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r ? ? c r The Czar of Russia takes' much more pleasure in playing with his children at the grounds of Gatschina than in St. Petersburg society during the gay season. Probably that's the time "when he is in the least danger of being dj namited. The celebrated set of cameo glassware owned by the late Mrs. Morgan, Xcw York, of peachblow-vase fame, and which cost $18,000, was sold recently at auction for $1,676. But even at those ngures u makes pretty expensive property for the hired girl to smash. A Montana man reached Chicago with five car-loads of good cattle the other day, sold them at an advantage, and turned up at a Police Court next morning with seventy-five cents, which was ail that remained of the thousands of dollars that he had when ho started to take in the t? WD. ______ Ex-President White of Cornell University predicts that eventually there will be formed a great educational system worthy of this country, in which the public schools will give the basis, the colleges the intermediate education and the universities the most advanced general and professional instruction. ===== There are victims in all the New York hospitals of the explosions and accidents in the construction of the great aque tiuct. jlue utuiua uiu puui?,ij n.pui..^v, but no mention is made of the casualties, which are almost of daily occurrence. Several cf.the hospitals are overcrowded in consequence of this unusual demand upon their accommodations. Jefferson Davis has written a letter contradicting the rumor that he was about to visit "Washington. He says that he will never see the capital again. "It would be pleasant to view the scenes which were once so familiar to me," he adds, "though I doubt if I would hardly recognize the city now, as it has so improved and grown. No, I shall never again see Washington. I'm getting too old to ?ravcl." % __ MN . There are twenty millions of people in Japan belonging to the agricultural classes, but of its area of one hundred millions of acres twelve millions only are in cultivation, and from these are produced all the food and textile plants grown to feed and clothe thirty-eight millions of people. The unfilled area yields only fuel. In Japan a widebladed mattock is the common implement of cultivation, the plow being comparatively but little used. ^^ The English "War Office refused percmptorily to permit the landing in Ireland of the Gate City Guards of Atlanta, Ga., under uniform. But General Boulanger, the French War Minister, in his reply to Captain T. F. Burke, the commander of the company, says: "It wil^ _ afford me the greatest pleasure to sec you in France with the Gate City Guards, coming as you do to give testimony to the patriotic friendship that exists between the United States and my own beloved country." A stale swindle, which consists in offering new machinery to a farmer on easy terms, and getting him to sign a papei which professes to be an order, but turn9 out to be a note for a considerable sum, has not, it appears, yet become obsolete. The latest case is of a man who professes to sell tool-sharpeners, and humbugs the innocent farmers into signing a note fox $234, payment of whj-:h is afterward demanded by a third party. Moral: Never put your name to any document which you do not thoroughly understand, and never place yourself in the power of a stranger. A Pennsylvania farmer near Phoenix ville is waging a successful war on tlit ground hog,which as every farmer knows, does much damage to meadows. His method is to fill a large beer or portei bottle with powder, letting a fuse tud through the cork. He then places the bottle in the ground hog's hole, with the fuse projecting outside, taking care to pack the earth tightly at the mouth oi the hole and close up firmly all othei boles leading to the home of the doomed tnimal. Then the fuse is fired, and the result is that all the ground hogs in the hole are killed by the concussion. The Cincinnati Enquirer has received * 'privately from the Rev. Dr. Bolles ol Cleveland, to whom Mr. Beecher himselt told it," the following story about Mr. aovltr tt?Vta/1 af rvVtra?/?nl av/it? O caiij 1UUIUVU WA |/UJ U1UU1 VAtlcise: "His means were then small and his domestic surroundings very modest. But he had a clean, dry, and roomy cellar. He procured to be delivered there a load of sand. One day he shoveled it from one end of the cellar to the other; and the next day he shoveled it back to its old position. This he continued until his brother Tom discovered it, and drove him to the more intelligent and wholesome exercise of the gymnasium." It is commonly said that Mr. Spofford, the Librarian of Congress, knows something about the contents of every volume in the library. This means that he has stowed a way in a moderate sized head 600,000 volumes of various sizes and bindings. A member of Congress facetiously said: "I don't read books, I read Spofforu. la tnac way, ne aaueu, lie got the whole library at one glance. A figure of speech, but not as broad as it sounds. If a member or a Senator wants a quotation that cannot be found in any of the "Familiar Quotations," and is of very obscure origin, he goes to Mr. Spofford. If he wants the best authority on any subject, or, indeed, if he wants to learn anything that may be found in any of those thousands of volumas, he goes to the same source. Members seldom ihialrof looking at the catalogues. - - A Toronto shoplifter was recently captured in Montreal, and she panned out remarkably well. In a pocket three feet long was an assortment of spoons,thread, lace, and other valuables. Her bustle was formed of two bed sheets, a lady's beautiful hat, and a colored glass jug. Her trunks contained bed clothes, all kinds of wearing apparel, brushes, combs, over 1,000 rolls of thread, a large bag ol needles, pins, &c., about fifty pounds of soap, matches, fancy cards, glassware, table goods, feathers, bottles, and jars ol nrpcprv^Q The farmer's life, according to care- | fully prepared statistics in Massachusetts, is longer than