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Show FROM THE CAPITAL. Census Bulletin. Reclprocllj Stntl-mints. Stntl-mints. The Indian Messiah. Mes-siah. A SURPRISING DISCOVERY IN A CASKET, The South American Rebellion. The Fuller Divorce Case. Brief Telegram. Telexrapb to us kti 1 WAIIlTO OTE. InlrllnsCnu Ualltlln; Oilier Item. Wasiiotov, Xor. 14 Ooe of the musl iulerrSUurf bulltllns that will be keuwl bytlio census offli-v ill give tho population of (ho cities haxiug more thau SOOJ InhabitanL-, and the list will embrace over Mi Mr. Porter, thesupei!nteutlent,!u epeakloiof thia tJaysaiil: 'Tho mo.-t furprlsiag fait wlilcli this forthcoming census will estublLsh is the stupendous gruwtli of the urban (jopatatlun, and tho emigration of the agricultural iiorutation to the Cillers. The tendency of modern civilization is to mass population. During tbe lat decade this gain baa been no lrs than GO per emu Spealc 'n? roundly, it may bcsalJ that in 1T9J one-Uiirtleth of tlie sKpu!atlou was tound In cities of more thau S0O0 population; in ISOO.oue twenty-fifth; twenty-fifth; in 1610 and als in IS JO, ouc-twentletb; ouc-twentletb; in 1S30, one-sixlctntli; la 1SJ0, one-lwelfUi; in ISTu, more than one fifth; la 1SS0, half-v, half-v, ay between one fifth and om-quarter, om-quarter, and in 1S90, nearly three-tenths. three-tenths. The eleventh census will fbow that in the btatocf Massachusetts Massa-chusetts fully 75 iwrcent of the population Is In the cities. Tills phenomenal growth In tbe population popula-tion of our centets of inUuoliial euirgy Is lndlcitle of the rise ol our great manufacturing Industries during tho last decade, and Illustrates Illus-trates the fact that this country i now tbe foremost manufacturing, as well as the leading agricultural, nation of the world." Borne IuU.rtting remarks bearing upon reciprocity wereexchauged to-diy to-diy on the occasion of the recertlon of tenor (Juancs, tho new ijpanlfh minister to the United States, by President Harrison. Senor Guaues raid: "An international ixcbauge of products and manufactures of the United btates aud Spaiu is surely one of the ne-eaeary law s that are bated upon tbe instincts and unl vertal uetiis of the prweut day, and tlie greater tho dUTcrence b-tretu their custum?, dbpoalUucs aud pro ductiocs of tteir labor, so much more necessary la it for nations to comeclo-er together and imrea&c t elr exchanger." Presiueut ilarrUon, rep!ln?,(ftld: "It is most gratifying that, in thu entering upou your mUelon, you express, In theuaroe of yourtover eign aud f the Spanish tuition, n xarm disire for continued liarmonj of relations and Intimacy of inter couite betwfceu tbe United btate andSpiin. Inplred by like fceutl-meuts, fceutl-meuts, IcounteninceyourprumivM aid In developing the larger rela-tious rela-tious and closer ties of amity and commercial interests whiib both nations desire for their reciprocal advantage." THE J.EW MESSIAH. .Lite advices from Pine Ridge. 3. D,arc to theetlcctthattheex citemeut among tlie Indians ou a. count of the nenr Meslah is rapldl) increasing. Borne appreheu-ion is felt if active measures aru not taken by the government. A eerlous out break may occur during the early -pring, or even before. However, the government has the whole eituc-ilon eituc-ilon In baud a id will at once awl eUectuaify crush out the very first signs of an uprising. Tim J.AVAI. EQCIPJICfT. Commodore Denny, chief of the bureau of equipment, in his annual rcjort, mjb tliat during the ast hcal year sxty-flvo esM-U have been wholly or partially iqul ped at a cost of $o9t,030, and cual hat. betn purcliased at a cott of ?1J1,C33. Commodore Denny says tbe light mgof fhlaof war by eleitriuij Inaugurated by this government, has now become so essential that Ui warship is considered complete which is not so lighted. Special at tention was given the past year tn the subject of means of Interior communication on shipboard and a telephone system will soon be added experimentally to other devices de-vices on one new cruiser. CUBA WANTS nrClPBOC'ITY. The Department of Slate has ru celved dispatches from Consul General Gen-eral Williams, at Ilavaua, stating that the chairman of the various business associations have been requested re-quested by the government to a-point a-point a committee to go to Spain nud report their views Ukjh the ncgotia tluu of a reciprocity treaty with the United States. He also encloses a translation of an editorial in the leading Havana paper, strongly fa voriug reciprocity aud taking ti. task tlie SpauMi Cabinet for pronouncing pro-nouncing the petitions from Cuba impudent and as "tendlug to en courage the Yankees to be more exacting." |