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* \ ' \ > The Chinese cultivate oyster beds most J successfully. They fasten old oyster ' 6hells to bamboo splints,which they then stick in mud flats swept by strong tidal currents. The shells are supposed to attract the oyster spat, which adheres to them and shortly develops into tiny oysters. Then the bamboos are transplanted to other flats and the crop grows rap Idly. __ ' There are 5,000,000 Indians in Mexico,making tliirty-fiye per cent, of the entire population. They speak thirty-five ' idioms and sixty-nine dialects. They are nearly all grossly ignorant, and live by themselves a wild, half-savage life in the country districts. Governor Jose Maria Ramirez, of Chiapas, -will soon ask the President to appropriate $1,000,000 to educate these Indians. The fruit production of California is Br>mptT>incr wnnrlnrfnl "Dllrinfr 1 885 sllQ produced in raisins over 9,000,000 pounds, or nearly three times as much as in 1884. She also sent to market last year 1,500,000 pounds of prunes, 1,823,* 000 pounds of apples, 1,900,000 pounds of peaches, 1,139,000 pounds of plums, 650,000 pounds of apricots, 2,250,000 - pounds of honey, 1,250,900 pounds oi walnuts, 1,050,000 rounds of almonds. A deplorable result of the unwarrantable corruption of the word "fire" to made it synonymous with the verb "eject" is detailed in a Western newspaper. A hotel clerk left written instructions on a slate for the porter to build a fire in one of the guest's rooms, reading: "Room 40?fire at 10:30." When 10:30 o'clock arrived the matterof-fact porter went up to the room and ''fired" the occupant of room 40 into the street, in spite of his expostulations. William Presnell was on trial recently at New Madrid, Mo., for the murder of his father-in-law. lie very successfully feigned to be deaf and dumb and was rapidly winning the sympathy of the crowd, when the judge suddenly turned upon him with grim visage and threatening mein, and in a voice of thunder demanded: "Can you hear or talk?" Throwing his head forward, with outstretched arms, the eyeballs nearly bursting from their sockets, Presnell sang out at the toD of his voice: "No, sir!" The | effect, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, was startling. He dropped back into his seat, paralyzed at the mistake, while his honor, the lawyers and the crowded court-room roared and shouted with hilarious merriment, which continued so long that the room was ordered cleared. ' 1 New York and Pennsylvania are the | mothers of Congressmen, having forty sons each in the present House; Ohi0 comes next with thirty-four, Virginia with twentv-three. and Kentuckv with " ' ' I twenty-two; Tennessee has seventeen sons, North Carolina sixteen, Massachu- , setts and Indiana each fifteen, Georgia ] fcnd Vermont each thirteen, South Caro- ( lina twelve, Illinois and New Hampshire ] ten each; Maryland and Connecticut and , Ireland have nine each, and Michigan eight, Missouri, Alabama and New Jersey six each, West Virginia, Louisiana, Delaware, Rhode Island and Engl&nd four each; Mississippi and Scotland have three, and Arkansas, Florida, and Wis*?/-KT\cin onrl finnnnnTT Vinvp n. r?nir* TflWft 1 and Texas each have a son, and the District of Columbia, New Mexico, New Brunswick, Ontario, Bavaria, Norway, Hungary, Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, Russia and the Isle of Ulan are repre- , sented also. The pension of $2,000 a year that has been voted to Mrs. Hancock is the larg- , est paid to tne widow 01 any soiaier except Mrs. Grant.who receives the $5,000 a year granted to all the widows of Prcs- 1 idents?Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Tyler, and Mrs. Garfield. The widow of General and exSenator Shields receives the next largest amount, $1,200 a year, granted her by a special act of Congress in 1879. The mother of General McPherson receives $50 a month, and that amount is also paid the widows of twenty-six deceased generals of the late war, Hacldeman, Richardson, Wallace, Plummer, Stevens, Baker, "Whipple, Sumner, Bidwell, Morris, Berry, Lovell, Anderson, Canby, Thomas, lleintzleman, Finley, Mitchell, Casey, Taylor, Rosseau, Custer, French Ramsay, and Warren. The widows of Admirals Wood, Reynolds, Iloif, Dav*s, Winslcw, Paulding, Rodgers, Spotts and Goldsboro, and of Commodores Gallagher, Frailey, McCaulley, Mc Caver and Guest, of the navy, receive a similar pension, as do the widows of Colonels Harris, Dulany and Twiggs, of the marine corps. The New York Times declares that the frauds practiced upon farmers by knaves of various kinds have become so prevalent and notorious that even the agricultural department at Washington has turned its attention to the subject. Investigation has been made in the Bohe mian oat swindle, which has grown into such proportions as to become a serious disaster. In some counties in Ohio where the operators have worked most industriously as much as $90,000 in notes obtained by fraudulent representations has been turned into the banks for collection in only one county, and, notwithstanding the publicity given to the frauds during three or four years past, the present season is more prolific of victims than the previous one. Farmers are induced to pay ten dollars a bushel for the seed of kthis worthless grain on the promise to take the produce at the same price. A note is given in payment for the seed, and a bond is given that the oats will be called for when ready. The note is good because the fanner has a farm to make it good, but the bonds are worthless because the maker is not to be found wheo they mature. k The Washington correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal fears that liquor and labor are going to make the orthodox parties a good deal of trouble in the near future." It is said that by the simple use of citric acid or citrate o f silver, sea water may be made a erood. wholesome mineral drink. Now, if by seme easy sort of manipulation earth could be made into good food, a man could work his way through life without having to struggle'very hard. The Sun's London correspondent writes that the cry of something to do which now goes up In England is as much from the rich as from the poor. The aristocracy and the nabobs are at their wits' finds for novfilties in which to kill time. Perhaps Bums hit it when he wrote: " But gentlemen and ladies worst With downright want of work are curst.' Great rivalry as to speed exist among the sailing ships that annually take grain and flour to England from Oregon and ? ? ? mi i _a _ -i r? !i.. tjailiorma. ine distance is j.o,uv;v