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* Should M. Pasteur succeed ia curing |
diphtheria by the same methods that he
can cure hydrophobia, he should have a
monument of marble in every country in
the -world. He claims that it will be accomplished.
The largest land sale ever effected in
Arkansas, or in the Southwest perhaps,
was the recent sale of all the land belonging
to the Little Rock and Fort Smith
"Rail-ccnTr mmmnr?RflO flOfl ftrreS- It
sold at $1.25 per acre.
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' It was the duty of English coroners 111
olden days to hold inquests not only on
deaths, but on fires, burglaries and robberies.
Inquests on fires are still held in
Northumberland, and it is now proposed
to reintroduce into London the ancient
"crowner's quest law" in the matter of
fires.
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F Flour barrels are a source of great expense
to the people of this country. Say
there are 50,000,000 of barrels of
flour consumed in this country each
year, and there are 12,000,000 of people
who buy it by the barrel, there might be
saved to the people of this country $2,400,000
when twenty cents per barrel is
6aved by purchasing flour in sack9.
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The American Humane association
will distribute 100,000 copies of the num
ber of Science which contains the report
of the committee of the American Ornithologists'
Union for the protection of
birds. The report shows that unless immediate
measures are taken to prevent
the present rate of destruction our woods
and fields will shortly be without birds.
Just before the outbreak of the war
Stonewall Jackson, then a professor in
the Virginia military institute at Lexington,
organized a Sunday school for colored
xchinh is still sustained bv lead
ing citizens there. This Sunday school
has now set on foot a subscription for a
monument to Jackson, which is meeting
with a lively response among the people,
black and white, of the South.
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' "God help the stranger that is taken
sick there," writes an officer of the United
States steamship Galena, speaking of Aspinwall.
"It is not uncommon for people
to lie down in the street and die in
broad daylight, and when dying receive
nn offer of assistance, even in answer to
an appeal for a drink of water. The
people appear to be heartless, as if their
familiarity with death had made them
callous."
In the Chinese language there are sixty
characters and meanings to the syllable
Ling, seventy to Sing and seventy-five to
Ing. The Chinese child has a pretty 01
endearing nickname given it soon aftei
1
ty its birth. Then the boy has a sch'oo1
name when he goes to school, a marital
name when he takes a wife, a business
name when he goes into business, an official
name if he takes an office, and a
death-name to be put on his tombstone
and to go down into history. The Chinese
prefix "Ah" so common in this
country is an endearing diminutive,
equivalent to Sarn-my, John-ny, Tom-my
in the English language.
An examination of a map of the United
States will show a strip of land several
millions of acres in extent, marked "public
land," lying between the States of
Kansas and Colorado and Texas. This
strip of country was left out by mistake
in the original surveys, and is not included
in any State or Territorial jurisdiction.
Neither is it reached by United ,
States law. It is whollv without a iu- ,
dicial authority, and is, consequent^, j
the abode of the very worst classes in the (
country. Cattle thieves and criminals of :
all kinds resort to it as a refuge, and
lately cattlemen have partly taken pos- 1
session of it to evade the action of the President
excluding them from the Indian
Territory. There they have established i
_ their ranches without molestation. ,
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Senator Miller has introduced in the
United States Senate a bill requiring all
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maniliae Hirers ur uuu ueaieis iu wicumuigarine,
butterine, lardine and suine to
display signs in a conspicuous place at ,
their places of business indicating that
they manufacture or sell such articles,
imposing a special tax of $500 on manufacturers,
$250 on wholesale dealers and
$100 on retail dealers in such products
and requiring them to take out annual
linonoo tr\ r><irrxr nn ?nr?Ti V?n??npc?s nnflpr
penalty of fine and imprisonment, and requiring
all persons engaged in such business
to keep books and enter therein
an accurate and detailed account of all
imitation butter manufactured or sold by
them, such books to be subject at all
times to the inspection of the treasury
officials.
It is the belief of the Boston Cultivator
that "the most popular measure that
Congress is likely to pass upon this session
is in the question of prohibiting
alien land ownershin. It has been found
that some of our most valuable properties
in the West have been lodged in the
ownership of foreigners, and that a great
many estates in our large cities arc thus
controlled. The sentiment of the people,
voiced in both political platforms in the
last presidenial canvass, is against such
holdings, and there is now considerable
headway to an influence to declare prop- I
n^tr midor alian nwnprsTnn hplnnorinor fn I
w "J r c--o
such American residents abroad as do not
once in two years spend a twelvemonth
on their native heath. It is said thatthere
arc over 12,000 American families
living abroad supported wholly "by incomes
from estates owned in America,
who have not been in this countryl for
over ten years. They are said to include
some 65,000 persons, and are at no personal
inconvenience for the duties of
citizenship that follow the citizen who
responds to the jury, the military, political,
religious and social demands.*'
A onrpocnnn/ipnt. fmm 'Whit'.lev !
Court House, Ky.,to the New York World
as follows: "There are only 1,000 people
?men, women and children?in all of
this county, yet the murders and assassinations
during the year outnumber the
births two to one. To anybody who has
ever lived for a time in this section of the
country, or who has ever traveled through
Harlan, Bell, Knott or Fletcher counties,
the statement is too common to excite
comment. But no one ever travels
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not any railways to travel by?and no
newspaper correspondent ever writes
from Harlan county, so the murders, and
feuds, and assassinations and brawls are
not made public. There are courts here,
ol' course, and judges and juries, as there
are in civilized communities, but where
every juryman is related to the murderer
on trial, and where the judge has his own
life to take care of in a lawless community,
the idea of convicting a prisoner
never occurs to those in court."
Some time since reports reached this
country that a new textile had been discovered
in France, which was likely to
take the place of wool to a large extent.
Of course this report created a good deal
of sensation in certain quarters where the
wool interests are important. Accordingly,
United States Consul Williams, of
Rouen, France, was requested to make a
complete investigation of the matter and
report at his earliest convenience. This
report has arrived at the state department.
