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CRIME.

CHARLES \. BrRr. brewer and malt
ster Cf Alb. ny, shot h.s mistress and then
committed suiciae
WHILE standing on the steps of a bank
ing house in CINCINNATI on Dec, sd,
an Ohio farmer vas robbed Of 81 900.
Z. c. WAIpEN chief engineer Of the
Ere department of North Adams. Mass,
has been held bail for attempts 10 burn
the town
BoB THgRvAN colored was morially
shot st Versailles. Ky. Dec -. by James
Ashmore. while he was robbing chicken
roost
MARKS IT a bloody tragedy were visible
on the ice at Goat Island, above Niagara
on Saturday morning. the victim being
passed over the cataract.
OFFICES MUNx, of La Sale. ILL.,, shot
and dangerously wounded John Mcclure.
The officer tried to arrest Mcclure. who
resisted. The btli entered the mans thigh.
Csc. JoHNsroN, one of the parties ar
rested for pluncering the baggage on the
Council Bluffs road, was acquitted IN The
courts of Kansas City, Dec. "A. There was
no evidence 10 convict him.
4 c0SsiDERaEl riot took place IN
Springfield. liz, Dec. - at rOlling-mill
hQarulhE MOUSE fesaEt1bg IN hiNNt s1aAt.
age. = nambes Of the leaders and instr
gators we're arrested and sent to jsii il de-
fault Of $500
A LARGE number of ties were placed on
the track OF the Burlington road, near Lee
land. H., on the night Of Dec I'd. eyl-
IDENTIFY wisl the Intention Of wrecFing the
night express coming 10 Chicago. bnt =
brakeman on 4 freight tram discovered
the plot.
TnE bulchery ri BESSIE More, in Texas.
by Abe Rothsekild, has not been Tor
gotten BY the public. At the commence
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VERY LATEST NEWS.
Record Gs Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
w WASHINGTON.

GOVERNOR Lose, in answer 10 the resent
letter Of Secretary Schurz, asserts that the
latter drove sesen hundred Poncas from
their homes, iniviolation of law and the
dictates Of humanity.
Mr.. PAGE, of'California, has introduced
a bill in the house, 20 make the 18th Of
October legal holiday in the District of
Columbia, in ccmmenloration of the dis
covery Of America by Christopher Colrn-
bus or the 18th IF October 1902
Tur senate, n executive session. con-
fr.. -. idving nominations: Wolf
gang Schaehe, OF Ohio, United States mar
shall for the western district Of Michigan;
f. Il. Turner, ofgTexas, United States dis
trict Judge for the western district Of Tex
as; F Y. Schurlleff. collector of customs
for The district 81 Willamette, Oregon.
The house committee on Indian affairs
have agreed to ; report fayOrably 10 the
house bill to provide for the sale OF the
remainder of the reservation Of the con-
federated Otoe and Missouria tribes Of
Indians, in the states Of Nebraska and
Kansas 1t also authorizes the secretary
Of the interior To- locate said Indians upon
other reservation lands, and to expend
not exceeding 100000 for their comfort
and advancement in civilization. The
committee also agreed to report favorably
Representative Pounds bill TO authorize
the secretary Of he interior to fulfill Ger
tain treaty stipulations with the Chippe-
wa Indians Of lake Superior and Missis-
sippi' 1t authorizes and directs the sec
/ rotary OF the treasury to place to the
credit Of those Indians Sl1S, 406, and pre-
scribes the MINER OF its distribution by
the secretary of,the interior Of their ben
/ eft
TIE Ponca Indians, under charge of
Agent Whiting, and accompanied by
4 Joseph Esau ami Antoine Leary as inter-
/ prefers, had a Tong talk with Secretary
! Schurz December ~ The chiefs present
were White Eagle, Frank La Heache,
/ Child Chief, Staiding Buffalo, Black Grow,
| Big Soldier, The Chief and Red Loaf.
Acting Commissioner Marble, Gen. Crook,
| Inspectors HavwOrth and William Stick
ney, aud a. II. Smiley, of the board
| of Indian mlssioners, were also pres
| ent. The secretary opened the confer
/ ence by reading. their letters to him and
] BY calling their attention to their petition,
| an extract from. which read: And we
earnestly request that the chiefs of the
| Ponca tribe of Indians be permitted to
! visit Washington the coming winter for
/ the purpose OF signing away our right TO
/ all land in Dake@a and obtaining a title 10
our present reservation; and we also wish
/ to settle or Sioux troubles a the same
! time" All Il chiefs said that they had
/ signed the paper and had now come here
to ratifv their part Of the agreement.
| They also said there was no sickness
among them. TIE conference was most
| satisfactory
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Take Care of Wills.

