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TWO IMPORTANT CASES.
Decisions by the United States
Supreme Court.
The GovernorshiD of Nebraska
and the Anti-Lotterv Law.
JAMES E. BOYD.
The United States Supreme Court at
? .. . i j :J_J ?.nn.
Washington nas uci-ucj iu mui v/>.
in the Nebraska Governorship case.
The opinion was delivered by Chief Justice
l"oHer. and its reading was listenei to attentively
by a crowded court room.
All the Justices of the court excepting
Justice Field concurred in the opiuion,
although Justices Harlan, Grayani Brown
do not concur in oue hub ?i i ?uu.uuS.
The uecision of the court settles a long
controversy over the right to the seat which
the Supreme Court gave fb Governor
JSoyd. By it the decision of the Supreme
Court of Nebraska, holding tbat Mr. Boyd
was not acitizan of the United States and
that Governor Thayer, whom he was elected
to succoeJ, was entitled to hold office until
soccesser had been duiy elected, is reversed.
The main question in th9 case was whether
Mr. Boyd became a citizen of the United
Sates without taking out naturalization
Cpers, his father, a British subject, never
iug become fully naturalized, although
he had declared his intention to take out the
eoessury papers.
The eider Boyd came to this country when
bis son, tee plaintiff in the case, decided,
was a mere child. They settled in Ohio,
and the father gave notice of his intention
to become a citizen. He failed, however, to
become a citizen.
The son went to Nebraska when it was a
territory, and was one ot t&e loremosc oc
the pioneers who developed it. He held several
public offices, fought in the Union army
daring the late war, and was a member of
tb? committee that framed the Constituticn
alter it was admitted into the sisterhood
of State.-.
No one questioned Mr. Boyd's right to
vote and to exercise all the other privileges
f citizenship, and it was not until after he
lad served some time as Governor of the
State, having been elected on the Democratic
ticket, that the question concerning his citiRnsiiip
was raised. A long controversy
nsued as to whether Boyd or the former
Governor, Thayer, was entitled to the se&t.
The case was finally carried to the Su
yreroe Court of Nebraska, and this court
decided that Boyd, not being a citizen, had
aot been elected and that Thayer 3hould
\ hold office until his successor had been
alected. This decision is reversed by the
Federal Supreme Court.
Tho elaborate opinion of the court delivered
discuss ess the question of citiaenship
tully. In citing many decisions on
the light to citizenship gained though the
admission of a Territory to Statehood, it
mjs that it has always been recognized that
those residing in Territories who had declared
their intention to become citizeas, are ad.
mitted as such when the State in wnich they
live is admitted to the Union.
The Anti-Lottery Law Sustained.
ice uII1 Leu OUlttfS OUUICIUC v.vsut u uuo uplt?id
the constitutionality of the recent AntiLottery
act of the last Congress, affirming
the decision in the case of Deyne and
Bapier, publishers of the New Orleans States
and the Mobile Register, who w ere indicted
on charges of sending through the mails
newspapers containing lottery advertise
ments. By common consent the cases were
made test suits as to the constitutionality of
Ibe law.
I Chief-Justice Fuller announced that,
wing to the death of Justice Bradley, to
whom the writing of the opinion in the antilottery
cases had been given, the court would
postpone any elaboration of its views and
online itself to the expression of the general
ground on which the decision proceeds.' The
jcoort then said that the opinion in ez-parte
[Jacfesou held that the power vested in Conjurers
to establish postoffices and postroads
j?nbraced the regulation of the entire postal
ystem of the country, and designated what
">?? ?>>H m?v nnt h? Plfllnrldli. Th?
jpower granted Congress was complete, and
icarried with it power to forbid the use of
j the mails in aid of the perpetration of crime
?r immorality.
The court says there is no distinction between
mala prohibita and mala in se, and
that it must be left to Congress in the exercise
of a sound discretion to determine what
ifcaTl be exclude !. There is no abridgment
tt the freedom of the press, for the reason
that the Government does not prohibit com lunication
by other mean?, but simply
ttarouzh the Government agencies which it
antrolo,
IHE APOLOGY ACCEPTED.
Secretary Blaine Kaplies to Chile's
Note of Hearer.
Th9 following is tha reply sent by Secr*tuy
Blaine to tbe Chilean note of apology:
"department Oil" state, >
' Washington, January 30. r
"Egar., Minister, Santiago:
"I am directed by the President to acknowledge
tha receipt ot cienor Pereira's
ligpatch. It has been commuiicatad
to Congress, and has given
neat pleasure to tue people oc ta-j umtsa
States aod to the Executive Department, as
lb restores the correspondence baft ween the
two Republics to a basis of cordialality and
naUcs, as he believes, a full and honorable
adjuscment of all unsettled matters easily
attainable.
"lne President notes with gratification
the expression of regret for and condemnation
of the assault upon the saiiors of the
Baltimore offered by Mr. Pereira, and congratulates
the Chilean Government upon
the frank and ample withdrawal of
the Matta circular, and upon the spirit of
justice displayed toward Minister Egan.
You will assure the Chilean Government
that the President will be glad to meet in
the most friendly spirit these friendly over*
tores.
"Believing that the subject of reparation
for tbe assault upon tne seaman of the
Baltimore is now capable of adjustment between
the two Governments by the usual
diplomatic methods, tne rresiaeat pcsir
poues for the present any discussion of
the suRgeotions made by Senor Pereira, as
to the use of other methods, not doubting
that the sense of justice of Chile will enable
the two Governments to speedily and
honorably make a t ull end of the whoie matter.
Bl&i.ve."
SINGULAR EXPLOSION.
Two Men Digging a Cistern Meet
With a Horrible Death.