wues, and three crack ships competed this year, the winner the Lucknow, making the voyage to Southampton in 100 days, and the second best reaching Queenstown in 116 days. The dairymen in Italy are improving their facilities and butter to such an extent as to become formidable rivals to the Dutch in the export trade with India, China and other Oriental customers. Italy has a much longer butter producing season than Denmark', and threatens to supply French markets with large quantities, thus forcing French and Danish butter upon the English buyers, reacting upon the American export trade in butter, which has already suffered considerably from European competition, the value having fallen for ten months of this season to $2,654,183, against $3,407,799 for same time last year, and in quantity from 19,910,957 pounds in 1884-35 to 1,953*047 pounds in 1885-86. The superiority of American fun is acknowledged by an edit9rial writer in the London Neics. He holds that there are only two kinds of American humor to which the Englishman objects. The "jokes about courtiing between lovers seated on a snake fence, or about SundayBchools and quaint answers there given to Biblical questions, leave us cold." He declares that in literature, when Englishmen want to be even hysterically di i.-j x-i j. ~ T veneu, tiicy must, as a xuic, uuj tucir fun from the American humorist. "We ' arc not at present," he says, "a boisterously comic lot of geniuses, and if you see the tears running down the eyes of a fellow-countryman reading in a railway carriage, if he be writhing with mirlh too powerful for expression, the odds are that he has f?ot hold of a Yankee book. ? - 0 [t is unsafe to recommend any writer as eery funny. No man can ever tell how [lis neighbor will take a joke. But it may safely be said that authors who really tickle their students are extremely rare in England except as writers for the stage." The President's Desk. The President's desk in the early morning presents a queer sight. When the Chief Executive lays aside his Havana to go to work, there are upon the table all sorts of things. Papers of every description, pertaining to almost every Jmown subjcct under the sun, are there, and the writing on the envelopes is a study. r? i i. i.. 1 i.L ~ reopie resort to every meaus to reacu me President's ear and eye, and present their claims after their own style. 1 'Personal" is always written on letters addressed to the President, but nearly all of his mail is gone through by Colonel Lamoni and the under-secretaries, and the really personal or important letters sifted out and laid on the President's desk, and these are legion. His desk is always neatly arranged in the morning, but it presents a sorry appearance when the day's work 1 is done. The President receives a good many papers from callers during the day, and "these he lays on his table. He is a quick worker, and in an hour generally has everything in order, and a majority of the cases either disposed of entirely or properly referred. One of the most pleasant yet difficult duties he has to perform is appeasing the autograph craze. Doorkeeper Loeffler generally has a dozen or so autograph albums lying on his table. When the President comes to his office in the morning Loeffier takes in his littte load, and if the President appears to be in a good humor he lays them on the tatle, and the President, with a laugh and some remark about the craze, writes his signature nearly always this way: Grover Cleveland. March 27,1886. ' When the books have all been signed Lceffler takes them to his desk and keeps them until they are called for. The President sometimes varies the way oi writing his autograph, occasionally following the date by "Executive Mansion" or "White House," but never putting "Presidant"' before or af.er his name.? Washington, Post. The Coffin-Making Industry. There are thirty-four coffin factories in the United States, and they turn out an average of 150 coffins and caskets a day. The largest factory is in Cincinnati; it covers acres cf ground and its shop facilities are so great that it manufactures everything necessary to complete a funeral, except corpses. Anything from a tack up to a hearse can be seen in process of manufacture on their premises. Next to Cincinnati, Chicago has the largest coffin factories. The biggest coffin kept in stock by one Chicago housa is six feet nine inches in length and has an opening of twenty-eight or twenty-nine inches. The average opening is only eighteen or aI-aam ? n /\1> a nTTArnnrO 1 ATI C9 uiiieietru JLLTJUCBJ uuu iuu iuu^ coffin is six feet four inches. Tho longest cDffin turned out by any factory is a nine-footer. in which the dignitaries of the Catholic church are buried. Such a coffin was used at the burial of Cardinal McCloskey, the extra length being required for his crown which he wore in death. About twenty-four hours were taken to put this coffin together, but any ordinary coffin, that is. a coffin of extra large size, no matter what its cost or the character of the trimmings or upholstery, can be put together from the rough boards in three hours at the utmost.? Globe-Democrat. IRISH HOME RULK | A Memorable Day in the British House of Commons. Mr, Gladstone's Plan for a Parliament at Dublin. Premier Gladstone's introduction of his bill for home rule in Ireland, brought before the house of commons on the Stb, was the occasion of one of the most memorable scenes ever witnessed in the British parliament. A cable dispatch describes the scene as follows: No matter how full a description you get, it will bo impossible to realize the nature of the scenes in and about the house of commons on this most memorable day. Precedents were all tossed to the winds before the day was fairly begun. When the first Orange member, Major E. J. Saunderson, of Armagh, arrived at 9 o'clock and asked a policeman if the door was open yet, he found a hundred men had already had breakfast in the house. The Irish mustered their full number, save Captain O'Shea. They grabbed the torv seats, so that the latter had to crowd into the galleries and stand up, and, being scattered, lost all sense of the cohesion which a compact body of men feel. The scramble for seats was territlc among the outsiders. Ladies began to come at 10 o'clock, and at. noon one could see duchesses sitting 011 the stairs eating penny buns while waiting for the doors to open. Later on a curious sight was presented in the commons lobby, when the peers gathered at the "door of their gallery, waiting for it to open, and were oVvMif. VkTT li'L'o nnmrnnn I V/l uvi v\l uu\/uu kt } it*v.nvj iii\w vv/iuuivu mortals The Irish and the radicals derived great enjoyment from observing this scene. When the door was opened the peers made a grand rush like ft crowd in the gallery of a theatre, even the dignified Lord Spencer jumping over the seats like a hoodlum to gain the front row. The Prince of Wales, PrinceVictor, and Prince Christian sat over the clock watching the proceedings glumly. Members, strangers, peers, and diplomates were all packed in like sardines. The reception of Mr. Gladstone outside of the house of commons was inspiringly impressive. Dense crowds stood for hours in a pouring rain waiting for him to come. It has been many years since the queen herself has heard such cheers as thundered all the way from Downing i. X- J.1. . 