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The new German Emperor is—oí
before stricken with his present
malady—a splendid athlete.
Hebr Strauss, the composer, is a
clever hand with the pencil, and de-
lights in making caricatures.
The present William Lloyde Garri-
son is said to be the owner of a tongue
as sharp in public debate as was his
father's.
Dr. JShrady, who attended Gen.
Grant, expressed the opinion that
Frederick IIL will steadily improve
and recover.
The highest pension is $100 per
month, but two drawing that amount,
one of the two being Gen. Black, the
Commissioner.
Frank Stocton met a lady in En-
gland who did "so much" want "to
shoot Niagria." She understood they
did it in a steamboat
"Buffalo Bill," having made
nearly $1,000,000 in England, is pre-
paring to return to America and try
his luck as an author.
Hannibal Hamlin, at the age of
eighty-nine, is the only survivor of the
eight statesmen who were on the
National tickets of 1860.
Joe Howard writes in the Dramatic
News: "I have enjoyed an annual in-
come of $80,000, and I have pawned
my watch and chain for $200.
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Dr. Johnson's house, at Litchfield,
has been purchased by a man who will
restore it and preserve it as a memor-
ial of the great lexicographer.
Prof. Moses Coit Tyler, of Cor-
nell University, will sail tor Antwerp
June 5 for about fifteen months ol
study in Germany, France and Italy,
Chaplain McCabe says by the end
of the next general conference Meth-
odism in this country will have thirty-
lour bishops and 154 presiding elders.
Senator George, of Mississippi,
remarked when re-elected that he
would never wear a dress suit or ride
in a carriage, and he has kept his
word.
At the salo of the Aylesford Library
in London last week Henry Irving se-
cured for $700 a folio Shakespeare, en-
riched by annotations of Dr. Samuel
Johnson.
Gen. Sickles has been in Washing-
ton and in Richmond, talking with the
Co*}federate Brigadiers about a reunion
of the blue and the gray at Gettysburg
next summer.
Fanny Davenport has formally
adopted the two children of her de-
ceased sister, Mrs. Thorn. She has
been caring for them since their moth-
er died, ten years ago.
Frederick IIL has been, until now,
Field Marshal General of the Imperial
army, ranking next after the Emperor,
and in tha Prussian service President
of the Council of State.
When the pen of the Washington
correspondent fails to find anything
else to write about it turns with vi^or
to giving the weary world a descrip-
tion of Mrs. Hicks-Lord's diamonds.
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CURSING AND SWEARING.
Dr. Talmage's Discourse on the
Habit of Profanity. ,
Special to the Kama* Wig Time*.
Brooklyn, April 8.—One ol the hymns
san? st the Tibernacle this bioming, begins
with the words t
"So tat our lips and lives express
Tile Holy Gospel we profess."
After reading appropriate passages of Scrip-
ture, the Rev. T. De Witt Taimare, D. DM
preached on the habit of cursing and swear-
ing: His text was from the Book of Job,
Chap. 2, v. 7, 8 and 9: "So went Satan forth
from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job
with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto
his crown. And he took him a potsherd to
scrape himself withal; and he sat down
among the ashes. Then said his wife unto
him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity?
Curse God, and die."
A story oriental and marvelous. Job was
the richest man in all the East. He had
camela and oxen and asses and sheep, and,
what would have made him rich without any-
thing elae, seven sons and three daughters.
It was the habit of these children to gather
together for family reunion. One day, Job is
thinking of his children as gathered together
at a banquet at the elder brother's house.
While the old man is seated at his tent
door, he sees some one running, evidently
from his manner bringing bad news. What is
the matter now? "Ob," says the messenger,
*'a foraging party of Sabeans have fallen up-
on the oxen and the asses, and destroyed
them, and butchered all the servants except
myself." Stand aside. Another messenger
running. What is the matter now! "Oh,"
says the man, 4,the lightning has struck
the sheep and the shepherds, and all
the shepherds are destroyed cxcept myself."
aslde. Another messenger running.
vVbat is the matter now? "Oh." he says,
the Chaldeans have captured the camels,
and slain all the camel-drivers except myself."
Stand aside. Another messenger running.
\\hat is the matter now? "Ob," be says, "a
hurricane struck the four corners of the tent
wnere your children were assembled at the
banquet, and they are all dead."
But the chapter of calamity has not ended.
Job was smitten with elephantiasis, or black
leprosy. Tumors from head to foot—forehead
ridged with tubercles—eyelashes fall out—
nostrils excoriated—voice destroyed—intoler-
able exhalations from the entire body, until
with none to dress his sores, he sits down in
the ashes with nothing but pieces of broken
wttery to use in the surgery of his wounds.
At this moment, when he needed all encour-
agement, all consolation, his wife comes in,
in a fret and a rage, and says: "'This is in-
tolerable. Our property gone, our children
slain, and now you covered up with this
loathsome and disgusting disease. Why
don't you swear? Curse God, and die!"
Ah. Job knew right well that Bwearing
would not cure one of the tumors of his agon-
ized body, would not bring back one of bis de-
stroyed camels, would not restore one of his
dead children. He knew that profanity
would only make the pain more unbearable,
and the poverty more distressing, and the
bereavement more excruciating. But judg-
ing from the profanity abroad in our day,
you might come to the conclusion that there
was some great advantage to be reaped from
profanity.
Blasphemy is all abroad. You hear it in
every direction. The drayman swearing at
his cart, the sewing girl imprecating the tan-
gled skein, the accountant cursing
the long line of troublesome figures.
Swearing at the store, swearing in the loft,
swearing In the cellar, swearing on tbe street,
swearing in tbe factory. Children swear.
Men swear . Women swear! Swearing from
tbe rough calling on the Almighty in the low
restaurant, clear up to the reckless "OLordj"
of a glittering drawing-room ? and the one is
as much blasphemy as the other.
There are times when we must cry out to
the Lord by reason of our physical agony or
our mental distress, and that is only throwing
out our weak hand to the strong arm of a
father. It was no profanity when James A.
Garfield, shot in the Washington depot, cried
out: "My God, what does this mean?" There
Is no profanity in calling out upon God in the
day of trouble, in the day of darkness, in the
day of physical anguish, in the day of be-
reavement; but I am speaking now of the
triviality and of the recklessness with which
the name of God is sometimes managed. The
whole land is cursed with it.