that engaged in any other occupation. He lives on an average sixty-five years,while the highest average at any other business is fifty-six years. This longevity, says the Cultivator, is not due entirely to his out-of-door life, for some other out-door workers are not long lived. But the farmer's out-door work is mostly in pleasant weather. In storms he keeps pretty closely indoors, thus showing the great advantage not only of knowing enough to go in when it rains, but of having a bussiness which allows him to do so. A respectable workingman who will endeavor to pass himself off for a thief in order to get something to eat, must be pretty hungry. And yet this is just what occurred in Glasgow not long since. Cards of admission to a supper of "beefsteak pie and plum pudding, specially for thieves" were given to 150 men. Each card bore the inscription: "This supper * * - > - i i ? is oniy ior men wuo uiw uau ?,uii>u.ivu of theft." On the reverse side of the card was a notice for sensitive thieves, who desired not to be recognized, as follows: "Should any wish to enter the hall with, out being observed, they may do so by the back door, entering by old Exchange Court nearer the Cross." An ex-thief stood guard at the door, and allowed only thieves of reputation to enter, and yet scores of hungry laborers endeavored to obtain admission, willing to call themselves thieves to get a good meal. It is a peculiar form of charity that thus in a measure rewards crime, for no pretense was made of restricting the gathering to penitent thieves. "A half-breed named Nicholas Chattelain has just been found at Dog Head, Lake Winnipeg, who was a contemporary of Tecumseh, the great Indian chief, famous in connection with the war of 1812," says a writer in the Wisconsin State Jour nal. 1 'Chattelain is now ninety-live years of age, but still erect and active in his movements. In his youth he must have been a magnificent man physically, standing six feet three in his stockings, and gifted with great strength aDd endurance. He belonged originally to Sanlt Ste. Marie, but being in the vicinity of Detroit when the war of 1812 broke out, he joined the British army and served under Brock at the storming of Detroit. He then allied himself with Tccumsch, and followed that chief's varying fortunes in his war with Harrison until his defeat and death at Thamesvillc. At the close of the war Chattelain returned to the upper lakes, where he pursued the vocation ol a boatman and hunter in the Bervice of the Hudson Bay Company. For his services in the field and council he was given a pension by the Dominion Government of $250 a year. Bonlanger and the Sneak Thief. The interest attaching to the recent ac tions of the French Minister of "War, 31. Boulanger, recalls an experience that official had with a thief while sojourning in Philadelphia during the Yorktown celebration in 1881. 31. Boulanger was at the time a guest at the Continental Hotel, and one night awakened to find a thief in the act of securing his watch from the bureau. The General lost no ; time, but jumping from the bed and seizing his sabre, held the intruder at bay ' while calling loudly for a "gendarme." The regular officer of the house was sent up by the clerk, but as he was not in full uniform 31. Boulanger refused to surrender his prisoner to him. A patrolman was sent for, and upon his arrival the thief was delivered into custody. lie was escorted to headquarters, given a hearing and immediately sent into court, where, before noon, he had been tried, convicted and sentenced to five years in the East em Penitentiary. M. Boulanger was astonished at the rapidity with which the officials of American cities dealt with their criminal classes. He intended sailing for home the day following the attempted theft, but had concluded to miss one steamer rather than have the thief escape punishment, and the promptness with which the fellow was railroaded formed the subject of a letter of thanks to the Chief of Police from the Minister. The fellow served his full term, less the usual commutation on account of good behavior while in prison. A Novel Cavalry Review. General Boulanger, says the St. James's Gazette, has just been holding a cavalry ' review of a novel kind. A score of corporals from the Joinville training school went through their evolutions before him mounted on magnificent velocipedes. The composition of the little troop resembled that of the regular mounted force of the country, the bicyclists representing the light, the tricyclists the heavy cavalry. The French War Minister has decided to have a certain proportion of the men in the infantry regiments trained to the use of the velocipede, the utility of these machines for the transmission of orders and the interchange of communications be twccn the different divisions of an army having been satisfactorily established in practicc. Their employment will, for one thing, leave all the horses of the force available for the work in which their services arc indispensable. The bicycle has | been found to give better results on the whole than the tricycle, and it is probable that some form of the two-wheeled i! machine will be definitively adopted for , general use. ??I ii t In the Autograph Album. A few days before his death, Mr. Beecher was asked by one of his nieces to write in her autograph album. He penned the following lines: j "To Mother Earth: "Give your greenest mound, and your j fairest' flowers, to your dearest lover." - ' r GLADSTONE ^SPEAKST The Ex-Premier Opposes Coercion in Ireland. All Address Which Greatly Pleased Pamell's Followers. In the British House of Commons on Thursday evening the debate on the motion for urgency for the Coercion bill was resumed by Mr. Gladstone. He referred to the "unprecedented" position of the House, which had already sat two months, during which, he said, its independent initiative had been suppressed. Even now the Conservatives exulted over the prospect of passing a motion forcing the Houso to an absolute surrender of its whole time until a bill of an extremely severe character had been carried. The House was threatened with a frequent application of closure (shutting off discussion) if debates were protracted. No greater calamity could befall the House than this sort of pressure. It would saptbo authority of the Chair and bring the procedure rules into disrepute. He had seen more parliamentary life than any other man in the Houso, but ho never knew of so grave a state of affairs. It was due to an extreme abuse of power by the majority, which, if persisted in would leavo behind a sense of intolerable wrong. The yoke thus put on the neck of the House would not be borne patiently. The position of affairs now was very different from that when the Coercion bill of 18S1 was passed. There were no papers before the House now, nor was them any indication of the nature of the proposed "Government measure. ?'