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XEWSY GLEANINGS.
India’s national debt is $1,250,000,000.
• There are 307,804 public school teachers in
the United States.
The dynamite attacks on buildings cost
England $250,000 for repairs.
Georgia has a law making death the pun
ishment for burglary in the night time.
Experiments in steering balloons are to be
made in all the fortified places in France.
Wolves have become so plentiful near
Washington, 111., that th?y hunt in packs.
Massachusetts has a law prohibiting
tire sale of tobacco to minors under sixteen.
Thirteen thousand stray dogs have been
killed by the London police since the hydro
phobia scare began.
The exercises on Decoration Day at Gen
eral Grant’s tomb will be of a very elaborate
and national character.
The International Congo association has
for want of funds abandoned several of its
stations in Central Africa.
Land in Connecticut upon which pine trees
were planted a few years ago is now worth
SIOO an acre for its timber.
Jacksonville. Fla., is paving its deeply
sandy streets with wooden blocks, sawed out
by steam sawmills right in town.
It G cfileutated that there are 300 unions in
New York* city, with au aggregate member
ship of lOOjOtX) men ami women.
Justice Butt, of Loudon. has rendered a
decision to the effect that a divorce obtained
in America is invalid in England.
In Michigan there is a new factory for a
now purpose—to make a substitute for whale*
U»ne out of the quills of geese and turkeys.
mine of rubiduuu, a rare I
has Wen discov-
■ ‘ararßoekCwek, ■ , Territory.
school twSJ**
ducking. He has ms"
agt*.
A COMPANY with SIOO,OOO capital has been
organised at Pittsburg to try to break the
gatent controlled by the fruit jar monopo
The Washington Star attributes the illness
♦hat has overcome several secretaries of the 1
treasury' ! oth ® V’‘ OBenre of «ewer gas in the
building.
r treAs of tiffi JitpaihMi
are now growing and yielding on Ixmg Le
land. They bear from seed in from three to
five years.
Dakota farmers are making plans to grow
flax for fuel this summer. It is said that a
ton of flax straw is worth more to burn than
a ton of soft coal.
Germany has eight schools of forestry,
where five years’ training is required or
those who seek positions under the govern
ment, although a course of study half as long
may be taken by amateurs. France supports
a single school at Nancy.
MUSICAL HD DRAMATIC.
Mrs. Langtry has finally decided to tour
this country again next season.
Kissel's new*'opera “Urasai” has be n |
brilliantly produced at the Court Theatre iu ,
Dresden.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is singing |
now away down in the region of the Rio ;
Grande.
Emperor William has positively refused I
Nieman, the singer, permission to make a
tour of America.
Anna Dickinson is negotiating with an
English manager to return to the stage. She I
will make her second venture in London.
"Tun Harbor Lights,’ the latest metalra* :
matie euevem in London, will lie produced at
the Boston Museum by Manager Field, next ’
fall.
Cincinnati has been afflicted with more
than twenty different “Mikado” companies
this seeaon, and yet there has been no rioting
there
A NEW society drama, much after the style
of “Fedor*.’’ has been completed by Ota-an
jan. a Turkish journalist residing* in New
Yore, for Fanny Davenport
Muk. Bkm rrich, the great prima donna,
ha< been singing with great success in Riga,
Wilna. St tVtereburg and Moekow. Russia
fata gtxxi field for enterprising singer*.
The Countess Agatha Dornfleld. is to be
gin a thirt r-two weeks' tour of thia country
on SwtMiiher fi, next, in a reftorlorr consist
ing or "She Stoops to Conquer,’ "Romeo and
JidJet," stc,
Patti vigorously rewnt* tbs imputation
that her popularity is »<u the wane. She as-
K to that her three concert* in Faris averaged
two a nights and that her reception was
mo»A cordial
Mr. Edward E. Kidder ha* just finished
what he terms a “Frivolous. Faroe.” in three
act*. which mtiriare in a gtatd-uatured man
ner the entire wcret wteking* of the stage
and the enue of young society girls for hand
•came actors-
May hTh Edwta Booth and Totuasso
Rd y ini will Iwgiu au engagement al th*
Boston theatre. Two perrormancre of
"Olh.'ho” will be given, one with the Italian
in ttaHitta-rota and tit* American a* “lago,”
an i one with the parts twml
r«KKK were KW.AX’ j'o.'p'e who atun led
the perfurtuamw of the German Opera com
pany during th* saason tvewetiy m
New York, taxcenlutg to Manager Stanton
Aa there were fifty-two repceeentaiiom, Um
average attendance was about
THE HEWS IH GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
James Andrews, an oldman, being reject
ed by Miss Elsie Williams, at Oxford, Conn.,
killed her with an axe ana then finished his
own career with poison.
