A More than 700 lives of Columbus unve fboen written in various langua es, A daily paper can be sent from any part of the United States to Stanley Falls, in Africa, 1000 miles beyond Stanley Pool, for four cents. ” > The report by cable that the new Russian made rifles for three years the rearming of the io. York Sun, if defects in will defer fantry, seems, to tho New true, to be out of sight the most signifie cant item of news received from Europe in many months. Within six years Idaho has come to be a great fruit raising country, and is com- the Last year the Oregon peting sharply with California in Eastern markets, Bhort Line handled ples, peaches, pears, prunes aud grapes 4 carload lots of ap- for Deaver and Omaha, The American Farmer states that the American wool grower has a home mar- ket for every pound of wool he produc ent, About sixty-n per « manufactured in the home ¢ and the remaini own, one per cent, is foreign wool. In some parts of the West who become Populists are called ¢ pops” cans who desert to the and “Pop rats," the name of *‘Poplicaas. the West, the Chicago Herald, they don't want a new word in at anything. » Aye ria marrage 1 the ‘‘Levitical {opores jegree set forth in Leviticus xviii., an marriages of nephews and seemingly European country riage lawful. The Canadian Architect sensibly gests that in building brick houses in positions where they are not protected by roperty, not to forget surrounding p hol yw walls will add Weall earned jocrement. Some YORrS § bought a tract of timber land in St. County, Minnes ia, covered that forty acres and covered with an immense deposit of iron ore, 10,000,000 tons in sigh that it "ne cess! steam shovel. rights at rates 00 } year The C! nicogo were recorded no less than 3500 suicides States as co npared with n 1891. 1890 2224 gest haphazard a reasor 2640 in and sug for so serious an increase would be folly,” comments the New York ali rming and call for an Observer. are tion, ¢ number of iavestign A fifty per cent, three suicides within Years seems incredible. If the figures are CUTER ported by facts, we cannot too soon seek for the cause. Science is pressing relentlessly on the heeis of the microbe, notes the Chicago News Record: “The copiog with this of out of the abiding place in which it hes itself, method ol but potent literally cast it latest minute is to source disease installed Microorganisms con- tain sebstances for the most part heavier than water, aud this fact has led to the introduoction of a method of separating them from water, milk and other liquids by centrifugal force. A speed of about 4000 revolutions a minute serves to clear a large number of microbes from the liquid asd reader it limpid.” 1889. “To “The figures | It is said that the people of New Or. leans, La., maintain the most independ. ent attitude toward the dictates of fashion of any city in the land, In 1880 the average cost of teaching per annum for each pupil in the public schools of Chicago was $3.40. In 1802 the average cost of teaching was $16.20, The of valuable Russian furs have been almost quadrupled in Ger- Not all of them are genuine, as may be inferred from the worth prices many in recent years, fact that dead cats, which were two cents apiece a few years ago, now tost twenty-five to thirty cents each, Labouchere, of London Truth, acidly observes that ‘‘the British House of survived thus far because the majority of its members have sufficient sense never | . . | to show their faces, much less to let | | § their voices be heard, at Westminister.” Another bridge to connect New York ‘ The yh and Brooklyn has been begun, structure will be on the cantilever tem and its spans will be 150 feet high. The 50 over $10,000,000, be I's cost will be two great Jities will soon linked firmly together that, in opinion of the San France Chronicle, a common 18C0 municapal government will be absolutely necessary. struction in gathered fron statemet per, from whicl Government of St. Petersburg, one elementary school in of 500 han 200 villages, many of square versts, and amoag wh tain several thousands of inhabita ——— The winter and wet East this year proved a great bonanza to the rubber shoe manufacturers and deal. ers, who have sold out nearly all ther stock. So great has been the tion it is estimated that 1883 will have to 90 O00 OH 20,000,000 consump- output of the 1 by