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A CRISIS IN FRANCE. i Resignation of the Members of President Carnot's Cabinet. The Government Beaten on a MoI tion to Revise the Constitution, ( The trouble which the French Government hak been having with General Boulanger, late War Minister, has resulted in a victory for him and the'enforced retirement of President Carnot's Cabinet. A Paris dispatch gives the following particulars: The Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 268 to 237, despite the opposition 01 uu.ernment, voted for urgency for the Extreme Left bill providing for the Revision of the Constitution. The Government thereupon resigned. AL Laguerre.a friend of General Boulanger, proposed and M. Pelletan supported the motion for urgency. In the course of the discussion several Bonapartists declared that they would support the demand in so far as it was an appeal to the people. M. Baudry d'Asson (Royalist) said that he would vote for the proposal, hoping it would tend to restore the legitimate monarch}', which alone could save France. Minister Viette asked the Chamber to await the return of Premier Tirard from the Senate before deciding. M. Brisson said he was opposed to revision, and, alluding to Weneral Boulanger, said that the satisfaction which would be afforded by the adoption of the measure ought not to be given to a person who had attacked the institutions of the country and talked of purging the Chamoer. ' M. Clenienceau favored revision, saying that the Constitution was not iu accordance with the principles of republican democracy. Minister Sarrien urged the Chamber to reject the demand, declaring that it was essential that no new cause of troubles and difficulties be added to those already existing. M. Goblet thought that revision of the Constitution would not improve the situation, as the real remedy consisted in having a Government supported by the Republican majority aud capable of withstanding the numerous factions, t Premier Tirara, who had entered the House during the debate, declared that he fully agreed with M. Sarrien. If the Chamber decided to consider the urgency proposal the Ministry would decline all responsibility, as such action on the part of the Chamber would furnish a fresh argument in favor of the audacious manifesto issued by the dismissed General. The defeat of the Ministry caused a sensation in the Chamber. As soon as the vote was announced M. Tirard departed for the EJjsee Palace. The unaniDer, alter a sam reuess, ic?sembled at 9 p. m, M. Cuneo d'Ornano, Bonapartist, movxl that the bureaus to-morrow appoint a committee to prepare for the revision of the Constitution. After a confused debate, M. de Sonnier of the Left urged the Chamber to await the formation of a new Cabinet* M. d'Ornano's motion was rejected by a vote of 253 to 195, the Right cheering ironically. The Chamber then adjourned. The Cabinet Council met at the Elvsee Palace at 9 p. m. President Carnot accepted the resignation of the Cabinet. The Ministers, however, consented to conduct the affairs of their several departments until their successors would be appointed. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Mr. Gladstone always says an union and an European. Chauncev M. Depew carries life insurance for $500,000. The Crown Prince Nicholas of Russia is nineteen years of age. Guzman Blanco, President of Venezuela, ii said to have killed twenty men in duels. Algernon Charles Swinburne, the poet, is barely five feet high and very shy of women. Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, is still living at Turin with his sister, in good health and busy with his autobiography. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland denies that she is doing any literary work for publication. Her pen is busy writing lectures for the pupils under her charge. The Sultan of Turkey has presented the National Gallery of London with a large copy of the oil portrait of Nelson given by the Admiralty in 1799 to Selin IIL It is said that Senator George, of Mississippi, remarked when re-elected, that he would never wear a dress suit or ride in a carriage, and that he has kept his word. Mr. Hugh McCulloch, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, and Mrs. McCulloch recently celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. The ex-Secretary is eighty years of age. Hjinry Bkrgh, Jr., nephew of the late Henry Bergh, has been elected to succeed his uncle as President of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The London Tid-Bits publishes a number of autographs of "distinguished men of the world." The name of Buffalo Bill is found directly opposite the signature of the Prince of Wales. Professor Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, is at seventy years of a?e as active and light-hearted as ever. He walks miles every day, singing or whistling most of the time. The two eldest pesrs of Great Britain are Viscount Eversley and Lord Teynham. who are both ninety-four years old. The youngest is the Duke of Albany, who was born just four years ago. Miss Mollis Garfieed, who is shortly to marry Mr. Stanley Brown, private secretary to JtTesiaeni <j>arneia. is an excepuoHsmy wen informed girl, and takes an especial interest in scientific matters. Roswell P. Flower, the wealthy political magnate of New York, was one of cine children born to a poor country tailor. He started in life on a salary of $3 per month and kept his expenses within his income. Joseph Willard, proprietor of WillardTs Hotel, Washington, is worth $13,000,000, and his two brothers are not far behind him in wealth. They were once porters in a hotel that; stood on the site of their present hostelry. It is said that Andrew Carnegie, the noted ironmaster, has rented Cluny Castle, in the Highlands of Scotland, for the Summer. The castle has long been the seat of the chief of the Clan Macpherson, and was one of the hiding places of Prince Charles after the rebellion of '45. Many of the statesmen at Washington are fond of candy and may often be seen at the confectionery stand near the House. William Walter Phelps and Tom Keed like chocolates and marshmallows, Judge Houk, of Tennessee, buys perpermints, ana McAlillin, of the same State, grinds up hoarhound and jawbreakers with great relish. Mrs. Chauncey S. Paine, who has recently died in Flint, Mich., was the daughter of Jacob Smith, the celebrated India trader, through whose influence the treaty of 1819 was brought about and the territory in upper Michigan ceded to the Government. Mrs. Smith was also a relative of General Longstreet, of Confederate army fame. The Princess of Wales is again suffering from an attack of deafness. She is now compelled to use