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I SALISBURY, N. C. - THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1889. I. NO. 27. w Ship Canal has ad- - ' :ven-eighths of a mile i -stear.. The canal is ieet wide at the top and daring- i ,15 feet , eep. - "The general course is along th Monument Iti ver. t enters the mainlanfc from Massachusetts. Bay 'at Barnstable Bay, and the outlet will be south of tti peninsula, at Black River Harbor in th-3 town of Bourne. About RPVPn Milan a i. 1 AJ "The making of pig-iron is an industry that the South controls," asserts the At lanta Constitution. 'It makes the price and governs the market. The making .of steel has up to this time been con troled in the North. The bessemer company by smothering the basic patent under which alone ifhe phosphoric ores of jlhe South could be worked, ha3 pro tected the North in the making of in gots. In four years that patent will i have expired and then, the South will j gather the steel industry unto itself." The defeat of the bill in the State As sembly to send John F. Swift and Stephen W. White to Washington to 'represent California in the Chaehang ,t Ping case has caused much comment ac cording to the New York Tribune. The """se lobby was out in force, and sue In 'defeating the bill by causing i 11 of a constitutional majority. 3re are 22,000 coolie certificates .h. depend upon the decision in this c: 3, : and as each certificate is worth C 200, the coolie importers have much at , f take. he payment of an insurance policy of five thousand dollars on the life, of "Doc" Haggerty, a teamster, who wa3 so thoroughly blown awav tv the ex- plosion of a wagon-load of nitro-glycerine which he was driving, near Heasant ville, Penn., that not 'more than a pound of his body ws found, is being disputed byjthe companies interested on the ground that such utter annihilation was impossible, even with so powerful an explosive. They claim that the "re mains" found are no proof that Haggerty is' dead. Interesting testimony is being. gathered to show that nitro-glycerine has proved at times more of an eraser of human identity than ther Pleasantville incident would indicate. An effort is now being made by awell known Northern capitalist to make a thorough investigation as to the actual cost of pig iron production in the South and in the North as well as in leading European centers. It is a matter of much importance. to the South, as the investigation i will be thorough, and the reports will, as Manufacturer J Record is Confident, show such a decided advan tage for that section over any other part cf the country as to have great influence upon the future of the iron industry of this country! The result of these inves tigations will, when they have been com pleted, be made public, and the report will carry great weight in the financial centers of the world. ' - An army officer declares in the Wash ington Star that a deserter is a heavy .loss .to the Government. "I should say," he continues, "that, on the aver age, each deserter costs the United States $250. No, it is not in the ex pense of catching him or of trying him or of punishing him, as you suggest, but the cost comes from the money which, the Government has paid out for him in the way of clothing, feeding, paying, and training during the first year of his service, for which he gives no return. A soldier ."s-of no value to the Government until he has been in the army about a year, and if he deserts before he attains this period of utility all that has been spent on hm is a dead loss, no return whatever being given for -the outlay. Last year there were nearly .2500 de serters, a loss of about $625,000 to the United States, for which there is noth ing to show but the spreading, of an evil influence." . There has been much controversy, re marks the New York Times, in Congress over the names proposed for the Terri tories that want to become States. But whatever the final result, it could hardly be as astonishing as the series proposed in Jefferson's original draft of an ordi nance prepared in 17S4 for laying out the Northwest Territory. The Territory north of the forty-fifth parallel to the Lake of the Woods was to be called Syl vania. The one between forty-four de grees and forty five degrees and West of Lake Michigan was to be Michigania. The one ' between Lakes Michigan, Huron, St. Clair, and Erie" was to be known as Chersonesus. The one be tween the forty-second and forty-third pai-allel, 'throw:h which the Assenisipi or Rock River runs, V was to rejoice in the name of Assenisipia. Still another, - including "the fountains of the Musk ingum, the two Miamis of the Ohio and other rivers, was to have been entir tied Mesopotamia. Other names of Territories laid out in this ordinance were Illinoia, which became Illinois, and Saratoga. Then there was to have been Pelisiria as well as an Assenisipia and, a Polypotamia as well as a Mesopotamia. These are the names which the West has missed,-and there is hardly anything oolite as extraordinary in the re ent dis cussions in Congress on State nomen clature, l JL SUNWARDS. ' ( Jazzling track of woven oeams, Stretching to the furtberest verge, Where blue sky in blue sea seems Scarce perceptibly to merge, Art thou not a lustrous band Linking Earth to Wonderland? 