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«Truthabove all thongs.”
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3.. ”.1895.
Enter ed in the Post-Office as a Newspaper.
Was Admiral Walker Right.
This was a fiercely debated question
two or three weeks ago. To-day it is
not a question of any kind, debatable
or otherWIse. Events have vindicated
Admiral Walker’s conclusions and
prognostications. They have shown
that he conducted his investigations
with intelligence and spoke the truth
with courage and fidelity. He saw
What Blount and Willis could not or
would not see, and warned his govern.
ment in ample time of the tragedy that
has now occurred.
But what will the country say ? That
is the question. What will the Ameri-
can people conclude as to the accuracy
of Admiral Walker’s statements, the
urgency of his warning, and the Wis
dom of the policy which ignored his
clear, explicit, and forcible recommed-
ations? Was Admiral Walker right or
was he not?
Trouble for the Feathered Tribe.
The Mugwumps and the Cuckoos are
having a parlous time among them-
selves just now, says the Washington
Post. They hate both Hill and Gor.
man cordially—hate. them for their
courage, their virility, and their com-
mon sense—but they are torn by con-
tending emotions in the presence of a
conflict in which they fear to play even
the jackal’s lowly part. If they could
be quite sure that the much-alleged
reconciliation between the President
and Mr. Hill were genuine, all doubt
would be swept away at once. We
should see them wagging their eager
tails for Mr. Hill and snapping fiercely,
if cautiously, at the Maryland Sena-
tor’s heels. They would forget their
rancor for the time. But they cannot
be sure. They have not yet interpreted
that plate of soup to their entire satis
faction, and they are bewildered and
unhappy.
Under ordinary circumstances the
Mugwumps and Cuckoos would fall
upon both combatants with rancorous
impartiality. For both they cherish in
their secret hearts a furious and undy.
ing animosity. But, just as in 18.:2
they were ready to foregather with
Tammany, or, for that matter, with the
very devil himself, aw serve their pur-
pose of the moment, so now, if they
could use Hill as an ally for the des-
truction of one dreaded foe, they
would make the combination with pious
zeal, trusting to some future opportu
nity to betray and rend him. And
right there looms the black corroding
doubt, the hideous uncertainty. Can
Hill be used to-day, to be undone in
turn to-morrow ? Great Scott! but
this is hard. ‘
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Regulation of Hats by Law.
- The present legislature of Massachu-
setts is requested and expected to pass
an act authorizing the managers of
theaters and all other places of amuse-
ment to regulate the wearing of hats
by the women in their audiences. We
say this legislation is expected, because
we find that opinion expressed in vari-
ous influential newspapers that are,
presumably, well informed in theZprem-
iSes, but it is quite possible that when
the subject comes up for debate by the
Solons under the gilded dome on Beacon
Hill, the ’majority may conclude to
leave the matter where it now is, trust-
ing public opinion to bring about such
reform in the theatre head gear of
Women as may be expedient and desir-
able. There was a time in the history
of Massachusetts when her law-makers
would not have hesitated to legislate
on a question of this kind. _ The social
customs of the people were matters of
prime concern to the Puritans in that
early day. But their way of meeting
the tall hat difficulty would have been
simple and straightforward. Instead
of granting any power .10 managers,
they would have abolised their busi-
ness and put them and their patrons in
the stocks. But recent legislation in
the Bay state shows no precedent for
such an act as is now proposed, and,
although that Commonwealth is some-
what celebrated for radical reforms, it
may be doubted if her “Great and
General Court," which persists in deny-
ing the ballot to women, will interfere
with her notions about dress.
The tall hat is not the only nor is it
the worst annoyance to which theatre-
goers are liable. It is an unnecessary
and reprehensible affliction, and will,
we feel confident, he abated by moral
means. But it is far less detestable
than chatting and giggling, and affords
much less ground for managerial inter-
ference. Quite as bad as either of
these evils is the habit of going out and
coming back between the acts. All
these encroachments on private rights
can be done away with without invok-
ing paternalistic legislation.
