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The Statue of Lafayette for thf;
Paris Monument.
United States Minister to Fiance, White- j
3aw Reid, has recently officially received tht j
mouument to Lafayette that is to be erected I
by Americans. An international contest foi |
the execution of this was opened in 1SS6, anil
resulted in the work being awarded to MM.
Falguiere and Mercie, sculptors, aud M. Pu- I
jol, architect. The monument will be about j
> THE LAFAYETTE STATUE.' !
thirty-two feet high. The pedestal of white i
Italian marble will rest upon a granite foun- I
dation, and will be surmouuted by a statue of I
Lafayette in bronze over ten feet high. The I
General is represented at the age of twenty, j
which was abo>t his age when he first set out |
for this couutry. He is standing, the left
hand resting on his unsheathed sword, the i
right hand half extended. His cloak, hang- |
ing over his left arm, falls to the ground be- j
hind him. He wears on his breast the decora- '
tionsof the Society of the Cincinnati. A
large cartouche ornaments, the face of thu j
pedestal, and encloses the inscription:
? "A Lafayette et a ses compagnons d'armes, !
FAmerique reconnaissante."
"To Lafayette and to his companions in j
arms, the gratitude of America."
The sculpture also includes two groups in !
bronze about ten feet high, Rochambeauand I
de Grasse on the right, and Duportal, officer ;
of the engineers, and Admiral d'Estaiug, all i
companions of Lafavetto on the left.
Under the cartouche there is an allegorical J
figure of a woman lifting a sword toward j
Lafayette, a reminder of the sword which
was offered to him by the Americans.
The New Tariff Bill.
Mr. McKinlev. from the Committee on
Ways and Means, introduced the new Tariff 1
bill, with the majority report on it, in tho I
House of Representatives at Washington. |
The report discusses the effect that the bill j
will have upon the revenues of the Govern- |
ment. It states that the exact effect is diffi- !
cult to ascertain.
The Committee have recommended changes ]
in the Internal Revenue law as follows:
Abolishing the tax on dealers in leaf tobacco. j
manufactured tobacco, manufacturers of tobacco
and cigars, and peddlers of tobacco; j
reducing the tax on smoking and manufac- \
tured tobacco and snuff from eight cents to j
four cents par pound.
No reference is made in the report to raw
hides, a subject that has given the Republi- ;
|A can members of the Committee considerable I
^trouble. They decided to put hides on the j i
dutiable list, but changed that decision, and ,
hides will remain on the free list as at present.
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The Committee recommend that all pro- ,
visions of the statutes imposing restrictions ;
of any kind upon farmers and growers of to- j
bacco, in regard to the sale thereof, be re-J
pealed. This will enable the farmers and j
planters to sell their tobacco wherever and ]
to whomsoever they please with the same :
freedom they now dispose of other agri- I
cultural products.
The Committee conclude that the proposed ;
bill, if enacted into law, will certainly re- i
duce the revenue from imports at least $60,- j
936,539, and probably more, and from the i
internal revenue or, mmeag- i
gregate, ?71,264,414.
The bill, as finally agreed upon, removes
all tariff on hides and sugar, and gives a
bounty of two cents a pound on sugar produced
in the United States.
Mr. McKenna, of California, a Republican
member of the Ways and Means Committee,
submitted a report dissenting from the sugar
schedule of the bill.
A minority report was submitted by the
Democratic- members of the "Ways aud
Means Committee, declaring against "the Re- j
publican policy of taxing the nation for the
benefit or the few. ' It also declares emphatically
against the bounty provision, as taxing
the great army of "producers of other
products for the benefit of those engaged ia
making sugar.
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Levees Are Tottering.
A recent despatch from New Orleans says:
The flood situation in Louisiana is now extremely
critical. Although only two serious
<crevasses have occurred thus" far?one in
"Wnnfh T^ni?innft Anri thft nt.hpr fti-rf-.v milp<
above this city?many of the most important
dikes in the State are seriously threatened.
The full force of the flood is at present upon
them, as the crest of the flood wave is now
passing along the Louisiana front.
fc.JThe riy.fr Uas been rising steadily for two
t weess from Vicksburg to this city, and the
^^highest water of whicn there is any record
^^has been reached. The prospects are tint
W the river will continue to rise for a week or
mor?, ani is likely to go nearly a foot
higher.
The danger is regarded as so imminent that
many of the planters are removing thei?y
stock and personal effects to places of greater
safety. To add to the danger the levees have
become water soaked by the long continued
high water and are much weakened in consequence.
The water in the Atehafalaya is so high .
that it already flows over the levees in many I
places and has submerged a large section of I
Point e Coupee and Avoyelles parishes. Very |
little cultivated land has been affected thus
.far, but the steady rise of the water causes j
great anxiety.
Many of the most valuable plantations in
that section are entirely inundated. The
,vill ?lf> Ihittb h? t-.ho rron for thf> veai*
will be entirely destroyed.
About fifteen hundred people, mostly colored,
are now in a state of destitution iu the <
taction. The water has been over the land j
for a month, and there is no probability that j
it will disappear for another month, and the j
poorer classes in the affected section are entirely
without means of support. An effort
is being made to have them supplied with
Government rations.
Winter Weiltletl to Spring.
Gould Rockwell, aged eighty-three, was I
married a few days ago at Ridgeville. Conn.,
to Miss Mary Louise Deninan, aged twenty- j
five. Mr. Rockwell has been a widower for |
forty years. He early amassed a comfortable j
fortune iu the hardware business in Troy, |
N. Y., retiring from active business forty '
years ago. He then settled at the old Rock- j
well homestead at Ridgefiild that stood on ,
the main street long before the memorable '
skirmish there i:i Revolutionary times, when I
Woosterfell. For nearly half a century he
has lived practically alone. It is said "that
he has settled $"25,000 ou his bride.
The bride is a prepossessing blonde, not
quite 25 years old, of coyish ways and coquetA
tish glances, and the wedding was only the
K fourth time she had met her husband. Her
H former home was in Nevarsink, Sullivan
y County, N. Y. The couple first met about
three months ago, and their courting has
been by tender missives. The girl indignantly
denies that she married for money,
but tne gossipe are unwilling to accept her
avowal.
