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Circulating the Silver-

Special to the Cincinnati Commercial: WASHINGTON, March 11.—The largest order ever received for standard silver dollars came in yesterdaylfrom Philadelphia. A single bank in that city ordered oDe hundred thousand of these dollars. They will be shipped by express in hogsheads The weight is about three tons or six thousand pounds. Treasury officials are considerably puzzled to know what the bank wants with so much silver but they imagine that it is to pay ou under old leases which have run for half a ceDtury or more, and which are payable in silver, to avoid the fluctuations of less substantial money. In any event the officials were glad to get the order, as the vaults are crammed with silver, which comes in about three times faster than paid out.

St. Lou's Police Bo^rd

ST. LOUIH, March 12.—A Globe Dent., crat Jefferson City special says: Gov Crittenden has removed Morgan Boland from the Board of Police Commissioners if this city and appointed E. C. Simmons, John H. Maxon and Samuel C. Cupples fill the va*ancins in the board These gentlemen are among the beat known business men in the city, Simmon being at the head of the Simmons hardware Co., Maxon, the president of the Washington avenue street R. R. and connected with othei prominent enterprises, and Cupples, the senior partner of L. C. Cupples A Co., extensive willow and wooden ware manufacture*. Morgan Boland i9 the lately deposed vice-Presi-dent of the Board and the man wh9 created all the disturbance which have lately prevailed in that body and the police lorce generally. The Senate will probably act on the Governor appointees this afternoon.

Not Pleased With Mr. Arthur. Washington Special. The conduct of vice-President Arthur is, to say the least, inexplicable. He keeps away from the White House, makes no recommendations for office, und is completely under Conkling's thumb, 'toward the retiring President his conduct was simply outrageous. He was invited to dine at'the White House, and excused himself on account of a previous engagement. The etiquette which prevails here is that no invitution to dine with the President is to be declined, no matter what embarrassments it may create. On the day the new President was inaugurated Arthur was invited to lunch. He did go to the White House, and with the President reviewed the troops but he managed to slip away before lunch was announced.

President and Office-seekers. Mpedal to tli« Cincinnati Commercial. WASHINGTON, March 9.—-It will be of interest to office-seekers to know that the President has stated positively that, unless for very good reasons, he does not propose to be in any hurry to make removals. He has further announced his determination to insist that all applications for office must come through the regular channels, and be made in the usual way.

This being his purpose, it is not likely that those who thrutt themselves into his presence and consume his time by personally importing for a place will advance their chance.

A RECEPTION.

TO THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE. CINCINNATI, March 11.—'The chamber commerce to-day adopted the following:

Whereas, the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, compressing in its membership some of the most distinguished officers of the war, will hold its fourteenth annual reunion in this city April 6th and 7th, Therefore,

Resolved, that the Chamber of Commerce extend to the Society of the Army of the Tennessee a cordial invitation to visit the chamber at such time as may suit their convenience «nd the president is authorized to make all necessary arrangements for their reception.

New York Market.

NEW YORK. March 11.—Wheat a trifle firmer, but quiet. Stocks opened weak and a fraction lower in early dealings, irregular and unsettled, narrow fluxtuaSions at the tirst board. Texas Pacific declined Reading, 1% Iron Mountain, 1% Delaware. Lackawanna & Western, and Delaware & Hudson 1)*.

CINCINNATI, March 10.—At Farmers, Rowan county, Ky., yesterday evening John H. Light foot received a shot in the thigh from Matt. McDermott's pistol, and, sent a ball from his own pistol through McDermott's heart, causing immediate death. This.^nds an. old grudge. Both were young. _*

Not long ago a couple were married in Terre Hantf, who had kept cojmany ghteen years. It is always well to think a matter over well before acting, but there are not many girls who would light every night For eighteen years, ana thin! up something new to talk about, and take the chance of some other charmer das 1 ing the game.—Bloemfltld Dtmocrmt.

