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SnHSB^&nKBSHi^l^Tourt of l^eDtfsylvania
a ^CC^S:0D declaring the
KBMH^^^P^^leoniargadiic law passed at the last scs*
?ion of Congress constitutional. Attorney-Gcneral
Garland had previously given
his opinion sustaining the constitutionality
-of the law.
Farmer Keith, of Runnels County,
. Texas, is noted for liis big besrd. It is
__ said to be five feet four inchrs long, and
twenty-one inches wide in its broadest
p^rt. It is of a rich chcst&ut color, and
its owner, a prosperous sh-eep grower, is
very proud of it. Last
summer men went through sonee
New England towns, leaving trial bottles
of medicine, not to be paid for unless
used. Recipients were asked only for a
written acknowledgment. Several now
find in the hands of third parties notes for
$25, bearing their signature.
A Minneapolis genius, it is safcl, has inrented
an automatic arrangement for attachment
to stoves in railroad cars, that
in the slightest overthrow of the car injects
an acid preparation into the fire completely
extinguishing it and removing all
~ possibility of igniting the adjoining
woodwork.
The Czar of Russia is about to join the
ranks of royal and imperial authors. He
has revised his diaries for the last ten or
fifteen years, and has instructed M. Zichy,
\ the Hungarian painter, with the task of
il}iicfT*Qfin<T Tlin wrvrlr Tcrill >Vip rmV>
lished at St. Petersburg in the autumn.
^ Before the critics get through with him
he will probably regret the failure of the
Nihilistic plots against his life.
The engrossing clerks of Congress,
careful as they are, occasionally make
errors which cause accounting officers no
end of trouble. In the Naval Appropriation
bill for the next fiscal year the
following item is written: "Contingent
marine corps?furniture for Government
horses and repairs to same." Of course
. houses is meant, but the exact accounting
officers do not know in what way to
get around the "horses," the word being
written so plainly that no effort of imagination
could transform it into
4 'houses."
The latest religious sect in Russia has
been founded on tlie dogma that it is a
sin to let a fellow member suffer the martyrdom
of disease. Accordingly, when
anybody falls sick, one of the believers
goes to him and chokes him to death.
The person commissioned for the deed is
clad in red clothes, and is known as "the
red death." Unfortunately, they do not
confine their delicate attentions to the
members of the sect alone, but, impelled
by a broad charity, seek to cure in their
. peculiar way anyone, whoever he may
be, who has the misfortune to become ill.
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That hostile and expensive old reprobate,
the fire fiend, has been more than
ordinarily demoniacal lately. During
March his ravages in this country mounted
up to a total of $10,450,000, which is
about $3,000,000 more than the average
losses for that month. This disagreeable
fact may be accounted for, probably, by
the uncommonly bad weather which characterized
the month all over the country.
Intense cold, penetrating winds and
huge banks of snow compelled a free use
of heating appliances, and the same
causes operated to make the task of battling
with fire a very trying one.
It is not generally known that T. V.
Powderly, head of the Knights of ,Labor,
recently camc very near joining the newspaper
profession. Just before the Richmond
convention attention was called to
the fact that $1,500 was a very small
salary for such an organization as the
Knights of Labor to pay such a man as
Powderly. Just at that time a syndicate
of prominent Western papers offered him
the position of European correspondent
at a salary of $5,000. The temptation,
of course, was great, but after reflection
Powderly declined the offer. He is now
receiving $5,000 from the Knights.
The Frcnch Government has at last succeeded
in obtaining leave from the Greek
Government to search nt Delphi for remains
of tfce templo which stood there.
It is supposed that there are priceless
treasures buried in the ground. There
was no sanctuary to which so many valuable
presents Were made as to the Delphic
one. and next to that of Olympus it was
the most important in Greece. For a
long course of centuries the soil has not
been disturbed. Comte deMony, who
is an enthusiastic lover of classic antiquity
and an archaeologist, began, when he was
Minister at Athens, negotiations which
have ended successfully by M. de Montholon.
He had a keen rival in the American
representive at Athens, where there
is now an American as well ?s a French
school.
One of the most remarkable developments
of modern dental surgery is the
transplanting of teeth from one jaw to
another. Dr. "W. T. Younger of the
California Dental Society has carried on
some investigations which tend to show
that the vitality of teeth is almost as great
as that of any seed. lie cites among
others the case of a bicuspid tooth ex
tracted and allowed to lie carelessly for a I
year, a part of the time in an old travel- '
ing bag and a part of the time loosely in
a bureau-drawer. Apparently the tooth
was "dead." After soaking for a halfhour
in warm water the tooth was inserted
in the proper cavity of the jaw,
where it became firmly fixed. After
twelve days it was affirmed that a true vital
connection had been established between
V the jaw and the tooth. The question
may, however, be fairly raised whether
this was a true unison or one of powerful
encysting, as when, for example, a bullet
is firmly lodged in the body. ,
5ft, New Yo*k, * *oig plum tatis to the 1
city on accouist of the decision of the j
United States Supremo Court legalizing J
the taxation of National B.lnk shares.
The amount now due and unpaid, covering
two years, is $2,500,000. One official,
the Csty Marshal, whose business it is to
coll?:t this tax, will net the tidy sum of
$02,500 in fees for his services in this
direction. The city will collect seven
nmif ni?< Tw-ir nn t.ViA amount hitherto
fTH ;
unpaid.
There is a complete collect ion of portraits
of the Presidents of the United
States in the Presidents house in Washington
up to the present time, except
that of President Cleveland, which will,
of course, be included. Bat the perl raits
of only four ladies, each a President's
wife?Mrs. Jolin "Tyler, Mrs. James K.
