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PROMINENT PEOPLE,

N. DE LEssEps will leave Paris for Pana.
ma in March.
THE Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon recently preached
his 2,000th sermon In London.
The King Of Spain is seventeen months
old and gets 81, ,U00,OOO year.
MAJoR-GEHERAL ALFRED a TERRY,
United States Army, is said to be hopelessly
sick.
CLEMENCEAu, the French political leader,
was a physician, and he once lived in New
York.
JOHN WANAMAKER, Of Philadelphia, car.
ries 100000 Dre insurance and Chauncey
Depew $500, 0,00J.
THE Marquis of Lorne has determined upon
literary life, and has serial ready for an
English magazine
REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE succeeds Mr..
Beecher as chaplain Of the famous Brooklyn
Thirteenth Regiment,
ington, and is riding about the avenues OF
that city on tricycle.. She is coming North
On lecture tour:
MRS. JAMES G. BLAME. JR., Is an enthusi-
astc amateur photographer, and Is particu.
larly successful with and fond Of photo
graphing flowers.
SEBASTIAN s. MARBLE, who. by the recent
death Of Governor Bodwell, became the Gov
ernor of Maine, in his early life worked in the
saw-mills and woods.
PROBABLY the oldest practising attorney in
the United States is Sidney Bartlett. of Bos
ton. He was born in Plymouth, Mass, in
1799, and still has lucrative practice
Mr. WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER, the head OF
the Standard Oil Company, has had a very
narrow escape from being killed by pet
buck deer at his country residence in Connec
ticut
A NUMBER Of public men have written
chapters for a life Of Oliver P. Morton,
which is to be published by his son, and
among the writers are Senators ingalls, and
Allison.
CYRUs FIELD began life as clerk in New
England store and once worked for A. /.
Stewart for the munificent salary OF S3o a
year. He left the dry goods kings employ to
sell newspapers
The Congressional Directory in its bio
graphical sketch of Fl. F. Finley, Of Ken
turky. says that he began life for himself
Without an education sufficient to transact
business, AMI penniless."
SAMUEL SPENCER, who has just been made
President Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
at a salary of S25, ,00J year. was rodman
earning scapt salary only few years ago.
He Is not vet forty years old.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

A BERLIN actor has Just made his 6ve
tbousandth app 'arance in the same theatre.
ENGLISH performances Of Gilbert and Sui
ifvan's operas are now regular institution
In Berlin.
BOOTH and Barrett played to little over
$3O. 600 In their two weeks at the Academy OF
Ausic, New York.
PLANoUETTE, the composer Of 1.-THE
Chimes Of Normandy" has just completed
new opera, entitled "Nectarine"
Mrs. SHAW, of New York, Is winning fame
and money as whistler. Her services are
in great demand at private entertainments.
THE actress Lolita, is contemplating. With
he aid of friends in New York city, the es
tablishment of home for orphan children
there.
IT is Sid that Mr. Irving's profits from his
present tour in this country will reach SlaO,'
000 His re'eirts for two weeks in Phlladei
phia were $4,000.
DAN RICE. the man who used to get 81 ,O0
a week, the figgest salary ever paid to any
circus man in the world, is now said to oe
worth few thousand dollars less than moth
Ing.
The "violin King Joachim, has tempo
rar1ly lost the USE Of one Of his fingers. ana
has gone to Amsterd I'm to BEE il tho famous
m"ssage operator, DR.. Merger, can restore II
to its functions.
A JURY at Providence. R l., returned
verdict of S12 00O in the case Of Mime. Janau
schek, tho tragedienne, who sud tn recover
dana 'es for personal injuries sustained oy
falling down stairs in hotel at Newport.
The Stoughton Musical Society has Just
celebrated it's l0lst birthday at Randolph,
Mass. 1t is one Of the ol lest musical organ
izationa in the United States AMI many
noted New England musicians have belonged
to it.
IT has been decided to exhumo next sprine
the bodies Of the Composers Gluck, Bee
thoven and Schubert. who are all buried IN
the ,me churchyard in Vienna, and deposit
them in a mausoleum which is now being
built for them.
NINE. PATTI-NIcoLINI will take with her TO
South Am ri O a wardrobe filing forty-three
monster trunks. Her "Traviata" costll ",es
alone cost Sl50H. She has Paid 81, Soof
the TRANSPORTATION of herself and baggage
from Lisbon to La Plata.
WORD comes from Fo~enco OF the death OF
Signora Marianne Barbieri-N'ni, who was
famous thirty or forty ye'rs ago as an over
attic SINGER, and was as remarkable Tor OK
ceptonpl ug!iness as for her artistic Talent
and splendid voice. In the height or her
"a ne she married Count Mini, aud retired
from tha staQa
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LATER NEWS.

