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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

B~EEcHER.-Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
will lecture in ENGLAND next year.
HoLMEs.-Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is
in almost daily receipt of little gifts. his
autograph being considered a return token.
FREEMAN.-Miss Alice Freeman, president
of Wellesley college, is slight and girlish in
figure, with a youthful face. She is q doctor
of philosophy, and at the head of a col eye
800 strong.
RUsKIN.-John Ruskin, the eminent Eng
glish art critic, is a slightly built man, with
admirable powers of conversation, a soft
voice, a pleasant smile, a modest manner and
kind blue eyes.
Low.-Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, has added
$1,000 to his former gift of IS 900 to his birth
amount is to be expended in aiding worthy
boys of that city through college.
ENGLIsH.-EX-Governor James Z. Eng
lish is the richest man in New Haven, Conn,
having S6,uO0,OOO. which he made himself.
he started on "A farm i'll Bethlehem, learned
the carpenters trade, followed it "A couple of
years and went into the lumber business, in
which he is still interested.
T~ILDEN.-lt is said that Samuel j. Tilden
will pass the winter months on his yacht, the
Yosemite. The trip viii be strictly social.
The guests are to take the train to New
Orleans to Join the yacht there, whence they
will steam to Havana. From Havana they
VIII ptACecu l NLSiu tuS OtucI dlbfdctlNt
Cuban ports.
KING.-The oldest ex-senator is the
Hon. John p. King, of Georgia, who was a
prominent Democratic politician in the time
of jackson, and who is now in excellent
health at the age of eighty-four. He was
born April 3. 1899, was elected United States
Senator to fill an unexIired term in 1888,
elected to a full term in 1854, but resigned in
1887.
MCMAsTER.-While Professor McMaster
was travelling last summer the first $50 lages
of Volume II. Of his " History OF the People of
the United States we've stolen from his
sat hel. Being III able to recover the manu-
script, and having no other copy, he had to
rewritc the whole amount stolen, which has
delayed the appearance of Volume IL
CAMERON. Senator and Mrs. Don Cam
eroh left laris recently on a short trip To
Be GUM, Holland and Germany. They in
tend to return to Paris previous to setting out
for Italy, where they will spend the winter,
returning home next May. Senator Cam
eron has paired Off with Senator Butler, of
South Carolina, on questions coming up in
the Senate during the formers absence.
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MORRIS ( IRELAND,
BOSTON MASS.
Continued from last ueek.)
How Watch Cases are Made.

In 1875, thirteen men comprised the
entire working force used in the manu-
facture of the James Boss Gold Watch Case.
Now over IRE hundred are employed, and the
NJ. mber is constantly increasing. The real
son of this increase is this: In the James
Boss Goid Watch Case all the metal in SILT
and subject to wear is solid gold, whilethc re-
mainder, which only lends strength to the
case, is of stronger metal than gold,
giving gold where gold is needed, and
strong, elastic metal where strength and
elasticity are needed, a combination pro-
ducing a watch case better than solid gold
and at oNE-HALF the cost. - Many
Over 200, 900 of these cases 3 q
have been sold, and every jeweler in the
country can testify to their quality and
merit. u 1000
Z. W. Marsh. of the Democrat. bought a JAS Boss
Gold Watch case Is years ago, and carried II dntl a
short time ago, when i purchased 1t. and so.d It toa
customer. The case showed no signs Of wear, oHcelt
safely guaranteed for at least ten years la re. have
sold the James Boss GoldH atch Case .OrllgnN years,
aud the parties who bought the nrst ones aic carry.
ing them to-day, as well satisfied as though they had
regard them rs the only cases OF this kind a Jcwcltr
should sell who desires to give his CUSTOMERS TIA
worth Of their money or values hs reputation,
WA. j. CCsHWAl, Jetreier.
Send 3 cent stamp 10 Keystone Watch Gaze Factories, Phiia-
dciphia, Pa, for hand,ome Illustrated ramphi' showing how
Jage. Hos and kesstone Watch Cases ARE L1de.
ITO be C0ntInued)
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

