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- TreasurexviBenrr JSnirbm. ! f&t;7rmrteeHngo Miller. August DelBhrx anAJeeiahf P,.-Peer, Sew stoafaaefj After one tie-baot between Boa Phiiadefsaiax she former; Was selected' ae tMffoodihHih9 ext;aBnuases-3 men, wucn wi oe . neia on the second Tuesdsy ojSexUEhjehnf. f j . . ThhTfbrra' Nftonal" Bank of San Kanelseosnriended payrnenth. caused by. the frregrilmitiof tS eashfer.- ' Bamedent said to consist principally of bad loan. PresMeB. Thotnes euys there an snfflnt available fnnda to insure the depoaltors against loea. FIRES MID ACCIDENTS. While walking on a raHway trestle at Alexander. N: a. Kiss Lewis, school teachNear Akron. Ohio, the Chicago express. i on the Plttsburgjand-Western KaUroad, was telescoped train, causing damage of fl0,00a The exffssBtl tnghnrt Fires at .BonnwillM, JohlO. 8' J25.000, un Insured; the- -rountain Citr, MtnBk,erilKBBtti.at .Sdstbr-tio.OS Mambester. tati.tne scKoVbVildm' office, and several business jiouae; '-iorVt' Iron Xountate; Mfoli.tbe business bouses John Friedricks. druggist; E. Lundstrom and P. Peterson, general merchants; Silverlosi orneWly tMft f mm eBWMAb'REeQMk ABebBosterKe.. GWeoa A. Breudal. in young bosiness man, was playing pool in B Bale en whe-hie wi$ey entered and Inslatedeoak hhv goin home' with- her. BemaakUiwttat.lrsVircvadnef Was-'a dlsgMaeii. WWekirw dBwaUNmd "shot 'RimeolF fatally. - ' ' '' ' PaMry Jones, a negress, 'hoiTbejll nrrftstod at WoBtmfnatflr. llif.. for. "biTllnrAi 4. ye-ott ebhgh6.bjBen Wt in hor,c,ari'. J uiQ otfqiw lap ope iwrturno u to ueatn.,ana. that other ebhlren .jerahed ,at . her hiwdg in a siaaiiarway. . , -naB,Bartlett,haft Bved for Ave years nearBtose. EiamnewkUBt. Kaaaaa.w!U bia tweeaaghtevsandyoang sott . He took with 1dm froht'Kentiicky an' eht servant, a hegro womah.iknown a-sHocdOM Rebec - The servant beenmie Inmrtssed with the idea that she was being "hoodobod" by thedfnghler. jeinlieV "about twentyyoars Old, and told the young lady that "alio must -Jteolored wobub watched few. opyOrtiBJIyH for -briBMaar? the spell. Mine night tho" family," exceptlng,Jonn;9,".''?lKitod nljglbor.: 'flhoatly after ta denture' Kobe'rt Donnelly, a young; man. catted to see Jennie. He TemaaaadiBBatl about, o'olook, swhen BebecTniieariBfij stated there was a slckhejafcat theaB. anckwhe. wanted,hiin to go to Bross for medicine. "He lefrtn'iresvoneertothe (earnest. As soon as he hr gone this serviat oaught the young iad'y? .doom bar hands ana feet, and, tying a rope around' her hands, 'swung, her to a joist with: fjatt feeja two teetahove theloor Tho BegrewaaeB stHwed -the. girl ot 'Blalkea '. asBt.BawiBi. - kes body With paint and. -thin tar. Ia a. short time eh had placed . kettle flUod -with UndltBBitMal.wieyheft laaa, set. ofs appfed-'e? tBrned. J5be front entrance was loeked, and going ton window the horrible spectacle met big eyes. He rushed to the back door,' broke ifeopen, and at once removed die kettle. He.tbeB cut the rope an-l earned the glil to resting-place, goon after the girl movered consciousness and toid the story of he ffendish treatmeiit. Her feet and fewer limbs were bttrhed to a crisp, and a few mfcnte later death relieved her of her intense ugooy,

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PAKAMA CANAL BUSTED J t?, t at" ft ' v DK KSSSEPS AMD HIS COI.LRAGCES JSkSI'QNA BAKKKCFT SCHEME. A 'i .: y ; ?t"l" .. J j V.-4? tikrtoik ibhliluber J- 6optlA Vote AdvenDly ti the I'roject Trlnuipli fdr London Ipcelal telegrini. The lanaliia CaualComiiiiy hag tieradk; 4dtJie?piytat-8t a qdgrteV'l intotwt, sMoM 'raacson 600,000.000 francs, whlo

