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K3e.EVrERY FRIDAY MORNING, Write cmman'cations enly on one : ,4 ide oi tin rief. - : w - . .... -r- v i - - . - r;i .4: if J H . 2 i t '! ' IS ' If' 'il M - f I b " -" I is " 4 - r 'S I EDITORIAL XOTES. a i-p-w vears aero a measure was adopted prodding for the gradual manu mission'of slaves in Cuba. This worked exceedingly well indeed, and u der it 285,000 slaves have' already been peace fullyliberated, with' entire satisfaction to the owners. J here are now hardly more than 100,000 graves pn the island, and moat of them will be set free during the year. niv: tvyttv ' Krwton. who has made a study of modern explosives, says that nO agent can supplant gunpowder r he principal requirements f war f71 In Wasting rock the higher ex -rJ..-l4We ay be employed, exeept wneit the rock is weak in cohesion, when gun powder is preferable. ' In coal mines the higher explosives are too destructive in their action. Dynamite as a destructive agent for unlawful purposes can bnly be applied on a. limited sea e, 4 and with nearly fruitless results, as time, money and elaborate preparations aie required for effective woik. The World's exposition at New Or leaus, will devote 247 acres to lakes and - gardens, showing the rarest tiees and " plants of . Mexico, Central America Florida and foreign countries. Horti cultural hall will be 600 by 184 feet. . Mr. P. J, Berckmaus, of Augusta, Ga., has beea appointed a special commis sioner to confer with various European societies in reference to the fruit arid plaut display. 'I he collective Mexican exhibit will be an immense thing, occu pying a . building 1,400x900 feet. Ac companying this eihibit will be a Mexi can band and a - battalion of . Mexican troops. The exposition will receive lib eral encouragement from the leading countries of the world. - - Beer as an article of diet has been ' discontinued in at least 27 pauper lunatic : asylums in England, with the result that in no' instance ha - the apparently impor- tant change led to any sort of physiologi cal inconvenience. Many of the super intendents, in whose asylums the modi fication was made,- and through thern many ot the patients testify cordially to I ?Jpts refcerlts jatf Tfrorjp;. tbg cn?p jb. , . 7 The question, sayB the Journal ot Mental Science, is not one of teetotalism, or even . primarily of a financial order, but one oi , ' pure expediency and good management. . : in an proDaDUity tne disuse ot beer aa ; an element of the diet of pauper lunatics . ; in EngUsh asy urns will be more ex lenaea . ana wui be watcned witu in- : . terest. " The latest estimates place the popula tion of the globe at 1,433,800,000, indi a : . fc.1 ! , xi i .-, mining a ueuieaiso iu ine last tnree years of some 22,000,000, though, as a matter of fact, there has been an actual increase of s me 33,000,000. I his apparent dis crepancy is accounted for by the fact thai the population of China has heretofore been largely over e timated. ,In reference to our own country the -statistics slxow that no ' country in the history of the world ever had such a composite pnpu- lauon, leaving but four cent from othei countries, and from white races of other types, and thirteen per cent for those ol African descent. Probably" no other coiintr y on the face of the globe can show such a diversity and at the same time such a substantial unity of race and descent. xn& recent enscovery of tin ore at King's Mountain, North Carolina, ia at- rT i - : tracting considerable attention. Several seiehtists Visited King's Mountain a few days ag9, and found quantities.of tin ore scattered over the ground all through the town. . Striking : hill-side several ditches were dug, but without rmmiug Rcross a vein of ore. The discovery was made in a singular manner. Several 5ecimens of black looking ore were sent to the Boston exposition, and marked "unknown." An examination showed it to be tin ore of t-e richest quality, yield ing 75 per cent of tin. There are only three. tin-bearing mines in the world and thVe is a standing reward' of $50,000 offered for the. discovery of one in the United States, Following the announce montof the. North Carolina discovery comes the report of the finding of vast tin deposits within three miles of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Soudan is the name given to the vast extent of territory in upper Egypt that 3tretches from Nubia to the confines of Abyssinia and from the Eed Sea to the Lybian desert This vast and dreary territory is inhabited by some thirty or forty millions ef Arabs of various tribes. The proposed control which, England ia preparing'to exercise over the Soudan ia not in the nature of the recovery, of a re volted state nor the chastisement of a refractory people, nor eve a the suppres sion of the slave trade, but it renews the old conflict between Christian civDiza tion and Mohammedan barbarism., The . triumph of Tel el-Keoir did not conquer Modem fanaticism. The hatred of the Mahommedan againstthe Christian and asrainst civilization is innate and irre pressible. This hydra-headed monster la .4-J i .. . " ucau ana wLfn it ia qniet it i only dreaming oMAIhambra the walls of Vienna, and of overrunning one day the civilized -world, j TnE cigarette is a harmless looking thing,'but in the opinion 'of many well posted peop e it contains about as much poison to the square inch as any one ar ticle that could be named. The cigar ette busine s started in this country about fifteen years ago. American cigar ettes were npve ties, and attracted favor able attention from the start. The rapid growth of the business and its present magnitude will be better understood when it 58 stated that in 1882 600.000. 