Polk, Mrs. R. B Hayes, tad Martha
Washington?are 'to be found there, and
it is urged that now, while 5m the full
flush of her youth and beauty, the portrait
of the present mistress of the White
House should 'be painted, to Temain permanently
in that mansion. As it would
be comparetively easy now to secure for
the White House good, copies of original
portraits of nearly if not all the wives of
our Presidents, it seem a pity that nn effort
k not made to have it done.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
rounds this note of warning in regard to
that-scourge of scourges?cholera: "The
.prevalence of cholcra in South America
-subjects us in this country to much more
I serious danger than the European epidemics
of the last two orthree years have
done. "VVe had the sea for a barrier before,
and the length el the passage was
sufficient to show whether or not arriving
vessels were infected. When the disease
comes north through Mexico we shall
have no such protection, and the maintenance
of an efficient quarantine along the
whole length of the Rio Grande will be
exceedingly difficult. It will be the part
of wisdom alike in individuals and in
municipal authorities to repeat the pre"
cautions of former years, to compel absolute
cleanliness, and to look carefully
after the water supply."
''Anthropometry" has reached such a
stage that at the present day it finds an
important application in -some cities to
the detection of criminate. Every criminal
when arrested is subjected to a careful
measurement. The form and dimensions
of the head, face, fingers, body, feet, etc.,
are carefully recorded and the face photographed.
In Paris a collection of GO, 000
euch photographs and records are on file.
tru.~ J:..:
l lie jmuiu^iupna axe uiviucu iulu iuiuu
groups, according to the age of the criminal.
The next subdivision into three
classes depends upon the height of the
individual; then one depending upon the
length of the head, and a final one controlled
by the length of the feet. By
this system of classification any picture
can be found at a moment's notice, and
on its back is a full record of the past
history of the criminal.
The indications all point to a heavy
increase in the population of this country
by European emigration. I\ot within
seven years has there been so great a demand
for passage, and the facilities for
transportation during the season will be
taxed to the uttermost. So great, indeed,
has been the rush that most of the steamship
lines have been already compelled
to notify their agents to stop booking for
the present. This promised irruption is,
doubtless, due to the fact that the revival
of trade in the United States and Canada
offers enticing prospects to the working
men of Europe to better their condition, j
Great Britain, it is said, will contribute
a large quota of bricklayers, plasterers
and masons to find profitable occupation
in building enterprises, while Germans
and Scandinavians arc coming to fill good
openings that present themselves to craftsmen
and agriculturists in the fast-developing
West.
An Open Question.
tt has been asserted that there is no
authenticated case of a shark eating a
human being. And now a Florida correspondent
raises the same question
with reference to alligators and crocodilcs:
"I have never been able to find a verified
instance of an alligator injuring a
man or child. Nor in Egypt, where I
saw crocodiles in plenty in 1855-56, and
less plenty in 18?0, was I able, with
most diligent inquiry, to verify an in- j
stance of that reptile -injuring any human
being. Stories of their fondness for
children, especially for black children,
were common in Egypt as they arc in
Florida. It used to be said that a crocodile
would watch the ^ile shore, and
when a woman came down to dip water,
or wash clothes, would sweep her off
with a blow ot his tail ami turn and
seize her. But no native that I questioned
could speak of any such occurrence
within his knowledge. Doubtless
an aligator would take a child or a dog,
if lying in the water, but even then he
would not jyiproach without lifting his
head and carefully assuring himself that
no enemy was in sight above tbc water.
However, it is an open subject, and I do
not propose to express au opinion on the
alligator question, as between extermination
and protection"
Ox-Carts of Havana.
Tbe traffic of Havana is largely done
by oxen, and the two-wheeled cart is
used exclusively. This cavt is roughly
made, and it has a tongue as thick as a
railroad tie, nailed to the bodv of the
cart, and which extendi? to the heads of
the oxen, and is there fastened by a great
yoke directly to the horns. The Cuban
ox pulls by his head and not by his
shoulders. This yoke is strapped by
ropes across the foreheads of the oxen, !
and they move along with their heads
down, pushing great loads with tlu-ii
foreheads. They are guided by rope
reins fastened to a ring in the nose of the
ox. Some of the carts are for a single
ox, and these have shafts of about the
same railroad tic thickncss, which are
fastened to a yoke which is put over the
horns in the same manner. Everything
is of the mrlest construction, and the
Egyptians of to-day are as well off in this
regard.?One:go Pa 'ladi>m.
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F DEVASTATED BY FIRE.
I
Historic Old St. Augustine is
Partly Destroyed.
Many Persons Burned to Death in
Western Prairie Fires.
A fire in the historic old town of St. Augustine,
Fla., lias destroyed about 3:250,000
worth of property. The alarm was given
at 3:V5 for a lilaae in the laundry of
the S?.. Augustine Hotel on the north side of
the plaza. The names spread rapidly 10 me
kitchen and then to the main part of the
building. The Fire Department consisted only
of a hook-and-laddev truck and one Mansfield
steam-engine, and was soon on the scene,
but it was impossible to do anything to
save the which was already
wrapped in flanges. The guests, numbering
ninety, and the forty servants, with the exception
of one laundry woman, Bridget Barry,
escaped. By this time t he fta mes hod crept
through tins entire building and communicated
to the Edwards House and '"The Cottage"
on t&e north, both frame buildings.
These were *?on reduced to ashes and
the flames swept on northward to
the Planters House and then the
Florida House annex. Here the firemen and
people by iierme efforts succeeded in preventing
the flames from reaching the main building
of the Florida House, which is of wood
and only fifteen feet from the annex. The next
buildings to go were tilie First National
Bank and one of the oldest landmarks in
the ancient city, the old Spanish Cathedral,
just west of the St. Augnstine House. The
roof caught, and soon foil, destroying all the
old historic relics in the interior. The old
chimes fell, too, their last work being
the ;alann which summoned th citizens
*? the scene of conflagration. By
great effort the Bishop's house aud the
Bouse of Dr. J. E. Peck -on the west were
saved, 'but were greatly damaged by water.
