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NEWS AND MOVIES.

| NEWS AND NOTES.
Two characteristics of the strikes
in progress are that the majority of the
strikers are foreigners, and that they are
| quick to resort to violence.
"A despatch from Europe SAYS that
the Pope proposes to offer his services
as arbitrator between France and Ger
many ON the question of Alsace and Lor-
raine.
Late advices from Hawaii declare
that the Royalists still hope for the restor-
alton of the monarchy. Why shouldn't
they? Has President Cleveland, their
stanchest, strongest and most jealous
friend, ever renounced his devotion to
their cause?
DE Witt Talmadge is inclined to give
up preaching in Brooklyn, since the
burning of his church for the third time.
He probably finds no scriptural authority
for building more than three taber-
nacles" on one spot.
President Cleveland's assumption
of authority to act in the Samoan matter
without consulting the Senate is quite
characteristic, but it is unlikely that tn Q
Senate will submit to being ignored.
Speaker Crisp is said to be very
much pleased with the smooth working
of the Reed rules, and the Democrats of
the House have no complaints to make
of them. Now let the Democrats put
their tariff bill in a deep hole and adopt
the Nc Kinley tariff and they will like it
immensely.-Sprinafeld Union.
1t is now figured out that majority
of the Democratic State committee, which
by the way, is not Democratic, according
to the Democratic Spirit of the Age, are
in favor of DR.. James Conland of Brattle-
boro for governor, instead OF T. w. Nc
loney of Rutland. We wonder how much
the committee are paying for governor
candidates this year?
When President Cleveland has set
tied down to business after his fishing
trip he should inform the country what
the wild waves were saying to him. A
imam of destiny" must have superior
means of communing with nature, and it
would be interesting to know whether
the wild waves brought aught of reproach
or prophecy to the presidential reformer.
Intending strikers should observe
the fate of some down town Chicago ba-
kers who struck the other day. Within
10 hours there had been 200 applicants
for the vacant positions, and they were
experienced men too. Now 40 bakers
are out of job.
AS the mercury rises the prices of
coal falls. Bless the coal millionairesl
They know how to get the prices of coal
up again as soon as the people begin to
want it. Howbeit in their hot by and |
by there will be no longer any need of |
coal fires.
Attorney General Olney has given an
opinion which justly aggravates civil |
service refOrmers, that the law against |
soliciting assessments in government |
offices only applies to personal solicita-
ton, and does not interfere with that by |
letter or circular As ninety nine hun |
dredths of the solicitation is done in the |
latter way, the law, according to Olney's |
view, amounts to just nothing at all. If |
this is fair Interpretation of it the law |
should be Immediately amended.-Brdt- |
tleborO RefOrmer (Dem).
That popular opera, 1.-THE Merry
War;" pales into insignificance when |
compared with the merry war which is in
progress in Washington. The latter will
not be set to music, however, until next
and the principal feature of
the score then will be the march move
ment.
Tip, the vicious elephant in the Cen
trail Park menagerie, died Friday after
noon last, from the effects of doses of cya-
hide of potassium given him by order of
the Park Commissioners. Poisoned car
rots were offered him in the morning,
but he refused to touch them. He final
ly was induced to eat some bread with
poison in it, hut not enough to kill him.
Late in the afternoon mash of bran was
having thirteen small and two
large capsules containing in all two oun-
ces of cyanide of potassium. Tip ate it
and in four minutes went into convul-
sions. In twelve minutes from the time
he took the mash he was dead.
If the republicans were IN control #
the government, the country would not
see: Mills closed or running on reduced
time. Tens of thousands of men out of
The banks gorged with
money for which no profitable invest
ment can be found. The value of stocks
and bonds cut down. A pestiferous
wave of economic devltry sweeping over
the republic; and tramp armies march
ing on the capital. All these evils and
many more have thirteen months of dem |
Ocratic ascendency wrought. The soon
or we get back to where we were the |
better. That is the judgement of the |
people as expressed in the late elections. |