EDWARD CoFFEY, under sentence OF death
! at Pittsburgh, Pa, cut his throat, inflicting
fatal wound
COAL has gone up to ssper ton in Philadel-
phia
FRANK FoucKNER, Brooklyn N. ~
machinist, who had left his wife few
weeks since, returned the other day and shot
her three times, inlicting probably fatal
wounds, after which he committed suicide.
FOURTEEN Cinnamon were drowned off
Washington Territory while attempting to
smugglo themselves into the United States.
FRANK NJ IRWIN, Register of Birmingham,
Ala, Is short in his accounts $l0,UO1, and
missing.
A PASSENGER train near Coatesville, Iowa,
was ditched and thirteen persons injured.
AsLED. with f1fty-two passengers, colrded
with another sled in Kansa' City, No., and
seventeen people were injured.
RECEIVERS have been appointed at
Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, for the
Union Cattle Company, the largest concern
Of its kind in the West. Assets reported,
5000, 900; liabilities, s., ,250,0o0
Mr.. LAMAR was sworn in as Justice Of the
United States Supreme Court on Wednesday,
and Immediately thereafter took his seat
upon the bench. This was the first time that
the Supreme Court sat with a full bench
since May 4, 1885
w. ]. LANE, an Irish member Of the
British Parliament, has been sentenced to
months Imprisonment for melting tenants
to resist bailifRs.
THE German Reichstag voted to increase
the army by 100000 men.
A CONVOY Of Russian prisoners mutinied,
and a desperate fight ensued. Ten soldiers
and thirty one prisoners were killed. Twenty
one prisoners escaped.
DURING fog OFF Skerries, Ireland, the
Norwegian bark FTeidis was run down and
sunk, thirteen OF the crew being drowned.
THOUSANDS Of people are starving In
Turkey, and the Missionaries app,al for aid.
FATHER RYAN was released from Limerick
Hrelan1 jril tn the presence Of 10000 sym
nathiZerq
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CRUSHED BY SNOW.
An Ceerweighted Shed Falls With
Fatal Result.

