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RIOTOUS SOLDIERS.~
Affray Between White ami Colored
Troops in St Louis.
Three Men Fatally Wounded and
Others Badly Injured.
A disturbance occurred at Jefforeon Barracks.
Rt. T/on is. Mo.. the other evening be
tween white and colored United States
soldiers that resulted in the injury of many
men and has probably cost three men their
lives. At present there are many recruits i
at this station, and a fow days since
they drew their first pay nnd made an onslaught
on the sutler. Numerous brawls resulted.
a crowd from Now York resented the
. familiarity of the colored troops and a tight
followed. The guard house was filled with
disorderlies and still the rows kept
up. Late in tho afternoon a drunken j
colored troo[>er was soon pursuing a white
girl, and a party of white troopers was soon
after him. and in due time handed him over
to the officer of the day. This enraged a
number of his comrades and they left
the barracks, starting for Carondolet.
On the r way tliey fell in with a
8 juad of white "troopere and proceeded to
take veng ance. The white soldiers made
tho;r escape with a few bruises and went to
the barracks where they soon m ?de up a
"i party to handle the rovolters. Armed with
revolvers and carbines they 6tarted in
good order for Carondelet, but before
they had gone far, they were ordered to return
and disarm by the officer of thed;>y.
They refused to return to their quarters,
but laid down their arms at once
and then proceeded after the enemy.
At the River Des Pores bridge they met
tho color**! tronnors returning. An encounter
immediately followed, and knives, clubs and I
rocks were used. The fight was a desperate
one and the white men in superior force were
met by the discip.ine of the negroes, who |
had entered on a second term of sorvice.
For half an hour the battle waged without
an advantage to either side, and on the
bridge and road and river bed, men lay exbaustod
and beaten down. Finally the
belligerents withdrew. A colored tnnper
reported the affray at Carondelet station,
and he was locked up while the patrol
wagon was sent to the scene to gather up the
in ured. In the meantime the wh te soldiers
had gathered in lorce, and marched to the
6tation and demanded that the colored
trooper bo given to mem. me ponce refused
and promptly prepare J for assault.
In the meaitimj information of thj battle
had reached the barracks and four
troops of cavalry wore o dered out and arrived
at Carondelet ia time to stve the police
from attack, The mutineers d speraed
and were arrested in detachments on
a general order to arrast all troopers. The
fcarracks, Carondelet and the intervening
country assumed a military aspect, and all
night long soldiers' tr^ad and tho demand of J
"halt"' rang out. '1 he disturbance was quelled, J
and in the morning weace rejgnen, wiougu
bruises, h'ack eyes and gashes on
ball a hundred still told t ho tale of the struggle,
while in the hospital at the point of
death lay Troopers Livingston, Peterson and
Krumm.'knocker, all white. At one time in
the altcmcon over three hundred men were
looking for a row.
LATER NEWS.
A ftrk in Beaufort, N. C.,destroyed fifteen
stores and dwellings.
More than fifty suspicious characters were
arrested in Detroit the other evening. The
previous night Captain Ira A. Holt, a well
known citizen, was assaulted and robbed in
a fashionable neighborhood, and two hou: a
later tho police had a sharp fight with four
thieves detected in a burglary. Within a
few days the city has seemed to swarm with
criminals.
Mb. Charles S. Moore, one of tho lost
known young lawyers of Washington,
dropped dead a few days since while crossing
a street
Two express trains on the Dutch State
Railroad collide! near Mennel, Holland,
' ?
Twenty-six persons were killed and many I
vbucio iujuivu.
Tub threatened return of inflammation in
the German Crown Prince's throat has been
averted.
An American bark was wrecked off waterford,
Ireland, and ail her crew of twenty-five
persons ware drowned.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Morh than 8,000 persons live by the mills
f Columbus, Ga.
In Mexico laborers get 18 to 25 cents a day
and are often paii* in farm produce.
There are forty-six local unions of brewery
amp]ores in the Brewers' Kaiional Union.
A co-operative grocery Btore has been
organized by the Knights of Labor at Lima,
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company pays
. out $0,< 100,001 > annually in wages to its 11,0J0
employes.
One Of tho new industries in Maine which
are springing up over the State is the extraction
of oil from cedar boughs.
Journeymen Bakers' Union, No. 1, of
New York, which :s cnmpos?d entirely of
Germans, has decided to employ an English
teacher.
At the Glasgow Exhibition next season,
v?hich will I e opened by tho Prince of Wales,
^ one :e tion will he that devo:ed to modern
shipbuilding nnd m irine engineering. Most
of ibe Clyde shipbuilding firms have applied
IVI 0(MiUU.
Tbe Railroad Conductors' Brotherhood is
going to attempt to get a law passed by Congress
re (uiring all conductors on inter Stito
railroads to have a Uovernment license, obtainab
e only after an examination by a
Government'board.
Eight fruit and vegetable canning factories
in Maitie. put on the market this season
products valued at $2.0)0,0 KX Over 14,0)0,000
cans of swtet corn wei e put up, besides a
large amount of apples, pumpkins, squash,
beans, and tomatoes.
A Pittsburgh special says that the FlintGlass
Workers' Union, whoso members are on
a strike, has purcha-ed for $20,u i0 a factory
near East Liverpool, Ohio. At the outset
g ,* sixty men will be employed. The factory
will be under the direct supervision of the
T7r*Ir\r\ nn/1 intA itj tvoociifV will tiirtlAi)
tho JN-ofitS
VERY OLD PEOPLE.
Hatie North, who re ently died at Troy,
Kan., was believe-! lo have lived 117 years.
William Aiken, a co'orvd man of Columbia,
S. C., w is married on his lo.?d birthday
~ to 6us.e Watson, a young widow, aged K>
years.
Two venerable eiti-ens of Cbillicothe, Mo.,
died recently?Isa ah Austin, who was 95
^oars of age, and ianty MeKinney, who wa8
At the donation day ceremonies at tho
Philado phia Home for A<?ed and Infirm Color?
I Persons, John Gibson opened tho oele
t>ration with prayer, aitnougu lie is jk years |
o 1 ago.
Tub Hon. Pavid Nc:ghbour, of Califon, N.
J., has just celebrate I h s Hist birthday. He
fa one of the lew *>u viving members of the
Convention wh eh framed the Constitution of
Kew Jersey in I*!:*.
When M'iric Gilbert ?lied nt Stanford,
Ky., re ent y, sho had lived 87 yo irs witiiout
ever having l^tt her lionw. She never saw a
train, a though her home was but five miles
from the r?i road.
Mrs. Mary Hayes Gilbert, of Gloucester.
