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NEWSY GLEANIN GS.

DAKOTA and Michigan have surplus OF
hogs
THE squeeze in wheat has resulted in three
| suicides.
THE export trade in apples is steadily in
creas ng.
CATTLE are now slaughtered by electricity
in Russia.
The Yale sophomores have declared
against hazing.
WOMAN suffrage has been defeated in Italy
by small majority.
PRINCE BISMARCK has resumed surveillance
of the Empress Victoria
EMPEROR WILLIAM and King Humbert re-
viewed 50, 900 troops at Rome.
FROM Germany come reports OF poor
crop of both cereals and potatoes.
COUNTERFEIT 81 and s American bills are
in circulation in Montreal, Canada
THREE German sailors have been killed
and eaten by the natives Of Zanzibar.
NATIVES have destroyed Madunola, a Ger
man station near Bagamayo, Zanzibar
THE United States Supreme Court has sus'
tanned the Scott Chinese Exclusion Act.
THE cranberry crop of Cape Cod, Mass ,
has received serious injury from the frosts
SUMATRA tobacco of superior quality il
being successfully grown In Middle Flori la
FLOODS in Abruzzo, Italy, have caused
enormous damage AMI the loss OF many lives.
THE estimated consumption of wheat ilt
Great Britain is five and a half bushels pei
head.
New WORKERS annually pay out thirteen
millions for their transit by car, omnibus and
ferry.
DENvER's four hourishing mills manufac-
ture 1900 barrels of -four every twenty-four
hours.
A SYNDICATE has been formed by English
capitalists to export beer from New York to
England.
A NEW decree forbids foreign officers to be
received in military colleges or to serve IN
the French Army.
The Empress Victoria has promised that
no biography of Kaiser Fritz shall be pub
lished for five years.
SlnOOl.OJJ suit in Pennsylvania over
soma coal lands is settle by the parties after
fl teen years litigation.
THE Sultan of Morocco is going to send an
embassy to this country to complain OF
Consul Lewis at Tangiers.
New York bakers have reduced the size Of
their loaves of bread on account of the adj
vance in the price Of flour.
THE United States Treasury Department.
has purchased to date SS4, 4,6TO, $50 in bonds,
paying s10l ,001, ,731 for them.
THE New York hay crop promises to be
30 O9O bales short; that of the Pacific coast
will be larger than usual; the crop in Eng
land is light.
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A STRANGE DELUSI0N.
A Belle Kills Herself Because She
Imagined She Was Homely.

A Belle Kills Herself Because She
Imagined She Was Homely.
Julia Beck, a goodlooking and much
admired young lady of Kansas City, COM
mitted suicide few days since because sne
thought she was not pretty.
The story isa peculiar one, and has seldom
or never been equaled. When about II years
old Julia, who belonged to a prominent
family, took it into her head that she was
not attractive. She claimed that every one
who saw her was disgusted because OF her
horrible appearance, and refused to appear IN
public. Several young men attempted TO
sue for her hand, but she would have nothing
to do with them. She lived i'll seclusion Tor
nearly ten years, but recently concluded that
she would improve her appearance. She had
ali of her teeth pulled out and purchased a
set of false ones These she wore for a time,
going out frequently, but soon decided that
She was not fit to appear in public even with
the new teeth, and relapsed into her OLD CON
dition of melancholy. Her friends tried to
cheer her up, but she resented their efforts.
She became morose and sullen, and finally
put an end to her troubles by taking poison:
She was 81 years old and was uncommonly
bright. Her parents are almost distracted
over her death.
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South and West.


