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ft! V THE INAUGURAL. A SYNQPHIS OP PRESIDENT HARRI RISON'S ADDRESS. A Brief Outline of tho Policy to Bo Pur sued by the New Administration Peace and Prosperity His Aim and Ambition. "With simple, solemn ceremony, in the presence of all the wisdom and authority embodied in the co-ordinate branches of the government, and surrounded by rop Tesentatives of all the great nations of the earth, Benjamin Harrison was last Monday inducted into the highest ollice within the gift of the American people. At 11 :5!) President pro tern Ingalls closed the Ffticth Congress. ice-President .Morton, after having been sworn into of fice, called the Senate of the Fifty-first Congress to order in special session! After swearing in the new members the Senate and House proceeded in a Ixxly to tho east front ol the capitol, to witness and participate in the corenio Jiies of inaugurating the President-elect. The following is a synopsis of General Harrison's inaugural address: TIIK FIKST IN.U'OITKATION. This occasion derives peculiar interest from the fact that the l'residental term which begins to-day is the twenty-sixth under our constitution. The lirstinaug uration of President Washington took place in New York, where Congress was ' then sitting, on the UOth day of April, 187!), having been deferred by reason of delays attending the organization of Con gress and the canvass of the electoral vote. Our people have already worthily observed the centunnials of the Declara tion of Independence, of the battle of Yorktown, and of the adoption of the constitution, and will shortly celebrate in New York the institution of the second great department, of our constitu tional scheme of government. When the centennial of the constitution of the judicial department and of tho organiza tion of the supreme court shall have been suitably observed, our nation will have fully entered upon its second century. Till: I'HKSKNT CONDITION OK TIIK NATION. Our growth has not been limited to territory, population and aggregate wealth, marvelous as it has been in each of these directions. The masses of our people lire better fed, clothed and loused than their fathers were. The facilities for pop ular education have been vastly en larged and more generally djllused. The virtues of courage and patriotism have given recent proof of their continued presence and increasing power in the heart and over the lives of our people. The sweet ollices of charity have greatly increased, and the virtue of temperance is held in higher estimation. We have not attained an ideal condition ; not all of our people are happy and prosperous, not all ol them virtuous and law-abiding; but, on tho whole, the opportunities of fered to the industrious to secure the comforts of life are better than elsewhere and largely better than they were a hun dred years ago. THH SECTIONAL KI.KMKNT. The sectional element has happily been eliminated from tarill' discussion. Ve have no longer states that are neces sarily only planting states. None are ex cluded from achieving that diversification of pursuit among people which brings wealth and contentment. A cotton plan tation will be no less valuable when the product is spun in the country town bv operatives whose necessaries call for diversified crops and create a home de mand for garden andagriculturl products. . Every new mine, furnace and lactory is an extension of the productive capacity of the state, more real and valuable than added territory. It is not quite possible the farmers and promoters of the great mining and manu facturing enterprises which recently have been established in the South may yet find that a free ballot of tho workingman, without distinction of race, is needed for their defense as well as for his own ? I do not doubt if those men in the South who now accept the tarill views of Clay and the constitutional exposition of Web ster, would courageously avow and de fend their real convictions, they would not find it difficult, by friendly instruc tion and co-operation, to make the black man their efficient and safe attorney, not onlv in establishing correct principles in our national administration, but in ire serving for their local communities tho benefits of social order and economical and honest government. t Tho evil example of permitting indi viduals, corporations or communities to nulifv laws because thoy cross some .selfish or local interests or prejudices is full of danger, not only to the nation at largo but much more to those who use this pernicious expedient to escape- their just obligations, or to obtain unjust ad vantage over others. They will pres ently themselves bo compelled to appeal to the law for protection, and those who would uso the law as a defense must not