Rev. “Sam” Jones, the Southern eva/ig©.
list, will hold revival meetings for 'eight
weeks in Boston next fall. Z z*
George Me all, the Newark (N. J.) pound
keeper, died the other day in horrible torture
from hydrophobia engendered by a mad
I dog’s bite.
I After another conference between the
' Knights of Labor representatives and Jay
i Gould in New York on the 30th Master
Workman Powderly telegraphed to St. Louis,
ordering the strikers in the Southwest to re
turn to work. Mr. Powderly returned to his
home at Scranton, Penn., and three members
of the Knights of Labor executive board
started for St. Louis to aid in Settling the
strike by arbitration.
During the severe storms of a few days
ago, two large steamers went ashore—
the Capital City, running between New York
and Hartford, striking the rocks off Rve
Beach, N. Y., and the Europa, from Ham
burg bound for New York, going aground
near Quogue, Long Island. No lives were
lost, but both vessels were badly damaged.
The steamship Gulf of Akaba, from Huelva
bound for New York, with thirty-flve men
on board, has been given up as lost.
The strike of B,OM operatives in the Cohoes
(IN. x.) mills has ended, the mill-owners con
ceding the twelve per cent, increase in wages.
xr D n E. dv^ rd deL ; Br adin, who attended
JSeall, the Newark (N. J.) poundkeeper, dur
ingnis fatal attack of hydrophobia, is him
self in danger and has started for Paris for
treatment by M. Pasteur. While attending
to his patient frothy saliva from the man’s
bps came in contact with Dr. Bradin’s sore
thumb. The doctor is the seventh person who
has gone to Paris from Newark for inocula
tion against hydrophobia.
Miners in Pennsylvania are holding mass
meetings to inaugurate the eight-hour sys
tem in the mines after May 1.
’ Ex-Alderman William P. Kirk has
been arrested in New York on the .charge of
bribery in connection with the Broadway
horse car company’s franchise, obtained
from the city's aldermanic board in 1884. The
confession of ex-Alderman Waite led to
Kirk’s arrest.
SOUTH AND WEST.
General Delgado and Colonel Morey
were held for trial at Key West, Fla as
suspected filibusters. The trial will take >
place m New York in May.
Convicts in the Kansas State penitentiary
have been detected in the manufacture of i
counterfeit coin.
Two negroes, charged with murder, were I
taken from the jail at Alamo, Tenn., by a
crowd and hanged.
TMKfivil authorities proved powerless at j
« t ♦ jOUI8 > m., on the 30th, and a croivd
of I’s(X> men forced the sheriff to retire, as- i
saulted his deputies, and destroyed and dam- I
aged thousands of dollars’worth of railroad
property Early in the morning Sheriff
Kopiquet called for a posse. Only twelve I
men responded and they were soon put to
flight. The mob invaded the yards and dis- I
abled a score of engines, and drove the few I
workmen who refused to leave their work out i
of the city,
Timothy Hurijiy, her fifteen-year
old daughter and her new-born infant, were
burned to death in a fire at Bronson, Mi< h.
Six other persons were also badly burned: |
Geronimo, the captured Apache chief, |
with twenty of bis followere, has escaped !
from the custody q£ Ugit<*<i States troops
in Arizona, ‘ *
.. ini* <l«<reecamei frorn Bt. Louis
that the strike must go on. The executive
board of the Knights of Lilior for the dis
tricts involved claimed that Jay Gould’s rep
resentatives wore acting with duplicity: that
ttosy refused to re-employ men identified with i
the strike, and that they would not receive I
or Confer with representatives of the order
For this reason the board declined to name a i
time for the strikers to resfim* work, and .
issued an appeal to the country in the form
pL%* hOrt i O^^ lll . ,lddress - The Missouri
- C <daun , e d to I* running its freight
tv ?>’ kl ‘TP ■*nounced its ,
f y k’ al * height committed to its
East , IjOuis t,IP strike was still i
in full force, and all freight was blockaded
except on the Wabash road. 1
WASHINGTON.
The Senate has confirmed the following i
nominations: William L. Alden, of New
York. c'onsuTgeneral at Rome; Charles T. >
Russell, of Connecticut, consul at Liverpool:
Samuel E. Wheatley, to be commissioner of I
the District of Columbia; Samuel T. Com, to
be associate justice, Wyoming Territory.
In executive session on the 31st Mr. Logan
made a speech favoring open sessions. The
nomination of the postmaster at Webster !
City, lowa, was rejected by a nearly uuau- !
itnous vote on the charge of “offensive par- ;
tisansbip.”
