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© “Droll” is the word now. Every
thing funny, nowadays, is droll—so
droll, very droll, too droll for anything,
- just as droll as can be, etc.
' The Italian government is taking
some stringent measures to correct the
abuses which have grown up in the mat
ter of emigration to the United States.
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The English villages are diminishing
i population owing to the exodus of
the unemployed, who are flocking into
the towns at therate of 60,000 or 70,000
a year.
A London writer estimates that six
tenths of the really literary work which
is now being turned out by women all
over the world is done by American
wonten.
From 100,000 to 150,000 infants die
yearly in France from hunger, neglect,
and like preventable causes, and the
evil'is growing. The first year death
rate'was -15.9 per cent. in 1840-44, and
is now 26 per ceat. s
A millionaire named Tagliabei, who
died recently at Milan, Italy, bequeathed
the sum of _510,090 to the street sweep
ers of that town, on condition that they
would all go to his funeral in their
working clothes. In his youth he had
himself been a knight of the broom and
shovel.
Says the Washington Star: ‘“We owe
a Frenchman thanks for proving that
America is an aboriginal name. Ves
pucci attached it to hims:lf, dropping
his given name of Albericus to exploit
im self and his travels. People called
him Amerigo just as they speak now of
Chinese Gordon.”
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Colonel R. Ricketts, commander of
the famous Ricketts’ Battery in the
American civil war, was recently in the
English metropolis. He has been in 200
engagements, 57 of them regular battles,
and he declares that he would sooner go
through them all over again than face
one London fog.
Cabanel, who died In France recently,
perhaps more than any artist of his
time, has impressed himself on American
art. He was the favorite teacher of our
artists. His glory was his drauzhts
manship; his color was indifferent. He
could draw the human face with six
strokes of the crayon. |
Some of the livery stables in New
York city now advertise to accommodate
dogs at $3 a week. The attendance
upon the dog includes specially-prepared
food, periodical washings, and "removal
of any patasites they may have. They
must also be taken out every day by an
attendant and given a run in order to
limber up their joints. :
The State Depar ment at Washington
is in receipt of the autograph of ¢‘Na
barach, King of Butaritari and Makin.”
It seems that some time ago Representa
tive Morrow of California had a constit
uent appointed consul at Butaritari, one
of the Gilbert Islands. The consul's
signature had to be attested by some one
in the Gilbert Islands. After a long
search the consul could find no one on
the islands who could act as a notary
public except their ruler. This is the
first time that the State Department
has received the signature of a king in
this way.
The intelligence of the homing pigeon
hes, according to the New York Herald,
attracted popular attention to a marked
extent of late. Fanciers, who breed and
race them, are becoming more numerous
in the Northern States, and among them
are many gentlemen of wealth and social
prominence. Last year, the American
Federation issued official bands to sev
eral thousands of these valuable birds.
Xor the breeding season to come a large
increase is anticipated and greater in
terest in the races flown by them. The
government, too, is beginning to appre
ciate the qualities of the homer, and the
time may come when they will prove al
most indispensable in conveying impor
tant official messages between points or
stations not otherwise to be reached in a
short time.
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R?OMM,M ‘Tuesday, the Vice-
President announced the appointment of
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April centeonial celebration in New
York: Scnators. Hiscock, Sherman,
‘Hoar, Voorhees ‘and Eustis. Mr. Bher
man called up the proposed amendment
of the rule requiring that resolutions
that call for information from the exccu
tive departments, be referred to appro
priate committees. He said that the
adoption of such resolutions without in
quiry, sometimes involved very large
and unnecessary expense, and thut sucha
change of rules was desirable. A hot
di-cussion followed, and while no defi
nite jaction was taken, the majority
plainly did not favor the amendment.
The President sent in the nomina
tions of Whitelaw Reid, of New
Yoik, to be Envoy Extraordinary
Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States to France; the nomination of Jul
ius Goldschmidt, of Wisconsin, Consul-
General of the United States at Vienna;
Andrew C. Bradley, of the District of
Columbia, to be Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the District of Colum
biu; Joan R. McFee, of New Mexico,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the territory of New Mexico; Frank
R. Aikens;of Dakota, to be Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the ter
ritory of Dakota. The Senate confirmed
the nominations of Smith A. Whitfield,
of Columbus, Obio, Second Assistant
Postmaster-General ; Abraham D. Hazen,
of Pennsylvania, Third Assistant Post
master-General; Samuel R, Thayer, Min
ister to the Netherlands; William W.
