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Major General Crook says: "It is my firm conviction that (he Indian should have the full rights of the American citiB zen, including the ballot. I know that I may be considered hasty, but I say: 'Give them the ballot now.'" i &. The retired list of our navy is swelling. K There are fifty Rear Admirals, fifteen H Commodores, fourteen Captains, twelve 3 Commanders, twenty Lieutenant ComM mahdere, forty-one Lieutenants, forty-six B Surgeons, twenty Paymasters, and sevens' ty-two Engineers. I There is a good deal of abuse ficapea I upon Americans for sins of omission and L. J commission performed while traveling in Europe, but it is to be set down to their credit that the American travelers arc said to have been the coolest and most I self-possessed class during the recent Hi . . earthquakes. Their superiority to fear |^Hto0'was marked and commented on all sides. HS- It is impossible not to admire the pluck of the Mayor of Nice, France, who un^^^B'acrtook to restore the confidence of the rvnrt-rvlrt lep rrivin<T his official fjllguiciivu JA.VJ/.V e 0 assurance immediately after the recent earthquake that the -worst "was over, and that they had nothing more to fear. A Mayor who can guarantee a city against an earthquake shock is a Mayor worth The managers of the International Jubilee of railways at Paris are actively engaged in preparing for the opening. The parlous modes and methods of railroad >peration in different countries will be ilustrated, and a belt line constructed, on vliich Eii0lish, Austrian and Russian rains will pass up and down steep gradiints, switch from track to track and run hrough tunnels. Now a scientific person has explained T I why Hanlan is the great rower tnai ne is. Dr. Sargent, of the Harvard gym' nasium, examined him, and 6ays L -aiat he has "a great head and an excellent body all the way down to the legs." Judged by a standard of perfection the oarsman's legs and arms are too short. Dr. Sargent says that this defect has made Hanlan the oarsman he is, and that the power from the shoulders, back and loins, together with the immense leverage given by the short legs and arms, is what has mad liim almost the perfection in build for " a sculler. The people of Dodge City, Kansas, are now marveling over the discovery of a fcj- large bone, which has recently been brought into that city from a point about gixty-five miles southwest, near the CiPjKfe'hl marron river. This mammoth fossil was ^ unearthed by some workmen while digHk ging a well at the depth of about forty gk" five feet, and below a stratum of sandstone. The length of this colossal femur is about 6 feet 8 1-2 inches; weight, 96 J pounds ^circumference of shaft, 20 inches; Kk;. " head of bone, (femur,) 24 inches in circumH|? ference; lower end or knee, 89 inches in circumference. Further excavations will be made at an early date with the hope of discovering the entire skeleton. Do you know that people like to be humbugged V1 asked a physician of a Philadelphia Call reporter. "It's a fact, and a large percentage of the practice gi the most successful doctors is pure humbuggery. A great many people are ! filled with immafrinarv aches and Bains. I They've had them for years in their imagination, and have grown to regard them with a tcnacious affection. When they consult a physician about them they uo not like to have the matter pooh-poohed. They do not wish to be told there is nothing the matter with them. They want to be told they are sick; to bo sympathized with, and to be prescribed for. They then pay tho fee willingly. Some of the best and most persistent patients I have are as sound as a dollar. I listen to their recital of their symptoms right along, prescribe some narmiess as weu us useless dose and charge it in my little bill. It is to this little diplomacy of mine that I attribute much of my success." The Department of Agriculture reports an increase in the total number of horses, ^nules, cows and oxen owned in this country as compared with last year. The grcatestincrease, says Bradstreet, is shown in oxen, while mules show a slight excess over last year. In the case of sheep and hogs considerable decreases are shown. The following table shows the total number at this time and at a corresponding oeriod last year: ? Stock. 1886. 1887. Horses 12,077,657 12,496,743 Mules 2,052,593 1,117,141 Milch cows 14,235,388 14,552,083 Oxen and other cattle. 31,275,242 33,511,750 Sheep 48,322,331 44,759,314 Swine 46,092,043 44,612,836 As to values, the decline has not been very large, being greatest in the case of cattle, which show the largest increase in number. Horses, sheep and hogs have iniroocprl in vsilniv whiln mules have slicrhtlv V*VWWV? " ~1 - ' O ? decreased. The total values of the various classes of animals are shown in the following: Stock. ^ 288*). 1887. Horses. T. $860,823,206 $901,685,755 Mules 163,381,076 167,057,538 Milch cows 389,98*,523 378,789,589 Oxen and other cattle 661,956,274 663,137,926 Sheep 92,443,867 89,872,839 Swine 197,509,894 200,043,291 Totals $2,365,159,862 $2,400,586,938 The total value of all the farm animals of the country is placcd at $2,400,586,938, an increase of $35,427,076 over this time last year. The greater share of the increase is due to the increased number and value of horses. The decline in the value f cows has been charged chiefly to the M>w price of b\iLUi, ? , ii" rt. -i-i ?. -*_ TEE CZAR'S DANGER. I An Attempt to Assassinate the Emperor of Russia. Men With Bombs Lying in Wait Pa* TwiwAYilnl fin r?Tl O CPd X Ul l/iiu JLiujjGiiai vuiuLugui Reports from St. Petersburg regarding the discovery of a gi-eat plot against the Czar caused much excitement at Berlin. There is j a disposition in German circles to regard the whole plot as an attempt to force the Czar to make war instead of peacably dividing Bulgaria with Austria. Tho Berlin Post, a semiofficial organ,expresses this feeling as follows: "With alarm and grief we say it: Lurope must , guard itself against the policy of despair which may show itself in fatalistic quiet or convulsive boldness. The last is the more probable. It is thought here that the plot makes clear Russia's hitherto unexplained do- i lay in carrying out tho Bulgarian partition agreement with Austria." The latest authentic intelligence from St. Petersburg as to the attempt on the Czar shows that the bomb, which was to have been thrown under tho imperial carnage, was