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LATER NEWS.

THE number of emigrants arriving at th'
port of New York in 1886 is $50, ,745, a falling
off of about $4,000 over 1884.
THE late storms along the coast have been
very disastrous to the Gloucester (Mass.
fishermen. Five vessels and eight lives hau
been reported lost
TEN men were badly burned by an explo
sion Of natural gas at gas well near Kttan
ming, Penn.
HARTFORD, Conn.,, has been treated to
several sharp earthquake shocks.
A FIRE at Greenville, Miss, destroyed
large oil mill, together with 2, 400 bales O.
cotton and ten small buildings, causing
total estimated damage Of 100000
THE wife and two children of Ferrymal
James Saunders, were drowned by the cap
sizing Of their boat near Nicholasville, KY.
Hon. JAMES E. BAILEY, United States
Senator from Tennessee from 1877 to 1881
died few days ago at Clarksville, Tenn.
aged sixty-two years.
JAMES TURNER, q nephew of United State
Senator Brown, was run over by freight
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has written t.
Senator VOORHEES, expressing desire to aid
in the proposed erection Of monument to th'
late President Hendricks at Indianapolis
The government will dispatch the revenue
steamer Rush from San Francisco to search
for the lost whaler Amethyst.
The eccentric king Of Bavaria is a bank
rupt.
CAPTAIN PoLLEYs, long the American
consul in Cuba, has committed suicide II
Barbados.
AN Italian organ-grinder was struck dead
while leaning against an electric light pole in
New Orleans, and companion who touched
his body also received q shock which
knocked him over and burned one hand to 6
crisp.
MANY herds of cattle are being killed in
several Pennsylvania counties by order OF the
State authorities, because of pleuro-pneu'
monia.
PETER B. SwEENY, the brains Of the no
torious Tweed ring, has returned temporarily
to New York after long absence in Paris.
REBEccA PATTERSON, said to be III years
old, died a few days ago in Little Falls, N. Y
Two negroes, caught setting fire to quan
tity of cotton near Crawford, Miss, were
taken from Jail by crowd and hanged to
tree
A CHICAGO paper states that the tota
length of main lines of railroad laid in 1sS;
was 3, 113 miles, which is about 700 miles lest
than in 1884.
Mr.. V. P. SNYDER, of Hudson, N. Y, ha!
been appointed deputy comptroller of th'
currency.
A DETACHMENT of United States troop
routed large band Of Mexican revolutionist
who had taken possession of an island in tn
Rio Grande river which belongs to ou
government.
QUEEN CHRISTINA, widow of King Al
fonso, has been sworn in as regent Of Spain
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THE STUBBORN ARABS.
Still Fighting Fiercely with the
British in Egypt.
A Battle in which the Rebels were
Completely Routed.

A dispatch from Kosheh, Egypt, says:
"Lieutenant General Stephenson, command
er of the British forces in Egypt, who recent
" arrived here with large reinforcenents,
attacked the rebels who had been mona:lnG
the garrison for several weeks. A threc-hourS
fight ensued, resulting in the British troops
capturing Giniss, village near kosheh. The
rebels were completely routed. The cavalry is
pursuing the enemy The guns and twenty
banners were captured. The English lost
one officer killed and tweuty-one men
wounded. The Egyptian allies of the Brit
ish lost six killed and thirteen wounded y
The Arabs fought stubbornly. Five EmlrS
were killed. Twenty dead Arabs were found
in one house
British men-of-war have been ordered to
blockade tho coast of Egypt from Massowah
to Suez, in order to prevent the importation
into the Soudan of arms and ammunition for
the Arabs
The rout of the rebels was so complete, says
a later dispatch, that General Stephenson is
hopeful that there will be no necessity for
further operations.
A recent report stated that the Arabs at
Giniss and Abal numbered 1000, of whom
100 were riflemen. They had six guns and
plenty of ammunition. The guns were placed
in earthworks, and the line of fire was direct
on the Nile, so as to oppose the passage OF q
steamer.
Ab-del-Kader Pasha, minister of war, for
merly governor Of the Soudan, in recent
conversation on the Egyptian question, said:
''If the English retire on Wady Halfa they
must retire on Assouan, and if on Assouan,
then on Cairo. Every pace in advance gives
the English hundred friends; every pace III
retiring gives them two hundred enemies
half in front, half in rear. England may
gain victory after victory, but if they are
followed by retreat the English government
has uselessly wasted blood. There is not one
in ten who will believe in England's defeat:
say that retirement now would be fatal. !"
When asked whether the question was i'll
soluble hereplied; No, it requires two things
first, fixed policy to crush rebellion;
secondly, money. Let England attack the
enemy in force, and after the latter's defeat
open negotiations. With native emissaries
and money England could detach the soldiers
who are now the backbone Of the rebellion
and also some tribes who are always jealous
of each other.'
When asked what sum would be required,
the minister said: "Perhaps $4,000, 900, but
this polcy would oe the cheapest in the long
ruin"
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The Most Powerful Explosive.