? apU'mm cnAnml lnryiclof.mn fnr HtltlA'l'.'H', ill (WM1IC OJAVllVl ?v. dealing with crime in Ireland, Ministers had tried to show that the terrible prevalence of crime threatened social order. Was that the case now? No. The House had been told that the number of agrarian offences prior to the passage of Mr. Forster's coercion act exceeded the highest number since. Crime then, however, was of a different character from that which the Government sought now to check. The present crime consisted in combining to obtain a reduction of rent. [Irish cheers.] Even the evidence which the Government put before the House showed that this crime was restricted to demands for just abatements of rent. Never had any former coersion net b?en resisted by a majority of the members from Ireland. [Cheers.] Now there was a protest against coercion from an overwhelming majority of the Irish members. [Cheers]. Had the government any just claim lor demanding coercion or urgency for a new repressive measureAfter appointing a commission to examine on the spot the rent question and the evils arising from the land laws, the Government now put aside the recommendations of the commission and asked Parliament for increased power to make the laws still more offensive to the general sense of the people. [Irish cheers.] General Buller's evidence proved that the tenants not paying rent were anxious to pay; that there was no general movement against the payment of rent, but only a combined effort to obtain fair rents. The Irish people were apt to follow the example constantly set by others and see what they could make out of exclusive dealing. [Cheers.] Tho Government said that contracts should not be broken, yet Mi-. Balfour, while preaching the doctrine of the sanctity of contracts, was going to introduce a bill breaking lea^liold contracts that were adjusted imder the land act of 1881, just as tho judicial rents were. It was not to vindicate the sanctity of contracts nor to repress a widespread outbreak of crime that the Government now demanded coercion for Ireland. Of whatever nature the Government measure should turn out to be, it was the duty of the Liberals now, whether in minority or in majority,to refuse urgency. Ho trusted "that the people of England would see the Liberals united in opposing this ill-omened measure to the last stage, and that the Liberal members would ring out the voices of justice and reason against a Government which after eighty-six years of experience were preparing,under the name of a statue of Parliament, to strike a fresh blow at the life and happiness of Ireland and at the prosperity, contentment, and unity of the empire. (Cheers.) Mr. Chamberlain spoke in behalf of coercion, and said he did not believe remedial measures would have any chance to succeed in Ireland while the National League was supreme. The British Ministry decided to permit a prolongation of the discussion, but insisted that the House forego its Easter vacation 1 - r* 1 umess mo v^werciuu um uc ikuku uviuiu hud holiday's. A section of the Gladstonian party is said to be dis oatented with Mr. Gladstone's halfveiled approval of the plan of campaign. The English Hometftilers and the Parnellites are delighted with the speech. Mr. Balfour, in introducing the Coercion bill, will respond to Mr. Gladstone's challenge to the Government to state what crime exists that justifies the adoption of the measure. The Dublin Executive has prepared a statement which is designed to assist Mr. Balfour in proving that the plan of campaign is now being directed against tradesmen who are creditors of farmers belonging to the National L ague. The Parnellitcs will maintain that the plan is strictly confined to arrangements about rent. ONE MAN KILLS FOUB. i. Texan Shoots Fonr Assailants and Escapes Unhurt. "Walter Ridgeley, a wealthy farmer living twenty miles north of Texarkana, Texas, ihot and killed two ferrymen rocently for trying to collect exorbitant charges from a St. Louis drummer. Tho legal fee for ferriage is fifty cents, but Ihe drummer was charged $5, which he refused to pay. His baggage was seized and Ridgeley interfered in his behalf. The ferrymen donounced and insulted the fanner and attempted to draw their weapons, when Ridgeley shot them both dead. Upon examination Ridgeley was discharged immediately. John Murphy,a brother of one of the men killed, and the ether dead man's uncle swore they would kill Ridgeley on sight. The other night Ridgeley was returning home on horseback from a neighbor's and on entering a strip of woods was lired on from ambush. Tho hor*? fell dead, but, although tho saddle was riddled with bullets, Ridgeley escaped unharmed and rolled over on the opposite side of tho horso to that from which tho firing proceeded. The two wouldbe murderers, who were noire other than the undo and brother mentioned, thinking that Ridgeley was dead, approached. When within about ten feet Ridgeley suddenly rose up and, with his revolver, shot both assailants dead in their tracks. He surrendered, but the J ustice x*efused to accept his arrest, as the case was one of self-defense and the community declared that no examination was neo^ssary. THE DEVOURING FLAMES, Eighty Cottages