1 Oh, if mortal man might pass Like a god across the brine, , Where between two panes of glass Lies the fiery liquid line, Marvels on yon path of gold Would his dazzled eyes behold; He might gaze on either side Down into the deepest deep, Where untouched of storm or tide, Monsters heave in dreamless sleep; Glimpse catch beneath the foam Of the mermaid's coral home. He might tread the watery ways, Meeting none but phantom ships, Pass into the golden haze, Where the sun reluctant dips; Would he find yon pathway curled Down toward the under-world? Nay, perchance beyond our view , Leapi the bright path into space,' Leads through leagues of filmly blue To a far, delicious place, In the sparkle of some star Where all fair enchantments are. Thither should the traveler win O'er the clear cryst aline. track, Once those fair realms within Would he evermore wend back? Never! Who, from yonder pale Would return to teil the tale? Chambers's Journal. GOING BY CONTRARIES. 'Oh, yes," said Steele Varian, "I ex pect to live and die an old bachelor.. I couldn't be suited better!" He stood leaning 'against the big, whitely-scoured kitchen table on which 1 r r uernee, me iropny oi nis woouianu. drive. The suu, low and level, as Dc- cembcr suns often are, brightened the varied colors of the bia'ded rag-Carpet that covered the floor. The fire crackled in the air-tight wood-stove and the atmosphere was redolent of the newly baked squash pies that Mrs. Varian had just taken out of the oven. The old lady herself eyed him curi ously over the rims of her steel spec tacles, aud Helen Bryce, with cheeks redder than the berries, and eyes brighter than the level sun-rays, stood, unglov ing her iong, slim lingers, and taking off her hat by the door. "How you do talk, Steele !" said the old lady, halt-vexed, half-smiling. "None of the girls shall estrange me from my dear old mother,' laughed the young man, putting his hand lightly under her chin, and lifting it up as to get a good look into her kindly, puzzled eyes. "She was my first sweet heart, and she shall be my last.!" "Come, none of your nonsense, Steele," said the old lady. "I wish you'd see that Billy gets the stove-wood a right size. It's" just a hair's-breadth too long to go into the new stove. As for you Miss Bryce, I've baked a loaf of your favorite election cake to.night, and it's come; out of the oven as light and puffy as a soap-bubble." ' "I'm sure it's very kind of you," mur mured Miss Bryce. ' "It's your last evening here, you know," said Mrs. Varian. "Yes, Iknow,"sa:d Helen,' her cherry lips quivering. "in orajr 1U1 it, UCUlillCU .11X19, Varian, you don't look like the same girl you were when you came here; does she, Steele?'! Mr. Varian looked up from the letter, he was opening. "What did you say?" asked hc. "That Miss Bryce's color was much better. Isn't it?" "I don't know." abstractedly observed the young -man. "I haven't thought about it. It should be better, I suppose, KYimieu iuouutam is called a healthy ne'ghborhood." very Helen Bryce caught up her hat and 6hawl, and ran to her own room, there to indulge in a hearty cry; Steele Varian went on reading. Mrs. Varian uttered an exclamation of annoy ance. "I never did see- anything like you, Steele," said she. The young man stared. "Why, mother, what have I done?" said he. " i "It's rude oositivelv rude of vou. Steele not to notice that poor girl any more than you do!" cried the old lady, whisking the tea-table into the middle of the room, and covering it with a snowy cloth that smelled of dried laven der. "She's fairly mortified to death, and I don't wondeCaF it." . "Mortified.mother! But why? Haved't I taken her through the woods for a drive? What more can I do, I'd like to know? I'm not a lady's man, and never was." "Through the woods for a' drive! Yes, because I saw her moping so that I myself had to suggest it to you." "And very thoughtful it was of you, my dear little mother." "And you took particular pains to let her understand that you only tookr her because you were obliged to go On busi ness." "It was true, wasn't it?" with a roguish twinkle of the eyes. "And you had totally forgitten that she was going away to-morrow " "One can't renember everything, mother." "Then where was the use of that ridic ulous speech about dying an old bache lor:" "Was it so very ridiculous? I don't know about that." "One would actually : think you were afraid of her making lov e to you," added Mrs. Variin, reaching a iar of home made preser;ed peaches down from the shelf and deftly removing its lid. "Well, who knows? Perhaps she may," laughed, Strele, coloring a little. "I'm sure she has no such idea!" cried Mrs. Varian. "Poor dear! Andshehas been so happy here!" "So she might be in a place like this, mother, with you to cosset her up, and the view of old Wildfell from her win dow." "It will be dreadfully hard for her., to go back to teaching again," meditatively observed Mrs. Varian, measuring