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fevcrses Of fortune have been reduced from
affluence to poverty. This building cost
about 100000 and has an endowment
fund in addition Of about $780,
900. Mr. Corcoran has also made
large and valuable gifts to the Wash
ington Orphan Asylum, Columbia University
and many institutions in the South. He also
gave S1O0000 to the Church of the Ascension of
this city. To the University of Virginil he has
made gifts amounting to about $500, 900, besides
library of about 1000 volumes.
Mr.. Corcoran knew John Howard Payne the
poet, well during the time that gentleman
Lived III Washington, and it is said formed a
project years ago to have his remains brought
home to his native land. The i'm.
mediate cause of his action, however,
has a little touch of romance in it. AS Mr..
Corcoran was riding past one Of the city hotels
one day in the autumn of 1882 his ears were
greeted with the strains of Home, Sweet
Home,'' played by the Marine Band in honor
OF the survivors of the arctic vessel Jean.
nette, who had just returned to Wash
ington. AS Mr.. Corcoran listened to
the air he resolved to carry into effect
at once the project he had formed years
before. After some correspondence with the
Secretary of State and with the only surviving
relatives Of the poet the body was exhumed
from it's grave in Tunis and shipped to New
York, where it arrived March %, 1883. From
there it was brought to Washington and buried
In Oak Hill Cemetery June 9, 1888.
and unostentatious as his public benetact ons
have been munihcent and has made his name
loved and respected in his native city and
throughout the country,
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ABANDONED THEIR MACHINES.

& a Great Strike ON tho Chicago, Burling.
ton 8 Quincy Lines-The Engineers and
Firemen Quit Work Because Their Re.
quest for an Adjustment of Wages Is
Refused - Knights Of Labor Engineers
IN the Missouri Pacific and Reading
Roads Threaten Retaliation.
CHICAGO, Feb 27.To-day the Chicago,
burlington d Quincy railroad and all its
branches will have to run its trains without
the help of the engineers and firemen Of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and theBrot otherhood of Firemen.
The lasteconference Held between the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy officials and rep
resentatives of the men was held last
Thursday afternoon at the Office of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad Mr.
Henry B. Stone. general manager, rep
resented the railroad with its branches,
while Grand Chief Engineer Arthur and
Grand Master Fireman E. P. Sargent spoke
for their respective organizations Three
points at issue were discussed at this meet
ing.-the wages to be paid enginemen for
overtime, the rules regulating tue
dismissal of men from the company's
service, and the scale of wages to be paid
engineers and fremen running on the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy system The
4uCSUlOuS VI UfGIU.lllS anu OiSutlSSuls 1Q1gub
have been settled by means OF compro-
mise, but in the matter OF wages Mr. Stone
refused to make any change in his ex-
listing schedule. On the conclusion Of
this conference the enginemen on the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road and
its branches were notified by Messrs Ar
thur and Sargent to strike at 4 a. m. on
Monday, February 27, 1888, unless notified
to the contrary. Since Thursday Messrs
Arthur and Sargent have waited for some
action on the part of Manager Stone tending
toward a settlement OF the difficulty but as
nothing has been heard from him the or
ders previously. given to the enginemen are
in force and the strike is on. The Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad system
operates over 4, 900 miles of track In ad-
ton to the main line it controls the
Burlington & Missouri River railroad in Ne
braska, the Hannibal & St Joseph railroad,
the Kansas City, ST Joseph& & Council Bluffs
railroad and the Chicago & Iowa railroad
Over this great length of track the Chi
cago, Burr ngton & Quincy road runs
nearly 500 locomotives, operated by 1000
enginemen.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive engi-
oh, tl,.
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PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

