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W#ekly Istaomastt In 1888.

THE EICHTH DISTRICT.

gj The BepnblioaiCConTentioB Held in Thia City Yesterday.

J. H, Burford, of '.Montgomery County, Elected District Com* mitte eman.

Terre Haute Cboeen as the Place for the Nominating Conven-tloo-»Tbe Time Not Set.'

THE CONVENTION.

The Election of a Republican District Committeeman.

The republican district convention for the selection of the district committeemen, and the selection of the time and place, if the convention should see fit, of the next republican congressional convention, convened in the Circuit court room at 2 -.20 yesterday afternoon. The convention was largely attended by representative men of the party. The county delegations all responded. The convention was called to order by Mr, Jacob D. Early, district committeeman. Mr. Early, on calling the conventien to order, said it argued well for the success of the republican party in the coming campaign to see so many fighters present even before the first battle of the campaign.

Mr. J. C. Chaney, of Sullivan county, was made permanent chairman. Mr. Cnaxiey said he considered it an honor to be called to preside. He hoped the convention would select the very best mon for district committeeman. Sullivan county had lately been added to the Eighth congressional district, but he would pledge hard work from the stalwart republicans of that county.

Mr. H. C. Nevitt, of Vigo, nominated Mr. Mason Duncan, of Clay county, for secretary, and he was unanimously elected. On motion of Mr. F. C. Danaldfcon, of Vigo, the representatives of the republican press were made assistant secretaries. On motion the secretary called the roll of counties, giving the number of delegates each county was entitled to, as follows: Clay, 23 Fountain, 19 Montgomery, 27 Parke, 19 Sullivan, 19 Vermillion 9 Vigo, 29.

Nominations for district commiteeman being declared in order, Mr. Jacob Herr^ of Clay county, nominated Dr. J. C. Giflord". He thought the Clay county delegation presented a candidate who would lend force to the republican party. "It reliability and willingness to do work count?" said Mr. Herr, "no man will be nominated better able to fill the position."

Fountain county was called, but presented no candidate. When Montgomery county was called the Mr. "W. T. Brush, of Crawfordville nominated the Mr. John H. Burford, vouching for him as a hard worker and a careful man.

Parke and Sullivan counties had no candidates to present. Representative Robert Sears, of Vermillion county, on behalf of the Vermillion delegation, presented Dr. M. L. Hall, of that county. Vermillion, he said, was a small county, but a county that always rolls up a reliable republican majority. Their candidate had grown up in their midst, had been chairman of their county committee for six years, in fact he was "a hustler from away "back. He would be found in the front rank, and would lend force to the campaign.

On behalf of the Vigo delegation Mr. Geo. Faris nominated Mr. Jacob D. Early, who had filled the position lor the last two years.

Mr. Early declined the nomination. FIB8T BALLOT. The first ballot resulted:

COUNTIES.

Clay Fountain Montgomery... Parke Sullivan Vermillion Vigo

Totals!., 59 28 SXCONL^B ALLOT. The second ballot reculted:

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COUNTIES.

Clay Fount tin Montgomery.... Parke Sullivan Vermillion Vlgo|

Totals.

i'» 27

10 19 9

47 23

Mr. Burford was declared elected. On motion of Representative Sears, of Vermillion, Mr. Burford's election was made unanimous.

Before the first ballot was taken the Vigo delegates consulted, and balloted among themselves. Before. the second ballot the delegation retired, and decided to cast the entire vote for Mr. Burford.

Judge B, E. Bhoads, of Vigo, called for a speech from Mr. Burford. Mr. Burford was greeted with applause. He desired to return thanks for the honor. He esteemed it an honor to be made committeeman of the Eighth congressional district. He was willing to stand the burdens every loyal republicans should be willing to stand some of the burdens. It is said that the republican party was down, at its defeat was caused by the little ty jealousies in the party. "You men wi.o have been sent here ad delegates," said he, "let each one of you take a personal interest in the campaign. Lay aside all local differences, and fight the democratic party. The democratic party is our common enemy. If we all pull together there is no reason why we should not be successful." Although the district was made democratic, ne believed that it could be carried by the republicans. The party may carry the state at the next Section, but the legislature he could not say so much for. With the damnable gerrymander made byjfche democrats it is necessary for the republicans to carry the state by 30,000 majority in order to win the legislature. As a personal favor he asked all active republicans to give him their counsel at afi times. The next time he appeared before a republican convention he hoped to be able to congratulate them on a victory.

Mr. W. T. Brush, of Montgomery, moved to adjourn. Mr. J. D. Early stated that one of the objects of the convention was to fix a time and place for the republican congressional convention, if it was thought best to do so.

After a short discussion, participated in by several delegates, Mr. Brash withdrew his motion.

Mr. Massey, of Sullivan, moved that the congressional convention be held at Terre Haute. The motion was carried unanimously.

Mr. F. C. Danaldson, of Vigo, moved that the time of holding the convention be left wiOi the district committeeman and the chairmen of the different county committees. ,T.

Captain C. A, Power, of Vigo, believed that now was the tame to fix the date. He moved to amend Mr. Dan aidson's motion by naming the first Wednes-

^a&rfBrush ^as of the opinion that it would be better to wait until the state convention was held, and the state platform adopted.

Mr. Nebeker, of Fountain, moved to lay the amendment on the table. The motion to table Captain Powers amendment prevailed, and the motion offered by Mr. Danaldson was adopted.

The convention then adjourned. The New State Committee. Special Diepatch to the Express.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., February 11. The folio wing is the list of state committeemen chosen to-dayat the various conventions

Diet. 1. 2. 8. 4. 6. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 18.

