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Foreign.

LORD DUFFERIN has been appointed Brit.
ish Ambassador to France in the place OF
the late Lord Lytton.
ApvIcEs from Pekin, China, state that the
Monaghan instruction is at an end, and that
forty.two insurgents have been beheaded.
MUCH damage was done by storms In
Great Britain.
CHrLfs Foreign Minister, Malta, In his
circular letter to the European and Amerl-
can Legations, says that President Harrison
and Secretary Tracy have been mlsinformed
Of events in that country, and repeats that
Justice will be done In, the Baltimore affair.
A FIERCE fight between the Irish factions
occurred in Waterford City, during which
Michael Davitt was badly hurt
THE burial of Dom Pedro ex-Emperor Of
Brazil, took place at Lisbon, Portugal. The
bearse was drawn by eight horses. and the
coffin was covered with floral wreaths. All
the members of the royal family, and all the
officials OF the foreign Diplomatic Corps,
with the exception of the Brazilian Embassy,
accompanied the remains to the Pantheon,
where the body was deposited in the family
vault : -; :
REPORTS Of the ravages Of influenza in
various parts of Europe are being constant
" received. The epidemic is spreading rap
idly in Jutland, Holland and Denmark.
The Chinese Empire has officially notified
the State Department at Washington that IL
will take no part in the, Worlds Fair.
A CROWDED ferryboat capsized in the EIDE
at Harburg, Germany, hundreds OF people
being thrown into the water. Ten or the
passengers were drowned.
THERE is a revolutionary movement in
the Brazilian province of Sac Paulo.
The revolt in Sac Paulo, Brazil, has beer
suppressed. The insurgents had succeeds
in e1pslling tho local officials, but they will
all be reinstated.
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Washington,

SPEAKER CRISP has appointed John T.
Waterman his private secretary. Ihonas
o. Towles, Of Missouri, has been appolnte1
Chief Clerk of the House Of Representatives
at Washington.
A TREATY with Germany has been ar
ranged by the State Department at Wash
ington under which American grain and
pork are to be admitted to the German EN-
pire at greatly reduced rates OF duty.
RICHARD G. Dove, a fourteen hundred
dollar clerk in the mail division OF the Trea-
sury Department, died in Washington few
DAYS ago. He had been employed In tnat
department for sixty-two years, having been
appointed q messenger in 1879, during fresI-
dent Jackson's administration.
A COMPARATIVE statement Of the esti-
mates Of appropriations needed Tor the next
fiscal year has been prepared at Washington
bv Msssrs. Courts and Cleves, the respective
clerks to the House aud Senate Committees
on Appropriations. This statement shows
an excess in estimates Of regular appropria-
lions for the fiscal year be Inning July l,
1892. Of 50, 522, S52, as conn.,: ..su with the es-
Inmates q year ago for Gls current fiscal
year.
THERE was a notable gathering In the
Washington home Of Mrs. 3. s. Cox, to wit
ness the presentation to her, On behalf OF the
officers and men of the Life Saving Service
of the Treasury, Of a magnificent vase OF
silver. intended to express the appreciation
of the members Of the service Of the iabors
of her late husband in it's behalf.
The Republican caucus committee, which
had been engaged at Washington tor q week
in filing the vacancies on the Senate com.
mittees, made a final report to the full!
caucus OF Senators, who received the list OF
assignments and laid Thorn over for ap-
provaI.
THE Brazilian Government has asked the
State Department at Washington for an
extension of time for the ratification OF the
treaty of arbitration recently concluded
between Brazil and the United States.
The President approved the report OF the
Examining Bo.r I'd in the case of Commander
Augustus V. Kellogg, United States Navy,
who was therefore placed on the retired LIST
with furlough pay.
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TO E SADDLES.

To clean a saddle take a good clean,
deorderized benzine, about seventy-fve
gravity, and thoroughly wash the saddle
in it; don't hesitate to put considerable
elbow grease along with it, it will take
considerable rubbing. Use plenty of
soft rags, they SOC get dirty as the dirt
rubs out of the leather, so you will. have
to use plenty of them. On the buckskin
rub fine pipe-clay, which will absorb and
dry out the dirt and stains. If the hog
skin has lost its color, or you ~ish to
max, it look nice and new, brush it over
lightly with an extract made from the
best English saffron. Anyone will find
that oxalic acid, dissolved in soft water,
will clean fair or russell leather very
nicely. Rub on with a piece of white
cotton rag. It is not good fo- sore
hands, or to use as a beverage.-Hmss
Rspiew.
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EXIT VOLUNTEER FIREMEN.
The Force, to Which New Orleans
Paid $500, O0Oa Year, Goes Out.

