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At every session of Congress the United |
ft.itcs government publishes more liter- j
a tare of one kind and another than an j
average lifetime of reading could master.
The most of it is used for trunk lining
or reconversion into paper stock.
The woman question is looming up
even in China. Formerly no Chinese
lady who valued her reputation allowed
herself to be seen in rmblic at all, but
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now ladies are to be met with in theatres
and all other places of public resort.
This exercise of -vornan's rights, however,
excites the hostility of lovers of the
old customs, and the governor of Pekin
is endeavoring to put a stop to the alarming
innovation.
A Pennsylvania nursery-man declares
that he can grow apples without cores.
First off, says Harper's Weekly, that may
seem to be worth while, but on reflection it
will be foui?d to be a scheme full of disadvantage.
All that would be wrong
about a coreicss apple it might be tedious
to rehearse, but let it not be torgotten
that opportunity for the exhibition of
one of the most beautiful and most common
forms of human generosity would
be lost in case apples had no cores: the
world would be without the most usual
offering which it is the boy's pleasure to
lay before his friend.
The New York police justices report
that last year there were 75,042 arrests
made, of which number 64,350 were
males and 20,692 females, the usual proportion.
Of these 53,683 were held for
trial and 108 cases are still pending. The
rest were discharged as innocent. The
justices in their prefatory remarks complain
that there has been little or no
improvements in public morals during
the past year. "It is the same sad
"> story," to quote their words, "again
. repeated, of misery and suffering wmcn
ever attends crime, and emphasized by
the aggregation of figures suggestive of
i/- its extent."
There is no such word as diamond
known in the trade for the article in nature.
The word used for diamonds is
bort. It is a Dutch word. The rough
diamond looks like a piece of alum with
a little glazing about it. It is harder on
the outside than within, and seems to
have a core like a knot in a piece of very
fine wood, which is softer than the out
circles of the wood. Sometimes it is impossible
to cut a diamond of great prom- 1
ise because there is a hard place within
it. The art of cutting the diamond is
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one of long practice, and requires the
exercise of economy and taste as well as
mechanism.
By the new process of toughening timber,
it is claimed that the effect produced
upon whitewood is such that a cold
chisel is required in order to split it.
This result is accomplished by a special
niethod of steaming the timber and submitting
it to end pressure, technically i
"upsetting it." By this means the cells i
and fibres are compressed into one com- 1
pact mass; and it is the opinion of i
those who have experimented with the i
process that wood can be compressed to '
Ae extent of 75 per cent., and that some i
vv? of the timber now considered unfit for
use in such work as carriage building,
fpr instrnce, can be made valuable by
this means as a substitute for ash,
hickorv. etc.
The Hon. Hamilton Fish, a member of
the Grant memorial committee of New
York city, thinks that a million of dollars
is too large a sum to raise, and that the
hundred and odd thousand dollars already
obtained will suffice to erect a
suitable monument. Senator Hoar's bill
for a national monument to General Grant
at Washington appropriates only $250,000.
"It seems tome," he said in his
speech to the Senate, "that we must take
the thing as settled by the general judgment
of mankind that civilized nations
are wanting in due and decent honor for
their great benefactors, unless by monument
or statuary, or in some other public
-way they put up in their public places the
tokens of their regard."
"What is the natural term of a carp's
iife? The question is suggested by the
announcement by the Berlin papers that
a fish of this kind has been taken from
the Spree at the age of 2G8 years. Some
days ago a fisher was plying his vocation
when, like his olden predecessors, he was
favored with a mighty draught. His
catch consisted of a carp beneath whose
mouth * a ring was found attached.
Scratches upon the ring, we are told?
make it clear that the fish was placed in
wn.ti?r in thf? rear nr noorW
and three-quarters centuries ago. This
venerable inhabitant of the Spree
weighed thirty-six pounds, and measured
& hundred centimeters in length and
*eventy-cight centimeters in circumfer?nCe'
The American birds will feel an unwonted
security this summer on account
of the efforts made for their protection.
*'Perhaps the most sensible move made
against the slaughter of birds for millinery
purposes," asserts the Boston Traveler,
"has been started by the Ornithologists'
Union, which has organized a committee
on the protection of North American
birds for the purpose of obtaining
statistics and facts on the subject as well
rp-U * m no wi /l n V?1 n
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Before denouncing every hat trimmed i
with feathers it will be well to investigate
whether the birds are in reality
American songsters or are not charming
imitations manufactured from the plum
age of the American hen. Most of the
gorgeous real birds in the millinery trade
are imported from South America and
-other tropical countries, and their feaihers
are wrought into many different
shapes by skillful designers. But there
is nothing more highly appreciated i?
millinery than the American cock."
A Chautauqua county (N. Y.) cheese--'
maker went to Buffalo lately and brought
home a fine imported Swiss cheese.
All praised it but his wife, who, after r
the praise had ceased, said she had found
her husband's private mark on the cheese.
He had paid thirty-three cents a pound
for the very cheese he had made and soli J
for six cents.
Tn \Tr>tit "\rnvi/>a rnV? ot*a oVi orn Vftnf
A" -LI V/H UUtiU mv uv^/v
away from habitations, it is always the 3
custom to have many goats with the ewes 1
and billy-goats with the rams. They are
fine guides, protect the herd against
dogs and coyotes, and give the herders a i
Ettle milk for their coffee. But around j
towns or fields, especially in the neigh- ?
borhood of orchards or planted fields, the f
goats are a nuisance. They not only 1
jump fences themselves, but also teach ]
the sheep to do likewise. ?
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The statement is made in some Euro- *
pean papers to the effect that the Russian c
Alisma, or water plantain, is a remedy t
for hydrophobia. The roots are collected a
in August, dried, grated and spread on 1
bread and butter. Two or three doses -v
are taken in this manner, night and ^
morning, and a cure is supposed to be t
effected. The efficacy attributed to this h
remedy is wholly imaginary. The Alis- v
ma family is a group of aquatic plants,
which grows in still water, with tapering t
leaves resembling those of plantain, and ?
rather handsome flowers. Twenty years h
ago Rev. C. A. Johns, an accomplished h
English botanist, wrote of this plant: t
"The solid part of the root contains u
farinaceous matter, and, when deprived a
of its acrid properties by drying, is eaten b
by the Kalmucks. From some fanciful i
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IlUilOU UlUb LUC ll'UUUl UiOUMtj ?x\\*M.ss- ^
phobia, could be counteracted by water
plants, Alisma was idly pitched on as a h
specific by empiries, but it is now no tl
longer in repute." ?