deny that use of it to others. COIU'OKATIONS CAUSK MOll VIOI.KNCK. If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their legal limita tions and duties they would have less cause to complain of unlawful limitations of their rights or violent interference with their operations. A community that by concert, open or secret, among its citizens, denies to a jKirtion of its mem bers their rights under the law has sov ered tho only safe lxmd of social order and prosperity. Evil works from a bad center loth ways. It demoralizes those who prac tice it, and destroys the faith of those who suller by it in tho efficiency of the law as a safe protector. Those who use unlawful methods unmoved by no higher motive than tho selfishness that prompted them, mav well stop and in quire what is to be the end of this un lawful expedient. It cannot become a permanent condition of government. If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice-or connive at a systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross ineir convenience, nv can they oxjiect when tho lesson that convenience- orsupj-osed class interrst is a BUlficiont cause for lawlessness, has boon well learned by tho ignorant Cl '""community where law is tho rulo of ( onduet, and where courts, not mobs, oxoc-uto its penalties, is tho only attract ive Hold for business inveatmonts und onast lnlajr. .VATUllAUZATION LAWS. Our nnUimllaUion hove should lo eo am. ndod as to make tho inquiry into tho Tharayter aud good disunion of parsons applying for citizenship more careful and searching. Our existing laws have leen in their administration unimpressive and I often unintelligible in form. The privi-l leges of American citizenship are so great t and its duties so grave, that we mav well I insist upon a good knowledge of everv lerson applying for citizenship, and a good knowledge by him of our institu tions. There are "men of all races, even the best, whose coming is necessarily a burden upon our public revenues or a threat to social order. These should be identified and excluded. orn KOHKK5N POLICY. We have happily maintained the jKtlicv of avoiding all interference with Kii ropean allairs, and we will be only inter ested spectators of their contention in diplomacy and in war, and ready to use our friendly ollices to promote peace, but never obtruding our advice and never at tempt. m: unfairly to coin the distresses of other powers into commercial advan tages tn mirsolviw Wn Iimvk iiiuI rii.lit to expect that our European policy will be the American policy of Kuropean courts. TIIK PANAMA CANAL. It is so manifestly incompatible with those precautions for ou peace and safety which all great powers habitually ob serve in matters allccting them, that a shorter water wav between our Kastorn and Western sealtoards should be domi nated by any Kuropean government, that we may" confidentially expect that such purposes will not be "entertained by any triendly power. We shall in the tuture", as in tho past, use every endeavor to maintain and extend our" friendly rela tions with all great jiowcrs, but they will not expect us to look kindly uioii" any project that would leave us subject to the dangers of hostile observation or environ ment. We have a clear right to expect, therefore, that no Kuropean government will seek to establish a colonial depend ency iiK)ii the territory of these inde pendent American states. AFtAIHS IN SAMOA. It must not be assumed, however, that our interests are so exclusively American tiiat our entire inattention to any events that may transpire elsewhere mav be taken for" granted. Our citizens, domi ciled for the purposes of trade in all countries and in many of the islands of the sea, demand and will have our ade quate care in their personal and com mercial rights. The necessities of our navy require convenient coaling stations and harbor privileges. These and other trading pursuits we will feel free to ob tain only by means that do not in any degree partake of coercion, however feeble the government from which we ask such concessions, but having fairly obtained them by methods and for purposes en tirely consistent with the most friendly disposition toward all other powers, our consent will be necessary to any modifi cation or impairment of such conces sions. Tin: CIVIL SKKVlCK. The duty devolved by law upon the president to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the senate to appoint, all public officers whose appoint ment is not otherwise provided for in the constitution, or bv act of congress, has become very burdensome, and its w ise and efficient discharge full of dilliculty. The civil service is so large that personal knowledge of any large number of appli cants is impossible. The president must rely upon the representations of