He says that the new textile is
called Berandine, from the name of its
inventor, a Maestricht workman, named
"Roranr? TTip "PrpTinh have made verv
glowing official reports. Mr. Williams
says that in the opinion of experts who
have since made careful examinations of
this textile, it is safe to say that it is not
likely to take the place of wool, or even
the poorest quality of wool or cotton.
Its presence in a mixture of textile material
increases the difficulty of spinning
to such an extent that in no instance
could it be spun fine. Its use in fabrics
of mixed thread diminishes its value by
imparting roughness and harshness to
the touch. The consul thinks that while
this textile may take a modest place hereafter,
it is not at present calculated to
diminish the price of wool. Bcrandine
is claimed by experts to be the direct
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product of certain peat grounds, ana is
thus cheaper by far than any other known
raw textile material. The consul draws
the conclusion that the inferiority of the
textile surpasses its cheapness, and thus
places it low on the list of textiles. But
of course it is subject to improvement by
inventive skill, and may in the future be
an important element.
The editor of Turf, Field and Farm,
in the course of an editorial on the horse,
pays this eloquent tribute to man's equine
friend: "The horse plays an important
part in the industrial projects or me
world. Draw a chair close to one of our
sanctum windows and look out upon the
streets which surround the postoffice
block. The surface cars roll up and
down with scarcely a break, and the
mind grows weary in the attempt to
count them. Each car is drawn by two
horses, and the ceaseless tread tells upon
feet, sinews and wind. Express wagons,
drays, carts and other vehicles moved by
horses choke the thoroughfares, and even
shallow thinkers ara impressed by the
fact that the one-toed quadruped has
her.ome a necessitv to commerce. "Wo
leave the city and take a run across
the country. The line is immaterial.
We may continue the journey day after
day and night after night, and not get
outside of the domain in which the horse
is a power, is essential to the civilization
of man. He draws the plow and the
reaper, and carries the bag to the mill,
The fuel which keeps bright and warm
the winter hearthstone, the bread with
which fast is broken, and the garments
with which nakedness is covered, are
brought to each village and farm-house
door by the horse. The doctor, the post- 1
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man, ine sxuuu uuucsmau auu iuc iuagatherer
also recognize our four-footed
friend as an important agent in keeping
up communication -with isolated homes j
and scattered communities. The wheels 1
of agriculture and commerce "would
move painfully slow were it not for the
IiArco \WorAvor rrrr? rrr\ tto CPA fTiaf. fhprA
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is a great practical want to be met, and
we are compelled to laud tlie efforts of
those who try to fill this want."
The Oat-Meal King.
1 'Yes, I know Schumacher, the oatmeal
king who has lost his big mills by
tire," said the Ohio passenger, "and an
odder little man you never saw. He?s a
German, of course, about sixty years old,
about as big as a grasshopper and just
as lively, talks dutchy and writes the
most vigorous English, hates whisky
and beer as he does a liar and works
sixteen hours a day. He came to this
country as poor as a church mouse, started
a little grocery and beer saloon, run that
awhile and then began making oat meal
by a hand-mill in his wood-shed. Finally
he sold his saloon,? peddled oat meal and
farina from a hand-cart, -which he wheeled'
about town himself, and in thirty years
built up the largest factory of that kind
in the world. He won't hire a man in
any capacity who drinka whisky or even
beer, and has about him several hundred
employes, who are mostly Germans,
and. strange to say, zealous prohibitionists
like himself. He once brought over
from Germany a workman who was
master of a new process. This man came
under a two-years' contract at a large
salary, his expenses being guaranteed.
The second day after he began work
Schumacher learned tha-; he was a beerdrinker.
In two hours the workman
left the mills, never to return, and with
a check for nearly $5,0C0 in his pocket.
Tliia wilt tVir? Vin/1
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paid for upholding his principles and
enforcing his rules to the very letter."?
Chicago Herald.
In the Parlor.
She?Anticipation.
He?Exultation.
Both?Osculation.
Father?Indignation.
He?Gyration.
All around?Sensation.?Til-Bits.
SHOT DOM IN COURT.
Details of the Slaughter of Negroes
in Mississippi.
A Dozen Colored Men Killed and
Others Wounded.
Details of the tragedy at Carrollton, Miss.,
by which at least twelve negroe;-. were killed
and nine or ten others wounded, are given in
a special dispatch as follows:
From statements of white and colored
alike, it shows that the immediate cause of
the affair was, that a short time since, a
gentleman from La Flore county, while visiting
Carrollton, being decidedly under the
influence of drink, was hit over the head
by Ed. Brown, one of the deceased,
with a jug of molasses, inflicting a
dangerous blow on a man not able to take
rare nf himself. At a meeting iusfc after
this between Lawyer Liddle and Edward
Brown some harsh words passed. Subsequently
Liddle was ambushed by the
Brown brothers, shot and slightly wounded.
The two Brown brothers and John
Johnson were arrested and gave bonds
to appear for trial. On last Frirlay, Edward
and Charles Brown made affidavit before the
mayor, aeainst Mr. Liddle and six others for
assault with intend to kill and murder them
on the 18th day of February, as stated
above. The accused in the affidavit included
some of the best citizens, who were
not present at the time of the shooting and
knew nothing whatever of the difficulty. All
the parties wore arrested and the case cam?
up for trial yesterday. >
On the morning of the trial, and before the
court convened, Ed Brown boast ?d on the
streets that he would carry his body guard
with him in court, and true to his word,
when the case was called the court
house was filled with negroes. The
case being called at 12 o'clock,
Messrs. Somerville and Askew, and
Capt. D. N. Esten appeared as attorneys
for the defendants, and were
proceeding to investigate the charges
asainst Liddle. Just at 1 o'clock
about one hundred well armed men rushed
into town on horseback, heavily armed with
Winchester rifles. At this time Ed, seeing
the crow 1 from the window, arose from
his seat, drew his pistol, and began firing on
Mr. Liddle. That caused great consternation
and excitement and the firing became promiscuous.
