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SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, MARCH 31, 1881.
VOL. I-NO. 20.
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Tm^ortacat'Intelllgenes from AllPaxts
Tlie TJ. S. Senate.
The resolution to proceed to the electioji of
officers was called up by Mr. Dawes on the
24th. JfcDavia (111.) stated thatheshouldnot,
"by his, vpte, delay proceeding to the reorganization of the Senate: that he thought the majority which chose the committees was fairly
enti£le<%t0 choose ,the officers of the Senate,
andiieo'd not fetrret-that the new Adm nis-
tration which ha3 to confront the country with
its policy should have control of both branches
of Congress; the majorty was not 1'irpre enough
toilf dtilg-ein ra=h experiments,and the mVerity watesufflciehtly st^ongto check any tendency
to excess. i£n Cameron (Pa.) asserted;the determination of the Republican side to sit the
question out. ifr. Brown accepted the issue,
and; stated his intention to sit there until December, before he would consent tp. change
officer'. After remarks by other Senators,
and several dilatory motions had been vo'ed
down, Mr. Pendleton moved toad'ourn, which
motion preva;led—28 to 37. Mr. Mitchell was
temporarily absent., and d'd not vote, nor did
Mr. Davis till-). Mr. Hale voted "No" in a
trne too low to be heard by the Clerk, and was
not recorded—a fact which he did not discover
until after the Vice-President had declared
the-motion earried.
Mr. Ingalts offered a resolution on the 25th
calling- on the Secretary of "War for a list of
all appointments, other than those in he
arm^ made in his^ department since the 1st of
I)e^enibervlS79, to March i, 18S1, and under
■what•provisions of- law said appointments had
"beenatfadet what changes, promotions, details
and transfers had been made within such period, and the reasons for such transfers, etc.,
etc. MivDawesealleauphisresolution forthe
election of Senate officers, the pending- motion
being- to postpone its consideration until the
first Monday in December. After considerable debate roll-call followed roll-call on alternate motions, made on the Democratic side,
to adjourn and to go into executive session.
These motions -were all defeated, generally by
a tje Vote, bnt at six o'clock so many Senators
Trere paired that the Senate was left without a
quorum, and an adjournment was agreed to.
Immediatei-v after the reading of the journal on. the 2b'th Mr. Dawes demanded the regular order, being the resolution for the election of Senate officers. A motion by Mr. Pendleton to go into executive session was re-
jected+T-29 to 29—Mr. Mahone voting with the
Republicans.. After some discussion on the
question of reorganization and the rejeotion-*
25 to 27—of another motion for an executive
session, Mr. Mahone took the floor and s< a fed
that he was somewhat indisposed and too un-
weltto-'revlew the speeches of the day before
in which allusions had been.made to Mr. Kid-
dleberger and himself. Mr. Dawes interrupted
him, and said if Mr. Mahone-would prefer to
speak on the 2^th he would move to adjourn,
which motion was agreed to.
Domestic.
The jury in the case of youns: Kalloch,
•charged with the murder of De Young, of the
Sah'PrahcIsco Chronicle, after beins out twen-
ty-four hnurs, on the 24th, brouiht in a verdict of not guilty.. When he was released the
horses were detacbed from Kalloch's carriage
arid he/, was drawn three miles by a. large
crowd of h-s sympathizers who were present.
Ds. John- _tucHAXAjr, of Philadelphia, has
made a full confession of his operations in
the-Bo^Us med cal diploma line. He states
that over'20,000 bogus diplomas are in use in
this country, and over 40,000 in Europe. He
gives the" names of the psrfiis to whom his
diplomas were'-'Issttsd', and the names of many
other individuals who he alleges were concerned with him in disposing of the bogus
documents.
Ihe number of immigrants arriving in this
country during the eight months ended ou
the 2Sth of February last-was 305 022, o
whom nearly 83,000 were from Germany, 77,-
OflO from (anada, S6.0U0 from England and
"Wales, and 3J,000 from Ireland.
A little girl five and a half years old
d.ed in New Tork a few days ago from, congestion of the brain, caused by excessive
jum ing the rope.
^fiEVEN". masked men entered the house
o£an aged couple in Catfish, Pa., a few n ghts
ago, bound and gagged them, and stole $5,00-1
foupon bonds, and between §5,000 and $ 10,-
OOOcasfc'
Dk. Hamilton, the Supervising Surgeon
General ot tha Marine Hospital Service, has
made a report to Secretary Blaine, in which
be says trichinae bave existed in European
jotk for the last fifty years, ar.d have been
discovered in pork i aised there in a great
many instances, while the number of cases in
which they have been traced to American
porkris vefy small.
Borglaus entered the posfcoffiee at Bennington,! Yt; on the night of the 23d, drilled
the safe, and took §50j in money and $1,600
in stamps.
The Mexican Southern Eailroad Company
was organized in New York on the 24th. Ex
President Grant was chosen President, G, M.
Dodge Vice-President, and Kussell Sage
Treasurer. A resolution was adopted requesting General Grant to rroceed to Mexico' to represent the interests of the company. : "
A-few days ago Msjor Kirby, of the Internal Eevenne Service, had a bloody, battle with
the four Middle ton broshers, whose illicit strll
is on the border of "Virginia and Kentucky.
K.rby had a posse of twenty citizens. Joe,
Bill and Tom Middletonwere kiiled, and five
of theirmen fatally injured.
