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The Democrat.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
BY CLEM. C. MOORE.
CRAWFOJiDVILLE, GEORGIA
En'-red at the posto flics at Crswfordville,
Oeoj-g.a, as second-class mail matter.
f Tha British East African Company
has taken steps to regulate elephant
hunting In its domains, in order that
the species may not be exterminated by
hunters who shoot tho big beasts for
■port. Tho Now York Telegram de¬
clares that if tho United States had
taken such steps in regard to tho buf¬
falo 10 or 20 years ago, that animal
would not now be so nearly extinct.
The old war-v<jfscl Hearsarge, that
sunk tho private# Alabama oil Cher¬
bourg, France, on Juno 19th, 1804, will
not bo broken up, as was first intended.
It was roported that she could not bo
repaired within tho statutory limit of
cost to ] ut a woodon vessel in condi¬
tion for service, It has boon found,
however, that the engines built for tho
Nantaskct can be put ia for less than
tho cost of repairs of tho Kearsarge's
engines, and this will ho dono. Kho is
now at (lie Portsmouth (N. H.) Navy
yard. ♦
It is sni 1 that 1 000 , 000 persona aro
now studying Volapuk. .Journals de¬
voted to tho propagation of tho “uni¬
versal language'’ are printed in all parts
of Europe, some in America, and ono in
Japan, edited by a Hollander, Tho
latost addition to tho list is tho Van
Kim Tung Him, published in China by
a Chinese. This is a journalistic curi¬
osity. It consists of thirty pages, many
of which nro specimen pages of a Chi¬
nese Volapuk lexicon, which is in tho
courao of preparation, and which will
coatain 10,000 words.
Says a 8t. Lmis undertaker: “Tho
daily death list in tho newspnpurs is
consulted hy inoro pcoplo than thoso
who have an idlo curiosity to know who
is dead. During a camfaign candi¬
dates for office aro anxious to attond
funoral* that aro iiablo to congregato
mon of influence. A certain class of
lawyers aro on tho lookout for damago
suits. Tombstono doalors tako notes
with a view to business tha futuro.
Insurance agents mnke a memorandum
to call upon tho surviving relatives in
due time. Tho keeper* of tho boor
**»’*.«• gaOsJo
their orders according to tha outlook
for tho day. Tho class who want free
carriage ride* acan tho column atten¬
tively."
Thoro was an oxcollcnt reason, it ap¬
pears to tho Now York Sun, for tho
pluck and stubborn courago with which
tho robolllous Berbers recently faced
tho soldiers of tho Sultan of Morocco.
Whon in bsttto array a lino of women
atood behind tho tllo of warriors. Each
woman was equipped with a paint
brush and a pot of honna, tho plant in
which all Oriental ladies dolight if thoy
are addicted to pink finger nails, It
wss tho purposo of thoso dauntloss fe¬
males to adorn with henna tho breast of
•very man who turned his back to tho
enemy and thus artistically blazon tho
fact of his cowardice. No wonder tho
Berbers fought like fury if they coqld
not turn around without greatly in¬
creasing tho numbor of their eitomios.
Avery entertaining old toad has been
called up to euliveu the British public,
lie was found some scores of yards un¬
der the earth's surface, embedded in
clay. His limbs were perfectly limp,
and he was stone blind, Tho local
savants could not guess Us ago accurate¬
ly, but r ckoned it somewhere between
20,000 and 00,000 years. This toad was
tired of living in the days before Adam
got tired of living alone in li ion, and
it is just possible ho heard the rain
come down during the flood, Uofor
tunntely other scientific men vow in tho
London Times that the poor toad must
have fallen down some crack in tho
clay soil during a dry season, and be¬
come embedded when the rain caused
tha toil to swell, But scientific men
always take a delight In spoiling the
stories of rival men of science.
An Infant's Remarkable Luck.
Officer Ymous, who patrols tho dis¬
trict west of the 1'oion Pacific shops, is
an expert catcher, Yesterday aftcr
soon, while pacing up Chicago street,
near Twelfth, hi* attention was called
to a volume of smoko pouring out tho
upper window of 1217, and he started
for the nearest signal Ik X As he was
passing the bui.dmg ho sa something
whit? come out of the 2 CP! storv
window, and instinctive >• out his
hands to catch it. lie s 5 ceded. It
was a little two-month, i bv Its
father, L. C Pcttifor had returned
home, tided the gasoline stove tank,
touched a match to the turner, when,
’ presto change, the stove exploded. His
wife was frightened out of her wits,
and caught up the baby and tired it
irom tho window.— k Oainhs Herald.
