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ITALIAN POLITICS.
sIsnOr CrispI May bo Again Eoturned to

Power.
ROME, March 2.-At the Vatican 1t is
asserted that signor crispi expects to re-
turn to power and that he has ap-
preached the Holy See with a view to
persuade the papal authorities not to
accord CONCESSIONS to the ministry Of
the Marquis Di Rudini, as the latter'a
cabinet cannot last.
Signor Crispi is said to have insisted
that the Pope ought not to allow Catho-
lies 10 support the Government al elec-
tions, and promised that ifhe returns to
power he will make concessions to the
Vatican.
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oTrUawA, Ill, March IA collision
occurred between two Wabash freight
trains near Carbon City, fatally ipjur.
ing two passengers, aud William and
Wren Hunt, OF Downing, No, and
severely injuriug brakeman Bledsoe.
Three other train men were eighty hurt.
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KlSd'Tos, oSr., March 2.-sir John
Macdonald has entirely recovered from
bis illness and Is nov in good spirits
He is kept very busy reading and an.
Swer,n9 tetegratns IRON all over the
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4 SPIRIT OF PEACE PREVAILS
And Party Lines are Entirely
Wiped out in the Mad Rush
to Pass Fayorite Bills.
DBEOCREYS NAKg no DIRECTION
And Republicans Concede Fayors.
It's q Case Of Mutual
Concession.

TIL, LoDbles and Galleries Crowded With
1aterestcd spec;atOrs-Bllls Passed
TO Please Democrats and Republicans
AllkO-A Great Work Dose by the
COngress-SpeaSer Reed is Serene.
Even the Senate "RslaxeS" lis Dig.
atty
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n,ttipr ID rarIl ! Psnnl ofrsn.s.

P4sIs, March an. coustaGus, Minis.
ter 81 the interior, to-day notified the
Turf Clubs that on and after March 8
betting on the Paris mutual system
would be 0 penal odense,
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LOUISVILLE, KY, March 2.-At Grsy's
Station, near Barboursvllle, to-day, Alb
peE Mitchell killed John Woods, and in
turn was shot to death by John Ingie;
cause, an old grudee.
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TO TEST rus TARIFF LAW.
EEorls 10 Have Cases AHse,lnE 1t Ad.
vaneed IN the supEeme Court.

vauoed % the supreme Court.
WAsnEXaToN, D. O., March 2.-Four
motions were made Ia the United States
Supreme Court to-day to ADVANCE cases
intended 70 test the validity Of the caS.
toms, administrative and Mckinley
tariff laws. II is Contended that the Nc
Kinley tariff act Is unconstitutional
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The price Of engines and boilers in.
cludes feed pump, water heater, etc.
In making this estimate, Mr.. Seeiey
said he had made liberal allowances,
putting the outside price on everything,
The bidding on the specifications would
reduce prices considerably.
In company with Mr.. Farrell, Mr.. See.
ley had visited the gas works and the
pumping station Of the water works
Asked in regard to the availability OF
either OF these localities for site for an
electric plant, Mr.. 6eeley thought that
the pumping station wab too low that
II would he dangerous 10 have dynamos
alongSide the gas tanks, as spark might
at any time communicate with the gaa.
Another aource OF danger would be the
liability OF the mass OF wires entering
the building to conduct lightning. Mi.
Seeley also thought shat, owing to the
nature Of the COLL at the gas works, the
foundations would cost at least 5000.
He stated that II was practically imma.
terial whether an arc light plant was in
the centre OF the city or stationed five
miles away. This will facilitate the ne.
lection Of site,
Mr.. soslsy nade two propositions to
the Commission. He offered To prepare
plans and specifications for $3.50, giving
plans lor building, plans for pole lines,
foundations Of building, iogndations Of
enGines apd boilers, particularly specify.
Ing Bizs Of pulleya. Should the city 60
ahead with an electric light plant, he
offered TO supervise the construction Of
the building for FIVE per cent on the cost
OF construction, the city to buy the ma.
terial, hire the labor and do allths work.
In this caae he would not charge for the
plans. The other proposition he ex.
planned in this wise: He offered to buy
the material himself, at prices given the
city by the accepted bidder, hire and
pay for all labor, do all the construction
work, except that Of the building, ad.
VANCE the money for all the work him.
self the city agreeing to pay him the
usual percentage Of the cost Of the work,
as 1t proposed, for fifteen per cent Of the
cost OF construction,
On motion, Mr.. seeley was authorized
10 40 ahead and furnish plans and
specifications, to receive for the same
the sum of e 30, provided the city
decides not TO proceed with the building
Of an electric light plant.
Mr.. seelsy will make Q tour Of The
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M,EINLsY BILL FRUITS.
A $500, 900 Tiu Plate MIL to be BGilt b
n...I,V,a.. IL, .TntlaE