and JJoardinj? nouses i/onNaincu. A fire at the Chautauqua Assembly Grounds, near Jamestown, N. Y., on Sunday night, destroyed eighty buildings, including several large boarding-houses, among them the Eckert, and Parkhurst and Ailing house?. The total los? will probably exceed $100,000. The firo started shortly before midnight in the C'urtiss cottage, on Simpson avenue, caused by a defective line. It swept everything before it, taking both sides of Simpson and Sunimerville avenues from the Auditorium to the Hotel Athenamm. It was with great difTculty that the hotel was saved. Six eotlages 011 Asbury avenue were also burned. The ul>scence of a high wind alone saved from destruction the Targe oud costly structure. The heroic work of the winter residents and farmers from the surrounding country undoubtedly prevented tho destruction of the entire Assembly with its costly buildings and saved S00 cottages from total destruction. All the cottages and boarding-houses in the l>urr.o<l district were furnished, and very little furniture was saved. Many of " the burned cottages on Simpson avenue were rebuilt last year. This was tho most fashionable avenue of the grounds. The cottages cost from $~,000 to $15,000 each. Tho magnificent for est trees shading tho streets were dcstroj'eil No casualties, other than the prostration several residents from over-exertion, are reported. Obadtah A ixcext, an inmate of the Cumberland County, Illinois, poor-house, was boni in Kentucky in 1707, and is consequently 120 years old. His form is bent nearly double, lis is blind, and yet until a few weeks ago he wa3 able to do enough work to keep him out of th} poor house. ~v - Vr?- -.''V . -'-it-. -" - NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. Alfred Solly, the New York financier, is reported to have failed to exercise his option of buying a controlling interest in the Baltimore and Ohio railroad from President Garrett. Messrs. Ives and Stayner, of New York, aro said to have secured the option on tho same terms as were given to Mr. Sully. A nation"at. dairy and cattle show will bo held in New York City from May 10th to 14th inclusive. Extensive prizes for the best cattle, butter and cheese, etc., will be offered. David Clark, of Stratford, Conn.,has presented his farm of 108 acres to tho Hartford Hospital and Old People's Home as a monument to his son. A destructive fire has swept through the i Chautuaqua Assembly grounds near Jamestown, N. Y., destroying the new and mag- . nificent hotel, Children's Temple and Amphi uieatre anu mure man miy wLuagea. Janitor Trrrs, sentenced to death for the j murder of TilLie Smith at Hackettstown, N. I J., has had his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life. Five leading members of the Now York Knights of Labor have been arrested on charges of conspiracy preferred by the fore- , man of a shoe factory who was discharged upon their deman d. South and West. Fifty- mad dogs are causing a scare in the country about Atlanta, Ga. A score of persons have been bitten, several have died, and a hundred or moro head of stock have been lacerated by the animals. Madstones are in great demand. A prairie fire has swept over Ihe country ; south of Lamed, Kan., burning over a strip about six miles wide and twenty miles iiong. A largo number of buildings were destroyed. A Mrs. Kulow was burned to death while trying to got stock out of a stable. A fire at Rock Hill, N. C., destroyed the postofllce, hotel, two banks and several stores. Total estimated loss, $100,000. The Texas Legislature having passed a resolution expelling from the legislative chamber H. S. Canfield, an Austin editor whose caustic criticisms had aroused the ire of the Legislatoj-s, Speaker Pendleton took proceedings to have the resolution carried mto effect. Canfield caused Pendleton's arrest. Then the Legislature arrested Canfield, the justice who ordered the arrest of Pendleton and the constable who had token the Speaker into custody. Canfield got fortyeight hours in jail. The Missouri law prohibiting the manufac. ture and sale of oleomargarine has been re| pealed. Dealers in oleomargarine now can carry on their trade by complying with the United States law. Tex Mormons imprisoned in the Detroit, (Mich.) House or Correction have oeen released upon a decision of the United States Supreme Court which declares that cumulative sentences are illegal. They had been convicted of violating the anti-polvgamy 1 aw. A man named Foster, living near Whitebread, Indian Territory, fired at a mouse in his cabin. The shot struck a can oj: powder, which exploded, and Foster, his wife and two children were killed. Col. Wm. H. Martin was nominated by a Democratic Convention to fill the seat of 6enator-clect Reagan in Congress from Texas on the 272d ballot. Senator John Sherman discussed. the tariff at a meeting in Birmingham, Ala. Washington. Charles Colbcrn, a messenger of the Treasury Department, has been dismissed for loaning money to employes at ten per cent, per month. Application has been made to the Treasury Department for the admission duty free at San Francisco of a joss or Chinese idol 150 i feet long, and made of wood, paper tinsel and metal The Treasury Department will resume printing $1 and $2 notes, in order to supply the demand for small bills. There, are 296,386 pension cases pending in f.lio TTniWl S>tat.A3 P?n?tr?n Bureau. Commander Davis, of the United States | training sliip Saratoga, reports that while at : San Fernanda, by the swamping of a small boat. Paymaster's Clerk Aloert Taylor Cowie; J. Oates, Apothecary; H. H. Hesse, Armorer, and William Foster, Coxswain, were drowned. Civil Service Commissioner Edgerton* states that nine clerks in the Interior Depart- 1 ! inent have been appointed in violation of the j Civil Service law, and that they will be ori dered out, and their places filled by persons , who have passed the required examination. Benton J. Hall, an ex-Congressman from | Iowa, is authoritatively named as the successor to Commissioner of Patents Montgomery, whose resignation