In the house of lords, Lord Broug-
ham once mentioned two somewhat
remarkable facts, showing the neces-
sity of having a safe place for the de
post of wills The first case was one
in which one Of his noble friends, as
heir-at-iaw, lost, and another of his no
bic friends, as a devisee, gained 100000
a year. How the first lost IT, and the
last gained it was by will being found
in a rusty old box, in an old travelling
carriage, and which therefore, might
have been very naturally lost by acct
dent or destroyed from ignorance. The
second case was one, also, in which
some of his noble friends We're con-
cerned, and the sum i'll question was
no less than f160,000. The sum would
have been entirely lost to the purpose
for which it was intended, if the in
quiries relative to the existence of a
will with respect to it had been insti-
tutCd in the winter instead of in the
summer. The will was searched for
everywhere. but could nowhere be
found, until, at last, it was discovered
in CRATE, and stuffed like a piece of
waste paper through the bars, if it had
been winter instead of summer, in all
probability when the fire had been
lighted it would have been destroyed.
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FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

SEVEN persons in one family at Meta
mora, Ill. are FRUSTRATED with malignant
diphtheria.
Ten buildings valued at 100000. were
burned at Brownsville, Tennessee. on Dec.
23d.
Losses in coffee have forced the failure
Of Hopely, Woodhead 1, Co, OF Lipergool,
with liabilitie~ IT e2l 900.
THE pain; f:,etDrv of George ". Win
chell, in Cincinnati, was wiped out by
fire December 18Th. the loss being $1,000.
4 FIRE in the candy factory of Clark x
Morgan, at Quincy, H., inflicted damage
which is estimated at 50 900
CRAwFoRD's opera bouse, Topeka Kan
sas, which was opened last September has
been burned to the ground. Loss about
10000; insurance $4,000.
WALTER EYCIYGE and Joseph Bailey
have sued Mrs Scott-Siddons, at st. Louis,
claiming Il 40 damages for breach of con-
tract.
THE pudding and rolling departments
Of the Harrison iwire-mill in ST. Louis,
were recently destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of $4,000, ard throwing six hundred
men out Of employment.
THE drop in wheat has precipitated the
suspension of three grain commission
houses in Chicago Jones 4 Macdonald,
short 5000, 900, ard Ray < McLaurie have
liabilities Of abous SO 900. The suspen-
sion Of A. :. I.owenthal will he but tenn
porary one.
EIGHT perscls employed in the burned
factory at Buffalo are missing or known
TO be killed, and seven others were seri-
ously injured. Two corpses have boon
taken from the rains Popular indigna-
ton over the lafk Of fire escapes is still
intense
Poison absorbed while slaughterlng a
diseased COW caused the death of John C..
Allen, Of North Reading, Mass. The sur
geons first amputated his fingers, then
his right hand. aad finally the whole arm,
without staving the disease.
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ruE New York TribtRc's London cor
respondent reviews the situation in
Ireland. which has been sadly muddled
10y recent conflicting reports He CON
tradicts the rumor that Mr.. Forster has
at any time offered his resignation, and
intimates that while Mr. Chamberlain
is the leading opponent of coercion. he
will not leave the cabinet. 1t is plain
that the force policy has come to be
regarded rs Il political rs well as apub-
lie necessity. The government can
command 4 very large majority from
the opening Of the session. if cocrcivc
measures are proposed If they show
signs of weakness and vaeiiation, they
may find themselves in minority be
fore They have been in office year.
Mr. Forster Is warmly praised for his
patience, Judgment and decision. New
erin the domestic history Of the United
kingdom has there been Il more press
ing need of an the best qualities Of
practieaI craftsmanship
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FOREIGN