THE DEMOCRAT, GEORGIA.
OUR POSTAL BUSINESS.
ASM'A L COST OF Till: VSJTLD
ST I TF.S COSTAL SERVICE.
Thrv* Tlionennd Million I’icccs Moiled
j«a*t Y>nr»
The annual report of the Third Assistant
Postman ter-treueral of the United Staten
Postal . _ Her
shows that the total cost of . the ,
vice for the last fiscal yerr, inclusive of
amount earned by the subsidized railroad
companies for mail transportation was *58,-
120,004.
The postal and money order re
ceipts amounted to *52, *19*5,176, leav
ing a deficiency of $5,430,823. mainly, it '
This deficiency is owing is
said, to the great extension of the free de
livery service under a modification or the
old law and the increase of the railway mail
transportation. considerably The special delivery system the
has grown since
report of the previous y<u»r.
matter "S . h “ Bll *!L" ^of /ear "registered
transnOtte i .ium.g the was 13,
»i77 PHI of special delivery matter thenumber
Of piece, transmitted was 1,424,4.0 The
total number of articles of the variouskimls
of stamped paper emitted was 2,700,637,170, given,
representing $50.630,331. Statistics are
showing that m the cheapness of postage, the
number <>f Post Offices, extent of mail
routes, miles of service performed, postal
revenue a n l postal expenditure, and number
of letters and other pieces of mail matter
transmitted in the mails the United State s is
tmw conspicuously ahead of every ottwrna
tion in the world. The siatistics of letteis,
ete. transi.rtte I during the year whu'u are
the
follows 19.800,000
Jsstlers mailed.................1,5 372, ~0 *,000
Postal cards maileil.............
Newspni limited...... iers and periodicals ......1,063,100,000
Pieces of third and fourth class
matter...... ....... 372,900,000
Total______ ******** ‘ o ’ ooo *. ooo
ant.
refommtmdntionn That in some of the larger
cities the pneumatic tulm or some equival nt
uudergroun I system of transporting the
mail*!* adopted; that, the present contract
for letter-sheet envelopes bo' rescinded that
nil postage stamps, stamped envelopes, and
Other intuit b« stamped inufit'-tured paper issued by tho by Bureau the depart- of hn
m
graving and Printing; .that, as a substitute
for the franking privilege, members of
Congress have au annual allowance of
money for the purchase of postage
Htamps with which to pay post
age on mieerbes and other official matter sent
by mad,and that if the rate of (“'stage on let
™’d hrCongr^ n tCre a - S bS two
classes of mail nil matter recognized, namely,
letters and other matter now ronipro
bended in the third and fourth classes, poe
tagn on which shall be uniform at one cent
for every two ounces, and newspapers and
l“•ri(“lienls at the rate now fixed—ou 1 cent a
pound.
NEWbY GLEANINGS
BUICIDE Is increasing in England.
The Ixiuiaiana rice crop will be short
The Constitution of Hervia is to be re
vis«l
There are 14,000,000 voters In the 11 “ ’
fin$K M T has 427 miles of street
One of the Burgess yachts has won a race
in Japan.
Thk visible supply of oat« Is notably tho
Tyr.'SS.e. of Paris clean. nnnum a M ....
streets
A canal will soon bo cut between the
Black and Caspian Seas.
W 01 ves are doing great damage * to the
Ut. .fnch m Northern Montana
T,„ "I Ml-oun “ .« »nl,
a" 01 „,l,ml.of rov.l l.lmth.A W
be sweeping all over Europe jus now.
F.M IITEEN vessels hailing from Gloucester,
Ma.-s , have been lost during the year.
Nearly twenty thousand men have boon
naturalized in New York City this yea.".
Leprosy is said to have been transmitted
te the Indians of British Columbia by tho
Chinese.
The area sown to winter wheat
Middle and Western States is fully equal to
last year.
MontaNa’s population is estimated by the
., , nf , in nf u\i\Lu
'
over last year. ,
T,u City of Louisville w.thin Ky Ae has purchased ti,.
a pavk Of 300 acres miles of
c it> HhI or s .
The British Government will shortly s-k
Parliament for $17000,000 for tlie purpose ol
increasing the na>). I
An American syndicate is forming in build- St.
Petersburg. ita«m. for the purpose of
ing railroads in Sil era.
Mrs Hannah Starkey, of Youngstown,
Ohio, aged Hi. has just died__She was born
in County Cork. Ireland, in im.