Beth Williams and Moses McClelland met
death in a mysterious explosion at Cave
City, Kj. They were digging a cistern and
had reached a flat rock eight feet below.
Williams struck the rock with
sladge hammer, causing a terrible explosion,
which buried McClellanl beneath
ring bowlders and killed him and threw
Williams into a tree fifty yards away. McClelland
lived just long enough to tell what
had happened. A bluish vapor with asuleurous
smell issues from between two
go rocks.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Andrew Bohjesskn, who killed Emma
Anderson becirs she refured to marry him,
was hanged ia the jail at Litchfield, Conn.
General Henry A. Barnum, Port Warden
of New York City, and one of the most
prominent war veterans in New York State,
died suddenlv of influenza. He was born at
Janesville, Onondago County, N. Y., in September,
1832.
Henrt G. Dowd. "Jack the Slasher,"
has been declared not guilty of cutting the
throats of seven man in New York City, as
he was insane at the time. Dowd was sent
to the State Insane Asylum for Criminals at
Auburn.
Jacob Somborm, a pedlar, went to the
wino store of his cousin, Julius Somborm in
New York City and demanded $25. Being
refused that amount he shot his cousin and
then killed himself.
While some children were playing on a
pond in Haverstraw, N. Y., Lena and Pa'u!,
children of Paul Kaemmerliu. aged fifteen
and thirteen, broke through the ice and
were drowned.
Mrs. Euclid Hill, carrying her fouryoar-old
daughter iu her arms, was struck
by a train at Woodbury, N.J. Both ware
instantly killed.
Harry and Willie Wilcox, aged thirteen
and eleven years respectively, sons of
WrnxrnoH whiU
at Kinkora, n! J.
The expiosioa of an alcohol condenser in
the hat factory of the J. Rummell Company,
Newark, N. J., caused tbe death of three
persons, injured several others, and partially
demolished the buiidinqj.
Democrats in the Connecticut House of
Representatives at Hartford resisted an adjournment
declared by Republican Speaker
raige Because of the task of a quorum aud
proceeded to organize the House. Representative
Callahan, of New Haven, was
elected Speaker unanimously and sworn in.
Representative Marklev was elected Clerk
pro tern.
In New York City, after little more than
an hour's deliberation, the jury found Carlyle
W. Harris guilty of murder in the first
degree, in having poisoned Helen Neilson
Potts, his unacknowledged school-girl wite.on
January 31, 1891.
Ward Ferris Waterburt, the eightyear-old
son of Charles P. Waterbury, a
well-to-do farmer of Long Ridge, Conn ,
was kidnapped while on his way to scnool,
and the kidnappers sent a note threatening
to murder the child unless $6000 ransom was
paid.
All sixteen men who were blown out to
sea on the New York City Street Cleaning
Department's tug and scow have been rescued.
The last to b9 picked up wore two
sailors on Scow No. 5. The British steamer
Ethelburga took them on board 160 miles
from Saudy Hook. They had been adrift
for seven days without food or water.
South ana West.
Otto Hacser, who committed suicide at
San Antonio, Texas, is reported to ba Stanislaus
Padiewski, the Nihilist, who assassinated
the Russian General, Michael de
Seliverstoff, in Paris on November 18, 1890.
Pineville, Ky.,"Bob" Jones and Lee
Davis, members of the Parton faction, were
KlliOU oy iuruu auu uio uicu.
Rain began falling throughout Central
and Northern Arizona. It is the first rain
since February 15, 1891,
Thomas Thompson, colored, was hanged
at Chestertown, Kent County, Md., for the
murder of William Adams; also colored.
The hanging was the first in the county since
185 L
The doors of the Fall River County Bank,
at Oelrichs, South Dakota, were closed. The
depositors are mostly poor farmers and
laborers. The depdlit bank at Glasgow, Ky.,
has also closed its doors after a run.
By a premature blast in the Rush Run
Coal Mines, Fayette County, VV. Va., five
men were killea and five wounded. They
were all colored laoorers.
Thk residence of George Cramer, a few
miles from Brainard, Minn., caught tire, and
Mrs. Cramer and her three children were
burned to deatn.
Thk British ship Ferndale, coal-lad en, went
ashore five miles north of the entrance to
Gray's Harbor, Oregon. Twenty of the
cre\v, including the officers, were drowned.
Three of the crew reached shore alive.
Deputy United States Marshals
started on from Rabun, Ga., with thrae
revenue offenders. Two of the prisoners
were handcuffed together, while the third,
named Lovell, marcbel in front of a deputy.
Lovell's mother and sister, both deaf and
dumb, suddenly sprang from the bushes beside
the road, seized the officer and held him
long enough for Lovell to run into the
woods and escape.
While scoutiug ahead for D troop.
United States Army, Rufus Glover, a wellknown
scout, was shot and killed by the
Garza revolutionists.
The historic old Appomattox, (Va.) Court
House has been destroyed by fire. All the
records and furnishings were consumed.
David Pobteb, Deputy Collector of
Savannah, Ga., was, while beating his wife,
shot and killed by his son.
Associate Justice Abraham Seat, of
Oklahoma, was sworn in as Governor of the
Territory.
Jacob Leesx, the first white settler in
California, has just died at San Francisco,
aged eighty-two years. He came to California
in 1833 and built the first house in San
Francisco in 1836.
Washington.
Miss Clara Babton\ President of the
I A morion branch of the Red Cross Society,
issued froiu Washington an appeal to the
American people for ?7'>,000 to pay the expenses
of shipping four cargoes of food
irom New York toLibeau, on the Baltic, for
the starving peasants of Russia.
The Democratic members of the Way?
and Means Committee adopted Chairman
Springer's policy of attacking the tariff bj
separate bills.