TwENTY-oNE prisoners, including two
murderers, have escaped from the Jail at
Spokane Falls, Washington Territory.
A CLERGYMAN named Keith, OF Waldo,
Ark, shot and killed Joseph Garret, a
farmer, during quarrel
-FOUR colored men have been murdered
and mutilated in Tuscaloosa, Ala, by an un.
known assassin.
MACK GLYMPH, a merchant of Hodges, s.
c., shot and killed his brother, John Glymph.
PETER HERRY, an iron worker, was quar-
reling with two men at Y Youngstown, Ohio,
when he was struck bv train and hurled
twenty feet, his neck being broken. His two
companions robbed the remains, securing his
purse and watch, and then ran away.
CHIEF OF POLICE HAYES, of Cookston,
Mimi, was conversing with friends when q
tramp sneaked up behind and shot him six
times, killing him Instantly. The reason he
gives for committing the deed is that Chief
Hayes arrested him for being drunk.
ALBERT A. SHAVER, ex- County Treasurer
of Clare, Mich, is under arrest on charge
of appropriating between $1,000 and $1,000 of
the county funds during his term Of office in
1884. Shaver was found bound and gagged
in his Office, and he declared he he'd been
robbed of $4,000. His story was not general
ly believed, and the present arrest is the re.
suit.
VICTOR HILL, living in the little town of
Winchester, Ind, prompted by jealousy, shot
and instantly killed his wife, fatally wounded
his father-in- law, Zimri Moftt, and slightly
wounded his wife's sister, Mrs. Harper
F. w. Adams and a man known as
'Dutchyn were lynched in the Snake River
County, Wyoming, for burning the house of
ranchman.
WILLIAM WASHINGTON, colored, has been
hanged at Columbus, Texas, in the presence
of three thousand people. Washington was
convicted of numbering white woman and
confessed his crime.
J.H. BERRYMAN and j. 81. Flidell, two
lumbermen at Leadville. COL, were dashed
to death by falling 500 feet down a shaft in
q mine.
CONSIDERABLE snow has fallen in portions
of the Northwest.
ASSISTANT SURGEON DEANE has just died
on board the coast survey steamer Mac.
Arthur at San Francisco. He was native
of Richmond, Va
CAPTAIN R. POWELL and young man
named Warfeld, while engaged in a friendly
wrestling bout on board an oyster boat at
Cooks Point, Nd, fell overheard and both
were drowned.
HENRY SHAFFER, his sons Henry and
Percival, and his stepson David Mink, were
instantly killed by locomotive while cross
ing the track at Omaha, Neb., in a wagon.
Thomas Rowe and A. McLenig, who were
in the wagon, were fatally injured.
THE public schools Of Athens Ohio, have
been closed owing to the prevalence of diph-
liberia, which the wet weather seems to
increase.
DURING fire in frame shanty at Lex
ington, No., Mrs. Julia Therkeles and her
daughter, fourteen years old, tried to save
their personal effects. The roof fell in and
both were burned to death.
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THE ARMY'S HEALTH.
Annual Report Of United States
Surpeon-General Moore.


Surgeon General Moore has submitted to
the Secretary of War his annual report for
the past fiscal year. The money value OF the
medical and hospital supplies actually issued
during the year was SITS, ,034, and the cost of
the supplies required for issue during the cur
rent fiscal year will undoubtedly exceed that
amount. He submits estimates for the fiscal
year euding June 81, 1880, amounting to
S2SO, 900.
In chapter on the health of the army,
the mean strength Of the army for the year,
including officers and enlisted men, is stated
at 1884. The total admiss ons to sick re-
port were %, 727; admissions for disease, 25,-
SSS; admissions for injuries, $3.50; average
number constantly non-effective during the
year, 1,O1O.2S; deaths from all causes, 2l4;
ratio of deaths per 1000 Of mean strength,
-: deaths from diseases, 149; deaths from
injuries, Is.
that for 1886, when it was SS2, and consid-
erably lower than the rate for the previous
decade, which was 1l.4. The death rate OF
the army of the United States continues to
be higher than that Of any of the foreign
armies except the British and Italian. The
principal causes of deaths were pneumonia
and shot wounds.
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SIGNAL SERVICE BUREAU.

General Greedy Submits His Report
and Recommendations.
The report of General Greely, Chief Of the
United States Signal Service, shows that
HOO cities receive the daily weather report
by telegraph. During the year the average
Of successful predictions was 767. The
cold wave flag was ordered up l74S
times, and verified 1910. He thinks the
force can be reduced, and recommends the
bureau to be made up of one chief officer,
one Major, five Captains, five First Lieuten'
ants, two Professors, three Assistant Profess.
ors, 125 Sergeants as observers, fifty Corpor'
ais and fifty privates This he believes
would reduce expenses Sl0O, ,OOOO: He also
recommends big her rate Of pay for observ.
ers. instructions in army signals and employ
ment of civilians as assistants to observers
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HAYTIAN REVOLUTION.
A Dreadful Night on the Turbulent
Little Island.