rai'thb poi-vuliie of tho bonds issued prior ti) tho-lpttery bonds. 3he Erneh Chamber ot DbputMs hahoted urgency for1 loglslatlon. u hlsh, by legally postponing tbe evil dnythxeci months, enables the company to erode tho ordinary penalties of bankruptcy. j uo inuure oi unexneoii asked tor J. nip he aMjSuncpd.thi-iftlie heoplb should If. do Leitsbps and his eolloeubs h ive roslsnod froiri the TribhbiU of ti;o Heine. Av tnulr rbriuest lbs- tribunal appointed M; Hue. a. iBaudflot, and M. de Koimnh 'io td settle up the Panama Ctnal Company offubrss . B LB88K1PS DBOItiSS tiwJ,i '1 ' -' Yhi Failure of His Panamta Seheme tfhhrvwHl5u; tParM ti ingrain. . TTio etHbarraesmeht df t ie PanafiutCanai CQtnpiinj wasj itho topic oi' excited cenirovmitPpUblleaoel! Ten iftfntrtes sftdr tho vote was given in the Chamber a osnondent "No.'ropilod Do Leep5)ji)js l)e LeardeniyfbeWile: fie wns spiieohlot a; ho placed a handkerchief to his lips to BtiQQ a cry. Then bQcuming eaim he sma:".'fMSis e'eetmpbsslWe?? OMS nmrm'ur ho repeated: "Cost Impossible." "Cost intflgno," exclaimed Umo. do iessejj Sttdoft believe it.-,bioko Ii Oe Iasops, vehemently, that a French Chamber will thuasucriflco the intor-;6ta,u tlu'jayloa. Thby&qtetihafa milUard al a half of savings of the Fronoh people aro compromised by this vote, and tipy could f yg aavnd alli.thl byavfltm decialon.Wia wlu be a triumph for our enemies and disaster lor our flag: . , ,r,ivffi,.ysedfteiitr; tTho Chambe pHys'inti the hands of the Americans, who always predicted tho non-oomplotiun of the csaal, and it is a blunder, the jrenublio, wju l.hiftto 8uffoloi-J. i f ;a'r THE IEEUKO IN HEW TOBK,. t j-.M, .... t1. S '' i Hen Who Had Invested tnvDe Iaai-pa' gcbeiue Will Not Own UpNew York telegram. ' 9rytwltsitwiaitnowit(t bo has hadfatty sort df intorest.fn the Panama. Canai sofiema.- Those who wore most boastful ot tbeir relations with it lire now more than discreetly 6llont, and glibly repudiatB all thuir past utterniKes. A brief order by cnbli gave inMi notion io v!-nt Colons, the hond of tliti Now Tork oHioe. tu rt tuud to An.i'rloiuis a)) subscriptions mnde 'e tho colbiiised bondischemo, ami directing hliecfo stop all p.ij inorit dotnUadSd M any olher account. Ko instrO.'!ion reached hire from officiai somees, though .Wall street was deluged with coble dispatches Idling of financial trouble, probabhi ond piissitilo, ttpprehcndnd in Paris and throughout France. Howgre-tt. an interest Americana have in the collapsed eonipnny is not to be easily ascertained. It is declared on authority thai not legs than $150(000, and piobnblr $250,000, wua subscribed here for the bonds. CaTael.Me priso. Said a representative of the latter, is difficult to estimate It remotes from our way a possible claimant io rivalry as a wator,ray but further than tills . and the probable concentration of attention sad ifttorestiu the Nicaragua Canal I qan soo no immediate effect. Wo huvo never seriously rogarded the Panama Canal as a i ival, be cuuso ovenif the Panama route bad been . ossiblo it would have made impracticable iuo genorai uso oi Bailing vessels on account t f the windless area that extends ihtothe Pacific from the-vicinity of Panama Iijty. The Panama Canal would have bofcn'ns useless for sailing craft as tho Sues Canal, through which only one sailing vessel haa e ver passed, and that was a pleasure yacht. We have o very reason to beliovo that we shall begin work on the canul next spring cad that we shall then push it forward to completion with the utmost rapidity. From the very best engineering opinions that we have been able to secure the maximum of time yrlll not exceed six yours." FATHER ItQQGaipTY CURSE. JUlafurtuue Attend! Those Who Fall Tnder a Frlest's Olapleaauro, BpilaRfleld (Mast) dispatch,. 'Another victim of Father Dougherty's curse," .was tho exclamation heard on having of Vx-Miiyor O'Connor's death in-' Hoiyoke, Forty years ago a CuthoLo priest ia Uprlnglield. Fatiicr L.ougherty,-wasshiuxed wiihf .the hatrayslef young lady. Sunday following the exposure a crowd et forty or more excited parishioners gat heredj .it thehurch door nU refusud the. Father, idmisSToh. Tub -angry prfst (har'-usoh Mii'Mi1 those whose hands Were turned nifhfnsti'hlm. and it Is declared that nbfirly all or tnoee enrseu navo aieu nnnmurm deaths, while their children havo not been exempted from suffering. Throe or four of the "aooursod" are still alive, . Anions; them is Owen O'Connor, of Springfleid. Two years go O'Connor's-youngest son. Dr. P.J. O Connor, committed sulolde ari.Hicr son, ox-Mayor O'Connor, of Holyoko, died of apoplexy. Dr. Swazey fell through a bridge near Northampton and was killed; John Cardiff fell down a flight of stairs and died: John Topping fell thirty fact in on ieohouse and was instantly killed: John Muddan, one of the loading saloonkeepers of New England twenty years ago, enmo under the ban. Misfortunes orowdod In upon him and from a prosperous merchant with a $100.00(1 bank account he died almost a pauper; Edward Bile died ot paralysis, bis daughter became Instne. and bis son. Edward Rile, now violently insane, rnvu.n in his 'delirium about Father Dougherty's curse, ' ' PROMINENT MAN PASSES AWAY. Deatfi of Geore Koutlf dure, tbe Famous London I'ubllabori Georgo Boutiodgo. the founder of the famous publishing house of lloulledgo & Sons, died in London. Ho had boon tori, ously ill since October, and hud given up all active busiiu'ssior a year. Ho hud been In business just half a century when be rei tirp:dV:Kr. Aautled((b made, a, papular. eufr cossv?lth "Biirnos" Notes on the Old and Now Testaments," with Dr. Cummin as editor. In 1848 ho began the funious "Beltway Library," with Fcnimoro Cooper's "Pilot" as the initial fssuo. In 1853 lie began the,, publioatioa in England of "Uncle Tom's Caliiu," and up to last yoarhad issued ovpr half a million conies of tho story. He be Clllllu,1 hair came Buhvor Lytton's publisher in 1833,' and In 1854 went to America and started tho Now York- branch ot tho firm. Tho firm has a branch house on Lafayette place. New York. HER SKIN TURNED WHITE, Hie Remarkable Story Tola by Colored Woman to at Doctor, iJersay City (N. J.) Telegram. Physlolans aro intoroatod in tho case ot Julia Cisco, a middle-aped colored woman, whose skin has turned white. She is :t widow and resides on Jersey City Heights. Throe years ago Warden Osborne, of the City Hospital, called at her homo to remove a siek man and hud a conversation with Mrs. Cisco, who, he says, ros then as black as the average negro, She reoently visited the City Hospital with her grandson, who was eiok, and Warden "Osborne tailed to recognize her. and when she rocallod their conversation thro years ago, it was difficult to convince him that tho colored woman he then met and the white woman who stood before him were Identical. Mr. Osborne asked the woman to tell him about tho change of her akin. With a marked negro accent, she then toid this story: 5 - 5 am S3 years old, and I lived for many years in Now York. Thero are lots of people there who wld be able to vorify what I say. I was always considered to be colored until I turue'd white, ns you now see me. I was bora at Hoosook, Mass. My mother was a black Mohuwk Indian, and my Itvhui a light Hoosao Indian. Neither of them, as fur x toeviituLpwro .Mwa'Ji&ewr

