sider the advantage of establishing an understanding with Russia (an understanding not hostile to Austria, but consistent with friendship for her), we shall find the idea impracticable-peculiarly so when we remember (and this consideration must always be taken into account) that we have deliberately sacrificed millions in customs duties, to the injury of the, Empire and at the cost of its productive interests, on the altar of solicitude for the strength of our allies. If it was too complicated a task for the men of the new régime to continue the old policy of neutrality toward Russia and Austria, they have at least found out by this time that that policy was the only one adapted to the promotion of German interests.

SOCIAL TOPICS.

THE TEXAS BURNING. On Feb. I a mob at Paris, Tex., burned at the stake a negro named Henry Smith. Before the burning Smith was tortured in a very horrible manner. Smith's offense was peculiarly atrocious and cruel. Harboring a resentment against a policeman of the town, he seized that officer's three-year-old girl, outraged her, and then tore her body to pieces. He confessed his crime to his captors.

Houston (Tex.) Post, Feb. 3.-It was not a mob, but the assemblage of the people in multiplied thousands to visit punishment to the last degree upon an act so monstrous that all other offenses against individuals and society seem trivial by comparison with it. Laws are made to meet ordinary circumstances within the experience of man. No law was ever made or conceived to meet an occasion like that. Justice, however sure, could not wait the forms of usual occurrences. All that could be added of swiftness of stroke and terror of execution was due to this one-not as a matter of public vengeance, but of terrible example and a warning burned by fire into the nature of every living fiend like this one-if there lives another. If a tiger had seized the little girl and devoured her to appease its hunger, the whole community would have joined in the pursuit to kill. But quiet and ordinary death here would have fallen as far short of the need as would the act of the tiger have been short of the act of this fiend in shape of human. Mob law should be condemned, and when adequate forms are provided they should be followed, but as "in the midst of war the laws are silent," so they may be, on rare occasions, in the midst of peace and this is one of them. It has been said that you cannot hang a whole people," and so it may be said you cannot condemn a whole people. The whole people of that intelligent and God-fearing community-and they were thousandshave moved and acted together as if one voice, and while human feeling shrinks from reflection upon the horrors of the execution, it shudders at the greater horror of the offense, and the balanced judgment cannot condemn what the people there did, however it may withhold approval of the part played by personal and

private vengeance.

Richmond Times, Feb. 3.-It is one thing for a negro, but little removed from a beast, to commit a sickening crime-it is quite another for a community of white people to attempt to surpass him in cruelty and revenge. We deplore the violation of law, and, though it requires great self-restraint when the people sec crime so great and law so slow, we must know that we can never claim to be a civilized and much less a Christian people until our public learns and practices the truth that the offense is against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth and by the Commonwealth is to be punished. The practice of lynching, no matter what the crime may be, is a dissolution of the bonds of society and the reign of the disciples of Ravachol. So far from deterring crime, lynching seems to provoke it-certainly

the whole act is a defiance of law and must THE DRINK QUESTION.

SITION.

New England Home (Proh., Hartford), Feb. 4.-Mr. Edward Atkinson, the distinguished. economist of Boston, has proposed a plan for the solution of the problem of national revenue, which he suggests as a basis for Democratic tariff reform. In brief, he premisesthat the ordinary running expenses of the Government are about $5 a year for each person; that the revenue from liquors and tobacco, es-pecially liquors, will provide at least $3 of that sum; that the remaining $2 can be levied in ways that will admit of removing the present duty on leading raw materials and materially reducing the duty on others, and even on some finished products; that the pensions problem, which in its heaviest burdens is temporary and must soon begin to decrease, can be treated as an extra special feature and met by special bonds issued at low rate of interest. It will be seen at a.