HERR RUBENsTEIN calls his new comic
opera Among Robbers
malta has one of the finest opera-houses
in the world, and its orchestra is said to be
u~nsurr assed.
NJ. TALAzAC and NJ. Valero, tenors of fine
repute in Paris, have been engaged by Mr..
Mapleson to sing in America next year.
Mrs. ZELDA SEGUIN anticipates cutting
loose from opera, and will next season devote
her time and talents TO musical comedy.
MIR. TERRIss, Irving's leading man, does
his level best in every part he plays to make
a good impression. He is to be Wallacks
leading man next sea son.
EDWIN BOOTH has given $4,000 toward the
fund for the family of the lale Doctor Ever,
who, when II San Frarcisco editor many
years ago, befriended ire celebrated a tor.
LoTTA is preparing to play in the French
language in one of the Paris theatres during
the winter. She first appears in Dob
which. like all her plays, has leen transla-
ted into French. She h as Just paid 81, 900 for
a new piece.
THE three coaches for the use of Adeline
Patti and troupe are nearly completed at
Troy, n. Y. The wo ,dwork is f African
growth. W of them the LA Somnambula
and La Traviata,n cost 50, 900 each, and
the third, exclusively for Patti, will be
named after her, and will cost $4,000.
THE New York Chorus society has decided
to give orchestral as well as choral works at
its concerts this season. AT the first concert,
on December 10, at S%teinwav hall, the pro
gramme will consist of scenes from Schu-
mann's Faust for chorus and orchestra
and Wagner's "Tanerhauser " March and
Bethoven's Second symphony for the or
chestra.
A PROMINENT society girl in Havana has
appeared as Amina in "Somnambula' at the
Tacon theatre, supported by amateurs, and
repeated at the principal theatre of Matan-
zas. The net result of the two performances
is said to nave been upward of $751; O0,
which was devoted TO charity. The young
prima donna is said to be ~phenomena.ly
"pure, modest, and unaffected
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South and West.

~"SoJoURNER TRUTH the well known col
oreG lecturer, died tue other day in Battle
Creek, Mich, at the advanced age of 1913
years. She was born a slave in Ulster
1927. She never learned to read or
write, but could make Off han
speeches, and Travelled around the coun-
try for years lecturing on temperance and
other topics.
RALScoTT, after two years separation from
his wife. called at her house, near Easton,
Ind, and insisted that she should live with
him again. She refused, when he stabbed
her to death with a knife, then killed
their only child and took a dose of morphine,
from which he died.
Four persons-F. Henkel, and his two sons,
and Richard Harry, connected with a Du-
buQue la paper-were returning from q
hunting excursion, when their boat was
swamued in the Mississippi near Dubuque,
and all were drowned.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, the ~well-known actor,
was prevented f ON playing at Peoria, Ill,
by being suddenly struck dumb.
A woMAN's suffrage law now exists in
Washington Territory.
ALBANY, VII. a little hamlet of about
1000 people. the business center of a farming
community, has been swept away by the
flames. During the fire five persons were
killed, three fatally and many badly injured.
A FIRE destroyed nearly the whole of the
business part of st. Paris, Ohio, causing ag-
gregate losses of about $780, 900.
JUDGE GEORGE DENNY, JR., killed Jame
H.. Anderson at Lancaster, KY. There had
been a feud between the two.
LIGHTNING struck a church at Ostrander,
Ohio, and passing to the ground followed the
surface to an adjoining house, instantly killing
Reuben Freshwaller.
DIR. GEORGE w. BAGBY, a prominent South
ern writer and historian, died the other day
in Richmond, Va, at the age of fifty-tive
years.
Mrs. LAURA RAIL, a young married
woman of Baltimore, killed her two children
-Lottie A., five years of age, and Helen,
aged two years-by opening veins in their
arms and letting them bleed to death, and
then cut her own throat.
RICHMOND STUART (colored), was hanged at
Shreveport, La, i'll presence of 1000 people,
for numbering his wife: and on the same day
Ambrose West also colored), about eighteen
years old, suffered a similar penalty at Ma
con. Ga, for the murder of James Munroe.
In the latter case the rope broke at the first
attempt to hang West, and the execution
was delayed for an hour.
PROFESSOR j. H. TIcE, the well known
weather prophet, died suddenly at his home
in ST. Louis.
JOSEPH JEWELL, one of the three men
who last March murdered M. p. Renowden
in order to get possession of his earnings,
amounting to S21, 900, was hanged at San
Jose, Cal. OF his two a~ccomplices one
turned States evidence and is now serving
out a light sentence, and the other is under
sentence of death.
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PROHIBITING POLYGAMY.
Proposed Amendment TO the Federal
Constitution.

