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I SITTING BULL KILLED.
K:Tlie Wily Sioux Chief Shot b;
jflt/ Indian Police.
Sketch of His Turbulent ant
||| Murderous Career.
3S?| The following dispatch has been receive;
BsMfrom St. Paul. Minn.: Sittinc Bull, the fa
Iraous Sioux chief, who has had more to d<
with instigating and keeping alive thi
widespread disaffection among the Indian:
of the Northwest than any other of his race
| was killed a few days ago by Indian polici
Iwhile resisting arrest.
' The information comes from two source;
to General Miles. The first dispatch wai
from Pierre, South Dakota, and was simply
to the effect that Sitting Bull and his sou
jihad been killed by the Iudian police. The
Isecond telegram, from Standing Rock
iAgency, was more circumstantial.
According to this second telegram. Major
McLaughlin's Indian police went to Sitting
Bull's camp at Grand River, about forty-fivs
miles from Standing Rock, with instructions
(to capture Sitting Bull. They were followed
jtnd' supported at a short distance by two
fcroops of cavalry under Captain Fechet, and
he infantry, under Colonel Drum, followed
l the rear of the cavalry. The move was
(bade pursuant to instructions received from
headquarters, it having been learned that
^Sitting Bull intended leading about three
hundred Indians into the Baa Lands to join
the hostile Indians. It was deemed advisable
[to arrest him before this movement could be
made, and the Indian police were ordered to
make his arrest at once.
The police succeeded in arresting Sitting
BuU, but his followers tried to rescue him.
Tn tho Ho-ht whiVh ensued Sittinz Bull was
I shot and left lying, apparently dead, upon
the ground. Five of the Indian police were
also shot in the fight.
Indian Commissioner Morgan received al
Washington from Indian Agent McLaughlin
the following dispatch, dated Fort Yates,
North Dakota.
Indian police arrested Sitting Bull at his
camp, forty miles from the Agency, this
morning at daylight. His followers
Attempted his rescue and fighting
commenced. Four policemen were
killed and three wounded. Eight
Indians were killed, including Sitting Bull
and his son. Crowfoot, and several others
wounded. The police were surrounded for
some time, but maintained their ground until
relieved by United States troops, who
now have possession of Sitting Bull's camp,
with all the woman, children and property.
Sitting Bull's followers, probably one hundred
men, deserted their families afid fled up
the Grand River. The police behaved nobly,
and great credit is due them.
Sifting Ball's Turbulent Career.
Sitting Bull (Tatonka Otanka), who for
many years was the cruel and wily leader of
the outlaw Sioux, was born in Dakota, in
1837. near old Fort George, and was the son
of JumpiDg Bull. When he was fourteen
voow nIH ho killed an enenav and his name
9b8 was then changed from The Sacrad Stand
Sol to Sitting Bull. Sitting Ball's followers
MM were outlaws from all the Sioux bands, and,
with few exceptions never entered into treaty
h9 relations with the Government. He was not
Si recognized as a chief by such leaders as Red
U Cloud, Spotted Tail and Young-Man-AfraidbH
of-Hts-Horses until about 1368, and prior to
afil that time he was often in open conflict with
39 them. With their recognition his supremacy
? over tbe bad Sioux was assured.
Sjfd Sitting Bull began to figure as a bad chief
H during the Civil War.
B? In 1867 Sitting Bull threatened the GallaH
tin Valley in Montana, and in 1803 he ata5B
tacked the settlement of Musclesholl and suffered
defeat. After this defeat he lost
?1 prestige. In 1869 and 1870 he devoted himH
self principally to the slaughter of
Ru the Crows, the Mandans, the Rees,
si the Shoshones and all other tribes
friendly to the whites, varying this work by
H an occasional attack on the Missouri River
H forts. In 1574 he drove the Crows from their
^^agency and reservation and made war on all
^^H)?aceable Indians. .He spent the summer of
^^nS75 in attacks on the Crow Agency and on
^ Montana settler?.
1876 Sitting Bull again took up arms
^K^gainst the whites and friendly Indians. Jn
^Hjune of that year he defeated and massa|^Kred
on the Little Big Horn nearly all of
BM&eneral Coster's advance party of Gen Kral
Terry's column, which was sent
* tlfcasv He was pursued
wjWl^General Tert ty* BtnA part
mli^kbnd he escaped into British terfti&l5?
mHXESHfhough the mediation -of Dominion
surrendered on the promise of
pardon, and was taken to Standing Rock
Aeency, where most of the remaining years
H of his life were passed.
H Undoubtedly Sitting Bull was the most
H wily and astute Indian in the Sioux Nation.
B Gall will now undoubtedly ?ucceed the
W once powerful Sioux chief.
. tater Details of the Fight.
K The expedition which started from Standing
a Rock Ageucy.South Dakota,for SittineBull's
HAniely cauip, forty miles distant, to take him
gl dead" or alive, was no haphazard force of
^?j2mi-savage Indian police. The whole affair
jjgHras a carefully planned military manoeuvre
IXHriginating with no less a person than
Eg^Beneral Miles himself, sanctioned by the
Department and authorized by the
H^Bresident's Cabinet.
raflBefore Sitting Bull's date! adherents had
K^Vchance to realize the situation the Indian
RKolic? bad puiled their panting animals up
^^Bhort on all sides of the Chief's abode. No
^Vtime was wasted in ceremony. The proud
mpriirinn man was hustled out. hoisted
IRn a pony, and in a moment faced toward
ivilization. He raged and spluttered in a
iury for a moment, then, straightening up,
shouted not for belp, but a command to his
followers.
Despite the threatening of the police and
Winchesters directed at his head and those
of his kinsmen, the old man retained his
presence of mind and with powerful voice
continue to direct his own rescue. Suddenly
there was a puff of smoke beside a tree
aud the sharp crack of a Winchester. A policeman
at Sitting Bull's right, grasping the
Chiefs bridle, reeied in the saddle, and, toppling
over, was trampled under the hoofs of
the ponies, now in the mad heitvr skelter of
retreat from the village. The shot was instantly
answered by the police at the blanketed
tribesmen, many of whom were already
mounted and in frenzied pursuit. The
politt; volley told with deadly effect, and the
Uri?? in r moment was general on both
sides. Sitting Bull could be heard in the
confusion still attempting, though captive,
to direct the fight. Raising his form, he was
beckoning his sons and warriors on when,
without warning, his body straightened rigidlv
then droDDedlimD on the hard ground.