The Force, to Which New Orleans
Paid 500, oOOa Year, Goes Out.
The New Orleans Ga. Volunteer Fire
Department, the last of the large volunteer
fire systems in this country, NO longer e1-
lists. A paid department has taken its place.
The Volunteer Department has had a pros
nsrous career Of sixtY-ive years in
that city. 1t was entirely separate from the
CITY government and made contracts with
the authorities to attend all fires for Sl9o,
GOO a wear. 1t owned its own property, en-.
eines. horses and houses. These will be SOLO
to the city. ~. III .
official career in very good financial con.
ditiou, for it has other valuable property,
beside its paraphernal!a for e~xtlngulshlng
Ares and viii have several hundred thousand
dollars to its account. 1t Will
Eeep ND its organization as a social and
charitable society, using its revenues for the
care and support of widows and orphans OF
member of the volunteer force, and for the
navment of a life insurance as the member
5ron off. The four branches had thirty-six en-
zines and 5000 members, active and exempt.
fhe change to a paid department has been
recommended for some time by the insurance
c~onnpanie but was not very popular with
tha masses.
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THE LABOR WORLD.
Boston has a Fishermen's Union.
NEW YORK drug clerks have a union.

BosToN has a Fishermen's Union.
NEW YORK drug clerks have a union.
THERE is a National Walters Union.
THE Government ms Hungarian mines.
. DENVER (Col-, City laborers get 50 a day.
BosroN union walters get $25 Ter month
WASHINGTON printers will build a $50. 600
hall.
UNION barb er shops increase In New York
City.
VIENNA, Austria, has 5000 idle shoe
makers.
THERE are $4,000 unemployed men in New
York City. g.
SACRAMENTO, COL, has an arbitration
committee.
HE wife of London's Mayor wa a
chambermaid.
BROOKLYN has a Workmen's General
Benefit Union with four branches.
The Southern Pacific is compelling tele-
graphers to take oath that they are not
union men.
AN Indianapolis Ind.) clerk sued a firm
for the time he worked over eight hours. He
got sl25. but the case will be appealed.
CENSUS statistics show that the number Of
employees on the Eastern railroads increased
twenty-five per cent. per mile FROM 1850 to
1889, while in the Middle West the number
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Thirty Men

The most serious Of all the disasters that
have resulted from the late storm in England
is the wreck Of the British ship Enterkin,
Captain Sinclair, which was bound from
Hull 10 Brisbane. She was caught in the
storm while bound down the Channel, and
was driven upon the Galloper Sands, of
Ramsgate. Thirty lives were lost in this
disaster, every person on board except an
apprentice boy being drowned.
The Enterkin was driven ashore almost
broadaide on. After she had struck, a part
of the crew succeeded in launching q boat,
and got clear Of the ship. They headed
shoreward, but were almost Immediately
thrown into the sea by the swapping Of
their boat by a high roller. Every
man who was in the boat was drowned, al
most in sight Of his comrades on the wreck.
Shortly afterward the ship, which had
been standing on a comparatively even
keel, was struck by q tremendously high
sea. She keeled over, throwing every
person aboard Of her into the water.
Only one Of them, the apprentice boy, sue
ceeded in gaining the weather rigging,
which was just awash. Here the lad re-
manned throughout the night, drenched and
almost frozen. Next morning q fishing
smack sighted the wreck AMI bore down to
it. With much difficulty a boat was got
alongside the EnterKin, and the boy was
taken off,
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ACROSS THE WIRES.
An Interesting Budget of For
eign and Domestic News.
Prince of Wales's Eldest Son to
Wed Princess Victoria of Teck.