Name.

The Fifth District.

Special Dispatch to the Express, §f GREENCASTLE, IND., Feb. 11.—Delegates from Bartholomew, Green, Clay, Putman, Brown, Morgan, Hendricks and Monroe counties met in convention today and unanimously elected Mr. W. F. Browning, of Bloomington, Monroe county, as State Committeeman from the fifth concessional district. Mr. Browning has for ten yiears been chairman of the Monroe county committee. A resolution was passed by the convention making A. G. Porter nrst choice for chairman of the State Central Committee and H. 8. Jordon, of Martinsville, second choice. It was decided that a convention to nominate a candidate for, congress should be held |Thursday, July 29, at Franklin, Johnson county.

The Trotting Association.

CHICAGO, IU., February 10.—The congress of the National Troting Association continued its sission to-day. Nearly the whole forenoon was spent in a consideration of the report of the secretary, and treasurer, some complaint having been put forward by various members of delay in obtaining an accounting of disputed moneys turned over to the secretary. John .Splan was one of the complainants, a fine he had been compelled to pay $350 over to the arbitration committee, and that it must have gone into the sinking fund. The committee appointed to choose a board of review for 1886, reported through General Tilton, its chairman, as follows: Eastern district, George W. Stearns, of Chicopee, Mass. John Shepard, of Boston Morgan J. Bull&kley, of Hartford. Atlantic district, David Bonna, of New York Paul H. Hocke, of Pittsburg: Elias Wilkinson, New York. Central district: M.J. Payne, of Kansas City Thomas Axworthy, Cleveland H. C. McDowell, Lexington, Kv. Western district: M. M. Morse, Pawpaw, 111. N. C. Blake, Cedar Bapids D. J. Campban, Detroit* Pacific district: M. T. Smithal, San Francisco J. McShafter, San Frsmcisco L. J. Rose, San Gabriel, Cala. The list was approved by a vote of 157 to 36. The following officers were elected: President, James Grant, of Davenport General W. S. Tilton, Maine, fiist vice president Edmund Mortimer, St. Louis, second vice president.

Cardlnal^plbbons.

BALTIMORE, Febuary 11.—Archbishop Gibbons yesterday received a cablegram from Rome assuring him that he will be made a cardinal at the March consistory. The message was direct from the Vatican, and establishes the question beyond a doubt. Congratulatory telegrams have been received at the archepiscopal residence from nearly every archbishop in America, as well as from'cardinals and high dignitaries in Europe. [James Gibbons, arohbishop of Baltimore and primate of the chnroh. in America, was born im Baltimore, July 28, 1884, but received hia early education in Ireland. He was graduated at St Charles college, in Howard county, Maryland, and waa ordained priest at St. Mary's seminacy, Baltimore, by Archbishop Kenrick on June 80, 1851. On August 16 1868, he was consecrated a bishop. He removed to Richmond in 1872, and May-20, 1877, was made coadjutor to Archbishop Bayley, of Baltimore, whom he succeeded on October 8d of the same year. Arohbishop Gibbans has written several books, inoluding "Ih* Faith of Onr Fathers," which has had a sale of over 50,000 copies.]

Requiem Mass in an Episcopal Church.

CHICAGO, 111., February 11.—At the Episcopal Church of the Ascension a solemn requiem mass for the repose of the late Father Jardine's soul was celebrated. About 120 people were present, the majority being ladies. Rev. E. A. Larrabee was the celebrant, and he wore a girdled alb, black stole and black chasable, on the bai k" of which was a cross in black velvet bordered with white. The action of Mr. Larrabee in the matter is the following-out of the example set by "Father" Richie in New York. Bishop Potter, of New Xork, pretested against these masses, holding there were no such services as "requiem mass" prepared in the book of prayer or suggested by any-rubric or in any way left to the discretion at use of the clergy. Bishop McLaren, of Illinois, is at present in the Bermudas.

Troubles in the Northwest MONTREAL, February 11.—A dispute!

from Edmonton says: At the police barracks here and at Fort Saskatchewan the men are still in a state of insubordination, and are doing much as they please. A t-the latter place, recently, some of them became intoxicated, and after locking the commanding officer in his room, continued their debauch, in "which they damaged the kitchen furniture. Thecitiee'ns await with considerable interest the outcome of the affair.

KINGSTON, Ont, Febuary 11.—Friends in this vicinity have been advised of the killing of six of the mounted police^ near Regina. They await the confirmation of the report They have also been informed by their northwest correspondents that a rebellion iB likely to occur in the spring,

On a Peace footing.

VIENNA, February 11.—A dispatch from Belgrade states that the king has ordered Servian field forces to be disbanded, and the army,to be put on a peace footing. There is no confirmation of this statement, and it is not generally credited.

THE TERRE

County.

Godlet Morgan.... C. C. Schroder John Overmeyer... Ghas. F, Jones Wm. F. Browning. J. N. Heneston.... D. M. Bansdeli.... John H. Burford... James Tallis Dr. H. E. Pattison. John F. Dilliok.... F. H. Barnard B. W. B'.yce

Pike... Dubois Jennings..... Franklin Monroe Fayette Marion Montgomery. Tippecanoe}.. Pulaski...... Huntington.. Allen Kosciusko ...

TRADE AND LABOR.

The Situation at the Iff ail Works —Ifumber of Machines in Operation.

Secretary Wise's Weekly BeportThe Oldest Nailer Dead.

The Minneapolis Milling Review— The Dairy Interest—Trade and Labor Notes.

