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Tn Polish society, you can always kiss
the bride. When she is only a peasant,
you pay $1 for the osculation; when she
is of gentle birth, you get it for nothing.
And they say Poland is a downtrodden
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The number of insane persons in the
asylums and almshouses of New York
State is thirty-three per cent, greater
than it was five years ago. This increase
comes almost wholly from the shipment
of insane men and women to this country
from Europe.
n -"1 * ^ I %\ onvinnc AV/ir
v^anauiHLis uit ouawuo ?> %,?
their loss of forests. In tlie more thickly
settled parts of Ontario only ton per
cent, of woodland remains, and wells
must now be dug to the depth of forty
or fifty feet, where formerly -water could
be reached at six.
The death of a sea captain recently
was ascribed by mcdical authorities to
blood-poisoning, caused by his vessel
carrying a cargo of nitrate of soda. The
v sailors were affected -with what they
called rheumatism. The captain, being
in the after cabin, suffered the full force
of the evaporation of the nitrate. It is
said that four captains in the employ of
a lpndinor Eastrrn slii??in<r firm have
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died within a few years from this same
cause.
At Reading, Penn., a boy, aged seven,
has a mania for tire, and seeks to burn
up everything he can lay his hands on.
He formerly lived with his parents in
Philadelphia, where he cremated his
brother of eighteen months, and when
punished for it threatened to kill the rest
of the family. He was then sent to his
grandmotber in Reading, where he has
roasted several cats, burned up shoes and
other wearing apparel, and has made
attempts to set lire to buildings.
Steady industry is the only trae path
to success, remarks the Cultivator. The
plodding man generally wins in the long
run. There is no royal road to wealth
any more than to learning. A few men
are suddenly enriched by speculation or
inheritance, but such wealth is seldom
permanent. Among the speculators wo
only hear of those who win a prize; the
nine hundred and ninety-nine who fail
of success never announce their failures.
Only the hard-earned money is secure
in the hands of its possessor. The
safe business man or farmer never
speculates.
Professor Cook protests vigorously
against the notion that poisonous honey is
occasionally produced. He says that all
cases of supposed poisoning from eating
honey may be explained on other grounds.
6om^ people never can eat honey without
injury. Any one eating it in large
quantities without other food is liable
to colic. The fear of getting poisonc
honey greatly detracts from the demand
and price of this delicacy. As the bee
secretes the honey it could not take poisonous
substance into i^s system without
injury to itself. "What will not hurt the
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Dees cannot uo serious damage to uuman
beings.
Mermaids, it is facetiously said, use
telegraph cables as skipping-ropes, but
wolves are scared by telegraph wires.
From Norway it is reported that at a debate
in the storthing, while a vote was
pending on a grant to a new line, a member
remarked that, while his constituents
had no direct interest in it, they would
support the grant, because the wires
would drive away the wolves. It is said
list TintvAvr?r Vinnorrv ?i tvnlf mav lio l?o
will never go to a spot that is inclosed by
ropes stretched on posts. It is stated as
a remarkable fact that since the first telegraph
line was established twenty years
ago, wolves have never appeared in its
neighborhood.
The last census showed a total of 17,592,000
persons engaged in labor in the
whole country, and these figures may be
fairly accepted as representing the aggregate
strength of the workers of America
in 1880. Since that time the armv of
toilers has greatly mcre.ised. At present
there are, it is estimated, 8,000,000 engaged
at agriculture, 4,i500,000 in 4'professional
and personal service," 2,000,
000 in trade and transportation, and
4,250,000 in mechanics, manufactures
and mining. It may be set down that,
although the hardest physical toil in the
shop, factory and mine falls to the lot of
less than 6,000,000 in all, the designation
of w.Qikingmen properly applies to
fully 12,000,000, as more than threefifths
of the whole are really dependent
for their daily bread on the exercise cf
their muscles as well as their brains,
A correspondent of the Mining Jovrnd
writes glowing reports about tlie prospects
of Alaska as a gold field. He states
that the mill on Douglas Island is runnlr.g
to its full capacity, and is turning out
bullion at the rate of $100,000 a month,
not counting the concentrates, which are
rapidly accumulating for the want of
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BUiiiiiUUb luudiui* iii tin: v,Jiuuiiauuu
works. The capacity of the mine must
not, however, be judged even by the
value of both the bullion and concentrates
now turned out; it is large enough to
supply rock for half a dozen such mills,
and the foundations for a second mill of
the some size as the one now in operation
arc already laying. It is estimated that
there are at least twenty million tons of
quartz above the tunnel level. Concerning
ih2 Silver Bay (Fuller) claims, there
Jo nniftinn now Tn tl'P Sllvpr Ttnv
AO UV/lUlU^ uvu t * ? ""V ? v* vtisJtrict
there are some very rich mines, and
all that has been lacking until now has
been a reasonable amount of capital to
be honestly and judiciously applied in
their development. The success of the
Douglass Island venture will, it is thought,
assure the erection of more stamp mills
in Alaska during the next five years than
were ever in operation in California and
Nevada at one time. ?
| An English clergyman has started
three butcher shops in London, to supply
the poor with wholesome meat at reasonI
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auie puces, uliu una uumuusviaivu ?
he can make a profit upon selling not
only American beef and New Zealand
mutton, but even English beef and mutton,
at figures averaging at 20 per cent,
less than those demanded by the regular
butchers for the same quality of
meat.
In the Mexican city of Zacatccas they j
have monthly auctions for the queer purpose
of disposing of superfluous State
convicts. The shops of the Acordata, or I
-iUt, Mil nrrmlnv .alimited number i
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of skilled prisoners; the surplus, often j
including ruffians of the vilest descrip- j
tion, are intrusted to the highest bidder;
some responsible capitalist who agrees to
answer for the safety of his bondsmen
and can employ them in any way promising
to recoup his investment. The convict
may be rabid with thirst for revenge
against his informers and judges, but if
he is a half Spaniard the idea of being
trusted on parole is generally enough to
insure his tolerably good behavior. Desperadoes
who would risk their lives to
break out of a public man-cage will
hesitate to abuse the confidence of a priAjf.iron
who baa rriven bonds for
their honorable conduct, and treat them
with humanity and to an occasional twist
of smoking tobacco.