A gentleman coming from the far west sat
in the car day after day behind two persons
who were indulging in prolanity, and he
made up bis mind that he would make a rec-
ord of their profanities, and at tbe end of
two days several sheets of paper were covered
with thcFe imprecations, and at tbe close of
the journey he nanded tbe manuscript to one
of tbe persons in front of him. "Is it possi-
ble," said the man, "that we have uttered so
many profanities the last few days?" "It is,"
replied the gentleman. "Then," said the
taken the manuscript, "I will
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nport-
rd of
The son of W, W. Story, the Amer-
ican sculptor, has followed in his fath-
er's footsteps. He has recently receiv-
ed a very large order from Baron de
BothschÜd, which will probably take
him five years to fill.
The Beecher Monument Committee
has taken the advice of J. Q. A. Ward,
the designer of the proposed statue, as
to its location, and has decided to
erect it in Prospect Park, New York,
near the principal entrance.
The Czarina of Russia, although em-
ploying a houseful of seamstresses,
makes nearly all the clothing for her
youngest children, and also takes their
i)ew hats to pieces and trims them over
according to her own taste.
Henry Bergh. in his will, leaves a
hondsome piece of property to the so-
ciety which he founded, and he calls
upon his nephew and namesake to con-
tinue the humane work to which he de-
voted the best part of his life.
During the entire war Gen. Sheri-
dan never wore but one sword, and ho
wears the same oue yet on all accasions
of display. It is a light dragoon sabre,
and one of a cargo shipped from spain
to Charleston for the use of Confeder-
ate officers.
The lady who has been for many
years successful as an authoress under
the name of Marion Harland is Mrs. E.
P. Terhune, of Newark, N. J. She ie
sketched in the Newark Unionist as a
sensible, middle-aged woman, with a
motherly way about her.
News of Louis Kosauth comes in a
letter received in Boston from his sis-
ter, Mme. Ruttkay, who lives with him
at Turin. He is past eighty-five but in
good health, and takes his daily walk,
whatever the weather. He is writing
another volume of his memoirs.
Wm. D. "Howells, the novelist, was
a type setter, and so was Bret Harte,
and so was Mark Twain. R, H. Stod-
dard, the poet, was a blaksmith; Frank
Stocton was an engraver, and John 6.
Whittier was a farmer, with slight in-
terruptions* until he was nearly thirty
years <gd.
Boston Is preparing for a grand re-
vival of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin" next
season. An entirely new version, is to
be presented, and the construction and
performance are to receive the critioal
attention and personal advice of the
author of the story, Mr*. Harslet
Bwrtw 8*m,
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never swear again.
But it is a comparatively unimi
ant thing if a man makes recori
our improprieties of speech. The more
memorable consideration is that every im-
proper word, every oath uttered, has a record
in the book of God's remembrance, and that
the day will come when all our crimes of
speech, if unrepented of will be our con-
demnation. I shall not to-day deal in abstrac-
tions. I hate abstractions. I am going to
have a plain talk with you, my brother, about
a habit that you admit to be wrong.
The habit grows in the community in the
the fact that young people think
it manly to swear. Little children, hardly
able to "walk straight on the street, yet
have enough distinctness of utterance to let
you know that they are damning their own
souls, or damning the souls of others. It is
an awful thing the first time the little feet
are lifted to have them set down on the burn-
ing pavement of hell!
Between sixteen and twenty years of age,
there is apt to come a time wííen a voung
man is as much ashamed of not being able to
swear gracefully as be is of tbe dizziness of
his first cigar. He has bis hat, bis boot, and
his coat of the right pattern, and now, if be
can only swear without awkwardness, and as
well as his comrades, he believes be is in tbe
fashion. Tbere are young men who walk in
an atmosphere of imprecation—oaths on their
lips, under their tongues, nesting In their
shock of hair. They abstain from it in the
elegant drawing-room, but the street and the
club-house ring with their profanities. They
have no regard for God, although they have
reat respect for the ladies! My young
rother, there is no manliness in that.' The
most ungentlemanly thing a man can do is to
swear.
Fathers foster this great crime. There are
parents who are cautious not to
swear in the presence of their child-
dren; in a moment of sudden anger, they
look around to see if tbe children are
present when they indulge in this habit.
Do you not know, O, father, tnat your child
Is aware of the fact that you swear? He has
overheard you In tbe next room, or someone
has informed him of your habit He is prac-
ticing now. In ten years he will swear as
well as you do. Do not, O father, be under
the delusion that you may swear and your
son not know it. It is an awful thing to start
the habit in a family—the father to be pro-
fane, and then to have the echo of his exam-
ple come back from other generations; so that
generations after generations curse the Lurd.
The crime is also fostered by master mech-
anics, boss carpenters, those who are at the
head of men in hat factories, and in dock-
yards, and at the head of great business es-
tablishments. When you go down to look at
the work of the scaffolding, and you find it is
not done right, what do you say? It is not
praying, is it ? The employer swears—his em-
ploye is tempted to swear. The man says:
"I don't know why my employer, worth
$50,000 or $100,000, should have any luxury I
should be denied simply because I am poor
and dependent on a day's wages, haven't I
as much right to swear as he has with his
large income." Employers swear, and that
makes so many employes swear?
The habit also comes from infirmity of tem-
per. There are a good many peoDle who,
when they are at peace, have righteousness of
•peech, but when angered they blaze with im-
precation. Perhaps all the rest of the year
they talk in right language, but now the;
pour out the fury of a whole year in one rei
hot paragraph of five minutes. I knew of a
man who excused himself for the habit, say-
ing: "I only swear once in a great while. 1
must do that just to clear myself out
The habit comes also from tbe profuse use of
bywords. The transition from a byword
which may be perfectly harmless to impreca-
tion and profanity, is not a very large transi-
tion. It is "my stars!" and "mercy on me!"
and "good gracious!" and "by George!" and
"by Jove!" and you go on with that a little
while, and then you swear. These words,
perfectly harmless in themselves, are next
door to imprecation and blasphemy. A pro-
fuse use of bywords always ends in profanity.
The habit is creeping up into the highest
styles of society. Women have no patience
with flat and unvarnished profanity. They
will order a man out of the parlor indulging
in blasphemy, and yet you will sometimes find
tyw With "fairy fas to the up, ana under
which bring no blush to their
cheek, taking on their Hps thé holiest of
names In utter triviality.
Why, my friends the English language is
comprehensive and capable of expressing all
fehapes of feeling and every degree of energy.
