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lives, and the steamer Florence foundered in
the Irish Sea and nine persons perished.
The result of the French elections has
been a substantial victory for the Repub-
icans.
THE Government Of the South American
Republic of Ecuador has prohibited the Inn
migration of Chinese.
WILLIAM q. K. REDMOND, an Irish Home
Rule member of Parliament, has been SEN
fenced to three months imprisonment for
offerses under the Crimes act.
CAPTAIN MUNGo and Lieutenant Cabura,
two Mexican cavalry officers, have been
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment for
crossing into the United States territory IN
search of deserters.
THE accounts published for the fiscal year
of 1855 show that the Russian Government M
receipts exceed the expenditures by 5O,oOO,
600 rubles.
THE business portion of Kensington,
Prince Edwards Island, has been burned.
ANOTHER strike occurred of the stevedores
employed in the East India docks, London.
W1LKIE CoLr-vS. the famous novelist, has
died of paraly: the heart.
TIE United States warship Enterprise
arrived at Inverary, Scotland, and the
Duke of Argyle entertained the officers of the
vessel at his castle.
ALTHOUGH General Boulanger has been
personally successful in getting elected to
the French Assembly, his followers have
been overwhelmingly defeated. The Re.
publicans will have majority of almost 15O
members in the new Assembly. Boulanger
having been declared ineligible by the High
Court OF Justice, his election is useless unless
validated by the future Chamber.
A CHEST Of dynamite exploded at the sta
stion in st. Petersburg just before the Gar
Of Russia departed for Copenhagen.
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THE C0UNTRY'S SCHOOLS.
Synopsis of the Commissioner of Edu'
cations Annual Report.

Synopsis of the Commissioner of Edu.
cations Annual Report.
H.N. B. Dawson, the Commissioner Of
Education, has filed with the Secretary of the
Interior his annual report for the year ended
June 80, 1889. He says that from an analy-
decade Of 1S76-'77 to 1SS6-'S7, it appears that
the growth of the system, considering the
whole country, outstripped during that period
the growth Of population, the excess OF the
increase of enrolment. over the in
crease in population, six to fourteen
years of age, being 1.6 per cent. This gain,
the Commissioner says, is due entirely to the
progress of the public schools in the two
Southern sections, and mora especially in the
South Central division. The sentiment in
favor of free schools supported by public
funds, he says, is becoming each year more
universally prevalent. The public schoolsys-
TENS Of the Southern States have been I'M
dergoing an unprecedented Development
under laws adapted in each case to local cir
cumstances and are now practically all es-
tablished on permanent basis. Colored chill
dren are apportioned an equal share OF the
school funds, unless III the State of Delaware.
and their schools are kept open as long and
under as we'll paid teachers as those of the
white children The funds Tor the support OF
these schools are furnished mainly by the
white inhabitants.
In the course of his remarks upon hepub-
lie schools in the principal cities, the Com
missioner says: "In no department of city
school work is improvement more manifest
than in the primary schools, and this for the
reason, perhaps, that in them there was tho
greatest room for improvement"
The Commissioner regrets his inability te
report general adoption Of physical train
ing il the public schools
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