Advices just received from Hayti say that
never before had Port-au-Prince passed such
night as that Of September %.
The night was dreadfully dark and
revolution was abroad. The firing COM
menced at half past seven o'clock and the
cannon and Gatling guns Of the palace did
dreadful execution as did also the shots from
the big guns on Fort Alexander, which
crashed clear through the buildings, destroy
ing everything and everybody with which
to six o'clock next morning Three hundred
persons were killed and over five hundred
wounded. including many women and chill
dren. Among the notable persons killed,
besides General Selde Telemaque, were
Messrs Charles Borno and Ducasse.
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LATER NEWS.

JOHN WEIsMAN, aged twenty-eight, who
was romantically married six months ago to
Pennsylvania girl, in answer to an adver'
tisement in Philadelphia paper, has been
found dead at his isolated home in Shelburne
county, Mass, with a bullet-hole in his
heart
The coke producers of the Pittsburg region
have formed trust The price will be ad-
vanced and the output restricted.
A GREAT federation of railroad employees
has been formed in Richmond, Va All rail-
road men are expected to join it.
AT Deer Lodge, Montana, ''Tom" Watson,
a halt. f.preed Mexican, murdered Maggie
Smith, and then committed suicide by cut
ting his throat and stabbing himself three
times over the heart.
FOREST fires are raging in Santa Cruz, Ala
mada and San Joaquin counties, CAL, and
great damage has been done to the fruit
ranches and wheat.
J. A. SWAN, late Treasurer of Knoxville
County, Tenn, has absconded, leaving de-
flcit of s25, 900 in hisaccounts
WHILE Joseph Whitaker, colored, was abb
sent from home at Bleckshear, Ga, his house
caught fire and his four small children were
burned to death.
THE Congressional Record has just closed
its volume of the proceedings Of the first ses-
sion of the Fiftieth Congress with resume
Of the tariff proceedings.
THE estimated expenditures Of the Interior
Department for the current year are s94, $780,
8s9, the principal items being Pension Office
salaries, etc., 81, 4S2,95O; pensions, ssl, 75S,
700; Indian Office, S., 81, 100; Land Office
$1,594,370; geological survey, s634,94O;
Patent Office, s796,370.
THE German Government has declired t.
take any official part in the relief expedition
for Emin Bey, the lost African explorer.
Emin having CEASED to bea German subject.
THE strike of the colliers in England is as
suming alarming proportions In York
shire 1000 workers have struck. Alta meet
ing at Leeds the coal owners resolved to
make no concessions to the strikers.
METROPOLITAN THEoDosIUs in the exer
else of his power as leader Of the Serviar
Church, has dissolved the marriage Of King
Milan and Queen Nathalie, and declared that
tho longer exists.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

JAMES HENNEssEY, aged eighty years, was
crushed under campaign flag pole whlch
was being raised in South Providence, R. /.
One Of the guy lines broke, and the pole fell
upon Hennessey, crushing his skull.
FERDINAND PF1TzER, New York brewer,
shot his wife in the head. He paused mo-
ment after seeing her fall, and then he ran to
spot a few hundred yards distant, and piac-
ing a pistol to his head blew out his brains.
He was thirty-five and his wife forty years
old.
Two messengers of Contractor McFadden,
carrying sl2, 600 in buggy on lonely road
near Wilkesbarre, Penn, to pay workmen,
were shot dead by party of men who ran
off with the money.
A NOVICE Of the Order Of the Sisters of
Peace jumped from window OF st. Josephs
Home, in Jersey City, N. j., and was killed.
She was insane through disease.
ROYAL M. PULsIFER, President Of the
company owning the Boston Herald, has
committed suicide by taking opium. His
body was found in one of the rooms of his
luxuriant mansion in Newton, Mass
The Academy of Music at Will mington
Del, has been destroyed by fire; loss $4,000.
SPINAL meningitis is playing havoc with
horses in New Bedford, Mass.
MISS FRANCES f. WILLARD was reelected
President of the W. G. T. U. at its five days
National Convention in New York. Dele
gates from every section of the Union at
tended.
JUDGE LAWRENCE, Of the Supreme Court,
New York City, has sustained the legality
of that section of the late Samuel j. Tilden's
will which leaves about S4,00J,0 ,0W for a
public library in the Metropolis.
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A Royal Victim OF the Weed.
The King of Italy is, says q write,