"Fcrepangh's circus company offers $10,000 for the handsomest woman to travel with their show. Sells' company 1 makes a counter offer of $100,000 for the ugliest woman. Now let some Terre

Hants damseif orward her portrai and a pair of shoes, and her acceptance for the last named position is assured." 4

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CixcimuTi, March 10.—At Cynthiana, j., last night, Bailie Cair wound up a day's quarrel and convivial drank by jcutting Rene Fowler's throat, causing •M instant death. Both were negro women

Malt Bitters bnild up anew the nervous, c88eous(bone) and muscular system. Nutrition imported, stren and disease arrested by Malt

SENATE COMMITTEES.

As Arranged by the Democratic ana Republican Caucuses.

Below is given the membership of the Senate Committees as decided on by the two caucuses. The committees will doubtless be appointed either today or to-morrow. The first named in each case is chairman.

STANDING COMMITTEES.

Privileges and Elections—Saulsbury, Hill of Georgia, Vance, Pugh, Call, Hoar, Logan, Sherman, Piatt of New York.

Foreign Relations—Johnston, Morgan, Pendleton, Saulsbury, Jackson, Conkling, Hale, Miller, Mitchell.

Finance—Bayard, Voorhees, Beck, Mcpherson, Grover, Morri.l, Ferry, Jones of NevaJa, Allison.

Appropriations—Davis of West Vir ginia, Beck, Ransom, Cockrell, Jlarris, Allison, Sherman, Hawley, Conger.

Commerce—Ransom, Coke, Farley, Vest, Brown, Conkling, McMillan, Jonts of Nevada, Harrison.

Manulactures—Williams, Grover, McPherson, Rollins, Dawes. Agriculture—Slater, Johnston, Davis of West Virginia, Brown, George, Blair, Van Wyick, Sawyer, Mitchell.

Military Affairs—Grover, Cockrell Maxey, Hampton, Mahone, Burnside, Plumb, Cameron of Pennsylvania Logan.

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Affair*—McPheraon,

Jones of

Florida, Vance, Farely, Gorman, Anthony Cameron of Pennsylvania, Ferry, Piatt of New York.

Judiciary—Davis of Illinois, Garland Bayard, Lamar, Hill of Georgio, Pendle ton, Edmunds, Conklin, Sherman.

Post Offices and Post. Roads—Maxey, Saulsbury Farley, Grover. Pugh, Ferry, Sewell. Sawyer, Van Wyck.

Public Lands—Jones of Florida, McPherson, Walker, Fair, Camden. Plum, Hill of Colorado, Vad Wyck, Miller.

Private Land Claims—Edmunds, Allison, Hale, Jones, Call. Indiana Affairs—Ooke, Pendleton, Walker, Slater, Williams, Allison, Ingalls Saunders, Logan.

Pensions—Groome, Slater, Jackson,Camden, George, Blair, Kellogg, Piatt of Connecticut, rlawley.

Revolutionary claims—Anthony, McMillan, Dawes, Jones of Florida, Davis, of West Virginia.

Claims—Cockrell, Pngh, Jackson, George, Fair, McMillan, Teller, Hoar, and a vacancy to be filled by one erf the incoming Senators.

District of Columbia—Harris, Butler Vance, Gorman, Camden, Ingalls, Rollins, McMillian, Conger.

Patents—Call, Coke, Williams, Gorman, Hoar, Piatt of Connecticut, Ingalls.Territories—Butler, Garland, Vest, Slater, Saunders, Kellogg, Logan two vacancies.

Railroads—Lamar, Grover, Williams, Jonas, Mahone, Fair, Dawes, Teller, Saunders, Sherman, Harrison.

Mines and Mining—Farley, Hampton .est, Fair, Cameron of Pennsylvania, Plumb, Hill of Colorado.

Revision of the laws—Garland, Pendleton, Davis of Illinois, Hoar, McMillan. Education and Labor—Brown, Maxey, Lamar, George, Mahone, Burnside, Morrill, Blair, Hawley.

Civil Service and RetrenchmentWalker, Butler, Beek, Groome, Teller Rollins, Conger.

To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—Vance, Davis of West Virginia, Jones of Nevada.

Rules—Morgan, Call, Walker, Edmunds, Hale. Engrossed Bills—Conkling, Jcnes of Nevada, Ransom.

