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Show NEWS OF THE WORLD. <br><br> Edmunds presented to the senate memorial largely signed by male and female residents of Washington asking for the enactment of a law for the punishment by castration of the crime of rape. <br><br> The President has nominated J.P. Swift of California and W.H. Prescott of South Carolina to be commissioners to China to negotiate a treaty with China. <br><br> The Chinese government is about buying eight gunboats from England or the United States, to defend the coasts against the possible attacks of Russia. <br><br> Bertha, a four-year old daughter of Gen. Bartlett, of San Francisco, has arrived at Council Bluffs, from Chicago, en route for the former place, traveling all alone. She seems perfectly self-possessed. <br><br> DES MOINES, Iowa, Mar. 26. - A young girl, aged 17 years, named Mary Henderson, who was formerly a dining room girl at the Sabine house in this city, gave birth, last week, in Hartford, Warren county, to an illegitimate child which the mother of the girl cut to pieces and burned at the stove, the cinders being thrown into a privy vault. Four months ago the girl left this city and has been secretly confined in a room at her home in Hartford during the whole period since. Previous to her death, which occurred a few days ago [unreadable section]. <br><br> [Unreadable] setting forth that a profound interest is felt in the approaching presidential election, and great alarm felt at the purpose of some trends? to commit the republican party to the dangerous third term policy. The address refers to the example of Washington and the injunction of Jefferson and warmly approves the resolutions on the state conventions of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, in 1875, all of which opposed the third term, and the similar action of Congress, in Dec., 1873. The nomination of Grant would be made only in total disregard of the principles of the Republican party. To avert this danger which threatens the success of the party, this call is issued for a mass convention at St. Louis, on May 6th, to perfect a thorough organization for the expression of the will of the people against the principle of a third presidential term, with a view to a constitutional amendment limiting the presidential tenure. All republicans in sympathy with the movement are invited. <br><br> Baltimore, Mar. 26.-The city post office authorities have arrested Eugene Fairfax Williamson, originator of the late annoyance to Rev. Morgan Dix of New York, Williamson confessed to sending letters, cards, etc., and said he had been in New York twice, stopping at the Windsor Hotel. He does not know what prompted him as Dr. Dix never inured him. He had no purpose to extort money. He was taken to New York. He is a single man, aged 40?, a native of Baltimore. Detectives had been following him. <br><br> New York, Mar. 27. - E. A. Williamson, the tormenter of Dr. Morgan Dix, met the latter and begged for mercy. James Gaylord, post office superintendent, said he was sure Williamson had no intention of levying blackmail. Williamson was taken to the ????. <br><br> CATLETTSBURG, Ky.- Within the past ten days fully twenty converts to Mormonism have passed here on their way to Utah. They come from Lawrence Co., Ky [Kentucky]; where for a year past Mormon missionaries have been ????. Among the converts was a young and handsome married woman, who has left her husband behind. <br><br> CHICAGO, Mar. 26. - A Kansas City special says: Late last night the city hospital, near the city, burned to the ground and its eighteen inmates escaped only by terrible exertions, as they were suffering from wounds and disease. They crawled out into the rain storm and were unprotected for two hours; some will certainly die of exposure. The main building was destroyed and the patients were cared for in the women's ward during the night. All telegraphic communications with Kansas city is cut off, there having been apparently a severe storm extending all over the northwest. It is not known what damage has been done. <br><br> LONDON, Mar. 29. - The Pall Mall Gazette, in commenting on the appointment of the commissioner in the Chinese treaty, says that this is a matter for which no complications in Europe should keep England from closely watching. Americans threaten to become England's most formidable competitors in the Far East. The Pall Mall Gazette observes a growing inclination in Asiatic countries to use America, which they do not fear, as a foil against Europe, which they fear exceedingly. A very slight gain in the shape of a reciprocity treaty would give the American trade a decided advantage in the Chinese parts. |