The marriage was a quiet one, at the resilience
of the bride's uncle, the Rev. Charles
^ JI. Seeleck, of Nor walk, performing the cer*
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mony. The couple left town on the afternoon
train, amid the din of torpedoos, the blowing
whistles, and tli2 loud huzzahs of the small
boy.
Blew His Brother's Head Oil'
A sensational tragedy occurred at noon at
the country residence of 0. P. Ziner. of
Stark County, North Dakota.
Albert Ziner entered the house of his
brother, 0. P. Ziner, and insulted the latter'*
wife, whereupon O. P. Ziner seized a shotgun
and literally blew his brother's head
off.
Albert died almost instautly, and the
brothi.* was arrested. A great crowd gathered
at the jail at nightfall, and it was
feared the prisoner would be lynched before
dawn.
The Sheriff was powerless to withstand the
mob. and had no opportunity to spirit his
prisoner away.
To Irrigate the Northwest.
Much interest is being aroused throughout
the Canadian Northwest over the proposat
of the Dominion Government to inaugurate
a system of irrigation throughout this
country. Last summer, owing to the
great drought, the crops in Manitoba,
as well as the Northwest Territorie.suffered
greatly. The rainfall is always very
light in the Territories, and it is confidently
asserted that with the system of the Western
States there would be a vast increase in the
crop? as well as in the area cultivated. It is
likely the Dominion Government will have
the matter thoroughly inquired into during
recess.
Prominent Texans Murdered.
News has reached Madisonville, Texas, of
the murder of Captain John Richardson and
his wife at their country residence, eight
miles from there. Robbery is believed to
Hjivp hpp.n thf? mntivA. Tlif* snnno<it.irm
that they were murdered by strangers who
had accepted their hospitality for the night.
Captain Richardson was one of the oldest an')
most respected citizens of Madison County.
Seventeen Girls Killed.
A fatal accident occurred at Bergann.
Italy. The roof of a weaving mil! in which
:>(XJ girls were at work fell in, and sevaatoe;;
of the eirls were killed.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS,
In the Senate.
81st Day.?The consideration of the Montana
Senatorial election ease was resumed,
and Mr. Evarts addressed the Senate on the
subject.... The World's Fair bill was reported
to the Senate; one of the amendments
provides for a naval review in New York
harbor in April, 1893....Mr. Cullorn introduced
a bill to establish a tirst-class mail and
steamship service between Tampa, Fla., and
Aspinwall, Central America, for a term of
live years.
S2d Day.?The Senate passed a lar^e number
of bills, including the Senate bill transferring
the Weather Bureau to the Department
of Agriculture.
83d Day.?When the message from the
House announcing the death of Mr. Randall
and the appointment oi a committee to attend
his funeral had been road Mr. Cameron
rose, and, in a voice tremulous with emotion,
offered a resolution expressing deep regret
and providing for the appointment of a committee
to attend the funeral. The resolutions
were agreed to, and Senators Quay, Allison.
Dawes, Voorhees and Eustis were appointed
the committee on the part of the Senate. As
a further mark of respect to Mr. Randall's
memory the Senate then adjourned.
84th Day.?Mr. Evarts presented the
amendments he proposes to offer to the bill
providing for a special enumeration and cer tification
of Chinese residents bv the census ,
officials... .Further debate on the Montana ,
Senatorial election took place, no final action
being taken. ,
85th Day.?The Montana case was disposed
of, and the Republican contestants, (
Messrs. Sanders and Powers, were sworn in
The Chinese Enumeration bill was killed
... .Mr. Barbour introduced a bill providing I
for the purchase of several original journals
and other relics belonging to George 1
W ashington, and now owned by Lawrence
Washington, of Fauquier County, Va i
Mr. Chandler reported favorably the bill to j
recognize the services of Chief Engineer
George W. Melville, of the Navy, and the ,
other officers and men of the" Jeannette
Arctic Relief Expedition Bills appropriating
$150,000 additional for continuing the
erection of the public building at Worcester, ,
Mass., and *100,000 for a public building at
Newburg, N. Y., were passed.
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In the House.
90th Day.?On the second day's discussion ]
o? the Naval Appropriation bill in Committee
of the Whole, Mr. Holman moved to <
strike out of the bill the paragraph provid- (
in.i* frtt* tViroo V>attlA chins hilt iPAVinJ* in
the provision for an armed cruiser. Agreed to
?98 to 70....Mr. McAdoo introduced a copy 1
of the Senate bill to incorporate the Society
of the Sons of the American Revolution.
91st Day.?The consideration of the contested
election case of Waddill against Wise,
of the Third Virginia District, wasbeguu.
92d Day.?The contested election case of '
Waddell against Wise, of Virginia, was de- '
cided by the adoption of the majority report
of the Committee on Privileges and Elections
declaring that Waddell, the Republican contestant,
is entitled to the seat. Mr. Waddell j
appeared at the bar of the House and took (
the oath of office.
93d Day.?An air of sadness pervaded the
chamber when the Speaker's gavel called the 1
House to order. Draped in black and ornamented
with a handsome floral design, the '
seat so long occupied by Mr.Raudall recalled
to members thct theU- olJ colleague had i
passed away forever. The crayon portrait (
of the ex-Speaker, hung in the lobby, was also ]
tastefully draped with the emblems of I
mourning. The Chaplain offered a prayer.
Mr. O'Neill then offered a resolution expressing
the deep regret and profound sorrow of ?
the House on hearing of the death of Mr. ,
Randall, and providing for the appointment
of a committee of nine members of the
House, with such members of the Senate as i
may be joined, to attend the funeral. Tho
resolutions were unanimously adopted, and
t.ho SrwnVpr nnnointed the following com- I
mittee: Messrs. O'Neill, Carlisle, Harmer, <
Holman, Cannon, Forney, Springer, McKin- 1
ley and Reilly. The House then adjourned '
for the day.