THE NAIL WORKS.

The Number of Hen at Work—The Outlook for Full Resumption.

Three heaters, forty-two puddlers and forty feeder-nailers were at work yesterday, with a prospect of several other feeders and one additional heater commencing work this morning. The action of the Western Nail association, at its meeting on Wednesday, has evidently been a source of no little disappointment to many of the striking employes of the mill here. Rumors had been rife that the members of the manufacturer's association had made an agreement to sign the 21-cent scale with the consent of the Terre Haute company, and upon that basis was apparently grounded the hope that tho company here would sign tne scale and work would- commence on the scale of wages prevailing at the time the recent strike was inaugurated.

It was currently reported last evening that the company would increase its force of factory employes, from this time, with feeders who were sufficiently skillful to take charge of the machines, and as rapidly as possible bring the work of the establishment up to the full capacity.

James Bennett, an old employe of the mill, took charge of a heating furnace yesterday morning.

There are three double furnaces in the heating department not running, which will be fixed up, it is said, on Monday next.

Dave Phillips and "Hank" DaviB, who were expecting to commence work in the Duddling department, on Monday last, lave not yet commenced work.

The puddlers are still working three heats a turn, and with the force of neaters and rollers now on, are making all the late material the men in the factory can landle.

Nearly all the working employees of the mill are residents of this city. No "outside" help, with two exceptions, hav-

ing been employed, elligei at I weeek at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Willison. Mr. McVay was the father of Samuel McVay, the Riverside nailer, J. H. McVay, a nailer at Calumet mill, South Chicago, and Mrs. Kate Willison, of New Castle. He was 83 years old, and the oldest nailer in the country. The last work he did was in 1875. He came to this city in 1839, from Pennsylvania, where he was born, and worked at the old Top Mill and afterwards at the Point mill, which was situated on the present site of the Baltimore & Ohio depot. At the latter mill he was employed until it was taken down to make way for the depot, when he went to New Castle. He

Wheeling Intelligencer: Samuel McVay, sr., died at New Castle, Pa., last

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widely known among nail mill men, and will be favorably remembered, for a long time, by the oldest residents of Wheeling.

The following is SecretaryJWise's weekly report to the members of the Western Nail association, issued yesterday: OFFICE OF WESTERN NAIL ASSOCIATION,

WHEELING, W. Va., Feb. 9,1886. GENTLEMEN The following mills have reported:

Belfont Iron Works.—February 6. Have 112 machines running, including 14 self-feeders. Heating furnaces and nail plate rolls on double turn.

Belmont Nail Co.—February 9. Have 111 machines, heating furnaces and rolls running.

Western Nail Company.—February 9. Have 98 machines running, including 2 self feeders. Heating furnaces and nail plate train working.

Norton Iron Works.—February 9. Have machines, heating furnaces and rolls in operation.

Laughlin Nail Company.—February 9., Have 92 machines running, including 39 self feeders, heating furnaces and rolls running.

Kelly Nail and Iron Company.—February 9. Have 73 machines, heating furnaces and rolls running.

Wheeling Iron and Nail Company.— February 9. Have 70 machines, neating furnaces and rolls running.

Riverside Iron Works.—February 9. Have 57 machines, heating furnaces and rolls running.

Calumet Iron and Steel Company.— February 9. Have 54 machines, heating furnaces and nail plate rolls running.

Jefferson Iron Works.—It. -uary 9. Have 38 machines, heating furnaces and rolls running.

La Belle Iron Works.—February 9. Have 35 machines running. Terre Haute Iron and Nail Company— February 9. Have 32 machines, neating furnaces and rolls running.

Benwood Iron Works—February 9. Have 8 machines running. The above shows 873 machines in operation at manufacturers' scale, an increase of 21 compared with last week's report.

Yours respectfully,

7 GEORGE WISE, secretary.

MILLING AT MINNEAPOLIS.

ing houses in the city, of hone clo harness, etc. Liabilities axe $70,000 assets $60,000.

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Am Improvement in the Demand Flour—The Week's Product* MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., February 11.—

In its weekly review of tb^flour production, in its issue of S^bruary 12. the Northwestern MiUe^lill say: j0

The features of the milling situation this week are better power, and an imrovement, though slight, in the demand ior flour. Power, closing half of last, week, was considerably better than during the preceding three days, and the operatic^ of the mills is much more satisfactory. .The flour production, for tl# week ending February 6, was 89,454 barrels, averaging 14,909 barrels daily, against 88.480 barrels the preceding week, and 83,300 barrels for the corresponding titS^e in 1885. Since Monday there

has

been a

sufficient head to drive an inrased proportion of the milling capacity. Those mills whose turn it was to be idle this week are running, as the stage of water jdstifies it This noon twelve mills were in operation with an output of 14,000 barrels. Steam is used in Only one mill. There is more inclination to buy flour, but at prices at which millera do not feel justified in selling freely. Beceipts of wheat for the week: 477,680 bushels shipments, 82, 320 bushels flour, 69,959 barrels. In store here: 5,790,884busiielB at Duluth, 5,657,765 bushes at St. Paul, 1,132,000 bushels.

Business Failure.

CHICAGO, HI., February 11. tary assignment was filed to-day by Garfield Manufacturing Co^ with J. B. Miller as assignee. The assigning company was pne of the leading mannfactur-

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NEW ORLEANS, February 11.—Gilbert H. Great & Co., cottorf factors, failed today. The trouble was caused by the failure of their Liverpool house.

