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To promote economy the French Gov-1
fernmcnt has established saving9 banks in |
connection with the public schools. |
There are no less than 24,000 of these j
banks, and the 500,000 boys whose
names arc on the books have an average !
of $5 each to their credit.
The annual average of suicides for
every million people is 17 in Spain, 30 in
Russia, 37 in Italy, 52 in Hungary, 70 in
England and Norway, 93 in Sweden, 122
' in Austria, 127 in Bavaria, 150 in France,
364 in "Wurtemburg, 167 in Mecklenberg,
274 in Prussia, 290 in Denmark, 305 in
Thuringia, and 377 in Saxony. Suicides
are becoming more frequent every year
in highly civilized countries, but especially
among the poor German race9.
Some one has comuiled the following j
table, showing the results of the recent
Etorms in this country:
Killed. IVoundccl. Damage
Ohio 4S 30 $1,460,000
Missouri 39 37 375,000
Kansas 11 35 710,000
Indiana 0 33 3S5,000
Illinois 8 C 260,000
Michigan, Wisconsin
and PennsJyvania. 5 8 103,000
Total loss 129 12S $3,300,000
A dollar a month will keep a Bengal
man alive. Here is ccrtainly the spot on
earth where contentment, sufficiency,
paradise should be. A distinguished
Brahmin recently quoted from official
reports the statement that 80,000,000 of
of the Hindus are always in a state of
semi-starvation; that most of the diseases
are the result of hunger; that
B,000,000, or 4,000,000 die every elev-j
cntn year 01 acme iamine. ww ? miyc
portion of China famine i3 chronic. Only
i few years ago 7,000,000 people starved
to death in one visitation.
The erection of an American hospital
In the City of Mexico has now begun in
earnest. "Americans in and out of
Mexico," says the Tiro Republics, "should
make it a point of honor to supply ample
funds for the completion of the enterprise,
which is demanded in the name of
humanity, as well as in the interest of
the good name of the American people.
Contributions may be sent to the American
Legation in Mexico, whose head is
the President of the American Benevolent
Society in Mexico, which has undertaken
the building of the hospital."
The word month is not likely soon to
be defined in its statutory use by national
pnaftmpnt thonnrh n hill with that end i
in view has been introduced by Senator
Piatt. In England a legal nnnth is the j
lunar month of twenty-eight days. This
was the common law interpretation, but
Georgia is the only State which now adheres
to that interpretation; all other
States go by the calendar. As the question
has never been raised in the court! :
the Judiciary Committee concludcd that i
there was no call for any legislation on i
the subject, and reported the bill ad- i
Tersely. <
1
"Sketching by telegraph" is the latest
novelty. An ingenious system of adapting
the alphabetical messages of the
clectric telegraph, or any other signaling
apparatus, to the reproduction at distant
points of some kinds of drawings has .
been contrived by Alexander Glen, ol
England. It seems likely to be of much
riMUt.v in militarv nnprfltions. a* it is CS- !
pecially suitable for the transmission of
small maps or plans of a locality, and ^
for indicating the position of troops,
batteries, and points of attack. By it,
it is claimed, portraits and sketches can
b3 re-produced with a fair degree o*
fidelity.
Balloons as an adjunct of warfare are
attracting much attention in European
military circles, and their possible value
in time of peace is not entirely overlooked.
An English writer remarks that
the recvnt successful attempts at balloonsteeragc
in France have led m\ny
thought "ul persons to believe the day not
c ^ar distant when we shall see balloons
plying in well-paying passenger
traffic between England and the continent.
Another writer adds that such a
result would be no more wonderful in its
way than the discovery and development
of the teleohoue. which, thousrh scarcely
a decade old, is already so familiar to us
that it no longer seems strange.
A City of Mexico letter asserts that "if
the tourists who leave the Eastern and
Middle States during the bleak winter
months to seek health and pleasure in
milder climates knew Mexico as it is, they
would flock here. The country is, and
has been, during my five years' residence
as safe as the State of New York, to live
and to travel in. The people are quiet
and as a rule courteous to all strangers.
Violent crime is less in proportion in
Mexican than in American cities. There
are fairly comfortable hotels in nearly all j
the principal towns, and many new ones
are being built and furnished. The food
furnished is nutritious aud plentiful. The
mode of cookery is generally distasteful
to Americans, but the keepers of restaurants
are adopting American customs in
many instances to get their trade. Hotel
and restaurant charges are a little lower
than in the I*nited States. Police service
is as effective in all the larger towns as
$n fVip T'nitpd Stntps unci the Hfoxiran
police are more patient and courteous than
those of the American cities. Several
tourists, who were entirely ignorant of the
'language, have told me of their having |
been picked up, when lost in the city of
Mexico, and returned promptly and courteously
to their hotels by the police, and
they are as ready to serve the old and ugly
as the more attractive or younger. Of
course it is hard to make residents of the
Eastern States realize thit the climate is
^uch that you may dress in light woollen
goods, and, with a light overcoat for
night journeys, be comfortable the year
round: but it is true." _
One would naturally imagine that this 1
lew country was better wooded than the
>ld and thickly settled nations of Europe.
3ut, according to a forestry authority,
mch is not the fact. In Europe, it is
:laimed, twenty-eight per cent, of the
and remains in timber, while only sixteen
ind one half percent, thus remains in the
United States.
Captain John Miller, of Jimtown,
Dhickasaw Nation, was recently on trial
it Fort Smith, Ark., charged with murler.
This was not a novel experience to
Saptain John, for, says the St. Louis
Ghl>c-D(mocrat, he has, according to his
jwn account, killed thirty men during
ais life, not counting those he may have
slain in the war. Though often tried for
murder, he always escaped conviction,
and iu this last case was released on the
ground that the court had no jurisdiction
in the case. Captain Miller was
born in Choctaw county, Miss., in 1810,
and is now seventy years of age, though
no one would take him for more than
fifty.