Nearly all explosive substances are
nitro o-compounls or notifications of
them. One class owe their origin to
gun-cotton and the other to nitro glycer-
inc; and these are essentially the same
thing, gun. cotton being made by the
nitriiication of a solid body, and nitro
glycerine by the notification OF liquid
substance. Gun-cotton, common eX-
plosive that has been in use nearly forty
wears is made by saturating COM
mon cotton with strong nitric acid.
Nitro -gycerlne is compound of gly-
cerine and nitrogen. Its manufacture
is difficult and dangerous. AS this ex-
plosive is liquid it is somewhat diff
cult to handle, and later compounds have
been made by mixing it with solid ma
terial. Dynamite is made by adding to
nitro. glycerine q kind Of irfusorial earth,
which is found in Germany and which
is nearly pure silica. Diralin, another
explosive, is a mixture of sawdust or
wood pulp with nitro-glycerine. Sebastin
is made by using with the same explo-
sive a peculiar porous kind of wood
charcoal. pulvcrized before the mixture.
Still another OF this kind has been made
by Professor Nobel by mixing soluble
gun-cotton with nitro-glycerine. The
chemical effect of this union is to form a
iellv-like substance. which is called
blasting gelatinc. This is still further
modified by mixing with it another kind
of gun cotton, which is not soluble in it,
and makes firm substance easier to
handle than the Jelly. All of these ex
plosives, however, can only be safely
made by experienced chemists, and any
inexperienced handling of them is
sure enough to result in calamity to the
person rash enough to attempt it.
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FOR FEMININE READERS
The Unfashion able Girle

All, she was most unfashIouabie girl.
She didn't know music and she dldn know
French,
She didn't wear bangs nor little spit curl,
And she called a pew in the churcn
bench.
She drank from her saucer, and ate with her
knife.
And wore plain dress in last years style,
She never talked love to dapper young men,
And her anger she never concealed Win
smile.
She wasn't unnatural and laced most to
death.
She called things by their names, but was
modest witha
She didn't complain Of headaches all day,
And dance ali night at faSh'nable ball.
She didn't get scai ed at the l'itchen stove,
And rut all the work on her o d mother S
lack;
She didn't look sweet, and simper and smlrk,
Eut kissed her John Henry with right
hearty smack.
She didn't look pale and get up at ten,
And leave her apartment untldy. unclean; 4;
She didn't use paints and powders ana PADS
And she didn't say things she dldn mean.
She didn't find fault with family and nome,
And covet the blessings She never could
get, Ill.,
But she'll be just as good an angel up
there
As if she we're finely accomplished, you
bet.
-Mcrchant- Traveller
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DAKOTA AS A STATE.
A Question that Is TO Engage the
Attention Of Congress.

Among the Western politicians who are In
the city, says Washington dispatch, it is
generally conceded that Dakota matters are
to receive greater share of attention during
the present session of Congress than
ever before. 1t is felt that thu
urgent public demand for leg
isation on the affairs of the Territory cannot
DO ignored, though just what form leg isla'
ton will finally take cannot be foretold.
Julging from the drift of discussion. nothing
but the division of the Territory on the forty
sixth parallel and the admission of the south.
ern half will satisfy a majority of
the people of Dakota The people of the
Territory, as whole are in favor OF divls-
ion, with or without admission, and there Is
great earnes:lless on this point, owing TO the
rivalry anil diversity OF in: erests of the two
sections. The sentiment of tine rorth appears
less positive on the question of statehood,
but it is possible that vote would show
small majority in favor of admission. The
southern portion would vote almost ulllnl-
mously for both division and admission, as
illu- trated by the actions of different con-
yentiOnS
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Sweets Little BOnnets.