000 cigarettes were manufactured in this country of which New York furnished 444,092,867. One' hundred and eighty-, .litferent brands of cigarettes have been manufactured in the last 'fifteen years. Of these seventy-one varieties have had their day and ceased to exist. The .original American 'cigarettes had mouthpieces in imitation of the Euro pean article. The price was then twenty; cen'ts a package, but since mouthpi -ces went ont of fashion the price dropped to tenceiits. It is ass rted t !i t t" the tobacco used in the manufacture of iwirettes is of a meaner grade than that i '.: 1 in the cheapest cigars. It is adulterated with saltpeter to prevent moulding, and this use of saltpeter is said by medical men to be highly injurious to the vital func tions. I he oil of the cigarette piper wrappers is said to be e ven more poison ous than the oil of tobacco. The major ity of cigarette smokers are very young people, principally boys, and not a. few girls. Physicians specify the following as among the evils spring ng from the habit: palpitation of the heart, indiges tion, catarrh in the head, asthma, pneu monia, bronchitis, morbid craving fof drink, destruction of the nerves of the eyes. In New', Jersey a law has been passed making it a penal offense to sell cigarettesor tobacco to minora under sixteen years of age, and a similar bill ia now pending in the New York Iegis a ture. There is a disposition everywhere to suppress or check aa much as possible the habit of cigarette smoking. The vice leads to re ults as injurious as any produced by the use of alcohoJ, and thei I ftyartca, mental an moral decayyocca-i J Bioiiea.DyT.ue practice cannot iavi w iuim our hospitals, asylums, jails and cemete-j ties, unless a halt is speedily called, fl ITEMS OF EWS. - The movement in Germany for the better obs rvation of Sunday is growing rapidly. A census j-ust concluded , in New Zea lan gives that far-away land a popu a tion, European aud Chinese, of 532,000. The old fields and bush undergrowth around Mobile that so.'d for a song five years ago command from- twenty five to three' hundred dollars an acre. The total income of the Salvation army for 1883 is reported at $1,509,000. The army is now publishing sixteenWar Cries" in various countries. At Ii8S Clara Cushman's mission school in Pekin the feet of the girls are not allowed to be bound the only school in China where that is the case Russia, which has an area in Europe two-thirds as large as the wnole United States, with a population of more than 70,000,000, lies almost entirely north of St. Paul. There were 1,676 accidents last vear in the Pacific coal mines, 323 deaths, making 153 widows and 512 orphans. There was one death to eve y 90,000 tons taken out. ihe bank of England .has a floating oalance of $100,010,000 and the bank notes, if stretched together end to end would reach a distance of 12,520 miles. 1 he Egyptian war will use up a few miles of this money. . xkk "ijonieaerate rose ia tne name of a new flower which ia white in the morning and red at night Four of them , have been planted around the grave of General Albert Sidney Johnson, in the state cemetary at Austin, Texas. Cremation is to be tried in France, permission having been given by the prefect of police, on the recommenda tion of Drourdel. to burn the remains of hospital subjects, provided a satisfactory apparatus be constructed in one of the Pans cemeteries- "" oi-bAKEE UARiiisLE wields the gavel with some listlessness. He . pounds as though he was afraid of making too much noise, iu this respect he differ" from Keifer, who made the splinters fly over the devoted heads of the clerks be low him. He is a smoothly-shaven man with two bulging bumps of intellectual ity over his eyes, a rather narrow fore- he id, and when he speaks his comes somewhat .weak and a voice severe irown ornaments or, to put it disfigures hisjbrow. r better, A jottsq lady rnshed breathlessly into her home and sat down in a chair com pletely exhausted, "Why, what's the matter ? asked Jrer mother in the great est alarm. "Oh-Tsaid when she had recovered her breath, "I just t scapea it. Another one nombie red sunsets to-night, .and red ia 1 ZlphSl- "-Phila- NEWS OP T&E WEEK Eastern and Hiddle States. . New York has b4en shrouded in the densest fog which has! prevauejd there for years. Navigation on Ehe rivers ; was almost entirely suspended and" business; ra's very much impeded. j '. The mining village bt Olyphant, Penn., was iianic-stricken by k sudden rise iu the Lackawanna r;rnr which lioode i tha low lying streets and surprised a number of families, in their houses. The women and children were removed to a place of safety on the backs of the miners, who waded at trreat -peril through the swift current, that was making its way aitoner the streets. A girl of seventeen years was drowned. A large meeting was 'held in New York in favor of the bill1 eivina the mayor the right to nominate puplic officers without making confirmation 'by the board of alder men necessary. William. M. Evarts jand others addressed the meeting. Assembltmax Roosevelt, of New ,York city, a prominent, member of the State legis lature, has suffered a double bereavement. his mother and wife dyiusc atr his residence on the same day, the wife . having- just be come a mother. t ' ' Mart Byrne when ten vears old was run over by a train at Troy, N. Y-, and lost a ler. the case was begun fourteen years ago, and a verdict in her favor fr $7,500 has just teen awarded. . Thad S. Avert, of i Chichester, N. Y., quarreled with his wife and cut her throat as well as his own, killing her and inflicting a fatal wound upon hiniself. . Wendell PHiLLiPS'lwill