The devices for attracting and pleasing
customers in New York stores are various
aud ingenious. In one store a buffet has
been opened for free lunching. A neat
maid serves out tiny sandwiches, cakes
and coffee. She is an expert, however,
and puts the dainties where they will do
the most good to her employers. She
discriminates between little and big
buyers intuitively; she soon spots those
who bring their empty stomachs too often
to be filled, and especially is she kind to
the children of liberal purchasers. For
these youngsters she has a special supply
of pastry, and with them she opens the
hearts and purses of the fond mothers.
Probably this luncheon counter doe6
not cost more ihan $25 a day, and influences
more than enough business to
pay for itself.
An earthen mug, about six inches
high, with cat-tails painted on the outside,
that was purchased at the sale of
Ferdinand W ard's nousenoia eneccs, nus
been presented to a lady in New York.
Accompanying the mug is the following
"pedigree:" When General Grant was
traveling along the Lake of Ivillarney he
met a little peasant girl, whom he asked
for a drink of water. The child dipped
the mug into the lake and handed it to
him with a pretty little Irish courtesy
that impressed the distinguished traveler.
When she learned that it was the
great American soldier and President
who had asked her for the cup of water,
she begged him to accept the piece of
pottery as a souvenir of the time and
place. This the general gracefully did,
and afterward presented the mug to his
partner.
Both Chicago and Milwaukee are bewailing
the decadence of the grain trade
that has made them great. The loss is
more notable in wheat than in other
cereals, although the receipts of corn have
also greatly declined. Both cities are attributing
the decrease to what they call
excessive elevator charges, which in the
course of a year amount to thirty per
cent, of the present value of wheat and
more than sixty per cent, of the value of
corn and oats. -Elevator receipts have
been shown in Chicago on Which the ;
charges exceeded the value of the grain.
It is argued that such excessive rates are
strangling the grain trade of the city and
forcing shipments by way of competing
routes. Another reason for the decrease
is probably the fact that there is not as
much grain shipped as in former years.
Certainly not much is shipped from the
West to the East, as stock-raising is fast
changing the form in which corn is transported
to other markets.
The Reckoning of Ships.
There are 300 degrees of longitude in
the entire circle of the earth. As the j
earth turns around on its axis in twenty-1
four hours, l><24th of 300 degrees, which
equals fifteen degrees, corresponds to a
difference of one hour in time. Now, if
a ship is sailing eastward from London,
when it has reached a point fifteen degrees
cast of that place the sun will come
to the noon line (or meridian) one hour
sooner than at London. When it is
thirty degrees east it will be noon on the
6hip two hours earlier, at forty-five degrees
three hours earlier, and so on.
When a ship is sailing westward the
noon line is passed one hour later for
each fifteen degrees of longitude. If
two ships meet at a point 180 degrees
?-* T am/Iah 4-Its* AWO rnilirirr nnff on/1
lruill jjuuuun, nit; vuv ouinu^ vaob uuu
the other sailing west, the one will have
gained and the other will have lost
twelve hours on London Time. The
rule of navigators is to drop out a day
when a ship crosses the lSOth degree
meridian sailing westward (that is, the
180th degree from the observatory of
Greenwich, near London.) and to add a
day when they reach the same degree
sailing eastward. In this way the reckoning
of ships sailing cast and west
around the globe is made as nearly uniform
as possible.?Inter Ocean.
Theatrical Conflagrations.
The number of theatres burned increases
every year. From 1800 to 1810
there were seventeen destroyed by fire
throughout the known world. From 1810
1WOA ftir. Iiiimtin" wiQ nirrht/'Pn 1
to 1830, thirty-two; 1830 to 1810, thirtv!
1840 to 18)0, fifty-four; I80O to 1800,
seventy-six; 18 !0 "to 1870, 103; 1870 to
18S0, 1(50; 1880 to 1885, 174. The number
of victims sometimes attains frightful
proportions, as will be seen from the
following table:
Killed. Injured
1757?Havre 10 ?
1772?Amsterdam 25 ?
177S?Saragossa 77 52
1808?London 22 ?
1811?Richmond 72 ?
1829?Philadelphia (?7 ?
183(5?St. Petersburg 80J
1845?Canton 1,070
184(5?Quebec 200 ?
1847?Carlsruhe (3 203
1*45:5?Whampoa SO ?
1S57?Livorno 45> lo4
1807?Philadelphia 155 10
1872? Tien-Tsiu 000 1K7G?Brooklyn
28:i
1876?San Sacramento. 110 ?
1878?Ahmednuggur 40 ?
1881?Vienna 450 ?
1881?Nice 70 ?
1885?Richmond 100 ?
A mass of lead in an elevated furnace
in Paris was completely dissipated by a
stroke of lightning, no trace of the metal
being found afterward.
El OF THE HONEYMOON.
Return of the President and His
Wife to "Washington.
Mrs. Cleveland Installed as Mistress
of the White House,
The President's honeymoon trip ended on
the 8th, and at sundown of that day Mrs.
Grover Clevelan.1 entered the "White House
on the arm of her husband, to remain there
as its mistress. There had been no special
preparations to receive her, except that the
wedding decorations had been cleared away
and the gardener had placed in the bride's
chamber and on the dining room table
bunches of bright and fragrant flowers to
lend sentiment to her welcome. The Rev.
Win. N. Cleveland,Mrs. Hoyt,the President's
sister, ana Alas* Kose uieveiaua were at mo
White House to greet the pair, and they, with
Col. Lamont and his wife, composed the !
famity gathering at supper. It was because
of the need that Mrs. Hoyt and the Rev. Mr.