sow dragons' teeth broadcast. Chicago Inter-Ocean, Feb. 3. - No sudden MR. ATKINSON'S REVENUE PROPOburst of righteous anger swayed the horde of savages who tortured him to death. An imagination more cruel than is attributed to Moloch, god of murder, gave itself to deliberate riot, and devised tortures to which those suffered by the victims of the Druids, or those whom Phalaris roasted in his brazen bull, or those which Damien underwent at the hands of the execution of the French tyrant, or those which the fancy of Eschylus attributed to Prometheus, or those which sacred or profane history, or the fiction of any age, describes as ever having been borne by flesh or spirit were mild. And, having devised them, the mob inflicted them. Truth, alas, is stranger than fiction. It is years since a distinguished soldier uttered the sarcasm in which he expressed a preference for the most dreaded of all unknown places over Texas as a place of residence. Until the State is asperged of the infamy of Paris, all civilization will adopt the soldier's sarcasm as its deliberate sentiment. It is in a spirit of compassion that is hardly warranted by circumstances that we suggest that the name of Paris be stricken from the map of Texas. Henceforth no self-respecting person will care to enter a hotel in any city where newspapers have been read and to in'Paris, scribe himself on its register as of " Texas." The name of the place will be infamous to the civilization of all ages. It will be well to change it at once.

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glance that the corner-stone of this revenue system is the rum traffic. It is basing onr national revenues upon a traffic that costs the people in actual money many times what we get out of it. Not to mention the moral issue, not to attempt to rise in thisChristian" land to the "impracticable' moral heights of that "heathen" Chinese ruler, who said: "I cannot. consent raise revenue from the vices of my people," Mr. Atkinson's proposition is suicidal from New York Herald, Feb. 3.-To burn a man, even a financial point of view. however guilty the wretch may be, with irons build the business foundations of this nation It proposes to heated to a white heat, to put his eyes out in upon an industry that is sucking the life out of the same manner, is an atrocity which goes every honest business. far beyond the limits of disgrace. It is a seam for public relief upon the greatest of public It proposes to depend of lead in our block of gold, a satire on our burden-breeders. Citizens, such fiscal policy is civilization, an act so base and unworthy that the supremest folly. There is no makeshift it can be applauded only by the denizens of the that can avoid the real burden which Governinfernal regions. That the people of Texas ment brings to productive industry. To tax vice are jealous of their rights; that they propose means to license, intrench, and multiply it, and to put the stamp of their indignation on bring forth the fruits of public iniquity an hunsuch unnatural crimes; that they jealously dred fold. The people of this country have guard the integrity of their households; that permitted a fearful degree of public extravathey flash into fury when their little children and their daughters are endangered-these burdens are heavy, but we must face and bear gance for nearly a generation. The resulting things meet the unqualified approval of the them, the sooner the better and the easier. world. If their relations with the negroes are Special favoritism and corruption have grownso peculiar that they are forced to measures which would be discountenanced in an older only true course is to suppress the institutions to a degree that is menacing the republic. The and more conservative community, we understand a certain precipitancy in case of an give special favor to classes. can that breed corruption and correct the laws that outrage of this sort. In a word, remitted in the execution of Henry Smith in- the alcoholic drink traffic, protect American But the deeds they com- peal the Internal Revenue system, suppress dicate a tendency to barbarism which reddens industry on lines really effective, for the equal the cheeks of men with shame and brings pop- benefit of American labor and capital, and raise ular government into disrepute. all needed additional revenues by taxing incomes and inheritances.

THE NEW HOME OF THE LOUISIANA

LOTTERY.

OBITUARY.

MRS. WHITNEY.

New York Sun, Feb. 6.-The death of Mrs.