an ear-trumpet, a necessity which she very unwillingly submits to. The King of Greece, the Princess of Wales's brother, is troubled with a like deafness, although the King's case is worse. It has been said of him that he could not bear a cannon roar without an ear-trumpet. A PULPIT TRAGEDY, Two Ministers Instantly Killed While "Walking to Church. - Rev. Clayton Mumms, of Realing, Penn., and Rev. John Connard, of Denver, Lancaster County, Penn., while walking on the tracks of the Pennsylvania Scnuykill Valley Railroad Sunday afternoon, near Buahong's furnace, were struck by a passenger train. Mumms was almost instantiv killed, and Connard was so badly injured that he died at half past seven o'clock in the evening in the Reading hospital. At the time of the accident thev were watching a train on the Reading road cross ' the Lebanon Valley Bridge, and did not notice the approach of the Pennsylvania train. Rev. Connard had preached his initial sermon in the Mennonite Church, at Reading, ""the same morning, and was to have taken up his residence there the next week. He was married and leaves a wife and five children. He was about forty years of age. Mum mi was about thirty-Ave years or ace. . i SUMMARY OF CONOBESS. Senate Proceedings. 6f.tn day.?The following bills were introduced: To make Inauguration Day a legal holiday in the District of Columbia: to issue specie* certificates redeemable half in gold coin and half in silver bullion: to appropriate $50,000 to erect a monument in commemoration of the events that occurred at Sackett's Harbor during the war of 1S12; to appoint a committee on the subject of public land patents in Florida A joint resolution was passed accepting the invitation to participate in the Paris" Exposition in 1889 and appropriating *300,000 for that purpose....A bill was passed for the celebration of the centennial of the constitution of the United States in 1889 at Washington.... Among a large number of bills passed were the following: Appropriating f for the purchase of the Capron collection of Chinese works of art, now on deposit in the National Museum; appropriating $250,000 for the purchase of a site for a public building at Buffalo, N. Y.; to regulate the pay of ensigns of the navy if ot. nt-.wa *1400 on shore dutv. and $1000 while on leave or waiting orders); appropriating $30,000 for a monumental column to commemorate the Battle of Trenton, N. J., and increasing the pension of Mrs. General Ward B. Burnett to $100 per month. 07th Day.?The bill granting a pension of $2000 a year to Mrs. John A. Logan was passe 1 ? A bill making the necessary appropriation (estimated at $150,000), for a storehouse, etc., for the Signal Service at Washington, was passed Mr. Riddleberger gave notice that he would ask the Senate to act on his resolution to suspend the rules as to executive sessions, so as to have the Fishery Treaty considered in open session. fiSTH Day.?A bill was reported appropriating $.")00,000 for a boat railway around the obstructions to navigation in the Columbia River at the Dalles and Celilo Falls....The resolution heretofore offered to suspend so much of the rules as provide for executive sessions during the consideration of the Fisheries Treaty was taken up and discussed by Messrs. Riddleberger and Edmunds The following petitions and memorials were presented and referred: To send United *-? ? #w tv,a liroc OtilltfS U Wp? vuaa^v ivfjivruow VMV M<V? and property of citizens against the Socialists of Illinois and Iowa....For a constitutional amendment to give the District of Columbia the right of representation in both houses of Congress....A vote was taken on Mr. Palmer's motion to recommit to the Finance Committee the bill to provide for the purchase of United States bonds, and the motion was rejected. C?i?TH Day.-Mi-. Palmer introduced a bill4 'to test and try the science of spelling." and to provide for establishing one hundred schools for that purpose A resolution was intro duced asking what precautions have been taken to prevent the importation of lead and lead ores from Mexico and Canada in violation of the revenue laws and what legislation is necessary to prevent the smuggling of lead and lead ores.. ..The bill granting to the Billings, Clark's Fork and Cooke City Railroad the right of way through the Crow Indian Reservation was passed....A lengthy discussion of the Bond Purchase bill was held A bill to reimburse depositors in the Freedraan's Savings Bank was introduced A ~ tho Rsmsl Rill nffiirwl ....All aaiOUUlll-IIU bV VKV w??. v.. | by Mr. Beck, which provides that in case a j Rational bank surrenders its circulation, and j such circulation is not taken within thirty days thereafter by another bank, the Sec re- | tary of the Treasury shall purchase enough silver bullion at current market rates to coin it into silver dollars equal in amount to the circulation surrendered by the bank, was | adopted... .Mr. Vest moved to reconsider the Tote by which the House bill for a public building at Buffalo, N. Y.. was passed. The motion was not entertained by the chair. fftraee Pro'eeedlnjr*. 75th Day.?A joint resolution appropriating $25,000 to enable the United States to participate in the International Exhibition at Barcelona, Spain, in April, 18S8, was j passed The consideration of the private ; pension bills calendar was taken up. After four hours of debate the bills granting to the widows of Uenerais .bogan ana uiuir pen sions of $200'J a year were passed. The re- | mainder of the day and the night session were devoted to pension legislation. Fortyone pension claims were allowed. 70th Day.?The entire morning session was consumed in considering the Union Pacific Railroad Funding bill.... Several private land measures were passed.. ..The River and j Harbor bill was reported and referred to the I Committee of the Whole... .The House went into Committee of the Whole for the consid- j eration of a bill to establish a United States : Land Court with jurisdiction over Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado, but no decisive action was taken and the House adjourned. 77th Day.?The following bills and resolutions were introduced: To aid in the con- i struction of a Bystem of reservoirs for the j storage of water for irrigation: a resolution j instructing the Committee on Commerce to j report whether the Inter-State Commerce j Act has operated to prevent unjust discrimination in the matter of passenger tolls and freight rates demanded and collected by common carriers; and, if not, what additional legislation is necessary to afford immediate protection to the people; to provide for the adjudication of claims of volunteer officers under the Acts of June 3,18S4, and February 3,1887; for the better protection of life and limb on Inter-State railroads; for the com fulsorv education of Indian children.... i he Mills Tariff bill was reported, t A minority report was cent in on the same subject and filed The I proposed amendment to the Constitution ! changing Inauguration Day from March 4th to April 30 and fixing the 1st Monday in January as the time for the assembling of Congress was rejected.'