From explanations given by the German
minister of agriculture, it appears
that Bismarck's scheme to drive out Poles
and settle Germans in Poland, i s aimed
at the large landholders, not at the small
Polish proprietors, who are described as
' 'a sound, thriving, and well-affected
class." Bismarck sees 100,000 Prussians
emigrating every year, and this volume
of surplus he hopes to keq) at homo by
dispossessing the great Polish landlords,
who naturally desire a restoration of their
nationality. The present is considered
an opportune time for taking action, as
the agricultural depression is forcing
great properties into the market, which
j the government can buy at a cheap rate.
This movement is not a new idea in Prussia.
In 1807 Stein began the creation of
peasant proprietors, and there are now
1,400,000 of them in the country, adding
greatly to its unity and strength. It is
nmnnsfvl t.n armortion out the lands ac
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quiicd to settlers in lots of ten to 100
acres each.
General Hazen, chief signal oflicer,
recently told the House committee on
war department expenditures, when asked
about the establishment of signal stations
outside of the United States, that every
year there were several general storms
extending over a large area, and which
could not be predicted by observations
taken exclusively in the United States.
Many of these storms come from the
North Polar region, traversing thousands
of miles before reaching the United
States, and many of the most severe
storms affecting our commerce along the
Eastern coast came from the equatorial
belt, and after traveling a considerable
distance, struck the AYest Iudia islands,
and then swept along the Atlantic coast,
doing great damage. The stations in
the "West Indies had been discontinued
for lack of appropriations, and the resuit
had been, witness said, that the public
did not have advanced knowledge of the
great storms which did great damage in
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i Charleston, auhiuuj v/itj auu vuutj
Island and that vicinity last year.
The New Hampshire forestry commission,
in a report to the legislature, recommend
as a means of preventing damage
to forests by fires that the selectmen of
town9 be constituted "fire commissioners"
for their respective towns, with
authority to appoint watchmen and
patrols when, on account of the dryness
of the season, they may deem it expedient
to prosecute parties who may set fires
contrary to law, and to grant permits for
burning brash or waste material during
the summer season. The commission
also recommend that all persons be forbidden
under penalty to set tiras between
the 1st of May and the 1st of October in
any pasture, field or other place, for the
nurnnsc. of elenrin?? the land, if such
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material to be burned be within a mile of
any forest, without first obtaining a
written permit from at least one of the
seectmen; to make all offenders liable
in a civil action to any person injured by
tire set without such permit for the
amount of damage sustained. When an
application is made for a permit it should
be the duty of the selectmen to proceed
at once to the place and examine care*
fully the situation, amount, and nature
of the material proposed to be burned, its
promixity to other property, especially
forests, the dryness of the season, the
direction of the wind, the probability of
rein, so far as it can be gathered frcm
tlie appearance of the heavens, and when
practicable from the predictions given
out at Washington, and all other circumstances
which ought to have weight
with a prudent man in deciding whether
a permit .should be given.
Novel Use of Bald Heads.
A novel use for bald heads lias been
discovered, accepting as true the statement
of New York Town Topics'.
When the Crown Prince Frederick William
made a sort of royal progress
through united Germany at the close of
the hostilities (with France), each town
vied with its neighbor in presenting seme
novelty by way of honor to his imperial
highness. One capelmeister conceived
the idea of utilizing the ancient operagoer-,
and upon the entrance of the
prince into the box, already decorated
for him, certain men in the pit steod up,
making the letters of "Unser Fritz" in
bald heads below.
According to the report of the surgeon
general there were only two cases of
vnrinlnid and nnn nf smiill-nn* in the I
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United States army last year. Vaccination
was carried out with groat regularity.
ME AND FLOOD.
The Principal Part of K?y West, f
Fla., Destroyed.
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Many Fatalities and Great Damage
Caused by Eising Waters.
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A fire started, in the San Carlos theatre, , c
Key West, Fla., on the morning of the 30th I t
and soon '.vent beyond the control of the fire- j c
men. A ::'resh wind blowing from the south I
caused the flames to spread, and soon five I j
UIOCK5 in IUU ?. tfllfcLT t?i IUU ClfcJ t
destroyed. The Episcopal and Baptist
churches were burned about noon, and before
3 P. M. when the fire subsided,
over fifty houses in all were laid
in nshes. They included Masonic
hall, Ihree or four cigar factories and the
bonded warehouse, containing $250,000
worth of tobacco. Officeis from the
United States steamers Brooklyn and
Powhattan aided in blowing up some of
the houses with powder to prevent the
spread of the flames. There was no water
supply, tho cisterns being mostly dry.
The lire worked rapidly northward. The
track was so peculiar tliat it was difficult to
foi'esee the result. The fire skirted the beach,
taking the wharves and warehou e > of Pn ilbrick
& Tift. Mr. Curry's warehouses were
consumed. The buildinsrs. with the exception
of the three w&rehousas mentioned atiove, c
were cousti-ucted of yellow pine, and the heat s
was so intense as to drive the firemen back. s
The fire subsided at 3 o'clock. The
principal part of the town has been burned.
Six wharves an I five brick warehouses were
among the structures destroyed. About t
fifteen persons were injured, of whom six >
were taken to the Marine hospital and others (]
on board the me n of-war. s
The damage to property is estimated at t
$1,000,000. Individual losses cannot be t
known, but terrible sufferings and privations
have been entailed. Bjtwcen three thousand
and four thousand people are thrown out of S
employment by the buruiug of the factories, f
and no provision could at once be made for
the lar^e number rendered homeless. The
TT-nifwl Ssfntfiy ciiiivt, nrul itn ro.-nrds are con- d
sumed. The oi;her government offices re- t
moved their records early t? the revenue a
steamer Dix, where a number of people took F
refuge and were cared for by the officers.
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Floods and Tornadoes in the South. 1
An Atlanta (Ga) dispatch of the JJOth ^
states that in forty-eight hours the rain had
made a record o:' seventeen inches in Atlanta,
and the water plowed down the streets like a
rivers. The East Tennessee road was ths first y
to give way owing to washes, followed by ?
the Western and Atlantic road, and dur- e
ing the night by all the others. Not a train F
dared move out of Atlanta. The waters were c
running down Tallulah valley all day with
unparalleled velocity, emptying into the v
Savannah and wasting the country along s
the valley to Savannah. Tha damage to r
farm property and stock is not less than
$500,000. The waters had complete posses h
sion of Augusta. The Chattahoochee River c
valley likewise was overflowed from its heal
in the Blue Ridge all the way down to t
Pensaeola.
