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MEST AND SOuTH.

By an explosion in the Pabst mine at
IronwoOd. Mich, one man was killed
and two others fatally injured.
HLAvIUs VI. WILDER. one of the best
known physicians in Chicago, was shot
and instantly killed by John Redmond,
who was supposed to be insane.
AT Portage, Wis, Jchabod Tanner,
one of the wealthiest citizens, died
from the effects of cancer al the age
of 100 years.
FLAMES ruined ]. B. Brady e Co. s
carpet house at St Joseph, Mo-, caus
ing loss of $3.50, 600.
INDIANA democrats will hold their
state convention on the l4th of April at
indianapolis.
W. II. CHAFFEE & Co., cotton factors
at New Orleans, failed with assets of
500. 600 and and liabilities of $500, 900.
THE grip caused the death of Mr.
and Mrs. Alonzo Brooks, of North
Lockport, Ill, who died within few
hours of each other
AT Annapolis Frank Brown was in
augurated governor of Maryland in the
presence of the general assembly.
FIRE destroyed the prosperous town
of Bolton, Miss.
FROsTs in southern California have
played havoc with the fruit-growing
industry, the losses being estimated at
81, 600, 600.
IL Montana the products of ranges
and mines for 1891 were said to be
worth over S55. 900. 900.
THE will of Senator Plumb was filed
for probate AZ Emporia. Kan. IL dis
poses of property valued at $1,000, O00
ROBERT l.. CHESTER, the oldest ma
son in the United States and veteran
of the war of 1912, died at Jackson,
Tenn. aged 9s years.
on the Pennsylvania road an engine
of fast train struck a street car in
Chicago. killing one woman and injur-
ing twenty-three other persons, some
fatally.
THE firm of ]. ]. Nicholson & Sons,
leading bankers in Baltimore, failed
for $500. 600; assets, $3.50, O00
THE execution of Ming How. the
Chinaman who murdered a fellow
countryman in Baker City last Sep
TENDER. took place at Canyon City,
Ore.
AN earthquake shocked the city of
Jackson, Tenn. No damage was done.
ILLINOIS republicans will meet in
state convention at Springfield May 4
TO elect delegates TO the national con-
vention and nominate state officers.
JAMES :. ROBINSON. formerly secreta-
" of state of Ohio and twice a member
of congress. died at KeptOn. O.
a MOB a. Oxford. o., hanged Henry
Corbin. the colored coaehman who so
brutality murdered Mrs. Horner, a
wealthy widow.
RANGERS and Mexican ore thieves
fought in Shafter county, Tex, and
three of the latter were shot dead
AT Tacoma. Wash. John l. Sullivan
signed the pledge and made u speech
from the stage with Francis Murphy,
the temperance orator.
THE two children of William Allen,
Jr. of MilIbroolz. Mich, tipped lamp
over and were burned 10 death.
The deadlock in the Iowa senate was
broken by the election of j. w. Cliff
(rep.l as secretary. The rest of the
officials chosen were democrats.
The call for the meeting OF the pro-
hibition national convention in St
Louis on June % TO nominate candi-
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THE FAST

THE mills of the Pratt Manufacturing
Company at Worcester, Mass, were
burned. Loss, 500. 900.
The seed store of Hiram Sibley at
Rochester was burned, causing a loss
of $780, 900.
The death of Anthony b. Allen. for
many years editor of the American
Agriculturist, occurred at his home in
Plainfield, y. j.. in his Goth year.
IN 1891 the earnings of New York
railways were Sl69, O12, 5O4, against
sI63, ga, s34 in 1890. There were 72O
persons killed and It's injured last
year. against COS killed and !, 4S4 in
iured in 1890.
PNEUMONIA caused the death of
Charles White. of Boston, aged O.
years, n well-known music publisher
and composer of popular songs He
composed more than 1900 songs.
DURING the last year 2s, 1863 alien inn
migrants arrived in Philadelphia.
1T was discovered that Joseph w.
Mabee, for many years trusted clerk
in the Westchester county savings bank
at Tarrytown, n. V, was a defauiter
to the extent of $4,000
FLAMES ruined the Waterbury
Conn brass works Loss, $500, 000;
insurance, SlS7, ZOO.
The grip carried eff Thomas Scho-
field at his home in North Lyme, Conn,
at the age of 1O1 years and months.
He made the suit of clothes President
Madison was inaugurated in in 1sOs.
THE death of Walter A. Wood oc-
CURED at his home in Hoosick Falls,
y. Y, aged ~ years. He was the in
ventor of the moving machine, and
served in the Forty-sixth and Forty
seventh congresses.
VAN TAssELL's grain elevator in
New York was burned and two men
lost their lives. The property loss was
5000. 600.
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EVENING FESTIVALS.
A Novel Idea for the Entertainment of
Company.