HERRIcK LAPEs, aged thirteen, of Ware
ham, Mass, was killed by Joseph Lebarron,
q boy nine years of age, with pocket knife.
a HEAVY bridge near Danbury, Conn, col
lapsed. carrying down a wagon, horses ana
ten men a distance of twenty feet. One OF
the men was killed and four others badly In
jured
LEONARD & ELL1s's oil reineries at
Shadyside, N j., have been burned. The
total loss reaches to about $500, 600.
THE Worlds Fair Committee on Site and
Buildings have selected the north end OF
Central Park, Morningside and Riverside
Parks and the Bloomingdale Asylum
grounds, New York city, as the place for
holding the Exposition.
AT the Alaska Colliery, at Mount Carmel,
Penn, two miners, Hugh Roberts and An
thony Marchetty, were Instantly killed by a
fall of rock.
MAGGIE ToB1N, aged ten, of Philadelphia,
shot and killed her six-year-old sister Ellen,
while playing with q revolver that had been
carelessly left within the children's reach.
Mrs. PATRICK FARRELL, a boarding house
keeper at Jermyn, Penn, was stabbed to the
heart while trying to separate two fighting
boarders.
MAXWELL STRAUB, who was arrested at
Elmira for intoXication, has died in jail. The
Coroner's examination reveals traces OF
poison, and it is believed that he was drugged
and robbed.
ALocoMoTIvE was thrown from the track
near Ithaca, and Engineer Orlando Seeley
was instantly killed.
JACOB FITZGERALD, of Cayuga, dropped
dead in Watkins. He was a delegate
to the Republican State Convention and
went to Watkins to take train for Saratoga.
Ex-MAYoR P. D. WALTER, of Lockport,
has died from the effects of fall.
DELEGATES to the Republican State Con-
vention and the meeting Of the Republican
State League gathered at Saratoga.
By the upsetting of boat in Boston Har-
Dor E. G.. Hartwen of Waltham and Arthur
Taft OF Dedham, Mass, were drowned.
THERE have been heavy frosts in Vermont
and Northern New York; heavy snow fell
on Mount Washington.
The Boston Board of Aldermen have voted
to erect statues to Generals Grant and
Sheridan and Admiral Farragut.
SHERIFF NICHOLAS C. DEMAREST, OF Ber-
gen County, N. j., was run over by an e3-
press train at Rutherford and instantly
killed.
THE New York Daily Graphic, an Illus
nated paper, has ceased publication.
AN extraordinary plague of pleuro-pneu.-
monia has broken out among the cattle OF
Chester County of the adjoining counties OF
Montgomery and Berks, Penn.
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Fair Clerks in the Treasury Department D

Some of the prettiest women In the
country are in the Treasury Department..
A great many of them are Washing
tonians, but, as a class, they represent
the beauty of about the whole country.
They are blondes and brunettes; short
and tall and medium; some plump, some
oueenly, some of lythe and wlllowy,
form-they are fairly the types Of the
several great cities and about all the States
of the Union. In that one building,
covering four blocks, is to be found more
beauty than a hunt through many large
cities might discover. A large prop9r<
ton of the female clerks are young, or at
least on the minus side of the line be-
yond which lies old maidenhood. Office
life is not promotive of longevity, and
many of the elderly women have died on
or reached an age beyond usefulness.
Those who have come into the depart
ment within the past four or FIVE years
are mostly young women, who have JUST
passed through the normal schools and
have entered the Government service
through the civil service examination
They are bright lot Of young women.
In many cases it is, perhaps, that they
are the prettiest girls of the family,
which inspires them with an ambition
beyond the drugery of house-work or the
trials of a schoolmarm and induces them
to strive for the more agreeable work
and better pay under the civil service:
And this may account for there beng
such preponderance Of good looks
Wdshin1ton Star.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

IMPORTED laborers in Alahapa recently
we're paid five cents per day.
ENGLAND's Engineers Union has 81, 900
members, and has spent s14 092, SIS in bene-
fits since 1852.
The A1ualgamated Machinists' Union of
New York city isactive in its efforts to form
national organization.
TIE convention of the international
Cigarmakers' Union of America wss recently
in session in New York city.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has become
one Of the foremost champions Of the eight
hour movement in England.
THREE workmen were discharged by
leather manufacturer in Newark, n. j., be-
cause they did not work on Labor Day.
In some of the densely populated districts
of London there are BARRIERS who shave Gus
toners for the moderate sum of one cent
each.
ACCORDING to the news from Maine, all
the sawmillS on the Penobscot River are now
in full operation under the new adjustment
Of wages.
The greatest single industry in any city in
the world is said to be the manufacture Of
carpets in Philadelphia. 1t employs 1850
looms and 1880 worknen.
IT is not likely that there will be another
strike of the seamen on the ocean steamers at
the English ports for along time again. The
last strike was miserable failure.
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South and w est.