M ss.. is in her IOilyear. an 1 still in the
fcpst of hea th, with memory unimpaired.
When hub 14 years 6he was at a dinner to
i President Adaux-s, who dt anb a glass of wine
with her.
Th c grandparents of Mr. and Mrs. E. PJohnston,
are four of the longest-lived peopl;
in Georg a. c-onneoted by similar t es. Tu.sy
^ reside at GrifHn, and are r spective y 9H, ?4.
84 and 7tt ye irs of nge, and are leuiarkably
hale and he-ir v
f Mxc. Jamks 'it'je ><">n. of HoupviHe,
Ga , had b en d?nf for several yens, Hilda
phys.'ciun who tieuled him was imablw to
Afford relief. T te otli^r day, while Mrs.
Jloi[) was washing tJto boy's fate, ?i>e pulled
out from hi> car a blade of ?truw two inches
Jong. Mis dealtu-ss 1mm since disappeared.
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THE NEWS_ EPITOMIZED.
Fartprn and Middle ?ltate*.
According to BradstrccPs, tho mercantile
failures in tho United States last year nurabero
1 y,740 and in Canada 1,815. The liabilities
were: United States, $130,(503,000; Canada,
$17,054,000. These figures are the lowest
sineo I bS i.
A CONVENTION of Reading Railroad employes,
after a continuous session of nearly
b hours in Roading, decided to issue another
order to strike at noon on Saturday. Every
itan in the employ of the Reading Company,
with the exception of passenger train
crews, trackmen and Bignal tower men and
crossing watchmen, was ordered to go on
strike.
Alt. the fires in tho flint-glass factories of
the East have been put out, pending the
settlement between emp oyers and employes
of a difference ovtr the adoption of new shop
rules for 1888.
Marcus W. Rasbacit, the trusted and
popular cashier of the Herkimer (N. Y.) National
Bank, absconded with over $34,000.
In New York city last year there were
34,023 births, 13,7.>0 marriages and 88,933
deaths, 'j he police arrests for the year were
80,753; suicides, 232; number of emigrant
arrivals, 311,034.
Ho>'- Joel Parker, twice Governor of
New Jersey, died suddenly of paralysis in
Philadelphia on Monday. He was Lorn in
1818, elected Governor of New Jersey in 1803
and again in 1811, and wasappointod Justice
of the Supreme Court by Governor McClellan
in 1880.
An explosion blow up the engine house on
l?ymit?h o flnu wrvrkfl in New
York.1 One man was 'kifled and the driver
of a pa&sing horse-car had his legs broken.
Almost all tha business section of Egg
Harbor City, N. J., has been swept away by
fire.
There will probably be no international
yacht race for the America's cup this year,
the Britishers having iailed to send a challenge
within the prescribed time.
The New York Legislature is in session.
Fremont Cole has b en elected Speaker of the
Assembly. Governor Hill's me-sage was
shorter than nstial. Its chief novelty was a
recommendation in favor of the passage of
an act abolishing the Senate's power of confirming
or rejecting Executive nominations,
exccpo ill bUO ltJ*V KXXOC* nuwy MUO vviiou.iu
tion specifically requires confirmation by the
Senate.
An old couple named Woodham, who had
been confined in an insane asylum at Concord,
N. H., thirteen years, charged with
crimes they never committed, have just boen
released.
R. S. Hicks, tho defaulting cashier of the
Stafford (Conn.) National Bank, has been
sent to the State prison for four years.
Ronth nnrt WoiC.
John Strickland, twenty years old, was
banged in Conway, S. C., for murdering his I
stepmother, and a similar fate befell Will.am
Fnchinan. at.Harrisonburg, Va., for the
murder of uis brother.
D.nmtnn a l.itfnn In/rol TTflPfl Af>
lAmiM IU U Uiiw;i ivf^ai ngitv oyiv w <
rested and brought before Justice Haynesworth
at ."Sumter, S. C. They began to fire
upon each other and killed the Justice. D. i
E. Kills, one of the parties, and a bystander
were fatally wount.ed. Several other men
were dangerously wounded.
The floor of a crowded colored Baptist
Church at Fo.getown, Ala., gave way, aDd ,
the bu ld.ng eo. lapsed. Two women and a
child were killed, and betwoen twenty and
thirty persoi.s were injured.
Fooivlpkn human skeletons were ronna in ,
a pit under the d welling of a half-breed Sioux (
Indian near Pierre, Dakota. The remains ,
were travelers who had been murdered and
robbed. The Indian had d.sapptared.
Hostile Apaches are on the warpath in
Arizona, and have killed a number of travelers.
A fire at Houma, La., burned away
twenty business houses and 10.) dwe'lings,
causing an estimated aggregate loss of $150,COJt
A weak-mi.vded white man named "Watdrop
was lynched at Central, 8. C.. by a
crowd of colored men, for a i atrocious assault
upon a thirteen year-old colored girl. i
During a political row in a New Orleans
saloon Polico Commissioner Patrick Mcaley !
and Mike Welsh were fatally wounded, Dan
Mark?y was shot in the mouth, William
De:aney was cut in the ht.nd and Louis Clare
was badly beaten.
Three memb'i-s of the notorious Kelly
r ^ I*. A I . >?? miiniatnnrr nnrl rrtKhmor !
ilUIli u .1 U" .1
travek-rs at their h >us ? on tue Texas bordor,
have been caught by vigilantes and
hanged. Tbey were William Ke ly, aged
fifty-four; his son "Bill,"' aged twenty, and
daughter Kate, a*e I eighteen. The o.d
man confasse 1 bis lamily had murdered nine
men and two women.
Twenty-one busmcss houses were burned
at Salirta, Ool., involving a lose estimated at
$200,000.
Washington.
The pa*t twelve mont.w have been the
greatest year in th-i history of the United
States for raiboal buidin", the total mileage
of new main track lines being 12,724
miles.
Two reports have been submitted by the
Commissioners ecamimnz the affairs of the
UDion Pacific Railway Company. The majority
repo t favors an adjustment of the ,
Company's debts; the m nority report advocates
a fuifeiture of ti.e Coni| any's charter.
Senator Hearst, of Caliiornia, wants to
inciease the pensions of the few remaining
veterans of the war of 1612.
The Unit?<l State* treasury contained
$G20,>j0?,47<) at the beginning of the vo ir.
The total amount of national bank notes
outstanding at the beginning of the present
year was
Five thousand persons, including the
Diplomatic corps, Army and Navy oificers,
Supreme Court Justices, etir.,*hoo!i hands j
w.th the 1 resident and Mrs. Cleveland at
the White House re .-eption on New Year's.
