If he does not appear in state at her Jubilee celebrations, it will probably be because he has decided to see the sights from the crowd instead of a state carriage.

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It will interest you to know that the police have traced the cannon stolen from West Point.

Colonel Ernst’s idea, that they were taken from the fort one by one, and carted away in a wagon, proved to be the correct one.

They were sold to a dealer for a few cents a pound as old metal, and apparently two of them have already been shipped to Germany to be melted.  The same dealer also bought a couple of boxes of old pieces of brass, and it is therefore feared that the famous Monterey cannon has been destroyed, but the authorities are not quite sure about that point as yet.

It appears that the cannon were stolen by a plumber in Highland Falls, a little village near West Point.  This plumber, whose name is Earle, sold them to a dealer in old metal.

The plumber and the man who bought the cannon have both been arrested, and, if the charge is proved against them, they will both be severely punished; the plumber for stealing the cannon and the dealer for buying stolen goods.

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Mr. Havemeyer and Mr. Searles have both escaped punishment.

The jury decided that neither of these gentlemen had been guilty of contempt of the Senate, and so they have not shared Mr. Chapman’s fate, but have been set at liberty, to return to their homes and business.

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The United States Consul at Zanzibar has sent word to the Government in Washington that the Sultan of Zanzibar has issued a proclamation abolishing slavery in the islands of Pemba and Zanzibar.

This good work has really been accomplished by Great Britain, for Zanzibar has been under the protection of England since the year 1890.

The country ruled by the Sultan of Zanzibar is on the East Coast of Africa, and consists of the islands of Pemba and Zanzibar, and a strip of the coast, which runs from the commencement of the Mozambique Channel to Somali Land.  The Mozambique Channel is the arm of the Indian Ocean which separates Madagascar from the mainland of Africa.

The slave trade has been carried on very extensively in Zanzibar, and despite the attempts of the British to prevent it ships full of natives have been brought from the mainland to be sold into slavery in Zanzibar.

These slaves were employed in the cultivation of cloves; Zanzibar grows four-fifths of the clove crop of the world.

The inhabitants of the islands are principally Arabs, a race of men who have always been prominent in the slave trade since first the shameful traffic in human flesh began.

These Arabs have pleaded that the freeing of the slaves in Zanzibar will destroy the clove industry, and that their trade will be ruined.