The King OF Italy IS, says q writer
the Ameriean Regi,ter, of Paris, know
for his temperance in all things, exec
smoking. lie is an exceedingly sm|
eater, and as to drink, his guests mi
have it in plenty, but his own favor1
cripple" is water. His one great weal
ness was good cigar. In this respd
he had abused himself until his ner1
had begun to suffer; he had asthma
turns, could sleep but little. and th|
had to be propped up by plenty OF p
lows. Some weeks ago his physicl|
told him what was the matter, and Xii
Humbcrt said: IRON this day foI|
I will not smoke another cigar, or ar
thing in the shape of tobacco. II
result has been most noticeable il
provement in his health. hing HUI
bert is a man of iron will. and no d
doubts that he will keep his pledgeI
the end of his life. -
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate PROCEEDINGS

19STH DAY.-Mr. Teller brought up his
resolution in regard to convict contracts in
the Indian Bureau, but owing to the objec-
ton Of Mr.. Coclkrell its consideration was
deferred. MIR. Cockrell presented a mass of
documents as additions to his tariff speech
.... The resolution authorizing the Finance
Committee to continue its hearings on the
tariff bill was adopted.
18TH DAY.-The Senate met simply for
the purpose of formally adiourning Tor the
session. There was but handful Of Sena-
tors present at the closing scenes. Nearly
all Of them left the city as soon as the day
of adjournment was agreed upon. A vote
Of thanks was extended to President ingalls,,
who replied by delivering brief but elo'
quent farewell The body at one o'clock ad-
journed sine die.
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House PROCEEDINGS.

237TH DAY.-The House met and ad-
journed without transacting any business,
23STH DAY.-Out Of q membership OF 30
only fifteen were on hand at the closing. Ger.
emonies this day. Speaker Carlisle did not
without a word of regret, congratulation or
comment he brought the gavel down with q
loud thump when the hour of l arrived, and
simply announced that the House stood ad'
journed sine die.
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RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.

The Superintendent Of that Depart
ment Submits his Report.
The annual report of the United States
Superintendent of Railway Mail Service
shows that the service is in operation on 49,
713 miles of railroad and 5l92 miles of water.
- has increased ten per cent. during the
D., lr. There are 5O94 railway mail clerks
e.. ployed. There was one error committed
70 each 37O7 pieces handled. During the
"r there were accidents to As railway mai!
ira :. in which four clerks wers killed and
ILL injured .
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LOCKED IN TO DIE.
Accidental Slaughter of Many Chill
dren in North Carolina.

Accidental Slaughter OF Many Ch1i-
dren in North Carolina.
The accidental deaths of colored children
,arelessly locked in houses by their parents
in North Carolina have been very numerous
of late. Last year sixty lost their lives in
this way. Often the children are left alone
the greater part of the day in cod weather.
There is fire, and by careless playing
with it the children set fire to the
house and are burned alira. This week, says
a Raleigh dispatch, no less than eight chill
dren, all very young, have thus perished::
Yesterday, near Winston, four were burned
at one time in the cabin of Walter Porter.
His wife went away to work and locked the
children in the house. 1t was discovered
some time later tnat the house had caught
fire on the roof from sparks. Nothing could
be DONE as by the time people arrived at the
scene the children were dead. Their ages
ranged from two to eight years.
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Wreck in the West.

