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story and BASEMENT; u TOOIus bath and NJ =. only
$1,000. terms easy lO-rOOu bay-wIndOw brick;
al med. I!uYs. ltH. near 81. splendid loca-
ton $1,000 Two new tWO->tury and cellar bricks:
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L. alley. easy terms, $500. Five twO-StOry and
BASEMENT has window bricks: 9th ST., near Rhode
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COUNTRY REAL ESTATE.

IGOR SALE-GOOD FARM OF 81 ACRES, ON 9TH
st. turnpike, about miles from city location high
and healthy 90 under high state of cultivation
LIe oak grove, good water, well fenced; nearly
dwelling house, stable. and all necessary Oubuldings
Will be sold at low figure.
TYLER & RUTHERFORD,
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Foreign.

THE bursting of shell in one OF the
fortresses Of MeSsina, Sicily, exploded
powder magazine. killing sixteen soldiers and
lnjuring many others
THE annual report of the Minister of Gus
toms shows that the exports of Canada dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80 were
so, $50. 000 and the imports Sill ,OoO.OOO the
largest la.ance of trade against Canada since
the Dominion was formed.
WEBB BRANDON, who killed his wife, while
drunk, has been hanged at Winnipeg, Mani
toba.
FIRE destroyed most of the village of Del
orainc, in Canada The total loss is about
SlUOOU0
PRINCE EKARAGEoRGEvITcH, brother Of the
pretender to the Servan throne is dead.
His immense fortune goes to his brother.
THE hangrnan of Minas Geraes, Brazil,
has died utter a service Of forty.eight years.
This interesting individual was condemned
to death, with his father and mother, i'll
1885, but learning that the office OF public
hangnan was vacant offered himself on con-
dition Of communication of his penalty to i'm
prisonment ;or life. His offer was accepted
aud his detut in his functions as executor OF
high justice was made in the hanging OF his
own parents.
A REBELLION has broken out in the Wau
country i'll Upper Burlnah. The prisoners
in the Shwebo Jail, in Burmah, recently
made on attempt to escape. Several were
killed and three wounded.
A ROY AIMED John Gill has been afro
ciously murdered and mutated at Bradford.
England. His legs and arms bad been
chopped off in rough manner and tied to
his body, his ears had been cut off, there
were two knife wounds in his chest and his
heart and entrails lad teen torn out The
Whitechapel tiend is believed to have com.
mitted the crime.
EIGHT persons have been drowned by
floods at Castlenaine, Victoria.
CHOLERA at Cuilon. on the Malahar coast,
is said to have carried of 3U00 Christians
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
The Senate.

14rB DAY.-The Senate convened again al
the holiday recess had terminated. quorum
was present. The following petitions, me
MORALS and resolutions were presented: Re-
monstrating against any action of Congress
looking to the admission of Utah as State;
to nrobibit disfranchisement on account OF
sex; for the suspension or tne purchase OF
silver bullion and OF the coinage OF SILVER
dollars: in favor of including in the next
census statistics of surviving soldiers OF the
late war: in favor of woman suffrage IN the
Territories; and resolution, which was
adopted, asking the President to transmit TO
CONGRESS any Correspondence that may have
been had with Great Britain concerning the
seal fisheries in or near Behring's Straits,
especially as TO the seizure Of any vessel or
the limited States or other country. - Inc
Senate then resumed consideration OF the
Tariff bill, Mr.. Allison going back to para.
graph 1874, as to chains, moved to amend IL
by reducing the rate on chains less than
three -eiehts of one inch in diameter" from
3 to 2II cents per pound. Mr.. vance
moved to amend the amendment by making
the rate thirty per cent. ad valorem. MI.
Vance's amendment was rejected-yeas IL,
nays Gland Mr.. Allison's amendment was
agreed TO without division. The bill was
then taken up at the point where it had been
left when last before the Senate (scnedule I,
cotton manufactures, the question oeing on
the amendment offered by Mr.. vest TO re-
duce the duty on cotton thread. yarn, warps,
etc. valued at not exceeding twenty-five
cents per pound" from ten cents per pouno
to thirty-five per cent. ad valorem- ..
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