Cleveland should return home that the stay j
at Deer Park was cut short a day, as the
President thought this might be the last
chance for a family meeting for a Ion ,' time, J
The homeward trip of more than 200 miles
took less than seven hours, and closed quite t
an eventful day. Incidents of the return I
trip are given in a Washington dispatch as
follows:
The process of packing at the Deer Park
cottage did not s.-ein to worry Mi's. Cleveland
much. She was visible most of the
morning and yet when the baggage wagon
came for the trunks they were ready. At
12:45 the carriage was at the door
and in less than five minutes the bric.'e
aud bridegroom, Mr. .and Mrs. Lamont,
ex-Senator Davis and Mr. Elkins were
seated in the private car Baltimore. The
' telegraph operators and railroad detectives
j were put into the combination car, which
i followed the engiue. Charles Seldon, general
manager of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph
company,and John W. Davis,President
Garrett's assistant, occupied the director's car
Delaware, which was the second car of the
train. The Baltimore brought up the rear.
The train started from the hotel station,
stopping at Deer Park. The people haa
gatliered in full force on the platform to
| shake hands with the President and his wife.
John Graham was brought up as the repreI
sentative citizen aud introduced as the
Mayor.
"The Mayor, indeed. I know how that is.
I was once mayor myself," said the Chief
Magistrate, as he took Graham's hand.
Mrs. Clevelaud took the women by the
hand as they passed the rear platform. One
somewhat diffident young lady did riot seem
inclined to reach up to the platform where
Mrs. Cleveland stood. Mrs. Cleveland therefore
stepped down two steps to reach the
bashful one's hand. At 12:50 the train moved
off and Deer Park had lost its greatest attraction
and sensation.
The traiu naxt stopped at Piedmont. ExSeuator
Davis had S3nt information as to the
President's movements, and a rousing reception
had been prepared. A brass baud and
several hundred people greeted the President.
A girl less than five years old was handed
over the heads of the crowd, and sho handed
a bouquet to Mrs. Cleveland as the train
moved away. Keyser was reached at 2 o'clock
and here another crowd largely composed of
women surrounded the Cleveland car. Here
also a child was passed un the rear platform
with a bunch of flowers for Mrs. Clevelaud.
The President greeted the frightened youngster
with:
''Look up, little one, don't be afraid.''
Just as the train b-jgan to get under headway
an excitcd man eagerly grabbed tha
President by the hand aud said:
"I am Sheriff of the county, but I do not
caix'll uj 1ui1w" lu juui
"Come right ahead; I'll make room for
you," was the laughing response.
At Cumberland the tracks were lined with
people, but no stop was made. The President
stood on the rear p atform with uncovered
head, and bowed while the crowd
cheered and waved flags. At Martinsburg,
the largest place through which the traiu
passed, only a few people were at the depot.
The run from Martin iburg to Harper's Ferry,
nineteen miles, was made in twenty
minutes. There was no greeting at thfs
point. An hour later the train reached
Washington.
"When the train reached the K street crossing,
out near the suburbs, some distance
from the main depot, a large crowd, many
in carriages, had gathered in hopes of
catching a glimpse of the President and bis
bride, xiut they were di-appointed, a> the
train merely slackened speed at the crossing
and then continued slowly into
the central Baltimore and Ohio depot. Here
perhaps 400 or 500 people, more fortunate
thau those at the K street crossing, awaited
outside the depot the arrival of the President.
When the train came to a stop, the President
was the first of the quartette in the rear car
to alight
Mrs. Cleveland followed, and assisted by
the President, stepped nimbly from the
car. Colonel Lamont and Mrs. Lamout
came tripping along a few seconds later,
and the party walked briskly out through
the depot to the front of the building,
where the President's seal browns aud
his carriage with the coachman were waiting.
It took only a few seconds for the four
to enter the carriage, and they were off for
the White House?home after an absence of
six days.
SEVEN LIVES LOST.
I .
A. Tenement House Fire In Chicago.
?An Incendiary's Work.
Seven persons lost their lives in an incendiary
fire the other morning in the wooden
dwellings at 731 and 733 South Canal street>
Chicago. They were Michael Murphy, aged
40 years; Mrs. Michael Murphy, aged about
35; An-lie Murphy, 9 years old; Nellie Murphy,
11 years old; Mrs. Mary Durkin, aged
30 years; Patsey Lavin, aged 4, a son of Mrs.
Mary Durkin by a former marriage; and
WiUiam Hand, aged 68.
The fire broke out in the cellar of 738. and
spread through the wooden walls of the basement
to 731. Both houses were filled with
smoke before any of the occupants were
aroused. Some of the sleepers were doubtless
smothered in their beds. The fire, following
rapidly after the smoke, burned the bodies
until they were unrecognizable.
The second floor of 733 was occupied by
the Durkin and Murphy families. The firemen
in searching the ruins of the houses
found some of the victims lying in their halfburned
beds, and others, who were
awakened before death came upon
them, were clutching each other in
groups on the floor. The upper floor
was occupied by Win. Hand. His father
lived witn him. They were aroused by
the smell of smoke, and the j'ouug man
caught up the children and jumped from
the second story window with them, after
assisting his wife to the street. He wanted
Urtl w-? kio foflinr l\?i f tlin nl/]
IAJ UOip Uio J.uvuv> v*v???u, i/uu ?uv v<v?
man insisted on his jumping with the children.
The aged and decrepit form of the old
man was seen at the window a moment, and
then disappeared as he was about to leap.
The raging fire prevented the making of un
effort tor his rescue.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Evangelists J^nes and Small have gone
to Washington.
President Arthcr says that insomnia ia
his only trouble at present
The Sultan of Turkey has given a banquet
in honor of United States Minister Cox.
K. F. Knowles, a loom manufacturer of
Worcester, Mass., has bought a $000,000 hotel
in Florida
Mr. John F. Smith, a Philadelphia typa
founder has presented $5,000 eaeiito uospiuus
in that city.
Justice Field of the United States
Supreme Court will travel in Europe tbis
summer with his wife.
Queen Victoria has a flourishing poultry
yard at Balmoral. The chicken house is a
palatial structure, built in the semi-Gothic
style.
Plymouth Church has voted to give
Henry Ward Beecher a vacation for four
months, and ho will go abroad with Mrs.
Beecher.
