioner Patents Silas W. Lamoreaux, of Wisconsin, to be Commissioner of the General Land Office, William H., Sims, of Mississippi, Ww be First Assistaut Secretary of the Interior, Edward A. Bowens, of Washington, D.C. Assistant Commissioner of the Centra Land Offic to bw oT Tennesse } y for the ’ for Ls Jue, United States | Arkansas, tory: Ernest PF, Baldwir First Auditor of the mb. of De i Fonry aware, Lo ix and a number PERISHED IN FLAMES. Fire in an Apartment House in Cleve. land Hesalts Fatally reasury, Naor fire was dis death, of three burned 1 handsome One hall rans the the Du pets on either side ih Ly way of slory Were ugh the ir worked her ally, but i" first woman was blind and nad I thers nt hall, rescue those cut « he body of the that of Mrs, Somers, v Was gr pod her way fo the siairs Aw ail got as far as the second story fr when they wire suffocated by the smo Their bodies were huddled together Mrs, Mary E. Abbey, widow of Judge Abbey, was found there. She was sixty-five years oid. Mis Jessie Hunt, a daughter of Mra Somers, and Mrs. Hunt's I guter were with her Kbortiy alter the fire starte! Mro Somers and Mra Abbey were seen at the front window in their endeavor to escape. Mrs, Somers then loft the window to go to her room. When she returnsd she struck the window. Then she fell back out of view RE —— A TOWN BURNED. und fant dau Every Store and Residence in Purvis Miss, Destroyed, M ine lailroad, on the New 10) The town of Purvia Orleans Northeastern Meridian, destroyed south of Was cendiaries a few nights age Shortly ap «od to five buildings in different portions of tne town, and within two hours lime almost every store and residence in the piace was wipeiout, The people ran pant stricken into the streets, and the greatest excitement prevailed The Western Union Telegraph office was burned, but (rom the passengers who passed Purviz on a northbound train it was learned that the conflagration was the result of a bitter feeling between the white people and the colored people, growing out of the ar rest of & colored preacher, The colored people fired the town in revenge. A posss of citizens Jeft Meridian for Purvis on a special train late in the afternoon, A POSSIBLE CASUS BELLI. France May Call Germany to Account for Furnishing Arms to Behanzin, after midnight the torch was France seems to have found a casus bell against Germany in the latter's action in Dahomey, Africa, The charge that Germans furnish arms to spondence between may lead to serious consequences, prolonirteinighad ihe vin, otto gravee leads in the lumber cut of Maine in 1802, the amount of this wood cut beitg 00. 811,927 feet, Pine comes next with 9, . 840.72 feet, Of hemlock, the cut was i, 257,048 feet, of cedar 42,504,701 feet, and of hardwoods 8,177,147, a total of Ti0,081.545 foot, CRotEnA is taking a new start in the delta of the Ganges, taking a northeasterly course =the same route by which it traverse! last , dreads enforoe any: | shipp THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Midd States, Tae City Treasurer of Holyoke, Mam,, hag found the missing esrtifiontes of stock of the Holyoke and Westfield Railroad owned by the city and which have been lost for nearly twenty years, They represent $225, . 000, The certificates were found In the Mayor's office, which is used as a storehouse for old papers, AT Providence, the Republican Conven tion in Rhode Island renominated 1), Ros seli Brown for Governor; the Democrats nominated David 5, Baker, AT the Hedington (Penn.) proving ground of the Bethlehem Iron Company there was n test, the success of which resulted in the acceptances of 50) taas of armor for the bat tleship Texas by the representatives of the Government Prixcess Karvrasi of Hawaii salled from New York for Eogland the Ma jostic with her party, among whom were her guardian, Theodore H, Davia, Miss Davis and Miss Whattoff, IMPROVEMENTS on the North River (pont, on New York City, to cost ¥10, 908 956.40, were | approved by the Dock Board Carvryre W. Hanns, the wife was taken from the Tombs, New Y to Bing Sing Prison and was put in confinement In the execution house, bearing throughout was serene, Danaonar, ork City, solitary South and West, alley at 8t, Louis, Mo., Eagle Nest, Scott Jon e8, 6 whits a colored woman were ana killed by Louis Kemnade, a white bartender The trouble originated over a game of cards In an wan, and ghot Worro's Fain stock went begging on the Exchange. Joux Teruy red, robbers and at Hazlehurst, Miss Chicago McCoy, oo were hanged and Benjamin murderers the Cheyenne Country, Oklahoma, wiole townships have been swept by prairie fires, and hundreds of cattle have perished, J.J. Ewegns, a brains of Mrs Francisca, Cal She refused to asked Miss May 54 3 RI, Af ainda t tt Limgy out t farm hand, Christina Oasbott , and then K marry Ub Miller to refuse Marey When in ti treet he bLred pot Then be ded himselt Ine United Fish mmission wd six fish from bead, on 1 in the Oar CRETARY CARLIELE he lremsury Lhepar recommending wn the 13th of April i hones Jefferson Sexarorn Warruans been appoiulel one o Deaf and Dumb Instite Columbia in pla HS necticut, resigned, talian ste ruiser Etna sailed for New ¥Y to take part in the naval parade, The ¢ caravels Piata and Nina reached Havana, Cuba, under convoy of the Nowark and Beanington. Taey wil ed 0 New York t take part in the naval parade Sexaron Joux D. Moncax, United States representative io the Bering Sea arbitra- tion, recoverad from the accident he met with recently on the steamship New York and left London for Paris Querx Vicromia left Portsmouth on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert for (taly She will spend the spring near Florence Tux Mayor of Moscow, Russia, was shot in the abdomen with & revolver oy a man named Adricanoff. He died shortly after ward, Adricanoff was arrested GREAT alarm was f=it in Rome on account of the