The room was at once completely enveloped
in smoke. The crowd, consisting of 100
armed men. with everv conceivable kind of
firearms, double-barrel breech-loadins: shot
guns. Winchester rifles, pistols of all calibres,
including the long horse pistols, with
their immense balls, had ridden into
town at the same moment from different
directions. Dismounting, they proceeded
to surround the court-house, placing
themselves in between the fence and the
court house to prevent any escape, and as the
Browns tried to escape "a portion of the
liorl linon ctot.irvnpH in thfi hall
opposite the court-house rushed up the steps
and filed "down the right aisle, which is on
the east side, and then fired on the southwest
corner where the negroes were.
The negroes nearest this army were innocent
men who fell a prey, falling four'or five
on top of each other. The Browns were
reached and wont down in ths twinkling of
an eye before the volley of musketry in the
hands of the determined men.
There was a general stampede of
those who would escape the missiles of the
crowd, thinking to reach the window, thirty
feet high, and jump to the ground: but the
crowd around the court-house all being
stransrers. supposBd each man trying to escape
one of the Browns.
Peyton Hemingway, a confederate in the
plot and one of the loading backers of the
Browns, jumped from the second story of the
court-house, and running toward Mrs.
Aldure, had twenty-five or forty shots fired
at him, but onlv received one slight wound
and escaped. One , young negro
jumped from the second story jury room,
striking the ground without injury and ran
away with several guns turned on him, only
one shot striking him any where, and that in
half of his shoe sole. Balls were lodged in the
walls, ceiling, doors, and window-sasli, pierc
ing the class and mutuatin? tne oencnes
All this occurred in less than ten minutes.
The aimed forces retreated down
stair.?, heard two remainiug shots, and hurried
back to find that Captain D. N. Esten,
Avho was addressing the court when the
firing began, was trying to assist several old
faithful negro friends in their last hours, and
that Ed Brown, who was supposed to have
been killed, was resting on his elbows,not having
rt':rcngth to rise further, and had aimed
two deadly shots at Captain Esten, who was
unhurt, no doubt, owing to the feeble and dying
condition of the leader, who in his
last extremity had this bitterness in his heart.
Theso shots brought back those who were
slipping away, but they found their work incomplete,
and' turned a whole volley into
the body of Ed. Brown, riddling him from
head to "foot. The Browns received not leiis
than ten shots each.
A number of negroes jumped from the
second story of the courMiouse ana escaped
without a bruise from jumping, and were unhm*t
from the flying missile?.
In ten minutes all this occurred, and those
who rode by the city limits into town returned
by the same route in twenty minute?.
They were not citizens of Carroll
county, for there were three good o'd
negroes killed whom all the white people
of that county respected and would have
protected. But these strangers, friends
of the parties on trial, coming from a distance
and supposed to be swampers, knew
not who the man was who attempted to jump
from the window, unless it was one of the
Browns, or a friend who had gone there
armed to shield and protect them, and thence
they became a prey to the iudiserimjnatiug
;hots.
Twelve negroes were killed aud nine
wounded, one or two fatally.
CaiTolltou is a small interior town, with a
iozen or more merchants and about <S(J0
people, and the home of United States Senator
George and State Treasurer Hemingivay,
of Mississippi.
BLOWN OYEBBOABD.
A Mississippi Steamer's Boiler Explodes
with Fatal Result.
The steamer Ike Bonham, which left Vicksburg
for Bayou Vidal the other day, exploded
her boiler when eleven miles below the
former cicy, and a short distance from Bedford
Point, on the Louisiana shore. William
H. Andrews, the mate, and several colored
men of the deck crew, were blown overboard
and drowned. E. P. McElroy, the pilot, ami
Charles Girard, the engineer,white men,were
seriously scalded and bruised. The steamer
L. H. Sargent of the same line, bound for
Davis Bend, was about a mile
distant from the Ike Bonham
when the accident occurred. She im
mediately headed for the Bonham aii-1
reached her as the wreck drifted on the ba;
and settled down in three feet of water. Engineer
Charles Girard of the Ike Bonham
makes this statement:
"Pilot McElroy was in command and Mrs
William Sargent was in charge of the office.
I had just tried the water in the boiler and
found scant two guages. I had left the
wheel and gone bade to the cabin to dinner,
leaving Andrews steering. In an instant
the shock came. I was knocked
down and hot bricks from the
furnace almost covered me. They were calling
for help. The explosion tore away the
ofhce, pilot house, chimneys, forward
boiler deck, aud all the forward part of
the cabin, throwing them into the river.
Six deck hands were blown overboard,
only one of whom was recovered. All
on board were scalded except Mrs.
Sargent. Immediately after the explosion
she took command of the boat, went below,
helped to launch the yawl, und commanded
those who were able to rescue those in the
river. By this time the debris arouud the
boiler had caught fire, and she seized the
draw bucket, drew water from the river
and quenched the flames, after which
she took n shovel aud threw
all the rid-hot furnace bri<-k
overboard. Mrs. Sargent by her heroism
saved the wreck from burning, and with it
my life and those of the other wounded on
board.''
Joseph Arch, the agricultural laborer
who is a member of the British house of commons,
says his attention was first strongly
drawn to politics by the reduction of his own
wages from eleven to nine shillings per
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SUM-MAKX
Eastern and Middle States.
Frank Murgatroyd, of Philadelphia,
sneezed so hard in bed the other morning
that he ruptured a blood vessel, and in a few
minutes was a corpse.
An aged farmer at Ware, Mass., hanged
himself to end his sufferings from nervous
?rostration; another, living near Catawissa,
fcnn., stabbed and shot himself to death because
his housekeeper would not marry him.
Francis Mahedy, chief of the fourth
battalion of the New York Fire department,
was run into by an engine wnile going to a
fire in his buggy and killed..
Mrs. Mary Wilesian was found guilty by
a jury at Little Valley, N. Y., of murdering
her husband by poisoning, and sentenced to
be hanged on April 3a
Dr. Austin Flint, one of the most prominent
physicians in the United States, president
of the International Medical association,
died suddenly at his home in New York a few
days since, aged seventy-four years.