A dangerous precedent would be es-
tablished by the passage of the pro-
posed measure. It‘ the legislature can
regulate the customs a: ‘ ’ hions in
one respect, it can in otlr 7.1;,
the corset has
millions of good people i . .
care a nickel about the
where is the legislat -
, to pass a law agav
Everybody conced: .
evil, a very far-'
body calls n" ' . '3
it. This. like In other is,
must be left out of the domain or regis-
lation.
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W E. T K L Y '- ‘N 0 R W A L K (‘AZE T T E ;_
A Well-known: Railroad
There is no better known railroad
man than Mr Charles Annable, who
resides at ‘20 Jordan Ave, Brunswick,
Me. He has occupied trush (1 positions
for thirty years on the Maine Central
R. R. .
“Yes,” said Mr. Annable to the
writer, “I can tell some remarkable
stories from my long thirty years’ rall-
road experience, but something has
happened recently which is of the
greatest importance to the people.
Before I speak of myself, however, let
my wife relate her wonderful experi-
once.”
“I have been ltroubled,” began Mrs.
Annable, ”so bad \vith neuralgia that 1
could not turn my head in bed. It
seemed as though my head was para-
lyzed. I was so troubled with heart d1-
sease and palpitation that a good many
nights I thought I might pass away
during the night.
“I suffered severely. and expected
every day would be my last. My head
seemed sometimes as though it would
be paralyzed, and the least exertion
would upset me and render we termny
nervous. I took Dr. Greene’s Nervura
blood and nerve remedy and it com-
pletely cured inc—made me well and
strong again.
“It seems as though my cure was
almost a miracle, for I am now cured.
My neighbors, well knowing mycondi-
tion, are astonished at my recovery,
and I cannot half highly enough ex
' ALMOSTEA MIRACLE!
Man’s Experience. Life
Saved in away Whic‘hiSVWonderful, and Ought
to be Told E-Verywhe're, Far and Wide.
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press my gratitude for this wonderfu
medicine. Dr. Greene‘s Nervura blood
and nerve remedy. I shall be glad to
answer indulrics at anv time.”
“I also have used Dr. Greene’s Ner-
vurn. blood and nerve remedy,” said
Mr. Annable, “and have derived great
benefit from its use ; I know it is the
best of allmedicines. I have recom-
mended it to many of my friends, and
shall continue to do so upon every
chance.”
The enthusiasm of Mr. and Mrs.
Annable in regard to Dr. Green’s Ner-
vuru. blood and nerve remedy is not to
be wondered at. It ismdeed a wonder-
ful medicine, wonderful because it
cures almost everybody who uses it.
It makes the sick well everywhere. It
gives health and strength to the weak,
tired and nervous sufferer. It gives
good digestion to the dyspeptic, sweet
sleep to the sleepless, and makes life
again a joy and pleasure to those whom
weak nerves and tired brains have ren-
dered depl‘ersed in spirits, melancholy,
discouraged and weanigh hopeless.
Use it and it will make you well.
Doctors recommend it because it is the
discovery and prescription of the well
known physicion, Dr. Green, of 85
West lilrh St., New York City, who Is
without doubt the most successful
specialist in curing nervous and
chronic diseases. The doctor can be
consulted in all cases without charge,
‘ personally or by letter.
Donnellv on the Tariff.
Ignatius Donnelly, the Minnessota
Populist, has rather queer ideas about
some things but on the question of pro.
tcction he hits the nail squarely on the
head. He says, that for this country to
adopt ' a free trade policy Would be the
same as a landlord renting a store to a
merchant. on condition that any one
else and every one else should have the
right to enter the store, spread out
their tables and wares, and go to sell-
ing their goods, without paying part of
the rent. It would be like selling a man
a farm and putting in the deed a cove-
nant that anybody else should have the
right to raise crops on it. It would be
like renting a man a house with the
condition that strangers should, at any
time. have the right to get into the
best bed, dip their fingers into the
grub-pot, and crowd the tenant away
from the fire. Mr. Donnelly then asks
the question: “If a people pay taxes
to support a government and turn out
to fight for it, and have no more rights
than the alien across the Atlantic, who
does neither, what does citizenship
amount to? "
The Brooklyn Strike.