A 100000 Tiu Plate MIL 10 be bulIt W
pritishers In Joliet.
JOLIET, ILL, March "a contract has
Just been executed between several
Joliet property owners aud Lewis Bros,
Of Pittsburgh, Pa, aud Wales, BY which
South Joliet has gained $4,000 tin
plate plant, to occupy twenty acres aud
furnish floor capacity OF over 2OOOOO
eouare feet. The Lewis Bros: are Of a
family who have been manufacturing
tin plate for many generations in Eng'
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Peace in ami. A,-n,n.

1orIeus, oHlLE, March 2.-Quist
reii1s mere, The banks hsva reopened
an | bualneSs is being resumed.
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- NEw YoRE, March .. - Arrived-.
sIe sSIe tmorS La CAanpague, Hayre
RhledeI HNpbprg,
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Bosrox, MASS, March 9-This morn.
ins'R report Of the condition OF Bishop
Paddock are that he Is just alive.
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FOR DLECrRl0 LIGHTING.

Tho City Commission meets with Mr.. seeleT,
of New York--Hls Figures.
The meeting Of the Electric Light
Commission, called for the purpose Of
consulting with Mr.. John, A. seeley, the
electrical engineer, was held last night,
with Mr.. P. 7. Farrel in the chair.
The following estimate OF the cost OF
an electric light outfit was presented by
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This argument assumes, first, that The
gas works has cost the city half million
dollars. This Is untrue. On the con-
trary tho city revenues derived from
taxation have not been drawn on for q
cent Of Che money invested in the gas
works. The works were purchased with
the proceeds OF bonds for the payment
of which the plant itself was pledged.
The purchase money was actually paid
ont Of the revenues of the gas works.
Extensions and repairs have been paid
for in the same way, so that the city has
splendid gas works which represents
the accrued PROFITS on its own product.
That is remarkable showing, but
strictly true.
There is even stronger presentment
of this fact to be made: II The city had
not purchased the gas works, not only
would tho consumers have paid in all
these years high prices for gas to a cor
poration, instead OF having the cheapest
illuminating gas in the country, but the
city taxpayers would necessarily have
been taxed to pay iior gas to light
the streets. In the past eleven years
the gas burned in street lamps and in
city buildings has Represented the band.
some sum OF SlS6,500. This was at a
lower valuation than the gas could have
been purchased from private cor.
porRtion. 10 the nineteen years since
the city bought the gas works, the
money saved to the taxpayers by the
free gas for city use has aggregated over
S300,000.
In the face of this strong showing
from the facts, it requires peculiar
andacity and gross recklesaness to at
tempt to impress the least informed per.
son that the gas works are not a profit
able institution for the city to own.
They are not only selfAustaining, but
have actually paid their own first cost to
the city; they represent an asset which
would not have existed in any shape
but for the purchase by the city, and be.
sides have horne the expenses of light.
ing the streets and public bnildings,
and have actually contributed annually
several thousand dollars TO paying of
the city's general indebtedness. No
reasonable man could suggest the desir.
ability Of the works doing more to save
WoheS W the PaApayetos
The figures and facts here given are
neither the result Of guess work nor are
they manufactured for 8 purpose. They
are from the records, the figures being
carefully computed from the books by
Mr.. John H. Hall, formerly Gas
Trustee.
John A. seeley, of New York, the
electrical engineer now in the city, says
that Wheeling gas is very superior
article, the flame OF one jet being equal
70 the so.Called G4 candle incandescent
light.
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THB GlTY GAS WORKS.
Some FaIIacious and Funny
Special Pleas
ETATNAUGHT Blythe FACTS
The Gas Works have Cost tue Tax.
payers Nothing and Saved them
Hundreds ofTbousands of Dol
Iars.-A Great Showing.