Mrs. Clove and was ussisted in receiving by
"M ro Vq i?v?hi nnHI Sirs.
Whitney'
Count de Sponneck, Secretary of the j
Danish Legation at St. Petersburg, has been
appointed Dan sh Minister to thle Un Uxl
State*. He will enter upon the duties of the
post in February.
Government receipts in December were
$29,05U,803, and ex peudi lures $12,5)80,550.
During December the national debt was
miuo'd $14,5*4,850.68. Toiol cash in the
Treasury, $527,025,557.31.
Foreign.
The German bark Johanna was destroyed
by fire off (Jape Horn, and eight of the crew
were lost
Pope Leo XIII. has been celebrating the
fiftieth year o' his entrance into the Catho ic
priestho xi at Rome. The City was filled
wi h pilgrims from all pirtso.. Europe, and
the presents received by tho Pops a^e worth
m.lhons of doli re. At a pontifical ma<a,
ceiebrated in St Peter's, 3U.IXX) people were
present, and the Popo was so overcome that
he fainted twr-e.
A horrible disaster is reported from the
seiport city of Arnoy, China. A powder
magazine blew up, destroying one-fourth of
ttii liu'lrtings in the p aco. Fifty boi tiers
wjr? blown to atoms and several hundred
civilian killcnl.
A firk in Erard's big piano factory, Paris,
destroyed 1,500 pianos.
There have been several outbreaks at the
univcrs.ty in St. Pe ersburg, owing to the,
expulsion of &K) students. The military
were employed to suppress the disorders.
a ... ?i? -i ?.
?uii?n ifillLit\ IUKU uuu;i wcw ?oiu ?u uuj
City of Mi i o. lasting til rty- ours conis.
It was more violent in Southern Mexico.
A violjcnt snow storm has swept across
Kurope, ere t!y impeding tra'Jic in many
places. At B uenneight gypsies were fro en
to death, an! in Vienna several women have
perished from the colJ.
Peoi'iJS at St. f'aul are preparing for the
Ice Carnival, whi< h will lie held with
"iloats,'' sleigh par.idcs. proces 'ons of' o d
settlers" an I other attractions. T<ie i e p ilace
is in process of erection. It is thought
that 2,500 l >a Ib of ice, or almost 0,000 tons,
will be required for the building.
A bio buck stood on a Michigan ra'lroad
track th'> other nigntso interested in watch
inglhe glare of t >e headlight of an approachng
loc- otive that he never f-t'rred until hv
waB H ock)l off ;h) tr ick and killed.
A Boston 6teamsh;p company has own
fined $i.0<K) by the i m gration Commission
ei s lor a stowaway who was al'owel to cs
(ape fi'Oin one of the company's vessels.
MIXERS ON STRIKE.
Thirty Thousand Men in Pennsylvania
Stop Working.
Nearly Every CoaL Colliery in the
Schuylkill Field Closed.
A great strike of miners employed in the
Heading Railroad Company's Collieries in
tho Schuylkill anthracite coal region was
begun on Monday. As many of the railroad
employes on the Reading Road were also on
strike, the cessation of work by the miners
served to complicate matters. A fottsville
(Penn.) dispatch gave the following details
of tho beginning and cause of the strike:
The gigantic struggle has commenced.
Corporate power :s on one side and organized
labor on the other. The Schuylkill region
miners are out and will not return, they say,
until their demands are acceded to. They
number 3>,0J0, and, addtxl to the 20,000
miners who are out in the Lehigh region,
present an army which they say is invincible.
W by they are out is a question about which
there seems to be some doubt. Tha loaders of
the strikers on the Reading Railroad say the
m.ners havo struck to sustain organized
labor. On the other hand the miners'
leaders say it is simply a question of wages.
Dan el Duffy, Secretary of the Miners'
Amalgamated Association, sums up tho
situation in this way: "Since the basis
was adopted in 1877 there have boon
ra iiicn'n?i<! in wnrrtst here and there
untii the entire region has been brought
down fifteen per c.mt. below the wages pai l
at the time of ice adoption. Thceo reductions
have been made in contract work, in
increising the size of cars, in requiring
larger headings and the setting of
more timbers, and iu a hundrod other ways
imposing more work w.th no increase of remune
ation. Last August we demanded
an increase of fifteen for cmt. This
wou d have simply restored us to the
starting point. The company would
not give tne employes the full amount demanded
and then compromised on ei ;ht per
cent. The company now wants to go Iwck to
the fifteen per cent, reduction, and the men
are in revolt"
"But does the railroad gtrfco enter into
toe uuesuuii!
"That will bo a matter for future consideration."
Meanwhile Messrs. Lee and Cahill, of the
striking railroad employes, manifest tha
roost active interest in the strike starred
to-day, and have been rece.ving re iorts from
the minesat their headquarters as promptly as
Chairman Davis,of tho miners' committee, has
received them. Th. ro are forty-four company
and twenty-eight individual collieries
in the Schuylkill region in workable condition.
Of th 8e five company collieries starte-i
up to-day and worked as usual.
NATIONAL LABOR BUREAU.
Third Annual Report of Commissioner
Carroll D. Wright.
Commissioner Carroll D. Wright has submitted
to the Secretary of tho Interior the
third annual report ot ttio uareau or uiDor,
which relates entire y to strikes and lockouts
for the per.od of six yours, ended December
>1, 1686. The following table shows
the number of strikes occurring during each
of the last six years and the number ot establishments
involved:
EsfablUHr
mcnij
Yean. Strike*. Involved.
188 1 471 2,928
1882 454 2,105
188:} 478 2,759
1SS4 443 2,367
188> M5 2,284
1888 1,412 9.8J3
Total 3,1*03 22,836
In 1887, the report Bays, there were.according
to the best information obtainable, 8)3
strikes, details of which are not available.
Tne report shows that during the six years
oovered bv the investigation New York
bod the largest nmnfcr of establish?
?rtW?f-n/4 Kftfli hv ofrilrAa nr?H lrv>lr- I
UIC1IIO PliVVW* Wi'VH wr?. ?m.%. .?%M
oats, there being for the former 9,349
and for tho latter 1,528. The buil.ling
trades furnished 0,000 of the total number of
establishments engaged in strikes The total
number of employes involved in the whole
number of strikes for the entire period is
shown to have been 1.818,024. The number
of employes originating the strikes was
1,020,!&^' * Tho number of employes in
all establishments before the strikes
occurred was 1,0(12,041, while tho
whole number employed in the establishments
invo.veJ after the strikes occurred
was l,03i>,347, a loss of 2.1,7: )3. There were
ArtD AMnnnrA^ affoH fKft
OOW ?mpiujrun utiu hub
strike, and 27,483 were brought from other
places than those in which the strikes
occurred. In 2,183 establishments lockouts
were ordered during the period
named. In these there were 172,995
employes before the lock-outs occurred, and
ret nftsif tho Ifvk.niiffi whilfl the number
actually locked out was 159,543. There were
lo.WG new emplo}'e? secured at the close of
lock-outs, and 5,682 were brought from other
pla/ es than those in which the lock-outs oocurred.