At West-port the rising waters ran the
people out of their hou-esat o a. 51. Three
men were drowned. People moved around *
the streets in bat-tea'is. A family of 0
seven persons was reported to have been s
drowned near Columbus. On tho high- a
lands cyclones raged, while the valleys were P
being washed by the waters. A cyc lone in I
Henry county killed James Howell and in- 11
jured other members of his family. The A
valley of the Black Warrior, in Alabama, a
was also submerged iu water. v
A cyclone swept across a portion of Bullock o
county, Ala., during the (lay. and in its path
struck a negro church in whicn a tunerai was o
goiug on. The church was blown clown and L
tour persons were killed and ten badly in- ?
jured.
Helena, Ark., also suffered heavily by a
tornado, numerous buildings being blown
down. The county court house wits un- 0
roofed. ~
The storm wa? equally severe all over the I *
country in the vicinity or gNew Orleans, and v
oii the Atchafalaya river there vras loss of 1
life. The stjamer Mary Lewis, belonging !i
to the Southern Pacific railroad, Mas blown
against the bridge at C'lnrk's plantation, a ti
mile and a half below Pattersonville, La., !
uad sunk. The engineer and two colored 1
deck hands were lost. Tho E. H. Barrymore s
went to her relief, and while lying to she ex- t
nloded her boilers and four laborers were t
tlrownod.
KIVERS AND HAKBORS,
The House Committee's Hill Appro- ^
priates Over $15,000,000. ji
Tho River and Harbor Appropriation bill, j,
as completed by the House committee, m akes [
a total appropriation of $15,104,200, which L
will become available immediately upon the '
passage of the bill. As there was no appropriation
made for river and harbor improvements
last session, the present appropriation ii
virtually covers a period of nearly two ?'
years. The larger items of the bill are as roilows;
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Rockland, Me., $20,000: Burlington, Vt, i
$15,000; Boston barbor, $15,000; Newbury- I
port, Mass., $50,000; Newport, R. I., $12,500; i
Pawtucket river, R. I., $35,000; Providence
ami Narragansetr; lay, $35,000; New Haven
breakwater, $103,000; Stonington, Conn.,
$20,000; Connecticut river, $35,000; Thames
river, Conn., $30,000; Buffalo harbor, $150,000;
Oswego harbor, $95,000; Buttermilk
channel, N. Y, $75,000; Hell Gate.
?150,000; Hudson river, ;? 15,000; Newtown ,
creek and bay, N. Y.. $50,000; Raritan bay, \
N. J., $30,000; Passaic river, N. J., $35,000;
Raritan river, $.35,000; Erie harbor, Penn.;
$50,000; Allegheny river, Penn., $40,000; 1
Schuylkill river, Penn., $25,000; Delaware c
river below Tienton, $240,000; Delaware 1
breakwater, $75,000; Wilmington, Del.,
$20,000; Norfolk harbor, Va., $10.1000; c
James river, Va., $150,000; Cape Fear j
river, N. C., $125,000; Great Kanawha c
river, W. \Ta., $150,000; Charleston harbor,
S. C., $250,000; Cumberland sound, Ga., ?
$150,000; Savannah, Ga., $125,000; St. John's *
channel, Fla., $200,000; Mobile, Ala., ;
$120,000; Rockport ancl Corpus Christi harbors,
Texas,$135,000; Galveston, $400,000; Sa-,
bine pass and Blue Bash bar, Texas,$205,000; 4
uuicago, siw.twu; Illinois river, tiw,uw; i
Humboldt harbor and bay, Cal., $100,000; J
Hay Lake channel, Mich., $100,000; canal nt
tho Cascades, Ore., $200,000; Lower "Willa- (
mette and Columbia rivers, Ore., $100,000; i
Cumberland river, Tenn. , $100,000; Tennes- f
see river, below Chattanooga, $350,000; Ken- .
tucky river, $253,000; Ohio river, $500,000;
Falls of the Ohio, $200,000; Missouri river, ,
from mouth to Sioux City, $500,000; Missis- ;
sippi river, $3,800,000. ]
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xjauminijiNi jrXiUrixEn \
Rev. Sam Jones says he never wrote a ,
sermon in his life. ,
Ex-Governor George Hoadly, of Ohio,
is said to be much broken in health. ,
Henry M. Stanley finds it hard to get the <
Congo fever out of him, and he is sick-a-bed <
again.
Ben : Perley Poore's collection of auto- <
graphs contains the writing of 10,000 promi- 1
nent people.
Elijah Bahbett, of Erie, N. Y., Is the
.oldest practitioner at the New York bar. Ha j
is ninety-two. '
Leopold von Ranke, the celebrated Ger- !
man historian, who is past ninety, works j
away like sixty.
The Priuce of Wales, restricted by his j
physician to a lean mutton chop and stale j i
bread for his dinner, is said to be a very mel- | i
ancholy dyspeptic indeed. j i
General Logan's mail is, according to a 1
Washington correspondent, probably the
largest of any member in either brancii of '
Congress. It frequently exceeds 200 a day 1
and seldom falls below 150.
Jefferson Davis is going to deliver an
address in Montgomery, Ala, in May for
the benefit of a charitable institution. A cot- '
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nm wtticuuuw lapauio u1 tujuuiiiiiiuuauiug
5.000 people has been secured for the occa- *
sion. '
Lieutenant GREELY,ta9 Arctic explorer,
has been a constant sufferer from acute neural- ,
gia since his return rom the Polar regions: and j
recent,I}-, as a remedy, had the nerves at
the base of the spine severed and the flesh and j
muscles separated. I
N~EWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
Wilmington', Del., has lost its county jail '
md neighboring property by a fire. '
^William Barton, a cattle dealer of Port (
2d ward, Ont., while in a state of s-omnamnxlism,
walked oft' a train near Albany, N. 1
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X.., tu-iu HO-J ^
The schooner Charles H. Morse, from New
ifork bound for Boston, not haviug been
leard from up to the 29th, was then believed
o be the vessel which recently ran into the
>oean steamer Oregon and immediately went
o the bottom. The schooner had nine men
>n board. 1
James Andrews, an old man, being rejectid
by Miss ELsie Williams, at Oxford, Conn., i
tilled her with an axe and then finished his ]
>wn career with poi; on. (
Rev. "Sam" Jones, the Southern evangeLst,
will hold revival meetings for eight
veeks in Boston next fall.