1 a. 1 a _ t__ J. street vo tue parliament nouse. as ne roae beside his wife, bareheaded, bowing his thanks from an open carriage, and holding an umbrella, the crowd became so enthusiastic that, it forced its way past the police, and filled the palace yard after him, cheering fervently. His speech?probably the best of his life, as it certainly was the most momentous-s be^an huskily. Soon his voice cleared, and at the end it was as resonant as an organ pipe. When he entered the house all the liberals but six or seven rose to their feet, a?, did the Irish, who shouted a vehemeut welcome. The speech throughout was punctuated with applause and there was no sign of dissent. Mr. G ladstone said that the time had arrived when honor and duty required parliament to establish harmony between Great Britain and Ireland on a footing of free institutions in which the English, Scotch and Irish should have like interests*. (Chears.) He briefly reviewed the coeroive and repressive legislation of the past, and deprecated further resort to such measures. Further coercion, to be successful, required an autocracy in the government survey of public transactions. [Cheers from the Parneilites.] The law in .England, no said, was ieit to De Englisl law: in "Scotland it was felt to be Scotch; but it was not felt to be Irish in Ireland, and the Irish must be enabled to have confidence in the law of their land. The problem for parliament, he said, was to reconcile imperial unity with diversity of legislatures. He believe.! the government had found the solution of this problem by creating a parliament in Dublin for the business of legislation and administration on purely Irish affairs. The political AnnnlStir r\t tVio tViroo nminfcrific rrmat: Ka Ti^o- 7 ognized, and therefore there must be an equitable distribution of the imperial funds. Safeguards for the protection of the Protestant minority in Ireland must be establisheed The main features of Mr. Gladstone's bill are as follows: It establishes a parliament at Dublin, with a maximum duration of session of five years. The parliament is to consist of two chambers?one having 103,and the other 306 memlei's. parliament to have no power to establish any religion as a State Church, but will have power to deal with laws affecting trade, navigation," coinage, etc. All proceeds of customs and excise duties to be held to meet Irish obligations. The viceroyalty to remain, but to be made a non-political office. At the conclusion of Mr. Gladstone's speech Mr. Trevelyan, who recently resigned the nosition of secretary for Ireland, arose and exp'ained the reason of his resignation, say- | that although a liberal he could not con- | sent to Mr. Gladstone's plan for home rule in Ireland. He was followed by Mr. Parnell, who said that, while resarvin? his full expression of opinion until he had seen Mr. Gladstone's! bill, ho congratulated the house on the fact that there was still living an English statesman who could devoto his attention t > this important matter, and begged to thank Mr. Gladstone for what would not only prove a beneficial measure from the Irish point of view, but which he (Parnell) believed would be found to be of equal benefit to England. The bill, nevertheless, contained blots which th? Irish representatives would do their best to remove. On motion of Mr. Chamberlain the debate was adjourned, Sir Win. Harcourc pre?' <- -i-i!? ti-t- I/I vluumy suvoulg tuui mi. uiouiiajuo nuurn move the next day to give tho debate precedence over other matters. T. P. O'Connor, M. P., a prominent follower of Parnell, says in a cable dispatch that at a meeting of the nationalist members, Mr. Parnell presided and the Gladstone measure was discussed. Mr. Parnell accepted the principles of the bill on behalf of the nationalist party, giving his warm support to Mr. Gladstone's scheme as a whole, but pointing out details which in his opinion were open to strong objection, which at the proper time he should consider it his duty t) uige. In conclusion Mr. O'Connor says: "Comparing notes, it may be fairly said that the majority ol the house is conviuced now that home rule is inevitable, and cannot bo delayed." ? rrr/Nrn it a itn TvT* A H/r A mm MUBJLUAJj AiXU UIUiM.ii.LJLU. Mrs. Langtry has finally decided to tour this country again next season. Kienzl's new opera "Urassi" has been brilliantly produced at the Court Theatre iu Dresden. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is singing now away down in the region of the Rio Grande. Emperor William has positively refused Nieman, the singer, permission to make a tour of America. Anna Dickinson is negotiating with an F.ncrlisli manager to return to the stace. Sh6 will make herseeond venture in London. "Ths Harbor Lights," the latest melodra* matic success in Loudon, will be produced at the Boston Museum by Manager Field, next fall. Cincinnati has bean afflicted with more than twenty different "Mikado" companies this season, and yet there has been no noting there. A new society drama,much after the styla of "Fedora," has been completed by Osean yan, a Turkish journalist residing in New York, for Fanny Davenport. "***"" Ufl /vnAof nrJrMO flAnT1A i)l!U?i. OLaiDiuun, iuo gicav |/t uv? has been sinking with great success in Riga, Wilna, St. Petersburg aud Moskow. Russia is a good field for enterprising singers. The Countess Agatha Dornfield, is to begin a thirty-two weeks' tour of this country on September 0, next, in a reportory consisting of "She Stoops to Conquer," "Romeo and Juliet," etc. Germany has eight schools of forestry, where five years1 training is required of those who seek positions uuder the government, although a course of study half as long may be taken by amateurs. France supports a single school at Nancy. May 10th Edwin Booth and Tomasso Salvini will begin an engagement at the Boston theatre. Two