leaves his prop erty, aggregating in vaue about $350,000, to his wife and adopted daUgnter. The steamship State of Nebraska, from Glasgow, arrived in New '. York, having on board the ninety-two men comprising the officers and crew of thie steamship Notting HilL running betweeii London and New York. The Notting Hill had been struck by a huge iceberg and injured so badly that she had to be abandoned. , Srx convicta'-five colored and one white were whipped a few days since at New Cas tle, Del I Much damage has been done by floods and Ice' near Harrisburg, Penn. Four bridges, valued at more than $$0,000, were, crushed and carried away. Three dams were washed jut and the mil is connected with them so badly injured as to prevent their runniag until repaired. f Mayor Edson, of New York, received, many telegrams from the mayors of flooded towns, on the- Ohio rivr, appealing for aid. Copies of the telegrains were sent to. the various exchanges of fthe city, and imme diate action for the relief of the sufferers was taken. I Thomas Kinsella, al prominent journal ist, for many years editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, is.dea4. , Miss Jennie ALMYi a handsome young woman, a private teacher, shot And mortally wounded Y ictor C. Andre twenty -one years old, also a private teacher, in a crowded sta tion of the New York elevate! railroad. Then Miss Almy shot ajid killed herself. The two had been engaged to be married, but it Is asserted that Andre, jrho had come to this country six- months ago'' and been ad mitted to the best society, had betrayed and toen reiused to marry tea rirl. . - out. The. sojuiers there -were compelled to camp out, with the thermometer at twenty five degrees below zero. . ' " ' A gang of nine counterfeiters were ar rested by United States Secret service offi cers at Louisville, Ky. ' v About 25,000 persons in Cincinnati and the adjacent towns of Covington and New port were rendered homeless by the flood . In a disi atch froni the mayor of Galli polis, Qhio, to the mayor of New York, tell ing of the destitution "Which prevails in the submerged region, and asking for relief, the sender says; "At leat 2,000 houses have been swept away or damaged to such a i ex tent as to be uninhabitable after the flood has sub ided. It is t'ojr those unfortunate people that we appeal for help. The farmers have lost largely of their horses and cattle and nearly all their grain aud feed, and all their fencing; the merchants and manufac turers their stocJcs;the iiecbanics are thrown out of employment: Coat mines and salt works are flooded, and everything' is deso late indeed. It wiU be I weeks, months, be fore busine-s can b9 resumed, and help will be needed long af ter the waters have gone down.'' - -.-w ' . ' j ; . ' Governor Knott has issued a proclama tion to the people of Kentucky calling upon them to aid the flood sufferers by private sub scriptions, contributions and otherwise. The Kentucky legislature Appropriated $25,000 for the relief of the sufferers. . A frightful catastjrophe, the result of the flood, occurred at jCincinnati. Abouty(4 o'clock A. m. a terribief -crash was heard at the corner of Pearl and Ludlow streets, in the flooded district. , Itwas found that ftie rear parts of four brickf buildings, which bad been undermine 1 by the waters, had fallen. The scene which follow the crah was one of horror - Men were shouting arid women and children were screaming for help.' Soon, several boats arrived, apd the boatmen, with the aid of lanterns, begsan to rescue the in mates o&the house?.- - -About fifty people were taken cjit pt the wreckel buildings. Ten persons were crushed t death in the ruins. - Steamers with supplies of food and cloth ing have been sent by the government along the Ohio and tributaries to relieve the ne cessities of the sufferers by the floods. Colonel. Hunt, a. mijuiona:re lumberman at Michigan, has just died, and being a lover of humorists.apd hiimoj"ous books, of which he had accumulated a large' number, he has left $5,000 each to thd mother of Artemus Ward, to Eli PerkhisairdpJosrh Billings. . A desperate shooting - affray at Hot Springs, Ark., betweeni two factions of gam blers three brothers named Flynn, who were in a hack at the . time, .on one side, and seven men on the otherf side resulted in the killing of one (of the Flynns and the hack driver, the mortal, wounding of another Flynn and two innocent bystanders, and the Bhootingaway of part lot the third Flynn's hand. The men who fired upon the Flynns began "hostilities, and fwere arrested. The affray grew out of an) attempt of two fac tions to control the gambling " business " of the town. ' ' .: The estimated total ioss by-the 'floods in Wheeling, W. Va., and vicinity, amounts to $6,000,000. An appeal for aid, issued from Wheeling, states that the suffering there and at:pointi above aud jbelow is intense, and that more than 10,000 people of the city 1 'are. dependent, and will be so for weeks." There t are probably 20,000 people to be fed and' clothed from Wellsburg to Moundsville. The county -jail int Wausau. Tv"is.