Are you happy, Noah Webster will give you
ten thousand words with which to express
your exhileration. Are you righteously indig-
nant, there are whole armories in the vocabu-
lary, righteous vocabulary—whole armies of
denunciation, and scorn, and sarcasm, and
irony, and caricature, and wrath. 'You ex-
press yourself against some meanness, or
hypocrisy, in all the oaths that ever smoked
up from the pit, and I will come right on after
you and give you a thousand fold more em-
phasis of denunciation to the same meanness,
and the same hypocrisy in words across Which
no slime has ever trailed, and into which the
fires of hell have never shot their forked
tongues—the pure, the innocent, God-honored
Anglo-Saxon in which Milton sang and John
Bunyan dreamed, and Shakspere dramatized.
There is no excuse for profanity when we
have such a magnificent language—such a
flow of good words, potent words, mighty
words, words just to suit every crisis and
every case. Whatever be the cause of it, pro-
fanity is on the increase, and if you do not
know it, it is because your ears have been
hardened by the din of Imprecations so that
you are not stirred and moved as you ought
to be by profanities in these cities which are
enough to bring a hurricane of fire like that
which consumed Sodom.
Do you know that this trivial use of God's
name results in penury? Do you know that
people who take the name of God on their
lips in recklessness and thoughtlessness are
fostering the crime of perjury? Make the
name of God a foot-ball in the community,
and it has no power when in court-room and
in legislative assembly it is employed in
solemn adjuration! Seethe way sometimes
they administer the oath: "S'help you God
—kiss the book!" Smuggling, which Is al-
ways a violation of the oath, becomes in some
circles a grand joke. You say to a man:
"How is it possible for you to sell these goods
so very cheap? I can't understand it" "Ah!"
he replies, with a twinkle of the eye, "tbe
Custom House tariff of these goods isn't as
much as it might be. ' An oath does not
mean as much as it would were the name of
God in reverence and in solemnity. Why is it
that so often jurors render unaccountable
verdicts, and judges give unaccountable
charges, and useless railroad schemes pass in
our State capitals, and there are most unjust
changes made in tariffs—tariff lifted from one
thing and put upon another?
What is an oath? Anything solemn?
Anything that calls upon tbe Almighty?
Anything that marks an event in a man's
history? Oh, no! It is kissing the book! There
is no habit I tell you plainly—and I talk to
hundreds and thousands of men to-day who
will thank me for my utterance—I tell you,
my brother—I talk to you not professionally
but just as one brother talks to another on
some very important theme—I tell you there
is no habit that so depletes a man's nature as
the habit of profanity. You might as well
try to raise vineyards and orchards on the
sides of belching Stromboli as to raise any-
thing good on a heart from which there
pours out the scoria of profanity. You may
swear yourself down; you cannot swear your-
self up. When the Mohammedan finds a
piece of paper he connot read, he puts it as-
side very cautiously for fear the name of God
may be on it. That is one extrema We go
;o tbe other. Now what is the cure of this
habit? It is a mighty habit Men have
struggled for years to get over it. There
are men in this house of God who would give
half their fortune to get rid of it. An aged
man who was m the delirium of a fever. He
had for many years lived a most upright life
and was honored in all tbe community; but
when he came into the delirium of this fever
le was full of imperfection and profanity, and
hey could not understand it. After he came
to his right reason he explained it He said:
"When I was a young man I was very pro-
fane. I co nquered tbe habit but I had to
struggle all through life. You haven't for
orty years heard me say an improper word,
)ut it has been an awful struggle. The tiger
s chained, but be is alive yet"
If you would get rid of ¡this habit, I want
you, my friends, to dwell upon the useless-
lessofit Did a volley of oaths ever start a
leavy load? Did they"ever exaspirate mean-
ness from a customer? Did they ever
collect a bad debt? Did they ever cure a
oothache? Did they ever stop the twinge
of the rheumatism? Did tbey ever help you
forward one step in the right direction ? Come
now, tell me, ye who have had the most ex-
perience in this habit, bow much have you
made out of it? five thousand dollars in all
your life? No. Otte thousand? No. One
íundred? No. One dollar? No. One cent?
No. If the habit be so utterly useless, away
with it.
But you say: "I have struggled to over-
come tbe habit a long while, and I have not
been successful." You struggled in your own
strength, my brother. If ever a man wants
God, it is in such a crisis of his history. God
alone by His grace can emancipate you from
i;hat trouble. Call upon Him day and night
that you may be delivered from this crime.
Remember also in the cure of this habit that
it arouses God's indignation. The Bible reit-
erates from chapter to chapter, and verse
after verse, the fact that it is accursed for
his life and that it makes a man miserable
or eternity. There is not a sin in all tbe
catalogue that is so often peremptorily and
suddenly punished in this world as the sin of
profanity. There is not a city or a village but
can give an illustration of a man struck down
at the moment of imprecation. A couple of
vears ags, briefly referring to this in a sermon,
I gave some instances in which God had
struck swearers dead at the moment of their
profanity. That sermon brought to me from
many parts of this land and other lands
statements of similar cases of instantaneous
visitation from God upon blasphemers. My
opinion is that such cases occur somewhere
every day, but for various reasons they are
not reported.
In Scotland a club assembled every
week for purposes of wickedness, and
there was a competition as to which
could use the most horrid oath, and
tbe man who succeeded was to be president
of the club. The competiton went on. A
man uttered an oath which confounded all his
comrades, and he was made president of the
club. His tongue began to swell, and it pro-
truded from the mouth, and he could not
draw it in, and he died, and the physician
said: "This is the strangest thing we ever
saw; we never saw any account in the books
like unto it; we can't understand it" I un-
stand It. He cursed God and died.
At Catskill, N. Y., a group of men stood in
a blacksmith shop (luring a violent thunder
storm. There came a crash of thunder and
some of the men trembled. One man said:
"Why, I don't see what you are afraid of. I
am not afraid to go out In front of the 6hop
and defy tbe Almighty. I am not afraid of
lightning." And he laid a wager on the sub-
ject, and he went out, and 6hook his fist at
the heavens, crying: "Strike, if you dare!"
and instantlv, he fell under a bolt. What de-
stroyed him? Any mystery about it? Oh, no.
He cursed God and died.
Oh, my brother, God will not allow this sin
to go unpunished. There are styles of writ-
ing with manifold sheets, so that aman writ-
ing on one leaf writes clear through ten, fif-
teen or twenty sheets, and so every profanity
we utter goes right down through the leaves
of the book of God's remembrance. It is no
exceptional sin. Do you suppose you could
count the profanities of last week—the pro-
fanities of office, store, shop, factory ? Tbey
cursed God, they cursed His word, they curs-
ed His only begotten Son.