performances of "Othello" will be given, one with the Italian in the title-role ana the American as "Iago," and one with the parts reversed. | NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. On the 2d another New York ex-alderman ?James Pearson?was arrested for bribery in connection with the Broadway railroad franchise. His arrest made the third alderman of the now notorious board of 1884 taken into custody for selling his vote, the nfliAM T_ ^1 j ir* l_ ukuvi u?vu ueiujj ijaeun a unu jvitjl. a temporary floor in a hall at PhiladelI phia gave way during a banquet of the graduating class of Jefferson Medical college, and sixty merabei's were precipitated a distance of nine feet, seven receiving injuries more or lets severe. A dangerous counterfeit five-dollar bill on the Central National bank of Norwalk, Conn., is in circulation. A committee consisting of United States Senators McPherson, Beck and Aldrich has been investigating the question of undervaluations in the New York custom house. The schooner Anne Lord, which arrived at Philadelphia from Cardenas a few days ago, lost three sailors overboard. The recent unusually severe and prolonged rain storm flooded about twenty colieries in the Schuylkill (Penn.) anthracite coal basin, and compelled a cessation' of work, nearly / A/\A * ? * ? ? " '? o,iAiu men ana ooys Deing temporarily tnrown out of employment South and West. Jeff "Wilson (colored) was hanged at Lexington, Mo., for tho murder of Jennie Sanford. The persons drowned by the floods in Alabama numbered about fifteen, mostly colored. Thousands of horses, mules, cattle and hogs were also lost. A horse-thief in jail at Camden, Ark., names eleven women, all alive, whom he has married within the past few years. Four servant girls lost their lives by suffocation in a fire at the Planters' hotel, St. Louis. The damage to the hotel was trifling. Four hundred houses at Nashville, Tenn., were inuudated during the recent floods. While plowing in his field Joe Coughman, a Newberry (S. C.) farmer, unearthed apot of ancient gold coin worth $12,000. This lucky find has set half the county to plowing for treasure pots. The striking Knights of Labor in the 8outhwest issued a bitter manifesto against Jay Gould on the 6th. It was addressed to the "Workingmen of the World," and de Glared that Gould must be overthrown. Mr. Arthur, chief of the Brotheraood of Railway Engineers, has been in St. Louis in consultation with the Knights. Vice President Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific, claimed to be running trains with considerable regularity. The company has brought 1,200 suits against persons alleged to have injured and destroyed its property. Several towns notified the company that they would pay all damages inflicted within their limits. Cincinnati's municipal ejection, just held, has resulted in the success of the entire Republican ticket by majorities ranging from 4,000 to 7,000. Washington. THEHouse committee on invalid pensions has instructed Representative Morrill to report favorably a bill to pension prisoners of war. The bill provides that all persons in the service of the United States during the civil war who were prisoners of war for sixty days or more, and who are now suffering from any disability which can reasonably be presumed to be the result of exposure ana hardships endured while in confinement as prisoners of war and not the result of their misconduct or vicious habits, shall be entitled to pension at the rate3 now provided by law for similar disabilities. The war department has just issued a general order making the following important assignments: Major-General J. M. Schofleld tn th*? Hi vision of the Atlantic: Maior-Gen eral A. H. Terry to the division of the Mis- < souri; Major-General 0. O. Howard to the division of the Pacific; Brigadier-General Cook relieved from command of the depart- 1 ment of Arizoba at his own request ana assigned to the department of the Platte; Brigadier General N. A. Miles to the department . of Arizona. Secretary Manning on the 4th was much ' improved, and reported to be re?overing rap- ' idly. Secretary Lamar and Attorney General Garland, who had also been confined to their houses by illness, were likewise much better and able to transact department busi- 1 ness at their homes. There are seven Knights of Labor in Congress. i In the Iowa contested election case of Campbell vs. Weaver, the House election committee has decided by a party vote in favor of Weaver, the sitting member. The Senate has confirmed Mr. Trenholm's nomination to be comptroller of the currency, i The Mexican pension bill passed by the House directs the secretary of the interior to place the names of all the surviving offi cers, soldiers and sailors who enlisted and served in the war with Mexico for any period during the years 3845, 184G, 1847 and 1848, and were nonornbly discharged, and their surviving widows, on the pension roll at the rate of $8 per month from and after the passage of this act during their lives. Persons under political disabilities are not included. Additional nominations by the President! Job H. Lippincott, to be attorney of the United States for the district of New Jersey; Caleb W. West, of Kentucky, to be governor of Utah Territory. Consuls?Louis D. Beyland, of Pennsylvania, at Kingston, Jamaica; L. J. Dupre, of Alabama, at San Salvador; J. Cecil Legare, of Louisiana, at Tampico; Moses H. Sawyer, of Connecticut, at Trinidad. Postmasters?Andrew Slianahan, at Rockland, Massachusetts; ^ 1!~ If ,T^aa w imam rmnrii'iv, at (,-uui-ui uia, iuas\ , ? ucw doreH. Feun, at Lee, Ma?s,; Jeremiah Murphy, at Beverly, Mass.; Lemuel A. Keith, at Bridgewater, Mass.; Rollin C. Ward, at Northfield, Mass.; Hartford D. Nelson, at Oneouta, N. Y.; Benjamin F. Va'l, at Warwick, N. Y.; Frederick P. Newkirk, at Oxford, N. Y.; Wm. J. Moses, at Auburn, N Y.; Alice M. Crabtreo, at Belmont, N. Y.; Thomas Hill, at Haddonfield, N. J.; Charles F. Young, at Columbia, Penu. Thk Senate has confirmed the nominations of John D. Oberly, of Illinois, and Charles Lymau, of Connecticut, to be civil service commissioners, and S. M. Stockslager, of Indiana, to be assistant commissioner of the general land office. A number of nominations for internal revenue collectors having been reported favorably by the Senate finance committee upon receiving notice from Secretary Man ninor t.Vinf. plinriroa flcroincf. t.ho nftiViAls whose places were filled had been filed, they were confirmed in executive session. This, it is stated, is hereafter to be the policy of the Senate majority. Foreign. The people