The police halted round the corpse, not
knowing for a moment but that it was a trick
of the wily old Chief. The sudden movement
and the fall of Sitting Bull disconcerted both
parties, the police using their ponies as protection
.
It was at this critical juncture that Captain
Fouchet's men dashed up, and the machine
guns, which had been jput in position,
opened upon the redskins. The latter were
too undismayed at this unexpected onslaughc
to stand even for a moment, and all bolted
for the river. The cavalry followed only a
short distance, deeming it better policy not
to drive to desperation the now leaderless
mob.
~Ten or more hostiles and soveu of the Indian
police were killed.
The Indian police killed in the fray resulting
in the death of Sitting Bull were
buried at Fort Yates with impressive religious
and military ceremonies. Sitting
Bull was buried without honors of any kind.
DIED IN HIS COFFIN,
[Death Finally Overtook Eccentric
Barney Frickers.
Barney Frickers, a well known character
of Alliance, Ohio, died on a recent mornin?
hi a coffin. For twenty years it has been his
custom to sleep every night in a coffin of his
L own manufacture, believing that he was
P about to die. He always robed himself in a
| shroud before retiring. The coffin is of oak-,
[ very strong, and covered with allegorical
subjects. Prickers was seventy-flva years
; ?old, A severe illness and the death of his
^ wife many year^ ago are believed to haveuuK
settled his mind. He had a small income.
Mrs! S.vell, widow of the murdered
^Hphica^o millioniare, has renewed her offer of
8Hf50,000 reward for the arrest of Tascott.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Ex-Senator Frank B. Arnold core
r mitwd suicide iu his office at Undilla, N. Y
by shooting himself. Mr. Arnold, since hi
defeat last November for Congressman fron
that district, Has been despondent and a
times acted strangely.
J ! Henry Blue, a clerk employed b;
Thomas H. Perkins & Co., stock brokers o"
Boston, Mass., has been arrested charge;
with tli'j embezzlement of ?17,345 from hi
employers.
* In New York City Henry Siebert, tobacci
- merchant, failed with liabilities of $230,000
j Veuable & Heyman, liquor dealers, assigne:
owing nearly $400,000; Tarlow & Hutshing
3 manufacturers of worsted knit goods, sus
s peuded for $200,000.
, Peck, Martin & Co.. th3 largest firm ii
li. . l *i i: 4. i i . xt
3 me ouuuujg material uusuiess m xxew i uri
City, have made an assignment. The liabili
5 ties are *300,00'.). and assets 1400.000.
? The tugboat Vandercook sank suddenl;
without known cause at a Jersey City (N. J.
l dry dock and two of the crew were drowns;
> i? "their bunks.
Thirty-six patients have received in
jections of Professor Koch's lymph at fiv<
' different institutions in New York City
j They are doing well.
. Secretary Win'dom went from Washing
ton to New York City to discuss thefinancia
, situation with bank presidents.
1 A disastrous fire occurred, at Pottstown
I Penn. A high wind prevailed and thi
flames, which originated from an over
heated stove,spread with wonderful rapidity
and burned out half a dozen business firm
*and. their buildings. The loss will read
SI 50,000.
Maris & Smith, bankers of Philadelphia
Penn., assigned, with liabilities of $300,000
The Lorillard Brick Works Company, o
New York City, passed into the hands of a rG
ceiver. The liabilitias are $1,500,000.
Ex-United States Senator William A
Wallace's bank at Clearfield, Penn., closei
its door. The depositors are safe by a mort
gage on real estate for three tildes th
; amount of deposit. The liabilities are $350,
000 and assets $050,000.
Walter Potter, of the bankrupt firm o
Potter, Lovell & Co., Boston, Mas3., was ar
i rested on a charge of emb?zzlement.
i
South and West.
i The will of the late Horaca Kelley, oi
Plpvflnni] Ohio irivas S500.00T foi" tha touil
elation of a National Art Gailsry in thai
citj.
The Territorial Council of Oklahomt
passed the corrected House bill, embodyiu:
some of Governor Steele's recommendations
locating the temporary capital at Kingfisher
Governor Steele promptly approved ttio bill
The hostile Indians have baen fighting
among themselves in the Bad Lands ot
South Dakota. The light was for leadership
between Two Strike aud Short Bull, eaca
wishing to control tho unitad bands. The
fight, was bitterly contested for several
hours, aud many were killed.
"White Caps visited the house of Thomas
Burgess, a farmer, living in Meade County
Ky., to whip him. He shot and killed one ol
the raiders and wounded two others. Witl
his wife Burgess fled to the woods through t
rear door.
Curtis G. Stoddart, the banker, ha;
been arrested at Chicago, III., on a charge o!
embezzling almost $3,000,009. The funds it
is alleged he lias embezzled ard stock and
bonds of the Kansas. Arkansas & New Or
leans Railroad
During a terrific wind storm at Elliott,
North Dakota, a spark from a loeomotive
Vilotv tlm Knrth TViVnfca Alevfttor anrl
the structure was burned down, together
with 50,000 bushels of wheat.
Louis Scott shot his wife in a quarrel at
Kalamazoo, Mich., and then kills! himself.
They quarreled some weeks ago and she left
him, going to work as a domestic.
A warrant has been issued at Columbia.
S. C., for the arrest of Attorney-Genera!
Page, on the charge of political intimidation
in discharging from trie enrolling department
T. F. Butler, a nephew of Senator But.
ler,without adequate causa. Mr. Butler was "
candidate for the Legislature on the Haskell
ticket, and this incurred Page's displeasure.
Judge T. A S. Mitchell, of the Supreme
Court of Indiana, died suddenly at his nome,
in Goshen. Judgj Mitchell was the onlj
I Democratic member of the bench, and wa<
i re-elected for a second term at the recent
j election. He was about fifty years old.
The town of WaterforJ, Ind., has been a!
most entirely wiped out by fire.
Two children, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Holne Tel residing two miles east of Saginaw,
J Mich., wer? burned to death in their nome
took fire duriji? th? ah-?>c ui "airs.
Holnagel. .
John Blyew was given a life sentence at
Vanceburg, ?y., for fh-* murder of four colored
people in August, 186S. He killed a
whole family excapt two little children. The
case has been fought twenty-two years and
cost the State $25,000.
In* a collision between freight trains near
Cincinnati, Ohio, Brakeman J. G. Stephens
was killed and Engineer Hall fatally injured.
The accident was caused by the young lady
operator at Pina Knot not giving proper
orders.
The bodies of James Lane an 1 George
Serker were fouud lying in a road near City
Court House. W. Va. They are supposed to
Jmr-a frnzpn ta rlea.tll.