out the tea to draw. "It's her business, isnt it?" "Yes, but it will be lonesome for me when she has gone. I'm sure I shall miss her." "We'll send for Aunt Adeiia, from Boston, to keep you company, mother." "That gossiping, troublesome old maid!" No, I thank you, Steele. No Aunt Adeiia for me!" cried Mrs. Va rian. "I do believe Helen Bryce has spoiled me for any one else. She's so neat and quiet and helpful about the house, I sometimes forget that she is a boarder, and call on her iust as if shel were our own folks." ,. "I dare say a little exercise won't hurt her," said provoking Steele, folding his letter up and putting it in his pocket. "Well, mother, let's have tea. I prom ised the school board to be over there at eight." "To-night, Steele?" "Yes, to-night. Why not? "Helen's last night?" " h, well, business is business, and I mmn't k3e sight of it. And I dare say," added the incorrigible young farmer, "she'll be busy packing." The appearance of Miss Bryce herself put a stop to , the discussion, and pres ently tea was served. Mrs. Varian could not help hoping that Steele would reconsider the school board quet:6n. But be did not, and Miss Bryce retired early to her room. ";he feels it, poor thing 1" thought Mrs. Varian. "And I don't wonder at it. It's hardly civil of him. I do hope Steele isn't getting interested in any of those girls over Wildfell way. No, I guess not not after what he said to night. But, after all, I'm not sure I should like Steele to be an old bachelor! 'Tain't according to nature, somehow !" "Miss'Bryce parted, with wet eyes, from her kindly hostess the next morning "I never, never can thank you for all your kindness ! ' said sne. "Oh, pshaw! don't talk that way," said Mrs. Varian, trying to laugh. "I don't know as ever I took so to acitv boarder before. Drive carefully, Steele You know the colt always shies at the redbrick wall b the raiU dam." Steele Varian smiled "I'll be. very careful, mother," said he. "Io you mean, Steele," whispered the old lady, as Helen went to tell Billy, the errand-boy, good-by, "that you would ; have let Billy t ake her to the depot if ' hadn't spoke up? " . j "He could have driven Fan just as ! well as I can, mother; and the lumber ; men on the hill " "Pshaw!" said Mrs. Varian. "Lum bermen, indeed! Good-by, Helen dear! , There is some sandwiches and an apple- turnover in the basket, and- " Her parting words were drowned in the rattling of the wagon-wheels. Deep silence prevailed until Helen and Stee'e were well out of the woods into the sunny, hardt'rozen winter road. Helen looked intently down at her mink muff. Steele surveyed his pony's ears, j- "Well:' he said, at last. . "Oh, Steele, how could you?" . "How could I what." "Talk as you did I-last night." " Listen, pet, and I'll tell you a story," said Varian, flipping the rtins into his right hand so as to leave the left arm f.ee for a sort of belt around her brown cloaked waist. "There was once a son of the green aisle of. Erin, atid he was driving a little, curly-tailed pig, and a countryman met him. " 'How far is it to Dublin ;', said he." "Now, Steele !" " 'Sure this i-n't the road to Dublin at all at ali 'pays Mike. .'It's the road to Cork.' " 'Whisht, whisht V says Paddy, 'if the craytur knew it was to Cork he was going, it's niver a step'he would stir!' " ! Nonsense, Steele :" - So, you see, Heien, it's to Cork lam drhintj my -dear, kind-hearted little mother, all this time. She's like all the rest of her blessed sex a bundle of con tradictions; and if once she knew how : dearly we love each "other, she would set herself to work to think of some very extra g d reason why you and I should J both marry some one else." j "I will never marry any man, Steele, against his mother's wishes," said , Helen, with spirit. "No, dearest; and therefore I mean j she shall want ou to marry me. very much indeed I ' I "But, oh Steele, you made me feel j very bad for a minute ! " murmured : Helen. "Dear little goosie! And to thin k that. you did t not see through my trans- i parent plot! You would never do for a diplomatist, Helen. Wait, darling uuiy wail J'' The cheery kitchen seemed sol itary and desolate enough when Steele Varian came back again. Mrs. Varian sat with her basket of patchwork before her, but mere seemeu to oe no more pleasure in combining the brilliant squares of calico ana lursey reu. ine pinK geranium naa opened a new Diossom, but Mrs, Varian scarcely noticed it. "Steele," said she, plaintively. "I'm sorry I let Miss Bryce go. I didn't re alize that I should mis3 her so much." "But she has to go back to teaching, mother." , "Teaching, indeed!, Whv should she teach any longer?" impatiently cried out Mrs. Varian. "Oh, Steele! I can't keen i r t -a . i been wishin , ii io myseu any longer, out how 1 have alt these oast weeks, that , you wouia itaice a fancy to Miss Brvce i it . I. ' and and "A fancy, mother?" The spectacle glasses, with tears at last. were deluged "Oh, Steele,' Steele!" faltered the old lady, "she would be the daughter-in-law, of -all. others, I should love the dearest." "But, mother, I thouijht- 4es, I Know," said Mrs. Varian, hys terically. "I've always said. I didn't want you to marry, but but I've changed my mind, Steele. I'm getting old, my son, and I can't live always; and Helen would jje all the same as a daughter to me."' Oo you think she will consent, mother:" " "Try, Steele" piteouslv. ii you were to mother -" up to. see her, 'Til go, fcteele!" declatad Mrs. Varian, "to-morrow to-day, if 'you say SO. the went, accordingly. And it may easily be conjectured that Helen Brvce did not loner remain ol.