Commissioner or Pensions Rauh appeared
before the House Appropriation
-..'ommittee and recommended that $146,956,00i)
be appropriated for pensions for the
fiscal year of 1893.
The Treasury Department has awarded the
Che contract for building the revenue cotter
tfudson to H. J. Dialoque, of Camden, N. J.,
at and $1500 for each additional foot
over the present design.
Poward J. Schneider, an electrician,
shot his wife and her brother while on their
way to church in Washington. Mrs.
Scaneider was shot several times, fatally.
;-ler brother was instantly billed.
Official notice has been received at the
>tatu Department from the British Minister
rivir. t.hn tariff chan2e3 azreed UDon in the
rac procity aiTanpeiuout for the British West
iuia colonies have already beea voted by
Jn.naica. Barbados and Trinidad.
Jinx J. HAWKrxs, Chief of Judiciary in
:,;vr First Au.lilor's office of the Treasury
is 'lea-i. For twenty-five years
he has held an important position in the
Treasury Department. In 1878 he was one
of a committee of threo to carry to Bnglani
over $100,000,000 in bonds to be delivered to
the Rothschilds.
The relatives and legal representatives of
Charies W. Riggin, one of the sailors of
the Baltimore who was killed in Valparaiso,
have formally filed at th* Department of
State, Washington, a ciaim for indemnity
from the Chilean Government.
President and Mrs. Harrison gave a dinner
at the White House to the Diplomatic
Corps.
The United States Treasury Department's
I monthly statement of changes in the circulation
during January shows a net increase
during last month of #15,07:1,309.
President Harriso.v has signed and
caused to be puoiisued th?> reciprocal trad9
agreement between the United States and
Germany. It admit9 featners, hides, horsehair,
far, oils, certain animals, etc., free
while the duties on many other articles are
greatly reduced.
Koreiirn.
The public accounts of Canada for the last
fiscal year have bean issued. They show
that the revenue on accouut of tae consolidated
fund was $38,571),310, and the expenditures
#36,343,567, showing a surplus of $3,335,743.
The total debt of Cana ia is placed
at S289,89t>,229, the assets are $53,093,199, and
the net debt is $237.80?, 030, an increase during
the year of $275,818.
Thx Egyptian Assembly was opened at
Cairo by the Khedive, who delivered a brief
address, declaring that he should follow in
the footsteps of his father and continue his
policy.
The Chilean Congress adjourned, after
passing a bill allowing the President to borrow
$25,000,000 in order to withdraw notes
issued by Balmaceda.
The North German Lloyd transatlantic
steamer Eider went ashore on Atherfield
Ledge, Isle of Wight. Bhe was growing in a
fog when she struck on a rock. All passengers
were saved.
The new French Tariff law has gone into
operation.
S?? Jnkf AC At*rpanfinn
I 1HE conversion ui wuo uoui Vk
has been completed. It amounts to $55,000,000.
Twenty per?ns lost their lives as a result
of election riots at Buda Pesth, Hungary.
Lieutenant Khufeldt, of the United
Stites Navy, has died at Oapatown, South
Africa. He had gone there on a World's
Fair Commission.
A boat belonging to Hef" Majesty's Ship
Belle Isle founderel in Dublin Bay, Ireland,
drowning four of her crew.
LATER NEW?.
The third annual exhibition of the New
York Poultry and Pigeon Association was
held at Madison Square Garden, New York
City.
Governor Abbett reappointed Chief
Justice Beaslej, and named Senator Werts
to succeed Judge Kaapp on the New Jersey
Supreme Court bench.
Two hundred and fifty of the 800 Or
Wiu prisoners on ut?cr xsjauu, iu uuaiua
(Mass.) Harbor, refused to work, and, gathering
sticks and other weapons,.stormed the
workshop to procure knives. They were
clubbed into submission by tbe police.
Sir jiliapf Pauncefote, the British
Minister to Washington, and PostmasterGeneral
Wanamaker have signed a parcels
post convention between tbe United States
and British Guiana.
Secretary 2?oble has designate! Lucius
I. Bridges, a law clerk in the office oC tbe
Assistant Attorney-General fo? the Interior
Department; Francis A. Weaver,
Chief of the Land and Railroads Division,
and William D. Bayly, a clerk in the Pension
Office, to act as a Board of Promotion in the
interior Department.
The Anti-Slavery Conference Act was
ratified bv the United States at the Foreign
Ministry at Brussels, Belgium, in conformity
with the resolution of the United States
Senate. t
Influenza is increasing in Berlin, Germany,
agd abating in Vienna, Austria.
Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs Pereira
called on Minister Egan at Valparaiso
and thanked him for Secretary Blaine's despatch
accepting Chile's reply to our ultimatum.
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
In the Senate. ,
24th Dat.?The President's message with
the Chilean correspondence was sent in and
referred?The Mexican award bill (as to
'he La Abra claim) was taken up as the
unfinished business. It went over?-?Mr.
Hale made a speech on reciprocity.
25th Dat.?The Mexican Claims bills
were passed Among the bills introduced
and referred were the following: To da
velop and facilitate the interstate commercj
of the whole country, and more especially of
the twenty-two States and two Territories
that are in whole or in part drained by the
Mississippi River and its tributaries. To return
to the Republic of Mexico certain bat-1
? I 1.. 1B1K
HO Ul^S O * ill VIlO TT Ul Ufc 4WZV?
Mr. Faulkner offered a resolution, waica
was agreed tu, calling on the Secretary of
the Interior for a statement as to the
moneys received by the United States Pateut
Office from inveatore from the establishment
of the Patent OcTlcd to the preheat
time,
26th Day.?The Printing bill was taken
up, the Pure Food bill being postponed
Mr. Mitchell made a report in the case of the
Claggett-Dubois contest for a seat in the
Senate from the State of Idaho. The resolutions
declare Mr. Dubois entitled to retain
his seat. Mr. Vance gave notice of a minority
report.
