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'l i?ere is a strange depression in the
villi animal market just now. Lions,
tigers, panthers and other cheerful
creatures can be bought very cheap, and
museum managers have taken advantage
of the fall of the market.
"The dear old story that comes every
winter is again afloat/' remarks a cynical
city paper. "There is to be a scarcity in
the ice crop. After the passage of a
brief pericd the customary report of the
peach crop will also be current. Age
cannot wither nor custom stale ine infinite
regularity of these time-honored
traditions."
The Canadian -winter sport of tobogganing
has taken root in New Jersey, a
toboggan slide having been built by a
newly-formed club at Orange. The toboggans,
or sleds, freighted with "fair
women and brave men," go fizzing
down the long and icy slide with lightning-like
rapidity, and the sport is so exhilarating
that it promises to extend to
many other Northern localities in time.
The extent to which the Chinaman is
despised in California may be judged
from the fact that the San Francisco
Chronicle, speaking of the removal of
some Chianmen from certain buildings
there, says the removal will result in
forcing the property owners to erect new
buildings on their lots, "as no one will
be able to rent one of the places which
has been used as a Chinese wash-house."
According to General Morin, the eminent
expert, the proper temperature in
well-ventilated places is as follows: Nurseries,
asylums and schools, sixty-nine
degrees; workshops, barracks and
prisons, fifty-nine; hospitals, sixty-one to
sixty-four; theatres and lecture-rooms,
sixty-six to sixty-nine. In dwellings in
this country it has been the custom to
keep the temperature at sixty-five to
seventy degrees.
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"When Archbishop Farrar got back
from America to old St. Margaret's
under the shadow of Westminster adbey,
he took a part in a strange ceremony.
After the sermon a basket was brought
out containing nineteen loaves of bread
and nineteen old people recieved a loaf
and sixpence each. The loaves were
done up in new handkerchiefs. The
quaint custom has been carried on at
St. Margaret's for over three hundred
years.
f The largest single stone ever shipped
by any railroad in this country was lately
loaded on a car at the Erie railroad in
Jersey City. The stone is for a monument |
in Buffalo, is fourteen feet in diameter,
weights fifteen tons, and cost $5,000.
The car was prepared especially for the
stone, two of the centre sills were cut of
and braced, and this stone swung down
through the floor. The height of the
stone when loaded was fifteen feet from
the track.
The following prophecy concerning the
destruction of the world was made by
Nostradamus, the celebrated French
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astrologer, who died in 1566: "Quand
George Dieu crucifiera, Que Marc le re*
suscitera, Et que Saint Jean le portera;
La fin du monde arrivera." "Which
means that the world will come to an end
when the feast of St. George falls on
Good Friday, the feast of St. Mark on
Easter and Corpus Christi day on St.
John's day. Such is the case this year.
The advent of oleomargarine and other
noxious compounds is not without its
compensation to the progressive and
painstaking dairyman. Hundreds of intelligent
and well-posted consumers .will
seek their supply of choice, fresh, aromatic
direct from the dairyman who have
established reputations, rather than to
take the chances of being swindled by
the manufacturers of the counterfeit
article in the open market. City dealers
of honor and rcputaaion report an increased
demand for gilt-edged dairies of
butter, even at prices considerably above
lio nvprnorp nf crnnd butter. This affords i
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encouragement for the dairyman to make
an unexceptionable article of butter and
to seek private customers for its regular
sale.
Mr. Henry Harries, at the recent meeting
of the Royal Meteorological society,
read a paper in which he proved from
official data that the Manila typhoon of
September 27, 1882, after crossing the
Pacific, traversed America and the Atlantic
oceau, finally arriving in the Baltic
on November 1. This is the most remarkable
tracing from day to day of a
storm centre of which we have any record,
the distance covered by the typhoon
exceeding fourteen thousand geographical
miles in the space of thirty-six days.
The early meteorologis'ts of this century,
some of whom doubted whether a cyclone
could live long enough to make the transit
of the narrow North Atlantic, would
be quite surprised at the result of Mr.
Harries' interesting researches.
Miss Belle Franklin, a young schoolmistress
of McHenry county, is the hero.
ine of the Missouri slope. Miss Franklin
was sleeping in a shack which she had
built upon her claim, when she was awak.
ened by the cracking noise of the prairie
fire. Looking out she saw the dancing
flames skimming along across the prairieThe
brave girl knew that her neighbors
living half a mile distant were away from
home, and the fire would soon envelop
the house, barn, hay and grain. Jumping
from her bed, she hurried away to
the log barn in which the farmer's extra
team was tied. Harnessing the animals,
she rushed them out to the plow, and before
the fire had reached the premises she
had turned several furrows and formed a
fire-break which saved the property.
Marriageable young men in Bismarck are
getting ready to throw themsolvea a<
Miss Franklin's feet. ~ ;
A couple were married by a Los
Angeles (California) judge recently, and
in gratitude the bride presented him with
a mammoth strawberry three inches long,
two and seven-eighth inches wide and
eight and three-quarter inches in circumference.
They do things on a large
scale in the glorious climate of California.
A. party of Australian savages have
I been attracting the attention of several of
the learned societies of Europe, and M.
Topinard presented three of them?man,
woman and child?to the Societe d'An
thropologie. It -was louna tnat tncy
could count only to the number three;
for four they said "many," and for five
"a hand." But the man showed mental
capacity, for he spoke in both English
and German. M. Daily took advantage
of this fact to make a delicate inquiry
concerning cannibalism, and was informed
that he had often eaten human
flesh and enjoyed it.
A discovery which is expected to revolutionize
the art of glass-making is
credited Mr. Frederic Siemens. It is in
effect that any desired degree of hardness,
within a rather wide range, may
be communicated to glass, and that by
so simple a means as uniform heating followed
by uniform cooling. The difficulty
of heating and cooling glass at an
equal rate throughout is overcome by the
application of radient heat and the surrounding
of the edges with a material
that prevents the heat from leaving them
more rapidly than that from other portions.