The five-day international billiard match
played in New York,between Jacob Schaefer
of that city, and M Vignaux, of Paris, was
won easily by the American, who made a
total of 3,000 points to 1,805 for the French
champion.
A street railroad car in New Haven was
demolished by colliding witk a freight train,
and twelve persons were injured more or
less seriously.
The miners of the Clearfield (Penn.) region
have joined the strikers, and work
in the soft coal regions of four
States was at last accounts entirely suspended,
between 10,000 and 12,000 men being
idle.
The entire collection of the late Mrs. Morgans
pictures, specimens of oriental art,
modern ceramics, books, etchings and engravings,
sold at auction in JNew York,
realized il,ii07,0.>2.
The total losses incurred by the sinking of
the Cunard steamer Oregon in a collision with
a schooner off the Long Island shore, are estimated
at over $3,000,000.
A telephone now connects New York
city with Washington, the distance between
the two cities being 228 miles.
31ns. Bancroft, wife of the aged histor
lan, (Jeorge iiaucroit, js dead.
THE^Grant national monument fund committee
so far has received $120,000.
Sonth and West.
Pat Ford and John Murphy were hanged
at New Orleans on the 12th for the murder of
A. H. Murphy on December 1, 1SS4. The
men were carried to the gallows insensible
from poison they had taken, aud they were
hanged while apparently dying. Both murderers
and their victim were prominent New
Orleans politicians at emnity with each other.
Strenuous and repeated efforts were made to
obtain a commutation of the sentence, and at
the last moment, to avoid the disgrace of perishing
on the scaffold, both men took poison.
A train left the track near Marshall,
Mich., and one passenger coach was capsized
into a ditch. Ihe thirty passengers inside
were all hurt, some mortally.
Robbers entered the express car of a train
Kofn*Af?r? Jnlinf. onH Mnrri'c Til mi IT*
tiered Express Messenger Nichols after
a desperate struggle, robbed the safe of $'21,500
in money and at least $5,000 worth of
jewelry, and then escaped. Heavy rewards
lor the capture of the thieves were offered,
and the brutal murder caused great excitement
in the West.
Ex-Governor William Erwin, of California,
died at his home in San Francisco a
few days since. He was born in Ohio, went
to California in 1852, and was elected governor
on the Democratic ticket in 1875.
Captain James I. Waddell, commander
of the Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, died
t.lie other day at Annapolis, Md., aged sixtyb
vo yeai*s.
Washington.
The Blair Educational bill, recently passed
by the Senate, has been practically killed in
the House by postponement to the third Fri
day iD April.
In Senate executive session Mr. Edmunds
from the judiciary committee reported back
the nomination of Zach Montgomery to be assistant
attorney-general for the interior department,
with a recommendatiou that it be
rejected.
The House committee's examination into
the affairs of the Pan Electric Telephone comj>any
Iwgaii on the 12th. Congressman Pulitzer,
the New York editor, and J. Harris
Rogers, who is the inventor of the Pan
Electric patents, were examined.
Rev. Charles Dewitt Huntley, chaplain
of the United States Senate, has resigned,
having been appointed pastor of a church
in nnrvHioi*
Ex-Governor Michael Hahn, the only
Republican member of Congress from Louisiana,was
found dead in his room at Williard's
hotel, Washington, on the loth, death result- !
ing from the rupture of a blood vessel. He
was born in Bavaria in 1S31.
The cost to the government of the conduct
of the funeral of tfie late Senator Miller, of
California, is estimated at $20,000.
The House committee on agriculture approves
of an item iu the appropriation bill
of $250,000 for the destruction of diseased
cattle.
Out of the 7,000 bills introduced in the
present Congress three up to recent date
nad become laws.
Tin President has completed the reorganization
of the civil service commission by the
appointment of John H. Oberly, of Illinois, to
fill the vacancy caused by the nomination of
Commissioner Trenholm to the comptrollership
of the currency, and by the appointment
of Charles Lyman, of Connecticut, to be civil
service commissioner in place of Dorinan B.
Eaton, resigned.
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Striking Toronto (Canada) car drivers
came into collision with the police, and nu- I
mcrous heads were broken.
Mme. Patti, the well known opera singer,
was hissed during. a performance in Valencia,
Spain. She left the theatre at once
under police escort and followed by a turbulent
crowd. |
British troops have had a skirmish with
the Arab rebels near Suakim, and the latter
were defeated with a loss of thirty killed.
Wiesbaden, the notad German watering
place, has been disturbed by a violent earthquake
shock. The city of Granada, Spain,
had a similar experience on the same day.
AT T VTC* rr*T7? %T X? nooi'nn -CJ 1m n
xcaooi.au i.Mujmo uavc anivcu in
Paris to be treated by Pasteur for wolf i bites.
AU the men were terribly mutilated by
wolves.
Desperate election riots have occurred at
Huacbo, Peru, thirteen persons being killed
or wounded in a struggle for possession of the
voting tables.
A disruption of the English cabinet is
threatened on account of the opposition of
some members to Premier Gladstone's Irish,
policy.
THE PRESIDENTIAL TEEM,
A ITOpOSlllO!) U) nave II LIC?1I1
April :50.
In the United States Senate ou the 15th
Mr. Ingalls submitted the following joint
resolution:
Whereas, The tlr.it President of the
United States was not inaugurated until the
mil day of April, in the year 178'.), and
Whereas, The day Which was chosen by
the Continental Congress for the installation
of the new government then established by
the constitution, the 4th day of March, does
now cause public inconvenience in unduly
curtailing and limiting the second session of
every Congress; and
W hereas, It is fitting that the one hundredth
anniversary of the inauguration of
George Washington as the first President of
tho T ln'hwl ftf-fifo: \u\ \n mwtiiini'u frwl Kir fho
iuauguration of his successor in 1 *89 ujwu
the same day aucl that this should be the day
hereafter or the begiuuiug ol' successive administrations
of the government: therefore,
be it
Resolved, etc.. That the following article
be proposed to the legislatures of the several
States as an amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, as part of the Constitution.
namely:
Art. XvL That tl e t r.n of offl *e of the
President and the second .session of the
Fiftieth Congress shall contiuue uutil the :50th
day of April, iu the year and the 30th
of April shall thereafter be substituted for
the 4th of March as the commencement of the
official term of the successive Presidents aud
Vice-Presidents and Congresses of the United
States.