...A bill was introduced to reward the discovery of a remedy and cure for hog cholera.... The appointment of a committee was asked to inquire and report in reference to the feasibility and advisability of completing the publication of the War records under the supervision and control of a joint committee of Congress. 7?th Day.?On motion 5000 additional copies of tne Tariff bill and reports were ordered printed.... Mr. Culberson called up the special order, the Senate Direct Tax bill. Mr. Foran antagonized this with a motion that the House go into Committee of the Whole on the Pension Appropriation bill. Lost..... The House, after the debate, went in recess until 8 o'clock, and in the evening session considered bills from the Committee on Military Affairs....A bill, introduced ny Mr. Crain, of Texas, was passed, for the retirement of Alfrel Pleasanton with the rank of Colonel. The House then adjourned. 711th Day.?The entire day was consumed in a consideration of the bill to refund to the Northern States all direct taxes levied during the war, and owing to the obstruction tactics adopted by those opposing the measure the House remained in session until midnight without reaching any conclusion. ?v ? A TTflW FTTT rTT.T.Vn JJl ! U M X UJU1 IXJiJUl/i The Terrible Vengjence Convict Dayis Visited on His Enemy. Five years ago, Thomas Davis, a welldressed stranger, came to Litchfield, 111., end a few days after his arrival a wealthy citizen was robbed at the muzzle of a pistol. Samuel Waldrop was Constable at the time, and he arrested Davis for the offense. The case at first was not very strong against the accused, but Waldrop worked hard and secured a conviction. Davis was sentenced to seven years in the penitentary, f ad when the sentence was pronounced he turned to Waldrop and said: "I swear if I ever live to get out I'll kill you. No attention was paid to the threat and Davis was conveyed to Chester, where he served his term and was released laat week under the good-time rule. Yesterday he returns 1 to Litchfield, but was only recognized by a few people. This morning he called at IValdrop's residence and asked to see Waldrop. The latter,who is no longer connected witn the administration of th3 law, stepped to the door. "Is your name Waldropf' asked Davi6. "Yes, sir." "My name is Tom Davis, and I've come to kill you as I swore I would." Before Waldrop could move, Davis fired three times, killing him instantly on tho threshold. The murderer fled, with a posse ] in pursuit The late Chief Justice Woite was seventytwo when he died. Justice Bradley is seventyfive, Matthews sixty-four, Harlan fifty-five, Blatchford sixty-eight, Gray sixty, Field seventy-two, Miller seventy-two and Lamar sixty-three. The census of tenement-house population in New York City has been completed by the health officers, "who have inspected 31,534 tenemouts. and find that they contain Sk>P,305 families, including 1,016,425 persons. - ' =*..?:. < ... ' FEDERAL FINANCES. Condition of the Government's Assets and Liabilities. The last public debt statement shows a decrease of $11,586,5j9.08 during March. This makes the redaction since the beginning of the fiscal year $88,560,581. The total debt is $1,701,897,440.00, and the debt leas available cash in the Treasury is $1,295,442,085. The following show? the assets and liabilities cf the United States Treasury at the close of business March 31. Assets. Gold $310,772,202 Silver 235,413,227 United States notes 33,085,122 Trade dollar bullion 0,049,022 National bank notes 253,821 In U. S. depositories 01,231,047 TTrnotinnnl t'lirrencv redeemed... 983 Interest paid.::.::...... go,.5131 Bank notes in process of redemption 5,069,965 Interest paid on D. C. bonds.. . 4,120 Assets not available: Minor coin 186,548 Fractional silver. 25,566,279 Total $678,293,954 Liabilities. Gold certificates outstanding. $91,953,949 Silver certificates outstanding. .. 191,526,445 Certificates of deposit outstanding 8,915,030 Matured debt and interest 14,059,961 Legal tender fund 100,000.000 Redemption, banks failed, etc.. 99,780,918 Five per cent, fund 7,481,669 Post-office account 4,496,378 Disbursing officers' balances. 27.014,402 Assets failed banks 2,268,542 Redemption and ex. account.... 518,695 Transfer checks and drafts out.. 2,792,820 For interest on D. C. bonds 158,414 Total $547,967,195 Balances. Net gold $213.81S,253 Net Silver 43,886.782 Net United States notes 24,170,622 Trade dollar bullion 6,649,022 National bank notes 253,821 Deposits. 61,231,647 Total $355,010,149 Assets $078,203,954 Liabilities 547,907,195 Balance $130,320,75S Gold coin and bullion in Treasury, $310,314.-J80; silver dollars, $234,876,774; legal tenders, $33,529,497; gold certificates in circulation, $ifci,291,203;silver, $191,137,859; currency, $9,245,000. THE W0MEFS COUNCIL. An Official Statement, of the Results of Their Meeting. The following official statement has been issued by the International Council of Women: "The International Council of Women, in session in the City of Washington from March 25 to April 1, inclusive, in closing makes public announcement that fifty three different organizations of women have been represented on its platform by eighty-seven speakers and delegates from England, Norway. Denmark, Finland, India, Canada and the United States. All of these organizations but four are of national scope, and three are of national value. The subjects of education, philanthropies, temperance, industries, profession, organization, legal conditions, social purity, politioal conditions, and religion nave been discussed. ''While no restriction has been placed upon the fullest expressson of the most widely divergent views upon these vital questions of the ago. It is cause for rejoicing that tho sessions both private and public, have been absolutely without friction. "It is the unanimous voice of the Council that all institutions of learning and of professional instruction, including schools of theology, law and medicine, should in the interests of humanity be as freely opened to wotneu as to men. That opportunities for industrial trainingshould lie as generally and as liberally provided for one sex as for the other; and tile representatives of organized womanhood in this Council will steadily demand that in all avocations in which both men and women engage equal wages shall be paid for equal work; and, finally, that an enlightened society should demand as the only adequate expression of the high civilization which it is its office to establish and maintain, an identical standard of personal purity and UHJX~JI.il kjr AVI A1IC11 QUU nuiuvu. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Alabd, a once famous violinist, died recently, aged 73. President Cleveland is very fond of the theatre, but seldom goes. A Belgian has invented a harp to be played upon with keys as in a piano. It is reported that A. M. Palmer will build a new theatre in upper Broadway, New York. Mme. Sembbich, who charmed Americans in Italian opera some years ago, is singing in London. Lotta, through illness, recently missed a performance, for the first time in her life, at Cheyenne, Wyoming. "Paul Kauvar," the successful New York play, was sold recently to a syndicate of wealthy metropolitan gentlemen. Modjeska's French maid smoked a cigarette the other day and burned up tlie theatrical wardrobe of her mistress. At Copenhagen, Denmark, a great musical festival will be celebrated in May. None but Scandinavian music will bo performed. During the last three months of 188? musical works of the value of $73,030 were tT fa fhft TTnih/i'l CApjl JLI V/1U 1^1^15 wv wuu vmvvu wvwww. The German Singers' League, which consists of nearly 64,00u members, will have its fourth meeting at Vienna, Austria, during the year. Mrs. Josephine Ccrry, a colored woman, has just obtained $100 damages from a Chicago jury because she was refused admission to the People's Theatre. Miss Ella Russell, the American prima dbnna, has just made her first appearance in St. Petersburg, Russia, in "Traviata." She achieved a triumphant success. Tony Hart, the well known minstrel, has had a monster benefit at the New York Academy of Music, the total receipts from all sources footing up over $8000. Mrs. General Tom Thumb, having sesn every other vicissitude of show life, has become a manageress recently. She is at the bead of the Eaen Musee in St Paul, Minn. Fanny Davenport, the actress, wears in 'La Tosca" a gold belt of Mosaic work containing 1300 stones, diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, rubies and pearls, weighing 500 carats and worth $40,000. During a performance of "Souvageonne" at St Petersburg, Russia, Mme. Moudrova, nff/>r n mncf. nnf-.hpf.iV and Amotions] scfinn with the "leadinz man." foil heavily?which was not in the role?ana died on the staee. Jcles Verne, Win. Busnach and Georges Mausais are tho composers of a new drama, "Mathias Sandorf," which has taken Paris by storm. It has been purchased for America by Bolossy Kiralfy, who will produce it next season. One of the prominent featuers of Mr. Buchanan's new play, on the eve of production in London, "Joseph's Sweetheart," will be a succession of tableaux, which will realize in stage form Hogarth'^ famous series of the "Marriage a la mode.* It is said that Mr. Booth and Mr. Barrett will fill an engagement of fifteen weeks at the Lyceum Theatre in London in 18'Ji), and that Mr. Irving during the term of their occupancy of his theatre will make his first professional tour of Germany. It will interest those concerned in the doi'.AnAA t *-? i i .? Y-? nnnra +/n Uwynrwr jauciii * oiivv auu ivaiiau v/^uia uv RU?/n that, according to a French paper, from 1840 to 1859 there were produced ten new French and thirteen new Italian operas. From 1880 to 1887 the figures were respectively four and one. M. Lamourecx, the eminent Paris conductor, with an orchestra of ninety performers, will shortly undertake an artistic tour extending over Spain, Portugal, Russia and England, the most important undertaking of its kind ever projected by a French orchea tral body. Since the convention of the Irish National League of America a year and a half ego, Father O'Reilly, the National Treasurer, has forwarded to Ireland over 1120,000. ? A MINE HORROR, An Explosion Causes a Frightful Disaster in Missouri. The most horrible mine disaster that has ever occurred in the West happened at noon Thursday in Keith & Perry's No. 6 mine,near Rich Hill, Mo., and as a result a large number of men were entombed and thousands of dollars1 worth of property has been destroyed. A dispatch says: Just at dinner hour, when the men were ascending eight at a time in the cage, a rumbling noisa was heard, and a moment later there was a fearful explosion that entirely wrecked the mine and buried in the debris over one hundred miners, who were cutoff from all means of escape. A score of bodies have already been removed from the shaft, while fifteen ! others remain unaccounted for. It was im- j nnssihla. in the midst of the terrible excite ment, to obtain a complete list of names of the unfortunates. The little village was completely paralyzed by the horror, and men and women were wandering about the streets crying for the return of those known to be in the bottom of the pit The Superintendent of the mine was badly injured, but alive when taken from the shaft, i His face was horribly disfigured by the explosion, and the flesh of his arms was torn in shreds. The explosion occurred when the full force of one hundred men were at work in the mine. ~ Not one of the survivors has been able to give any coherent story about the shock. The earth seemed to snap, and the next instant all was darkness. Although the mine is six miles from town the explosion shook every house. Nearly every one seemed to divine its cause, for the next moment saw the muddy streets leading to the shaft fillled with bareheaded women and children, who screamed as they ran. Such scenes as were witnessed at the mouth of the shaft have no parallel in the Missouri coal fields. A thousand people, for the most part women and children in tattered clothes, were at the pit filling the night air with their lamentations. The work of recovering the bodies was prosecuted with frantic haste, but the task was so great as to be almost agonizing. The bodies already removed from the pit show j the terrific rorce or cne explosion, uoai dust has been blown into the flesh of the dead . until their bodies were absolutely black. Some of the bodies are frightfully mutilated. Arms, legs and eyes havo, in some instances been blown out of their sockets, while others of the unfortunates have been so cruelly disfigured as to be unrecognizable. THE LABOB WORLD. Washington, Penn., has subscribed $40,000 for a new glass works. The total production of steel in the Unitod States during 18S7 aggregated 3,739,750 net tons. It has been estimated that it would take , from 1300 to 2100 days for one man to make j a locomotive. Charles Pratt,the Brooklyn millionaire, has given $1,500,000 for the establishment of a manual training school in Brooklyn. The steel superstructure for the new 1500,000 Panhandle bridge over the Ohio, at Steuben ville, is being prepared at Youugstown, Ohio. In Augusta, Ga., a tree felled in early morning was, before nightfall of the same I dav. converted into paper and sent out bear- | in>* the current news. The employes of the Scot Foundry at Read- j ing, Penn., have lately been granted time and quarter time for night work, which the firm j had previously refused to give. Ax immense locomotive has just been con- | etructed at a Paris foundry. Its builder pre- I diets that it will realize an approximate j ipeed of ninety-three miles an hour. The weavers, spinners and other piece workers in the employ of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company, of Dover, N. H., have j had their wages iucreased five per cent. There is $35,000,000 invested in manufacturing in Kansas?15,000,000 more than was invested in 1880. Six thousand hands find employment in the lead, zinc and coal mines. The steam and boiler felters of New York, who struck work because they were refused an advance in wages, have started in business for themselves, and are said to be doing well. O.ye seldom hears of French calf boots or shoes nowadaya American tanners are now making as good calf-skin as the French ever turned out, and importations are going the other way. Brace Bbothers, proprietors of a laundry "T"4"* 1 ? *. .J ? A/voinct- t*,ha I at nnsour;, nave eutcicu a omv -? Trades Assembly for $10,000 damages on account of a boycott instituted by the assembly against their business. A fortune awaits the man who can iuvent a substitute for plaster. The want is for something made of pulp which can be pressed into sheets the size of tne ceiling of a room and tacked to the joints. Owing, it is said, to trade depression, the large envelope manufacturers, White, Corbin & Co., Rockvilie, Conn., have reduced the hours of labor from ten to eight hours a day. The factory has a capacity of 2,000,000 daily. NEWSY GLEANINGS, There are 10,674 lawyers in France. An international conference of Quaker women is spoken of. More than 10,000 persons were cremated in Tokio, Japan, last year. The official report numbers the sheep in Jhe United States at 45,000,000. The damage from the phylloxera in France so far is estimated at 42.000.000.000. That big storm in the East cost the rail- i roads and telegraph lines fully $8,000,000. Pleuropneumonia among cattle no longer exists west of the Allegheny mountains. In Garfield County, Col., there are 1100 unmarried men and only 28 unmarried womon. Another large raft is being built In Nova Scotia, greater in bulk than that which waa recently lost at sea. Measles has broken out among the United States troops at Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis, and caused many deaths. John D. Rockefeller, President of the Standard Oil Company, has subscribed $25,000 to the Cleveland Y. M. C. A The wool clip of Southern Utah this year will exceed that of last season by 500,000 pounds, and will probably reach 4,000,000 pouads. The Honduras Congress is discussing a bill for the establishment of a National jury system. Trial by jury is as yet unknown in that country. Statistics appear to show that in England domestic servants are growing comparatively I fewer. In l&Jl there were 1,000,000, but in ? OOO i.1 1 0-/\ AAAah1?* LOGO bliUlO aio llWl/,WVViU)'l The average yield of wheat in the United States in 1887 was about twelve bushels per acre, and the average price 68 cents per bushel. This is at the rate of only $8 per acre. Two Frazee brothers, of Pittsburg, make a claim to $32,000,000 worth of Trinity Church property in New York city,which was leased by their great-grandfather for ninety-nine years. The Cattle Trust of Denver. Colorado, has clofled a contract with th? French Government to supply the French army with one hundred and fifty thousand head of beef cattle annually. The new army register shows: out of 2162 officers o.i the army list 1051 are from West Point, while 944 come from civil life, and 167 were promoted from among the enlisted men of the army. A farmef. living in Shiawassee County, MtCU., cajieu on WO ugeut ui au iu3uiauv.g company doing business in the county, and paid back $203 which he had received "as insurance on a burned building. At the same time be confessed that he had set the building on fire. John Reynolds, who died in Buffalo lately, was reputed to bo the only soldier on the American Continent who took part in the famous charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava, but another survivor exists in the person of Captain Thomas Morley, now a messenger in the Surgeon-General a office in Washington. Berrv, the English hangman, has executed 113 persons up to the present time, sixteen of them having been in Ireland and two in Scotland. A NOVEL UNDERTAKING. A Hnge Hotel Moved Back from the Sea at Coney Island. The Structure Travels on 120 Flat Cars, Drawn by Six Locomotives, The Brighton Beach Hotel nt Coney Island, New York's great seaside resort, has just been moved back from the sea a distance of 550 feet in a novel manner. The Brighton Beach Hotel is 468 feet long and 150 feet wide, and is estimated to weigh 8,000,000 pounds. A half mile of manila rope, weighin sr "?OO0 pounds, was used in the work of removal. The hotel cost $200,000 and was furnished ?? % ^9 ft inn OAft Knf if normltlAfl au aii ui fi.vu.uvv, i/uu **. j>w?? remain where it was it would have been undermined and engulfed by the encroaching sea probably within the year. A large number of flat cars?120 in allwere built specially for the work, and the hotel was raised from i's foundations and placed on the cars.the wheels of which rested on twenty-four tracks. Eight powerful locomotives were attached by strong cables to the twenty-four trains of flat carson which the structure rested. The twenty-four tracks were very short ones, and as the care passed along the rear rails were taken up ana relaid ahead. This process was continued till the 550 feet were covered. If the total length of the twenty four tracks were stretched out end to end it would form three and a half miles of single track. It was estimated that it would take ten days to finish the journey of 550 fest, and that the expense would be $20,00.0. The New \ork Post gives the following account of the way in which the removal was begun; At 9 o'clock a. m. everything was in readine<5s to move the big hotel back out of the clutches of the sea. The pul!eys were all in nlaceand the roDes were all taut. Everybody had been driven away from the neighborhood of the hotel, and at a quarter past nine o'clock the order to