Over t«ohundred an l fifty gold and silver
tu if- havo t o-’u toaMuiV'l Uu.»iv tu the de
pnrtiuent of Ant oquU, Colombia.
The exports of Chili for the first seven
months of this vear were 87.0,1,1.ii.Hi in excess
of those for the same period ia 1887.
The German mUitarv budget contains an
it Mn of yll Iiu for the biwi in.:, trainin';
»uui mamteti.inco of carrier pigt*ona
It is estimated that the sum of C-> Hto.f A )1
i , •Lad 111 , bv e c T oil liets in New York
LOVEKMUIS. w , lilt .. Of Mv« a ashng, T.,r, 1. i r -
U. haasuoceeaed , ,
Professor_Nat v sf.kr mex
" St Uodthaab wiUi hisfour .Norwegian
The dismissal of Mr. Dronv. the American
mnndtHi t - ^ -
Shanghai,
.
POSTAL REPORTS.
tUuua-ter The annual report of the Seooud A-si-tant
Sows General ,f »h United States
thad the mail servioe is in operation on
near v 25 000 routea, covering nearly’■ *'.ikkl
' rel,
TV- ext-en-.- 1 for the v«nr were
i , C . . . , han < d , 1,0
,\er ,h< l ..na vi -c The evi' ii-i-s for
,: \?„rT„^ooifa,uths-' he'sivei';- > He
,w“s 'n attention to the fa,t tha h, aaje,U » -
*' 1 ^
them repaid wppp .i ■
lug' r '‘l vu H re
ix>m menus the , ^Lutehment establisnuient of ot a a renairshop rejwu u, P
h©re. lbo7."r7 77'7
T>- "C-* o'r7t. f £r» t
of eight pw ft n. iL 11- r»
"Tnemts v>'-| an.itekise to‘$l.M lW orders. as the man
mum for international money
MEWS SUMMAEJV.
Eastern mid Middle Slaires. jdaaa., I
Frank Turner, of Westfield, vbo
was confined in the Springfield jail I awaking
cide trial m on his a charge cell by of hanging. perjury, ebuiojiittedfeai- { ’
«
Bv the falling of a mason's scaffol he
Weed building at 8 tamford,Conn., ft. en
were thrown to the ground, two being ‘I ad
and three others severely injured.
Fire in a paper house on the Five P<| s,
Aew . York City, destroyed
, property y» d
at $300,000, and seven men were f 1
while escaping from the burning stp r
The anarchists of New York,* 1 *
and other cities observed the first *
of the hanging their brethren at A '-ry
of mgo
tor causing the Haymarket riots,
“laM itii la,
perished in their burning dwellit er*
non thirty-five Center, N. Y. Knorr *as -‘D
unknown. years old. The origin! re
is
Boopi.br Jafhne, of New Yi *■ .ist
fi niiih his term jn Hing. Thep e
Court of the Cnited States has if ,
decisionon his application for decfriV a f
habeas corpus, in which the
Court for the Southern District </ N
u affirmed.
Aster traveling abroad for *
Chi'ago, Ml has '- Carter returned HarH«w. toNewYoij e*-lj he
steamship Alaska,
Mrs. Sarah J. Robinsot, who to
have been banged at Boston for the ; d " r
of her brother, has had her sentenr im
muted to imprisonment for life, i
George Cooper, of Portland. Corn ur _
dered his wife as she lay asleep in her t Che
crime was committed with an axe, the Sift
being struck three fearful blows G tlw j
head,
Hf;N . IlY Betzkb> a German resir sui^ a {.
Mlddl town ’Despondency Conn., committed l,y 1
hootj following «ro
A Eire m Watsons marine stores, at
lyn, do.Jars. caused a loss of over a quarter o:
km
South and West. i
Allot *t 160 miners were at work in it 16
near Pittsburg, Kansas, when an exp. ,n
occurred. All but two miners were 1 !
below the surface, and the enfcomW
ab roS,s <’ llt $- 1,0111 in bullion r and %
F.iiward Hall, one of the striking . ^ n
gineers, was shot and instantly kit; at
Creston, Iowa, by one of tho new eng- ra |
named Charles Huston.
The Jasper freight train crushed ti -■
B treH tlo at Birmingham, Ala, and * j
tramrw who were stealing a ride, were Garble r~ |
w a HvhumaKKR, Postmaster at citi/Jn |
«... , v nrorniupnt vijly ,
whs shot mid killcsl by bis wife, who is self-ile- ,
.eventoen yean J oM. She did it in j
-
* . iui in the business pa rtW /.sa j
randon \vis were burned causing a
A numbk.u of disasters are reported which ast be -ho
result of a heavy snow storm, twenty-i r-j :
in the West and continued about
hours. The storm Missouri raged furiously and Coioro throng U: ;
Northern Kan-as, 1
impeding railway travel and interrupting
communication.