The resolution was referred to the committee
on privileges and elections.
A GREAT STRIKE, ' i
28,000 Miners in the Bitnminons ,
Coal Regions Quit Work. j
Uniting in an Effort to Obtain an I
Increase in Wages.
A Huntington, (Penn.) dispatch of the
16th says: "A general strike of the miners
in the competing bituminous coal regions was
formally declared to-day and has been swiftly
carried into effect. A great mass meeting of
-u n l t J j
tne BuriKere ui cue i/ictu uein, ^umuei mau ana
Broadtop districts, in conjunction with the
members of the executive board of the Federation
of Miners and mine laborers, was held
at Houtzdale to-day to determine upon
the question of accepting the conditional
proposition of the operators, offered
yesterday, or to decide upon
a continued strike. Delegate? were present
from all the districts in Federation No. 3,
including a large number from the Pocahontas,
Virginia; Elk Garden and Garrett, West
Virginia, and George's Creek, Maryland, disfn'nfo
nAnir?ricin?r in oil n vnnrnconf.nt.ir\n nf
28,000 miners. Notwithstanding its immense
proportions, the meeting was conducted
quietly and orderly, and after a brief discussion
concluded in a unanimous declaration
for a general strike.
"In all tbe districts shipping to the seaboard
the miners are now all out, united and
determined. As the operators maintain that
no advance in wages is possible until coal
advances in price, the issue is practically centered
between the strikers and the consumers.
The general sentiment of the operators
is expressed in this sentence delivered by a
leading Clearfield operator to-day. 'The
miners have struck and so have we. We can
look out for ourselves.' The present great
strike bears as strongly against the mine
order system as in favor of an advance.
"At to-day's meeting it was revealed that
merchants dealing in mine orders and divvying
with operators take unfair advantage of
the miners, who are compelled to deal with
them, by charging excessive prices. Though
the strikers have already experienced
untold suffering and privation, their
unyielding determination and concerted action
prevent the slightest hope of their
flnxnnrt- in Tlio nrDCflnf. />nt.lnnV i? rlnrV fliifl
giTliig pi WVUW VUV4VVM
enveloped only in conjecture."
The great strike on the Gould system ct
railroads in the Southwest, under direction
of the Knights of Labor, was still in force on
the 16th, both sides remaining firm.
lateOewsT
The Connecticut assembly has passed a
bill prohibiting the employment of children
under thirteen years of age.
Laura A. Miller, a pretty nineteen-yearold
girl of Buffalo, N. Y., committed suicide
because she was not permitted to attend a
skating rink.
The "New York senate passed resolutions
favoring the passage by Congress of a bill to
reimburse the State to the amount of $5,000,000
for canal improvement.
St. Patrick's day was celebrated by the
New York Irishmen this year with an unusually
large procession, banquets and speeches.
In other nlaces. too. the dav was observ ed
more than ever on account of the present
agitation for Irish home rule.
A New Orleans dispatch of the 17th said
the strike on the Gould system of railroad?
was likely to ba settled by arbitration.
A Carrollton (Miss.) dispatch says that
during a trial there in the J. M. Leddell case
fifty white men rode up to the court house
and fired into the room, killing instantly ten
negroes. Three othei-s died soon after. Seven
others were injured. Leddell, a young lawyer,
had been wounded in a quarrel with
some negroes weeks before in which shots
were exchanged.
Governor Murray, of Utah, has resigned
at the President's request.
The secretary of the navy has dismissed
four cadets from the naval academy at Annapolis
for "hazing" another cadet
The Irishmen in all parts of Great Britain
rolAhrntpd fit;. Patrick's flav with narades.
banquets and addresses. At the banquet in
London, many Parnellite members of parliament
paticipated, but Parnell was absent,
owing to illness.
Alderman H. W. Jaehne, of the New
York board of aldermen, has been arrested
upon the district attorney's complaint that ,
he had taken a bribe of $30,000 for voting to
give the Broadway horse-car company its
franchise. The arrest was the culmination
of the legislature committee's investigation
into charges of bribery against several aldermen
and ex-aldermen,a number of whom left
the State to avoid examination. The arrest
of Jaehue was made upon what was considered
conclusive evidence of his guilt It took
piace on cue lscn, ana otner arrests were (
then imminent.
Three oil tanks on a freight train near
Reading, Penn., caught fire and six employes 1
of the road were severely injured. j
The wife of Eugene Bohrman, of Avon- |
dale, Ohio, while deranged, killed her four- <
teen-year-old son, Albert, dangerously
wounded another son, and then committed ,
suicide. i
President Cleveland celebrated his '
forty-ninth birthday on the ISth by attending
a performance of "Mikado"' at the New National
thsatre. I
The Senate, in executive session, on the j
18th confirmed the following nominations: ,
Johu D. Anderson to be pension agent at
Augusta, Me.: Cornelius Voorhis to be collector
of internal revenue, fourth district of
Missouri; John Woassner, of Texas, to ba !
consul at Saltillo; Henry W. M> j
Corry to be attorney for the Western !
district of Tennessee; William C. Jon96
to be marshal for tlio district of Kausas; ](
Robert W. Hutchins, of Eureka, Cal., to be <
receiver of public monies at Humboldt, Cal.; j
Daniel O. Barr to be purveyor of customs in !
the district of Pittsburg; V. 0. King, of j
Texas, to be secretary of legation and consul-general
at Bogota; Brigadier-General
A1 fivirl W Tqwv tn Ko inn inr-crflnftrfll. fll 1
"",l" " '"V ? J? o J ? j
successor to the late General Hancock; An- ,
drew Welch to be collector of internal rev- j
enue for the second district of Illinois. A
number of postmasters were also coufirmed. J
Thh treaty of peace between Servia and <
Bulgaria has bceu ratified by the powers interested.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE. !