The principal topic IN English aristocratlc
circles is the engagement Of Prince Albert
Victor to Princess Victoria Mary Of Teck.
On all sides the utmost satisfaction is ex-
pressed, and there is no doubt, says a London
special, that the match is a love affair to a
far greater extent han the majority Of royal
marriages. No definite date has yet been
fixed for the wedding, but it is the general
belief thatit will take place shortly: Society
is or the qui vive in regard to the event,
which will undoubtedly be one of the grand
est ceremonies that has occurred in recent
years in ENGLAND.
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FOUR PERSONS MURDERED.
A Colored Desperate Kills HIS Wife
and Three Others.

A colored desperate, known as "Littls
Joe" Patterson, living on the John Sewell
plantation, near Shreveport, La, deliber-
ately shot to death his wife and a colored
man. He then went to the store Of James
Lay, a half-mile distant, and emptied bis
gun at him, mortally %wounding him. He
next visited the house Of Captain Dave Wal
lace, whom he also shot and MORALLY
wounded.
Messrs. Wallace and Lay are prominent
citizens of Bossier parish, the former having
recently been nominated to the Legislature
from that parish. The murderer made his
escape.
However, he was so closely pressed by a
pursuing mob that he returned to his home,
driving out the mourners who were sitting
up with his wife's body and shot himself
dead.
The mob recovered the body of the muir.
dered woman and set fire to the house, n
Patterson's charred body lies in the ruins.
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In the House.

4rH DAY.-The House met and adjourned
for four days after Speal0r. Crisp had an
nounced the following committees: On
Accounts-Messrs. Rush (Md.l, Cooper Qnd.),
Dickerson (Ky.l, Moses IL. CO., Seerley
Gowa), Pearson (ohio,. Quackenbush IN. ~,
Griswold PENN and Cutting lCal.l. On
Milease-Messrs. Castle (Minn.l, Crawfor"
IN. CJ. Kendall (Ky.), Caldwell Ohio ana
Flick uowa).
5rH DAY.-In the opening prayer the
Chaplain invoked the Divine protection on
members of the House against the assaults
Of the insidious disease now %peryading the
land-The Speaker announced his Com
mittee on the Rules as follows: The Speaker,
Messrs. McMillin (Tennessee), Catch
ings Miss, Reed, Of Maine,
and Burrows, of Michigan. Mr..
Oates offered a resolution providing for
the appointment OF a standing COMMITTEES on
order Of business, to consist of fifteen mem
bers-Mr. Taylor, Of Tennessee, rising,
said that it was his mournful duty to an
nounce the death Of his friend and colleague,
the Hon. Leonldas c.. Houk, who died sud-
denly from accidental poisoning at his home
in Knoxville in May last. The House then,
as a mark oil respect to the memory Of the
deceased, adjourned.
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Eclipses in 1892.

In the year 1892 there will be four Eclipses
two Of the Sun and two Of tho Moon.
1. A Total Eclipse Of the Sun, April 26th,
4:1S in the evening, invisible in North
America, visible in the South Pacific Ocean
and western part Of South America.
2. A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, May
18th, partly visible, the Moon rising eclipsed.
The beginning visible generally in the west
erly portions Of Asia, n Europe, Africa, the
South America TIE ending visible gener-
ally in Arabia, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic
Ocean, South America, and the extreme
~easterly portion of North America.
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Washington held, in an opinion just rem
the State of Maine on tbs gross receipts of
the Grand Trunk Railway Company o.
Canada for the privilege of exercising its
franchises within the State of Maine was
legal and constitutional and was not con-
trary to the provision Of the Constitution
prohibiting the States from regulating in
terstate
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FIFTY-sECOND CONGRESS.
In b Senate.