concealed in a case shape 1 like a book of quarto size. The young man who carried it was a I student. A string was hanging from the i case, and it was by means of this that the bomb was to have been flung. I A man who was standing: behind the stu dent noticed that the latter's book seemed I very heavy and that lie repeatedly shifted it , from arm to arm. This ma lo him "suspicious, I and he drew the attention of a bystander to the young man. Hardly had he done so when | ho saw the young man stoop, deposit his l)ook on the pavement and fumble at the 6tring. Luckily the string slipped from the would- | lie regicide's hand and the man who had been observing him, caught him by the collar and shoved him back violently into the crowd. It was seen then that another youth, who had been standing beside the one with the book, was making 1 ough efforts to force his way through the surging mass of people who had been attracted by the arrest of the first man. This second vouth had a traveling bag slung about him. tie was seized, too, and his bag was afterward found to contain a bomb. It is said the Czar heard nothing of the whole matter until he reached Gatschina, to which place he has gone with the Empress and their son. The Czar shed tears^ftemg informed of the danger whkYi fiot only himself but the Empress and fcneir son had so narrowly escaped. ^ ' The attampt to assassinate the Czar was made on the anniversary of the day on which his father, the late Czar, was killed by bombthrowers. LATER NEWS. I The Rhode Island Republican State Conj vention, held in Provideneo, renominated governor wetraore ana au uie prelum, mcumbents of ollice by acclamation. Lyman S. Weeks, a resident of Brooklyn, had retired the other night when his wife heard a noise in the basement. She awoke her husband, who proceeded down stairs, and was shot dead by a burglar. The assassin left no clue to his identity. Twenty-two men have been arrested near Ozark, Mo., for participating in the massacre of two men named Eden and Green. The Virginia Legislature met in special session at Richmond, and Governor Lee'a message dwelt specially on the debt question. King Ban, a noted sire of running horses, died at Lexington, Ky. He was valued at &x),000. A disastrous explosion of dynamite has occurred in a stone quarry at Lobositz, Bohemia. All the men at work in the quarry at the time wero blown to atoms. M. Au berg at, conductor of the orchestra at the Grand Theatre, Toulon, France, shot dead an actress named Levy, and then threw himself beneath a railroad train, where he I was crushed to death. Gladstone and the Parnellites are preparing to niako a vigorous fight in Parliament against the British Government's coercivo measures toward Ireland. New York business circles have been conriderably stirred up by news of the failure of Lawton Brothers, extensive dealers in fertilzers, coupled with the sudden flight of Walter E. Lawton, of the "firm," with about $200,000 in cash, which he is charged with obtaining fraudulently. A number of banks and corporations have been victimized by Lawton. The total liabilities are placed at over $1,000,000. Four men were badly burned by a gas explosion in a colliery at Wilkesbarre, Penn. Two of the four were probably fatally injured. There was the usual large procession of Tri?;h &vma+jpci iri "Vow "Vnrlr nn Kf. Pufrri^lr's Day. and a banquet by the Sons of St. Patrick in the evening. A band of Kentucky Vigilantes were whipping an old woman in Rock Castlo County for selling beer without a license, when they were fired upon in the darkness, and three of their number killed. Twenty-three persons received more or less serious injuries by the breaking of the platform leading to a Catholic Church entrance in Chicago. Two children were killed, a woman was fatally injured, several persons were hurt and a number of houses destroyed by a tornado at Tampa, Fla. Eight new Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, including Cardinals Gibbons and Tascheran of America, received their hats from the Pone at a nublic Consistorv in Rome. A complete snow blockade prevails on the Canadian Pacific in the Rocky Mountains, and there will be no trains for a fortnight. Kidnapping is being carried on by whole- i sale in a portion of Cuba. One man had to pay a ransom of $1,000 before he was released. MUSICAL AND DEAMATIC. The New York Academy ot Music has been sold at auction for $300,000. McKee Rankin has struck out with a new play called "Tho Golden Giant." The King of Portugal is an indefatigable and admirable player of the violoncello. Fourteen of tho late False Prophet's (El Mahdi's) musicians are giving concerts in Paris. Gayarre, the Spanish tenor, has received $70,000 for the fifty nights of the opera season just closed. John Gilbert, the New York actor, is seventy-seven years of age, and has been on the stage fifty-nine years. In Brooklyn male voice choirs ar? rapidly taking the place of mixed choirs. Already there are over thirty in the city. Mrs. Langtry's estrblishment consists of her New York house, twenty-two servants, eight carriages, and twelve horses. Mrs. Noah, a once famous actress, is still living in Rochester, N. Y., in her eightieth year, and has promised to play Lady Macbeth at a benefit in Juno. william H. davidge, playing at the Madison Square Theatre in New York, lias iust entered on the fifty-first year of his stage life. He is now seventy-live. Miss Anna Dickinson is slowly recovering her health. According to a correspondent she has entreaties for plays from two well-known Itars, for a novel from a New York publisher and for several magazine articles. Some of the salaries of the American Opera Company, says the Bos'on Traveller, are as follows: Theodore Thomas, $1,000 per week; Manager Locke, &SOO par week; M.W.Whitney, $000 per wsek, and Candidus, $5,000 per month. Mr. Irvi.vj will not confine himself to "Faust" during his coming American torn-. His repertoire consists of "Much Ado," "The Merchant of Venice," "Jingle," "Olivia," "Louis XI.," and "The Bells/' 2.9 has disused not to plaj "Hamlet." j NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. Frank M. Scott, of Newark, N. J., head bookkeeper for a New York publishing house, has been arrested on the charge of falsifying his accounts and misappropriating over $30,000? Thk American yachts Dauntless and Coronet started on the 12th from New York for Cork. Ireland, on a 3.000-mile rase across tho Atlantic. The