nearly pairs. caicuiates the Chicago Herald, will t the af the + Ca DM it) steamers rivaling the fastest afloat. pects of the Ameri on the ocean are brights the San Franciscc lay two Chinese damsels San Chronicle building. ‘hey rode up and down the elevator, visiting the different floors, opening the doors of several offices, ap parently for no other purpose than to see was inside, mesawhile all the what 1 lauzhing as if they When of them time jabbering an were wery much amused, ak ed who they were looking for one answered: **We no look for anybody J " we all the same slumming Says the Detroit may be cheap-—say eighty Ounce ~but its is much In mines at Creede, Col., si production cheaper, the three most prominent iver has Deon produced at twenty five cents an ounce, and the profits from these three Inst year were $1,000,000 on a $200,000 mines investment. Two Creede mines can pro. duce 5,000,000 ounces per annum. A mine at Aspen has been turning out 2, 500,000 ounces per annum, at a cost, it is said, of less than fourteen cents per ounce.’ _— The of the misused dredgers of the Chesapeake have excited wide sympathy, and a sunber of influ. ential societies in Baltimore have in mind stories oyster a headquarters where complaints can be lodged by the uafortuoate and 1nvestl. gation made and prosecution conducted by this headquarters against he wretches wha deceive and abuse the men they ship, In most cases, declares the Chicago Herald, the victims of these outrages are too peor to prosecute the offenders, but the proposed plan will obviate this dif. ficulty and losure a deserved punish. | neat, | BAYARD FOR ENGLAND, President Cleveland Sends ina Number of Nominations. Short Biographies of the More Important Appointees, sont follows the United Bayard, of Cleveland 75 Thomas F, 1 President ing nominations Senate: ware, to ary and Minister Plenipotentiary ty Great Britain; be Extraor linary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of ths United 24] , to States Delas be Ambassador Extraordin- wo Euvovs States: James D, Porter, of Tanne Chile: James A, McKenzie, of Kon! Peru; Lewis Baker of Minnesota, tn Nicara- gua, Costa Rica and Salvador; Pier H, B. Young, of Georgia, to Guaatimala and Lords, it must be remembered, has only | : Honduras: Edwin Dun, of Ohio (now Hoecre tary of Legation at Jaoan), to Javan, be Consuls of the United Rhaffer. of West Virginia Ontario: Harrison RR. Willlam to Vera Cruz: M y Maine, to Fit The phan, of Hlipois to Anoab inm T. Townes, of Virginia, Janeiro: Claude Meeker, of Ohio, ford: Newton B. Eustis of Lou Second tary of tl Lagat United States at Paris: John M of Pennsylvania, to be Assistan of the Interior, vies Cyru Henry J. Hathaway, of Maine, ( Customs for the distr Maine: Walter Goda tor Fairfleld, f Ohio, haries H, Btate to our, of ni; Nix Bussev, 1 " Colle of Georgia a representative » Fariyes » YORrs { age and, mw yer, farmer, Nationa He i= an ox Ww reg venth CO wal has foliowed t He was a rat fa two Deis ngresums Fair Coma Ona mong quae wis Baker, Nioaragus Ww, Is proprie sar WO He was 1} ber 7 West Nove Large from Nations ng advooat 4. His wa Dati, and a gra Attorne Brm o Atiants being | QUEEN OF THE SEA. Cruiser New York Proves Herself th Fastest W arship Afloat The United States cruiser Now York re tarned to Crams's shipyard at Philade phin after a private trial trip for the observation of her o v enn miractors, which indi cates that she will not only beat the required speed of twenty knots for a continuous run of four hours, but will be the fastest armor sd cruiser afloat, On a ten-mile course in Dela ware Bay she developed 10.95 knots going once seach way over the course, so that the tide might not enter into the maloulations Unt in deep water, where there ls no drag.” she developed an estimated speed of 20.04 knots per hour, and at ons time reached the figure 20.5; his is more than a knot higher than the Blake, the crack English cruiser soon to pa Hoipate in the naval parade, but is behind the foreed draught speed, which had to be abandoned on account of jeaking boilers, oi the Blenheim, the sister of the Blake. Fhe Blenheim, under natural dra ght, made 204 knots, which i= a sater record than thas shown by the New York on this trip. The Blake and Blennsim, however, are set down by the English Admiralty as usarmorsd eruisers, Tos New York is an armored