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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PARNELL is only forty-three years old.
Ex-KNa MILAN, of Servia, is sojourning in
London.
QUEEN NATALIA, of Servia, is writing her
memoirs.
THE Empress Of Russia is now forty-three
years old.
DE-. HENRY ScHL1EMANN. the archeolo-
sgist, is dead.
BISMARCK is not good conversationalist,
and he is worse orator.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, is an
ardent amateur photographer.
RIDER HAGaARD, the lurid novelist, IS in
Mexico delving after Aztec treasures.
A SON Of the late Senator Riddleberger, Of
Virginia, has been appointed a page in the
Senate. .-,a .-
JAMES PAXTON VOORHEES,, son Of the In
diana Senator, has written drama based on
his novel, "A Tale Of Wealth"
THE French President and Mime. Carnot
devoted Christmas Day to charity, distribut-
sing about 5000 among the poor.
s MRS. SAMUEL j. RANDALL is living very
guietly in Washington on Capitol Hill. her
youngest daughter being her constant COM
panion.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY, the Irish Home Ruler,
literary man and novelist, Is ffty-nine years
Did. he is small physically, but the concen-
tration of energy.
THE German Kaiser rises every morning
at seven. He takes cold shower bath. is
shaved and shampooed and by 1880 is ready
.sor breakfast with the Empress.
SERaIus STEPNIAK, the famous Russian
revolutiouist, exile, and writer, arrived in
New York few days ago. He will deliver
'afty or more lectures in this country.
SIR JOHN Pope HENNEssY, who is now
playing q prominent part in Irish politics, is
- said to be the original Of Anthony Troliop's
character Of ''Phineas Finn" the Irish men,
Der.
SENATOR WARREN, Of Wyoming, is six
feet tall and his form is as straight as q
Rocky Mountain pine. He is blonde,
srather good looking, and talks and dresses
well.
TIE Sultan of Turkey has conferred upon
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, wife OF the United
States Minister, the order OF Shefkat, the
to woman.
eight years old. He was a newspaper man
in his youth, and even now, If called on, he
could set type or report q fire in al entirely
creditable way.
STORY, the American sculpture, now liv-
Ing in Rome, has been chosen to design the
statue of George Washington, which will be
presented to France in return for the gift Of
the Bartholdi statue.
THE famous Lafayette family, of France,
has become extinct by the death Of Senator
Edmond de Lafayette, grandson Of tho
General. He was wealthy bachelor and
gave largely to charities.
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South and West.

R.F. TAYLOR, Of Gainesville, has been ap-
nointed Associate Justics of the Supreme
Court by the Governor of Florida.
LEO KLEIN, a German, Of Chicago, Ill.,,
through jealousy, fatally shot his wife and
then Killed himself.
MONROE CLARK, colored man, was hanged
at Palatka, Fla, for murder committed at
Interlachen five years ago. Death was in
Simultaneous.
The Wallace County Bank, at Abilene,
Ken, closed its doors. Liabilities about
$4,000.
THE towboat Anna Roberts, of Pittsburg,
exploded a cylinder head at Portsmouth,
Ohio, instantly killing five men and terribly
wounding many more.
GENERAL MILES is throwing a circle Of
troops around the hostiles in the Bad Lands
of South Dakota, hoping to starve them into
subiection without further bloodshed.
THE Ohio River and its tributaries are
greatly swollen by rains and the thaw.
The Avenue Hotel, wooden structure, took
fire at Corsicana, Texas and woman, two
men and boy were burned to death.
DEPUTY MARSHAL Tom LILY had des-
psrats battle with tares whisky peddlers in
the Chickasaw nation, Indian Territory,
while trying to arrest them. Fifty shots
were fired, and two Of the peddlers were
killed and third fatally wounded. Lily was
dangerously wounded.
TO. LUCAS, u young Methodist minister,
was killed near Brownsville, Texas. by fall
ing into an old well. His horse, which he
was leading, fell in on top Of him.
GEORGE W. FRENCH met with a terrible
death at the Erie fats, Chicago, Ill. He and
an expressman stepped on an elevator, and
owing to tn, brake not having been put on,
they were precipitated to the basement.
French was killed and the other fatally in
jured.
DEMOCRATS and Republicans organized
separate Houses in the Montana Legislature
at Helena, but the Senate and the Governor
recognized only the Democratic House.
GEORGE W. PECK was inaugurated Gov.
ernor of Wisconsin in the Assembly Cnam'
Der at Madison.
EMMA ABBOTT, the opera singer, died OF
pneumonia in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the
age of forty-one: She left over million
dollars worth of property, which goes TO ner
aged mother and father.
THREE small children Of M. G. Bell, far.
mer living in Barber County, Kan, strayed
away from home and got lost in the snow.
A search was made for them, and their dead
bodies have been found. They had been
frozen to death.
THE Legislatures Of Ohio, Minnesota,
Nebraska and South Dakota met at their
several capitals.
S1xry-rHREE squaws and children were
killed In the figat at Wounded Knee, South
Dakota. Colonel Forsyth, who commanded
at that battle, has been suspended, penang
an investigation.
THE Dueber Watch Company Of Canton,
Ohio, has assigned. The nominal assets are
S150, 900, and the liabilities s45O,oOo.
FREDERICK REMINGTON. Harper's war art
ist was captured by small party OF hostiles
at White River. South Dakota. Remington
Syss nnarmed and the Indians turned him
loose and told him to 90 home, after taking
his tobacco and sketch book.
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THE DRUNKARp's WILL.