94th Day.?The Holman amendment to |
strike out the provision in the Naval Appro- 1
priation bill for three battleships was stricken
out, and the bill was passed The bill to
define and regulate the jurisdiction of the
courts of the United States vras passed by a (
vote of 131 to IS, the Speaker counting a
quorum Mr. Martin submitted a report
on the Morrill Service Pension bill. The re- '
port criticises the age qualifications of the
95th Day.?A bill was called up amending '
the Alien Land law so as to permit foreign
capital to be invested in mines of gold, silver,
lead, tin, cinnabar and copper The House
passed the Military Academy Appropriation
bill.... Mr. Bergen called up the contested
election case of Posey against Parrett,
from the First Indiana District.
The committee reports unanimously in
favor of Parrett, the sittiug member.
Tho resolution was adopted....
Mr. Rowell called up the contested election
case of Bowen against Buchanan, from tbe
IXth District of Virginia. The resolution,
which confirms the right of the sitting member,
was adopted... .Mr. Squire introduced a
bill appropriating $100,000 for the erection of
the equestrian statue of General Grant in
Washington City.... Mr. Raines introduced
bills for the erection of public buildings at
n.? ^n?ann(r ninnas iii Nhw York: Hornells
ville, Geneva and Corning ? Majority and
minority reports on the Revenue bill were
presented.
A TERKIBLE AFFLICTION.
Spotted Fever Causes Consternation
in Kentucky.
Spotted fever broke out iu Union County,
Ky., and the wildest consternation prevailed
for a time. It made its first appearance at
Hanshaw. and since that time a score of children
have been attacked, and in each case
fntally. The disease is identical in all its
symptoms with that which last summer carried
off 250 victims in Webster and adjoining
county. In that epidemic neither sex nor
age was spared. Only children have been
attacked this year. The disease runs its
course inside of thirty-six hours. Its approach
is heralded by intense pain at the base
of the hrain. A burning fever speedily fo!
lows. The tongue becomes swolleu and nard,
unconsciousness ensues and death follows.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern mid Middle States.
The machine and smith shop of the Lewi&
Fowler Manufacturing Company, car
makers, Brooklyn, were destroyed by fire,
entailing a loss of $200,000.
The maiden records of all transatlantic
steamers were broken by the new White Star
liner Majestic, which made the voyage from
Queenstown to Sandy Hook Lightship in
6 days 10 hours and 30 minutss.
The Republican Committee has determined
to contest the election of Orestes
Cleveland as Mayor of Jersey City,N. J., od
the ground of alleged fraud.
As earthquake shock was felt at Dover,
Me. A noise like that of an explosion was
heard, and theu the earth trembled foi
several seconds. Clocks were stopped and
small articles were thrown from their places.
John* H. Stauffer's four-story brick
cigar factory, Isaic Buch's frame cigar fac
lory, Bomberger & Co.'s hardware warehouse,
and five frame stables adjoining, in
the borough of Litiz, Penn., have been destroyed
by fire.
Forest fires have wrought great destruction
to property in the vicinity of Pleasant
ville, N. J. Over 300 acres of pine timber
were burned, causing a loss of about $50,000.
The postponed elections in Providence
gave the Democrats control of the Rhode
Island Legislature and innures the election of
their State ticket.
About one hundred farmers in Adams and
York Counties in Pennsylvania have been
defrauded of a sum aggregating about $125,*
000 by swindlers who sell them fictitious
rights to sell wire fences.
The assignee of the dry goods firm of John
F. Plummer & Co., of New York city, which
recently failed, has just made a statement
showing liabilities of $877,000 and assets only
#75,000.
Sixty-five children of Blackfeet Indians
arrived at the Carlisle (Penn.) training school
from the West.
The first annual convention of the Sailors'
and Firemen's unions of the United States
was opened in New York city.
Andrew Campbell, the well-known inventor
and manufacturer of printing presses,
died in a Brooklyn (N. Y.) ambulance while
being taken home after falling in an apoplectic
fit.
At the Appraiser's Stores in New York
city the body of a man, who had been strangled,
was found imbedded in plaster in a cask,
which had been shipped to that port from
Copenhagen, Denmark. The cask had beeD
stored there for about three months. The
murdered man was a clerk named Meyer,
and his slayer was his employer, Philipsen,
who is under arrest in Denmark.
The twenty-fifth annual reunion of the
Loyal Legion was held in Philadelphia.
Twelve hundred and ntne coke ovens
were shut down at Connellsville, Penn., I
because of a lack of orders. This suspension
throws 1200 men out of work.
Deacon Jacob Estey. the founder of the
great Estey Organ Company, died suddenly
of heart disease, in Brattleboro, Vt., at the
t ge of seventy-six.
South and West.
A tornado caused damage in the Valley
of the Rappahannock in Virginia.
The Iowa Legislature defeated the High
License bill by a vote of twenty-one to
twenty-nine.
The business portion of Pearsall, Texas,
has been almost completely destroyed by
fire. Loss, estimated at $4-5,000.
Three boys were killed at Webb City,
Mo., by the falling of a slab of rock while
they were digging lead out of the side of a
mine
Defaulting State Treasurer Archer,
of Maryland, was arrested at his countrv
seat near Bel Air. He had made away with
?5G,000 worth of registered State securities,
of which no traces have been discovered.
Yelvington, Ky., has been entirely destroyed
by fire.
Bv the running away of a team near Mansfield,
Ohio, Mrs. C. Levering, of that town,
was fatally injured, and Miss Emeline Hill,
of Needrnore, Penn., instantly killed.
James Speed, one of the wealthiest cattlemeu
of Southern Texas, was shot and killed
by John Tomerlin at Moore Station, Texas.
There was great excitement on the Chiclgo
Board of Trade because Armour, the
packing king, and Hutchinson, the wheat
tung, actu uui lioi c?u iiiay uuu o uiy yvi a, i
ind May wheat. Pork sold at $15.75 and |
wheat at 9.1 cents par bushel.
The O'Brieu Wagon Works, at Tiffin, j
Ohio, were destroyed by fire, involving a
loss of *80,000.
In* a secluded district near Wakefield,
Huron County, Ohio, Revenue Collector
Waldorf unearthed illicit whisky distilleries
>n the farms of several prominent and hithsrto
respectable farmers.
Fire broke out in the Northern Pacific
machine shops at Ellensburg. Washington,
ind in a very short time they, with the
roundhouse, were totally destroyed. Loss
iver $100,000.