General Rosecrans, member of Congress
elect from the San Francisco district, is au-
thor of the following proposed amendment
to the Constitution prohibiting ~polygamy:
A joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States prohibiting %polygamy:
In pursuance of our duty to
guard the development of that larger and
more rational liberty for every unit of So
ciety, AMI that higher civilization which con-
sists in the domination of reason and Justice
over the passions, by needful constitutional
amendments aud provisions, we have forever
prohibited such things as reason and expert
ance have shown to be hostile or impeding to
such development, and among them the slave
trade and even slavery itself; and
WHEREAS, Polygamy, condemned for its
contravention of reason, its injustice to
women. its degrading influence on the char
acter OF the feina e SEX, its brutalizing effect
on the male sex. and its general repu gnance
TO the spirit OF modern freedom and progress,
has always been considered so unlikely to be
tolerated among us that no constitutional
prohibition OF it has hitherto been deemed
necessary to prevent its growth under the
protection of state and Territ )rial law: and,
whereas, The absence of such prohibition
has enabled designing men, under pretanse
of a new revelation from heaven, to appeal to
the interests and passions of poor, ignorant
Ieopleat home and abroad, ana to teach them
that religion sanctions and the United States
allows the practice of polygamy and 10 diffuse
the poison of this bari arian practice through
the Territories of Utah, Arizona, New
Mexico, Idaho, Montana AMI Wyoming, TO
the great injury of the future well-being and
Liberties of the inhabitants there OF and to the
interests and good name of the Whole people;
therefore
By the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, be it
Resoired, That, pursuant to the provisions
of article . of the Constitution of the United
States the following amendment to sai1 Con-
situation he and the same is hereby proposed
for ratification by the legislatures of the
several States. to wit:
XVI.
SECTION l. Polygamy, being %incompati-
BILE with our civilization, is forever prohibited
in the United States and all places under its
jurisdiction.
Sec. :. Congress shall have power to en-
force this by a lproDriate legislation.
ReSotrod, That the Secretary of State shall
promptly forward authenticated copies OF
this joint resolution to the several States.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

PROVIDENCE, II. |, elected Thomas A.
Doyle mayor for the fifteenth time, after an
interval of three years, by 100 more majority
than he ever obtained before.
A CoLoRED mems political party has been
started in Boston under the name of the
Sumner National Independents"
New YORK CITY and surrounding country
was treated to an extraordinary sunset the
other evening. The sky looked as though it
were ablaze with the reflection of a great fire
in New York harbor, and many people
rushed down town to witness the conflagra-
ton. At Poughkeepsie, N. Y, the fire de-
partment was called out. :
GOVERNOR b. F. BUTLER. Mayor Edison,
and other prominent D~ersonages spoke at the
nnua dinner of the New York Press club.
A FIRE destroyed the Windsor theatre, on
the Bowery, the largest place of amusement
in New York city, together With an adjoining
hotel and other property, causing an estima-
ted loss of 5000, 600.
SIX fishing vessels with seventy-ive men on
board were reported overdue at Gloucester,
Mass, and fears for their safety were enter
tanned.
REV. WARREN H. CUDwoRTH, a promi-
nent Unitarian minister, died suddenly in his
pulpit during services at East Boston, Mass,
aged ffty-eight years.
YALE defeated Harvard at football before
an immense assemblage i'll New York, win
ming the college championship.
THE rear car of a train role down an en-
bankment near Worcester, Mass, injuring
thirty-five passengers more or less seriously.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND appointed Wheeler
H. Peckham. a well known lawyer, to sue
coed the late John McKeon as the New York
district attorney.
COMPLETE returns put the plurality of Carr,
the New York Republican candidate for sec
rotary of STATE at 1888, and of Chaplin,
Democratic candidate for comptroller, at 49,,
219. Mr.. Gates. Prohibition candidate for
secretary of state, polled 1856 votes. The
greenback vote on the highest count-that
for Halsey for comptroller-reached Z 500.
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Foreign.