* The Supreme Court of Illinois has decided,
in an important test case, that the bolder of
stock in a defunct corporation whose-eapital
stock was not paid up is liable to the amount
o&ais subscription for the debts of the com-
pg&y.
- A few days ago a Louisville (Ky.) girl obtained a marriage license and was married in
jail to a young man imprisoned for burglarizing ber father's house.
Os the petition of Henry Villard, President of the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company, tbe Superior Court in New York
on the 25th enjoined the Northern Pacific
P»cad from issuing the 180,000 shares of common Stuck proposed to be given to its pro-
j= ctors. It was believed that a large portion
of these shares had already been thrown upon
the stock market.
A Health Committee appointed by the
State Legislature held an investigation in
New York City on the 25th into the matter of
the sale and manufacture of imitation butter
and cheese. Several dealers in dairy p oducts
were, examined. All agreed that the manufacture of adulterated articles was seriously
affecting the trade in genuine dairy products; that tbe use of the adulterated artic e?
was injurious to health, and that some means
jfjbould be adopted to restrict the sale of such
rtuff.
The last Installment of the securities taken
by robbers from the bank at Northhampton,
Ma«s., several years ago have been returned
to the, vaults. The plunder amounted to over
*i;6o0,000, of which $121,000 is thought to he
utterly lost.
A few days ago two brothers, John and
Michael Sullivan, were enja ed in track repairing on the Baltimore & Ohio Eailroad,
near Demmler Station, when an accommoda
tfon train came ah.ng just as they had a rail
raised np on acrowbar, the bar being wedged
in so tlght'y that the train would certainly be
thrown Jrom the track unless it (the bar)
were removed* The men .seized the bar and
began frantically to pull and twist it
The engineer ot the train saw
but could not "stop. He says
efforts to free the crowbar
ani to lower tbo Tail wore frantic »nd like
^mmijmims^m
the workings of madmen, and they seemed
to forget their own danger. The bar was
loosened and the rail lowered just as the
tiain reached it, but the men who had done
so.njobly.paid dearly for their daring. The
engine struck them and killed John instantly,
and mangled Michael so frightfully that he
died in a short time. The men were married
and leave families.
General Patrick, Governor of the Soldiers' Home at Dayton, Oh o, recently refused to permit James Bedpath to lecture at
that institution and organize a branch of the
Irish Land League.
The Treasury authorities'-at "Washington
are said to have become convinced that under
existing laws $150,000,000 of maturing bonds
may be practically refunded at three or three
and a half per cent, independently of the
Treasury hoard or the surplus revenue.
The report of the United States Treasury
Department on trichinas shows that no country is without trichinae of its own, and demonstrates the absurdity of the idea that the
American variety is more harmful than the
European.    #    - :      *   '
In the oleomargarine investigation at New
York on the 26th H. K. Thurber testified that
he manufac tures weekly about 2,500 tubs of
the article, of which he now exports only
seven per cent.
Old Abe, the famous war eagle of Wisconsin, died at Madison on the evening of the
26th.
Gold to the amount of $221,000 arrived in
New York on the 26th, and $1,150,000 more
was shipped from Liverpool and Havre on
the same day.
A Baltimore & Ohio train was thrown
from the track near Hover's Gap, W. Va., on
the 26tli, by running over a horse. Peter
.Cooper, the engineer, was killed, and Richard
.Griff, the fireman,* fatally injured.
Personal and Political.
Among the nominations made .by President Garfield on the 22d and 23d were the
following: General Stewart L. Woodford,
to be District Attorney for the Southern
District of New York; General Payn and
General McDougall as United States Marsha's at New York; William H. Robertson,
Collector of Customs at New York; William
Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, Minister to
Austria; Edwin A. Merritt, of New York,
Consul-General to.London; Adam Badeau,
of New York, Charge d'Affaires in Denmark;
Lewis Wallace, of Indiana, Charge d'Affaires
In Paraguay and Uruguay; Michael J. Cramer, of Kentucky, Charge d'Affaires in Switzerland; William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, Solicitor-General; Samuel J. Phillips,
of North Carolina, Judge of the Court of
Claims; L. A. Sheldon, of Ohio, Governor of
New Mexico; Thomas M. Nichol, of Wisconsin, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Edward
S. Meyer, United States Attorney for the
Northern District of Ohio; George W. Atkinson, United States Marshal, West "Virginia;
Bryan H. Langston, Collector of Internal
Revenue, Fifth District of Missouri.
The Rhode Island Democrats met in State
Convent on on the 23d and nominated Horace
M. Kimball for Governor; W. L. Segar for
Lieutenant-Governor; John G. Perry , for
Secretary of Sta'e; F. L. O'Reilly for Attorney-General, and A. L. Burdick for Treasurer. Reso utions were adopted denouncing
the "unmanly, dishonest and treacherous
course of Senator Mahone in aiding and abetting the Republican party."
Oir the 23d General Grant resigned the
Presidency of the World's Fair Comm ss on,
and Hugh J. Jewett was elected to succeed
him.
The State Committee of the Readjusted
of Virginia held a meting on the 23d and
issued a call for a Convention to be held
June 2 for the nomination of a State ticket.
The course of General Mahone in the,United
States Senate was approved.
By a vote of 132 to 48 the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives has defeated a
bill for the removal of the State capital from
Harrfsburg to Philadelphia.