One morning, on Fulton Street, as I was
passing along, * I heard a man swear bv the
name of Jesus. My hair lifted. My blood
ran cold. My breath caught My foot
halted. Do you not suppose that
God is aggravated ? Do you not suppose that
God knows about It? Dionysius used to have
a cave in which his culprits were incarcera-
ted, and he listened at tbe top of that cave,
and he could hear every groan, he could hear
every sigh, and he could hear every whisper
of those who were imprisoned. He was a
tyrant. God is not a tyrant : but he bends
over this world and He hears everything—
every voice of praise—every voice of impreca-
tion. He hears it alL The oaths seem to die
on the air, but thev have eternal echa They
come back from tha ages to come.
Listen! Listen! "All blasphemers shall
have their place in the lake which burneth
with fire and brimstone, which is the second
death." And if, according to the theory of
some, a man commits in the next world the
sins which he committed in this world—if
unpardoned, unregenerated—think of a man's
going on cursing in the name of God to all
eteniity!
Tbe habit grows. You start with a small
oath, you will come to tbe targe oath. I saw
a man die with an oath between his teeth.
Voitaire only gradually came to his tremen-
dous imprecation; but the habit grew on him
until in tbe last moment, supposing Christ
stood at the bed, he exclaimed: "Crush that
wretch! Crush that wretch!" Ob, my broth-
er, you begin to swear and there is nothing
impossible for von in the wrong direction.
Who is this God whose name you are using
in swearing? Who is He? Is He a tyrant?
Has He pursued you all your life long?" HaB
He starved you, frozen you, tyrannized over
you? No. He has loved ton, He has shel-
tered you, He watched you last night. He
will watch you to-night He wants to love
you, wants to help yon, wants
to save you, wanta to comfort yon.
He was your father's God and
your mother's God. He has housed them
from the blast, and He wants to shelter ;ou>
Will you spit Hi his fate bv imprecation!
Will you ever Vhüst Him back by an oath.
Who is this Jesús whose name 1 heard Id
the imprecation! Has He pursued you all your
life long! What vile thing has he done toyou
that you should so dishonor His name! Why,
He, was the Lamb whose blood simmered in
tbe fires of sacrifice for you. He is the broth-
er that tooK off His crown that you might put
it on. He has pursued you all your liie long
with mercy. He wants you to love Him, wanta
you to serve Him. He comes with streaming
eyes and broken heart and blistered feet to
save yon. On the craft of our ¡doomed human-
ity He pushed out Into the sea to take you off
the wreck.
Where is tbe hand that will ever be lifted
in imprecation again! Let that hand,now
blood tipped, be lifted that I may see it. Not
one. Where Is the voice that will ever be
uttered in dishonoring the name of Christ
Not one. Oh, I am glad to know that all
these voices of the community, and these
crimes of our city will be gone. 8oclety is
to be bettered. The world by the pow-
BAGING RIYEES.
Missouri River lee Gorges
Cause G-ieat Havoa
Iowa Towns Disastrously Visited by Sudden
Floods—Many Houses Wrecked and Several
Narrow Escapes—Thousands of Acres of
Land Inundated and Miles of Railroad
Tracks Swept Away—A Cyclone Passes
Over Sioux City—Lightning Kills Three
Persons.
er of Christ's Gospel is going to be saved, and
this crime, this iniquity, and all the other in-
iquities will vanish before the rising of the
Sun of Righteousness up-jn the nation.
There was one day in New England memor-
able for storm and darkness. I hardly ever saw
such an evening. The clouds which had been
gathering all day nnlimbered their batteries.
The Housatonic which flows quietly, save as
the paddles of pleasure parties rattle the oar
locks, was lashed into foam, and the waves
hardly knew where to lay themselves.
Oh! what a time it was! The hills jarred
under the rumbling of God's chariots. Blind-
ing sheets of rain drove the cattle to the bars,
or beat against the window pane as though to
dash it in. The grain fields threw their
crown6 of gold at the feet of the storm king.
When night came in it was a double night.
Its mantle was torn with the lightnings, and
into its locks were twisted the leaves of un-
rooted oaks and shreds of canvas torn from
the masts of the beached shipping. Jt was
such a night as makes you thank God for
shelter, and open the door'to let in the spaniel
howling outside with terror.
We went to sleep under the full blast of
heaven's great orchestra, the forests with up-
lifted voices, in chorus that filled the moun-
tains, praising the Lord. We woke not until
the fingers of the sunny morn touched our
eyelids. We looked out the window and the
Housatonic slept as quiet as an infant's!
dream. Pillars of clouds set against tbe sky,
looked like the castles of the blest built tor.
heavenly bierarcbs on the beach of the azurej
sea. All the trees sparkled as though therfr
had been some great grief in heaven, and
each leaf had been God-appointed to catch an.
angel's tear. It seemed as if our father bad<
looked upon the earth, His wayward child,
and stooped to her tear-wet cheek and kissed
it So will tbe darkness of sin and crime
leave our world before the dawn of the morn-
ing. The light shall gild the city spire and
strike the forests of Maine and the masts of
Mobile, and all between. And one end rest-
ing on tbe Atlantic coast and tbe other on the
Pacific beach, God will spring a great rainbow
arch of peace, in token of everlasting cove-
nant that the world shall never more see a
deluge of crime.
"But," says some one, "preaching against
the evils of society will accomplish nothing.
Do you not see that the evils go right on ?" I
answer, we are not at all discouraged.
It seemed insignificant for Moses to stretch
his hand over the Red Sea. What power
could that have over the waters? But the
East wind blew all night; the waters gather-
ed into two glittering palisades on either
side. The billows reared as God's hand pulled
back upon their crystal bits. Wheel into line,
O Israel! March! March! Pearls crash un-
der the feet The 6hout of hosts mounting
tbe beach answers the shout of hosts mid-sea;
until, as the last line of the Israelites have
gained the beach, the shields clang, and the
cymbals clap; and as the waters whelm the
pursuing foe, the swift-fingered winds on the
white keys of the foam play the grand march
of Israel delivered, and the awful dirge of
Egyptian overthrow. So we go forth; and
stretch out the hand of prayer and Christian
effort over these dark, boiling waters of crime
and sin. "Aba! Aha!" say tbe deriding
world. But wait. The winds of divine help
will begin to blow; the way will clear for the
great army of Christian philanthropists; the
glittering treasures of the world's beneficence
will line the path of our feet; and to the other
shore we will be greeted with the clash of all
heavens cymbals; while those who resist and
deride and pursue us will fall under the sea,
and there will be nothing left of them but
bere and there, cast high and dry upon the
beach, tbe splintered wheel of the chariot,
and thrust out from the surf, the breathless
nostril of a riderless charger.