Improvement of the Mississippi River and Tributaries—Jonas, Cockrell, Lamar, Jackson, Kellogg, Harrison, Conger.

Transportation Rates to the SeaboardBeck, Johnson, Voorhees, Hampton, Cameron* of Pennsylvania, Blair, Piatt, of New York." J"':,

SELECT COMMITTEES!

To examine the several branches of the Civil Service—Hampton, Groome, Mahone, Logan, Dawes.

To take into consideration the state of the law respecting the ascertaining and declaring of the result of the election for President and Vice-President—Morgan, Bayard, Johnston, Garland, Maxey, Edmunds, Conkling, Teller.

To make provision for taking the Tenth Census—Pendletou, Morgan, Harris, Davis of 111., Hill of Col., Morrill.

To Investigate and Report the Best Means of Prevention of the Introduction and Spread of Epidemic Diseases—Harris, Lamar, Garlaid, Jonas, Piatt of Connecticut, Miller, Sewell.

JOINT COMMITTEES.

On Public Printing—Hill of Georgia Gorman, Anthony. Enrolled Bills—Pugh, Call, Rollins.

Library—Voorhees, Ransom, Edmunds Public Buildings and Grounds—Vest Jones of Florida, Saulsbury, Dawes, Mor rill.

Addiiional Accommodations for the Libraiy of Congress, on the Part of the Senate—Voorhees, Butler, Morrill.

TAB DetroU Free Prtst Fiend has been punning on Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. We will beta new hat that this is only gratitude, for all thinking men know its merits.—Exchange.

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atient is to the saddest ana most condition, and one ftr which rrliel seems impossible. No curative Treatment can he aubjected to a severer test than is offered by these cases. And yet, in many of these, the most brillisnt results have followed the use of Compound Oxygen. A record of some of these cases will be fonnd in our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, which is mailed free. Drs. Starker & Palen, 1100 and 1111 Girard street Philadelphia, Pa.

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VOL. XVIII.—NO. 14. TERRE HAUTE, IND.—THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1881. .50 PER YEAR

ANNIHILATED

Alexander II., Czar of All the Bus* sits, Assassinated at St. Petersburg.

Two Bombshells Thrown at his Carriage do their Murderous Work.

The Imperial Carriage Torn to Pieoee and the Ctar Killed.

An Attending Officer and Two Cossacks Instantly Killed by Frag* ments of the Bomb.

The Assassins Were Disguised aa Peasants, and One of Them Killed. ".w" tf

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Many Policemen and Citizens Injured by the Explosion of the Shells.

The Czarevitch, the Heir Apparent, Convenes the Conmcil and Will Issue a Manifesto-

WASHINGTON, March 13.—The following telegrams were received here this afternoon:

ST. PBTtRSBURtf, March 18.

"To Blaiue, Secretary of State, Washings ton tor was wounded in his ay by a bomb

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"To Blaine, Secretary of State, Washington: "The Emperor ef Russia was assassinated this afternoon. WHITS.

Upon the second dispatch from Foster, that the Emperer was dead, Secretary Blain csfcled the following: "Foster, American Minister, St. Petersburg: "Express to the Minister of Foreign Affairs the sentiment of sorrow with which the President and people of the United States have heard of the terrible crime of which the Emperor has been the victim, and their profound sympathy with the imperial family and the Russian people in their great affliction.

BLAINE, Secretary."

DKTAIM OK TLIK ASSASSINATION. ST. PBTESSBUBO, March 18.—As ttie Emperor was returning from parade in Michael Manege about two o'clock Sunday afternoon, a bomb was throwq *nd exploded uader the Czar's carriage, doing considerable damage to the carriage. The Czar alighted unhurt but a second bomb exploded at his feet, shattering both legs below the knee and inflicting other terrible injuries. The Czar was immediately conveyed in an unconscious state to the Winter Palace, where he died at 4:30 this afternoon. Two persons ware concerned in the crime, one of whom was seized immediately. The explosion also killed an officer and two Cossacks. Many policemen and other persons were injured.