, The Connecticut Legislature has repealed
the law providing for the examination of
railroad engineers and conductors so as to
guard against the employment of color-blind
persons in those positions.
The candidates for officers of the United
States Senate nominated by the Republican
Senators, in caucus on the 22d, are as follows: Eor Secretary, George C. Gorham, of
California; Sergeant-at-Arms, Henry Riddle-
barger, of Virginia; Principal Executive
Cleik, James R. Young, of Pennsylvania;
Ch ef Legislative Clerk, Charles W. Johnson,
of Minnesota; Chaplain, Rev. Dr. Byron
Sunderland, of Washington.
The negro voters of Maryland met in State
Convention on tne 24th and adopted resolutions insisting upon an equitable division of
Federal patronage.
The Re, ublican State Convention of Rhode
Island met on the 24th and unanimously nominated the present State officers for re-election.
Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, has been
chosen orator at the unveiling of the Far-
ragut statue in Washington On the 25th of
April.
A Washington teleSram of the 24th says
Samuel J. Phillips had declined the Judgeship
of the Court of Claims, to which he was appointed by the President.
Commodore Robert VV. Shttfeldt, of the
United States Navy, has accepted the command of the navy of China, at a salary of
$2 ),000 per year.
A bill to submit a Prohibition Constitutional amendment to the people was voted
down in the Texas House of Representatives
on the 24th, by a vote of 54 to 31—less than
the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative.
The Rhode Island Greenback and ProhibitoryC< nventions met at Providence on the
25th and nominated State tickets.
The Earl of Lonsdale recently arrived at
New York in his famous yacht Northumbrla.
A. J. Hat has been appointed Bank Examiner for the State of Indiana, vice A. I).
Lvnch, resigned.
President Garfield made the following
nominations on the 25th: Assistant Secretary
of State, Robert R. Hitt, of Illinois; Assistant United States Treasurer at San Francisco,
Nathan W. Spalding; Assistant Appraiser at
Sna Francisco, Charles M. Lcavy.
The New Yoik Senate has adopted a resolution thanking President Garfield for nominating Senator Robertson as Collector of
the Port of New York, and requestinx the
United States Senate to promptly confirm the
nomination.
The Democrats of Chicago have renominated Carter H. Harrison for Mayor, Alderman J. M. Clark is the candidate, of the-Be-,
publicans.
President Garfield decided positively on
the 26th that hewoull not issue a call for an
extra session of Congress, atleast before next
fall.
The Republicans of the United States Senate held a caucus on the 26th and determined
to adhere to their programme relative to the
election of Senate officers.. >.
Willum H. Vanderbilt and Samuel F.
Barger have resigned as Directors of the
Western Union -Telegraph, Company.   Mr. |
Barger's place has been filled by the election
of Frederick L. Ames, o£ Boston.
Foreign.
The opera house at Nice, France, was destroyed by fire on the evening of the 23d.
The fire started from an explosion of gas in
the rear of the stage, just as. the evening's
performances were beginning, wh;ch set fire
to the scenery. * The flames soon surrounded
the gas-meter, and the gas had to be cut off,
plunging the body of the house in daikness.
A terrible panic followed, and the crowd
pressed madly toward the limited means oE
exit. The audience was large, and in the
wild struggle to reach the doors hundreds
were tramp ed under foot. Up to midnight
on the 24th a large number of bodies had
been recovered from the ruins, and it was
believed that many more would yet be
fouud. Among the persons burned was the
tenor, basso, baritone and a number of the
chorus singers.
On the 24th a female Nihilist, a fr'end of
Roussakoff and Hartmann, was captured at
St.' Petersburg, and is said to have made some
startling revelations.
The people of Nice have contributed 100,-
000 francs as a nucleus for a relief fund for
the benelit of the families o£ those who
perished in the late burning of the opera
'house. A dispatch of the 25th places the
number of those who lost their lives in the
catastrophe at eighty-live. These were buried
on that day.
In the Legislature of British Columbia, on
a recent debate in regard to the Pacific Railway, it was resolved to appeal to Queen Victoria. One member expressed a desire to put
a musket in every man's hand to fight the
Canadian Government
Parnell stated at a meeting in London on
the 25th that money was flowing from America to Ireland at the rate of £4,000 weekly.
An unsuccessful attempt was recently-
made to asassinate the Governor of the Russian province of Baku.
On the 25thEarl Stanhope's resolution protesting against the evacuation of Candahar
by the British was defeated in the House of
Commons by a vote of 346 to 2i6. This expression of confidence in the Government was
received with loud cheers by the Liberals.
A Constantinople telegram of the 25th
says the Porte had announced that it would
neither cede Crete nor any part of Albania,
The New York City authorities, have been
warned of the shipment from' Bottstein,
Switzerland,"of two notorious young women
at the expense o£ that village.
Count Pecci, a brother of the Pope, died
on the 25th.   •
Rudolph Zsigler & Co., rice merchants
of London, have sus ended payment, their
liabilities being £100,0.0.
• The London JVews of the 27th claimed to
have reason to believe that the fishery dispute between England and the United States
was in a fair way of settlement.
The mortal remains of Alexander IL, of
Russia, were deposited in the Imperial vault
of the Church of Petropatilovski Fortress on
the 27th, amid salvos of artillery.
The plague has appeared at Kufa, ninety
miles south of Bagdad, in Asiatic Turkej-..
The Sultan of Turkey has asked Egypt to
furnish a contingent of troops in the event
of a war with Greece.  .