niSIOllICAL DOCUMENT.

cor If JClfUilNCK JW AI ! JLS .188. i , r ri .- . Ah ittprewtlusr tarr Uuenrthed In New lorClij; Attegted by 1 liitilfiB tWrfU rrcillton One of !he "Old He- " GoneiiUtiJh'a' l'r ttCat,' - wWitpselit - terestiiig historicil doooinaut has ibai'thoa iu the library of this city. anfnviil ivinv flf t Ua T)li'elnniiAn renaeaeB in vellum, bound la lor i.'fi -l.K.i i.x .vti.. ....li ollton, ten the S.i!y survhiBg ?of the dVioiuAl document. The di cuattnt rilsi celitoined tbe autograph w.'natres". of . -Preaidout John Ciiiuov oud hfe cabinet, the Kow Sbrk dother'oulciafe. 'The nttestafiora Carroll is-' mm'Miit lfB-''chJ:cB6h has cSiifo'md to tfiy belfjvdtl coimlry id tier emancipition and (jn -m"etilf in, pefSitting tne. under ciioumstinco'i of mercjr J;ve td tile age fit 8 years and to survive the fiftieth' year of - Ameiican tnaepenaence, ena .certny. uy nry pspstijt, signature jity. opmoWidu , of S?i-T j, ? -it "re ,t' ,.' . the Declaration Of Indepenrtence. adopted ty Congren' on" the 4th day ot 4 ivy, in tne year 01 our jjord one tto is and seven hundred and Beyenly-six, VMbtil 8rig"nallJ uttbwribed tie 2ddiy or August of the same yfetlr, anfl 8f wbicb I m now the laet euiviii g eigue'r, I dd hereby recommend to the present and future generations the principles of that important document ss the best earthlyin-' heritonce their ancestors could bequesitt ineiu. tea pr'a thrittho civil aud roll ions liberties they have ne'surgd 8 Mr o6ti t -y msybS peipettinted to he remolest f osier.V and exteAded IS the Uole' fauiilyortuaii. Ch.hiiBS OabroiiTi 8t tJafrolltea; 'jyitnesses: Stephen N. Bowman, pastor of the Eighth Presbtleiian Church,. New York; John Gibs-oi', pastor of the Re. armed Presbyterian' ChuroU, Baltimorfi . , - "Id l&wtft, iSMi ('AST Or THE OUD DEFENDEn1? Utiiii ot itimea udaTbdrltn korTerd at Uillt iritfrr.- ' - , Baliimore (Wd;l ileraui.l James Chaniberlw MOrford, tho last, of the goll mt band kuown as the Old.Defauders' Association, diefl in this city at tbcageof 95 yenrs. He won but' 19 when ho cnli- ted for tbe protection of his home. He left four daughters, fourteen grand, children, thirteen gro it-g andchildren, and-; one great- groTtt-grandc h ild. The Old - Defeude.s' Association, whicb for nearly, half a cantury has bo.'h' one of the best known features of Baltimore, was organized in :lt42 with 1 25l flltfhhera. It was the custom of t o men,' its td attend cliuwlf in ft 1 otly the Snudny prsvio is fo each lirth of Sept.nilW: each member wearing a cock.ulo nud a piece 01 craju., "te latter out of rrspect to the hienidry of the fad comnde. The glorious twelfth, tho auutvei vi September 12, lsu, he.u tie Brit.sh, f .esh from the deetructio'u of Washington, 10re repelled from thecity of B'lttracre, they wonld aixemble t '!.e City Hall, ma. mi twice around tbe bat le mon ument, anfj then go to t-oiuo ev.veii..nt Ai.jJ..tu.ii..i. 1 .11 Ti.; This i but two membexs 1. tS01EST FROM UTAH.The Gent Me i Oppose Stiteltooil WccaHie " i olygamy Ia Mot Dead. (cult Lake. (Utah) dispatoh. The Libonl Comniitteo of Ut ih has issued te following address to tbe couatry: 1. I Bai,t Lase. Utah, Pec 17. The nrbefal TrrrWorlal Commituw, reprosentlnn Ii )tilli ana and I emocruis aliko, deaiies to cell tbdattontiun of tbe country to tbe faot that the GoafileJ of U.aU nnauiuioualy oppose the Morula statehood sebeine recently indoncd bv a ! Uemocratle ongresaional caucus. Wo are confronted. . by a coudi.too, Mi a finery lofygamy Is not dead. Tuo law it Sot supreme.. Two hundred ,and thirty fourlu.aotniema - ere found at tho piir'aent'ti-rm of courtia' Prove for vlolatluua of United States statute! designed to sr.ppresS polygamy and potyjynfious living. To give Utah Statehood would net d progress, depreciate value, perpetuatalpolyganiy. and band the Teiritory oter to the; Uonnon priestbood. We call npon patriotic citizens everywhere to vnlte in strong firotealatoougresa oga uat tlie pnpjsed aeon.' 'Iftevdn iealon of ("tab to Stutehoud would be a crime agaiuat American institutions. I "O.'W. Foweim, Chairman." 1E LESSEPSA MAOTYR. PariianaeBt Receives the flute for the . Panama Onnal Vatlnre. -r I - (Paris telegram. A notable result of the Panama Canal collapse is that all the anger and disappointment of the investors is directed agninBt Parliament, while sympathy is exlendedlo M. de Lessees, who is resided as a martyr. On tno other hand, ihero is every ibdiction that v, ion the Deputies who voted against the bill come forward lor re-election they will lind a vorv intense feeling against thorn. Tbausaudsofchtreholdert. at the invitation of the comminv. have signed an ng eoment to BUbsih-ibe for lottery .Donas ou a tutu re issue at 3bU francs. A majority of them, however, refused to sigu un ngreement 10 leave ths'r churns at interest until the completion of the e.mal. Two perrons were nearly lynched and several others were roughly hnndled by the ciowd around the company's officers lor making depreciatory remarks about V. de bessups.' UNION STOCK YARDS IN TEXAS. A Big Company Formed at Forth Worth Former Ul'-noisan lute rested. - Fort Worth (Tosos) dispatch, The Fort Worth Union Slock Yards Company, with a capital of $200,000, hns been org mixed here, QoJ. E. W. i aylor was made President, A.' W. Caswell Secretary , and CoL AV. M. Har'ri-on Treasurer, Fifty per cent of tho capital stock, wag called for. The company own 118 acres on Marine Greek, and are negotiating for 150 acres adjoining. The yards will be built at once. Four railroad com panics have tracks on toe lands. John II. Hoxie, formerly of Ch oago, and B. It. Harrold, formerly of liloouiington, 111,, are largely interested. It is propo-od to make the yards second only to those in Chicago. GOLD FlNiJSAltlZONA, A Miner Claiins to Have 8 truck Vnusnally Bich Quartz In the Mountains. A Yuma, A. T., special says: "Beports of rioh finds of gold in the Harqua-Hnla Mountains come in, but old miners regard them as exaggerated. One prospoetor named John Haniok claims he and four partners took out $36,000 in seven days' work. The ledges are capped with burned lime rock. But have slate and quartzite walls. Most of ihe gold iouud has been in nuggets near tbe surface, but the quarts extracted asars from $1,000 to $2,000 to the ton. The place Is sixty miles from Sentinel Station, on the Southern Pacifio Ilallro.id." Larceny In tho lirat legree. On an indictment for larceny in the first degree, Theodore Khotwoll, of the insolvent firm of Sbotwell, Clerihew & Lotiman, at Miuueapolis, Minn.', is held in $2,000 bull. Ihe Soithwestcrn Nations 1 Bank ohnrges Shotweil with ob. tniniag $30,000 on false representations as' to tho financial standing of tbe firm. Tarred and Feathered. . Frank Walcolt, suspected as being the "informer" who caused the expulsion bom Obetlin College of a number of students on ohnrgoi of gambling and carousing, was tarred and feathered by marked men. Several Cpdfluti Ntro uwvWa 90 fM-VW-II.

BLAINE TO SIIEHMAH.