living between Esquimaux Point aud Blanc Sablon, Labrador,are starving, and keep themselves alive only by eating the flesh of dogs, 500 of which have been killed. It is feared unless aid is rendered them that from 100 to 150 of these people will die this spring from starvation. The annual boat race on the Thames between Cambridge and Oxford university crews was won this year, aftar a closelv confaofii/1 cfi?nn*frla ai(rV)f. mOTI rAnrA^Pnt.lTl? IWVCUOV1U66?v. v.bu?, ...V- * -jr- o? the former college. M. Rochefort and other prominent French socialist leaders have been arrested for utterances tending to result in disturbances. William E. Forster, a member of the British parliament and formerly chief secretary for Ireland, is dead in his sixty-nint'i year. The Canadian government is fitting oat cruisers for the protection of the fisheries. The movement is directed mainly against American fishermen. Hkavy snowstorms in Southern Michigan aud Northern Ohio have greatly impeded travel and traffic. NEWSY GLEANINGS. India's national debt is $1,350,000,000. There are 307,sij4 public school teachers in 1.1- - TT..J4 1 LllU UIIUCU OUIMJS, The dynamite attacks on buildings cost England $ ?}(),000 for repairs. Georgia has a law making death the punloloiioiit fr?v Vmnrlnrv in t.lift nifrlit", time. Experiments in steering balloons are to be mode in all the fortified places in France. Wolves have become so plentiful near Washington, IU., that they hunt in packs. President Holdex, of the California State university, receives a salary of $5,000 as president, and $3JOOO as director of the Lick observatory. This is the largest salary paid to an^college president in the cpuntry.? - " "r-fi- -- - fy :r v > ' V ; V c / LATER NEWS. i In on Interview at Scrauton, Penn., General Master Workman Powderly says that in view of the railroad officials' refusal to submit the difficulties in the Southwest to arbitration, the Knights of Labor were justified in continuing the strike. He was confident that this would be the last great railroad strike in this country, and thought it would teach both sides a useful lesson. A body of 2,000 striking railroad employes entered the yards of the various companies j at East St. Louis on the 7th and compelled ( the men at work to stop and join them. The t sheriffs deputies where hustled aside, but \ finally the strikers were halted by a -number i of deputies with leveled Winchester rifles. { Armfwl nifiri Arrived bv fivprv train to Drotect 2 the railroad companies, and were all sworn in as deputies. * Crazed with drink, William Ellis, of St. I, Francis, Ark., shot his wife and two-year-old j child to death, his arrest following the mad act. j Mrs. Lars Gindhal, residing near 2 Eau Claire, Wis., has just given birth to four 5 male babies, weighing altogether twenty jj pounds, and all alive and healthy. ' By the capsizing of the steamer Mountain ?' Bay at Owensboro, Ky., three men wer# _ drowned. i The President has nominated Obadiah ? Cutler to be collector of customs for the dis- j trict of Niagara, New York; Edward War- b field, to be surveyor oi customs ror tue port of Baltimore, Md.; Thomas G-. Hayes, to be j. United States attorney for the district of * Maryland; George H. Cairnes, to be United u States marshal for the district of ? Maryland; CyTUS P. Shepard, to % be register of the land office at .a Worthington, Minn.; Edmund James, to ba c receiver of public moneys at Carson City, ? Nev.; Samuel I. Lorah, to be'receiver of pub- b lie moneys at Central City, CoL; John A. r McClernand, of Illinois, to be a member of ~ the board of registration and election in the ^ Territory of Utah. d A fishing dory from the Banks of New- r foundland driftad into Louisburg, (Cape t] Bretcn). Two of its crew of four were dead, f< and the others had sustained life by eating c: portions of the remains. The fo.ir man be- jj longed to an American fishing schooner, y ',,l~ ? ? wv?ila lanlrinft nffur 11 ? Lit J liau 1U51 LUC 11 y COODl ww U'lv ^^vv. ? trawls in two dories, and for eight days had rowed aimlessly abont in the wild waste of j waters. ri A fire in the Pennsylvania Academy of A Fine Arts at Philadelphia destroyed the northern picture gallery and some of the fin- ^ est paintings and statuary in the collection. o William H. Miller, another of the New ^ York ex-aldermen charged with bribery, ^ has been arrested He was found near Pa- p latka, Fla., by two New York detectives, ? and brought to the metropolis. Ten bodies had been recovered from the ^ railroad wreck, near Deerfield, Mass., on the E 8th, and seve al persons were then still miss- 0 ing. About thirty persons were injured. ^ The Rhode Island election ha? resulted in ? the success of Governor Wetmore and all the u rest of the Republican ticket except Attor- 1 n i uey-vreuertti i^iuu J.HO mi/tui was ucicaicu by Edwin Metcalf, candidate of the Democrats and Prohibitionists. The constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and j sale of intoxicating liquors was carried. A pitched battle between members of two political factions at Laredo, Texas, resulted r in the death of five men and the wounding of ^ 5everal others. Nearly 2,000 men, 200 on horseback, engaged in the fight. 1, The Farmers' Alliance, of Hopkins county, Kansas, at a mesting a few days ago, passed a resolutions refusing tha invitation of the Knights of Labor to boycott, and denouucing j boycotting as "detriment ll to the financial, t social, moral, and political interests ot all classes." 2 Secretary Lamar has revoked Land s Commissioner Sparks' order of last April t suspending final action on laud entries over jj a large section of Nebraska, nearly all of ^ Colorado, all of Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Wash- u ington Territory, New Mexico, Montana, c Wyoming, Nevada and Northern Minnesota. ^ The decision to revoke the order was made at t a cabinet meeting. n The Italiau ministry, formed in June, 0 1885, have resigned v Mahometan fanatics attacked an I de- t: stroyed a mission house and other buildings n in the Phillippine islands. A force was sent ? to chastise the fanatics, twelve of whom wert ^ killed and saveral wounded. The Spanisl ii captain in charge of the force and four of ? his men were wounded, and one of the mei r was killed. Three days after the first out- t rage the same band burned the village ol 3 Amadeo and the naval coal depot. Th? ? losses are heavy. s LABOR ARBITRATION. \ Provisions of the Bill passed by th4 e House of Itepresentatives. 