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J. W. ANDERSON, Editor and Proprietor. S r -jcyp- j PRYSTttKEDLENSES, race mark A Voice from the Executive Mansion. Mil a. W. Hawkes— Dear Sir: Tho 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. WheleBalo Depots, Atlanta, Ga. ranklin B. Wright, COVINGTON, GA. esident Physician & Surgeon. ihildren, Gynecology, Obstetrics, disease# of women and and all Chrome iiseases of a private nature, a special¬ ty. I have a horse at my command, which will enable me to attend calls In the surrounding country, as wel bit my city practice. FRANKLIN B. WRIGHT. ML U 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. Boarders Not Taken. mi 'I V*, j ViVS SIM •v L J# * % I. tap -T WfMS’ I \ t q -i • ' ■», ' \ - A' iet First Cat—••'Ain’ttheren ram forjuef" , BeconclTcit—“(tltfu't keVii yoarders." -vMuntegi TTi Wy. 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. ■ 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¬ a of struct the architect not to give them Queen Anne exteriors. Such clients are pleased with Colonial features, as a rule, which i is re _JJi . 4 . s. V. r Sv / ■4 . '3 y u Ic! •i Sy: j&4 kwi RERSRECriVB VIEW. rdtt l O-S — mi indication that tha Colonial . 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; u feet. Vee/i, ’ . t] ■**sms* 7 . Qttur.j'Ju " ■/ ’Mm ytrtatudai V rwtft y. : .s£iXM& i first floor. 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 y M t ^ecy*r«tX j ■ ] g'e ! — it 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 I mA iv, V» jjTulTKtL: Arcuiitctf 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