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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.