OSHKOSH, Wis., February 11.—William Leard, who runs the largest wholesale and retail clothing store in northern Wisconsin, has been dosed by the sheriff.

BUTTER.

ST. LOUIS, February 11.—The annual convention of the Mississsippi Valley Dairy and Creamery association was called to order this morning. Fully 200 delegates from all portiofti of the United States are present. The convention was

Sent,

resided over by the association's presithe Hon. Norman J. Colman, who opened the session with his annual ad-

TRADE AND LABOR.

A Voluntary Increase of Wages—Troubles in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. LAWRENCE, Mass., February 11.—The Atlantic cotton mills and the Pacific mills have posted notices announcing an increase of wages, to tbi.e effect on March 1st

PROVIDENCE, I., February 11.—The weavers in the Natick mill of Messrs. Knight, 286 in number, struck, yesterday, for the sa'me schedule paid in the firm's other mills at Pontiac.

CANTON, Mass., February 11.—Four hundred striking silk weavers will be paid off to-day, and new help engaged. They organized an assembly of Knights of Labor last evening.

PITTSBUBG, Pa., February 11.—An evening paper publishes a sensational story from Mt. Pleasant to the effect that socialistic agitators from Chicago aiH New York have been snccessHlLin inducing nearly all of the Slavonics in the region to join a secret organization* similar to the Molly Maguires, and that recently, especially during the past week, large quantities of firearms and ammunition had been shipped into the coke regions.

NEW YORK, N. Y., February 11.—The strike of the cigarmakers was virtually ended to-day and to-morrow the men will assemble at their various headquarters and proceed to work. The present equalization of price list is signed by a committee of three of the Central Labor union, by seven of the Progressive union No. 1 and by five of the manufacturers. It was agreed that the hours of labor, until the 1st of May, shall be nine hours per day, and after that time eight hours per day at the discretion of a majority of the hands. Only union men are to be employed after May 1st.

Steam, will be raised in the boilers at the Steuben rille Cooperative Company's works to-day or to-morrow, and it is expected that the machinery for cutting nails will be in operation by Monday or Tuesday next. The oompany have a large quantity of nail plate on hand, and when the mill starfb up it will be with a three turn force.

A monster eight-hour mass meeting was held last night at Milwaukee. Resolutions were passed indorsing an ordinance pending before the cc~noil making the hours 0/ city laborers, of whom there are 700, eight hours. The ordinance will unboubtedly be passed.

The painters of Chioago contemplate making a demand, on April 1st, for an increase of wages from $1.75 and $2.25 to $8 perday. To prepare for that action a meeting waa held. About 600 painters were present. A. J. White advised all painters, of whom there are 1,5(0 in the city to join the painters' assembly of the Knights of Labor. Charles Geer spoke against thin plan, declaring that the Knights of Labor admitted bad as well as good workmen, and thus weighed down the skilled painters in their struggle for better wages. He advocated the formation of a Painter's union.

The Intelligent Policeman. ST. LOUIS, MO., February 11.—John

Mullally's livery and sale stables burned at an early hour this morning. The employes of the stables, who were on the scene at the time, turned their attention first to saving the horras, sixty-five in number, and had taken about seven of them from the burning building, when two policemen arrived, and thinking the employes were thieves, clubbed them into insensibility and thus destroyed Ihe only chance of saving the stock, and the remaining fifty-eight horses were burned to death. The total loss is estimated at $12,000 insurance, $3,000.

^Sporatlo Seymour Seriously 111.

UTICA, N. Y., February 11.—Horatio Seymour has been sick at the house of hia, sister, Mrs. Roscoe Conkling, for several days past. The trouble mainly is exhaustion and failure of the powers of tion. At about 5 o'clock p. m. to-day he fell into a healthful slumber, which con. tinned three hours, and which his physician thinks a VBry favorable symptom and the probable beginning of convalescence.

UTICA, N, Y., February 12.—At o'clock this morning ex-Governor Sey mour is more restless, and is unable to

All On Account of a Kiss. MADISONVILLE, Ky., February 11.—T.

J. Beal shot and killed James Bracket, his young farm hand, at the house of the former, five miles from here Tuesday night. Bracket had been charged by Mrs. Beal with attempting to kiss her. He called her a liar and immediately the two men drew pistols. Bracket fired first and missed and was instantly killed.

A Big Railroad Combination. PITTSBURG, Pa., February 11.—The

Chronicle-Telegraph states to- 'ay it reliably Informed that the Vanderbilt and Garrett systems of roads have united to defeat the Drexel, Morgan & Co., gobble of the Beading road and that the money interests of both parties will be used to aid Gowen and defeat the scheme to turn the Beading over to the Pennsylvania road.

Buncoed for $S,OOO.

BLOOMINGTON, 111., February 11.—This afternoon two confidence -men relieved George Bradner, an old citizen and retired merchant, of $6,000 by a lottery swindle 9n4 made good their escape. -t

TTTF, EXPRESS, TERRE HAUTE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12.1886.

The Injury Done to the Trade by Imitations. CHICAGO, 111., February 11.—The sec

retary of the National Butter, Cheese and Egg association has issued a circular to county, state and national legislators and the people generally in regard to the dairy interest of the country, and the harm likely to accrue to jt from the manufacture of what the circular calls "fraudulent imitations for butter." The total sum now devoted to dairy purposes the ci- ialar puts at $3,053^563,474. This vast industry is disturbed, embarrassed' and threatened with destruction. The circular says, by "a stupendous fraud, with a plant not eiceeding $20,000, and turning out about 60,000,000 pounds of ^product worth in money value (supposing it to be wholesome food) not to exceed 12}f cents a pound, $7,500,000.