The nomination of William M. Merrick ,
for judge of the District of Columbia has
been confirmed by the Senate notwithstand-
I inu tile adverse rejxjrt of the judiciary com- I
The collections of internal revenue for the
1 first eight months of the fiscal year ending ‘
I June 30, 1886, amount to $75,158,»X>, an in- ■
! crease of $2,41t>,388 over the receipts for the
I corresponding period of the lost fiscal year,
i Additional confirmations by the Senate: -
! William C. Emmet, of New York, consul al '
I Smyrna; Allen R Bushnell, of Wisconsin,
j attorney western district of Wisconsin: Al >x
ander H. Shipley to be consul at Auckland:
i ®*. A. Johnson, of District of Columbia, con
,«ul at Venice; William Gordon, of New >
: York, consul at Medelin; H. C. Crouch, ol
'ork, consul at Milon: Galusha Pen-
♦ ichigan marshal eastern district j
of Michigan; SnuiUe Braden, of Montana, to ’
beassaver, Helena; George F. Baylis, of
' surveyor of customs, Port Jeffer-
•°n’ ***■ 'i Arthur D. Bissell, of New York,
i customs for district of Buffalo
i CrjsL N. Y.; Brigadier-General O. O. How
ard. major-general, vice Pope, retired.
J The reduction of the national debt last
i T* a * 14 i < *' 7 - 884 » leaving the total debt
41W l^ teaßcashin treasury, at sl,- j
I During March the total government re
"-f 8 and expenditures,
e W, W 1,6 na.
NORKIGN.
rMiNCK Bismarck has stated in theGermiw |
1 reichstag that if great Euretx-au trouble*
i should arise they would prulialdy become in
. tarnations], and that in his opinion the
j French army was opposed to workingmen's
. movements
St. Johns, N, F.. has been the lienees' an
exciting ab r riot A mob, demand ng
labor and railroad extenuon, assembled i
| around tlie paruament buildings with flag*, i
stormtxl llw as-wunbly houm, routed the police
and broke into the council chamber, planting
- their banner ou the table of the he use.
AN expkwion of p-troleum o-vurred the
lTie' f • vessel at Baku. Russia.
Bulgaria hav fa.g ref-XTtbt d mambos
RuMa to sulm.il •.-.-ait, qwsticaas to the
' Eurvjxsui pouei , js thieataced nith in-
I by the e.axs and the pi«<-
i bildy of a war is again looming ap.
M arsai Rra at Catholic nrauw in Annum
•re reported, the n ami er of being
The total number of arrests r . . T! ,
gium in connection with the . x l aae ? .
2,500. Hundreds of persons • * lofcs . lß
jured, scores of buildings ,2? ln "
age amounting to mill’ and dam
fljeted. IXI s dollars was in-
The steamship P . , , , ,
has been crushed • and sealer,
tom off the e 4 lce sent to the bot
num® of Newfoundland. Her
taw lor 330 rnen - vvere to
CTfA,: ‘ffe. abandoning everything. All
the >• reached land, seventy miles from
ae fc, L? disaste r- At the time of the
! “togaent the Resolute had captured 20,000
A duel with pistols in which one of the
principals was instantly killed has been
1 fought between two French officials in a pri
' vate house at Valreas.
TBE”PREffIER”ffISSED.
1 BIG DXIMONSTRA'krON IN LONDON
AGAINST IRISH HOME RULE.
Adopting a Resolution Condemning Mr*
Gladstone and Parnell.
A great mass meeting was held the other
afternoon in Guildhall, London, to protest
against the granting of a parliament to Ire
land. The lord mayor presided. Sir John
Lubbock (liberal), member of parliament
for London university, moved the adop
tion of a resolution condemning Mr.
Gladstone for his intention of “hand
ing Ireland over to Mr. Parnell,
j whom he previously denounced.” A work
ingman arose and offered an amendment to
Sir John Lubbock’s resolution, but he was
howled down, and the resolution was carried
amid wild enthusiasm. Two hundred per
sons in the immense audience voted in the
negative. At every mention of Mr. Parnell’s
name the audience hissed. The name of the
premier was treated in the same way every
! time any speaker used it. There was even
cries of “Glandstone is a lunatic'” All the
’ speeches were intensely patriotic and the
1 speakers were loudly cheered. Mr. Gem-ow
Potter, a liberal, ventured to propose
, an amendment to the Lubbock resc
! ‘“I'.Yt 1 effect that Mr. Gladstone was
confidence of the audience and
the British public, but his voice was drowned
by groans and cries of “Go home!” “Turn
him out! The meeting closed with three
cheers for the queen, after which the as
semblage left the hall singing in chorus,
Rule Britannia!”