Feb. 1.-The infamous Louisiana lottery has Northwestern Christian Advocate (Chicago), found a new home in Honduras. That little republic has granted the institution a charter, and at the same time the right to prey upon its people as well as those of other lands. The con- William C. Whitney, which it was our sad cession gives the company a monopoly of the office to announce yesterday morning, is a lottery business for fifty years. The Government bereavement which touches, besides her husgrants the company the island of Gunaja, and band and her family, a wide circle of sorrowconcedes free of cost all lands which may be re-ing friends. Mrs. Whitney had great intellecquired for its offices throughout the republic. tual and social gifts, generous impulses, and a The company is also granted the right to lay a sincere desire to promote the happiness of all cable line from the island of Guanaja or from among whom her lot was cast. Her own and any point on the coast of Honduras, to the her husband's means enabled her to disUnited States, the Antilles, or to Europe, and pense a liberal hospitality, and she did to establish a steamship line from any or all it with a skill and taste which made her ports on the Honduranian coast to any part of a centre of social attraction wherever she the world. All articles belonging to the com-resided, while to those who had the good fortune pany are admitted free of duty, its employés to be intimately acquainted with her she uniare exempt from military service, and it is formly exhibited the same simple, unpretendexempt from all taxes. For the privileges ing affection that marked her girlhood. Her granted it, the lottery company is to pay the death, coming as it does almost in the very Government $1,000,000 in gold, and a gradu-hour of her husband's great political triumph,. ated percentage of from one to three per cent, and at the outset of a beloved daughter's career on the face value of all tickets sold. Honduras in society, is one of those catastrophes which. expects to profit by this concession, but it will teach more eloquently than words the instabil prove a curse, as did the Panama Canal Lottery ity of human happiness and the fragility of to the French. human expectations.

Index to Periodical Literature.

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

Actresses (Catholic). John W. O'Keefe. Donahoe's Mag., Feb., to pp. With Portraits. Sketches of Catholic Actresses.

Arbuthnot (Dr.), The Life and Works of. Edinb. Rev., Jan., 28 pp.

Artists (Two)-Douglas Volk and Burt Harwood. Marion Jean Craig. Literary Northwest, Feb., 9 pp. Illus.

Boleyn (Mary and Anne). James Gairdner. Eng. Hist. Rev., London, Jan., 8 pp.

Catholic Prelates I Have Known. Joseph Howard, Jr. Donahoe's Mag., Feb., 6 pp.

Columbus (Christopher). London Quar. Rev., Jan., 24 PP.

Ericsson (John), The Life of. Edinb. Rev., Jan., 33 pp.

Gibbons (Cardinal). W. H. Tammen. Donahoe's Mag., Feb., 3 PP. With Portrait.

Gooch (Sir Daniel). London Quar. Rev., Jan., 20 pp.

Kleynarts (Nicolas): A Scholar and Traveller of the Renaissance. Quar. Rev.,
London, Jan,, 26 pp.

Lightfoot (Bishop). Quar. Rev., London. Jan., 33 PP.
Martyn (Henry). London Quar. Rev, Jan., 19 pp.

Robertson (George Croom), Biographical Notice of. A. Bain. Mind, London,
Jan., 15 PP.

Talleyrand (Princess). Gustav Barder. Chaperone, Jan., 2 pp. Tennyson. London Quar. Rev., Jan., 22 pp.

With Portrait.

Villars. Judge William O'Connor Morris. Eng. Hist. Rev., London, Jan., 19 pp. Sketch of the celebrated French General,

Whittier John Greenleaf). London Quar. Rev., Jan., 19 pp.

EDUCATION, LITERATURE, ART.

American Culture. The Rev. John Conway, A.M. Literary Northwest, Feb., 4 pp.

Architecture: a Business, a Profession, or an Art? Quar. Rev., London, Jan., 32 PP.

Architecture a Profession or an Art. The Rt. Hon. Lord Grimthorpe. XIX Cent., London, Jan.. 23 pp.

Chicago (Literary). W. M. Payne. New England Mag., Feb., 17 pp. Illus. Descriptive of Literary Clubs, Sketches of Authors, etc.

Dropmore Papers (The). Edinb. Rev., Jan., 32 pp.

Education in Ancient Egypt. Prof. Charles G. Hebermann, Ph.D. Amer. Cath. Quar. Rev., Jam, 26 pp. Historical.