0 Congressman O'Neill's labor arbitration t bill, as passed by the House, provides that " when any controversy arises between a r railroad corporation and its employes in t any State or Territory or the District of t Columbia the differences may be submitted ^ to a board of arbitration of three mem- ( bers?one selected by the corporation, a a second selected by the employes and the a third selected by the other two. This board t shall have all the powers and privileges of f United States commissioners, appointed jj under the authority of the Feaeral courts, v and shall administer oaths, summon witnesses, call for papers and imprison persons a who refuse to furnish them for contempt, i< The third member of this Board, who has been selected by the two interested parties or fi their representatives, shall be president of p the board, and any finding or award made by t a majority of the board shall be of the same a effect as if all thre?> arbitrators had agreed. 0 The remaining sections of the bill provide a for the representation of each party to the s controversy by counsel, and for final conclu- c siou of the board in writing, to be filed with | e the United States coramissionor ; r of labor for immediate publication. The bill fixe 5 the per diem compen- i: sation for the tribunal members at $10 for c the time actually employed, and prescribes fc the fees to be paid subordinate officers of tha t board. It also gives the board A power to limit the number of witnesses e to be paid by the government In any case, t and appropriates a blank sum, limited to r $1,00 J, to carry out the ^nxisiou i of the bill. I ?Y DRIVEN TO CANNIBALISM. I |! FearAil Suffering: of Four 3Icn in a | r Boat for Eight Days. j t At Louisburg, Capo Breton, a sensation 1 has been caused by the arrival of a dorj from the sea containing four men?two liv ing and two dead. They got adrift from the schooner Elsie M. Low (American) while set ting trawls on th? Western Biuks. Not dis- ' f covering their vessel, they all got in one j dory and driite I about for eight days. Aftei j four days they gave out through thirst. Th >y j finally landed at C4ugou I-latul, where 1 they were kindly cared for by the ! 1 keeper of the lighthouse. Th-i body j ? of the firs: man who died was greatly | lacerated. One of his arms was cut off at the j f elbow, liis tUfoac was mucii torn iurn a > < Siece was cut out of each thigh. This wa? one by the other dead man after he harl be- j come insane, to obtain food and drink. One \ of the survivors was very sick. The names of the decease 1 men are Janns McDonald, of East Point, Prince E l ward Island, aui } Angus McDonald, of Broad Cove, Cape Breton. The names of the survivors are Colin Chisholm, of Harbor au Bouche, and i Angus McEachran, of Long Point, Strait of 1 Canso. * WAWV TITO TflQiP lliniu HIT i!lU JJUU1. 1 Frightful Railroad Disaster Near Deerfield, Mass. A. Train Plunging Down an Embankment 200 Feet High A Greenfield (Mass.) dispatch of the 7tb jives the following particulars of the frightnl railrnaH Hicnctar whiVh (Wlirr?1 thftt light, midway between Bard well's ferry and iVest Deerfield station, the east bound passen ;er train from North Adams, due at Green[eld at 6:05 p. h. going over an embankment 00 feet in height: The train wasihe Eastern express, and con" < isted of a baggage car, a smoker, a sleeping :ar, a mail car, and two ordinary passenger ars. The train was in charge of Conluctor Foster, with Herbert Littlejohn as ngineer. The point where the accident ,o> ! urred is the most dangerous on the road, rhe track runs on the edge of an embankment 100 feet above Deerfield river. The bank is teep and is covered with huge boulders and nasses of shale rock with which the road-bed lad been filled When the train arrrived at his point the track began to settle under b for a distance covering its entire length, i ?he coaches broke from their trucks and went f oiling over and over d own the precipice. 'he engine broke from the tender, tearing up i 1 _ T?? Mt A J T?^1 11-J A.L - I ne tracK ior twenty lett. x>eiow ruiieu wo )eei*field river, on the very edge of which he cars were thrown. As soon as they struck hey caught fire from the stoves. The shrieks f the wounded and dying filled the air, and or a time the scene was terrible. The sleepag car, occupied by several passengers, was n entire wreck. One little girl was picked p dead. As soon as the news reached Greenfield a pocial train was made up and serit to the :ene of the disaster, having on board sever- , 1 physicians and section men and a few itizens. On arriving at the scene f the wreck a horrible sight was i witnessed. The darknass of night < ad ssttled over the spot Far down on the j iver bank could be seen the smouldering ' mbers of the train. It was impossible to tell ' rho was hurt and who was killed. Stout- I earted trackmen were lowered cautiously < r?wm fVia fvon^Viorrme ViAifrVit1 onH thp wnrlr nf I escue began. i Merritt Seely, superintendent of the Na- i ional Express company, of Boston, was ound in the wreck and taken to the relief i ar. He had a wound four inches long and I alf an inch wide over his left temple. His i 3ft thigh was broken, and also his left leg at I tie knee, beside which he sustained fatal I iternal injuries. I The Fitchburg coach was the only one that scaped the conflagration. Deputy Sheriff Bryant, of Greenfield, who was in this car, Becued the bodies of two children from the ames, but one was deiad and the other dy ig. l). C.Wells, of Andovor, had his shorn er hurt and his head cut. The car in which e was riding was broken in two, and stood n end within a few feet of the river bank, ficholas Dorgan, of Greenfield, had his left rm and ankle broken, and was seriously inured internally. A little girl who was a assenger on the train died in his arms from ijuries received. J, E. Priest, of Littleton, r. EL, had his face and head cut. Engineer fT *v# A A m a wo a I icrucrt Xjll/liICJUJiUf VI hvi vu auouu^ new adlv scalded, it was believed, fatally. A. i. Warner, chairman of the Greenfield board f selectmen, was badly hurt At midnight four more bodies were taken rom the wreck, including that of Brakeman pencer. This made six persons found dead p to that time; several were fatally injured, ud many others more or less seriously hurt. A DEADLY AFFRAY. total Collision Between Strikers and Officers in Texas. The first serious collision between the raiload strikers in the Southwest and the auhorities has taken plaee at Fort Worth, 'exas. Details of the fatal affray are as foljws: Af. m nVi<v?k a v 1.500 Dersons assembled t the Missouri Pacific station, Fort Worth, o see Sheriff Maddox send out a train, which ie said he would do or die in the attempt. it 11 o'clock an engino, with 20 armed depuies, backed into the yard to take ut a train of 10 cars loaded with coal, "he engine backed down the track, tut subsequently the train pulled out for the outh and reached the New-Orleans crossing, wo miles south of the city. The suggestive [uiet that marked the passage of the freight rain through the city was not without its seuel. When the train left the station it was inder the protection of a posse of officers ommandea by Jim Courtnght What folded is reported by a railroad emp'oye who Fas on the train. He says that when the rain stopped it was noticed that several aen were congregated on th3 track in front f the train. The posse's commandcr pproached the men and asked ?hy they impeded the progress of the ram, to which they replied that they had iothing to do with it, that they were not rmed, and had no intention of interfering tVio mod A c tViP r>ffi<ws returned to the (XUU UUV A VUVU ?