was tendered to tlw President some weeks ago. Foreign. Mobs hanged William Hard}*, a murderer, at Troy, lenn., and "One-ear Dodge," u horse-thief, in New Mexico. Empkror William's ninetieth birthday has just been celebrated throughout Germany with extraordinary ceremonies and festivitives. The celebration lasted nearly a week in Berlin, and' about every Court in Europe was represented by either the reigning monarch, the heir apparent, or other leading , members of the royal families. Rich gold deposits have been discovered in British Columbia, close to the Alaskan frontier. The struggle has begun in the British House of Commous over the measures providing for coercion in Ireland. SINGULAE__AOCIDENTS. A citizen of Valdosta, Ga., was chopping kindling wood in his kitchen a few evenings ago, when a piece of it flew up and hit him on the nose, breaking the nasal bone. He fell senseless to the floor, and was weak from tho loss of blood when found. While Louis Gott was hunting near Palmyra, Mo., be received a violent blow 011 tho side of the head which mado him dizzy for a few moments. "When ho recovered he saw a prairie chicken limping away, and he thinks it was the chicken that struck him. Mrs. Gordon, living near Marianna, Ark., sent her littie daughter Clara out to milk the cows. When the pail was full the girl reached over to pick it up, but slipped and fell headlong into the milk. The warm fluid almost choked her, aud she came near dying before she could be resuscitated. Aunt Kirrr McDowell, of Tazewell County, 111., suffers a great deal from rheumatism in the feet and ankles, and to relievo tho affected parts she bathed thc.n recently in camphor and black oil. Afterward, while she was sitting near tho fire, the stuff ignited, and hor feet were terribly burned before the flames could be extinguished. A Gkoroia man stood looking at a rapidly moving circular saw in a planing mill at Ocean Pond, and carelessly threw a small bit of wood against it. In an instant the stick was hurled back with great force against him, striking him squarely between the eyes and knocking him to the floor, lie remained unconscious for several hours and ho.s a reminder of the accident in theshapeof an ugly wound in the forehead. During the progress of a recent fin* in Chicago a pipeman was standing on a ladder directing a stream into the second-story window, when, in souk; way, tho hose got the letter of him and turned so that the stream struck him in the chest. Tho force of the water knocked him from the ladder against a sign, bruising him badly on the hips. He struck the sign so hard that he rebounded, caught the ladder and still retained his hold on the hose. Edward Hkrrick. a street-car conductor, living in Auburn, It. I., wanted to soM?r a hole in his wifu's waih-lwilw, nml used what lio supposed to be an oM soldering-iron that liad lain around the house for years. He put. the iron in the lire and was scraping the rust from tho l>oiler when thero was an explosion that scattered the stove in all directions and set fire to the house, lie n ick has learned since that the supposed soldering-iron was a railroad torpedo. Whim Joseph Ninters, an employ? at one of the Negloys Run (Pa.) oil refineries, was riveting a boiler a few days ago, tho he~d of *10 of the iron rivets flew off and tore a hole in his chock, causing a gri>at deal of blood to flow. A physician who was summoiuxl probed for tho iron, but was unable to find it until his attention was called to a small lump on the injured man's back, between tho shoulder-blades. Surmising that the lump contained the rivet^head, he cut it open ana extracted tho substance. The iron had made its way down along the mi'ides of the U';ck, . a distanco of nearly a foot. NINETY YEARS OLD. Honors Paid to the Aged Emperor of Germany. His Birthday Celebrated in Royal Manner at Berlin. A Berlin dispatch gives the following de. tails of the festivities attending the celebration of Emperor William's birthday: me mnetietn anniversary 01 emperor William's birth was ushered in by the pealing of bells in all the churches and the tower of the Town Hall and the sounding of a choral. Tho city was decorated as it never was before. Garlands, flags, laurels, festoons of evergreen, banners, bright drapery, and brilliant carpets hung on every conspicuous spot where ornament could be made to add to the joyous appearance of the town. Conspicuous by the extreme elegance of their decoration were the Royal Academy and the university buildings, and the city residence of the Crown Prince, Frederick William. The monument of Frederick the Great was covered with wreaths and flowers. Wherever there was a bust or statue of the Emperor in a shop window or other exposed place it was buried in * flowers. The people were all out in holiday EMPEROR WILLIAM. attire, and the streets were thronged. Early' in the day special memorial religious services were held in all the churches and synagogues, and the edifices were crowded in every case. The children from all the schools in the city went in processions, accompanied by bands of music, to the church services. The students' procession past the palace was a grand affair. They went in carriages, of which there were several hundred in line, and carried the bright banners of the various school and college societies and associations. They were accompanied by many bands playing music and arrayed in gorgeous medieval costume?. The long line of carriages was preceded and followed by students on horseback. Passing the palace the bands played the national anthem. "Preussenlied," and "Wacht um Rhein," the students all singing to the music. The Emperor appeared at the window as the procession was moving past and bowed, remaining there a considerable time. The great crowd in the street gave him an ovation, the multitude cneering ltseu noarse, ana tiring itself out waving hats and hanndkerchiefs. The municipal procession was preceded by heralds and marshals bearing the town banner, the whole body of the Evangelical clergy, the chief civil and military