A Novel Idea for the Entertainment of
Company.
A sibyl's cave Will furnish n agrsea-
BILE variation from gypsy tents and art
galleries at grange meetings and church
entertainments. The idea is adapted
from the description of the Cumean
Sibyl, in the sixth book of Virgils
Eneid. The highschool boys and girls
will know about it. A small room IS
decorated with pine boughs and
branches of oak, with the dead leaves
clinging to them, and tic floor rs
strewn with oak leaves. In one corner
the sibyl is seated on a tripod, which is a
three-legged stool mot milking-stool,
but one somewhat higher than an ordi-
nary chair)-a four-legged stool can be
used if one of the legs is con-
cealed from view. The priestess
is dressed in Grecian costume.
and has flowing hair; the dress
can be arranged after the illustrations
of Grecian dress to be found in any
history of ancient Greece, or book on
Grecian mythology. The corner where
she sits is dimly lighted, the rest of the
room being left dark, and pan of
smoking embers adds to the effective
ness. The fortunes are written on oak
leaves; the dead leaves. as they are
found on the trees, are easily writ
ten on with a coarse pen. These leaves,
with the fortunes written on them, are
placed in pile beside the sasyl. and she
gives one TO each person as he eI.ars
the room. A Grecian priestess guards
the entrance with golden wand, and
admits one person at time to learn
his fate. The dim cave. with the green
branches and brown leaves, forms an
effective background for the white
robed priestesses. and the whole ar
rangement is extremely picturesque
American AgricuIturist.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE revolutionists were said to have
captured Casas Grande, Mex, town
south of Ascension, after a ard fight,
in which several persons were killed.
FIRE in the Benedictine Abbey at
Freamp, department of the Seine,
France, destroyed the building, the
loss being 100000.
THE Italian government has given
strict orders for the inspection of all
meats imported from America
In an interview President DiaZ said
that the Cara movement was a scheme
of spectators and that revolution in
Mexico was impossible.
In speech at Kingston Mr.. Lau-
r.ier, leader of the Canadian liberals,
spoke in favor of unrestricted reciproc-
ity with the United States.
OFF Cuphi Point, China, the steamer
Namhow foundered and Ala persons
were drowned.
THE death of Albert Victor, the duke
of Clarence and Avondale, eldest son of
the prince of Wales. and therefore heir
presumptive to the throne of England,
occurred in London of congestion OF
the lungs.
IN l1OuuOH NdfuAndA hdhhiiiB diCu d1
the age of 81 years from an attack of
influenza from which he had been suf-
fering for a week.
THE death Of Cardinal Giovanni
Simeoni occu red at Rome of influenza,
aged 76 years.
FLAMES in the village of Chepugana,
Darien. destroyed 1870 houses.
GEN. KENT, a noted officer in the
Crimean war, committed suicide at Ex-
eter, Eng.
AT Sofia fifty army officers were ar
rested for plotting against the life of
Prince ferdinand. the ruler of Bull
garia-
THE celebrated American sculptor,
Randolph Rogers, died in Rome, aged
&c years.
The census returns show the popula-
ton of Newfoundland and Labrador to
be 2O2, 900, an increase in the last seven
years of only 4, 100.
A CAVE was reported to have been
discovered near Peterborough, Ont,
the walls of which were almost pure
silver
In the building of the Spanish lega-
ton at Santiago fire caused loss of
$3.50, 900.
MEXICAN advices say that the Cara
troubles had apparently subsidized as
far as open hostilities were concerned,
but there was still widespread distrust
all along the border.
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HE HAD FAITH.
And 1t Was Fully Warranted by the Facts
IN the Case.