The glass may be made much
harder than the ordinary product, and
three times as strong. It is adapted to
many of the purposes to which iron and
steel are applied, and it is not impossible
that people now living may inhabit glass
houses, with no more fear of throwing
stones than if the structures were of
brick and mortar.
Ben: Perley Poore declares that dairy
men can now realize what is called
"the glorious uncertainty of the law."
The supreme courts in four States have
passed upon the constitutionality of the
laws enacted by the legislature of those
States, prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of butterine. The highest judicial
authorities in New York and in Minnesota
have solemnly declared that it is lawful
to concert a vile imitation of butter
from fat rendered from the bodies of diseased
animals or from any other greasy
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Missouri and Pennsylvania have taken
directly opposite ground, and sustain
the constitutionality of the State laws
prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
this unhealthy compound. When newspapers
disagree, people can pay their
money and take their choice, reading
both sides and forming their own
opinions. "But these contrary opinions
from the bench," says Major Poore,
"cloud a grave question with doubt, and
can but cause much injury to the dairy
interests of the country. If the manufacturers
of oleomargarine and butterine
find their occupation gone in a State
where it has been declared illegal, they
can move across the line to another State,
and there carry on their traffic. Ways
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duct into those States where its manufacture
is -forbidden, and thus all restrictive
legislation is rendered nugatory. It
is to be hoped that the question will be
carricd up to the supreme court and
properly argued there, that it may be
settled on some certain basis. The decision
of the supreme court of Pennsylvania,
upholding the constitutionality of
anti-oleomargarine legislation, appears to
be sound in law and common sense, and
could it be confirmed by the supreme
courts of the United States, it would protect
the now troubled interests of the
dairymen."
Advantages of Advertising*.
In the development of trade during
the past generation or two, says an exchange,
advertising has been resorted to
and employed as never before, and
through its mediumship the business 1
enterprises of the country have been
brought into prominence and before the
public.
The man who best understands this
important governing principle of trade;
who realizes the necessities of the times
and seeks to satisfy them; who systematically
and wisely advertises bis
business and gives people to understand
that he really means business
and is thoroughly alive to all that is
going on, he, above all others?other
things being equal?is the man who
makes a financial triumph in life and has
his efforts crowned with the laurel
wreath of success.
The ways of advertising are innumerable,
and oftentimes display the greatest
ingenuity, and while some are nonsensical,
others sensational, and some more
effective than others, still they are recognized
as the motive power whose force
moves the wheels of commercial enterprise.
As temporary expedients and
cappers of trade some of these methods,
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certain extent, but the newspaper has
long since been acknowledged the only
legitimate advertising medium, and
tnrough its periodical columns thousands
of advertisers speak to millions of
readers.
Newspapers go everywhere, are read
by all classes, at home and abroad, and
there is scarcely an individual in the
land whose patronage is worth influencing
who does not take or read a newspaper,
or who may not be directly appealed
to by a well-advised advertisement.
Our business men, having faith in their
own wares, realize that it is the most effective
means for securing a wide recognition
of the merits of their goods, and
the most energetic and successful salesman
they can engage. Ceaselessly at
work, it addresses thousands each day in
the interest of the advertiser, and is a
persistent canvasser whose solicitations
it is impossible to escape.
Overheard.
j Unseen he to the pair drew nigh?
The maiden was his daughterHe
overheard their soft good by,
And said. "I've caught a ta ta."
They kissed. Then said the piying pa
It is no serious matter;
j They're lover* and their kisses are,
Of course the cream of ta ta."
?Boaton Courier. 1
A ROYAL PAGEtfT.
Queen Victoria in Person Opens
the British Parliament.
Sitting oil the Throne While her
Speech is Read.
The Britisli parliament is again in session,
having been opened by Queen Victoria in
person. Promptly at 1:30 p. M., says a London
dispatch, the royal party left Buckingham
palace for the house of lords. The rout?
oi tue rovai pageant had Deen covered witu
gravel. This prevented the horses from
falling and enabled more rapid progress to
be made. Her majesty rode in an open carriage
drawn by eight horses. The Household
cavalry acted as the escort to the queen.
Large crowds lined the street through which
the royal procession passed, and hor majesty
was greeted with hearty cheers all along the
route. The scene in the house of lords was
very brilliant. Peers and peeresses, judges,
ministers and bishops were present in
large numbers in full court dress. Gaslight
was used in the chamber, owing to the absence
of the sun. This enhanced the beauty
of the scene, as it showed more fully tha
brilliancy of the jewels and splendor of the
dresses worn by those present. The queen
looked as if she were suffering from a cold.
A cluster of princes was about the throno
in the house of lords: princesses were in front
I of the wool-sack, and all were standing in silence
to receive the queen. The procession
entered with Lord Salisbury bearing the
sword of state, the Marquis of Winchester
the cup, and the Duke of Portland
the regalia on a cushion. The Prince
of Wales went to meet the queen, and bent
to kiss her hand. She ascended the three steps
of the throne assisted Dy princess .Beatrice
and the Prince of Wales, then seated herself,
and her ermine robe and crimson train were
arranged by the deputy lord
chamberlain. Princess Beatrice took a
position at her right, and Prince
Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of
Wales, took one at the left. The lord chancellor
stood next to Princess Beatrice, and
then came thi Prince of Wales. Lord
Salisbury having laid the sword down, the
queen bowed three times?in front, to
the right and to the left. The house of commons
was then formally summoned, and
came rushing into the bar headed by the mace
and the speaker in his gold-braided robe of
state. The members with him were drawn
by lot owing to the limited space. The lord
chancellor, salaaming to the queen, then held
the speach toward her. She touched it as
a sign of acceptance, and then he read
it with abominably dry elocution.