The Baton de Cedarkrantz, of Sweden,
who was recently appointed Chief Justice of
Samoa, sa:led from San Francisco, Cal., on
the steamir Alameda for Apia to assume the
duties of his office.
While Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schafer, aged
Germans,were crossing the railway track at
South Band, Ind., their wagon was struck
by a train and both were instantly killed.
A call for a third-party conference, to
bo held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 23,
has been issued by members of the Farmers'
Alliance and allied organizations.
George Wesaw, a Shoshone Indian, shot
and killed a boy of his own triba in To-tevooks
Lodge on Little Wild River, Wyoming.
The boy was watching a gambling
game in which Wesaw was engaged wheu
the lattei pulled his gun and shot nim dead.
A tenement house at Monday's Mills,
Texas, burned, in which Tom Webb and Bot
Simohds, both colored, were burned tc
death.
A box of giant powder exploded La the
Sunday Lake Mine, Wakefield,Mich., billing
George Sage and John Fogan and severely
injuring W. B. Roberts.
1 h?c w orlu s r air directory voted to receive
the $5,000,000 offered by the City Council ol
Chicago, III.
The wife of Peter St. George was found
hanging in the woodshed of her bouse at
Coilalt, iJ*\, Chippewa Falls, Wis. Her husband
wals^pected of killing her, and when
about t<m'i arrested he killed himself with a
razor. V
|f' "Washington.
Bt a f scision rendered by the Treasury
DepR-rtl ;at bicycles are hold not to be tht
personal ;ffects of persons arriving in thi3
country!
The 1 fcsident has nominated Naval Con?structo*-Fheodore
D. Wilson to be chief of
the Busfau of Construction and Repair and
chief constructor of the Navy with the relative
ragk of Commodore.
The (Government now proposes to melt
up the (times, quarters and half dollars in
the Treasury and issue silver certificates
igainst them to relieve the monetary situation.
The members of the Senate Finance Committee,
together with a special committee,
:omprising Senators Plumb, Hale, Mitchell,
McMillan and Power, have be?n named to
:onfer and frame a schema for legislation to
relieve the financial condition of th9 couutry
Postmaster-General Wanamaker issued
an order appointing Captain N. M.
Brooks, the Superintendent of Foreign Mails
0? the Postoffice Department, and William
Potter, of Philadelphia, delegates to represent
the United States at the International
Postal Congress, to convene iu Vienna, Austria,
May ?0, 1S91.
Fension Commissioner Raum has coniluded
examining claims recorded to December
6 under the new act. There are 171,940
original invalid claims, 55,323 original widow
claims and 293,330 claims filed by old
claimants. > This gives only 227,000 new
slaitns filed iinder tne new law.
A reporh transmitted to the House by the
Secretary ojf War is to the effect that the
Connecticut} River, from Long Island Sound
to Hartford, is worthy of improvement, at
an estimatefl cost of $130,000.
"V 1 i -
The annual report of the Chief of Chemii
Division of the Agricultural Departmei
just issued, contains an account of a proci
recently perfected at the department wi
i- reference to the manufacture of sorghi;
sugar.
* The President sent to the Senate the f
i lowing nominations: Horaca TV. Metcalf,
Maine, United States Consul at Newcast
England; John B. Jackson, of New Jerse
I Second Secretary of Legation at Berlin,G<
j many.
s The Secretary of the Treasury submitt
to Congress the draft of a bill proposing ii
portant amendments to the laws regulati;
? shipping and navigation, in accordan
i with the recommendations of t
1 International Marino Conference.
Secretary Tracy has decided to send t
Alert and the Marian to re-euforce t
n Asiatic squadron.
i .The bill to increase from $?>Q0 to ?120C
- year the pension of the widow of Genei
Custer, who lost his life in a gallant fig
7 with the Sioux at the battle of Lictle B
) Horn, was ordered to be favorable report
j to the Hou33 by the Committea on Inval
Pensions.
Members of the Board of Control of t
9 Centennial Exposition appeared before t
House Judiciary Committee and urged t
favorable consideration of a bill to enal
the financial affairs of the exposition of
[ closed up and the Board of Finance d
solved.
a . ForeignOne
hundred and fifty French convic
, who recently escaped from imprisonment
s Cayenne, have starved to death in the l'c
i ests.
Professor Bielroth, of Berlin, G<
, many, declares that the us9 of the Kos
lymph has produced a marked effect
f cases of leprosy.
> The Dutch Government has consented
sign the general act of the Brussels An
Slavery Conference.
J Dr. "Welti was chosen President of t
; Swiss Republic.
e William Wallace Blanchard w
" hanged at Sherbrooke, Canada, for the mi
der of Charles A. Calkins, on November 1
f 1889. The men were of the lowest class.
Prince Lcbesckt's porcelain factory
Cmilew, Poland, has been destroyed by fir
Eight operatives, perished in the flames.
Kf?t*A^ Viae Kaon wrrAiitrVif. hv
E on the Southern coasts of Europe, especial
around Sardinia, in which vicinity elevi
I persons are known to have been killed ai
fifty injured, while ratiny vessels we
wrecked and a number of houses shattered
, An explosion occurred in the cartrid
' room of the factory at Zumdorf, Hungar
' where the new explosive megatin is man
factured. Three women employed in t
factory ware blown to pieces.
1 There is a reaction in Berlin, German
against the Koch treatment, eight perso
having died soon after the injection of tl
| lymph.
Ox the Paramatta River, Sydney, Ne
South Wales, a sculling match for $1500
. side and the championship of the world w
rowed by Oarsmen Kemp and McLean. U
j Lean was the winner.
i The Italian Minister of War has resigne
1 Ax extra session of the Argentine Legis
ture has been opened.
! THE YEAR 1891.
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' Septuagesima Sunday Jan- 2.
Sexagesima Suuday Feb.
' Quinquagesima Sunday Feb.
I Shrove Tuesday II
I Ash Wednesday Feb.l.
I Quadragesima Sunday ~ 1
> lUlU-iUUb OUUUU) tut**.
J Palm Sunday Mar. 2
j Good Friday.... Mar.2'
I Easter Sunday Mar. 2!
! Low Sunday Apr. i
j Rogation Sunday May i
Ascension Day May
I WhitSunday May 1'
I Trinity Sunday May 2
! Corpus Christi May 21
First Day in Advent Nov. 2!
! Sundays after Trinity are 2
ECLIPSES FOR THE TEAR 1891.
In the year 1891 there will he four eclipse;
I ?two of the Sun and two of the Moon?anc
j a transit of Mercury over the Suu's disk.