Much interest has been excited in rail- P
way circles at the West during the past a
winter by the performances of the new
Leslie rotary steam snow shovel, on the c
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad a
company's lines. The head of this ma- b
chine is provided with angular cutting *
Marlrxj whiVh rot.atfi with enormous u
velocity and cut and loosen the snow, y
which then passes behind the blades, c,
where it is received on the flat spokes of &
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another wheel, turning in a contrary a
direction, and is thereby thrown out side- ?
wise from the machine with tremendous h
power. The snow is delivered in the ^
form of a great stream, forming an arch ei
through the air, and strikes the ground v
at a distance of from one to two hundred t<
feet from the track. The machine, when
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in operation, is said to be a wonderful t:
sight to behold. It is mounted on a ?
special car, which also carries an engine I
for driving the mechanism. During the j
heavy snow storms, when tracks were r
blockaded with from three to ten feet of ?
snow, packed so hard that the ordinary
slow plows would make no impression
oil it, and could not have been cleared
cxcept by hand shoveling, involving i
several days' delay, this machine went
through some of the worgt drifts at the
rate of a mile an hour, and through the n
resstfr drifts at much faster speed. u
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Hu-Tow-Tai, a great Chinese specula- ii
tor, and probaly the richcst merchant in
the empire, died recently at Hang Chow, a
His progress through life may have' been ?
as prosy and uninteresting as that of any b
other common millionaire, but his funeral "
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was the loudest and one of the grandest p
on record. At the head of the proces- ?
sion a number of coolies trudged along v
carrying little scraps of paper upon which
short sentences full of wisdom and sound
advice were traced in pencil. Then fol- P>
lowed a crowd of lantern bearers, the o
lanterns fastened at the end of long tj
bamboo canes. After them came a small a
army of musicians with gongs, symbals ^
and trumpets, making noise enough to l>
scare the sulphur and brimstone out of p
all the wicked spirits within range. Next
came a few hundred little boys, each |
holding in his hand some weapon of f<
strange form intended for the slaughter g
nf pvil-disnosed devils. The bearers of s1
the family tablets with the names of the 0i
ancestors of the deceased marched after tl
the boys. Next in the procession, altars
on wheels appeared loaded with choice
fruits, the last one bearing the portrait
of the deceased. After these altars, two
groups of priests presented themselves,
the first dressed in white robes, richly
embroidered, and the second in scarlet H
and yellow. Between these two groups tc
there was a crowd bearing lanterns, flagsv ^
parasols and fans, together with all sorts
of queer things. The master of cere- m
monies rode on horsebaek, and was jjj
dressed from head to foot In white, the ai
Chinese mourning. Behind him was a bj
i ?i?j. j i i. tj
large wuLiie tciit uuincu aiuug uj on vug
men, and in this the relatives concealed ^
their woe. At last the coffin came in se
sight mounted upen a magnificent hearse ^
ornamented in the most gorgeous style, ! R
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and borne along upon the shoulders of tl
twenty-five men. A large number of si
mandarins dressed in their official robes, j ^
and carried in Japanese chairs, closed the j "
procession. j
The Shriek of the Guillotined.
The "Mikado's" lord high executioner !
sings: "Oh, never shall I forget the cry, I
or the shriek that shrieked he, as the j *
sabre true cut cleanly through his cervi- j
cal vertabr?." Nicholas Gurnot was a
guillotined at Mczieres, in France, recently.
As the sabre true cut cleanly j r
through his cervical vertabrae he uttered j
a terrible cry. The executioner says it p
was the most appalling shriek he ever ' Ci
heard on the scaffold. In 1871 at Le ;
]\Ians the victim gave a shriek that froze n
the blood of those within hearing, but i d
the cry of Gurnot is on record as being, |
next to that of Nanki-Po, the most ?
bloodcurdling one on ' record.?Detroit P
Free Press.
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Paper slippers are a novelty in the j *
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SMG M TB1ES.
fhree Desperadoes Summarily
lieait with in Indiana,
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i Father, Brother and Son's Murderous
Career.
Three leaders of a gang of desperadoes in
Martin county, Ind., have just received sumnary
punishment at the hands of a midnight
>andof lynchers. Details of the affair are
ts follows:
Precisely at 11:30 o'clock a vigilance comnittee
of about 100, composed of men from
tfartin and Orange counties, surrounded the
[ail at Shoals. The lynchers were very quiet
ind orderly, and the sheriff was first j
iroused by the barking of his dog,
ollowed by a knock on the door. :
le asked who was there, and the answer
vas a crashing in of the front door, folowed
by heavy blows which completely
lemolished it. The mob then went to the
ail door and knocked off the lock and were
lismayed to find another which would
lot yield to blows. After about
wenty minutes a man in the
:i owd was fou#d who understood opening
he cell door. It yielded to his efforts
.nd the lynchers rushed in and grabbed
,11 three of the intended victims, Thomas, '
lartin, and John Archer, the latter the
on of Thomas, the ringleaders of 1
vhat is known as the Archer gang.
?he mob was provided with thj necessary
ools, both to get in and to capture them if
hey made any resistance. Several of them
tad long iron hooks with which to grab the
prisoners around the neck if they resisted
without endangering their own lives.