At tins time t.he east wall of the St. Augustine
House, facing Charlotte street, fell,
carrying the 'flames to the Sinclair Block,
on the opposite side, in which were the
stores of Gonzalez. & Ben hay on, Moy Yong's
restaurant, Vedder's Museum, Buck's res
raxrant, xiavjsrts uar?er suup, <jruiuei ji.^ a.
cigar factory and Speizegger's: drag
store. All were completely destroyed. Next
Chamberlain's grocery and Mrs. B. E. Carrs
dwelling, north of the Sinclair Block, were
destroyed. Returning to the west
side of the street the flames rcached
tfce old County Court House on the north,
which was totally destroyed. records,
however, were removed and saved -Vedder
& iCompton's etore and Welter's restaurant
on the west burned also; but here the fire
was checked, and at 7;:J0 was completely under
control. The burned area covers more
than two entire blocks.
St. Agustine is the oldest town on the
American continent. Once before, over
three found red years ago, the city was
destroyed by fire, when in 1586, Sir Francis
Drake, the famous English Admiral, made a
desoent npon it.
Fatal Prairie Fire*.
A -despatch from Atchison, Kan., says:
"No less than fifteen pei-sons have been
boraed to death by the prairie fires which",
starting near Nicodemut>, Graham County,
j have swept northwest on an air line into
Norton County, destroying everything,
in a path that in places. .is from
two and a half to. ?ev?n miles wido
?a great roaring-sea of flame rolling in tremendous
Aeets under the impetus of trie high
wind which prevailed all day Saturday and
night. Thousands of head of stock of all
I i.:..j- i l 1 <1.,,lo
lidvc uui nni, cum invu^uuuo ui
tons of hay. corn and wheat, and from 100
to 17.? houses and harn* have been destroyed.
The burned district extends n distance of
over sixty miles, with the fire still spreading."
A Sioux Falls (Dakota) special says: "Re
ports of loss of property from prairie fires
continue to cme in Eighteen miles west of
! this city a tremendous fire sta'-ted and swept
the country for miles. Many farmers lost
their houses and barns. It. was the most destructive
fire that ever visited this part of the
country and tho total loss will exceed. $100,fWO.
.
LATER NEWS.
Phi. Pennsylvania Senate passed a resolution
proposing a woman's suffrage constitutional
amendment.
A wagox containing J. P. Taylor, his wife
and son, was struck by a train at Ba 11:011, N.
Y., and all three were killed.
Extra elections have been held in Rhode
Island. The next Senate will sland: Republicans,
20; Democrats, 16. The House stands:
Republicans, 29: Democrats, 41; Prohibitionist,
J, aud 1 yet to be elected.
Fraud is charged on both sides in tho recentvote
on prohibition in Michigan.
Alfred Torrance, a well-known Amori- '
can gentleman rider, was killed by a fall
from bis horse in a stoeplechasa near Paris.
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A 1VUJ1C. Ut7>paiVU r*a < o uiai/ wic ? n?v.?4i uaj
decided in favor of the recognition of tbe
Knights of Labor in accordance with Car
dinal Gibbon's report.
A rock slide at Buena, Vista. Col., kilted
several men and injured others.
The flanies have destroyed the business part
of Onancock, Md. Twenty-three houses were
consumed.
Secretary Kairchild states that silver
trade dollars cannot be received in payment
of duties due the United States.
Total value of domestic breadstuffs ex)?orted
from the United States during the
first quarter of 18S7 was $41,408,1)87, against
?50,(150,088 in the same time last year.
A patent for a device for heating oars lias
ju>t been granted to Mrs. Kilboum, the wife
of a Wasliington newspaper proprietor.
Competent judges have pronounced the device
a success.
The President has appointed Andrew S.
Slawson postmaster at Waverly, N. Y.. and
\Vi)linni .T, Phillips to a similar office at Walcott,
N. Y.
Figures just published by tbe Bureau of
Statistics show that the consumption of distilled
spirits, domestic and imported, in this
country increased from 13,000,000 gallons in
1S4U to 72,000.000 in 1886: of wines from
4.800,000 gallons to 22,000.000; ami of malt
liquors from 23,000,000 to 642.000.000.
Mr. Healy, Nationalist member of Parliament,
in a speech at Leicester said t hat the
Coercion bill would make one-half of the
Irish people bankrupts and the other half ;
criminals. !
Leading members of the Home Rulers, in- !
finding Pamell and Michael Davitt, are forming
an Irish woolen manufacturing and exporting
company. with a capital of $500,000.
THE CZAR IN DANGEE.
Another Attempt Made to Assassinate
the Russian Ruler.
The Vienna correspondent of the London
Post says that another attempt to murder the
Czar was made on the Marskoy road, in St.
Petersburg, and that a student and a woman
were arrested who were carrying bombs under
their plaids.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the
London News says: "On Wednesday morning,
when the Czar vus driving to the
Gatschina station here, a man and woman
were seized at the corner of the Nevski
Prospect and the Great Morskaia ten
minutes before the Czar's carriage
passed. Another person tried to present
a petition as the Czar nassed. but was
arrested before lie could reach the carriage.
It has not yet been ascertained positively
whether or "not the persons arrested had any
criminal intentions. The Czar was in perfect
health and excellent spirits."
Vienna and Berlin telegrams confirm tho
foregoing, and state that the culprits stood
upon the steps of an uninhabited house, No. 14,
and carried bombs under a plaid shawl. It
is supposed that the petitioner was an accomplice
of the other two, and did not
know that the latter had been arrested.
The Czar knew nothing of the arrests. He
sat beside the Czarina and kept bowing to the
populace. They were returning to Gatscbina 1
from the Winter Palace, where t hey had been
receiving a Japanese Prince.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
The late Miss "Wolfe has left her magnificent
collection of paintings, believed to be
the finest in the country, to the New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, together with
$200,000 in cash, to be expended in caring for
the pictures. Miss Wolfe also loft $:;.r/),o0O to
Grace Church in New York. The {Kiintings
are valued at $500,000.
TfiK fishermen of the Eastern States are so
enraged at the action of Canadian cruisers
that they demand non-intercourse or war.
Twoearthquake shocks of considerable severity
visited Burlington, V&, and vicinity.
Extra elections in Rhode Island have resulted
in further gains by the Democrats,
giving them the Legislature on joint ballot and
insuring them their candidates for Lieutenant
Governor and other State officers who did not
receive a clear majority at the first election.