Uf the whole number of employes involved
in strikes during the 6ix years covered by
the report 88.50 per cent, were males and
11.44 per cent were females. Of those involved
in lock outa duriug the samo period
68.78 per cent were males and 81.22 per cent
were females.
Losses to strikers during the six years covered
by the investigations were $51,810,165;
losses to employes throngh lock outs for
tho 6ame period, $8,1:32,717, or a total
wage loss to employes of $59,948,882.
This loss occured for both strikes and
lock-outs in 24,518 establishments, or an
average 'oss of $2,445 to each establishment
or of nearly $40 to each striker invol ved.
The assist ince given to each striker for the
same period. *o far as ascertainable,amounted
to $8,825,057; to those Buffering from lockouts;$1,105,583,
or a total of $4,480,595.
T'hr* Inccaa f.htVMltrh CffilfM fftr
AliO VA-?IJJI\JJ 11 J twnw w>?wu^M ...?
the six years amounted to $10,732,(>53;
through lock outs, $;!,4&i,i!(Jl; or a total loss
to the establishments involved of t-W, 161,914.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,
The origin of the "Foulanger March" is at
tribnted to an Italian composer.
New Yorkers are complaining of the high
oost of first-class concerts nowadiys.
Pauline Lucca, the opera Ringer, intends
to leave the 6tage for good and settle in Vienna
as teacher of singing.
A fbw weeks ngo Mozart's "Don Giovanni"
was performed for the 500th time at the
Royal Opera House, Berlin.
Mlle. Marie Deoca has had a triumfkoAtiwk
Tv^lan/l onr) icRnnl'PTl
piiotjv pivgiroo viiivugu jiviuui*) ??? ? ~jTw
of as "tho coming Btar of ojjera."
Massenet's new oratorio, "Marie Magda
Jene," is pronounced "worthy to rank with
the finest contemporary compositions."
The Qneen of Spain is taking music lessons
from Napoleon Verger, the bar.tono, who
sixteen years ago visited America with Chris
tine Nilsson.
Lester Wallack is to have a benefit, and
when it comes off, Joseph Jefferson, Edwin
Booth, Lawrence Barrett and other stars
wiJl play for him.
A Ladies' Bixgino Society has been
i 1 i- XT XT 1- * AI .A...]..
jLuriiiwi lu n?'w i urn lur tuu miuuj ui nn^r
cal duets and part songs, and the cultivation
of Rubinstein's music.
Gilbert and Sul'ivan's "Pinafore," performed
in the original English by one of Mr.
D'Ovly Carte's companies, has met with immense
succea* in Berlin.
An international musical exhibition will
open at Itolo.-na, Ita y, on May 1. 1S88, and
continue for six months. Verdi, the composer,
will be President
A London association of performers on
wind instruments is giving cono.:rt-i at which
oiJy -nch instruments are used. The h.giiost
classical musk* is attacked fea-Ics ly.
Ki.isk Fried i? Anarchist Linsg's swoethoart,
has ma e an engagement with a dime
mil eutn mn-'acrer to make a tour of the
Pouth and West and ] cat as "Louis Linjigs
Girl.'Wam^r
Clifford, EntrliRh baritone, and
Florence Wand, have signed en raiments
for a iour in the United St ites. co.nmencing
tn Chi'ntro early in April next, and comprising
thirtv-two ooncerts.
A Nnw f omic opera, entitled ''SimplicmV'
by Strauss, the brilliant composer of the
Ovjisy Baron." "Prince Methusalmn,"
"M> rrv War." ard many other New York
guores$es, had its lirst appearance in Vienna
On Saturday last.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate Proceedings.
13th Day.?At the reassembling of the
Senate after tho holiday recess petitions were
presented urging the issuance of fractional
currency; against any change in the fishery
treaties and in favor of the rights of American
fishermen under existing treaties and legislation;
in favor of the present tariff on
lunil>er; indorsing the Inter-State law; favoring
Government ownership of the telegraph,
etc.... Senator Sherman made a long speech
on the tariff. He reviewed and argued against
the Presidents Message, spoke strongly in
favor of protecting American industry and
favored a reduction of the surplus by the
abolition of internal revenue taxation....
Mr. Voorhees followed Mr. Sherman in a
speech supporting the President's Message.
At the close of Mr. Voorhees's speech Mr.
Klierman raovea mat iao message do referred
to the Finance Committee, but the
motion was not acted upon.
Houso Proceedings.
1 1th Day.?a flood of bills, among them
being the following: To provide for the reduL-t.on
of customs duties; to establish a
court of appeals; to amend the Civil Service
act; granting pensions to survivors of Indian
wars who have attained the
age of seventy years: to establish
signal stations on West Indian
Islands: for the temporary support of common
schools; for the refunding of the cotton
tax; to remove th; tax from tobacco and
spirits made from fruits; to authorize females
to enter lands under the homestead
l?n?. rociilntn tha Administration of the
array; to donate public lands for school purposes;
to secure cheaper telegraphic
correspondence; to prohibit the immigration
of Chinese; abolishing the duty
on suear; to pormit the President to
votoitems of the General Appropriation bill;
rep >aling the limitation on the Arrea s of
tensions net; proposing a Constitutional
Amendment granting women the right of
sulFiage; to prevent the emplovment of convict
labor on public works; for the admission
of ."Southern Dakota into tho Union.
FUTURE EMPERORS.
Two Probable Successors to tho Imperial
Throne of Germany.
The above group represents Prince William,
oldest son of the Crown Prince of Germany,
his wife, and their oldest son, also designated
Prince William. Tho father was born
January 27, 1859, and is, therefore, 28 years
old. His mother is tho oldest child of Queen
Victoria, marrie 1 to tho Crown Prince of
Germany on January 2">, 1858. They had
eight children, of whom two are dead. Their
enn is tho I'rinoo William above
portrayod, tho hoir appare nt to the throne of
Germ iny. Should ho pass away then the
ruler of tho German Empire in the natural
course of events would l?e the little sevenyear-old
Prince William star.ding before hi3
father and mother in the foregoing group.