THE DEAD SOLDIER.

Making Final Preparations tke Funeral on Saturday.

for

Snbgeriptien Papers Started in Philadelphia and Heir York for -5* the Widow.

Who, Owing to the Generosity of Her HubradisLeft Wi.'h No Estate,

GEN. HANCOCK'S FUNERAL.

The Exercises to be Simple ac Possible —Mrs. Hancock Improving. NEW YORK, N. Y., February 11.—MIB. General Hancock had so far recovered from the effects of the shock consequent upon her husband's death on Tuesday that she was able to leave her bed and go to breakfast with her family this morning. Dr. Janeway, the physician who has been in attendance since her bereavement, says that her nervousness has, in a great measure, disappeared, and there is apparently little likelihood of a return of the extreme prostration which she lias been suffering. Although many military organizations in this state and elsewhere have requested representation in the faneral procession, Mrs. Hancock will not swerve from her first resolution to have the exercises as simple as possible, and all Bach offers have been denied.

The remains were taken from the bier this afternoon and placed in a steel casket, dressed in the uniform of a. major general. The following order was issued tonigtt: iyiv. HBADQUABTfcBS DlVlSION OJ THE ATLANTIC,

GOVKBUOJJ'B ISLAND, NZW YOBK CITS, February 10, 1886, General Order No. 2:

For the information of all concerned it is hereby announced that the lieutenant General has assumed the immediate command of the division of the Atlantic and the department of the east until a successor to the command is assigned by the president of the United States.

By command of- Lieutenant General Sheridan. WM. D. Wmpruc, Assistant Adjutant Gt-ieral.

Orders vett) also, issued detailing four batteries of the Fifth artillery to act as escort at the funeral ceremonies sixteen non-commisioned officers to accompany die remains to Norristown and a detachment of thirty-seven men under an officer to fire salvos over the tomb.

Subscriptions for Mrs. Hancock. PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, February 11.— As soon as it became known here that General Hancock had no adequate fortune to leave his widow a movement was set on foot to raise a fund for her benefit. This fund hte been started by a gift of $1,000 each by Messrs. A. J. Drexel and George W. Childs and the gifts have been coupled-with the promise of "more if necessary."

NEW YOBK, N. Y., February 11.— General Hancock died poor, and the fact being known to his friends andeomrades, subscription fnnd has been started for the widow. The plan Was originated by Gen. W. F. Smith, Gen. J. B. Fry, Wm. Burns and T. L. Crittenden. J. Pierrepont Morgan is treasurer of the fund. These sums have been signed: Samuel J. Tilden, $1,000 Wm. R. Grace, $500 M. B. Brown, $250 J. D. Crimmins $250. The circular accompanying the subscription paper says the general was kejt poor by calls upon his official hospitality and constant charities, which he gave to those in distress.

The President Will Not Attend. WASHINGTON, D. C., February 11.— President Cleveland, owing to a pressure of public business upon his time and attention, will be unable to attend the funeral of General Hancock at Norristown. He will be represented by Secre tary Eddicott.

An Old Sport Dead.

DETROIT, Mich., February 11.—Captain Samuel H. Smithers, well-known to sporting men throughout the country, died here this morning, of typhoid pneumonia. He

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born at Gallipolis, Ohio, sixty

years ago, and was for a long time a steamboat Captain between Pittsburg and New Orleans. An army paymaster named Cook gambled away $300,000 of the government's money,

Cincinnati, during the war, and Smithers being in the game was obliged to visit Canada. By furnishing valuable information from rebel fugitives in that country, he gained leave of the federal government to return unmolested, and since has lived here, being known as the owner of a number of fast horses during the last fifteen years. He leaves a wife and an estate valued at $30,000.

Col. Robert Breckenridge Expelled. LOUISVILLE, Ky., February 11.—Col Robert Brecfcenridge, supreme treasurer of the Knights of Honor, has been expelled from the organization by command of Supreme Dictator Sloat. The friends of the colonel will appeal to the supreme lodge that meets next May. In the meantime, the case of the lodge against him is to be heard before United States Judge Baxter. Judge Baxter compelled Breckenridge to turn over the widows and orphans' fund, amounting to $114,000, last year. He still has in his possession $33,000, of which he refuses to pay over. The specific charge upon which hia expulsion is based was his refusal lo surrender this money at the command of the supreme officers. :v-

He Drank His Wife's Life-Blood

BOSTON, Mass., February 11.—Michael Doran has been insanely jealous of his wife Ellen ever since he found her with another man in the cemetery at Weymouth, two years {(go. She and her ten children have been living in Albany place. This afternoon Doran went to her room and quarreled with her. His son, who was in the room, says:

I saw father go to hia kit of tools and put a sharp shoe-knife in hia pocket. He walked to the middle of the room, knelt down, and began to pray. Then he rushed at mother, and stabbed her again and again with the knife. The blood gushed from an artery in her neck, and father drank a lot of it. 1 ran for help, and father was arrested.

Doran seems to think that his wife's infidelity justified his crime. He was not drunk.

Bl-Hetalllsm In the Keichstafr. BERLIN, February 11.—There was an

other exciting discussion of bi-metallism the Beichstag to-day. The debate was started by a motion to reconsider the vote by which the proposition to require the chancellor to confer with foreign powers on the subject of silver coinage was rejected. Finally a motion to reconsider was lost by a vote of 145 nays to 119 yeas.