When he had finished it he salaamed again.
The queen then rose, assisted by Prince Albert
Victor, from the throne, and the procession
re-formed and retired. From the beginning
everybody save the lord chancellor
was a*; solutely mute. The ceremony lasted
just a quarter of an hour. The queen said in
her speech:
My Lords and Gentlemen: My relations
with other powers continue to be of a
friendlv character. The difference which ex
X5lt5i nucii x lasvouiucwoa jvu wu *?j
government and Russia on the subject of
the boundaries of Afghanistan has been satisfactorily
adjusted. In pursuance of a convention
which will be laia before you, English
and Russian commissioners, with the full
concurrence of my ally, the Ameer of Afghanistan,
have been engaged in demarcating the
frontier of that country. I trust that their
work, already far advanced, may tend to
secure the continuance of peace m Central
Asia.
The rising in Eastern Roumelia has given I
expression to a desire of the inhabitants for a
change in the political arrangements under
which thev were placed by the treaty of
Berlin. My object in the negotiations which
have followed has been to bring them, according
to their wish, under the prince of Bulgaria's
rule, while maintaining unimpaired the
essential rights of the sultan.
Under a convention concluded with the
porte, commissioners have been appointed on
behalf of England and Turkey to confer with
the khedive and report upon the measures
that are required for securing the defense of
Egypt and the stability and efficiency of the i
government in that country.
Greatly to my regret, I was compelled in
November to declare war against King Thee- I
baw, of Burmah. Acts of hostility on his I
part against my subjects and the interests of
my empire has since his accession been deliberate
and contin uous. These had necessitated
the withdrawal of my representative at his !
court. My demands for redress were |
systematically cvaciea ana aisregaraea. ad
attempt to confiscate the properly of my sub- !
jects trading under agreement, and a refusal
to settle the dispute bv arbitration convinced
me that protection of British life and property
and the cessation of dangerous anarchy
in Upper Burmah could only be effected
by force of arms. The gallantry of my
European and Indian forces under General
Prenaergast rapidly brought the country
under my power, and I have decided that the
most certain method of insuring peace and
order is to be found in the j>ermanent incorporation
of the kingdom of Ava with my
empire.
An agreement has been made with Spain,
securing to this country all commercial rights
granted to Germany in the Caroline Islands
Your ccn sent will be asked to legislative
measures rendered neceswiry in the conven
on the subject of international copyright, to
which I have agreed.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons?
My Lords and Gentlemen: I regret to
tay that no material improvement can be
noted in the condition of trade or agriculture.
I feel the deepest sympathy for the
great number of persons in many avocations
of life who are suffering under a pressure
which, I trust, wi'l prove transient. !
I have seen with deep sorrow the renewal
since I last addressed you of the attempt to
excite the people of Ireland to hostility
against the legislative union between that
country and Great Britain. I am resolutely
opposed to any disturbance of that fundamental
law. and in resisting: it I arn convinced
that I shall be heartily supported by
my parliament and my people.
The social no less than the material condition
of that country engages my anxious
attention. Although there has been during
the last year no marked increase of serious
crime, there is in many place? a concerted
resistance to the enforcement of legal obligationst
and I regret that the practice of organized
intimidation continues to exist. I have
caused every exertion to be used for the detection
and punishment of these crimes, and
no effort will be spared on the part of my
government to protect my Irish subjects in
the exercise of their legal rights ana in the
enjoyment of individual liberty.
If, as my information leads me to apprehend,
the existing provisions of the law
should prove to be inadequate to cope with
these growing evils, I shall look with confidence
to your willingness to invest my government
with all the necessary powers.
Bills will be submitted for "transferring to
representative councils in the counties of
Great Britain local business which is now
transacted by the courts of quarter sessions
and other authorities. A measure for the reform
of county government in Ireland is also
in preparation. Thase matters will involve
the consideration of the present incidence of
local burdens.
A bill for facilitating the sale of glebe lauds
in a manner adapted to the wants of the rural
population will also be submitted to you; as
will also bills for removing the difficulties
which prevent the easy and cheap transfer
of land; for mitigating the distressed
condition of the poorer classes in the western
Highlands and the islands of Scotland;
for the more effectual prevention of accidents
in mines; for extending the powers of the
Railway Commission in respect to the regulation
of rates, and for the codification of the
criminal law.
In these and in all other matters pertaining
to your high functions I earnestly commend
you to the keeping and guidance of Almighty
God.
"Diamond Joe" Reynolds is one of the
millionaire curiosities of Chicago. He invariably
wears a plain gray suit without an
overcoat, a hat several seasons behind, prunella
gaiters that have been out of style for
years, and always has in his shirt front a
first-water diamond as large as a filbert and as
bright as a dewdrop. He owns more grain
elevators than any man in the country and
ships more grain than any two men on the
Chicago board of trade.
It is probable that Mr. Andrew Carnegie's
offer or $250,000 for a public library in PittsImr
will be accepted and the terms complied
witlj J>y that city.
" NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
Beaver Falls, Penn., has had a disastrous
fire, the flames consuming the extensive
car works, foundry and machine shops located
there, together with the Chinese headQuarters
and every building except one on
tlie square facing Sixth avenue. The total
loss is estimated at $175,000.
The military guard at General Grant's
tomb is to be kept there until the first of next
July.
Burglars blew open the safe in the county
treasurer's office at New Castle, Penn., and
carried off $200 in money, $10,000 in notes and
^s.uuu in county warrants.
Five members of the Hausmeyer family at
Tarentum, Penn., have died of trichinosis.
The lives of three other members of the family
suffering from the disease were given up.