authorities, representatives of German science, art, anu commerce, the directors of the Gymnasia, and the burgesses and communal officers, in all over 2,000 persons. The procession was accompanied by several bands, which played marches alternately with chorals by trumpeteers. The procession went in state from the Town Hall to attend commemorative religious service in the Church of St. Nicholas. The? clergymen were all full robed, and the officials wore their uniforms and regalia. "When the procession entered the church the organ played a prelude. This was followed by the singing of the "Salvum fac Regem" and the chanting of the Ambrosian hymn. The festival sermon was preached by Provost Bruechner. At noon a royal salute of 101 guns was fired from the Koenigsplatz. Prince Bismarck and Marshal von Moltke went to pay their congratulations to the Emperor at 1 o'clock. They were enthusiastically cheered all along the route on their way to and from the palace. All the members of the imperial family and all their princely guests drove in procession to the palace and personally tendered their congratulations to the Emperor. The j>roces sion, wmcn mciuaea uie A.ings 01 oaxuny and Roumania, the Grand Duke of Baden and Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the Grand Dukes Michael and Vladimir of Russia, the Crown Princes of Austria, Sweden, Denmark and Wurtemberg; the Prince of Wales, the Count of Flanders, the Duke of Aosta, Prince Leopold of Bavaria and many others, was cheered by the crowds in the streets. The day was celebrated with similar and equal enthusiasm in all the towns of Germany. Prince Bismarck assured the Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria-Hungary, who was present representing his father at the Emperor's birthday celebration, that Germany's foreign policy is pacific; that peace is assured for 1887, and that there is no cause for disquietude in either the East or West. I The Emperor began to receive his guests at 11 o'clock in the morning, an 1 he appeared at his favorite window intiie palace overlooking the street, u> often as he could find time to do so, to respond to the cheers of the people, who passed bj- in thousands to get a glimpse of him. The illuminations at night throughout the city were superb. An especially striking feature was the picture, 100 yards long by 20 yards wide, in front of the Academy of Arts depicting events in the Emperor's life. All the Secretaries of Departments were decorated by the Emperor. In receiving the household deputation, the Emperor said: "I haue reached this age by the grace of God, and. if the Lord helps me and wants mo to, I may live to see another vear." Emperor William conferred various honors upon all the members of his Cabinet. At the afternoon reception the Emperor, after receiving the congratulations of the royal family and the princely guests, with the Empress by his side and suirounded by the full court, formally announced the lietrothal of Prince Henry, the s?cond son of Crown Prince Frederick William, to the Princess Irene of Hesse. ine young coupie were aiierwuru ueui uy congratulated by all the illustrious company. A family dinner followed at 4 o'clock at the palace of the Crown Prince. In Paris Count von Munster held a reception in honor of the occasion. The whole diplomatic world, all the members of the French Cabinet, Count de Lesseps, and the prominent foreign residents of Paris, were present. The lion of the evening was General Boulanger, the French War Minister. PROMINENT PEOPLE, The Hon. William M. Evarts's boots are said to cost him ?.'5 a pair. President Cleveland is just fifty years old. His wife is studying French. Mr. Blaine is to go to Europe in May if he does not change his mind before that time. United States Senator Spooner and his wile,of Wisconsin,willbcamon^tlioEuropean wanderers this year. Ras Alula, a highly successful Abyssinian honerai, js tno son 01 a macs suvc, juiu ? thirty-two years olit. Ok the original members of Plymouth Church only two?Henry C. Bowen and John T. Howard?are living. Colonel Ixgersoll saj-s he will deliver no more anti-religious lectures. His law practice takes all his time. Besides b?ing well up in all matters pertaining to farming, the comiwaer Verdi is a veterinarian of Jiiu-h mnnt# Judge GnxY, of White Conntv, Arkansas, was putting on his wedding clothes the other day preparatory to marrying Miss Nannie Patty, when he complained of a pain in his right arm, called for water, and then almost immediately died. ! _________ ! LATER NEWS. The New York Assembly has passed the bill providing for high license in New York and Brooklyn. The trial of ex-Alderman Cleary, charged with selling his vote to grant the Broadway horse-car company a charter, ended in New York on Wednesday with a disagreement of me jury, fix suuiuiugj iur wuvicuou anu six for acquittal. The testimony introduced was substantially the same as that which had resulted in the conviction of "Boodle" Aldermen McQuade and O'Neill. Extensive frauds have been unearthed in connection with the failure of James and John Hunter, Philadelphia print manufacturers. Forged notes for large amounts have come to light. The Chattanooga Land, Coal, Iron and Railway Company has been organized with a capital of $12,000,000. Tho organizers own 25,000 acres of valuable mineral lands, and propose to acquire all the undeveloped lands in the vicinity. I The schooner G?orge S. Richardson, of Snow Hill, Md., capsized in Chesapeake Bay, and the crew of five men were drowned. The Treasury Department has issued the 148th call for the redemption of bonds. The call is for $10,000,000 of the 8 per cent, loan of 1882, principal and accrued interest to be paid on May 1. Canada's latest plan is to prevent Americans from going to the Hudson Bay fisheries. Owing to the severe weather more than thirty per cent, of the cattle in the ranges west of Winnipeg, Manitoba, have died. A British war ship has captured two slavers, with a cargo of sixty slaves each, going to Jeddah in the Soudan. Seventy miners were killed by an