A mysterious jiml highly contagious
lisease has attacked the people of Johnstown,
n. x. up to tbe ir.Jtn more tiian yuu cases
tnd over a score of deaths had been re;orted.
George Neaix. the Newark (X. J.) pound
:eeper, died the oth.'r day in horrible torture
rom hydrophobia engendered by a mad
log's bite.
After another conference between the (
Cnights of Labor representatives and Jay
xould in Now York on the 30th Master 1
tVorkman Powderly telegraphed to St. Louis,
irdoritig the strikers in the Southwest to re- ,
um to work. Mr. Powderly returned to his
tome at Scrauton, Penn., and three members
if the Knights of Labor executive board 1
tnrted for St. J.ouis to aid in settliug the i
trike by arbitration. ,
South and West.
The railroad strike extended on the 20th,
he yardmen at East St. Louis stopping
vork, Traffic, was suspended in nearly every '
lirection, aud the fuel and food supplies of
everal towns in Missouri and Kansas began
o run short owing to the lack of transportsion.
a great prairie nre, covering many miies
if territory, has been raging on the Crow
iidian reservation. Thousands of tons of
incut hay were consumed
Frank Mulkowsky was hanged a few
lays since in Chicago for the murder of Mrs.
^.gnes Kledzeick, his motive beinjr robbery;
.nd Johu Drake (colored) suffered a similar
>enalty at Thomaston, Ga., for wife murder.
Three cowboys and a hotel proprietor
rere killed and two other men were wounded
n a midnight encouuter at Tascora, Texas.
One man and thirty-eight horses perished
q a livery stable fire at Kansas City, Mo.
Jacob Hoffman, owner of a flouring mill
.t Elba, Minn.,aurl his sixteen-year-old son
rere trying to remove an obstruction in the
uachinery when th<; water gate, which they
iad shut, suddenly opened aud the flood
oured down upon the two men, drowning
oth.
General Dei.gado and Colonel Morey
I'ArA holrl fnr trinl nt. lv"nir Wa:f T?1o oa
uspeclei filibusters. The trial will take
ilace in New York in Slay.
Convicts in the Kansas State penitentiary
tavo been detected in the manufacture of
ounterfeit coin.
Two negro \s, charged with murder, were
aken from the jail at Alamo, Tenn., by a
rowd anrl hanged.
Thecivil authorities proved powerless at
last St. Louis, 111., on the 30th. and a crowd
f 1,500 men forced the sheriff to retire, asaulted
his deputies, and destroyed and damged
thousands of dollars' worth of railroad
iroperty. Early in the morning Sheriff
lopiquet called for a posse. Only twelve
nen responded and they were soon put to
light. The mob invaded the yards and disbled
a score of < urines, and drove the few
rorkmen who refused to leave their work out
if the city.
Mrs. Timothy Hi.'rley, her tifteen-year
Id daughter and her new-born infant, were
turned to death in a fire at Branson, Mich,
lix other persons were also fatally burned.
Washington.
Secretary Manning was still so ill on the
8th that the physicians would not allow him
o see friends who railed at the house. There
rere no further serious symptoms, nor any
pecial disease,but a general and severe prosration.
The Senate has confirmed the following
ionizations: William L. Alden, of New
{ork, consul general at Home; Charles T.
lussell, of Connecticut, consul at Liverpool;
Samuel E. Wheatley, to bo commissioner of
he District of Columbia; Samuel T. Corn, to
e associate justice, Wyoming Territory.
Foreign.
Fortv rebels and one English private were
:illed in un engagement at Burmah.
Two members of the British eubinet, Mr.
'oscph Chamberlain?president of the local
;overament board, and G. O. Trcvelyan,
e'.retary for Scotland?have resigned beause
they are not in accord with Gladstone's
rish policy. Their places have bean filled
>y James Stafford and the Earl of Dallousie.
For refusing to publish certain semiofficial
correspondence the well-known Cenral
American newspaper, the Panama Star
ind Herald, has been suspended for sixty
lays and the owners fined by the governor.
Prince Bismvrck has stated in tho German
eichstag that if great European troubles
hould arise they would probably become iuernational,
and that in his opinion the
iYflneh armv was omiosed to workiii?nioii,s
novements/
VERY OLD PEOPLE.
The widow Giraud, who died recently in
France in her 12oth year, lived for more than
i quarter of a centuiy upon brandy and soup.
More than a century old and very poor is
}onald MeLellau, of Detroit. He' is a votiran
of the civil war and the Seminole war,
>ut draws no pension.
Mrs. Mart McColl, of Livingston
ountj*, is ninety-seven veal's of age. She is
ust now suffering from a fractured hip, but
ithenvise is in the best of health.
For more than niaety-two years Daniel
Smith, of Merrick, L. I., has enjoyed uuinerrupted
good health. He has roared a fainly
of eight sons aud six daughters.
I'lliijADELPiiiA na.s a r rencn soimer ninety
>ight3'earsold, who supports himself by violin
ilaying. He is the father of sixteen children.
Pierre Solidor Milou is his name.
Betsey Warren was a rich resident of
Charleston at the breaking out of the civil
var. She left everything and came North,
she died recently very i>oor at Red Bank, N.
F., aged ninety-five.
Joshua Owings, of St. Louis is ninety-six
L'omv nlfl miH in p-nrwl health. Ho uses neither
ilcoliol nor tobacco, and never was in debt.
His wife died ten years ago, after they had
jeen married sixty-five years.
Sixty-nine years ago Chester Clapp, of
Ballstou, was married, and he resided con:inuously
afterward in the home presented to
;he bride by her father until it was destroyed
jy fire, a few weeks ago. Sir. Clapp is now
ninety-three years of age and his wife eightyeight.
Athens count v,Ohio,until recently boasted
jf three mentally and physically vigorous
>ld people?John McCuue, ninety-one years
Did; Hull Foster, over ninety; and Mrs.