The Moscow papers of the 26th state that
Roussakoff's father had committee suicide.
Petards are beinx scattered around very
promiscuously in Madrid. One exploded at
the door of the Carmelite Church in that
city on the 27th, and did considerable damage.
IiATBK ]SJ3WS.
At a monster L and meeting held in Tipi
perary on the 27th Dillon advised the tenants
not to pay unjust rents except at the point of
the bayunet.
The ihieat comes from Geneva that, if
Sophie Peioffsky is executed, the Czar will
perish. •
On the 23th a lady obtained a private audience with.the Pope and warned him that an
hour had been fixed for the assassination of
himself aad Cardinal Pecci.
By the breaking of the ice in the Missouri
Ever at Pierre, Dakota, on the 27tu, the
town was flooded to the de pth of live feet, and
the innab.tants encamped on the bluffs.
General Grant, accompanied by his son
Ulysses, his Secretary, Mr. Dawson, and Seuor
Romero, of Mexico, left New York for Mexico on the 2tith.
Hugh J. Jewett has declined the Presidency of the World's Fair Commission, and
it was stated on the 2Sth that ihe Executive
Committee would take no further acton until tne transportation companies should come
forward with the lull amount of their subscriptions.
-Mrs. Henkt Ward Beecher was greatly
improved in health on the 28th.
The New York Legislative Committee continued its investigation of the subject of
counterfeit butter and cheese on the 28th.
Gilbert T. Henshaw, produce broker, testified
that he had visited a number of oleomargarine factor.es and found that oleomargarine
butter was made from pea-nut lard, and
" oleo" oils, alum and acids. In some factories the employes were exceedingly filthy.
The excess of exports of merchandise
from over imports into this, country during
the twelve months ended February 28,1S81,
was $225,453,012; during the twelve months
ended February 29, 1S8), $212,306,044; excess o£ imports of gold and silver coiu and
bullion for the twelve months ended February 28, 1881, $72,602,365; twelve months
ended February 29,1S80, $68,791,266.
It was announced on the 28th that General Adam Badeau had po6'tively declined
the position of Charge d'Affatres to Denmark, and that the President would withdraw the nomination.
On the i8th at Iowa Cit)', Ia, Mrs. Hattie
Deuell, the starving lady, closid her thirty-
fourth day by a sinking spell which bade fair
to have a fatal ending; but she soon rallied
therefrom.
The galleries of the Senate chamber were
croivded on the 28th, in anticipation of a
speech by Mr. Muhone in defense of himself and the Readjustee of Virg n;a. He
occupied three hours in explanation of his
course and in reply to the charge of repudiation made against his constituents as a party.
At the conclusion of Mr. Mahone's speech
Mr. Dawes, after stating that he trusted his
friends on the other side would come on the
29th prepared to finish the pending business
and go on with executive business, moved to
adjourn, which motion was agreed to.
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Ihe Missouri Land Frauds—A Gigantic
Swindle.
[From the Washington Post, March 19.]
The press dispatches which have been
published regarding the recent arrest of
the land swindlers in St.Louis give no idea of
the extent of the fraud. The officials in the
General Land-office in the city regard it as
the greatest swindle ever perpetrated on the
Government, and its immensity can only be
realized when all the facts in the case are
known. Its inception dates back to the
year 1854, more than a quarter of a century
ago. In that year, on the ila of August, an
act was passed by Congress graduating values of public lands to actual settlers and
cultivators from $1.25 to 12 1-2 cents per
acre. Just after the passage of this act a
ring was formed in Missouri to obtain public lands by illegal methods. Some of the
men who engaged iu the scheme are still living, and it is believed at the Land-office that
the Government officials must have been in
collusion with the swindlers. The latter prepared and brought to several of the Land-
ofiices in Missouri a quantity of false evidence, alleging that the public lands for
which patents were desired were actually
»p«tled and cultivated according to law.
This Was sent to Washington by the Registers and Receivers, and on the presentation
of this alleged proof patents were issued for
hundreds and thousands of acres of land to the
swindlers. All their well-laid plans seemed
to prosper. Then the war came, and all
Southern and Southwestern Missouri, the
scene of the swindling operations, was in a
state of confusion. During the time it is believed the swindlers made the most of their
opportunities and abstracted as many patents
as they could find. When everything had
quieted down they commenced to sell off the
patents in a manner that was as plausible as
it was successful. It was as follows: Mr.
A came to Mr. B with a United States patent
for a certain number of acres. It was a genuine patent, though obtained by fraud. Accompanying it was a deed purporting to be
made out by the person whose name appeared on the patent. That deed was a
forgery. To obtain their end the swindlers
had committed two crimes. Some idea is
thus given of the enormity of the fraud.
First hundreds of affidavits that the signer
had actually settled and cultivated the land
were prepared, when the person whose
name was affixed never existed. Page after
page of some of the entry books in the Missouri Land-office have been found to be filled
with the names of fictitious persons to whom
patents were issued. Then, having secured
a patent to the land by fraud, a deed which
was not worth the paper it covered was written and handed to the guileless purchaser as
bona fide evidence that his title to the property was complete. There was another and
more careful way in which the skillful swindlers worked. Mr. A appeared to Mr. B,
who wished to purchase as the agent of Mr.