V/ Henry Watteraon. LOUISVILLE, Ky., February 11.—The

Hon. Henry Watterson, who has been confined to his house for the past two weeks with a severe cold, continues to improve slowly.

'CAMILLE.'

Hbne. Blodjeska's Conception of the Part, as Stated by Herself,

In your favor of the 15th inst. you ask me for my conception of the part of Oamille, because my view of the character has been frequently assailed. I know that I have been accused of idealizing Camille and it has been said that to idealize vice was to make it tempting. In fact, in three fourths of the comments upon the play I read these words: morbid, "Frenchy," false sentimentality, immoral. I deny all of these. The piece is. not false we meet similar situations at every step of our life. It is not immoral—because it preaches a truly moral and humane lesson. It is not morbid—because it presents the eternal truth that God is more relenting than man that, while he. forgives and offers .the sinner the opportunity repent, to improve, society throws him off, with no other resource than the gutter or deatb.

It is not true that a man or woman is irredeemably bad because fallen that agan idea, but it is ne hei nor Christian. The g) ejpi est

Christendom has conltired

upon man is the conception of charity and forgiveness, which comprehends the idea of possible redemption. There is no one among us who is not conscious of faults ana yet none of us despairs of improvement. It is here that I find the beautiful idea of Camille—that of reformation by love—an idea originated, not by "Frenchy" authors, but

Buhlimely

expressed in those immortal woods, "Her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much." This is the key-note of the play, and upon it I base my conception.

In th^first act I try to indicate as delicately as possible the degradation of my heroine—although the surroundings, the general situations, almost suffice for this purpose. It must be remembered that Marie Duplessis, the original Marguerite Gautier, was not at all a common courtesan. The reason of ber success in the demi-mdnde was her innate refinement and elegance of manner. (See the opinions of Jules Janin andytf the Abbe Liszt in Dumas' preface.) is the play advances and the love of Camille for Armande develops it is only natural that her character should sustain a corresponding4mprovement, and that the nobler instincts of her nature should begin to be more appaient. The full nobility of her character is revealed in the third act. Her skepticism of possible redemption, as shown in the first, has disappeared in- its place has come a firm conviction that she is capable of abetter life. The innate disgust for her previous course has grown to horror. At length she sees open before her the paths she has dreamed of in childhood. But in an instant all is thrown away—hope of love, hope of respect, hope of a better life—to fall back into the awful pit, the depths of which she realizes now more than ever. This sacrifice she makes to insure Armand's future it is the height of selfabnegation. If ever a sermon was read in one act, it is here.

Unfortunately the story of Camille has frequently been represented on the stage as a vulgar tale of a cocotte with a passing physical fancy for a handsome young fellow this has given rise to the notion of the immorality of the play. There is, however, no story in the whole realm of fiction that could not be debased bv the same mathods. The sublime legend of the love of Orpheus and Eurydice is nothing but a coarse, though Tfritty, bur-

I must confess that, loving my

art as I do, I prefer to follow the path where it lifts me to the higher levels of humanity than where it leads me to the slums. HELENA MOBJESKA.

ARNOLD FOSTER'S ARTICLE.

Prominent Americana Refuting His Charges Against Irishmen. BOSTON, Mass., February 11.—The

Boston Republic, of February 13th, will contain contradictions from numerous distinguished American citizens to the charges 1hade by Arnold Foster in the last Nineteenth Century, "that Irishmen were at the bottom of the Molly Maguire conspiracy in Pennsylvania that Irishmen plotted against the officials and the Chinese in San Francisco that the Tammany ring was largely supported by the Irish and that the Boston police were tampered with by Irish politicians." Charles A. Dana and Lieutenant Governor Jones, of New York, refute the charge as far as New York city and Tammany are concerned. Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, shows the falsity of that portion relating to the Molly Maguires. Governor Kobinson, General Butler, Commissioners Whiting and Osborn, .Cougressmau Lovering ana Others deny emphatically, and at leng that such state of affairs ever existed in. Boston as alleged, while General ^Rosecrans quashes the Chinese count in Arnold indictment in short order.

THE ICE GORGE.

It Breaks and Goes Down the Blver.

Yesterday afternoon the ice gorge north of town had become thoroughly broken and passed out, going down in large hummocks and floes, at times filling the river from shore to shore. The crush against the bridges was terrific, particularly the county bridge, but it was only a short tima when the great body of broken ice passed south from the city and was seen no more. Considerable ice was flowing, howeverj late yesterday afternoon. At 9:30 a. m", yesterday the heavy ice gorge at Clinton broke away in part and started south, piece-meal. It was anticipated that a general breaking up would occur early in the forenoon. In that event the down-coming ice from that point would be due this morning and the river craft on the front will be exposed to additional danger. Thus far, however, the breaking of the gorges has occasioned no damage to boats moved along the front, precautions having been taken to protect the same by floating boom-logs ana other devices.,..

Fire Bfecord.

ST. LOUIS, MO., February 11.—Tfie book and job printing house of B. and T. A. Ennis & Co., at Main and Olive streets, was damaged to the extent of $15,000 by fire, this morning, at 3:30 o'clock. Fully insured.

A Nationalist. Elected.

DUBLIN, February 11.—The election of member of parliament ior the northern division of Monaghan resulted in the victory for Mr. O'Brien, the nationalist candidate, over Hall, the loyalist.

All Quiet In London.

LONDON, February 11, noon.—Everything is quiet, but a general feeling of uneasiness prevails.' Tradesmen are prepared to close and barricade the shop doors at a moment's notice.

Missouri State Bond*.