-, was burned early in the morning, and McDonald and Cary, two desperjjidoesi were burned to death. f The Platte ville bans:, of Platteville, Wis., has suspended, with liabilities of $150,000. Eighteen drunken I men captured a coal train at Milledgville,! Ohio, fatally beat a brakeman, seriously . Injured the conductor and drove him away, and compelled the , engineer to cut his engjine loose from the. cars to save his life. . . Great destitution s reported from the overflowed banks of the Ohio and its tribu taries, and many appeals for relief have been sent out. Thousands of inhabitants belong ing to numerous villages and towns were driven from their homes to the hills for refuge, and were compelled to camp oiii with out food and with insufficient clothing. The rivers were higher than tbey hadjjyer been before, and the stat$ of affairs' among Jhe people was described as appalling in the ex treme. , Fort Scxlt, in Dakota, has been burned out The soldiers there were' compelled tp 'camp out, wittL.the thermometer at twenty 3ve desrees below zero. " Seven persons but liQffwfxsurf oat at Dundee, Scotland, were oTo -ved. I f Engxish troops have rjrdet? Sto the Bed Sea ports, to defen jr$m afc$nst El Mahdi's rebels. 454 J 4 - Two mandarins haver;V exel 'ted for instigating the recent -in ,e of ( fristians in Tonquin. ' Mexico wants 4,oflb ;fej iM spf in the main buildhur ' a. the co vgi Nevt .Orleans exposition, and 120,000- Ice jutsid!for the Mexican garden, the buil mfor t' Mexi can commission, and for? $8 smpin round for a battalion of Mexi r troop t Over $200,000 has been nnpropiCi - bK, Mexi-11 cans, who will send a o?; ficentj "Jand of musician dnd a corps of ts. & Several, persons wer&rwned 'fend an immense pecuniary lospsustait d by a waterspout in Arequir, rai. af'.tits ph. virons. k Or Murders are now very us&erou jon the Ist hmus of Panama. Lo:njoK's lord maf jrjj merit's nnliV iruI H.,WS!.. 7I ? Two members of thFtSlfh-ehiber of deputies hare just fougtAfcjl, onreceiv ing a wound in the knei " El. Mahdi's forces Jv.toaeua'r & their position ten miles from-oaKt$. fSinkat they kiUed .liOO womerana nu$er of children. El Mahdi rwntjynt f yo moL lahs t th ruler of tt pro .ice, at the source jf the Blu Mlto ofir him and hissrnSTects to reiuoofetish) .jforship end embraci) Islamisrii Tfa- iolld'; after they had delivered EUahdi'-j ord 'A " were, strangled by the nativ. -T3f, f During a fight bevaen ,hitespd nav tivesin the province ongol We Sirica, an explosion ot -gtmpvler 'Ued ftrty of the latter. " - ' " r Parnell, the Irishiome re Jel ler, de clared in an amenta t ttw the' Jbueen's speech, proposed by.im -irOthe s use of commons, that Englr!' PP?y - hi Ireland had failed to tranqiob the people, -4ntonly prohibited publicise tings ;kI. in jtei ill will and stnfe betwji-h.erd3erenf classes A procession olfeS diking feavers at Blackburn, Engad, carrii the s figy of. a manufacturer w: the mteJion hang ing it in front of. 1 resideiia. ; Tr were charged by the pee and serat .persons were injured. ft & .$'"' Miss Clara row, vWdenfr f the American Natior ssociaCHHa of ihe Red Cross, afcompanu special field agen by DctCBsjHuKvlai the gone from Washil nto thtffsceiB &of the ood along the Qtfor the fp'urpc' of af- fording relief by HributingJ-pplf j to the Burlerers. i 4 Nearly .5,000 lis, most'V tw-j of a private nature; n been irSjjwxiuo so far in the present sestp of Conggjjas. :'. Great dissatisrion has-been? treated throughout' Greatiiitain. b,- $bel yerh-, ment's .vacillatiajr-ohcy" -ifjcerrjg the crisis in Egypt ; one diifmtch ! Oits-it: "People cannot ieretaulf pqKI. lot in difference to mas res in jaintf frhere England rules, arpf, indiffhce t&wiso tx the defeats of iea whit;.En$ '-ishmen omcer. . ' a. s ? A. BAND Of ,fiiaUthe v At .a ban feacdinsr members of f je stific &r sens stated that tlfichemV Mi-9 Les- m orfting a in f Mer to sea in the great Sail dekf transform the arid .si into "tilerl3tintxy,v would snortiy he conenceiXi?-'. : J Mr. BRADLAUGKiectedAJ thK"j0rltish house of commons, it re-i :4 puussaon to take his seat bewf hed-jneJrto take the Drescribed oat'n jmerffotls, en xredthe chambef during a tidn a?Htadn( iistered the oath to himself -Upop i Siatiot, he was bunt Thokas CHENERrfLitcff 'Hits fondon imes, is dead. 57ft- - l inn;.-, ta uenu, ' S'i- I t; ITV vv hii.k a weoainginyi fjsva:v ..s LUO River Theiss, near anrajcl. lunij ry,, tbe ice broke and thirsfive fjfltiej , of the party were drowned 1 Sj' The French bishoi 'Tpfr 5a that one priest, twenfrfra f htrjnd 215 Christians have 4e':mas4 df. w)d . that 108 mission housed ft&beaa "SjstpoJ. sd. - incti AilipViJ j a twit tWenty years, d6scfibi pe;vpcrs emo tions, and State aff lixbf rnily. patters, and highly eulogizing fe U 7$ ?oo guard, John .Brown. J "-,Mr.; 2 ' . SinkaT, in theSouci ha tenptured bv El Mahdi's rebel id "f DP! of 600 Ee-VDtians under TewjB jgftWieces. '.' arisna't -ArriTOm.' A motion to censurtGa ment for its:vaci6atii'Kf -tsOudan was passed in jthe Bri 5T oi, ?prds by 181 yeas to 01 nays. A violent enrihtutek h 0$ irred at Bitlis, Asiatic. Turkeviestr g I iumber of buildings. hiW t2 T?nnT.ATTOTi htm tn'-a th lo f strue gle f or possessiori of e?"; "l house of commons, ana'rTffjHS&leefi )t i district has been-ordedti iPi?: Jp1- r- o ' ...,.k i . .r' X Ti -liTu i n hi district has L Farxell, the Irish lonvjx-le Aler , de- cl.-red in an atncruilen tC t SVneen's Souse of stxj. cb, pi oi k sed by fip. commons, that Eng.'fJ f i5 Ireland Wantonly yjicel ill- classe had failed to tra-inuiliiW l' prohibited nu blip -.eanj v ... ... of thiTOuntry.!!,- I f E i - Representattve 4nr5tiD, frttinois, v)in rumvuMfn in .r.frr9ttSiiSi& I. COn- f-jiinintr rni-wct. c--rtnr1 nTsS&SlK. t 'id tner hog products, expres irmintf fiew the opinion that retAliat is: gvSori) 7 remedy left, no Rroin thalforTfl? got, Arnrnents which are' shnttin; " -1'- "a-"" - .