race is for $20,000. A movement has been started in Brooklyn to raise money for the eroction of a monument to the late Henrv Ward Beecher. At a memorial service in Plymouth Church on Sunday ministers of various denominations officiated. A boom in the leading industries of Now England is reported. Three persons were burned to death and four injured at a hotel fire in Camden, N. J. While an auction of household goods was in progress in a stable at Bridgewater, Mass., the floor gavo way, precipitating nearly 100 people into the cellar. Many men and women were injured in various degrees of severity. Ax express train ran into a Philadelphia street car, seriously, if not fatally, injuring Mr. and Mrs. Feaster and their four-year-old boy. The child had both feet cut off. Benjamin Leventhal. nineteen years old, shot and killed his father, a New \ ork peddler, and then committed suicide. A family quarrel was the cause. James Barrett ejected two Italians (brothers) from his house near Scranton, Penn., for insulting a girl. One of them resisted expulsion with a knife, when he shot and killed hot h. Hex. Daniel Manning, Secretary of the Treasury, and ex-Treasurer Conrad N. Jordan have sailed from New York for Europe. Mr. Manning's resignation as Secretary is dated April 1. Revised estimates of the killed and wounded by the accident on tho Boston and Providence Railroad are: Killed outright or since died, 23; probably fatally injured, 15; total wounded, over 100. Several persons in the excitement after the disaster aid not realize that they had been injured, but on reaching home found that they had broken bones. Fire at Buffalo, N. Y., destroyed the building occupied by a large wholesale grocery firm and Masonic lodges. Total estimated losses, $300,000. South and ^ mi, i^nii in ill at Falmout^fefy^, the other day, to twenty years' ^iQr^pnsonment for murder. The same night a crowd of masked men broke into Falmouth jail, took out Jackson and hanged him to a tree. A passenger train jumped the track near Gratiot, III, and thirty persons, including State Senator Southwortb, were more or leas hurt. Henry Artis, (colored) was Lung at Gold1*boro, N. C., for the murder of his stepdaughter. An insane young man named Lenshaw stopping with his family near Little Rock, Ark., mortally wounded his father and mother and injured his three brothers and sister during an attack of his disease. The family were on their way to Texas. A fire at Lumberton, N. C., destroyed seventy-five buildings, comprising the business part of the town. A great many families were rendered homeless. Seward Mott, Second Lieutenant of the Tenth United States Cavalry, was murdered by a young Apache chief at the San Carlos reservation, Arizona, Thirty-one men were placed on trial the ci r? j :a.\. uwiei uuiy ai r^ugL-iieiu, o. , uaorgHl WIUI lynching T. Culbreath in September, 1885. Senator Butler appeared for accused. Washington. The President has appointed Charlton H. Way, of Georgia, to be Consul General at St, Petersburg. Thirty-three bills and four joint resolutions which were sent to the President during the last ten days of Congress failed to become laws. They died of the "pocket veto." Of the whole number, thirty bills and three joint resolutions originated in the House, and three bills and one joint resolution in the Senate. Among the five Inter-State Commerce Commissioners to be appointed by the President the names of Colonel Morrison, of Illinois, and ex-Senator Kernan, of New York, are most prominently mentioned. The Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association has been in session in Washington. Commissioner of Ed' r\ ~ 1 UlttLlUU 1/ttWBUU <UiU UlUCIH JllttUU tUlUl^SiOi. Foreign. Earthquake shocks have been felt again at the scenes of the recent upheaval in Italy and France. The Septennate, or German Army bill, on its final passage in the Reichstag received 247 votes to 31 in opposition. Eighty-four members abstained from voting. Fourteen non-commissioned officers who , participated in the recent Bulgarian revolt , have been shot. All the privates engaged in , the revolt have been pardoned. A sharp shock of earthquake at Marseilles, i France, created a panic, and emptied the ho- i tels in a few moments. Many walls of build- i ings in the city were cracked. > Mrs. Berry was hanged at Liverpool on Monday for poisoning her eleven-year-old I daughter, the object being to obtain ?10 insurance money. She was also charged with ' poisoning her own mother to obtain JE200 1 insurance money. She died protesting her innocence. M. Dr T.KKSJtPS. t.ho Pflnnma flanal T>rojector, has been received with much honor at Berlin, and declares that all danger of a war between Germany and France has passed. The Pope has just created six new Cardinals and fourteen Bishops. Several Moors have been stripped and flogged through the streets of Tangier, Morocco, for smoking in defiance of the Sultan's order. The sale of all kinds of intoxicants has also been prohibited. The Tung Lung Chinese Bank, of Hong Kong, has failed. Nativo creditors stormed the institution, and carried away or destroyed everything in the building. The Duchess of Otranto committed suicido in Paris by blowing her brains out with a revolver. She was overwrought with grief at the recent death of her husband. AGAIN SHAKEN. Charleston, S. C., Disturbed by a Violent Shock of Earthquake. 1 St. Patrick's Day in Charleston was the bleakest and coldest ever known there. ^ It was, moreover, ushered in at 9:10 < A. m. by a peculiar and violent shock of earthquake. The city had been so long 3 free from shakes that this one was somewhat ? demoralizing.The shock?it was not a wave? 1 came from the southeast. It was preceded and accompanied by the usual subterranean roar, ] very loud and dreadful. Then came a f violent jerk, the buildings apnsaring to have ] been thrust forward and pulled back, after which there was a slight tremor as the roar , died out. Most of the buildings in Charleston have been rendered earthquake-proof by iron bolts and plates; otherwise there would have doubtless been serious damage. The cracks of such buildings as have not yet been re- ? paiml were widened, windows, were rattled, 1 and plastering thrown down in a number of | places. 