others, and these are otten made inconsiderately and without anv just sense of responsi bility. TIIK Sl'JtPLUS. "While tho treasury surplus is not tho greatest evil, it is, a serious evil. Our revenue should be ample to meet tho or dinary annual demands iqon our treas ury, "with a sufficient margin for those extraordinary and scarcely less impera tive demands which arise now and then. Kxpenditures should always bo made with economy and only uon public ne cessity. Profligacy and favoritism in public expenditures is criminal. It will be tho duy of Congress wisely to forecast and estimate these extraordinary de mands, ami, having added them to our ordinary expenditures, to so adjust our revenue laws that no considerable an nual surplus shall remain. TIIK NAVY. The construction of a (sufficient num ber of modern war-ships, and their necessary armament, should progress as rapidly lis is consistent with care and perfection in plans and workmanship. Wo should encourage tho establishment of American steamship lines. I'KNSION LAWS. Our pension laws should give more ad equate and discriminating relief to Union soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphans. Tin: ni:w states. It is a subject of congratulation that there is a near prospect of tho admission to the Union of Dakota. Montana and Washington Territories. This act of jus tice has been unreasonably delayed in the case of some of them. It is due to settlers in tho territories who have availed themselves of tho invi tations of our land laws to make homes upon the public domain, that their titles should bo speedily adjusted and their honest entries confirmed by patent. ELECTION KUAUDS. It is very gratifying to observe tho general interest now being manifested in tho reform of our election laws. Tho national congress has not as yet taken control of tho elections in cases over which tho constitution gives it jurisdic tion, but has accented tho adoption of election laws of tho several states, and provided ienalties for their violation and a method of suppression. Only ineffi ciency of tho state laws, or unfair or partisan administration of them could suggest a departure from this policy. It was clearly, however, tho contemplation of tho frainers of tho constitution that such an exigency might arise, and pro vision was wisely" made for it. Freedom of the llIot is a 'condition of our national life, and the jwwer vested in congress or tlie executive to secure or erctuatc it should not remain unused ujon occasion. If in any of tho states public security is thought to bo threatened liy ignorance among tho electors, tho obvious remedy is education. The sympathy and help of our jteoplo will not bo withheld from any community struggling with sjiocial em barrassments or difficulties connected with tho sulfrago, if the remedies pro prosod proceed Uoii lawful linos and aro Iirompieu ny nisi ami nonunion- iih-uhxib. low shall tlioso who practice election franilH rHcnvcr that rospwet for tho sanc tity of the Iwllot which is the first condi tion and obligation of good citizenship? The limn who has come to regard tho ballot-box as a junior has renounced his ullugianve. FROM THE CAPITOL. THE ALASKA OUTRAGES DENIED BY GOVERNOR SWINEFORD. An Agreement on tho General Land 13111 A Measure for the Suppression of the " Green Goo.ls " Fraud Retiring Offlclula. Harold Sewall, ex-Consul to Samoa, will practice law. The direct tax bill was passed over the President's veto late Saturday night. The bill for the admission of Idaho and Wyoming has been favorably reortcd. Lieutenant L. P. Jouott has Iwen dis missed from the navy with one year's pay. The bill establishing a life-saving sta tion at Coquille river, has passed the Sen ate. An appropriation of $175,000 for repairs on tho old Hag-ship Hartford has been made. The projosition to admit Utah as a State has been favorably reported to the House. The pension of tho widow of General Kilpatrick has been reduced to $76 per mouth. The inaugural ceremonies were tho most iiniMjsing ever witnessed at the Capitol. rPJwi ititwntirintmn fnr tlm AirrliMiltliml department has been agreed to by the senate. lVwtmnutir-fliMiir:il Dickinson will re sume the practice of law in Michigan, and Secretary Vilas will do the same in Wis consin. Stephen C5 rover Cleveland is tho cx Presideut's full name. In late years the first name has been dropped. Tli.. l.ill miiirnliriiitinir SmVOOn for !1 lighthouse at lleald's l"ead, Oregon, has i i . i . i ..f r passed DOin nouses oi vuiigiipo. Tim nrnv Hilvor vimlt in the treasury is now filled to its utmost capacity, $80,000, 000, weighing over 20,000 tons. a rucliitii-m liMM lmsst'cl the Senate in regard to tho examination of the Oregon, The bill to prohibit the use of the t.milu fnr fln " tfriwMi cnndM " or n:ivltist