explo' sion in a colliery at Sydney, New South Wales. While a Methodist Episcopal donation party was in progress in the Still villo (N. Y.) schoolhouse, the floor gave way, and ten or twelve persons were severely injured. Mrs. John Farnham died the other day in a Utica (N. Y.) hospital at the age of 108 | years. The President has appointed Oscar S* Straus, a New York city merchant, to be Minister to Turkey. Several gigantic railroad consolidations are likely to follow the enforcement of the Inter-State Commerce law. Germany has refused to participate either I in the industrial or arf sections of the Paris [ International Exhibition of 18S9. A Montreal dispatch announces that Sir John Macdonald, the head of the Canadian Government, is to shortly resign the Premiership and go to England as High Commissioner. He will then be elevated to the peerage, and return to Canada and become the successor to Lord Lansdowne, whose term of office as Governor-General of Canada will soon expire. Fifteen Anarchists are on trial in Vienna for conspiring to burn the Austrian capital. The evidence shows that only the failure of the plot saved the city from almost total destruction. A FRIGHTFUL HBE. Many Inmates of a Buffalo Hotel Killed and Injured.. Fire was discovered at 3:30 a. m. the other morning in the Puchmond Hotel, corner Main and Eagle streets, Buffalo, N. Y. It spread through the building with amazing rapidity. The firemen, who were promptly on hand, were powerless to put out the fire, and they j j?s -11 swn uevuieu uii tueir tmergica vj xmujj life. Seven parsons were burned to death or killed by jumping from the windows or roof. About thirty persons were injured, several of them with fatal result. The scene during tbo half hour of agony that followed the alarm was terrible in the extreme. One hundred and twenty-five persons were in the hotel. Seventy of them were transient guests, eight were boarders, and the rest were ported Bell boy9, the families of the proprietors, and clerks. In an incredibly short space of time the interior of the hotel was filled with smoke and flame. Then terrible scenes began. The second and third alarms brought the entire Fire Department to the scene, but it was impossible to save any portion of the structure. The fire had reached the roof in less than five minutes from the time it wa? discovered. It soon reached and gutted St. James's Hotel, occupied as Bunnell's Museum, and Tivoli Hall adjoining. The fire, which was under control by 5 o'clock, A. M., was confined to the Richmond Hotel and museum property. The shrieks and cries of the poor people in the upper stories of the burning structure were neartrending. One man, mad with terror, leaped from a third-story window, and was picked up from the stone sidewalk on Main street a mangled corpse. Several who succeeded in making their escape were badly injured and burned. Others, more fortunate, escaped with slight injuries. The firemen did everything in their power to rescue the distracted people whose rooms were already aflame while they were at the windows shrieking for aid. Chief Horning says: ''The iiAAula vo^/tno/1 Kv fko fi ram on io about twenty-five. We (lid all we could for them. "We got two streams into the corridor of the hotel, and at that moment the flames were shooting up that big staircase and elevator way bevond the reach of the hose. "We tried to play both streams upward on the fire, but there was so much screaming of guests and calls for help from the windows that we called off most of the men from the hose and let the building go for a while, giving all our attention to the ladders. "Never mind the building,' I yelled: 'save the people;' and the boys helped man the ladders on the outside, putting up two on the Main street side and the short ones on Eagle street. There was need for them, too. It was a horrible sight to see the people jumping from every side. The cool-headed ones were rescued all right, but some wouldn't wait." Five girls were seen in a fifth-story window who had tied the bed clothing into a rope, which they hung out. None of them seemed to have the courage to start. At last one of them took hold and swung down to the window ledge, from which she was assisted by two men. Three others c-ame down in the same manner, and then the fifth girl started down. She had gone but a little distance when the rope parted, and down she went four stories. 4-r\ ****** n*oo H1W1 Wfif 1a<TC Qlinilgd IVJWJj fIJJC ntwi iiw OUiLU. AAV* IV^u . were terribly cut and bruised, her back badly injured, and her face and arms were in a frightful condition from bums. Four of the seven reported dead immediately after the fire was subdued were servant girls employed in the hotel; the fifth was Kate Wolf, of Lock port; the other two were male guests. Two other female servants and three guests were taken to the hospital in a dying condition. "The total pecuniary damage is estimated at $300,(XX). The fire is thought to have been the work of incendiaries, and the Mayor of Buffalo issued a proclamation offering a reward of $.500 for the conviction of any person guilty of the crime. FATE OF CHINESE TKAMPS. Three Hundred of tliein Lured Into n Templc-'-tfO Burned to Deat h. The steamer Bclgic, which arrived at Ban Francisco from China and Japan, brings news of a dreadful trageily at ilisiu Sliib, twenty miles northeast of Ilongebow, China. Over 300 tramps apjieared in the village, and the inhabitants, greatly irritated by their presence, inveigled the whole of them into the temple, and during the night set fire to the edifice. Only forty of the tramps escaped from the blazing building, the remainder being burned to death. - ..? in flm mmintflinc nlv.v?? A LA.MJ ZSIJLUTS XJ* * Chico, Col., the other day laid lxire broad Etreaks of white quartz, which carries, apparently, a very large percentage of gold. Three years ago seventeen bachelors of Keystone, Dakota, entered into a solemn compact never to marry. Eleven of them are already husbands and two of them are soon to wed. i - - "* '-"V* - ' ..' - '.: .