1 SOME OLD PEOPLE, ; Is Galveston Antoine Irving died recently, aged 100. Cornelius Driscoll of Lower Cove, N. S., is 101 years old, and hale and hearty. He eats well and daily does light work. A major-general of the old Maine militia still lives in Windsor, N. S., in the person of Hernial Whidden, aged %. Ho is a pensioner of 1812. When John Grossman died at China, Me., recently, at the age of '.K5, he left six sons and one daughter, thirty-two grandchildren, and forty great grandchildren. At a recent Baptist Church festival in Now Haven, Mrs. Nancy Gorman, who is 1)4 years of age, sang a song of her childhood, and received an overwhelming ovation. Christina Osborn of West Point Pleasant, Va.,was supposed to have died a pauper at the age of 'JO, but in a drawer of her rickety bureau was found an old apron in which was wrapped $8,000 in gold and silver. Marion County, Virginia, boasts of Mrs. Mary Crow, who asserts that she is 111 years i old; and she is renewing her youth, too, for it [ is roported that her hair, for many years a) ) white as snow, is turning black again. I j "RIOT AT A . BULL FIGHT.' | Tiolencc at a Matador's Debut in the City of Mexico. A Mob, Disappointed in Its Cruel Sport, Storms the Arena, The City of Mexico has been the scene of a terrific riot at the debut of Luis Mazzantini, a noted Spanish matador imported from Havana at a cost of $1(5,000. His first appearance was celebrated as a holiday in the Mexican Capital, and for a hundred miles around. A dispatch gives the following account of the cruel "sport," and the attendant riot, created by disappointed spectators: . The rush for seats began hours before the sport began, and full}- tt),000 people, circled by a cordon of Federal troops, occupied tho plaza when Mazzantini appeared. The first bull, a heavy, dark one, was received with great cheers. A signal attack by a picador, however, proved the worthlessness of the bull, for lie was not quick to charge, and the crowd yelled: "A fuerar ("Away with him!'') The bull stood still, and ^cted entirely on the defensive, and at last threw a horse and rider, throwing the horse over his haunches and on top of the rider. The bull jumped the outer barrier, which circles a ring smaller than that of Puebla, so that the brute could scarcely turn, and immediately returned to the arena, where the planting of the banderillas elicited enthusiasm. Mazzantini now took the sword and gave the first thrust. It went clear to the hilt. With two and a half feet of steel in his body the Jmll rushed around tho arena closa to the barrier, and one nf t.lm cr*oohrttr?rc wiflirlvuiv tho cwnrd hilt, it". was soon after plunged to the hilt again by Mnzzantini. but the bull still pave battle, and the champion was at last obliged to sever the spinal cord, which he did by a single touch behind the horns. The second bull was equally worthless. The banderillas were planted and Prieto Diego, in a uniform of vermilion red and gold, advanced with sword ?'"1 "flnp.i T^'ff , ' were given, buU hej^d'^ e^^Tnd 'j disgust were given by the ripecttlprs. The bull would not leave the barrier, an died while circling it. The h\se whose abdomen was pierced entered the ring for a third encounter. The abdomen had been sewed up and enormous swellings appeared. The crowd yelled with indignation, but the horse and rider remained. The horse was attacked by the black and white bull, which had entered, and at the second attack the seams were torn open and the intestines again protruded. The horses were called by the judge, the banderillas were planted, and Mazzantini, amid expressions of the extremest disgust from the crowd, who were dissatisfied with the inferior quality of the bull, thrust the sword deep into the lungs. Blood rushed from the mouth. The bull fell on his breast, but turned round and round on his hind legs to meet his advei-saries, by whom ho was surrounded, and at last settled down and died. The spectators voiced their , disgust freely, and it increased as three other bulls were proved to be poltroons. They1; hissed the matador and management, they hurled chairs at the bull. Luis took one of the hundreds of . ^1. a i?i._ i.1 II II. Al__ 1 11 ? *" i-uuirs Hung him) me arena ana nil on the head. Then the crowd jumped into the arena and pursued the bull with chairs and flagstaff's, breaking them into fragments. The bull was killed, and a rain of chairs succeeded. The crowd in the upper galleries began to tear the woodwork to pieces and fling it into the air. and the wildest confusion prevailed. The soldiers with drawn bayonets were deployed around the amphitheatre, while the officers rushed to and fro, vainly trying to suppress the excitement and quell the disturbance, which had now become general. On the top of the gallery a company of soldiers promenaded with drawn bayonets, but there was no chance to charge on* the crowd. Several' arrests were made by the officers, who were mingling with the crowd and closely watching the movements of individuals. As quickly as possible the bayonets cleared the benches, and then the soldiers were deployed into a triangle in double file inside the entrance. Here and there chairs were flung from the galleries, not now into the arena, but among the soldiers, and officers with swords in their bands rushed up the stairs to arrest the offenders. The crowd hooted the officers and demanded the - release of the prisoners, but the latter were borne away, despite the loudly uttered protests. Detachments oi: cavairy witn drawn sabres blocked the street crossings and the bayonets of the infantry glistened in the red light of the charcoal fires kept burning by the street venders. The ladies had not yet been able to escape and were hemmed in by the crowd. Suddenly there was a movement from beyond, where the crowd was the thickest, and men and women were separated by a charge of the mounted troops, to which some one had given offense. The culprit and some of his companions were struck with sabres and placed under arrest, and again the soldiers resnmed their positions. The mob howled and raged, and cries of denunciation against the matador and the manager were heard far and near. The soldiers charged the crowd gathered in the streets, and hundreds of heads were slashed with sabres. Finally the troops were in sole possession. The prices of admission were enormous, $8 being the lowest rate for reserved seats. The sstimated receipts were $150,000. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Ex-Senator Simon Cameron has just celihrnterl his eifrhtv-oichth hirthdav. General Nelson A. Miles, tlio Indian lighter, is tho youngest United States officer :fhis grade. The King of Denmark has two immense logs which are his constant companions duriig his walks and rambles. Corn-emus Yanderbilt's yacht, the Alva, s being visited by crowds of Cubans while anchored in tho harbor of Havana. Senator Jo;sn Sherman has accepted an uvitation to address the people of Nashville, renn., on national questions in April. Francis Pacl Jules Grevy, President >f France, has a wreath of whito hair and seard rimniug over his head and under his :bin. Mr. Spoffohd, the Librarian of Congress, :an read through a twelve-page newspaper n three minutes. Ho says he "picks the jith." General Joseph E. Johnston, United States Railroad Commissioner, is just eighty reai-s oUl He is uno of the oldeiit Federal )fficeholders. Allen G. Thurman* and Rutherford B. 3aye3 both have big chicken coops and take m enthusiastic interest in fancv breeds of joultry. Thus do extremes meet. CnAUNCEY M. Depew, President of the N'ew York Central railroad, will deliver tlio iddress before the reunion of the Army of tho t'otomac at Saratoga next season. The king of Italy will visit England short' y; so will the princess royal of Brazil. She s the wife of the Comte d'Eu, who served a i Federal stair oflloer during our civil war. Mrs. Grant, widow of tho General, will ;pend the greater part of Lent in Washing;on. Sho will divide her time there between .he homes of Senator Stanford and General Beale. Miss Ida M. Leigh, the founder of the missions for English-speaking young men and jiris m rails, is In tliis country to secure aid or the British and American Young Men's [lome and Club. A Chicago judge having ruled that famous )rnotorious people may be "waxed" and exlibitcd nt any time, Miss Nina Van Zandt, ;he proxj'-wife of Anarchist Spies, is now to ">e found iu wax in all the dime museums of .he West. Tiik richest colored woman in America is Amanda Kubanks of Home, Ga., who pays axes on $400,(XX). The next richest woman is Mrs. James Thomas, of St. Louis, who owns ;he finest barber shop in the world, "The Lindell," and is assessed 011 jirojMirty to the unouiit of fcJOO.OOO. Near East Liverpool, Ohio, one night recently, fishermen were considerably astonished at the tremendous bite they got. They j hauled away, however, and with much difficulty landed a spoon fish seven aud a half feet long, with a spoon bill over throe feet lone. A "find" in Sweden lately consisted of a ivooden coflin containing a body wrapped in woven material. The "find" dates from the jronze age, and it is the first of its kind made a that country* - RAILROAD SLAUGHTER, More Than 100 Persons Killed or Injured Near Boston. A railroad bridge disaster, even more extensive in its destruction of life and limb than the recent Central Vermont horror, befell a suburban train on the Boston and Providence l- : rnu^ .Lwuiiuau *uuuuuj muniiug. JLUU ivirnpc vi an iron bridge baneith a train dashed six cars to pieces on the highway, fifty feet below. Of about two hundred people who went down in the wreck twenty-three were instantly killed, or died soon after, fifteen were reported dying and eighty were severely hart. The prompt summons of a Fire Department detail prevented the additional horror of fire, and the victims suffered death or injury only by mutilation. The accident happened at a bridge over Spring street, on the Dedham branch, in West Roxbury District, about five miles from Boston Common. The train left Dedham at 7 o'clock, and consisted of an engine and nine care in charge of Conductor W7 H. Alden aud Assistants Myron Tilden and Webster Drake. i About 800 persons were on board and were pretty well distributed in the several, cars. In | less than two minutes after leaving Roslindale station the engine crossed the bridge, and a I second later Engineer White found that | his train had parted, and looking back I was horrified to see that the bridge had gone and several of the cars had disappeared. He immediately stopped his enI gine, and found that three cars were remaining on the embankment and the other six i were in the highway below. He then sounded I the whistle, and ran his locomotive ahead to I Forest Hills, the junction with the main line, and gave the alarm. j The first man to reach the wreck was J. H. Lannon, a fish dealer. He was driving up from Forest Hills toward the scene of the /Hcncf/^r ivhnn t.Vio nnrrinn nf fhf* t.rnin came down the track whistling -wildly. The locomotive slowed down on the Forest Hills crossing, and Launon stopped his team, shouting to tne engineer: "\\ hat's the matterC "My train has gone through Tin Bridge. Telegraph to Boston," was the reply. Lannon ran to the station with the mggyjjgg^ which was quickly flu li 1 tibialmi i | > v-T tllv *' It trh liis team and drove Hip the road to tho wreck. When he reached it the cries and groans were coming from all parts of the awful heap. Bruised and wounded people were crawling out from the pile. He found an axe and climbed upon a car that lay in the trench, two others being beneath it. He thought most of the cries of the injured came from this car. He crawled through a window and went to work. A woman first demanded his attention. She was pinned down by tho feet, and two seats and the body of a man lay upon her. The body and the seats were soon got out of the way. Working on the wood and iron that held her down caused her to scream with fresh agony, and it was some moments before she was released. Lannon dragged her to a window, and two men helped him lift her out. Four men, three of them dead, and two women were taken from this car by these i three men. By this time the firemen had arrived, and they, with the uninjured from the wreck, were hard at work, first rescuing the imprisoned ones who were injured, and afterward digging out the dead from the shapeless tangled debris. 