The recent irregularities in your correspondence from Washington are due to the fact that the Washington office of the C. Herald has been closed during the absence of your correspondent, who is just now engaged upon World's Fair business. We have had very severe winter weather during the past month. The cold snap came tather suddenly and there were serious anticipations of a coal famine in Boston, New York, Washington, and in other cities. Had the intense cold continued a few days louver New York and Chicago would have suffered very seriously, for the coal dealers reported only five days? supply on hand, and transportation was interrupted on all the great lines, The cold wave has been followed by a thaw to the great relief of the suffering poor, I cannot avoid the thought of how much better it would be to devote the millions of dollars spent on foreign missions to the relief of suffering among our own people at home. The tales of suffering from cold and starvation which the recent cold spell has brought to public notice, even.in this city alone, are enough to make one impatient and indignant that our good people should so freely send their charitable contributions to distant heathen, when they could do so much more good with much less expense at home. We havea system of organised charities, but it. is a pity that we cannot stop the outflow of money to foreign missions, in part at least, and direct the stream into the treasuries of associations devoted to the direct relief of suffering humanity.
MR, BLAINE, We have to record ut last the death of one of the great leaders in American states. manship, the Hon. James Gillespie Blaine. He has been in public life for nearly forty years and bears a record of incessant activity and unusual foresight and ability which have greatly influenced the affairs of the nation, "His name will always be associated with the policy of reciprocity which. has already borne good fruit in the development of trade with South American to dock early on eduesday, the Ist of States.
He was opposed to the McKinle; the February. There were only some 21 Bill, and was not in perfect accord with from China, We notice in the list Me Von European cabin passengers, and very few President Harrison's course in the Chilean affairs, favouring a more moderate policy. Leohr, the former German Vice-Consul at Owing to these differences of opinion and Shanghai, who is promoted to full Consul-to the persistence of some of his friends in ip at Valparaiso, also Mr. John Schmidt, urging his nomination for the presidency, Me and Mee, Seaman and Mrs, Yates, allot Mr. Blain withdrew from the Cabinet, and Shanghai, There was also a Mr. G. Reid from somewhere in China, and a few Rossians who have been employed on the Russian railway in on their way home vie America, The it is said, that since the time when he wrote his memorable letter of resignation on the 4th of June, he did not again enter the portals of the State Department. President Harrison issued a proclamation
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