The Gilbert Starch Works at Des Moines,
Iowa, were burned; loss $109,000. Three
employes?two girls and one man?lost their
lives.
State Treasurer Archer, of Maryland,
ivas admitted to bail in $25,000.
Gold and other precious minerals have
been found in large quantities in the Grand
Canon of Colorado.
The Detroit (Mich.) Steel and Spring Com i
oany, the largest concern of its kind in the
tJnited States, has suspended payment, with 1
labilities amounting to $300,000. 1
Edward Gillem and Alex. Gatewood, j
members of a Klu Klux band, were killed by 1
i fourteen year-old boy named Holland at 1
Pike Place, Mo. They were about to whip
ais father.
* ? Tir _4. lion /1a.
a storm in western imuit?n.? u? ui.- ,
stroyed the prospects of the growing crops in !
several counties, and Governor Thayer asks
:ontributions of wheat and oats for seed.
Bo.vskield & Co.'s wooden ware factory i
it Bay City, Mich., was burned. Loss #150,K)0.
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Goveknok Jacksox, of Maryland, removed
Stevenson Archer for malfeasance in
>ftice and misappropriation of the funds of
the State, and appointed to the vacancy Edwin
H. Brown, of Queen Anne Couuty.
By the explosion of a saw-mill boiler at
31adwin, Mich., Engineer H. M. Carry and
his son Aaron were torn to pieces.
Both branches of Congress adjourned as a
nark of respect to Samuel J. Randall; committees
were appointed from the' Senate
and House to attend the funeral.
The United States Supreme Court has
iecided that the State of California had no
jurisdiction in the case of United States
Marshal Nagle, who was arrested for killing
Judge Terry while protecting Justice Field.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
received a telegram from Indian Agent U pshaw,
asking for troops to suppress a threatened
uprising of the Indians on the Tongue
River reservation in Montana.
The annual session of the National
Academy of Sciences began in the hall of
the National Museum building at Washington,
the President, Professor O. C. Marsh, of
New Haven, presiding.
The Judge-Advocate-General of the Navy (
submitted a preliminar}' report to Secretary
Tracy in the McCalla case, recommending
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tnat uommanaer cowmau n. .wlohu uo
tried by court-martial for maltreating seamen
on board the United States vessel
Enterprise.
Washington.
The bill to revive the grade of LieutenantGeneral
of the Army was ordered to be favorably
reported by the Senate Committee
on Military Affairs.
The Senate in secret session at Washington
confirmed the following nominations:
Lewis A. Grant, to be Assistant Secretary
of War; Brigadier-General Nelsou A. Miles,
Major-General; Colonel B. H. Grierson, Brigadier-General;
Major T. H. Stanton, Deputy
Paymaster-General.
Secretary Blaine lias asked the Hou^
to appropriate $1500 for necessary repairs in
the United States graveyard at Acapulco,
Mexico, which is in a delapidated condition.
President Harrison has approved the
act making an application to supply the deficiency
occasioned by the defalcation in the
office of the late Sergeant-at-Arms.
Mrs. Harrison held the closing one ot
her afternoon receptions at the White House,
the event having been postponed by the
tragedy of the Tracy fire. The occasion
drew forth a throng of anxious sightseers
and many prominent in official and social
life.
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v,"-; " : ?*.' 'V- ??*. Secretary
Tracy has accaptcd tho new
torpedo boat Gushing, built by tho Herreshoffs,
at Bristol, R. I. The complete cost of
the Cushiugto the Government was $98,060.
President Harrison* has approved the
joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of
the Navy to remove the naval magazine
from Ellis Island, in New York harbor, and
to purchase a site for a n&val magazine at
some other point.
A small company assembled in the Blue
Parlor of the White House at Washington to
witness the formal presentation of a medal
to Joseph Francis, of New York city, in
recognition of his services in the construction
and perfection of life saving appliances. The
medal is of pure gold and weighs over three
troy pounds. It is four inches in diameter
ana contains $760 worth of pure gold.
Foreljrn.
In Valencia, Spain, there was serious antiCarlist
rioting, and the entire local military
force was ordered tinder arms. Many people
were killed.
SlG.N'or Saffi, who, with Mazzini and Ar
mellini, formed the triumvirate in 1&48 when
tho people rose in rebellion, drove Pius IX,
from Rome and established a republic, is
dead.
During a gale at Goderich, Canada, a fish
ing boat containing three brothers, Donald,
vVilliam and John Matheson, capsized, and
all were drowned.
In the Parliamentary election in the
Carnarvon District, the English Liberals
gained a seat.
Henry M. Stanley arrived at Rome,
Italy. He was greeted with cheers and
"vivas" by a great crowd of people. Signor
Vitelleschi welcomed him to the city and
presented him with a gold medal.
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" iLL(ia.u, VI wci ulauj', ?j3ucj
the Empress of Austria at the Villa Langenbeck,
Wiesbaden. He was attired in the
uniform of a Colonel of Hungarian Hussars.
Marquis Tseng, the well-known Chinese
statesman and former Minister to the courts
of London, Paris and St. Petersburg, has
died in Pekin at the age of fifty-one.
Discontented Italian workingmen held a
meeting in Rome, Italy, and wore dispersed
by the troops.
The two bandits who kidnapped Senor
Alzola last year have been executed at
Guauajay, Cuba.
Colonel Bermudez lia3 been elected
President of Peru.
Five thousand dock laborers went on
strike in Liverpool, England.
A great fire destroyed the gas works in
Madrid, Spain.
Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, visited
Dom Pedro, the ex-Emperor of Brazil, at
Canues, France.
The Rev. Alexander Mackay, a noted
missionary to Africa, is^dead.
Chancellor von Capriyi, Bismark's sue
cessor, made his maiden speech as German
Chancellor at the opening of the Prussian
Diet.
The steamer Shakharoh, from San Jose,
Cal., for Hamburg, haa been wrecked off the
English coast, aud her cargo, worth $400,000,
is a to cal loss.
LATER NEWS.
Mrs. Carrie Vandegift, of Burlington,
N. J., has been indicted by the Grand Jury
on a charge of attempting to murder her son,
Frank C. Norman, by administering small
doses of croton oil.