game has been favorably reported in the Senate. The only negro in tho next House of iviw will hi' II. P. Cheatham. from tho Second North Carolina district. He is thirty-two years old. Tho Stato department has notified tho German government that its demand for fim iirrwiu'iitirm (if Klein for tiarticiiiatioii in tho Samoan alfiiir, cannot bo complied with. An amendment to the postoffice appro priation bill provides that the rent ot all postollieos of tho third-class shall not ex ceed $000, and fuel and lights $00 pel an num. Senator Dolph has presented to the Senate a petition from citizens of Oregon, praving against the passage by Congress of any bill for the suspension of work on Sunday. The Arizona legislature has niemoral i.ed Congress again to take action on tho desert land law, and also asking an enab ling act, so that a constitutional conven tion can be called this fall. Four years ago Cleveland, Democrat, was sworn in by a Republican Chief Jus tice. President" Harrison, Republican, had tho oath of office administered to him Monday by a Democrat. Senator Stanford has introduced his amendment to the army appropriation bill authorizing tho Secretary of War to purchase four pneumatic dynamite guns for tho harlwr of San Francisco. The cost will be $250,000. The Senato amendment appropriating $1,102,000 to pay tho Seminolo Indians for lands in tho Indian Territory ceded to tho United States was agreed to. Tho lands acquired, 2,037 ,000 acres, aro made open to settlement under tho homestead law. The conferrees on the general land bill reached an agreement, which provides fot the repeal of tho pre-emption and timber culture laws, a modification of the desert land law, and the substitution of a general and effective law to protect actual settlers upon the public domain. N. H. Patrick, of Cottago Point, Long Island, has contracted with the Navy de partment to furnish threo controllable automatic torpedoes of tho Patrick patent, at a cost of $55,000. Each torpedo is to carry 400 jkhuhIb of dynamite, and is to run a statuto milo at the rate of twenty knots an hour. Col. Lamont, President Cleveland's private secretary, has refused to accept the increase of salary recently provided by Congress, ujxm tho ground that ho "preferred not to bo a beniticiary , in retroactive legislation," and that he was well uwaro of the salary attached to the office before ho accepted it. Tho Secretary of the Interior has finally approved the lands remaining in what is known as list No. fi, and found, after careful examination, to bo swamp lands, and amounting to alwut 11,000 acres. Tho lands are located chiefly in Klamath, Lake and Grant counties, Oregon. This list originally embraced over 00,000 acres. Harvey Spaulding.a "Washington claim agent, has brought suits for $100,000 damages in each case against Win. M. Vilas and Don M. Dickerson, postmaster generals during Cleveland's administra tion, for forwarding to postmasters of tho third, fourth and fifth classes tho extra salary duo them under an act of Congress and ignoring Spaulding, who claims to bo tho attorney for the country iiostmasters. Governor Swineford, in his rejort to tho Secretary of tho Interior ujxni tho al leged outrageous treatment of women and children in Alaska, as charged by Mrs. Voorhees and several cx-secial agents of tho Treasury department, says that immorality does exist, but denies em phatically tho story as told by Mrs. Voor hees. lie claims that there is not a vil lage or town in tho United States where there is not more immorality than in any town in Alaska. Tho status of married women in Alaska is different from what it is in tho United States. Thorotho mat ter of marriage is ono of bargain and sale. This, tho governor says, may account for the shocking tales told in the East. PACIFIC COAST NEWS A VALUABLE OPIUM SEIZURE AT SAN FRANCISCO. The Effort to Roduco Trancontlnental Fruit Rates Unsuccessful ThoOr ganlzattonof a New Steam ship Company. Whatcom has organized a vigilantes committee. The Front street cablo road of Seattle has been finished. Tacoma is soon to erect a mattress fac tory to cost $10,000. Califomians are now utilizing peach and apricot pits as a fuel. 'lhe towlmat combination has been broken in Sail Francisco. Washington Territory raised 0,54 ,VX pounds of hops last year. Governor .Swineford has tendered his resignation to the President. Safe-crackers are plving their vocation along the line of the O. and C. road. Another roorback of fabulous gold dis coveries in liOwer California is rojKirted. It is thought that the new navy yard will be established at Like Washington. Victoria. 