Capital News of has the lieeri Chickasaw received from Nation, Tishomingo, that G®v
ernor Guy has been assassinated.
PETER Howe, senior member of the bank
ing firm of Howe & Son ml his wife,
former aged seventy-te '
ter sixty nine, who li
fre business '
h&jfb*
lv m
Three Morm .11 elders vho were pros
mg in Marion County, Ala, were
^ m/itarred and'faatherol 1
The MoS
mons tiezged for their lives and promised to
leave at once, never to return. »,
JH^^SSSTi.’Z husband 1£SSSZ it
mangled body of bar as wis
drawn up from the wrecked mine ft
Fronteuac, Kan. She was taken home 1
lu ‘ r children.
Til* bodies of Eula Jones, a ehembernian,
w'",",1:7 T«n-.v*h bltri,-L
Five hundred acres of corn along tie
Ohio river below Evansville, hid., are sut
merged and the crop destroyed, owmg to
recent heavy rains.
Unknown men exploded dynamite under
the Court House at Henrietta, Texas, and t
was destroyed.
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Washington.
The report of Adjutant General Drue
shows the entire force of the anny to bo 2,,
non men. tht* The country well equipped, has increased wgant*^ froti
militia of 1*N5. He
to 1 UT. 0 .K) men since recon
V»Us,nxe.xt oST&nWtW live to three
from years,
rkoi kst has been mad© by this Gov
to Canada and Mexico borders to prevent
chim . s „ froril cross i„g tneir into
the United States.
nwai party under charge of Lieutea
\- orr j a „ill start on a scientific trip de
term/ltdoiigilude tliromsi Mexico and Central America to
' by telegraph.
. ., n t |> res ident and Mrs. Clevs'
i.,., i „.oi ... ,c e Huur future home ia Wash*
nill , ,1 <, lt •'inuiviB,' I'ldivt liable
application for a writ of habeas
rornus in the ease of David S. Terry of Cali
w ]„, was convi -ted of contempt of
, he and his
court f„i .. \ iz’-iu - ens in which
wife. Sarah Althea IM! Sharon toUi
attak^t the officei*s of the court
Thk The report report of of Commissioner Harmony,
Chief Chief of of United United States Stale- Yards Yards and and Docks. Docks,
shows that $ 12 t, 553 .s 5 ) was exjieiidiHl last last
year. The The Naval Naval Asylum Asylum at at Uhiladeiphia Philadelphia
tNwt cost ^ $60,(WO $GV ntflast last year, vear, and and the the estimated estimated coat cost
Lie.sUwwi-ii.*«w next year a is jg placed at at #80,000. He recom
J£SS52TZ,'ytKrS!S£5iS work all the United States
fusion of at
navy yards.
The United States Treasury Department
^^ani' 'InM punawv'musT f»v a‘dutv^
'
twenty five per cent.
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Foreign.
sLuiftn vXli'^ckXIhe k tewn o? W^iln
wt of Darfoor The threeSou- garrison re
L killed
** '■ a, u.hd,<ts r-wtracke.1 andean
, The The 8 Su.tan U tan of of AYadai AA adai fled neu
^
A house collajcvlon Titchfield street.Lon
don. causing the death of six persons and the
injury of twenty.
London is again thrown into a terrible
stale of excitement bv the AYhitechape! fiend
who has murdered a woman named lizzie
Flshw ^ maklBK tho n nth Tirtim c f his
niania for V'utcherv. Unlike the committed previous
atrocities, this ,wfui crime was
within a building. ' The mutilation of the
vic#m { rig htful than in the case of
" l h ti.“'. „'" , .''i i ! r
jsas^S An l , 51 .
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Tur s . , t JSS _ .
-wateons and exciteu ent.
£SS? f*S” IS" 'rZ SIS
were drowned off the Merecomba The
steamer Akai.a was wreaked off Yarnionth
and seven lives lost. Two ship's boats
marked Glasgow and seven bodies came
ashore off the Cornish coast
As attempt has been made to assassinate
prince Ferdinand, the ruler of Bulgaria.
The heavy rains of the past few days have
ca sod floods in many distri ts of England.