Apropos of bonuets, have a piece of
information for you. They are now TO
be worn quite small, with hardly any
trimming and for the most part without
even strings. saw the sweetest little
ones on in Ncolle's, in Bond street.
You see, the reaction from the ugly high
affairs is sudden and complete. They
showed me one, quite love Of thing,
made of sheepskin. The brim was cut
up at each side and small wing was
fitted in. The sole trimming was one
plain, flat band of velvet. No strings.
Another lovely Little one had a pcau de
suede crown. trimmed all round with
the breast feathers of some blue green
tropical bird, laid quite flat against the
by no means high crown. The brim was
edged with beaver, and there were
strings of blue-green ribbon velvet, in
which the tints of the feathers were re-
called. Another, with mutf to match,
was made of glove-kid in the natural
tan color. edged with sealskin. A small
OWLS head formed the only trimming
London Truth.
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THE COUNTRY'S CROPS.

Estimates OF the Agricultural DC
purl.ncnt iU- The Past Year.
The estimates Of the Statistiriln OF the de-
pnrtmcnt of agriculture for the principal
cereals for lSSj are computed, and the
aggregate bushels are as follows: In
round millions: Corn, 1856: wheat, :'''; ;
oats, GO. The area of corn is i3,o0o,ooo
acres: of wheat :}l,000 1000: of oats :G,O00.0Nl
The value of corn averages nearly - cents Il
,,I>hrl, and makes an aggregate of %E;',0IW, :
CnD. 81. .Uu.O OnO less than the value of the last
crnp. The decrease in the prolt"t of wheat
is 50 per cent and only II per cent III vaua--
TONS. Which is SD ,Win0oO. The valuation Of
outs is $l;SO.Mm. .mN The reduction in wheat
is mostly in the valleys Of the Ohio and III
California; The States of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois. rlissouri and Kansas last year pro
duced il 0DO. .OOU bushels this year sc, ,000,OOo,
q reduction of 90,0OD,OOO bushels The pro-
duction g. all cereals is fiftythrec bushels TO
each inlr .,itant, and the aggregate volume
is larger than any former year.
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SOu1,h and West.

SIX boilers burst at the Spring Valley wa
ter works, near San Francisco, killing two
men. dangerously wounding two more, and
completely dcmolishing the works. The pc
cuniary loss is estimated at sl5O,O0O.
A SERIES of assassinations has startled the
people of Austin, Texas. Two women were
dragged from their beds on Christmas eve
and killed, and the husband of one of them
was found dead in bed, having been killed
with an ax. During the past year eleven
women have been aSsaSsinated, and many ul-
successful attempts to murder cooks and SER
want girls have been reported without SIN
gle clue to the assassins being discovered.
A HUGE Christmas tree in the Chicago
county hospital caught fire, and in tho panic
that ensued among the guests and inmates
more than fifty persons were burned or
bruised
FRANK VAUGHN was married few days
ago at Little Blue, Mo-, and the next night
was shot dead by Abraham Nave, a cousin
of the bride and unsuccessful SuitOr for her
hand. The murderer committed suicide.
Ex-NAYoR MURPHY, of Omaha, Neb. died
after few days illness. The doctor in at
tendance says the cause of death was poison
ing, the result of eating chicken which had
been frozen and then allowed to become par
TALLY decomposed.
CRAIG ToLL1vER, one of Kentucky's most
notorious desperadoes, has been shot dead by
Jealous rival.
ALEXANDER REED, colored man, brutal
ly murdered Miss Carrie Boyd, at Gaines
town, Ca Reed was captured by two colored
men, taken to the scene of the murder, tied
to tree, wood piled around his body, and in
the presence of 500 people he was burned to
death.
ACCORDING to a prominent Arizona ranch
man dozens of families have been maSsacred
by Apaches in distant parts of the Territory,
and the news of their death has never spread
beyond the Immediate vicinity, owing to the
long distance and separation from the out
side world.
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Fashion Notes.