1. A total eclipse of the Moon, May 23d
I 1:15 in the afternoon; invisible here, bu
: visible generally throughout the westeri
part of the Pacific Ocean, Australia, Asia
Africa and Europe.
2. An annular eclipse of the Sun, JuneGth
11:34 in the afternoon; invisible here, bu
visible in the western part of tho Unitet
States, British America and greater part o:
Europe and North Pole.
3. A total eclipse of the Moon, Novembe:
15th; visible generally in Asia, Africa, Eu
rope, the Atlantic Ocean, North and Soutt
America, and the eastern part of the Pacifii
I Ucean.
4. A partial eclipse of the Sun, Decern
ber 1st; invisible in North America: visibl
| in Southern part of South America am
| South Pole'.
A transit of Mercury of the Sun's Disk
| May 9th; partly visible at Washington, an:
I visible throughout western portions of Xorti
I and South America.
THE FOUR SEASON'S.
D. H.
Winter begins 1S90, Dec. 21, and lasts 8a 0 1
Spring 44 1891, Mar. 20, ' " 93 8
Summer 44 " June 21, " 44 9316 4
Autumn 44 44 Sept. 23, 44 4 4 89 7 4
Winter 4 4 44 Dec. 21.
MG?.NING STARS.
Venu?, until Sept. 18.
Mars, not this year.
Jupiter, after Feb. 13 until Sept. 5.
Saturn, until Mar. 4, after Sept. 13.
Mercury, after Jan. 13 until Mar. 23, afte
May 9 until July 7, after Sept. 13 until Ocl
27, after Dec. 28.
EVENING STARS.
Venus, after Sept. 18th.
Mars, throughout the year.
Jupiter, until Feb. 13, after Sept. !5.
Saturn, after Mar. 4, until Sent. 13.
Mercury, until Jan. 13, after Mar. 23 unt
May 9. after July 7 until Sept. 13, after Ocl
27 until Dec. 23.
PLANETS BRIGHTEST.
Mercury, April 19th, August 16th. Decea
ber 11th, "sattiug thou just after the Sun
also February Gtu, June 5th, September 28th
rising then just before the Sun. Venus
January 8th. Saturn, March 4th. Jupiter
September 5th. Mars, not this year.
KILLED IN A CAGE,
Fatal Accident in a Belgian Collier
by the Breaking ol' a Rope.
A terrible accident occurred at the E
couRiaul colliery, at Hornu, province <
Hainaut, Belgium. A shift of eighteen me
had entered the cage and tho engir
had started to lower them into tl
pit. Suddenly and without warning the roj
connecting the cage with the drum broi
and the men were precipitated to the bo
torn of the shaft. Every one of the occupan
of the caae was killad.
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llu The Outcome of a Fierce B actloi
? - Fight in Ireland^ '
of 3 '
le, , .
Lime Thrown Into ttie Face o
the Home Rule ^igitator,
in- /"
ng Parnell and Michael t Davitt addrosse
,ca several meeting at Balli&akill. Ireland, an
the result was a fierce fi/ght, in which club;
jj0 sticks and stones were ft'*eeiy used, aud man
jj0 heads were broken. Jlr. Davitt, fiourishin
a whitelhorn stick, forfccd his wny throug
I a the crowd, and, with thie aid of his follower.1
al drove back Parnell's/ adherents. In th
ht melee David had his sfcalp laid open with th
lig blow of a cudgel. Affter the breaking up c
ea the rival meetings an*id great confusion th
lid leaders proceeded to (fcastlecaruer. On th
way Parnell's carriage? was stoned.
he The crowd threw lwud and hooted as h
h0 passed. They became so demonstrative the
jje finally the police interfered. Quiet had bee
,]e partially restored, sand Parnell was drivin
away, when the ctfowd made another ras
.= and assailed him wyth stones, mud and bag
of lime. ,
One of the bags <?f lime struck Parnell fu
in the face, breaking and completely blinc
ing him. The p/olice again charged tr
ts crowd and succeeded in driving them awaj
ai Parnell Was conveyed to a cottage. Befoi
)r. a doctor could be sSimmoned he fainted froi
the severe pain. Al physician arrived soo
and administered Restorative?.
,r Parnoll in a sljjort time became a liLtl
' better, and the dohbor advised his removal t
Kilkenny. Od tme road Parnell's sufferin
became so intense} that a second halt had t
t? be made at the rjoadside. The party finall
to* arrived at the Vict toria Hotel in Kilkenny.
Mr. Parnell's eyies became inflamed froi
he the effects of th/e lime, and he was imm<
diately confined t?o a darkened room.
as Though his eyas pained him intensely, fc
ir_ was able at miairiight of the next day to a<
ig | dress from a wididow of the Victoria Hot
' | at Kilkenny a \arge crowd that gathere
about tue nor^i >?ubu I/LIO U1131V1 VUl
at that bad befflillen him became gei
e- erally known. j During the address b
face was coverey with bandages. He d
as tailed the occurences of the day, and tt
ly crowd became exasperated at the manner i
an which he had beeiV treated,and many threat
ad of vengeance were\made.
re Next morning Me*. Parnell's breakfast wi
1 *? Tko ciiraonn in attfll
l* serYtfu \aj mui iu uwu*
go dance upon him, feawing that inflammatio
y, might set in, ordered ufrat Parnell keep h
iu eyes closed, and that hoV- water foments t
he constantly applied to them.
It was announced that afternoon that tt
y surgeon attending Mr. Parniell feared thf
yg the injury to his patient's ev\s. misht rasu
lje seriously. He has given orders^ that for tt
present Mr. Parnell shall remaiiWindoors.
Mr. ParnplI has issued an appK^l to tl
,w hillside meu, calling on them not to\ subm
, ? to English dictation. In this he says:xWi
r?* you, countrymen of Grattan, volunteers^.;
O'Counell, Davis and Wolf Tone, of the gal
lant Father Murphy, who fought and bled foi
J. the independence of our country; will you
|a. inspired by memories of the past, abandon
your chief? Will you give him up to th<
Saxon wdlves that are howling for his de
struction? Or will you rally around him, ai
your fathers did around the men of '98
and shout, with a thousand voices
_ No surrender! Hurrah for Parnell
"I tbo leader of the Independent Irish party
Down with a faction that would make th<
Irish people the servants of a foreign power
Gather, men of the hillsides, at Johnswel
on Sunday, around your chief, and hurl de
fianca at his enemies and the enemies of youi
race."