Ah intekestino cokhespohdBNcB now madg rvrrwo. Mr, Dlalne Cavervd. - flheitman tor the l'revldenllal Oandldl, tint He Didn't Want It, and elves His lteaum Therefurhe Cfrvat Ksptnaion In Chicago. liibH. efaoimcii; in Kof th American Bevltw.) in the yr of fur IMrtl iSfii there was to be a sijarp contest for the ntfmiiiiitlcrit In Chlsngo lor a Presidential candidate ot the Kspubllian party. The press and people geiitaiil) bftiio'vod that Blaine wanted it, ibd evof ybody (lrnd to lilifl 09 -the man f)6st rritaliried to efsoc'ule ite oliijt td fis c'6mp!isli iho.ifc'su'tt almeVI at Still, dbttegating himself, he ro(a to ulo froftt Washington this letter: ' ,' C i- Confidential, strictly and absolutely o.Y ' j WsiimoroH,J). (J., May US, 18S4, '-SffftEMfOrwiiBAr;: This letter- toqniics n8 answer, . After roadhi3 it (He it away to your i ro secret, urawer or give u vo vne names.

able, that yl may be nomlnaWd tor tbaiaeah and ilrivAn is-irT Dkva. weak.

i-rvaidcttov. If so. ron so. yon mint stand your band. eeriit t:u reanimibilifcv ftn,l aftmii ah dnfciaa ol t.10 pluee W which you wl.i Surely be chosen if candidate. . Yon muat not took Upoif it as ihS work 8f the politicians. If it ootnes to vou it will cbnio as Tbe'brotind-swell of ponnlur demand, aim you can no more retuaa tnaa yon eomo nave reiuaeu to obey ail order when you were a lieutenant In can no more refuse tliau yon could have refused the arm,-. It it cornea to you at all It wilt come a? a cm of patnotiam. It would In Buoh an veut fn nr your great tame at riiucb 10 daclihi It ae it rvnnld for you to seek it. i'our bistorio rbrd, lull as It is, would be rendered atill more glorious by anch an administration as you c.uld ho able 10 give tbo country. Do not say a word tti advance of tho convention, no matter who may ask yd 1. Yotl are wlih jeur friends, who Kill jealoualy guard ybttrbSndr olid fenonn. Jawm Qi BiiAib.j -.To which I replied: '.912 Gamubok Avendb, Bt. Louis, Mo., 1 ' ' May '28, IBtoi f Hon James G. Blatna, Waablngtca, D. C. ; Mr Di.ah Pbib-jih-I b'.ji received year letter of the '2.1th, ahull construe it as abaelntely eonfidemia1. not ihtitnstjng e'ven if) any fBaaiberof my family that 1 have heard from yon, sfja though you may not expect an dnawer 1 hop you will not construe one as unwarranted. I have bad a groat many letters from all points of tbo compass to a similar ogees, ons or two of which, 1 have auawcrfld frankly, but the great mass are unanswered. 1 ought not to submit myself to the cheap ridicule of dccUntof what ta not offered, but it is only fair tithe many really 'able men who righ fully aipirs to the high honor of being President of tbe Unite! States, to let them know that I am t.ot and muat not be construed aa a rival, In every maii'e life occurs an epoch when lie most choose his own career and when he hiiy n8t thtow oil the reai onilbllity or tamely place hif destiny in the bauds Of friends. Mine occur.d iu Louiaiaua, when, in ltKl, alone to the midst ot a inipte blbided by subposed wrougi, I resblvoJ to ataUd bf tlw Ufiloh aa long ai it. fragment, of tt survived on wbi,"h to cling. 8 ilee then through faction, tempoa t. war and peace, my career has nceft all Sy family and friends could ask. We are now a go d house of our own choice, with reasonable provisions for old age, aurro ended by-kind and admiring friends. In a community where atbollelsm Is held in respect and veneration, and whore my children will naturally grow np iu contact witb an industrious and fruga'.peofle. You have known and appreciated Mrs. barman from ohildhood, have also known each and ettthe inembersof my family, and can underta "d without ad explanation, from me bow th Ir thought 9 end fealinga sbduld and ongbj. t ' in lnenCe my action. But I will not even tbrow 03 on 1 he 11 tho Veaponalbility. I will no; in miy event cuwrtain oracoeptB ni'iuluutl'ii, as a cardidute foe Piealdent l-y ih l.i ago fepubUcan convention, or any other eon veMion, for ,e soils po. w ai to mynclf. I oh-ln lhi. the civil war, in wh.cb I rimidvditt a man h laii : JlS'e o! wor , 0 pcrfeotly i.ccoul-rl-s ed iu; that n.'