Thomas, Jr., of Maive, to be Minister to
Norway and Sweden,
Among the nominations sent to the
Senate on Monday by the President, were
the following: Jobn 8. Burton, of
Mississippi, to be United States marshal
for the northern district of Mississippi;
Edwin I. Karsheedt, of Louisiana,
United States marshal for the eastern
district of Louisiana; Wm. H. White
man, of New Mexico, associate justice of
the supreme court of the territory of
New Mexico; Smith A. Whitfield, of
Ohio, second assistant postmaster gene
ral; Abraham D. Hazen, of Pennsylva
nia, third assistant postmaster general;
Jno. W. Mason, of West Virginia, com
missioner of internal revenue; William
W. Thomas, Jr., of Maine, envoy ex
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary
of the United States to Sweden and
Norway; Samuel R. Thayer, of Minne
sota, envoy extraordinary. and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to
the Netherlands; Charles E. Mitchell, of
Connecticut, commissioner of patents;
Nathan O. Murphy, of Arizona, secre
tary of Arizona. There is considerable
opposition manifested to the confirmation
of the nomination of Lewis Wolfley, to
be governor of Arvizona, and it is said
that charges have been made against him
for presentation to the committee on
territories.
NOTES.
Ex-President Cleveland and Ex-Secre
taries Bayard, Fairchild and Vilas left
Washington on Sunday at 3:40, in a
special Pullman car, via the ‘‘Atlantic
Const Line” for St. ‘Augustine, Fla., en
route to Cuba.
It is announced officially, that Gen.
Lougstreet, of Geodgia, is to have the
position of Registrar of the Treasury, the
position now held by Gen. Rosecrans.
His hearing is very much impaired, or he
would get a better place.
Gen. W. T. Sherman has written Pres
ident Hairison a letter, asking that Gen.
J. E. Johnston be retained in his present
position as railroad commissioner. Sher
man says he will not ask another favor
from the administration, 1f this request
is granted.
Chairman Britton, of the inaugural
committee, on Monday handed the com
missioners of the district a check for
$26,000, this being the amount received
trom the inauguration over gnd aboveall
expenses. The fund is to be invested,
and the interest devoted to relieving the
distress of the poor in that city.
. The Navy Department was informed
on Monday, that the cruiser Chicago was
taken out of dock in New York, after
being scraped and painted. Secretary
Tracy was informed by the Cramp Broth
ers, contractors foo the new gunboat
Yorktown, that the vessel‘is now entire
ly eompleted. She will, in a few days,
be inspected by the navy inspection
board.
A call has been issued for a meeting
of the bar of the Supreme Court of the
United States, to be held on Baturday,
April 6th, for the purpose of taking ap
propriate action respecting the death of
Hon. John A. Campbell, of New Orleans,
La., formerly an associste justice of the
Supreme Court, and for many yearsa
member of Its bar.
Collections of internal revenue for the
first eight months of the fiscal year,
ending June 80, 1888, were $83,364,211;
an increase of $2,603,744 over collec
tions for the corresponding period of the
lnst fiscal year. The collections were as
follows: On spirits, §47,492,765, an in
crease of §2,508,712; on” tobacco, $20,-
269,445, a decrease of $58,681; on fer
mented liquors, $14,9892,445, an increase
of $187,284; oleomargarine, $557,086, an
increase of /$67,934. h
The case of Cross and White, default
ing bank officers of Raleigh, N. C., was
to have been argued in the United States
Supreme Court on Monday, but W. R.
Henry, counsel for Cross and White, ap
peared before the court shortly before
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able that th¥ cose wi .' poned un
il the term of the court in October next.
~ Attorney J. B. Klein is in Washington
‘making interccssion for Herman Kem
pinski, t)‘;azaunq man who, while on a
visit to relatives in Rowen, Russia, was
seized and cast into prison and condemn
ed to exile in Siberin, Unless the meas
ures that are now being takeca are suc
"dm;&xl for bis rglease, he will be trans
fi" dto Siberia in five or six weeks.
r. Klein had an interview with Secre
tary of State Blaine and a cable
message has beeh sént to the authorities
at Rowen demanding Kempinski's re
lease.