“Mr. Gladstone is riding straieht for a
fall!’’ the Pall Mall Gazette declares. “He
refuses” says the Gazette, “to modify his :
Irish scheme and the result will be that the
country will have neither home rule in Ire
land nor Mr. Gladstone.” The Gazette am I
nounced in precisely the same way that Lord !
Salisbury would “ride for a tall” ’
at the very time the tory
premier was arranging for his own !
defeat. The declaration at the time was gen- i
erally hooteil by the other English papers, I
but the Gazette was entirely accurate then. ■
It is thought that the editor has special I
knowledge that Mr. Gladstone, being con- |
x raced of the absolute justice and good ixfficy
of his Irish proposals, and at the same time i
convinced that the tory and radical politi- I
mans have determined to defeat them, means i
to force the issue and bring about the defeat
as soon as possible, content to sacrifice
P°mY er fiua , l , effort at pacification.
Dublin freeman's Journal, com
an? u ll ta e growing opposition among ‘
the Scotch members of parliament to gran* i
v a P arlia,n ent, threatens that, if
the Scotch members help to defeat Mr. Gtad- ;
ston»B home rule bill, the Parnellitcs will 1
adopt a policy of relentless opposition to i
erery Scotch mmsmse which niayc wne be
fore parliament
FOR RIVERS AO HARBORS, j
The House < ous»»Htee-*« BUI Aps»r*prt** i
tius Over Dt»,O0O,O0O.
The River and Harbor bill. »
as completed by the House committee, m I
a total appropriation of $15,164,200, which
will bccopie available immediately upon the ?
passage of the bill. As there was no appro I
priation made for river and harbor improve ’
tuents last session, the pie->ont appropriation 1
virtually cover* a period of nearly two j
years. The larger items of the bill areas fol- I
lows; ..
ttiJcklan.l, Me., $20,000: Burlington. Vt,
$15,0(X); Boston harbor, $<5,000; Newbury
port, Mass., $50,000; Newport, R. 1., $12,500;
rawtucket river, R. 1., $35,000: Providence '
and Narragansett bay, $35,000; New Haven ;
breakwater, $100,000; Stonington, Conn,,
$20,000: Connecticut river, $35,000; Thames |
river, Conn., $80,000; Buffalo harbor, $l5O.- :
000; Oswego harbor, $95,000; Buttermilk
channel, N. Y., $75,000: Hell Gate, l
$150,000; Hudson river, $15,000; Newtown i
creek and bay, N. Y, $50,000; Raritan bay,
N. J., $30,000; Passaic river, N. J., $35,(W0;
Raritan river, $35,000: Erie harbor, Penn.;
$50,000; Allegheny river. Penn., $40,000;
Schuylkill river, Penn., $25,000; Delaware
river below Trenton, $240,000; Delaware :
breakwater, $75,000; Wilmington, DeL,
$20,000; Norfolk harbor, Va, SIOO,OOO, i
James river, Vt, $150,000; Cape Fear
river, N. C., $1*25,000; Great Kanawha '
river, W. Va., $150,000; Charleston harbor,
8. C., $250,000; Cumberland sound, Ga, !
$150,000; Savannah, Ga, $125,000; St John's
channel, Fla, $200,000; Mobile. Ala.,
$120,000; Rockport ana Corpus Christi bar
bors, Texa«,sl®,ooo: Galveston, $400,000; Sa
bine pass and Blue Bush bar, Texas,s26s,ooo;
Chicago. $100,000; Illinois river, $100,000;
Humboldt harbor and bay, Cat, $100,000;
Hay I>ake channel Micb.,'sloo.ooo; canal et .
the Cascades, Ore., $200,000; Lower Willa
mette and Columbia rivers, Ore., $100,000;
Cumberland river, Tenn., $100,000: Tennes
see river, below Chattanooga, $350,000; Ken
tucky river, $250,000; Ohio river, $500,000; i
Falls of the Ohio, S2OO 000; Missouri over,
from mouth to Sioux City, $500,000; Missis- !
sippi river, $3,800,001
KEY WEST S GREAT FIRE.
The Priueipal Part as the Flartaa (it>
Laid in Aohes.
A fire>tarted in the San Carlos theatre,
Key West, Fla, on ths morning of the 30th
and soon went beyond the control of the fire- 1
men. A fresh wind blowing from the south |
caused the flames to spread, and soon five '
blocks in the center of the city were I
destroyed. The Epweopal and Baptist
churches were burned about noon, and be
fore 8 P. M- when the fire subsided,
over fifty houses in all were laid I
in ashes. They included Masonic
hall, three or four cigar factories and the
bonded warehouse, obtaining S2SO,(XW
worth of toba-co. Officers from the
United States steamers Brooklyn and
Powhattan aided in b*owing up some of
the house* with powder to prevent the
spread of the flames. There was no water
supply, the cisterns being mostly dry.