Education (Sham). Prof Mahaffy. XIX. Cent., London, Jan., 17 pp.

English Scholars at Bologna. The Rev. A. Allaria, D.D. Dublin Rev., Jan., 18 pp.

Dublin Rev., Jan.. 13 pp. University Extension, Jan.,

Evening-Continuation Schools. W. M. Hunnybun.
Extension Work, Sequence in. Samuel Wagner.
4 pp.
French Versification, Studies in. A. R. Holfeld. Modern Language Notes,
Jan., 8 pp.

Guacho (the) and His Dialect, Remarks on. F. M. Page. Modern Language
Notes, Jan., 9 pp. The Guaclios of Buenos Ayres.

Hygiene as an Extension Study. Murray G. Motter, M.D. University Extension, Jan., 3 pp. Suggests an outline for a course of six lectures on practical bygiene.

Inland-Shakespeariana. Lewis F. Mott. Modern Language Notes, Jan., 2 pp. The use of the word Inland by Shakespeare.

Macbeth (Lady), Stage Types of. Morris Ross. Poet-Lore, Feb., 3 pp. Various conceptions of Lady Macbeth as presented by Mrs. Pritchard, Mrs. Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Modjeska, and Ellen Terry.

Monks J. A. S.) and His Work-In American Studios. Henry Austin. Donahoe's Mag., Feb., 12 pp. Illus.

Numeration, Systems of. A Plea for the Duodecimal. The Rev. Thomas J. A. Freeman, S.J. Amer. Cath. Quar. Rev., Jan., 12 pp.

Pastoral Novel (the) in Spain, The Origins of. F. M. Warren. Modern Language Notes, Jan., 11 pp.

Poetic Expression, The Nature of. Prof. D. Dorchester, Jr. Poet-Lore, Feb., 9 PP. A paper read before the Boston Browning Society.

Poets (Modern) and the Meaning of Life. Frederic W. H. Meyers. XIX. Cent.,
London, Jan., 19 pp.

Public-School System (Engli). A Comparison Between Methods There and
Here. James W. Clarke, A.M. Donahoe Mag., Feb., 8 pp.
Ruskin (John) as Letter-Writer: With Extracts from Hitherto Unpublished
Letters. (Continued.) William G. Kingsland. Poet-Lore, Feb., 5 pp.
Seminary (The) and Its Opportunity. M. G. Brumbaugh. University Extension,
Jan., 2 pp.

Sumiro-Accadians (the) of Chaldea, Legends of. Alice Bodington. Amer.
Naturalist, Feb., 8 pp.

Tennyson, The Poetry of. Quar. Rev., London, 39 pp.

Tennyson, Was He Consistent? George Parsons Lathrop. Amer. Cath. Quar. Rev., Jan., 21 pp. Points out some of the inconsistencies of Tennyson. University Extension of the Catholic Summer School. The Rev. J. F. Mullaney. Amer. Cath. Quar. Rev., Jan., 10 pp.

University Life (Mediæval). Brother Azarias. Amer. Cath. Quar. Rev., Jan., 29 pp. Historical.

World's Fair (The) and Industrial Art. Gen. A. T. Goshorn, Director Centennial Exhibition, 1876. Engineering Mag., Feb., 9 pp. Benefits likely to be derived from the World's Fair.

POLITICAL.

Britannic Confederation and Colonization. London Quar. Rev., Jan., 18 pp.
Conservatism and Democracy. Quar. Rev., London, Jan., 31 pp.

Democracy (False). W. S. Lilly. XIX. Cent., Jan., 15 pp. Modern Democracy is "a lie," etc.

Home Rule, On the Eve of. John O'Callaghan. Donahoe's Mag., Feb., 6 pp. A statement of the Gladstonian measure, etc.

India, The Native States of. Quar. Rev., London, Jan., 34 PP.
India, The Patronage in G. T. Mackenzie. Dublin Rev., Jan., 13 pp.