THE work of repairing the Brest cable
has been postpor|ed to spring, on account
of the hoisteroas weather on the Atlantic.
THE task of Improving the finances of
Turkey has been abandoned as hopeless by
Herr Wittendorf<a Prnssian.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR DONALD
STEWART will become commando r-in-chict
of the forcus in India, next spring.
ALL the powers have agreed to the pro-
posed arbitration upon the Tnrco-tTreclan
question.
THE British garrison in Ireland wIll
soon number 10000 men, including ten
batteries aud seven cavalry regiments.
THE police a.ioued at Midtown, Ire
land, have beer made to feel the meaning
of the word Boyc3tting, as they are actu-
ally without food
THE disturbed condition Of Ireland has
induced the empress of Austria to give MP
her huntingdon IN the Green Isle.
THE Canadians are startled by an in
crease of 80, 50U, $40 in the public debt of
the dominion for the fiscal year.
BEING unable to shake off the Indian
fever, the marquis OF Ripon will probably
be asked TO be relieved of the viceroy
ship.
THE first spiral tunnel on the 81. Goth
ard line. in Switzerland, has been com
peted. 1t is one thousand metres in
length, and was bored through granite en-
tirely by hand.
BALE AND ESFIGHT the English ritual
lists. have secured hearing by the court
of appeals and have been released from
imprisonment on condition that they con
form to the orders of Lord Penzance.
Iris reported that an English banker,
acting under orders of the Empress
Eugene. has gone 10 Paris TO aid in ex-
Treating from aer position Mime. de
Friedland under arrest for forgery.
A REPU BIIC has been organized at Held
elburg, in Africa, BY the Beers, who mum
Der 5000, and a detachment of colonial
troops has been sent to the scence of the
revolt. 1t is thought in London that
WolseIey will hc dispatched thither with
British army
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TnE unfayorable reports Of the south
ern cotton harvest continue. The crop
Is abundant. but the trouble is about
gathering it. Southern papers say that
a very large portion Of the crop of Tex
as, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi
remains mgathercd III the fields, and
that this is due to scarcity Of labor, I'M
favorable weather since the first week
in November, and the unusually large
acreage and abundance of the yield.
The New Orleans Democrat draws the
lesson from these reports that the
southern farmers and planters sow
more than they are able to gather I'M
der the present supply of labor, except
in the most favorable weather for har-
yesting. Texas papers state that much
Of the corn crop of that state is still also
ungathered
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GEN NERAL NOTES.

