The examiner., 1882-03-11
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 It is estimated that there are at least ten orakemen killed throughout the country n single day.
 The House has passed 8 bill exenpting disabled soldiers and sailors from taxation to the amount of $3oOO.
 The lowest percentage of illiteracy in the United States is found in Nebraska and the highest in South Carolina.
 General Joseph R. Hawley of Hartford will deliver the memorial address at Get tysburg, Penn, on Decoration day.
 Of the $5O,OOO needed to endow the Garfield memorial professorship at Will Jams college, $42, 900 has been subscribed.
 Charles A. Sweet & Co.,, we'll known bankers of Boston, suspended on Monday. Their liabilities are reported at about &, ,OOO, 900.
 The sale of the Mabille Garden in Paris, it's demolition and the use of the grounds for building purposes IS step In favor ot virtue and good morals. T
 The State Legislature has passed a resolution that the laws enacted this session shall be translated into German and pub- llshed in the German newspapers.
 The Massachusetts senate has bill be- fore it, changing the age at which children who cannot read or write may be employ ed in factories from fourteen to seventeen years.
 A commuter on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad calculates that in nearly 31 years he has travelled over 5000 miles, or uearly 40 times around the world
 W. W. Christy, a young man employed as cutter and trimmer by Dea. J. w. Clarke on Asylum St., has been found guilty of stealing cloth from his employer and sentenced to three months imprison- ment in jail.
 The Princess of Wales has sent her Photograph to King Kalakaua, the king of the Sandwich Islands, together with those of her sons, to be sold at 8 bazaar which will be held in Honolulu, for the purpose of raising funds to build cathe- dral in that city.
 Dr. Waite, of the Census office, has been trying very faithfully to secure full and accurate statistics of churches and other religious organizations. Inquiries have been sent to clerks of all the separate con- gregations, but from some of them we learn he has had no response.
 A gross outrage was perpetrated in the cemetery at Birmingham last Thursday night. The grounds were despoiled by wholesale, 25 slabs being pulled down and broken. The damage is estimated at 5000, and the borough is up in indigna- tion. The gang also stole an oil street. lamp on Cemetery avenue and threw it into an unoccupied barn, but did it no damage.
 MT Conkling was yesterday confirmed for an office for which he is not fit, by. the votes of men who know it, but do not care to force an issue on such point with the new administration. To use MT. Conkling s own classic language, the majority of the republican party have gone into the lobby and held their noses while he was being confirmed, and we are content to stay with them.-Nes0 York Tribune.
 Dr. Chamberlain, secretary of the State board of health, in his annual report attrib- utes the malaria to marshy swamps. He says that the New York and New Haven road obstructs a host of natural water courses with it's entertainments, and creates swamps along it's line. The germs and particles of malarious disease are borne along by currents of air and by the draft of the moving trains. Thus the malaria is spread.
 The Disaster at the Ring Theatre in Vienna is to be made the subject of a criminal trial. On February 25th copies of an indictment covering twenty-six folios were handed to eight persons charged with contributing, by their negligence, to the nesses have been summoned. The trial will commence on the 2d of May. Among the accused are the ex-Burgomaster of Vienna, the manager of the Ring Theatre, and the Chief Commissary of the Police.
 On Wednesday evening of last week MT. Job Williams and others of the teachers at the American Educational institution for deaf mutes in this city, made an exhi- bition of some of their pupils in the repre- sentatives hall in the State Capitol, before a large audience. The scholars acquitted themselves in an admirable manner. The Asylum is not 8 home but is strictly a school and carries the pupils to high pro- ficiency in learning. The school was founded by Gallandet and Clerc in 1917. The son of Gallandet is now at the head of the Washington Institution for Deaf mutes, which ranks it's pupils in the high est branches of educational pursuits. The American Asylum in Hartford has an able corps Of 1nSUrucGOrS, anu IS we'll e4uIppeu for useful work for the unfortunate people with whom it sympathizes.
 New York Star paper says that before the war there were very few men in the United States worth over $5,0OO, 900. Most of Stewards property was acquired during and after the war. Most of the men now worth ten million and upward were considered poor and honest twenty five years ago. To-day w. H. Vanderbilt has $65, ,OOO, ,OOO ill United States bondss and he is reported to hold some $50, ,OO0.- GOO in New York Central and Hudson River stock, $50, 900, ,Oo0 more in other railroads in this and other states, and a vast amount of valuable real estate Tn this city. His property cannot amount to less than $2OO 0oO, ,OO0, and probably is nearer 300, GOO, 900 than the former sum. He is without question the richest man on the globe to-day. He could buy out any of the Rochschilds and still be the richest man in the world. And, unlike the rich men of England the Dukes of Bedford, Westmin- ster, Argyll, and Buccleuch, who inherited their estates, Vanderbilt s property has been accumulated in two generations, and most of it within thirty years. The case stands without a rarallel in history. It is sin