4 uicio wen? tt ?cuitj "im^ore men on tne train whose injupi^jpsre-fo slight that they werejtkte-^rgStio the assistance of their fei"l&\v passengers after the first moments of paralyzing horror. Those who could bo rescued at all were got out in a few minutes, anc\ the search for the dead was prosecuted with less haste. At only one point did fire appear?in the upturned wreck of the smoking car, the last on the train. A stream from a chemical engine ! quickly quenched the flames. It was a scene of horror for about an hour. Dead, dying, and badly injured were strewn upon the ground just as the rescuers placed them in the first naste to get them from the ruins. At the bottom of the embankment, near one abutment, lay the mutilated bodies of seven girls in a row. Indeed, fully half the killed and injured were shop girls who were on their way to their work. There were many brave girls among the injured, for they bore their sufferings without moan or complaint after they had been taken from the ruins. Surgeons from the neighborhood arrived very promptly, and within an hour all the appliances necessary for such an emergency were at the scene. i ue six cars wincn lay in ine cnasm Detween the two abutments formed a pile of wreckage about 40 feet long by about 100 feet wide. Most of the casualties were in the first three cars that fell. The fifth car of the train lay in a heap, with the splinters of the fourth car beneath it. Both ends of the car were gone. This is the first serious accident that has ever occurred on the Boston and Providence Road or its branches, and its effect was felt in the stock market, the stock dropping off about seven points, or an equivalent for |300.000, which it is expected that the disaster will cost the company. The Massachusetts Railroad Commissioners at once began an investigation into the disaster. CHICAGO "BOODLERS," Arrest of Prominent Officials on the Charge of Conspiracy to Defraud. William J. McGarrigle, Warden of the Cook County Hospital 'at Chicago, "Ed" McDonald, engineer of the same institution and brother of the notorious gambler, "Mike" McDonald; Harry Varnell, Warden of the Insane Asylum, aud Richard 0. Driscoll,a bookkeeper employed by one of the firms of alleged swindling contractors, have been indicted by the Special Grand Jury for conspiring to defraud Cook County, and were all arrested. Joseph T. Connolly" bookkeeper for D. P. Boyle & Co., a bogus firm, the members of which were county employes and officials, was also indicted. These indictments and arrests have grown out of an investigation begun some weeks ago into the accounts of the persons named, as well as oi several omens, wuu me eouiiLj. It became apparent' in a short time that great frands had been perpetrated upon Cook County by various business firms and contractors acting in conjunction with officials, who certified that the bills presented were all right. Generally speak- j ing the frauds consisted in overcharges and in the purchase of large amounts of supplies, whicn never found their way into the institutions to which they were charged. Private houses were furnished and private families supported in this way. State Attorney Grinnelt took hold of the matter and asked Judge Anthony for a special Grand Jury to investigate the charges made by newspapers and individuals, and which his own assistants had been substantiating. The Grand Jury was drawn and began its investigation with the result above dedescribed. THE NATIONAL GAME, The Detroits were the first League team to open the season. The Baltimore American Association Club has started on a Southern trip. George Zimmerman, a colored player of Pittsburg, is said to be the tallest man in the profession, his hoight being 0 feet G inches. Before the season opens every State in tho country is expccted to have its base ball league. Kentucky and Indiana Leagues are the latest heard from. Tiie Northern clubs have captured all the good players of the Southern League, and the Southern League managers are now forced to come North for their players. Eighteen of the best players In the New England I.eaguo will be found in Des Moines, Minneapolis and Oshkosh, of the Northwestern League, next season. The eight American Association cities have a population of 3,900,000, while those of the League have 3,400,000, giving the Americans the advantage of half a million. Faultless fielding, says tlio Clipper, distinguished the play of one side in no fewer than 15G games between professional clubs last j season, including tho Brooklyn-Metropolitan i game, April 24; Bridgeport-Wuterbury, May I 2.1; Newark-Bridgeport, July 8, and Newark- j Waterbury, September 13, in which no errors were made by either side. The vacancy in the National League has at last boon fillecl by the admission of a club from Indianapolis in place of Kansas City. The | Indianapolis club paid $12,000 for the lato St. Louis club's team. As constituted now the National League will bo represented by clubs in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Washington, Chicago, Detroit and Indianapolis. Aunt Julie Taylor, who died recently in St. Louis, claimed to be 111 years old. She > was undoubtedly a centenarian, for a daugu- . tor who survives her is a verr old woman. m f4 J-r-'?r- '. / < * * J r r HERE AND THERE. Events of Importance from YaJ rious Quarters of tlie World. Turn Mnra P.ailrnfl^ DisastArs. With Loss of Life, The other morning a heavy mixed train on the Marietta Mineral Knilroad was divided In order to cross more safely a trestle ninety feet high, twelve miles from Parkersburg. W. Va. The first section passed over all right, and the engine, bearing Engineer H. S. Vincent, Fireman Albert Busley, Brakeman Stewart, Conductor Jack McCoy, and a passenger named EarI ly, returned for section two. When at the highest point the engine gave a sudden jerk, and plunged straight down to the abyss below, carrying all on board with it. Vincent and Busley were killed. Busley's head was severed and or.o leg off, and Vincent was cut in two. Conductor McCoy was pinned down by the i heavy engine, and it was nearly an hour before he was taken out. In the meantime the escapi ing steam scalded his head, face, and 1 body. He was probably fatally injured. Brakeman Stewart was terribly scalded, and there were but faint hopes of his recovery. Early, the passenger, had both legs broken, and was injured internally. The place into which the engine plunged is a yawning abyss, ' at the bottom of which is a rocky stream. On the same day tlic south-bound train of | tho Elmira, Cortland and Northern Railway : was wrecked two miles south of Park Sta; tion, N. Y., at 4:50 p. m. Fifty passengers, including about fifteeu ladies, were on I board. Twelve persons were consider! ably injured, but no one was killed The I accident was caused by the rails spreading, I throwing the train 6ft". Everybody- "as" thrown over the scats bv the Suddenness of the s^P-The^gjgl<*ear overi breaktrucks. Tne scattered coalsull over, burning the) d^thing of pas; sengers and setting lire to ;t'e caij . aid prevented any loss of the "re was put out. V Free Passes President Robots, of till Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has madfPJJ""? t'ie f?l" lowing official action taken >*\A e Board of Directors of the company i Jpceting held on tho 9th inst. relative to tL-y?11? passes: "This company having beeixw^5?