A strike for an advance of wages among
the miners and coke burners of the Connellsville
(Penn.) region has involved more than
5,000 men, and lias resulted in trouble. A
body of 200 Hungarian and Polish strikers
compelled a number of men to quit work and
did some damage to property. A squad of
thirty police was sent out from Pittsburg,and
the sheriff called upon the governor for
troops.
A dispute about wages has resulted in
fifteen large New York cigar factories shutting
down, thus depriving about 9,000 persons
of employment.
South and West.
Atexemext house at King's Fountain, N.
C., caught fire, and three persons?two
women and an infant, all colored?were
burned to death.
Four murderers were hanged on the 15th?
Charles Wilson (colored) at St. Louis for the
murder of W. A. David, second mate of a
steamer on which Wilson was a deck hand;
Noah Meniman (colored) at Belleville, III.,
for wife murder; Henry Stair at Nevada,
Mo., for the murder and robbery of Jacob
Sewell and bis son, and William Madison
(colored) at Beaumont, Texas, for killing another
colored man.
A unique contest?a type-setting tourna- i
ment?has just taken place at Chicago. The
| seven contestants set type for three prizes
1 several hours a day during six days. Barnes,
of New York, came out ahead with 39,210
ems; McCann, of New York, v&o won the
championship recently,was secona with 37,806
ems, and Levy, of Chicago, was third with
33,918 ems.
A colored woman alleged to be 125 years
old has just died in New Orleans. She was
brought to America from Africa in 1788, and
was then a grown woman.
Dr. Thomas W. Keen, a member of the
Virginia legislature, dropped dead of heart
disease a few days ago, just after he had finished
making a speech in the house of delegates,
Richmond.
Twenty-four persons have been reported
frozen to death in Kansas during the recent
cold weather. Many deaths from the same
cause have occurred in Nebraska, Colorado
and other Western States.
A few nights ago Henry Jones, Richard
Thomas and Thomas Johnson, residents of
Dinwiddie county, Va., attended a country
dance, and lust before day started for their
homes. They had not gone far before they
began to suffer so severely from the cold that
they took refuge in a stable, where they were
subsequently found frozen to.death.
Six men were buried in a snow slide near
Ouray, CoL, two being taken out dead and
the rest badly injured.
Holly Epps, the murderer of Farmer
Dobson, was taken from jail at Vincennes,
Ind., by a crowd of masked men and hanged.
A tank burst at a lard rendering establishment
in Creston, Iowa, resulting in the death
of two men and injuries to four others.
A fire which destroyed the house of Emanuel
Johnson in Columbia county, Ark.,
burned to death six children who were sleeping
in one room.
William Eldridqe, of Livingston, Tenn..
aged fourteen years, saw his sister abused
by her husband and killed the latter with an
axe. 1
G. L. Hopkins, a Kentucky farmer of ungovernable
temper, charged his nineteen- i
year-old son with laziness, and receiving a
reply that he did not like took a shotgun and
blew the boy's head off.
Thk Maryland legislature has re-elected A. 1
P. Gorman to the United States Senate.
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Washington. I
The consul of the United States at Santiago
de Cuba reports the existence of large
quantities of bat guano on the south coast of
tne island of Cuba. This guano is deposited
in caves, one of which was visited dv the
consul and estimated to contain from 25,000
to 30,000 tons. The facilities for working
these deposits are reported as being excellent.
The committee on invalid pensions of the
House agreed to report favorably a bill to
increase the pensions of widows from $8 to i
$12 per montn.
The committee on post offices and post
roads of the house has been subdivided into
ten committees, each having charge of special
subjects to be considered.
The secretary of the navy has directed
that a vessel of the Pacific station be sent to
the Samoan islands, recently seized by Germany
against the protests of the American
and British cousuls.
The United States revenue cug er Walcott
has captured three thousand pounds of opium
in Alaska.
President Cleveland has signed the bill
providing for the performance of the duties
of the President in case of the removal, death
or inability both of the President and VicePresident.
A commission appointed by Secretary
Manning is engaged in making an actual
count of the unissued national bank notes in
the vaults of the United States treasurv.
amounting to about $75,000,000. Ten expert
counters from the bureau of engraving and
printing have been detailed to assist in the
count.
Foreign.
A train conveying a military company
was completely wrecked at Valdivia, Chili.
Thirty soldiers, including eleven officers, were
killed.
M. Saoot, a banker of Calais, France, has
suspended; liabilities, $2,000,000.John
Magee, who attempted to blackmail
the Prince of Wales, has been sentenced
to penal servitude for seven years.
An Irish high sheriff has written to the
London Times that a famine is approaching
Ireland, and with it will come acts of lawlessness.
Violent men, he says, determined not
to starve, will seize the necessaries of life,
even at the risk of doing bodily harm to
others.
A banquet has been given in London in
honor of Mr. Joseph Arch, M. P., who is the
first agricultural laborer to be elected to
parliament
There is a split among the liberal leaders
in the British parliament on the Irish question.
Mr. Chamberlain has threatened Mr.
Gladstone that if home rule is proposed he
will secede and smash the party.
France is suffering from a murder epidemic.
The Paris newspapers record eleveu
murders and five attempts at murder within
B1JL uuj 9.
A girl named Collins was recently buried
alive at "Woodstock, Canada. The terrible
fact was discovered when the body was exhumed
for the purpose of removal.
General de Courcy, the French com"
mander in Annam, has been removed.
An enormous haystack at Lemberg,
Bavaria, used in cold weather by vagrants as
a sheltering place, caught fire during the
night while a large number of homeless wanderers
were under it asleep, and was destroyed.
Twenty dead bodies were found,
and it was thought many more had been
burned to death.
a^ogTplagur
Ton Thousand Deaths fYom Disease
in "Wisconsin?Scores Dying Daily.