4TH DAY.-President Harrison sent In q
list Of appointments made during the recess
ofCongress, which require confirmation by
the Senate. There were about seventy:fve
in aH-The Senate then devoted itself to
the introduction Of the bills. Six hundred
and eleven bills and ten joint resolutions were
offered in less than two hours. and were sent
70 the Government Printing Office to be put
into type before being distributed among the
respective committees. The list included
three free coinage bills and three anti.
Chinese bills, a number Of Alliance measures
from Mr.. PETER, Of Kansas, and a joint
resolution bearing On the election Of Presi-
dent by the people.
9Th DAY.-In the reassembling Of the
Senate at noon Vice-President Morton laid
before the Senate q number Of interesting
documents, chief among them being the
report Of the Signal Service
The President sent in the entire list Of re-
cess appointments additional to the names
already submitted. The list includes 2S1
postmasters and a large number Of army and
navy appointments n appointments and
promotions in the revenue marine service
The introduction Of bills was resumed, 214
to erect monuments to General q. s. Grant
and Martha Washington, to organize
permanent Census Bureau, to repeal the
law prohibiting 1-Confederates from
entering the Army and Navy of
the United States and a number Of
important merchant marine and shipping
bills. Proposed increased pension legisla-
ton received several accessions, including
bill pensioning all soldiers who fought in
Indian wars. Two additional bills were
added to the list Of Chinese restriction meas
ures. .
9TH DAY.-The Vice President announced
the appointment Of Mr.. Morrill, as Regent Of
the Smithsonian Institution, to FIJI q vacancy
Mr.. Sherman presented remonstrancss
Of several yearly meetings Of Friends in
Indiana against the traffic in in
e eansral Af naa0rs snn firearms the btl ls
introduced and referred were the
following: For the purchase Of q site for a
building for the Supreme Court Of the
United States. For a bronze statue Of
Christopher Columbus, III Washington, and
the removal of the Naval Monument
to a new site. To authorize the erection
Of bridges over the Hudson and East Rivers
at New York. For Notifications and other
try Of the army and increase its efficiency.
Providing for the adoption and use Of uni.
form standard automatic car.coupler and
regulating the operation and control OF
freight trains used in Interstate commerce.
7TH DAY.-The opening prayer was offered
by Rev. Joel Swartz, DID,, Of Gettysburg,
Penn.-The President sent n.the nomina-
tons for United States Circuit Judges, as
provided by Section !, Chapter SIT, United
papers presented and referred were numer-
Gus memorials against tho Sunday
opening of the Worlds Fair - The
annual report and copies of the bulle-
tins Of the Bureau of American Republics
were presented and referred-There were
memorials introduced in favor Of woman
suffrage, Of promoting the efficiency Of the
Life Saving Service, and Of the election OF
United States Senators by the people.
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Chief Joel b. nlayes Dead.

Joel B. Mayes, Chief of the Cherokee Ma
ton, died at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, at
q o'clock a few mornings ago. Joel Bryan
Mayes was born in the Cherokee reservation,
Ga, October 90, 1888. His father was white
and his mother of mixed blood, being. de-
scended on her paternal side from
James Adair, an Indian agent under
George III. Joel was removed while a boy
to the Cherokee reservation in Indian Terri
tory. He graduated from the Cherokee
Male Seminary in 1859, and taught until the
Civil War, when he enliste1 The Confed-
crate army. He held the position OF quar-
termaster during the war. He returned to
the farm on Grand River in 1885, and was
made County Commissioner and Chief
Clerk to the Cherokee Court, a dual
position he held for many years.. For two
years he was County Judge. While hold
ing the latter office he was chosen Associate
and subsequently Chief Justice OF the SUI
preme Court. He became chief OF the
Cherokee Nation in August. 1881. having
been elected after a close tight.
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m PRINCESS VICTORIA OF TEcK.

Princess Victoria Mary, or to give her her
full name, Princess Victoria Mary Augusta
Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, is the
only daughter of His Highness Franz Louise
Paul Alexander, Duke OF Teck, G.. c. B.. and
Her Royal Highness Mary Adelaide WIhel-
nina Elizabeth. Duchess of Teck and cousin
of the Queen. She was born May 20, 1867,
and Is therefore twenty-four years old. She
has three brothers, ono Of whom is a Lieu
tenant in the Seventeenth Lancers.
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TWENTY.ONE DROWNED,

The Boiler of an Italian Steamer Elk.
plodes With Fatal Results.
The. italian steamer Calabria left Genoa,
Italy,for Naples, having on board passengers
and crew altogether numbering thirty-three
persons. She had proceeded but a short
distance when her boiler exploded, so DAM
aging the steamer that she sank in q very
short time. Twenty-one were drowned, the
other twelve being saved either by the Cal
abria's boats or by boats from other vessels
which were near by.
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SHEEP NOMENCLATURE.

