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NATIONAL CAPITAL DOTS. WHAT DOING AT THE WHITE i IS HOUSE AND DEPARTMENTS. President Cleveland Busy Receiving Invi¬ tations—Interstate Comukissinn—gov¬ ernment Adairs («oing Well. FREDERICK DOUOI.ASS RETURNS. Frederick Douglass arrived from Eu¬ rope, having come direct from New York he after leaving the steamer, When alighted from the train his tall, stalwart form was conspicuous above the heads of the other passengers, and attract e l gen¬ eral attention. His step was as firm and elastic as that of many of the younger men about him, and but for his gray hair it would have been difficult to tell that Mr. Douglass was an old man. He is evidently in good health and looks much stronger than when he left for Eu¬ rope ASKS TO UK RELIEVED. Admiral Luce, who commands the fleet which covers the fishery grounds, has asked to be relieved from command of the north Atlantic squadron. Such in¬ formation as can be gathered from other sources doubt however, confirmatory, and leaves no that a letter or dispatch of the purport that indicated, has been received, and under Secretary Whitney has the matter advisement. Though there is much speculation as to the probable successor to Admiral Luce’s command, it is be¬ lieved that no one has yet been desig¬ nated, and that it has not even been de¬ termined to comply with the admiral’s request. NOTES. Mr. Whiting, who has long filled the position of chief draughtsman of the bu¬ reau of steam engineering in the navy department, has been dismissed. James B. Davis, superintendent of the ordnance foundry of the Washington navy yard, has been dismissed, and John F. Burton, of Laurel, Md., who has long been a mechanic in the foundry, has been promoted to the vacancy. The United States treasurer having accumulated a supply of one and two dollar silver certificates sufficient to meet the current heavy demand, haa arranged for the prompt delivery of these notes to banks, bankers and others, making the required deposit, The issue of these notes has been suspended since the first of May last. A SEETHING CAULDRON. The insecurity and uneasiness which have been felt since the departure of An¬ dy and Willie Tolliver, and their friends, received a fresh impetus at Morehead, Ky., when Adjutant Williams, with a squad of men, filed into the depot, and seized a case of rifles and two thousand pounds of ammunition that had just been taken off of the train, and hurried them into camp. These are the same guns that were shipped to Z. T. Young, Mount Sterling, from Lexington, some weeks ago. Maj McKee, fearing a col¬ lision between the factions, immediately sent out half a dozen squads of men searching suspected houses for arms, and must have captured several wagon loads. In one house alone they secured ten Win¬ chester rifles, three shot guns, two mus¬ kets and several muzzle loading rifles. The raid created quite a stir in the town and it is the geucrul belief that if Major McKee had not taken decisive steps a fight would have taken place. ; QUICKLY KILLED. j | The Strangest D«el Recorded this Great Uoutlnecu. Senor Victoria, mining speculator, i a ZlJZ mm l Senor Me-ilo Pedn/a fo^ht an extensive shin 1 one of the Scan got duels on record. While at a ball a few days ago, given at Tampico hv one of the chief ladies of quarreled the Spanish in ,-olonv, the two gentlemen the presence of a lady and Victoria chal- , lenged Pediaza. As'Podraza had choice ; of weapons, he demanded that Victoria meet him iu a dark room where should be j placed a hundred tarantulas of most poisonous character, and that each should devote Mm energies to killing tarantulas instead of fighting his opponent, and neither must leave tlie room till all the poisonous spiders were killed. The duel was fought in a room dark us a dungeon, j There were no seconds, and no one iu I Tampico suspected the tact, both When the doors were broken open men were found dead, surrounded by horrible spi¬ ders, some dead and some &iive. GENERAL NEWS. CURRENT EVENTS ON THIS CON¬ TINENT AND ACROSS SEAS. Effect* of Hot Weather— Drowning*, Steam bout and Railroad Accident*—The Deadly l.itchming, etc., etc. Ex-United States Senator Sargent died recently at San Francisco, Cal. The scarcity of farm hands in the wheat belt of northern Minnesota and Dakota has become alarming, and farm ds the are abundant offering exorbitant wages to save crops. Iliram Schoon .var, of Browsville, Neb. shot his mother-in-law in a watermelon patch under the impression that die was a skunk. He was watching forthievts, and about 10 o’clock at night an object appeared in the corn and slowly approach- suddenly • d. A dog sprang at it and ictreated. This convinced Schoonavar that the intruder was a skunk, and he lired. Prince Ferdinand, who has been elec fed ruler of Bulgaria, has issued a man ifesto, in which he says: “Having been elected sovereign of the Bulgarian peo pie, I consider it my sacred duty to set foot at the earliest possible