Thk Prince of "Wales is an enthusiastic
amateur photographer, and a most successful
one. He purchase! his camera aoi outfit iu
, this couutry.
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
The Third Avenue Horse-car Company
having been successful in its fight with its
employes, who struck eight weeks ago, as a
last resort all the other surface railroads in
New York .and Brooklyn were "tied up" on
the Sth, to the great inconvenience of the
public. The drivers and conductors of the
various rnnrls resumed work next dav. how
ever, without having accomplished anything,
and the Third avenue strike was
practically abandoned.
William F. Boyle and James P. Graham,
two Master Workmen of the Knights
of Labor in New York, have been
arrested on the charge of conspiring to prevent
the Third Avenue Company from running
its cars.
The International Typographical Union
has been holding its annual Convention at
Pittsburg.
One man was killed, two were fatally injured
and four badly hurt by an explosion
in a coal mine near WilkesbaiTe,
renn.
An explosion in a rail mill at Troy, N. Y.,
killed one mau, fatally injured four more,
and inflicted injuried of a serious nature on
six others.
A cable dispatch reports the death at
Florence, Italy, of Colonel It M. Hoe, the
well known New York printiug press manufacturer,
in his seventy-fourth year.
The sum of $10,000 was presented to the
Tntornntionnl TvnooxaDhical Uniou on the
last day of its session at Pittsburg. This
sum was the joint contribution of Publisher
George W. Childs and Banker A. J. Drexel,
of Philadelphia.
The extensive woolen mills of W. E. Harding
& Co., Stamford, Conn., have been totally
destroyed by lire, loss $225,000.
South and West.
John* Stevens, mulatto, is charged with
the murder of Dr. Pyles and wife and
three other persons, all residents of Coffeyville,
Indian Territory, the motive being re
venge and robbery.
Thousands of women and children, relatives
of strikers, stood between the rails of a
track at Chicago the other day, and refused
to allow trains to proceed.
The following executions took p!ace on
the 4th: At Lebanon, Teqn., Jim Baxter; at
Winchester, Va., Wes. Honesty aud Tably
Banks; at Nashville. Tenn., Allen Herbert;
at Opeloisas, La., Alfred Taylor. All wore
colored.
Presi dent Cleveland and his wife attended
church at Oakls.nd, Md., on tbe first
Sunday of their honeymoon, and were the
centre of attraction for a large congregation.
Brooks, alias Maxwell, was found guilty
at St Louis of murder in the first degree.
His victim was Preller, a wealthy young fellow
Englishman, who was traveling with
Brooks. After murdering Preller the corpse
was concealed by Brooks in a trunk. The
murder has excited much attention both in
this country and England, where Brooks had
most resectable connections.
The United States Grand Jury at Saattle,
Washington Territory, has found indictments
against tan leaders of the receul; anti-Chinese
dots iu that city.
Western* crops have been injured by
drought, and the prospects are only fa;:.r.
The detachment of United State? soldiers
on guard at Garfield's tomb, Cleveland, Ohio,
since his burial, has just been withdrawn.
Thirty thousand people witnessed the running
race at St. Louis in which the mare Mis3
Woodford represented the En-it and three
other horses the West and Pacific coast. Th
stakes wero $10,000. Miss Woodford won.
Just as the race started the press stand fell,
aud a number of newspaper men were more
or less severely injured.
The Loughlin Nail Works at Martin's
Ferry, W. Va., have b.en partially burned;
loss, $100,000.
Six ps=sengers?three men and three young
ladies?were killed by a train's plunging
through a trestle into "the Santee river, near
St Stephen's Station, S. C. The conductor
and mail agent were badly injured.
First returns from the Oregon election
showed a victory for the Democratic State
ticket ana a close vote for Congress.
Howard Rempis, a boy of sic years, shot
and killed a little playmate at Akron. Ohio.
Edward McManus, a lan 1 ageut,ar rested
on a charge of forgery at Cleveland, Ohio,
admits peculations to the amount of $30,000.
The greater portion of Rav.ley Springs.
Va, including two hotels, has been destroyed
by fire.
Washington.
Secretary Lamar has revoked his recent
order wiuuirawiiiK nu jiuuhu muu-> u-uiu
entry under the timber culture, pre-emption
aud desert land laws.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Governor Swlneford, of Alaska.
T. H. Winston has resigned as United
States Minister to Persia.
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions
has agreed to report as a substitute for Senator
Blair's pension bill a bill providing for
a uniform pension of $12 a month tor all
soldiers and sailors who are absolutely disabled
and unable to maintain themselves,
and recogaizing no distinctions of rank.
Te:e President's wife will receive from the
estate of her grandfather, Colonel Folsom,
who died recently near Buffalo, N. Y., about
$50,000.
Foreign.
The Highland Reform League of Glasgow
has adopted resolutions in favor of bronc
rule for Scotland aud a separate Parliameut
In a raid of Apaches near Magdalena,
Mexico, ten persons have been killed, one of
them an American.
Loud Salisbury, in tbe British Home of
Lords, attacked Mr. Blaine for bis utterances
during the recent meeting in favor of Irish
home rule at Portland, Me. Mr. Blaine had
severely criticise! Salisbury.
During a funeral at Belfast, Ireland, there
was a desperate fight between Catholic? and
Orangemen. The police restored order after
many persons had been injured.
Twenty-four dories, containing forty-six
men, are reported by the most recent information
from Great Banks, Newfoundland,
as astray from fishing vessels for several
weeks aud not accounted for.
At a papal consistory in Rome the Most
Rev. James Gibbons, D.D., Archbishop of
Baltimore, and the Most Rev. Elzear Alexander
Taschereau, D.D., Archbishop of
guebee, and others were created cardinals.
ighteen bishops were nominated.
Gladstone's defeat ou the Irish Home
Rule bill in the British House of Commons
was followed by a cabinet meeting, at which
it was resolved to recommend the dissolution
of Parliament to the Queen. This means a
UC" CiCV/HUU.