ALBANY, N. Y., February 11.-—At-torney-General O'Brien has given opinion recognizing the Missouri state bonds as legal investment for tbe.savings banks of this state. ..

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WASHINGTON.

The Senate Discusses West Point and the House Tits John Porter.

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for his Relief Again Starts a Long Congressional Debate.

A Whisky Ring—A State Dinner— Nominations—National Notes.

CONGRESS.

The Proceedings In the National Legislature Yesterday. WASHINGTON, D. C., February 11.—

On motion of Mr. Edmunds, it was agreed that when the senate adjourn to-day it be to meet on Monday next In making the motion, Mr. EdmandB said one of the important committees (the committee on investigations) had to go to Kew York to-day, and there was important work to be done by other important committees, which would occupy their time until Monday.

Mr. Teller submitted an amendment to Mr. Eustis' resolution regarding the refusal of the assistant treasurer at New Orleans to issue silver certificates in exchange for silver dollars. The amendment which was ordered printed, directs an inquiry into the alleged loss of money in the New Orleans sub-treasury, and whether such loss occurred in connection with the exchange of silver certificates for coin.

Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, introduced a bill repealing all treaties permitting the coming of the Chinese to the United States except in case of diplomatic and official personages. At Mr. Mitchell's re quest the bill was tabled for the present.

Several bills of a private character were then disposed of, and the bill to regulature the promotion of West Point raduates was reached. Mr. Sewell said grs thii

is was the first year for a long time when there would be more students graduate from West Point academy than there would be vacancies for in the army there would be about twenty-eight more raduates than could now be appointed, lut necessary vacancies would probably offer themselves in the course of three or four months. Mr. Plumb thought as we now had about 2,800 officers in our army, one to every eight private soldiers, that the number was sufficient.

In the house Mr. Keed offered resolution which was agreed to, modifying the order making the Fitz John Porter bill continuing the special order from to-day unti? next Thursday, so as to provide that the bill shall not be considered until after the second morninf hour on each day.

Mr. Bingham, of Pennsylvania, asked leave to introduce a bill granting a pension of $2,000 per annum to the widow of General W. S. Hancock, but Mr. Black, of New York, objected.

The Fitz. John Porter bill was taken up and the debated opened by Mr. Haynes, of New Hampshire, in support of the bill. The strongest prejudice which he had ever held had .been against Porter but it had disappeared when he proceeded to examine the case. If Lincoln had lived, Mr. Haynes beleved that Lincoln and Grant would have stood together in a demand for nstice to fitz John Porter. Mr. Steele, of Indiana, took the floor in opposition to the bill, and premised his spe«ch with the remark: "What in thunder are we here for? Why are we discussing Fitz John Porter?" This gentle question, he said, htui been asked by a number of members of the house, and at least one democrat had added that the democrats were going to vote for it anyhow. He (Steele) believed that this was true, but he would not be deterred from giving the reasons why he would vote against it. He thereupon began an exhaustive review of the circumstances of the battle in which Porter engaged.. At the conclusion of his re marks the committee rose and the ho«?e adjourned. THE WHISKY RING RISING UP.

A Lobby'at the Capital for the Purpose of Wiping Out a Law. WASHINGTON, D. C., February 11.—It

is rumored that the whisky ring of the country is organized for a big fight upon the law passed some years ago authorizing the manufacture of vinegar by what is known as the vaporizing process. A pow erful lobby is already here, and it is said that a potential fund has been raised to try and wipe out the law in question in the interest of distillers. This law has reduced the price of vinegar in the coon try to one-half the price of compresst yeast and has built up an enormous whi:e

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vinegar industry, especially in tie west. The great distiller of Cincinnati, Mr. Fleischman, with Dr. Bush, ol Chicago, and others are here heading the column, and it is understood that they will attempt to secure the repeal of this law at all cost.

A- State Dinner. •it

WASHINGTON, D. C., February 11.— The president gave a state dinner tonight in honor of the Supreme court of the United States and members of the senate and house judiciary committees The president escorted Mrs. Chief ^Tustice Waite and the chief justice escorted Miss Cleveland. The president will hold a reception in honor of the diplomatic corps from 9 until 11 o'clock to morrow night.

Nominations

WASHINGTON, D. C., February 11.— The president has sent the following nominations to the senate to-day: W. W Sutton, of Ohio, to be assistant United States treasurer at Cincinnati, Ohio Postmasters—Joseph F. McCartney, at Garnett, Kan. Franklin A. Thompson, at McCook, Neb.

National Notes.

WASHINGTON, D. C., February 11.— Bepresentative Johnston has received petitions signed by 8,000 of his conttitu ents, indorsing his universal pension bill and asking him to work for its passage, which request he is complying with. The bill is received in the nouse with more favor than any other bill of a similar nature, and unless the democrats want to defeat it so they can reform tariff, it will be passed.

A petition was presented in the senate to-day by Mr. Harrison, from Clay City assembly, Knights of Labor, in iavor oi the bill organizing the Territory of Oklahoma, and opening the lands therein to settlement.

Jap Turpen is to be appointed at last, but he ofaly gets a messengership in the treasury department, into which he is to be installed on the 21st inst. Jap Turpen and Judge Buskirk have undoubtedly been shwbUy treated by their party and they feel it.

In the house, Mr. Adams, of Illinois in behalf of the committee on banking and currency, called up the bill to enable National banking associations to increase

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their capital stock and to change their names and location. The bill passed yeas, 129 nays, 120.

A WONDERFUL CHILD.

Walked

Shot Through the Body and Home Unconcerned.