On Sunday there appeared labOred
article in a newspaper attempting the
feat of proving that the city gas works
is operated at a loss, financially. The
article showed such gross ignorance and
was so full Of palpable errors that, 1t has
been a cause Of mirth wherever It was
read. To prove that it Ia not profitable
for the city to operate the gas works,
certain things are assumed, not one Of
which is true. The paper gives first
about the true state Of the case, 80 far as
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DR.. Bates and Mr.. McGregor were the
only absentees from yesterdays meet
ing Of the Board Of County Commission.
era. ~,
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On recommendation Of the various
committees bills were ordered paid as
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POSTAL SUBSIDY BILL

The ProVIsIous of the DiII Passed by Con.
gross and Awaiting the Presidents Sig
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-30
Foreign,

THE Tugaree, the head hunting tribe O,
the Island of New Guinea. made an attack
on village and during the raid they mas
sacred forty of the inhabitants and looted a
large number of the dwellings,
PROFESSOR VIRcHow. of Berlin. Germany.
says the effect of the Koch lymph is to in
crease the number of bacilli.
SENIOR Several, Secretary of the Portu-
guese Legation at London, has been ap-
pointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Great
Britain, in succession to Senior de Fretas
who was recently recalled by the Portuguese
Government
THE tobacco warehouses belonging to
David Jess1rin and Weber, Moeller g. Co :.
in Hamburg, Germany, were burned The
damage done is estimated at S?50OOO.
THE state of restitution into which the
poor people Of some portions Of Ireland are
plunged can be judged by the fact that over
1UO families living in the Cloyne District
state that for some time past they have keen
starving, and living almost entirely upon
turnips.
For the first instalment of the new French
loan only S28, 200, 900 was required, but the
deposits amounted to S470, 900, 900.
BARON GEORGES EUGENE HAUssMANN.
while at dinner at Paris, France, was stricken
with apoplexy and died few hours later.
baron Haussmann, who might almost be
called the creator of the present city of
e,
1909
]. E. & NJ. CLARK & Co., South American
railway contractors, of London, England,
have failed. Their assets are placed at S., 900.
600 and their liabilities at s., ZOO, OOO
NINE people were drowned while trying to
cross the Seine on the ice at Paris, France
DURING the recent thaw an avalanche fell
upon suburb Of Liwno, Bosnia, and buried
several houses. Several inmates were crushed
to death.
The Russian budget for 1891 shows an es-
timated surplus of 81, 167, $40. The estimates
include, as extraordinary expenditures, s26,-
IT'S, 900 for public works and SIP, 9l2, 500 for
ornaments.
A SMALL part of the CHILEAN navy took
part in revolt; the army remained loyal to
the Government.
NJ. FLOQUET has been reelected President
of the French Chamber of Deputies.
SENIOR M. A. MARTINEZ, President of the
Spani sh Chamber of Deputies. is dead
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-30
South and West.

GOVERNOR BOYD, Democrat. and Powers.
Alliance candidate in the late election in Ne
braska, have both taken the oath Of office,
and Governor Thayer refuses to retire State
officers recognize Boyd, and the Legislature
Is divided IN favor OF the three men
MRS. PETERS and her daughter were muir.
dered, robbed and burned to death in Cor
dele GA.
SIXTEEN houses and contents were de-
atroyed by fire at st. Clair. W. Va.
GOVERNOR HENRY MARKHAM was in
stalled in office at Sacramento, Cal.
COLONEL ROBERT II. CROCKETT. one of
the leading politicians of Arkansas and ONLY
surviving grandson of the famous Dayv
Crockett died recently at Stuttgart, Ark.
Colonel Crockett was about forty years old.
ENGINEER HILBURNE was killed by a
boiler explosion at Salt Lick, Ky. He had
killed twenty-eight men in accidents on his
train.
ONE of the Indians implicated in the
murder Of the freighter Coles, several weeks
ago in Okanogon County, was taken from
jail at Olympia, Washington, and lynched.
GRACE HATHAWAY, the pretty and
talented twenty-year-old daughter of S. 0.
HathaWay,o Of Kent Ohio, committed suicide
by drinking carbolic acid while SUFFERING
from mental alteration brought on by over
study
THE steamer City of WASHINGTON nut into
Fort Monroe, Va, badly damaged bv a hur-
rlcane, having lost two of her crew as well.
AT Stonington, W. Va, Henry Blanken-
ship had piece Of his skull as big as MANS
hand cut out in saloon fight, and aIthouoh
he lost a quantity of his brains he viii re
cover.
TREASURER WOODRUFF, of Arkansas. is
500, 600 short in his accounts.
The Tennessee General Assembly organ
lzei at Nashville and the message of Gov
ernor Taylor was read
He California Legislature elected Leland
stanford as United States Senator to sue
coed himsc f.
FARMERS, Alliance men captured all the
Ctices OF the Kansas House.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-30
THE INDIAN CENSUS.
The Total Number of Red Men in the
United States

