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A Voice from the Executive Mansion.
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tntiscopic glasses you furnished me
ime time since, give excellent satisfac
n. I havo tested them by use, and
lust say they are unequaled in clearness
ml brilliancy by any that I haye ever
rorn.
Respectfully,
John B. Gordon,
Governor of State of Georgia.
A liusiiim Man’s Clear Vision.
I New York City, April 4, 1888.
Mr. A. K. Hawkes— Dear Sir : Your
latent eye glasses received some time
ince, and am very much gratified at thd
londerful change that has come over
by eyesight since I have discarded my
[id glasses and am now wearing yours.
Alexander Agar.
lecretary Stationers Board of Trade of
Sew York City.
All eyes fitted by J. M. Levy, Coving
on, Ga.
These glasses are not supplied to ped
Her# at any price.
A. W. HAWKES.
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ranklin B. Wright,
COVINGTON, GA.
esident Physician & Surgeon.
ihildren, Gynecology, Obstetrics, disease# of women and
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In the surrounding country, as wel bit
my city practice.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Nineteen bills for the suppression ol
trusts are now before Congress.'
1 The latest Chilian census gives 484 cente¬
narians—211 males and 273 females.
Gold has been discovered iu a gravel
bank near Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
New York City furnishes two-thirds of
the 3480 convicts in the prisons of tho State.
The Lower House of the Masfeabugetts
Legislature has rejected a prohibitory liqffbr
bill.
The grip caused an increase of 5090 deaths
above the average in the State of New
York.
A Japanese Industrial Exposition is
to be held iu Tokio, from April to July in¬
clusive.
It is now known that explosion eighty-eight in the persons Morsa
lost their lives by the
Colliery in Wales.
Reports from Texas say that hundreds ol
cattle have beeu frozen to death during the
recent blizzard there. •
The German Government will form fifty
more battalions of artillery in order to com¬
plete two new army aorps.
Unless something is done to relieve the
present scarcity of capital in Japan a com¬
mercial crisis is not far off.
The fund for a Washington Memorial
Arch in New York has reached $74,000.
The sum wanted is $100,000.
The American contributions to the Irish
(.and League during tlie last fortnight in
February amounted ro $50,000.
The Customs Committee of the French
Chamber of Deputies has voted to impose a
duty of sixty cents on foreign corn and one
dollar on com flour.
It is said that the natural gas of ludiaua
has been the means of bringing into that
State more than $20,000,000 in capital, and
fully 10 ,000 mechanics.
Stanley’s book will be translate ! into
French. German. Italian. Czech, Swedish and
Spanish, and will be published in the several
countries simultaneously.
Iron and glass manufacturers of Pittsburg
have sent an agent to South America in the
interest of their firms to develop trade for
American manufacturers.
Reports of members of the party which
has just completed the survey of t »e Colo¬
rado River canon, state that n railway line
through the country is feasible.
The telegraph lines at work in India now
extend over 33,000 miles, representing no less
than 100,000 miles ot wire. Last year the
net profit was nearly 4)£ percent.
Attorney-General Miller has decided
that under the law ('hinese merchants can¬
not land in the United States in the absence
of certificates prescribed in the Chinese Ex¬
clusion act.
There is a meat famine iu Upper Silesia,
Austria. American pork being excluded
and the native product inadequate, unheard
of prices prevail, and the workingmen are
unable to buy eyen sausage.
It is reported that at the coming session ol
the German Reichstag the Government will
lemand fresh military credits, and will again
introduce the Anti-Socialist bill which was
"ejected by the last Reichstag.
A company called the Commercial and
«nd Industrial Company of the Congo has
lust been organized m Paris, with a capital
if $500,000, for the purj rase of carrying on
rade in the French Congo region.
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The Covington Star
EIGHT VICTIMS OF FIRE.
A Mother and Seven Children
Perish iu Their Own Home.
Tlie Deadly Blaze Baffles the
Father at Every Point,
• Inezine Colerette, the wealthiest farmer of
the little village of St. Michel, about four
miles from Montreal, Quebec, awoko at half
past four o'clock in tbe morning, and built a
fire and filled a lantern lamp with oil, pre¬
paratory to visiting bis bara and feeding and
caving for his stock. He finished his chores
about the house by live o’clock, and taking
ms his lantern, went to the barn, lie had fed
horses and cattle and was preparing - to
return when a terrific explosion broke on his
ean. house Rushing to the flames. door he saw his frame
one mass of Then lie remem¬
bered ttiat he had set the kerosene can beside
I lie stove while filling the lantern and that
tho stove when he left the liouso was beginn¬
ing to turn red hot.
In a rear room off the kitchen on the
ground floor his wife was asleep when Onezi
nee left the house. In the upper story
which was reached by a stairway leading
from the sleeping room slept his seven chil¬
dren, the oldest thirteen years of age, and
tie youngest not quite three years old. lie
lad an eighth child, a gil l fifteen years old,
bit she was at the Sacred Heart Convent at
Siult Au Reeollet.