The city and county convention assamblec
in Cork. The hall in which the couventior
was held was crowded with delegates and
spectators. Tho name of Mr. Parnell wai
greeted with cheers by the delegates, but th(
crowd groaned it. The High Shbiff of Corl
presided.
GENERAL TERRY DEAD.
Connecticut's Crave Soldier Peaceful
Jv Passes Away.
Major-General Alfrod H. Terry, Unite
Statos Army, retired, died at his resident
( in New Haven. Conn., at 4 o'clock on a r<
cent morning, aged sixty-three.
Ha was a lawyer when the war broke out
i and was given the Colonelcy of the Seconi
1 Conuecticut Volunteers, which he led at th
| first battle of Bull Run. With his regimen
he was present at the capture of Port Roya
J and at the seige of Fort rulaski, of which' h
was placed in com in and after its capitula
tion.
He was promoted for his briliiant sen ice
3 rant of Brigadier General on Apri
L -A ISow in which capacity he was present a
j the battle or Focotaiigv, w.?,i the dcmonstra
j tion against Charleston
During the Virginia campaign of 1864 Gen
eral Teiry commanded the First Division
> Tenth Army Corps, Army of the James, and
> sometimes the corps itself.
t His greatest achievement was the assault
I on Fort Fisher in conjunction with Admiral
- Porter, January 13, 1865, which resulted in
s the caDture of the placa.
, On September 1, I860, be was mustered out
of the volunteer service and put in command
! of the Dakota Department in the Military
J division of the Missouri.
? In March, 1SS0, after the death of General
~ Hancock. General Terry was made full Major-General.
General Terry was a brother
of Rose Terry Cooke, the well-known writer.
General Terry was retired about two years
5 ago, on his own application on account of ill
I he:Uth.
i KILLED HIS FATHEB.
t A Boy's Crime, With the Object ol
Collecting Lite Insurance,
t Paul Holz, aged seventeen, rushed into the
1 West Chicago police station, Chicago, 111.,
* * * -4.1 ? ? - ?U 4- nn^ C 1 /'
at 10:30 o'ciock tne oiuer uiguu aim
r his father had committed suicid<
by cutting his throat. "When thi
i officers arrived at the house they fonnd th?
: elder Holz lying on the bed, with blood gush
ing from a deep gash on the neck. He raisec
himself upon his arm and pointing his fingei
e at bis son Paul, said: "Ho did it. Hekillec
I me for my insurance."
The son was arrested and locked up. Afte:
:t being in the cell a few minute? the son con
{ fessed that he had made the attempt on hi;
a father's life.
IJW
The bold project of a ship railway
^ in lien of a ship canal, to connect thi
7 waters of Lake Huron with those c
I Lake Ontario is now being agitated
^ The distance between those two lake
is sixty-seven miles by the propose*
route from Georgian bay to the moutl
of the Humber Eiver, wost of Torontc
and it has been calculated that a rai]
way, with three tracks of the standan
r gauge, but with rails weighing fron
100 to 110 pounds per yard, could b
built for $12,030,000, or about half thi
cost of a ship canal of the same capac
itv. The land along the route reache
a height of G(34 feet about Lake Huron
?0 that there would be some heav
[ grades'or else some expensive worl
necessary. The proposed route wouli
save -128 miles of lake navigation am
twenty-eight miles of canal betwee:
r Chirago and Montreal, and would eu
i. able a propeller to reach Montreal fror
? Quebec in less time thau it can read
Buffalo. The exjiected saving, threi
days, in the time between Chicago an
the seaboard is a consideration wliic
would warrant a large expenditure i
y the project is feasible from an eugineei
ing standpoint.
s>f
*
,n The Freneli minister of war latel
ie offered a prize for the swiftest bird i
a flight from Perigueux to Paris, 31
ce miles. There were '2,749 entries, an
^ the winner did the distance in 7 hour
84 minutes. ^
f| LATER NEWS.
' Four Hungarian miner* wore killed by a
j fall of coal iu the mine3 near Hazleton,
Penn. They were unmarried. The Lshigh
Valley Coal Company has resumed operations
at all its collieries, which have been
| closed for some tinn past. This will cause
tho omployment of many thousands of persons.
Senator Gorman's residence at Laurel,
d Md., was burned to the ground. The Ssnd
ator's wife and daughter and the other iu3,
mates of the house escaped in their night
7 clothes.
s J. C. Callasby, County Treasurer of
k Boone County, Mo., is short $20,000 in his
' nofnnntS- and he has assigned all his nrnnerh-o
e 0 .J
e to his bondsmen.
In a difficulty at Pulaski, Tenn., Town
e Marshal Charles P. Davis was shot and almost
instantly killed by er-Policeman Joe
? Flippen.
n Robert Baker, a defaulting bookkeeper,
0 shot and instantly killed himself in Chicago,
p_ 111. The act was done in the presence of his
wife and Constable Scanlan. The constable
11 had gone to arrest Baker.
.Reports were received from Rapid City,
i*. North Dakota, saying that a flghthad taken
'a place there between United States troops
n and the hostile Sioux in which two officers
n
and ^fty men were killed. The rumors were
1 o discredited at army headquarters in Chi0
cago, 111., and Denver, Col.
'? rrrrtmnnfn. J T-J.'
aj inn&A nuiii/nau uvui?eu xuuuius uu
y ranches near Chico, Cal., hava begun the
ghost dances. This dance is held every year
.. about January.
The Secretary of War transmitted to the
Senate a preliminary report of the board on
d1 gun factories and steel forgings for high
d power guns appointed by the President un^
der an act of the last session of Conzresa.
is The caucus of Republican Senators agreed
e" upon a scheme of financial legislation, based
l? upon the report of the Caucus Committee,
ts leaving out the two per cent, hond scheme,
and also decide! to nave a closure rate re's
ported. ?
n A house in the native quarter of Bombay,
*s India, containing 100 inmates, collapsed.
10 Thirty persons were killed and many inie
jured.
jjj Another plot to murder the Czar has
l0 been discovered at St. Petersburg, Russia.
The conspirators are members of a noble'.e
men's club. Several Poles have been arrested
jl for complicity in the plot and the clubhouse
>? has been closed.
| v Mb. Milne, the Collector of Customs, a1
VSiftoria, British Columbia, has seized tht
i German schooner Adele, which had just re
! turnedrtxom Behrlng Sea, where it raidec
5 the Pribyleft^Jslands, killing 400 seals.
: WATVF. TTAMP^N BEATEN
i ? \
f J. L. M. Irby Elected UnitfcttjtStates
i Senator Prom South CaroIImfcS^^
' The election of J. L. M. Irby to succeed
Wade Hampton as United States Senator
I from South Carolina has fallen like a thun|
der clap out of a clear sky.