ECesiah Cooper, ninety-four. Ihe latter died
m February ti-i. The others are still seen in
the streets daily.
During the graveyaiil insurance craze
Magdalen Miller, of Greenville, Penu., was
insured for moro than $100,000, out she outlived
all the companies; She has been tho
mother of twelve children, and is now ninety
yeprs of age. She has been a smoker lor more
thau seventy years.
A beautiful girl, formerly of New York,
more recently of Washington, where she re
signed tt posiuon in uic i: oisury aeparnueuv
in oixier to study for the stage, has just been
iismissed as incompetent by a theatrical
manager. She resigned monotony and $70
\ month for excitement, uncertainty and $4U
A 1I1UUIL1 nuuo uuuci o tuujr,
Miss Bottsford, a young American girl
who i3 fitudying at Paris, recently attracted
considerable attention from the critics by her
riolin performances. It is said that she will
>oon return to this country and begin on aristic
caroer.
mop.e than 3,500 babies have been entered
or the international baby contest in Paris.
Dne of tho entries Ls a Itelgiau boy of five
rears, who is four feet one and a half inches
u height and weighs 153 pounds.
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LATER NEWS.
T\fnrwn 4-Via of/\i<mc a# a fartr ^qtto
XJ u Al.lVl 0\J OWU1 UiO Vi U IV TW U?J o
igo, two large steamers went ashore? [
the Capital City, running between New York
and Hartford, striking the rocks off Rye
Eeach, N. Y., aud the Europa, from Hamburg
bound for New York, going aground jjj
near Quogue, Long Island. No lives were
lost, but both vessels were badly damaged.
Gerondio, the captured Apache chief,
with twenty of his followers, has escaped ^
from the custody of the United States troops
in Arizona.
Ix executive session on the 31st Mr. Logan
made a speech favoring open sessions The
nomination of the postmaster at Webster
City, Iowa, was rejected by a nearly unanimous
vote on the charge of "offensive partisan-hip."
11
The nomination of William M. Merrick ^
for judge of the District of Columbia has
been confirmed by the Senate notwithstanding
the adverse repsrt of the judiciary committee.
Tke collections of internal revenue for the
first eight months of the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1886, amount to 158,200, an increase
of $2,410,388 over the receipts for the
corresponding period of the last fiscal year.
St. Johns, N. F., has been the scene of an
oxcitjng labor riot. A mob, demanding
labor and railroad extension, assembled
around the parliament buildings with flags,
stormed tho assembly house, routed the police
nni-J hrnVa infn f'nn nViomhor nlnnHnff i
W4V"V W"W 1
their banner on the table of the he use. s
The total Dumber of arrest? made in Bol- J
gium in connection with the labor riots is ?]
2,500. Hundreds of persons were killed or in- i
jured, scores of buildings destroyed and dam- t
age amounting to millions of dollars was in- 1
flicted. *
An explosion of petroleum occurred the 1
other day on board a vessel at Baku, Russia, *
The vessel was wrecked, and the entire crew,
consisting of thirteen persons, perished.
The steamship Gulf of Akaba, from Huelv a '
bound for New York, with thirty-five men
on board, has been given up as lost. ~
The strike of 8,000 operatives in theCoho&s ?
(N. Y.) mills has ended, the mill-owners conceding
the twelve per cent, increase in wages, j
Dr. Edward de L. Bradin, who attended 1
Neall, the Newark (N. J.) poundkeeper, dur- j
ing his fatal attack of hydrophobia, is him- j
self in danger, and has started for Paris for
treatment by M. Pasteur. While attending J
to his patient frothy saliva from the man's ^
lips camo in contact with Dr. Bradiu's sore <
thumb. The doctor is the seventh person who t
has gone tn Paris from Newark for inoeula
tion against hydrophob ia. 2
Mixers in Pennsylvania are holding mass
meetings to inaugurate the eight-hour system
in the mines after May 1.
Ex-Alderman William P. Kirk has
been arrested in New York on the charge of bribery
in connection with the Broadway
horse car company's franchise, obtained i
from the citv's aldermanio board in 1884. The
confession of ex-Alderman Waite led to 1
Kirk's arrest.
Ox the 1st the decree came from St. Louis
that the strike must go on. The executive (
board of the Knights of Labor for the districts
involved claimed that Jay Gould's rep- '
resentatives wei-o acting with duplicity; that
th ;y refused to re-employ men identified with j
the strike", and that they would not receive t
or confer with representatives of the order. *
For this reason the board declined to name a
time for the strikers to resume work, aud ]
toued an appeal to the country in the form
;{ a short official address. The Missouri
Pacific road claimed to be runuing its freight }
trains with regularity, and announced its ]
ability to handle all freight committed to its ^
care. At East St. Louis the strike was still s
in full force, and all freight was blockaded <
except on the Wabash road.
Additional confirmations by the Senate: j
William C. Emmet, of New York, consul at j
Smyrna; AHen R. Bu?huell, or. Wisconsin, 1
attorney western district of Wisconsin; Alex- !
ander II. Shipley to be consul at Auckland;
H. A. Johuson, of District of Columbia, con- <
sul at Venice; William Gordon, of New -1
York, consul at Medeliu; H. C. Crouch, of
New York, consul at Milau; Galusha Pen- |
nell, of Michigau, marshal eastern district ]
of Michigan; Spuille Bradeu, of Montana, to
beassayer, Helena; George F. Baylis, of
New York, surveyor of customs, Port JeflTer- <
son, N. Y.; Arthur D. Bissell, of New York, j
collector of customs for district of Buffalo
Creek, IN. Y.; iJngaaier-wenei ai u. u. now- i
ard, major-general, vice Pope, retired.
The reduction of the national debt last '{
month was $14,0i7,St>4, leaving the total debt
on the 1st, less cush in the treasury, at $1,417,002,955.
!
During March the total government re
ceipts wore $'10,070,1M, and expenditure*,
$15,031,
Tiie steamship Resolute, whaler and sealer,
lia"? been crushod by ice and sent to the bottom
off the coast of Newfoundland. Her
crew, numbering .'KJO men, were forced to
leap for life, abandoning everything. All
uut torec reacuci lanu, suvemy miles iruni |
tlie scene of the disaster. At the tinio of tho |
accident the Resolute had captured 20,000 j
seals.