livery man has his weak spot, y
and sometimes man finds out that an
ace high is his weak spot Boston Bul-
| letin.
Who is that man?' ..He's the
servant of old Smith, the undertaken"
"Ah! then he's the valet of the shadow
Of death. "-Iown Topics.
The more faithfully girl keeps
diary the more religiously she wants to
keep It out of the way of everybody else
in the neighborhood.
1T is said that whisky is being made
from old rags. Any clothes observer
will remember instances where whisky
has made rags. - Yo,skers Statesman.
Earrings are a relic of barbarism,
unless, of course, the diamonds are un-
usually white and fine and cost good
deal more than anybody's else in the
congregation.
THAT was an exhaustive article Of
mine on Our Political Future said
the contributor to the editor. Il found
it so. !" was the somewhat unsatisfactory
reply Washington Critic.
"A father, wishing to get rid of his
talkative little son, said: Come,
Georgey. you're all tired out Hurry
up and go to bed" Georgey looked
solemnly at his parent, and slowly said:
"P;,, you shouldn't try to hurry up q
boy when you know he's all tired out. "
The toboggan slide is dangerous to
people having ''heart troubles" that is,
to old, married and settled people. The
youthful among the afflicted can ven-
ture down the slide and toll up it with
comparatively safety.-Martho's Vine
gard Herald.
Wilson, the celebrated vocalist,
was upset one day in his carriage near
Edinburgh. A Scotch paper, after re-
cording the accident, said. 1--WE are
happy to state he was able to appear
the following evening in three pieces"
Some people sigh all their lives
for wealth and never get it. Other peo-
pie work hard for it all their lives and
never get it. The best plan is to invent
a suspender button that will STAY on
and keep the agency yourself. .-Somer-
CItte JOu320L.
-'1f YOU see one cold and vehement
at the same time set him down as a
fanatic" says Cbrysostom; and yet it
may be that he is only the lodger in
third pair back, whose landlady has
cut off the heat from his little room be-
cause he was necessarily behindhand
with his rent.-Journal Of Education.
-Smith-''That paragraph in the
Daily Howler touched you up rather
severely, yesterday" Brown-.sO, yes;
don't mind that. however The world
will always contain fools, you know"
Eyes, suppose so. If there were no
fools there wouldn't be anything for
those fellows to write about, l sup
pose.''
Chicago Editor Cooking over paper
just out)-''Here. Mr. Proofreader,
you've let Il gross error get into the
paper" roofreader-''W What's that?''
Editor-''Why, I wrote, They are a
devoted couple, and you have got it
They are divorced couple" Proof
reader-"Well, let it go. 1t will read
all right Tomorrow. Washington
Crif;c
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FRIDAY, Feb % A resolution was
adopted in the Senate requesting the Presi-
DENT to inform the Senate whether the
French Government had prohibited the i'm
portation OF American products. The bill
granting pensions to ex soldiers and sail
ors who are incapacitated from the per-
formance OF manual labor and providing
for pens ons to dependent relatives of de-
ceased soldiers and sailors was considered
Adjourned to the 9th. In the House e
Senate bill to increase the pensions for
deafness was reported favorably, also the
bill increasing the pension for total disa-
bilities to $50 per month. The bill for the
admission of North and South Dakota as
separate ates was reported adversely.
SATURDAY, Feb. 25-The Senate was not
in session In the House long discussion
took place over appropriations for public
build ngs, and the bill for the organization
OF the Territory of Oklahoma was consid-
cred
MONDAY, Feb 27.-The Senate consid-
cred the bill granting pensions to ex-
soldiers and sailors who are incapacitated
for the performance of manual labor, and
to dependent relatives of deceased soldiers
and sailors. The bill to incorporate the
Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua
was passed. In the House bills We're intro
duced granting amnesty for all offenses
against the acknowledgements laws commit
ted prior to February %, 1888, and for
the admission of the State of Wyoming.
Resolutions were introduced extending the
term of Office of the President until the 3Oth
OF April, 1889, and changing the date of
the meeting of Congress, and calling upon
the President for information as to what
steps have been taken to prevent the con-
tinued immigration of Chinese laborers
into the United States
TUESDAY, Feb %. In the Senate a
resolution to continue the investigation
of last session into alleged election
frauds in Texas was agreed to. A bill was
introduced authorizing the issuing to Ma
tlonal banks circulating notes to the
amount of one hundred per cent of the par
value of the bonds deposited with the
United States Treasurer to secure the pay
ment of circulating notes In the House a
petition OF seven hundred Michigan mint rs
was presented protesting against reducing
the duty on iron ore In committee Of the
whole large number of bills for public
buildings were agreed to-
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u d Heu aI une pa .
tient's bedside until nearly midnight,
predicted that the end would come
before sunrise and the household accord
ingY prepared for the end G. NJ Mat
theWs, Mr.. Corcorans nephew, Miss Eustis,
his granddaughter, and Miss Jones' his
niece, We're all at the death-bed. Since the
Stroke of paralysis last summer it has only
been question of time how long he would
survive. Though he was gradually grow
Ing weaker all the time the public seems
to have been kept in ignorance of his real
condition until Christmas day. when, while
at the altar rail in ST. Johns Church receiv-
ing the holy sacrament OF communion, his
paralyzed side, the right, suddenly
gave way. and he Would have fallen to
the floor at the altar had not the hands OF
eyer-watchtul attendants caught him and
supported him while the rites were
hurriediy finished, and afterwards gu ckly
borne him to his carriage and thence to
bed A week or so ago slight cold
YVES taken while driving. Ordinarily it
would have been Of no consequence, but in
his enfeebled condition it provad fatal
William Wilson Corcoran was born in
Georgetown, d. c., December 81, 179S, his fa-
ther being native of Ireland, who removed
to Georgetown in 1887, and was for many wears
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LATER,