And 1t Was Fully Warranted by the Facts
IN the Case.
A young man about twenty-five years
old was sitting in the waiting-room of
the Erie depot the other day with a
year-old baby on his knee, and his
alarm and helplessness when the
young un' suddenly began to howl
was so marked as to attract attention.
BY and by waiting passenger walked
over to him with a smile of pity on his
face and queried:
"a woman gave you that baby tohold
while she went to see about her bag
gage, didn't she?"
YES
s'Ha! ha! hal / tumbled to the fact as
soon as l saw you. You expect her
back. suppose?"
''0f course"
''Ha! ha! hal This is richl Looking
for her every blessed minute, amt
you?"
II think she'll come back"
well, this makes me laugh-ha! hal
hal / had woman play that same
trick on me in Chicago depot once,
but no one ever will again. Young
man, you're stuck You've been played
on for a hayseed. Better turn that
thing over to policeman and make
skip before some reporter gets on to
you"
"Oh, she'll come back" replied the
young man, as he looked anxiously
around.
"She will, Ell? Hal ha! ha! Joke
grows richer and richer, What makes
you think she'll come back?
because she's my wife and this is
our first baby"
"Oh-um-I see," muttered the fat
man, who got over feeling tickled all at
once, and in his vexation he crossed the
room and kicked dog which farmer
had tied to one of the seats with piece
Of clothes-line-N n. Y. World.
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would Bite in Hot weather.

A gentleman who has a summer cot
tage near Boston had occasion recently
to go with his wife to the city for few
hours While they We're away tramp
approached their cottage, which is
more retired than many others at the
same resort, and, going up to their two
little daughters. aged respectively six
and ten years, asked the elder one it
her mother would give him ten cents.
Many a less sagacious child would have
replied that her parents were away.
but this one instantly said she would
go and see, and thereupon ran into the
house, where she consulted with her
nurse, who told her to tell the man
mo" While she was away the tramp
asked her little sister if the dog, which
was lying chained upon the piazza,
would bite. The presence of mind.
keenaess and quick wittedness of the
child was much greater than would
have been possessed by many older
persons under similar circumstances
Eyes, in hot weather." she answered,
quickly. The tramp went away In
short order from that house. Golden
Days
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ates For nresident and Woe nresidenl

dates for president and vice president
has been issued.
On the Northern Pacific near Brain
erd, Mimi, Andrews opera company
was wrecked and Mrs Ed Andrews
and Miss Lille Wallace were burned
to death. Twenty-three others were
injured.
AT the age of 116 years Joshua II.
Wickham died at Ottumwa, la. He
claimed to have voted for John Adams
for president in 1897.
AT Paducah, KY, Jesse Brown was
hanged for the murder of John Larry on
January 8, 1891.
IN the supreme court of Wisconsin a
petition was fled to test the constitu-
tionality of the apportionment of con-
gressional senate and assembly dis
tricts by the last legislature.
WILLIAM COULTER confessed at a re-
vival meeting near Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich, that he killed his father about a
year ago. He had been tried and ac-
quilted.
THE execution of NJ. V. HARDER took
place at Poplar Bluff. Mo, for the muir
der of an old man named Smith on
July 4. 1855
The oldest man in Indiana, Michael
Finnerty. died at Bluffton, aged LOG
years.
FLAMES destroyed the building of
Browning, King e. Co., clothiers at
Kansas City, Mo, with loss of
sl75, OO0
AT Fremont. Neb., fire destroyed the
livery stable OF E. C. Smith, together
with nineteen head of horses.
In Chicago James Cramer, an inmate
of ,,.c l;.tle sisters of the poor home
for the aged, died at the age of 100
years
DURING fight between cowboys and
sheepmen in Apache county, A. t.,
three of the latter were killed.
FIRE swept away the business portion
of Au Sable. Mich.
FIRE ruined the Palmetto brewery as
Charleston, S. c., the largest establish
ment of its kind in the south, the loss
being 100000
DURING storm John Manley and
his son Peter were frozen TO death at
Bellaire, o.
TIE governor of Missouri has called
an extra session of the legislature to
convene February IL to redlstrlct the
state.
THE shortage of NJ. ]. O'Brien, SUI
preme treasurer of the Catholic Knights
of America, has been found to be
S75.s23.
The Michigan bank commissioner in
his annual report shows that at the
close of the year 1891 there were 124
stale banks and three trust companies
in the state, with total assets of $685.
O9l.972
The total receipts of the World S
Columbian exposition to January l
were IS, 52S. Sis. and the expenditure
s., 647, 400
OWING to freshets the business part
of Rome, Ga, was from to Z feet I'M
der water
THE grip carried off Mrs. Bridget
Scullen, near Wallace, the oldest
woman in Nebraska, aged 119 years.
NEAR Eureka, Ala, railway engine
exploded, instantly killing the eDgi-
neer, Joseph Hunt, and Fireman Brad
| ford.
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PURE ENGLISH.
Feeling of the Londoner Toward Outside
English Literature.