An CFerWeighted Shed rails WIFI
Fatal Result. /
A shocking disaster, by which three per-
sons lost their lives and seven others wera
badly wounded. occurred about seven o'clock
the other evening in Gardnerville, a small
country hamlet in the Waikiki Valley.
ten miles south Of Middletown, N;
Y, At that hour twelve persons re7
siding in the vicinity were congregated
in the country store kept there by John
Everett. Adjoining the storehouse stood q
4O-vear-old and somewhat dilapidated hor+e
shed and wagon house, heavily laden with
the snow that had been falling on it all
day yesterday. The parties in the store
heard the shed creaking and snap
ping under the superimposed burden,
and eleven Of them, led by Mr.. Everett, went
into the building and set to work propping
up the roof with some timbers at hand.
They had barely begun the work when the
heavy y-timbered, cd fashioned roof, with all
it's weight of snow, fell down upon them with
sudden crash, and ten Of the eleven were
caught under the wreck.
The following men we're instantly killed:
David Kelly, blacksmith, leaves widow and
two children; Jonn j. Tuthill. laborer, leaves
widow and seven children; William Wright,
lahorer, leaves widow.
The following were wounded: John
Everett, merchant, left leg broken, danger
GUS internal injuries; Edward Decker, right
leg broken, shoulders and spine severely
jammed and bruised; George Shoemaker,
severely hurt internally: Hiram T. Manning,
bruised about shoulders, arms and head;
Louis Stillwell, George Kernick and William
House all suffered painful contusions and
lacerated wounds.
The escape of the eleventh person Of the
party, I7-year-old lad named Adelbert
Decker, was most wonderful. When the
crash came he was standing, with a 'antern
in his hand, just at the entrance of the she'd
The falling timbers smashed the lantern,
leaving him uninjured and with the ring by
which he held it still in his grasp
1t was two hours before the neighbors who
hurried to the scene succeeded in getting the
last victim out from under the wrecked
building. The three dead men had been
crushed to death almost Instantly. and the
bodies were considerably mutilated. The
disaster carries sorrow and mourning into
almost every family in the hamlet
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NEBRASKA'S DEAD.
Awful Fate Of Men. Women and
Children Caught in the Storm.

Awful Fate of Men. Women ana
Children Caught in the Storm.
Charles Gray, living near Tekamah, died
from exposure in the recent storm. he
walked ali night between his hors to keep
from freezing. and was found half mile
from home, badly frozen,
Edwin Record, living five miles from Nor,
10 X, was found on the prairie dead. he had
left his brothers. house on foot, but had only
gone one mile when overcome by the cold.
Henry Keickhafer, living two miles from
Foster, and his son lost their way in the
storm and wondered two miles east. where
their bodies were found lying side 10y side.
They had passed two HOUSES but q few roos
away.
Miss Louie Royce, a school teacher eight
miles from P ainview, had hut three pupils
on the day of the storm. she started at Two
o'c!ock with the children for house aoouG
twenty rods distant, but lost her way. All lall
down in the snow and Miss Ro.; zee wrapped up
the little ones az bt st she ronli. Early
in the night one child died. later second one
AMI just as morning broke the third chill
succumbed to the cold. Miss Boyce then
managed to rrach house. Both her feet are
badly fro en- anu they will probably have TO
be amput ted.
A s. s.hool teacher and eight children are re-
ported from Neigh to have perlshed.
live men, named Sickle, brothers. are
repo ted from the same pace to have
been fro en- to deIth; also an o.d
man, named Close, and a boy, named
Miller. Mrs Miller the boys mother, WIS
also badly frozen and VIII Lose Doth legs
{ he was returnin from the funeral of an
other son when caught in the storm.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States


FIRE destroyed the Central Fire Station Ia
Lowell, Mass, and the Sixth Regiment
Armory, with 10000 rounds Of ammunition
Loss, 100000.
THE Reading Railroad on Thursday made
fifteen seizures of household goods for rent
due from strikers who live in the houses
owned by the company.
THE number of victims by the railroad &C.
cident at Bradford, Mass, has enincreased
to thirteen.
HARRY JOHNSON, a prominent oil operator
of New York city, committed suicide at
Elmira, N. Y.
A CAKE of ice, weighing 2G0 pounds, fell
on Moses Eckert, at Ulster, n. Y, crushing
him to death
STEVE BOYER, Samuel Boyer and Joseph
Kollep, three rolling mill hands, were killed
while crossing the railroad at Orangeville,
Pa.
GENERAL A. 3. UNDERWOOD, twonty-two
years Surveyor Of the Port of Boston, Is
dead.
The premature explosion Of a charge Of
giant powder in an excavation for laying
water pipes at Roxburv, Mass. blew Robert
Thompson forty feet into the air. killing
him, and fatally injured Walter Grace and
Peter Lyden.
Two cars jumped trestle fifty feet high
near Pittsburgh, Penn, killing two train
men.
THE Commissioners appointed to report
painless method of capital punishment have
presented bill to the New York Legislature
providing for the use of electricity.
THE New York Court OF Appeals has de-
cided that hotel keepers may serve wine to
their guests on Sundays A lower Court had
declared otherwise.
FIVE people lost their lives at fire which
destroyed seven houses in Mount Carmel,
Penn.
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About 200 Lives Lost.