11. C has extended its citv limits and absorbed several small towns. .Indue David S. Terrv was released from the Alameda county jail last Sun day. Kirk, the embezzling clerk of the Na- deau house, lxs Angeles, got awav with $:iooo. The Union Pacific, it is reported, will run trains into Tacoma within a few weeks. Four witnesses have been arrested for poriury in the celebrated Wickersham se duction case. Clans Spreckles has been sued for $10,000 damages for diverting tho waters of Aptos creek. A question has been raised as to the constitutionality of the new city charter of Los Angeles. George Brown, an inmate of the insane asylum at Salem, committed suicide h'st week by hanging. Immense (jnantities of iron for various motor lines in tho vicinity of Portland are arriving daily. Charles K. Roso, formerly of Ogdons burg, N. Y., committed suicide at Los Angeles Thursday. Tho selection of the site for tho now lKMtoflico at San Francisco has not yet been decided upon. Charles W. Skeels, the Pjwkune Falls saloon-keeper who was shot by Bronco Liz, died Sunduy night. Henry Lewis, a convict at San Quen tin, was stabbed to deatli by some un known party last week. Under tho new city charter the" saloon license at Salem has been increased from $:550 to $450 per annum. A council was held at Fort Spokane Tuesday with tho view of consolidating tho tribes on tho Colville reservation. Two natural gas explosions occurred at Pittsburg, Wednesday, wrecking live buildings and injuring several persons. Tho California legislature, Friday, re fused to reconsider the vote making it a misdemeanor to publish lottery drawings Two thousand dollars' worth of gam lilers' paraphernalia was destroyed by tho sherill m trout ot tno court-houso at Seattle, Saturday. Charles W. Skeels, a soloon-keoper at npoKiine raws, was snot ami laiawy wounded Friday morning by his wife, know n as " lironco Liz." Daniel Callahan, who, with James C Flood and others, established tho First National Gold hank, ot ban I'rancisco, died at that place last week. Captain Paul Boynton passed through Seattle Friday on liis way to tho Straits ot Juan del 1" uca, in quest ol twelve sea lions for Lincoln park, Chicago. Tho collapsed enterprise, known as tho Tenth street hotel, Los Angeles, has neon sold lor $7o0,00U. Tlio Hotel will bo completed at a cost of $1 ,500,000. The West Coast Steamship company filed articles of incorporation at San Francisco Saturday. The lino is in opio sition to Goodall, Perkins & Co's lino. Tho ollicial canvass of Nevada's recent election show s tho lottery scheme to lie defeated by a majority of 852, and to abolish the office of lieutenant-governor by 40511. A boy was struck by lightning from a cloudless sky in Ixjs Angeles county, last week, ami killed. Tho reporter who con ceived tho above should change his brand of liquor. Dr. Edwin W. Fowler, of San Francis co, a member of tho Bancroft History company, was knocked down and robbed by two well-dressed men at Ix)S Angeles, Sunday night. Tho Southern Pacific company has closed h contract with tho Pullman com pany, by which tho latter will take chargo of all second-class tourist cara run ning on that road. In tearing down an old adobo wall at Lomioc, Cal., recently, an adobo whb taken out which had the perfect imprint of a child's foot. Tho wall was con structed alwut ono hundred years ago. rim. sif Ifui lnrirftut. fuii'.nrfiM rif nriiiim on the Pacific Coast was that made in Han Francisco last week, llio drug was concealed in barrels labeled " sourcrout," (nil mm ili'terti'd lxwniimi of its HehtncHH. The value of tho seizuro was $-1800. Tho effort to reduce transcontjnel rtites on canned goods from $1.10 toUOrenta per hundred oiinds having fallen through at the last moment, local ship pers of San Francisco have chartered a vessel and will send an amount equal to :i00 car-loads of canned goods around tho Horn to New York. Judge Wickershain. after a lengthy trial at Seattle, was found guilty of se duction. Immediately afterward ho was arrested on an indictment by the United States grand jury charging him with sul ornation of perjury, in persuading Miss Drantiier, tho prosecutrix in tho seduc tion case, to muko fulsu entries on public lands. FOREIGN PLASHES. THE UNITED STATES AND COLOM- BIA AT LOGGERHEADS. Tho Gorman Squadron Ordorod to Sa moaGrand Duko Vladimir's Dla grncoful Conduct A Cana dian's Brilliant Idoa. Yellow fever prevails at Rio Janeiro. Prime Minister Crispi has resigned. W. H. Gladstone, son of the statesman, is dying. Scotland's woolen mills aro running over time. . The cost of the Paris exposition will be $10,000,000. The Kmpress Frederick has returned to Germany. Of tho 200,01X1 foreigners in Paris only 2:02 are Americans. Chile has passed a law excluding Chi nese from the country. Germany has given a large order to an Austrian factory for rifles. Canadian Hirk-paekers have petitioned to exclude American jnirk. Belfast, Ireland, will