27th Day.?The Public Printing bill was
discussed Mr. Kyle spoke on the divorce
laws Mr. Dolph reported adversely a
number of new Chinese immigration restrictions
and prohibitory bills.
In the House.
22d Day.?President Harrison transmitted
Chile's reply to our ultimatum. It was referred
fhe House devoted the remainder
of the day to debate on the report of the
Committee on Rules without coming to a
nnai conclusion.
23d Day.?Mr. Bacon introduced a bill
to carry into effect the recommendations of
the International American Conference liy
the incorporation of an international American
bank fhe report o: the Committee
on Rules was further considered.
24th Day.?Mr. Gates offered a resolution,
which was adopted, authorizing the
Committee on the Judiciary to investigate
the charges preterred against the Hon. Alexander
Boorman, Judge of the District Court
for tne Western district of Louisiana, who
"wno r?h?rcr? l with hich crimes and misde
rueanors Mr. Reed a9ked that uuanimous
consent be given lor the introduction of
bills and resolutions by handing them to the
Speaker for reference. The motion to lay
on the t!able was adopted by a vote of 181 to
twenty-nine Public business was th9n suspended
and tributes of respect were paid to
the memory of the Hon. L C. Houk, of
Tennessee.
25th Day.?Some further debate was
had on the proposed rules?The States
were called for the introduction of bills anl
resolutions for reference. The followiug
I were referred: To reduce taxation and inI
crease the volume of currency. To permit
State taxation of National bank note3
and United States notes. To promote
and encourage agriculture. For a
constitional amendment prohibiting
polygamy in the United States.
To restrict the rights of aliens to our land in
the United States. Kor the appointment
of a commission to represent the United
States at the Columbian Historical Exposition,
to be held in Madrid in 189i. To create
an executive department of mines and
mining Mr. Arnold introduce i a resolution
demanding the recall of Minister Egan
from Santiago so that cordial relations between
this country and Chile could be reestablished.
26th Day.?Mr. Grady introduced a bill
to reduce tft? President's salary from $50.
000 to $25,000 a year?The discussion of the
vul"S was contiuued.
27th Day.?The consideration of the reporc
o? the Comroitte e on Kules was r&
surued?The "Holman Rule," in regard to
' riders, was adopted.
SIR M0RELL MACKENZIE,
Emi>eror Frederick's Physician Dies
Suddenly in London.
Sir Moroli Mackenzie, the distinguished
physician, died with bronchitis a few days
ago in London, JSu^Iand. Sir Morell's attack
of bronchitis followed an attack of in
nuenza. He was attended by his brother.
His death was quite sudden. Ouly his wife
was presjnt when it occurred.
Sir Morell Mackenzie was born in Leytonstone,
Essex. England, in 1837, and was
educated at the London Hospital Medical
College aud in Paris and Vienna. He
founded the Hospital for Diseases
of the Throat, in Golden Square,
London, in 1863. In the same
year he obtained the Jacksouian Priz3
from the Royal College of Surgeons for his
essay on diseases of the larynx. He was soon
afterward elected assistant physician to the
London Hospital, becoming in due course full
physician, and was apDointed lecturer on
diseas s of the throat, an apppintment which
he held to the time of his death. Dr. Mackenzie
was the author of numerous publications
on laryngological subjects.
He was in attendance on Frederick III,
the German Emperor,during the latter's last
illness. He was knighted in 1887. He published
in 1888 "The Fatal Illnes* of Frederick
the Noble." At the close of that year he resigned
his connection vrith the College of
Phyuiciang.
RUSSIA'S FAMINE
Fourteen Millions of People
Absolutely Destitute of Food.
Pestilence Adds Its Horrors to
Hunger and Cold.
United States Minister Smith has reported
to the State Department at Washington
these facts concerning the Russian famine,
obtained from eye-witnesses and most trustworthy
sources;
The famine is general in thirteen provinces
of European Russia, viz.; Kazan,
Nijni-Novgorod, Orenburg, Oufa, Pens?,
Riazan, Samara, Baratof, Simbirsk, TamI
i
uu v, v luiao, AV'iio auu xiux euo^Cf ptu iiai
in the five provinces of Kursk, 0l0netz,0rel,
Perm and Tauride, and one or two others,
like Kharkov, have suffered to soma extent,
but are not included in official reports.
The first thirteen provinces equal in area
the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Ver?
mount, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Com*
necticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Kentucky, and have a population
of ab^pt twenty-seven million. The
five province? Th which the famine is partial
equal iu area the States ot Indiana. Iowa,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois,
North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas
and half of Ohio, and have a population
nearly double that of the elevsn States.
This vast section is agricultural aad ordinarily
the most fruitful soil of Russia.
It is officially estimated that 14,000,000
persons in these provinces are without food
or means of support, and this estimate is
probably below the true number.
For three years the crops have fallen short
of the average, and the deficiency of the past
season left the storehouses well-nigh empty.
nr:iu *.u~ U {a
rviuu tug luuica^ru muuio vi. buio jrcai *?/ xo
positive, Minister Smith says, that unless
adequate relief can be supplied the great
present destitution and suffering will grow
worsa as the season continues. The peasants
make no savings generally, but live wholly
dependent upon yearly crops, hence long
continued and widespread drought leaves
them subject to ftutside relief.
The scarcity of provisions is not the only
misery of this people. When crops fail the
Government loses revenue and the peasants,
while taxes and rental continue, lack all the
necessaries of Jile; clothing, firewood, farming
implements, the subsistence of horses and
cattle, ail depend upon this one resource?
the crop?.