When the Archer gang saw the lynchers i
hey offered no resistence, and when asked if
hey had anything to say they refused to
peak. Their hands were tied behind their
tacks, and they were taken over to the court
louse yard. They were again asked if they
iad any confession to make, ana, j
till no reply being given by any of them
hey were unceremoniously strung
p to young maple trees. Tom Archer, the ]
ldest one of the gang, about sixty years of j
ge, was hanged first. Martin Archer,
rather to Tom, aged about forty-five years,
r-as suspended next. John Archer, son of
'om Archer, who was about thirty years old,
ras hanged to a tree with his hands tied be- ,
ma mm, aoouc cmrty ieec irom nis iauier. (
The crimes for which the three men were
anged comprise almost everything in the
riminal calendar from murder tD petty 1
bieving. For twenty-five years they had
een a reigning terror, botn in Martin and
)range counties, and had terrorized the 1
ommunity in which ftiey lived until the
eople did not know when they went
? bed at night whether they would he murered
before morning or their houses burned
own. They never failed to visit vengeance |
or a fancied slight, and many a farmer in
Grange and Martin counties has lost consider- \
ble sums of money by daring robbery, the
heft of cattle, or" the burning down of ,
arns and houses. Martin Archer had ,
family living in Southwest Town- J
hip, Orange county. who are
fell thought of. Two of nis children are
UUiig muics wrawmuji otuwi m uuau ocvviv/u
f the country. Ola Tom Arqjier, as he was ;
ailed, lived in Martin county, Columbia
jwnship, and had a large family, every one
f whom are under indictments for larceny,
rson and murder, and bear a bad name
enerally. John Archer formerly lived
1 Columbia township, and in the past year i
ad been living seven miles east of Vincenues, 1
rhere he was captured two months
go and brought to Snoals by Sheriff Padg- 1
fct. The chief cause for their being hanged
ras the confession of John Lynch, another
lember of the gang, who is in the Washingan
(Daviess county) jail. He made a con- ,
ession and told where the bones of a man
amed Bunch, one of the vicims,
were. They were found in two differ
nt graves, the body having been cut lengthwise,
and each piece being buried separate,
t seems that unknown parties followed the
fficials when they went to the place where
lunch was buried and saw them exhume the
emains. Word was immediately spread
ver the country, and the vigilants prepared
hemselves accordingly.
EXTENSIVE STRIKES.
'wenty Thousand Coal Miners and
Railroad Men Quit Work.
An extensive strike of the coal miners of
le soft coal districts of the East was inaugu- '
ited on the 8th for the uniform scale of
ages adopted at the Cumberland conen
tion of February" 19. The scale
lvolves a general advance of ten cents per
>n. In the district are 10,000 miners. SecBtary
Davis, of the Miners' Amalgamated
ssociation, says: "The men may not couio*
at to a man at the start, but the feeling
cfnAn rv f> % ncn f Ua cf f .
> ouiAiViouuij atiuug ?.v i/uc oiuac uv.'
ecprae geueraJ in a few days." The present
; especially noteworthy as being the first
eneral demand by all the districts com- !
eting in the Eastern market for an advance
f wages, and also as the first effort to carry 1
ut the principle laid down by the joint conentions
of operator and miners at Colum- 1
us, Ohio, the establishment of relatively
niform rates in competing districts. ;
At Irwins, Penn., the 2,200 miners emloyed
in the mines of the Penn Gas and 1
Westmoreland County Coal companies came
ut for the increase.
In compliance with the order of the execuve
committee of the Federation of Miuers
ud Mine Laborers, which organization iniudes
all the employes in the several bitu- y
linous coal regions, the 5,000 miners and la- j
orers in the Cumberland (Md.) region struck ]
Ji an an uuvaui'B iroiii luruy 10 iuty cents j
er ton. <
A St. Louis dispatch savs that the strike of (
part of the Knights of Labor on the Gould 1
outhwestern system of railways has been (
)llowed by a general suspension of work by
Inights until the number reached between ,
,000 and 10,000, and included shopmen, ;
pitchmen, trainmen, brakemen and firemen. :
Many other strikes and boycotts in vari- *
us sections of the country, generally under
le direction of the Knights of Labor, are
lso announced.
AN EDITOR'S SHOTGUN.
axttuv snooting inree men ano
Fleeing on Horseback. i
At Kingston, Texas, a few days ago, W. B. {
oward, editor of the Hunt County Chron- ,
le, shot City Marshal A. R. Russell,
oward fired both barrels of a
otgun, and stray shots struck
spectator named Overholt and a boy j
lined Kirkpatrick. Howard immediately ]
ed on horseback and was pursued half an 1
our later by the sheriff. Russell, Overholt
ad Kirkpatrick were all fatally wounded.
Howard was an eccentric young editor. He
itterly assailed the saloon-keeps in his paper. '
.e also charged Marshal Russell and other
Beers with being gamblers and otherwise as- i
liled Russell's character. Owing to this. Rus- i
ill aud a couple of saloon-keepers visited Ho wrd's
office and chastised him. Smarting under ]
le assault, Howard threatened to attack <
.ussell on sight and several times both men j
ime near drawing weapons. Russell was rexrning
from the postoffice when Howard ,
lddenly emerged from his office and fired (
och barrels of his gun at Russell's back. ^
[any citizens defend Howard's action, say- ,
ig that he was driven to desperation by the
ifoon-keepers and their friends.
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
More than 300 Mormon missiouaries are at
rork in the South.
Large herds of wild horses are reported
orth of Denver Junction, Col.
The British military authorities are conjniplating
the use of pigeons as messengers i
1 war. i
S?ty wrimon rlnnf.Ut.s TcerA oTatliiafcad at the
hiladelphia College of Dental Surgery reentry.
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Texas has just celebrated the fiftieth an- '
ivei-saiy of iu? declaration of indepenence.
European papers remark upon the good
nitationof celluloid now manufactured from
otatoes.
the diamonds and other precious stones
nported to this country last vear cost over
9,000,000.
A cable message can be sent from New
fork to London and an answer received in
isnygutes. ...... _
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
Archbishop Corrigan, the successor to
the late Cardinal McCloskey, was installed at
New York the other day and invested with
Ihe "pallium,"' the loftiest symbol of his
ftate. The Catholic cathedral was crowded,
and the installation was accompanied with
imposing ceremonies.
At the auction sale of the late Mrs. Morgan's
paintings in New York $45,500 was paid
for .Tillas Rrpfyin'a "fYtmmnnip/mfcs." This is
the largest sum ever paid for a painting at
public sale in this country. The sale lasted
three nights, and the 340 pictures sold realized
$885,300, many of them bringing $10,000
each.
Fire which broke out on the wharf of the
Monarch Line Steamship company at Jersey
City, N. J., partly burnea the large steamer
Lydian Monarch, the milk depot of the Erie
railroad and other' property, causing an aggregate
estimated damage of $300,000.
Mrs. Horatio Seymour died a fe\>? days
since at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Roscoe
Conkling, in Utica, N. Y. She had been
very low since the death of her husband,
Governor Seymour.