1
m t < , ? n 1 _ _ M T? 1
i he eldest son or me snaa ui reism
making a tour through Europe. (
James Buchanan and Zachary Taylor are
members of the present Congress. '
i All the colonels of Senator Mahone's old (
Confederate brigade are still living. t
Mr. Parnell entered parliament eleven i
years ago, at the age of twenty-nine years. 1
Vice Chancellor Bacon is the oldest I
judge on the bench in Eugland. He is eighty- J
eight. j
The Prince of Wales is reported to have in ,
contemplation a visit to Canada and the f
United States. i
General Sheridan is fond of walking t
about the streets of Washington with his j
four little girls. 1
Nelson Dewey-, Wisconsin's first gov- j
eraor, at the age of seventy-two is plaintiff" s
in a divorce suit. [
Rev. Sam Jones, the Southern revivalist, J
has recently accepted several lecture engage- ^
ments at &500 per night.
Adelina Patti, the singer, is credited j
with once having said she wondered what a i
half-breed theatre looked like. She is living i
to see it, they say. j
Lieutenant-General Sheridan, who i
was fifty-five years old a short time since, is, t
with the exception of General Miles, the j
youngest general officer in the army. 1
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SUMMARY _0F CONGRESS
Senate Sessions.
Fifty-fifth Day.?The debate upon the
esolution of censure of the President's policy
11 declining to furnish papers relative to the
Duskin case was continued by Mr. Kenna,
who arpued in favor of the stand taken by
the administration. "Reviewing the controversy
in all its facts and details,"
he said, "the one and only question
involved is this single one whether the President
shall be allowed, in fulfillment of his
obligations to the people, to administer the
government by agents of his own choice, or
Sill Jill ha nnmnrtlla^ +/ ? nco o rron+a TiAf.
of bis own choice, not having his
confidence and often engaged in brineins
him and his administration into disrepute.
Yon may modify your demands as you please,
still the issue is the same, whether a Democratic
administration shall perform its
functions without the obstruction of opposition
by the Senate. The election of
a President means a change in officers,
which the people are powerless to effect
except by electing a President. Mr. Cleveland's
election involved the choice of men
and instrumentalities to carry on the government;
it involved that collectors, consuls and
postmasters shall go. They all ought to go."
He then went on to read from old congressional
reports what Messrs. Edmunds
and Sherman had said in discussing
the first and second tenure of
office acts. He read from Mr. Blaine1s sees
ond volume the account of how Mr. Edmundhad
demanded the passage of the first tenure
of office act "for all administrations and for
all time," and, when General Grant came in,
had headed the demand for its repeal, to give
(rfiTlfirnl frrnnt, nrvwor tn snrmn nut nt nffir'fi nil
persons then in office. Mr. Edmunds, said
Mr. Kenna, "was working for his political
friends like a Turk in 1867 and like a beaver
in 1869." He quoted also General Logan's
proposed amendment in 1869, that all offices
filled by Mr. Johnson previous to the 4th of
March, 1869, should be held vacant on the
30th of June of the same year, thus legislating
a complete sweep. Continuing, he said:
"Under the act of 1867 the President was
obliged to send to the Senate the reasons why
he had suspended a man. This .provision
was repealed in 1869. It was nowhere re?
enacted, nor is it anywhere else commanded.
It is no longer a law. The present
motion of the .Republican Senators
is an attempt to re-enact it by the
resolution, not of Congress, not even of one
house of Congress, but of a majority of a
nAUimiffAiinf A?A Urtiifrt H TM /t/sn/?! 1*.^T?
WUIIUUUCCVI. JLX^UDU. lUUUUUUOlUUf iIU?
Kenna expressed his conviction that President
Cleveland would maintain every prerogative
of his high office and transmit them
unimpaired to his successor.
Fifty-sixth Day.?There was no business,
the funeral of Senator Miller?the first
ceremony of that kind in the Senate chamber
since Senator Sumner's death twelve years
ago?occupying the attention of the
Senate. The galleries were filled. On the
floor of the Senate were seated Senator,
Representatives, many members
of the diplomatic corps, the
judiciary, President Cleveland and nis cabinet,
excepting Secretary Whitney and Attorney-Geueral
Garland, and many prominent
citizens and public men. The casket
containing the remains of the dead Senator
was brought from his residence to the
capitol at noon, escorted by a committee
of the loyal legion, acting as honorary pallbearers.
President Sherman called the
Senate to order. The congressional pallbearers
entered the chamber surrounding the
casket, which was borne by ten capitol policemen,
followed by . the Loyal
Lecrion and honorarv oall-bearers.
The casket was preceded by Rev. Dr. Leonard
of St. John's church.and was placed upon
a simple catafalque in tne open space in front
of the president's desk. The reading of the
brief liturgical service lasted ten minut3s,the
chaplains of the two Houses participating.
When it was finished the casket was borne
out of the chamber and the Senate adjourned.
The casket was carried to the hearse and
driven to the Baltimore and Potomac depot.
6receded by the Marine Band and followed
y a long procession of Senators, Representatives
ana citizens on foot. Arriving at the
depot the remains were placed in charge of
the Loyal Legion, who acted as guards until
the departure of the special funeral train for
San Francisco, accompanied by the congressional
committee.
Fifty-seventh Day.?Upon resolution of
Mr. Edmunds Rev. J. G. Butler, rector of the
Memorial church, Washington,was appointed
chaplain of the Senate as successor to Rev.
