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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. !
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! 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
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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.
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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
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r A DEATH TRAP.
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Twelve Miners Burned Alive in
Tlieir Boarding House.
Surromided by Flames and" Unable
to Make Their Escape.
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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*
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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.
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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 $10,~
| Mis! Amy Shebwin, who has has made a 1
I success at concerts in London, is under con- I
tract to a Boston Manager for a tour of th? . I
United States. I
Msie. Bernhardt has a high opinion of I
Mod jeska as an actress, and in a recent inter- 9
view she is made to say that she is the great- I
est actress living. N
Miss Arma Sexkr ah, the young Americas " 9
violinist, has just completed a successful con- I
cert tour on the Continent, having given I
sixty-eight concerts in all. I
Mme. I'auljnf Lucca, the famous singer,
after a starring tour through Russia and Sou- I
mania, is going to appear next month in Ger- : 9
man oDera at Stockholm. I
THE MARKETS. 1
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Beef, good to prime
Calves, com'n to prime 'JXA(<? 10
SUeep 5X? 6 H
l o.nU 7_ . fl
Hogs?Live... 9g? |X
Dressed . j /in
Flour-Kx. St., good to fancy 3 00 <& 4 00
West, good to choice i 10 ? oi
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Oats? W bite State 39 @ 40
Mixed Western 35 @ *7
Hay?Mod. to prime 7o @ 80
Straw-No. 1, Kyo J? @ ? g
Lard?City Steam 50 @
Butter?State Creamery.... "2 @ ~
Hairy 27 @ 28
West. liu. Creamery 23 (4 25 ;
Factory 14 @ 20
Cheese?State Factory llJii? W?*
Skims II .^<31 1?
Western U?>?<9
Eggs?State and Peun 14>i(? ^
BUFFALO.
Sheep?Good to Choice 5 25 @5 :?
Lambs?Western 5 35 ? G 25
Steers?Western 3 75 @ 4 35
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 70 @ 5 80
Flour 4 75 <$ 5 15
Wheat-No. 1 ? @ 86
Com?No. 3, Mixed. 44 @ 44;?
Oats?No. 3, Mixed ? (<$ 33
Barley?State. 05 (di 71
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Hogs?Li vo &/{<& r>
Northern Dressed.... 1)4
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Corn?High Mixed. 61 @ 513?
Oats?ICxtra Whito 3S @ 38}^
R)"o?Stato 60 @ 05
WATKItTOWX (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef- Dressed weight ? @ 8}?
Shoe))?Livo weight 5 @ 5>$
Lamb; 6 @ 6%
Ilogs?Northern
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Flour?Penn.extra family... 2 75 ? 3 80
Wheat-No. 2, Bod 92 (ft 92^
Rye?State ? @55
Corn?State Yollow 4OJiYiio 47
Oats Mixe 1 31 @ 36
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