Irish Conspiracy (The Great). Edinb. Rev., Jan., 33 pp. Review of Le Caron's
book, Twenty-five Years in the Secret Service: The Recollections of a
Spy."
The Rev. Henry Cohen. Menorah,

National Loyalty, A Jewish Characteristic.
Feb., 5 PP.

Persia and the Persian Question. Quar. Rev., London, Jan.. 32 pp.
Priest (The) in Politics. Michael Davitt. XIX. Cent., London, Jan., 17 pp.
Justifies the action of the Irish priests in Irish politics.

Silver Question (The) and India. Gen. Sir Geo, Chesney, M.P. XIX, Cent.,
London, Jan., 11 pp.

Town Holdings. Quar. Rev., London, Jan., 32 pp.
RELIGIOUS.

Briggs (Professor) and Authority of the Bible. John Goddard. New-Jerusalem
Mag., Feb., 10 pp. Argues that the Bible will remain the authority in the
Church.

Christian Ethics, Problems in. London Quar. Rev., Jan., 23 pp.

Friars (The) in Oxford. G. B. Lancaster-Woodbourne. Dublin Rev., Jan., 23 pp. Hexateuch (the), Authorship and Composition of. The Rev. C. Van den Biessen, D.D. Dublin Rev., Jan., 26 pp.

Irish Christian Brothers. Amer. Cath. Quar. Rev., Jan., 12 pp. Descriptive of the Institute of the Irish Chtistian Brothers.

Israel. Quar. Rev., London, Jan., 34 pp. General article on the history of the
Jews.
John the Baptist.

George S. Wheeler. New-Jerusalem Mag., Feb., 9 pp.

Man or the Bible? A Reply to Dr. Shields. Harry White. Unitarian, Feb.,
2 pp. Evidently favors the "Man.
New York (Catholic). Richard H. Clarke, LL.D. Donahoe's Mag., Feb., 10 pp.
Illus. Descriptive of the Catholic Church in New York City.

Pagan Virtue. The Very Rev. John Hogan, D.D., S.S. Am. Cath. Quar. Rev.,
Jan., 18 pp. A study of the moral doctrines of paganism.
Palestine, The Pilgrims of. Edinb. Rev., Jan., 19 pp.

Peter, The Gospel and Apocalypse of. A. B. Curtis, Unitarian, Feb., 41⁄2 pp.
Compares it with the Canonical Gospels.

Pilgrims' Church in Plymouth. Arthur Lord. New England Mag., Feb., 12 pp. Illus. Historical and descriptive.

Renan, The Religious. Rabbi Louis Grossman. Menorah, Feb., 7 pp. Retrospect (A). Part III. and Conclusion. Prof. St. George Mivart, F.R.S. Am. Cath. Quar. Rev., Jan., 24 PP. The Catholic Church in England from 1860 to the present time.

Russian Church (The). Lady Herbert. Dublin Rev., Jan., 15 pp.

Satolli's (Monsignor) Work, A Word on, Charles W. Currier, C.SS.R. Donahoe's
Mag., Feb., 5 pp. Mgr. Satolli's mission to the United States.
"Swedenborgian Exegesis," Dr. Schaff on. Theodore F. Wright. New-Jerusalem
Mag., Feb., 3 pp. Criticises Dr. Schaff.

Trinity (the), Vestiges of, in Creation. The Rev. John S. Vaughan. Dublin Rev.,
Jan., 9 pp.

World's Fair (the), Opening of, on Sunday. Eliza E. Newport. Literary Northwest, Feb., 8 pp. In favor of closing the Fair on Sundays. SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY.

Abodes (The Earliest) of Man. Stephen D. Peet. Amer. Antiquarian, Jan., 15. pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Alchemists (The) of Egypt and Greece. Edinb. Rev., Jan., 14 pp.
Ancylopoda (The), Chalicotherium, and Artionyx. Henry Fairfield Osborn.
Amer. Naturalist, Feb., 16 pp. Illus.