V ben lie saw- tbe flames Colerette dropped
his lantern and rushed toward the house. At
Hudoor lie was met by a burst of flames,
which set fire to bis scarf, and his bauds,
neik aud whiskers were badly scorched be¬
low lie could tear it off. Then he ran to the
doo*, rear " ^-t 1 >y into smoke it Colerette was coming out of this
aim dashed. He got as
far is the door of the sleeping apartment,
but here was a solid w all of flame. The floor
was bailing burning beneath his feet, the ceiling was
over his head and the four walls of
the loom in which he was w-ere burning
fienj-ly. To get to the stairway leading to
the tpper floor was utterly impossible unless
he dished into the seething caldron of fire
wherein he had last seen his wife. He could
seo tie bed, but it was a mass of flames aud
empty.
11, felt himself being overcome by the
smote and heat and seeming to go mad, as
he niwsoxplains it, and not knowing what he
did do made a rush for Dio door through
w-hi(h lie had entered. It Was afire, but
Cola ette got through and out into tlio air.
All lis clothes were, burning and he sank to
the H-ound.
The neighbors hail now arrived, and while
some of them dragged Colerette out of the
read of the tongues of fire and extinguished
the lames which had caught Ills clothes
others ran for remedies. He was conveyed
to summoned, a neighbor’s house and medical aid was
but, though conscious, he was
not expected to live.
Perhaps within a dozen five people had arrived on (he
seem tookplace, minutes after the explosion
but even then it was impossible
to building. approach The within ground twenty-five around it feet seemed of the
to
be ablaze, aud (lie men w ho dragged Colerette
There out rtf further danger fire were badly the singed. village
was no apparatus in
and the fire had to be allowed to burn itself
out fire the roof falling in twenty minutes walls melting after
tbe began, aud the woodmj 3 water front
aw-ay ten mSwtefi later.
surrounding wells and snow ■.veto thrown on
the pile, and by six o’clock tj.e ruins were
owh- smoking. bodies of the
The search for the cremated! bodies,*
persons had just begun when two
charred beyond thirteen-year-old all recognition, girl but and evident¬
ly of those the "boys, of the found alongside the foun¬ one
were
dation outside of where the wall had been.
They bad probably fallen out of one of tlie
upper windows while the flames and smoke
from below hid them from the view of the
lookers on, and being helpless on the ground
they had rousted to death outside the house.
Later on tlie body of Mrs. Colorette was
found. The limbs were entirely burned off.
About 2 V. M. the searchers fouud a tiny leg,
or the bones of one, with the flesh burned off.
That wad all that remained of eight persons.
The remains found were removed to tho
barn, where they were placed in rough piue
boxes to lie buried.
At the little village church at high mass
Father Laporte, the parish cure, brought
tears to tho eyes of his hearers entire by his village refer¬
ence to the calamity, and Die
went into mourning. Mrs. Colerette was
forty-three years old. The children burned
were four girls and three boys. Besides his
family Farmer Colerette lost about $4000.
The village is entirely French.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
St. Louis is working hard to get a Broth
srhood Club for that city.
The Players' League meeting attracted all
tbe prominent Brotherhood men to Cleve¬
land.
The Washington League Club has signed
Second Baseman O’Brien, of AVorcester,
Mass.
The Brooklyn team of the National League
is still considered the strongest in the organ¬
ization.
AVes Curry, the American Association
umpire, is a conductor 011 a Philadelphia
cable car.
A white rat is the mascot for the Brook¬
lyn League team. Caruthersis the owner of
the albino rodent.
• Brotherhood and National League Clubs
wiU play mauy of their games at the same
place on the same day.
Milt Scott, one of Anson’s old time cast
off plaj'ers, is to captain, manage aud play
first base for the Fort Wayne (Ind.) team.
There Yorks: are four Clark.of colle^e-bra Williams; 1 player- Young, with
the New Dooley,
of Harvard; Turner, of kmherst, and
of Hamilton.
Second Baseman Dcnlap, of lust has year's been
Pittsburg National League Club,
granted his unconditional release by the
Players’ League.
Boston will have two tine Californian
catchers one in each chiD, next season—Har
die of the National League, and Swett of the
Placers' League.
Both the National League and the Play
ars’ League, at their recent meetings in Cleve
land adopted schedule- of championship '
s games to be played during 1890.
.... Egyptian Hot Springs. ,, Heoly, -t , The ,. the Pifiadriph e League ” ~
to the him. a H*
and the Players’ team are after
says he will not report to Kansas City.