^ ^y ^ie General Solicitor that the act?1 Congress, j known as tho Inter-State Comn?'c'?'aw> is"1* | tended to prohibit the use of Int?"ktate passes I except by officers and employ Jf?* railway companies, tho President is thertPre,. ^^d. to issue to the proper officers ofr'1 nes em* braced in the Pennsylvania Hail? system the necessary instructions to cef? ""s Pr0" hibition Into effect on the first (JP^j'nex^He will also instruct the prorF ofn>^rsof railway, bridge, and ferry erabraced in the Pennsyivanj1 Railroad system, that on and afte! APril 1, 1887, they shalf not issue any 'h? free transportation of persons o*2?S!~ ears fmm Ana intn flnftt.hpr. , trict of Columbia, except for ojji' "piSyW^of^i'Iw^jS^panies/ 11 Other-railroad companies throughout the country*have issued or will issue similar orders. A Schooner Wrecked?Threo Lives Lost. The schooncr J. H. Eells went ashore near the Nauset (Mass.) life saving station a few days since. The station keeper, Captain Knowles, attempted to put off in a lifeboat, but the sea was so rough nothing could be done. Life liues were then fired to the vessel from the bluffs. Only three reached the schooner. The crew were so exhausted that they were unable to haul in the slack, and the lines were carried adrift by the undertow and broken. Nothing more conld now be done, and work for the night was suspended. When morning dawned, of the fiva men seen the day before all had perished except two, who were in the foretop. They were rescued. They were the mate, John Olsen, and a seaman. Andrew Anderson. The vessel was bound from New York to Boston. Floods in the Northwest. Over thirty bridges on the Northern Pacific between Bismarck Park, Dakota, and ? Billings have been swept away, and much ' damage has been occasioned by the floods. Passengers report - that Miles City has been twio? inundated within a week. Water flowed in all the streets, and in one street in the rear of the town it was over ten teet deep, compelling business men to remain from their homes all night. At Medora the water in the Little Missouri surrounded the slaughter houses and refrigerators of the Marquis De Mores and Mandan. The Little Heart River is now open about twenty miles above its confluence with the Missouri, and when the ice in the latter stream breaks Mandan will be inundated, as she is built on low ground. Millions for American Heirs. The Government of Germany has had in its possession for the last forty-five years a legacy of $4,000,000 left by Andrew Teetzel, of Wurtemburg. Thirty persons in the United States nave at last been proven heirs to this sum. One of the thirty heirs is J. K. Teetzel, a mercantile broker iu Pittsburg. His brother, James V. Teetzel, who is a New-York attorney, conducted the negotiations with the German Government. The heirs are scattered all over the United States. Emperor William Would Dieln Peace It is reported that Emperor William, on receiving the French General Marquis d'Abzac, said: "Tell your compatriots that there is no danger of war. So long as I live I shall use all my influence to maintain peace. God will soon call me to himself. I do not wish to leave my people a heritage of blood. Germany shares my desire for good relations with France." Fears of an Outbreak in Bulgaria. Tho Bulgarian Regents, fearing an outbreak of hostilities, have divided Bulgaria into two military zones and appointed a commander for each zone with virtually absolute powers. Tirnova has been fortilied and garrisoned and the Varna and Burghas shore defenses have been strengthened with artillerv. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. 11 Beef, good to prime 7 @ S Calves, com'n to prime 10>j@ 11 Sheep 5}.? Lambs 8 @ Hosts?Live 0 @ 6% Dressed ! 8% Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 3 CO @ 4 00 West, good to choice 3 05 5 00 Wheat?No. 2, Red b'J%@ &0>; Rye?State 53 ($ CO Barley?State 70 @ 75 Com?Ungraded Mixed.... 4$>?@ 50 Oats?White State 3*J Mixed Western 35 (<8 37 Hay?Med. to prime Co @ S5 Straw?No. 1, Rye CO (g 05 Lard?City Steam 7 05 @ 7 05 Butter?State Creamery.... 33 @ 34 Dairy 23 @ 80 West. Im. Creamery 20 ($ 26 Factory 11 @ 23 Cheese?State Factory 11V@ 14 Skims 11 @ 12 Western 12.Y? 12!.r Eggs?State and Penn 10%<3 17" BUFFALO. Sheep?Good to Choice 4 75 @5 25 1 Lambs?Western 5 50 <# 0 (.0 Steers?Western 3 75 @ 4 25 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks ? (<? t> 00 < Flour 4 75 @ 5 15 Wheat?No. 1 yo (# 90,%' ?"Mo Mivfvl . . (ft 44' Oats?No. 2, Mixed 32 (<$ 3l.!.j ( Barley?State ? d$ 57 BOSTON. . ! Beef?Good to choice Hogs?Live 5.^$ 0 Northern Dressed,... 6%<$ TJs Pork?Ex. Prime,per bbl...1- 00 <c?12 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 00 5 23 Corn?High Mixed 51 @ 51}-? I Outs?Extra White 37%(g 3S% liye?State 00 @ 65 WATEUTOWX (MASS.) CATTT.K MAUKET. Beef-Dressed weight. 5 37>?@ 5 15 Sheep?Live weight 4Ja'(<$ ?\i Lamb OJ-j Hogs?Northern 7}i (? PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Ponn.extra family... 3 65 @ 3 80 Wheat?No. 2, Bed 8? @ 90 Bye?State ? @54 Corn/?State Yellow 46 (<$ 46}^ Oats Mixed ? @ 36)j Butter?Creamery Extra... 80 @ 33 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream., 13$?? U 1 c ? MEMORIAL SE^VKH. Addresses by Many Minltfn in Honor of Mr. Ccech?_ The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, ed of tb< j^H Independent, preached Sunday ruling in 9H Plymouth Church to an audience ? n filled ^Efl the edifice in every part. None of ?laborate floral decorations and greenhoa lisplay with -which tne interior or toe ipe wv _ trimmed for Mr. Beecher's fuj il had . been removed. Mr. Beechr big JKHfl chair remained in the See ol honor behind the olive-wood puf > On the left of the chair sat Assistant Pt >r Halliday, his eyes closed and his bead oported by one hand. The Rev. Mr. -Hal ay uttered the long prayer, and handkercMs dotted the audience when pointed 'reffneo to Mr. Beecher in heaven was madi "God sends great leaders," saidDr./>bott in his sermon,"in great transition ffrioi. Thi* is an age or transition. It is a dtfac?i)afrom the Puritan life of the last ceaW and the departure is great and radical. fn that departure no man has shown mon leadership JUH and cthical thought than Mr. Beier." The scen9 in Plymouth Chum, at night was one of the most memorable in ^history. It has never been more densely crowed. On* HB woman fainted, and was earned out A panic could hardly have been avoided if le door?.' had not been closed at 7% o'clock, a( which time there were 2,000 or 3,000 arsons outside,, vainly clamoring for admissid. The Rev. Mr. Halliday presided, and with on IBM the platforme were ministers represent!