Lord Randolph Churchill has arraigns*! of
‘he Fszlish Government m the House
"o* mons for scandals connected with the
judiciary.
German* guards on the eastern frontier
' -ween France and Germany have shot
i.ree French sportsmen, killing one of
*
Rem.
The Navy Department has ordered all
*ork on the Saratoga at the Port-mouth
,\'avy Yard suspended, and, also, as far as
[c ,s-’Lie, on the Portsmouth. The Saratoga
ill be given to the State of Penusylvan— as
a training ship.
In consequence of the severe criticism of
the police on their inability to capture the
perpetrator of the Whitechapel atrocities,
Sir Charles Warren, Chief of the Metropolitan resig
police of London, has resigned, and h s
nation has been accepted.
A .niece of the dowager Empress has been
chosen as consort for the Emperor of China.
Captain T. H. Logan, commanding the
United States troops at Fort Hancock, on
the Rio Grande, some seventy miles below
El Paso, Texas, has been arrested and thrown
into prison by Mexican gendarmes who
caught him while on a hunting expedition in
Mexico.
Many children perished in a fire which de
stroyed a large amount of property in the
vicinity of Viletta, Colombia.
Conplaint has been made recently con
rerning the condition of the St. Ambrose
(Canada) city reservoir water. The authori
ties emptied the water to discover th>- cause,
and found the remains of eleven infants at
the bottom of the tank.
Political riots have occurred in Spain.
Rioters assailed the carriage of Senor ( ano
vas, the conservative leader, in Madrid, and
injured his wi»e.
* LABOR NOTES.
The building season is over in most of the
northern cities.
Eighty-eight out of every hundred cigar
makers in California are Chinamen.
s-?
A fine is assessed against all Chicago fore
men who pay the wages of employes in sa
loons
°. f the country will hold
„ NationaTunion * ' Menden ) ’ Conn ’’ to form *
_ ., . ... ,
Chicago will soon have a new bottle fac'
jSC of'handa ^ 0 a " d em P loyfa * a larg ®
liUmDer ot Rands,
The first annual convention of boiler in
specters 1 and stationary engineers has just
been held in Pittsburg.
There is a growing tendency in all labor
unions to formulate some regulation which
for apprentices.
The organized brass wooers of the United
States anil Canada have adopted a resolution
in favor or the eight-hour rule.
T he total number of persons employed in
rtvo-thirds .ookbinding in Philadelphia aggregates 2350,
of whom are women.
The labor societies of Pittsburg have raised
over $2500 for the monumeut to be erected
in memory of Thomas Armstrong, a noted
labor leader.
A new organization in labor is the Brother
,iood of Machinery Molders,recently started
in Philadelphia. the There are now four b; ranches j
order,
- - 1 ^.» w - -
sums ,.::^rbr
white children.
The Brotherhood of locomotive Engineers .
Col.° October X !° OV
Denver, 17 , lS 8 The grand
officers were re-elected.
Carpenters complain that they have been
£?S5
no hope of finding work there.
Eau Claire. Wis., has a co-operative dividend of
store that recently declared a
The iron furnaces of Ensley, Ala., a small
town near Birmingham, are now said to be
held at Indianapolis,was Secretary Delwarte
of the Universal Federation of Glass-Work-
6 rs.
Non-union carpenters are referred to in
Denver as “bush-whackers,” in Pittsburg as
Judy “jay.hawkers,” showHuen,” in Texas in California as “Punch-and- “travel
and as
ing chips.
Montreal, Canada, has thirty boot and all
shoe factories. Four thousand persons,
over fourteen years of age, are meniand employed.
\V ages average * 12 a week for $«
for women.
The female compodtors of Topeka, Kan.,
They ’ have alsf edabi,shed un^er the
auspices Printer of the club, a magaziue entitled
the Girl.
The Grand Jury in Buffalo, N.Y\, indicted
the Buffalo Street Kaitroad Company and
tho East Side ltadroaii Company for viola
tion of the law making it a misdemeanor to
: exact from an employe more than ten hours’
labor in twelve consecutive hours.
The Furniture Workers' International
Union was organized in July, 1875, with
nine local unions, having a total memb-rship
H ) *- >ow the number of local unions
has increased to twenty six and tha member
ship to over five th >usmd in good stand
lw 8
Mn- H sines, the iaiy agent of tho Maine
labor bure m. is now engage.! in examining
j into ^ th© j condition loljster of the working women establish- in
mente le f an of in< the-eaboard ‘ an ‘ canning
cities of the east She
" ll a, ”° ' rislt the great factories on a like
.