W hether the League n tends to they drop In.
diauapolis and Washington ftidin or not the matter gav«
those clubs when a pretty the schedule Hough adopted.
of dates res
Tue new Boston Players' catcher. Swett.
is six feet in height, weighs .75 pounds and
has a smooth shaved face John Morrill say 1
lie isremarkably accurate an lswift in throw
j ing- to bases. Leagu- hare bad
The Association and
! several babies in their dav, but this is the
1 drst American's time they ever came fc«rat a time. The
! nursery is full—Brooklyn. Syra
ense Rochester and Toledo ars t-he infants
The grand stand oa the dFQ Players’
grounds will be 432 feet ion.: at will bo ot
I Swiss design. Jt will be in ths shap * of a
1 Uorsesboe aud the main flow will lav a
•eating capacity of 590 There will also b >s
Jfty private boxes, fait stand vi!l ha ve a
oe-w feature, namely, s ladies' pir
The late John Jacob A*tor c viito -t' 11 ')
| aigh-clASS dwelling houses in N \
I I rented i t au aveasa of *2000 house a leal’ in untold eaca.
Be owned besides tenement iff id
! myn) W ! ’\' e! -T rea1 e V.i i flVv
; id b n'essfi ises.
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH Vo, 1890.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
A New York theatrical company left that
city for Washington by special train the oth¬
er morning, played at a matinee in the Na¬
tional Capital and returned to the metropolis
in time for the regular evening performance.
ine The into Court of charges Inquiry against appointed Commander to exam¬
the
Bow-man H. McCalla, of the United States
steamer Enterprise, began proceedings at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
At the annual meeting of tho Pennsylva¬
nia Railroad it was decided to issue four
hundred thousand additional shares of capi¬
tal stock,
Two men were killed and half a dozen in
hired by au explosion of dynamite near
Rockville Centre, N. Y.
The Saxton Ballot Reform bill has been
passed by the Assembyof New York.
Governor Ladd and all the other State
officers, save the Attorney-General.have been
renominated by the Rhode Providence. Island Repub¬
licans in State Convention at
Harbison & Loder, wholesale dealers in
dry goods, New York, have made an assign
fuent. Liabilities $300,000.
South and West.
The warehouse of the B. C. Clark Crock
ary Company at Kansas City, Mo., has beer
burned, with a loss of $102,000.
Charles Williams and his twelve-year- their
old son were found murdered in bad at
their home in Galena, Kan. Williams was
blind and lost both arms in a mine accident
The Mississippi levees were reported
broken in Arkansas.
The house of Charles Gibson (colored) iu
Beaufort County, S. C., has been perished destroyed the
by fire. His wife and a child in
flames.
Two trains collided near Inland, Brakemau Neb., and
Conductor Grant Norton aud
Canada Miller wore killed aud eighteen can
were wrecked.
The five story building Stem, iu Cincinnati, Mayer Ohio,
owned and completely occupied by gutted by fire. & Los Co.,
has been
about $300,000.
Bill Allen and Witherford tho Trying, murder twi
colored men Belcher, charged with taken from Mer¬ of
Constable were the
cer County (W. Va.) jail, and shot to death.
The Missouri Anti-Trust law has been pro¬
nounced unconstitutional by Judge St. Dillon in
tbe United States Circuit Court at Louis.
The United States steamer Wash., Iroquois ar¬
rived at Port Townsend, winds disabled,
after beating against head nearly four
months.
North Carolina has funded $11,000,000 of
the old State debt into new tour per cents.
There is now only $1,600,000 of the old debt
outstanding.
The Larned State Bank, of Larned, Kan.,
has suspended payment. The assets are $71,
000, and the liabilities $33,000.
Frank Miller was instantly killed aud
Alfred Westergren had his skull crushed by
the fall of a derrick at Ortonville, South
Dakota.
The Chicago, Burlington and Northern
Railroad has been bought by the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy.
David Mc&rew, pastor of the colored
Baptist Church at Armstrong, Mo.; Andrew
Begman, and Will Jackson, all colored, were
ruu over by the Union Pacific train and
Killed.
Six prisoners have escaped from the county
jail at Eau Claire, Wis. They were all burg¬
lars.
The trial in San Francisco of Mrs. Sarah
Althea Terry for resisting the United States
Marshal has concluded. The jury failed to
agree on a verdict.
The lower Mississippi has overflowed its
bauks in many places, causing much dam
age. Andrew J. Davis, Montana’s rich¬
JuDC-B
est citizen, has just died, $10,000,000. leaving au estate
valued from $6,000,000 to
A mysterious malady, believed to be
spotted fever, is prevailing in Jefferson
County. iu' Tenn. 'The contagion Four deaths has broken h&
out Carson College. ve
occurred.
Vernon Hay and George Pollard, State two
runaway pupils from the Illinois Insti¬
tution for Deaf Mutes, were Hay run over by a
train at Jacksonville, 111. was killed
aud Bollard severely hurt.
Henry Nurre, a farmer of Clinton
County. Iowa, was found murdered iu his
house and his wife seriously wounded. The
murderer is not known.
Special Pension Examiner Reiqarts
friends at MaysviUe, Ky., gave him a of banquet his
on tho occasion of the anniversary a>
cession to office. Upon taking liis first
mouthful of food he was seized with
coughing and was strangled to death by
piece of meat which had lodged in his wind
pipe.
Washington.
A committee reported to the Pan-Ameri
can Congress in favor of subsidized lines to
ports of Mexico and of countries along the
Caribbean Sea.