havo an Interna tional exhibition next year. The Sultan of Morocco has ceded a strip of territory to Germany. Oscar Wilde has published an essay entitled "The Decay of Lying." Cardinal Charles Sacconi is dead. Ho was senior in rank of cardinals. German papers claim that Klein, of Sa nwun fame, is a German subject. The Rothschinds are forming a com pany to work the liurmah ruby mines. It is intended to run a new lino of steamers between Leith and Baltimore. The rejiort of the death of Hipjiolyto and the routing ot his army proves to" bo untrue. The bank of Kngland building, Lon don, covers eighta acres and employs 1000 persons. There are more than 2,700,000 women in Belgium who aro engaged in industrial pursuits. Boulanger acknowledges that it is his intention to invade Germany within tho next six months. It is reported that General Dos Bordes, tho French commander, has been mur dered in Toiiquin. The French chamber of deputies has passed tho bill to insure tho freedom and secrecy of tho ballot. Tho London Mansion House fund for the relief of suflerers from famine in Chi na, amounts to .C8000. Canada proposes to pass a law that will destroy that country as tho paradise of boodlcrs and bank enshers, Marshal von Moltko will, on March 8th, comjileto his seventieth year of active service in tho German army. Admiral Symonds and other English authorities think Kngland and Franco well matched in naval power. Paul do Roulcde, president of tho Patri otic league, and other leaders of that or ganization, havo been arrested and pros ecuted. Tho Chinese Emperor was married last week with a splendor that contrasted painfully with the famished condition of millions of his subjects. Tho Eillel tower, Paris, will bo finished April 1st. The tower is now 825 feet high and weighs oo tons, 'more aro to bo added 1100 tons more. Wm. K. Vanderbilt is seeking to ob tain a lease of the house now leased by tho Duko of Sutherland. Tho property belongs to tho royal family. Countess Larish has been condemned to perpetual exile because ol tho part sho played in tho events which led to tho death ol Crown Prince luuioipn. Tho statistics of suicides in Vienna show that with its population of about a million and a quarter it lias had in recent years about IwO suicides annually. The Afghan forces are advancing from Herat, and tho Ameer of Bokhara is pre paring to attack them. Tho Russian pa pers havo adopted a war-iiko lono. A stntuo of Kdward tho Confessor is to adorn tho great screen, now in course of renovation, in inchestor cathedral, England. Tho ljueen will donate it. Count Bombelli, chief of tho late Crown Prince Rudolph's housohold, has m signed. Tho Emperor has bestowed upon him tho grand cross of tho order of Leo- IoId. It is roiwted that tho Czar is scandal ized by the irregular life of his brother, and has ordered tho Grand Duko Vladi mir to resign tho comiiiandorship of tho guards. Tho cathedral of Sovillo is reported to bo in an alarming condition. Unless tho building is shored up and strengthened tho greater portion is haino to inn at any moment. Piggott, tho forger of tho letters in tho Paniell caso, and on which tho London "Times" based its obliges against tho Irish statesman, committed suicide in Vienna r nday. Tho German squadron in tho Pacific is to bo strengthened, in order that punish ment may bo inflicted on tho natives of Samoa tor murdering uerman marines and injuring German interests. A curious crop is a harvest of 4000 HoiigcH. It was obtained by an Aus trian savant as tho result of an experi ment of literally sowing small partB of living sK)iiges in a soil favorable to their production. A memlier of the Dominion parliament will introduce a resolution in that lody authorizing tho purchase of the Eastern States of tho American Union. It is probable that an amendment will bo of fered including tho balance of the earth. Tho United States of America and the United Hhites of Colombia are in dipute concerning tho right of the latter govern ment to seize several hundred tons of the Boston Ice company, because tho exclu sive right to sell ice had been granted to a Colombian firm. Collecting taxes in South Africa is at times an unpleasant duty. A native chief, in arrears, recently gave notice that as soon as tho collector came around in Ids district tho objectionable official should bo seized, localise "his head was wanted at tho chiefs kraal for medicine." NEWS MISCELLANY. THE RESULT OF CLAYTON'S MUR DER IN ARKANSAS. A White Woman Weds a Brawny Buclc Excltemont Over tho Discovery of Old Placora Torrlblo Death In a Squib Factory Scarlet fever is raging at Bismarck. Robert Garrett's health is improving The small-pox at Carson, Nov., has died out. Colorado held its first mardi gr.is last week. Strawberry plants are blooming in