work of dynamiters, eight bombs b ing found or exploded during one day Tur arrival in Havana, Caba, of the Co- lumbus caravels was made the oooasion of great rejowcing. Tar funeral of Jules Perry took place at the Luxembourg in Paris, France, A pony of Galician peasants crossing the Tae | rs HUENDUs i proo frontier at Sgczuczya encountered the Ruse | sian frontier guards, who arove them back to Austria, in the conflict some were shot and others ware drowned in the Vistula Tix Russian Government has suspended | the coinage of sliver rubles on private so- | count, for the resson that the silver rable is | now cheaper than paper, A BAXD of revolutionist: entered the town of Allegretta, Brazil, which they sacked, Toe residents resistod the ravages, and in the fight which followed forty per. sons were killed, Then the revellers aban. doned the town, KILLED WIFE AND SISTER. Then a Mob Took Him From the or ficers and LL ynched Him, William Frazier, a miner, lived with Lis wife and babe at Carbondale, lowa, A few days ago, on account of Frasgier's drunkenoess and abuse, his wife took her babe, left him, and went to Hiteman to stay with her sister, Mrs, Smith, ; When be called next day he stabbed hee and her sister to death and multilated his babe, cutting one leg nearly off, A Sheriffs posse captured him in the woods that evening. A wob of miners tosk him from the officers and lynched him, SENATOR HARRIS HONORED. He is Elected President Pro Tem. of the Senate, In the United States Senate at Washing ton Mr. Maoderson tendered his resigustion of the office of President pro tem. to which he was elected two years ago, The resignation was on motion of Mr, steamship ! and His ! | the ocean cannot be disputed, bat | of the | Wi Je oture Known as | | the steamship strucy instantly | i season for joe 10 be adrift « { of persons who | steamer | bresdih, s— THE NARONIC LOST, Two of Her Lite Boats Are Picked Up at Sea, After long-contivued anxiety ragarding the fate of the White Htar line freight steamship Naronie, which salle! from Liv. erpool on February 1ith for Rew York, and which had not sines been heard of, news has been received showing beyond a doubt that the vessel is lost, The British steamship Coventry, Captain Wilson, from Fernandina reports that at 2 delock on the morning of March 4, sho passed a lifeboat painted white benring the name Naroni The boat Wik floating kewl ip ward. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the day another lifeboat from passed, This boat gave evidence « havia encountered heavy weather, The mast and oars of the lifeboat had been lashed together and attached to the painter and then thrown averbofrd as a sea anchor to keep the boat's head up to the wind and ses, Ju appearances neither of the boats been adrift. The position of boats was about south by west on the banks of Newfoundland All doutt as to the fate of the Naronic has been dispelled by the sighting of her life boats hat she fs now at the bottom of the matter of RING Narouie was ’ the CaAUSe fisaster is, of course, still a latit ade and that It may be, judging from the longitude in wiicy the boats either a de or an is sll rather in the ’ far south as the were sesn reict ieeberg, though it early Banks, Mr, Kersey, f the agent, I were on board the I At seventy This has been oom low, as besides her crew of sev and men ste mint have had at or twenty-five cattiemen on Los to this country. She was the afloat ALHDENSIONSs ures Lhe nu largest fre and registers were: Leng fest ther fifty-three thirty-five {eet mix Inches She was Ntted with A— -— THE LABOR WORLI chester, Eng anv, forthwith if the reduction of per cent. The Feder inners meeting od 1 Tir arriers ng as great hem | {f the Supreme | iaw Toe court b for all work in exoe must be paid extra they may works days is pot material, other Jews LOoxpox policemen, Ww At jest not an In os iderabie number them, are try ron a labor union About twenty police men, “wid to slready Le me of a union,” were present as a meeting of trade unronists in that city lately and told of the grievances of the polic: and their desire to vand themselves in a union for the protec tion of their interests say £ ag to i nbers Taz new French law relative to the em ployment of children and women in fac tories, ete, prohibits the employment of children mn workshops, factories, mines quarries, etc, unies they have recsved a ertifioate of physioal fithess for the work from a medionl man authorized to grant sich oertificates. The inspectors of labor can always demand to have children in such establishments under the age of =xiesn medically examined, to determine whether the work they are onlied on 0 do » beyond their streugtn. FOUR SAWYERS KILLED. Fatal Result of a Boller kxplosion in a Sawmill A fatal accident has cocurrel at a saw mill on the Skunk River three north of Lockridge, lowa, whereby four men have Jost their lives and several weriously The engineer had allowed of the boilers of the engine to run ut water, A workman noticing the danger and thinking to avert a calamity, sealed his own doom and that of his fellow workmen by ine jocting cold water into the bolier, causing it to explode with a fearful report, tearing the building to pieces and blowing nim to atoms The A were: John Adams, saw tender; Engineer Gates, Awistant Eagineer Bal doogier, a boy of the name of Eshelman, Among the injured were: Michael Hovern, owner of the mill; Theodore LAlybiaie, both probably fatally nurt, The bodies of the dead men wore all hor ribly mutilated and in some oa only eos ognized by their clothes, ASPEN'S SILVER QUEEN, Unvetling a Statue Containing $20, 000 Worth of Metal, The Aspea Silver Queen was uevelled a few evenings ago at Aspen, Ool., in the presence of a large crowd. Mayor Rose, Chairman of the Citissnw’ Committee, made mues were injured ne ¥
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