The great storm which swept over the
Northwest, blockading railroads in five States,
is over and the victims Of its fury are being
counted. The list is an appalling one. Next
to this the worst blizzard that the North
west ever experienced occurred on January
z, . and 8, 1873. In that storm seventy peo-
pie were frozen to death. In tbs last
blizzard the loss Of life is reckoned at
about 90. The Minneapolis Journals list Of
fatalities shows 145 dead in Dakota, II In
Minnesota, in Iowa, II in Nebraska and Q
in Montana. Total, 1872, besides IS reported
missing.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

TIE iron mouldeIs have some 25O local
unions, with upward Of 5000 members.
LAST year $4,000 tons of shipp ng were
built on the Clyde as again-t l72,oOo IN 1880.
SECRETARY L1TcHMAN says there are 501.-
600 members Of the K. Of L. in good stand
ing.
THE Cambria Iron Company, OF Johns
town, Penn, will reduce wages ten per
cent.
THERE are 200, coo members of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen in this country
and Canada.
A NEW rubber shoe factory is soon to be
started in Nangatuck, Conn. land will employ
one thou and persons.
IHE National Granite Cutters Union has
now seventy branchci with total member
ship of about six thousand.
THE international Furniture Workers
Unon has now twenty five branches. with
totai mem ,ership OF about 80.
THE Philadelphia and Chartres Gas Com
panies of Pittsburg have merged into one
company, with a capital of $l3,OR,,ooo.
THE tanning of boa constructor SKINS forms
a branch OF industry in Hamburg, n. -.
They are made into pocketbooks principally.
A YEAR ago l50 nail machines were IN
operation at Pittsbur5, making 100 kegs
day. Now the output is on.y I've hundred
kegs
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South and West,

The feud which exists between the Hat
field and Mccoy families in Pike county KY,
has resulted in the murder of ten persons.
MASKED men overpowerod the jaler at
Macon, Ga, and taking out Henry Burney,
vino had robbed j. NJ. Renehardt Of 81, 600,
lynched him.
A FIRE at Indianapolis. Indiana, destroyed
property valued at S6J0,000
W. r. WILLIAMS, proprietor Of the Parker
House, Mt AniSton. Ala, and young man
named Evans shot each OF er to death in the
formers hotel. Two other men were
wounded by Ghe flying bullets. Evans was
the aggressor.
FOURTEEN men engaged in the recenttrain
robberies in the Southwest have been cap
tured in six different States.
Of Indianapolis destroyed houses and stocks
Of goods valued at S70S,000.
Two young me lical students Of Qes
MoineS, la, were convicted Of robbing the
grave of Mrs Claflin and sentenced to six
months imprisonment.
The wife Of James Cochran, of San
Anton o, Texas, gave birth to twins who are
exact duplicates of the famous Siamese
twins, being joined at the same vital spot by
strong gamelt, which allows each child
free use Of its limbs.
LATE reports place the number of victims
by the great hlilza d in the Northwest at
SiXty.thre with many sect.ons remote from
telegraphic communication yet to be heard
from.
HENRY LIGHTFooT quarreled with his wife
in Chattanooga. Tenn, and for revenge put
ersanc in the cstern and flour barrel, there
by poisoning his wife, his two children and
three boarderS-
Crow INDIANS in Montana, having been
told that their Government ration Of beef
is but one-fifth that allowed to the Sioux, are
reported to be slaughtering many ranchmen's
cattle.
TWELVE persons were injured, one fatally,
by railroad wreck at Willard. Kansas
BOTH branches Of the Washington Terri
tory Legislature have re-enacted the Woman
SuLrag, Law, but exempted women from
jury duty.
FREEZING weather has been reported from
various parts of the Southwest Several per.
sons were frozen to death.
Two Mexican murderers in jail at Cald-
well, Texas were shot dead by lynchers.
UNITED STATES SENATOR WILSON has been
reelected from Iowa
A YOUNG miishipman was knocked of the
United States training ship Portsmouth
Hampton Roads, Va, and drowned.
Two snowp.ough engines collided at
Hoskins, Ne ,., killing Engineer Sawyer and
in. uring several other railro I'd employees.
THIEVES, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, drugged,
Mrs Oswald was fatally frozen.
E. C. WALTHALL was reelected United
States Senator from Mississippi.
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Foreign.