Numerous letters have been written
to the New York Tribune asking that
journal to give fully and fairly the
reasons of the managers of the Brook-
lyn trolley companies for refusing to
yield to the demands of their men.
The Tribune in reply says, it has treat~
ed the trolley companies with entire
fairness. It cannot print any defence
of them, because the companies have
at no time attempted to explain their
position or to make any defence. The
managers of the trolley companies do
not deny, and they cannot deny, that
they have used their employees with
conspicuous unfairness, injustice and
oppression. '
No one can honestly dispute these
plain truths. The trolley companies 'in
Brooklyn have defied the law and out-
l raged justice. They have'been guilty
of serious offences against the statutes,
lagainst public sentiment: and against
} common decency. Their managers do
not venture even to assert that they
have treated their men justly. They
do not seek to answer the charges made
against them. They openly declare
that it is not in the interest of' their
stockholders to inorease'the expendi-
tures of the companies by yielding to
any of the demands of their men.
That is their only answer; They make
no explanations, apologies or excuses.
Their stock has been illegally watered,
and watered enormously, and they are
trying to earn the interest on prodi-
giously watered bonds and dividends
on tremendously inflated stock. No
city in this country has ever been cursed
with more unscrupulous and objection-
able mismanagement of transportation
lines than that of the chief trolley
line:- a'. Brooklyn.
Btu, continues the Tribune, all the
outrages and wrongs committed by the
trolley managers do not excuse lawless-
ness or disorder in the slightest degree.
Every man or woman in Brooklyn who
attempts to bring about a breach of
the peace, however slight. ought to be
arrested instantly, tried promptly, con-
victed and imprisoned. Every person
who -ries to incite disorder of any kind
ought to be swiftly and severely pun-
ished. But after the supremacy of the
law is completely restored in Brooklyn,
after the peace and quiet of the city
have been brought back, after all riot
and outbreak have been rigorously
suppressed. then there ought to be a
stern reckoning. with the managers,
officers and directors of the trolley
companies of Brooklyn.
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Three or four Stamford men have
been in Brooklyn, taking the place of
strikers on the trolley cars. They have
returned, having had all the experience
of that sort they care for, and now feel
very thankful that they are alive—Ad-
vocate.
Johnnie, a young son of Landlord
Garrison, of the American House, fell
through a “shoot” and into the brook
at the rear of Gregory’s stables, yester-
gay}.1 He escaped with a cold water
at .
Luke Dorncy has asked to be lent to
the Town Farm, but as his daughter
has offered and is willing to support
him, his prayer will not be apt to re-
ceive the consent of the Selectmen. _
Beerbohm Tree, an English Actor
has arrived in this country, and already
the punsters are calling him a beer bum.
Fortunately he has a tree in h whic to
make his escape.
Local notaries of public have been
officially advised that their terms of
office will expire Feb. lst, and inform-
ing them that their commissions will
dbenrenewed by sending a fee of one
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WASHINGTON NEWS. '
BIG lTONl uses quss CLOTHES
THAT no NOT FIT HIM.
Congressman English Has Faith in Amer-
ican Manufacture and the New South.
The Persistcncy of the Seekers After
Places.