Ileave to society q ruined character, q
wretched example and o memory that will
soon rot.
I leave TO my parents, during the rast
Of their lives, as much sorrow as humnn-
ity in feeble and declining state can sus-.
tain. .- ~
Ileave to my brothers and sisters as much
modification and injury as could bring on
them. .....
leave to my wife broken heart and q.
life of wretchedness and shame, through
which to weep over my premature death
I give and bequeath to each Of my chill
dren, poverty, ignorance and low character
and the remembrance that their father was
monster. ~
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KILLED BYA POWDER BLAST
-Four Men Meet Death and -Four F'a-
tally Injured.

BY a blasting accident near the village OF
Stafford, four miles west Of Leroy, N. Y,
Andrew Hunt and three Hungarian laborers
were instantly killed. Four other hunsa'
rians received injuries which it was believed
would result fatally.
The accident happened on arailroad e1ten.,
sion. A blast had been fired, and second
was placed near the place where the first was
fired. The explosion tore up the rocks and
earth in great quantities.
1t is thought that some Of the fire from
the first explosion remained in the ground
aud ignited the powder placed for the second
one. The blast was in cut, and the dead
and injured were covered by the earth ana
SnOT.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

THREE Polish laborers were struck by .
train at Buffalo, n. Y, and instantly
killed.
In New York City last year the death
numbered 40, 23O, the births 80, $50. and mar
riages 1882. Estimated population In July
was 1881, ,232.
NEARLY all the Clinton Prison buildings al
Dannemora, N. Y, were destroyed by tre.
The flames were discovered first in the hos,
pital and all efforts to check them proved
unavailing. Loss, $500, 1000.
JOSEPH KoHLER, a New York City
butcher, after drinking hard imagined ne
was wild steer and ran amuck on SevenGr
avenue with horns on his head and knife IN
his hand. He stabbed four persons.
TIE old Wilkinson & Green mill at Proyi-
dence, r. l., was Quilted by fire. Loss Sl23,'
600. Insured. The mill was built in 1878.
MORE than 5000 pounds Of live poultry
,rera DESTROYED in fire in West Washington
Market, New York City.
cropcp K1sL1Se, of Norwich, VT,
bas been fined $1,000 by the Supreme Court
for sailing liquor to students at Dartmouth
College.
A HEAVY fog checked commerce in the
rivers and harbor at New York City and
gave trouble to railroads; in collision on
the elevated road one man was 1a1aiiJ
injured.
HON. DANIEL CLARKE, Judge OF tne
United States Court for the District OF ne"
Hampshire, died suddenly at Manchester.
C. n. WILLIS, Treasurer of the Stock.
bridge IN. H. Savings Bank, is defaulter
to the amount of from S22, 900 to S25.O0o.
TIE funeral Of e1-Treasurer Spinner TOOK
place at Mohawk, n. Y.
TROOPS of the New Jersey National Guard
were held under arms to quell riot among
100 unpaid Italian laborers at barnesa'
Park.
EDWARD SPIRES, nineteen, Henry Spires,
fifteen, and Henry Slower, twenty. lost their
lives while skating at Keyport, N. j.
MAYOR GRANT, of New York City, In his
annual message to the new Board OF Alder
men, said that the city had been wei! gov
erned and that the municipal debt had been
reduced 5000, 900 during the year.
BorH branches of the New York State
LEGISLATURE met at Albany; Lieutenant
Governor Jones and Speaker Sheehan made
addresses; the Governors message was trans
mitted to both Houses; rapid transit oiis
were introduced.
PATERSON IN. J.) street car drivers and
conductors had their working time re1uceo
from fifteen to twelve hours day.
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TEMPERANCE.
GRANDFATHER eaEY's LESSON.