An official message makes the following announcement "God's will has been done At 8 o'clock this (Sunday) afternoon, the Almighty called the Emperorto Himself. A few minutes before his death the Emperor received the sacrament."

The doctor's bulletin, published at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, stated that both legs were broken below the knee the lower part of the body was severely injured, and the left eye was torn from the socket The Grand Duke Micheal was not hurt. The assassins were disguised as peasants. One report states that one of them waa so roughly handled that he since died. All army officers will be ordered to remain,in barracks. The.Council of the Empire, under the presidency of the Czarowitz, was still sitting at midnight A manifesto will be published Monday. Service will be held at the Win ter Palace Mondav. Afterwards the new Emperor will receive the homage of the officers of state. When Colonel Doijibjky asked the first assassin his name, he replied Roussakoff.

COLOGNE, March 18.—ASt. Petersburg dispatch says: The assassins of the Czar were immediately arrested. The gas lamps in Miehael Garden beside the canal were broken in pieces by the concussion. A cordon of gaurds was drawn around the scene of the murder. The streets were densely ^thronged with excited crowds. 11i« utmost sympathy for the Imperial family is everywhere expressed. The bells of the principal churches are tolling

ANOTKH ACCOUNT.

LONDON, March 13.—A St. Petersburg correspondent says: The imperial ear riage was attacked on the Ekatrinofsky canal, opposite the imperial stables, while the Emperor was returning with the Grand Duke Michael from Michael's

palace, in a closed carriage, escorted bv eight Cossacks. The first bomb fell near the carriage, destroying the back part of it. The Czar ana his brother alighted uninjured. The assassin, on being seized by a colonel of the police, drew a revolver, but was prevented from firing it A second bomb was then thrown by another person, and fell cloee to the Czar's feet, its explosion shattering boty his len. The Czar fell, crying for help Col. Dorijibky, though himself mueh injured, raised the Emperor, who was conveyed to the Winter Palace in Col. Dorijibky's sleigh. Large crowds assembled be fops the palace, but were kept back by a troop of Cossacks. The imperial family were all assembled at" the death bed. The Council of State was imme diately«onvened. All places of public resert were closed.

The Oar's right leg was nearly torn from his body, and the left leg was badly shattered. A Cossack and were killed on the spot. The Duke Miehael was wounded. An officer of the escort and a* Cossack have since died. The Czar lingered an hour and a half. All efforts to rally him failed. The only word he uttered after being struck wis the name of the Czarowitz. The latter, on leaving the palace, after the death of the Czar, was hailed as Emperor by the crowd. He was surrounded, contrary to his custom, by a strong mounted escort. The people are intensely excited and indignant. The seldisry, who greatly loved the Czar, are furious. All officials hastened to the palace to inquire as to the condition of the Czar. Telegrams announcing the death were s«nt to all foreign courts and to every part of the empire. It is stated that the bombs were made of glass filled with nitroglycerine. The assasins stood on the opposite side of the road. The carriage was moving fast, and the first shell struck th« ground behind it and the back of the carriage was blown out The coaehman implored the Czar to enter the carriage again, but he moved a few paces from the carriage to see to the wounded of bis escort. The assassin who threw the first bomb tried to point a revolver at the Czar, but the pistol was struck from his hand. The Czar seemed te recover consciousness before his death, as he motioned away the doctors who wished to amputate his legs. The Czarowitz and Czarevna drove to their palace, after his death, amid sympathizing cries of the people. A company of guards surrounded the palace. The Duke and Duchess of Eainburg and the Grand Duke Alexis have left London for St. Petersburg. •%,

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ARREST OF THB MURDERERS ST. PETERSBURG—The police arrested several persons overheard denouncing the dead Emperor and applauding the murder. Upon the arrest of the second assassin he admitted his guilt and on being told his accomplice nad also been arrested said they were ready to die any dioimnt He inquired if the Czar was dead and on the police refusing to answer the question gleefully exclaimed "Ah, I know by that we have succeeded. Long live the people." The ])olice refuses to give the names or any particulars relating to the prisoners and reports current in the streets are mere guesswork. That they are Nihilists is however beyond doubt Both are young men and apparently of good birth and education. :-I ST. PETERSBURG, March 14.