Ex-Congressman Taulbee, of Kentucky,
who was shot by Correspondent Kiucaid if
the House wing of tha Capitol a himself short time
ago. is dead. Mr. Kincaid gave up
for trial. Taulbee had assaulted Kiucaid for
publishing an article reflecting upon him in
a Louisville paper. Kincaid met Taulbe;
soon after tbe assault, and tbe shooting then
occurred.
The House Military Committee the reported five
favorably the bill to reorganize into ar¬
tillery regiments of the army seven.
Attorney-General Miller has ap¬
pointed Charles D. Baker to be Assistant At
torney for tbe .Southern District of New
York.
A test was made of the new tire alarm
s in the White House ami of the
efficiency of the District Fire Department.
Both were highly satisfactory.
Colonel F. A. Seely, of Washington, and
Francis Forbes, of New York city, have been
j appointed delegates to the International
j Conference which is to bo held at Madrid,
1 S P Eln -
1 The President nominated John B. Weber,
of Buffalo, to be Commissioner of Emigra
tion, and General J. R. O’Beirne. Assistant
j i Commissioner. The President sent to the Senate the tol¬
! lowing nominations: to be Chief Justice Henry C. the Gooding, Supreme of
L Indiana, of
Court of Arizona {Alexander Ramsey Min
, mger, United States Marshal for Northern
j District of Alabama, and Andrew Davidson,
j jf ew York, to bo First Deputy Commis
Moncrof Pensions,
* orcign.
A demonstration of students was made
u the graves of young Czech nobles at. Wal
! *hau in Bohemia. The students were dis
persedbythe arrested. police and a number of them
were
The officers of tha United States squadron
in full uniform attended a service in Naples
memory of the Duke of Aoste.
The firm of Browne & Wingrove. Lon
I tion, melters aud refiners and dealers in bul
lion, have failed. Their liabilities are $1,500,
In an encounter at Elassona. Turkey, be
tween the troops and a band of brigands, over
twentyof latt the Tbe former brigands were killed dispersed. and six of
j He «' rains prevailed in were the province of
v
M in Spain. Tbe rivers overflowed their
banks and did much damage to the ear
rounding countrv.
A DESPATCH from London stated that a
j frightful Colliery at explosion Glamorgan, had occurred Wales. One in the Morsa
j miners fil it were feared entombed. that all As vvtepd the mine
et was pcnsir.
The Portuguese Government dissolved
the municipal Government of Gisbon, sub¬
stituting for it temporarily a commission.
The French Government has determined
to occupy the Dahomian Province at Why
dab, on the African slave coast.
Ax epidemic resembling influenza is
spreading in India.
The Presidential campaign in Peru has
resulted in soma bloody collisions between
thefsetions and one massacre by Indians.
M a jor-G exEHa.tr Sir Ho\v a an (>. auf t; w:
Elphinstose was washed from a steamer in
the South Atlantic Ocean and drowned.
Tex Creti n refugees have been sentenced
to fifteen years’ imprisonment caused at Retimo.
Crete. The news has a sensation in
Athens, Greece.
The Opposition papers in Brazil condemn
the recent decree establishing Tney three banks in
the Northern Provinces. say the car¬
rying out of the decree is likely to cause
great confusion.
The league which was formed in Portugal
for the avowed purpose of assaulting the
British Minister, has been abandoned. The
anti-English feeling is subsiding.
The Toronto City Council has invited the
Women’s Congress of the United states to
bold their next meeting in that city.
Herr von Tisza, the great Liberal states¬
man. of Hungary-, resigned succeeded as Hungarian
Prime Minister, and was by Count
von Szapary.
The grip is raging in Teheran, Persia,
•causing seventy deaths daily. Several of
tho Shah's household are among the suf¬
ferers.
WITH COLONIAL FEATUBES,
Designs for a Low-Cost Cottage, With
Full Descriptions.
(Copyright bj the Author.)
That the so-railed Queen Anne style of
architecture will not long retain popular
favor is a very safe prediction. Its extreme
popularity forbids its early decline. Every
tidal wave must recede. It will be a matter of
congratulation) indeed, if bring Die extravagancies this so-called
of tyro-designers do not
stylo Already into positive noticeable disrepute. number clients in¬
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struct the architect not to give them Queen
Anne exteriors. Such clients are pleased
with Colonial features, as a rule, which i is re
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. growing in favor.
ail This people developing of good preference must gratify
taste. The well-defined
features of the Colouiat style are of classic
origin and cannot be “improved.” When the
designer attempts something “striking” with
it, The he gets away from it entirely.
fair design gives herewith is regarded as a
low exunple, The the designer being limited to
coat. Colonial features may be said
to be confined to the windows, but the win¬
dows a$e so truly Colonial tbnt thev
inate the whole exterior.
The, following is a some -what detailed de
scriptionof Size of this design: F*ont (width) 32 ft.;
depth- (side) Structure;
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Height of Stones; Cellar, 1 ft.: fh-st story,
9 ft.; second story, 8 ft.