Commander McCalla, of the United
States vessel Enterpi ise, was deprived of his
sword and placed under arrest at the Brooklyn
(N\ Y.) Navy Yard, pending a courtmartia'
for alleged abuse of sailors. Lieutenant
Ingersoll was placed iu command of the ;
Enterprise.
The Oregon Republican State Convention
met in Portland and renominated Bingei
Herman for Congress. D. P. Thompson, ot
Portland, was nominated for Governor.
President Harrison received a portrait
of JIrs. Angelica Van Buren, who was mistress
of the White House during the Administration
of her father-in-law, President Van
Buren, and gave orders to have it hung in
the Green Parlor along with the portraits of
Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Tyler and Mr3. Polk.
The twenty-eighth anniversary of the
emancipation of the slaves in the District of
Columbia was celebrated at Washington by
a parade of colored military and civic so- I
pieties. The procession was reviewed by the
('resident from the north portico of the
Executive Mansion.
The Latin American delegates to the PanAmerican
Congress gave a dinner to President
Harrison at the Arlington Hotel.
President Carxot, of France, was enthusiastically
received at Aix-les-Bains and
Marseilles ou his journey to Southern Fiance.
APRIL CROP REPORT.
Good Average for "Wheat and Rye?
AVinter Exposure Disastrous.
The condition of winter wheat an April 1,
as reported by the Statistician of the Department
of Agriculture at Washington,
averages 81 for the entire breadth. The
general average for rye is 92.8. Seeding was
ate in the States of the central valleys, bemuse
of drouth and the soil was therefore
aot in the best condition; but the mild winter
continued growth until the plants were
too luxuriant to withstand the usual vicissitudes
of March. Recent frosts have cut
iown the growing plants generally, and in
wet or submerged areas th e roots have been
destroyed. There are reports of recuperation
by sprouting and renewed growth in
this region. Where the roots are intact,
great improvement will follow with good
weather. The fact that th& roots are so well
developod is favorable-to improvement.
In the South the soil was- generally in better
condition, and the early sown developed j
rapidly, and in Decern oer ana January suffered
more or less from attacks of the Hessian.
By. In March frosts were general, discoloring
and sometimes killing tho plants down to
the ground, but not injuring the roots except
in wet places. The crop looks brown in
New York, but th& State agent believes- it is
better than it looks. The other Middle States
return wheat in good condition.
The Pacific Coast has had an extraordinary
amount of rain and snow, which have delayed
seeding and injured the early sown aims.
The report of condition of farm animals
makes averages as follows: Horses>97.4;cattle,
W. 1; sheep, 93.7; swine. 95.6. The loses from
winter exposure of cattle have been heavy in
the Northern Rocky Mountain belt and on
the Pacific Coast. The reports indicate the
loss by exposure throughout the country of
more than a million cattle and still larger
lossos of sheen.
SWEPT INTO THE EIYEB.
Passengers Drowned Because of a
Steamboat Captain's Carelessness.
The Handy Boy, a little steamer carrying
about seventy-five passengers, plying between
East Saginaw, Mich., and Bay City, |
on tho Saginaw River, left her dock on a regular
trip with about thirty-five passengers.
It was necessary for her to pass through the
draw of the Fiintand Pero Marquette Railroad
bridge, and at her signal the
draw was opened for her passage. J
Just at this moment Captain Dolsen
left the wheel and began collecting fares,
giving the wheel in charge of some on:*, nobody
seems to know whom. At any rate the
boat shied off and struck a pier with a terrific
crash sixty feet from the middle of the j
draw passage. |
The whole upper deck, with about eighteen
passengers, was swept off into tho water,
part of the debris crashing down on
the deck below. Boatmen on the
shore saw tho disaster and at once
put off to the rescue of the people
struggling in the water or clinging to the
wreck and the piers. The Handy Boy did
not sink, but lay a wreck against the pier,
thus averting greater loss of life.
Most of the passengers were easily rescued,
but thpse in tha water were savea with
much difficulty. It is certain that six were
lost. Miss Mary Haight and Mrs. C'atherini
Navit, of East Saginaw, are among them.
" Captain Dolsen. as soon as he reached thl
shore, disappeared and could not be found
It waa supposed that he bad fled.
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A $500 COTTA&E.
Description of a Neat, l?ow-CostRest*
dence?Special Features.
(Copyright by the Author.)
A correlative of the petition "Give me
neither poverty nor riches," might read give
me not a large mansion but a small cottage
in which to dwell.
The mansion costs a great sum, so great indeed
that a good man may well be disturbed
sometimes while viewing his superfluous luxuries
by the reflection that there are thou
sands o? his fellow creatures who are not provided
with the barest necessities of life; the
cottage is of low cost, leaving the conscience
clear and the heart merry. The mansion involves
the wearisome labor of superintending
servants; the cottage imposes the easy tasks
of simple housework. The mansion requires
workmen to make repairs; the cottage may
be easily watched and promptly repaired?
"a stitch in time"?by the owner. The owner
of a mansion must have a large income; the
owner of a cottage and a fertile acre or two
is practically independent, the labor of his
hands providing fruit, vegetables, poultry,
etc., sufficient for his needs.
A touching picture is seen, suggestivo of
nobility of character, when an elderly couple
resume the simple cottage life of their early
wedded years. Their llrss have been too unselfish
to permit the acquisition of wealth.
They educated their children and started
them in prosperous careers and now they
have planned to be self-supporting to the
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PERSPECTIVE VIEW.
end. The sons and daughters, however honored
and prosperous, who do not kiss the
labor-browned hands of such parents are not
worthy of the name they bear. |
Following will be found a brief deseripI
tion of the design illustrating this article. |
I Size of Structure: Width, 33 ft.; depth,
I 36 ft. 6 in.
| Materials for Exterior: Foundations, posts
| or piers; side walls and roof, shingles.
Height of Story: 10 ft.
I Interior Finish: Smoothed and chamfered
studding and ceiling joists to be left exposed.
Walls between studding and
I ceiling joists to be papered. Flooring
and all trim of windows and doorj
to be of white pine or other soft wood. All
doors and aashes of manufactured stock sizes.
The windows that command fine views
should be glazed with plate glass; all other
windows with double thick glass. All interior
woodwork to be varnished, showing natural
colors.