Two of the twenty persons biuied in a
New York tenement fire died of t heir injuries.
Three workmen employed on the new New
York aqueduct were killed by the falling of
a cage down a shaft.
Thenton, N. J., for six years in control
of the Democrats, has gone Republican at the
municinal election.
Miss Minnie Keiter, of Pottsville, Penn.,
and her room-mate at Vassar College, Miss
VerlLsta Shaul, of Sharon Springs, K. Y.,
were being escorted througli a coal mine at
! the former place by two young men when
there was a sudden explosion of jtocnmulatod
gas. Miss Keiter was killed and Mis<5 Sha.nl
fatally injured, both being frightfully
mangled. The two men may j-eoorer.
A large furnituro factory on Canal
street, New York, was partly destroyed by
' fire. Two fireman were badly hurt. Ksti1
mated damages, $75,000.
i Governor Hill has vetoed the bill providing
for high license in New York City and
Brooklyn, mainly on the grouud of its unconstitutionality
and because it is "special
legislation."
I Alfred Lee, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in Delaware, died at Wilmington
Tuesdaj*, aged SO years.
Sonth and West
Pat McCarthy was hanged at Fort
Smith, Ark., for the murder of the Mahoney
brothers.
Hon. James G. Blaine was taken sick a
few days since at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory,
where he had gone to visit his daughter,
I wife of Colonel Coppinger, the Commandant
' of that post. Mr. Blaine's sickness resulted
I from a bad cold, but the post surgeon telegraphed
that his patient was doing well, and
would be able to travel again in a lewdays.
I Great prairie fires have done immense
I damage in Dakota. In Grant township
J Edward Maloney and Miss Annie Marine
: were burned to death and Miss Kate Maloney
! received fatal injuries.
The Cherokee Female Seminary at Tahle
Qu&b, Indian Territory, has been destroyed
i>y fire. Loss, $200,000.
I John* T. Raymond, the well-known commedian,
died a few days since at Evans-ville,
IdiI., aged fifty-one years.
It Ls now stated that the farmers of the
Northwest will suffer heavily under the new
Inter-State Commerce lav/, which it was supsuppos'id
would be for their benefit. They
will have to bear the burden of higher freight
rates charged by the railroads.
The Atlanta Constitution ao3*'V2aoeK that
President Cleveland will positively visit the
PfcixSont Exposition to be held in that city
next October.
Washington.
The President has appointed as Commissioners
to investigate the affairs of the Pacific
Railroads, under the act passed bv the last
Congress: Ex-Governor Robert E.Pattison.of
Pennsylvania; E. Ellery Anderson, of New
York, and David L. Littler, of Illinois.
Additional appointments by the President
: Eugene Zeniple of Washington Territory
to be Governor of Washington Territory,
Samuel D. Shannon of Cheyenne to be Secretary
of Wyoming Territory, Edward Palmer
Turner of New York to be"Consul at MozamHimiA
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Foreign.
Colonel Kino - Harman, Conservative
Member of Parliament, has been appointed
Under Secretary for Ireland.
A French man-of-war, now in West Indian
waters, has proceeded to Hayti, to protect
Europeans from a threatened massacre
by the natives.
Tonquin is infested with pirates roaming
about in powerful bands, robbing, committing
all kinds of outrages and causing much
trouble and loss of life among the French.
News cdmes from Newfoundland tliat the
sealing steamer Eagle?of whose loss, with
:J00 souls on board, a description was recently
telegraphed from that region?is safe and
sound, while her men are hard at work cafeting
seals.
The mandament of Cardinal Archbishop
Taschereau, of Canada, dii ecting that absolution
be refused to members of the Order of :
the Knights of Labor has been withdrawn by
direction of the Pope.
A convoy of 4C0 Russian officers charged
with being implicated in plots to assassinate
the Czar has been transported to the convict
colony of Saghalien.
Portugal and China have just concluded
a treaty of friendship.
A statement prepared at the Treasury Department
shows a total of $1,314,698,342 in
actual circulation.
Mr. Gladstone is personally directing
the agitation in England against the Government's
coercive measures towards Ireland.
A GREAT JMTHER1NG,
150,000 People in London Condemn
Coercion in Ireland.
Tho great demonstration in London against
the Irish Coercion bill now before the House
of Commons brought out the largest
gathering ever held in the British metropolis.
Vast crowds of people
niarehed toward Hyda Park
from every direction of London, with bands,
banners, and carriages filled with leaders in
the day's oxercises. The utmost enthusiasm
prevailed in the great throngs. Many of the
banners exhibited bore portraits of Mr. Glad- !
stone, Michael Davitt, and Father Keller.
Fourteen platforms for the us? of orators
bud beeu erected in Hydo Park and occupied
the. whole frontage facing the fashionable
Paiklane. All those taking part in
the prose-sion from tho east to the west
end of London wore green rosettes to imitate
the Irish emblem, tho shamrock. A
large force of police was held in reserve
for an emergency. The socialists stole
a march on the polico and erected platforms,
from which several speakers deliverer! ora
iions, nicy aiierwani nein a noisy meeting
in Trafalgar square. Mrs. Gladstone watched
the anti-cooivion procession from a window in
Piccadilly and was loudly cheered by the men
in line.
Estimates of the attendance at tho meeting
vary, hut it is certain that, 1.>0,000 persons,
including on-lookers, were present. The procession
took an hour and a half to fila into
the park. The first contingent was
conqiosed of tho members of the
Rol iert Emmet Lodge : then followed
a large number of Irish temperance
lodges, radical workmen's clubs, and SocialDemocratic
societies. Numerous bands of
music were in the line. The effect of the careful
arrangements that had been made to avoid
confusion at the j>ark was seen in the ad
mirable order in which the paraders grouped
themselves around the 14 platforms.
Messrs. Conybeare und William Redmond,
members of Parliament, spoke. Lord Mayor
Sullivan, in tho course of a most effective
spccli, asked: "Is it the wish of the workmen
of London (lnit the honest, hard-working
tenantry of Ireland shall Ik- forever -rushed
down : A tremendous resjionsive "No !" refunded
throughout the park. 1
Michael Davitt apjieared at a Socialist platform.