*w ?i?r ,? rain they noticed several men sitting or lyag on the grass, a few yards from tha rain. The entire posse advanced toward he men in ambush until they eached the ditch alongside the track, when hey commanded a throwing up of nands. 'he command was obeyed, but as the hands ame up they brought Winchester rifles with hem, which belched forth a deadly fire, it is aid with fatal effect There were, perhaps, 00 shots fired. After the first ire the posse advanced and coninued firing. The ambushers retreated belind some piles of ties, which proved a most xcellent breastwork, and from the security f which they poured a murderous fire into he posse. From this position they were Inally dislodged and driven beyond th9 ailg^ ^ purNsc o piouviat , The casualties among the posse were found o be three?Police Offi cer Fulfos-d was shot hrough both thighs, Special Officer Dick ( "ownsend was fatally shot through the left reast near the nipple, and Special Officer Jharles Snesd was shot through the heart .nd jaw. Officer Townsend died during the | fternoon, and it was thought the wounds of he other two deputies would also prove ; atal. One of the strikers named Pierce was 1 illed and a second named Tom Nace was rounded, and afterward taken prisoner. The posse carried the wounded officers board the train, which backed into the Unjn station. The news of the shooting spread like wildire through Forth Worth. Sheriff Maddox assed along the street ordering the citizens o arm themselves with Winchesters nd report at the station at nee. Business men closed their stores ,nd answered the summons promptly, liun tore3 were emptied inside of an hour. Crowds surged in the streets, women aingled with the throngs, and bedlam eigned. Throughout the State the excitement was titense. The sheriff of Dallas was asked to ome with a posse and a pack of bloodlounds. At midnight a special train with wo companies of Dallas militia left for Fort -Vorth. At the same time the governor telRnn Anfrmio for the Stata troops w - o go to Forth Worth. Ten companies of nilitia and a battery of artillery arrived at "ort Worth on the following day, and more vere expected to follow. Strikers from surounding points also congregated at the city, ,nd it was stated that the attempt to ruu ,uy trains would be resisted at all iazards. A proclamation was issued by the nayor ordering all saloons to be closed until he evening of the 7th, and it was feared hat more bloodshed would follow. PROMINENT PEOPLE. President Cleveland recently spent a ew ho irs d;ck shooting. C. I'. Huntington, the railway king, says le rests two da}-s every week. Representative Abram S. Hewitt will iot be a candidate for re-election to Coilpress. Mr. George Hearst, the new Senator rom Lailioruiu, is smu iv uave au jutumw u. ^,000 a day. M. Pasteur is spoken of as a modest,retir ng and unaffected man in social life, and n lospitable entertainer. Fred. Douglass and his white wife are daily visitors in the United States Senate gallery rhey are goiug abroad this summer. General John B.Gordon will deliver the uldi ess at the unveiling of the Confederate nonument at Myrtle Hill cemetery at Rome, *a., on May 10. w /s&hfea* *> K - . ' ' 'y ..- v y SUMMARY _0F CONGRESS ' S-rnatc Sessions. K>a.vjfcni i*riii?T UAY.?1110 JUOgftU Dill tO increase the army was again discussed. Mr. Frye interposed some remarks about the Canadian fisheries question. He said he was only waiting for a single American vessel to be seized; then he proposed to introduce a bfl! of less than ten lines closing the ports of the United States against all British colonial fishing, freighting, and passenger vessels all along the line of the great takes and the At>> lantic coast, and we would then see how long Canada would carry on this operation that she has now entered on. Messrs. Sewell and Logan spoke in favor of the bill, saying the army as at present constituted was inadequate, being scattered over 119 posts. Seventy-second Day.?Mr. Blair ?reported favorably, without amendment from the committee on education and labor, the arbitration bill recently passed by the House.... Mr. Sewell reported a bill from the committee on pensions to increase the allowance for loss of limbs? A pension bt $30 a month is to bejsaid for me loss or an arm or root, or to soldiers or sailors totally or permanently disabled in the service. To those who lost an arm off above the elbow, or a leg below the knee, $36 a month is to be paid, and for the loss of an arm at the shoulder ioint or leg at the hip; $45 a month.... The bill increasing the army was debated further without action. * Seventy-third Day.?Mr. Call spoke on ' his resolution instructing the committee on 1 public lands to report a bill to forfeit all railroad land grants not earned within the time specified in the granting actor acts extending the time. The resolution was referred to the committee on public lands.... Debate on Mr. Logan's bill increasing the army from25,000to 80,000 men was continued, Mr. Hawley sup. porting and Mr. Van Wyck opposing it. After several motions to amend nad been made and lost a vote was taken on the bill, and it was defeated by 19 ayes to 31 nays. The Democrats present who were not paired all voted against the bill, and also the following. Republicans: Bowen, Chace, Conger, Hale, Ingalls, Jones, of Nevada: Plumb. Sherman,' Teller, Van Wyck and Wilson, of Iowa. Seventy-fourth Day.?The Senate passed the bill granting to the Kansas and Arkansas railroad company a right of way for i railroad through the Indian Territory. !The bill for the admission of Washington rerritory into the Union as a State having been taken up, Mr. Voprhees spoke in advocacy of his amendment, consisting of an enabling act for the admission of Montana Ter ritory also. This amendment was voted lown by a party vote?yeas, 19; nays, 23. Mr. Eustis moved to amend by confining the nglit of suffrage in the proposed new State to qualified male electors only. Mr. Edmunds opposed the amendment and defended the right of women to vote in the proposed State, the question having been so decided by the people of the Territory. House Sessions. .