A New York senate special committee
which has been investigating the alleged
bribery of New York city aldermen in connection
with the granting of the Broadway
surface railroad franchise has made a
Inner ron/iH- TVia ronnrfc nllpwpvi t.h ft t
the investigation unearthed gross violation
of law, public plunder, bribery and corrup
tion, in which railroad speculators, aldermen
and others are implicated. Swift and summary
justice, the report says, should be
meied out to the guilty ones, and the franchise
wrongfully acquired should be restored
to its rightful owners?the people.
At the sa'e of the late Mrs. Morgan's art
treasures, which followed the sale of her
paintings in New York, a porcelain vase
eight inches high, made in China about 300
years ago, brought the enormous sum of
818,000. n
Ex-Senator Jerome B. Chaffee died a
few days since at the residence of his son-in!aw,
Ulysses S. Grant, Salem Centre, N. Y.,
aged sixty-one years. He was bom in
Niagara county, N. Y,; went West in his
youth; amassed a fortune in Colorado, where
he entered the legislature, becoming speaker
of the house: served two terms in Congress as
territorial delegate, and when Colorado became
a State in 1876 was elected United
States Senator as a Republican. He lost
$500,000 by the Grant & Ward failure. His
son-in-law was General Grant's youngest
son.
The wife of ex-Attorney-General Brewster,
of Philadelphia, is dead.
The schooner Robert Byron, from Portand,
Me., for Cape de Verd, seven men on
board, has been given up as lost.
South and West.
Frank McGonigle and James Sheadv engaged
in a brutal prize light near Fayettevilie,
W. Va. Sheady was so terribly beaten
that he died.
Near Milledgeville, Ga., Frank Humphries
murdered his niece, Eila Humphries, and hia
sister-in-law, Came Raines, after brutally
assaulting one of the young ladies. Humphries
was arrested.
A large meeting of Mormon women who
are contented with their polygamous life,
was held a few days since at Salt Lake City.
Many speeches were made and resolutions
protesting against any interference with
them were adopted.
Two men?City Councilman M. E. Hill
and Master Machinist W. C. Allen?were
killed, and nine other men more or less ser
iously injured at an Augusta (Ga.) factory
fire.
Akron, Ohio, has just suffered heavily by
fire, the flames destroying a large mill, a
railroad depot and other property; estimated
damage, $1,000,000.
The men employed on the Gould system of
railroads in the Southwest struck a few days
since because a shop foreman, a prominent
Knight of Labor, was discharged. About
!),OOU men were affected by the strike.
A body of 200 miners threatened to burn
the property at the mines at Greenwood, Ky.,
if the convicts employed there were not removed.
Governor Knott sent a special message
relative to the matter to the Kentucky
legislature, and ordered five troops of State
militia to Greenwood.
Charles Burgess shot and killed Mrs.
Emma Simons and then put a bullet through
his own heart at East Portland, Oregon. Unrequited
love was the cause.
Mardi Gras was celebrated this year at
New Orleans with the usual ceremonies.
There was a gaily costumed procession headed
bv the Kiner of the Carnival: the citv was
profusely decorated; thousands of strangers
thronged the streets, and jollity ruled.
Nineteen men have been arrested within
two weeks near Portland, Ore., by United
States authorities on the charge of attacking
Chinamen.
"Washington.
The collections from internal revenue during
the first seven months of the fiscal year
rtndiug June 30, 18SG, amount to $&>,87.S, 117,
which is $1,535,157 more than the collections
iluring the corresponding period of last year.
The-House committee on levees and itn
provements of the Mississippi river has agreed
to i-eport favorably a bill to appropriate
p:;,000,000 to close gaps in aua strengtnen tne
levels of the Mississippi river, for the pur[>ose
of improving and giving safety to navigation
ana preventing destructive floods.
The diplomatic correspondence on the subject
of the outrages on the Chinese at Rock
Springs, Wyoming Territory, in September,
1885, has been made public. The Chinese
minister, Cheng Tsao Ju, writing to Secretary
Bayard, called his attention to these lawless
proceedings, which he described in deSail,
gave a list of the murdered and maimed
Chinamen, with the total estimated amount
it damage sustained ($147,748.74), and asked
that the perpetrators of the attack upon his
countrymen be punished.
Nominations by the President: Samuel
E. Wheatley, of Washington, to be commissioner
of the District of Columbia; V. O.
King, of Texas, to be secretary of legation
ind consul-general of the United States at
Bogota; Rule Letcher, of Missouri, to be conmi
of the United States at Rio Grande do
Sul. Postmasters?Jas. A. Wall at Methueu,
Mass.; unas. J. .Porter at iietuei, uouu. ;
Henry Van Scoy at Kingston, Penn.
Foreign.
Mount Etna is reported to be again in a
state of eruption. Cinders and stoues are
continually being thrown up,and light earthquake
shocks have been felt at the foot of
the mountain.
Mr. Henry Labouchere moved in the
British house of commons a resolution
"that a hereditary chamber of legislature is
inconsistent with the principle of representative
government." The resolution was directed
against the house of lords. The motion
was rejected by a vote of 202 to 100.
Pasteur is still daily inoculating persons
bitten by dogs against hydrophobia at his
laboratory in Paris.
Thit Rnccinn crnvarniik.tif-. l?nc oytviIIaH fl
large number of foreigners, principally Germans,
from the province of uourland.
Eight men convicted of taking prominent
part in the recent London riots have beeu
sentenced to penal servitude for from one to
Sive years.
Fearful storms occurred during the la^t
royage of the British steamer Acton, just
arrived at Queens town from Baltimore, and
two sailors were washed overboard, while
mother was killed at the wheel.
STARVING ISLANDERS,
Terrible Distress Existing Along- the
Western Irish Coast.
The British government has placed gunboats
at the service of Mr. Tuke to aid him
in his work of relieving the distress among
the inhabitants of the islands aloug the western
Irish coast. Indescribable distress has l>eeu
ilevelopel amoug the iieople inhabiting
the Arrau Isles, off Gal way, who, beside
having hardly anything but moss and sea
grass left to eat, are without fire and
often without clothing and shelter. It
is not rare to find girls of seventeen and
eighteen years of age kept in enforced
hiding during the daytime because
rney are Dereit 01 every inreau 01 ciouiing,
which has loug ago been bartered away for
seed potatoes or roots to feed the smaller
children with.