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' AN . w AWFUL ■ xin?TTT car SMASH. a cu
—
SI* Men Kilim V* Stupid
mans Krror.
a most disastrous wreck has occurred at
Valley Falls, AA*. A’a., on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. A heavy freight tram
had been sidetracked to let the Ughtnmg
express from New Yoi*k to Chicago pa>s. but
bv the mistake of an inexperienced brake
hour temake Tfor'’losf collided time with dashel the s.and into
the o|x*n switch and
train.
On the engine of the freight train pull wwexoe when
engineer ^ and firemen, reatiy to ottt
j a minute. fifteen car.
and^immense engines were p. 1^1 up m a
Six men «ere instantly killed and their
bodies homblv mangled.' They were: Engi
neer FMw ani De Were, of Wheeling: Engi
neer William Clinton, of Wheeling: a po*tai
cierk. two tramps, unknown, and "“*m
found unrecognizable; John Shay, a nre
man. and a brakeman named Jones, was
terribly cut about tbehead and lace.
The passenger train was a full ves’i buled
one. but no pnsseng-rs were kilei. though and
every one of them was bally shaken up
ssj-^sy^.-Ts.Ta'ss ’"t—St. fppicht oar. onom.* ..O', *
married. His head was cut off as though
^by.kmfe The lo^ to the company
was JUAl.iAAi.
LATEST NEWS.
In the Vermont House of Representatives
the bill granting to women the right of suf¬
frage was defeated by a vote of 192 to 35.
Assistant Factory Inspector Franey,
after investigating the fire in the Rochester
(X _ T ) Steara Gauge W orks. where fort
J
Persons , lost fc their , . lives, reports that the fire
©scapes were not sufficient for the purpose
and he hints that the company waa evading
the law in employing women and boy 3 more
than the ten hours spacified by law
Charles Johnson, who killed a prison
keeper while attempting to escape in Janu
ary, 1887, has been hanged at Waterloo ’ N. Y
John Keisep., a wealthy shoe merchant ol
Pittsburg, shot himself through the heart.
The cause of his suicide is unknown.
Stephen Anthony has been murderel by
his son-in-law, Solon Jenkins. Anthony re¬
fused to let Jenkins see his wife and children.
Peter Shively, of Tordstown, Ohio, who
is seventy-eight years old, deliberately killed
his aged wife. The couple had been married
for sixty years and had al ways lived paace
ably. Mrs. Shively was eighty-three years
old.
Members of the murderous gang known
as Bald Knobbers have lynched five men at
Ozark, Mo., who as witnesses were instru¬
mental in having David Walker, the Bald
Knobbers’ chief sentenced to be hung.
Official returns from all but fifteen
counties place the Republican plurality in
Kansas at 82,000, making it the banner Re¬
publican State of the Union.
A West Virginia construction train, car¬
rying seventy men, was wrecked by a drove
of cattle rushing on the track. Nine men
were seriously injured and one killed out¬
right.
Fritz Anschlag, who was to have been
executed at Los Angeles Cal., for the murder
of Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock at Garden Grove
in January last, and who also confessed to
the killing of JuliU3 Feugh, a neighbor in
Butte county, in 1885, committed suicide two
days before the execution by taking strych¬
nine.
The new Swiss Minister, Alfred de Clap
arede, has been presented to the President
by Secretary Bayard.
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, member of the
British Parliament, and Miss Endicott,
daughter of the United States Secretary of
War, have been married in St. John’s
Church, Washington, in the presence of a
large and fashionable assembly,including the
President and Mrs. Cleveland, and most of
the members of the Cabinet and their
families.
An order has been issued from the War De¬
partment relieving General Schofield, at his
own request,of the command of the Division
the Atlantic, and appointing thereto
Major-General Howard, now in California in
of the Division of the Pacific.
Genera Howard is the officer next in rank to
Schofield,and will assume command
Governor’s Island, New York,
Thk p renc i, small arms factory at Chatell
^ Ul
$ 200 , 000 . r
Frene h Government has decided to
send the captured ex-King of Annam to
Algeria in perpetual exile.
D Maximilian w,.»7p.pl«r of Bavaria who was
. 1 * 1 ." . .go, I,
dead. He was eighty years of age.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of King
p^rist'an's accession to the throne of Den
much popular rejoicin,.