-durnfo x n,et. mas the young people were marred tn the great surprise of the neighborhood. All the mountings of the baskets aie also "If Mrs. V arian has told me odcc that of gold. Its is a maguiticeat specimen cf she didn't want her son ever to be mar- the skill of Chinese artisans, and is val Tisd, she's told me forty times," said the ued at $2000. Xex York Star. postmaster's wife. "And here, right o' top of it, she's as tickled as never was over that Newi5 York schoolma'am." "She's a- sensible woman," said the postmaster, i And Steele, Jookine at his wife with laughing eyes whispered: "iou see the little pis went to Cork after all!" i "Please, dear, don't !" pleaded Helen, "when yonr mother my mother is so good and kind." "I know it, fdarling," said Steele. 'Tm only talking iiji parables." Helen Forrest vrruves. , t WISE WORDS. The hit bird flutters. Covetousness bursts the bag. Better to wear out shoes than sheets. Between to stools we come to the ground. Better is an? ass that speaks well, than a prophet that speaks ilk Everyman jloves to hear his own ex perience told by some other man. Be old when young, that you may be young when old ; or,old young, and old long. i Fame is like a river "that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. All matches, friendships and societies are dangerous; and inconvenient where the contractors are not equal. Could necessity infallibly produce quarries of stone, which are the ma terials of all magnificent structures? That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but only a calm, quiet 'interchange of sentiment, f. ' There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise, that, whilst evok ing the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. Our admiration of a famous man lessens uponl nearer acquaintance with him; and we iseldomhear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some no torious weakness and infirmities. Never was t man whose apprehensions are sober, and by pensive inspection ad vised, but hath found by an irresistible necessity oneioverlasting being all for ever causing iand all forever sustaining, The happiness of mankind is the end of virtue, and truth is the knowledge of the means, which he will never seriously attempt to discover who has not habitu ally interested himself in the welfare of others. ? i - The Hnmor of Animhls. Do animals' enjoy jokes? J Certainly, some jokes, j: Can a horse laugh? Yes: so can the hyena. . Every dog except tht mad dog and' the canine with the tin can attachment possesses a keen sense oi humor. The, innocent parrot who grips you lovingly by the nose or whiskers will laugh at; the top of his lungs for the next half hour. He will hang head downward frfm his perch, writhing with ill-concealed ;mihh, in the most fantastic attitudes. j ' There was a public cat a very im portant sort pf a cat, a cat without any owner no anxious claimant always bothering about her whereabouts. She lived a ou: ei life in a surburban town and was tilled from head to tail with grim, sarcastic humor humor of the tjaod old kind, all wool and a yard wide, warranted not to bag at the knees or rub the varnish. L She had frequently been chased all over town in a Tude. uncouth ring manner by a local cross- r 25?r?tni ugly, snappish, snarly lisue cur SSior of a diseased melon Kme day the cur wa9-Shained in the yard his master's abode. On this day the cat the persecuted Uloner and sat nnon the around particu liar: cat came just out of the reach of Mr. Doggie, with a smile anaM grin upon her face, a grin so humoroiVvv that every whisker on pussy's facev;emed to dance with joy. bhe was det&rminedto get even with the the dog, if pd 'sible. Not content with this manner Qtvorocedure the cat went in search of a largV and'tempting bone, an oiu Done mai. wtas irayed at tne edges and had flies on it , but just such a bone as an ugly cur woulq select from an entire graveyard of cho'cp bones. This bone the cat deposited within two inches oi tne dog and j:then hj aped hilariously up and down, balancing herself alternately upon her hind feet aim then-on her front legs, making faces fUze a circus clown and nearly driving the poor dog frantic with rage. IThere is no doubt in the world but that the clat -was playing a practical joke on the udly little cur thai had caused her so muchrouble. Thai pussy enjoyed her joke ith the bone goes without saying. JR? York Mer cury. ) i Von Moltke's Seventy Years' Service. Field Mar$hil, the Count von Moltke, the ruling spirit of the German armv.has celebrated the seventieth year of his en trance into the service. In 181S, when the