-itary mon have an abeolute ebt to rest, and to detUH"! that tbe Men who have bon scboo ed iu thoa ts auorta5tloc of jie ice sha'i now do their work equally well. A ny eutuor enn htep m-iu bis chair at tho t'bpi. tot into tho Whit House and fu till tbe jtlice 0.1 '''Caidert wbh ino e skill and success than a . ..,., , qfaPW,l V V,UWIUHV, KIV' WWW.W.U.V. j by .dc;:ti.'ii atid na-. '.re. who tilled Veil th nr ou:ce wnon tne country wao n nuieer, eon were not schooled in the practice by wh oh civil communities are and should be governed. I claim that our experience since 1S65 demonstrates the truth of th s mv proposition. Therefore I say tha patriotism doss not demand of me what construt) as a sacrifice of judgment, ot incline tion, and ot aelMn ereat. 1 have inv iH-rso-ml affairs in a state of absolu 0 safo'.y and o mfort. lows no man a cent, have no ot) ousivo habits, envy no man his wo lth or power, no complications or indirect liubiiit os and would account mysoll a fool, a nttuinian. an ass, to embark anew at sixty-five years of a e in a career that may bsoome at; any moment tempest-tossed by perndy, ihe defalcation, the diehonasty or negloat of any single one of a hundred thousand subordinates utterly un known to ne l'leataont ot tne umtea states, not to say the eternal worrtment by a vast host of impecunious friends and old military subordinates. Even as it is 1 am tortured by tbe cbaritablo a 'ocala cf noor. distressed pension ers, but as V, esident these would be multiplied beyond human endurance. 1 romuniLer well the experience of OehcraM Jackson. Harrison, Taylor, Orant, Hayes, and Ga n dd. all elected because of their military services, and am warned, not encouraged, by tbeir sail experiences, Ths civilians of the United States should and must UuO'.-t itb. this thankless olflce, and leave ua old soldiers to onioy the raace we fought for, and hink we earned. With profound respect, your iriend, W. T. Shekjia.v. These letters prove absolutely tliat Mr. Blaine, though qualified, waived to mo personally a nomination which the world still bfllii'vos he coveted for himself. For copies of these letters I believe Ihave been importuned a thousand times, butt as a soldior I claim the privilege of ttamueking my butteries when I please. In crivinff to the jroi(ft Amerfcak;titcte at this late day these hitters, which thus far nave remained hidden in my private mcs commit no breach of confidence, and to nut at rest a matter of constant in quiry referred to in my letter ot May 28, 1884. I here record that my Immediate family are strongly Catholic. J am not and eannot be. That Is all the public bus a right to know! nor do I wish to be construed as departing from a resolve made forty years ago ncer to embark in politics. The brightest and best youth of our land navejjeon drawn into (not maelstrom, and their wrecked fortunes strew the Beach of tho ocean of time. My mem ory even in its short timo brings up names of victims by the hundreds, if notthousanos. CHICAGO'S GK15VT EXTLOBICN, Three- Men HJUod and Other WeiUM a.osa uver Biop.vvv. . ' rChlcagospeclal.J''1 The lof s of life bv tho oxnoslbn in David Olivor's i.at-mcal mill in this city was not so groat us tenrod. Three men wore Kineu and others wounded. The .financial loss will reach $100,000. The explosion is believed to ll ;tvo been caused by too igmtintr ot mm due. Tho scene presentea niter tne carastronho wan 0110 of thrilline desolation. The oat-moat mill was a blazing wreck, and half