The hog plague which has prevailed in -fhe
vicinity of Beloit, Wis., this last season and
is still causing great loss, is probably the most
disastrous disease which has ever affli ited stock
iu this vicinity. Scores of hogs are dying
every day, and it is estimated that fully 10,000
have died from the plague within a radius
of fifteen miles of Beloit. The best authority
on the matter does not name the disease to
the general satisfaction of stock men, but
many are satisfied that the disease is measles
and not cholera. '
Over $6,000 worth of feathers have been
sold from the twenty-one grown ostriches at
the Anaheim ostrich farm, Ix>s Angelos, Cal.,
during the past seven months.
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1 LATER NEWS.
A fiuk among a cargo of cotton bale3 on
Staten Island, N. Y., caused an estimated
loss of $100,000.
Charles Rolinson (colored) has been sentenced
to death at Wilmington, Del., for assaulting
Mrs. Gardner.
Austin Sheldon, known as tho Pike
rniiTit.v fPpnn l hermit. if? dead. He had lived
in a cave for more than twenty years.
Eleven men have lost their lives in snow
slides in Colorado.
George Foster, the most notorious
burglar, highwayman and bank thief in
Ohio, was killed the other night in Cleveland
by an officer, after a desperate struggle. He
escaped from the Ohio penitentiary last Oct
tober, and when found in Cleveland resisted
arrest.
Somebody has sent to the treasury department
$2,500, saying that it was next to the
final payment due. Tfie money has been
turned in to the "conscience fund."
Tiie President on the 20th nominated
Charles J. Canda, of New York, to be assistant
treasurer of the United States at New
York city. Mr. Canda was treasurer of the
National Democratic committee during the
last presidential canvass.
The Senate has confirmed another large
batch of presidental nominations. Among
them are: Wm. A. Garesche, of Missouri, to
be consul at Martinique; Isaac H. Maynard
of New York, to be second comptroller
of the treasury; Anthony
Eickhoff, of New York, to be fifth
auditor of the treasury; Adlai E. Stevenson,
of Illinois, to be first assistant postmaster
general. Collectors of customs?Walter Goddard,
at Fairfield, Conn.", B. R. Tate, at New
London, Conn.; J. C. Byxbee,at New Haven,
Conn- A large number of postmasters were
also confirmed.
The Belgium chamber of representatives
has nassed a bill imposing import duties on
?ereals and cattle. '
William Sheehan, convicted last Decern,
ber of the murder of his mother, sister and ]
brother at Castletownroche, Ireland, in 1877,
was hanged the other day at Cork. ^
A second encounter between police and ,
strikers in the Pennsylvania coke region re- :
suited in the probably . fatal shooting of a j
Hungarian and the arrest of several of his 1
companions. ,
A youno lady named Reser and her escort,
James Marshall, were drownel while J
skating on the Youghogheny river, near ^
Pittsburg, Penn. I
A band of carousing cowboys attempted to ]
take possession of the town of Montague, J
Texas, The citizens resisted, and four of the ,
cowboys were killed, the remainder escaping 1
into the Indian Territory.
Mrs. Annie Reid (colored) and her two j
children, aged re3p32tively eight and six <
years, were burned to death at their home 1
in Booneville, Mo.
A great storm has been raging on the j
Pacific coast, and much damage has been
done to property of all kind. * By the collapse 1
of a two-story building in San Francisco two !
women were probably fatally crushed.
A Newburgh (W. Va.) dispatch of the <
O1of oflud "rtiot a fapriKIa avnliviinn rv>MiiT?1 '
at the Orrell Coal company's coal mines at ,
this placeat3:2J this afternoon. At least 1
thirty-five persons, and in all probability ten
more were killed, many of the dead being j
our most respected citizens." Later advices 1
stated that the number of imprisoned men
was probably thirty-seven, and the prevail- ^
ing opinion was that all were dead. j
On M. de Lesseps1 return from Panama a 1
company will be form 3d in Paris for flooding j
the great Sahara desert. ,
Peter Jepsev, of Petersburg, 111., has
t>3eu expelled from Germany by the authorities.
Mr. Pendleton, the United S(Mfe min" :
ister, protested against the expulsion, but his ]
protest was unavailing. ?
The subject of Ireland will ba the all-ab- 1
jorbing topic in the present British parlia- ,
ment. i
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THE IRISH QUESTION.
The British Cabinet Inclined to
Adopt Coercive Measures.
London dispatches of recent date give the
following interesting details relating to the 1
British government's proposed treatment o* 1
r i ii- J 1 1 1 '
i.reiana s ueniauu iur uuiue i luc.
It is stated that the government will at the i
earliest moment introduce a bill in Parliament
making boycotting a felony, enlarging
magistrates' powers of summary jurisdiction,
and otherwise strengthening the criminal
law. The introduction of tnis measure is
said to have been decided upon at a cabinet
council.
The members of the present and last ministries
have received letters threatening retaliation
with dynamite if the coercion policy in
relation to Ireland is adopted, or if home rule v
for that country is refused. s
A great meeting under the auspices of tbe ^
Loval and Patriotic union has been held at
Belfast, Ireland. A rosolution was adopted
protesting against the passage by parliament
of any measure granting home rule to Ireland.
Many delegates from the north of
Ireland were present. A resolution was
adopted declaring unwavering loyalty to the
throne; denouncing separation of Ireland
from the union; refusing to recognize an 1
Irish parliament if one should be established; <
solemnly protesting against the "pernicious i
and immoral practices of the so-called na- *
tional league, summoning the government
to enforce the laws and suppress disloyalty *
and rebellion and protect the lives and li?- ]
erties of the peaceable and industrious sub- (
jects of her majesty.