The Census Bureau has issued bulletin
giving the population and other information
Of the various Indian tribes exclusive of
Alaska. The bulletin shows the total Indian
population of the United States to be pa. 7O4,
which is made up as follows: On reservations
or at schools under control of the Indian Of
flee, not taxed, 13024. Indians in
cidentally under the Indian Office and self
supporting arc as follows: In Indian Terri
tory, Is, 357 are Cherokees. 1854 Chickasaws,
1896 Choctaws, 1921 Greeks and 2539 Semi
noles. There are also about Il, 247 colored
people linked Indian blood living with and
members of the above tribes. The total pop
therefore 64,S71. The Pueblos, OF New
Mexico, number S27S; the Six Nations
and st. Regis of New York 1904; Eastern
Cherokees, of North Carolina $3.50; Indians
(ninety-eight per cent. of whom are not on
reservations taxed and self-sustaining cit-
zens, counted in general population, IS, 267;
Apaches at Mount Vernon Barracks prison
ers), 1884; Indians in State or Territorial
prisons 1S4-total, ia 473.
The bulletin further shows: Total males
taxed and untaxed, So us; total males IN
taxed and on reservations g. no; total fe-
males taxed and unta xed, So 100: total fe-
males untaxed end on reservations, 66, 4S4: ra-
ton Indians on reservations to whom rations
are issued by the United States 80, 80: self
supporting Indians on reservations by farm
ing, herding, root digging, horse raising. fish
ing and hunting, sc, O44; total self-supporting
Indians C52 567 taxed and not including the
five civilized tribes, 12S, 611.
The number of whites on the several reser-
vations in the Indian Territory aggregate
107, 967 as follows: In Cherokee Nation, 81
176; in Chickasaw Nation, 49. "A; in Choc-
taw Nation, q, $751; in Seminole Nation, 90;
in Greek Nation $3.50.
This makes the total population of the
country including Alaska, estimated at 81
300. almost So OO0, 0OO
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-30
w aShinGtOn.

!. IRE PRESIDENT made the following nomina-
lions: Jacob ". Palmer. Collector -
customs at Bangor, Me-; William 4. Rms.
sen, OF MASSACHUSETTS; Lambert Tree Of
LIMOS. and Nathaniel P Till. of Colorado
20 ne commissioners TO consider the esta b.
lAS"'AenC OF all international coin, or coins.
HE AmeIicln Doard OF Foreign Missions
Ielte>tS 9ecrEttry Blaine to demand of Spain
RESPIRATION for Outrages on Amarioo.'
MISSIONARIES IN the Caroline Islands
he annual con ereuce OF the Board .
dlSn COMMISSIONERS Ct the United Stat
WIN representatives OF the various reliriou,
bcdles interested N the welfare OF the m
dlans, was held a. washington
LIE Nlce-PreSident and Mrs. Morto, cav,
dinner and reception III honor Of the Pres
l0ent and Mrs. Harrison and the Cahinot
Inc reception following the dinner incIu3ad
the Diplomatic Corps the Supreme Court
and the Senate.
ok miles west of Washington, on the hanks
OF the FOtomac, work has been berun ON +bo
grounds OF the f1Tty-third Chautauouia As
semnIy OF the United States. The grounds
consist OF eighty acres.
COMMANDER REITER who was dataoba4
from the command of the United States
Itau-oI- war Hanger for his conduct in the
oarFundla affair." has demanded a court
martha. o0o1
, iAE PRESIDENT has approved the acts pro-
LIS 9or puoHc buildings at Newburp
~ II banVlile, ILL.,, and Pawtucket. r
A., he he behrlng Sea controversy came I'D in
HORACE PUGH, of Indiana. has bean
lermo. at d
SECRETARY WINDOW is authority for the
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-30
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.