The President on Tuesday withdrew
from the Senate the nomination of Eu
gene Schuyler to be assistant secretary
of state, Tt is learned that the commit
tee an foreignrclations, after considering
the case, asked that the nomination be
withdrawn. This action was taken on
account of un a-sault made by Mr, Scbuy
ler in his book entitled ‘‘American. Di
plomacy of Elihu B. Washburn,” togeth
er with reflections upon the administra
tion of President Grant and the Senate,
and also, it is said, on account of charges
affecting Schuyler’s personal conduot in
Europe.
The contractors for the gunboat York
town having reported her complete,
Secretary Tracy has ordered a board of
officers to re-assemble at Cramp’s ship
yard for the purpose of making such fur
ther examinations as may be necessary,
and to report whether or not the unfin
ished work hds been completed, and
whether the hull and fittings and ma
chinery, boilers and appurtenances have
been completed in strict conformity with
the contract.s The only bid for con
structing the machinery of the armored
cruiser Maine, that of the N. F. Palmer,
Jr., C 0.,, of New' York, has been
referred. Chiefs of bureaus have been
directed to proceed at once to prepare
plang for the construction of the new
vessels authorized by Congress,
TELEGRAPHIC,
A cotton mill at Unterhausen, near
Pfullingen, Wurtemberg, was destroyed
by fire on Tuesday. The lossis 1,500,-
000 marks,
A German government detective named
Wichman has been sentenced to two
years’ imprisonment at Altona for falsely
accusing two men of being anarchists,
In the House of Commons, Mr. Gos
chen announced that the British govern
ment intended to appoint a committee to
inquire into the whole subject of emi
gration.
Charles H. North & Co., 33 and 85
North Market street, of Boston, Mass.,
the secon®l largesv pork packing firm in
the country, made an assignment. The
liabilities will probably be $750,000.
A bouse situated at Day’s Mills, near
Baldwinsville, Muss., was burned .on
Tuesday. Mrs. Russell, aged 79, and
the two daughters of a neighbor named
Trueheart, aged five and fifteen, perished
in the flames,
A Halifax (Canada) express on the In
ter-Colonial railway came into collision
Tuesday with a special freight-train near
Rimonski station. °The driver of the
express and his fireman, the conductor of
the gpecial and the fireman of the special
were killed. Two other train hands
were injured, but not fatally. Both of
the engines, baggage ‘cars and two
freight cars were wrecked. None of
the passengecs were injured.
HER CAREER ENDED.
The condition of Miss Mary Anderson,
the actress, who has been resting in
Philadelphia, Pa., preparatory to filling
an engagement in that city, is reported
to be somewhat worse. The engagement
for next week was cancelled by Manage:
Henry Abbey, and at the same time the
announcement. made that the actress
would be unable to fill any of her en
gagements forthe balance of the season,
and her dates on the Pacific coast were
cancelled, and her English company of
56 people disbanded. The rumor that
Miss Anderson is insane has gained cir
culation, Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell, under
whose care the lady has been since het
arrival there, when requested to affirm
or deny this rumor, positively refused
to say anything about his patient’s con.
dition.
SHOCKING!
The steamer Caroline Miller arrived at
New York on Sunday night, with news
from Cape Haytien, Hayti. The captain
said that twelve of Legitime’s soldiers,
who had been taken prisoners by Hypo
lyte were shot‘in the public equare at
Cape Haytien the day before the steamex
left. Sympathizers with Legitime’s had
endeavored to get the men released,
and Hypolite had become distrustful of
many of his officers. He therefore put
them to death. The U. 8. warship ga
lena was anchored at Cape Haytien when
the Miller left, and no doubt could have
prevented the massacre.
HE BLESSED THEM.
The Pope on Monday gave an audi
ence to the American piigrims to Rome.
Bishop Rasemacher, Mgr. Seton and Very
Rev. Charles A. YVissini presented a
richly bound address to the Pope, whc
greeted each with a kind word and his
henediction, = His holiness gave the pil
grims full privileges and power to pro
nounce a special papal benediction upon
their congregations on their return. TIo
blessing the oriflamme carried by the
pilgrims, the Pope, observing the eagle.
said: ‘‘America never goes back from
anything.” f
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' . ALABAMA.
. At Bessemer, on Sunday, Dennis Dor
sey was shot and killed by D. A. James,
The two men were employed at the rol
ling mill, and had been paying attention
to the same woman.
A fatal stabbing affray occurred in
Tuscumbia on Tuesday, between Dan
Adams and Will Kirk. , Adams stabbed
Kirk in the breast, near the heart. Kirk
is not expected to live. Whiskey was
the cause.