There is no use in denying the fact that
Tom Reed of Maine, while a pretty big
man,physically, is growing in greatness
every day. 1 recently had an opportunity
to see him at very close range. There is
amagnetism about him that is rare for
a politican. l-Ie Sp'xlllis frankly in private
as well as in public. He trlls a. good
story, and, better than all this he is a
splendid listener. Somehow, you feel
when he comes into a, gmtlzering of men
as though an intellectual giant had step-
ped in out of somewhere and made his
presence felt. His face is as babyish as
the caricaturist have pictured it. His
head is shaped like a dome. His eyes
sparkle with good nature, and his checks
are alive with health. I saw him walk<
ing through the corridor of the hotel the
other day with a small derby hat perched
on the back of his head, an overcoat that
seemed much too small for him, and
trousers at least a couple of inches too.
short. He moved along as gracefully as
an elephant on parade, paying no heed to
those ill-bred people who stood in rows
and gaped at him. There is no style in
his manner or in his dress, but when it
comes to brains, he can probably dis‘
count any of the people he came in con-
tract with, and that is saying a good
deal.
One of the most disagreeable things
that a. Congressman has to contend with
here is the constant and tireless impor-
tunities of office seekers. Many 3. Com .
gressman comes to \Vashington full of
ideas as to how he will make history on
the floor of the House, but soon finds his
time so occupied in running from one
department to another hunting places
for persistent constituents that. he has no
time to make a reputation as a. statesman
in the halls of Congress. A Democratic
Congressman who was defeated for re-
election last month remarked to me the
other day that he was glad he had not
been returned as now he would be rid of'
the annoyance of hunting patronage.
Members of Congress who are so fortun—
ate as to come from distant states are not
troubled as much as those from states
near the capital. People in the neighbor.
ing districts of Maryland and Virginia, do
not confine their efforts to writing letters
but often' come to Washington to press
their claim in person. They besiege the
Congressman at his house, and if he es-
capes them there he is pursued to the
capitol. Congressman Meredith of Vir-
ginia, whose district is only separated
from \Vashiugton by the Potomac river,
is a. much sought for man in these days. A
number of his constituents, when they
desire to see him, do not go through the
formality of paying railroad fare, but
simply walk across the long bridge and
up to the Capitol. The other day Mr.
Meredith, after a. most harrassing inter-
view with n. persistent constituent, who
had walked over from Virginia to see
him, was relating his woes to a. brother
Congressman and sighing for the restful
obscurity of an ordinary citizen, when it
was suggested that he follow the ,.lan of
General Sherman and burn the bridges.
“Burn the bridges,” echoed Mr. Mere-
dith, “that would do no good. They
would swim the Potomac at high tide.
Business throughout the country may
not be improving quite so rapidly as
many desire, but one thing is certain, the
march of progress made by American
manufacturers is going steadily onward.
Each year and each month records the
opening up of new markets for American
goods, and our manufacturers are under-
bidding their rivals in the old world.
Congressman English of California gave
me a. good illustration of this. "I have
a. friend,” he said, “a young Californian,
who is the superintendent of the largest
diamond digging concern in South Af-
rica. The company that he firepresents
recently made up its mind to put in ex-
tensive new machinery, and. advertised
for bids for it in England, France. Ger-
many and the United States. A Chicago
firm uiulcrbid all the rest and was award-
ed the contract. Another case that was
brought to my attention the other day is
worthy of mention. The Japanese Gov-
ernment recently awarded an enormous
contract for iron pipe to another Chicago
firm. It view of these things it is little
wonder that I believe American manu-
facturers will in a short time be able tc.
compete with the world.” Mr. English,
who is an expert and successful business
man, is a. great believer in the new South.
He has recently purchased a large tract
of land in Alabama, the cultivation of
which he intends personally to superin-
tend. English was one of the Democratic
Congressmen who failed of re-election,
but he is a. born fighter, and is sure to be
heard from two years hence.