GRANDFATHER aREY's LESSON.
II want you to isten," said Grandfatha
Grey,
To the two little boys who lived over thu
way;
'sThat man can never jrunkard be
Who keeps from the burning cup totally
free.
And never drunkard was anywhere
known
Unless from O moderate drinker he'd grown
"And so, If you never would have the dis.
grace - clg&s.'.5
Of staggering step and bloated face;
OF a wretched home and q ruined soul,
Be sure not to touch the foaming bowl
Let it alone, nor look with desire
On the wine that is red, on the liquid fire.
"Beware Of the little, now and then,
If you take 1t once, you will want 1t again;
The moderate drinker Is never secure,
A drunkard he'll die you may almost be sure.
To keep from the curse, there Is only one
way: ;s: ~
Be total abstainers," said Grandfather Grey.
Annie +. Scott.
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MANY CHILDREN PERISH,
Unhappy Ending Of a Sunday-School
Festival in England.

Six children have died from terrible &C
: cident at Wortley, near Leeds England
The tragedy began in the dressing room OF
the church school, where number of chill
dren were preparing to take their parts in
tableaux vivants, held under the auspices of
the Episcopal rector in aid Of the church.
The children were in gauzy attire and were
getting ready for their parts when a lamp up
set and set fire to the dress of one of the girls.
In their fight and confusion the flames
rapidly spread and the little ones rushed,
burning mass on the school.room stage.
Parents few to the rescue and smothered the
flames as rapidly as possible.
Many mothers tainted. Some of the suf-
ferers were taken to the Wortley infrmary
and others to their homes. More deaths
were expected.
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The Deadly Danube.

While an enormous crowd Of holiday
makers were amusing themselves on the
ice-covered surface Of the River Danube, be-
tween Buda and Pesth, Hungary, the ice,
after series Of alarming, cracking reports,
suddenly gave way in several places. A
terrible panic followed among those who
were upon the river. A rumber Of people
fell into the water and were drawn under
the ice.
Those who were lucky enough to escape, as
sisted by others upon the shore, did their ut
most to rescue the endangered people. Many
people are reported missing and are believed
to have been drowned. Four bodies have
been recovered from the scene Of the disas.
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TERRIBLE MASSACRE.
Three Hundred Foreigners Killed by
Natives.

Herbert L. Rand, of Carthage. ILL.,, recent
ly appointed American Consul to the Caro-
line Islands, has just received letters from
his brother, who has been a missionary in
those islands for sixteen years, giving the ac-
count count of outrages committed by natives.
In their revolt against the Spaniards
the natives have killed 300 foreigners, in
Guiding ninety Spanish soldiers. They have
looted and burned the houses of all mission
aries of Ponapi. The Rev. Mr.. Rand lost
his library, worth $1,000, and all his personal
and household effects. The missionaries
have now been transferred to neighborlng
island for safety, but the natives OF the
whole group are excited and more massacres
are feared.
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A cH1LD DIES OF ALCOHOLISM.