C, a third party. "Mr. C wishes to sell this
land," said 3Ir. A to the victim, "and will
probably accept your offer. Call around tomorrow at 1 o'clock. In the meantime t
will see him." It is needless to say that this
third party was a "straw man," who never
existed. When B appeared next day A
showed him a deed signed with C's name,
but which really had been drawn up by A.
within an hour after he had left the day before. As if to guard against any possible detection of fraud, the swindlers used what
they called a "smoked deed.7' This was a
deed discolored by smoke or coffee, and
made to appear of sufficient age to correspond with the date it bore. They grew so
expert at the practice of smoking freshly-
prepared deeds that the deception escaped
discovery. The investigation which led to
the exposure of the gigantic swindlers was
instigated a little over a year ago by a letter
received by Secretary Schurz. This stated
that one Robert P. Lindsay, of St. Louis,
whose father had once been in chai-ge of the
Land-office at Ironton, aud who had thus
had access to the contents and records of the
office, possessed one or two boxes filled with
United States land patents which were certainly genuine, although Lindsay might have
obtained them by questionable means. The
letter alleged that he kept these boxes concealed or moved them by stealth, and had
queer dealings with queer people. The
writer, who professed to be a friend to
Schurz, suggested in conclusion that it
might pay to look into the mattei*. The
statements of the letter Were deemed of such
importance that the Secretary at once secured Special Agent D. P. Terrell, of the
Treasury Department, to work up the case.
His experience during the thirteen months
he has been employed would, if published,
read like a novel. He has been in nearly every city in the country, under assumed
names. He has figured in the pine woods of
Missouri as a saw-mill owner or prospector,
and in the Western cities as an Eastern capitalist who wanted to buy a large quantity of
land in the southern part of Missouri,, and
was on an anxious search for the real owner
of the property. In his investigations he
found that the ramifications of the swindle
extended to Pittsburgh, Cleveland and other
cities. His labors were at last crowned with
success: A few days ago a number of persons, including Lindsay, were arrested in St.
Louis or the cities named. They have all
given bail or are on trial. It is stated at the
,Land-oftice that the ring has obtained fraudulent titles to more than a million acres of
land; the larger proportion of this vast area
they have sold to innocent settlers. Who are
now living in peace around happy hearth-
tires. Legally they have no title to the land
• they occupy, and the Government can cause
it to revert to the United States. - Will this
course be pursued? is a question which can
not now be answered. Government officials
who were conversed with to-day say that it
will rest with the Secretary of the Interior
and the Attorney-General to decide whether
civil suits shall be begun at once to vacate
the titles to these lands. It is believed that;
whatever is determined upon, it will be so
arranged that the blow shall not. fall too
heavily upon the thousands of duped settlers
whose hitherto undisputed titles to their
homes have been rendered valueless at ono
swoop by this exposure.
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Cleveland, O., Ma ch 19.—George Linn,
one of tlie men arrested for complicity in the
land swindle business, was admitted to bail
in the sum of $5,000 for appearance on the
25th for hearing. It has been decided, contrary to some expectation, that apreliminary
hearing will be held here, Detective Tyrrell
being the principal witness. The United
States Attorney has been visited to-day by
large numbers of purchasers of Missouri
lands, who suspect the Validity of their titles.
One deed to eight hundred acres, in the possession of a prominent citizen, was found, on
examination, to be even without the acknowledgment of a notary, and worthless.
On the reverse side was found an abstract
showing that the grantor bad sold the land
»t different times to three differentpartjes.
BURNED   TO   DEATH!
A Big Scheme.
Obstruction of Ihe Opera House at Sice.
IVance — Nonrly One Hundred Persona
Trampled or Burned to Death—Terrible
Scene*.
London, March 21.
A dispatch from Nice says:
The holocaust at the opera house last evening: was caused by a gas explosion at the back
of the sta^e, which set fire to the scenery.
The llames spread with alarming- rapidity, and
soon enveloped the sras meter. The supply of
gas being cut off, the body of the house was
soon plunged in darkness. The crowd pressed
madly toward the limited means of exit. The
audience was lar#je, and in the panic hundreds
were thrown down and trodden under foot,
Those who endeavored to extricate the people,
who were hopelessly jammed between the
doorways and passage?, describe the scene as
terrible. The shrieks of the wounded mingled
with the cries of those in the galleries, whose
every means of escape was cut off.
Mme. Donadio, the prima donna, was saved,
but the tenor, basso, baritone and a number of
the chorus singers were burned." "Up .to midnight over eighty bodies had been extricated from the ruins. A man who escaped
from the upper gallery by jumping declares
that, w,i,th perhaps a dozen exceptions, every
person in his part of the house was burned.
Some saiTors were lost. A number of American and English visitors rendered signal assistance in saving life. -
The scene in the town is indescribable. One
lady, whose husband was burned to death, committed suicide. The usual complaints arc
made respecting the defective means of escape and water supply. Although the Mediterranean washe3 the shore at the foot of the
wallB of the theater no water could be obtained
when wanted, and the beautiful opera bouse ls,|
a complete wreck.
The fire commenced soon after the curtain
had risen for the performance of "Lucia di
Lanunernicor." The subscribers forthe orchestra stalls and boxes of the grand tier had
mostly not arrived. A majority of- the victims belong to the working class.
A detachment of sailors from the squadron
in the harbor arrived on the scene and displayed great gallantry in rescuing people and
combating the fire, which was subdued toward
ten o'clock. Strakosch the impresario, was
slightly hurt.