TIE American Harvester COMPANY. a
syndicate organized at Boston. Mass, in No
y9mber last, with paid up capital of 49,
OOO, 900, has gone TO pieces. 1t included all
the companies in the country manufacturing
harvesting machines.
G.. B. DELAMATER, G.. W. Delamater and
7. A. Delamater, the members of the firm
of Delamater & Co., were arrested at Mead
vale. Penn. charged with embezzIement
The complaint was made by the outgoing
Board of County Commissioners. They
charge the Delamaters with embezzling up
ward of $50, 900 of county funds.
HE window-glass factories at Blossburg
Wellsboro and Covington, in New York
State, have shut down by order of the
Window-GlasS Trust. The employees had no
previous intimation OF the action.
ANDREW h. Dill, United States Marshal
for the Western District OF Pennsylvania
died recently in Philadel phia.
Much damage resulted from ice gorges in
New England rivers caused by heavy rain;
an extraordinary high tide prevailed along
the coast.
MRS. RACHEL STILLWAGGON the oldest
woman on Long Island, who celebrated her
105th birthday on September IS last, died at
the home of her son, George Stillwaggon, in
Flushing, n. Y. She was born in larry
town, y. Y, in 1885.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN HENRY MCCARTHY,
representing the Eighth New York Congress
s1onal District has resi- Zned his seat at
washington to accept place ON the New
York City Court Bench. Governor Hill has
just appointed him to fiji the vacancy caused
by Judge McAdam's elevation to the Supe-
rior Court.
CHARLES THIELCKE and his wife, old and
childless committed suicide together by tax
ing poison at their home in Jersey City,
N. J.
ELEVEN Pittsburg PENN laundries have
formed trust to fight Chinese competition
and reduce expenses.
FIRE in New York City DESTROYED the
grain elevator and mills of E. NJ Van Tas-
sci and the seven-story factory of Vought &
Williams iron merchants. Loss, over
$500, 0OO
The New jersey Legislature assembled at
Trenton, and Governor Albeit sent his an
nual message; in the Senate Mr.. Stuhr, OF
Hudson County, was unseated, and E. F.
Mcdonald, who was turned out last May.
was seated in his old place.
The Democratic candidates for State
offices in Connecticut were sworn in by the
Senate at Hartford, and made formal de-
mands for the offices, which the present in
cumbents declined to surrender.
THE Court of Appeals of New York has
granted a new trial to ex-Sheriff James A.
Flack and William Flack convicted of con-
spiracy to secure a divorce for James A.
Flack
GEORGE M. BARTHOLOMEW, the default
ing President of the Charter Oak Life Insur-
ance Company, returned 20 Hartford, Conn.,,
after four years exile in Canada, and was
sentenced to State Prison for one year.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-30

statement Inau uae growing Treasury sur
plus cannot now be used in the purchase OF
Iour Per cent. bonds for the reason that it
viii be needed ~ meet pension, pa vments r,,1e
next month aSg7-egatiag $50, 600 900.
TIE President has nominated Henry n
swan, TO be United States District Judge for
the Eastern District Of Michigan; Robert E.
Hannay, to b United States Attorney To-.
the Eastern District OF Texas.
LIE White House was the scene of larg.
ana brilliant reception given By the Pres.
Gent and Mrs. Harrison III honor of the
Diplomatic Corps The guests asked TO rneeg
the diplomats were from Congressional Ju-
dlclal, Army and Navy circles.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-30
a FATAL ROMP,
The Infant King of Spain A ccidentIy
Kills His Governess.

The Queen Regent of Spain is greatly dis
tressed at most unfortunate event that has
occurred in the royal household at Madrid
The governess of the infant King was watch
ing the baby monarch while he was induIg-
ing in fit OF rompS, when suddenly he
leaped into her lap and upset her chair. caus-
ing her TO fall 20 the floor with violence.
She sustained such severe internal injury
that she died from the effect. The governess
was general favorice and her sad end cast a
gloom over the Spanish Court
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-30
TERRIBLE MASSACRE,
Three Hundred Foreigners Killed by
Natives

Herbert L. Rani, of Carthage. ILL.,, recent
ly appointed American Consul to the Caro-
line Islands, has just received letters from
his brother. who has been missionary in
those islands for sixteen years, giving the &C.
count of outrages committed by natives.
In their revolt against the Spaniards
the natives haye kined 800 foreigners, in
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 1Ieighboring
island for safety, but the natives Of the
whole group are excited and more massacres
are feared.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-30
TWO NEW GOVERNORS,
futile, OF New Hampshire. and Rus
sell, of Massachusetts, Inaugurated

1uUUIo, Oh NC" hampshire, anu flus-
sell, of Massachusetts, Inaugurated
Hiram A. Tuttle was inaugurated at Con-
cord as Governor of New Hampshire, re-
ceiving the office by virtue of the creation of
a Republican majority in the State Legis!a-
ture. The election by joint ballot TOOK
place the evening before.
Governor William E. Russell began his
term OF office as Executive of the Common
wealth of Massachusetts,. and before a Joint
convention of the Legislature his inaugural
ADDRESS was delivered. A large crowd Of
spectators gathered very early, Inaugural
tlons of Democratic Governors not having
been SO frequent of late in Massachusetts
that interest in them is lacking