The following is from Stephens's Book
of the Farm: When newborn it is called
a "la1b;' if male, in Scotland, q ''tup-
lamb. When castrated it is called q
sshogs-lamb;" il female, a "ewe.lamb."
In England the young sheep retains the
name of lamb till it is eight mouths old.
In Scotland, after weaving and before
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The Dynamiter identified.

A Boston dispatch says that no doubt is
longer entertained there Of the correctness
of Standardization Of the Russell Sage boms
shroxsr with Henry L. Norcross, the note
broker, OF Somervlle. The evidence is re-.
garded as completed by the letter which he
left to his mother, stating that he was going.
to New York to get 81, 200, 600, and that If
he was not successful he should kill himself.
Norcross's parents admit the Identification
and the opinion of many of Norcross's acf
ouaintances corroborates them. They ara
not disposed to talk further for publications,
but let the public know that they are"no
longer in doubt as to the fate of their son.
Among those who have followed the case
most closely the evidence is regarded as final
to the degree that nothing more satisfactory
Is desired or could be asked. They say that
the case has in that respect passed into his
tory. No doubt is entertained that Norcross
was insane.
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APPLE PoSfACE AS FEED.

If used while fresh, cattle will eat
apple pomace and get considerable good
from it. But it turns quickly to alco-
holic and acid fermentation, and when
this occurs it has little, if any, value for
feeding. 1t is then not aver good for
fertilizing the soil, as Its acidity kills
vegetation that it comes IN contact with.
When frozen and rotted the following
year it again becomes of some value as
u fertilizer.-Boston Cultiyator.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
L OF DAT "a

Hay of oats is only half as nutritious
as that of timothy grass. The green
fodder is about of the same relative
value. The relative money values are
fifteen cents per 100 pounds for the
green oats and fifty cents for the dry
hay, against twenty-eight cents per 100
pounds for the green timothy and ninety
eight cents for the hay. The timothy is
also more digestible than the oats.-Msw
York Times.
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%TENNESSEE'S ARMY.
1t Numbers Only Sixteen Men, but
Gives Promise of Growing

Tennessee has a standing army. At pres
emit it consists of only sixteen men, and is
sleeping in nine tents, but gives promise OF
growing.
The army is bivouacked on Capitol Hill,
Nashville, waiting orders to march on Brice-
Vile. The army arrived there from Mem
the CITY during the morning, but late in the
afternoon came together again and gathered
at the Capitol.
The State officials are not very :alkatlve,
hut it was learned that these sixteen men
have been sworn in service for one year, and
that it is the intention to swear in altogether
$50. They will be regularly equipped as
soldiers, and fifty men will be placed at
each of the branch prisons at Coal Crock,
Briceyille and Oliver Springs.
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Evening Stars.

Venus, until July 9. Z
Mars, until August 4.
Jupiter, until March 1. after October IL:
Saturn. after March Is until September Is.
Mercury, after March 6 until April IL,
after June 90 until August Is, after October
7 until December II.
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A Fire Chief Killed.

John Unchrich, Chief of the Fire Depart.
ment of Sandusky, Ohio, vas killed a few
days ago by falling from the hatchway OF
the propeller R. E. Schuck while making an
inspection Of that boat.
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TIE CULTURE OF THE SQUASH.

The manner of growth of the gourd
family, to which the squash, melon and
cucumber all belong, is such that a
special mode of culture is required to
produce q full yield of fruit. This
popularity is that the vine, if left alone,
will throw out a long main stem aud only
a few side stems. The main stem pro-
duces mostly male blossoms and the
female or fruit-producing flowers are
borne on the side shoots. Thus, unless
the main stem be shortened and the side
enes encouraged, there will be a small
crop of fruit; and, as this was your
dilemma, it is probable the main stem
was not checked in its usually luxuriaut
growth. This plant and Others of the
family should be grown in hills from
four to eight feet apart to afford room
for a stocky growth, and the main stem
should be confined by pinching to these
limits, and the plot is thus filled up with
side shoots. Then, with good manuring
and clean culture, the ground may be
covered with fruit.-Nep York Times.
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Planets BRIGHTEST,

Mercury, March 31st July 29th, November
23d, setting then just after the Sun; also
january 10th, May 18th, September 18th,
rising then just before the Sun. Saturn,
March 10th. Venus, June I'd, August 18th.
Mars August 4th. Jupiter, October 18th.