It is as difficult to get fuel as food in some
sections, and cold as well as hunger causes
terrible suffering. Iu some neighborhoods
large numbers ot persons huddle together in
some houses most conductive to warmth.
Barns have been torn down aui the boards
used for firewood. Even thatched roofs are
torn off and the straw burned for fuel. Clothing
is given away for bread; horses and cattle
are sacrificed at a tithe of their value;
fodder is as scarce as human fooand in
some cases horseflesh has been sacrificed for
sustenance. During the winter there is no
work*, ana irequentiy tattlers nave ieit ilsuwivcs
aud children to fight the battle of want
alone, because they could do nothing and
their absence would leave fewer mouths to
feed at home.
The bread which many are eating is composed
of wild arrock, potatoes, chaff and
leaves, and these terrible conditions inevita*fcly
produce disease. Within the radius of
one mile there are 120 cases of typhus fever;
pestilence and hunger are daily gaining
ground, and pestilence is decimating tne peoPW
In January, February and March the
roads are good, and all energies should be
directed to pouring provisions into the suffering
provinces at once. The rivers are
frozsn. Two or three railroads ran into th9
famine-stricken region, but there are no
branches of these railroads, and all provisions
must be carried for long distances on
sleds. In the middle of March, or first of
April, the winter will break up, the roads
will become heavy, and the horses now
available for transportation will be needed
for spring farming. Time is therefore a
most important factor in the work of relief.
Every week is vitaL
One hundred and eighty million pounds of
food are necessary. Fifty carloads should
arrive every day in these stricken provinces,
but only eleven carloads per day were re
ceived Christmas week. The imperial government
so far has appropriated 142,500,000
from the public treasury for the work of relief.
But the work must stili go on.
The Russian Emperor has personally given
enormously and all classes are giving
according to their means. The loss to the
Government revenue will be $100,000,000 or
more, while a conservative estimate of the
loss to Russia in view of all consequents is
place at not less than $500,000,00J. Up to
the present there have been few contributions
from abroad, but the Government and
the people of Russia are deeply sensible of
the spontaneous offers that have b?en made
in various parts of the United States and
the Emperor's Ministers, as well as others,
have manifested such to Minister Smith in
their expressions of approbation.
GRATEFUL TO EGAS.
Balmacedist Refugees Testify Their
1.? 1- TTI
XUMULtlUUCSS kU U1IU.
TATRICK KOAJT.
United States Minister Egan h&3 been
presented by the refugees who have been
living in asylum at the American Legation
in Santiago, Chile, for four months past
with a handsome gold card bearing this inscription:
To Mr. Patrick Egan, Minister of the
United Btaces jn udiii, jn leswraou/ ui
eternal gratitude for the generous asylum
given under the protection of the fla? of the
great Republic, which symbolizes the most
noble sentiments of humanity and civilization.
On one side of the inscription is an embossed
engraving of the Goddess of Liberty
throwing the "Stars and Stripes" over a
wounded Chilean soldier. In oue corner of
the card is a diamond and there are also
crossed flags of the United Status and Chile
and the coats-of-arms of the two countries
engraved upon it.
On the reverse side of the card appear the
names of the twelve refugees who present
the gift.
The card iB about six by four inohea in
size and it cost $2000.
ON A SUED ED BRIDGE.
A Train Destroyed and the Two Engineers
Killed.
The eastbound passenger train on the
Texas and Pacific Railway was totally
wrecked two miles n est of Ropeline, La. It
ran upon a burned bridge, and all the cars
?one baggage, postal and express, two day
passengers and one Pullman?were completely
burned.
The engineer of the train was killed and
Civil Engineer Smitb, of the road, was fatally
burned. The corpse of a young woman
in the baggage car was burned up.
These statistics are furnlaheJ by Che
Agricultural Department at Washington as
representing the aggregate production of
cereals lor 1891; Corn, 2,060,154,000 bushels;
value, $836,i39,223. Wheat, 0ll.78J.OOO
bushels; value, ?518,472,711. Oats, 7tf J,894,000
bushels; value, &3i,dl2,207.
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The Generous ana Popular Wile of
the President of France;
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MADAME CARNOT.
Mme. Carnot, wife of the President of the
French Republic, is known to her friends as
a woman of tact and ability. Socially, too,
reports the Chicago Post, she is brilliant,
gracious and charmin?. Her career as
"Madame ia Presidente" has been a social
triumph. She is popular with the French
people, whose est?em she has won by
ner womanly ways and her active interest
in matters that concern their welfare.
Mme. Carnot devotes much of her time to
charitable work and is a liberal patron of
all worthy schemes to aid the poor and distressed.
She is highly accomplished and,
unlike most Frencii people who have a national
contempt for foreign languages, she
speaks English fluently. It is said, too, that
she has a great admiration for Americans
and enjoys meeting them and talking about
the Unit'id States. Mme. Carnot is not only
a generous woman, but she has a delicate
way o? ministering to the needs of those who
are chosen as the recipients of her generosity.
She and th.3 President set aside $6 J, 000
to be distributed among SOU lately made
widows?mothers of at least three young
children?at Christmastide. This sum is
divided into two parts, one-half is the gift of
M. Carnot, and the Mayors have the
I bestowal of it, the number of women to be
| relieved in each arrondissement varying ac
| cording 10 tne amount 01 poor it wuwu
Mme. Carnot's offerings consist of bundles
of clothes, carefully Buited to the requirements
of the poor families for which they
are intended, and to save any loss of timu
and also to avoid exciting the curiosity of
neighbors, the bundles are distributed by
parcels post.
SPUBQEON DEAD.
England's Eminent Divine Passes
Away Peacefully.