Ho referred to the demonstration as
a proof of the approaching solidarity of the
people of Great Britain and Ireland. The
classes had in the past built a bridge of hate
across the Irish sea: the jx>ople would pull it
down and erect a bridge of love between the
toilers of Ireland and the honest workers of
England. [Cheers.]
At 4i oVleck a bugle sounded, and at this
prearranged signal a resolution condemning
the Crime bill was put simultaneously at nil
of the platforms: 1 he resolution was carried
amid a prolonged roar of cheers.
Great Brit aim lias demanded $1,000,000
from Havti as settlement in full of all demands.
'If not paid at once, Tortugaa Island
is demanded to square accounts.
LINCOLN'S REMAINS.
His Coffin Opened Twenty-Two
Years After His Death.
The Body Taken From the Secret
Grave and Buried,
The remains of Abraham Lincoln and
those of his wife were taken from the secret
grave at Springfield, 111., on the 15th?the
twenty-second anniversary of his death?and
buried in the north vault of the monument.
Although the public had been given to understand
that the body of Abraham Lincoln
was placed in tho marble sarcophagus,
which rests in the tomb where
the grave robbers left it a number of years
ago, it has been known to a limited number
of persons that the grave was in some secret
place. Only a few were aw ai-e of the spot.
At the time the body arrived at Springfield,
in IStw, it was taken in charge by the Lincoln
Monument Association, which is a local organization.
The body was in the custody of
this association until shortly after an attempt
was made to steal it from the tomb. At that
time the body was placed in care of the Lincoln
Guards of Honor. The latter organization
was formed especially for the puroose of
preventing the remains from being taken
away by grave robbers. Its ostensible purjxjse
was to hold memorial services on the anniversary
of Lincoln'? death. A Springfield
dispatch gives the fc'.owing particulars of the
body's final dispos:' .n:
A number of jhanics have been diligently
at work abot.v the north vault of the monument
for several days. When asked what
was being done they replied that some repairs
were being made. No one has been admitted
to thus apartment. Everything connected
with the matter has been surrounded by the
most profound secrecy. On Tuesday the secretary
of the Lincoln Guards of Honor sent
out the following notice to each member of
the association:
"Nine o'clock Thursday morning, April 14,
lias been designated by the Executive Committee
as the time for exhuming the remains
of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln for reburial. Please
be at the monument at thattiine. It is thought
best that it be strictly private. Do not on
any account let a rerwrter know it."
The members of tne two associations accordingly
met at the monument this morning,
entering the south vault, or plaoe where the
Lincoln relics are kept, and held a consultation.
In a short time a number of
mechanics were taken in. A door
in tho Hnnr <sid#* of this room onens into
a jiassageway through the foundation, upon
which the obelisk rests. The passageway
makes a number of turns ana an
entrance cannot be effected except through
this door. This irregular hall leads
to a recess. In this recess, almost directly
under the centre at the north
base of the obelisk, were the remains of both
Mr. and Mrs. Lincolu. They were buried
about three feet below the surface. Lincoln's
remains were placed there in November,
1878.
The coffin containing the body of Lincoln
was first taken up and carried to the room
where the relics were. There was an outside
pine box, then a cedar box containing the walnut
coffin. This coffin had an air-tight
lead lining. The lid was removed.
The features of the martyr President
were remarkably well preserved. The
clothing had not decayed, Those who knew
Mr. Lincoln discerned his features at once.
The silver plate on the coffin lid was bright
On it was inscribed the following:
"Abraham Lincoln. Sixteenth President,
United States. Born February 12,1809; died
April 15, 1M.V'
General lleece, president of the Guards of
Honor then turned over to the Lincoln
Monument Association the body of Mr.
Lincoln. A certificate declaring" the body
to Ira that received from the Monument
Association and signed by each member
of the Guards of Honor accompanied
the remains. The Lincoln Monument Association
made out a certificate for record
that the remains were those of Abraham Lincoln.
The coffin was then sealed and taken to
the north vault. The floor had been removed
nurl > mvo pio-ht fr*>t lnntr. six feet wide and
about five feet de?p had been prepared. It
was cemented and bricked up and had a cement
floor. In this grave the coffin was
placed, the head resting toward the south.
To the left of Mr. Lincoln was placed the
coffin of Mrs. Lincoln. It was not opened.
An arch of brick was built over the two coffins.
Upon this arch hydraulic cement and pounded
rock were placed, forming a composition
harder than stone. The vault in which the
grave is built is the one originally intended
for the purposa. The two children are buried
in this vault. _________
SCALDED AND_MANGLED.
Terrible Accident on a Railroad in
"West Virginia.
A terrible accident occurred on tbe Ohio
River Railroad the other night, about 7
o'clock, near Willow Grove, W. Va. A construction
train, with thirty laborers and a
full crew, was running on a siding, when the
engine, tender, caboose and ten cars jumped
off the track and went crushing end over end
down a steep declivity. The steam pipes
burst, scalding every one near.
John Holden. a brakeman. fell between the
cars and had Loth legs and an arm cut off.
He died in a few minutes after being extricated
from the wreck.
Joseph Reese was caught l?etween the cars
and crushed and scalded to death. His body
was sent to his homo in Clifton.
Robert Evans, the engineer, had a hole
knocked in his skull, ami bis back nnd thigh
were badly hurt, lie is 'lying. Evans is a
son of Master Mechanic Evans, of the M, and
C. Railroad, and lives at Chillicothc, Ohio.
Ernest Colo, a watchman, received several
severe cuts on the head. Wash Meek, a laborer,
was terribly scalded at>oatthe lace and
arms. J. Meek, a brother, had a leg broken and
was otherwise terribly injureil. Albert DuU
was badly hurt in both legs. Tolie f'iokenger,
conductor, was not seriously hurt. The lireman,
W. llogan, was struck by the engine as '
he jumped from it and was badly hurt in both
legs. I
The steamer Valley Bello brought about
twenty of the crew who could be moved from
the wreck to Ravenwood. Those of the crew j
who were too badly injure I to be removed
were taken to n farm house nmr by. The
accident is ascribed to the recklessness of the
engineer. ^
THE DEADLY BOILER.