Materials for Exterior Walls: Founda¬
tions brick or stone; first story, shingles; clapboards roof,
and shingles; second story,
shingles. Finish All rooms finished „ . , . with
Interior wood trim. AU wood¬
white plaster and soft
work to be treat*! with wood-filler and fin¬
ished with hard oi, showing natural colors.
Exterior Colors; Entire body shade and gables
painted a “Colonitl” (medium table, veranda of) yel¬
low- all trim, suet as water
and balcony rails all mouldings, painted brackets, white.
window aud do*' frames,
Outside doors treated with wood-filler aud
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SZCOND FLOOR.
I finished with <*l, showing natural colors.
j \ ^L^m^tidnsi All tbe rooms shown and their by
• the panlri® ind c losets are
I theDlans | given kertwitli. There is a cellar
tu niaiu UoUj . e a ud (ha garret L
floored to provide ttorage room If pre¬
; tarred the hall mav te enlarged preferred, by the including sittiug
J j the reception room. If
room raa v b? used as a bedroom in which
; case the 1 eeeptioa ro tn should be connected
! and be used as a dressti ; room It is an easy
) matter to convert till smallest bedroom on
the ae<- >v into abath room.
Cost) la l.e viciil-.v of New York city
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FIFTY-mST iOH&EESS,
In the Seiate.
54th Day. —Mr. Hale jpoke against thi
Blair Educational bill, ml Mr. Blair de¬
fended it.., .The public lidding bills on thi
calendar having For been Sterling reacted, the following
were passed: Cal., $300,003: Cheynne, 111,, $50,000; Oak
land, Penn.. Wyo., $150,
000; Chester, $100,1)0; Helena, Mont.
$400,000.
55th Day. —Among the dlls reported from
committees following: and placed For onhe calendar were
the pulic buildings at
Bridgeton. N. J., $75,000; laton Rouge, La.,
#100,000; Taunton, $100,001 Mass., $75,000; Tacoma,
$100,000: $100,000; Seattle, Spokane Falls,
and Walla WJla, $30,000...
The bill appropriating $50(000 for a public
building and passed... at Sait Lake .Mr. City.Utah, Higgns was taken
up spoke in favor
ot the Blair bill, and Mi'. Jones against it
. .. .Mr. Sherman's Meat Iispeetion bill was
discussed.
56th Day.— The credentUs of Mr. Allison
for his new term, beginning March 4, 1801,
were presented and orderei to be placed on
file.. Mr. Hoar called upBs resolution for
the**xclusion from the Reord of the sen¬
tences of his interpolated in by Mr. tail liscussion in the report with
remarks the
Mr. Chandler some weeks ago
A lively debate followed, lut there was no
quorum to vote on the resolution____Mr.
Mitchell introduced a joint resolution pro¬
posing providing an amendment to lie Constitution
for the election of Senators by the
votes of qualified electors in tie States, amt 1
said that he would at an earlr day address
the Senate on the subject.. .Sr. Daniels in¬
troduced a bill to provide or the issue of
National bank notes upon the djposit of silver
bullion.
57th Day. —Progress was nade with the
Blair bill to tbe extent of fixing the day wban
the final vote would be taken. , .The Call in¬
terpolations into the Record wire ordered tc
be cut out by a vote of 36 to 14. ..Mr. Pluml
introduced a resolution requiring the vote at
secret sessions to be made public.
58th Day. —A spirited debate took plae!
concerning matters Messrs. relating Sherman, to the Southern
States, in which Eustis,
Hoar and Butler took part,. The following
bills for public buildings were pissed: Stock
ton, Cal., Yellow-stone $85,000: Mammoth Hot Springs, iu
the National Park, $10,000;
Paw tucket, R. I., $100,000; Woonsocket, K.
L, $100,000; Hudson. N. Y., $0)0,000: Vir¬
ginia City. Nev.. $75,000: Hastings, Neb.,
1150,000; Dalles, Ore., Minn., $100,000; Salem, Reno, Ore.,
(100,000; Stillwater, $100,000:
Nev., $75,000. All the foregoing bills werj
■Senate bills.
In the House.
tilST Day.—M r. Haugen, from the Com
rnittee on Elections, reported a resolutioi
in the Alabama contested election case ol
Threat against Clark. The resolution, which
entitled Was unanimously reported, declares adopted Clari
to retain his seat. It was
... .The Speaker laid before the House th<
Senate bill referring to the Court of Claiuii
the of claim his of W. E. Woodbridge for for rifled thi
use invention of projectiles
cannon. After some discussion the bill was
defeated—yeas, 111; nays, 128____About fifty
private Day.— pension bills were passed.
62d The f reater part of the bill day
was consumed in a iscussioa of the pro
viding witnesses for the compulsory attendance of of
before registers and receivers
land offices, which was passed.,.. A number
of public buildings appropriation bills were
reported Whole, favorably from Committee of the
but the House found itself without a
quorum, aud so further action was post¬
poned.