vounc: soldier drdw his sword, Europe was throbbing aftei Waterloo ; Nap:leon was quarreling with Sir Hudson pLowe at St. Helena because he could not have green cloth for , his uniforms; ( Tanning reigned in Parlia ment; JohnQuincy Adams, an Ameri can Secretary of State, was composing his Monroe doctrine; Bismarck was in the nursery; Byron was writing his "Don Juan" Gladstone was about to enter Eton;! Louis XYIIL, the Beloved, was on the jFrench throne; the illustri ous C'arnot was n exile in Prussian Saxony, little dreaming that his chil dren's children would rule in theElysee; Pius VII. reigned in peace after his Bonaparte buffetings ; Blucher was dying in Silesia; Spain was in the throes of insurrection' and of all problems that concerned the minds of men none was so nebulous'as this dream of a united Ger many. , Seventy years of service, and the hand of the venerable soldier still rests on his glorious sweird. JYcic York IlsralJ. A Chinese Minister's Princely Gift. Colonel red. Grant showed me the other evening a splendid gift received by his wife j from the Chicese Minister. A branch -of rare wood, gilded, rises from a base of plush to the height of twenty-eighit inches, and on the twigs bright-plumaged birds rest in naturAl attitudes, while below two hanging baskets, one of gold and one ot silver, roritflin clusters of Chinese rlowers with ! irold and silver petals aad gold stems. JOHN BRIGHT. The Great English Leader's Death After a Long Illness. - A Sketch of the Statesman's Long and Eventful Career. After a long illness, John Bright, the Eng lish statesman, is dead. His end was peace ful and painless. His four sons and three daughters were all present at his bedside.. As soon as his death was announced the church bells of London began tolling. In the House of Cojimons the Right Hon. . William H. Smith, the Government leader, with much emotion referred to the death of Mr. John Bright. He said that he -would postpone his remarks on Mr. Bright until Mr. Gladstone would be present. - Mr. Bright represented the Central Divis ion of Birmingham in the House. Mr. Bright's Career. John Bright, the second son of Martha and Jacob Bright, was born at Greenbank, near Rochdale, Lancashire, November 16. 181L Far back in his stock there were Jews, but his near ancestors were stanch Quakers. His hatred of civil and religious oppression had its birth in the experiences of his own family. As a Quaker, his father persistently refused to 'pay church rates and was habitually the victim of distress warrants, which were satis fied by seizures of the cotton goods he dealt in. The circumstances of his boyhood strength ened John Bright in the sentiments which in spired his political career. His earlier years were spent at Rochdale, which was the thea tre of a constant azitation for Parliamentary reform. The first exercise of his oratorical - talents was in a literary and philosophical society that had been organized at Roch dale. He read much, and was especially fond of Milton's "Paradise Lost' and the Bible. He had become a local celebrity, when, at the age of twenty-six, he formed an ac quaintance with Richard Cobden that did much, no doubt, to direct his intellectual en ergies into the course they took. In 1839 he took part in open air Anti-Corn law meet ings, and against the Corn laws and the church rate he subsequently delivered a se ries, of powerful spe9ches. In 1843 he was elected to the House of Commons as member for Durham. The rich harvest of the following year delayed the success of his crusade against the. Corn law, but the enthusiasm of his d olio wers was not abated. I Money poured in, tracts were circulated, and trained speakers visited every village in the country. Finally, in 1846, the import duty on corn was repealed upon the propo sition of Sir Robert Peel, the Prime Minis ter. On the last night of the debate Mr. . Bright eulogized Peel for the stand he had taken in terms that affected the Premier to tears. - Iri 1S69 Bright was associated with Cob den in the negotiation of the commercial treaty- between France and England. He supported the repeal of the paper duties, which made the penny newspaper pres3 of England possible. During the American Civil War he was a friend of the North, both in and out of Parliament. In 1855 he took a prominent part in the agitation in favor of the extension of the elective franchise, which ended with the passage of the Reform bill of Au"f. 15. iab7. Me also urged reform m reland and the disestablishment of the Irish Church. The latter was accomplished in Mr. Bright had now reached the zenith of his fame. He commanded the confidence of the Liberal party in no less degree than Mr, Gladstone himself, and his name had been linked with every great popular movement of his time. It was therefore natural, when Mn Gladstone was summoned to form a Ministry in 186S, that Mr. Bright should be invited to occupy a place m it. it was natural, too. that public sentiment should require a test of his ability to frame the leg islation that he naa so long aavocacea. These considerations influenced, him to ac cent the proffered post