BEETHOVEN has been made the hero Of q
French comic opera.
"LoTTA" Miss Crabtree) is to retire from
the stage in May, 1871.
MISS KATE FIELD will lecture in New
York city on California wines.
BILL NYE is writing farce comedy for
Lizzie DAILY, the famous dancer.
WOMEN professional whistlers are jumping
up everywhere throughout the country.
A Eox in the Metropolitan Opera House in
New York was sold recently for S23, wv.
THE Campanin Concert Company, after
an unsuccessful tour, has been disbanded.
THE first days advance sale for Mary
Anderson's engagement in Boston, reached
over 5000.
tour of Texas and the South, playing mostly
in one might stands.
EMILY SoLDENE, the famous burlesquer,
was recently hissed OH the London stage
during benefit that she was taking.
NINE. ALBAN1 leaves England shortly for
q concert tour IN the United States and
Canada.
THERE are 1900 actors out OF work in
this country at the present time, according
to careful estimates
"YETIvA" is the name of new opera to be
produced in San Francisco in January at the
Tivoli Opera House.
JOHN +. SHERIDAN, fthe old firm OF Sner-
idan q Mack, is III Shanghai, china, play
ing Con in the "Shaughran."
MARIE WAINWRIGHT is to make her ap'
pearance before New York audience as
Rosaljnd in LAS You Like 1t.
Miss HOWE, of Boston, is the latest addl-
ton to the bevy of American songblrds VINO
are captivating the connoisseurs OF al the
European capitals.
MARY ANDERSON will probably continue
under the management of Mr.. Henry 4. Alb
tey next season and make tour OF tnls
country, which will take her as lar West as
California
THE proposed Thomas orchestral concers
in New York city will include four evening
performances and six matInees Dlstin
guished artists will take part IN almost Oil
the concerts.
LIE PETIT Ducn has been revived with
great success at the Eden Theatre in Paris,
and the principal female character is again
played by Mile. Granier, who "created" IL
ten years ago.
THE latest operatic idol of the Vienn'se
,ublic is Fraulein Renard. formerly neE
bar of the ROYAL Opera in Berlin. She seems
10 have everything in her fnvor--youth. gooo
looks. q fine voice and remarkable dramatic
talent.
PAuLUs, the French comic song singer,
now receives Sl?Oa night A few years ago
his fea was S125 His song. III Revient," is
considered to have made General Eoulanger.
He lives in great style with his wife and his
five children and his Paris establishment in
c,l,des three or four horses, a secretary and
composer.
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THE NEWS EPIT0MIzEl
Eastern and Middle States.

TIE new United States cruiser Fesuvlus
made three trial runs in Delaware Bay with
satisfactory results. !.
BaoHER E. GRAHAM HAIGHT, Lieutenant
of Company G., Seventh Regiment, thirty
seven years old. committed suicide by shoot
ing himself throu rh the right temple at his
residence in New York city. Dependency,
caused by the death of his broth and dissi-
patton, was the cause.
JOSEPH SOLOMON, a small New York jobber
in laces and linens, in a drunken, jealous
frenzy fatally shot his wife Dora and after
ward killed himself.
john HANSON, prisoner in the Eastern
Penitentiarv of Pennsylvania, burned HIM
self to death in his cell. He deliberately set
fire to his clothes and lay on the floor until
death came.
THE Old Colony line steamboat Bristol,
plying between New York and Boston. was
burned at her dock Mt Newport, R shortly
after the passengers and freight had been
landed. Competent authorities place the
total loss ut SSOO,U00
HENRY G. ST1cKNEY, for ten years book
keeper for the Chelsea Salt Company OF
Boston. Mass. has disappeared with S23,oJc
of that firms money.
GOVERNOR HILL was inaugurated for a
second term at Albany, n. Y, with civic
pomp and martial pageantry. Both Houses
of the Legislature organized. j. Sloat Fassett
was elected President of the Senate and
Fremont Cole was made Speaker Of the AS
sembly.
HUGH J. GRANT was installed as Mayor
of New York city.
AT Dover, y. H., C. H. Tanner, lunatic,
killed G. E. Pray, who had come to take him
to an asylum.
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THE wEAvER's DREAM.