Anthropology (Criminal). The International Congress of, 1892, Held at Brussels.
Report of M. Louise Thomas, Delegate from the International Medico-Legal
Congress and Vice-President for New York of the Medico-Legal Society.
Medico-Legal Jour., Dec., 6 pp.

Archæologists (The) and the Geologists. Editorial. Amer. Antiquarian, Jan... 11 pp. The demand made upon archæology to do what geology has not done, Baby's Footprint and Other Vestiges. The Rev. Thomas Hughes. S.J. Amer. Cath. Quar. Rev., Jan., 23 pp. A paper on Darwinism.

Blood Stains, Micro-Chemical Examinations of. Joseph Jones, M.D., LL.D., Prof. of Chemistry and Clinical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans. Medico-Legal Jour., Dec., 4. pp. Official report on case of Joseph Polito, charged with the murder of Simeoni Cascio.

Cephalic Pressure and Heaviness. Henry Campbell, M.D. Jour. of Mental Science, London, Jan., 9 pp.

Cholera-Germ (the), Pettenkofer's Personal Experiments With. Julius Friedenwald, M.D., Demonstrator of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore. Sanitarian, Feb., 3 pp.

Cholera. Quarantine, and Immigration. C. W. Chancellor. Sanitarian, Feb., 17 pp. A National Quarantine Implies National Exclusion." Color-Blindness. Edinb. Rev., Jan., 16 pp.

Color-Blindness. Dr. William Pole, F.R.S. London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Phil. Mag., Jan., 11 pp.

Criminal Responsibility in the Early Stages of General Paralysis. Frank Parsons. Norbury, M.D. Medico-Legal Jour., Dec., 91⁄2 pp.

Earth-Works (Ancient) in Ontario. The Hon, C. A. Hirschfelder. Amer. Antiquarian, Feb., 3 pp. Descriptive.

Electrical Properties of Pure Substances: Nitrogen. Prof. R. Threlfall. London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Phil. Mag., Jan., 34 pp.

Electricity, Practical Farming by. A. F. McKissick. Engineering Mag., Feb., 11 pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Etruria (Ancient). Thomas Wilson. Amer. Antiquarian, Jan., 71⁄2 pp. His-
torical.
Fire-Proof Buildings, Fire-Losses in. C. H. Bebb. Engineering Mag., Feb.,
121⁄2 pp. Illus.

Gases in Living Plants. J. C. Arthur. Amer. Naturalist, Feb., 7 pp.
Hedonic Esthetics. Henry Rutgers Marshall. Mind, London, Jan., 27 pp.
Hypnotism, The Use of Among the Insane. George M. Robertson, M.B.,
M.R.C.P. Jour. of Mental Science, London, Jan., 11 pp.

Invertebrata (the), Joint Formation Among. Benjamin Sharp. Amer. Naturalist, Feb., 9 pp. Illus.

Mountain-Sickness; and Power and Endurance. R. H. M. Bosanquet. London,
Edinburgh, and Dublin Phil. Mag., Jan., 5 pp.

Occupation, Health, and Longevity. P. C. Remondino, M.D. National Pop.
Rev., Feb., 28 pp. Treats of the relation of occupation to disease, etc.
Ohm's Law, A Necessary Modification of. Fernando Sanford. London, Edin-
burgh, and Dublin Phil. Mag., Jan., 6 pp.

Paleolithic Man in North America. Henry W. Haynes. Amer. Antiquarian,
Jan., 6 pp.

Paranoia. E. L. Dunn, B.A., M.B. Jour. of Mental Science, London. Jan., 8 pp.
Pneumatic-Transmission, Progress in. William A. Smith, E.M. Engineering
Mag., Feb., 8 pp. The history of the discovery; advantages claimed.
Prisoners, The Psychological Examination of. Dr. Julius Morel. Jour. of Men-
tal Science, London, Jan., 4 PP.