TH« MANIFESTO.

The following Imperial manifesto has been promulgated: We, by the Grace of God, Alexander III, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, Czar of Poland, Grand Duke of Finland, etc., hereby make known to all our faithful subjects that it has*pleased the Almighty in His inscrutable will to visit Russia with a heavy blow of fate and to call her tenefactor, Emperor Alexander II, to Himself. He fell by the han^s of impious murderers who had repeatedly sought his precious life and made their attempts becsuse they daw in him a protector of Russia, the foundation of her greatness and promoter of the welfare of Russian people. Let us bow to the unfathomable will Divine Providence and offer up to the Almighty our prayers for the repose of the pure soul of our beloved father. We ascend the throne whicli we inherit from our forefathers, the throne of the Russian Empire and

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Grand Dukedom inseparably connected with it. We assume the heavy burden which God has imposed upon us with firm reliance upon hii almighty help. May He bless our work to the welfare of our beloved fatherland, and may He guide our strength for the happiness of all our faithful subjects. In repeating before the Almighty God the sacred vow made by our fathers to devote according to the testament of our forefathers the whole of our live to care for the welfare and honor of Russia, we call upon our faithful subjects to unite before the alter of the Almighty their prayers with ours and Commend them to swear fidelity to us and to our successor.

His Imperial Highess, Hereditary Grand Duke Kicolai Alexandrovitch, Given at St Petersburg 'Anno Domini 1881 and first year of our reign.

NOT ARRESTED.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 14.—The Agence Ruue says: Grand Duke Michael was driving behind the Czar's sleigh with Colonel Dorijibky. The second bomb throwez was not arrested hit disappeared in the crowd. Troops have taken the oath of allegiance to the Emperor.

The Imperial family and Cburtofficials swore allegiance to Alexander III. The man arrested yesterday confessed he threw the first bomb, but denies all knowledge of the person who threw the second. In addition to the revolver which the prisoner attempted to use a dagger was fonnd on him. The name he gave is believed to be false. The prisoner is 21 years of age, a native of Berovitchie, Government of Nevorod. During the night a Cossack and a Civilian who declined to give his name died from injuries received by the bursting of the bombs. Altogether 80 persons are more or less injured, 18 of whom are in the hospital. The whole city is in deep mourning.

ROYALTIES AT CHUROL

LONDON, March 14.—The Prince and

Princess ot Wales, the Prince and Princess Teck, the whole staff of the Russion Embassy and other foreign representatives attended special service at Wilbeck St Greek chapel today. The Queen's drawing room announced for next Friday has been indefinitely post poned.

THE NEWS AT BERLIN

BBRLIN, March 14.—The sensation caused here by the sssasination is indescribable. The Imperial Princes remained till 2 o'clock this morning with Emperor William who :s inconsolable. Crown Prince Frederick William, of Prussia, or Prince Fredei ick Charles will go to 8t Petersburg to attend the funeral {».! .. S_ SYMPATHY..

PARIS, March 14.—President Grevy telegraphed condolences with the Imperial Russian family. Newspapers of all shades and opinions express horror at the Emperor's murder.

LONDON, March 14.—It is reported that the Prince of Wales will attend the fbneral of the Czar." noils.

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ROME, March 14.—'The Russian Grand Dukes Serguis and Paul, sons of the late Emperor, leave to-day for St. Petersburg.

BIOGBAPHICAL.

From tbe Indianapolis Journal. Alexander Nicolaievitch (Alexander II.) was the son of the Czar Nicholas I. ana Alexandra Feodorovna (originally Charlotte), a sister of Frederick William IV. o( Prussia, and of William I., the present Emperor of Germany. He was born April 29, 1818, and consequently laeked but a few days of being sixtv-three years old. He was educated with great care under the direction ot his father, who gave attention daily to his studies. His teachers, contrary to custom, were Rus. sian the chief of them being the poet Zhukovsky. Thoughtoot specially gifted, he acquired learning readily, showing good perception and lodgment, and less of the fiery Romanoff temper than had any ef his predecessors. He early manifested a love of justicc and forbearance (indispensable characteristics in one born to rule), often trying to heal the wounds caused by his father's hasty temper and imperious will. At the request of his father he travelled all over Russia before venturing abroad, meantime studying European diplomacv under the Prince de Lieveu, formerly Russian ambassador in London. The Prince later accompanied his imperial master in a tour through England, Germany and Italy. He did not visit France, there being on his father's part a strong antipathy to Louis Philippe.