He sat alone in his dark little room,
His fingers aweary with his work at the
loom,
His eyes seeing not the threads. for the tear
As he carefully counted the months and
years
He had been poor weaver.
Not traveller went on the dusty highway,
But he thought, "He has nothing to do bl
be gay;" ~
No matter how burdensd or how bent
might be, ) Is Es;si
The weaver believed him more happy tha
he,
And sighed at his weaving. -
He saw not the roses, so sweet and so red,
That looked through his window, he thoug
to be dead,
And carried away from his dark little roon
Wrapt up in his linen he had in his loom.
Were better than weaving. - 2sts
Just then white angel came out Of th|
fuo ouug w nS sSuSos, ouo oSo1So aEsU
eyes, ..ra
And bore him away from his work at d
loom .. ...,.l
In vision, and left him alone by the tomb
OF his dear little daughter. ~
my darling? he cries, "what blessing "
mine!
How sinned. having you, against goodnd
divine &+s
Awake! o my lost one, my sweet one, awak
And Inever, as long as live, for your sakN
Will sigh at my weaTing!'
The sunset was gliding his low little room
When the weaver awoke from his dream q
the loom, ~
Ard close at his knee saw dear little head
Alight with long curls-she was living, nd
dead -.r
His pride and his treasure. SSaa
He winds the fine thread on the shuttll
anew, x
(At the thought of his blessing twas easy Y
And sings as he weaves, for the joy in By
breast, --,{
Peace cometh of striving, and labor is rel
Grown wise was the weaver.
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LATER NEWS.

CHARLES T. DURE, highly respected
gentleman Of Wilmington, Del, has COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself through
the head He was suffering from consump-
tion, and the disease brought on melancholia,
and he determined to end his life.
THE joint Republican Legislative caucus
at Augusta, Me-, has UNANIMOUSLY renomi-
mated Senator Frye.
OVER sixty designs and ten models have
teen submitted by American and European
artists for the proposed Grant monument In
New York city.
". E. BARRETT, publisher Of the Boston
Advertiser and Record, has been elected
Speaker of the Massachusetts House Of
Representatives.
WHITE CAPS have warned several persons
at Ferndale, Penn, to leave
JOHN ScHENCK and a man named Erb
were blown to atoms at James Miiler's dyna-
mite factory at Trunnlytown, Penn, by the
explosion of half bucket of dynamite. The
shock was felt two miles off. The men were
blown into fragments.
E. o. WALcoTT (Republican) has been
nominated by the Legislature Of Colorado
as United States Senator, to succeed Senator
Bowen.
JAMES ". MCMILLAN, of Detroit, has been
nominated by the Republican caucus OF the
Michigan Legislature as United States Sena-
tor to succeed Thomas W. Palmer.
Miss MARY B. SHERMAN, Of Wakeman,
Ohio, O member of the freshman class at
Oberln College, shot and killed herself at
her boarding place. Overstudy Is assigned
as the cause of her action.
ALL the business portion of Altoona, ILL.,,
has been destroyed by fire.
AN epidemic of measles is prevalent at
Pekin, III. All the public schools in the city
have been closed by the Board Of Health.
CHARLES DE LA GkAzA and Jesus Barbo
fought about woman at Anagua, Texas
Commencing their shooting on horseback,
they finished it afoot, dying with only a
couple of yards distance between them.
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER has introduced a
bill to extend the Presidential term to six
years, with no reelection.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WHITNEY sent
to Congress estimates and recommendations
for an appropriation of $4,000 for photo
graphic telescope to be erected to enable
the Government to cooperate in concerted
international movement for photographing
the skies
The public debt statement for December
shows that the reduction Of the putlic debt
amounted to s14.427, ,5)5Os; total cash in the
Treasury, sGl5,591. O7s.5s; total debt, less
cash in Treasury, 81, 1874, ,G6!,2
The disastrous Rhone floods in France
are subsiding,
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A FIGHT OVER A GOOSE,
Bloody ARRAY Between american
and Russian Farmers in Dakota

Bloody ARRAY Between american
and Russian Farmers in Dakota
A serious riot occurred the other morning
near Trip, Dakota, between Russian Men
nonites and Americans. A public sale was
held ut the farm of a Russian named Sink
and an American farmer named Merchant
purchased at it Il dozen chickens. When
ready to start home he found two chickens
missing, and complained to Sink, who told
him TO take something of equal value. Mer-
chant caught goose and started home with
it, but was ovcrtaken by party OF eight
Russians who claimed the goose as their
property. A wrangle ensued that attracted
others to the scene, and soon q general
fight was in progress, in which some twenty
men were engaged, with the Russians as tho
agEressors.
Two brothers named Johnson. who were
passing, Joined in the melee with knives. A
Russian named Mayer was stabbed, and he
in turn split Charles Johnsons head with
neck-yoke, inhicting q fatal injury. The
same weapon hr. Ike the arm of George John
son. and the knives were used to slash up
three other Russians badly but not fatally.
The Americans found the force opposing
them too strong and withdrew from the
field. This wounded Russians were taken
caro- of by their companions. The affair
has created the most intense excitement in
the neignborhood, where the majority OF the
settlers ore Russians.
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OCEAN PENNY POSTAGE.
The Champion of Cheap Transat-
lantic Postal Rates.