One of the most delicate and intricate
questions ever submitted for a legal opin-
ion to the Department of Justice has been
asked of Attorney-General Olney by the
Treasury Department. It is whether
stamp collectors have the right to print
and sell fac-similes of the United States
and foreign postage stamps. The busi-
ness has attained considerable propor-
tions, and with the increase of trade the
stamps turned out have gradually
reached a. perfection in artistic finish and
coloring that makes them hardly dis~
tinguishable from the genuine. The best
engravers and printers are employed in
this work, and while Chief Hazen of the
secret service does not charge that any
such stamps, either foreign or domestic,
are used illegally, he contends that the
possibilities for fraud on the revenue are
startling. In unscrupulous bands such
stamps and dies could be utilized for
wholesale frauds. As to foreign stamps,
the United States, by it treaties with the
various powers, is committed to prevent
the counterfeiting of obligations of for-
eign nations of any kind, and stamps by
law are held to be obligations, so that the
question assumes international import-
au‘ce.’ Philatelists contend that by print-
ing facsimiles of stamps they are serv-
ing as educators of youth and prevent im-
position. Until the question is decided
by the Attorney-General, the Treasury
Department will confine its efforts to se-
curing possession of dangerous stamp
dies, but will not undertake to confiscate
the large stock of stamp albums in the
hands of booksellers and others.
ROGER Lawrs.
Long Neglected.
First Reformer—After we close all the
bars, brothels, and gambling hells,
what will there be left-for us to reform!
Second Reformer—W0 might bring our
theology up to date. 7 - ‘
Newsboys wanted.
THE AMERICAN WIZARD.
[Alton Tells of the Possibilities or the
Kinetoscope.
In no country in the world is a man of
genius in any direction more honored or
appreciated than in America. It could
hardly'be otherwise, since the people are
not only intelligent and thoughtful, but
personally interested in questions relatr
ing to public life and policy, and to those
improvements which add a convenience
to business or a comfort to a. home.
What a change has come over the face
of the earth since the telegraph gave us
instant communication with all parts of
the world! What would the man of bus-
iness say if by some sudden catastrophe
all the cable lines beneath the ocean
should be destroyed and he were compel-
led to wait anywhere from fourteen to
sixteen days while his letter is going to
London and the answer is coming back!
At the present moment he sends his cable
message, lights a cigar, reads his morn-
ing paper, and by the time the last
pufi of smoke has disappeared he gets his
answer. '
And what a. change in all the affairs of
life the telephone has effected! To the
business of the country it has been an
addition too valuable to be computed.
We did get on somehow without it, be-
fore we knew such a thing was possible,
but we certainly could not get on without
it now that we have become accustomed
to the advantage it offers.
As to the kinetoscope and its possible
combination with other instruments, Mr.
Edison, says:
In the year 1887 the idea. occured to me'
that it was possible to devise an instru-
ment which should do for the eye what
the phonograph does for the ear, and
by a. combination of the two all motion
and sound could be recorded and repro-
duced simultaneously. This idea, the
germ of which came from the little toy
called the zoetrope, and the work of May'-
bridge, Maree and others, has now been '
accomplished, so that every change of
facial expression can be recorded and re-
produced life size. The kinetoscope in
only a small model, illustrating the pre-
sent stage of progress, but with each
succeeding month new possibilities are
brought into view.
I believe that in coming years, by my ‘
own work and that of Dickson, Muy—
bridge, Maree and others who will doubt-
less enter the field, grand opera can be
given at the Metropolitan Opera. House
of New York without any material change
from the original, and with artists and
musicians long since dead.”
That is at least very interesting.
a dream worth dreaming, and we will
have to be satisfied with the music of the
spheres while our grandchildren will
vgisten to the phantom artists and the
)hantom music of our day.
Is the time coming when steam will be
supplanted by electricity, when we shall
either take balloon trips from Atlantic to
Pacific, or fasten on a. pair of wings and
spend the hot summer days astride a
cloud, when the horse will have become
as scarce as the buffaloes are, and when—-
but it tires the imagination. \Ve shall
simply have a new heavens and a new
earth, and such men as Edison will have
the credit of inaugurating the era. of
magic.
DEATH THAT IS NOT REAL.
The Liability of Physicians to En- Cou-
cerning It.