a dozeu adjoining buildings were on lire. The siKSOtaelo presented at tho time of the explosion was one' of startling granduur, and is thus described by a, police officer: "I was sturtlod by column Qf Are that leaped from the roof ot the mill, a sudden glow at all Its windows, and a dull noise. Tho mill was on fire. A second Dash, more vivid than tho Brat, lighted the mill. The ground shook and a hoarse roaring began. Tho roof of the mitt rose before my eyes and oraokod opon like on overbaked muffin; the walls spread; a thousand jots or lite burst from the widening gaps in tho masonry; a wavo of the oir.Httuok mo with solid force: falling bricks began to pelt the roofs and roadway, nboutr me. and" then" with a thunderous crash the milt sunk from view and a sou of flro boiled above the spot where it had lately stood. I was scared. I have pursued mad dogs, chased a thief into His own house, and never failed of duty, but when hod lifts its lid right under my noso I weaken," Four men were working in the mill. Only one ot theso four escaped instant and awful death, aad ho may die from his wounds. The four men ww Charles Miller, the englneor; John Holmes, tho miller; and Ernest Caspar and John Christeuson, gonornl-ntlUty mon. Holmes uh.no survives. Miller's body was piulonod, .feci upward, in a jura of timbers near tho Mirfaoo of tho wreck, nt a spot outside ot tho building. It Is probable I fiat ho had witnessed the inooptloaof the disaster, and was endeavoring to get oht when overwhelmed. HI legs were burned, but his body and head escaped tbo lire, to that the nnvulBh and despair of his terrible fate wivs plainly expressed upon his doad face. OiiRpar'a body was found, distorted and broiled, The property loss will reach over 1100,000, BLAINE FOR PREMIE It ft Reported in New York That He Has Accepted the Satte fiirUalio. Tbo New York Star print the following const i-uouBly; "The Star learns on good authority that President-elect Harrison has tendered the poiUolio of the Saore'nry of State to James G. Bla r.o. Mr. Blaine at once aunpuirrt4 kit iWIIf- i ttjiiabf tl)Dirrypr4jitmsBt, I s

IKDIANA STATE NEWS.