Dr. Huutley, resigned Memorials of the
Knights of Labor were presented protesting
against the denial of the extra pay which had
been provided for by law for workingmen in
tne government service wno worKea more
than eight hours per day. In presenting one
of these memorials, Mr. Ingalls said the comElaint
was a just one, and the nation had
een disgraced by the violation of law complained
of in the memorial....Mr. Ingalls
introduced a joint resolution proposing a constitutional
amendment changing the day on
which the presidential term begins from
March 4 to April 30 A message came
from the House of the death of Representative
Hahn, and on motion of Mr. Eustis the Senate
adjourned.
Fifty-eighth Day.?The Senate passed
the bill to increase from $8 to $12 per month
the pensions of widows and dependent relatives
of deceased soldiers and sailors just as
it passed the House.... Messrs. Morrill
and Cullom resumed the discussion
on the majority report of the judiciary
committee relative to the Senate's
right to call upon the President for papers relating
to suspensions in office, and argued in
favor of such right. Mr. Maxey opposed
vfciv? inajvi itj xcyui u auu ucjlouuvu uuo a a vov
dent's right to withhold papers.
Fifty-ninth Day.?Debate continued on
Mr. Edmunds' resolution relating to the right
of the President to withhold papers called
for by the Senate and referring to the suspension
of officials, Mr. Wilson, of Maryland,
saying that in the particular case under
discussion the suspended officer, Duskin, district
attorney for Alabama, had made no
complaint, but had assumed that he was suspended
for political partisanship. Mr. Beck
>poke next, defending the Pre ident, and while
speaking Mr. Edmunds remarked that the
speaker was violating the duty of a Senator
in respect to proceedings in executive session.
Mr. Beck denied this, and thereupon a long
personal discussion between the two Senators
occurred upon the question of senatorial
ennor. The Senate anwndel electoral
:*ountJoill was passed withcu; a division.
House Sessions.
Sixty-first Day.?Mr. Swope, of Pennsylvania,
from the committee on invalid
pensions, reported a bill granting a pension
>f $2,000 a year to the widow of General W.
8. Hancock. Private calendar. [The report
which accompanies the bill gives a brief
resume of the services rendered to the
country by General Hancock.] The Speakjr
announced the appointment of the following
committee to accompany the body of
Senator Miller to California: Messrs.
McKenna, Spriggs, Loutitt, Morgan, Hepburn,
Laffoon and Millikin.
Sixty-second Day.?Immediately up< n
issembling the House in a bo:ly proceed d
:othe-Senate chamber to take part in tie
;uneral of Senator Miller. A'terthe cereuony
the House adjourned without doing
iny business.
Sixty-third Day.?The chaplain in his
prayer alluded feelingly to the death of Representative
Hahn and the affliction of Representative
Wood burn in the loss of his wife.
\ftsr the journal was read Mr. St. Martins
La.), informed the House of the death of his
X)lleague and offered resolutions of regret,
providing for the appointment of a select
Committee?seven Members and three Sena:ors?to
escort the remains to their pla?e of
jurial, and adjourning the House as a mark
)f respect They were adopted unanimously.
Sixty-fourth Day.?A long preamble
md resolution by Mr. Browne (Ind.) was
idopted, providing for an inquiry by the
committee on civil service into the charges
;hat officers of the House had collected money
froin persons interested in the passage ot' a
t)ill appropriating $50,000 for Ohio river improvements
near Jeffersonville, Ind....Mr.
Bland under instruction from the coinige
committo) moved to suspend
"lie rules and adopt a resolution
Ti?lHr?<r Housp hill 5.900 "for tha free coiu
I'je of silver,a special order for Saturday,
March 20th and 27th. and April "> and <i and
hereafter until disposed of. M,. Hiscock opposed
the resolution, but it was carried by
7J yeas to b7 nays....Bills introduced: By
VIr. McComus (Md.)?To establish postoffice
a ings banks as a branch .of the postoffice
lepartmeut. By Mr. Gates (Ala.)?Amendng
the rules so as to prohibit the
anfai4ainmor o vocnliifinn
11U111 CUW/I wiu.u0 i* ivovutWAVU
vliich authorizes the appointment of a eomnittoe
to escort the remains of a deceased
Senator or member beyond the corporate
imits of the District of Columbia. By Mr. '
v'oorhees (Washington Territory)?Projosing
a constitutional amendment prohibng
polygamy The House passed the bill
o provide for closing of the business and
laying the expenses of the court of comnissioners
of Alabama claims.
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V ' v ' ' ' *:,Y
- '^ .! JUJ'JVi.lw ' ' J 1 ' Sixty-fifth
Day.?The committee ou
appropriations reported back to tha House >
to-dav the urgent . deficiency- appropriation
bill With the Senate amend
men to. Concurrence was recommended
in several Senate amendments, and in
.several others non-concurrence was recommended,
among them the one appropriating
$30,000 to pay the expenses of the funeral
of General Grant. The committee found
neither law nor constitutional authority for
this appropriation, but it had found precedents
and felt constrained to recommend an
appropriation for all legitimate expenses ap
proved Dy ueneral Man cock.... In committer
of the whole the House considered the Indian
appropriation bill, Mr. Wellborn (Texas)
making an elaborate defense of the measure*
SEEKING EEVENGE.
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An Ex-Minister Kills a Man and
Boy, and Wounds Others. *
Information has been received at Parkersburg,
W. Va., of the killing of a man and boy
and the wounding of others at Spaulding, a
small village in the remote interior.
It appears that Mr.' Preston Bennett,
a well known citizen, was
attending an exhibition at the Tillage, '<
and while the show was in progress J. M.
Pickelsheimer, an ex-Baptist minister, who
had fallen from grace through inordinate
love of whisky, came np and engaged in a
controversy with the proprietor. He was insulting
and abusive and was refused admit
tance, and eventually was ordered off the
grounds. He went away muttering ven- *;
Seance, and in a short time returned with a
ouble-barreled shot-gun, and when he got
within a few feet of Bennett he suddenly
drew his gun and fired. Bennett fell dead in ' r,
the arms of Professor Gordon, who stood
near him.