A GIGANTIC BILLOW,
Destruction Wrought by a Wave
Sixty Feet HiffK
The city of Portland, Me., has hail a narrow
escape from destruction by a wave of
tremendous height and power during the
recent heavy storm. A .Portland oispaico
gives the following particulars:
The great gale struck Portland Head at 0:30
o'clock at a time when in this harbor the wind
seemed to l>e dying out. Up to that time,
while the wind had been terrific, blowing fifty
miles an hour, the rain falling continuously.
Keeper Stroutaud his assistants, Joe and
Oil St rout, had no idea that anything unusual
was about to occur.
"It was very clear," said Gil Strout this
afternoon, "and wo couM see a long way out
through the rain, and when the great wave
mado its appearance we could see its white
cap far out and could watch its approach."
Apparently the monster wave came in the
shape of a pyramid. It struck first against
the outer line of rock, and at that time,
when the fountains of the mighty deep
seemed to have broken up, a ma1? of
water towered up even, as they
believed, with the lighthouse itself.
Between the lino of rock extending for perhaps
a hundred feet along the sea lino ami
tho shore is an opening some forty feet deep,
and varying from ten to twenty feet in
length. This spaco was never filled
with water until last night, when
m'nnf wova hml/A luwl flllftfl if, f mm
iUO g.lUMV "?'w v.wnv ? ?
above. Waves of ordinary size and power,
breaking and pressing behind added their
strength to that of tho monster,and the entire
mass was hurle.l sixty feet above highwater
mark against tho engine, boiler,
and fog horn house, fhe forco of the blow
was such that the building, built as stn nsjly
as possible, was bent, twisted, and shatt. r?>d.
Great iron stays wero snapped, as though
they bad been pipe stems, and the receding
wave carried with it everything on the shore,
including stones weighing tons.
A farmer who lives on tho shore of Capo
Elizabeth, about two miles beyond the headlight,
said: "I know something about that
monster wave. I never saw anything like it
in iny life. It was greater than the one two
years ago, which swept over Pond Cove and
carried away the bridges and roadways.
"When the wave was coining in it made
a fearful roar, but when it struck the cliffs
it 83 'mod as though it fairly smashed them
to pieces. Tho force of the blow was
4 J rrinrontio Mllnm
iruiutfimuus. {luuvuci ouou 6?0?w?.? wu.v..
would have done woeful damage along the
shore."
The British schooner Achsah, outward
bound, whenolT Cushing'a Island became unmanageable,
and rapidly dritted toward the
shore. She was saved by the tug Warren.
From all Maine ports stories of the work
of the storm hare come in, and it has 1 eon
a long time since so much damage has been
done. In Kastern Maine the telegraph and
telephone wires were prostrated^ and no
communication with the outer islands and
lighthouses could be eflVctei At Ro kland
vessels were damaged, and at Calais the night
wus one of tlw worst ever aeon.
PROMINENT PEOLPE.
A QRANDPAUOHTfcn of Charles Dickens
does a flourishing business with a tvnowi iter.
Governor Biogs, of Delaware, owni
eleven farms and has mode a fortune front
them.
M. Grew saw twelve cabinets, with l-.'t
ministers, serve under him while President ol
France.
M >st of th" London churches havo offcre-l |
np prayers (or the recovery of the Crown
Prince of Germany.
The American Ross Wiuans now control*
230.000 acr^s of deer forest in Scotland, and
emnloys Bcveral hundred keepers.
William E. (j ladstcn', who n pist
seventy-nine years old, is goin~ to the South
of Kuiope. ostensibly for his health.
Thomas L. Thompson, one of Ca'ifornia's
Represont.it ves in Contjre- is t'ie son and
grandson of former Representatives.
Generals Sherman and Sheridan wi'l re
view the State military exercises at the centennial
celebration in i)h:o next September.
Tiik Queen of FnJ iwl is planted $::C0.
000 annually for hor own personal exoenses.
1 ut she casts th<> people in one way and another
a year. I
Hon. Francis Brinley, the orator select.
J is - -1.1?? *\,n
eu LO aciiver IIIU IVIUK-xi < ?. xw, U^vum^ v..
the Barton Historical Society's new building,
is nearly 1)0 years old.
Canadians are establishing ron-tics in tlite
Northwest Territory and sh pping cattle 10
the 1 urope >n market by wnv of Montreal
over the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
DISASTERS ON THE BAIL.
Five Accidents with Fatal Results
Recorded in One Day,
Seven Persons Killed in Kentucky
and Five in Pennsylvania,
Five railroad disasters, each attended with
fatal results, were reported on Saturday
fiv-im /liffoponf. narffl of thfl United StAtfiS.
Particulars of the various aocidenta were as
follows:
A Conductor's Terrible' Blander.
North and south bound "cannon-ball"
trains on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad
came into collision at 1 P. M.. near Greenwood,
Ky., about twenty miles north of
the Tennessee and Kentucky State line.
Engineer Michaels, of traiu No. 2, northbound,
tells a thrilling story. He
was running down-grade at the rate of
sixty miles an hour, and did not s^ the engine
approaching his train until it was about
fifty feet away. Without stopping to reverse
his engine or turn on the air-brake he
jumped out of the cab window and landed in
a lot of bushes, fiually dropping in a mud
hole. One of his ankles was badly hurt.
Train No. 1 was running up grade at the
rate of thirty-five miles an hcur. Sam Bennett
was conductor on this train, and on
meeting Conductor Shrura after the accident
he inquired: "What does this mean f' Shrum
replied: "I had orders to run to Somerset
11am aP Ma 1 nnrl linrn M mw nr/lor '
I U1WW XJk 1) UU'* uv/ftv avj i..j VI V4V1 .
On taking it from his pocket he discovered
bis mistake,for it ordered him to run to Summ
t The dreadful discovery was too much
for Shrum, and he lost his mind.
Ttie dead comprise 1 Pat Taylor, engineer,
and Fireman Cadv, of train No. 1; Leo
With row, Lawrence Callan and W. B.
Powell, express messengers; James Severance,
mail agent, ani Miss Jessie Green, of
Cincinnati. About twenty persons were injured,
several of them fatally.
Wreck of an Erie Express.
The fast Chicago express on the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, consisting
of two sleepers and Ave day coaches, came into
collision with freight train, No. &J, made up
of two engines and sixty cars, three miles
west of Meadville, Penn., at 8 o'clock a m.
Five persons were killed an I fourteen
injured. The deud are: William George,
engineer on the freight train; Edwin Humes,
fi; eman on the freight train; E. P. Swan, engineer
on the express; Arthur Irwin, fireman
on the express, ana a commercial traveler
named Stevens.