People are slowly dying of starvation by
the score, and measures of relief on a large
scale have been taken in Ireland. Money
has been sent from America to aid the sufferers.
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Butcherincr his Father. Mother, v
Brother and Sister. '
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The Youthful Assassin's Story of S
the Terrible Affair, ^
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Particulars have just been received of the r
murder of the Sells family by its youngest 9
mpmhpiv A. hnv sevf>nfcfi#>n vp/irc nf oca np?r b
Osage mission, Neosho county, Kan. The ^
crime is one of the most horrible on record- y
Mr. Mendel, living thirteen miles northwest d
of Osage mission, was awakened about 1 ^
o'clock a. m. by a scream, shortly followed by u
another coming from the road in front of his o
house. He went to the door and was met by s]
Willie Sells, the son of J. W. Sells, living ^
about a quarter of a mile up the road. The ^
boy cried out: "Mr. Mendel, a man is at our
house with a hatchet and has hurt father and ^
mother. I don't know how badly." Mr. d
Meudel went with the boy, arousing J. I. 6
Rice, another neighbor, on the way. Upon P
reaching Sells' house a most horrible sight s]
met their eyes. ^
In the bed in the north room lay Walter, n
Willie's eldest brother and bedfellow, aged ?|
nineteen, his throat cut and the entire top of
his head chopped off, exposing the brain.
Passing into the main room, where a light j*
was burning, they stumb'ed over the form of
Mr. Sells, his head crushed and almost sever- 5;
ed from his body. Near by lay Mrs. Sells. *
aged forty-three years, her head mashed and b
a fearful gash in her throat. On the bed in P
the southeast corner of this room lay Ina, ^
Willie's sisterj aged fourteen, killed in the b
same manner as the other three. Near Mr. a
Sells' head was a bloody butcher knife and ^
on a chair a hatchet, matted with hair and e
blood. 01
The boy said that he had been awakened by P
something, and looking up, saw a low,heavy- ei
oaf mnn with dnrlr tiA.il*. rnf, rln<5?. stnriflinc in C1
the door. This man stepped in, and reaching ?
over Willie, struck his brother, who lay in "
the back of the bed. Willie jumped out ?
and dressed while the man was still ?
in the room. This operation, be j*
claimed, took him just half a minute. The h
man rushed out of one door, while Willie ran S]
out of the other, and started up the road on *
a run after hi m. A short distance off stood a r!
man on horseback, holding another horse, cl
upon which the man vaulted, and both made ?
off. Willie then went on to Mendel's. n
After the bodies had been discovered Rice ^
took Willie home with him, where he slept n
soundly till morning. A coroner's jury was f'
impanelled and an investigation begun. Suspicion
rested upon the boy and he was put on 11
the stand. He swore that he had not washed c<
his hands since the murder, but inspection M
showed that while his hands and wrists were
clean there was a water mark about his wrists, J1
and his forearms were deeply incrusted with f
blood which appears to have spurted up his .
sleeves. Around his finger nails, also, there j?
was blood, and upon removing his pants his "
drawers were found to be saturated ~
with spattered blood and his bare feet were 9,
ftlfA TTia faaf all fhfl ^
a>lD\J U1WU JW*IUVU. J.VWU UVI/UU M?4 VMV
bloody footmarks to be found. M
The boy stoutly denied being the murderer, j"
and throughout all the tiring ordeal main- !
tained a bold front The boy was smuggled 0
into a buggy by Police Judge Lon Cambera c
and Deputy Sheriff Locke, and driven to jail
in Erie, for fear of lynching, which ap- H
peared imminent. On the way to Erie he
said to Mr. Cambern: "Those fellows ^
tried to get me to say that I did it, but I
thought it would be best not to admit it."
There is hardly a doubt but that the boy com- H
mitted the dreadful crime, though no motive
is known. Mi*. Sells had in his pocketbook t,
$100 in gold and $170 in bills, which were not
disturbed, beside three watches. John Hall, "
of Erie, has been appoinKid guardian of the
boy.
The coroner's jury was in secret session all a
day, and at 4 o'clock p. M. returned a verdict n
charging young Sells with the crime. The 01
boy was remanded to jail, where he was 1'
visited by a correspondent. He protested his ,J
innocence and showed no more feeling than if it ?
had been so many hogs he had butchered. He
is five feet six inches high, weighing 145 J
pounds. He has a rather intelligent face, al
though it werrs a stubborn expression. His "
complexion is fair and his moderately hteh ?
forehead is crowned with a shock of light r<
hair. He has hazel eyes, a straight, well- P'
formed nose and large mouth. His hands JI
and arms are large and muscular. 1
RpIIs fnmilv were hichlv-resoected I 8
country people. Tiaey were all members of
the Methodist church. Mr. Sells was a school j,
teacher. Willie, the son, is undoubtedly the r
murderer, and the only motive he could have
had was tnat his brother Walter had been at- ~
tending school away from home, and he had b
become jealous. Walter had just returned n
from school and Willie, after murdering his 111
brother, probably thought it necessary to kiU u
the others to conceal his crime. ^
LATER NEWS. g
Miss Belle Finch, residing near Ithaca,
N. Y., has been suffering from some nervous r<
disorder for two years, and is said to have
gone without food for the last eighty-five 11
days or more. {J
M. E. Gra.ce, a young lawyer, and J. M. ii
TJfrt" o nvAtninonf Kucmooo mart irt IT
uUi u ui viiuucuv uuiau. iiicu IU IUO
Or'
clerk's office of the United States district e:
court at New Orleans, and quarreled about a rr
case which the former was conducting ^
against a friend of the latter. Pistols were ^
drawn and discharged. Grace was instantly si
killed, and Brou mortally wounded. ii
Senator Vest, of Missouri, has made a .