Carrie Rose, the ten-year old daughter
of Rev. W. L. Rose, rector of St. Mary’s
Episcopal church, was burned to death
in Birmingham, on Tuesday. She was
playing near the grate and her clothing
caught fire, and she was fatally burned
before assistance reached her.
A crowd of Irish laborers went out in
the woods about one mile from Birming
ham, to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
They were well supplied with whiskey and
beer, and before night many of them
were drunk, Late in the afternoon, two
of them agreed to settle a dispute by a
fight. This lead to a general fight, in
which pistols, knives and stones were
used. A painter, named Thomas Mullin,
was struck on the head with a stone and
his skull fractured, and will die.
Extensive experiments in steel making
are to be made in Birmingham. Jacob
Reese, of Pittshurg, is there, backed by
a strong company, to test what is known
as the “‘Duplex system,” a combination
of the Bessemer and the basic processes.
James Henderson, inventor of the basic
process, which bears his name, is on hand
s the representative of a New York com
pany with a million dollars capital, which
proposes to thoroughly test the Hender
son process.
A case involving the title to over two
million dollars’ worth of real estate in
Birmingham, is now on trial in the Uni
ted States district court in that city. It
is a suit brought by the heirs of Jordan
Timmons against the Elyton Land Co.
to - recover possession of 160 acres of
land. All of it is inside the city limits
and very valuable. Jordan Timmons
died in 1855 and deeded to his wife the
farm, situated in Jefferson county, Ala.,
and containing 160 acres. This was the
only description of the property given in
the deed. On this, the title of the Elyton
Land Company rests. ‘
C. Festout, city marshal of Aberdeen, i
Miss., arrived at Birmingham on Sunday
from Edgeficld, 8. C., in charge of L. R.
Smith, a detective, charged with the |
murder of Bim Ward, colored. The ne
gro, Sim Ward, was one of the murder- |
ers of Col. Hamilton, at Aberdeen, last
December. Smith was employed to
search for him, and about a month ago
arrested the negro in East Alabama. He
started with his prisoner to Aberdeen,
but at a secluded spot in the woods, shot -
the negro and left him lying by the road.
He lived long enough to crawl to a house
a mile away and tell the story of the
crime, It issaid the negro’s ears were
cut off and he was otherwise mutilated.
ARKANSAS.
Willinm Berryhill and William Brun
ner, who killed Deputy U, 8. Marshal
Moody, ten miles from Tulsa, Creek
Nation, were lodged in the jail at Fort
Smith by Marshal Dalton, who was badly
wounded in the arm at the same time
Moody was killed. The circumstances
of the affair are substantially as follows:
Moody was sent to the Creek country
several weeksago to assist in the capture
of the remaining members of the Wesly
Barnett gang, who have for months past
been creating a reign of terror in that
couitry, having previously killed three
United States officers. Barnett was killed
a few weeks ago, and five others are in
the Fort Smith jail. Moody, who was
at Tulsa, got waord that Jeff Berryhill,
one of the gang, wasat his father’s house,
ten miles from Tulsa. He and Dalton,
with three other men, went to arrest him.
His plan was to charge the house as soon
as they came in sight, and accordingly
ran up at full speed. Moody was in ad
vance and rode right up to the door of
the shanty, when he was shot without a
warning from the inside, the ball from a
Winchester rifle going through the lower
edge of the heart. This makes eighteen
deputy marshals who have been killed
in the Indian country during the past
three years.
FLORIDA.
Frederick 8. Pinckery, editor of the
American Angler, died in Jacksonville.
He went there to write up the health
situation in Jacksounville for the New
York ZTimes. His disease was organic
malady of the heurt.
THE WESTERN IDEA.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota has
decided that the railroad commission of
that state has no authority to prescribe
rates for transportation by common car
riers between two points in the state over
a road extending across neghboring
states.
TROUBLE AHEAD.
An unknown expert has caused consid
erable alarm in New York by the produc
tion of a cheap alloy so much like gol¢
that it cannot be distinguished from thi
genuine article. Several jewelers and
refiners have been deceived after making
the severest tests. v
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‘ham House as well, _;-“\;\_‘
Rev. William Adams, n,g; of
guste, has accepted a call to the pastof,
of Columbus Avenue Presbyterian church
of Boston, Mass. o
Ex-President Cleveland and hiugprt ty
received a very enthusiastic reception on
Tuesday at Savannah, en route to Flor
ida. . ‘ i
A circus, owned by Mis. J. A. Hall
and A. P. Stephens, is stranded in At
lanta on account of debt. Several em
ployes have sued out attachments on
account of past due wages’ bills.