On the 28th of April 1841 Alexander married Alexandrovno, daughter of the grand-duke of Hesse-Drams tad t. This was said to have been a love match the Prince having made his selection at will among a host of Germjtn princesses. His majority had keen declared five yean previously, and he had been, sinee his eighteenth year, admited to all the councils of the government, in order that he might learn by contact with the Czar's ministers and by listening to their reports and consultations, the mystery of governing wisely and well a vast empire. He ascended the throne March 2,1855, when Russia was engaged singlehanded, in a war with England, France, Turkey and Sardinia,with Austria maintaining an armed neutrality, but readv at the slightest pretext, to cast the weight of her arm on the side of the sllies. For A year Alexander continued the unequal strife. Sebastopel fell In September, 1855, but the allies gained little by this, and the Russian resistance seemed as resolute as ever. The imperious will of Nicholas for the time seemed to possess the soul of Alexander, and the neutral German States, especially Prusia and Saxony, deploring the bloodshed and the materal losses that must be involved in a renewal of actual hostilities in the spring, and finding Louis Napoleon not averse to ending a war in which, evidently, the allies had gained about all the glory thev could hopo for, offered their friendly offices as mmiiators, and the result was an acmistie, and the conference of Paris, which met in that citv in March. 1856, and concluded a treaty or psace on the 80th ot that month.

On the 7th of September, 1856, Alexan* der was crowned at Moscow, that ceremony having been deferred owing to the war with tbe allies. He began at once to relax the severity ot his imperial father's rule. His first aet was to emancipate the nation l'rom the military routine which had permeated every branch of the administration. reorganized the army, disolved tbe greater part of the military colonies, freed public instruction from military discipline, and, instead of placing discharged officers at the head of educational establishments, as professors or tutors, filled those posts with men especially fitted for them by studdy and experience. The censorship was relaxed and limited, and for the first time genuine publicity was introduced into Russia .He prohibited espionage instituted measures against official corruption, opening and clearing the way toward its exposure and ptmishment He intxo duced new blood into the service by advancing young men in the different branches, superceding each as had nothing but long service to commend them. He gave anew impulse to internal industry and trade, at the same time that he sought to develop the national commercial marine and induee native merchants to extend their idatioas with foreign countries. He annulled the impediment which prevented Russians from visiting foreign lands, granted a general amnesty for political offenders, Fnes and Russians, recalled exiles from Siberia, and allowed fugitives to return heme. He inaugurated a vset system of internal Improvements, destined to cover the empin with a net-work of railroads. gPHis greatest reform, however, and one will invest his name with a peculiar glory for all time to come, was the emancipation of the serfs. The idea of this grand scheme had been present with him since his youth. He was assisted in his preparations for this step by Nicholas Milutin and General Bostoftzoff. There was a strong manifestation of opposition by the nobles, but tbe Czar silenced it by jntimsting to them that if he was to en-

counter a ^evolution he would choose that it should be at the summit rather than at the base of society. The emancipation of the serfs was decreed March 3, 18ol, and carried out within the next two yean. His sctivity in the work of reform wai checked in 1S63 by the Polish revolution which was finally crushed in 1864, and una ilder repressive measures against other nonRussian, provinces ot tbe empire. In 1865 the old Moscow nobility demanded a representative government, but the demand was rejected.

punished by the most rigorous measv against the Polish nationality, and

There have been many previous (attempts upon the life of Alexander. The first was by Dimitri Karakozoff, April 16, 1866. This attempt was frustrated by the interposition of a peasant named Eomisaroff, who was ennobled as a reward for his action. The second attempt was made at the Paris Exposition in 1867, by Berezawski, a Pole. The attempt to blow up bis train, and the blowing up of a portion of tho Winter Palace are, of course, fresh in the recollection of all. Notwithstanding the ingratitude of his people, Alexander, 1870, resumed his work of reform, showing that he was guided by a higher motive than the desire to win the applause of the multitude. He abolished tne hereditary character of the priesthood, reorganized his army on the Prussian model, and inaugurated vast measures for tie education of the people.

