The examiner., 1882-03-18

l l costing about $500, QUO.
 Dr. Chittenden has made 8 chemical
 analysis of Jennie Cramer's body, and is
 said to have found three grains of arsenic, , fatal dcse.
 ) It is estimated that there are 10, 900, ,OOC men under arms in Europe at the present
 time, and at the annual costs, direct and
 indirect of the enormous forces is not less
 than $2. $40, ,0Oo, ,OOO.
 In Norwich, recently, women, in the
 absence of surgeon, sewed on A. k.
 Burchard's two toes, one of which was
 severed and the other mutllated with an aX.
 Sergeant Mason's sentence, for shooting
 at Guiteau, is sharper one than was expected. He is dishOnorbly dismissed
 the service, and sentenced to eight years in the penitentlary.
 Seventy five new passenger cars are to
 be built for the Consolidated road costing $5, GOO each. The Newport special will be
 run again this summer on the Shore Line division.
 A Toronto man was arrested for whip
 ping his grown-up daughter. His plea
 was that he only struck her a dozen times with cane for punishment for not keep ing Lent.
 MT. J. c. Rawn. superintendent of the Western division of the New England road, | has resigned his position on account of impaired health from close and continuous work. It is stated that the office of the General Superintendent of the road is to be removed to thss city.
 Officers of the CatskiIl Steamboat Con- pany, of New York, have visited this city, and announce their intention to put two good passenger steamers on the route between this city and New York, and that they will commence running daily on or before March 2Oth. They say they intend this as permanent arrangement.
 The electric light used for the great reading-room of the British Museum is greatly appreciated by the scores of read CTS who frequent it. It is proposed to light up the alcoves and rooms of the library in the same way, so that books can be more readily supplied from interior compart- ments sitter P. M.
 | Mrs. Bell, lady living in Boston with | her little daughter, was murdered in broad day last week Tuesday. Although the murderer was seen before he commit ted the deed following his victim, and his appearance fully described, the police have not been able to identify him. Two patrol men have been dismissed for failing to make the arrest.
 Mrs. Ko and her six children started for their native country last Saturday week. Harvard University pays the expenses of the trip. It is proposed to raise fund which shall yield an income of $500 year, an amount declared by good judges to be sufficient to support family comfortably | in China, and to continue the education of the oldest son.
 The Congressional Committee to audit the expenses of President Garfield's illness propose $15, GOO to Drs. Agnew and Ham, ilton each, $25, 900 to Dr. Bliss, $1O 900 to Drs. Reyburn and Boynton each, $5, 900 to Mrs. Dr. Edson, nurse, and $5, GOO to MT. Jennings, of Boston, for cooling ap- paratus. The Mormons are now openly boasting that they have captured congress and that there will be no anti-Mormon legislation It is estimated that the Mormons have spent over a million dollars in the fight this winter, and the money has been placed where it will do good service. Ore of the points made in Scoville's bill of exceptions is that shortly after the assassination secret session of the cabi- net was held at which District Attorney Corkhill and detective officer were pres ent, and at which the conclusion was un- animously expressed that Guiteau was crazy. but notwithstanding this, and At torney General MacVeagh's frequent statements of his belief that Guiteau was insane, Corkhill persisted in the prosecu- tion. Corkhill denies that such confer ence was held.
 Ever since charges of collusion with oodn nc% +hn 1o%n of Philadelphia by 8 well-known bank thief, a good deal of attention has been called to the subject by newspaper criti- cism. The affair eliminated by the mayor requesting the resignation of the entire detective force. New appointments were at once made from the police force. The detectives complain that they have been dismissed without a hearing, and assert that they are thoroughly able to vindicate themselves.
 Doubtful claims occupy much of the time of the Massachusetts legislature. The law has opened the courts to claimants aga1nst the state of Massachusetts, but no claimant resorts to the courts. If a claim ant has good case at law, the state set- ties it on the best terms possible. The claims which appear in the state-house, year after year, are either claims for state aid or bounty which have been rejected by the careful executive officers, whose busi- ness it is to exam1ne them, or claims on contracts which would not stand minute in a court of law. Nevertheless these ''revolvers" appear year after year and would appear oftener, if the Legislature sat oftener.
 Accounts come of fresh atrocity on Jews, the scene of which was near the town of Proujan, in the Government of Grodno in Russia. On the evening of Jan. 22d. some peasants who had occasion to visit a Jewish dwelling found in the door, way the bodies of two youths, and not far fir m them the mutilated corpse of their mother. The eldest daughter, girl of twenty, was discovered still breathing, , but lying in an unconscious condition, from number of wounds. In the sleep. , ing-room was found the corpse of the aged father and beside the father, in pool of blood, lay little girl twelve years old. It l appears that body of peasants entered the house, and, without the smallest provo cation, deliberately attacked and finally six of the seven members of the