FTfteen workmen in the Noyant quarries
-,«-«» n~S •»— W
Thk house ot Mrs. Frank Kneeht, ot
ryilkesbarre 1 Penn., was burned while she
’
went out . , to get some mUfc n ilk Un On her ner return return
tho woman saw her two c i < ren a
in the flames and burn to death.
a™ ^ General Assembly J of the Knights of
Labor na ^ *» ita nua , session at In
iianapolis, Ind. Reports were a read a snowing hn®in.
* vast decline in the membership of the Or
der 1 a3 well ^ an almost empty treasury.
The Chickasaw Indians are on the . nointof pomeoi
in inter-tribal war to determine who shall be
GoVenK>r ° f the recently Nat f assassinated. P Iace f ?°' e ™ r
Guy, who was
Miss Belle Bridewell, a teacher in a
' . . w!!Tbv . , li-wh^Tshe to bullv StempS kicked
m t ie 1 7 a
to punish, that she died in a few minutes.
Judge Wood ’ in Indianapolis, Ind., drew
the attention . of the „ Fed , . , g , J f
-
reported conspiracy to influence voters on a
large scale by the us> of money, and recom
men dedan investigation.
i — $10,000, shipped „ . to
A PACKAGE containing
Tacoma, AVashington Territory, by the
Northern Pacific Express Company, has
stolen bv one of the clerks, who has
UC aed
-
^ President Cleveland made the follow
>“K appointment*: H Howard Ellis, of New
Je^y, to to L m . W Sta^ Cons Con-nl J at at Rote Pot
terdam, and Charles B. Trail, of Maryland,
\ isssr Secretary of theUnited States Legat.on
Illr s „ tt D , plrt „ n ,
bgen informed 0 f t t ie passage of a lxw by
Ecuador allowing foreign vessels to enter
t heir coasting trade.
Thirty miners were killed by an explosion
af fire damt) at DoU r. Belgium.
The mysteno white Pacha in the Bahr
.on-lit a
tagal have overflowed their tonks flowing
the surrounding country and doing exten
ilTt . damage » .
Douglas Pyxe, a note! and aggressive
^ of the Brltis h Parliammt, feU
and drowned while saUing
t «een Holvheai and Dublin.
a chess match has been arranged between
gteinitz, the champion of the world, and
Tschigorin. the famous Kussian chammon.
** Winner of most of thirty games will get
the 8tak ^ of f „ , w a si de. bes.d-s a special
prize. The match is to be held in Havana,
under the auspices of the club of that
c j tT ^ginning 6 in the second week in next
'
January
^sgjss«gjyrase h. m«d, bis firt, ap
“ assisting Mr Hedges,
^ Tibborts has been
agent o£ the Associate Ire* in Indian
anolin
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Bismarck is racked by gout
Count Tolstoi is a clever mechanic
Queen- Victoria is said to be suffering
from gout.
Judge Allen G. Thurman is seventy
five years old.
Lord Tennyson is said to suffer severely
from the gout
General Boulanger is quoted as saying
that rest fatigues him.
Jesse Grant is in the City of Mexico,
where he has mining interests.
Miss Julia Rhinelander possesses $30,
000,000 in New York real estate.
RuskTN.'the art critic, is on a visit toVenice,
the first he has made in twelve years.
The condition of the mad millionaire,
Robert Garrett, has improved very much.
General and Mrs. Schofield have taken
apartments in Washington for the winter.
Lord Sackville will will soon visit Lord
Stanley, the Governor General of Canada.
The Earl of Lucan, who commanded the
famous charge of tho Light Brigade at Bala
klava, is dead.
The Rev. Dr. William H. Scott, President¬
elect Harrison’s father-in-law, is a clerk in
the Pension Office at Washington.
The Prince of Wales has lost his skill as a
marksman. He smokes ten cigars a day and
many cigarettes, to the detriment of his
nerves.
Governor Blake, of Newfoundland, has
been appointed Governor General of Queens¬
land, with a salary of $25,000 and enormous
emoluments.
Colonel John Hat, author of the Life
of land Lincoln, Lake has purchased several acres of
at Sunapee, N. H., where he will
build a summer residence.
Dr. David Hostetter, of Pittsburgh, who
died a few days ago, left a fortune of from
$10,000,000 to $15,000,000. His life insurance
alone amounts to more than a third of a
million.
M rs.’Hap.rison, wife of the President-elect,
is said to be an enthusiastic and successful
china painter. She has her own kiln for fir¬
ing herself. her china and attends to all the details of
it
Mrs. Morton, wife of the Vice-President¬
elect, says she has done nothing but keep
house and raise a family since she has been
married, and that her life fulfills her idea of
complete happiness.