Furs were never offered in such variety
US this winter.
Fans were never so beautiful nor IN so
great variety as now.
Sultana Jackets are made of embroid-
cred and beaded velvet.
A al-plush bonnet has the brim Dor.
dered with natural beaver.
Tea gowns of Baltic blue plush are
bordered with chinchilla fur.
Narrow satin gibbons disport among
the founces of tulle dresses.
Jewel buttons are to be much worn,
some of them as brilliant diamonds.
Golden bronze velvet or plush is used
to trim dresses of soft white material.
Mink is not as fashionable here as
abroad. but some of the costumes appear
trimmed with it.
Some of the new plush mantles with
sling sleeves have satin bodices button
ing as snugly as those of dresses.
A very pretty effect is seen in the new
dark velvets, the tiny brocade figures
having the appearance of jewels.
The richness of wraps comes in their
lining, the material itself being plain,
common and in many cases absolutely
ugy.
Clasps for dresses and c,oaks are in a
variety of designs, from the strictly
medieval to those of realistic forms, as
animals and birds.
Wood. lead, porcelain, glass and gold
beads Of large and various sizes are used
to make passementeries, motifs, hralds
and galloons as decorative as possible.
A golden brown plush visite, lined
with tinted gold-colored silk, is trimmed
with gold passemcnterie. 1t has collar
of plush, and above this, one covered
with the gold passenenteric.
Seersuckers are being shown at this
season of the year. not for dresses, but
for aprons for children, nurses and
housemaids and come in both plain and
crinkled stripes. They are an economy
in laundering, since they need no iron
ing.
Rich, heavy cloths continue to be
made up for street costumes, but the
stripes which were so loudly heralded at
the beginning of the season. and for
which SO much popularity was promised
--where are they2
An evening dress of black tulle over
white tulle has the front of black satin,
with tablier of pearl and silver EN-.
broidery. The white satin bodice is
covered with folds of black tulle with
tassels of pearls and white beads.
Blanket suits are getting their share of
orders, and notwithstanding the opinion
of writer's to the contrary, they can be
made to look very stylish if we'll made.
But if all punched up and made to do
impossible things in the way of drapery,
it is not to be wondered at that some
write contemptuously of them.
Boas are much used by the furriers,
and many of the modistes are trimming
suits with very full ones. There may be
a necessity for this in the fact that the
back part of the neck requires protec-
tion since the hair is to be worn high
on the head and the bonnets do not
come low enough to shield any.
A walking dress of seal brown
viculla cloth, with stripes of tan-colored
plush, has the skirt made plain and not
very full. The overdress Of plain cloth
has short apron front with panniers
and pouf at the sides and back. The
tailor made jacket is fastened half way
down with loops of silk cord, and
double row OF buttons, the opening to
show vest of tan -colored matelasse silk.
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THE EXPLOSIVE BOILER.

Four Men Killed in Alabama anu
Two in Pennsylvania.
A few days since the boiler of the Gulf City
Oil Mills, Mobile, Ala, exploded with ter
rible force, tearing down the boiler-house
and part of the seed sheds, and burying four
colored laborers in the debris. They were all
killed. Three other negroes were seriously
scalded, and two slightly hurt. I. S. Stanton
(white), the foreman OF the mill, was badly
injured internally.
On the same day the boiler of a threshine
machine in barn near New Providence
Penn, exploded, killing. two young mel
named resi- pectively Christian Hildebrand anc
Edward Helm. The barn was set on tire ane
DESTROYED.
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TIE PRESIDENTS VISITORS
More than 400 of Them Attended to
i'm Sixteen Minutes. 80 q

More than 400 of Them Attended to
in Sixteen Minutes. e:
Four hundred and forty persons waited pa
tiently in the east room of the White House
few days ago to pay their respects to the
President. The crowd was almost twice as;
large as atany preceding reception Of this kind.
The President appeared just before 2
o'clock, and entered upon his task with
such expedition that the entire room was.
cleared in sixteen minutes. Several persons
tried to engage the Presidents attention with
private matters, but they were told TO call
again tomorrow. One individual shook
hands in an agitated manner with one of the
usheys and passed the President without no.
ticing him. He was reminded OF his mistake
by the laughter of the crowd and strove to
return and shake the Presidents hand, but
was borne away by the rapidly-moving line
of people behind him.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