CHXONI01.E or HAFPjprn4 in uoosis rtxioac Shocking Ceatlia, Ten-ible Aeeldents, o)rrlble Crloiear PMeeei lings ef Courts, Secret eVdetfes, Btfrf rier EvefyMrtag of I'Bteteat to tbe Hooalori 'Year name is not 0 barley AHe li ii .Charles LiBpenard, and your peopiie litrg Ip. vBtoobiyh, N. .' These sr tSi e wprdx tliiit were add) essed, to Churlos l. A lien, ft prominent nti7.cn of Loganspirt. some three month ago by s, f armor siding iu Benton County, this Statis, and here ia the scqu si: One bleak evenit g in the fall of I8fi.1 a small boy Gyeaiis 01! age iis hui'rying throngh a street in BrookiynyN. Y,, wit a a basket ot ehavhir's on his arm, which he Had obtained ni I li f 1, ..I n maoviv to 1, fl , r. it a W'Cil, Aoab and driven aeny. Hays, wects. months, And years wsnMy Tbe motliiir had Ageod living and spent hundreds of dollars in search of her missing- boy. She finally settled iu the belief that he hud strayed away and fallen off tbe piiiiCharley fell into tho hands' of a former named . Allen, who retiidad in Benton County, thin State. He finally drifted to Loganepor, waa married aad settled in conformable home.: The name sonn.id pacaliarly .strange now. .and revived memories that had ( lumbered long, Mr. Ed MoConnel became interested iutbe case, 8hd BddresBed'a letter to George Kvall, a young lrniyer who resides in Wiiliamsport. a suburb to Brooklyn. The latter found that a family had lived in certain ward, but hud move4 away long Since, With this rittch of a starUr, the record of the ward nchool was eiamined for the year 1863. Sore enough there wns the name, Charley Lispenard. Ryall also learned that a brother' of the millingboyhad lived in the ward antil he was a yotiug m.i 'tliiorgeTWltljspanard woe found occupying a position Jnj jewelry store, in Brooklyn. The storj was quickly toll to Georgo LispeuarcTi mothef. Lottei passed between them and Obarles AllAn, and the identity witt completely established. Charles & Allen is the abducted Charley Lispenard. Mr. AUea Lit penard at- once lefu for Brooklyn whtre, doubtless, Ibem wil,l soon be a ioyfal meeting, JwBwryar Plan to Bellve the Sapreme Oaatt, The lawyers cf theMontgomery Connty bar met for the puipose-oftaking action in regard to tbe prusunt crowded condition of the Supreme Cotu. Resolution's were adopted favoring an Amendment to tbe State Constitution increasing. the jiumbei of judges l.o nine, with a chief, jnstioe,' And that the conrt be divide! into three seotins, tl, Chief-Justice to preside nlternatlv : r each seetioa whea in conKhltxttnt'; ,n tho event of e disagreement th.- . is to be bro tight before tb&JJrii brt.-n; that when tie case was a charge . ot urder bos to J brought befowftls.- full beneST Tbfi,tiowiug committet appointed to coii-s fer with a similar vrnimitteA of th Indiahapolis bar: a uda E. C. Snyderi 11. IT. Thomas, P. 8. Kennedy, And W. I(. Thomrjpn. . Indiana Patcats,' Fatents have be an granted, to, Indiana inventors as follows: Jeremiah A. Barber, Newville, f enoe; Frances M. Bok, Wabnsb, shaft-be irer; Cbarles A. Copiland, Booklane, steering apparatnsfJr traction engme; Bonis ft. Gustabel, MontieeUo, faame tug; Franklin F. Hrmon, Honey Creek, corn- planter; Thorn as B. Harrison, assignor to Harrison Typewriter Company, Anderson, type-writing machine; Robert 0. and G. E. Hrtvlt y, South Bend, appaiatns for beating grain; Samuel Hobson, ltookport, portal te fence; Clement Hoover, Winchestsr, bead-rest; Albert P. Sibley and, G. O. Were, South Bead, bushing for split pulleys.,' ' ;.. lyabuh Hoard of Trad Will .Boofl Ike ' ' " Ifowti. 'The Vobnsh Board of Trade' m x elected .offieers -as follow-- Prcsl H. V, ShivelyV Yioe-preSid.ent; Alvah Taylor; Secretary, Warren Bigler; Treuurer, Enos Powell A board of uioe directors was also ohosent JIpw that ihe city is.abuudantlv supplied with natural gas, 'Active measa -es will be inaugurat ed by tho'board to boom the town nnd indnee 'manufacturers to investigate the superior Advantages of this point AI a location. t, , ... Wbum Rablta are Pteatr. There has probubly never been a time in the history of Blackford Cojaity when it was so well supplied witl rrt- . bits. Six m les south of Montpelier a "Babbit Club" has been organized, i nd the raembcra hold a match' hunt evsiry Saturday. Up tit last Saturday the ottto had a grand tot? I of 87a rabbits. The munliAM A-vnect In raise tha number le t . ; thouaaua at tne teu uuu-j. Fatally Injured In Bunaway Accident. Mr. Clark S. H ickman was driving: in the north part of Rochester, when his horses beoame frightenod, ran away, nnd threw him out in snob a manner as. to injure him so severely that little hopes are entertalnect-ror his recovery, hi, iocman is a tetired merchant- and one of Uoohcster's leading citizens. ' -t-,- I ' . Minor State Items. By the explosion of a half-filled tank of benzine, in the Monon yards, At jTew Albany, Edward Weber and Poter Kirby wore badly burned. ' Citizens of New Albany will make one more trial for natural-gas. - Boiing will oomroenoe At once. M 3. Haley, a prominent merol.ant of Hamlet, whilo getting off a freighttrain caboose fell under the train and was instantly killed. Tbe Sheriff of La Porte County has offered a reward for tbo Arrest of William Snoot, who jditeappoareil froBi La Porte a few days; ago, taking with 'Aim a team of horses and a heavy wagon. A new Ohrintian Church has been dedicated at Val paraiso. Tho structure is a handsome one- and oost $16-000. The ltev. J. H. O. Smith, formerly State Evangelist of Indiana, is the pastor. Samuel Davis, aged 22, living- near Waistnor's -school, Washington County, went out before daylight to feed the stock. Not returning for breakfast, his parents, on seartihiug for hits were horrified to find him dead, hanging from a picket fence, which he had Attempted to climb. ' - Prof. Case. Palmer, of Boston, has been oleoted Fiofessor of Chemistry in Wabash College,. CrawfordsvlUe. New Albany in hopelessly in chrbt, and the Council, is trying to prevent the oity from goinginto the hftads of a OcfvoybYVIIfttWWlxViiAir