moment on ; my new country in order to devote my j die to the happiness, greatness and pro- | gross of a loving people. I am con- ; vinced that they will support my future endeav- for | ora to realize a glorious Bulgaria ” The Masonic Temple, the Hamilton Block, Campbell & Dick’s carpet ware- ! house and a number of tenement houses I arcre burned at Pittsburg, Pa. The up per floors of Schmidt & Friday’s magnifi- and ent it story sir .eture were gutted die balance of the building water-soaked. The Dispatch and Penny Press buildings were badly damaged by water. Loss al,out *1,000,000. The Are originated located in ihe carpet store of H. Holtzman, and in the cellar of the Masonic building underneath the dry goods store of Camp bell Dick. A party of gentlemen were -ltting in the upholstering department of Holtzman’s establishment, when and one of the number lighted a cigar thoughtlessly threw the match into a waste basket. The contents of the bas ket were of an inflammable character and in a few seconds the entire room was ahlaze A SENATOR’S TROUBLES. He Defies a Judge and Gets Locked Up— Afterwards Break* Jail. Lnited btates Senator Riddleberger, ,,, , who , . was sentenced by Judge. Newman, of the j county court, to pay a tine of $25 and be imprisoned for five days for contempt of court, was released from jail at night by a mob. The jailer made but slight re sistance. The circumstances leading up to the arrest of Riddleberger were as | follows: W. W. Jones was tried for lar cenyandthe Jones jury found client that of he was Riddle- in- j sane. was a berger’s, and the verdict made the seua tor angry. He then wiote a placard and gave it to a boy to carry it up and down : the town. The placard had written on 1 it: “Verdict, Bill Jones not guilty, but i insane. Jury insane. Lawyers insane, j Court insane in the main.” He appeared before the court and defended himself. He said that Judge Newman had no ju¬ risdiction in the case, which the judge denied, and asked Senator Riddleberger to sit down until the evidence could be taken to prove that he (the senator) was the one who instigated the ridicule, and then he said the court would hear argu¬ ment. Riddleberger would not sit down and , the . court . A fined i him $2o. He He TT then then ,, defied defied the the court court and and said: said: “This This court court shall not send me fo jail.” Judge New- j naan then told the sheriff to take the sen- | ator to jail for five days. Senator Rid dleberger said he would like to see the man who could take him to jail, and Sheriff Whitman at once arrested the senator and locked him up. This action caused much excitement, an rt iu the morning a mob of one hundred men sealed the walls of the jail yard and took the senator out on ladders. —-- j An aged negir blacksmith, who still doesgoodwork.it the forge in Ozan, Ark., and who is known as Governor Pickens, is probably the oldest working j blacksmith living. He was born in South Carolina March 7, 1787, and and was j sold on the bloek iu New Orleans aken to Arkansas in 1840. i Deadly Effects of Dynamite. A terrible accident occurred at Jasz Bereny, near Pesth. which resulted in a most serious loss of life. A body of iil’ty-two engineers, from the Hungarian Ilonved, with several officers, were re cciving instructions in the use of explo¬ sives. They were drawn up in a semi ircle, and the instructor, for the pur¬ i pose of illustrating an experiment, set fire to a fuse. This he threw away while .pfight, and it fell upon a packet of dy samite weighing not more than a pound. fol¬ y fearful explosion immediately jewel, and the instructing officer and the surgeon, who stood near, were liter ally blown to pieces. Several other offi cers and seven men were killed on the spot, whilst ten others died in the course of the day, either from their wounds or under the operations, which, in many cas- s, were necessary. A lieutenant had part of one leg blown away, and when the doctors arrived two of them proceed ed to amputate it, he meanwhile com posedly smoking a cigarette; but the poor fellow died two hours after the op oration. Twenty-seven persons were killed, while forty were severely and eight slightly injured, ~ An Imposing Affair. President Cleveland will undoubtedly be the central figure of the grand celebra tion of the hundredth anniversary of the formation of the constitution of the Unit ed States, which is to occur in Philadel pWa on the 15th,16th. and 17th days of September. On the 16th there 13 to be a m,htary parade and reTiew by the Pres ^ »l of the «>e regiments several States and companies and Tem- of torms, accompanied by the governors and staiis and by forces of the U. S._ Anny 'Navy. The procession will include 8,000 Pennsylvania troops, l SOO Mass aehusetts, l,8O0NewJersey, l,000 MiM- 550 Delaware, 800 Virgina 250 North Carolina 100 South Carolina, 1,200 Connecticut, 800 Rhode Island, 500 New Hampshire and 800 Ohio troops. A Work of Art. The illuminated ... . , , address ,, presented , , - To Queen bound Victoria by the Jews of England w ?