THE Cincinnati, Washington and Balti-
more Railroad has been sold under foreclos-
ure for S., 900, 900.
MRS. HIRAM SMELL, of Malad, Idaho. has
lust given birth to six children-three boys
and three girls.
THE survivors of the Northern and South
ern armies at the battle of Chlckamauga, az
meeting in Chattanooga, resolved to turn
the battlefield into National park.
THE residence Of Mrs. A. Lenbower, near
Deer Park, Md, was destroyed by fire dur
ing her absence, and her two children, aged
three and six years, were burned to death.
One person has been killed and several in
iured by leaping from an electric car, which
plunged down Mission Ridge, Chattanooga,
Tenn. The current had failed it.
BLAcKMAN BROTHERS saw mill and sash
factory at Snohomisl, W. T., has been
burned. Loss S15O, 900; no insurance.
JOSEPH T. RAYMOND, aged twcnty-six, was
hanged at Moorhead, Mimi, for the murder
Of a policeman.
The Wyoming Constitutional Convention
has adopted chapter vesting ownership OF
irrigating waters in the State and recos-
nizing rights of prior appropriation.
In riot which has taken place at Okla
homa City, the soldiers charged the mob
with fixed bayonets, and many persons were
wounded.
A PACKAGE containing over $40 900 be-
longing to the United States Express Com
pany has been stolen from bank vault IN
Hurley, Wis.
An explosion of gas in coal mine near
Dayton, Tenn, has badly injured nine men,
two fatally.
LIGHTNING struck the house Of Mr.. Spauld.
ing, at Winona, Mimi, killing his slx-year
daughter, and fatally injuring his wife
One passenger was killed and several in
iured in a collision on the Northwestern
Railroad at Blackberry, Ill.
AT cake walk at Culpeper, Va, James
Fitzgerald shot and killed his wife for per.
mitting handsomer man to kiss her.
The President and ex-senator Henry G.
Davis made a trip into West Virginia from
Deer Park, Md.
THE Corn Palace Exhibition at Sioux City,
Iowa, is open.
THE public schools have been closed al
Marion, Ind, owing to the prevalence OF
diphtheria-
The firm C. Belford Clarke & Co., promi'
nent Chicago book publishers with branches
Mt New York and San Francisco, has sus
pended, and receiver has been appointed.
WALTER BALL, of West Point, Va, and
his son have been been indicted by the Grand
Jury for compelling B. T. Barham, at the
point of pistol, to marry MIR. Balls daugh'
ter.
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TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
A Budget of News From Vari-
Gus Parts of the World.
A Woman Confesses to Murder
After Being Strung Up.

A few days since farmer named Dudley,
living near Ell Dorado, Kan, engaged Mr..
and Mrs Edwards to assist him in gathering
his crops While walking to the farm that
afternoon they were joined by Mr.. and Mrs.
Bloomer, who were on the way home from
Rosalie, accompanied by their three-year-old
child. Arriving ut the Dudley farm, Mrs.
Bloomer placed her child in Mrs. Edwards's s
charge while she accompanied her husband
to the field to see Mr.. Dudley.
When they returned to the house the child
was missing. The neighbors were summoned
to institute search, but the child could not
be found Mrs. Edwards's strange actions
aroused suspicion, and she was finally charged
with having murdered the child. She denied
the charge Indignantly. and the search was
continued The child could not be found.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bloomer were satisfied that
Mrs. Edwards had made away with it, and
to test their suspicious they proposed TO eS-
tract confession from her. Accordingly
she was told that she was to be hanged, and
had better confess the crime. She obstinate
~ maintained that she she kaGM obigs n0snng Siaapg
pesrance. A rope wes found, one
end placed about her neck, and the other
thrown over the limb of tree. just as her
BODY was about to leave the ground she broke
down. and confessed that owing to her ex-
treme annoyance at the child's disobedience
of her commands, she had killedit, and given
the body to her husband to dispose of it. he
carried it to the creek near by and threw IL
into the water.
Her husband denied any completely in the
crime and the same means were resorted to
to force a confession from him. He was
strung up for minute or two and then cut
down. He then confessed that he had seen
his wife carry the body of the child to the
creek and dispose Of it there. He, himself,
he said, had nothing to do with the crime, ex-
cept to witness the disposal of the body.
The neighbors then began a systematic
search of the premises and creek. If Mrs.
Edwards story is verified both she and her
husband will doubtless be lynched. as great
excitement prevails over the affair.
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A Big London Dock.