The celebrated English preacher, Charles
Hadden Spurgeon, died at Mentone, France,
a few days ago in the presence of Mrs.
Spurgeon, his private secretary and two or
three friends. He was quite unconscious
when death occurred and had not spoken
for some hours. '
Mr. Spurgeon, who occupied a somewhat
similar position in England to that of Henry
Ward Beecher in America, was born at
Kelvedon, Essex, England, June 19 1834,
and educated at Colchester, Maidstone.
He was received into the Baptist denomination
by the late Robert_ Hall at Cam
bridge, and was pastor at water oeacn unni
be was offered the New Park Street Chapel
in South wark. His firat sermon in London
was in 1853, and in 1861 the Metropcflitan
Tabernacle, which was erected for.
him, was opened. The last act of thi
reverend gentleman's life was his withdrawal
from the Baptist Union, caused by his
independence of character and outspoken,
broad-minded doctrine.
In 1883 was celebrated the delivery of his
2000th sermon. His sermons have been
printed weekly for years, and sixteen
volumes have been published collectively, besides
a volume -entitled "litems: Brilliant
Passages from the Discourses of C. H.
Bpur^eon."
Mr. Spurgeon never laid ciaim to the distinction
of being an orator. He al ways talked
in a slow, deliberate way, his enunciation
being clear aud his pronunciation perfect.
His language hypericritical people might not
call choice, being directly to the point, and,
like the man himself, simple and strong. In
bis discourse the fact was noticable that he
never sought for fine phrases. His voice
was not musical or pleasing at first to a
stranger's ear, yet it possessed those quali
J ties most demanded in a puouc spea&tH
fHE PATENT OFFICE,
The Commissioner's Report of Business
Daring the Year.
Commissioner Simonds, of the United
States Patent Offlce,at Washington, has submitted
bis annual report to Confess. The
report recommends amendments to the
Patent and Trade Mark laws.
The following is a summary of the business
of the office during the last calendar
year: Total number of applications received,
excluding applications for the registration
of trade marks aud labels, 40,553;
total number of patents granted, 23,244;
total number of registrations, 1899, total
receipts, $1,271,283; total expenditures, $1,139,713;
leaving a surplus of $131,572; making
a total balance in the treasury to the
credit of the patent lund of $4,004,317.
Patents were issued to the residents of the
several States and Territories as follows:
Alabama, 82; Arizona Territory, 9; Arkansas,
103; California, 622; Colorado, 199; Connecticut,'
733; Delaware, 34; District of
Columbia, 210; Florida, 5*2; Georgia. 124;
Idaho. 14;, Illinois, 1963; Indian Territory,
6; Indiana. 570: Iowa, 427; Kansas,
263; Kentucky, 195; Louisiana, 122;
Maine, 142; Maryland, 294} Massachusetts,
2122; Michigan, 752; Minnesota,
352; Mississippi, 63; Missouri, 786; Montana,
42; Nebraska, 191; Nevada, 10; New Hampshire,
144; New Jersey, 960; New Mexico, 14;
New York, 3907; North Carolina, 76; North
Dakota, 29; Ohio, 1513; Oklahoma, 6; Oregon,
71; Pennsylvania, 2197; Rhode Island,
290; South Carolina, 49; South Dakota,
53; Tennessee, 161; Texas, 330; Utah,
25, Vermont. 55; Virginia, 165; Washington,
79; West Virginia, 74; Wisconsin, 526:
Wyoming, 3; United States Army,5; United
States Navy, 8 Total, 21,236. The total
number issued to foreigners was 1293.
OUR MILITARY RESOURCES.
The Total Number of Men Available
lor War Duty.
The Secretary of War transmitted to the
Senate a statement showing the military
force of the Unitsd States, organized and
unorganized, according to the latest rvturns
received at the office of the Adjutant Gen
eral of the army.
The abstract shows that the total number
of enlisted men is 101,821, commanded by
8879 cocnmissioned officari, besides 1248 staff
officers, making a total aggregate of 111,948
men in the military service. The number of
*nen available for military duty unorganized
..=*7,258.
THEY SALUTED HIM.
But He Had to Shoot Two ot Them to
Insure Itespect.
The men of one of the artillery regiments
at Vilna, Russia, have lately displayed
a mutinous spirit, and a few days
ago they refused to salute on officer, whereupon
he deliberately shot two of the noncommissioned
officers of the insubordinate
regiment. He was about to fire at a third
when the men complied with the regulations
and saluted.
Th? estimated total American capital
raised for Mexican undertakings in the past
ear by individuals and public and private
companies was over 1100,000,000.
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WHAT HI SAW.
He held In fingers tremulous and thin
What seemed a bunch of white transparent
grapes;
And there saw the fiendish eyes and shapes
Of hideous representatives of sin.
That threatened to break through the walls
of skin,
Their forms were uglier than forms of apss;
He then bethought of his hair's-breadtn escapes.
And of the dangers lurking there within.
Worse than the cockatrices eggs their seeds,,
Hatched in the still, to I scorpions, whose
deeds,
With fiery stings of woe inoculate
The soul with madness and eternal hate.
A blessing in the cluster?"'iruit divine,"
Worse than Pandora's ills in poisonei wine.
?Geo. W. Bungay, in Temperance Advocate.
MOODY ON WHI3KT.
mr. jnooay, wane at uampoeiton, tingland,
said: "If there is anything:in your business
that is wrong, you mu9t give it up. "Oh, but,'
you might say, 'that would ruin me financially.'
No matter; better be ruined financially
than go to the bar of God a disobedient
child. If men could distil whisky for the
glory of God, then let them go on distilling
whisky; let them send a thousand barrels of
it to the heathen, and some for the missionaries;
and then let them pray over the matter,
and see bow they feel. They could sell
whisky to men who might drinic themselves
to death, making their wives widows and
their children fatherless, but it won't do to
turn round and say now?'I will give this
widow and these children some mouey,' and
think that the transaction would square*
nor oould a man who ill-treated his witd and
family when he was the worse of driak make
up for it by treating them kindly when he
U sober."