The fire subsided at 3 o clock. The
principal part of the town has been burned.
Six wharves an I five brick warehouses were
among the structures destroyed. About ;
fifteen persons were injured, of whom six
were taken to the Marine h<tspital and others
on ixnard the mea-of-war.
The viamage to property is estimated at
Individual losses cannot be I
known, but terrible sufferings and privations
have been entail 'd. B tween five thousand
and six tbousaiKi jrewp c were thrown out of
eiiiokwment by the burning of the factories,
and no provittoß could at onc« be male for
the large num>«er rendered homeless. The
United States court and its re-A-rds are con
aomad. The other government <«flices re
moved their records early to the revenue
steamer Dix. where a number of people took
! refuge and were oared for by tb» officers.
SETTLED BY AOITRATION.
; THE RAILROAD STRIKE IN THI
SOUTHWEST AT AN END.
Negotfattens Between Jay Genld and
The Knight* of Labor.
The executive board of the Knight* ol
Labor mat in New York on the 27th and pro
posed to . ay Gould, president of the Missouri
Pacific ranroad, that a committee of seven
be appointed to arbitrate upon the matters
in dispute which had led to the strike on
the Gould system of railroads in the South
west. This offer of the Knights was
at first refused by President Gould
upon the ground principally that an
agreement made with the Missouri Pacific
road last August by the employes not to
strike without due notice had been violated
by the latter. This reply of Jay Gould
seemed to put au end to a chance for set
tlement. But the strains 1 rela
tions which seemed to exist between
the officers of the Missouri Pacific
railway and the general executive board of
the Knights of Labor on the 27th were only
strained in appearance. On the 28th General
Master Workman Powderly and W. O. Mc-
Dowell, a member of the Knights of
Labor from Newark, N. J., a railroad
; man himself, representing the Knights
I of I.abor, and Mr. Gould and Vice-President
i Hopkins in behalf of the companies, met at
the house of Mr. Gould. The strike was
I discussed from beginning to end,
I in. Mr. Powderly says, a friendly
j spirit. The discussion lasted two hours and
; both sides acquired a great deal of informa
! tion which they had not before possessed.
Then an adjournment was taken until even-
I ing in order that each might think
I the matter over in its new light
■ At seven o’clock they met a second time, and
alter two solid hours of argument Mr. Pow
j derly left to fulfil an engagement. Half an
j hour later Mr. McDowell followed him. He
bore with him the following communication
from Mr. Gould:
The Missouri Pacific Railway Co. I
New York, March 28. J
T. V. Powderly, Esq, G. M. W:
Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of the
27th inst., I write to say that I will to-morrow
; morning send the following telegraphic in
i structions:
H. M. Ho-rie, General Manager, St. Louis:
In resuming the movement of trains on the
Missouri Pacific, and in the employment of
labor in the several departments of this
company, you will give preference to our
late employes, whether they are Knights of
Labor or not, ' except that you ‘
will not employ any person who has in- j
jured the company’s property during the
late strike, nor will wediseharxe any parsm j
who has taken service with the company
during the said strike. We see no objection j
to arbitrating any differences, between the '
employes and the company, past or future.
Hoping the above will be satisfactory I re
main, yours very truly,
Jay Gould, President.
Mr. Powderly received the communication
at the Astor House about 11 o’clock and ini- •
mediately sent out the following telegram:
New York, March 28, 1886. |
Martin Irons, Chairman Executive Board,
District Assembly No. 101, St. Louis:
President Jay Goula has consented to our
proposition for arbitration, and so telegraph*
Vice President Hoxie. Order men to resume
work at once.
By order of Executive Board.
• T. V. Powderly, G. M. W. i
The following general order was also sent 1
out by telegraph before midnight:
iirw York, March 28. 1886. i
To the Knights of Labor, now on strike in
the Southwest:
President Jay Gould has consented to our
proposition for arbitration aud so
telegraphs Vice-President Hoxie. Pur-
M.,, telegraphic instructions sent
to the chairman of the executive board
of District Assembly No. 101, you are di
recteti to resume Work at once.
By order of Executive Board.
T. V. Powderly, G. M. W.
CauMraaa John J. O’Neil, whois chair
manof the tabor comnii; tee of the Hous* of (
Represontativa», reached the Astor house
just in time to be the first i
to congratulate Mr. Powderly ou the j
successful issue of the strike. He had
come from Washington to take a hand
m the *ettlament himself. He brought with
him the text of a Labor bill, intended for 1
immediate presentation to the House, and .
submitted it to Mr. Powderly. He went back
to Washington on the midnight train, after
sending the following despatch to the St
Louis Republican. ‘
Settlement of strike effected. Gould con- ;
•entsto arbitration. Executive committee, i
Knights of Labor, order men to resume
wOTk. Congratulate our people on results.