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson, who pre¬
sided over the domestic affairs of the AV hite
House during Buchanan’s administration,
has taken possession of a house in Washing¬
ton and will spend the winter there.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is very fond of
animals. Among her pets, besides many
dogs of ail sizes and degree, color and de¬
scent, she has an Alderney ponies,"a cow, a Maltese
cat, a pair of sorrel bird, a rabbit,
and a fawn.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, author of “Rob¬
ert brother, Elsmere,” was born in Australia. Her
Zealand. Theodore, Her is a schoolmaster in New
sister was married a few
years ago to Leonard Huxley, son of Pro¬
fessor Huxley.
Thomas a. Edison still works as hard and
as ginning industriously his as though he was just be¬
career, and any day he may be
found at his bench at his shop in Orange, N.
J., hard at work in his shirt sleeves, making
with his own hands models he considers too
delicate to trust to another.
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, who has just
married Miss Endicott, has an income of
$150,000 He from his factories in Birmingham.
has an elegant house in a fashionable
part greenhouses of London, besides a mansion and fine
years old, but at looks Birmingham. if he He is fifty
than as were not more
forty.
-^SIC AL AND DRAMATIC
San winter circus.
The title of Augustin Daly’s new play is
“The Undercurrent.”
It is estimated that there are 60,009 ama¬
teur actors in America.
A’erdt. the composer, has just entered his
seventy-fiftf year in health and wealth.
Richard Mansfield will play “Richard
III.” before his London engagement ends.
An effort is being made to bring Charles
Gounod and Camille St.-Saens to this coun¬
try.
Mr. H. C. Miner is in Europe, trying to
arrange for the production of “Paul Kauvar”
in London.
Mrss Mary Anderson has opened her sea¬
son in New Y ork, at Palmer’s Theatre, in “A
Winter s Tale.”
William Crane, it is said, sold his inter
est in “The Henrietta ’to Stuart Robson at
0maha recentiy _
Signor Leonhardt Sabatt, the new tenor
of the Clara Louise Kellogg Opera Company,
is a Swede by birth,
A. M. Morini, of Paris, has invented a
contrivance enabling children to use the
pe dals of the piano forte.
Louis James and Marie Wainwright have
been winning extravagant praise from Cali
fornia criticsand public.
ac ^ wffipfo?u^HenryletMtff^HaX s£a” TT .
Across London. the at the Royal Princess’s The
atre,
Sir Arthur Sullivan says the familiar
son S’ The Lest Chord, realized little short
fi f'HSZf E2— '
^, Mmk. M Cottrell . having
ithilde f is a.
successful season in San Francisco, 'where
she is playing in German comedy at the
Baldwin lheatre.
Theatrical competition is severe in San
Francisco. One of the theatres there gives
* g.^j e L f ° r -*-^g?Lg rtr * lt *° each pUr *
cnaser or a reserxeu sea*.
Arlie Latham, who plays circus the St. on Louis third
base during the summer with
Browns, is now an actor. He appears in tho
falxe comedy ’ l ' ashlons -
Marie Louise Paine, the young American
pianist now in Venice, delights tha Venetian
swells b}* picking a bvinjo w hile sailing in her
gondola on trie Gran J Canal.
Signor Perugini, the tenor, has signed
with the Clara Louisa Kellogg Opera Com
pany for a senes of special representations of
• Faust,” “Carmen” and “Martha”
a™
JS'Zf.SS', Europe the S, instead. “i
will go to in spring
Paris is excited over the announcement
that Patti is to create the roll of Juliette at
the GroSd°0^“ orchestra. GoS °hi^ir^iUrol!duct
Ax old-time friend of the late Lester Wal
lack thinks that there is a sort of grim pro
Eugen IA Blair is to wed Robert Down
ing, the athletic tragedian, of whose com
P? n -V Blair ** * formerly the 1 -nimgjuvenUe wife Forrest
Miss was of
Robinson, one of the MadisonSqnare'slead- ^
ing men,
Her Grief Too New.
Servant (to widow recently bereaved)
—“There’s an old clothes man at the
door, mum, who wants to know have
T ° -7°'KniTeripf . r,, r mf.nts to sell *7
u W mow .with a burst of grief)- u\h Ah,
no, Bridget, not now, not now. Tell
him to call a few days later.”— Ejrjch.
, . f .
2Ra«sss«.!ssB British J^rllaTOont. ani'negotiator ^ ol the
jngt°n for the purpose of marrying -Alias
^ Endicott, daughter of the Secretary of