One whole family of five persons and another of tbr.ee persons are kuownto have perished.
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Population Statistics.
Washington, March SO.
According to the tables of the Census Department, the white population of the United
State3 has increased since 1870 from 33,592,245
to 43,402,108, or nearly 29 per cent.; the colored
population from 4,886,387 to 6,577,497, or nearly
35 per cent., and the Chinese population from
63,251 to 105,679. or about 67 per cent. The following table shows the number of white?,
negroes and Chinese in each State and Territory:
States.      " White.   Colored. Chinese.
Alabama     661,986     600,141 4
Ari-.ona       35,178 138       1,082
Arkansas.     591,611     210,622 134
California... ;     767,266 6,168      75,123
Colorado......     191,452 2,459 610
Connecticut     610,884       11,422 138
Dakota     133,177 381 238
Delaware      120.198      26,458
Dist. Columbia     118.236       59.378 IS
Florida      141,249     1*5.263 18
Georgia.............    814,218     724,664 17
Idaho....       32,(511       29,011        3,378
Illinois  3, 3?,174       46,248 214
Indiana  1,939.044       38,998 37
Iowa    1,614,510 9,412 47
Kansas     932,050       43,0.)6 22
Kentucky.... 1,377,077     271.462 10
Louisiaua...     455.063     483,898 483
Maine ".     646.903 1,427 8
Maryland     724,718     209,897 6
Massachusetts...... 1,761.083      1<,644 256
Michigan...  ],61*,078      14/JS6 2)
Minnesota     776,940        1.558 54
Mississippi..     479,371     650.b37 52
Missouri  2,02\568     145,046 94
Montana       35,468 202       1,737
Nebraska....     449,805        2,376 18
Nevada....        53,571 405        5,423
New Hampshire...    345,261 648 14
New Jersey.... 1,091,856       38,7-90 182
New Mexico     107,188 907 55
New York....'.  5.017,142"-      64,913-        942
Nortn.Carolina     887,467     531,316 1
Ohio  3,118,344       79,685 lf7
Oreiron       103,087 493       U.SOS
Pennsylvania  4,197,106       85,313 170
Rhode Island     269,933 6,503 27
South Carolina.....    391,258     604,325 9
Tennessee... ...... 1,139,120     402,993 2%
Texas -. 1,197,493     394,007 142
Utah..     142,381 204 51S
Vermont      331,243 1,032
Virginia     880,739      031,996 6
Washington       67,349 537       3,227
West Virginia......    592,433       25,729 14
Wisconsin  1.309,632 2,724 16
Wyoming       19,436 279 914
Total.. .43,493,408   7,577,497    105,679
Jn California the Chinese population has increased in ten years from 49,310 to 75.122; in
.Arizona, from 20 to 1,632; in Oregon, from
3,3L0to 9,508; in Washington Territory, from
234 to 3,227. In Idaho the Chinese numbered
4,274 in 1870. and 3.378 in 1880.
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An Old Note Paid.
It is not an fwery-day occurrence that we
have to note, and it is not without many precedents, though the instance differs in some
respects from similar deeds which are recorded to the honor of business men. In 1837 a
firm failed owing a note held by a New Tork
bank, which bore the indorsement of a Boston
firm, which also stopped payment during the
parifc. A few days since the bank in New
York was called upon by a representative
of one of the indorsers with a statement
of the transaction, which, upon referring
to the books of the bank, was found
to* be correct. The gentleman, to the astonishment of the olicials. stated that he t.-j authorized by the Boston gentleman to pay the
principal and interest, and thereupon handed a check for $ 12,00J, which was found to be
correct. The bank officers say that they had
no legal claim to the amount, that the bank
had changed its charter, and had itself experienced financial difficulties, but the gentleman assured them that his orders were
peremptory, and the money was accepted.
The name of the gentleman was not made
public for many reasons, but it is a deed
worthy of being reeordod.—Boston Journal.
Prizes Awarded to Yermont Boys.
The award of prizes offered to Vermont boys
under seventeen years of age, by two of the
Trustees of the University and Scate Agricultural College, has been made. The first prize
of §25 and a scholarship in the University,
(worth $50 a year for four years', for corn was
taken by Fi an'.t J. Hubbard, of Whiting, and
the_iirst prize of the same amount for potatoes, by Lewis S. Breed, of Goshen. The second* prize of $20 for corn was taken by
Edgar J. Tuthill, of Newfane, and for
potatoes by Frank J. Hubbard. The third
prize of §15 for corn was taken by
J. T. Goodenow, of Montpelier, and
for potatoes by BuitRoyce, of Williamstown.
The fourth and fifth prizes for com were taken
by Edward N. Casey, of Whiting, and H. E.
Thayer, of Guilford; ani for potatoes by Eugene tflastridge, of Northfield, and George It.
Powers, of Lunenburg. No less than 305 boys
competed from llO-ditforent towns. The best
yield reached was at the ra'e of 193 bushels
of dry shelled corn to Ihe acre and 422 bushels
of potatoes to the acre. As the average production of Vermont farms is estimated to be
39 bushels of corn aud 340 of potatoes to the
acre, it will bo seen that the results seourcd by
the boys are quite encouraging.—Burlington
(Vt.) Free Press.
—Emerson was at first the only reader who praised "Sartor Resartus," and
so Carlyle said: "vlhear but one voice,
the v.pm Jroro Concord."