LILO wa N''S~S - oAS~e
Iantic Postal Rates.
Mr.. John Henniker Heaton, member of
the English Parliament, has accepted an in
yitat on to visit the United States early
this year. He expects to have
the honor Of appearing before
Congress in advocacy of ocean penny
two cent postage and much Of the time OF
his visit will be devoted to the furtherance OF
cheap postage. His idea is that as letters are
now carried long distances by rail at the
penny rate. with a profit to the Postodice
departments of England and the United
States penny postage between England and
America would be perfectly feasible.
Indeed, non-contract steamers actually
carry letters for the English Postoftice
from Southampton to New York for
about q half penny each that is forty
letters 60 to the pound, and the rate
paid to these non contract steamers is
forty-one cents per pound. As to profits,
Mr.. Heaton calculates that the English Post
Office makes from s250,000 to $500, 900 an
nually on the American mails.
Twelve millions of letters, and 2,50O.CO0
pounds weight Of newspapers, etc, were sent
to America in 1887. for which the steamship
companies received less that $500, 900. while
the English Postof1ice received more than
$500, ,0OO for stamps
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A GOLD CRAZE.
GSAG, 49,.
An Old Time Mining Excitement in
Southern California

An Old Time Mining Excitement in
Southern California
An old time mining excitement is in full
blast in Southern California and Arizona as
the result of recent discoveries Two Mexi-
cans brought into Yuma large quantity OF
pure god which they said they had obtained
in Southern California, about one hundred
miles from YUM.
They had been prospecting in locality
that was abandoned only recently by hostile
Indians who had kept miners out Of the
country for many years. The Mexicans said
the gold was easily worked. and they would
have remained there longer and brought cut
more if their provisions had lasted. Their
story set everybody in Yuma crazy with the
Old fever. and q rush to the new fields has
begun. The river boats are crowded, and
every possible conveyance is being fitted up
te take miners to the diggings.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE Shah Of Persia Will visit Europe in
the spring.
SENATOR CHANDLER never smokes Co
bacco and drinks ice-water.
Mr. PARNELL has half-promised to come
to America again this ear
EMPEROR WILLIAM has resumed his jour
news through the German Empire.
STURGEON. the English divine, has been
greatly benefited by his Visit to tho Conti-
nent
SIR WILLIAM FREDERICK POLLOCK, Of
England, formerly Queens Remembrancer,
is dead.
LAWRENCE OLYPHANT, the traveller and
writer. died recently in London Of cancer OF
the lungs.
CANON KNoX-L1TTLE, the eminent Eng
lish clergyman, usually wears gloves when
he breaches.
SENATOR INGALLS, is an inveterate theatre
goer, and is especially fond OF Shakespeare
and comedy.
LORD CoLERIpGE has already collected
$35, ,OO0 for the widow and daughters OF
Matthew Arnold.
MRS. WAITE, wife of the late Chief Justice,
who has been i'll with pneumonia, is pro-
nounced out Of danger.
MuNEMITsU MUTsU. the Japanese Minis
ter at Washington, is becoming fluent
ccnversationalisJ in English.
RICHARD HENRY SroDDARD had a poem
published in Hdrper's after it had been
fifteen years in the publishers hands.
FLS1MoRE CoopEg's only daughter still
lives at the old home OF the novelist at
Cooperstown, on Lake Otsego, y. \.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, the dis
tinsuished English Tory leader, will in a
fifnn S0nGn
America
GENERAL. LEW WALLACE is said to have
received S60, 600 in royalties from his ''Ben
Hur." His Fair God" has also netted him
handsomely.
HADJI HAssEIN GRoULI KAHN, the Persian
Minister to tho United States, IS lonesome,
as there is but one person in Washington who
can speak his language.
THE sister-in-law of Frances present politi-
cal idol, General Boulanger, has just died IN
New Orleans in abiect poverty. her nus
band was brother of the gallant General
MRS HUMPHREY WARD, the author OF
'Robert Elsmere," is an Australian Her
father, Mr. Thomas Arnold, held an educa-
tional position in Tasmania for some years
THE German Empress wears an apron at
home as a token that she attends to the chill
dren and the cook. and doesn't meddle with
social and political questions, nor seek to win
place in the intellectual world
MRS REAGAN, wife of Senator Reagan, OF
Texas, being her husbands Private Secre-
tary, is entitled on all occasions to the prlvl-
1ege of the floor of the Senate, a clrcum-
stance enjoyed by no other woman.
JUSTICE HARLAN, of the United States
Supreme Bench, is man of splendid physi-
cal development. lie is six feea four inches
tall, with broad shoulders and a massive
head. His face is smoothly shavea.
LADY SALISBURY. wife of the British
Premier, has initiated Il movement for pre-
septing Mrs. Phelps. wife Of the United
States Minister to England, with a souvenir OF
her stay in London. The gift is to take tho
form OF a valuable bracelet
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A YEARS HANGINGS.
Legal Executions in the United
States During 1888.