The Royal Albert Dock Connected
with the Victoria by a passage eighty
feet in width) has water. area OF l75i
acres. This is of most recent construc-
ton, its completion having been the oc-|
casion for a royal celebration in June,
1880. This dock is splendid stretchI
of waterway almost three miles in e1-
tent, with range of over a mile OF iron
warehouses and double lines Of loco
motive tracks and numerous travelling
cranes. The dock walls throughout are
constructed entirely of Portland cement
concrete, made and deposited in stu
The aggregate length of dock and pas
sage walls is three and one-half miles
The walls are forty feet high, five feet
thick at the top and from eighteen to
nineteen feet thick at the base, and used
up in their construction 500,0 900 cubic
wards of concrete, representing 80, GOO
tons of Portland cement. Three thou
sand workmen, six hundred or seven
hundred wagons, seventeen or eighteen
locomotive engines, three steam navvies
and great quantity of minor machinery
of various kinds, had been engaged from
1875 until the summer of 1880 in the
construction of this magnificent system
of docks-a work compared with which
the building of the pyramids, with
modern appliances, would have been no
very signal feat. Railway trains from
every company can unload straight into
vessels, cattle are driven aboard, the
railway platforms being level with the 1e
receiving decks, and the largest possible
weights of merchandise are lifted by by
draulic cranes that travel from shed to
shed with singular facility. Ths dock
is lighted with electric lamps, and the
enormous sheds and warehouses are SO
constructed that they can be opened out
from end to end.-Bosto, Transcript.
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ASLEEP MANY YEARS.
Prolonged Stupor Of a Minnesota
Man-Strange Effects of Ague.

Prolonged Stupor of Minnesota
Man-Strange Effects of Ague.
In the little village of Utica, Mimi, lives
Herman Harms, who has been sleeping
soundly most of the time for the last twelve
years. Thousands Of people have been
to visit the man. Doctors have come long
distances to see him. What the secret OF
his long sleep is no one has been able to dis
cover The story is not legend, neither is
the sleeper myth. He is sleeping still. The
doctors say that he may live and sleep twenty
years to come.
Harms is German about ffty-one years
old. Twelve years ago he was seized with
fever and ague he had long spells Of fe-
vered sleep for four years, Then the mysteriou!
spell seemed to leave him, and for three years
he was almost a well man. May IL, 1854,
Harms ate his morning meal as usual Sud
denly he felt stupor coming over him. he
put down the cup that he held in his hand,
rose and cast himself heavily upon the bed.
Almost before he touched the bed he was
asleep. For three years he slumbered. He
did not even dream. He lived, but it was a
living death. Many remedies were tried, but
they did no good.
The strangest thing about this mysterious
man is that in this period of three years
Harms woke every night of his own accord
about 10 o'clock, rose famished, ate his sup
per and went back to bed. Once every day
he emerged from oblivion and talked with his
friends, entered for few moments into the
old family life and then slipped away again.
At the end of three years he again rose from
his bed, but his limbs had grown weak from
long disuse. He was able to totter about the
house in feeble way, in constant fear that
c1aar, yvou16 op0in Ovprtakn him.
For a few days he walked out in the sunlight.
For few months he kept awake. Then he
felt the stupor come upon him. His eyes
grew heavy, his limbs leaden, and he sant
down under the weight of sleep. This time
he has been asleep for nearly two years, but
he does not awake in the way he formerly
did. He cannot rise in bed, and it is plain
that he is gradually sinking. Now he wakes
only when he is awakened. 1t has been sug-
gested that he is in hypnotic condition
that while his body sleeps his mind is living
another life
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A Nice Little Worm.

A little worm, not as large as babys
finger, is crawling over the green leaves
of the cotton.patches of the South. He
is q fluffy fellow, light and feather;
footed, and yet he makes more fuss In
the world than an army on it's way with
banners The rasping of its teeth as
they cut the leaf is heard round the
world, and the web it weaves so nolse3
lessly comes as rumbling cloud. To
Eng land its silent trespass means more
than the advance of a Russian army on
the English outposts in Asia.-Atlanta
Constitution.
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The Proposed Glass Trust.