" I've got the biggest scheme of the
age," said a man about forty years old,
as he dropped into a chair by the city
editor's desk In the Banner editorial
room this morning. Re wore a brin-
dle-colored duster, and his head gear,
an ancient; plug, hid his ears from view.
'•Have, eh?'5 said the person addressed.
*' Yes, sir-ee. Biggest thing you ever
heard of. It'll? revolutionize the hull
country. - Make me rich, and you rich,
and everybody rich."
" You don't appear to be very rich.''
"I don't. 'Cause why? I've been
foolin' away my time just like you are
doing now. I've worked harder than a
muie for three years, and not a cent
laid up. About three weeks ago an
idee struck me kinder suddent-like. I
begun* to think. I laid awake nights
and thought. Finally, about four
o'clock this morning, while lying in
bed thinking, I suddenly riz up, and
my wife she says, "What's the matter?
Got a nightmare?' I told her no, that
1 was going to be rich. She. called me
an old fool, and turned over and went
to sleep. . But I was too happy to sleep.
I got up and walked around till breakfast, and then I set out for your office.
I had heard that you were willing to
help the poor, and so I says to myself,
"I'll confide my secret to the Banner.'' "
"Possibly you've found a pot of
gold?"
"No; my scheme is this: There are
thousands and millions of men in this
country who are rich. There are more
who are not rich. Now, ray scheme is
to have these rich men help the poor
men. to get rich. See? And when we
are all rich what a beautiful world we'll
have. How do I propose to do this?
For instance, I propose that every man
and woman in the State who* can afford
it shall give me fifty cents. That will
make me rich. See? I will take that
monev and start me a family grocery,
and then we rich men will take up a
similar collection for you, and then you
are rich. Then with you on our list
we'll take up the next man and make
him rich, and so on, until everybody i3
on the rich list. See how it works.
Beautiful, isn't it?"
"1 guess it is."
" O, it's a boss. It's a wonder somebody didn't think of it before. So simple, you know. Why, we can all be
bondholders in a few years, and own
stock in railroads and canals and National banks."
"Well?"
"I want you to publish the scheme
and let the "people know what we are
doing, and tell 'em where to send their
fifty centses—Elijah Pudd, Station D,
Nashville, Tenn. You see, I, being the
originator of the plan, ought to be made
rich first, so as to show 'em how it
works. Now, the honor of organizing
the plan is glory enough for me; so, if
you say so, 111 let you have the privilege of paying in the first half dollar,
and you can pay it now, and I'll enter
your name on the fly-leaf of this book,
mentioning in brackets that you are the
first man. Shall I put you down for
fifty cents?"
"I don't think I care to."
"No? Remembeivit's nothing to me
who puts his name down first. It's a
privilege tha't will be granted to but
few. If you want you-can pay me twenty-five cents now and hand me the rest
at another time. Shall I put down
twenty-five cents? No? Then I'll be'
more liberal still; give me ten cents and
I'll enter your name and give you credit
for the full amount. Nor1 I'll go; and
as you won't give me a dime, maybe
you wouldn't mind loaning me a chew
of tobacco? No? All right;" and he
passed out.
An hour later the reporter found liim
working on the streets with the chain-
fang, and, as he passed along, heard
im mutter: "It's a mighty poor man
who won't give ten cents toward making
another man rich."—Nashville (Term.)
Banner.
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One Honest Man.
The other day six men sat around a
stove in a Detroit tobacco store. There
had been a long period of silence when
one of them rubbed his leg and remarked:
" That old wound feels as if it was
going to open again. I shall always remember the battle of Rich'Mountain."'
There was a slight stir around the
stove, and a second man put his hand
to his shoulder and observed:
" And I shall not soon forget Brandy
Station. Feels to-day as if the lead was
going to work out."
The interest was now considerably
increased, and the third man knocked
the ashes off his cigar and said:
" Yes, those were two hard fights,
but you ought to have been with Nelson
at Franklin. Lor', but wasn't I excited
that day! When those two fingers went
with a grape-shot I never felt the pain!"
The fourth man growled out something about SecondBull Run and a sabre
cut on the head, and the fifth man felt
of his left side and said he should always
remember the lay of the ground at the
Yellow Tavern. The sixth man was
silent. Tlie other five looked at him
and waited for him to speak, but it was
a long time before he pointed to his
empty sleeve and asked:
" Gentlemen, do you know where I
got that?"
Some mentioned one battle and some
another, but he shook his head sadly
and continued:
" Boys, let's be honest and own riglit
up. I lost my arm by a buzz-saw, and
now we will begin on the left and give
everj' one a chance to clear his conscience. Now, then, showyourwounds."
The five men leaned back in their
chairs and smoked fast and chewed hard
and looked at each other, and each one
wished he was in Texas when a runaway horse flew"'by and gave them a
chance to rush out and get clear of the
one-armed man. It was a narrower escape than any one of them had during
the wsx.—Detroit Free Press.
—Captain Lawson, when in New
Guinea, found that Mount'Hercules was
32,786 feet high, if his calculation is
correct, that mountain must betaken,
in the absence of other and more ac-
curatedejerrninatioris^to pe the highest
in ihe world.""      * "-
MISCELlAKEaUS.
—The Smiths of New York City now
number-2,430.
—Out in California an enterprising
peddler has been selling small tin boxes
of axle-greese at ten eents a box, assuring the purchasers that itwasanew-
kindof corn salve.   Several neighbor- .
hoods are now anxious to see him.
