Samuel J. Tilden Owns A Large Inter

est in one of our iron mines. -m---- The senate üas passed the bill admitting Washington territory as a state. Mattüew Abkold and Oscar Wilde are soon to visit this country, but not to lecture. In the Pkiladelphia iris' normal school, cooking is substituted in place of mythology. Prof. Eoney of Saginaw is to take entire charge of the vocal musió at the Michigan semicentennial ceremonies at Lansing, June 15. The knights of labor have divided Michigan into five districts, each member of the state executive board haring supervisión over one in case of a strike. Mr. Powderly receives the small salary of $1,500 a year. A mere pittance for one who devotes his whole timé and attention to the interests of the knights of labor. The Japanese government is to divide that country into six sections, in each of which will be established a college for the education, in medical sciencc, of future physicians and súrgeons. ■ i ■ The Detroit Tribune has been sued for libel by Lorenz Einheuser for f5,000 datnages. The suit grew out of an article purportingtogive adesciiption of events occurring at a "birthday rception.'' Amono those who were conflrmed by Bishop Harria, at St. Paul's church, Detroit, on Sunday morning last, was Miss Florence Bowen, a grand-daughter of Col. Sylvester Larned of that city, who came from Buenos Ayres, S. A., to assume the vows. Miss Bowen's mother was confirmed many years ago in the name church. Eev. Geo. Haddock, of Iowa, says: " The true knigut of to daj ie the knight of labor. That every laboring man is entitled to such compensation as will not oiïly euable hiui to liv oomforfc&viy and in the enjoyment of such pleasures as will be conduciré to his moral and intellectual development, but also allow him to lay by something for oíd age." Bishop G. T. üeduelij of the Episcopal diocese of Cleveland, han sent a letter headed " confidential " to each of the ministers of tliat city, giving instructions for a systematic boycott of the Sunday newspapers. One hundred out of one hundred and thirty ministers have gone into the enterprise. The trap will be sprung nexfc Suuday. As the scheme has becoine public we predict tLcit tho roeult will not be as succeasful as anticipated. Fröm the present outlook the labor ■ituation is enough to excite serious apprshension as to what the ultimate result will be. Gould ojvns anti nnntnnla ni ranroaao, ituuo l'owderly bas little control over the organization of which he constitutes the head. The knights of labor are fortúnate in 'having such a man to direct and govern their movements, and ifthey will trust to him and be sruided by his counsels, he will be prepared to speak more conñdently and authoritiveiy in this matter. m i m ■ The boycotting campaign which has been carried on in New York city, on a Mrs. Gray, a widow, who keeps a small bakery, and who would not discharge her help because they did not belong to the bakers' uuion, has received inuch gratuitous advertising, and eonsequently her business has increased in such proportions that she has been obliged to engage extra workmen. People who never heard of the widow Gray, or her bakery on Hudson street, are now furninhed daily with supplies from her shop. The new congressional library building is at last a certainty. The bilí has passed both houses. The measuro has been urged for thirten years but has failed in one or the other branch of congress until now. The site is to be just beyond the east front of the capital, and 8550,000 is appropriated for it. The building is to be 450x00 feet, and is to cost $1,823,000 and will be flre proof. The preBent quarters are nearly buried up under the accumulation of books which are piled up on the üoors in great masses and entirely inaccessible. It will be five years in building. The seoretary of the central labor unión of New York, says ; "Yes, we are going tö bear down hard on Gould. In. a few days we shall issue the boycott against him. We shall cali on the public not to patronize his Western roads or the elevated road in this city. We shall have a committee to folio w and keep him in sight wherever he goes, except when he is in his office or his own hotxse. We shall, in his presence, warn every body against dealing with him - the butcher against furnishing him with meat, the grocer against selliüg him groeeries. Where our warning is unheeded, we shall take the name of the ofiender and he will be called to account by anotber committee. We cut off his family in the same way." Sam Small, the revivalist, pays the following tribute to newspapers: "I've been a newspaper man for 12 ears, and if I wanted to get a right square judgment of anything, I'd rather go into a newspaper office than into a court of justice. No man whose life is true, pure and just, is af raid of all the newspaper presses in America. They are the best detective force in this country to-day. They have punctured more shams, and so far as I'm concerned I say take the bridles off and let 'em go. The only ones that will be hurt will be the shams and frauda. And if y ou think the ne wsnaners print too much of a sensational kind, don't you read it, and they will quit printing it. The papers need to be reformed but the people have got to reform first. Newspapers are printed for money and to suit their patrons. If you dou't thiak they are run on a high moral platform, why, just reform yourselves ánd the papers will follow suit." The gossips are determined to marry President Cleveland, and his bride elect is s'aid to be Miss Frank Folsom of Buffalo. - The knights of labor discourage the use of intoxicating drinks, and go so far as to prohibit the use of liquor and beer at all their public gatherings. A LAKGE and euthusiastic meeting was held in Detroit on Tuesday evemng, and a formal protest was made by the ladies against the sale of beer on Helle Isle. Now that the prominent women of De troit are taking counsel and working together in the good cause, we are confident the sale of beer o i the island will be suppre8sed. FoiiiiOwiNQ close npon the terriflc cyclone which devastated some parts of Minnesota, last week, causing great loss of life and property, are the floods in Massachusets, (ioing damage to the extent of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The track of thé üood was in a thinly settled portion of the country and consequently the loss of life was not great. Also the flood at Montreal, where over seven thousand families were rlooded out and the damnge estimated at one million dollars. It is only sixty years since the duke of Newcastle, who had boen reproacl.ed in a gentle way for evictiug more than one thousand tenants because they had voteil in oppositiop to his wishes, replied: "May I not do what I like with mine own?'' -Since that day some changes have come over the scène. That which the earlier duke pompously declared was "his own" the present duke would not assume to olaim for a moment. Like the duke of Newcastle, Jay Gould now asks the people almost daüy if he cannót do what he likes with his own. He can, subject to tïïe laws. Laws reached the English duke, and they can be made to reach the American .