LATER reports confirm the news of the
total humiliation Of an Egyptian army of
10000 men under Hicks Pacha. Colonel
Coetlogon sends a message from Khartoum,
saying that Mr.. Vizitelly, the artist of the
London Graphic is the sole survivor O
the battle with FL Mahdi's forces, and that
he is a prisoner at FL ODE d.
JUAN VALERA has been appointed minister
Of Spain in the United States.
FRANCE has rescinded the decree forbid
ding the importation Of pork.
SPAIN has abolished the corporal punish
ment of slaves in Cuba.
A BAND of robbers attacked a priests house
in I~xcaquixtla, Mexico, killed the priest and
his two servants, severely wounde his niece,
and rited the house of its yaluables.
MRS. CAREY and her son testified at the
trial of Patrick O'Donnell in London for the
murder of James Carey, The informer.
Among O'Donnell's counsel was Gene, al
Roger A. Pryor, of the New York bar.
VIGNAUx, tine French champion, defeated
Schafer, the American champion, in q five
nights billiard match in Paris, scoring 5000
points to his opponents s,s76.
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UNWILLING OF WASEgINGTON,s


AT the sub-treasury, corner of Wall AMI
Nassau streets, WARDS statue of Washington,
presented to the United States government
by the New York chamber of com
O'Clock p: NJ. the hour appointed
for the unwilling services in front of the Sub
Treasury, Wall, Broad and Nassau streets.
We're filed by a dense crowd of both sexes,
which pushed. 20 tied and elbowed in the al,
most vain effort to see over one mothers
heads, The front of the Sub-TreasuI was
probably decorated more handsomely
than any other building in the city.
Reserved seats under the portico at the top
of the staircase had been placed for the in
vited guests, and thee were all fl led. Near
est the covered statue We're President Ar
thur, Governor Cleve and, Bishop Potter,
President George w. Lane and ROYAL Phelps,
of the chamber of commerce, DIR. Storrs and
George VIM. Curtis, the orator of the daY.
Mr.. Lame acte 1 as presiding officer. Flanking
Mr.. Phelps were the remaining members of the
committee of the Chamber of Commerce, con
sisting of A. A. Low, S. b.. C%hittenden, Morris
X. Jessup, Henry T. Spaulding and BENJAMIN
G.. Arnold. John Quincy Adams Ward, the
sculptor of the statue, occupied IA prominent
seat among the committee, and Sub-Treas-
urer n. S.. Acton was also present.
1t vas nearly = o'clock before the dedica-
ton ceremonies began. DR.. Storrs delivered
the opening prayer. Mr., Royal Phelps, as
chairman of the special committee of the
of followed DIR. Storrs.
He reported the completion Of the work to
President Lane, and sketched its his
tory. Amid cheers and the waving of hand
kerchiefs by the assembled multitude, Gov
ernor Cleveland, assisted by Mr.. Ward, the
scu'p or, then caught W one end of the flag
yelling the statue, an, loosening it, uucov,
cred the bronze. A roar of applause greetei
the act, and the Washington statue was un.
yelled.
President Lane, in a few well-chosen re
marks then presented the statue to the gov
eminent of the United states, in whose custo
dy it will remain forever. pursuant to an aci
of Congress. The response on behalf of tn,
governm mt was made by President Arthur
who was received with loud applause. Hecom
plimented the hambe of IN upon thu
conception and completion of the work, tn,
sculptor upon his form in bronze of the Father
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Of his Country, the city upon the possession
of such an adornment, and a nation upon
reminder of the "time that tried mems souls.r
George William Curtis next delivered oil
grafton. After the singing of =" Old
Hundred Bishop Potter pronounced
the benediction, and the assembly dispersed.
At night a commemorative banquet was
given by the New York Chamber of Com
merce at Delmonico's, Responses to toasts
were made by President Arthur,
Governor Cleveland, of New York,
Governor Butler, of Massachusetts,
Governor Waller, of Connecticut, Henry
Ward Beecher and Others. Queen Victoria
was toasted, and Goods save the Queen was
pla ed and sung.
Dinners were also given by about eighty
representatives OF old New York families at
the Brunswick hotel, and to the veterans of
1872 at the Sturtevant house. Areception was
given in the Seventh regiment armory to the
visiting military organizations. In the Madi-
son Square garden long tables were
spread with food sufficient for 5000
men, and after the parade the
tired and hungry soldiery were provided with
eatables and d~rinkables. And notwithstand-
ing the rain, the celebration proved a sue
cess, and the greatest ommemoration in the
history of the empire city.
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LATER NEWS.