“Except Where a surgical operation is
performed, the only absolute sign of
death is the decomposition of the body,”
said a physician during a conversation
on the proposed method of reviving
criminals who have suffered in the eleco
tric chair.
“I have had cases of apparent death in
my practice. An urgent message from
the physician in charge called me one
night to a young ladies’ seminary in New
York city. As I ascended the stairs to
the patient’s room I was met by the
housekeeper, who, between her sobs,
could only say:
“ ‘It is too late, doctor; she is dead.’
“ I Went up to the room, nevertheless.
There upon the bed lay a young girl of
about 18. Her face bore the mask of
death.
“ ‘I am sorry to have troubled you at
this hour,’ the doctor said. ‘The heart
stopped beating about five minutes ago.’
“I bent over and listened at the chest;
no respiration, no heating of the heart
was to be heard. While I listened some
one said:
“ ‘I always thought she would go off
In one of those attacks.’
“These words were a. revelation to me,
and I hastily threw off my coat and be-
gan artificial respiration, Little by lit-
tle there was a change of expression in
the face; the features relaxed, the eyes
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appeared less sunken, the face became l
flushed, the eyelids moved, and after a
full hour of constant work the life of
youth returned. The girl had had an
attack of grave hysteria. She is now
married and the mother of three hand-
some children.
“Do I think that people are often
buried alive? Yes, I do; perhaps oftener
than we imagine. Life may exist with-
out being evident; but non-evidence of
life is not proof of death. If ever we
are able to discover the moment when
death substitutes itself certainly for life,
we shall have solved a problem which
has occupied the philosophers of all
times and all countries.
“One of my professional friends tells
me of a providential escape from prema-
ture burial which occurred in his prac-
tice. .
“ ‘I attended a. little girl of three,’ he
says, ‘up to the time when in my own
judgment and that of the parents and
all present the child Was dead. Being
assured of this, I went home; but two
hours later, in the evening, I returned to
the house, being concerned about the
mother, to whom the death of the child
had been a great blow. The father was
busy writing, informing friends of their
loss. On leaving the room where the
parents Were, I passed in front of the
little one’s bed. My look fell for an in-
stant upon the little face, when I thought _
that I noticed an ‘almost‘imperceptiblc
movement of the sheet that coVered the
body.
“ ‘The checks were hard and cold, the
conjunctiva insensible, the pupils com-
pletely insensible to light. I shouldnot
have dared affirm that the slight move-
ment which I had seen came from the
body, and yet I believed that my little
patient was not dead. I have never been
able to explain how that phenomenon-
was produced; I do not attempt to ex-
plain it, but the one thing certain is that
the child was considered dead, that she
was enshrined for the tomb, and that she
is to-day in very. good health.’ ”
Young Lady (tailor made)—'l‘ake r
not please. " "
Old Lady (near sighted, but grateful)—
Thank you, sir. You are, the only gentle-
man in the can—Tit Biff; '
Buy the Gamma
- great part insthe struggle which. at the
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Lon {CHURCHILL Dill
A VERY METEORIG GAEEEE.
Although Quite a Young Man, Randolph
Churchill Bad Earned a. World-
wide Polltical Reputation—He
Married an American.
LONDON, Jan. 25.——Lord Randolph
Churchill is dead. His death was peace-
ful and painless. Drs. Roose and Keith
and all of the members of Lord. Ran—
dolph’s family were at his bedside.
Lord Randolph had’ been unconscious
for 30 hours. His wife and mother re-
mained with the dying man throughout
the night. In the morning he began sink-
ing rapidly, and at 6 o’clock Dr. Roose
was summoned Fifteen minutes later he
died. The body will be buried at Wood-
stock. .
The queen and the Prince of Wales were
at once informed of Lord Randolph’s
death. '
The Star says: “Lord Randolph Church-
111 was an audacious and splendid fighter.