George F. Kimball, Chicago dealer in
window glass, says of the proposed glass
Rock Isand and other places in the West have
passed into the hands of the owners of New
York concerns, the properties being bought
outright. The purchaser is the United Glass
Company of New York, capitalized at
$5,0OO,000.
In some cases stockholders in the local
companies have exchanged their holdings for
stock in the trust" company. 1t is pur-
posed to place the fifty live glass factories of
the country under one management. The
main Office of the company is to be New
York.
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millions Of these orders, involving $11s,a
0OO,0 900, are issued every year, and toi
ship the excess of moneys received toI
where it will be needed for payment, and
to examine properly the entries OF these
millions of orders, involves stupendous,I
amount Of labor, which could hardly beii
accomplished at all without thoroughly
systematized methods and incessant tn-ai
dustry. But the feat is performed, and
by another branch of the clerical force !
-Ha7per's Weekly.
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usaltedn Silver Mines.

Ex-Coneressman J. A.. Hubben, OIL
Michigan, a millionaire mine owner, has
keen perception of the humorous Rel
Gently Mail and Ezpress reporter had aiI
conversation with him at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel about salt and the attemptI
to form salt trust not long ago.
sI have never dabbled in salt mine, Il
but I have in mine salted, /" he said Il
with rather strong vehemence. i
"Do you mean to say that the old
trick was played on you3"
eyes, I do. It was silver mlnei
The specimens were the finest / ever saw.a
I became interested, and went to work
with an expert to examine the mine. We
found rich specimens, and it appeared toE
be the beginning of another Comstocln
lode. Twas satisfied, and never once sus-,
pected that trick was being played. Al
number of us bought the shrewd prof
prietor out, each of us giving him $780,
1 induced James G.. Blaine to put inl
5000 on the strength of my report. Very
soon after work began we discovered
that the mine had been salted most skill-ii
fully. went to Mr.. Blaine and told
him the mine had been salted and that
our money was lost. he took it very
philosophically." 55:5s
s:Have you been taken in sincea"
ssNo; that experience taught me q
lesson. I found out that salting mlnesi
and preparing specimens is fine art
Why, these scoundrels that manipulate
salted mines can put fine quarts speci-
mems in SO cleverly that it looks Like tbs
work of nature. To make upon solid
rock of gold or silver surface they shoot
the metal from a pistol. Tnever go INTO
any mining venture unless ! do some
careful investigation beforehand.
Sis there as much mine sailing now asI
in times pasta'
"No, and not so much made In mines;
as formerly. Men who buy mines nowf
are conservative and do not go in with
their eyes shut. Naturally so many have
been tricked with salted mines that It lss
difficult to repeat it over and over again. 4
Instead of doing the sailing trick the
wildcat spectators have new methods
and form large companies that deceive the /
unwary. It is getting more and morel
difficult to swindle even by the wild d-cat..
method because the newspapers have so!
thoroughly exposed it. In fact, mining
is beginning to assume normal, busl-l
ness-like character and the avenues forI
bunco miners are growing rapidly less. y
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The OffciaIS Apologized.

The Governments Of the United States and
France have finally reached settlement CT
the diplomatic complications arising from
the arrest and discourteous treatment of Mrs.
Dorr, Miss Van Nostrand, and another New
York lady by the French police authorities
at Mentone because of dispute over dress
makers bill. The French Government has
made an explanation and an apology, with
notice that the offending officials have been
xeprimanded.
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Hopkins's Bloody Work.

Seeley Hopkins, of Phillipsburg, Penn,
while intoxicated, provoked a quarrel with
his wife, and becoming violently enraged,
procured revolver and shot her dead. He
then went up stairs and shot his wife's
mother dead, after which he proceeded to an
adjoining livery stable, where he shot him
self twice in the head, but neither shot will
prove even serious. He was placed under
arrest Immediately and viii be brought to
Bellefonte.
jealousy and belief in the faithlessness of
his wife are believed to have been the rea-
sons that melted Hopkins to the crime.
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FIVE PERSONS KILLED.
A Freight Train Crashes Into Pass
ing Coach.

Afrightful disaster to suburban passenger
train has occurred in the southern outskirts
of Chicago, Ill. The Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific train was crashed into by a
freight train at the Lake Shore and Pan
Handle crossing near Eighty-seventh street,
Englewood. Five persons were killed and
four seriously injured. The passenger train
was ata stand-still, one coach projecting over
the crossing. Into this coach containing
about sixty persons, plunged the freight train,
travelling rapidly at right angles to the Rock
Island train. The wreck of the passenger
coach was instant and complete. The acci-
dent was clearly due to the carelessness of the
engineer.