of President of the Board of Trade. He was the first Quaker to hold office in the British Cabinet. In re spect of achievement his political career end ed with his acceptance of office. ' He was President of the Board of Trade until 1873, when he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. To : this post he was again assigned when Mr. Gladstone was re stored to power after the six years interval of the Beaconsfield Ministry. He resigned in lhS2 because he disproved the Govern ment's Egyptian policy, which culminated in the bombardment of Alexandria. As an orator John Bright produced wit. the simplest aid3 the greatest effects. His mind was free from the classical associations that have exercised an influence upon the diction of other great English speakers, and his speeches are splendid examples of the possibilities of the Angio-Saxon tongue. He was able to modulate his voice to suit the sen timent he expressed, yet his declamation was never merely theatrical. His words seemed to reach the hearts as well as the heads of those who heard hitn.' He knew well how to-mak-wit and humor perform the same service as pathos aad tragedy, and was almost as qu'c'r as Disraeli in coining apt phrases. During his "later years he sat in Parlia ment for the most part in silence, appas -ently living much in the past. When he did speak, constant alius on to his own triumphs marred the effect of his utterances. From an early sympathy with the Irish, he fell into the advocacy of coercive . measure-. When he took his stand against Home Rule the friendship that existed between Mr. Gladstone and himself for nearly half u century suffered a stock whose effects were never repaired. Nearly all his" later pabli-.: utterances contain unkind references co bi ; ormer associate. His las: great speech wa3 at Birmingham against Irish Home Rule, and this greatly damaged Mr. Gladstone's side. His last speech in th Commons was on the Speaker" election in .Sift. His last prolonged speech in the Commons was on the franenisa. This was a failure, shoivins signs of his men ti . J.e?ay. " , - . A white book on Samoa h&3 been issued at Berlin; Prince Bismarck repudiates the acts and utterances of Consul Knapp?, the German Consul at fcamoa. Tee Government has taken' steps io pre vent the introduction into ilerico of Ameri can lard, owing to the official announcement that it is detrimental to health. England ha3 demanded of Morocco SZZO, 000 indemnity for tlia massicra and piiiais at the Mackenzie factory &t Capa Jaoym 158?. ' Minister H eem ?ket.s has bean appoints! Regent of Holland. I , Chglera ha3 broken out at Zamboanga, in toe Philippine Islands. There hava be?a live hundred deaths so far. Thousands of canal workmm have left the Isthmus of Panama, and work i:r abcut stonneJ. i THE NEWS EPIT0HIZE& V Eastern and Middle States. The City Hall at Dover. N. H.. was de stroyed by fire. Several near-by buildings were also damaged. Loss nearly $100,000. Robert Craven, of Philadelphia, the Secretary and Treasurer of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Com pany, has stolen over (10,000 and fled. Ex-Private Secretary Dan Lauoxt has been chosen President of the Houston, West estreat and Pavonia Ferry Railroad' Com pany of New York city by the unanimous rote of the directors. Emily Schinckle was Albert Lindstrom's sweetheart four years aco in Sweden. She refused to marrv him after he oaid har nas- sage here, and in Worcester, Mass., he shot her, injuring . her fatally, and then killed mmseii. Ex-ljirrrED States RiyiTOR John Scott. President and one of the receivers of th Allegheny Valley Railroad Company, died at Pittsburg of pneumonia, in his sixty-ninth year. He was identified with a large number of financial and industrial institutions in Pittsburg:, and was one of the ori&rinators" of the Edgar Thomas Steel Company. Owen McGoldrick -and his son James. aged fifty and twenty years respectively, were killed by a train at Meriden, Conn. One workman was killed and two were fatally injured by the collapse of an unfin ished building at Binghamton, N. Y. Patrick Fleming, a hay dealer of Provi dence, R. I., has left town with liabilities placed at $40,000, . W. H. Bigzlow. of Maine, has been ap pointed Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service of iTew England. The probabilities were that the steamshiD Conserva, which sailed from New York tc become a eunboat in the service of Hippolyte. the leader of the Haytian insurgents, was wrecked by collision and that not only did she go to the bottom, but also the unknown craft which struck her. The Commander ot the steamer was John Henry 'Ankers, of Brook lyn, ine crew was composed or twenty three Malays and Lascar3. The explosion of a barrel of kerosene de stroyed a hat factory in WiUiamsbure.N. Y. , and there, being no ther escape for the eighty workpeople, they leaped from the win dows. . About twenty were seriously in jured, two fatally. E. Cummings & Co., Boston leather, deal ers, have failed for $300, 000.: South and "West. Two Mexican raiders who crossed the bor der into Texas with objects of robbery wert killed