start was given. Six engines were on the two inside tracks, and they started well together. They moved along over the tracks slowly, ana the big hotel, which has a superficial area of 92,000 square feet, being 4 0 feet long and 200 feet wide, with a calculated weight of 5000 tons, followed slowly. After six feet of progress had been made, in about two minutes, the order to stop was given. An inspection was then made by Mr. Miller, who, with Superintendent Morrow of the railroad company, has the work in charge. The ropes were found I to be all right, the cars were moving easily on the tracks. The big 12x12 joists which supported the hotel on the 120 flat cars had not shifted from their positions, and there seemed to be no question of the success of the plan. The order to start was again given, and alter the next move, twenty-four feet further inland, a halt was again called. During this move there Were a number of peonle around the hotel, who had been embolaened by the success of the first experiment. A short time for examination of the running gear and all was in readiness for the next effort. This time many wanted to ride. All danger was over, and the novelty of a ride of that sort was a great attraction, for the ladies especially. In the car in front of the main entrance of the house some chairs were placed, and a few ladies, relatives of Mr. Miller, were given seats. Several people were in some of the other cars, and others were on the sand under the hotel. Another start was then made, and twenty-five feet brought the blocks together, and a halt was called, with the hotel fifty-five feet further inland than it was yesterday. The moving was a complete success. There was no vibration in the house, and the cars moved as easily over the rails as though they were empty. Standing under the hotel and resting one's hand upon the joists which supported it, no jar could be felt. Everything seemed to go along together as easily as if it was a common thing to drag hotels around the country on cars. The riggers were soon at work again, and the big blocks were moved 100 feet further ahead, preparatory to a longer pulL LATER NEWS, The Vermont Republican State Convention at Burlington selected an unpledged delegation to the National Convention and adopted a platform which favors "the protection of American markets for American citizens." Luther J. Shaffer has been executed at Lock Haven, Penn., for the unprovoked murder of Isaiah and Nora Colfly in their lonely mountain home on Ch?ray Run. Benjamin H. Brewster, who was Attorney-General of the United States under President Arthur, died at Philadelphia on Wednesday, after an illness of two weeks, in the seventy-second year of his age. Rhode Island will again have a Repub licau Governor and other State officers, the Republicans having been successful by about 2000 majority. The Legislature, which was Democratic, has again become Republican, insuring a Republican United States Senator. Mississippi Republicans have appointed an uninstrustel delegation to the National Convention. The striking railroad employes held amass meeting in Chicago, at which it was decided to resume work on all the roads with the exception of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, on which a boycott still remains. The jail at Friar's Point, Miss., was destroyed by fire and five prisoners perished in the flames. One of the victims,named Gray,set the structure on fire, as he threatened to do, rather than go to the Penitentiary. An aeronaut named Hogan dropped ten thousand feet from a ballon at Jackson, Mich., by the aid of a parachute, alighting uninjured. The Oregon Democratic State Convention at Portland nominated John M. Gearin for Congress, and adopted resolutions favoring tariff revision. Resolutions were also passed endorsing Cleveland for President and Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon, for Vice-President. The President has vetoed the celebrated McKay relief bill, recently passed by the House. The President has sent the following nominations to the Senate: To bo Collector of ^ T 1/on/ikaL-fAi* fnr flifl ^U3WI113?u, UUtYCUU iuuiivuoovci ) *v* %UW District of Bristol and Warren, Rhode Island; Thomas L. Harrison, for the District of Oswegatchic.New York; John H. Thomas, for the District of Annapolis, Maryland. M. Meuxe has been elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies. The American Consul Lewis has received a reply from the Moorish Government declining to accede to the demand of the United States with reference to the persons under consular protection imprisoned at Rabat. BLOOD FOB BLOOD. A Husband and Wife Fight With Knives to the Death. In a quarrel at Chillicothe, Mo., J. U. Gillespie and wife fought with knives, and both were fatally injured, he from a stab wound tn the breast and she from a cut across the throat. in ner UJ1J1? tUUllStSIUH UIC nuiiia?i o?.v? that she stabbed her husband, and he afterward drew the knife and cut her throat. They were at breakfast, and the husband made an insinuation that so angered the wife that she picked up a butcher knife, which was lying on the table, and making a lunge at her husband stabbed him in the breast. He became so infuriated at this that ho drew his pocket knife, and opening the large blade, which was unusually sharp, attacked her. She defended herself as well as she could, but, soon glowing faint, her husband seized her by the hair, and drawing his knife across her throat, partially severed the windpipe. In the meantime sne had succeeded in inflicting several wounds with the butcher knife upon his hands and arms, but none of them were serious. The dining-room after the strife had ended presentedga ghastly sight, the walls, tablecloth and floor being flecked with blood. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle State*. At Plattsburg, N. Y., Charles Harrison, an ex-soldier, killed his wife by cutting her throat from ear to ear. David N. White, formerly editor of the Pittsburg Gazette, and founder of the ReJmblican party, died at his home in Sewiekey, Penn., on Sunday morning, aged eightythree. The beautiful family mansion of William Walter Phelps, at Englewood, N. J., with its wealth of art treasures and rare books, has been totally destroyed by fire. Ernest Urbahn, a man sixty years of age, while protecting his daughter from assault, shot and killed his son-in-law, Casper Sparia, at Paterson. N. J. At his Carbon (Penn.) quarries, John A Logan, Jr.. son of the late Senator J. A, Logan, quelled a riot in which 300 men were engaged. Two or three workmen stood by him. One shot was fired and an attempt was made to stab Logan. An iron tank containing eight thousand barrels of oil was struck by lightning and ignited near Emlenton, Penn. The blazing fluid threatened to burn the town, but was finallv turned aside bv a ditch. Two houses and four oil well rigs "were burned. The body of ex-Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer, of New York, has been buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo. 1 Herbert Johnson, aged thirteen years son of a wealthy farmer at Limeport, Lehigh county, Penn., was reproved by his school-teacher for defacing school furniture. He went home and made his will, in which he disposed of some property be owned to near friends, and then with a revolver sent a bullet into his brain. One fireman was killed and eleven injured at the burning of a furniture warehouse in Philadelphia. Adam Volkavitch has been hanged at Wilkesbarre, Penn., for the murder of John Bioski. Claus Spreckels, the California sugar king, has decided to erect in Philadelphia a sugar refinery with a capacity of 2,030,000 pounds per day. The plant will cost, $3,000,000, and the annual product will bo valued at $35,000,0c0. Sonth and West. A fire in-.Chicago destroyed a large factory building at the corner of Lake and Peoria streets, causing damage amounting to $300,000. The absconding officers of the wrecked State National Bank of Raleigh, N. C., have been arrested in Toronto, Canada, on the charge of forgery and have been taken back for trial. In Atlanta, Ga., Neil Stark shot his brother Flaentz dead and fatally wounded Tom Crawley. They quarreled over a nickel at cards. Henry Lane., a famer, killed himself and wife at Effingham, Mich. Benjamin E. Hopkins, the accomplice of Harper in wrecking the Cincinnati fidelity National Bank, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years. The engineers, firemen and switchmen on the St. Paul ana Fort Wayne Railway systems have struck rather than militate against their brothers by handling Burlington freight sirs. j ohm ukat, w1i0 oi avicfcim ul iu?j Rich Hill mine disaster, has died of a broken heart. Heavy rains have done hundreds of thousands of dollars damages to bridges, railroads and crops in South Carolina. A city ticket composed of women for the council and a woman for Mayor has been elected at Oskaloosa, Kan., by GO majority. Jut.iex S. Rodgers, of Macon, Ga., claims $5,000,000 worth of land in South Carolina, including the famous winter resort of Aiken. It was bought by his grandfather and has I never been sold. Three white men were murdered by two drunken colored roughs at Lima, Ohio. The heart of Hughes, one of the murdered men, was cut in two with a razor. At Chicago riotous Burlington strikers attacked the armed guards and a terrible fight ensued, one of the armed guards being shot dead and several wounded. For ten minutes the firing was incessant, the fire from the strikers oeing almost as heavy as that of the guards. The police were summoned, and the strikers put to flight. VV. W. Hazeltijte, a prominent lawyer of O^AMAvin Win TOOo oooaocitiofa^ An Mia Dicvciiio A VUiVf TV JOB, ntw (umooiuuiAAt vu vuv i street by John D. Curran. The murder was the outcome of a sensational tragedy which occurred three years ago, when Hazel tine killed Currant friend. Washington. The President has approved the act for the erection of a public building at Spring* field, Mo., and the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation bill. President Cleveland, accompanied by Secretary Whitney, made a flying trip to I New York City by special train, and attended ex-Lieut.-Governor Dorsheimer's funeral. The Postmaster-General has transmitted to the House a revised estimate of postal expenditures for the next fiscal year. The original estimate is increased $500,000. A bill appropriating $20,000 to purchase George Washington's sword from Miss Taylor, of Virginia, has been acted upon favorably by a Senatorial Committee. The last debt statement issued by the Secresary of the Treasury shows that the reduction of the public debt during March amounted to $11,586,.5511.68. Total cash in the Treasury, $586,454,002,015. The President has approved the act to reward the Esquimau natives of the Asiatic ! coast of the Arctic Ocean for acts of hu manity to shipwrecked seamen. The President Las sent the following nom-inations to the Senate: George J. Denis, of California, to l>e Attorney of the United States for the Southern District of California; Eiekiel E. Smith, of Fayetteville, N. C., to be Minister Resident and Consul-General of the United States to Liberia. Foreign. Fires in the flooded districts of Hungary have added to the horror of the situation. At Kikinda l.*H)0 persons were rendered shelterless and compelled to camp out in the snow. Thirty-eight houses were burned and many lives were lost at Mezo Berray. The Russian Government has decided to put all convicts in solitary confinement and to cease banishing them to Siberia. A Greek named Raptoporilos was arrested in Paris for robbing the Numismatic Museum at Athens, Greece, of ancient medals and coins of the valueof $0,000,000. Most of the stolen property was recovered. Emperor Frederick and Empress Victoria drove in a half-open carriage from Charlottenburg to Berlin and paid a visit to the late Empsror William's widow. They received enthusiastic greetings along tho road. ? - ? - . ? i .A* I The British bark Princess was wrecnea on Caminha, Portugal and twenty-three persons drowned. A Portuguese life boat that went to the rescue was fired upon and disabled by Spaniards. The Mexican Congress has begun its annual session. Mr. Gixhoolt, Irish Member of Parliament, who was recently sentenced to imprisonment for Home Rule agitation, refused to wear prison clothes, and was knocked down by the Irish police, who put the prison garb on by force. At Hethrarus in Hungary 120 houses have been burned and 700 persons rendered homeless. Mezo-Bereny and Hundsdorf, two villages, have also been bumod. Dr. Emit. Bessels, the Arctic explorer, who was chief of the scientific corps of the Polaris Expedition, has died at Stuttgart, Germany, of apoplexy. M. Fi.oqi'ET has succeeded in forming a | new French Cabinet which is as follows: M. virt.itK.t- Pr?<irtpnt. nt Hie Council and Minis- I tcr of the Interior; Al. Goblet, Minister of Foreign Affairs; M. de Freycinet, Minister of War; Admiral Krantz, Minister of Marine; M. Ricard, Minister of Justice; M. PeytraJ, Minister of Finance; M. Lockroy, Minister of Education; M. Loubet, Minister of Public Works; M. Viette, Minister of Agriculture; M. Legrand, Minister of Commerce. The Abyssinians, under King John, captured the village of Malental, the inhabitants of which were friendly to the Italians, and massacred all the men, women and children in the place. Kino Humbert of Italy has donated ISsWO to the sufferers by the floods in Germany. Senator John Hamilton, one of the wealthiest men in Canada, is dead. The missing son of Baron Gevers, of Holland, has been found working as a waiter j in a San Francisco restaurant. 