Jm The "course of an interview General Mas- ,
ter Workman Powderly was asked how many
men had engaged in the strike and replied:
“Well, it covered about 8,000 miles of road, j
and there must have been at least 12,000 or <
14,000 direct employes. ■ Beside this, |
of course, many more men aud ;
women have been thrown out of work
by the closing of the mills and factories, w hleh
was brought about by the failure to run
trains. The strike has demonstrated in a
mtet forcible manner the necessity of laws to
regulate the relations between employers and
employed, and Mr. O’Neill’s bill will come in
very pat just at this time.”
The executive committee of the distri -t as
sociations of the Knights of Labor in St. ;
Louis issued orders on the 29th for the men to
resume work. In the evening the order was re
scinded. a disnatch bavine been
from Master Workman Powderly stating that
fresh complications had arisen as to methods
of arbitration. In East St, Louis, 111, tha
strikers thwarted all attempts to move
freight, and the sheriff at length appealed to
Governor Oglesby for assistance.
After Grand Master Workman Powderly
had held a second conference with Jay Gould in :
New York, on the 30th, he telegraphed to St. ;
Louis, ordering the striking employes on the
various railroads to return to work. Mr.
Powderly then went home to Scranton,
Penn., and a committee of three members of J
th;\exe utive board of the Knights of Labor i
proceeded to St Louis, to confer with th*
railroa I authorities with a view to a settle- ;
meat of existing differences.
At St Louis, on the 31st, Martin Lons,
chairman of the executive committee of
District Assembly No. 101, which embraces ,
all Knights of Labor employed by tha l
Missouri Pacific Railway company, |
telegraphed to the different local ;
assemblies under his jurisdiction, notifying |
them officially that the general executive i
board had ordered all the men to go to work ’
pending arbitration of the existing difficul
ties by a committee of the Missouri Pacific
employes and Mr. Hoxie. Upon receipt of
this order many of the man returned to work
and freight trains began moving once more.
GERONIMO S TREACHERY.
Geaera] Cr*«k Hu* Narrww Escape frem
Marder by the Apache*.
General Forsyth, the commanding officer at 1
Fort Huachuca. Arizona, has arrived at i
Tombstone, and makes known the startling '
fact that, at an interview which General
Groot had with the Apaches. Chief Geronimo
had his men with rifles ready to fire upon all :
the white men, including General Crook, at
. a given signal. Geronimo’s failure to keep >
his jATomise of surrender is ascribed to the
fact that having so much bloodshed to an
swer for he could expect no clenwicy. and
therefore preferred living in the r» mmtains
to the pn>r»ect of hanging at the hind® of
the authorities. The hostues had 20« J rounds
of ammunition each. General Forsyth -sod
it was impossible to fathom Geronimo's n
teations.and it was an open question wheth
er he would go south and join the Manins or
remain ami harass the frontier settlersi (
Geronitno is a man of about fifty j
tnsacberous and mereitaM. This is toe thi' j
i tim be has proved faithtaaL
THE RAGING FLOODS.
WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION /?<
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
Cities and Villages and People
Driven From Their Homes.
Freshets in many of the country have
done great damage. -Many houses bn the
Tennessee river were abandoned, and the
water ran through, the doors and windows.
The damage in the lower part of Lynchburg,
Va., was heavy. One-third of the Richmond
and Alleghany railroad from Lynchburg to
Buchanan, forty miles, was submerged, and
all the trestling was washed away. The vil
lage of Northport, Va., was almost sub
merged, and the iron bridge was under water
; at both ends.
In West Virginia the Kanawha and Elk
rivers rose rapidly. One-half of Charleston,
W. Va., was under water, and many dwell
ings occupied by poor people were submerg
ed. The Western Union wires were under
; water from that town to Point Pleasant,
sixty miles.
Floods near Pownal, Vt., raised the Hoosac
river to such a height that the Troy &
Boston railroad track was covered with five
1 or six feet of water and debris. No trains
I could get through, and the company’s tele
graph wires were all down. Land slides
along the east bank of the Hudson retarded
i travel between Troy and Albany.
A freshet along the Midland division of
j the Grand Trunk railway, Canada, stopped
all trains, and travel was not resumed
for several days. It was snowing hard there.
In Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin there was
a heavy fall of snow lasting forty-eight
hours. The snowfall ranges from four to
fifteen inches.