JOHN, Julia and Mary Driscoll, aged re-
spectively, seventeen, fourteen and seven
years, children of Patrick Driscoll, a laborer,
were burned to death in q fire that destroyed
his dwelling Christmas morning in upper New
York city. John sacrificed his life in at
tempting to save his two sisters. The father,
mother and two little boys were rescued by
policemen; but all save the youngest were so
badly burned that it was necessary to take
them to hospital.
BUFFALO, N. Y, now has crematory,
and the first body-that of q woman-was re-
duced to ashes few days since.
A NEW YonK Judge has decided that every
dog has the right to bite a person once before
it's owner can be held liable for damages.
A FURIOUS gale has been devastating the
New England coast Several towns were
partly submerged, many vessels stranded and
some houses washed away. Two lives were
lost.
Two men were killed and three injured
badly, and thirteen business places burned at
fire in Georgetown, Mass.
A CHINESE girl baby, the first infant of
the piy-tail nation ever born in Philadelphia,
has just been added to the Chinese colony in
the Quaker city.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

JOHN GURNEY, mayorolect OF Norfolk,
England, is blind.
KING kALAKAUA, of the Sandwich Islands,
is Il teri bic sneeZer.
SAM RANDALL is growing stopped aid has
an overworked air about him.
NJ PAsTEUR, discovercr of a cure fer hy-
drophobia, is the seif-lnada SON OF u tanner
SENATOR EDMUNDS keeps four horses III
his stable. He lives quietly but espensively.
SENATOR GEORGE, 0: Mississippi, is 2
thick-set man with auburn hair and full
beard.
GEORGE BANCROFT. the historian, is the
only private citizen who has been given the
wight to the floors Of Congress at al times.
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WASHINGTON.

A WASHINGTON paper gives as the result of
all exhaustive inquiry concerning the future
decisions in the House of Representatives in
regard to the unlimited suspension of silver
coinage table showing that 195 Congress
men are against suspension, and 13O III favor
of it. The West and South are practically a
unit for coinage, while the East and Middle
States appear to be almost as solidly in favor
Of suspension
Mr.. WHITE, one of the secretaries of the
American legation in England, has forwarded
q report on the subject Of unclaimed estates
abroad. He says that the 'unclaimed es-
tates' are myths, and that many are led to
believe themselves heirs to vast estates IN
Great Britain by designing persons Oh both
sides of the ocean,"
Mr.. JOHN BIGELow has declined the office
of sub-treasurer of New York, to which he
had been nominated by the President and
confirmed by the Senate
THE value of exports from the United
States for November, 1885, was $G7, ,321 $50,
against SIS, ,S04, ,G07 during the same month in
1854.
THE President has approved the bills grant
ing pension to Mrs. Grant and for the re
mOval of the political disabilities Of General
Lawton, of Georgia.
A BILL is to be introduced in Congress to
lend the name Of the government to the in
ternational exposition which is to be held in
Chicago in 1892 TO commemorate the four
hundreth anniversary of the discovery of
America. The exposition will be planned
after that held at Philadelphia in 1876.
MRS. DELLA BENNER, the widow Of the
gallant officer who sacrificed his life while
endeavoring to relieve the yellow fever suf:
ferers of the Lower Mississippi river severa!!
years ago, has been appointed postmistress OF
the village of ROGERS Park, ILL.,
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Peripateiic Sachels.

"Madam, your hand sachel is walk
ing away" :,
oh, dear, the naughty thing won't
stay still" and madam grabbed the
peripatetic bag and yaukcd it back to a
spot on the counter directly in front of
her. After she had gone the saeswoman
said:
Her sachel was made of alligator
skin Of kin6 that seems to retain its
elasticity, and keep constantly on the
move. 1 have known bags of that sort
to move foot or two in five minutes.
Queer, isn't it'"-Philadelphia Press.
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they spend their lives in rocking chairs
munchipg "duices," as they call confec-
tionery. Girls who have gone from
Lima and adopted the customs of other
lands have retained their gracefulness,
but usually at the sacrifice of their COM
plexions, for transplanted flowers seldom
retain the brilliancy of their native hues.
-NeW York Sun.
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SOL ABRAMS, who is reported to be one, OF
the richest men in Oregon, used to lead
horse, packed with notions, which ne sold TO
people between Oregon City and Sllverton
at an early day.
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THE distress among the working classes in
Paris is so great that it las been proposed to
ho!d fetes OF industry and commerce for their
benefit.
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Debts of the World,

The following table gives the debts
of the chief nations, according to the
latest attainable data:
Name of country. Amount o. debt.
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The skeleton of a man was recently found
in the Dead hiver region caught in a bear
trap. Tho appearance Of the skeleton
indicated that he had devoured his own
flesh