63d Day. -*-On motion of Mr. Owen the
Senate resolution was concurred in providing
that the Senate Committee on Imugigi-atiou
and and Naturalization the House Committee shall on D h-mUiinite
itIhU’SSE vari0 joinD"j aw . s 0 f
United States and the*^ Al States relative
to immigration frqjr ’ countrieg ....
The as so amended as
the Joint Committee
to investigate the effect on Ameri
can workingmen which is likely to follow the
purchase of American industries by foreign
capitalists; also to report to Congress the of
ficial Bedlow’s correspondence Island, New on York, the proposal immigrant to make
an
depot____A resolution was adopted calling on
the Secretary ot W T ar for information rela¬
tive to the defective work on the Washington
Aqueduct tunnel, and whether the contract¬
ors are liable therefor.
64th Day —Mr. Baker, from the bill Com¬ for
mittee on Territories, reported the The House
the admission of 'Wyoming. of Whole
went into Committee the to con¬
sider tho bill, despite objections by Mr.
Springer, who said the bill had be9n called
sip in violation of the agreement made in the
Committee on Territories... .Several bills
for public buildings, involving an appropria
;ion of $1,845,000, were Oklahoma passed. bill dis¬
65th Day.— The was
cussed, and Mr. Stewart’s motion prohibit- liquors
ng the introduction of intoxicating
nto the Territory until otherwise provided
ay law was agreed to. right
66th Day.—A bill granting the of
way through the Mille Lacs Indian Reserva¬
tion. Minn., to the Lake Superior Railroad
Company; also a bill granting rights of way
through “the Indian Territory to the Galena,
Suthrie and Western Railroad Company;
also a bill granting right of way through Palouee the
Nez Perce reservation. Idaho, to the
uid Spokane Railroad Company Whole were passed
.... In Committee of the the Okla
uoma bill was further considered and eve*»
ually passed.
THE LABOR WORLD. ,
The Massachusetts Assembly of ths
Knights of Labor has endorsed the eight-hou*
q Ba
Government mail bags are made (N. Y.) by Peni- eon
victs in the Kings County
tentiary
r i „ __ hf, various . , labor organ za^
Jersey have formed - The btate Industrie,
senate.
Men who are not Amen«in citizens are
^ ? theStoD6 '
.ut . U nion, o b
Boston’s Labor Conference requested the
clergymen in and around that city to deliver
short sermons on the eight-hour question.
Nearly a thousand Hungarian coal miners
irrived in New York on the steamship Eider,
bound for the coal fields of Pennsylvania.
Omaha’s building trades unionists will con
tent themselves with the nine-hour rule this
year. The outlook for the trade they say is
bright.
An international conference of colliers will
tie held at Islimout, Belgium, on May 20
Delegates from England, France, Germany
and Austria will be present.
Th- wages of tha steamsbin firemen and
seamen have been advanced ten shillings fai a
month at Liverpool, and all trouble, so
»s this class of workmen is concerned, u
over.
Another conflict between Chicago's brick
makers and their employers is looked for
The eight-hour rule obtains iu the trade,
but the employers want to renew the ten
hour rule.
About 600 laborers employed on the dock:
■n St. Petersburg. Russia, went on strike
The action of the strike men that created a sensation, occurred •: ft
it was the first ever
that country
The miher» of Wales recently took a gen
*ral vote to Best the sentiment of theixoi gan
zatioa on the eight-hour question The re
-ult For eight hours. 25,353; against
sO.Oil; non-committal. 7109.
The ageut of an English syndicate 00 Lea m
Meted the purchase of six fins farms at
-var. Peas . for ths purpose of mills ereoticj ;
hereon two mammoth cotton aai
iwelling-houses tor the employes.
New South Wales (Australia) printing pc,pie are nd* :
growling about the scheme for
ertisciu-nts on the hacks of postage stamps,
hrv say Ibnt the iqK jeav f an iinpfeasam
taith la tlfe SiffaUl» t’ti'J lacker of a kthifiP-
VOL. XVI, NO. 18.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Cardinal Newman has just entered on
his ninetieth year.
Thomas A. Edison’s birthday is now
noted in tbe British almanacs.
Queen Viotoma is to have her portrait
painted for the German regiment of which
she is honorary Colonel.
It is said that Ds Lessens j# almost broken
down over the unfavorable report of the
Panama canal commission.
Edward Rothschild, tke head of the
great European banking United house, States. is now trav¬
eling through the
Lord Dunraven says he won’t send a
yacht across the Atlantic for any lesser race
than tbe race for the America’s cup.
John Sivinton, the labor reformer, writes
occasionally from Europe that he is in good
spirits and health, and enjoying himself.
General Boulanger has abandoned his
Island of Jersey retreat and has taken a
fashionable house in London for the season.
Secretary Proctor’s wife has gone to
tho Hot Springs of North Carolina in the
hope of getting rid of her rheumatism there,
Postmaster-General Wanamaker it
said to have under consideration the found¬
ing of a large mission church in Philadelphia.