j'
statement to the House committee of mves- j,
tigatiou concerning his relations to the Pan- n
electric Telephone company. He states that sj
he purchased 100 shares of stock for $1,000, ^
as a regular business transaction, and has 0
received one dividend amounting to $10 or 81.1. c:
Viscount Dupplin, heir of the Earl of ^
Kinuoull, died at Monte Carlo the other day, R
and is supposed to have committed suicide on rx
account of losses at the gambling table. 9
Valparaiso, Chili, has lost an entire busi- ^
ness block, including the city's principal p
shops, by fire; damasre estimated at $1,000,- p
000. . t]
It is announced from Rome that two p,
American cardinals are to be created?the k
Archbishop of Quebec and the Archbishop of tl
Baltimore. f
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At least 100 of the 105 inmates of the county
poorhouse at Lebanon, Penn., were pois- u
oned the other morning by partaking of cof- ^
fee which contained Paris green. At night e;
twelve persons were reported in a dying con- o:
dition. o:
The R. E. Lee Camp No. 1 of Confederate _
veterans, Richmond, Va., has contributed < ]
$ro to the fund for the late Genei'al Han- II
cock's widow. 4
A colored boy of thirteen years, em- jj
ployed bv Mrs. Sauls, a widow living at is
Ennis Cross Roads, S. C., attacked his t.
employer with an ax, knocking her senseless, ^
aud then robbed the house. He was cap- p
turcd and lodged in jail, but a crowd of citi- c
/ens took him out and hanged him to a gate
post. "
Thk Presidcut has vetoed the bill to quiet fi
title of settlers on the Des Moines river lauds a:
in Iowa. He says that the point at issue in ^
this case was fully settled years ago, and if g
reojMMuvl now it would produce legal strife a
and lawsuits. *
Frank Mi; ho at royd, of Philadelphia,
sneezed so hard in bed the other morning \that
he ruptmvd a blood vessel, and in a few g
minutes was a corpse. ,
Kivk persons?three passengers gtid two c,
railro-nl employes?were killed ami twenty- c<
six iKi-sengui-s injured?thirteen of them tl
?. n ftrvlli^iAlt lvtt-M'tlfln f.Wrt ^
uail^ciuumjr ill u wv/w??v..m V?V
traius near Monte Carlo, the notorious Eu- ?
ropean gambling resort. ?
Thk Princess Helene Je Ypsilanti, of Vi- ?
enna. is announced to be a bankrupt. She is jj
a (laughter of the late millionaire banker I
Baron Sina, and widow of the late Greek ii
envoy and minister plenipotentiary to Aus- ^
tria. Her father at his death left eac h of his a
three daughters $15,000,000. o:
* z}">f. ' a'. vx*&?** Tyy':' A* c"* $*? '1 *
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SUMMARY _0F CONGRESS 11
Senate Sessions. \ |
Fiftieth Dat.?The Blair educational f
ill was discussed further, amended, and t
nally passed by 36 yeas to 11 nays....The
Senate took up the report of the judiciary
ommittee on Attorney-General Garland's re*
J sal to comply with the request for the
apers relating to the office of United States <
istrict-attornev for Southern Alabama, j
Vithout any debate on tha question the ,
ienate adjourned. (
"H * XT Von/v\ AffAnorl a
i *ri j.-i-ixw4 X/A x . Alii , f auvc unci cv* u ]
esolution directing the committee on civil j
grvice reform to report forthwith the bill
efore them providing for the repeal of the <
ivil service law. The resolution, at Mr. ,
rance's request, was for the present laid on 1
tie table. He said he would soon ad- ,
ress the Senate on the subject....
Ir. Bowen obtained, unanimous consent to
ddress the Senate on the subject of his bill 1
To provide a new basis for the circulation 1
f national banks." At the conclusion of his ,
peech Mr. Stanford announced to the Senate j
tie death of his colleague, Mr. Miller, of
lalifornia, and out of respect to his memory
tie Senate at once adjourned. j
Fifty-second Day.?The resolutions of i
tie judiciary committee, formally expressing <
isapproval of the refusal of the attorney- <
eneral to furnish information in regard to '
residential appointments, came up as the .
pecial order. Mr. Edmunds spoke for over
tvo hours in answer to the recent argu- ,
lents advanced by the President in his ]
pecial message. He said it was forty years
.nee an issue of this kind had come between ,
ie executive and the Senate. Instances evinc- i
lg reluctance on the part of the President or
le departments to furnish information such j
s was desired in this case were few. ,
he Senator argued that Mr. Duskin had not
een removed but only suspended, and the
reposition to the Senate was that he should
e removed and Barnett appointed. The
enate had asked for the official papers 1
Qd the documents on file relative to the case
'ere of necessity official. The attorney gen- ]
ral was the custodian by law. The removal .
f an officer was an official executive act. Every j
aper, therefore, addressed to the officer ex- (
rcising that official function must be an offiial
paper, no matter how vile or false it may !
e. It did not belong to the man, whether '
resident of attorney-general, but to the ,
fficer in his character as an officer. The
flnofo \x, oc r?ol 1 ar\ nrv?n fn oacicrf- in f.tio
vruauv "tw v^uigu uwvu wv uoouu im vuv *v
loval of Duskin, and the papers relating to
is conduct of his office were necessary to
nable the Senate to act intelligently,
[r. Edmunds, toward the close of his speech,
ead a copy or a letter from Mr. Thurman, as
hairman of the committee to the attorneyeneral,dated
March 24,1879,calling for"such
lformation as may be in the possession of
our department concerning the following | ,
ominations, together with any
ingestion you may be pleased to note."
On the 7th of April," continued Mr. Edluhds,
"there came in a horse of a different
Dior." Accordingly on that day, the speaker ;
lid, a letter was written to the atfcorneyeneral
by Mr. Thurman, as chairman of the ]
idiciary committee, requesting the attorney
aneral to communicate to the commit- .
? any papers or information \
i his possession touching on (
le propriety of the removal of Michael ,
chaeffflr, chief justice of the supreme court
! Utah, and the appointment of David T.
orbin in his place. Congress made the law, (
ad the President had only executive power, (
iH oithnr "HViiika nf Prmirivws! hart a rio-ht to
now everything that was in the departments
E the government. In conusion,
Mr. Edmunds said it did not
sem to him that the Senate could fail to get
te papers on the ground that the statute on
lis suDject had become obsolete or gone into
state of "inocuous desuetude." The Presient
had sent to the Senate 643 instances of
bedience to that law?643 nominations made
nder it?and Mr. Edmunds therefore thought
ae law was still in force. Mr. Pugh said he
'as ready to reply to Mr. Edmunds when
je latter finished his speech, but yielded to a
lotion to go into executive session, after
rhich the Senate adjourned.