-im" ' . i re- shnttinJ cKTLl Vhe jmencan hoe from their mark, A CHrNAMASbopwf ui i; f district court at Washington 3urf -we of be- coining a citizeaof tllUrBta had his application refused.' I I ," ' ' fi e&lr hot Jfr-dered a farnrahlA tw. on Ty's 1 Atlt fiopkms hill for the oetaMwhlpi.iJi tlfSJft i .rartment of labor statistics. lfc-Sl-Vldes for, r.h nnmintmont of I lS.iaSr who shall acquire' all useful iBfati typon the Bubject of labor, -its' rliat-SHfo a fn tal, and the means of imin"tfjr-!i!i religious and mtellecfrafpef pi tne lftTv-rnnor man Vn fl "' he ise-tion of contract cgfW. .without The House of R4ii8&ti,T:0?pa'3Set joint resolution war to issue rations hihinorcnnin'r. Via BiSt.TitkfiOVef the Ohio river and if -wS1 5d irr n ioi-,v,rJ o?vi?5?.00( "-to relieve the suffer F The rlsoT'Cor- wrf "-then sent to the SenatA, and $ &xl once. . ,f"'-r' f .. it at Trrti. f5o in lex;8 fe-?Mon con firmed tha fnllowind ntSSiOAaor-John M. TjtTicrstnn minir-iesftS7!! "ind-l nsnl-gen- eral to Hayti, tobelsJ;bMe iffaireevto Santo Tir,.rr, flinH.i ?Ud -tf beCOUSUl ax ijoncepcion aei o. v-?n'"y G the -the Union. - Judge BrojVVrJ aft - Mr. Tripp, Bb ot Dakota, ravore diV n of the The "fecTetary of th? r5ur: 4ias issued an order thanking vas'&ty&rsi, ad men of the revenue mitter Derr--Ka: tAr bravery duriqg the . - - - 4ifyvi'5' --4 -.. i . Cit- or CCftifetris iaster, ana aivancing pMM t P jVJea,twen- excluded from the pmctq sine i iuse. It is announced in Siei? thaf.cM tna is in a state bfaptfcLX I t - lor ? .Sirejs t oi uesw- iooaea. Dy JVERNOB ORDWKT, f &o addressea House committee orHf ejfriwj p in favor i .j i i J-.t Tl'linfTi 'nsfJlwnnlR into Vt ..4.' ty-one numi The court of inquiry into the loss of trie rroteus, the vessel sent by the United' States to the relief of the Greely expedition in the Arctic regions, has made its report. The report states that Lieutenant Garlineton, commander of the Proteus, committed various errors of judgment, and that Chief Signal Officer riazen, who superintended the fitting out of the Proteus expedition, did not fully comprehend the necessities of the case; at the same time the court is of opinion-that no f urther proceedings before a general court martial are called for. i ,j The United States- Senate commit tee of investigation into alleged political out rages in Copiah county, Miss., arrived at New Orleans and examined witnesses. Further confirmations by- the Senate: Commodore Edward Simpson to be rear-admiral in the navy; Edward S. Stevens to be consul at YTictoria; Francis A. Osgood to be collector of customs for the, district of Mar blehead: Albert Schunemahn, of Denver, to be receiver of public moneys at Prescott. Arizona. ' 1 f In pccordance with the recommendation of Secretary Folge'r;, the President has di rected the promotion of Lieutenant Rhodes, of the revenue cutter Deiter, for , gallant and meritorious conduct on the occasion f the City of Columbus disaster. The President ha approved the joint reso lution authorizing the sending of an expedi tion to the relief of Greely. f ,. .Witnesses testified - before the Senate committee of investigation? concerning the election trouble between whites and blacks .at Danville, Va. , f v COMMITTED WORK Wliat is Oping- On in theong-reMMion-al I'ontniillee Kdoais. The House committee on the judiciary had agreed upon a report adverse to the woman's suffrage advocates, but determined $0 hold it until a. delegation from the West could be heard. . ' i Unly a comparatively small proportion of the seventy-five public buiidihg bills before the House committee on public building will be favorably reported, j 0 The bill prohibiting the emigration of Chinese laborers under 6ther hames pending before the foreign affairs committee, has been reconstructed. Mr. Rice, of Massachu setts, proved that its provisions violated treaty stipulations. Judge Melton, a Pitts-burgf capitalist, op posed before the House labor committee the requests advanced beforo the committee by labor organizations. i The House banking and currency commit tee voted to report Sumner's bill limiting the liability of national banks to that of Other debtors named in the limited liability section of the revised statute The 'House committee on postoffices in structed Mr. Skinner to report; favorably his bill making, an, allowance for rent to postoffices of the third class. Mr. Mnniv was also instructed to report favorably his ouiaiue "oiu oecnon a,vf revised statutes the word "fraudulent" before the word ''lottery." This isMesigned to prevent the use of the mails by any lottfery company. The house committee on commerce has concluded consideration of th first of the Reagan bill to regulate interstate com merce, and has decided to- embody it in the proposed interstate commerce bilL The sec tion makes jt unlawful for railroad com- amount 01 freinc compensation or reward thaii' is charged to or received, from any other perso 1 or persons for like and con temporaneous services. All charges shall be reasonable and railroad companies shall fur nish without disc rimination the same facili ties for the tra. sportation of goods. Any break, stoppage or interruption to prevent the carriage of any property from the! place of shipment to the place of destination is pro hibited Unless the stoppage may be piade for seme necessary purpose. ; E00MTEI0 SUICIDES. . Louis Walters, of Akron, whil-intoxi-cited, cut a hole in the ice and drowned him self. ' ' , A De Kalb county. Term., man cut a tree until it was ready to fall,and then let it crush him. r " . ' ' A' San Antonio man cut his throat be cause a lottery ticket he had purchased proved a' blank. 