The physicians thought none of the
wounded would die. The wreck was caused
by the freight enjpneers leaving Meadville
yard in advance ot their orders. Tbey were
ordered to leave the yard as soon as the express
arrived. They went in advance of its
arrival. When Yardmaster Drecker saw
that tbey were gone he boarded a switch engine
an 1 under all steam followed them, but
was unable toovertike the freight.
Accidents Elsewhere.
A fatal collision occurred on the Utah and
Northern Railroad, near Dil on. Mont. It
was caused by the breaking away of a long
train of coal cars at Spring Hill, sixty miles
distant, the grade being downward. After
running wild that distance it ran into the
freight train. Fireman Patrick McShane
was instantly killed and Engineer John
Sweeney was seriously hurt. The cars of
UUIFI 11'U ill* ?CIC V?WUI 7 nui^vv..
The night express for M lwaukoe left
Chicago at 10:30, over the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Faul, sm&ched into a freight
train at Somerville, III., in a blinding snowstorm.
The engine and mail car of the pas8.*nger
train were derai.ed, with several
freight cars, making a bad wreck, and giving
the passengers a severe shaking up.
Engineer Little was hurt 6eriously, and a
fireman, probably fatally.
. The rsection of a fast stock train ran into
the other pirt of the Bini3 train n?>nr Kouts,
Ind., cansmg a bad smnsli-up, followed by a
fire. A trackman wa> burned to a crisp. A
cattle car was destroyed and the auimals inside
were burned to death.
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
A BOUNTY for wild cat scalps Is paid by
Florida.
A grand sheep-shearing will bo hold in
Chicago in the spring.
Extensive deposits of chalk have been
found near Bluehil), Me.
Cholera of the deadliest type prevails to
an alarming extent in Chill
It is proposed to emp oy colored people in
the cotton mills at the South.
Naturalgas was struck it Nebraska City,
Neb., lately, at a depth of -150 feet.
The Court-house of Walker County, Ark.,
at Jasper, sits upon a bed of solid coul.
A man said to be worth $750,0)0 died in an
inebriate asylum in Brooklyn a few days aga
Thicre are said to be thousands of bushels
of riBiimits eoine to waste in Indian Terri
toi-y.
Ranchmen near Mangus, N. M., are trying
to catch a big bear that has killed over
one hutidml goats.
Landslides and washouts are greatly interfering
with the operation of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad in Manitoba.
There are 1*'j college-bred mon in both
houses of Congress. Of the seventy-six S'eua
tors only tbirty-two are college crwluateA
Southern Idaho has declared war against
the scheme to divide the Territory ami add
the northern portion to Washington Terri
tory.
A boy and girl, aged fourteen and twelve
years resj>ectively, were recently married at
iSh- Iby, Ala., with the consent of their
parents.
Mrs Susan Mears, Mrs. Almira Holmea,
and Mrs. Israel Audmws, triplets, celebrated
v.u ?#iinfh minivi'i'Qurv of their birth ro
centl'y, in Etsex, Masa * I
A Michigan man thinks that by draining '
certain Tennessee bog land* be can make a
fortune raisin;; celery. He has just bought ]
1,0>H) acres, near Chattanoga, lor this pur |
cose.
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THE MARKETS.
1 new yokjc
Beef, ffood to prime 6 8
Calves, common to prime.... 8 @ II
Saeep 4}4$
Lambs <V';^
Hogs?Live 5 40 ^ 5 70
Dressed 7
Flour?Ex. St, Rood to fancy 4 40 & 4 7o
West, good to choice 3 00 <a;. 5 10
Wheat?No. 'I Rod 01
H vn ?stafcfl 50 ($ 58
Barley?State 83 @ bs
Coru?Ungraded Mixovl.... CJ @ 63
Oaks?White .state 4?>40%
Mixed Western 8 >^(3 3i>
Hay?Me<L to prune To ^ bO
Straw-No. 1. Rve 75 (? bu
Lard?City Steam 7 85 @8 10
Butter?State Ui eamery.... 33 34
i)any 21 ($ 20
West Im. Creamery is ?5 25
Fa' torv 14 (d) 20
Cheese?State Factoiy 10;^ ? 12
Skims ? (d) 8
Western
Eggs?State and Ponn 2o (g 20
BUKlfAU).
Steer9?Western 3 2> @ 3 75
Sneep?Guo<l to Choice 3 <5 ($ 4 ?5
l^iniod? Western 4 !i? (?< (i DO *
Hogs?(Joud to Choice Yorlcs 5 1 > (<b 5 liO
j Fiour?l'unnly 4 75 (a, 5 15
I Wheat?No. 1 IM y.>'v
C..I M?N.L 2. Ali\ed 5%^ '-3
Oats?No. :2, Mi.vol ? ($ Wi/t
Barley?State. 75 (<fi t>5
BOSTON.
Beef?Good to choi-je
| Hogs?Live 5'4,4
Northern Dres-**!.... 0%,<j
Pork?Ex. Prime, tier bhl. ..17 00 t<$!7 5)
Flnur?Spring Wheat pac's.. 4 70 (a, 4 'Jo
Corn?Hi^h Mixed. ? (d bt>}4
Oats?Extra White ?$ (% .W>?
Rye?State AO ti) '5
WA I'EKTOWN (MAS3.) CAITLK MA iKET.
Beet? Dressed weigut. ?>
Sheen?Live weight 4 4/(
I.amb (>
Hogs?Northern ? (<5 7
PHILADELPHIA
Flour?Penn.exrrn family... 3 75 @ 3 871*
Wheat?No. 2, 11*1 !k?.
Corn?Stato Yellow 58^ (cj o?
Oats Mixe 1 3? (d) 411
Kye?Mate 62)^ ^ 58
Butter?Cienmery Extra... <U (& 30
Cheese?N. Y. Full Crotm.. ? 49 iaj4
j shoplifters! i
SHRRWD THIEVES THAT INFEST
METROPOLITAN STORES.
Watching the Movements of the
Shoplifters?How Professionals
Are Distinguished?Amateurs
Who Pilfer?A Mistake.
A New York Commerdil Adr&rtit'r
reporter recent y had an interesting conversation
with a policeman who had been
detailed to special duty in one of the Dig
Sixth avenue shops as a detective. 4,I
suppose," said he, "that the cost to the
retail merchants in th s city for protection
against shoplifting, by the employment
of floor walkers and special officers
amounts to fully *lu0,00d a year. It is
interesting to watch the flo king of shoplifters
to new 6tores or to the older establishments
which open new departments.
The ground is usually studied by these
persons on opening day. They generally
come in pairs and pay particular attcnt
on to the younger of the *hop people.