A SLIGHT shock of eartbqu Ike was felt at
San Francisco, Cal, and vicinity on Febru-
ary 20.
REPORTS from Italy and France on Feb
ruary 29 state that many lives had been lost
during the prevalence of recent snow
storms. Avalanches had destroyed many
villages in Italy, and there was great
suffering from lack of food.
The New York grand jury has failed to
find indictments against Gould and Sage
for alleged misa appropriation of the bonds
of the Kansas & Pacific railroads.
On February 2s, four gentiles took their
seats in the City Couuc of Salt Lake City,
Utah. These are The first gentiles who
ever satin that counc chamber.
IT is aimed that cipher telegraph dis
patch mislntelpreted by an operator
caused the financial embarrassment of F.
j. Primrose, of Philadelphia. Pa, who has
! sued the telegraph company for 100000
damages.
The House on February 80, passed a bill
making st. Paul, Mlnn., a port of entry,
and to provide for collector Of the port, to
be appointed by the President.
GEN. BRAGG, the new American min ster,
| accompanied by his wife and daughter, ar
rived in the City of Mexico on February 30.
A FIRE at Salamanca, N. Y, on February
90, burned the opera house block, a block
adjoining and several residences. Loss,
SIS, 600.
ORDERS have cen issued by the Signal
Service Bureau for the discont;nuance, af-
ter April l, of the signal service stations at
Escanaba, Mich; Keokuk, Iowa; Macki-
nav City, Mich, and Dubuque, Iowa
The Minnesota DEM cratic convention
| Tor the election of dele -ates TO the National
| convention will be held at st. FauI on MAY
| II.
A TELEGRAM from Ions view, Tex, Febru-
ed at Carthage charged with the murder OF
County Treasurer Hill, was taken from jail
| by citizens and hung.
The Wisconsin supreme court has declar-
ed imperative thelaw enacted by the last
leg isla ure which permitted habitual drunk
1rds under certain circumstances to be con
| fined in an asylum not to exceed two years
| on the ground that it made penal offense
! out Of simple drunkenness The case grew
| out of the confinement of Courtland P
Larkin, of Milwaukee, in an inebriate asy.
Ism. The court ps sremptorily orders his re
| leasa.
AT Little Rock ARK, en the morning Of
February 80, a lar e dry goods store was
burned, causing a loss on building anc
stot K of $4,000.
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INSPECTOR BYRNEs, of the New York
police, states that a number of our
noted cracksmen have of late been
reaping a golden harvest acoss the
water. Two well-known thieves, he
says recently went through England,
France and Belgium and returned
with nearly one hundred thousand
dollars in cash. He asserts that the
business is laid out for them before
they go across, and that, being un-
known to the European police, they
run over and do their work and GET
away before detection con be had.
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VATICAN ETIQUETTE.
How the Pope Entt'rtains Princes
Other Important Personayes.