Erterior Colora: AH side snmenng, cream;
all trim, mouldings and veranda rails, dark
red; veranda posts and balusters, cream;,
outside blinds and doors, roof and chimmeySi
dark red; underside of roof overhang,cream;
porch floor and ceiling, oiled .showing natural |
color of woodv
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Accommodations: All of the rooms are
thown by the floor plan. The attic is floored
and is reached by a step ladder. No cellar isprovided,
at this cottage, built as described,
Is intended for summer occupancy only. To
fit it for winter use a cellar under the whole
house should be built at an additional cost of
about $200; and the interior walls of the cottage
should be plastered at ou additional
cost of $75.
Special Features: The large bays may be
saia to give character to the exterior of this
design as well as to provide attractive features
within. With cushions provided for the
bay window seats, the sitting-room is indeed
a comfortable place. The overhanging roof
gives aa appearance of largo size. The chimneys
(one over the kitchen and one over the
e'tting-room) are simple and inexpensive, but
substantial, built of terra cotta resting on
the ceiling joists.
CrTn ail in i;fios where the orices for
labor aud materials are about the same as
tbose of New York city, ?500.
R. W. Shoppell, Architect.
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A RED PROPHET,.
He Says a Big Flood is Coming to
AV'ipe Out the Palo- Faces.
Meat Axe, the big Shoshone medicine man,
has predicted a flood, to occur in July, and
wipe out the heartless pale faces. He says
I the visitation is retribution for the
unjust conduct of the whites- in
confining 2000 Indians on a little
reservation of 2,000,000 acres, circumscribing
them, so they don't get a shot more thau
once a year. Runners have been sontall
over the reservation, and to the Crows,
Cheyennes aud Sioux, to herald the calamity,
and a rush of Indians to the Wind River
Mountains, the scheduled haven, is anticipated.
Meat Axe exhibited considerable ingenuity
in arranging for the- general sousing. He lias
it that all the whites and half breeds-will be
drowned, and that the game will apparently
die to make the play strong, but that as the
waters recede the beaste will revive, to become
the- prey of the braves.
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A REGIMENT OF REDSKINS.
\ Proposition to Enlist 1000 Indians
in the Regular Army.
Secretary of War Proctor has submitted
to the Interior Department officials a propo
sition to enlist 1000 Indians into the regulat
army. It is proposed to officer the regiment
with graduates from West Point, the subordinate
grudes to be filled by pupils who have
been educated at the Eastern schools for Indians.
The details of the plan have not a->
yet been fully matured, but it is the opinion
of Secretary Proctor that the Indians can ba
received into tho regular army in a separate
regiment both to their own advantage and
that of the Government.
A NOVEL WEDDING.
Mother and Daughter Simultaneously
Married in Illinois.
A novel matrimonial event occurred a few
day.iagoat Galena, 111., a mother and daugh_
ter standing at tho altar together and both
taking upon themselves the vows of wedlock,
the grandmother of the junior bride acting I
as bridesmaid. The parties, male and female,
to the unique affair were William
Hammond, of Dubuque, and Mrs. Mary J.
Reddlngton, of Galena, and Louis Bourineim,
of Warren, and Miss E. J. Reddiogton. The
first named lady is on the shady side of fifty
and her daughter is a coldly maiden of.
twenty,
SAMUEL J. RANDALL
The Famous Democratic Statesman
Breathes His Last.
A Sad and Pathetic Scene at the
Death-bed.
SAMUEL JACKSON* RAJTDALL.
Samuel Jackson Randall is dead. The
great Democratic leader and statesman died
at 5:04 o'clock in the morning at his home in
Washingtou City. The end came peacefully
while the distinguished sufferer was surrounded
by his wife and children, Postmaster-General
"Wanamaker and his medical attendants.
Mr. Randall was a victim of cancer e the
bowels. The malady seized him nearly two
years ago, and bis sufferings have been intense.
On many occasions his death was
thought to have been a question of hours, but
hi# splendid physique enabled him to ward
off the inevitable.
The story of the sick-room and the deathbed
scene is a peculiarly pathetic one; There
was not a moment in the last three days,
before bis death, when it was not believed
that Mr. Randall was at
tbe point of death. All of the last night
the patient was attacked frequently by
sinking spells. Fits of hiccoughing followed.
Though unconscious a greater part of the
time he was able to whisper his wants. Plum
preserves appeared to relieve him. Just after
1 o'clock a. m. he was seized with a violent
choking spasm. Postmaster-General Wanamaker
sat at the bedside at the time, and Dr.
Mallen hastened to his aid. The physician'
removed a large- piece of phlegm from thethroat
with his fingers, after which the patient
breathed more freely From that hornon
Mi*. Randall's strength gradually failed.
Mrs. Randall, her two sisters, Mrs. Hyatt
and Mi*s. Swann, the ex-Speaker's brother,
Robert Randall, his daughters, Mrs. Lan*
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caster ana .uiss ousia xvauuuu, ms sun,
Samuel J. Randall, Jr., and his son-in-law,
C. C. Lancaster, and the Postmaster-General
gathered about the deathbed just before-5o'clock
A. M. The patient convulsively seized
Mr. Wanamaker's hand and pressed it with'
all the strength he possessed. Mrs. Randall,
completely overcome, knelt at the bedside and
90bbed as if her heart would break. Suddenly
Mr. Randall gasped. Hisdevoted wifelooked
up. Tho dying husband and father
for the last time recognized her, whimpering
the single word, "Mother." and as he uttered
the word bis spirit had flod. Mrs. Randall
fell back into the arms- of the PostmasterGeneral
aud had to' be carried from the
room.
As soon as the sad news reached the
Capitol the Stars and Stripes were placed at
half mast on the roof of the House.
Early in the morning tho President and
Mrs. Harr'.son drove to the Randall residence.
Both did what they could to comfort the
afflicted family. Vice-President and Mrs.
Morton, Secretary and Mrs. Blaine, Secretary
Tracy and other members of theCabinet,
as well as Senators and Representatives,
flocked to the house, but few were admitted,
and those who were not simply left
messages of sympathy.