A duel with pistols in which one of the
principals was instantly killed has bceu
fought between two French officials in a private
house at Valrcas.
Bulgaria having refused the demands of
Russia to submit certain questions to the
European powers, is threatened with in
vasion by tho czar's troops, and the possi- ;
bility of a war is again looming up. ,
Massacres at Catholic missions in Annatn
are reported, the number of victims being
U9. !
MUSICAL AND DEAMATIO, |
Granville, Mass., last year turned out
:00,000 drums.
A company of deaf and dumb amateurs are
to play "Hamlet" in London. 1
Mr. Boucicault's new comedy, "The
Jilt," has made a hit in New York. ,
Miss Mary Anderson will sail for Europe
on June 5. At present she is playing in the (
far West.
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Youxo Alexander ciuivim, uu>* wim ma j
father's company, gives eveiy promise of future
greatness. ^
Mme. Jaxauschek will shortly leave for
Europe, but will return next season for a
farewell tour. (
Frank James, the famous Missouri bandit,
reported to have declined an offer of
$er>,000 a year to travel with a circus. j
Mrs. Langtry is to appear in London in
May as the beautiful Helen of Troy in Mr.
Godwin's C4reek play modeled on Sophocles. *
Florence Mollinelli, a fifteen-year-old
Denver girt, has made her debut as Juliet,and
is sa;d t) show considerable genius for one so '
young. 1
The youug Ainerieau cantatrice, Miss Ella i
Parepa, a pupil of the Frankfort Conserva
tory, lias been engaged by tho Berlin royal
ojktu.
Anotiier actress has entered the lecture 1
field. This time it is Miss Kate Reynolds, <
formerly leading lady of the Boston Museum, J
and now Mrs. Irving Winslow.
California is about to launch a new and '
wealthy amateur on the professional stage.
She is a Mrs. Alfred Abbey, of Oakland, and
has ample beauty, a huge bank account and a
sweet soprano voice. 1
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r^EXORA JKUIZ and IWU it'iiiaic t uui wwJio ui *
a Mexican theatrical company were kidnap i
ped by Indians during a raid on Peto, Mexico,
recently. They were held for ?3,000 ran- j
som, which was paid, and they were re- 1
lease.l. I
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THE BAILROAD STRIKES.
details of the Various Attempts
at Adjustment.
legotiations Between Jay Gould
and the Knights of Labor.
The executive board of the Knights of
^abor m-;t in New York on the 27th aud pro>osed
to ."ay Gould, president of the Missouri,
Pacific railroad, that a committee of seven
>e appointed to arbitrate upon the matters
n dispute which had led to the strike onj
he Gould system of railroads in the South-!
vest. This offer of the Knights was
it first refused by President Gould
ipon the ground principally that an
igreement made with the Missouri Pacific
oad last August by the employes not to
trike without due notice had bjen violated
>y the latter. This reply of Jay Gould
eemed to put an end t> a chance for set
lement. But the strainel ielaions
which seemed to exist between
he officers of the Missouri Pacific
ailway and the general executive beard of
he Knights of Labor on the 27th were only
trained in appearance. On the 2Sth Genera)
ilaster "Workman Powderly and W. 0. McDowell,
a member of the Knights of
^abor from Newark, N. J., a railroad
nan himself, representing the Knights
if Labor, and Mr. Gould and Vice-President
lopkins in behalf of the companies, met at
he house ot Mr. Gonld. The strike was
liscussed from beginning to end,
? rove Q
Uj 1U1. xun Ut-I *j D?jo, ?
pirit The discussion lasted two hours and
joth sides acquired a great deal of informaion
which tney had not before pressed.
Then an adjournment was taken until evenng
in order that each might think
he matter over in its new light.
It seven o'clock they met a second timo, and
ifter two solid hours of argument Mr. Powlerly
left to fulfil an engagement. Half an
lour later Mr. McDowell followed him. He
>ore with him the following communication
rom Mr. Gould:
The Missouri Pacific Railway Co. I
New York, March 28. j
r. Y. rowderhj, Esq, G. AT. W:
Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of the
17th inst., I write to say that I will to-morrow
norning send the following telegraphic infractions:
H. M. Hoxie, General Manager, St. Louis:
In resuming the movement of trains on the
Missouri Pacific, and in the employment of
abor in ttie several aeparemenra 01 uus
ompany, you will give preference to our
ate employes, whether they are Knights of
Labor or not, . except that you
vill not employ any person who has inured
the company's property during the
ate strike, nor will we discharge any person
vho has taken service with the company
luring the said strike. We see no objection
;o arbitrating any differences, between the
nnployes and the company, past or future.
Hoping the above will be satisfactory I re
nain, yours very truly,
Jay Gould, President.
Mr. Powderly received the communication
it the A-stor House about 11 o'clock and imnediately
sent out the following telegram:
New York, MaroW58, 1886.
Martin Irons,Chairman Executive Board,
District Assembly No. 101, St. Louis:
President Jay Gould has consented to our
proposition for arbitration, and so telegraphs
Pice President Hoxie. Older men to resume
vork at once.
.i? - n tv i.:
jsy oraer ui amuuve uumu.
T. V. POWDERLY, G. M. W.
The following general order was also sent
nit by telegraph before midnight:
New York, March 28,1S86.
To the Knights of Labor, now oil strike in
the Southwest:
President Jay Gould has consented to our
Droposition for arbitration and so
elegraphs Vice-President Hoxie. Pursuant
to t?legraphic instructions sent
do tbe chairman of the executive board
)f District Assembly No. 101, you are directed
to resume work at once.
By order of Executive Board.
T. V. POWDERLY, G. M. TV.
Congressman John J. O'Neil, who is chairnan
of ths labor committee of the House of
Representatives reachad the Astor hou?e
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(llbTJ 111 t IJlfcJ L'J L/C biio aiiov
iD < ongratulaSe Mr. Powderly on the
successful issue of the strike. He had
3orae from Washington to take a hand
n the settlement himself. He brought with
aim the text of a Labor bill, intended for
immediate presentation to the House, and
submitted it to Mr. Powderly. He went back
so Washington on the midnight train, after
ending the following despatch to the St.
Louis Republican.
Settlement of strike effected. Gould consents
to arbitration. Executive committee,
Knights of Labor, order men to resume
ivork. Congratulate our people on results.