CENTRAL KANSAS is enthusiastic over
the prospect for winter wheat.
THE gorkingmen of Lyme, Mass, elect
ed Henry q. Lowering mayor, by plua-
atty of 800.
THE authorities Of Caldwell, Kan;
have given Payne's raiders provisions and
forage for thirty DAYS.
BISHOP kEANE has caused thirty Catho-
lie liquor-dealers Of Richmond, Va, to
sign a pledge to close their saloons on Sun
day
THE Brooklyn tabernacle is in financial
straits, and the pastor, the Rev. DE Witt
Talmage, threatens a strike for cash.
HOSTILITIEs have recommended at Gin
ton, Iowa, between the Northwestern and
St. Paul roads, in regard 10 track-laying,
and the former has brought two suits for
damages.
FREDERICK BILLINGS, president Of the
Northern Pacific Railroad company, says
work will soon be commenced on an east
ern extension TO terminate near Ashland,
Wis
THE authorities of San Francisco have
quietly shipped home fourteen Chinese
lepers, who will be taken from the steamer
to the hospital at Canton.
THE famous Stevens battery, at Hobo
ken, n. j., upon which millions have been
spent, having recently been sold for 800,
600. is being broken up by Boston trm
AN explosion in mandatory on TWEEN
tv-sixth street, New York, carried four
thousand pound boiler, almost unbroken,
a distance of nearly two hundred feet, do
ing no damage on the route.
Mrs. Brown, on trial at indianapolis
for the murder of her husband, is defended
by Mrs. Foster, of Clinton, Iowa, this be-
ing the first right of lady attorney ever
enjoyed by the Hoosiers.
WILLIAM J. SEwELL, an officer of the
Philadelphia railroad company, who APP
parently had the New jersey senatorship
within his grasp, is now confronted with
the candidacy of George NJ. Robson. The
fight is destined TO be bitter one.
}. l. CASE, of Racine, has brought suit
against the firm of Fish Brothers q Co.,
and asks for a receiver. He claims that
they are indebted to him in the sum OF
5l50,000, and to other parties to the amount
of $4,000
KATE CHASE SPRAGUE's bill for divorce
has been filed in Washington county,
Rhede Island, the grounds being adultery,
extreme cruelty, and neglect, to provide
1t appears that the ex-governor has sur
rounded Canonchet with armed guards
and the sheriff refused to serve a writ OF
repIevin for Mrs Sprague's effects. The
case will be tried in February. 1t is be
lieved that the defendant, who was great
ly excited over the shocking charges in
the petition, will file counter petition
alleging adultery, desertion, and extrava-
pance
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MASY very good people will rejoice
To learn that the order assigning to
General o. 0. Howard the superintend
encv Of the United States military
academy Mt West Point has actually
been issued. General Scofield Is as
signed to New Orleans As commandant
Of the new military division of the
Gulf. embracing the states Of Louisi-
ana and Texas. and General Augur is
assigned 10 the department Of Texas
General Miles succeeds General How
ard in command Of the military de-
partment Of the Columbia. embracing
Oregon, Washington territory. etc.
Colonel Henry j. Hunt, Of the fifth
artillery, is assigned to the command
Of the department of the south, with
headquarters ut Charleston, 5. c., and
Colonel r :. Mackenzie, of the fourth
artillery. IS assigned to the command Of
the new department Of the Arkansas.
embracing Louisiana. Arkansas and
indian territory
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ment Of the trial az jefferson, on the 18th
inst, only two jurors were obtained from
a special venire of sixty.
EDwBRD LONG, colored, was hanged at
Jackson, Tenn, on the 18th inst, for the
murder of Sit Rogers negro, last June.
Long fully confessed his crime, and de-
clared that Rogers ghost had pursued
him relentlessly ever since the tragedy.
Four thousand persons witnessed the
execution.
An interesting adventure with robbers
has been vouchsafed to DR.. j. II. Mott, of
independence No. Two masked men entered
his bedroom, covered him with revolyers,
and forced him to sit on the edge of his
bed while they took watches and iewelry
to the value Of $780, They then fitted
themselves out with his clothing, burning
their discarded garments in the grate.and
and babe him goodnight
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ACCORDING to the Saturday Rere'f,
the hatred in which the Jewish race is
now held in Germany Is far too practi-
cal to be appeased by any such triiie
A. a change Of religion. If the Ger
man Jews became christians tomorrow
they would be equally powerful. If
they were rather stupid, and not good
at making money, and altogether given
to lag behind their christian neighbors
they might be Of any religion they
liked. Their offence is that in all
hese respects they are better men than
the christians They work harder, they
earn more, and they are sharper to see
and seize advantages.
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Female Opium Smokers.


The city council Of Oakland will
probably pass an ordinance directed
against opium dens and their frequent
ers. 1t is well known that. dozens of
young men and women III this city
are slaves 10 the debasting habit of
opium smoking. The dens are located
as follows Two Of them on Eighth
street, between Franklin and Webster;
three on the south side Of Ninth. All
these are in the heart Of the city, while
there are two or three in upper China
town. These dens are similar to like
institutions in San Francisco, and are
about ten by twelve feet square, pro
vided with hunks, into which the de-
voices crowd to enjoy their Supplying
and filthy luxury. Several youths Of
this city are now completely enslaved
by the habit, and one ofthe dens is
frequented every afternoon by we'll
dressed women
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THE CAR AND HIS ENEMIES.
An Attempt at Assassination Last
Near Which Has Hitherto Been
Kept secret.