Pour Men Killed In West Virginia
and Four in North Carolina.
At Harrisville, W. Va., the boiler of Willlam
Harris's sawmill, situated on the edge of
the town, exploded with terrific violence, killing
four men and badlj' wouuding and scalding
three others. There were eight men employed
at the mill, and when the noon
whistle blew they ail repairea ro rue
boiler room, to oat their dinner. They had
not been in the room over fifteen minutes
when the boiler burst, completely wrecking
the building. All tLe men were blown into
the air, two or three being carried over fifty
yards. John Scott, Andrew Lindsey, G. W.
Williamson and Charles Giay were dead, and
three of the other four were badly scalded
and otherwise injured.
On the same day a boiler explosion completely
destroyed Fleet wool Brother's planing
mill at Hartford, N. C. Two personsWilliam
Gail, white, and Joe Turner, the
colored engineer?were killed outright, and
two others?J. K. Fleetwood,white, and Major
Reed, colored?were fatally injured.
THE SOUTHERN BOOM.
Increase ol' Business Enterprises in
the First Quarter of 1S87.
A.; nt
j\ coinjianiuvu amurinc-m- ul iuu amwum. wi
capital and capital stock represented by tbe
new manufacturing enterprises established in
the South during the first quarter of 1887
compared with the same period of ISM) is
found in the Baltimore Monufai tnri'ra1 Jx'econl.
It shows a total of $S.j,040,000, an increa-o
of $40,3>83,800. Alabama shows an increase
of $10,4:J8,o00; Tennesee, $10,804,000;
Geornia, increase of $5,4'-i>,000: Maryland,
$ii,5115,000; North Carolina, $].480.000"; Virginia,
increase of $2,000,000: Arkansas, $2,830,WO;
Texas, $1,575,000; South Carolina,
increase of $;>70,000; Kentucky, increase of
100,1100; Mississippi, $1,000,000; Louisiana.
$ l'.t'.'.O.K). Florida shows a decrease of $80,000
and West Virginia $'J87,000. During January,
February and March there were 926 new enterprises
reported, while one year ago the list
[or the first quarter showed only 445.
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EAUEOAD BOBBERY.
j
Scores of Employes of the Penn- j
sylvania Company Arrested. I
The most extensive and systematic railway |
robbery on record has been unearthed in ;
Pittsburgh by the arrest of fifty-six trainmen
on the Pittsburgh. Cincinnati and St. |
Louis Railroad. These men are charged j
with robbing the freight cars for the
past two years, taking in that time,
it is estimated, not less than $250,
000 worth of goods. The arrests and j
subsequent developments [have caused a !
m-pjit sfms-itinn. Manv of flip thieves :
have been known and recognized as respect
able, hard-working men, and it is intimated
that when all the disclosures
have been made, other persons, merchants
of supposed good reputation and
respectability, will be implicated' in
having bought and sold stolen freight, the
booty of the gang of train employes and
others who were in the conspiracy. The first
intimation the railroad authorities had of the
thefts was through investigations made at the
time of the two big freight robberies committed
just outside of Pittsburg recently.
Since then the company's officials and detectives
have been diligently working up the
j case.
All plans were perfected and the robbers
spotted, and at two o'clock the other morning
the denouement fell like a thunder clap on
the gang. A squad of sma fifty policemen
made a raid upon all the railroad boarding
houses in Pittsburg and captured eighteen
men. At the same time another squad surrounded
th3 trains as they came into the Second
avenue station, and in this way twelve
more men were captured. Sufficient evidence
has bean secured to prove that the many robberies
along the Panhandle Railroad, in which
cars were ransacked at various points and
valuable goods stolen, was the work of these
| men.
Out of eighty freight crews on the Pittsburgh
division, seventy-five of them are implicated
in the wholesale robberies. It was
also discovered that many of the crews were
in the habit of becoming intoxicated while on
duty on stolen liquor. They were all flush,and
many times the cabooses were almost filled
with the stolen goods. They smoked the finesl
| of cigars, drank the best of liquors, and had
their pockets filled with the finest of jewelry.
This was all discovered two months ago, but
much difficulty was experienced in ascertain
in; the extent of the operations. Every day's
work on the case gave new developments,
until the officers of the company held up
their hands and exclaimei : ' Have we an
honest man on our trains F Detectives went
out on the trains and witnessed the stealing.
What they saw has been recorded
in written reports, and will be
produced at the proper time The brakemen
and conductors, during their stay in Pittsburg,
made it a regular practice of gathering,
in their rooms. Tnere they would jplan th?ir
. robberies, smoke their fine stolen cigars, and
discuss ways and means of disposing of their
booty.
The property recovered from the "fences'1
(receivers of stolen goods) would fill several
cars. A large lot of it was at a detective
agency, ana such a heterogeneous mass,
it may be safely said, has never been seen in
the history of all Pittsburg fencing raids.
The floors were literally covert, and
trunks, satchels,Bibles, boots and shoes,boxes
of silverware, and almost every conceivable
thing which was ever transported over the
railroad were piled on top of each other.
There was everything, from a needle to a big
dry goods box.
Special Agent Rue said that the total ar
rests numbered sixty, of whom there wen
fifty-six in the Pittsburgh jail.
J". R. Dunlap, who is regarded as the ringleader
of the gang, made a confession to the
detectJtaes, in whirh he implicated several outeiders,
and located "fences" at Dennison
Ohio; .New Philadelphia, and other places.
TEE NATIONAL GAME.
The Pittsburg club claims that the salary
list of its players will reach $39,000.
The five League umpires are Wyckoff,
Powers, Quest, Doesher and Wilson.
Jones of the Cincinnatis made the first
home run of the season in an IndianapolisCincinnati
game.
Captain Anson, of the Chicago Club, is
having considerable trouble in getting the
range of low balls.