In the course of an interview General Master
Workman Powderly was asked how many
lien had engaged in the strike and replied:
'Well, it covered about 8,000 miles of road,
ind there must have been at least 12,000 or
14,000 direct employes. Beside this,
course. manv more men and
women have been thrown out of work
by the closing of the mills and factories, which
was brought about by the failure to run
trains. The strike has demonstrated in a
mtst forcible manner the necessity of laws to
regulate the relations between employers and
employed, and Mr. O'Neill's bill will come in
very pat just at this time."
The executive committee of the district associations
of the Knights of Labor in St
Louis issued orders on the 20th for the men to
resume work. In the evening the order was rescinded.
a dispatch having been received
from Master Workman Powderly stating that
fresh complications had arisen as to methods
of arbitration. In East St, Louis, 111., the
strikers thwarted all attempts to move
i* f t j. 1 j.t 1 :ar *4. 1.^^4.1,
ircignu, SOU me MIITIH at ieif?LU ujipcaicn tu
Governor Oglesby for assistance.
After Grand Master Workman Powderly
had held a second conferen e with Jay Gould in
New York, on the "Oth, he telegraphed to St.
Louis, ordering the striking employes on the
various railroads to return to work. Mr.
Powderly then went home to Scranton,
Penn., and a committee of three members of
theexecutive board of the Knights of Labor
proceeded to St. Louis, to confer with the
railroad authorities with a view to a settlement
of existing differences.
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At fc>r. J^OUIS, Oil llit) oidi/f iuai iiit xiv/uo)
chairman of the executive committee of
J )istrict Assembly No. 101, which embraces
all Knights of Labor employed by the
Missouri Pacific Railway company,
tolographod to the different local
ussomblics under his jurisdi -tion, notifyfng
them oflicially that the general executive
board had ordered all the men to go to work
ponding arbitration of the existing difficulties
by a committee of the Missouri Pacific
employes and Mi*. Hoiie. Upon receipt of
this order many of the men returned to work
and freight trains began moving oncc mow.
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
There are now about 130 steam ve ssels in
the trans-Atlantic service.
The spring drive of cattla from Texas is
jxpected to exceed .'300,000 head.
The emigration from Ireland for 1SS5 was
32,420, agaiust 76,(KM during 1SJ>4.
During the last five years 06,000 pea-sons
iiave died of consumption in Paris.
The amount of railroad building already
;his year is one-half a> large ajain as last.
A Boston court has ruled that a divorce
jbtainod in Dakota is not binding in Massachusetts.
There are living in Barrington, X. H,
:hree men who voted for James Monroe at
liis first election.
A new secret order,resembling the Knights
;>f Labor, and to be tailed the Knights of
Industry has beeu formed.
Sknor Antonio Mayner, the owner of the
large sugar plantation Aurora, in Matanzas,
t'tiha. has do 1 uvd his slaves fr.^e.
An international exhibition ot' industry,
*cieme, and art, will lw held at Edinburgh,
-jeotlaud, daring the coining summer.
An* extensive mine of rubidium, a rare
metal worth ?"i,000 per pound, has been discovered
near licck Creek, Washington Territory.
Fiiom the five States of New York, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, Massachusetts, and Ohio
the government derives one-half of all its
postal revenues.
It is believed that there are more fowls in
the country than at any previous period in
its history. The supply or poultry and eggs
is very largo in ino.st cities.
The new aqueduct building iu New York
it present gives employment to over four
thousand men. and about fifty thousand
pounds of explosives are used every week.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Senate Sessions.
Sixty-sixth Day.?Mr. Ingalls (Kan.)
spoke in favor of the Edmunds resolutions,
respecting the declination of the President to
furnish papers in his possession relative t> re^
morals from office. The speech was directed,
mainlv aeainst the Musrwumns. at
times excited laughter on both sides of
the Senate. He was followed by speeches
from Messrs. Harrison (Ind) and Logan
(111.) also favoring the resolutions. This
closed the debate proper, but Mr. Van Wyck
got the floor and made a speech in favor of
is amendment providing that cases which?
come up for rejection under the
third resolution should be con-!
sidered in open session. 'Mr. Hoar. ,
made the point of order that the amendment
changed tne rules and therefore required ft'
day's notice. The chair ruled the ooint well
taken. The first resolution, which approved
of the report from the judiciary,
committee, was then adopted by a party vote
of 32 ayes to 26 nays. Mr. Ridaleberger notf
i voting. i secunu rebomuun, e&prubswg
condemnation of the attorney-general's action
in refusing papers called for was adopted
by a vote of 32 ayes to 25 nays?also a party 4
voto. The third resolution, declaring it to be 1
the duty of the Senate to refuse its advice
and consent to proposed removals in casee
in which the papers are deemed necessary
and refused, gave rise to considerable
discussion, and Mr. Brown (Ga.) moved to
strike it out That waa lost by a, vote of 31
nays to 27 ayes. The vote then recurred on
the adoption of this resolution, and it was
carried by a vote of 30 ayes to 29 nays?
a party vote, excepting that Mitchell, of
Oregon; Van Wyck, of Nebraska, and ftiddleberger
voted with the Democrats. Mr. Morgan
then offered an amendm<mt that the resolution
should not be considered as rendering
the attorney-general liable to impeachment
Mr. Edmunds moved to lay this amendment
on the table, which was carried by a party
vote, 33 to 26. The last resolution declaring
in favor of the faithful execution of the ,
statute relating to the employment of Union
soldiers was adopted by a unanimous vote,
excepting Morgan, of Alabama, who voted
against it.
Sixty-seventh Day?Mr. Piatt presented
a memorial of the Connecticut legislature
urging Congress to provide a system of coast
defence....Mr. Fail* introduced the Morrow
Chinese bill with an amendment ,4
changing from twenty '' years y ?
to ten years the period ' during?
which the entiance of Chinese laborers into
the United States shall be prohibited Mr. - "
Logan's bill increasing the army from
25,000 to 30,000 men came up. Mr. Logan
produced letters from Generals Sheridan and
SchoSeld approving the bill. The additional.
expense, Mr. Lo^an said, would be only 115,
000,000. Mr. Plumb opposed the bill, aiict
so did Mr. Dawes Executive session.