Renewed rioting at Belfast Ireland, 011
the Sth, resulted in a pitched battle between
the police and the mob. Shots were fired on
both sides, and many officers aud rioters
were injured. The police finally triumphed.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Ji'dic is disappointed in her American j
tour. She only realized $00,000.
P. S. Gilmork has baen having a success- !
ful Western tour with his brass be.nd.
Miss Anna Dickinson has given up all
idea of ever attempting stage life again.
Rubenstein, the pianist, has besrun in Lon- '
don what the papers call a ucy<ie of seven
PAOltillc "
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It is reported that Mme. Patti has ma le
nn engagement with Henry E. Abbey for another
farewell tour iu the United States. I
Queen Victoria has ordered the royal box
put in preparation for occupancy during the
forthcoming operatic season in Lonbon.
The plenisphone.an instrument that unites
the tones of the violin, viola, 'cello and
double bass is a recent invention of a Buffalo
musiciau.
Next season Miss Fanny Davenport will
employ a diversified repertory, including
"As You Like It," "London Assurance,
"The School for Scaudal," and "Leah."
A one act plav called "Sympathetic
Souls," written by Mr. Sydney Grundy, has
been acted in London at the Prince's Theatre.
Mrs. Langtry played the leading part
Mr. Edmund C. Stanton of the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York, has secured
Frau Wolter. a well-known singer of
Berlin, for the next season of German opera.
In London last year there were 2.sol
alarms of fire, or an average of eight a day.
Of these 2,270 wera veritable fires, though
only sixty resulted in serious damage.
A LOET THRONK
The Demented Kin? Ludwis of
Bavaria Deposed.
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the Regency Over the Kingdom.
The physicians appointed to examine the
mental condition of King Ludwig, of Bavaria,
have reported that his malady incapacitates
him from governing properly. In consequence
of the physicians1 report Prince
Luitpold, uncle to tin King, has issued a
proclamation, countersigned by the Ministers,
in which he assumes the regency an.l
summons the Bavarian Diet to meet on the |
loth inst.
Count Holstein, who was instructed by
;lie Ministry to wait upon the King and
isk him to authorize the appointment
of a Regency Council, was arrested by
order of the King when he entered
the Castle of Hohenschwangau. The
King also gave orders that a guard of gend'arms
be placed around the castle. The
Regent thereupon issued an order to release
Count Holstein and to surrender the castle to
toe State Commission.
A dispatch from Munich, the Bavarian
capital, says: There is great excitement in
Munich and somo regret at the proposed deposition
of King Ludwig, who, in spite of
bis ecceutricities, has always been greatly beloved.
Though he has given but little
attention to state affairs of late
pars it has not been found that the
interests of the country suffered to
any appreciable extent. In fact, so long as
the price of beer was kept at the normal figure
and strangers were attracted to the capital
by the opera and the art treasures left by
Ludwig L, Munichians cared little whether
the King ruled or not. King Ludwig
has been on the Bavarian throne
since the 10th of March, 8641.
and in August will be forty-one years old.
The Munichians laugh at the idea recently
started in Paris that the King's madness
comes from an over-enjoyment of Waguer's
music, which His Ma;je3ty was the first to appreciate
in Europe. They rather attribute his
mental calamity and his banjcruptav to too
great a fondDess for the manners and customs
of the time of "Le Grande Monanjue." His
new Gothic castle of Schwanstem, built
on the Bavarian Alps, cost him only a fraction
of tlte vast sums he has spent in attemptinrr
fn oorrv r?nf. r?r? flio PTorron Tncnln in
Lake Chiem, his imitations of Versailles and
the Trianon. His expenditures for his new
chateau on theChiemsee have been fabulous.
A gigantic chandelier cost him $100,00!), a
bed more than a million of francs, and a
single covering in Chinese embroidery some
hundreds of thousands of francs.
Within a short time the depose! King invited
a corps of light horse to dinner, and
put on his uniform as its Colonel. He proposed
the men's health in a speech, did
the same to the gen-d'armes, and pledged
them in bumpers. He sent his hairdresser,
c'othed with extraordinary powers,
to receive a minor official and ask him to
form a now Ministry. He once let an official
dinner in Nuremberg wait while he called on
the JBurgenmeister, at a village some miles
off.
Two years ago his uncle, Prince Luitpol 1.
paid out a sum of $750,000 to satisfy the
royal creditors. Piuce then, however, the
King has made further debts to the amount
of $4,000,000 or $5,000,000. Very recently a
family council of the members of the tv-ittelsbach
family was held at the house of Prince
Luitpold, the head of the house, when the
absolute necessity of a regency was decided
upon. Prince Luitjiold's eldest son, Prince
Ludwig, is the heir presumptive to the Bavarian
throne, and is married to a niece of the
late Countess of Chainbord. KingLulwig
ha? one brother, Priuce Otto, born in 184i<,
but he is incapacitated for the succession.
King Ludwig's civil list has been $1,500,000
annually.
GLADSTONE DEFEATED.
The Homo ltule Bill Lost by a Majority
of Thirty.
Prem'er Gladstone's Irish Home Rule bill
failed to pass its second reading in the House
of Commons, on the night of the
7th, by a vote of 311 to Sil. Mr. Glad-)
stone immediately movei an adjournment
until Thursday and the motion was adopted.
The final debate in the House was opened
at 5 o'clock p. M., by Mr. Goschen, who
spoke against the bill at great length Ha
was followed in turn by Mr. Parnell, Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach, who also spoke agaiust
the bill, and Mr. Gladstone, the Premier
closing the debate.
Mr. Gladstone entered the House at 4 :. >!>
and proceeded straight to his seat. When
his presence was noticed he was greoted with
tremendous cheering. The Parnellites gave
the Premier an enthusiastic welcome. He
wore a white rose in his lapel and smiled as
be took his seat. Every inch of space on the
main floor and in the galleries was occupied.
The Opposition loudly cheered John Bright
and Lord Hartington as they entered and
took their places.