1 . Mrs. Thomas Paxton, of Howard -Lake, Minn., killed herself because she was married -assaftistiier will. --y. .:; 1 mb Josf.ph Wagenhauser. of TouDea town, Ohio, cut her throat on account of th death or her son . - ! After injuring her kriee in jumping a rope Jane Becker, aged thirteen, of Reading, hung herself from a bidpost. j While suffering from inflammatory rheu- rrte.tiKm.Mra. Beniamin Watson, of Bloom- irifftdn. HI., threw hei-self into; a cistern and was drowned. : . . Mrs. Ann Bttjmp, of Columbus, Ohio nni ined her retloz. fearihe it imght out- liye her. Remorse at the deed caused her to kill herself with stryennme. : . Lemuel Whisxen, near Enterprise, taea a hAlrnr around his neck and hitched himself to his wagon. He then scared the horses and made them run. Whisten's young wife had died but a few weeks, betore v Henry F. Millward shot himself i after nnrticinatin? in a mo tragedy at bpring' held, Ohio. Some weeks ago j Millward, as sisted by a bundle -01 menus, ;co istruewju dummy out of a number of towels and pil- l .ws. and laid it on a bed in tne Arcane hnte intnac CUV. loeroom wa uueiunv ' . ... ... nt, . . f n darkened, and the dummy .covered with a. 6heet.v A paste Doara neaa wiui grwwquoiy rintfl features was attached to the body. BO as tO D6 in pimu Kimiu wueu ouo ruwjii should be removed. When all was ready,the . . 1 U -1 i- renortwas circulated througn the city oy the inkers that a drummer had committed suicide at the hotei. The report attracted hundreds of citizens, including! the coroner, who were piloted up to the room one Dy one. Millward killed himseit m tne same room. . MISCELLANEOUS IT! Tmt Texas legislature has made fence cut- tine a felony. i Kansas last year produced 107,5 pounds of cotton, valued at .oto. Sixteen Chinamen who dwell irtWorces ter, Mass., attend Grace church. A seven-year-old girl is one or tne rasti- U t typeetters at New Hartford, Conn, A race-pony, thirteen hands Wgh, wai JZZm ftt Sealv. Texas, for $1,000. a tw.arl weiehine nearly wjj grains naa lately been found on the line of! the Panama canal. " ' . : " . TttTrTn! TsT.ANT savines banks' have; $52,- 460.265 intrusted to their care by 120,48 de rtositors. The Montreal ice palace, built of large blocks of ice. is in size 100 by 1$0, feet and cost $3,000. - 1 An eleven-year-old boy in Ooeyjdon, Ind., committed smcide because his parents re fused to let him eat at first table. Salmon fishing on the Sacramento river isnow very active, and is going on day and night, more than 2,000 men being employed, in it. - i . ' There have been only two known cases of female lynching in this country. The first occurred in 1851 at Donneyifle, a rnining i iwiia district of California, and the victim was a Spanish woman named Inez Paria, who had murdered and robbed a man in her husband's saloon. The second and last case is the recent lynching of Mrs. Cv;l dingham in Ouray, Col. ! . The cost of the Government in the "city of Paris is a little more tnau u, OOfJ.OOO annually. ; SUMMARY OF CONGRESS ' Senate The chair laid before the, Senate a "com munication from the secretary, of war trans mitting, in compliance with a recent resolu tion of the Senate, a statement showing the number of soldiers of the late war who served one year, how many two years, and how many three years, and the amount of money required to equalize the bounties of those who served in said war Mr. Pendleton presented the credentials of Henry B. Payne, Senator-elect from the State of Ohio, for the term beginning March 4, 1SS5. The cre dentials were real and ordered to be filed. The committee' on naval affairs reported favorably a bill for the relief of the survivors of the Jeannette expedition and of the widows and children of those who perished. .... Mr. Riddleberger's resolution providing for a joint committee to inquire into re movals and appointments of Senate and House employes was the subject of . a long debate, participated in by Messrs. Vest, Riddleber eer and Conger. A message was received from the House announcing that that body was still unable to agree to the Senate amendment to the Greely Relief bill, requirins that the men .iiii on that expedition should be volunteers. After some debate the Senate receded from its amendment by a vote of 29 to 22. A oill appropriating 00, 000 to commence the construction of a building for the ac commodation of the library of Congress was passed by a vote of 35 yeas to 6 nays Mr. Vborhee asked and obtained unanimous consent to introduce, out of the regular: order, a bill to prohibit officers and employes of the United States government from con tributing money for political purposes. A debate, part:cipated in by Messrs. Voorhees, Hawley, Beck, Dawes and Harrison, fol lowed. The bill was referred to the commit tee on the judiciary . . . . A bill was introduced by Mr. McPherson to suspend the coinage oJ the silver dollar i Mr., Hale, from the committee on naval affairs, reported unfavorably and moved tne inJefihte postponement of the joint resolu tion introduced by Mr. McPherson, limiting the mount of . money to . be expended by .the President on the Greelv relief expedition to $500,0 0. .. I.Mr. Voor hees offered a resolution directing the secretary of the interior to withhold ap proval, of selections of- lands made by. the Northern Pacific Railroad company within certain indemnity limics. . . .The Senate con sidered the McPherson banking bill and Mr. Bayard delivered an address in its support. Mr. Sawyer called up the bill recently reported from the committee on (post offices an i post reads, making all public roads and highways post routes, and after pome amendment it was passed .A resolu tion was agreed to directing the committee on finance to consider the expediency of provide in1? by general legislation for the phange of names of national banks, and to report by b' 11 or otherwise at the present session Mr.. Logan introduced a bill to provide that persons honorably discharged from the mili tary or naval service of the United States shall be preferred' for appointment to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the necessary business