by American officers. , Three of the latter were wounded. A girl named Ada Lebrecht lost her life in the burning of the Standard Bagging Factory at St. xVatis. Dan Ward, sixteen years old, shot and killed Ed. Burke, two years his junior, at Birmingham. Ala. Burke asked Ward for a cizarette and the latter replied he had none. Burke called his friend a liar, when Ward shot him. The mill of the Chicago Lumber Company at Denver, Col. was burned. Loss, 575,000. Goldberg Brothers, of Milwaukee, Wis., dealers in lace3, have failed for $110, 000. The plant of. the St. Paul (Minn.) Meat and Provision Company was burned. Loss $200,000. - v Burns Hargett, aged twelve years, was caught by the foot and drawn between the rollers of a corn-crusher at Fredrick. Md. It was two hours before the body could be re leased, and then it was ground up into a mere mass of flesh and bones. Navigation is open for the season in all the western rivers. Alvis Turner and Jeff King were going toward Cumberland Gap, Ky.. ana James Burch was coming to town, and the meeting was celebrated by Alvis Turner shooting: at Burch, the ball only striking Burch's gun. is urch returned the fire, promptly killing Alvis Turner, and then King fired on Burch, killing him and beating a hasty retreat up Clear Creek, j Eight tramps were publicly flogged, on their bare backs by a Citizens Committee in Eairbury, Neb., for impudent and boisterous conduct. A fire at Kenny, 111, destroyed $100,000 worth of property, including more than twenty stores and busuzess houses. AyTRAiN near Dunlap's, Ind., struck a buggy containing Robert McCaffrey, aged twenty, and Miss Delia Love, aged eighteen, of Elkhart. Both' were found on the pilot of the engine dead. McCaffrey's head was crushed, and the young woman's neck bro ken.' . Harvey Johnson, a thirteen-year-old boy, and a playmate found a small keg of pow der in a barn at Sioux City, Iowa. The Johnson boy dropped a lighted cigarette into the keg, and an explosion followed, which killed them both. ' The Central Warehouse at Chicago, with its valuable store of teas and coffees, was burned to the ground, entailing a loss of about $1,500,000. Lee Lyons, a colored ex-convict, 4 was driven to bay at Franklin ton, N. C, and as hn refused to surrender, the Sheriff and his deputies fired six bullets into him, ending his life. Washington. Secretary Tracy has ordered the steamer Thetis to proceed to Sitka, Alaska The President has issued a proclamation forbidding the killing of any otter, mink, marten, sable or fur seal, or other fur-bearing animal in Alaska. Penalties fixed for its violation are for each OiTence $200 to $1,000 fine and not mora than six months' imprison ment, or both, and the vessels -will be con fiscated. The President has signed the proclamation opening Oklahoma to settlement. May 1 is set as the date for opaning the Territory. Judge Chandler, of Independence, Ma, has accepted the place : of First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. . Secretary Windom has appointed James H. Windrim, of Philadelphia, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, vice Will A. Freret, resigned by request The President has reserved Monday to himself, and on that day sees those only with whom he has engagements. Colonel Fred D. Grant called at the Department of State and took the oath bf office as Minister to Austria. Secretary Windoji has issued the follow ing instructions to customs officers in regard to the Paris Exposition: Alanuracturers; articles or wares produced or manufactured in the United States which may ba sent to the Paris Exhibition of 18S3 for exhibition will upon their return to the United States . be admitted to free entry- 1 - Postmaster-General Wanamakeb and tb.9 Hawaiian Minister have j signed a coa vention increasing the amount of ; money orders between the two to 1JU. Postmaster-General Wanamaker has appointed the following division superin tendents of the railroad mail service: First Division, W. H. Bigelow, Boston. Mass.; Second Division, R. C. Jackson, New York; Third Division, C. W. Vickery, Washing ton, D. C ; i ou'rth Division, L. M. Terrell, Atlanta, Ga. ; Fifth Division, George W. Pepper, Cleveland, Ohio. Foreign. So far this year there have bosa fifteen duels and sixteen suicides at Moate Carlo, the great Italian gambling resort. ? It Is estimated that the lo3sej die to tha collapse of the. French copper ring amount to 530,000,000. A French torps Jo boat has foundered off Cherbourg in a fcurricano. Her captain and fourteen of her crew were drownad. Count Peter. Schuvalojt. the distin guished Russian dip!omat and Genera', died at St Petersburg, aged sixty-one. .The town of Pin3k in Russia has been de stroyed by fire, fix persons were burned to death. . STANLEY MATTHEWS. Oeath ot a United States Supreme- Court Justice, i The Hon. Stanley Matthews', Associata v Justice of the United States Supreme Court . who has been seriously ill for some time pasty " died at 10,60 o'clock in the morning at bis -home in Washington City. When the Supreme Court met the chair which had been occupied by Justice M&- . thews was draped