Caucasian Pigtails.
One of the funniest fashions to us
moderns was the pigtail of the last
century, which some old people in this
country clung to well in the present
centurv; but people were, at the period
of their vogue, as much ashamed to be
seen without a pigtail as a fashionable
gentleman of to-day would be to go
through the streets with one hanging
down his back.
There was one time and place,during
the period when pigtails were go-
ing out of fashion, where the possession
of them was a genuine advantage,
and saved the life of more than one
man.
This was at Naples, in 1799, when
the Italians took possession of the
city, driving out the French Republi-
can army and taking vengence on all
who were supposed to be in sympathy
with Republicanism or "Jacobinism.'7
The counter-revolution was effected
in the name of the King of Naples
and of the Church, and the revolu-
tionists called themselves tliC'Men of
the Holy Faith" (Santaledista). They
went about putting to death all whom
they suspected of being opposed to
them in political sentiment, and as
they were mostly brigands from the
country and knew nobody in Naples,
they decided the question of a man's
politics by looking to see if he had a
pigtail
The old-fashioned people of the
country wore pigtails, but the French
had discarded them, and the new
fashion of dispensing with them had
come in with the French. If the "men
of the holy faith" found aman with-
out a pigtail no protestations of loyal-
ty to King Ferdinand could save his
life. \
Soon after, however, the pigtails
went quite out of fashion in Naples, for
Royalists and all the rest; but the old
Neapolitans continued to wear tnem,
and concealed them under their coat
collars.
"There is no telling.'1 they said;
"they may come in handy some time!"
They remembered the massacre of 1799
and shook their heads.
As for King Ferdinand himself, he
wore his pigtail, not in secret, like the
rest of the ultra-Royalists, but hang-
ing boldly down his back. Nothing
could induce him to remove it until in
1818, when, an illness having affected
his head, his physicians, with great
difficulty, induced the King to sacrifice
his queue.
An Englishman who was in Naples
at the time tells the story of the excite-
ment which this act of the King pro-
duced among the Neapolitans. The
Englishman was at a public hall, where
a musical performance was in progress,
when tbe Prince di , one of the
Chamberlains of the King, arrived from
the Rojal Palace in a great state of ex-
citement
•*I1 re s'e tagliato il codino!" (the
King has cut off his pigtail), he ex-
claimed.
There was a murmur throughout the
house. People stared at each other in
astonishment It was a genuine sen-
sation. and the people, after the* had
trot over their astonishment, seemed to
be pleased. But an old gentleman who
sat near the Englishman shook his
head sadly and said:
'*Ah! if'His Majesty had cut off hia
pigtail twenty years ago, perhaps my
brother might have escaped being mur-
dered as a Jacobin for wr5"" "
*-YwWa Companion,
iving none,1
Bastng Waters.
Mason Crrr, Ia., April 6.—The greatest
freshet ever known in this country came upon
this section last night, tbe town of Rock Falls,
on Shell Rock river, experiencing it most dis-
astrously. The iron bridge, 155 feet long,
and the dam are both gone, and the damage
to property there will not fall short of $25,-
000.
The village of Rock Falls, south of the
river, was completely inundated, houses and
barns crushed and swept away, and in some
instance no vestige remains of what were be-
fore substantial* structures. The house of
Mr. Cruiksliank, where he lived with his wife
and three children, was crushed like an egg
shell, the family having narrow escapes.
The house In which Mrs. Anderson lived
with her five children was swept away from
its foundation and floated against
some trees where it lodged,
the woman and children escaping on floating
lee, where they remained barefooted and in
their night clothes until daylight when the
water receded and their rescue was effected.
The large bridge went out when the lee gorge
gave way and portions of the trestles and
stringers are now to be seen on the farm of
Joseph Herret where they were borne by the
flood, two miles below the dam. Miles of
fences were torn from the land where water
was never known to reach before. When the
water receded it left immense piles of ice in
the streets, cakes three feet thick being piled
up one on another from ten to fifteen feet
high. It looks like an Arctic scene with
roofs of houses protruding through.
gorges above sioux citt.
Sioux Citt, Ia., April 6.—The flood on the
Missouri immediately above here has been
the highest and most disastrous since the
memorable inundation of the spring of 1881.
The region inundated is tbe low grounds on
tbe Dakota side above the Sioux river. Dur-
ing the breakup of the ice two weeks ago, an
immense gorge formed in the curved channel
below Elk Polut and the whole expanse of low
country overflowed. In every direction for
miles the whole country was dnder water. Elk
Point was a diminutive island in a vast sea of
angry waters. The country tbere is thickly
settled, but many farmers had already moved
their live stock to tbe bluffs. Most of tbe
houses are built on eminences, but lu most
cases the flood overflowed these also. Some
live stock was lost but how much is not known
as it has been impossible to reach the coun-
try.
Just below Elk Point the county author-
ities have dug an Immense ditch along the
line of tbe lowest depression, northeasterly
toward the Sioux river, to carry off flood
waters. This carried a flood of waters with
freat violence Into the Sioux river above the
t. Paul railroad bridge. Tbere was thus a
vast river several miles wide sweeping across
the lowlands. It plowed out the ditch and
threatened to change the channel of the
Missouri in conformity with it, and tore up
fences, haystacks, small outbuildings and
everything in its way.
MILES or'TRACK GONE.
It is now learned from Superintendent
Beardsley of tbe Milwaukee company that
about four miles of the railroad track were
washed out this side of Elk Point Tbe violence
of the current may be inferred from the fact
that about a mile and a quarter of tbe track,
including railroad ties and iron, was carried
two miles from the roadbed and left in the
fields.
The Sioux river, Bwollen by the flood waters
of tbe Missouri, rapidly accumulated a great
mass of driftwood and ice against tbe rail-
road bridge, and the pressure was sufficient
to move it three feet and would have swept
the structure entirely away but for the pre-
cautions taken by the railroad company.
However, it will take two weeks to repair the
damage.
Tuesday night the george which had caused
all the trouble suddenly broke, and the con-
fined flood rushed dowh stream like a race
horse and with an ominous roaring sojnd.