Host of them show an astonish ng knowledge
of fabric*, and in this way, as well
as in more obvious cases, become very
friendly with the girls whom they propose
to victimise. A thorough-paced
shoplifter is nevera stranger in a store.
As a rule she ma.<en frequent purchases
as a cover for her thefts. 1 speak, as you
see, only of women shoplifters, but there
are, perhaps, a dozen men well known to
the police who make a pood living at
this kind of larceny. They confine themselves,
however, to fields lying out of the
domain of retail dry goods stores.
'One can almost invariably distinguish
a professional shoplifter, bhe is
usually between thirty and forty yeais of
age,eminently respei table in appcarance,
dressing quietly and moving aliout in
such a manner as to attract the least attention
to herself. She carries a loosely
wrapped paper parcel or a widemoutncd
handbag, and wears either a
shawl or a dolman. The use of the wrap
is evident. The paper parcel comes iu
h:tndy in many ways. Into the folds of i
imner wh lethe narcel is resting: upon
the counter, the shoplifter can tuck away
more things than an unskilled person cau
get in a Gladstone bag. Lf course, all.
the articles so stolen must be small.
When she desires to get away with a
quantity of silk, a bund e of gloves or a
box oi handkerchiefs, she uses her convenient
wrap. It is not often that a
woman of this kind does not increase
considerably in size from the time she
enters the store until &he leaves it, and an
observation of this change in her; ppearance
is, after aH, the surest way of deA
Vi n iAonnb o J
iCl'UU^ bliC Ul VUAO. ,
" Ihe special officers who are detailed]
to these big stores make, as a matter of
course, a special study of these women.
I have often lost three days out of a week
by trotting around the Pol.ce Courts
getting acquainted with the faces of
shoplilters an ho have been arrested.
Most of the large stores have rogues'
galleries of their own, the pictures in
which consist almost exclusively of shoplifters.
In a special division of the books
in which the names and | edigrees of the
professional shopl fters are ke.-t, appear
the uarms and addresses of women who
are otherwise reputable, but who have
been detected at shoplift ng. I pon the
return of or payment for the articles
6tolen they have not been piosecuted.
Queer as it may seem, the snops suner
more from this class of amateur thieves
than from even tbe professionals. Some
women are a ilicteil wiih such a lust for
possession of articles which tliey cannot
alford to buy that they a'e willing to
sacrifice their own and their families'
reputations by a systematic course of
stealing. I know of one lady living in
"West forty-third street, whose name was
on our books, and whose husband had
made an agreement with the firm to pay
for anything his wife m gfat steal. In
one year his bill amounted to w.thin a
few dollars of $7,000. This lady ?a? a
patroness of several charitable institutions
and a member of one of the most
prom nent Presbyterian churches on
Murray Hill.
rorfl tVint m intakes are made
in arresting women for ?-hoplifting who
are not actually guilty of it. It is altogether
too dangerous. The most
notable ca-e I renumber occurred in
Brooklyn some years ago. The wife of
| the District Attorney of Kings County
| bought a quantity of goods in the store
of one of the leading d y-goods firms
I across* the river. An over-oliicious floorwalker
thought that she had taken sonic|
thing which she had not paid for, and
he directed her to uo to the office. 8he
indignantly refused. Thereupon theman
obtained assistance and carried her
| there, where she wa9 t-earched by three
| female attendants. .Nothing was found
upon her for wh ch she had not a reI
ceipted memorandum. 'J hen she was
J told that she could go. blu* positively
refused. 'But,' she said, 'I de>ire to
have my husband *ent for, and
he will in<|ti.re more particularly
I iuto this outrage.' She wrote a note
and directed it to her husband in his of'
- nf tViu firm
llCl&l CttpAClljT. j\ ixjciiiuv? >mv
who by tliis time hail appreciated the
gravity of the mistake, bcg?ed that the
lady would say no more about the matter,
declaring thai he would indemnify her
lor the outrage wki h he acknowledged
had been perpetrated. This the lady also
retired to <;o. When her husband arrived
the overtures for settlement were
renewed, but we eagan rejected. Tlio
floor wa ker. the man who assisted him.
and the three women who made the
search, were anested for assault. The
m itter was given she widest pub icity in
the newspapers, and :he re ultof it all
wis that .^o strong was feeiing against
thi' firm hecau-e of the outrage that it
was ob'i-je I to retire from business.
Thin was a salutary warning which dry
goods men in geiu-rai have not loigotten."
Are Stones Alive?
TVe generally think of minerals ns dead
lumps of inactive niatier. liut tliey may
be said to be ulive, eieaturvs of vital | ulsa'.ions.
and separated into individuals
as distinct as the pines in a fore t or the
tigers in a jungle. The disposition of
crystals are as diverse as those of animals.
They throb with un<een currento
energy. Tney grow in size :iS long a*
they have opportunity. 'I hey can be
kibed, too, though not as eisily as
-- - j- - .?
an Oils or ;i .-mh/h- viv ">shock
d'seharged through a cryst ii A\i 1
decompose it, very rapidly ii it is of soft
structure, causing tins pa lick'- to irra'lualljdi
integrate in the revise order from
its growth, until the poor thing lies a
dead, hopeless ruin. It is true the crys
tal's life is unlike t'cit of higher
creatures. But the dilTcrence be:ween
vegetable and nn mal I fe i? no greater
tlniP that bet wee i mineral and vegetable
life Linn us, the great Swedish
i - - * -1- ?l,o tliro.1 V- n.r Innic
naiurau-ii, uc hu m >u? .. .......
b.v saying: " M on.-s grow: plants grow
a d feel: animals grow and feci and
move."? W.oc A a e.
The wiso prove, and the f>ol:sh'onfess
by ihi-ir to duet, that a life of employment
is the only life worth livii g.