Psychology (Modern): a Reflection. J. Ward. Mind, London, Jan., 29 pp.
Steel, Extraction of, From the Interior of the Eye with the Electro-Magnet.
Alvin A. Hubbell, M.D. Buffalo Med. and Surg. Jour., Feb., 3 pp.

Voice (the), The Hygiene of. Part II. Thos. F. Rumbold, M.D. National
Pop. Rev., Feb., 8 pp. Treats of the causes of vocal disability.
Windmill (the), Modern Uses of. R. H. Thurston, Director of Sibley College,
Cornell University. Engineering Mag., Feb., 13 pp. Illus. Descriptive.
SOCIOLOGICAL.

Agricultural Crisis (The). Edinb. Rev., Jan., 31 pp. On agricultural conditions. in England.

English Workers, The Standard of Living of. Tom Mann. Social Economist, Feb., 5 pp. A picture of ill-paid labor.

Immigrants (Our), How to Deal With. Edward Everett Hale. Social Economist, Feb., 9 pp. Calls attention to one of the much-neglected phases of the immigration problem, i. e., how to treat immigrants so that they may become good citizens.

Insane Asylum (an), Life in. Charles W. Coyle. Overland, Feb, 11 pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Labor Problems (Impending). Austin Bierbower. Overland, Feb., 5 pp.

New England History (Early), A Biographical By-Path through. Charles M.
Andrews. New England Mag., Feb., 8 pp.

Paris Under Mazarin. Fred. Hopper. Chaperone, Jan., 7 Pp. Illus.
Russia, The Penury of. Edinb. Rev., Jan., 30 pp.

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Current Events.

Wednesday, February 1.

The Senate passes the Army and Fortifications Bills, and considers the District Bil!......In the House, there is further consideration of the District Bill The State Senate Committee charged with the investigation of the Reading" combine" in New York presents its report to the Legislature.... Assemblyman Kempner introduces five Bills looking toward administrative reform in New York City......A negro is burned at the stake by a mob in Paris, Texas.... The Connecticut Senate confirms the nomination of Professor Simon E. Baldwin for Judge of the Supreme Court......In New York City, Anton Kessler shoots Mrs. Kate Jaeger and tries to kill himself.

Another earthquake shock and a tidal wave cause much destruction of life and property on the island of Zante...... Debate on the Queen's speech is continued in the English House of Commons......M. Waldeck-Rousseau begins his speech in defense of M. Eiffel in the Panama trials. Thursday, February 2.

The Senate receives from the President the nomination of Judge Howell E. Jackson to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, in place of Justice Lamar, deceased; the French Extradition Treaty is ratified......The House passes the Sundry Civil Bill......In the Assembly, at Albany, the annual Appropriation Bill is introduced; the Commission which has been investigating the State tax laws presents a report......Judge William Lindsay is nominated to succeed Senator Carlisle by the Democratic caucus of the Kentucky Legislature......The First National Bank of Little Rock, Ark., wrecked by dishonest officers, closes its doors......Robert J. Beatty is found guilty of complicity in the Homestead poisoning......Governor Flower holds his annual reception......A Brooklyn woman shoots her husband and then kills herself......The Rev. Dr. H. A. Stimson receives a call from the Broadway Tabernacle.

In the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Premier Giolitti ignores an interpellation about the alleged improper use of funds by various Premiers; ex-Premier Rudini defends himself......Serious bread riots occur in Marseilles...... Colonel Saunderson, leader of the Ulster members, causes a great commotion in the House of Commons by a violent speech, in which he characterizes Father McFadden (in connection with the Gweedore affair) as a murderous ruffian," and attacks Mr. Gladstone.

Friday, February 3.