How the Pope Ent'rtains Princes and
Other Important Personages.
The etiquette of the Vatican requires
that the Pope shall dine alone. and
while eating he reads the newspapers
When he wishes to show especial honor
to foreign Prince or to any parsonage
OF Importance, he invites him to take
cup of coffee with him after the morn
ing mass. On such occasions the guest
is expected to attend the first mass and
to receive the communion from the
Pope's hands. The visitor, however,
does not sit ut the same table with his
Holiness, but Il smaller one alongside
ofhim. Among those recently honored
in this way were Don Carlos, the Span
ish pretender, Oh the occasion of his
sons confirmation, the Grand Duchess
of Tuscany, the Prince Borghesa, Aldo
brandini. Altievi and Pombino. while
the same favor is often shown to the
Pope's nephews. Cardinal Pecci used
to live in the Vatican. and he frequently
visited his brother while the latter was
eating dinner.
Dinner is served at one o'clock, the
usual hour in Rome for that meal
This repast consists of soup, dish of
roast meat and vegetables, fruit and
some old Bordeaux wine. No boiled
meats or pork in any form or cheese is
ever seen on the table.
The meal ended, his Holiness in
| dulges in Il nap OF an hours length
while seated in a large arm-c chair; then,
weather permitting, he goes for walk
in the gardens, accompanied by one of
his private chamberlains and II Lieu
tenant of the Papal Guards. His car
riage is also iii attendance, so that he
can ride when overfatigucd by walking.
| His Holiness still considers himself a
! prisoner, and never leaves the precincts
Of the Vatican; bat the gardens of that
palace are very extensive, the main
drive measuring quite a mile in length.
At one end Of the park is !. vineyard,
cultivated by the children of an a@ri-
cultural orphanage that was founded
/ by Plus TX, and named after him the
Vinga Pia Leo XIII. often visits the
vineyard, and wheneve he notices one
of the boys doing his work intelligently
he stops to have chat He takes
much interest in agricultural matters.
/ and is we'll posted in botany. Rome
/ Letter.
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IHE venerable John r. Graham
who founded Grahoan's Magazine in
Philadelphia over forty years ago, when
Literary periodicals were few in the
United States. recently took his de-
parture from the Eye and Ear Hospital
in New York. where he spent four
years as a patient undergoing treat
ment for cataract in both eyes. He
reJoices over the improvement of his
vision to such a degree that he can
now resume his career as a Mr1ter
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A SINGULAR fatality has followed the
family of an old man at Hampton, Ga.
One son was killed by horse, another
by falling tree, another by the cars.
He had marriage and corpse in the
house at the same time. He had a son,
daughter and son-in-law all dead in
the house at the same time; son-in-
law was killed accidentally by the
discharge of gun; one of his daugh-
ters had leg broken by a log, and a
son-in-law embezzled about thirty
thousand dollars of Government bonds
and skipped to Mexico to avoid arrest.
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The Brotherhood of Locomotive engi-
neers numbers about 25, 900 mem bers-tha

total number of engi-
neers in the country
being in the ne gh-
borhood of3O. OOO. At
the head ofthe broth
erhood is the great
est labor organizer
in America, ?. M. Ar
thur. In April the
brotherho d will be
twenty-five years old.
From twelve mem
bers it has grown to
20, 600. In eleven
years this is the first
strike Mr.. Arthur has
been unable TO settle.
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LIE New York Herald says: ..The
story that well-known broker, while
attempting to cross Broadway yester-
day, got stuck in the mud, sank to the
tirst diamond stud on his shirt bosom
and had to be blown out with dvna-
mite, is generally regarded as slight
eXaggeration.
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FUNDS for . soldiers, Monument.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Feb. 29.-The Soldi-
ers' Monument Commissioners met Monday
afternoon and formally contracted with
Bruno Schmitz, the Berlin architect. for
the erection of the monument The struct-
ure is to cost 5000, 900 and will be erected
on the spot now occupied by the Morton
statue in the center of Circle Park, the
statue to occupy site just south of the
monument
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IHE oyster business in this country
is marvellous in extent. More than
$50, 600, 900 worth of oysters have been
shipped from the Maryland beds alone
this season. Over fifty thousand
persons are employed in the industry
in the State, and it supports besides
fifteen hundred schooners and sloons
Western appeal., 1888-03-03