FORTY Russian sent nels on the frontier
have heen frnzen to death.
JUBILEE address OF congratulatlnn TO
Queen Victoria, signed by |, ,l32,fOS women
Of Great Britain. has Just been published
EX-PREsIDENT GREvY, Of France, has had
second stroke Of apopleXy.
PRINCE FERDINAND. of BULGARIA.. made an
address to his officers. declaring his intention
to die in arms rather than submit to Russla's
dictation.
AFTER an existence Of six weeks the Har-
rison Government in Manitoba has resigned,
an the Liberals triumph.
The Albion coal mine at Ste'larton, N. g.,
was wrecked by an explosion, and -FOUR
miners killed.
ORANGEMEN attacked an Irish League
meeting in Liverp vol and wrecked the hall
in which it was held.
BULL FIGHTER SALERI, of Puebla, Mexico,
attempted to lump over hull and was i'm
pale on The brut.'s horns dying instantly.
Another fighter was seriously go"ed.
ScorTlsH crofters resi- t ii the police on
the Island of Lewis. and routed them
TIE Tor es hava snrrenl ,r,d t, tn Liberal
Un:onists on the Irish Home ru Q question.
ODD Fellows Hall, Tnom 1Ion's auction
room and japanese store urned at Mont
real, Canada. Loss S15U,000.
Til. Ailericnn sh p j. 7. Berry was
burned in Arstral an waters and eleven per-
sons are missing. while fourteen were saved
TWENTY-FIVE million dollars was sub
the Algoma branch Of the Canadian Pacific
r. r.
Custom may lead q man into MANY
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THE PAUIElU RAILROADS.
Reports of the Special Commission
"A Presidential Message.

Reports of the Special Commission
"A Presidential Message.
The President has sent to Congress a mes
sage on the majority and minority reports of
the Pacific Railroad Investigating Comm t.
tee After reciting the objects for which the
commission was appointed, he declares tn 1t
these reports exhibit such trans actions an
schemes connected with the construction of
the aided roads and their management an
sugg st the invention OF such devices OIL the
part Of those having them in charge for the
apparent purpose of defeating any chance
for the Governments reimbursement, that
any adjustment or plan OF settlement should
be pred. Gated upon the substantial interests
OF the Government rather than any forbear.
anr" OF generosity deserved by the COM
panies
Al, Pres dent further says that he believes
that any proposition to bring the subsidized
Pacific railroads under the subj ctson oil the
Government, SO long as thpre is hope OF
settlement, should bs rejected.
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Washington.