The assassin then emptied the other barrel
into the crowd, killing a little boy named
Hamilton and severely wounding William
Baner and a young woman. Before the * //
people recovered from the horror of the
tragedy Pickelsheimer escaped, but soon after
a few determined men started in pursuit.
He was tracked in the direction of Tug Fork. . ; ' *
and after a long chase was overtaken ana
surrounded in the wildest partof that region.
Several officers were witn the posse which
captured the murderer, to which fact he
certainly owed his life, as the people were
bent on lynching him.
THE IRISH AGITATION. ' J
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Position of Parneil and His Followers
in Parliament. v!
The nrominent members of the Nationa
party held their annual banquet in honor
St. Patrick at London on the 17th, " <>
JoO persons being present Many tale?rams
of congratulation and expres- V .
sing confidence in Mr. Parnell
and his colleagues were received from all
parts of the United Kingdom and America,
and their reading provoked the wildest enthusiasm.
Mr. rarnell's absence, because
of illness, was much regretted- ^
Mr. Edmund Dwyer Gray. . M. P.y
eplying to the toast, "Ireland a Nation,^ . y ;
aroused the enthusiasm of the gathering
to the highest pitch by declaring that
Ireland was never more determined
than now to obtain her rights, and
predicting that the ,day was not
far distant when Ireland would take her
place among the independent nations of the
earth. In conclusion, Mr. TJray expressed
the hope that Mr. Gladstone might speedily
be enabled to solve the Irish problem, but
said that its solution could not much longer
be deferred
Mr. William O'Brien, M. P., presided over ,y
a meeting of 4,000 Irishmen held in St. ,.
George's Hall, Bradford, England In taking
the chair Mr. O'Brien said that Ireland's
prospects were never brighter
than now, and it would not J.
be the fault of the Parnellites if the most
promising chance of effecting a reconciliation
between the Irish and the English peoples
which had ever been presented should be
nadly and wickedly destroyed
MUSICAL* AND DRAMATIC.
Sylva, the tenor, has been engaged for the
next season of American opera.
Patti has had an offer of 18,000 per night
for a series of concerts in Brazil.
Joseph Jefferson will begin a spring ,
tour April 23, under the management or his
son Charley.
It is reported that Clara Morris is obliged
to take recuperative medicines on the stage
while acting.
The music-loving people of Toronto are
making preparations for holding a great musical
festival in June.
Young men who play on the flute or
clarionet in Santa Barbara, CaL, are ruthlessly
fined by the authorities.
Theodore Thomas, conductor ot we
American opera compiuy in New York, receives
a salary of $5,000 a month.
Sara Bernhardt says that she expects '
to make 1,600,000 francs, or about $800,000
during her coming engagement in America.
Mrs. Dinah Moloch Crate, the author
of "John Halifax, Gentleman," and other /
famous novels, is reported to be writing a
play for Mary Anderson.
William J. Forguson, one of the prominent
eccentric comedians of the American ,
stage, was twenty years ago a newsboy on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Forepaugh and Barnum have renewed
their last year's agreement not to interfere
with each other's circus territory. Forepaugh
will show for the first time in Brooklyn.
Mrs. Langtry is busy storing awav her
wealth here. She has gradually been adding
to her investments in mortgages in New
York city until she now holds over $150,000.
Count Miravallo and his three sistere,
Senoritas Mariano, Ortiz de Zarata and Dona
Carmen Garcia Trevella, are the living de?r?pnHants
of the last Mexican Montezuma.
Their pedigree is undoubted and unbroken.
The family have been pensioned ever since
the Aztec overthrow, and the Mexican republic
new pay* over $7,000 per annum among
tbem. . '
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK. 10
Beef cattle, good to prime 1 w ?
Calves, com'n to prime veals 5 @ %%
Sheep
Lambs 6 @
Hogs?Live
Dressed, city 5#<a 5^
Flour?Ex. St., good to fancy 8 60 @ 4 25
West, good to choice 4 00 <g 5 45
Wheat?No. 2, Red 91 92>*
Rye?State 64 @ 65)^
Barley?Four-rowed State... <9 85
Corn?Ungrad. West, Mixed 45)?(3 51
Oats?White State 89 @ 41}?
Mixed Western 36 @ 89
Hay?Med. to pr. Timothy. 91 @ 95
Straw?No. 1, Rye 80 @ 85
Lard?City Steam 6 20 @ 6 40
Butter?State Creamery.... 33 @ 85
Dairy <3 f*
West. Im. Creamery 20 @ 24
Factory 10 @ 19
Cheese?State Factory 7 @ lj|/ft
Skims 5%@ 7
Western 7 @ 9/a
Eees?State and Penn 20 @ 20,*
BUFFALO.
Sheep?Good to Choice 4 35 @ 4 75
LaniDs?Western 4 25 @ 6 25
Steers?Western 4 (50 @ 5 00
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 00 @ 4 15
Flour?C'y ground n. process 5 25 @ 6 50
Wheat?No. 1, Hard Duluth. 94 @ 94%
Corn?No. 2, Mixed New? @ 43%
Oate?No. 2, Mixed Western 37#@
Barley?Two-rowed State... ? @ ?
BOSTON*.
Beef?Ex. plate and family. 11 00 @11 50
Hogs?Live 4 4%
Northern Dressed '*%(& o,'S
Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl...lO r>0 @11 00
Flour?Winter Wheat pat's. 5 25 @ 5 50
Com?High Mixed 50 @ 50>?
Oats?Extra White 43 @ 44
Rye?State 67 (?| ?
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef?Extra quality 5 75 @ 6 00
Sheep?Live weight 41>f@ 5
Lambs 7
Hocrs?Northern, d. w
PHILADELPHIA.
?! Flour?Penu. ex fnmiJy, good 4 25 @ 4 50
Wheat-No. 2, Red 90%@ 90#
Rye?State @ 75
Corn?State Yellow 52 @ 5.5
Oats Mixed 40 @ 41
Butter?Creamery Extra Pa 20 @ 22 .
Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 1!K@ H