A heavy rain aud melting snow back in
the mountains, raised the rivers in Vermont
so that great damage was done. Main street,
in Berlin, across the river from Montpelier,
was filled many feet high with ice for nearly
one mile. The Winooski branch was higher
than at any time since 1869. A house on the
bank of the river, occupied by William Lind
sey, was swept from the foundations by ice.
The family was asleep when the shock came,
but all escaped safely. A railway bridge on
the Northeastern road at East Richford was
carried axvay.
At Lancaster, N. H., the ice from Israel’s
river formed in a big jam just below Mechanic
street bridge and caused the river to be par
tially turned from its course, so that about
one-half the stream ran down Mechanic '
street, carrying huge cakes of ice
along in its course. Nearly all the 1
houses in that section of the village were ;
flooded. The sash and blind works of Nich- j
olas Wilson were carried away and are a ■
total loss. The Stewart house, a small hotel, '
was flooded, but the guests and occupants !
were rescued from the second story by means
of ladders and boats.
William E. Robertson, with six French ta- j
borers, stated from Br«ulsboro,Vt, for Sears- '
burg, where they were all going log-rolling.
When crossing Keith bridge, about a mile
from any house,the bridge gave way and the
men and horses were precipitated ' into the
river. The water was very high and only
two escaped. Robertson and three French
men were drowned.
The greatest disaster by the floods in Ala
bama was along the Alabama and Coosa
rivers, in Coosa, Elmore, Montgomery, An- I
tauga and Dallas counties. Wetumptka, the ;
county seat of Elmore county, and the coun- '
try around it were in a deplorable plight. !
Water was four feet deep in business houses !
of the town, and occupants were driven !
out of many of the residences. A con
vict farm was flooded aud all hands had to I
take to the rafts and then floated for niilre
on these before they could land safely. <?ne !
farmer was drowned while crossing a strdjftx I
There is not a bridge left in Elmore i
and only one mill. Untold damage: has !
been done further down the river. Sajfami i
was cut off from the outer world by de||M’- I
tion of railroad bridge l and tracks, anti a j
vast area of farming country
was under water. The Coosa river at (lads '
den was the highest ever known. Railroad I
traffieaud mail service were paralyzed nearly ;
all over the State.
The James river at. Richmoad. Va.. rose
steadily, and nearly all that part of the city
known as Rocketts, occupied mainly by poor
families, wa« submerge i to a depth of from
eight to ten feet. Nu norous families ware
driven from their h > n-?® and bad to seek
shelter elsewhere
PERSONAL MEXTIOI.
C. P. Huntington, the railway king, says
he rests tw days every week.
Representative Abram S. Hewitt will
not be a candidate for re-election to Con
gress.
Mr. George Hearst, the new Senator
from California, is said to have an income «f
S2,(XX) a day.
M. Pasteur is spoken of as a modest,retir
ing and unaffected man in social life, and a
hospitable entertainer.
Fred. Douglass and his white wifeare daily
visitors in the United States Senate gallery.
They are going abroad this summer.
General John B.Gordon will deliver the
address at the unveiling of the Confederate
monument at Myrtle Hill cemetery at Rome,
Ga., on May 10.
Miss Marian Foster, the crippled artist,
has visited the White House, at the invita- ;
tion of Miss Cleveland, and had an inter- ;
view with the President,of whom she is paint- j
ing a portrait
President Holden, of the California State
university, receives a salary of $5,000 as pres
ident, and $3,000 as director of the Lick ob
servatory. This is the largest salary paid to
any college president in the country.
Mr. Peter M. Arthur, chief engineer of ,
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, ’
tbe best paid body of skilled artisans in the |
United States, is an American of Scotch- {
Irish extraction. He is a man of fifty-five,
and has been chief for the
THE RIOTS IN BELGIUM.
T*wb» and Village. I’ilfaaed, and Many
People Killed.
Tbe strikes in Belgium growing out of the ;
depressed condition of tie iron and steel ,
trades have resulted in a terrible series of j
disturbances and collisions with the military
in various parts of the country. According
to one dispatch the damage to the property
in the disturl>e.l district was estimated at
$5,600,000. There were more than 15,000 I
soldiers in the field. Every jewelry store
and gun shop in Charleroi, ana nearly every
liquor warehouse and liquor saloon was ;
looted. Churches were robbea of all article*
of precious metal. More than 100 collieries,
foundries and residences were burned. Hun
dreds of persons were killed or wounded.
Many citizens were robbed in the streets in |
daylight. One young woman who wore a dia- I
mond ring that was tight upon the finger had
her finger amputated by ruffians with a chisel
and rnaßet Score* of women were brutally j
assaulted. In two cases mothers had the brains j
of their babies dashed out before their eyes. I
Before order was restored more than 2,500 j
arrests were made.
Evidently Not Practising.