The general opinion m regard to the Liberal
attitude is that Mr. Gladstone, being un- i
nhlp tr> wplrl his nartv toerether on the ques- ]
tion of home rule for Ireiand, will repudiate
his alleged utterances on that subject at the
first decent chance. Mr. Gladstone has
had a long and earnest conference with
Lords Granville and Hartington, who
were respectively the secretaries for
foreign affaire and for war in
his late cabinet. Both of these statesmen are
unalterably opposed to a separate parliament
for Ireland, and it is reported that they have
persuaded Mr. Gladstone to abandon this
issue.
AN OPIUM SEIZURE.
Three Thousand Pounds Captured
by Collector Beecher.
A Portland (Oregon) dispatch says that
after the seizure of opium on the steamer
Idaho some time ago, collector Herbert
Tvw>ivwl information that ODium was
stored on Kaasan bay, Alaska, awaiting
shipment to Portland and San Francisco.
The collector at once telegraphed to
"Washington, asking that the steamer Wolcott
be sent in search of it. The orders
reached Portland on the 10th, and the revenue
cutter left on a cruise, accompanied by
Collector Beecher. She arrived Thursday at
the bay and anchored. The collector and
eight men from the steamer went
ashore to the cannery, which was in
charge of two men. Fourteen barrels
said to contain furs landed on the
last trip made by the steamer Idaho were
opened and found to contain 3,012pounds of
prepared opium, valued at $45,000. The
opium was taken aboard the cutter. There
is no doubt that this smuggling has been
carried on for years. It is evident that some
smuggler has exposed the business to the authorities.
Collector Beecher's (son of Rev.
Henrv Ward Beecher) moieties will be about
Europe is just now quite full of American
primo donne. The number includes Ella Russell,
Maria Durand, Mme. Rolla, otherwise
Mrs. Rammelsberg, of Cincinnati, Theresa
Adams, Marie Van Zandt, Ada Arthurs, Miss
Tiflft and Miss Spaeder, both of Brooklyn,
Miss Johnstone, of Washinton, Mrs. Ewen
Cameron, formerly Miss Wheelock.of Boston,and
a host of others, little and big.
STBHBS AID POLliA
Fatal Riot in the Pennsylvania
Coke Region.
Women Armed with Knives Fighting
for their Husbands.
A Pittsburg (Penn.) dispatch of the 20th
says: A fatal battle occurred between the
Hungarian mob and a posse of deputies and
special officers at the Morewood mines, near
Mt. Pleasant, to-night. One Hungarian is
known to have been killed and three or four
wounded The Hungarians this afternoon
marched from Bessemer armed with
clubs, pistols and hatchets. They were
accompanied by women armed with knives
and stones. As they approached the Morewood
company's store they encountered
about fifty deputy sheriffs and uniformed
policemen. The latter were drawn up along
the edge of a big ice pond. The Hungarians
pressed closely together and marched slowly
across the pond, bearing an American
flag and yelling a Hungarian war cry.
Sheriff Stewart with an interpreter stepped
forward and told the mob that he had a warrant
for the arrest of some of them. He ordered
his posse to take them. The officers
surrounded the strikers, who at once made
a fierce attack. The policemen used their
clubs with terrible effect until somebody began
firing. Then the battle began in earnest.
The women screamed and ran and the men
fought like savages, till the superior skill of
the sheriff's men forced them to run. They
hurried across the lowland and ud the hill to
their houses, from the windows of which they
began a fusillade with revolvers and rocks.
Part of the mob, which was 300 strong,retreated
up the hill and surrounded their leader,
Steve Stannez, a Hungarian of giant size.
Here they began a fierce fire on the officers,
who returned it and forced them to retreat.
One officer, McRoberts, was surrounded by
the mob and terribly beaten. He clubbed his
way out, and in getting over the hill fell and
hurt himself badly, breaking a leg.
Thirteen of the strikers were captured,
handcuffed and placed in a special car, ana
taken to Greens burg jail. The prisoners are
all Hungarians. One of the attacking party,
named Jabalski. was killed. As the Hungarians
scattered to their houses it is not
Known how many of them al"e wounded,
though blood tracks show that some of the
officers1 bullets did not miss the mark.
The hills around the Morewood works were
covered with spectators during the battle,
which occurred just before dusk. When the
Eight was at its height, Father Lambing, of
Bcottdale, appeared and tried to make
peace, but was not successful. He had to
content himself with soothing the fright3ned
women and children. The Hungarian
women fought beside their husbands
and brothers, and when driven to their
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None of the sheriffs posse was injured seriDusly.
A consultation was held between the
operators and the sheriff, and it was decided
bo raid the strikers at the Standard works
bo-morrow. The hills are filled with enraged
Hungarians to-night, and further bloodshed
is feared.
The Hungarians have been arming themselves
for several day, and growing more and
more demonstrative. They are clamorous
for an advance in wages. The wages now
paid are twenty-seven cents per wagon for
iigging coal and fifty-five to sixty cents per
[>ven for drawing coke. The demand is
thirty cents per wagon and sixty to sixty-five
cents yer oven. The wagons are supposed to
bold thirty-three and a half bushels.*
Thirty-six hundred of the 10.000 coke ovens
ire shut down. This morning about 300
strikers again left Morewood ana marched to
bhe Alice mines, where they found men at
work. They caught some of them, stuck
their heads in the hot oven doors, removing
them only after they had promised not to go
to work again. They then marched to Mayfield
Mines. They chased the mine boss,
J. B. McCabe, from the yard after beating
him. They assaulted a boy named Mentxer,
ind cut him badly about the head and face.
From thence they went to the Rising Sun
works, and forced the men thereto join them.
About 2 o'clock they reached Scottdale. The
man mnrr>fi(vJ Hnwn the street carrvine fence
rails, clubs, pick-handles, crowbars, gaspipe,
md other weapons. They visited the saloons,
md many got drunk.