5 The General Assembly on the second balj
lot cast the following vote for a successor to
: Senator Hampton: Irby (Farmers' Movement),
66; Donaldson (Alliance man), 53;
Hampton, 37; Hemphill, 1.
On the fourt i ballot J. L. M. Irby was
elected. The vote stood: Irby, 105; Donaldson,
10; Hampton. 42.
[. John Laurens Manning Irby was born at
Laurens, S. C., September 10, 1851. He attended
the University of Virginia and afterd
ward Princeton. Leaving there, he read law
,e for three years under Judge Mclvers, but
practised his profession only two ye*.-s.
* Since then he has lived on his plantation and
farmed successfully near Laurens. He took
part in the memorable Hampton campaign
] of 1876. When he entered the political
arena four years ago he at once became a
? prominent leader. While giving proper at,
tention to his farming interests he espoused
; the cause of the farmers' movement at its in6
ception, and was an ardent admirer of Capl"
tafn B. K. Tillman.
A great many people have crapa on theii
? coat sleeves at Charleston and 'Columbia
-~.-v.iifiin <r far Hamilton's defeat andlrbv's
' election.
SlATJ.PTQR BOEHM DEAD. Found
Lifeless in His. 8tadio Uu>?|j
by the Princess boaUe.
Joseph Edgar Boehm, the sculptor, diet)
suddenly in his studio in London, England,
the other evening. He was engaged on a busl
of Princess Louise, and the Princess had called
at the studio in relation to the work. Upoi
entering the place she found the dead bodj
of the artist reclining in a chair.
Mr. Boehm was born in Vienna in 1834. He
had resided in England since 1862, and wa<
elected an Associate of the Royal Academy
of London In 1878. He executed a colossal
statue in marble of the Queen for Windsor
Castle in 1889, bronze statuettes of t'?3
Prince of Wales and all the Royal family
and a colossal statue at Bedford of John
Bunyan in 1872. He also executed a colossal
equestrian statue of the Prince oi
PnmKoTT in 1ft77 ft at. a. til a nl
?' a?oo tvi A/uuiuvkj *v( >| M ......
Thomas Carlyle and a marble statue of
King Leopold of Belgium for St. George's
i Chapel at W.^dsor. The Government gave
I him the order Do execute the statue of Lord
3 Beaconsfleld for Westminster Abbey. H?
also made statuettes of Thackeray, Johc
9 Leech, Millais and others.
5 AN ALPINE ACCIDENT.
1
Seven Chasseurs Swept IntoaTerrible
[ Abyss.
' The nJ *3 of a horrible accident in the Alps
has beeu received from Nice. Seven Alpine
chasseurs who were working under command
, of an officer at the new fortress on the sum?
mit of Mount Sacharal, between La Briga
- and Riviere, were swept, with their superior,
11 by a sudden blast over a precipice into a terrible
abyss. Five of the men and the
g officer fell a distance of 2300 feet.
, Their bodies have been recovered in a fright1
fully mutilated condition. Two of the men
h managed to cling to some rocks and escaped
death.
' Three priests, while crossing a frozen lake
near Grenoble, broke througn the ice and
J were drowned.
WHOLESALE MURDER.
3 /
After Killing Five Persons, Joplin
g Commits Suicide.
! Charles Joplin shot and killod five persons
y in one day recently, at the Jenny lead mine,
? twelve miles from Fort Smith, Ark., and
j then committed suicide by shooting himself,
i Those he killed were John Miller, his wife,
his grown daughter, Lou Miller; Dr. Stew
Q I art, a prominent pnyaicmu, auu a muu nuu?
t. name is not known.
The shooting occurred late in the day.
Q The only clue to the cause of the killing lies
l iu a report that Dr. Stewart intimated that
0 Joplin was the cause of Miss Miller'3 trouble.
h THREE TRAMPS PERISH,
if
.. Burned to Death in a Barn They Hat!
set 011 1' iru.
Three tramps paid the penalty of smoking
in a barn in Illinois on a recent night. They
entered the large barn belonging to
John Bridsen, of Brimfleld, and
u
n sought shelter in the hay loft. It ia
u supposed they smoked before goingto sleep,
d and dropped*a spark in the hay. The barn
,H with all its contents and the three tramps
were totally destroyed. No one knows who
the men were or where they came from.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. ~
News About the Yarious Departments
at Washington.
.Report of the Record and Pension
iRnraaii.
The officer in charge of the Record and
Pension Division of the War Department, in
his report to the Secretary of War, says:
On Juiy 8,1889, there were 4305 remuster
casrs unacted on. Many of them had been
in the office for years. By the 30th of September
all were disposed of, including 725
received up to that date. From October 1,
1889, to June 30, 1890, 3601 cases of this class
were received and disposed of, leaving none
on hand at the close of the fiscal year, and
making a total of 8691 acted on during the
year.
On the 8tb of July, 1889, there were on
hand and unacted on 1342 cases requiring investigation
of the charge of desertion with a
view to its removal under Act of March 2,
1889. The bulk of these cases had been in
the office for months. These cases were all
disposed of by September 30, 1889. From
October 1 to June 30, 1890, 6310 regular applications
and 5197 miscellaneous cases were
acted on, leaving none on hand at the end
of the fiscal year, and making a total of
10,135 cases disposed of during the year.
On the 8th of July, 1889, there were on
band and unanwered 23,424 calls from the
Pension Office. By the 30th of September,
1889, these were all disposed of, together
with the current receipts up to that date (39.029),
leaving none on hand on the 30th
of S3ptember, 1889. From October 1,
1889, to June 30, 1890,160,330 cases of this
class were received rfhd disposed or, leaving
cone on hand on the 30th of June, 1890, ana
making a total of 222,783 acted on during tha
! fear.
Altogether there were received 301,238
jails from all sources from July 8, 1889, to
June 30, 1890. These added to tne40,550on
hand July 8, 1889, in the divisions transferred
from the Adjutant-General's office,
and 104 in the division transferred from the
Surgeon-General's office,made a total of 341,592,
which were all disposed of, leaving none
jn hand at the end of tne fiscal year.
Deer lor the Esquimaux.