Fifty-third D at.?The urgency deficiency
ppropriation bill was passed....Mr. Pugh
jplied to the speech of Mr. Edmunds con
jrning presidential appointments and susen
dons. Mr. Pugh began by saying that
le main object he had in addressing the Sente
in reply to the Senator fromVermont was
j prevent, if it was in bis power to do so,
mt Senator from changing the character of
ae question between the Senate and the
Resident. The real character of that con'oversy
could not be misunderstood or misjpresented,
as it had arisen upon facts aparent
upon the record and reported by the
lajority of the judiciary committee,
lie facts by which the Senate should be
uided were few and simple. Mr. Duskin,
ie district attorney, was suspended on the
?th of last July, and on the same day Mr.
;urnett was designated by the Presient
to perform the duties of that
[fice. The 14th of last December, the
enate being in session, Burnett was
ominated to the Senate to get its
ivice aud consent to his appointment. That
omination was referred to the judiciary
Dmmittee, and it lay there over a month.
11 the mean time, on the 20th of December,
580. the tarm of the office of Duskin exired.
On the 25th of January, 1886,
e monm aiu?r tne terra 01 uuskiu naa
icpired, aad when he was no longer
n incumbent of that office, a
^solution was sent by the Senate to the atjrney-general,
calling for the papers
1 the Duskiu case. For what purose,
he asked, was that information sought'
y the Senate. The use the Senate
itended to make of the doculents
and papers sought from the
ttorney-general was to enable the Senate to
xercise the power of revising the act of reloval
of Duskin by the President. In regard
3 the point made by Mr. Edmunds concernlg
the demand by Allen G. Tiiurman and
is associates ou the judiciary committee for
imilar information, Mr. Pugh declared that'
lformation was sought for in the case of
bo suspension "of a territorial
adge. Mr. Evarts had held
reviously that the President could not relove
a territorial judge. It was a proper
ibjei't for inquiry and not a parallel case to
lie Duskin one. Mr. Pugh contended further
iiat the Senate had no power over removals
xcept in the case of Federal judges, and
ited authorities to justify his position. In
onclusion, Mr. Pugh said his object had
eeu to define the character of this conflict of
uthority between the President and the Sente,
and to fortify the view that had always
eeu taken by the Democratic party, and to
artify it by authorities commencing in- the
rst Congress and running down to the latest
eriod. Mr. Cleveland Had no tear or an apeal
to the people. He was responsible to
hem. He supposed the majority in the Sente
had no fear of appealing to the people in
avor of the omnipotence or the Senate. He
new the minority had none in appealing to
be people upon the omnipotence or the Contitutiou
and the integrity of Mr. Cleveland's
dministration.
Fifty-fourth Day.?Mr. Wilson contined
the discussion in relation to suspensions
y the President. He said that for the first
me in the progress of this government its
jcecutive power is now being used as a means
f assault on the character and reputation
f its citizens. He would not stop to
etermine whether it was the
jsult of purpose, inexperience, want of
loughtful action or other cause whatsoever,
t was an unexpected fact, however, and
oubtless it would have beeu guarded against
t' the framers of the Constitution had beeved
such a result possible in un adminfliA
AT<i/iiifivA twwor nnHpr
>f 1 UllIUU Ul 1>UW CAbVUbirv |/v >i v* UUV.V*
lie provisions of that iustrunient as
roposed by them. Who could
ave anticipated that from the
olitieal protoplasmic presence which floated
n the bosom of the Democratic platform of
SS4, and whose indefiniteuess was expressed
1 the words, "We favor honest civil service
jform," could have evolved a result so harmil
to the character and reputation of a citizen
s the practice of the present national adminitration?
Every stage reached by the peculiar
lovements of this strange political evolution
ave promise of a better result than we have
ttained or the citizen experienced. Mr. Wil
3ii then quoted from the utterances of Mr.
'leveland as presidential candidate, Presieut-clect
and President in favor of civil serices
reform, and said that the people had
iven Mr. Cleveland generous credit
or sincerity, but they could not
pconcile his actions in suspending
ompetent and faithful public oftiers
with his repeated assurances that such
hings would not bs done. Mr. Wilson
rgued at soiue length the question as to the
rivacy of the papei* 011 file in the departlents,
maiutaiuing that they were not the
'resident's private papers. It was
uother instance, he said, of the inannerv
1 which the President confounded the'
idividual with the public official,
t was probably the most pronounced
istance, the speaker asserted, of "personalsm"
to be found in the history of our governlent.
and showed how one false step led to
nother ... Mr. Logan, from the committee
n military affairs, presented to the
1
? '
k mmuiity J cpOJt UU toe fttz JOtm 1
Porter bill, opposing the passage of the bill
...Mr. Stanford offered resolutions appointing
a committee of five Senator.* to.accom- '?
>any the remains of Senator Miller to' Caliornia,
which were agreed to, and the Senate
hen adjourned.
House Sessions.
Fifty-fifth Day.?The House took up in
committee on the whole, the Urgent Deficiency
bill. The'bill appropriates $834,452,the
preat bulk in compensation for the services
ot treasury agents in examining the sub-treasnrv
arw?iinf-?* *17?? flflfl was fnr artificial limhfl
for wounded soldiers; $185,000 for jurors and
witnesses, caused by the Utah trials, and
1251,000 for cruisers1 armament. After aa
animated discussion the bill was passed?229
bo 20?The House, at its evening session,
passed fifty pension bills, and at 9 p. M. adjourned.
Fifty-sixth Day.?The House went into
bhe committee of the whole on the state of
the Union for general debate. Nothing was
discussed but tne silver question. Mr. Millard
(N. Y.) contended that the only
way out of the difficulty was to establish an
international ratio between the two metals,
and until that was done he was opposed to
the free coinage of silver and in favor of the
suspension of the act of 1878. Messrs. Fun3ton
(Kan.). McCrary (Ky.), Lanham
(Texas), ana Rowell (111.), opposed the
suspension of silver coinage.
rifty-se venth day.?mx. uiancnara
(La.) as a question of personal privilege, denied
that he had been arrested in Louisiana in
1874 by order of Major Merrill, who was recently
nominated for promotion and whose
nomination was subsequently withdrawn. ' L
Mr. Blanchard said the charge that he had
been instrumental in causing the withdrawal
of Major Merrill's nomination was also untrue.