Roscoe Conkling once said that if Jay
Gould had gone into politician politics he would have
become the master of this country.
The youugest millionaire in New York if
Marshall O. Roberts, son of the late Marshall
O. Roberts. He is ten years old and worth
$5,000,000.
The health of the King of Holland, who is
now seventy-three the disgust years of age, is much who im¬
proved, to of the people,
were arranging not long ago for a regency.
The death of Count Peter Alexandrnvitch
Valouieff survivors at St. Petersburg of removes one of
the last the liberal statesmen
who surrounded the Emperor Alexander It.
Herr Kritpp, proprietor Essen, of the extensive
cannon foundry at dollars Germany, lias given
half a million of for the erection of
homes for workingmen and a training school
for women.
Senator Hoar frankly confesses that the
reason why the debates iu Congress are not
reported at greater they length in the the news¬
papers is because are for most part
tiresome and uninteresting.
Green B Raim. the Pension Commis¬
sioner. is a stout, broad-shouldered mail,
with dark whiskers and hazel eyes. A corre¬
spondent says that fully $100,000,000 will
pass through his hands this year.
The health of the ex-Empress Carlotta of
Mexico has considerably improved the of mental late,
and few traces now remain of
disease from which sbe has suffered ever
since the tragic death of her husband.
Emperor William, of Germany, is hav¬
ing his portrait painted by thr
is sitting to a sculptor for his I
issued an edict prohibiting the sale of his
photographs without his personal sanction.
Sesou CaSTEL.ar, the great Spanish re¬
publican, has recently brought himself into
ill odor among his own party by the display
of his personal esteem for Queen Christina
and his solicitude during the illness of the
baby King.
Professor John F Wier, of the Yale
Art School, ex-Presideut has just finished Theodore the model Woolsay, for a
statue to
which will probably soon be cast, The
figure, including the pedestal, wilt stand
3'
'MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Mrs. Frank Leslie will deliver a series
of twenty lectures next fall.
A monument to Pergolesi, the celebrated
Italian composer, is to be erected at Naples.
A colored violinist named White, from %ud
Brazil, is making a sensation in London
Paris.
Louis Aldrich’s new comedy, “The Edi¬
tor,” will receive its first production in New
Haven on April 8.
It remains for St. Louis critics to find out
that Clara Morris has beoome too fleshy to
be an ideal Camille.
the Stuart Hollis Street Robson Theatre, began an Boston, engagement In his new at
play,, “An Arrant Knave.”
“Money Mad'’ is the startling dramatic
title of Steel Mackaye’s new plav, on which
he has put the final polishing touches.
Edwin Booth has subscribed $1000 to the
fund for the the relief Vincent of working Hospital, au institu¬ in Bos
tion for women
ton.
“The Rivals,” with Joseph Jefferson, VT
J Florence aud Mrs. John Drew, succeeded
the Kendals in the Fifth Avenue Theatre,
New York.
Et-sre Maude Stanley Hall is a little
Australian la ly—aged twelve—who is de¬
lighting English audiences with her remarka¬
ble pianoforte playing.
The Czar of Russia has issued an edict
which abolishes the German Court Theatri
of 8t. Petersburg on May 1, A French com¬
pany is to replace the Germans.
Henry M. Stanley will receive $150,000
for his lectures in England. He expects to
make as much more in this country. H«
will devote the next three years to the ros¬
trum.
Hans von Bulow has resigned, in a huff,
his position as pianist to the German Court,
and now advertises himself in the papers ol
his native country as “pianist in ordinary to
his Majesty, the German people,”
According to the Musical Directory of
London for 1800. there are in that city almost
4000 music-teachers and 7000 . the proy
m
juces. *«»*». There are 1600 orchestral players in
inc ‘ udin « abo ' lt ^ violinists
Buffalo Bill was hissed m Rome for x-e
fusing to pay a prize he had promised to any his
who should succeed in riding one of
| wild horses. WiUiam Borne Saimed peasants they accomplished had been
the feat but
t 0 o j o0 g j n mounting.
Mrs. Hoxgson Burnett has written a
new piece, called “Nixie,” which will be pro
duced in London, at Terry’s Theatre. The
heroine is a child, of course. Shoulditsuc- j
ceed, we may look for another multitude of
boy and girl prodigies.
In Italy, it is asserted, the opera has be
come simply and a fashionablefatheriug calls place enjoy- for
society, social aud similar
ments implying the free use of the tongue
render the house so noisy that the musii- is
spoiled called This the fact decline is alleged of to account in Italy for
what is opera
of late years,
There is a highly In**' lectuai ballet at Co
logae, Germany, in which the dancers, sup
{rased to represent atoms of different ele
inente unite in groups so as to form certain
well known chemical combinations. The
idea conferring educational v«e upon
this particular form of entertainment is de
sideuly new and ingenious.
uilidlN uiui mix 3 m UU iT 1 (KIN UivjiN V V HITS kulra* 1 j
- I
pi Kt Contract Made by Virginia :
Under the New Law j
The first contract for hire of penitentiary j
convicts under the law passed by the last
Virginia Legislature has been entered into |
by Governor McKinney with tho Atlantic j
and Ohio Railroad. Company. day The for company 100 j
is to pay forty'flve and cents bear a all or of
more convict®, expense The phy- (
h ansporcation aud maintenance State ,
scian to the convict camp is to be a j
officer, and the mfcn can only t© vrorked j
under his supervision.