In a special cable dispatch, T. P. O'Connor,
a Parnellite member, says: ''Thegeneral
opinion to night is that at least three
general elections will have tj be held before
Gladstone finds himself at the head of a solid
working majority, and that the country is
now fairly in for a long term of excitement,
unparalleled in the history of Great Britain ,
since the time of Cromwell.
"In the result the government was defeated
by thirty votes. Tlie scene was one of the
most intense excitement, such as the oldest
members cannot remember to have witnessed
before. Tho Tories frantically waved
their hats and haudkerchiefs aud jumped
upon the ben-hes, shouting and gesticulating
wildly. The Nationalists, after a
pause, followed their example, and gave
three reusing cheers for the "Grand
Old Man'' and a succes ion of unearthly
groaus for Chamberlain, and shouts of
"Judas,1' whifh were taken up as the news
spread like wildfire through the lobbies
and halls to the outside, where an immense
multitude had ga'-ltered awaiting
the announcemeut of the vote. Among the
u'oro rrrpnf; miint fv-s of Irish from
all parts of the couutry, iu a conditiou
of irrepressible excitement. Mr. Gladstone
throughout the scene sat quiet and composed,
as th&ugh he had fully exuected defeat as
the inevitable first ste:> in a long and arduous
struggle, and was peif jctly prepared for renewal
of ths? con es! at tlr? proper moment.1'
THE CROPS.
Report of the Agricultural Department?The
Outlook.
The crop report of the National Department
of Agriculture makes the area of spring
wheat nearly the same as last year, about
twelve million acres. Winter wheat is not so
promising as on May 1. A slight de -line in
condition is reported in the West and
the low condition of the Southern crop is still
more reduced. Yet the average is only reduced
two points, from SH.tt to !>2.7. In the
South it has been affected with rust, shrivelling
the grain harvested. There has been
injury from drouth in Texas, rains and
floods in Ohio, ami hail storms
iu Missouri. The prospe -t is good
for a small fraction alx>vo twelve bushels per
acre. Rye has also declined from a general
average ot' M5.7 tj !?4.4 during tho last mouth.
The barley a-reage has ba>u increased
three per cent,, aud condition averages
10.); last year in June, 81). The
large acreage of oat? in 1 xs.~? lias not
been extensively iucreased. The increase
will approach half u million acres. C'oudi
tiou averages !Hj against 114 in isw:;. The
tendency to increase the area of cotton
has been checked in the Eastern States
of the cotton belt. The net increase is
about 250,000, acres, an advance
of one and three-eighths por cent. Toe record
stands; Virginia. !(*.?; North Carolina,
100; South Carolina, JW; Geargia, 98; Florida,
103; Alabama, !W; Mississippi, I(t3; Louisiana,
102; Texas, 107; Arkansas, IChi; Tennessee,
101.
I A Chinaman has been arrested at Spokane
Falls, Wyoming Territory, for having re- [
moved the figures 50 from a revenue stamp
in a very skillful manner and pasted them on
a $1 greenback in such a manner as to make
it appear as a $50 note. What is most singular
is the fact that he succeeded in getting
the bill changed, carrying uway for it $<>0 in
good money.
LATER NEWS. .
The Maine Republicans have Dominated
Hon. J. R. BodwelI,a rich granite merchant,
for Governor.
The Rhode Island Legislature has reelected
United States Senator Nelson Aldrich.
Gloucester (Mass.) nsDermen are sa:a to
be organizing for armed resistance against
the Canadians.
Chicago Aldermen are charged with
accepting bribes from city railroads.
A waterspout did great damage in and
around Marshall, N. C. Houses were washed
away, cattle drowned and crops destroyed.
a posse of revenue officers have made a
raid in Cumberland county, Tenn., capturing
three large illicit distilleries in full operation,
and a crowd of moonshiners.
Unofficial returns of the O.-egon election
from every county in the State except
two, give Hermann (Rep.), for Congress, (!03
majority; Pennoyer (Dem.y, for Governor,
1,800; McBride (Rep.), for Secretary of State,
200; Webb (Dem.), for Treasurer, 400;
Strahan (Dem.), for Supreme Judge, 200;
McElroy (Rep.), for Superintendent of Public
Instruction, 900; Baker (Rep.), for State
Printer, 900.
frederick tcrson, a resident of Jackson,
Minn., aged seventy-two years, committed
suicide by blowing the top of his head
off with a gun loaded with peas.
Late London advices state that Queen
Victoria telegraphed to Mr. Gladstone her
consent to the dissolution of Parliament after
conferring with Lord Hartington, whom she
asked whether he was willing to form a
ministry. Lord Hartington advised dissolution,
informing her Majesty that he
would regard dissolution as desirable at this
time should he form a government.
The Democrats of the Second Maine dis
trict have nominated ex-liovernor uarcelon
for Congress.
The people of Parsons, Penn., have been
badly shaken and much frightened by an explosion
of gas in the Mineral Spring Mine.
The surface of the mine sank two feet over
an area of about eleven acres.
Five men have bssn arrest3d in Chicago
for setting fire to the two buildings in which
eight lives were lost recently.
The Canadian fisheries trouble was under
(lis :u>sion at a late Cabinet meeting.
The President has on his table about 250
bills, including 100 pension bills, for final
disposition.
Postmasters nominated by the President:
George D. Stanton at Stonington, Conn.;
David Lutz, Slatington, Penn.; William R.
Joline, Long Branch City, N. J.; Robert H.
xayior, vv litmngion, uei.: d. o. martin, tierroll,
Tex.; Reuben Stanley, Crestline, Ohio!
Jacob We-ner, Hicksville, Ohio; John D.
Thompson, Mount Vernon, Ohio; Samuel S.
Clayton, Ada, Ohio; Cornelius A. Gallagher,
Cheboygan, Mich.; Prior B. Mayo, North
Springfield, Mo.; Gilbert P. Hall, Petaluma,
Cal.