THE annual report of Public Printer Bene-
dict has been sent to the Senate 1t urges
large appropriation for new machinery and
equipments
The bankers and money-changers have
lost confidence in The financial condition Of
Pc u. and are refusing to receive Govern
ment paper money. In consequence great
distress preva Is and disorders have occurred
IN the market places at Lima, ending in a
regular panic.
GEORGE WALKER, ex-Consul- General to
France, died in Washington of pneumonia.
THE House Committee on Elections took
up the consideration Of the Thoebe- Carlisle
cOnte,t tel election matter and heard the
arguments which the lawyer for Mr..
1hoebe adduced in support of his clients
case Upon a bal.o5 being taken it was
declared that Mr.. CarliS was emitted to his
seat, the entire committee voting in the
affirmative, save three Republicans, who were
excused from voting.
AT q conference of Wool Growers and
Wool Manufacturers in Washington, dele
gates from all parts OF the Union attend ng,
resolutions w..re adnpsel favorlng WOOL
tariff substantially the same as that OF 1867.
The general effect OF this new schedule will
be a Slight increase in the tariff both on wool
and woolen goods
GENERAL f. I. BRAGG was confirmed by
the Senate as Minister To Mexico.
w. II. BIGELow. of Ma ne, was appointed
Postmaster of the Senate.
SPEAKER CARLISLE was taken suddenly
ill. a few days ago, with q colgestive chill
and had to be asst ted to his roo n. Ihi;
was followed by high fever, which brought
on another severe chill, and the Sp 'aker was
Unconscious all night. H.s physician say:
that many days Of rest must follow before
he resumes his duties.
THE Senate confirmel the nomination o1
the Interstate Commerce Commissioners
s cRsTARY FAlRcH1LD gave a dinner K
President and Mrs C.eve.anl and the Cabi
net
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UNCERTAINTIES.

Pink linen bonnet,
Pink cotton gown, -
Roses printed On it
Hands burnt brown. -.
o, blithe were all the piping birds, and thoi
golden bolted bees, J
And blthe sang she on the doorstep. with bar
apron full Of peas. N
Sound Of scythe and moving,
Where buttercups grow tall; ~
Sound of red kline lowing,
And early milkmaid's call
Sweet che sung on the doorstep, with he
young peas in her lap :
And be came whistling up tho lane, with Tho
ribbons in his cap >
"You called me bad penny
That wouldn't be sent away
But here's goodbye to you, Jenny,
For many and many day.
There's talk Of cannon AMI killing .
Nay, never turn 30 whitei
And I've taken the Kings shilling-
took it last night
Oh, merry, merry p;ped the thrushes up b
the cherry tree, ~:
But dumb she sat on the doorstep, and oua
through the gate went ha
Scent Of hay and summer;
Red evening sky;
Noise Of the fife and drummer;
Men marching by.
The hay will be CARRIED presently, and tos
cherries gathered all, ..r-zz5
And thecorn stands yellow In the shockA
and the leaves begin to fall
Perhaps some evening after, ......
With no more song Of thrush, q
The lads will cease their laughter,
And the maids their chatter hush
And word Of blood and battle
Will mix with the sound Of the faa,
And lowing Of the CATTLE. ~
And clink of the milking pail;
And ono will read half fearful ~.
A list of names aloud;
And few will stagger fearfdl
Out Of the little crowd;
And she, perhaps, hai doubling.
Half knowing why she came. E
Will stand among them pouting.
And hear, perh .ps, his name
Will weep, perhaps, little, as she wandss
up the Lane, ....-..
And wish one summer morning were all To-
do again. -Macmi!Lan
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COMPTROLLER DURHAM. Of Washington,
has put in the Urgent Deficiency Bill re-
quest for lump sum OF S5S.OW, for the
thirty seven agri u tural colleges and eS
peri entail stations which have Deen waltine
Tor the first payment of the Sl5, 600 a ycnr
voted them by Congress in March, 1887.
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L1FE-sIzE plaster busts OF August spies are e
having a wide sale in Chicago The bust Is
from cast OF his face taken al er death.
Ilaster impressions Of the faces of the exc
cuted Anarchists were taken by an unknown
sculptor Just before the funeral.
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THERE are nearly 5000 porters engaged in
carving provisions to Henry NJ Stanley
around the cataracts to Stanley fooi ~
Africa. Recruiting agencies nave peen
established at various points along tne rou'e'
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Ar Brunswick, No., J. c. Talmage. son OF
the ate Gen. Manager OF the Gould system,
f;lled C. J. Tidd. q telegraph operator.
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CUSTOM may lead man into many
errors, but it justities none.