eruiner of nearly 1000 tons less weight than the two English vessels — Tae Government of Seale, through the Bate Department, hav officially tenderad to the United States a gilt of the reproduced flag ship of Criumbus the Santa Maria, now sonewhers in the Gulf of Mexion, en route to this country to participate in the naval review and for a part of the Spanish exhibit at Calvago, — Ornoiar figures show that thers were #14 raliroad accidents In the United Mates in February, Of this number lity « our ware coll 5, 117 deradments and thirteen other nocidents, in which fifty-nine persots were killed and 308 injured, ole | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, : ALwenr (3, Herp, a faithful old messen gor In tae 8muioy of the Pacific Bank, New York i blew out his brains in the bank be L apparently, that his days of usefulness wers over. He was getting too wen to work, toed was sixty eight years of age, : Percy Grasg nnd saven and nine years wandered into the oon dead, it berries, Lewis Dowolf, ange of Corning, N. Y., mntry and were found 8 supposed from eating poisonous Josern Banas ville & and wile, of EF : Mechanics wulle driving BOT ONE raliroad at slrucy | the Stiples Station, Ponn,, wera engine ant fatally iojured by at Coxe's iron breaker at Oge In, Pe only one of its kind in the « It cost $250,000, CoMMssionenr or Punic New York C ty, b watershed waatry, burae | MAD ni w the rk in ths Webster law tl ton under irning a dwelling house condemning many nuisance Tug Clothing tained from Judge Lawrer weme Court, New York Manufacturery ( i" ou that praciically 1 t t sociation the Su mi rary Ban oited Garment Workers ir boyoott FOUR of Uncle Bam's era Pulindelphia, the Yorktow thi | , and the torpado Hr Lig N 1 ¥ iviu 78 West, RINBY OM south and : | ) ¢ the District Belfast, M ase of t eo United he treaty ition Iw itan HE case and inter States and Great Britair to arbitrate the Bering iw aunt to the United States 8 poder t diff lee, wore sin a tween he nate and as th My went AiO made publ Ly Houses of Parliament in London, They prised altogether four printed matter transmissor teen volun J Gexehal, Hinax Brroax, the the famous Berdan long rpedoes and rifle, disd Mots Po in Wash been Hl for some § wit { rangs ldeniy t sna itan Ulab RisLey, niled atl ‘ox E Denmark, noagen shortly stampad Ive been placed on be principal { { the design of the stamp Impress spread eagle, the denominations corresp ng in color w those of the adhesive Columbian Foreign. Pazsipexr Leiva, of Honduras signed, and ex President Bograa has asa charge of the Government Tur German Government has decided to raise the Washington Legation to an em bassy, in view of a similar change being made in the representative of the United Ntates in Berlin CROLERA has broken out with great virn lence in the Duteay of Bukowina on the Russian frontier, Henn Ruaawors, the German corre spondent expelied from France, was at tacked by a mob on his way to the railway station, Tux groater part of the arsenal in Lille, France, was burned, All the apparatus used in charging cartridges and melinite shells was destroyed. Loss, $300,600, Tue Ribot Cabinet was beaten hy five majority on a question of finance in the French Chamber of Deputies: the Miaisters resigned, but agreed to romain in ofl 0s tem porarily. Draran from cholera are said to be of datly ocourrencs in Bt Porersburz, Russia, Dura a «torn a fishing sshooner oon taining Miochao!l Fagan and his son, Jotun and Michael Briggs, Patrick Hanlon and Joseph Delury was oapuzsl near Caplin Cove, Sova Sootia, and all the men wers drowned, MaocMaxus & Sows, bankers of Chihos. hus, Mexico, have suspended, with Habili- ties of $1,000,000. The csuss of the suspen. ston was land and mining speculations, A Virxxa physician sent to southeastern hae wed Ww [] works DaLy, barn and | bowever, are well re Hungary to report on the progress of the cholera, says that toe epidemic is spreading rapidly in that region A RERELLION In Covta pressed Oy toe proup ernment, Major Tuomas M States Consul at Malaga since at the Consulate was malizuant smallpox SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES. Good Showing tor the First Quarter of the Rica was sup action of the Gov Newson, United diel nn few days The cause of dentin Present Year I'he quarterly statement of Southern in- Tradesman { for the first dustries pPrepari