Little James Halloran, who was only nine
years old, lived with his parents In Hoboken.
he went out with two companions to make
New Years calls and returned In the evening
so intoxicated thnt he fell on the floor hall
unconscious. His mother and little sister
put him to bed and then went out to spend
the afternoon. When they came bach, late
in the evening, they found James dead. BE.
had been seen staggering through the streeta
with his companions several hours before be
went home, and there Is little doubt that he
died Of alcoholism York Times.
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Killed in O Shaft.

Eleven or twelve men were killed in the
Utica mine, Angels Camp, near San Andreas,
Cal. A load Of men was being lowered on
skip and when about one hundred and htty
feet from the surface the rope broke, preci-
pitating all distance Of $50 feet to the bot.
tom Of the shaft.
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A YEARS FAILURES.
Business Disasters in This Country
and Canada in 1890.

The business failures occurring throughout
the United States for the entire year of 1890,
as reported by R. G. Dun &; Co., the New
York Mercantile Agency, are 10,9o7 in mum.
Der, being only 25 greater than in 1889, when
the number was 1885 The liabilities, how
ever, show very large increase over 1880.
being sls9, 0O0 600, as against sl48, O00 900, an
increase Of s41 200, 900. These are the largest
liabilities since 1884, when they amounted to
$4,000, 900.
In Canada the failures for the year are
1s&7 In number, as againt 1777 the year pre-
vious. The liabilities are S1G, ,0OO, 600 in 1890.
as against $14, ,000, 600 in 1889.
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NEW USE FOR TIE BLUE RIBBON.

NEW USE FOR THE BLUE Ribbon. =, 2
The proposition to attach a knot Of blue
ribbon to invitations to dinners at which
wine will not be served has led to much dis.
cusssion and comment In town. Undoubt-
edly there ore many families whose con-
veDience will be greatly promoted at times
by having this pretty little device at their
expect at dinner. In England the blue rib
bon has already been used In certain ways
socially with great success. s.-Ne,o York Home
journal. - -.
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Fears for the LeveeS.

A repetition of the evils Of last springs
overflow is feared along the lower Mlssls-
sippi, owing to the unfinished and unsafe
.ondition of the levees, and the heavy SHOWS
north, with prospects of thaw. Many
thousands Of dollars have been expended IN
the past year in levee work, which is being
pushed forward as rapidly as possible by the
The contractors who have ed doubled .o tsts ehss
their work before the spring rise. as that
would prove destructive to the entire system
IL caugh in an incomplete condition: Re Re-
Tenn, and ports further north are being
shipped to the works, and all possible haste
is being made to complete the work by
March 1.
A long delay has been occasioned on that
part of the work in front Of Helena, Ark,
by the fact that two contracts made for its
completion and ratified by the Board OF
United States Engineers were not approved
by the Secretary Of War when submitted to
him. Consequently third advertisement
and letting will have to take place before it
can be completed
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KILLED AT A CROSSING.
Sad Accident to a Party of Male and
Female Students.

51u aCClueHC 10 fdrCy VI maiC dhu
Female Students.
A Central Massachusetts, train at Hadley,
Mass, struck team and sleigh, contain
ing six young people, on the crossing,
and instantly killed Henry, son Of DR..
J. B. Learned, and Mabel R., daughter
of the Rev. Frederick A. Hinckley, Of
the Fres Congregational Society. Both
horses were killed. The other occupants of
the sleigh were Charles son of Judge D. W.
Bond, Of the Superior Court; Edward Bond,
his nephew; Fannie Plympton and Lulu
Adams, of Northampton, all of whom
were injured, Miss Adams's injuries
being the most severe. The flesh was
torn from her face and one eye was injured.
Edward Bonds leg was bruised. Henry
Learned was q student at tho Agricultural
College, and Miss Hinckley was member of
the Capen school for girls. Two others were
college students.
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A Joke That Ended in Two Deaths.

Richard Reid and another colored man,
named Bill, Of Albany, Ga, stole and ate
somefood belonging to Joe Moore, also col
ored, and then laughingly told him OF the
joke they had played on him. Moore put
strychnine on some fish, cooked it and at his
invitation the other two feasted on 1t. They
are dead and Moore has fec.
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Sixty Mine Victims.