A st. Petersburg dispatch to the Lon
don Times SAYS According to an ar
ticle in the St. Petersburg Vic3omosti, q
fourth attempt against the life of the
czar was made last year, in addition to
the three which took place between
April, 1879, and April of this year, and
which became universally known. This
fourth attempt, it appears, has been
kept a secret up to Il very short time
ago 1t will be remembered that in
April, 1879, the emperor was fired upon
in st. Petersburg; that ON his majesty's
return from the Crimea at the end of
the year the explosion under the i'm
perial train, on the Moscow rail
way took place; and that at the begin
ming of the present year the dining
room of the winter palace was destroy
ed by an explosion Of dynamite. Be
sides these Well-known instances, the
Vied0m0sti states that last year, PIE
sumably during the cars stay at Eiva-
dia, about three pools of dynamite
were laid beneath the Lozovaya-Sebas-
topol line of railway, not far from the
village of AleXandrofsk, by means Of a
subter anean passage bored beneath
the railway bank from a ravine which
effectually concealed the operations
from the guards of passing trains.
Two small chambers were dug
out, about twenty feet apart, and
in each was placed a packet of
dynamite, the whole being connected
by an electric wire, which was laid out
side for some distance beneath the turf
in the direction of the high road.
When the imperial train passed by this
spot the guard now remembers that he
noticed a carriage with three horses 60
ing along the high road, that it was
stopped for q second or two, and then
was driven away at a great speed 1t is
supposed that the electric battery was
in this carriage The miscreants APP
pear, however, to have Over-reached
themselves by their own skill, for no
explosion took place there, and by the
subsequent investigations carried out
by the supreme executive commission,
it was found that the wire in being
forced under the turf had III one place
been cut or broken, no doubt unknown
to the perpetrators of the scheme.
Your readers will recOlleCt that when
the emperor journeyed to Llvadia this
year it was confidently reported that
another mine had been discovered in
time under the Sebastopol railway.
Judging by the Vietomostis ac-
count, il would seem that this
mine was laid down during the cars
previous residence at Llvadia last year,
and the attempt remained unknown
until just before his maiesty's last de-
parture for the south, when, thanks to
the minute examination Of the line, it
was discovered and removed. The
Viedomoai remarks that the Russian
people have another proyidential es-
cape of their car for which to thank
the Almighty
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LORD DrFEEIN has been writing an
exhaustive pamphlet on the Irish land
question, to aid the cabinet in its de
alterations. He had already written
one in 1860. in which he opposed the
creation Of a peasant proprietary, in
opposition to the view OF Stuart Mill,
but he has altered his views since then.
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Something Tor the new year.

The world renowned success of Hostetters Bit
ters and their continued popularity for quarter
of century as a stomschic, is scarcely more won
derful than the welcome that greets the annual
appearance OF Hostetter's Almanac. This valu-
able medical treatise is published by Hostetter s.
Smith, Pittsburg, Pa. under their own immediate
supervision, employing 50 hands in that depart
ment Ten cylinder printing presses, folding
machines, job presses, &c, are running about
eleven months in the year on this work, and the
issue Of same for 1851 will not be less than eleven
millions. printed in the English, German French,
Welsh Norwegian, Swedish. Holland. Bohemian
and Spanish languages Refer to copy Of ii
for valuable and interesting reading concerning
health and numerous testimonials as to the elite
acy Of IIostetter's Bitters amusement. varied in
formation astronomical calculations and chrenol-
o.ical items. &c, which can be depended on for
correctness. The Almanac TOR 1881 can be OBJ
tanned free Of cost. from druggists sha general
dealers 10 al parts Of the country
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DR.. glenn has finished harvesting
on his great farm in Colusa county, Cal,
and finds a total yield Of 100000 sacks.
With the exception Of 10000 sacks re-
served for seed the total crop has been
shipped. The doctor is also one Of the
most prominent stoek-raisers in the
state having upward of 10000 head.
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LORD JUSTICE JAMES writes that the
rent of the Irish holdings should be
fixed at 20 to p per cent. over Grif-
tith's valuation, and that any landlord
dissatisfied with this should be entitled
to call upon the government to pur-
chase his land at a fair price.
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READING III the society letters from
Washington on the beautiful Miss
This. and the handsome Miss That,
suggests the query whether ugly girls
ever appear in society? Charles Lamb
once turned from the tombstones in a
cemetery where he was wandering
when a child, and asked, Mamma,
whore arr .he bad people buried?n
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Didn't Portend a Victory.

Tuesday morning" said broker
Yesterday, \ rose and did my duty, ~
! slways DO voted the straight dem
ocratic ii-ket from top to bottom, then
spent The ay pleasantly in the conn
try, and went to bed calmly and hope
fully at night When woke mp this
morning my paper which Is the Porld
was not lying IN it, usual place, bnt ont
on the sidewalk. and there was none
that passed so poor TO do it reverence,
not 50 much as 70 look at it. My dog
always brings itup tony room, and
even he refused 70 touch it. had to
ring the bell before he would conde-
seend to pick ii np. These are signs,
I said; but o Lord. they don't portend
a victory
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SIMON and Joseph Kline, father and
son, of Canton, O., both wanted to
marry their house-keeper. The old
man owned all the property. and the
woman gave him the preference on
that account, assuring Joseph that she
would marry him as soon as she be-
came widow But the son had
plan for getting her and the estate
without delay He poisoned lis father,
first using so much arsenic that the re-
suit was not fatal, and finally producing
death with morphine.