Renewed rioting in Belfast, Ireland, occurred
on the 10th. Taverns and houses were
wrecked and pillaged, and many policemen
were injured by mis-iles. The police fired
into (he rioters with buckshot, wounding
many. Eventually the military cleared the
streets. Many houses in Fintona, County
Tyrone, have also been wrecked during riotous
disturbances, the result of the Home
Rule agitation.
The Pope has created six more American
bishops.
Many Europeans and natives bave been
killed by an earthquake at Tarawera, New
Zealand.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
The Syracuse (N. Y.) Stars attend church
In a body every Sunday.
Daily, the one-armed pitcher of the Washington
League Club, has been retired.
The batting averages are unusually high
so far, both in the League and Association.
Chattanooga is the first Southern League
club to play an errorless championship game.
John Thompson, Cleveland's new pitcher,
recently struck out seventeen men in seven
innings.
The Detroit National League Club won
seventeen straight games before it met with
a defeat.
The Charleston team is claimed to be the
finest looking in the aggregate in the Southern
League.
If Atlanta again wins the Southern League
pennant, every player will receive a substantial
present.
Plate p. s in Memphis are usually paid $-50
when they make a home run and record batting
is the result.
Gbant, the colored socoud baseman of the
Meridens, is distinguishing himself by good
batting and fielding.
There are three pitchers named Smith in
the Southern League?one in Nashville, one
in Chattanooga and one in Macon.
Fin ley. of Columbia College, uas offered
$30j to catch one week for New York when
tbat club was in a crippled condition.
The total fine imposed on the players of
the St. Louis American Association Club
til is season amounts to something like$C00.
The New Yorks won the first six games
that they played with the St. Louis League
nine. Three were won in New York and
three in St. Louis.
New York's fielding feat at Kansas City
in keeping the cow-boys down to five runs,
after they had made a total of twenty-two
bases on balls, has never been equaled.
Captain Joe Start, of the Washington
Club, has been on the diamond a quarter of
a century, and is playing better ball than
the majority of first basemen. He commenced
to play with the Atlantics in 1^60.
Morrill leads the batting for Boston,
Anson for Chicago, Brouthers for Detroit,
O'Rourke for New York, Denny for St.
Louis, Hines for "Washington, Rowe for
Kan-as City and Andrews for Philadelphia.
Ramsey, of the Louisville Club, has
struck out eighty-nine men in ten games lie
pitched, an average of nearly nine meu to a
game, and Kilroy, of Baltimore, in nine
games pitched struck out seventy-two, an
average of eight to a game.
national league record.
Hum Ln.it. It'm L'wf.
Detroit 2:5 5 Philadelphia.. 13 l'l
Chicago 22 5 Boston 8 20
New York...19 9 Washington...5 18
St. Louis 11 l'J Kansas City...G 10
american association record.
Won Lost. H'ltit Ia)*L
St. Louis ...23 14 I Pittsburgh...22 17
Brooklyn... .20 14 | Cincinnati... 17 23
Athletic 19 10 Louisville... .17 23
1 ? no
Baltimore...10 19 | Metropolitan. i~
SOUTHERN LEAGUE RECORD.
Won Ln.it. tt'on Loaf.
Atlanta 21 13 I Macon Ill 18
i Augusta 17 20 | Savannah... 19 14
[ Charleston...13 24 I Nashville. ...20 15
Chattuno.)ga. 13 21 | Memphis....20 16
EASTERN* LEAGUE RECORD.
| Hon Lust. H'oii Lout
Bridgeport.,.S 11 I Maiden 7 14
Hartford.,.,.0 8 j Newark 15 5
Long Island.. 1 11 | Providence....7 14
Jersey City. .13 4 | Waterbury. ..1.1 5
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.
| IT'on L'wf. Won Lost.
Utica 10 9 Binghamtou ..6 13
Toronto 12 7 Buffalo 9 10
Syracu.se... 15 5 Hamilton 9 8
Rochester ....9 9 Oswego 5 14
The famou* Saxe-Meiningen Company,
Wilsjn Barrett and his entire London organization,
Mrs. Langtry, Rosina Volkes'
Company, the Cameron Opera Company,
Miss Fortesjue and her English p ayers.
Mine. Sarah Bernhardt?these are sorue of
the foreign importations promised next season.
An extraordinary run of seals along the
Pacific coast is reported. Old sealers say the
creatures were never so numerous, and had
1 not bad weather prevented, the catches
would have been enormous.
v. -V- -.J
RIOT m PILL AG i I
Many Persons Killed or Wounded flB
It* DAlfnni rKA1QI1|V . . v
ill iiuauui
Two Taverns Sacked ani Burned MB
and 100 Houses Wrecked, * flfl
Belfast, Ireland, has been the scene of &-*r
series of terrible riots in which taverns werfe" j |^H
sacked and burned, about 100 houses
wrecked and many persons killed or wounded .
in encounters with the police. In the varfous
assaults made by the police npon the ri-- .^^9
oters, twenty-five of the latter wero severely. .
wounded by the buckshot fired at them. A'.-- cable
dispatch from Belfast gives the foK HI
lowing details:
During the evening a mob of Orangemen; - HI
ir.ade an attack upon the tavern kept
Catholic named Duffy. The police were.,.
promptly on the scene, and, after a stubborn. ,
contest, during which they used their caivj HE
bines, drove the mob away in disorder. .^H
The rioters reassembled with increased-. _
strength and a^ain attacked Duffy's, H
this time overpowering the po (
lice and driving them from the place. In :
the first assault Chief of Police Carr wb? '
wounded. He was carried away in a critical..
condition. When the Orangemen returned y
to the fight they were accompanied by.
large number of factory girls, who;r 'BB
goaded or shamed the men on to..Battle,
and formed a most danger- '
ous element. When the officers abas- I
doned Duffy's, the mob took complete pot- r Hi
session of the tavern. It was at once H
thoroughly sacked. All the tops and 9
spiggote were set running and everybody was
invited to help himself according*.?
to his taste. All the barrels of liquor < > '
found in stock were carried into ths
street, lifted up high and let fall until }-.t
they broke and liberated their contents.