SPECIAL LEGISLATION URGED.
Professor Jolley, Director of the insanity
wards in the Charite Hospital at Berlin, has
issued a pamphlet in which he urges the absolute
necessity of special legislation against
habitual drunkards, on the ground that the
statistics of insanity show a direct ratio to
those of intemperance. In the Rhine provinces,
the percentage of insane persons who
. had lost their reason through excessive
drinking was twenty-eight, and in Berlin
and Alsace as much as thirty-three. Taking
a general average for the wine and schnappsdrinking
districts, Professor Jolley reckons
that twenty-five per cent, among the inmates
of asylums have been inebriates. Discussing
the section of the new bill which
enacts that habitual drunkards shad be shut
up until cured, he insists that this authority
shall be committed to medical men, and not
to magistrates only. He says, that in the
asyJums for inebriates hitherto existing,
medical direction has been almost entirely
wanting. '.Throughout his pamphlet he
maintains the proposition that drunkenness
should not be regarded as a punishable
offence, but as an infirmity. The retreat
for inebriates should, he says, be no prison,
but something between a hospital and a luna
, tic asylum. It should be governed by medi?
cal men, and perons should only be consigned
to it by doctor*' cartilcdtes.
DUCHESS OF RUTLAMJ'S WORK.
The Duchess of Rutland is one of England's
most effective workers in the cause of
temperance. Without being at all fanatical
she b&s been very successful in her dealing
i with the question by means of village halls
I rAnmo /v\nPOPtc If** tnrPS And
singing classes, and advocates in every hamlet
'a public house without the drink*, open
to alJ, with no rules and regulation;." The
efforts made by Miss Brooks at Woodstock,
which have more than onco been alluded to
in this column, receive the highest commendation,
and her experience as to the books
most eagerly sought for by the villagers is
interesting; lives of Wellington, Nelson and
Gordon are always in demand, and the books
about her majesty the queen and the jubilee.
To develop a love ot natural history is
another matter of great importance, in or3er
to develop ideas which may brignten the
round of village life and give glimpses of the
beautiful world we live in and the life beyond,
where honesty will meet its reward,
fhe duchess works alone the lines laid down
by the Church of England Society, which
does not demand total abstinence, but which
does all in its power to encourage it. She,
with other temperance workers, is doing
much good toward suppressing the evils of
drunkenness and in bettering the moral and
physicial condition of the victims cf the
drink habit.?Chicago Post.
STRONG DRIXK. *
The mightiest obstacle to the progress of
religion in this day is^trong drink, whether
you call it gin, whisky, ale, beer or wine, or
anything else that poisons the brains and
makes a man unnatural, says the C. T. A.
News. Thousands of meu do not attend to
their religious duties simply because they
are addicted to drink. While they are discussing
the question as to whether they shall
drink at all, or how much they shall driuk,
they let the question of their eternal salvation
go by deiault. Often you find a man
anxious about his soul, and talk with him,
and wonder why he does not yield his heart
to God. But after many weeks have passed,
and he has gone back again into the world
you find he has not the courage to give up
the strong drink which will, perhaps, be the
means of his eternal overthrow.
Would it not be better for such men, instead
of stopping to discuss the question as
to how muca they should drink or whether
they shall drink aty all, to throw the wine
flask out of the window and resolve to let it
alone for the future. Join the temperance
societies, who are doing a good work in battling
against intemperance, and are giving
healthcul employment to t&e fallen by stir? **%**
wtticinn* amrvironna lonhirM RTlH
rallies. Attend faithfully to tbe quarterly
communion, for it is by obeying the laws of
tbe society in regard totbis feature that you
will have the grace of God about you, And
be able to combat these evils of intemperance.
Commence the new year right. Let liquor
alone. If you have a family remember t e
example you set. II! you drink, your sons
will also take it, and the craving for strong
drink will grow stronger and stronger each
day. It is an awful responsibility tnat parents
take upon themselves of setting a bad
example to their family. Children will try
and imitate their parents. Look out in this
matter of drjnk and do not become an evil
example and -ruinous and blasting influence.
TEMPJBAN'CS NEWS AND NOTJtS.
The village of Hilltown, Ireland, has 130
inhabitant?, and thirteen liquor saloon?.
A few glasses of bear a day during a
workingman's lifetime means the consumption
of a cood home.
To sell the whisky seller a license to carry
on the devil's business almost makes the
crime of Judas appear respectable.
Said Cardinal Manning once: "The Englishman
drinks from brutality, the Irishman
from joviality, and it is much easier to reform
an Irish drunkard than an English."
The world is full of people who wouldn't
sell whisky for a hundred dollars a glass,
who are glad to take the saloon keeper's
money in a thousand different ways, and
put it in their pockets.
The supreme object of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union is to elevate the
home and to protect its members, one and
all?the stronger from legalized temptation,
the gentler from oppression.
Out of 70,000 British troops in India 18,000
are teetotalers. 8ir Frederick Roberts
says that for every 50u0 teetoallers enrolled
the strength of the British army is practically
increased by another battalion.
tlt:?i io nHHprl to alenho! to
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make it undriukable, but according to the
Chemical News there are men working in
chemical works who not only drink the nau seated
spirit, but are capable of swallowing
coal naphtha itself.
In the Hawaiian islands there are about
fifty native temperance societies with a membership
of over 2000. Their pledge includes
opium and awa as well as alcohol. Awa is
an intoxicant manufactured by the natives,
and is said to be more disastrous in its efr
fects upon the huaiau system than even the
imported liquors.