M. PERRoTIN, an astronomer of Nice.
corroborates the Italian Schiaparelli's
announcement of the existence of what
seems to be canals on the planet Mars.
lie has mapped and measured these
great works, most of which lie in the
equatorial regions of the planet; and,
supposing the diameter of Mars to be,
as is generally believed, about 4,2OC
miles at the equator, some of these
canals are nearly 1000 miles long. M.
Perrotin has gone far toward establish
ing that the planet really has an at
mosphere not very different from that
to which we are accustomed.
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IT has now been discovered that in
all probability the prehistoric man in
this country ate pork, and very likely
had an occasional attack of trichinia-
Sis. In the sedimentary rock Of the
John Day river canyon in Southern
Oregon was recently discovered eighty
live feet below the surface petrifed
hogs head of full size and perfect
shape. II had been supposed that
swine were introduced into this coun-
Try at a comparatively recent date, but
now it may be believed that American
pork chops and sausage are really as
venerable as they often taste.
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WASHINGTON, Feb PA dispatch sent
to the New York World says William R.
Morrison, OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission. has decided to become can
didate for ce-President on the ticket
with Mr. Cleveland, and during meeting
of the Democratic National Committee here
this week announced his desire to several
members Of that organization whose sup
r1Ort he solicited ssars.-s
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The Cold-Water Conyention-

CHICAGO, Feb. 27.-Representatiye Pro-
hibitionists in this city are considerably
chagrined over the fact that the date
set for the National Democratic con-
vention at st Louis is the same
upon which the National Prohibi-
tion convention will assemble at
Indianapolis. They fear that the
Importance of their own gathering win be
overshadowed by that of the Democrats.
and that the press vii have but little space
for the doings of the cold-water people It
is not improbable that an effort will be
made to change the date of the Prohibition
convention to some time in July.
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above all and always,
the philanthropist, is
dead. Like ths going
ont of a candle he
passed from a state of
nn cons ciousness at
6:3O yesterday morn
ing into death. His
breath, which had be-
come fe e bier and
feebler w TIL eac b
passing moment, sud-
denly ceased. He died
" j t b o ut pain and
without a movement.
DR.. Garnett, who re-
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BOYS born in Rome on last New
Years day are to be called Leo, and
all girls Leonie, and to each one the
Papal Jubilee Committee has promised
a savings bank pass book, with one
hundred Traces placed to its credit.
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REV. DIR. TALMAGE was recently
sworn in as chaplain of the Thirteenth
Regiment of the National Guard in
Brooklyn. This is the same regl-
ment which Henry Ward Beecher
served in the same capacity so long.
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Died Together.

BRAZIL. Ind, Feb. 27.-Jofn NJ Harper
and wife, Of Riley township, Yigo County,
died Friday Of pneumonia, both having
been sick five days. Their married life
covered fifty years, spent on the farm on
which they died.
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+. BERRY WALL, ex-king of the
dudes, pleads poverty to escape pay
ing the debts he contracted with for
lists for bouquets for his lady-friends
before he was married.
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Immigrants from Ireland.

LosDos, Feb 5.The emigration from
Ireland to the United States during
the coming spring promises to eclipse
that of previous years Already a
large number of emigrants have Sc
cured passage on the various trans
atlantic lines, and to meet the exigen-
cies of the busy season two new Atlantic
companies, named the Huntington line and
the Beaver line, have announced their in
tention of sending fleet of steamers to
call ut Queenstown from Liverpool to en-
bark passengers for America on and after
the Goth Of next month, when no less than
ten trans-atlantic steamships will sail each
week from Queenstown for the United
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Could and Sage Safe.

NEW YORK, Feb. 29.-In reply to ques-
ton by the foreman of the grand jury in
vestigating the charges of larceny against
Jay Gould and Russell Sage, Judge Corning
ruled yesterday that the statute OF Imita-
tons would protect the accused.
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Indiana and Illinois Coal Output.

BRAZIL, Ind, Feb. 29.-Indiana aud I'LL
nois are crowding toward the front as coal
producing States Last year Indiana's out
put from about 225 mines, with 1000
miners, was little less than 1000, 900
tons OF block, bituminous and camel coal,
worth on an average about 81 % ton at
the mines. Illinois S17 mines yielded TO-
21S, $50 tons, worth S1.OS1, ton at the
mines. Miners and mine laborers en-
ployed &c, ,SO4