Alexander has 6teadily pursued the policy of extending the area of the Russian empire to the east and south: but in 1867 h« rid himself of a useless bit of American territory by selling to the United States government the vast icefields and seal haunts of Alaska. At the London conference, pending the Franco German war, he secured the abrogation of that clause of the treaty of Pans declaring the neutrality of the Black sea. This was of advantage to him in the prosecution of the recent war with Tupkey. Tbe story of that war is yet fresh in the mind of the reader—too young for history. Seldom h&s the power of a nation been more conspicuously delayed. Whether sympathizing with Russia or not, no one couldfwithhold his admiration for the brilliancy dash and genius of hef officers and the indomitable courage or her troops not can he deny that they kwtly earned, by practically forcinarthe Turk from Europe, the right to ente#Con stantinople in triumph.

Although the marriage of Alexander is said to have been a love match, there was abundant evidence that his domestic life was not a happy one owing largely, if not wholly, to the conduct or Alexander himself. A short time after the death of the Empress he contracted amorgantic marriage with the Princess Dolgoronki.

CAN IT BE?

.JUSTICE SCHWAB SAYS THE HEADS OP MONOPOLIES HAVE BEEN WEIGHED IN ifex BALANCE.

NEW YORK, March 1®.—In an intcr^ view with a Timet reporter, Justice Schwab said: "And in America the fate which has overtaken Alexander bas a point. There are those in the United Stateswho should heed the warning, for it bodes disaster to some among us in high places." "To whom do you refer?" "I need not particularize, but the heads of American monopolies have cause to tremble. They arc oppressing tbe people of the land, and for just such oppression Alexander was killed." "And you decline to name these monopolists who are thus inviting death?" "Well, I am willing to mention Jay Gould and Wm. H. Vanderbilt as representatives of the class to which I refer." •'Do you mean to aver that there is really danger in their being served a* was the Czar?" "The meae, mene, tekel upharsin, is written. It is plain to the eyes of all men. American monopolists—Gould and Vanderbilt and others—had better consider well their luture action. I have nothing further to say."

COMMENDING THE A88A8BINATION. CHICAGO, March 15.—Socialists numbering 2,000 assembled at Twelfth Turner Hall this evening to welcome Fritzsche, the German Socialist and welMember of the Reichstag. Addresses were made by. several local Socialists, including the leader of the party, Dr. Ernst Schmidt, who commended the assassination of the Czar, saying, that while he pitied tbe men, he could not overlook the fact that he was a tvrrnical despot. Fritzsche explained the methods of Socialism in Germany, its organization and persecutions to which its adherents were subjected, but said nothing very incendiary, because, as he announced at the outset, it would not be safe to speak as freely as he would like, since his utterances here were closely watched and sent home, and it might subject him to imprisonment when he reached Germany.

HOONSNI'NERS.

CINCINNATI, March 12.—Grayson Ky. dispatches say: U. 8. deputy Marsha James Hefien with ten men entered Letcher Co. on the fifth of Mareh in search of Moonshiners. Hia first objective point was Lockfork valley among the foot-hills of tbe Cumberland mountains. The Moonshiners apprised of hia approach organized and taking a aix under brass cannon left then

Jokn Morgan during the war masted it and waited the

approach of the Marshal. When the Marshal and his party entered the pass they fired the piece, charged with nails,

scraps of iron and the like, but overshot the mark. The Marshal's parfy, none of whom were hurt, dismounted, captured the piece, drove the assailants across Perry county into Breathitt county. The Marshal 'and his assistants are punning the fugitives in Breathitt county.

YES, we are sure the spring election is not far off or The street commissioners would not be so patriotic about scraping up Main street.

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