Show GENERAL NEWS BT W 10 the feb ll 11 tho which has been strong grant paper with E B washburne in the back ground as first choice but at present l not prominent enough as a candi date has apparently begun to favor y blaino over all other contestants washburne alone except od and is publishing ft large amount of news matter showing the popularity of the maine candidate in the west it says today to day the michigan delegation which in 1876 cast a solid vote against blaino will according to present indications be instructed for fc blaino blaine i jt st louis dispatch inu k matos that the grant feeling is wan i ing and that sherman and blame are looming j A dl va feb 11 A dasper ato dal was fought between two y young women here last saturday one K i being armed with ft pitchfork and P i the other with a club both were terribly damaged aal are not ex fc peeled to survive their injuries the cause was jealousy on account of a young man S th monro new york feb ll 11 tho editorially says nothing could seem y more unwise and ill timed than an undignified and sc reachy assertion C of of monroe doctrine doc trino in view of les surveys at panama especially il eifle the french government has f taken pains to make an official dis r avonel of any guarantee or any assur ance of protection or any sort of coin f initial to lesseps and his project no european power will venturo to y t challenge chal lengo our policy in this quarter of the world the governments of k europe have too just an estimate of our national strength to undertake an engagement on the isthmus which c they would be powerless to fulfill the attitude which becomes us is not one of nervous and uneasiness but of calm nd conscious national strength our power and resources y constantly and rapidly grow and there is no corresponding growth of european influence in the affairs of j this continent it is our interest to C have the canal excavated through f the isthmus as speedily as possible L and we shall be strong enough to protect our rights after its completion compre tion ii if they are obstructed we can seize t the territory through which the canal passes and hold it by right of con quest the powers of europe under tand our national character too well to provoke us on a print where all advantages would be on our side if we should deem it necessary to take and hold and possess the strip of territory through which the esth mean canal is constructed A fretted NEW YORK feb 11 trinity y episcopal church avenue and street burned the building cost the insurance is the organ had cost insurance I amaba feb 11 the removal is announced of the office and other clerical force of the kansas division j of the union pacific railway to s only the offices of the gen li cral bupt supt and the abt general pa agents remain at kansas f city without malarial change these two departments will soon remo veto a building nearer the union depot the old head quarter building at kansas city will be vacated MEMPHIS tenn feb II 11 the extra freight train of the mississippi and tennessee railroad which left here at midnight collided with the bridge train coming north near y courtland miss 60 miles south of memphis conductor gibson of the bridge train was killed the engines of both trains and several freight c rs were badly damaged no other li bill feb 11 senator garland reported a bill from the judiciary committee today amendatory to the present laws to bigamy and polygamy it imposes a fine of not more than five hundred dollars and not more than five years imprisonment upon every gereon who as husband of one wife lives with and hereafter marries another and declares that any man who marries more than one woman is guilty of bigamy this provision does not eltena to any person by reason of any former marriage choso whoso husband or wife by such marriage i absent for five successive years and is not known to be living nor to any per ton whose lawful marriage has been dissolved by a dearte of a competent court it provides that in any case of prosecution for bigamy any person drawn as juryman may be challenged if he is or has been living in the practice of bigaar or polygamy or if be believes it morally religiously or legally right for man to have more ban wife or to lire in the practice of cohabiting ha with more than one woman it also authorizes the president to grant an amnesty to offenders against the law for of fences committed before jan lit 1879 the chicago jamef and orhum agree in the opinion that there is no serious danger of french interests predominating in the inter ocenia canal scheme andrew smith for 12 years treasurer at north andover mass is in jail having confessed to pria ting funds the amount or defalcation is not known there i considerable speculation to know who is the near personal and political friend of grant who announced that bo would accent the republican nomination kierr von Bennin gisen will ably bs the government candidate for president of the german reich slag and Arnim von the candidate of the conservatives ed a man named goldberger cr to contradict a scandal about himself and Gold bergers wife after short talk goldberger shot dead the railroad from battle moun tain station on the C P R it to nevada was completed on monday evening the citizens of ageton and the surrounding county celebrated tho event with ampro panaia ceremonies at st petersburg the police yes trdy seized a printing pre of the and copies of ft revo pamphlet on of land M well ns a great of cypa and forged pa sports the occupant nere arrested tho lafeat report of the chinese rain latry of education hows a steady ini reee of public instruction throughout the empire six million children mattly mate are attending school in ave years the voluntary contributions to chool and hivo agregard and upward of c rw of land |