Feeling of the Londoner Toward Outside
English Literature.
When a London apprentice laughs at
the Scotticisms of the North Briton.
and when the London Atheneum is
depressed by the language of cultured
Americans, there is to be discovered
behind the laugh and the scott an as
sumption that any departure from the
usage which obtains in London is most
deplorable. The laugh and the scott are
outward and visible signs of an inward
and spiritual belief that the LondOner
is the sole guardian and trust ee of the
English language. But this is a belief
for which there is no foundat ion what
ever. The English language is not
bankrupt that it needs to have a re-
ceiver appointed; it is quite capable of
mintling its own business without the
care of committee of Englishmen. IL
indeed a guardian were necessary,
what Englishman would it be who
would best preserve our pure English
the shepherd of Dorset or the miner
of Northum berland. the Yorkshire
man or the cockney? If it is not the
London apprentice who is to set the
standard, but the Englishman of breed
ing, it is hard to discover the ground
whereon this Englishman can claim
superiority of taste or knowledge over
the other educated men to whom Eng
lish is the mother tongue, vine Their
they were born in Scotland, ireland or
America. in Australia. India or Can
ada.-Brander Matthews, in Harper's
Magazine
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FIFTNsECoNo CONGRESS

TUESDAY, Jan. 12--Many petitions
in favor of the loan of SIS, 900, 600 to
the worlds fair on condition of its
being kept closed on Sunday were
presented in the senate. A bill was
introduced to appropriate $4,000, 90 to
provide for forti6cation and other sea-
coast defenses, $40. 900, 900 to be availa-
bic the first year and 50, 900, 900 year
for ten years. In the house bills were
introduced increasing the pension of
those soldiers who have lost the use of
eyes or limbs, and for the development
and encouragement of silk culture in
the United States under the direction
of the secretary OF agriculture. A bill
fixing the time for holding terms of
the circuit and district courts in the
northern district of Iowa was passed.
WEDNESDAY, Jan 13.-Bills were
introduced in the senate to prevent
the adulteration and misbranding of
food and drugs; for an amendment to
the constitution to regulate marriages
and divorces in the several states, and
several public building bills. In the
house bills were introduced to repeal
the law creating a sinking fund; for the
classification of clerks in first and
second class post offices; declaring
Stockton. Sacramento and Marysville,
Cal, ports of delivery.
THURSDAY, Jan. 14.-In the senate
bills We're introduced appropriate
ing 1000, 900 for the improvement of
the Mississippi river from its mouth to
the mouth of the Ohio; to promote the
safety of employees and travellers on
railways by the use of automatic
couplers and continuous brakes A
bill was passed to aid the state of
Colorado to support school of mines.
Adjourned to the 18th. In the house
the time was occupied in discussing
the resolution of Mr. Holman against
subsidies.
FRIDAY, Jan. Is. - The senate was
not in session. In the house Mr.
Holman's anti-subsidy bill was passed
after long debate. Bills were intro
duced to test the method of spelling in
schools and appropriating $4,000 to
establish a spelling school at the
worlds fair; placing salt, lumber,
nails, cotton ties, binding Irvine and
agricultural implements on the free
list; to prevent gambling in grain; and
for the admission of Arizona as a state.
Adjourned to the 18th.
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WAR ON THE PENSIONERS.
The Society of Loyal Volunteers Would
Reduce the Governments Expenditures.

The Society of Loyal Volunteers Would
Reduce the Governments Expenditures.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-An attack is
to DE made on the pension system in
this congress by an organization of ex.
soldiers known under the name of the
Society of Loyal Volunteers. This or
ganization expects to DE able to reduce
the annual expenditures for pensions
from Sl3s. O0o, 900 to SIS. 900. 900, or $50,
600, 900 at most The object of the So
ciety is to prevent pensions being paid
to any except disabled soldiers. 1t is
claimed that there are thousands of sol
diers who are physically able to support
large families who are getting PEN
sions. The society would pay pensions
only to soldiers who are incapable,
from physical disability incurred by
the war, to support themselves. The
organization had its inception in Wash
ington, but has extended already to
several states.
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GOD BLESS HER.
her ways in school were circumspect,
And made her seem a frifle prim;