Cincinnati's first baseman, Beilly, is the
tallest man in the Association, being six feet
two inches in height.
i President Spalding, of the Chicagos, is
said to be worth $2,000,000. Ten years ago
be was playing ball for a living!
Under the new rules a pitcher-can take a
step in delivering the ball, providing his
, forward foot is on the ground when the ball
is delivered.
One of the features of the instruction given
to umpires of the American Association was
to call every ball that passes over any portion
of the plate a strike.
i The Southern League clubs will have comI
bined mileage of 43,(W0 miles, and this does
not include the thousands of miles the boys
, will run on the diamond.
The left-handed twirlers will prove effective
this year on account of batsmen not being
allowed to call for high balls on them. They
can pitch to suit themselves.
i all the members of the .Baltimore American
Association team, an exchange remarks,
are remarkably built men, and not a man
j measures less than thirty-seven inches across
the chest.
The League umpires will meet Secretary
Young at his residence in Washington for the
purpose of going over tho rules and deciding
. upon their interpretation, so that decisions
may be uniform.
Some of the New York papers think that
Newark and Jersey City will have all they
can handle in trying to keep from occupying
positions close to the tail end of the International
League race.
A novel method ot training has been
. adopted by Carroll, tho Pittsburg League
Club catcher, for hardening his hands. InI
stead of catching behind the bat, he has a
' player to pound the palms of his hands with
| a club.
The salaries of the Indianapolis League
Club players will aggregate nearly $30,000.
Glasscock, who will lie captain of tho club.
I will roooit?a 4'^ ftfVl wIuIa iWrir Trill ha nnin
$2,600 and his travelling expenses from Uak- I
land, Cal., to Indianapolis and return. The
compensation of the rest of the team will \
range from $l,400to $2,000.
THE DIFFERENT BASEBALL LEAGUES. j
| The twelve important baseball league# |
control more than eighty clubs, and about I
1,700 players. Taking $500 as an average
salary for players, the aggi-egate would be
$850,000 to lielders and batteries, and that is
but one item of many. The leagues and clubs
are as follows:
National League?Boston, Chicago,Detroit,
New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, "Washington,
Indianapolis.
American Association?Athletic (Philadelphia),
Baltimore, Brooklyn, Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Louisville, Metropolitan, St.
Louis.
International League?Buffalo, Binghamton,
Hamilton, Jersey City, Newark, Oswego,
Rochester, Syracuse," Toronto, Utica.
Northwestern League?Des Moines.Dulnth,
Eau Claire, La Crosse, Minneapolis, Milwaukee,
Oshkosh, St. Paul.
Western League?Denver, Hastings, Leavenworth,
Kansas City, Lincoln, Omalia, St.
Joseph, Topeka.
Southern League?Charleston, Memphis,
Mobile, New Orleans, Nashville, Savannah.
New England League?Boston, Haverhill,
Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Manchester, Portland,
Salem.
Eastern League?Bridgeport, Dan bur}',
Hartford, Waterburv, New Haven, Springfield.
Pennsylvania Association?Altoona, Bradford,
Reading, Scranton, Williamsport,
Wilkesbarre.
Michigan State League?Kalamazoo,Grand
Ohio League^-Sanduskv. Mansfield, Wheeling.
National Colored League?Cincinnati,
Washington, Louisville, New York, Pittsburg,
Baltimore, Philadelphia. Boston.
The new narrow gage incline railroad up
Lookout Mountain, just completed, has cost
about ?200.000. It runs from the foot of the
mountain to the spot where General Joe
Hooker planted his nag.
the Amherst College Ahunni Association
has taken stops to endow a professorship in
that college in honor of Henry Ward Hee^lier,
who was graduated in the class of 1S34. The
sum necessary for the purpose is $00,000.
Farm lands in tho neighborhood of Coo?
lidge, Kansas, have advanced to $750 pef
acre, on account of the unexpected development
of two valuable reins or coal i
v'B
VBEcm m A FE~ I
A Steamer Strikes on the Rockl I
Off the French Coast. E
Passengers Drowned by the Capsiz* I
ing of a Small Boat. |
A correspondent telegraphing from Dieppe.
France, gives tbe following account of the H
wreck of tbe line passenger steamer Victoria,' I
I which runs between that port aud Newbaven, I
At 4:10 yastcrday morning, when th*
stoamer was close ujkjii the coast, a dense fog H
prevailed, nmi, as the fog horn signal at th?
Iighthoilse was not sounding, those on board H
bad no indication of tbe peril they were in. ~M
The foe honi, indeed, did notsound until soma
time alter tbe vessel bud struck on the rock*
off Varengville. Considerable alarm was dit
played by the {MLssengers when the first shock H
I was felt. The officers, however, believing H
1 that the vessel would be safely carried off by
! the tide, assured them that there was no H
I cause for anxiety. As the time passed, how
I ever, and the Victoria remained firmly.
! fixed, the excitement increased, and when at S
j 5:15 a. m. Captain Clarke ordered the boats.fl
' tn ho lnoflwl niativ nf tho fnnmlA ?M?mnirnrt fl
were in a state of abject panic. The fl
officers did all in thair power to allay ;
their fears, but unfortunately with
i only slight suceess.' - Burini the
lowering of one of the boats a lady^T cloak
became entangled in one of the davits, with.;
' the result that the boat was almost immedt-:
I ately capized and the whole of the occtx-*
pants tnrown into the water. The air ,
was rent with the terrified shriek*
of women and children. Every.;,
j effort to rescue them was made, but in spit#-,
I of all that could be done, several wer?I
drowned. Three -female bodies and that of ft;
child washed ashore. The entire number of >
lives lost is not yet known, but is asserted to'
exceed twenty.
[ Two boats containing thirty-seven paasen* ;
gers reached Fecamp in safety and another
landed several more at Dieppe. G'apt. Clarke.
stood by his vessel till 11 o'clock.
vessel is a total wreck. Tie Prefect ->
of the Department of the Seine-Infcrieure, th?|
English Consul and the Commissary of Ma-:
rine gaveall the assistance in their power to ?.
the survivors. The Dieppe lifeboat was foe '
a long time engaged in picking np what
luggage is still floating about, bnt the greater
part of this was lost It is reported that a ^
number of Americans on their way freak
London to Paris were on board. . .