In the Senate, Mr. Hill gives notice that he would move to take up the Silver Repeal Bill on Monday......In the House, Speaker Crisp rules that the Anti-Option Bill must be referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and the amendments considered in Committee of the Whole......The Hawaiian Commissioners arrive in Washington......The Rev. Dr. W. J. Tucker, of Andover Theological Seminary, is elected president of Dartmouth College. ....Monsignor Satolli decides the controversy between Bishop Wigger and Father Killeen adversely to the Bishop... .Suit is begun by the first cousins

of D. E. Crouse against the executors of the estate to determine who are next of kin; Eala Henrietta Kasterlitz and Dorothea Edgarita Wilson are also made parties defendant.

In the Italian Chamber, a stormy debate occurs over the bank scandals; Premier Giolitti informs the Deputies that investigation by a Commission will be opposed by the Ministry...... The French Chamber of Deputies rejects a motion to make members of the Parliaments of 1885 and 1889 ineligible for reëlection on account of their connection with the Panama scandal......It is said that the condition of affairs in Egypt may compel the landing of more British troops.

Saturday, February 4.

The Hawaiian Commissioners present satisfactory credentials to the Secretary of State......Four cowboys are killed by the Two Strikes band of Indians at Pine Ridge Agency......The harbor-defense ram Katahdin is launched at the Bath (Me.) Iron Works......In New York City, the Academy of Medicine adopts resolutions asking Congress to establish a National quarantine..... Real estate men favor the appointment of a new Rapid Transit Commission,

The Blue Book on Egypt shows that the Khedive had intended to dismiss all the British officials......It is reported that 100 persons were killed and 500 to 600 wounded in the recent riot at Bogota, Colombia......The bye-election for Huddersfield, formerly Liberal, is won by the Conservatives. Sunday, February 5.

Congressman W. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, and Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan, hold a conference with President-elect Cleveland......The Indian police who killed the Sioux murderers at Pine Ridge Agency are promoted and commended in official orders...... Miss Sallie C. Koop, a wealthy young Brooklyn woman, kills herself in her home......In New York City, Mrs. William C. Whitney dies of heart disease.

M. Rochefort refuses to return to France under a safe-conduct, to testify in the Panama cases; he disclaims any desire to reflect on men involved in the Panama scandal...... News is received that floods in Queensland have caused enormous losses of property, and that many persons have been drowned..... The little King of Spain is recovering from scarletina......John Dillon warns the amnesty agitators in Parliament that they are putting Home Rule in peril. Monday, February 6.

In the Senate, Mr. Hill's motion to take up the Silver Repeal Bill is defeated, 42 against 23; the Senate Quarantine Bill is passed as a substitute for the House Bill......The House does no business of importance......Governor Flower vetoes Senator McCarty's Bill legalizing the acts of Brooklyn officials in expending money for the Columbian celebration......Railway officials profess ignorance of the alleged intention of employés to strike unless their wages are increased during the World's Fair......Professor J. H. Worcester, Jr., of Union Seminary, dies at Lakewood, N. J....... In New York City, the surviving original members of the Union League Club have a dinner at the club-house...... The fruit trade of New York and other cities celebrates its first annual dinner.

It is reported that the French Chamber of Indictments found no case against M. Rouvier and Senators Deves, Grevy, and Renault......The Uganda question comes up again in both Houses of the British Parliament; Mr. Gladstone and Lord Rosebery say Sir Gerald Portal has ample forces for carrying out his mission.

Tuesday, February 7.

In the Senate, the Bill to require automatic couplings and continuous brakes on freight cars is discussed; consideration of the New York and New Jersey Bridge Bill is refused......The House discusses the Legislative Appropriation Bill......Transfer of the Old Colony Railroad to the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Road is completed......W. V. Allen, People's party, is elected United States Senator by the Nebraska Legislature.... William Walter Phelps is confirmed as Lay Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey.

The House of Commons votes confidence in the Gladstone Government, 276 to rog, on an amendment by Kier Hardie......The Ribot Cabinet's refusal to interfere directly in getting an extension of the Panama concession is sustained by the Deputies, 374 to 34.

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