capacity. The Senate spent most of a day again dis cussing Mr. McPherson's National Bank Note bill and the proposed amendments to .t. Mr. Plumb argued against the bill. He said the .national debt should be paid off as soon as possible, and what was wanted was something to take the place of the bank cir iation as it was withdrawn from time to takethe pHce o1?ertrrrjlatloofnth basfics as it is surrenderee, jut. onerman s auiwuu- ment. providing that if any of the bonds de posited bore interest, higher than three per cnt. additional notes should be issued equal to one-half the interest 111 excess or the three 1 er cent, accruing before maturity, was voted down, 42 nays to 7 yeas. Bone). The House adopted tne report on the new rules after a two days' debate. Mr. Randall reported the naval appropriation Dm, and fave notice tnat it wouia oe caueu kub ucai uesday. It appropriates $14,263,000, being $8,302,000 less than the amount estimated for, and $1,o31,iau less -tnan tne amount ap propriated for the current fiscal year.... Mr. Willis introduced a bill temporarily provid ing for the support of common schools. It Erovides for an annual appropriation of ram $10,000,00 ) to $1,000,000 for the next ten years, the appropriation to be reduced $1,000,000 each succeeding year jix.rayue introduced a bill repealing all internal taxes tobacco Mr. Goff introduced a joint esolution appropriating nw,wv tor the relief of the sufferers by the overflow of .the Ohio river and its tributaries.. . .Mr. Fin- erty, of Illinois, .offered a resolution aeciar me that the liouse "jameuts iu ueoui Wendeu rminps asanauuniu uweovoumuu. Mr. Eaton objected aud the resolution went over. . Bills introduced: By Air. ueirora, to iacu- itate the settlement of private land claims; by Mr. Oafes, restoring to tne pension roua the names of those droppei therefrom on account of disloyalty; by Mr. uisDee to im pose duties on cocoanuts, bananas and pineapples; by Mr. Townshend, a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment pro viding tor tne lecnou ji raiucu majority Of the votes of the people and the abohtion of the electoral college, and regu- -latine the method of counting the votes by the two Housesoi congress; ut jj-i. son, providing for the issue of circulating notes for national baniung associations; by Mr. Poland, providing that before regis tration in Utah and Idaho a voter shall take an oath that he does not belong to tne inurcn of the Latter Day Samts. On motion of Mr. Stewart a resolution was adopted directing the committee on expendi- 1 tures in" the department of justice, in mak ing investigation into the expenditures on account 01 prosecution 01 pei vaia with' frauds' on? 'the government, and especially in the Star Route mail service, to inquire into the manner in which such prosecutions are being conduct ed, and into the onduct, efficiency and good faith of all officials or persons in the pay of. the government in connection with such prosecutions, and whether guilty parties have been duly prosecuted The House went into commiltea of the whole on the naval appropriation bilL The Senate bill for the construction of a build.ng for the library of Congress was taken from the Speaker's table and referred to the committee on the library The House resumed consideration of the con tested election case of Chalmers against Tllanninor. A debate ensued, but no action The House resumed the debate orLtne fontested election case of Chal- TTicr-.- Ji nst, Manriine. The monotony the proceedings was broken by Mr. Curtin. wrjoitook Mr.'i Manning by the arm, led him to the bar of the House, and demanded 1 Vir t- Via Via swnrn as a member. Mr. Cal kins raised a point of order, but the speaker said there was no necessity ' for deciding such a question, as the chair would not undertake to administer the.oath of office to a person claimine to be . a member elect, when the House itself wast considering his i-io-vit tr the seat., The minority resolution, declaring manmng s uieucuunm w fect, was rejected, 140 to 106. The majority resolution, discharging the committee on elections frdm , consideration, ot tne prima r hA sent vacant .nntil the case was decided on its merits, was, then adopted. y- Some one aJked a Marselaise tenor why be sang only in concerts. "It's very simple," he replied. "Une aay x feli'down stairs and broke my vo:c, and Ihis'is whv I only sing in pieces." Hotel MaiL uriinvrt ft voniiar man a clerk in a dry ctnrp it is said knocks all thoughts nf his head. He not 01. Uiaui.AJiv"j . .i u0ma what it costs to dress a wo man, but he realizes how they can talk. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC Mme. Pauline I.ucCa "will undoubtedly rang in this country next season. A movement is on foot to establish a coor servatory of music in Peoria, I1L Lotta is announced to open the new Casino theatre in Washington next autumn. Mr. Winch, the American tebor, is sing ing with success in oratorio in England. Fannie Davenport is playing "Fedora" on the road to average weekly receipt ot $6,000. " RiSTORi, the celebrated Italian actress, fa corning to this country in October, and will make a tour of the principal cities. Mrs. Langtby will not, after all, says an English paper, go to Australia, but, will have a London theatre after the .termination of her American engagement. Edward Milliken, of the "Jalma" com pany, has written a new drama in five acti, which is purely American, and contains some novel scenic and mechanical eff eats. George Alfred Townsenp, the New York journalist, has written a drama called "Crora-, well," whici deals with the history of tha protector (up' to and including the protec torate, f 7 v Mrs. W. . G. Noah, one of tne great ac tresses of fifty years ago, who played rival engagements with Fanny Kemble and sup- Sorted the elder Booth and Forrest, is till, ving in Roc-heater, N. Y. Ed win Booth, who recently finished a very successful engagement in Philadelphia, de clined an engagement in Pittsburg upon a guarantee of $10,000 clear for a single week. He preferred to go to Boston. 