her ways in school were circumspect.
And made her seem q frife prim;
Her maiden manners were correct,
Her cheerful goodness naught could dim
Although she ne'er disdained life's JOYS
She ne'er forgot religions claims;
In Sunday-school her girls and boys
Were all imbued with life's grand aims.
In church she ne'er seemed sanctifed
And only hit for angel sphere;
While others talked of Him who died.
She worked in love for mortals here.
She married poorly in the sense
That lite's great goal is glittering gold
But for her pains had recompense
In love Of man in Gods own mold.
And farther on in life there came
A group OF children in her home,
Who honored e'er their fathers name
And from her guidance ne'er would roam.
Old age came on. and children brought
Grandchildren to the sacred place
Where mother. wife and maid had tau yht
Grand lessons TO His grandest race.
Then earth TO earth, and dust to dust"
Was said at last above the bier
Where lay the flower OF earthly trust,
Whose symbol rose to heavenly sphere.
God bless the homes such women make.
God bless the wales where such are rifei
For hearts would love and never break
II but such shrines were found 81 lie.
Philadelphia Press
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PITH AND POINT.

There is no surer way toget behind
the bars than to stand too much before
them.-Chicago Times.
Perhaps there is nothing that 1t
takes a man SO long to find out about
himself as to realize that he is stingy.
The young man behind the ribbon
counter is not necessarily modest Just
because he turns ali colors.-Yonkers
Statesman.
We have noticed that the man who
has scheme for getting rich is always
looking for some one to sell it to-
Atchison Globe.
Perhaps the patriot who grows
tiresome declaring that he would not
sell himself is spared a good deal of
humiliation through his ignorance of
the price he would bring.-Washington
Star.
-Ethel-''I think shall be safe in
marrying George; he would never mar
ry me for money" Maud-"How do
You know" Ethel-"I'm told he
doesn't care for money; throwing it
away as fast as he gets it"-Smith.
Gray & Co s Monthly.
An Angry Threat = Struggling
Merckant-"If you don't attend TO bust
ness better. I'll reduce your income by
one-half." Chief Clerk-"Eh? Only
yesterday you said you thought of TAX
ing me into partnership" Struggling
Merchant-''That's what / mean. IN.
Y. Weekly.
Rather Pointed-Gertrude (speals-
ing of Beatrice's ''fiance'')-"What will
Jack do now that he has inherited all
this money!" Beatrice-'Oh, / shall
just make him give up all business and
and live like gentleman. you know"
Gertrude (quietly)-''It will be a great
change for him. "-Demorest Magazine.
mo. Hiram" said the young girl.
sadly, II can not be your wife. We are
too compatible" ''Compatiblel" he ex-
claimed. isn't that the very reason
why" mot in our case. l should
probably insist from motives of economy
on dispensing with servant and doing
my own homework, and you would
probably let me do it, Hiram. Dem
orest's Magazine.
-Publisher-"Mr. Deliver, have Won
gone over those statistics about the use
of bicycles among the masses?" Del
ver-"Yes. SIR" "And you have ana
lyzed them carefully, SO that you can
give an intelligent opinion as to their
effect upon the public health?" Yes,
SIR" well, then, You may write it
out. We want it as soon as possible"
Eyes. sir; but you haven't told me
which side / am to prove-whether
they are healthful or the reverse
Demorest's Magazine.
Dangers of Procrassination.- Land-
LADY, s'pose You noticed that long
whiskered old gentleman who sat OPP
posite you at dinner to-day? That is
Prof. Driebones. and You can have his
room, as he is going west on a scientific
observation-disclosures thing you ever
heard" New Boarder-''What is?"
Landlady-'The object of his tour. He
has been told that prehistoric cave
has been discovered out west, and in it
sat ten skeletons around a petrified
table" New Boarder-"Welll welll
Why didn't the fools change their board
ing-house soone r?"-N. Y. Weekly.
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PROHIBITION CONVENTION.
The Call for tho Meeting Formally Issue'
The Basis of Representation.

The Call for tho Meeting Formally Issued
The Basis of Representation.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16. Notice is given
by order of the national committee of
the prohibition party that the national
convention of that party to nominate
candidates for president and vice presi-
dent of the United States and TO
transact such other business as may
properly come before it will assemble
in Music hall, st. Louis, Mo-, June 20.
The basis of representation has been
fixed as follows:
l. Each state is entitled to four delegates al
large.
.. Each state is also entitled to twice as many
delegates as the number of congressman which
the state is entitled to elect in 1892 (this is the
new apportionmenD
3. Each state may send one additional dele
gate for every 100 votes, major fraction there
of, cast for Fisk and Brooks in 1888
4. Each territory is entitled TO two delegates.
The district Of Columbia is entitled to two dele
gates.