® in album form, the cover of which was mounted in finely chased sil ver W1 “ 1 on en me U e d pierced dec¬ oration. In the centre are the royal and imperial arms enamelled in heraldic col¬ ors, surrounded by floriated ornamenta¬ tion of roses, shamrocks and thistles. The flowers are enamelled in natural col¬ ors. At each corner of the album is fol iated pierced decoration, with bauds of gold and silver ornamentation. The dark case 0 f ^he album is covered with rich royal blue morocco, lined with white watered silk, and on the lid are the royal arms in high relief, richly chased in sil ver g ° ip. A real estate agent in Southern Cal ifornia recently posted the following no tice on a piece of land: “For Sale Cheap. The Best Climate on the Pacific Coast. The Land Thrown in.” Above I hate the all other big, old-fashioned earthly ills, pills; By slow degrees they downward tend wend, And often pause, or upward they fraught, ; With such discomfort are Their good effects amount to pill naught. Now, Dr. Pierce prepares the a bfil-* That just exactly tills is all— A Pellet, rather, that and small; A Pleasant Purgative, Just try them as you feel their indeed. need, You’ll rind that I speak truth, Cincinnati has subscribed $900,000 for the cel¬ ebration of her centennial in 1888. Old pill boxes are spread over the land by the thousands after having been emptied by suffering humanity. What a mass of sicken mg, disgusting medicine the poor stomach has to contend with. Too much strong medicine. Prickly Ash Bitters is rapidly and surely tak 0 condition Tri5?£?K of the liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels, Dr. Walton's Cure for Piles is guaran teed to CUrt! the worst case ot piles. Price 25 cents. At druggists, or mulled (stamps taken) by the O. Walton Remedy Co., Cleveland, People Who Travel. change of climate or water very often affect Sf much suffering might be Huckleberry Cordial saved, The number of religious sects in England and Wales now number 230. The “old reliable”—Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Rem edy. The owner of false weights is like the Arab— he silently steals a weigh. 3 months’ treatment for 50c. Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh. Sold by Druggists. The best and surest Remedy for Cure of ail diseases caused by any derangement cf the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels. Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Constipation, Bilious Complaints and Malaria of all kinds yield readily to the beneficent influence of WUSiftf j\dil iiwnuia It is pleasant to the taste, tones up the system, restores and preserves health. It is purely Vegetable, and cannot fail to prove beneficial, both to old and young. s a Blood Purifier it is superior to all others. Sold everywhere at $1.00 a bottle. KIDDER’S N’ ? f.y fg ' ' n Hi A SURE CURE FOR INDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA. Over 5,000 Physicians have sent us their approval of DIGESTYLIN, saying that it is the used. best preparation for Indigestion that they have ever We have never heard of a case of Dyspepsia cured. wn*r* DIGESTYLIN was taken that was not FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM. For Summer Complaints and Chronic Diarrhoea, which are the direct results of imperfect digestion, DIGESTYLIN will effect an immediate cure. disorders of Take DYGESTYLIN for all pains and the stomach; they all come from Indigestion. Ask vour druggist for DIGESTYLIN (price $1 dollar per large bottle). If he does not have it send one to us and we will send a send bottle to you, express Our prepaid. house U Do not hesitate to your money. Manufacturing CbemiotF,S3 John V. W. L. DOUCLAS $3 SHOE. BEHTLEMtH ro» •Cite only «3 SEAMLESS I Shoe in the world. I finest Calf, perfect lit. and J warranted. Congress, Button and Lace, all styles toe. As /Vl, ^ Ui vt stylish and durable as a ** CD those costing $5 or ,*0 W. L. DOUGLAS Nr .V •2.50 SHOE excels the $3 Shoes adver¬ tised by other ^ firms. >/r. SWoo'S [If m4 prim mm 1 ___ rt»p*d n katlm «f .ui ShM.] Boy» all wear the W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SH OB. If your dealer does not keep them, send vour name oa postal t* W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton. Mali. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. TULASE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA. [Formerly, 1847,-1881, the University of Louisiana.] Its advantages for practical instruction, miequaled.as and especially the in the diseases of the South-west are law seour-s it superabundant materials from the great Charity Hospital with its 700 beds, and 20,000 patients annually. Students have no hospital-fees to pay and special instruction is daily given at the bedside of the sick, as in no other institution. For catalogues or information, address Prof. S. E. CHALLE* M. D., Dean, DTP. O. 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