A writer in the Fortnightly Review, an
English traveler, says: ' The very air of
Africa reeks with rum and gin imported
from England; every hut is redolent of its
fumes. Over large areas drink is almost the
sole currency, and in many parts the year's
wages of the negro factory worker are paid
i altogether in spirits." j
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WORDS OF WISDOX.
Love hopes always because it believes
always.
j How easy it is to admire people who
agree with us.
. We get acquainted with ourselves by
Jcnowing other people.
Hope nevAr flies from the heart in
which there is no doubt.
Love is always rich, because it can
always hope for something better.
Love always looks on the bright side,
and always finds a bright side to look
on.
The braver a soldier is the more important
it is that he should learn to obey
orders.
Before we can know much of ourselves
we have to become well acquainted with
many other people.
There are people who pray for snow
whenever they see anybody about to look
into their back yard.'
The man who knows that his house is
built on the sand alwavs trembles when
he hears it thunder.
If it were possible for man to live
alone, without ever coming in contact
with other human beings, he would die
a total stranger to himself.
There are some people so blind that it
-would them a long time to find out that
they have a nose on their face, if they
didn't now and then have to blow it.
There are Bome shepherds who put
their sheep on the dead run whenever
there is the slightest prospect of their
getting a taste of salt from somebody
else's . pasture.?Indianapolis . (Ind.)
Ram's Horn.
Brain Power in Plants. <
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AKQUr omibUf ? c'/iauub VL uubc auu
one of the writer3 of the National Review,
entertains many curious ideas concerning
the sleep and brain power of
plants, many of these notions,directly or
indirectly conflicting with the established
opinions of such men as Cuvier, Huxlej
and Darwin. Speaking of the mimosa,
he says: "It always folds its leaves at the
close of day, and there is no doubt, if it
were not allowed to sleep, it would, like
the hnman species under similar circumstances,
soon die." This is not only an
example of the necessity of sleep for the
repairing of nervous energy and recuperation
of brain power, bat a proof of
the existence of the same faculties in the
vegetable kingdom. Then, take the
matter of the carniverous plants, the
Venus fly-trap, for instance, which will
readily digest raw beef or any insect
small enough to fall into its maw. This
hnfamral curiositv has crlands which
pour out a fluid which resembles
the gastric juiccs of the animal
stomach. This fluid dissolves the
meat or insect and absorbs their substance
into the tissues of the plant. In animal
nature digestion can only be commenced
by the brain force acting by means of a
nerve upon ,the gastric glands x we
, may, therefore, concsde fhat it is, the
action of the same power in the plant
that produces the same results. A farther
illustration of the wonderful effect
of brain power in plants may be observed
in the action ol> the radicle of
seeds. The course pursued by the radi!
cle in penetrating the ground most be
'determined by the tip, Darwin wrote
as follows in regard to this: "It is hard- \
ly an exaggeration to say that the tip of
the radicle, endowed .as it-is with such
diverse kinds of sensitiveness,acts in the
same manner as the brains of some animals,
the brain being seated within theextreme
end of the body, receiving its
impressions from the sense organs and /
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directing nie several murttiueuw. w.
Smith does not quite agree with Mr. I
Darwin's belief, but is of the opinion )
that it is a simple ezamplo of brain pow-'
er, which is the cause of all plant movement.
In conclusion he mentions a remarkable
property of the potato fungus.
When the spore3 of this fungus' burst a
multitude of little bodies escape; if these
bodies gain access to water they develop
a couple of little tails,by means of which
they swim like tadpoles.?St. Louis Bepublic.
Canscs of Mine Disasters.
Mine disasters generally come from
some one of three causes?cave-ins, fire- .
damp explosions or blasting. In nine .
cases out of ten they are brought about
either by the penuriousness of mine own
era or the carelessness of the men. In \
each mine pillars of coal are left to support
the roofa of the workii gs. They
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begins to get "worked out" the tempti- -;
tion to take coal Trom them is great.
This is called "pillar robbing." If these
roof supports are "robbed" too freely
they will crumble under the weight abov?
them and bring about a "cave in." The
chief danger of such an accident is that
the miners will be shut off from the exit
and buried alive. An experienced miner
can generally tell by the pistol-like reports
of the coal as it begins to give under
the pressure from above that a cave
in is coming soon enough to run to a
part of the mine not likely to fall and
crush him to death; but in the meantime
thousands of tons of coal may have
blocked all ways of escape. The place
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prison more horrible than was ever built ""
by human hands.
It is hard to imagine anything more
horrible than the situation of miners imprisoned
in this manner. Fifteen days
and a half elapsed from the time of the
disaster in the Hill Farm mine at Dunbar,
Penn., in June, 1890, before hope
was abandoned that the thirty men imprisoned
in the right heading still lived.
Two or three days after the disaster
signals made by the entombed men were
heard by the rescuing party. Every possible
effort was made to reach them, but
in vaiu. Their bbdies lie under Hill
Farm to this day if they were not destroyed
by burning gas.?New York
Press.
Some Atmospheric Phenomena.
A man weighs less when the barometer
is high, notwithstanding the fact that
the atmospheric prcssur: on him is more
than when the barometer is low. As
jthe pressure of air on an ordinary-sized
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man is aDouc niceen ions, me rise oi me
mercury from twenty-nine to thirty-one
inches adds about one ton to the load he
has to carry.
If a well could be dug to the depth
of forty-six miles, the density of the air
at the bottom would be as great as that
of quicksilver. By the same law a cubic
inch of air taken 40U0 miles above the
earth's surface would expand sufficiently
to fill a sphere 2,000,000,000 miles in
diameter.?St. i<ouis Republic.
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