The secretary of the navr, f> .'3?|
in reply to the resolution of Mr.
Boutelle, adopted on January 22, , transmitted
to the House a letter from Commodore
Truxton, commandant of the Norfolk navy
yard, in which he says that there never were
any honorable inscriptions upon any cannon
captured Dy tne united states
and placed in the Norfolk navy yard ?
obliterated by his order. "In fact,"
he adds, "no such obliteration has . >$.
at anv time taken nlaee. The eiDOSure from 1
the weather and time had somewhat obliterated
the inscriptions placed thereon, but they j*
were renewed Dy my order last June, and are J
now plainly visible."... .Numerous billk and
resolutions were introduced....Announcement
was made of the death of Senator
Miller, of California, and out of respect to ^
his memory, the House adjourned.
Fifty-eighth Day.?The House resumed
consideration of the bill requiring Pacific "
railroads to pay the cost of surveying their t
lands and to take out patents thereto. After
some discussion the bill was passed without .. . i
opposition On behalf of the committee on
labor. Mr. James (N. Y.) called up the bill to
prohibit any officer, servant, or agent of the
government to hire or contract out the labor *
of prisoners incarcerated for violating the
laws of the United States government. 1 Mr. /
James said that the bill was in th& interest of ' v
the honest mechanic. The system which :.j
prevailed at some of the peniten- ( - ^
tiaries of the country of ' hiring
out convict labor had worked great hardship
and injustice to the honest mechanic.
In his own district a great industry?the
manufacture of hats?had been entirely
crushed out because it could not compete with
convict labor. The bill was passed?yeas,
249, nays, 8....The House then went into -'/I;
committee of the whole on the Indian
Appropriation bill, and, pending further dis- <
cussion, adjourned.
Fifty-ninth Day.?Mr. Herbert (Ala.)
from the committee on naval affairs,reported
the bill to increase the naval establishment.
Committee of the whole... .Mr. Pulitzer (N.
Y.) from the committee on civil service reform,
reported adversely the Seney bill to
repeal the civil service law. Mr. Stone, of
Missouri, asked leave to file a minority report
The Indian appropriation biU was dis- '
cussed in committee of the whole.
v
Sixtieth Dat.?In committee of the
whole, the House continued the consideration
of the Indian appropriation bill. Mr. Weaver
urged that there was need of a thorough
overhauling of the present Indian policy. During
his speech he charged that the Cherokee
Strip Live Stock association had procured a
lease from the Cherokee nation of the entire '
Cherokee strip in the Indian Territory, for
which it was paying annually $100,000; but
the association had subleased the lands to
other cattle companies, and was receiving
from those subleases about $500,000 a year.
The white men occupied the strip in defiance
of law. ,32
A DEFAULTING TREASUEEE.
A. New Jersey Savings Bank Compelled
to Suspend Payments.
The New Brunswick (N. J.) Dime Savings
bank has been compelled to suspend on account
of a defalcation amounting to nearly
$80,000 in its accounts, the defaulter being '
its treasurer, Arthur G. Ogilby, who is also
the city treasurer. When the defalcation
was discovered Ogilby was at home suffering
from an attack of acute mania.
When Charles Hill, cashier of the New
Brunswick National bank, committed suicide,
a year or more ago, after nearly ruiaing
the bank, the people said during the excitement
that followed that Mr. Ogilby
was the only honest man left in
New Brunswick. He was then engaged
in the real estate and insurance business, and
was considered such an exceedingly upright
man that no position was thought too good
for him. When the Dime Savings bank got
run down he was chosen treasurer, and
under his management its deposits increased
from a few thousands to over $166,000.
The first suspicious circumstance connected
with Mr. Ogilbv's management of the bank's
affairs occurred, recently, when Assistant Secretary
John Wyckoff or the bank reported to
Willard P. Voorhees, one of the managers,
that Mrs. Ogilby had been taken ill in church,
and reminded Mr. Voorhees that Mr. Ogilby
was also ill. The gentlemen then remembered
that the annual statement of the bank had
not been ready on February 1 when it was
due. On February 3 a statement of the
bank's condition was published:
No affidavit showing that the board of directors
examined the accounts accompanied
the statement Mr. Ogilby is one of the managers,
but his mania Keeping him at home,
the remainder of the board began an examination
of the bank books. This work when
completed showed a deficiency of nearly $80,000.
When the condition of the bank had been
ascertained, six of the managers sent a petition
to Chancellor Runyon, saying that
depositors could not be paid unless the asset*
were sacrificed. The chancellor returned an
order for the bank to cease receiving deposits
and making payments, and that the managers
send him a true statement of the affairs
of the bank.
There has been no run upon the bank, and
the people of New Brunswick have accepted
the situation very quietly. A great manv of
them even sympathize with Mr. OgilDy,
who is still looked upon as a man
of great financial ability. It was
rumored freely about New Brunswick
that Mr. Ogilby had been dabbling with
stocks in Wall street, and that the rem estate
that stands in his name, which includes a
number of valuable places in New Brunswick,
is heavily mortgaged.
Mr. Ugiiby has a wire ana two aaugnters,
both young ladies, who move in the best
society in New Brunswick. Mr. Ogilby is one
of the State Riparian commissioners, a vestryman
of Christ's (Episcopal) church, and
has been secretary ana treasurer of several
building loans, the last of which was
the Citizens', which was wound up some
time ago. He is a heavy stock- ?
holder in the New York and New Brunswiok
Steamboat com >any. All political parties
had such faith in him that his selection for
the office of city treasurer gave universal
satisfaction. A few weeks ago Mr. Ogilby
sent in his resignation as city treasurer, and
the authorities of New Brunswick were still
busy trying to induce him to withdraw it
when his present attack of acute mania was
announced.
MUSICAL AMD DRAMATIC.
Manitee, Mich., has an orchestra?composed
of fourteen young women.
Salvini closes his season in America in
May, when he returns to his native country.
Gough's last letter was written to the temperance
organization of the Haverly minstrel
troupe.
Queen Victoria has engaged a London
circus pompany to give a performance at
Windsor Castle.
Anna Dickinson contemplates returning
to the stage, and is negotiating with London
managers to that end.
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