A FABMEE'S FIGHT,
Killing Seven Enemies and Receiving
a Half Dozen Wounds.
Walter Ridgely, a prominent tomer livingeighteen
miles north of Texnrknna, Art, im?
lured from his house the other night by three'
members of the Murphy family, who at
tempted to assassinate liim. In tbe fight thatfollowed
he killed all three and received a half
dozen wounds himself.. A month ago he killedt
wo of the Murphys in a dispute about extort-,
ing money from a drummer. A few days
later he was ambushed and his hone killed,:
but he succeeded in killing two more 'of the
family. The score now stands wvSB'to'nene,
but as Ridgely will doubtless die, having received-Ave
balls from Winchesters, it may be
seven to one. ,
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. |
Nilsson's terms for concerts are $2,000 per
night* , .3
Mr. Bishop claims to have made $30,000by-;
his mind-reading exhibitions within the past
two yeai-s.
The losses on the season of German open*
given in New York this season are said to
I have approximated to $ 100,000.
It is just tliirty years ago that Edwio
i Booth made his first sppearnnuo in >'cw
York. He played "Richard III."
Whrn Christine JJilssou began singing she-,
got $200 a mouth, but a few year* later hoc
manager had to pay her $1,400 a uiglit. - r
Mkjs. Langthv will pnxlu<? " Cleopatra*^
in Now York next Septemlier, and will spend
$40,000 on it. she savs. Over 200 dcodId wiJL
, be employed in the production.
Harry Pettitt, who is the author of
I itrikingly successful raelodrnnias than any,
other English-speaking writer, intend* pay-i
, ing "the States a visit next autumn.
Mme. Valoa, whose Italian ojwraconipnny
came to grief in New York lust season, ha*
i been engaged as soloist by the Boston Symphony
Orchestra for the concert tour,
I The subscription sale for tlw Pntf.i operaticseason
at the New York MutroixHitan Opera
; House was a great success, and twiliiant
audiences wero assured for ail Hie perforin|
ances. ^ . (
J Miss The rest?a Arams, a ronng American
singer, hus been selected by Maostix>
i Bimboni to create the role of Morivnra in his -
new opera, "Haidouk," which is to be;
i brought out soon in Florence.
Tiik sucocss of the comic opora, "Erminie,w
at the Casino, New York, can lie guessed
| from the fact that the entire house was sold:
out for the .SOOth [lerformanue as soon as th?
. tickets could be delivered from the box office.
The manager of Mi*. D'Oyly Carto's operatic
companies is Miss Helen Lenoir, who i?-J
an excellent business woman. She broughttthe
" Ruddygoi-e" company across the At:
lantic ami got it to work in" New York with
; expedition and without fuss.
Queen Emzabeth of Roumania went
recontiy incognito to a music icaciior in
i Bucharest to have her voice tri?l. The jm>fessor
Lluutlv informed lier that she had-just
about enough voice to ju.ilify hor for the position
of a chorus girl in comic opera.
Eight theatres were destroyed l>y fire last
: year. They were in Derby, England, liy gas
} explosion behind the scenes; at Bochuni, .
i Germany, unused; nt Kavenna, Italy;
i Madrid, Orleansville, Algiers, White's Theai
tre in Detroit, in Lonberg, and in Tinnevally,
India.
W. S. McLeo*, an insane veteran of a New
York regiment, has been awarded arrears of
pension amounting to $12,488, which will be
p^id to his father at the Des Moines (Iowa)
agency.
THE MARKETS.
XEWYOIiK. 15
Boef, good to prime 7 @ 8
Calves, com'n to prime ?
.Sheep 7j^@ ?H;fc
Ijimhs OH
Hogs?Live
Dressed 7 @ S
Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 50 @ 4 C5 1
West, irood to choice 3 l>r? <f? 8 95
Wheat-No. 2, Ited 91&.
Kyo-Stato 57 <g (30
Ti.. ? 00 (H> 65
Coni?Ungradod Mixed.... W? 50
Oats? White State ? 37*Mixed
W?s>tern Sw <$ 37 ^
Hay?Me<l. to prime 75 @ 86
Stnuv-No. 1, Kye 80 @ *>
Jjiril -City Steam < -?0 @7 9$
Butter?State Cieamury.... 30 @ 81
Daiiy ... 25 @ 20 T
West I in. Creamery 16 @ 22 ,
Fai-Uny 21 @ 22
Cheese?State Factory 11 <3 15
Skims 11 @ 12)^
Western 12.^@ 1#
Eggs?State and Feun ? @ 13
BCKKALO.
Sheep--Good to Choice 4 75 @ 5 50
J.uiilis?Western 5 M (ct 6 25
Sl?ers?Western 4 IX) @ 5 00
Hugs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 40 C<i 5 00
Flour 4 75 @3 15
Wheat-No. 1 87 88
Corn?No. 5, Mixed ? <iL 45
Oats?No. 2, Mixed oC
Barley?State 01 <$ 05
BOSTON.
Beef?Good to choke 7V(f2 7}?
Hogs?Live 6
Northern Dressed.... 0%@ 7^
Pork?Ex. IVimo.]K*r l?bl...l2 00 @12 50
Flour?Spring \Y iicat pat & o uu o jo
Cora?High Mixed C>2}{
Oats--Kxtra White &%(?? 39^
Rye?State 60 @ tt5
watertown (M ASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Dressed weight 7 (ft 7V
Sneep?Live weight 4l{(a 5%
l.amb; 514(4) 6
Hogs?Northern 7!i(<? 1%
Philadelphia.
Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 SO @4 35
Wheat-No. 2, llci 90 @ 92
Rye?State ? ? 58
Cora?.State Yellow 46 (<tj 47,^
Oats Mixe 1 37>$@ 38
Butter?Creamorv Extra... 28 ?? 30
Cbees??N. Y. Full Cream.. 15^@ 15'/*