in black. When the Jus tices had taken their seats and the Marshal had opened the . court, Chief Justice Fuller announced that the court had just heard ca the. death of Justice Matthews, and that therefore no business would be transacted, that day. The Marshal declared the court adjourned until the following Tuesday. Stanley Matthews was born in Cincinnati . July 21, 1S24. He was graduated at Kenycaa College in 1S40, studied daw and was ad mitted to the Bar, settling in Maury County, Tenn. He shortly after returned to Cincin nati. He became editor of the Cincinnati . Herald, the first daily anti-slavery paper tor , that city. In 1651 he became Judge ot the Court of Common Pleas in Hamilton County, was State Senator in 1855, and in 1S56-21 was United .States Attorney for the southern district of Ohio. . He served' with distinction in the Union. Army during the war, but resigned his com mission as Colonel in 1863 to become Jud of the Supreme Court in Cincinnati. He was a Presidential elector on the Lincoln-Johnson ticket in 18o4 and on the Grant Colfax ticket in 1838. He was defeated aa -Republican candidate for Congress in 187S. and in the next year was one of the counsel' before the celebrated Electoral Commissi cav opening the argument in behalf of the Re publican electors of Florida and making tlie principal argument in the Oregon case. In March, 1877 he was elected United. States Senator in place of John Sherman who had resigned. ! In 1881 he was appointed Associate Justice of the United States Suprema Court by President Hayes, just before the latter va cated his office. Mr. Matthews's nomination was not acted on, and he was renominated' by President Garfield, was confirmed - by the 1881. . I His appointment Senate on May 12;. LATER NEWS, The strike of the weavers in Fall River, Mass., is ended, and the operatives have re turned to work on the old basis. The largest dry goods establishment in Scranton, Penn.,, owned by the firm E Clelland, Simpson & Taylor, whd carried a stock valued at $200,000, was destroyed "by fire. The loss is almost total. The pattern-shop of the Fort Pitt (Penn.) I foundry was burned. The loss is $100,000. Arthur Matt ashed and William Grav eily Darling, two Englishmen, have murdered and robbed by a half breed guide, : named Gray Bud in the vicinity of Sweet Grass Hills, Montana, whither they went oa a hunting excursion. co riorioa irom vudo. Jim Turney and Mack Francis were publicly hanged at Lebanon, Tenn., for the murder of Len Martin. "General Turner's house at Pinevittev Ky., was burned on Tuesday night, ao& Turner and his family perished in the fiamasu John Rosenberoer. a farmer, shot dead Andrew Castaline in a row over a trivial matter near Creighton, Neb., then burned, his own house to the ground and shot him self dead." ' . General Luis E. Torres, Governor of Lower California, has sent a message to the press, stating that the reports of tha discov ery of gold in that country have teen grossly exaggerated. . : - Ex-Repbesextative Petes P. mhoniy of Brooklyn, died a few days . since in Washington. . He was born in 18-48. Corporal Tanner has assumed direction. I1 M 1 - of the Pension Office. - ; - President Harrison has1 received hit ! first month's salary. It amounted to SS,- 858.88, and was delivered to him in the fomr of a Treasury araft. It was for the month of March, minus the .first three days. Mr. Cleveland received the President's salary for that portion of the month. Governor Braver, of Pennsylvania, wat- assaulted in Washington by a retired army officer named Armes. The Governor re pulsed him with his crutch. The. cause cdf ' the trouble was the exclusion of Armea from - the Inaugural parade. , The Duke of Buckingham is dead, lie- was born in 1833. ; Queen Victoria . and" Queen Regent , Christina met at San Sebastian, Spain. --. j . A disastrous collision is reported on thr Taku and Sientsin Railway, China, resulting in many deaths. A" Boon" for the Ply. Natural cas has artificially proIoarffecT the existence of the fly. In the days ot - old, when nights were cola, tnere fceinp. no gas hres, me . last ny oi grainier smoothed down his little coat tails,! oiled up his trunk and fell, over on- his kackv after the first few frosts. Now the fly, like the man who wants a small loan, is always with us. He basks in continual warmth all winter, but there are nreciou few of him. The average happy borae. where gas bills come as regularly as thev new moon, will have trouble in scaring up more than three live flies on Yalea tine's Day. Whether the February fly lasta until the young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of spring suits, is a question for scientists to tackle. Wc simply want to go on record as saying that where natural gas prevails and no tab is kept on the consumption it is possible by the expenditure of from 12 to $50 to preserve the life of a fiy all winter, aissi keep the household warm at the same time. When we see a fly twiddling; his hind legs and rubbing his ears ca February 27, we are convinced that hat will live in a great and growing aga. -Jam aovon. I2jnn.j jteics. ... .