umm
Ages of Congressmen!!. ; Hfij
The oldest member of the Honse
Jndge William D. Keliey, of PcnneyW 1^91
vaaia. Although he is seventy-three, be
not the' oldest-looking man in th* ^^E9fl
.touse, or the least active. Be was HEH
forty-seven when he entered Congret,
in 1861, and he has been a member con- I H
stantly since then, a period of twenty H||
six years. The youngest member if flHfl
Rr?n iflnun V CVuVot? rtf tho TVtirfAPntH
Indiana District. Born in 1857, he is
only a trifle under thirty-one years of |HH
acre, but he is tall, strong and vigorous, Hflj
and has already served a part of & term
in Congress. Mr. Ralph Plumb, of ths UjUJ
Eighth Illinois L istrict, is an old mem;
ber. He was bora in 1->16, the same yea? HH
in which Mr. Gay, of Louisiana, tiret HH
saw light. There is quite a batch of HHj
members too modest or too sensitive to HH
furnish their ages, the last including Mr. DBh
iliken, of Maine; General Hooker, of 1^9
Mississippi, and Mr. Heard and Mr. Hfl
Hutton, of Missouri; Mr. Sowden, of j^HE
Pennsylvania, and Mr. R. Q. Mills, of ^Hj
Texas. Some of thc?e gentle ren areia .^E9
good preservation, and upon the edge of IHB
that period when men are not inclined I
to grntiously lead people to consider
them older than they really are. lb. I I
\ andever, of California, who was bora in
1817, was a member of Congress from flnH
lir'5'J until the breaking out of the civil
war. He and Mr. Holmun, of Indian*)
who was in the '1 hirty-sixth ( ongress In
1800?01, saw service before Mr. Kelley, I
but Mr. Vanderver has not returned
until now, and Mr. Holman's servicehaa Hj
not been continuous. Mr. Randall did B
not make his first appearance as a mem* 3B
ber until l.iOfour years later than Mr.-'
Jioiman, but he naa ne run his tmrteentn ?
consecutive term, ttaudinu: next in length
)f service to Mr. Kellev.?PittJwv
Chronicle. HD
Where Flies Go In Winter. sMB
Some one baa asked where do the flies H
go in the winter. This is a question of HO
8on.e interest, for the natural history of OH
a house fly is not generally known. Few
persons know that a house Cy is born
fully grown and of mature size, and that
there are no little flies of the same
game spccies, me sinaii ones occasionally
observed being ditferent in kind from the
large ones. 1 he house fly does not lay I
eggs, but extrudes living larva?, which H6
go through the usual t ansformations intheir
temporary abodes in "heaps of de- HH
caved gar age,' and rubb sh throjvn out HH
from houses. It does not bite or pierce
the skin, butgatheis its food by a comb
or rake or brush like tongue, with which '
it is abfe to scrape the varnish from coy- '^D|
crs of books, and it thus tickles the skin
of persons upon which it alights to feed Hrl
upon the perspiration. A fly is a scaven- :H
ger, and is a vehicle by whcb contagious- ./'HI
diseases arc spread. It poisons wounds,
and mav carrv deadly virus from decay* - HE
ing organic matter into our food. It re- -|H
tires l'rora the si^ht at the beginning of B|
winter, but where it goes few persons
know. If a search of the house is made ^Hj
they wiil be found in great numbers ?e- HQ
cretcd in warm pi ces in the roof or be- HO
tween the | artitions or floors. We re- H|
cently had occasion to examine the roof,
and found around the chimney myriad*
of Hies h bernating comfortably and sufficiently
lively to fly when disturbed in,
overpowering clouds. No doubt thisis
a favorite winter resort for these creatures.?Ntto
York 'J viie*. nfl
Remarkable Crystals. Sfl
Some remarkable crystal; were found |H
a short time a^o in a gravel bed nea* r ;fl9
Mokeumne Hill, C'al. 'i uey are of such
hardness that the hardest tile doesn't - H|
make the least impression, and they will
cut glass like a diamond. All the epeci
mens lire hexagonal cubes terminating is H
pyramidal points, the sides being as [H
smooth and regular as the finest cut glass,
and of such clearness that objects can be H|
plainly discerned through pieces afoot in
thickness. Tlu-y are of immense size^ |H
the largest having thirteen points start*
ing from a single base three feet in M
length, two and a half feet in thicknett,
and weighing 500 pounds: the next in |9
side is two feet long, eighteen inches in |H
roelrrViu oluiiit 1, n nounds! H
Ill JUJVUC^O nuu ^
the others, about two dozen in number,
range from one foot to one and a hall |H
feet in thicknesa.and weigh from fifty to 0
seventy-live pounds. .
1 H
A Valuable down.
The old door-keeper of the Hotel' H
Milan at Florence, Italy, named Sal- H|
vador C ecchini, died recent.y and left H
his property to his uephew. The latter H
came and looked about in the dingy 9
porter's lodge and was much d5?-\ U
satisfied at not finding anything worth fl
tarrying awny. The deceased had for.
years worn an old gown made of coa*se
cloth and had never changed his attire
in winter or in summer. The nephew H
took up the gowu and threw it down H
again in disgust. As it slipped from his Hj
band he felt some hard ob ect striking H
L!- ..irin/r tin thi* irnivn again. he ??
LiiriJ, 11UU| umiug v. y . = , ?p f _
iclt there was a thick paper parcel in it H
It was rewed tinder the lining. Cutting H
the folds he found 6eventy-tive Govern- H
ment bonds in it of t ie value of about B
$ SO each. That gown was no longer Bj
treated with disrespect. BB
P?ittlp>?nflke Neckties. B
Mr. A. Judson Cole, who is the mn- H
ager of one of the huge C bit-ago whole- H
tale homes in the line of gentlemen1* H
furnishings, showsa novel necntie which I
he has just receive.! from Texas. It is a B
a rattlesnake skin maJe up in the form H
of a four-in-hand tic. The point-rattle H
is set in the ccnter of the outer fold? fi
to ser. e the pnrpo>e of a tie-pio. As it fl
glistens and shows all sorts of shifting H
colors in the 6unliuht or gaslight, it- B
makes a very attrai ti e, if not exactly H
conventional, tie. Mr. Cole Rays that it I
wn? Ront to him as a >ample, the sender H
saying that, ah the stock of rattlesnakes
in his country is inexhaustible, be can
supply as many of the-e strange tieaaa
the Chicargo house may want?Chicay*
Nexct.
American Manhood,
The grand featuro of American manhood
is that it is composite, made up of
the best < harac terist.cs of all nations.
Our forefathers were of foreign birth or
parentage, an I yet, where in history will
wo tind more illustrious c\amples of upright
minhoodWe do not care what
nercentatrc of foreign bio ?d is in our
population, provided it assimilates with
I our own, and good results are attained.?
Ncio Uitce.i liejisiir.
An Old Epitaph.
Here is an epitaph still to be fouud in
an English churchyard:
: HERE LIES THE nODY OS"
: LADY O'ROONEY.
; First Cousin to Buhke, ;
i Commonly Called 'TheSublim?," ;
* Blan I, pa-*i<mate and deeply re igious, ;
: She also pn n c<l in water color? ;
? / ># ia th> kiiicr.to:ii of h?aven.n
Ilis Majesty Pop? Khan, of Annam,
h:is fifty conks taking part in the prepairtiion
of each royal ic|?ast. but each chef
is (online I to the elHl>oiHiion of a single
one of the fif ty diahia of which the menv
, is invariably composed.