-V * Seventy-ninth Day.?On motion of Mr. O'Neill, private business was dispensed with. ' ?yeas, 155; nays, 71?and the House went- " into committee of the whole (Mr. Springer, of Illinois, in the chair) on the labor arbitration bill. Various minor amendments were* . agreed to and others rejected, and the bill wa*>^_ n discussed further without action. Eightieth Day.?The House, by a vote of 89 to 125, refused to take up the free coinage- r bill, and proceeded to consideration of tne labor arbitration bill. Mr. Hewitt (N, Y.), moved to recommit the bill with instruction*to the committee on labor to reoort in Ilea ' { thereof a concurrent resolution expressive of the sense of this Congress that so far as practicable, all controversies between employers and employes should be subject to arbitration, either by voluntary agreement or in *' accordance with law. The motion was kwt?yeas, 80; nays, 96?and the bill was passed ?yeas, 195; nays, 29. The following is the -.", negative vote: Messrs. Allen (Miss.), Barnes, ' Belmont, Bannet, Breckinridge (Ky.), Crisp,: ' Croxton, Davidson (Ala.), Daniel, Foran,^ J Forney, Glover, Hale, Hammond, Harris, Hemphill, Hill, Hutton, Irion, Jones (Ala.), Norwood. O'Ferrill, Perry, Regan, Rogers, ' 3adler, Skinner, Tilman and Tucker.../Do bate on the silver bil' was continued. Eighty-first Da r.?Mr. Henderson (N. C.) introduced a bill to reduce letter postage to one and one-half cents and the price of gwtal cards to one-half of a cent....Mr. ingley (Me.) introduced the following resolution: "That the President be requested to~ furnish the House with any information in his possession relative to the exclusion of American fishing vessels from the right toanter ports of entry of the Dominion > of Canada for the purpose of trading, purchasing supplies or landing fish caught fn deep water for shipment in bond to the United States, or doing other acts which Canadian or other British vessels are freely permitted to do in ports of the United States,, and also to inform the House what steps have. been taken or proposed to bring such unwarrantable acts of the Dominion authorities to the attention of the British government".... The Mexican pension trill was passed?zoe to f>8....The Congressional library bill wag passed?159 to 62. Eighty-second Day.- -Mr. Phelfw (N. J.), ' from the committee on foreign affairs, re-' ' ported a resolution calling on the secretary of state for copies of all correspondence between his department and the representatives of France, Germany, Austria and other European countneawhich has partially or entirely restricted the importation of American pork, referringto the facts of such exclusion or re3trictioa. and the reasons given therefor. Adopted.... Discussion on the postoffice appropriation bill was resumed. Mr. Bingham (Penn.) offered an amendment, whicm was lost, increasing from $4,800,000 to $4,890,200 the appropriation for the pay of postal clerks. Mr. Burrows (Mich.) offered an amendment increasing the appropriation for the transportation of foreign malls from $375,000 to $425,000. Mr. Phelps (N. J.) ' favored the amendment in a speech attackingthe postoffice department and the administratfon, but it was lost by 82 to 106, and the bill was then passed. Eighty-third Day.?The Speaker laid before the House the message of the President ciWoPt nf Phinr>se emigration. Re JLk tliO QUVJVW WM . . _ _ w ferred to the committee on foreign affairs. Mr. Willis (Ky.) reported back the River and Harbor Appropriation bill from the committee having charge of the subject, and it was referred to the committee of the whole Debate on the silver bill was resumed. Mr. Bland (Mo.) entered a motion to recommit the bill, and then made an argument in favor of the free coinage of silver. He said there was no half-way house, aud when gentlemen left free coinage they were on the way t) a gold standard. The'idea of making a metallic money of full legal tender aud then limiting its coinage was, he said, an anomaly. It was an outrage on the creditors, and a disturbance to the business interests of the country. Mr. Norwood (Ga.) defended tlie standard dollar from the charge of dis- , ""ri nttvihnted the attacks ma le UUHCOWJ , . upm it to the influence of Great Britain. Eighty-fourth Day.?Debate on the Free Coinage bill was resumed, and at ite closs Mr. Dibble (Dem.,) offered an amendment providing that, unless in the mean time, through concurrent action of tha na tions of Europe with the United States, silver be remonetized prior to Julv 1, 1889, then and thereafter so much of the act of February 28,1878, as authorizes and directs the secretary of the treasury to purchase silver bullion and cause the same to be coined shall ba suspended until further action by Congress. The amendment was defeated? yeas, 84, nays 201, the yea vote?that is the vote in favor of the suspension of silver coinage?comprising forty-seven Republicans and thirty-seven Democrats. The question ' * i. - ? j then recurred on me engrossumub auu wnu reading of the bill, and it was decided in tho negative?yeas 12(5, nays 103?so the bill was A STARTLING INCIDENT. Harrow Escape of General Crook ft-om Murder by Apaches. General Forsyth, the commanding officer at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, has arrived at Tombstone, and makes known the startling fact that, at an interview which Genera! Crook had with the Apaches, Chief Geronimo had his men with rifles ready to fire upon all the white men, including General Crook, at a given signal. Geronimo's failure to keep hia nrnmise of surrender is ascribed to the fact that having so much bloodshed to answer for he could expect no clemency, and therefore preferred living in the mountains to the prospect of hanging at the hands of the authorities. The hostxles had 200 rounds of ammunition each. General Forsyth said it was impossible to fathom Geronimo's in tentions,and it was an open question wheth er he would go south ana join the Mangus 01 remain and harass the frontier settlers Geronimo is a man of about fifty-two,crafty, treacherous and merciless. This is the third tim^he has proved faithless. : '