Georgia. A burglar in jail in Kentucky has fallen heir to $00,000. Delaware has repealed her tax against commercial travelers. Both Ohio and Indiana aro being bletl by sehool-lxiok trusts. Whiskey in Iowa is shipped as "axle? grease" and "hardware." George Q. Cannon has been released from tho Utah penitentiary. It is tho belief that natural bib in tho Pittsburg district will not last. 1). Edgar Crouse, of Syracuse, N. Y., has just built a $.500,000 stable. Numerous farms in Berks county, Penn., are being sold by the sheriff. Tho White Caps have ordered the Sal vation army to leave Champaign, 111. The trial of Governor Limbec, of Iowa, for liliel, has resulted in his acquittal. A Washington correspondent states that but ono senator smokes cigarettes. A railroad will bo built from Chatta nooga to the battlefield of Chicamauga. Confederate veterans have organized a relief association in Fayette county, Ivy. Mrs. Cleveland will roceivo $120,000 as her share of tho Folsom estate at Omaha. A white woman was married to a fu'.l blooded Indian at Yankton, Dakota, last week. There is much excitement over the dis covery of a nuniler of old placer mines near i'urcell, I.T., which were worked in past ages. A cow-boys' band, dressed in tho regu lation costume, was a feature of the in augural pageant. It cost at the rato of $1 apiece to lay bricK in tho ceiling of tho Now York as sembly chamber. Edison will build a 10,000,000 candle power electric lamp to exhibit at tho Paris exposition. A bill has been introduced in tho Wis consin legislature abolishing tho uso of Stoves in passenger cans, Kloven girls and one man were killed by tho explosion of a squib factory at Plymouth, Pa., Monday. General Harrison was sworn into office on the old bible that ho carried in his saddle-bags through tho' war. A great transcontinental trunk lino, to run diagonally, with Charleston, S. C. as tho Eastern terminus, is projected. "Whitoeap" outrages in Indiana will hereafter bo punished by a fine of $1000 or less, and ten years in the penitentiary. Masked men seized several Mormon missionaries in Indiana last week and gave them fifty lashes on tho bare back, Mrs. Frank Leslie has sold the Eng lish and German editions of " Frank Les lie's Illustrated Newspaper" for $400,000. Tho dirty and ofiensivo habit of spit ting tobacco juico has received recogni tion as an illegal ollenso by a Philadel phia grand jury. Bishop Whittakor, of Philadelphia, who luw just returned from a visit to Cu ba, says that tho Cubans would bo glad to enter tho Union. Tho Oregon Improvement Company, it is said, will hereafter purchase or build its own steamers, instead of chartering vessels as heretofore. A bill has been introduced into tho Michigan legislature to prohibit tho transjiortalion of (lend Chinamen or their I which through tho Stato. Tho Now Jersey legislature is consider ing a hill making it unlawful for employ ers to demand of einjiloyes a pledge not to join lalwr organizations. Two thousand employes at tho fur naces of tho Tonnessco Coal and Iron company struck Friday morning in con sequence of a reduction in wages. Mrs. Lizzio McCaulley, who shot and killed her husband last Decemlwr at Chicago, murdered her two children and then committed suicido, Saturday. Tho murder of John M. Clayton for political reasons has had tho effect of par alyzing business and demoralizing tho whole of Conway county, Arkansas. Party feeling ran so high in tho In diana legislature last week that ono irate solon struck another in tho face, black ing his eye and otherwise disfiguring his erudite physiogonomy. t Mrs. Emma Althouso, tho Attica, N. Y., fiuiioiis sleeper, is on tho brink of death, bho has slept 470 days and nights in ono year and a half, with nourishment to last a healthy jcrson but a few days. Robert Sigol. sou and confidential clerk of General Franz Sigel, agent of tho pension office at New York City, 'was ar rested Friday on threo charges of for gery in connection with pension claims. TIiq Balo of trotters at Lexington, Ky., Saturday, was phenomenal. Slxty-ono head were sold, bringing a total of $142, (KIO. The price paid for Bell Boy is tho highest ever paid for a horse in America, $51,000. Tho growing scarcity of United States londs and other first-class securities has forced tho savings banks of Now York to appeal to tho legislature for an enlarge ment of tho list in which thoy may In vest their trust funds. Henry Fish, of St. Cloud, Minn., sold out everything and started with his wifo and daughter for Oregon, last week, giv ing his daughter jwsscsslou of his money, Tho girl became crazy through anxiety over tho trust und juiniH-'d from tho .train. Shu was picked up injured and insane, and no ouu knows where tho money is, Tho mother died of grief over her mi--fortunes.