=-*-The wife of a certain M. C. wore a
dress to the Inauguration Ball which cost
$1,500. Its front, a breadth of satin,- -..
Was a garden of roses, violets, pansies
and pinks, while not to set aside fash- „
ion's stern decrees, sunflowers turned
their constant faces to the light. ".
—An English farmer who h'ad emi- ".
grated to Canada returned not long ago
taking with him as great curiosities
about twenty Colorado beetles. Some
of* them escaped and" the farmer was
fined £5 for allowing them to get away.
The matter has been made the subject
of an inquiry in the House of Commons.
—Early in February two German ~I
women, Frau Schmidt and Frau Feustel,
■living at Zeitz, in Prussian Saxony, and
in addition living in the same house and
on the same Moor, were each on the
same day, delivei*ed of three children,
and they were all boys. Probably such
a singular coincidence never before oc- *
curred. '
—Mr. F. O. C. Robinson; a former
English cotton manufacturer, who
bought a mill site just south of San Antonio, Texas, a year ago, has returned
to England with the intention of inducing a number of well-to-do masters and
operatives to form a co-operative company and engage in the manufacture of
cotton goods.
—A New Hampshire farmer recently
agreed to sell his farm for $2,000, but -
vvhen the day came he told the expectant purchaser that his wife was in hysterics about the trade, and he " guessed
he'd have to back out." The purchaser complained, and finally asked how
much more would induce him to sell.
"Well" replied the thrifty son of the
Granite State, "give me $250 more,
and we'll let her cry." .
—Women seem to he rapidly supplanting men as travelers—not travelers '
for wholesale houses, but travelers into
dangerous and unknown lands. There
is Lady Anna Blunt, who went among
the Bedouin Arabs; Mrs. Brassey, who
has been around the world in her yacht;
Mrs. Bird, who dared to go into regions
of Japan where no European had ever
ventured before, and Lady Florence
Dixie, who went " through Patagonia,"
and who now has gone to Zululand.
—The Duke of Edinburgh has just
distributed prizes to a swimming ciub,
making_at the same time a speech upon
the exercise. He declared that he was'
glad to find that itis a general rule in
public schools that those boys who are
most proficient in healthful' exercises,
cricket, foot-ball, etc., are not behind
the others, if not in advance of them in
school teaching, and he added that in
his opinion the more exercise which is
health-giving is indulged in the more
ready the mind will be to receive the
tuition which is given in the schools.
—Dr. William Sharswood, of Philadelphia, in a recent lecture on sound, gave
the vocal compass of a number of the ;
"artists in the Mapleson Opera Company,
now performing in this country. Mira- -
mon's compass is from C to Fin alt.; ,_
Gerster's from B to F sharp in alt.;
Carey's from F to B flat. The present
principal soprana (boy) of Trinity
Church" has a compass from E to B,
with a voice light and flexible; another
from B flat to G, full and strong, though
not flexible. A German boy of the
same choir seven years ago had a compass from C ..to G in alt., over two
octaves, fairly even throughout, and
strong. There is no difficulty in getting
a good high A from the eliorus sopranos
of this choir.
—The passing passion of New York
girls is for children just old enough to*
walk.   Pet dogs are discarded for the
time being, and the fashionable belle
lead instead a little toddler by the hand.    "'
The object is to be regarded by strangers as a youthful and interesting mother.    "Lend me your baby this after-   „
noon," is the common request to genuine mothers by maidens. "Going a distance of four blocks on Fifth Avenue,'3   ..
says a correspondent.   " I met  three.
girls of not more than nineteen demurely leading tiny children and counterfeiting a maternal air.     Sometimes the
attractive offspring of poor parents are
borrowed, dressed "carefully and taken
out.  The freak is new and wonderful."
—Rabbits are making their way again
in Victoria, Australia.    One district  is   ■-
reported to be completely overrun, and.   •
the farmers who are open to their depredations have to make common cause
to keep them down.   This they do, unfortunately, with very little sueeess, for
the rabbits breed conveniently in the
low, impassable scrub and then come
out to feed on the farmers' crops in the
neighborhood.     The scrub,   however,
belongs to the Government, .which is  ...
now called upon to put down this nuisance.    Enthusiasts in   acclimatization
ought to be   careful what tricks they
play in the matter of transplantation. -
That philosopher who originally brought
the rabbit into Australia will need no
monument.
—A discovery of much archceological '
interest has recently been made in the  «
Algerian Sahara.   M. Tarry, who has r
been carrying on  work in connection
with the proposed Trans-Sahara Railway, having noticed a mound of sand '
in the neighborhood of Wargia, had the -
sand dugup and discovered the top of
a spherical dome. This naturally aroused
his interest, and getting his Arabs to '
dig still deeper, he found underneath
the dome a square tower,  then a platform of masonry and finally acomplete-
mosque.    Continuing the excavations, .
M. Tarry soon unearthed seven houses
in perfect preservation and came upon
a subterranean watercourse.     At. the;
last news nine houses had been disin--,-,
terred and M. Tarry was getting addi-M
tional  assistance to clear out the pre- "
cious watercourse,  which he describes*
as sufficient to irrigate a small forest of*
palms.   It is well known that theSa-,.
hara was at one time much more popu-*
loiisthan it is now, audits trade much*
more extensive, but no one seems tol
have supposed that-cities had been bur-.*
ied. under its sands so recentlv as- since^
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