Mr. Randall came to Washington early in
last November a sick man, but with hopes of
improvement. He erpected to be able to take
his seat in the House when Congress met in
December but when Congress convened he
was unabiw to leave his home. Subsequently
the oath of office as a Representative was administered
at his residence by Speakfr Reed,
and Mr Randall was made a member of the
Committees on Rules and Appropriations, the
two important committees he had served on
for so many years.
Mr. Randall joined the Presbyterian
Church about two months ago. Mr. Wanamaker
spoke to him on this subject, and Mr.
Randall replied that he had been thinking
of this matter for some time and would like
to become a member of the Church. Ar
rangements were made by which he entered
the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, on
Capitol Hill, Dr. Chester, pastor.
The news of the ex-Speaker's death spread
rapidly about Washington, though it was
Sunday morning, and general grief and sympathy
were expressed both in and out of political
circles. The Sergeant-at-Arms of the
House at once took charge of the body and
of the funeral arrangements.
Sketch of Mr. Randall's Career.
Samuel Jackson Randall was born in
Philadelphia on October 10. 1828. He came
into public life at a very early age as-a
Democrat, and has never since been retired
even temporarily. He served four years
in the Common Council of his native city,
and one term?1858-59?in the Pennsylvania
Legislature as a State Senator. Air.
Randall was first eleeted to Congress in 1862.
He commenced his Congressional life in.
December, 1863,. iu the Thirty-eighth Congress
(in which the Hon. James G. Blaine
served his first term),.op>y two years after
his-old friend, but political opponent of tnir-ty
years' standing,the late William D.Kelley,
had commenced a< career in Congress that
lasted nearly thirty years. Mr; Randall was.
returned at every succeeding election, and at
the time of his death had served twenty-six
years in Congress,, or-through thirteen ConTT
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greases, ai was mociw4 iv> ?
terra, but though he-took the oath and quali-fled
as a member,, he was- not able, becauso
of failing health,, to tako his seat in thepresont
Congress.
Mr. Randall, wasa. candidate for Speaker
of the Forty-fourt'u. Congress in lS75,but wasdefeated
by the Hon. Michael C. Kerr,- by
whom he was. a^pointod Chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations. At the
second session of tho same Congress, Mr.
Randall was chcwcn for Sjieaker?Mr. Kanhaving
died during the recess. }lr. Rajul;tll
was re-elected Speaker in the Forty-li?th
Congress by tbo Democrats-in 18".
By reason, of long service and close attention
to his duties, Mr; Randall became- th<
most expert parliamentarian on the Democratic
side of the House; In familiarity witfc
the rules and all branches of parliamentary
law. he. Derhan-:. hu-1 no superior in ei'-h'-i
party, and as far back as 1ST."), whea the
jreat contest over the Force bill took place
it the close ol the Forty-third Congress, Mr.
Randall was, by common consent, assigned
Che leadership of ths Democratic minority.
Perhaps the domestic side of Mr. Randall's
life was the most attractive. While yet
Foung he married a daughter of General
Aaron Ward, of Sing Sing, N. Y., a member
of Congress at intervals from 1S3T to
IS4'?. She was. in ever}" sense of the word, a
model wife. No man ever had a more faith*
C'dl or devoted helpmeet.
Few man were more successful than he in
dai rying a debate through to a satisfactory
conclusion; hut his strength lay more in the
dogged perseverance with which he piled up
indisputable facts and statistics than in any
charm of manner or grace of oratory.
Though so many years in tbe public service
he was one of tne poorest men in Congress.
His worldly possessions consisted of a
very plain residence on C street, near First
street, Capitol Hill, Washington.
Mr. Randall entered the Civil War as a
private and rose to the rank of Sergeant.
The wonderful clock o? Thomas Fitzsimaxons
of PlttstCD, Penn., which took him four
years to make, was destroyed by fire while
on exhibition in Owego, N. Y. The inventor
valued his work at $15,000 and refused >7000
for it a few days ago. His friends fear that
the loss will affect his mind. The clock was
Insured for $5000.
The price of petroleum has declined thirty
tents per barrel within the last two mouths,
chiefly by reason of &q Increase iu pro-*
duction of 91,000 barrels per day.
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SALOON MEN NEVER SLEEP.
A bill is pending in the New York Legisl*
lure to amend the liquor law by inserting a
clause making it unlawful for any Sheriff or
other officer, or any agent of any society, to
enter a saloon and offer to purchase drinks
at an hour during which it should be kept
closed. The object, of course, w to make it
impossible for those charged with the duty of
enforcing the law to procure evidence of its
violation. The saloon men evidently act
upon the Pinkerton motto?"We never
sleep." It behooves the temperance people to
keep wide awake also.?Chicago News.
DUTY OF THE CHURCH.
Of the duty of the church a temperance
writer urges: "She must disdain to partake
of the intoxicating cup at the Lord's supper;
she must refuse fellowship to all who are engaged
in the business?the distiller, brewer,
shareholder, the saloon-keeper, and the licensed
grocer; she must deny herself a share'
in the ill-gotten gains of the accursed business;
she must suffer not a joist, not a brick,
not a nail, even, of her sanctuaries to be supplied
at the expense of the wrecks of humanity
which the trade is making; she must, in
a word, throw the entire traffic overboard aa
a pest to society, r scourge, an infamy of infamies."
TOTAL ABSTAINING STUDENTS.
