The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-30
GENERAL NEWS.

Rifleman Carver, crack shot, make $780,
600 in his test of skill week before last.
There is $40, 900, 900 of unclaimed money
now in the vaults ofthe United States Trea-
sury.
A. j. Wilson, noted as an English bicy-
clist, has ridden 6, 344 miles during the last
291 days.
A slight fire occurred among the books
and records under the iron roof of the
House of Representatives at Washington
Monday morning. 1t was ~extinguished
after having damaged a space about twen-
ty feet square. The fire is supposed to
have been started by electric light wires.
AS compared with 1883, the murders in
this country have more than doubled, the
number in 1884 being 3,377. OF these, 315
were mysterious and remain so. Forty
eight children were killed by their parents,
SO wives by their husbands, and IL llus-
bands by their wives. Only 103 legal ex-
lynchings were reported.
The old Liberty Bell at independence
Hall, Philadelphia, has been polished up
and on Thursdayweek was placed on a hand
somely decorated truck in front of the Hall.
Last Friday, under a large police escort, it
was taken to the Pennsylvania railroad
depot and placed on a car and started fof
New Orleans. The Bell arrived there on
Monday afternoon, having been delayed
some time at Mobile, where a salute of 81
,r,,pr NOR, e r,J -, sc bo,o, TIo 1,a1I o,1
its escort were met by Mayor Guillette and
a Committee of Reception at some distance
from New Orleans and escorted to the city.
Large crowds of people med the streets on
each side for miles, the car containing the
bell having been placed on a standard
gauge truck at the Elysian Fields. Statutes
were fired, whistles blown and flags dis
played on the shipping. The formal recep-
ton ceremonies took place on Wednesday,
in Music Hall, of the Exposition Building.
Two flags, made entirely out of silk pro-
duced in this country, We're presented to
the State of Pennsylvania on Thursday
OF last week by a committee of ladies rep
resenting the Women's Silk Culture Asso-
citation of the United States. The cere-
mony took place i'll the Executive room.
Mrs. John Lucas, president of the associa-
ton, made the presentation address to the
Governor, who was supported by commit
tees from the senate and House. She
sketched the history of the society and
told OF the progress it has made in intro
ducing a new industry into the homes of
the country. Governor Pattison received
the flags with a brief response to the adj
dress, and a few words were said by Sena-
tor Osbourn, of Philadelphia, and Repre-
sentative Brown, of Allegheny.
On Friday, the same committee presented
to the United States Senate, at Washington.
through President Edmunds, a beautiful
flag, of American silk. The delegation
then proceeded to the room of the Speaker
and presented to the House OF Representa-
tives, through him, a similar flag.
London was startled by three dynamite
explosions last Saturday afternoon. The
first one ccurred in Westminster Hall, the
second in the House of Commons. the third
at the Tower. These explosions are the
most serious and successful vet perpetrated.
Immediately before the first explosion a
lady visitor, who was alone and wasabout to
enter the buildings, beckoned to a police
man, and when he we vent to her she called
his attention to a package lying upon the
steps outside the crypt. The policeman
picked up the package carelessly, not sus-
pecting anything, and went with it out into
Westminster Hall. He had no sooner
reached the hall than the package explod-
ed. The explosion knocked the policeman
down and injured him so seriously that his
case is at present considered critical. Its
force also knocked down two other police
men who were standing in the vicinity, and
badly stunned them. The prevalent belief
is that the destructive agent was conveyed
into the House of Commons by some Sat
urday visitor. The western extremity of
the House is a total wreck. All the wood
work in that part of the building was shat
tered and a wide hole made through the
floor. Thu gallery was displaced and the
solid stone work of doorways was either
pulverized or shifted from its position.
Every pane of glass in the house was
smashed to atoms.