'The Marchioness," as played by Lotta in London, is a new adaptation of the incidents of the novel, by Charles' Dickens, who has merely arranged his father's "Old Curiosity Shop" int a series of disconnected scenes, not, in any, sense of the "word, making a drama. The New York Orchestral society has an orchestra of amateurs composed as follows: Ten violins, one viola, one . violincello, two double basses, two rlutes, one oboe, triree clarionets, one saxophone, two trumpets (oor nets probably), two horns, two trombones one piano and two drums. The Modjeska ranch out in California, which cost her $00,000, has commenced yield-, ing a profit, bringing the actress $5,000 the other day, which she looked upon as "luck money,'' and invested it iu a tiara and ear rings to wear as a sort of mascotte in Mau rice Barrymorie's new play. The Pall Mall Gazette-notes an interestinj: fact with reference to the well-nown song, i "I Arise from Dreams of Thee." It was com- i posed by Mr. Charles K. Salamon, whopot' recognizing the hit he had made, sold it for 8, copyright and alii The present holder of' that riiiht derives from it. the nice little in come of 800 a year. , j Mr. T. Slater Smith, manager of' ' Ranch '10, " has purchased a new play, which will be produced for the first time in Philadelphia on March 17. The title is ' Kentucky Belle," which applie3 not only to the heroine, but to a celebrated race horse that has been named after her. The play has a number of sensational effects, a novel tire scene, and a reproduction of a race course. , PROMINENT ; PEOPLE. value of William H. Vanderbilt'' outfit when he drives, at $150,000. Huntoon. Colonel Nathan Huntoon, of Unity, N. H., is the oldest .Free Mason in the world, having been initiated in 1S03. Palmer. Ex-Governor John M. Palmer, of Illinois, was in early life a clock peddler. He studied law by the advice of Stephen A. Douglas. . Whittier. John G. Whittier, the poet. Is about the last of the influential Abolition ists belonging to the Phillips-Garrison era left alive. Packard. Professor Alpheus S. Packard, of Bowdoin college, who is now in his eighty fifth ,year, says that he ' has neTer been ill a day in his life. Yillard. Henry Villard is not a very poor man after all. It is given out that he will manage to save $1,000,000 from the wreck of his fortune. ' Blackburn. Senator-elect J C.8, Black burn, of Kentucky, is forty-six years tjd, and is tall, square shouldered aud sinewy. His features are handsome, and large, blue-gray eyes look out above a heavy brown mu tache. George. Henry George, who is now forty five years of age, began life as a printer. Afterward he became a eailor, then a re porter on the Sacramento Record, next owner of the San Francisco Post, and later he took to lecturing. His wife is a lady of Irish parentage and Australian birth. ' Pierce. Bishop G. F. Pierce, of Georgia, the great Methodist leader of tne South, re cently celebrated his frolden wedding at Sparta. The bishop's father, Rev. Lovio Pierce, was the gieat apostle of Georgia Methodism, and for over half a century the son has followed vigorously the path set by . the father as an ecclesiastical leader. Wheeler. An intimate friend of Miss Ella Wheeler, the poetess, now in New Or leans, says that young lady is to be married in early spring to a Mr. Yorke, of this city. She also says that Miss Wheeler is twenty- six vears old. and with her pen has earned and paid for a lovely , little home, in which she resides with her mother and a younger sister whori she educated. BradlaJjgh. Charles Bradlaugh, the infi del member of the British parliament, has a brother vrfio is actively engaged in evangeli cal workA Tha latter disclaims any differ ences witri his brother, except in religious opinions, d though there is. no fraternal companionship between them, 'he says he loves him as mucn as ever ana connaentiy looks for his conversion to CJhristianity. With His Own Weapon. Wiien Ole Bull visited "Lexington, Ky., Mr. Clay wrote him a note regret ting his inability to attend his concert. The next day the violinist entered Mr. Clay's house and in a room adjoining the one in which Mr. Clay was seated, played "The Last Rose of Summer:" "Ah, that must be Ole. Bull!" The doors were thrpwn open and ttiey em braced. By "The Last Hose of Sum mer," in fact, it sseems that Ole Bull took captive all our statesmen. At any rate, a number of benators asKea mm to play in Washington. Mr. Bennett offered him the columns of the Herald o reply to his French'nvals, and Ole Bull reolied : "I tink, Mr. Bennett, it i3 best tey writes against me and I play against tern." A Monster! Diamond. . The cutting of a diamracH"elieved to ' oe the largest ever cut in this country, haB just been completed in Boston, hav ing occupied something more than three months. The stone was found in South Africa and was imported by a New York firm. Its weight in the rough was nearly 125 carats. The gem, as perfected, is brilliant and beautiful, but has a marked yellowish tinge. As cut it weighs seventy-seven carats. It is cut in a rounded cushiqn-shape, "with fifty-six facets, its size being nearly a full inch across and a little more than five-eighths of ap inch 1 ... in aeptn. ft 1 jh it-, I ' i 1 -. : : - JL - Mrm- it-. " - -i- pr
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