He was the only man since Disraeli who
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
was able to make Toryism interesting,
but he was unable to harness his fiery _
talents to the administration car; hence
he left behind him only the reputation of -
an adventurer. ”
The Pall Mall Gazette says: “The Com 3
servative party owe far more to Lord Ran- :
dolph Churchill than he owed to them.-l
His rare political insight, his unflinching ‘
courage and his restless enterprise roused,
the party to a commanding position when ‘
his own fortunes were at the lowest ebb.” _
The Gazette attributes his defects of tem- ;
per and judgment largely to physical in- ,.
firmitios, which troubled his whole life.
The Globe says: “Lord Randolph
Churchill possessed in the fullest measure
a magnetic charm which cannot be ac-
quired. He was a born leader of men and
was destined for the highest position un-,
til his health, which ‘was never strong,
broke down under the strain of ceaseless
toil and excitement. ” .
Randolph Churchill's Career. ’1
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchilli
was the second son of the seventh Duke of
Marlborough. He was born on Feb. 13,
1849, and was educated at Merton college,
Oxford. He represented Woodstock in
the house of commons from February,
1874. until April, 1880, and again from
that time—when he was returned with a .
diminished majority—until November,
1885. He afterward stood for Birmingham,
but was defeated and was then returned
for South Paddington. From 1874 to 1880
he was almost silent in the house, but
from 1880 onward he made himself con-
spicuous in the house against the Liberal
party, and he was the chief member of
that small section of the house known as
the “Fourth party.” On the accession of
Lord Salisbury’s government to office in
1885 Lord Randolph Churchill filled the
post of secretary of state for India, and his
promotion to that high place was a proof .
of the importance that he had assumed in
the ranks of the Conservative party. In
the country indeed he was already regard-
ed as almost if not quite the Tory leader.
and it was commonly said that the mantle
of Lord Beaconsfield had fallen upon the
young, able, irrepressible, but acute chief
of the Tory democracy.
Lord Randolph’s short tenure of the In-
dia office was marked by the annexation,
of upper Burma. Departmental work, g
however, did not prevent his taking a'
general election of November, 1885, againf
returned the Liberals to power. He re-i‘
signed office with Lord Salisbury to returnl
after six months as chancellor of the ex-
chequer and leader. of the house of com-l
mons; but. to the surprise of all, he re- 3
signed suddenly in December of the same
year.
Married an,Amerlca.n Girl.
Lord Randolph married in 1874 Miss
Jennie Jerome, daughter of the late Leon—
ard Jerome of New York. She has since
become a. prominent member of the Prim- ,
rose league. Lord and Lady Randolph ‘_
Churchill visited this country, for the first
time in many years, last summer and then
continued westward on a tour of the
world, from which they returned, landing
at Marseilles Dec. 22. This voyage was
undertaken for the benefit of Lord. Ran-
dolph’s health, which was badly shattered
when he landed in New York on July 4
last. He was said to be suffering from
nervous prostration brought on by over-
work. But the trip around the world
seems to have, done him no more‘goodthan
did a previous long trip to South Africa,
Where he joined health seeking with bush
nose, and in so doing made an investiga
tion into the mining interests of Mashona<
land.
A Big Russian Failure. ~
LONDON, Jan. 25.—The Odessa corre-
spondent of The Times says that the lm-
portant export firm of K. Durante has
failed, with liabilities estimated as high as
several million rubles. It is reported .
that the partners have fled. ' ‘
Miss Peel’s Engagement. ,
Lennon, Jan. 25. —The engagement of
Miss Peel. oldest daughter of the speaker
of tile house - -. our." cons, the Right Hon.
Arthur _ ' 1. eel, M. P., to Mr.
James ‘ '»Yaguire, Parnellita, is
announce-.. ‘ .
A Govern)“: l\'- Barge Explodes.
Glzrfvnsx'xzr. ' 1' 2* gland: Jan. ‘ 25.—-The
government ~'--ur:.-'e Petrol, loaded” with
g. upowder, shot and shell, exploded here
today. No trace of her crew has been .
found.-
1 __,.£
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