That sixty per cent, of the students attending
the Toronto Medical College are pledged
total abstainers is a fact in wmch the friends
of temperance may well rejoice. In no direction
is the change of sentiment on thifc
question more marked than in the different
opinion entertained by the medical fraternity
now as compared with a quarter of a century
nzo. Now the testimonvof those, who of all
men ar? best qualified to judge of the effects
of alcohol upon the human system, is overwhelmingly
in favor of the practice of total
abstinence" Nor can this fact fail to influence
the rising generation, provided they are made
acquainted with it. If the doctors, whom
the boys regard as oracles in matters pertaining
to the body, pronounce against alcoholic
beverages they will be led to view these
drinks with grave distrust. In this circumstance
lies one of the groatest advantages of
temperance instruction in schools. Temperance
people have reason to be encouraged by
the progress then- cause in making. Let there
be no slackening of effort along the line of
uioral suasion.?Toronto Truth,
THE AlfNCAL ENGLISH DRINK BILL
Dr. Dawson Burns, upon whom the mantle
of the late Mr. William Hoyle has fallen,
has calculated the annual drink bill for the
year 1889. As compared with 1888, the figares
are by no means creditable. In the
former year the drmk bill was ?124,615,346;
in the latter, ?132,213,276. As the prosperity
of the nation ha* revived, the expenditure
of the nation in driuk has increased by over
seven and r. half millions, or about 6}? dot
cent. In round figures, half a million is aue
to increasid expenditures on wines, and half
a million more on foreign and colonial spirits,
six and half millions being the increase
on beer and British spirits. This points to
the fact that, as wages have increased, a
large portion of the industrial classes have
been more lavish in their expenditure upon
drink. The annual expenditure per head nas
gone up from ?3 6 shillings 8 pence to ?3 9
shillings 11 pence. One satisfactory feature
nf Hip i* that ha/1 a* wp irp wa Viava
been worsfr. In the dccade ending 1870 the
annual average drink bill was nearly ?136,000,000;
in the last decade it was ?125,500,000,
and this in spite of the iucrease in the
population.? London Echo.
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N'O MIDDLE GKOUXD OX THIS QUESTION.
A man might as well try to wipe the
Rocky Mountains off the face of this continent
with a school-boy's sponge as to try to
eliminate the liquor problem from the issues
of American lifo with any sort of measure
short of its total, absolute national prohibition,
It is- the gigantic evil of the age,
and the issue of its future life or death as a
traffic is the irrepressible conflict that is now
upon the nation. The line of division upon
tnis-question is radical and inflexible. There
is no middle territory where the man of
conscience aud patriotism can stand, pro- fessing
a love for God, country and fellowtnen
on one side, and practising friendship
with the liquor traffic on the other hand. He
that is not against it is for it, by the unavoidable
logic of the situation, and no
manner of. argument or vehemence of protestation
to the contrary can ever change the
'act.
The nature of liquors and the history-of
the traffic in all lands convict it as the most
stupendous cur.se of humanity, the enemy of
ill righteousuess, tue rowrer or ail prosperity,
the disturber of all peace aad the
lespoiler of all phases of individual and national
glory. No priest or publicist, no rite
or sacrament, no philosophy and no legislation
have ever been able to transmute it from a
curse into a blessing. Your own common
sense repudiates any man or argument that
eolts to teach you that the liquor traffic is a
personal or public good. If I were to say to
you that its tendency and aim is to produce
sober, industrious and thrifty citizens, instead
>6 sots, paupers and criminals, not a man
)r woman among you would leave this hall
to-day with an atom of respect for my vericity
and honesty. If I were to say to the
wives of Evansville that the liquor trade is
i blessing to them, yielding them loving, tenler,
provident and Christian husbands, thi*
vouul repudiate mo with scorn, as they i enember
their sorrows, their tears, their
:hame and their ruined hopes. By my hope
n God, by my past experience, by my loyilty
to the truth, I would die a dog's death
n my place before I would so outrage and
nsult you!?Rev. Sam Small,
NATI0>.\MS TZ4IPBRANCE COXGRES3.
A National.Temperance Congress will be
held in the Broadway Tabernacle Church, at
Broadway and Thirty-fourth street, New
York city,.on.May 14. A circular signed by
many prominent men has been sent to all
temperance' organizations, irrespective of
politics, in the country, asking that delegates
be sent to the Congress, and it promises to
be one of the largest conventions ever neia
in this city.
The circular states that the liquor traffic is
still on the increase and is more aggressive
and destructive than ever, and the only way
to fight ifc with any possibility of doing away
with it is by an organized effort. The mass
meeting is for the purpose of effecting a permanent
organization that will embrace the
whole of the United States. The Committee
of Arrangements consists of Charles T.
Deems, Albert Griffin, I. K. Funk, T. B.
Wakeman, J. A. Bogardus, Mary T. Burt
and A. S. Bacon. The Congress will be in
session two days. Mass meetings will be held
in the evening and conferences during the
morning.
Among those who have signed the circular
are Noah Davis, the Rev. Dr. R. S. MacArthur,
John Lloyd Thomas and Edwiu P. Ide,
of New York city- George E. Reed, President
of Dickenson College, of Carlisle, Penn
J. W. Lee, of Atlanta, Ga.; Amos Briggs, of
Philadelphia; William Daniel, of Baltimore,
Bishop Vincent, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Elizabeth S.
Toby, President of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union, of Boston; Edward P.
Ingersol), of Brooklyn; Ellen J. Phinnez^
President of the \Vomen's Christian Temper
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ance union, 01 v^?evenmu, vmu, wmicot
man Elijah A. Morse, W. C. Stiles, of Rich-,
mond, Va.: J. B. Gamboll, of Meridian,,
Miss., and Feal Dow, of Portland, Me.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
There is said to be one saloon keeper to
ivery forty-four voters in Chicago.
An attempt is being made in Ireland to Thrive
Father Matthew's heroic crusade against
ntemperance.
It is stated that forty-one per cent, of the
rimes in Germany last year were committed
>y intoxicated persons.
The Southern Star, of Atlanta, Ga., says
-hat on one street in that city there are eleven
;toros vacant aud four others used as saloons,
which were all occupied by merchants doing
i good business during prohibition times.
Rev. Herrick Johnson, of Chicago, ia
luthor of tho fatuous sentence that closes the.
esolutions of the general assembly of the.
Presbyterian Church for 1889: '^So tar as the,
'iquor traffic is concerned we would welcom*.
its annihilation."
Notwithstanding the population of New
i.rork is rapidly increasing, tjhere lias been no
ncrease in the numberof drinking places for
several years. The report of the Excise department,
Just made, shows that there are
seventy-eight less liquor saloon3 than there
tvere last year.
Samuel White, sentenced to the Ohio peuivcntiary
in 1871, for a murder committed
while drunk, was pardoued it* 1881 on consideration
that he would never drink again.
White kept hia pledge until his daughter
married last summer, when he got drunk.
He was promptly sent back to prison to serva
jut his s<M?tence, but he haa recently been released,
and gi.v?n another chance to braes up.
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