The island of St. Helena Is again to ;
be used as a political prison. This time, j
itfttead of afforfing shelter to auothey
worlct»iuXctSt€ir, *t will b© tne ijouic ot
curtnie Jfufa fcJ^S who fought a'etSVSA
. i
Mamina's Crood-Ni^Ut.
loosens the baby’s frock,
takes off each little shoe and sock
softly brushes the golden hail 1 ,
pats the shoulders, dimpled and bar*!
puts on the night-gown, white and
long,
the while an evening son
“Daytime is over;
Playtime is closing;
Even the clover
Is nodding and dozing,
bed shall be soft and white,
little boy, good-night! good-night!”
kisses the little pink feet,
the tiny hands so dimpled and sweet,
rosy cheeks and the forehead white.
the lips that prattle from morn till
night;
a last fond kiss for the golden crown
and softly she lays him down,
in the hush that the twilight brings
stands by her darling's bed and sings;
“Over the billow
Soft winds are sighing;
Round baby's pillow
Bright dreams are flying.
comes a pretty one, sure to alight!
little boy, good-night! good-night!”
—Eudora 0. Bumelead.
HUMOROUS.
When a man is ua ler a clou l the sil¬
lining is generally on tli 3 other
“I have obtained all the infonintion
desire on that paint,” remarked the
who sat down on a pin.
“Bitter," says a learned writer,
unknown to the ancients, 9t Then
of it cannot be as old as it seems.
In times like these the doctor skilled
JIis hopes of caring offers.
His pockets are with money filled
Drawn from the public cougliers.
Thompson (proudly)—Ribinsou, you
that guni My wile killed a bear
that once. Robinson!—Ah, in¬
What was she shooting all
Minnie—L:t’s see, dear, what is
scutcncc about spoiling the Egypt¬
Mamie—I don’t know. I’m
though, that it lias no reference
the mummies.
“I thought you were going to marry
Gold th waite. “Her family wero
opposed to it. »» “Well, but if tho
herself— “I said all tho family.
was one of ’em.”
Old Gentleman (giving tramp a cent)
now, my mau, what will you do
°>is (sarcastically) - —•> , —■Nawt Pursbftybtf T goin . ,
1 1 1
drink myself to death with it!
A facetious Bostonian, who has occa¬
to send postal cards to a certain
small city where there is a postmistress,
writes this legend on the top of the
card: “Plea-e forward after perusal. it
Edison’s Active Brain.
After the death of General Grant,
Otto von Bismarck wai supposed to be
the greatest smoker among famous meo,
but Inventor Edison has put the great
Prussian into tho second rank, The
inventor smokes almost all tho time and
never any except the strongest cigars.
Making believe that he h ten times
more deaf than he is, and smoking 15
21 jet black “long nines J) a day, are
or
his amusements, But there is less of
both fun and pretense about E lison,
than there is about any great man of
the day. He literally works all tbe
time that he is awake. For him to seo
any mechanical device fait or give an¬
noyance is enough to set his brain at
work devising an improvement upon it;
it makes no diffirence whether it is a
patent match that doesn’t always light,
or a toboggan that lies idle waiting for
snow and ice.» Coming over from Eu
rope last fail ho noticed that there was
1 g reat deal of guess-work an linac
about “taking the sun > in
curacy
cloudy weather, Before he left the
ship he invented a miana to take the
sun though it should be obscure l by
,
the densest fog imaginable. — Chatter.
All Angry T 1 rite.
There is a species of acacia which is
commonly c i*icd the augry treo. It
rcirhes the height of eighty feet
after rapid growth , and , somewhat , re¬
a
geln blcs tho century plant, Oae of
these curious plants was brought from
A auntmis t , ; mw d set « oat at Virginia, ” Nev.,
where it hat been seen by many persons.
When the sun sets the leaves fold up
an d the tender twigs coil tightly, like a
little pig’s taiL If the shoots are han
died the leaves rustle and move un
easily for a time, If this queer plant
is removed from one plot to another, it
jogjog aD' r ry, and the leaves stand out
”
in . ail „ directions . like quills on a poicu
pine. A most puigont and sickening
odor, said to resemble that given off by
ra ttl e snakss when annoyed fi s the air,
and it is only afrei an hour or so that
the leaves fold in the natural way.
The True Bing
Mother —Geraldine, was that letter
tou received this m-ining from 3I-.
Von R che?
“Yes. ma."
“Well, did its wording have the true
ring!
‘•Yes, mo—a fp'end'd engagement
l(ug”- irriStDift UeMoA