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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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[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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?'
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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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;
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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?
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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
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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.?
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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