A negro named Stewart fired a shot at the
strikers, when they rushed to his house,broke
in the doors, and smashed everything in the
aouse. The negro barely escaped with his
life. At Donnelly works the Hungarians
cleared out the yard and beat several of the
men. Wherever the strikers have gone in a
body tbey have left ruin behind. Smashed
oven doors, overturned coal cars, and broken
tools show the effect of their rage.
This evening another car load of policemen
from Pittsburg were sent to Mount Pleasant,
where they were sworn in as deputy
sheriffs. The members of the Fourteenth
and Eighteenth regiments of militia,in Pittsburg,
have been ordered to hold themselves
in readiness to go to the coke regions at short
notice.
This strike is the most dangerous in the history
of the coke industry. The operators
hate an entirely different c lass of men to deal
with, as the Hungarians are at all times unmanageable.
In former strikes this element
was not in the field, and the operators had
m/ir-a mfflllin-oTit mon tn clonl wit.n A ffflillf?
of insecurity prevails, and citizens near the
arious threatened districts are arming f li3inolves
and otherwise preparing to defend their
lomes.
AS MPOBTMT MEASUBE.
The Presidential Succession Bill
Passes Congress.
The bill regulating the succession of the
presidency has passed the House just as it
:ame from the Senate. Several amendments
^ere proposed and rejected, and the bill was
ihen passed by 183 yeas to 77 nays. The negitive
vote was cast by Republicans, and by
tfessrs. Bennett, of North Carolina and
3reen, of New Jersey, Democrats.
The following named Republicans voted
vith the Democrats in the affirmative:
liessrs. Allen, of Massachusetts, Atkinson,
3aker, Browne, of Indiana. Buck, Battervorth,
Cutcheon, Ely, Gallinger, Hayden,
lerman, Hiestand, Hiscock, Hitt, James,
rohnson of New York, Ketcham, La Pol
? r* ir./DU. I
ette, Lang, MarkQam, Mcuomas, mumuu,
tfegley, Payne, Pettibono, Price, Rockwell,
Jcranton, Steele, 8trait, Struble, Swinburne,
Jymes, Wade, Wakefield, Warner, of Missouri,
and Weaver, of Nebraska.
What is known as the Presidential Succesdon
bill, and which now awaits the signature
>f the President to become a law, is a measlre
devised originally by Senator Hoar, of
Massachusetts, and introduced by him into
;he Senate at the last session of Congress.
\fter some del>ate and a few unimportant
verbal amcndmeuts it was then passed
)y that body, but failed of action
n the House. The death of VicePresident
Hendricks during the interim left
Congress in a frame of mind to guard against
he accidents of sudden fate in the matter of
^residential succession, and Mr. Hoar was
>arly in the field with nis old measure when
Congress assembled in December. After a
hort debate and the rejection of several proxjsed
amendments it again passed the Senate
>n Dec. 18 and went at once to the House.
After careful consideration in the judiciary
committee of that body it was reported favorably
to the House in precisely the shape it
lad passed the Senate. As in the Senate, all
ittempts at amendment were defeated in the
[louse, and after a two days' debate was
jverwhelmingly passed. Its object is to proride
against all jxwsible gaps or lapses in the
^residential office until such time as Congress
;au mature some jxirfectly sound amendment
thp snhioot to the Constitution.
The bill provides that when there is a
vacancy in the offices of both President and
/ice-President the cabinet officers shall succeed
to the presidency in the following order:
Secretary of state, secretary of the treasury,
lecretary of war, attorney-general, post>naster-general,
secretary of the navy
uid secretary of the interior. The
sabinet officer thus acting as Presilent
is to hold office until the
Usability of the President or Vice-President
s removed, or until a new President is olected
? succeed him at the end of the term of the
President or Vice-President whom he suc:eeds.
The bill also authorizes the acting
Pi-esident to call an extra session of Congress
vithin twenty days from the time he assumes
he duties of his office, should the regular
neeting of Congress not occur within that
ime.
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SUMMARY _0j\ CONGRESS*
Senate Sessions.
Nineteenth Day.?Mr. Fry? offered a
resolution relating to the fisheries, a preamble
to which relates that whereas the President!
had recommended Congress to provide for a
commission to settle and adjust the fisheries
question, and whereas the fisheries question
nad been settled for ten years past
under the treaty of Washington, at
a cost of $5,500,000 in money and a
remission of $6,000,000 of duties in that period,
and whereas that treaty had resulted in
an increase of 500 vessels ana 10,000 seamen
to the Canadian fishing fleets, with a corresponding
decrease in the fishing fleets of tha
united States: therefore be it Resolved, thafr
in the opinion of the Senate, a commission
clothed with the powers referred to ought not
to be provided for by Congress. Mr. Edmunds
said, referring to this matter, that the Freety
deut exceeded: his constitutional authority in
making a treaty without the advice and con*
sent of the Senate. After further debate,tha
resolution went over, Mr. Conger,
giving notice that he would ask tooa
heard on it.... .Mr. Voorhees presented ma*
morials from citizens of Montana paying
that the territory may be admitted as a Statet
into the Union, and also introduced a bill
providing for such admission. ..Mr. Eustfci
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coinage.... The judicial salary bill was passed.
Ifc gives all United States district court
judges $5,000 a year, and prohibits th?wn
from appointing their relatives to office in
their courts.
Twentieth Day.?A joint resolution was
of Pennsylvania a manager of the soldier^
home in place of the late George B. McClellan
Mr. Harrison's resolution to admit Mr,
Moody, of Dakota, to the floor of the Senatewas
laid before that body, when Mr. Vest made
a speech in opposition, contending that
Dakota was not a State, either in law or in
fact. Mr. Harrison defended the resolution,
and it was adopted....Mr. Teller spoke in
favor of silver coinage.