Some of the members of the Grand
Army of the Republic in Atlanta, are or
ganizing a party to attend the inaugural
anniversary at New York., It is not un
likely it will be resolved into a ‘‘Gray
and Blue” picnie.
Governor Gordon appointed Henry R.
Fort judge of the court of Wayne, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
the - late Hon. G. M. T. Ware. Judge
Fort’s successor will be elected during
the next session of the General Assem
bly.
There was a very large meeting of the
stockholders of the Georgia Improvement
and Construction Co., on Tuesday, in
Atlanta, to consider the status of the At
lanta & Fl@rida Raiiroad. The bonded
indebtedness of the Atlanta & Florida is
about $1,070,000. The construction
company owes $550,000 and $500.000 of
this which has been expended in con
structing the road. They must surren
der their cluims or furnish more money
to complete the road.
On Sunday, fire was discovered in the
second story of the Walker building, in
West Point. The ground floor was oc
cupied by Causey & Satterwhite, grocers,
and Hudman & Lanier, asbottling works.,
The second floor was used as ashoeshop,
barbershop and sleeping apartments. The
odor of burning keroseve attracted the
attention of some of the citizens who
were passing, which led to the discovery
of the fire. Suspicion rests on J. L. Car
penter, a shoemalker, who 1s under arrest.
Hon. Charles Estes, president of the
John P. King Cotton Mills, of Augusta,
gave notice to the banks that if they al
owed the city to hypothecate with them
any claims against him on account of the
special tax, they would be buying a law
suit. He gave it as his opinion that the
installments were sufficient to meet the
freshet damages, and declared he should
pay no more. Further investigations
seemed to have changed his mind, how
ever, and he has gone forward and paid
the tax in full. g
THNNESSER. 3
The State Senate hasadopted a resolys
tion providing for the removal of té%
remains of John Sevier from Alabama £
the National Cemetery at Knoxville.
The sum of SSOO 1s to be appropriated
for the purpose, and an effort will be
made to erect a monument,
Joseph Rakes, who lives in a log cabin
near Statesville, was shot and ' killed
while sitting at his fireside by some one
who made a hole in the wall by remov
ing the chinking between two logs, and
death was instanteous. There were only
three members of the Rakes family pres
ent, Joseph and his aged mother ang de
mented sister.
Dayton was visited Tuesday night by
the hardest rain and thunder storm ever
known in the history of the city., The
waters of Richland creek, which runs
through the city, wus so swollen that the
fires in the furnaces were put out, and
the furnaces shut down. A mile and a.
half of the company’s railroads was
washed up, and great damage was
done to the other property of the com
pany. * A number of houses in the city
were swept away, and geveral families
barely escaped with their lives, !
| VIRGINIA. . “(
The steamship Old Dominion, from’
New York, reports at Fort Monroe the
Delaware light ship and Cape Charles
light ship away from their stations. The
old Dominion sighted to the southward
of Cape Henry what appeared to be a
light ship in tow of a sailing vessel, with
mast partly out of the water. It isin
the track of vessels bound in and out of
the capes, about five miles west of Cape
Henry.
Magruder Fletcher, a colored man
charged with erimeabout a white woman
at Tasley, was lypched by a party of
men. Jailer Samuel Metzon was aroused
at midnight by iarty of masked men,
who- demanded the keys of the jail.
Metzon refused to give them up. He
was told that if he did not, his house
would be burned. The lynchers wentto
the cell of Fletcher and told him he gias
wanted. He was at once released, | ,
was carried out. . Ife made no demumn®
whatever. The doors to the jail were
fastened by the lynchers and the keys
turned over to the jailer.. * The negro
was then hurried off and hung to a limb
of a pine tree on the edge of the road. .
A verdict ‘was rendered that Fletcher
came to his death by being strangled and
shot by Yersons unknown to the jury.
Fletcher had four bullet holes in him.
His neck was not broken. - g e
WEST VIRGINIA, ;
News reached Parkersburg that De:
tective Baldwin and an armég posse wha
went into the wilds of Wyoming and
McDowell counties to break up a gang of
one hundred distjllers, have been sur:
rounded and their lives are threatened/
The moonshiner band is made up
noted desperadoes, and for three ye «
have defied the United Stgt’,es.q@thbg& ¢
Thirty have been jailed, and 1t was while
attempting to arrest forty more that the
officers were entrapped.