by the Chattanooga, 1804 , shows that the lished exceed those 1502 by 105, While year 8 de been quarter of new industries estas this only have noopors period of last year formed quarter just ended also sl 76 cotton Ta blished, WOUr and grist Annin il mills, nnd ay a 1 woolen mills « mills, 20 « the bull I hat g factories, hing ol tha Bouth are not | capital is wood-workis during th wal Quarter “2 and 1 in s heads the | % in this ner cr 2 Carolina are cl ! All of the} presen ts opment, Mississippi, w thie nrat TIM ins Lo ne peciiy est num ber Deventy ————_———— HORRORS OF SIB! LJ Brutal Scenes Witness Satior DAKN, rkable Vrioes Rem viver i} quenanns who naar HY carried away whee the barn wers ten Price gave ug stock again, expe break up and the but the animals a1 a lucky star The barn upon the | sided and near Belin down the river There w and this nishe » ) 171 TT nmin AGRICULTURAL INQUIRY, Saba ommittecs of the Senate Ap pointed ta Make Investigations, Henate he Committes In April last the Unite]! States passed a resolution directing | on Agriculture and Foredry to invastigate 1 the ondition of the agricaltural interestsf ’ United States, and if found de pressed cs ascertain the osuse, and inquire into tin proper remedy Sub-commitiess made & partial investigation in regard to the eotton industry The continuance of the investiga. tion was authorised. The committes has appointed a sub-committee consisting of the Chairman, Mr, George, and Senators Bate and Proctor, to inquire into the matter so far as cotton Is concernsd, and Senators Peller, Roach and Washburn, to invests gate the cuitivation of wheat, oats ete. I is understood that each subcommittee will go 10 work at an early day, and make the Investigation as thorou th as practioabls, a ———————— LONG-LIVED TRIPLETS. Three Hrothers Celebrate Thelr Fir tieth Birthday in Kentuoky, The Bomebright brothers, triplets, John, James and Jncob, a few days ago eslebrated their Aftieth birthday at the home of James, aoros the Ohio River from Ripley, Oblo, in Kentucky. John is a busdoess man of farms in K . All E ——_ entuoky are Mich, while Jamas and Jacob Fm father of & in*vs farily, —- AT HOME AND ABROAD. Important Happenings as Told by Telegraph and Cable, A Singular Double Tragedy in a New York Gun Shop. One of ths saddest tragedies annals of New York Ci o'clock gun store of Hartley & Gratinn William W,. R thirty years past had t a few afternoon Brondway export department killed Miles V. Kelly, the bouse, and ther against himsell, inf Absolutely no motiv oariain pee stricken W hil Senatorial Confirmations United Stat Senate |! bY] LL M1 renara amt retary of ne of Norwalk £3 da | 3 i ha] a i wing Bomninst sours. to Consul William H, Simms, of ( First Assistant 8 an KN b Commies Alen ts ward A B Was D.C, to bs Assistant ( nmission Land OF He CB Marshall Hi. to be 8 nd Drouty wer of Pensions; George Pleiffs New Jersey, to be Marsha! of the Stats | Neymour, wears, the (seners we the District Now Jorse Cholera Again Raging It n Russia that 1 Aver { cholera and ity dea are rep wiles every of Podolia Cholera has a ket town of Gabole, beets made by the suthor | disease, but despite their oTort | ing. Three deaths from « already occurred, and several were reported, sstated in an werk Peas The Girls Will Attend to the Lamps, The Young Women's Christian ance Union propose some practical terpers | anos work in Evota, Minn, The village re cently voted “No loeose,” and the liquor men pave sald that without liomse fem tore would be no public lighting of the streets, The young women obinined charge of the street lamps, raised money for oll by sub soription, and allotted a lamp So each girl, whose pleasure it will be to keep it trimmed and burning. Tobacco and Cotton Crops, The acreage in tolmons will be from eight. oon Yo twenty per osnt, less than it was last year. Prices have not beens goo! and there I an oversupply, Notwithstanding that the crop of last roars cotton is nearly 4 000,000 bales short, the price has not goneup. Yet the acre. nie wil be inoreasad [rom ten to twenly per oun AML Per Pevished in Flames, The mining town of Kasrnteo, near Risk berg. Germany, has been almost destroyed ¥ fire, When two churches and five houses aad been destroyed the rl spreads Fifteen were known to have bt es Hm at rl ohn ror were
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