--J- ' > O-K- - # ."Sr-K _______ r A DEATH TRAP. **-'-- :M Twelve Miners Burned Alive in Tlieir Boarding House. Surromided by Flames and" Unable to Make Their Escape. :? Early the other morning Mrs. Frank Miller, with night dress on fire and her hair streaming behind her, burst from the boarding-houst kept by her husband, in Bessemer, Mich., and, screaming with fright and point ran, a flying column of flame, and threw -A. herself into a small stream near the " Z house. An instant later the whole house, a two-story, flimsy structure of wood, in which were twenty-five men, was wrapped in flame, find Mr. Miller came out. dragging two of the female servants, in tlieir night clothes, in a frenzy of terror. Then an alarm went up to the men . in th* second story, and after what seemed an age to the crowd that gathered quickly a man appeared at a window and leaped to the ground Ho was followed by twelv* UU1C1 D, lilwoL vl ?liULLi wnuicu iur ? maivumz*** on the frozen ground with broken limbs or agoniang burns, and then were taken to places of safety by friends. While this wa? happening Mrs. Miller suddenly reappeared. ''Oh, my God,mv children!" she exclaimed, and dashed into the housed tollowed by her husband. It was not thought they could say? - ^ even themselves from death, but both reappeared a moment later with their two children, one hardly more than a babe. Both were in a stupor, but .the flames had not i touched them and they were soon revived. Meantime two or three of the twelve men still in the uppier story could be seen ap- . parently groping about in the smoke, being repeatedly beaten back from the windows by the flames. All were in one room, bat it was impossible to reach them from the " street. Prayers and mad cries went up from the half-crazed crowd. "Junmor diel" was the last note of warning, ana the building fell, carrying with it into the mass of coals and flames the twelve men. It was less than forty minutes from the time the first alarm was given until the building was in ruin* and the twelve lives had been sacrificed Two hours later the charred bones were found in a heap in the cellar and were gathered into one box, over which ghastly pile the Coroner held an inquest, exonerating everybody from blame. At noon the funeral was hold and was attend* ed by 800 of the 1,200 persons that make up the town. Mrs. Miller, who was badly but not fatally burned, says she was awakened by a stifling . v ; smoke and seemed unable to move. By extvaordinary exertion she overcame the stupor and aroused her husband. They called loudly to the boarders and escaped as ' v; best they could. The men burned were laborers and miners and not posMBsed of property.nor had they any friends in that region who had known them long. Several of the rescued men were also badly, if not fatally, burned. " J THE NATIONAL GAME, 1 Roseman, of the Metropolitans, has torn released to the Athletics for $750. The Detroit Club have signed Briody, th* catcher of the defunct Kansas City Club. ^ i The Washington team ought to be a steady one, as it numbers no less than seven married men. The Colored National Baseball League has adopted a schedule of forty games to be played by cach of the six clubs. Brouthers, the big first base man of the Detroits, gives it as his opinion that the pitchcrs mil get much the worst of the new rules. The Cincinnati (American Association) have closed their Southern trip and returned home, and the Philadelphia League team has gone South. Radbouen, pitcher of the Bostons, says ha doesn't think there will be any more batting under the new rules than the old ones. Hfc idea is that what some players lose the other* will make up. He thinks the game will be longer than formerly. . Twitchell, pitcher of 'the Detroits, Is devoting considerable time to practicing the ; feat of makinc a motion to throw to first base, as if to catch a base runner, and then turning quickly to deliver tho ball to the catcher. It must be done very neatly or it -*? will constitute a balk. '"r Faultless fielding distinguished the play of one side in no fewer than 156 games between professional clubs last season, Including: the Brooklyn-Metropolitan game, April 34; Bridgeport-Waterbury, May 25: NewarkBridgeport, July 8, and Newark-Waterbury, September 15, in which no errors were mao?by either side. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. vThe famous composer Gounod is engagedon a new opera, who6e subject is Joan of Arc. Anna Dickinson says she would like to : play Zenobia to the Aurelian of Mr. Wilson Barrett. ^ Mbs. Lanotbt will appear at the Fifth Avenue theatre, New Yore, next September, in two new plays. Mary Anderson will produce a new poetical drama by Lord Lytton during her ten* ancy of the Lyceum. - - i Philadelphl*.'s Beethoven Memorial Asao i ciation, will erect a monument to the composer, in Fairmount Park, to cost about $10,~ | Mis! Amy Shebwin, who has has made a 1 I success at concerts in London, is under con- I tract to a Boston Manager for a tour of th? . I United States. I Msie. Bernhardt has a high opinion of I Mod jeska as an actress, and in a recent inter- 9 view she is made to say that she is the great- I est actress living. N Miss Arma Sexkr ah, the young Americas " 9 violinist, has just completed a successful con- I cert tour on the Continent, having given I sixty-eight concerts in all. I Mme. I'auljnf Lucca, the famous singer, after a starring tour through Russia and Sou- I mania, is going to appear next month in Ger- : 9 man oDera at Stockholm. I THE MARKETS. 1 new york. 12 fl Beef, good to prime Calves, com'n to prime 'JXA(<? 10 SUeep 5X? 6 H l o.nU 7_ . fl Hogs?Live... 9g? |X Dressed . j /in Flour-Kx. St., good to fancy 3 00 <& 4 00 West, good to choice i 10 ? oi g 1 $< |xf s* Oats? W bite State 39 @ 40 Mixed Western 35 @ *7 Hay?Mod. to prime 7o @ 80 Straw-No. 1, Kyo J? @ ? g Lard?City Steam 50 @ Butter?State Creamery.... "2 @ ~ Hairy 27 @ 28 West. liu. Creamery 23 (4 25 ; Factory 14 @ 20 Cheese?State Factory llJii? W?* Skims II .^<31 1? 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