On New Year's day a little 3-year-old Telegraph-Hill boy was shot through tha^ body, a 42-caliber ball discharged from & pistol entering his breast, says the Sent Francisco C&ll, passing through his lungrf and out of his back, and to-day the little fellow is out joining in the amusements* of his playmates, one of the liveliest of the lively. The child's name is Daniel Murphy. His father is Timothy Murphy, a blickgmith, residing at 25 Alts. street, on Telegraph Hill, where the pure air and bracing breezes from the ocean fill the system not otherwise vitiated brim full of vitality. LittleDaniel waa out, with a number of other small citizens, celebrating New Year's day after their childish fashion, when an. acquaintance, who was old enough to" wear hsots and smoke cigaretks, came along, feeling gigantic in the possession of a pistol. The pistol was loaded with 42-caliber ball, and as he flourished it about, showing what deadly execution h« would do if any one shoul l* have the temerity to rouse thi» lion in him, the weapon was discharged. The bill struck the little Murphy boy a few inches above the heart, entering the thoracic cavity and passing out. of his back through the left shoulderblaite. The little fellow did not real that he was shot, but walked to his home. which was some distanoe away, and told: him mother that one of his playmates had hit him with a rock, and he wanted to go to bed. Blood was flowing from his mouth, and a hasty examination by his parents revealed the alarming fact that their little boy had been shot through the body. The nearest physicians were called and the wounds were dressed, the family physician was sent for. There, seemed to be no chancy for the boy's recovery to any one except the doctor, who saw in the fine physiaue of his little patient something to build a hope upon, and the result shows that thin hope was well founded. By dint of good surgical treatment and good nursing little Daniel, who never once during his trying condition lost courage or became fretful, is now considered past all danger, and joins, as usual, with playmates in their outdoor amusements. The^ JSf doctor pronounced it one of the most remarkable cases that ever came under bls^"|'s observation. If the range of the bulletwf* had been the fraction of an iuch lower, the boy's death would have been*inevit- /.c able. Iw

DAN DALTON.

Arrested for Contempt of the House of Representatives.

C0LUHBU8, Ohio, February 11.—Daniel J. Dal ion, clerk of Hamilton county, wae arrested this morning, at the instanceof the committee on privileges and elections of the house, and brought before

NORTH ADAMS, Mass., February ll.—* Miss Lottie Harrison, a handsome girl of 19, ineffectually tried to shoot herself "Jr.' when her foster mother, Mrs. Charlotte^ ,} Harrison, forbrde her lover, Edward R. Atwood, to come to the house any more

New York's Costly Capitol. It is now estimated that the total cost of the new capitol at Albany wilJ be over $21,000,000. Up to the present time $17,502,993.09 have been expended on the building.

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that body for contempt in refusing to allow the committee to make a photographic copy of the tally sheet of precinct A, Fourth ward, Cincinnati, and also failing to produce the original returns before the committee at Columbus yesterday. A resolution was offered directing that Dal ton be placed in the jail of Franklin county for period of thirty days, unless he agrees to furnish the returns for the pur* pose.

The discussion in the case was continaed in the house till late in the afternoon when a resolution was adopted providing^ for his arrest and detention in Franklin county for thirty days, or until the end' of the Bes&ieffT Dalton was released on writ ofnabaes corpns with bail at $5,000F. for appeal ance at a hearing Saturday morning. .. She Attempted Suicide and Won a IIusband. '"MS

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Last night the gifl got a pistol, and afterr"410 o'clock went alone to the cemetery^ She knelt on her grandfather's grave." After firing one shot in the air to try the pistol, she sent a bullet into her forehead^The bullet flattened against the skull bone, glanced upward, and lodged two- ,, inches over the left eye. Half unconscious, the girl walked over a mile to her home, where the bullet was extracted. Her desperate determination overcame ber stepmother's .objection. Her lover .jthx was sent for, and to-day they weie mard. J.«

Illiteracy in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania superintendent of public instruction sadly admits that there are 325,000 children in that state not attending school, and growing up in gnorance. ||6enera! Bowl«j'« Fon«ral. 6&.LENA, 111., February 11.—The remains of General Rowley, military secre- 1 tary for General Grant, were buried in Galena to-day. A procession two mile3 long escorted the body to the cemetery.

Pennsylvania, in the "Shoe and Leather Annual," holds the lead in t' 1 number of tanners and leather dealers S" within her borders. There are 725, a alight addition since last year. In the cities the roll of the trade shows some 5, increase, especially among the makers of light leather. Ten pages are filled with. the names of the principal retail shoe dealers ofxBat state.

The dramatic prodigy of Denver, Miss Florence Molinelli, a young ladv only sixteen years of age, seems, according^ to the Denver papers, to be the coming Clara Morris. Miss Molinelli recently gave a "reading" at the house of Profeasor Baker, of Denver, in the presence

of some forty or fifty people, upon whom jhe produced a profound impression of her ability.

Cable Clicks.

All the minor appointments in Mr. Gladstone's government are from the radicals—no whigs or moderate liberals.

Three Hungarians, imported into Gas Valley, W. Vs., to take the places of striking home laborers, were froaeil to death last Friday night.

In the French chamber of deputies, yesterday, M. Basley, the new workingman deputy, defended the striking iron miners at DelaaevQle for breaking into the residence oftbo superintendent, Jf. WatraiD, and trampling him to death.

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lence. He delivered a. socialistic ?, dwelling on the hardships which the miueiw were compelled to endure, and declared that under all the circumstanoea of the case the viiHng of M. Watrain was "a popular art ot justice,"