A dispatch from Vienna states that sixty
persons were killed outright by the explosion
that occurred in the Trinity coalpit in Polish
Ostrau, on Saturday last.
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The great cracker trust has planned to
srect the largest building in New York for
4 factory at cost Of s., G00, 600.
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Five Guilty of Murder.


The trinl at Macon, Ca, of six citizens Of
Dodge and Telfair Counties for conspiracy
and murder in the killing Of John G. Forsyth
at Normandale In October last was ended,
when the jury brought in verdict finding
all but one of the defendants guilty.
The case which has been on trial for four
weeks in the United States Federal Court,
Judge Emory Speer presiding, Is the most re-
markable in the criminal annals of Georgia.
The land troubles from which 1t sprung began
a number of years ago when decree was
granted In the United States Court vesting
IN George E. Dodge, Of New York, titles to
certain extensive tracts Of land in Dodge,
Telfair and Montgomery Counties.
L. A. Hall, lawyer at Eastman, Dolge
County, was convicted Of violating this de-
cree by selling lots from the Dodge lands un, IN,
der bogus DEEDS and he served five months
Imprisonment for contempt.
Captain j. C. Forsyth, Of New !orS, was
tho Georgia representative Of the Dodge es,
tate, and as such stood in the way OF the lana
yrabbers. Charles Clements and Rlchard
Lowry, alias Herring, O notorious teolored
man. were hired to murder Forsyth, tne
orics to be 5000. Lowry crept up under the
window Of Forsyth's library, where ne SAT
eeading, and shot him dead.
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TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
Important Gleanings From tle
Latest Dispatches.
The Elections Bill Set Aside for
the Silver Bill.

The Federal Elections bill, which has been
pending in the Senate during the present ses-
sion of Congress and during many weeks OF
last session. has been abruptly side
tracked on motion Of a Republican
Senator, who, with the aid Of seven
Republican colleagues and twenty-siz Demo-
cratic Senators, executed successful coup
d. etat.
When Mr.. George took the floor to con.
tinue his speech on the Election bill, motion
was interposed by Mr.. Stewart, of Nevada,
to take up the bill to provide against con-
traction of the currency.
Mr.. George yielded the floor to have that
motion made, much to the discomfort OF MI.
Hoar. Of Massachusetts, who tried to I'M
press upon the Mississippi Senator ms own
idea that the course adopted by Mr.. George
was at variance with the understanding be-
tween them.
Mr.. Hoar was not permitted, however. to
develop his ideas in that line because from
Mr. German and other Democrats came the
objection that the motion was undebataole,
and Mr.. Harris, of Tennessee, who was in
the Chair. sustained the objection. The mo-
tion was put and carried. Thus the Elec.
tions bill was displaced and the Financial
bill taken in its place. ~,
The Republicans who voted for MT:
Stewards motion were Messrs. Jones, Of
Nevada; Shoup. Stanford, Stewart. Teller,
Washburn, Scott and Mcconnell, Of Ida Idaho. O.:
who had only been sworn in about half an
hour and used his first vote against the
Force bill.
The vote was taken by yeas and nays and
stood: Yeas, thirty-four; nays twenty
nine, as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Bate, Berry, Blackburn,
Butler, Call, Carlisle, Cockrell, Coke, Daniel,
Eustis, Faulkner, Gibson, German Grey, S
Harris, Jones, Of Arkansas; Jones, OF Ne
vada: Kenna, Mcconnell, Morgan, Pescoo,
Pugh, Ransom, Reagan, shoup, Stanford,
Stewart, Teller, Vance. Vest Wslthall'
Washburn, Wilson, Of Maryland, and Wal
, cott-34. 49, .,r
Nays-Messrs. Aldrich, Allen, Allison,
Cameron, Casey, Cullum, Davis, Dixon,
Rolph Ed@unds M1,,., EvsTts, Frye .5dssleyy' Hdawley'
Mitchell, Morrill,, Platt Plumb, Power,
QUAY, Sanders, Sawyer, Sherman, Spooner,
Stockbridge and Wilson qowa)-2a.