The rise here was ten feet in less than two
hours, and the lower part of the city was
threatened. Yesterday the river fell sonu-,
but it Is still very high. Above, in tbe region
of Elk Point, the water still stands deep on
tbe low grounds, and it will be many davs
before It can be drained off. It is thought no
lives have been lost
The upper Missouri is nearly clear of ice,
but it is solid and immovable a thousand
miles below. Farmers about Fort Benton,
Mont., have been plowing for several weeks
and the snow has entirely disappeared from
the ranges.
raging rivers up north.
St. Paul, Minn., April G.—Telegrams from
a dozen points in Dakota report heavy rains
aud raging rivers. The river is bank full at
\\asliburn and still rising and the bottom
lands below are flooded for miles. At Glad-
stone tbe Hart river is rapidlv rising. At
South Hart the railway bridge has given way
and all trains are temporarily abandoned. At
Mankato, Minn., the Minnesota river is leav-
ing its banks. The ice is moving in immense
cakes and a gorge is feared below tbe city.
Twenty head of stock belonging to Adam Jef-
ferson were drowned on tbe lowlands. Tl e
river rose fifteen feet Wednesday night, and
yesterday was still rising.
sneboygan, Wis., April 0.—The heavy rain
of Wednesday night and yesterday caused the
Sheboygan river to rise rapidly to a point not
reached for a number of years. Tbe M., L.
s. & W. railway bridge was lifted from its
position so as to spread the rails and render it
impassable for trains. Should the river con-
tinue to rise tbe bridge will probably carry
away and take with it the Pennsylvania ave-
nue bridge, thus cutting off connection wt
d iTerent parts of the city.
Many houses on the flats at Mankato arc
flooded up to the middle of the windows and
the river still rising. West Mankato is sub-
merged. Three feet more of water will coyer
the Milwaukee road tracks. All trains have
been abandoned to-night on account of water
in the vicinity of Good Thunder. It is sa d
tbe iron bridge at Garden City has been
swept away.
storms in the West.
Sioux City, Ia., April 0.—During a violent
electric stoum yesterday a cyclone passed
over the city from southwest to northwest
The funnel cloud was seen by many and was
accompaniad by a roaring noise. It struck
but in one place, in the extreme northwest
part of the city and then rebounded into tbe
air, passing rapidly over the eastern suburbs.
At the place where the cloud struck it picked
up the residence of Mark Morlin and hurled
It to the ground in the rear of the lot Mrs.
Morlin was severely injured. The bouse of
Mr. Richmond was wrecked, and a barn near
by was split into kindling wood. Morlin says
he saw two cloodsform and meet and in a
moment his house was hurled from its found-
ation.
At Sibley a tornado swept over the countyp,
doing immense damage to property. With-
out a moment's warning the wind rose from a
slight breeze to a hurricane and in a short
time chimneys, fences, lumber and other
property were torn from their resting places
and hurled through the air. A large chim-
ney on the public school building crashed
through the roof into tbe midst of the teach-
ers' institute, but aside from a few slight
bruises no one was hurt Tbe agricultural
warehouse of Grant & Hanna was moved
from its foundation and now stands at an an-
gle of 40®.
Reports from the rural districts bring in-
telligence of damage to stock. The house of
James Brooks was lifted from its foundation
and torn to fragmenta.
Centervillb, Mich., April 6.—A remark-
able severe thunder storm passed over this
place yesterday afternoon, doing much dam-
age to property and causing the loss of three
lives. James Parsons' barn in Sherman town-
ship was struck by lightening and totally de-
stroyed, and Parsons and his little child and a
Mrs. Yankee were instantly killed at the
same time.
Delphi, Ind., April &—A terrific wind and
rain storm passed over this place last night
At Sleetn's, five miles nertb, it partook oi the
nature Of a cyclone. Several houses were
blown down and a freight train on the
Monon line was lifted from tbe tracks. No
one was injured.
St. Paul, Minn., April 6.—The Pioneer
Tres.t learns from Waterville Minn., that two
children injured by the falling of a house In
the wind storm of yesterday afternoon died
to-day. At the narrows near Waterville sev-
eral houses and outbuildings were blown down,
but no one was injured.
A Train's Awful Mishap.
New Hampton, Ia., April 5i—A terrible
rtQroai accident occurred about four miles
west of this town on tbe
Paul rgad by whieh at least a dozen persons
lost their lives and from fifteen to twenty
were injured.
The train which left Chicago at 11:30 yes-
terday morning and waa dae here at 2:13 this
morning passed here nearly oa time and
when about four miles west plunged into a
creek which had been swollen by the immense
amount of water which had been running off
for the past few days and had been further
blocked by an lee gorge which* previous to
the arrival of the train, had carried away a
portion of the bridge. There was nothing to
show that there was danger ahead and the
train plunged into the swoollen stream while
running at full speed.
The eugine and three coaches were thrown
into the creek and were immediately sub-
merged in the torrent of water which over-
flowed the banks. A scene of wild confusion
ensued and those of the train crew and pas-
sengers who escaped death or injury were
immediately called into service to relieve the
drowning and imprisoned passengers. It was
with great difficulty the passengers could be
reached, owing to the rushing of the waters
through the car windows. Those who were
rescued from tbe smoking car, which was al-
most entirely submerged, were taken from
the windows—some mained to such an ex-
tent that they were powerless to help them-
selves while others were nearly drowned be-
fore aid could reach them.
six bodies recovered.
By noon six dead bodies had been taken
from the wreck and three more were known
to be underneath the debris, through which
the water was pouring, rendering it difficult
to reach them. It is also stated that the en-
gineer and fireman were instantly killed or
were caught in the cab and drowned before
aid could reach them, but the confusion and
excitement is so great that it is difficult to se-
cure reliable information.
In addition to the passengers known to be
killed, from fifteen to twenty have been res-
cued that are more or lees seriously injured.
A number are so dangerously hurt that it is
feared they can not possibly recover.
As soon as a trainman who escaped injury
could be spared he was dispatched to this
station and a relief train was telegrauhed for
from Mason City. Telegrams for relief were
also sent to Charles City and other near places,
but it was not until several hours after the
accident that a train arrived with physicians
tocare for the injured and additional helping
hands to aid in rescuing those still confined
In the wreck. It is understood that a relief
train has been sent from the west and a num-
ber of injured removed to Charles City, six-
teen miles west of tbe scene of the accident.
now the wreck occurred.