A heavily loaded train on the Chicago, St
Paul and Kansas City Road broke in two
near Freeport, Ill. An extra which was fol-
lowing close behind, struck the caboose of the
regular, causing a wreck. Six men were in the
caboose, three Of whom were killed. They were
John Brown, stockman Of St Paul, James
Orr, of Larrimer, MINI. and Ed ward Hickey,
of Fairbanks, Minn. The injured were E.
H. Smith, merchant at Stockton, whose
ankle was badly crushed, and Frank Martin,
of St Charles, who sustained Internal in
jures and was badly bruised. The train
men all escaped
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The will of the late Lord Sackville
bequeaths all his unsntailed property to the
Queens maids of honor, who thus receive
ish Minister at Washington, inherits the
estates and $50, 900 yearly.
RUSSIANS are buying extensive tracts OF
land in Palestine for the purpose OF increas'
ing their religious establishment.
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The Utah Supreme Court has iudicially
declared the dissolution of the Mormon
Church as a corporation, and decreed that
all prop rty. both real and personal, amount
ing TO 81, ,0C0, 900, should become escheated to
the Government for school purposes in Utah
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Washington.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has approved the
act retiring Alfred Pleasanton as Major of
the army, and also the act to provide for
warehousing fruit brandy.
CoMM1ssARY GENERAL MAcFEELY's an
nual report shows resources Of So, 500, 600 and
expenditures of nearly s3,000,OOO, with
balance on hand of nearly 5000, 0,000 He op-
poses any change in the rations system
COLONEL RUFUS SEXTON, the Assistant
Quartermaster General of the United States
Army, has been placed on the retired list
on account Of age. His retirement will pro-
mote Lieutenant Colonel H. G. Hodges to
be Colonel, Major George Weeks to be Lieu
tenant Colonel, Captain L. c. Forsyth to be
Major, leaving q vacancy in the list OF Cap
tains and Assistant Quartermasters to be
filled by the President.
THE Sioux Chiefs have formally notified
Secretary Villas that they have formally re-
jected, by a large majority, the propositions
made by the President. They submitted q
counter proposition agreeing to accept Sl.25
per acre for their reservations, the money to
be paid at once.
The records of the White House show that
the whole number of bills and joint resolu.
tions passed at the session of Congress just
closed was 144S, of which 1897 were approved
by the President, 95 became law without
signature, 1873 were vetoed, and 23 failed for
want of signature up to the time of adjourn
ment
THE State Department has accepted the re-
signation of Henry F. Downing, Of New
York, as United States Consul at st. Paul de
Loando, Africa
The annual report Of Paymaster General
Rochester, of the United States Army, shows
receipts Of over SIG. OO0, ,00O during the year,
and expenses amounting to $14, sou, 600. He
recommends the appointment OF twelve ad-
ditional paymasters to cover the proposed
extension to thirty-eight posts.
THE United States Supreme Court has
sustained the consttutionality of the pro.
hibitory law against liquor in Iowa; also the
constitutionality Of a law in Alabama i'm
posing test for color blindness on employees
of railroads,
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IT has been discovered that little band
of Apaches, who have been committing
depredations In Sonora, Mexico. are led by
two Americans named Bed Murphy and
West .... .. . ....-.-
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WRECKED BY a LANDSLIDE,
Italian Excursionists Crushed BY
Falling Rocks.

Failing 4soCAS.
A dispatch from Potenza, Italy, says that
ten cars of a train, crowded with excursion
lists returning from the Naples fetes, were
crushed in remote portion Of that district
by a landslide, consisting of about fifty metres
Of rock. The telegraph line being broken
by the fall Of rock, help was delayed
two hours. The scene that followed the dis
aster was horrible. Seventy injured passen-
gers and ninety corpses have been taken
from the wreck, and there were still two
cars buried beneath the rock.
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ads,
Foreign.
lexican Congress has {
Porfr.o Diaz has bee
a - INIr.
Foreign.

The Mexican Congress has declared that
General Porfir.o Diaz has been re-electeu
President of the Republic.
driven from the Presidency of Hayti by an
insurrectonary movement. and who went to
Europe for the purpose Of undergoing the
operation of cystotomy, has died in Paris
WHILE the British gunboat Griffin was
chasing slave dhow off the coast of Africa
she was fired at by the Arab slavers, and
a lieutenant was killed. The dhow was
captured.
The Russian steamer Archangel and the
Glasgow steamer Neptune came into COL
lision in Christensen Bay and sank The
captain and seventeen Of the crew Of the
Archangel were drowned
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THE Pope, in donating sG0.O1O to the anti

The Pope, in donating sG0.O1O to the anti
slavery movement in Africa, has written 10
Cardinal Lavigerie in terms of praise an en-
couragement of the scheme, in which he was
commissioned by the Pope to invite the co
operation of Europe.
M. DE LEssEPs now asserts that the Panama
Canal will be opened for traffic in July, 1870.
PARTICULARS about the railroad disaster
at Potenza. Italy, state that one hundred and
fifty dead and wounded have been identified.
Several headless and armless corpses were
found in the neighboring river. A mother,
who had been driven mad, refused to release
from her embrace her two dead children.
A young priest was buried for two hours;
and when extricated his hair had thtEed
white. An entire family consisting of six
persons were killed.
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However bad a mans credit may.
vet he can always borrow trouble.