A FRI broke out in the upper part OF the
New York Masonic Temple, one OF
he finest buildings in the city, spread
among the various lodge rooms, and before
it could be subdued damage to the extent OF
about S2O0,OO 0 was inflicted.
FLAMES which broke out in the Farwell
block, the largest business building in Chicago,
were only prevented from spreading through
out the entire structure by the fact that it is
broken by heavy fire walls running through
it. The fire was confined to Nos. 16S and 1TO
Market street, the three lower stories of which
were occupied by a firm Of notion dealers,
and the four upper stories by a firm of fur
riers. In the upper floor seventy-five girls
had a narrow escape from a terrible death,
all but two making their way with difficulty
out of the windows into the adjoining build
ing; the two mentioned-Kitty Hilgert and
Frances Fairweather-iell to the ground aud
were instantly killed. The pecuniary loss is
estimated at 100000.
Four burglars who had robbed a safe at
New Washington, Ohio, were pursued by a
body of 100 men. During the pursuit two OF
the burglars were shot and killed, a third was
captured, and one of the pursuers was fatally
and another badly wounded.
DURING November the public debt wa; de
creased 81, 72l ,67G.30. The cash in the United
States treasury on the 1st amounted to
1894, 766,513.S4.
The Payments made from the treasury dur
ing November, were as follows: On account
of civil AM miscellaneous, S5,251,S9S War,
S2,4e5,5 4 Navy, 81 SOC, $40; Interior, Indians
500, 1872; Interior, pensions, S12,031, 100; total,
$50. j54, 513.
PATRICK O'DoNNELL's short trial in Lon
don for the murder of Carey, ended in a
verdict of guilty, the jury not accepting the
prisoners plea that he had shot the informer
in self defence. After the judge had SELL
fenced ODonnell to death the prisoner held
up his hand and shouted: "Three cheers for
Old Ireland! Goodbye, United States! To
with the British and the British Crown! 1t is
a plot made up by the Crown!' The pris-
oner shouting, cursing and struggling, was
then forcibly removed by the police amid fear
full confusion and slamming of doors.
HICKS PACHA, commander of the Egyptian
army, recently cut to pieces by the False
Prophets followers, was killed by a lance
thrust.
A RISING has occurred in Darfour, Central
Africa, and among the Bedouins of Nubia.
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O M VERY OLD PEOPLE.

Mrs. Mary Shaug messy died in Erie, Penn,
aged 100.
Chester Childs died at L~udlowville, N. ".
at ninety-eight.
Alexander Willis of La Crosse, Ga, died
recently, a-ed ll3.
Louis Triplett and his wife, of La Belle,
Mo, are each ninety-three years of age.
solomon E~versull, of Hamilton county,
Conn, has just celebrated his Tooth birthday.
After living to the age of ninety, Matthew
Arnold, of Colchester, n. ", committed sui
eide.
The centenary birthday of Mrs. Anna NJ.
Greene was celebrated at Newport a short
time ago.
Robert W. Knight, the Oldest citizen of
Portland, Me-, died recently, aged ninety
three years
Mrs. Jane McCurry was baptized on her
Tooth birthday at Buzzards' Roost, Whitfield
county, Ga.
Arthur Connolly died recently in Lockport,
n. Y, at the age of ninety-nine years AM
eleven months.
Mrs. Jerusha Stowell, of Peru, Mass, is
ninety-six years of age. Recently she fell and
fractured her hip.
The Oldest graduate of Yale college is the
Rev. DR.. Leonard Wilmington, of Boston,
who is ninety-four years of age.
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Long Island city: Astoria II. and l.. COM
pany; volunteer II. and l.. company of Staten
island; Wandewenock II. and l.. company of
Newtown; Hope II. and l.. company Of Yon-
kCrS.
SIXTH DIVISION General F. J. Heron
commanding. Tammany Society; Order
United American Mechanics; Approved Or
der of Red Men; General Theological Semin-
airy; Irish Confederation; st. Patrick's ALI
ance; Friendly Sons of st. Patrick; Central
Council of United f. NJ. T. A. b.; Yorkville
and Harlem Bakers: Journevmen Stone Cut
tiers; J%ourneymen Tailors; y Dung Mems Pro
gressive association (colored).
1t is estimated hat 10000 people took part
in the parade, and that between 200,0O0 and
3OO,0O0%s strangers were in the city during the
day.