All the furniture was carried ont,-..'< HI
Eiled in the centre of the roadway, and BB
urned in a bonfire to furnish the rioter*
with light during their debauch. Men, boys,. <
and girls drank until they fell helpless in the
gutters, the girls acting with greater fury: V- ^B
during the earlier stages of the orgie than tit*
men. The noisa, th? profanity, and the dis- .
order was terrible.
The mob ended their work here . by firing
the tavern itself and it was burned to thi;? i'
ground. Then the stronger men, who hatLc.v
become infuriated and not overpowered by ~~.^B
their potations, ran through toe stre^ts^ :>
wrecking and pillaging wherever they iraat;u?S?^B
and increasing their following
further they proceeded. These rioters after/.* '
awhile congregated around mo ponce .
station and stoned the place until they werfr- %
tired. They then marcned down to another ; ,-7'~'
tavern. The police hastened thither in " ^
vance and attempted to protect the property,- ,
but they were overpowered and driven away.^ .
The mob,left in possession, treated the tavern
as they had treated Duffy's, turned on
all the taps, broke the full barrels in " r
the street,made a bonfire of the furniture and '
finally set fire to the building. The police-!
returned and this time got the oetter '*
for a time of the mob, whose raobafr ?,
were deplete! by the scores who had falten '
away in drunkenness, and extinguished the ? ~
flames before they could gain control *
of the structure. But the officers were unable
to drive the rioters from the locality,.- .
and they remained and dominated every--' /Vy
thing until morning. During the rowdyiarn
of the night Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Parneli
were both burned in effigy, and a dummy
corpse labeled "Home Rule:' was cremated. ; r
Rioting was renewed here this evening and
the riot act was ajain read. The mob increased
in size and began throwing stones at
the police. The latter fired, killing four per* -+
sons, one of whom was a barmaid who waa- r
looking outof a tavern window at the fight- ' ing.
The mob returned the fire, and a brisk
fusillade was kept up for twenty minutesi ^
Soldiers appeared and paraded the streets* to--'
assist the police in case of necessity.
The mob drove a force of 150 policemen '/
into the barracks and then attacked th?
buildings, firing revolvers and throwing *
stones at the doors and windows. The po*-'
lice fired, killing five persons. Several Prot?"v %
estant clergymen tried to. disperse the mob,
but their efforts were unavailing. One of-5"
the persons killed was a widow, with two- children.
A force of 150 policemen waresent
from Dublin to Belfast to reinforce the police
there. * "
At Lurcan. Ireland, scenes similar to tin -
above described were enacted. Thomas Orallagher,
a simpleton, was shot dead white '
waving an Orange sash in the face of a Home
Rule mob during an inressant fire between'
that mob and its Orange opponents. Twenty :r
rioters were arrested.
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A sirnggie with a Deer.
The Wheeling (W. Va.) Register say*-.
that the most noted hunter in the State- rwest
of Moorfield is Gabriel Cooper, i
whose deeds have caused him to be knowa-*
by his neighbors as Dan'l Boone. Dan'l
keeps two dogs and a brown mare, and
he knows every hog path and deer trail. ,
in West Virginia. It is said that the
animals know Dan'l so well that when?
they se3 him and his brown mare they
flee the country. What Dan'l Boonev *
cannot tell in the shape of hunting ad--i
venture is not worth hearing. Every J
Btream in Hampshire county has his traps
set along its banks. With hi? tiusty ^
rifle he has brought down twenty-eight.
deer this season. One day Dan'l was
visiting his traps on Lost Iiiver. A mile J
above where this river disappears in theearth
is a bend where the stream is broad
and deep. Dan'l keeps a little featherweight
skiff in the bend for his private- *
nco While Rlnahintr ud and down the '
**"v* '' ? o I" .. , -J bunk
of the river he started a big buek 7'
with six prongs. The animal sprang ~
from cover into the water and headed for
the opposite side. Dan'l leaped into hir
Bkiff, and a few powerful strokes brought
him nearly alongside of the buck. Hir '
purpose was to secure him alive, buti
when within ten feet of him the buck
turned about and swan for the boat.
The hunter, recognizing his peril,drew
his sheath knife and caught the creature
by the horn, as he made a vicious lunge
at the boat. Dan'l held on to the horn,
and the buck lunged and butted furiously.
The hunter tried to get at its throat,
and in the effort the skiff upset, and
Dan'l and the deer were left to fight it
out in the water twelve feet deep.
To escape from the maddened buck
was impossible, and instead of swimming
from it the experienced woodsman
dived under the water, and. coming up
by the buck's side, stabbed it again and
fn fVio cnrfflTi '
Bgain, unui nc ??o iwvcu ?
himself for air. The wild plungefc madt
by the wounded beast were terrific. The
river was dyed with blood for twentj
feet aiound where the combat raged. Ai
the hunter poked his nose above the surface
to get air the animal cut with iti
horn a long farrow in his side. It wai
the buck's last expiring effort. With a
gasp ar:d a shivering moan it sank out ol
sight and the battle was ended.
Bau^s for Men.
"We are selling a good many falsi
b*ng9," faid a hair-drosser. r
"For ladies ?" inquire ! the reporter.
"No, for young men. IJangs i:re all
the rage now, and every young felloe
must have one. Many of them are baid,
or their hair is too thin on the forehead,
an tiiov fail on us to hell) them. W?
make a bang that cannot be'distingimhed
from the genuine article. It is fastened
oil with wires, and when neatly combed
looks very nice.-. A bang should ccm<
about half an inch short of the eyebrows,
and should be evenly cut. " It
should never be worn with a full bfard.
as it contracts the face too much. It ii
most effective with a dropping mustache.
?New York Sun.
Neglected opportunites rarely announci '
a second coming. \
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