^ al most all religious denominations. They \ere: Dr. Abbott, Congregationalist; the Rev. I H. HH Camp, Unitarian;theRev.A.MFreeman (olored), Presbyterian; the Rev. Dr. L K. Fui. fll Lutheran; the Rev. J. C. Ager, Churel BH the New Jerusalem; the Rev. Dr. Almon Gem- BH 13 ? n- ri?h jusoii, uiuvfrstuiau; 1110 ncv. ui . vxcvrrox* Reed, Methodist; the Rev. J. G. RobertsJBtp- -v tist; Rabbi Wintner, of tho Beth Elohim 8ym- J:. gogue, Williamsburgh; theRev. XJ. D. Gmicty Reformed| th^ Kev. LiJij^y , Y'?' 'Episcopalian; tue" RW." 'ijlf Humpar?^ Vfl Baptist. The Rev. Mr. Halliday said nr haa no conference with the brethren oti"? ? platform on the points on which they inteir~~ to speak. It was to be simply a love meetit*!* _^H^R The Rev. Mr. Freeman read a portionL_^^^^H| Scripture and prayed. F. W. Faber's hynM^^H^B "Hark! bark! mv soul, angelic strabaf^^H^^^H swelling," which Mr. Halliday said Beecher, no longer ago than February E-renounced good enough to die on, Hv the quartet choir. Letters were read from the Rev. Chj^^H^H^^Hl Hall, who preacheiMr. Beecher's fun4Hfl^H^^H^H mon, and the Rev. Father McGlyim. The various ministers then spoke eulogy of Mr. Beecher. The Rev. erts said Mr. Beecher had brought in God's mercy like the wideness of He taught that there was no place rows are more felt or where there kindly judgment of human failings heaven. Dr. Funk said Mr. Beecher did any other man to break down religioq^^|^B^^^| riers. He was the highest developm^^Hfl^^fl^H the thought that produced the refon^^^^^^^^HH The continued development of Church along the line he marked be the grandest monument to his The Kev. Mr. Ager said Mr. Beech^^^HH^^^HH the greatest advoCateiiUMtf^MiW^^^K^K^^H^B r-^?lwKpr'ofbund confidence in human naS7 ture. Freedom was the keynote of all his utterances and the keynote of all the work ha -* did. Looking at his whole life one could so* almost nothing except to praise and admire. The Rev. Mr. Humptone said that the lore of Christ was radiant in all Mr. Beecher't thinking, and glowed in every utterafice. The sunlight of love was so'bright to him that his eyes were dark to other things. t The Rev, Mr. Camp said we could not think of Mr. Beecher as dead. He has never been so much alive as he is to-day. Even during the stormy days of his life ne was the apostle of goodwill. Rabbi Wintner said Mr. Beecher belonged to all nationalities and could not -be exclusively claimed by this or that creed. He belonged to all races .without distinction. . The Rev. Dr. Reed said Mr. Beecher did - * more to give a true; conception of God than any other man who had lived in our day. JLLLL3 IXfcLUUllUlbJ Ui OpUXK Y? CVS LLL3 piWUUUU?V ing characteristic. 'The Rev. Mr. Gulick, Dr. Abbott, and the Rev. Mr. Parker also spoke. The exercises closed with the singing of "The Shining Shore." The benediction was pronounccd by the Rev. Mr. Freeman. Memorial services were also held in many ' ' other New York and Brooklyn chnrches during the day and evening. _ : -vEs NEWSY GLEANINGS,.;. St. Louis claims to be the great hard-wood depot of the United States. A forty-three pound bearer was recently trapped near Conlonge, Canada. , At McKillop, Canada, a few days ago, a. young mare gave birth to three colta. LooisijOca claims the largest farm in tfc* world. It comprises 1,500,000 acres land and swamp.' An octopus nine feet long was captured at the mouth of Coquille River, California, recently. TT? io fvtof ffo nnoaii'a I'TImiOA KAC. vice to be 'held in Westminster Abbey trill cost $60,000. Edward A. Stanley, of Chicago, bequeathed an estate of over $500,000 in a wil? -; of four lines. It is stated that W. J. Browning, a Merced (Cal.) hunter, killed 38,000 ducks this season. In one day he killed 750. The Grand Duke Paul, the Czar's youngest brother, is to marry the Princess Alexandra of Greece, aged seventeen. There are two solid gold bricks in the United States Mint at Denver, each one of which weighs nearly 110 pounds. There recently arrived at Palatka, Fla., from Maine, two Indians who had made th? ocean trip in a small birch canoe. "Wild geese and ducks are so numerous on a farm at Palos, Cal.,.that they have to b? herded from the wheat and alfalfa fields. The champion apple-parer lives at Wheatland, Mich. Her recora for the current season is 1,450 barrels, and all done without neglect of household duties. Reports from the winter wheat belt indicate that the crop is emerging from the winter in better shape than last year, but it has still to pass through a critical period. Prof. Edward Olxey, late of the University of Michigan, had a groat head. His brain weighed sixty-one ounces, five ounces more than Webster's and twelve above the average. ' > _ The physicians of the Polyclinic Hospital of New York have just removed a tumor from a young man's brain. The physicians before the operation learned that when two years old the young man had fallen from a fence and had a corn stalk driven through his skull. The hole, however, had in . f r course of time filled up with bony matter. The young man had frequent fits, periods of hysteria, had developed paralytic symptoms and began to show a morbid suspicion of people. Th? physicians having decided that the trouble lay in the brain, learned of the accident in childhood, found the scar of the wound, placed the patient under the influence of ether, cut a piece out of the skull at the scar, found the tumor growing in the brain and removed it. In its center was a splinter of bone. The tumor was pear-shaped and two inches in diameter where widest. It took an hour to remove it. The patient has almost completely recovered and shows none of his former symptoms. Mrt. GeouuE Bancroft has a German body-servant who has been with intrai. cin^A hp \rflH at Berlin. The servant wakes the historian precisely at I 7 o'clock every morning and prepares his clothes for him to pnt on, and an I hour later brings him his breakfast, of H which the principal feature is fine wheat fl bread. B