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TROY, NJ. Y.
NEWS AND NOTES.

Secretary Carlisle is good sound
money man who voted for the Bland free
coinage bill in 1877.
The silver question appears to have
been invented for the purpose of assist
ing Democrats to become Republicans.
Of course Great Britain will do no.
thing to patrol Rehring Sea and protect
the seal herds this wear. Her warships
can be more proftably employed in land
ing marines in Latin American pol is and
wringing tribute from helpless little re-
publics. Her statesmen know that our
Government will not hold her to her in
terEatiOnal obligations.
Gov. Turney was hanged in effigy at
Erwin, the county seat of UnicOi county,
Tenn, on Saturday. The recent invest
ingating committee threw out 10 or II
districts in that county, three-fOurths of
the vote of the county being for Evans,
the Republican candidate for Governor,
who was counted out.
The Wilson tariff is making poor
headway iE capturing "the markets of
the world" The exports of breadstutfs
for the last ten months were S53, 100000
less than the total for the like period
last year, The exports of provisions
show falling off of s., 100000. The adj
ministration has lost the bird in hand
and has not the slightest chance OF Sc
curing those in the Eush.
In the West the cold weather has not
caused much damage to the cereal crop.
Corn has suffered in some sections, but
other grains are in fair condition. Fruits
and garden vegetables have been badly
frOst-btten. In the East the chief dam
age is to grapes, strawberries and early
vegetables. The aggregate loss will be-
heavy, but an estimate is impossible un-
til the warm weather returns and it is
possible to note how far development
has been arrested.
Lieut.. Peary, who left Philadelphia
in July, 1893, to make a geological sur
vey of Greenland, and to secure informa-
tiOn in regard to the Arctic currents, is
still in the cold North, and his wife, who
went out with him but returned about a
year ago, is going to lecture in Washing
ton, Boston and other large cities to
ra Sc funds to send out vessel to bring
her husband back. Lieut. Peary is not
hunting for the North Pole, but is en-
gagged in making explorations which are
of great value to the scientific world,
and it is to be hoped that Mrs. Peary
will be successful in her endeavor to
raise the necessary funds for his return.
The election of ex-Recorder Smyth
as grand saChem of Tammany sufficient
ly indicates that there was no mistake in
removing him from his judicial position.
The Florida Senate has passed bills
making January 10Th, Gen. Robert E.
Lees birthday, and April 26th, Confed-
crate Memorial Day, legal holidays in
Florida.
The population of the United States
on the first day of this month, according
to the computations of the federal treas
ury department, was round 70,000,00q
California is being flooded with
cheap Japanese labor. Every steamer
from the Orient, Honolulu and Victoria
is bringing them in large numbers in vi
olation of the alien contract labor law.
-Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Hugh
Mccullough is seriously ill at his Goun-
try house, Holly Hill, in Prince Georges
County, Md. His illness is the result of
old age, aggravated by kidney trouble!
1t is thought to be question of only a
short time before the end comes, as the
sick man is Sc years old.
Mrs. Odele Ford, wife of Patrick
Ford of the Irish World, died Tuesday
morning at her home. $50 Clerm9nt ave-
nue., Brooklyn, n. Y, after an illness
lasting more than a year. For the last
80 years she was closely identified with
many of the religious and charitable So
cietes of the Catholic church in Brook
lyn, and was a generous contributor in
aiding the poor. H,.,
The report of Consul Meeker at
Bradford, England, shows that the ex-
ports of woolen goods from that city to
the United States for the month of Feb
ruary, 1895, were 81, 800 900 greater than
for the month of February, 1894. This
information should be read in connec-
ton with Consul Meeker's other report
of the sale of two sample cases of Amer
lean wooden goods in Bradford. Buffalo,
N. Y, Express, April 9th, 1895.