Charles City, Ia., April 5.—The wreck on
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
road, some claim, was caused by ice on the
track, while others claim It was caused by
soreading of tbe rails. Tbe engine jumped
tbe track first and the baggage car and ten-
der plunged over tbe engine into the water.
The smoKer struck on top of tbe engine, and
was badly smashed. The engine is entirely
under water and tbe baggage car is almost
covered bv water. There were about thirty
people in the smoker at the time, four of whom
were killed so far as known, besides the en-
gineer crushed between the cab and smoker.
The fireman escaped unhurt. There were
about twenty-five wounded, though none fat-
ally. The belief is that there arc three more
bodies under the wreck. The baggageman
and the route agent were well wet up, but
escaped through the window without much
injury.
Tbe names of the dead that have been
learned are as follows:
Mr. William Anderson.
C. Seavenson.
J. Denies.
James Scagel, engineer, of Mitchell, Dak.
Dora lleideckcr.
Letta, a little girl about four years old.
Among the wouuded are O. B. Allen, and
II. Zarr, both of Nora Springs. Oue Chicago
traveling man and the conductor kept the
passengers quiet till they could help them out.
The wouuded are mostly by burns from the
engine. The mails and" baggage are iu the
liver,
list of tne injured.
The complete list of tbe wounded is as fol-
lows:
Jacob Schart, jr., Sioux Falls, Dak., severe
wounds on wrist and band.
C. J. Weiland, Geneva, la.
Nick Gonrlng, Aurora, Wis.
J. M. Christianson of Denmark.
Mr. and Mrs. Heideckcr and five children,
the baby being killed.
James Murphy of Ossian, la.
Arthur White, Blackstone, Mass. •
John Glausenor, Monti cello, Wis.
Frank Studebaker, Boaz, Wis.
Henry Schnarr, Nora Springs, Ia.
Adam Kaucb and wife, Prussia.
Gus Behrans, Germany.
Elwood Ewers. Marshall. Wis.
Philip Gross, Fort Atkinson, la.
Everything is being done by both the rail-
road company and citizens of the city to care
for tüe injured and alleviate their sufferings.
Five surgeons were at the scene of the wreck
early this morning, aud great hopes are en-
tertained that the number of the killed will
not be increased by further developments.
The wreck is in about 6ix or scveu feet of
water.
Politics la France.
Paris, April 4.—The new cabinet consists of
one member of the ex treine left, five members
of the radical left and four moderates.
The committee of the chamber of deputies
to which was referred tbe proposal of the
Panama canal company to issue a letter loan,
are equally divided for and against the loan,
and therefore will report to the chamber that
thev are unable to arrive at a decision.
General Warnot, commander of the Fourth
division sf tbe army, will probably be ap-
pointed chief of tbe general staff of the war
office.
It is stated that the opportunists in the
chamber of deputies are preparing for an im-
mediate interpellation of the government in
regard to its general policy.
Only the radical journals approve Premier
Floquet's declaration of the policy of the
ministry. The Journal (les Dcbats and Jte-
I'ublique Francaite assert that the statemeut
encourages demagouery. The Figaro hopes
for an early alliance of the party of the right
and the opportunists.
A discussion ensued with regard to the
length of the vacation. M. Pyat said he was
opposed to any vacation as the people did not
have any anil their delegates ought not to
have any either. Finally the chamber ad-
journed until May 1(J.
The senate passed a resolution that in view
of the situation a too lengthy proroguing of
the chambers would be attended with great
Inconvenience. The chamber will reassem-
ble May 19, after the session of the council
general.
Boulanser's Position.
London, April 4.—A correspondent of the
Fall Mall Gazette had an interview with Gen-
eral Boulanger at the Hotel Louvre, in Paris,
last evening. There was a long string of
visitors in the corridor waiting for an audi-
ence. Boulanger is a slightly-bent full-bodied
man of medium height, with iron gray hair,
which is turning silvery. He has a manly,
honest face of the bourgeolse type. Ills coun-
tenance 6bows no evidence of keenness or
cuteness. On tbe contrary it has a weary,
sleepy and overburdened appearance. In re-
gard to his candidacy for tbe chamber of
deputies for the department of tbe Nord and
his reasons for not going there to conduct his
own canvass, be 6aid that be was not like an
ordinary candidate; be did not appeal to the
electors'on petty department questions, but
as the representative of a great princi-
ple; therefore, his presence in tbe depart-
ment was not needed, victory being certain.
Tbe principle be represented was tbe revision
of tbe constitution. Tbe chamber of depu-
ties bad been stricken with impotence and
no longer represented tbe people. The dis-
solution of the chamber and revision of the
constitution was the only remedy for the
evH.
Being asked to explain the basis of his plan
of revision Boulanger said: "That is my se-
cret which I shall keep to myself. That is my
policy." He refused to explain his plans be-
cause he feared tbey would be criUcised and
thwarted before there was a chance to put
them into execution. He said he would wait
until tbe time was ripe and then reveal them.
He declared decisively that no ministry
formed now could last long. Three months
would be the utmost limit of its life. In the
meantime he intended to reserve his plans
and wait
Not Well Thought Of.
London, April 5.—The North German Ga-
zette refers to the new French cabinet with
contempt and says that it will play Boul-
anger's game whether it likes it or not Tbe
German and Austrian press generally predict
for the cabinet a short existence.
Monte Carlo's Suicide Record.
London, April 4.—It ia estimated that 500
persons have committed suicide at Monte
Carlo during the last three months, while the
receipts of the established games at that
place were, during the seme period, largely
IncreMedf
The Massachuietta state board of
alter a thorough Investigation, deelares that
oleomargarine is good and ^ wholesome and
preferable to poor butter.
While sixteen school children were stand-
on the covering of a well at Palmyra, Ma,
the boards gave way and all fell to the bot-
tom. Marcus Little, 7 years old, was drowned
but the others received only slight bruises.
Mrs. Mary Sharpe, of Wanamie, Pa., wa#
making whisky, when the pot containing the
fluid toppled over into a hot fire, and the stuff
blazed, setting fire to her clothing, and abe
was burned to death in a few minutes. Three
of her children, who tried to save her, were
also burned, and will die. The husband and
father, John Sharpe. who was at work at the
time, is reported to nave become insane.
Ex Senator Roscoe Conkling has been con-
fined to his home with an abscess in the ear.
