Free Republic

A young colored Republican, while making an address at Forty-fourth street and Second avenue last night, came near being roughly handled by a number of men. There were some policemen watching those listening to the speaker at the time, and they quickly suppressed the disturbance by severely shaking two or three who were in a riotous mood. A person at the meeting said sticks, stones, garbage and eggs were thrown at the person on the cart and at people in the gathering, but the police of the Fifty-first st. station denied that any sticks or stones were hurled at anyone...

In a plain pine box about the size of a small trunk an ingenious infernal machine containing one hundred pounds of dynamite was found on the pier of the Cunard Line less than one hour before the steamer Umbria sailed for Liverpool. According to Superintendent George E Murray of the department of combustibles the prompt discovery and immediate immersion in the water at the end of the pier by the detectives who found it was all that prevented the explosion of the dynamite and the destruction of the pier, with the many persons who had gathered to sail or bid...

Washington March 22 (Special)-The Opposition to the House to grant a pension of $2,000 a year to the widow of General Hancock was strong enough to sustain the demand for a yea and nay vote, which resulted nearly 4 to 1 in favor of the grant. A majority of the negative votes was contributed by Southern and Western Democrats. Although General Hancock was the Democratic nominee for President in 1880, the Southern men do not seem able to forget that he won military distinction in the field in command of Union troops. Some of the opposition was based upon the...