Captain A. M. Healy, of the United States
revenue cutter Bear, and Dr. Sheldon Jackson,
United States Commissioner of Education
for Alaska, who has been in Alaska rervmfclv
on the Bear, has sent a communica
fcion to the Washington authorities in regard
to the condition of the Esquimaux in Northwestern
Alaska. They point out that the
Esquimaux are suffering great hardship, and
in some Cases are confronted with starvation,
owing to the scarcity of deer, and particularly
on account of the entire failure of
' the hunt during the past autumn.
| Captain Healy will propose to the Gov*
einmentthat he be allowed to purchasa a
number of reindeer, which abound on the
: Siberian coast, and transport them on the
) Bear to some point on the Alaskan coast
where moss and feed are plentiful. He will
. also suggest that the Government enlist the
services of some of the experienced Siberian
natives to instruct the Esquimaux in the art
of herding these deer, and, as the animals become
more numerous, they can be distributed
over Northwestern Alaska and form the
food supply for the natives.
J Armament of the New Cruisers.
The policy of the Navy Department is to
? rnanf nf fho TlOW PTllicftPJ
*Xhis^?s been done in several of the vessels,
the lastchkn^0 being in the 5500-ton cruiser,
known as whose battery now consists
of ten 5-inch and fouTS&j??h guns. The
latter pieces are of 40 calibreJ^,&^JP?de6igned
in the Ordnance Bureau. It IsTSfiSL
proposed to increase the strength of the
armament of Cruisers 7, 8; 9,10 and 11 by
changing the present 4-inch guns to 5- inch
weapons, and lengthening the 6-inch rifles
from 35-calibre to 40-calibre. The 6-inch guns
of 40-calibre were designed by the Ordnance
Burer-u and forcings for two of them have
already been ordered. The rapid firing
feature, that is, fixed ammunition,"cartridge
case, charge and projectile in one, will probably
not be adopted for this calibre on
account of excessive weight. The Department
has no information that this calibre of
the 9-inch firing variety has been entirely
successful abroad. The change will make
the armament of Cruisers 7 and 8 tea 5-iacb
rapid firing guns and one 6-inch breechloading
rifle; of Cruisers 9, 10 and 11 eight
5-inch rapid firing guns and two 6-inch
rifles.
Still Fighting the Lotteries.
' The Postmaster-General issued the following
order:
"Postmasters will hereafter intercept the
trausmission in the mails and decline to deliver
at their respective offices any circulars
in sealed envelopes brought into the United
States from Mexico prepaid at less than the
' | five-cent rate,and will whenever such matter
I b,discovered in transit-, or in the oflice of de,|
jittery, hold the same and report the fact to
I General for instructions as
"Th^^^^^^wpecially inten led to apply
*?tUe. ^^I^^^^Mexican lotteries which
nave heretol^^^^^recjived in sealed enve.opes
the corr have been clipped
and the postage , * been prepaid by
Mexican stamps of the denom..;nat{on qj ona
cent."
To Invite Foreigners to the
Ex-Senator Palmer, President of m the
World's Fair Commission, called 01^ the I
President and submitted to him papers show '
ing that the World's Fair had reached that
point in organization that a proclamation
requesting foreign countries to participate in
it should be issued. The papers were referred
by the President to Attorney-General
Miller to examine as to the sufficiency of the
financial guarantees, etc.
A Contest in renusjivauia. I
Thomas H. Greevy has served notice on j
Edward Scull, the Republican Representative
elect to the Fiftj'-second Congress from
the Twentieth District of Pennsylvania, of
his intention to contest the right to his
(Scull's) seat in the House. Mr. Scull's majority
on the face of the returns was 538.
NO PLSUBO-PNEUMOm;
Annual Report of the Bureau of
Animal Industry.
The report of the Bureau of Animal Industry,
recently sent to the United State
Senate, shows that during the last
year no discovery has been made of
contagious pleuro-pneumonia outside of
the distsicts which were infected
last year. The eradication of the
mvs the reDort. has been most rapid
since April, and a most gratifying improve- I
ment in the condition 01 catt.e throughout |
the country is noted. Regarding cattle
shipped aboard, thu report says the practically
complete success of the work of eradication
of the disease from the United States
removes the cause alleged by foreign Governments
for the exclusion of American cattle
from their countries.
Touching the question of inoculation and
the discovery of bacillus of tuberculosis
by Dr. Koch, the report says that the possibility
of applying bacterial products to
the prevention aud cure of diseases was
first made evident by the investigations of
the Bureau of Animal Industry, and that if
Dr. Koch's remedy is of the nature supposed
his method consists in the application of a
principle discovered here.
A HAYTIAN TRAGEDY,
Six Laborers Killed While Repair5
lllfc U
The Atlas line steamship Alvo just from
Hayti reports a terrible loss o? life and the
injuring of a small army of men iuland,
I twentv miles from Port Limon. The
accident occurred at Matina Bridge, twenty-two
miles from Port Simon. A seo
tion of the bridge seventy feet long, which
rested on two heavy columns, fell while almost
the entire force of men employed were
repairing it, Six men were killed outright,
and almost every man eugaged was injured
' The bedding of the two columns had beep
I known to be bad flver since last winter, and
a large force of men was sent to strengthen it.
Four colored laborers were killed. Tht
i fireman, a white man, was killed, and the
1 fireman of the car shops was also killed. The
, number of Injured waa Ajnknown. I
TEMPERANCE.
WHAT WRECK? MEN'S FACES.
Rum has no traducer like the face and fate
of one of the men who, a short time ago. was ^
pointed out to everyone as 'The glass of
fashion and mold of form." When nis name
k sookeu now men laugh at it, while ladies
who have heard of him and see him in tneso
days for the first time, marvel aloud that
such a face and figure ever could have led
>Jio rest. Late hours, deep potations, longcontinued
self-indulgence?these are the
bacilli that have wrought that wrect of
which all the city talks just now.
a c&uxors dream.
A laborer at the Dundee harbor lately told
his wife, on awakening, a curious dream
which he had during the night. He dreamed
that he saw coming toward him, in order,
four rats. The first was one very fat, and
was followed by two lean rats, the rear rat
being blind. The dreamer was greatly perplexed
as to wnat evil might follow, as it
has been understood that to dream of rati
denotes coming calamity. He appealed to
his wife concerning this, but she, poor
woman, could not help him. His son, a - sharp
]jid, who heard his father tell the seory.
volunteered to be the interpreter. '"The fat
?rat," be said, "is the mau who keaps the
public house, that ye gang till sae often, and
the twa lean anas are me and my mither,and
the blind ano is yerself, father."?Scotch
Paper.
a stc"y of john b. govob.