Pompano—“So Doctor Hackemnp it !
about to retire from practice!”
Bromley—“lndeed I I was not aware
of it.”
“I have the strongest reason for believ
ing so from an act of his thia morning.”
“What waa that!”
“I law him kick a banana peel off the
ride walk.”— Philadelphia C«M.
F4CTS ABOUT GYPSIES
A Vagabond People Found AU
Over the World.
Speculations as to their Origin, their
Wanderings and Habits.
The gypsies are a vagabond people
found in nearly all parts of the world.
They are themselves ignorant of their
origin, and no historical record exists of
their earlier migrations. So there are
different theories about them among
writers. Some consider that they came
originally from Egypt—the name gypsy
; is simply a corruption of Egyptian
others that they came from Persia, Ara
bia, or India. The weight of evidence
, in the language, physiognomy, and habits
[ of this vagrant people is in favor of their
i Indian origin. There is to-day a wander
; ing tribe in Upper India known as the
Zingarro, and the name of the gypsies in
' the first European country which they
visited was the Zingari. It is impossible
: that this similarity of names should be a
> chance coincidence. Further, the first
appe rance of the gypsies in Europe oc
curred when the Mongol conqueror,
Timour, was laying waste the fruitful
countries of Southern Asia, and marking
the trail over which his army passed with
rivers of human blood. Over 90,000
men, women, and children were slaught
ered iu the province of Bagdad; 100,000
between the Indus and Delhi. The Zin
garro, the tramps of Oriental society, the
poorer classes, who had no possessi ns to
excite the curiosity of the invaders, fled
in bands to the westward, while the con
quering party marched toward the east.
The first bands of these people came to
Italy in the first decade of the fifteenth
century. In 1422 there were about 14,-
000 of them in that country. They ma ie
their first appearance in the province oi
the Danube in 1417. August 17, 1427, a.
band of them came to Paris. They had
caught enough of European speech to
make themse ves understood, and claimed
to be Christians who had been driven
from Egypt by the invasion of the Sara
cens. The Parisians were disposed to re
ceive them hospitably, but as they proved
to be great thieves they were soon after
expelled from the city. They continued,
however, to wander in France, and
other bands joined them. They appear
ed in England about 1506, and in Swed
en in 1514. Wherever they went they
pretended to the arts of palmistry, and
fortune-telling to get better opportunity
to carry on their thieving practices.
Spain banished them in 1492. and a cen
tury later rraewad th&
ly. In Eaghmd they were exiled by
proetamatio® by VIH.,
and also by Elizabeth, italy, Ek’nmark,
Sweden, and Holland ateo toflfc kietisurea
against them. were
treated kindly, and efforts were made to
civilize them, though without much suc
cess. Germany also made like efforts,
and so did Austria, but these have only
been successful since Joseph 11. of the
latter country, in 1782, made and enforced
severe laws against vagrants. There are
about 700,000 gypsies in Europe, the^[ :
most of them being in Southern Russia,
the Danubian provinces, Austro-Hungary,
and Spain. The severe laws against
them have generally been repealed. The
gypsies have intermarried but little with
other races, and the proximity of civiliz
ed races for four centuries and more has
made but little impression on their orig
inal barbarity. The language of the
gypsies, though everywhere preserving
forms of an unmistakable Indian origin,
differs greatly in different countries, as
these people are very much inclined to •
incorporate words of other tongues with
their own.— lnter-Ocean.
The Ink Plant.
There is in New Grenada a plant, Oory
aria thymifola, which might be danger
ous to our ink manufacturers if it could
be acclimated in this country. It is
known under the name of the ink plant.
Its juice, called chanchi, can be used in
writing without any previous prepara
tion. The letters traced with it are of a
reddish color at first, but turn to a deep
black in a few hours. The juice also
spoils steel pens less than common ink.
The qualities of the plant seem to have
been discovered under the Spanish ad
ministration. Some writings intended
for the mother country, were wet through
with sea water on the voyage; while the
papers written with common ink were
almost illegible, those written with the
juice of that plant were quite unspoiled.
Orders were given in consequence that
this vegetable ink was to be used for all*
public documents.— Penman's Art Jour
nal. _
Not “Such a Lot-”
When relationships often become too
complicated for mature minds to follow,
what wonder that a child should refuse
to believe that one man can be at ono?
several men?
“Mamma,” said little Mary, “is Uncle
Ned Arthur’s uncle, too?”
“No,” said her mother, “he is Arthur*
father.”
“Well, is he your uncle?”
“No, he is my brother. He is Fred’s
uncle, and yours, and Cousin Lizzie’s.”
“Now,” said Mary, shaking her small
head very positively, “I know Unde
Ned isn’t such a lot as that.” •