Christian herald and signs of our times . raphs ; direct votefor President, Vice-President and United StatesSenators. It is probable that the Peoples Partymay nominate a Presidential ticket in 1892. One of the Heroes of the American Navy,Rear-Admiral Daniel S. Braine, retired from theservice on the 18th inst, having reached thestatutory limitof age. AdmiralBraine, who wasa New Yorkerby birth, (andwhose portraitis given in thiscolumn,) enter-ed the Navy asa middy in1846, and work-ed his way up,by pluck, gal-lantry and intel-ligence, to thevery top of hisprofession. Heparticipated inalmost all t
Christian herald and signs of our times . raphs ; direct votefor President, Vice-President and United StatesSenators. It is probable that the Peoples Partymay nominate a Presidential ticket in 1892. One of the Heroes of the American Navy,Rear-Admiral Daniel S. Braine, retired from theservice on the 18th inst, having reached thestatutory limitof age. AdmiralBraine, who wasa New Yorkerby birth, (andwhose portraitis given in thiscolumn,) enter-ed the Navy asa middy in1846, and work-ed his way up,by pluck, gal-lantry and intel-ligence, to thevery top of hisprofession. Heparticipated inalmost all theimportant naval engagements along the Atlan-tic Coast, during the late war, at the close ofwhich, he was commissioned Rear-Admiral,and assigned to the command of the South At-lantic Squadron. He was one of the most pop-ular commanders in the Navy, a fine seamanand warm friend of the late Admiral Farragut. Unless King Humbert of Italy or his Mini-sters speedily devise some effective means toBtop the unprecedented exodus of his subjects,. some of his fairest provinces will be depopu-lated. The American Consul at Gibraltar re-ports that, in four weeks, over 20,000 Italianshave shipped to this country and thousands arepreparing to follow. They come from theprovinces and the Consul intimates that theyare by no means the most desirable class of im-migrants. In some sections all the men haveleft and there are now only women to plow thefarms and trim the vineyards. The UnitedStates Immigration Commission is now con-sidering ways and means to check this flood ofnew arrivals, which they are abundantly em-powered to do under the new immigration law. One Thousand Pounds of Blasting Powderdone up in twenty-five packages, which was be-ing conveyed on a flat car on the New YorkCentral Railroad, near Tarrytown, N. Y., onMay 19th, suddenly exploded, killing outrightthirteen men, who were riding on the car, andinjuring twenty-two others. Ten of the killedand nearly all of the injured were Ital
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