On a summer night a temperance meeting
was held in New Haven, Conn. A gentleman,
standing under the old elms of that city,
saw Cough, partially drunk, wending his
way to a saloon. He touched him on the
shoulder, and. in a sympathetic tone, besought
his "shipwrecked brother" to go
aiong wim mm iu me leuipertuico mccnujj.
Mr. Gough consented, and, greatly in*
Eressed by the appeals to which he listened,
e signed the pledge of total abstinence. Hi*
subsequent bistfiry as a temperance leader is
known to the civilized world, The gentl*
man who relates this incident says that ht
/ias never forgotten that moonlight meeting
with Gough in New Haven. Whenever, it
after years, he heard the thunderous ap
plau.se that greeted John B. Gough. on tnt '
temperance platform, he caught the echo a
that soft tap on the shoulder, under the grac<
old elms of the New England capital.
ATKAID 'OP HIMSELF.
A big. tall Westerner staggered into a
well-known hotel the other night at about
eleven o'clock, and demanded his money,
which was locked up in the safe. The clerk
bluntly told mm tnat as soman's nave it.
"Ain't the monish miner V> asked wrathfully.
''Yes; but you can't Lave it till tomorrow.
You'd better go to your room." Tha
guest begged and threatened and demanded,
but to no purpose. Then he let a bell boy
take him upstairs. When he had gone the
clerk said to a bystander: "To-morrow
morning that man will come down here and '
thank me for refusing to let him have the
money. Whenever becomes to town with
the intention of going-on a spree he takesout
of his wallet all the money he wishes to spend
that night, and hands me the remainder, tell
ing me to lock it up for him and refuse to
let him have it until he gets seber. About '
midnight or a little later ne will come in avtf
do as he did just now?try to make me .giIg
up the cash. But to-morrow morning he wi?
come down and thank me for refusing."-*
I ,V?ui Vnvl- TWhlint>
BLUE RIBBON' \ 'VITATIONS.
"Blue ribbon invitatia is"' to dinner are a .
locial innovation in thia city indicative oC.-^
the steady progress of tTie temperagp^;
form. According to the New Yor^Jytfran*
there li^vfc jo be a different practice **
r"' " good position in
^ %P-Wfne presence of their
I friends * ?Jith reference to serving
wiilW "In many houses, as a matter
of principle, wine is never plac3d upo?
the table, and in others wine is occasionally
omitted for special reasons. For a long time
there has been n social need in the city for
gome quiet, 'pretty, and effective manner
indicating in invitations to dinner, whethfe.'
or not wine will be serve! in order thaj invited
guests may have full knowledge of tS" .
facts. A movement has been begun, orin- ^
nating socially and seconded by one of tj?a -**
popular stationers of the city, for indicating
that wine will not bo served during the affair
by attaching a knot of blue ribbon to the
lower left-hand corner of the invitations." A
delightful dinner entertainment was recently
given upon this plan, attended by a large
number of society people. The Tribune aJ<&Hlno.rihhnn
invit?^
11/ 13 UCUCVCVI. UUuu vuu ^
tious will solve a difficulty, with which *ociety
has long contended, requests for on'/*
presence at a dinner to which the ribbon tl
not attached speaking for themselves."
WISE-JfAKIXG IX AMERICA.
Wine-:aaking iu this country assumes larg*
and increasing proportion?. The Special
Agent of the Census for wines and grapes, in
a recent interviaw with a representative of
the New Yok Situ, states that there are invested
in vineyards and wine-eel ars in the
United States over $155,000,000. There are
in round numbers 490,000 acres of land in
this country planted to vineyards, of which
%00.000 were in bearing this year. This is an*
increase during the past ten "years of 220,030
acres in the vineyard area, and of over $10,000,000
a year in the capital invested. California
alone has 150,000 acres of vineyards,
including 25,000 of raisin-grapes. Its total
I capital invested in wine-making is nearly
$7$, 000,000. It is stated that between 30,I
000,000 and 40,000,000 gallons of wine will be _
j iriaiielu'tllp United States this year,of which
^Culiiot nia willprocWeg^o^ "^*^8
suiim mnv seveuKT-o--; rvltTT
?25* ioW??t? J?
all the rest of the ?V$. ' J?
This large and increasing; production of 'MS
American wine?, with tha very large aggra- >vj^i
gate of capital already invested, and increas- f'nCTm
ing during the last decade at the rate of J10.- ?$Bm
000,000 a year, should suffice to arouse all
friends of temperance throughout the land to
a full realization of the importance of
a genuine and general revival of
total abstinence temperance teaching, especially
among the young. With a consumption
of wines, native and foreizn. amouutinz
io nearly a gallon a year, and cf beer about
twelve gallons, for each of our 02,000,000
people, there is fnrieeu ,n most urgent
an-effective popular appeal against alt
ueverage use of intoxicant? National Temperance
Advocate.
TEMPERANCE .VEW3 A TO NOTES. _ >
The man who drinks a little drinks too
much.
There are 1,800,000 children in Bands of
Hope in the United Kingdom,
"Shamewater", is an appropriate name
given to strong drink on the Dark Continent
Forty'young women of Des Moines, Iowa,
have signed an agreement to receive the attentions
of no young man who drinks, chews,
smokes or swears.
x One thousand two hundred and S9ven
licenses have been granted the last year in
the City of Washington to sell liquors, yielding
a revenue of $85,900.
TheWomen's Christian Temperance Union,
of Detroit, Mich., has decided that the drinking
of ginger ale, ginger beer, home-made
wine, rootb er and raspberry syrup "violates
the pledge."
Thereportof the EJinburgh Royal Asylum
for 1SS9 says: "We never, except in 1876,
had so manycasss sent here in which the
assigned cause of the malady was alcoholic
excess as this year."
In the Wesleyart Methodists' Connection
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there are now wz anuit 1 tJIIAUCTi C\UUO wwwwties,
with 43,481 members, ana 3509 Bands of
Hope, with 370.681 members. Au antigambliug
pledge has been issued.
The Lancet remarks that while England
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is taking a very active ana cicuibauia i?? u iu
the attempt to prevent tha importation of
alcohol into the interior of Africa, s'ue cannot
do better than labo" to abate the alcoholism
of homo communities, thriving
und well employed but kept back by drunkenness.
The recent W. C. T. U. annual convention
passed numerous resolutions on the usual
subjects. Among these were a request to
bot'i capitalist and labor to study tha taaiperanc?
question in the interest of their relat'ons
and a commendation of the action
of the Government in refusing the use of
the mails to lotteries.
It is said that the first of next January,
*ill in all probability see the end of the use
natural gas for manufacturing purposes*
*s the supply is practically exhausted. J
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