1 V-xHI GORED AND BURNED. < I 1 Frightful Catastrophe at a gS Mexican Bull Fight. H Many Women and Children Killed 9 by the Infuriated Beasts, B Sunday afternoon about forty-five min- Bj utes past four o'clock the bull-ring at Celaya, Mexico, was crowded with spectators of the MB great national sport. The company of bull-; Bfl fighters from Leon was still playing with H9 the first bull when a fire suddenly, Rffl broke out on the sunny side of the plaza. HB A panic seized upon the vast assemblage, and1 Bfl a frightful spectacle was the result in? plaza was constructed of wooden masts, reeds, etc., and it was due to this fact that the majority of the people escaped without injury, being able to force an opening permitting exits at different points, but many women and children jumped; from the top, a distance of 200 to 300 feot, and over one handred of them were seriously wounded. Many people wera killed and injured by the wild bulls, liberated through the cowardice and criminality of their attendants, who ripped and gored women and children as they had been trained' to "play"' with the pieadores. . Celavais a city of ten thousand'inhabit-: ants, thirty-five miles southeast of Guanajuato, on the route to Queretaro and Mexico. <. It contains many very wealthy people,; who, of course, patronize amusement* and sports. Consequently when the1 Leon company took their bulls and paraphernalia there the bull fight was exten?, sively advertise!, and everybody was at the plaza before 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon,' the time appointed for the national sport to' f begin. Indeed the Superintendent of the; lo al prison gave permission to several prisoners to witness the fights "under guard"? that is, attended by national troops carrying, loaded carbines. The "place of play" was ' crowded to the utmost - - i The fight had fairly beeun, the picadores being urged by the excited crowd to despatch the first bull, which had been uncommonly dull and shrinking. All at once a ' cry of "fire!" was heard in the rink. This war followed by a cloud of smoke coming from, the place where the jailbirds were seated. Immediately the crowd became panic stricken. All the regular exits were choked as if by, magic, so the men made openings in the frail walls of reed and matting, and permit-. i/Utrir nnvea auu uvuo uun>. w wv??^ wherever they were not too far from the ground. But to the gaily dressed throng occupying the upper tiers of seats the situation was appalling. The building was now on fire, all the exits stopped, and these people were from 150 to 115 feet from the ring. Despite the warning of the Hayor and Chief of Police and the yelling of the Leons that the lire was trivial and could soon be put out, many of the sightseers leaped into the arena, men, women and children falling in confused > " heaps, those underneath being maimed and bruised and some children being killed outright. A slight wind was blowing which fanned , the flames steadily, the matting burning with a loud, crackling noise Alt at once the bulls, which had been confined in stalls, were deserted by the boys having them in charge, broke into the arena and in making for the plaza they tramped on about jtwo hundred persons who were trying to find\exits, Fire seems to have maddened these brutes to a frightful degree, for they gored several women to death and drove others to climb up again to the lower tiers and risk death from suffocation rather than contact with the infmiated beasts. Details show that eighteen persons were killed outright Sixty-eigHf persons were very badly bnrned,and . ten of them fatally. Fifty persons, in escaping. were knocked down ana trampled upon by the panic stricken throng, and all were very seriously but not fatally injured. Among the eighteen dead were two women, who were first gored to death by the bulls and their bodies afterward burnet A despatch to a leading journal in the City of Mexico says: "The scenes in the neighborhood of the bull ring were sickening beyond description. Women and children, crazed with suffering from their burns, ran aimlessly through the streets, and could scarcely be overtaken or collected by their friends. Several persons lost their reason from the severe mental shocks to which they were <subjected. "The fire was incendiary. In the Celaya Jail were a number of prisoners, army deserters, etc., who had obtained permission from the authorities to attend the bull-flgbt. One of the desjrters suiTeptitiously struck a match and ignited one of the dry petate (mats), and in an instant the 'Sol1 side of. the ring was ablaze. Jn the. confusion and excitement the prisoners succeeded in making good their escape, taking chances to effect their ends. The best1 society of Celaya was in attendance, j There was an unusual number of ladies and children there, and these, as often is the case in such eventsi were the sufferers. No man lost his life. Tha helpless little ones and their mothers, who would not desert their offspring, were the victims of this most ap-, palling catastrophe. It is the saddest; tragedy that has ever occurred in the three centuries of the city's history. Hundreds of fine villas and splendid residences contain persons who were, either wounded or made sick by the fire, and! . the bull fight of Sunday is likely to be the' last affair of the kind there for many years to come." I THIBTY-UflJi LiViiS LU8X. I The English Steamer Swallow Wrecked on the Chinese Coasr. China advices, received by the steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, state that the British steamer Swallow was wrecked off Naoma I Island, between Swallow and Shanghai The vessel struck on some rocks and sank. The captain and a number of the crew and passengers savod themselves by clinging to the rigging, but thirty-one persons, who put off from the steamer in small boats, are snp- , posed to be losr. The body of the engineer, who was one of the occupants of a boat, was recovered. To be a well-preaerved man?drink veil water THE MARKETS. i 14 NEW YORK. | Beef, good to prime 4 25 @ 5 40 Calves, common to prime.... 74? Bheep 5 00 <g < 50 Lambs ? ? - J? i Hogs-Live... 5 50 @5-5 < Dressed ? Flour-Ex. St, good to fancy 4 40 @ 4 00 West, good to choice - N> @4 55 Wheat-No. 2 Red ?? @ ^ Rye?State ^ @ ct Barley?State ?,f Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... ^7^? Oats-White State 41 @ 43 Mixed Westeru f< @ 40 Hay?Me<L to prime 85 @ JO 8traw?No. 1. 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