otaCcs DurIHH ISoo'
The number of legal executions in the
United States during the last year has in
reased over 1857, when it was much smaller
than for many years previous. The total
number wasS7, as compared with ~ in 1857,
So in 1885, and lGS in 1895. The executions
in the several States were as follows: Ala
bama, 5; Arkansas, 5: California, S; Con-
necticut, /; Delaware, j; Georgia, 3: Illinois,
2; Indiana |: Iowa. /: Kansas, =; Kentucky,
i; Louisiana, 8; Maryland, l; Massachusetts,
]: Minnesota, ]; Mississippi, 4: Missouri q;
New York, 3: New Jersey. 4; North Carolina,
2; Ohio, 3: Oregon,l Pennsylvania, 5: South
Carolina, 5; Tennessee, ,: Texas d; Arizona,
]: Idaho, =; Montana, 2: Washington, /;
Wyoming, L; Indian Territory, @
OF this number all were males but one, 81
were whites, % colored. and Chinaman.
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AT the present rate Of increase, and their
popularity continues, every European capital
will soon be ringing with music of American
song birds. Madame Emma Nevada IS still
at Madrid, Mile Van Zandt in Lisbon: Miss
Eames soon makes her debut at st. Peters
burg, and Miss Sanderson is about to take
the boards in London at the Opera ComiQue.
THE State of Massachusetts, mas just bor-
rowed $aO0,O00. at a rate netting slightly
over 2]l per cent. per annum to the investor.
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The House.

10TH DAY.-The River and aarborl6lll
was discussed. .. Mr.. Springer introduced
Joint resolution for the admission OF tne
States of Arizona aud Idaho. Reterred...
Two important amendments to pension ia%s M
were passed One OF them proviaeSSi 'ha' ha 'Ss 90
in each case, whether for an orlgl-
nal examination or a re-examination;
the other is designed to relieve claimants for
increase of pen,ions from heavy burden or
expense TO which they are now subjected: -.
Mr. Springer introduced a joint resolution
proposing Constitutional amendment wnlcn
extends the Presidential term 10 SIX years
and makes the Pl esident Ineligible for re-
election. It abollshes the Electoral College
and provide for direct vote Of the people.
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composer.

THERE are forty-two firms in the United
States engaged exclusively in the manufac-
tnre of chewin s-gum. Their trade is in
creasing, and it is estimated that the value
of their annual product is not less than slo,'
5OO.OJ0.
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Washington.

A NATIONAL convention of colored Cath
olics began its seSs on in Washington.
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Cleveland held their
last New Years reception at the White
House. A great throng attended.
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The visible supply of cotton for the world
is 2,26i, 154 bales, a decrease as compared
with 1887 Of 53?, 70T bales. decrease as COM
pared with 1856 Of ~, 406, and decrease Of
@7i,6l0 bales as compared with 1885.
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THE messengers from Tippoo Tib, Stanley's
native ally, bring the news thnt the mur-
derer of Major Barttelot the African ex-
plorer,, had been tried, found guilty and
hanged at Stanley Falls. l--.. H..
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SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES.

A Comparison Of New Enterprises
During the Past Three Years.
A comparison Of the new enterprises organ
lied in the South during the last three years
makes q most instructive exhibit.