Twenty-first Day.?Mr. Morrill, of Vermont,
addressed the Senate on the silver
question. He said that there are no parties,
so far as he knew, in the Senate or out of it,
that propose or that have any wish to demonetize
silver. He said that the inevitable
result of paying the public debt with
silver dollars would be to banish gold
and leave us with nothing but silver
coinage. He said that the
letter of theiaw unquestionably made United
States bonds payable in either gold or silver
coin, but for many years we had paid both interest
and principal of these bands in gold,
and this inflexible rule had given the pledge
r\t r?iih1ir? faith fhnf. tli?T wnnM fmrpvpf ?m
tinue to be so paid until tbeir final extinguishment
Mr. Beck said that Mr. Morrill's
argument merely showed that silver was
good enough for everybody bat the bond'
holder, who was the only perton that had in
writing agreed to take it. After further debate
between Messrs. Morrill, Beck and McPherson
the Senate went into executive' session.
Twenty-second Day?Mr. Butler intnM
duced a bill, as a substitute for the bill noW
pending, "to enable the people of Dakota W
form a State constitution ana State govern-*'
ment" The new bill is an enabling act, and
applies to the whole Territory Instead of
merely to the southern portion. It was re-*
ferrea to the committee on territories...*.
Mr. Van Wyck introduced a bill
"To prevent the demonetization of silver by
certain persons in the United States." &
provides that any promissory note, check,
draft, bill of exchange, or any contract or
agreement requiring the payment of money
which stipulates ana requires the payment
thereof to be in gold coin alone shall be void
and of no effect. The bill providing for
the counting of the electorial vote was discussed
until adjournment.
House Sessions.
Nineteenth Day.?The House, by a vote
of 183 to 77, passed, without amendment, the
Senate bill to provide for the presidential
succession. The general debate continued for *
several hours ana speeches in . favor of the
bill were delivered by Messrs. Dibble, of
South Carolina, and Baker, of New York.
Several amendments proposed were rejected.
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Republicans were recorded in the affirmative
ana two Democrats in the negative?Mr.
Spriggs, of New York, brought in a resolution
providing that one month's extra pay
shall be given to each employe of the Houtie
who has been dismissed since December 7.
The resolution was rejected
Twentieth Day.?Mr. Wadsworth, of
Kentucky, introdued a resolution which recites
that whereas the President upon hit
accession to office found the gold, silver and
paper dollars of equal value, it "became the
duty of the President to use all lawful means
in his power to maintain this equality in
value of such dollars, and that, in the opinion
of this Hguse, ho has hitherto faithfully
and properly endeavored to discharge that
duty." The speaker pro tem. thought that the resolution
properly belonged to the committee
on coinage, weights and measures.
Mr. Wads worth remarked that k did
not refer at all to coinage, but involved
the question as to whether or
not the President had violated the law.' He
therefore moved that it be referred to the
committee on the judiciary. Mr. Weaver.of
Iowa, moved its reference to the committee
on coinage, weights and measures. Agreed
to?120 to 59.... Under the call of States 590
bills were introduced.
TWENTY-FIRST WAY.?A large nuinoGr OI
executive communications were laid before the
House by the Speaker, among them a
letter from the chief engineers asking for an
immediate appropriation of $50,000 for the
general work of survey on the Mississippi
river. The communications
were appropriately referred.... The
House proceeded to the consideration of
the Senate resolution accepting the statue of
President James A. Garfield, presented by the
State of Ohio. Speeches eulogizing the high
qualities of the distinguished dead were made
by Representatives Taylor, McKinley. Geddes
ana Butterworth, of Ohio, and Pettibone,
of Tennessee. The resolution was adopted
Twenty-second Day.?The bill increasing
the pensions of widows and dependent relatives
of soldiers from $8 to $12 per month /
came up. and was opposed by Mr. Bragg, of
Wisconsin, for two reasons. His first reason
was that the whole system of pension legislation
ought to be rearranged and a law enacted
to make the system more harmonious and less
incongruous. His next objection was that
the bill applied to all widows. It should, in
his opinion, extend only to those cases where
the woman was married to the man
when he received the disability, and
not to young girls who married an old
soldier, took care of him for the last
two or three years of his life, and
then went on the rolls as his widow. In the
midst of the debate the morning hour expired,
and the House went into committee on
the whole The Senate bill lor toe purchase
of the old New York produce exchange
was amended and passed. The amount appropriated
for the purchase is $450,000. Mr.
Symes, of Colorado, spoke in favor of silver
coinage.
Twenty-Third Day.?The House resumed
in the morning hour the consideration of the
bill to increase the pensions of soldiers' widows,
and Mr.Wolford started off by speaking
in its favor. Mr. Reagan, of Texas, took the *
ground that only soldiers who had been disabled
in the war or widows who had
been wives of soldiers at the time the
disability had occurred should receive
pensions. He criticized the manner in
which special pension bills were passed, and
said that the contest was not so much one
about doing justice to soldiers as it wne a
contest for political supremacy?a bid for the
votes of the soldiers. Mr. Funsten, of Kansas,
wanted to know what right Mr. Reagan
had to impugn the motives of members, and
a warm debate of a personal character followed.
Without taking action on the bill the
House adjourned.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Ohio's public school* cost. $10,003,938 last
year.
Hothouse strarrberries are selling in New
York at f4 per box.
The Missouri Cremation society has 400
members, twenty-five of whom are women.
New Year's Day four years hence will
begin the year 1889 with a total eclipse of th?
sun.
There are W4 pupils au ine xnaian scnoot
at Carlisle, Penn., representing thirty-six
tribes.
At least four incorporated towns in Colo*
rado are at an altitude of over 9,000 feet abov#
the sea.
A widower and widow, recently married
in Niles, Mich., start out with twenty-five
children.
Mr. Thomas, ex-minister to Sweden, is 1
turning loose in noilhern Maine 10,000
Swedish emigrants. _. ...
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