His physicians have ordered complete quiet
and rest
Parnfcll's arrears of rent bill provides that
all proceedings for the removal of a tenant for
non-paymeut of rent shall be stayed, on appli-
cation for revision, until a decision has been
given. No extra rent is to be charged on ten-
ant's improvements. Tbe bill repeals tbe
clauses of the act of 1870 directing the court
to consider the length of time a tenant has
been benefited by improvements in reducing
the amount of compensation.
Father Kennedy and sixteen farmers of
county Cork, Ireland, have been convicted of
attending a National league meeting in a pro-
claimed district, and sentenced to three
months' imprisonment
Advices from Rome say the cabinet has de-
cided to stop military operations In Africa
during the summer. A special colonial corn
will remaiu at Massowba and the rest of the
troops will return to Italy.
After an illness of several months Benjamin
Harris Brewster, United States attorney gen-
eral during President Arthur's administra-
tion, died iu Philadelphia, aged 72 years.
Minister Von Puttkamer has returned to
Berlin from his visit to the flooded districts.
He fully confirms the reports of the terrible
distress caused by the inundations and says
that even the most geuerous private and pub-
lic assistance e;ui heal but a small number of
tbe wounds which fate has dealt Liberal
help from abroad, as well as from Germany, ia
earnestly requested.
The secretary of state Is in receipt of a
cable mes6agtj from United Slates Consul
Lewis at Tangier, from the tenor of which it
is inferred that a satisfactory settlement of
the trouble with the Moorish government will
soon be reached.
Advices from Bokhara say that the grand
vizier of that state has been murdered by a
native. The ameer ordered the murderer
and his accomplice to be executed aud they
were hurled from a tower ISO feet high.
The United States attorney for the north-
ern district of Texas has informed the secre-
tary of the interior that Jesse Lee Hall, ex-
agent of the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita
ludians in the Indian territory, has been in-
dicted by tbe grand jury sitting at Graham,
Tex., upon the charge of embezzling $14,000
belonging to the United States, lie was ap-
pointed agent in July, 1885.
About half the business portion of Ames-
bury, Mass., was destroyed by fire Wednes-
day, causing a loss of $1,000,00'J.
About one thousand men who have been
idle several months will go to work again at
tbe Reading iron-works, having accepted a
reduction oí 7% per cent, iu wages.
Crop reports from Dakota indicate that
under the most favorable conditions no seed-
ing will be done before the middle of ApriL
Everything is very backward also in Iowa.
Indiana wiuter wheat reports are not very en-
couraging. The weather keeps cold and the
ground docs not dry out
During the month of March tbe public debt
was decreased to the extent of $11,580,559.
Tbe telegraph announces that all the latest
strikes are ended. All the roads in Chicago
have resumed work as usual. Tbe boycott
of "Q" cars has been permanently raised,
and henceforth the contest will be confined
strictly to the "Q" system. This intelligence
will afford a breathiug 6pell, if nothing inore.
Albany advices state that Governor Hill has In-
formed his friends that be is not a candidate for
president and that an interview with hltn will
soon appear in a prominent democratic news-
paper declaring that be had never been a
candidate for president
John Clements, an Iowa capitalist, was tbe
victim of pickpockets at Kansas City to the
extent of $1,800. He had come to Kausas
City to rccelve a payment of $¿,100 on a piece
of real estate, which he bad sold recently.
The money was paid to him at the American
national bank. He placed it in his vest
pocket and went to an office iu the Walea
building. He bad It when he left tbe office
and stepped into the evevator. and a moment
after be left the elevator, on the first floor,
be discovered that all of it but $500 was
gone. The money that was stolen consisted
of $1,300 in $¡00 bills an d $500 in bills of
small denominations.
The Rhode Island state election went re-
publican by about 1,500 on tbe general ticket
and the republicans bad a sweeping victory
on the legislature. The full vote for governor
was as follows: Taft republican, 20,763;
Davis, democrat, 17,444; Gould, prohibition,
1,355; majority for Taft 1,089. Providence
gave Taft «11 majority. On the legislative
ticket the republicans have regained nearly
every town which they lost last year. Bar-
rington, however, which has always been
republican was captured by the democrats.
The comptroller of the currency has author-
ized the National exchange bank of Kausas
City, Mo., to begiu business with a capital of
$250,000.
Dublin advices say the Warthc and Rhine
rivers are subsiding, but tbe waters of the
Vistula arc still spreading, now covering an
area of 300 or 400 square miles and seventy-
nine villages wltb a population of 30,000 are ;
submerged. Experts calculate that It will re-
quire months of labor to drain the flooded
districts. Other rivers, including tbe Bille,
above Hamburg, threaten to overflow. Snow
drifts in East Prussia fifteen to twenty feet
high are still unmelted.
Burglars broke into the house of Father
McKlenna, the Catholic priest of Marlbroe,
Mass., Monday night pried open the safe
and secured over $1,000 in bills.
Samuel J. Dunker, postmaster at Frank-
ford, Mo., fell down stairs at his home and
received injuries which proved fataL
The trial of^ the suit of David L. Frother-
ingham against the Adams' express company
and Robert Pinkerton for $(«0.000 damages
for false imprisonment and securing his in-
dictment on false charges was begun In the
United States circuit court at St Louis Tues-
day.
The anti-saloon republican national confer-
ence will be held in New York city May 2.
By a collision with a Swedish bark at Key
West, Fla., March 29, the United States ves-
Bel Richmond, flag ship of Rear Admiral Luce,
was badly damaged.
By a collision on the Chicago and North-
western road near Quawy, IIL, Monday, both
enginers and ten stock cars were destroyed
and four men injured.
The Maryland legislature has repealed the
charter of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
employes relief aasociation, to take effect in
one year.
Telegraphic advices from varloua railway
centers Indicate that a general staike la Immi-
nent.
The 8panish government and the opposition
after a protracted debate have agreed upon a
bill for the reorganiztion of the army, which,
instead of the conscription system, provides
that service shall be obligatory upon all citi-
zens and also provides for a redistribution
of commands on a territorial basts. Tbe peace
establishment will consist of 100,000 men. Thla
force may be Increased to 350,000 by mobiliza-
tion.
German socialists In Switzerland have
parodied tbe Emperor Frederick's amnesty
decree and sent 150,000 copies to Germany.
Judge Advocate General Marriott of Great
Britain haa been knighted.
Tbe house painters of Cincinnati hava
struck for higher wages and fewer hours.
' The New York court of common pleas hafl
decided that a passenger may recover from a
railroad company for money lost fat a sleeping
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Harm, L. V. Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 2 Wednesday, April 11, 1888, newspaper, April 11, 1888; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183647/m1/2/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.