Sixty-eighth Day.?The Senate devoted
the day to further consideration of thoJLogaii
tArmy Increase bill. Mr; Logan proceeded ^
at great length to explain the minor features
of the proposed bi 11, and meet objections that
Kaam ** ?t/vrt'1 ife no i-co CfCx "M" I"
'JUOU UUOU UX^OU lu a wo n lt,? .
Opened debate in favor of the bill to admit
Washington Territory as a State. V ' . ^
Sixty-ninth Day.?Mr. Vance (N. G;>
spoke iu support of his bill to repeal the civil
service law. All the present difficulties between
the President and the Senate weredue,
he said, to the act falsely called,
"an act to regulate and improve the
civil service of the United States." In f:
the broadest and most comprehensive sense
Mr. Vance announced himself a party man.
He believed parties indispensable to )
liberty. Any attempt to govern in a free
country without a party was a sentimental,. ;
Sunday-school, Goody-Two-Shoes arrange- ' .
ment. For want of political parties, Mr.
Vance said, Russia had nihilism; for want of
constitolional parties France slept on communistic
fires, ana Gei many had to maintain,
an enormous army... .Mr. Dolph (Ore.) spdke
in favor of admitting Waanmgton lemvory
as a State.
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House Sessions. .
Sevexty-thiru Day.?The chaplain Inhli
of cuing prayer invoked Divine aid to restore
Secretary Manning to his health Mr-Han
mer (Penn.) presented a memorial of "citi
zensof the United States*5 in favor of a sy*
tem of postoffice savings bank^ -p
Referred On motion of Mr..
Springer, of Illinois, the vote bj
which the House a few days ago defeated
Senate bill granting a pension of $50"amontl
to the widew of General H. W. Benham wai
reconsidered ami the bill was passed?veas^
118; nays, 85.... At tie evening session fortr
peasion bills were parsed.
Seventy-fourth Day.?Debate on the silver
question began, Mr. Culberson (Texas^
the hrst speaker, announcing himself. hi favor
df placing silver on the same plane wltlj
gold. Mr. Long (Mass.) followed in a speech
favoring the suspension of silver coinage.' Mr.
Dargan (S.C.) favored a single gold standard
and"* the suspension of silver coinage
under the Bland a?t. Mr. Whiting (Mass.)advocated
the suspension of silver coinages
and Mr. Lore (DeL) pi-esented an argument
in favor of a bi-metallic system, and againsl
the suspension of the operation of the Blamf.
law. Mr. Halsell (Kv.) said that the peoph
had spoken in no uncertain voice against th?
suspension of silver coinage.
Seventy-fifth Day.?Mr. Lawler (lit)
introduced a preamble'and resolution ra?
Ko.
V'tuug I'Uav iiiV ivvvuv vvs I vo|^MUk<,M .v UV
tween Mr. Powderly. gi-and master work*
mnu of the Kuights of Labor, and
Mr. Jay GouM, president of the Mis.
souri Pacific Railroad company, "} .
raises an i^sue of vital importance to toe
tranquillity of the country and the general
welfare of the people, and directing the committee
of labor to investigate into the underIvinor
rAiifWHj of the differences exist
in^ between employers #nd employes
of railroad companies
and other common carriers, and to report
what legislation is necessary to bring the
troubles and differences to a satisfactory conclusion.
Authority is given the committee to
send for persons and papers, and to sit during
the sessions of the House. Mr. O'Neill
also introduced a bill providing for boards of
arbitration to settle labor disputes. Referred
Mr. Belmont (N. Y.) introduced a joint
resolution appropriating $147j758.T4, to pay
Cbina for losses sustained by Chinamen inantb
Chinese riots at Hock Springs, Wyoming
Territory,on September 2,1885.... Mr. Loveriug
(Ma<xs.). from the committee on labor,
reported a bill authorizing the commissioner
fn rtiol'ii on mrocfiflrflti/W JKf t/V
VSJL 1UUU1 tv luunv uu mTVtf?tgMW4VM ?*v ?
convict labor.
Seventy-sixth Day.?Mr. Randall (Pa.)
asked uuanimous cons jnt to offer a resolution
"that a committee of live members be appointed,
whose duty it shall be to investigate
the circumstances and causes attending the
killing on the ISth of March, 1886. in Carrollton,
Miss., of a number of colored citiaens
of said State." Mr. Reagan, of Texas, objected,
on the ground that Congress had no
jurisdiction over t!|> mattsr... .Thj Postoffice
Appropriation bill was further discussed.
Seventy-seventh Day?Mr. Willis (Ky.)
reported the river and harbor appropriation
bill and it was ordered printed and recom
mitted.... Mr. Turner from the committee cm
elections, submitted the report of the majority
on the Hurd-RomeLs contested election
case, and Mr. Martin obtained leave to file a
minority i-eport. The majority report is
in favor of Mr. Romeis, the
sitting member,...A long discussion
took place upon Mr. O'Neill's bill to provide
by arbitration for the speedy settlement of
controversies and differences between common
carriers engaged in interstate and territorial
transportation of property or passengers
and their employes. The bill was debated
without action.
THE RIOTS IN_ BELGIUM.
Towns and Villages Pillaged, and
Many Persons Killed,
The strikes in Jfelgiuin growing out of th$
depressed ocud.'tiou of the iron and steel
trades have resulted in a terrible series of
distu:-b:inces and collision; n*ith the military
| iu various part* of I !;e country. According
- i:?.lo.n^tro trt fchft nrouerfeT
I U> KIlC UI>jAIV. II liiv , ,
in tin; distu,-l?el <1 strict was estimated a?
| f j,0(X),(>'X). There were more than 15,00#
j soldiers iu the lield. Every jewelry store
and gun shop iu Oharleroi, au?l nearly every
liquor warehouse arid liquor saloon was
looted. Churches were robbed of all artieteS
of precious metal. More than 100 collieries)
foundries and residences were burned. Hun-?
drcds of persons were killed or wounded*
Many citizens were robbed in the streets In
daylight. One young woman who woreadia^
mond ring that was tight upon the linger bad
her linger amputateu uy ninians wun u uuiwi
and mallet. Scores of women were brutally
assaulted. In two cases mothers had the brains
of their babies dashed out before their evesi
Bsforo order was restored more thau ^,'AO
arrests were made.