An organi:ed bund c; 9'Atmg' In Sijiley Ooujtt; 1 get at tiiUerifi'i j.oiirti'i art slarming. i)rig'i:lie ptwlfi irons robteri.jB wsiu !vniti ..MW..4. -.. All m-lA.. u-Viiat I' -zSB

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Micuponte nut, oni m cf I hem biiins lhi Hire chief, mid Henry ficbelK BAA t k g so badly innred as tO MIgi BjB.tfc nttention. ' ' ';;;' While oiton-hhiitiiigiiiatr fiaiBiw i1) Mlaaa1fAialaW recn was badly injure!. -.-4; . , : August Fatlig, li)BBiapnfifirt troubles led to bis :tmpri"QWKB'i w-lfcij County jail at Fort W tyiie IWl i' corridors and fractured liVsiislif ' While hmiling. JleijIifMtvia.' tiF 'Lafayette, was shct itnul ;e:rlotry jnred by his brother, who srisfeK;.! fax fortner's ftu CAywajtiSrtwja.':8. Tke members of WsWjy$it$det. North Indiana Si. K. Confer erf, Jpct -

recommended to Biebop Merrill the t . ;- jioiutment of Bev. A. '.f. lietrlllen Presiding Elder, AisUse toA4ljirliMS:t;r tM doath of Bey. Jitnvii iSrWw" ' f 4 .': ' .. . . . .

. .Goshea will earjo ,tk jaMlti I1- .. Uvery system after Pel). : Columbia City.ke.opn ooiapsratir. ii;r free from tnirops by patjitg ;lai v; work on tbe street..' l ' "-'i--The BoArd of Direct.TrotieBiii;K ;:. nna State prison, in 'sf isi oh i4 tlie ini I i . v f vtioli, re-elented Cftfl. 9MBS 9:9: . 'j tea. warden; Maj. Itisharl 3oalafciti clork : H. Iu Wolf, phrs iciawiis d W. m Btrntaill, cbapjnin. T!e toejdijrepwfhi.. uu aiional re))Ort, wiictt'tpsiavieavtf tjif annu tl rejortt of the cJiafteffiKdjil B1sician, and will fqrwa:.-d tho name t Governor immediately, ' '. Mamie Wturd, df ValparAitd, WAS Meentty scaldetl by upsi;tl;ing . 0aa o$iit wtiteron herielf. Hr rtgbf iirm tr i aiilji -otav nMdisnelv ift inrAI. ' ';.tl . .

The family of Johi ,JIt4.,- A .'. -" Whitley County farmir, ItAfrW its. fall

share of miftiirtane. About: fifti t.t years ago Mr. V u Mefcev beoiaBe insi ji', And is still confined iit 11 strong; room 'ii his house, his wife all that fine AtteiidInn lttm A.nwkw,eW Ii llaw MlMlana h i

daughter died, and the other'iey' -iSs?

violently ins.e- it is thouf ht;itjf 1 (, . dition was brought alio at by "! faai attention upo: her husband. There ki1, hopes. of her recovery. -, -' Non-partisan t-emriiraaeo-work .1 is received nn im-oetits in Decatur Cutn it thionghtbe iniiuauct, of Hon.' Aiijjlur Gray, tbe eloquent ''ITfitbt'rfSiieai ff-' Ohio. At t O.'x, Jo.iiniA8lwfi or g&riiz e 3" atXi ame- .; Tbe hotel of J. A. CArrolli i.r Chi -;4i shen wubnrglaxizndortO liuiviit f and some Bilverwaro.. , i . Tie following figureAgBtherei j the 8tite Statistioaii'iliowtht exists nl -cbArActer of the fencing, as irclsiwte't'" in this State: JtAil, CT,t -481. '. 8,05i,94?t wire, 4,070,215. Total. eg. b of rods, 99,7S1,03L , , , ...' ;,

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r ort wayne ana was iwaiiy injured, f While painting a barn a,afByBi : Eluoher Millr fel' from a stafflold Adiitonce of twenty-seven feeti, ' aitd 'd"e I from the effects of the faai;:4i ww ill years old and-unianrri'.oiL .: BpMsenvBiTw.(i! the-8i3ttiilard''l il Company are prospecting f or.-oiln-mr Windfall, Tipton Cow aty, tif ., hssya lr rendy secured the rigl)t-o-lay,throtip i several f Arms. They lire war ;hgAil in leasinc landa. and will sink': h.) fist

well about the first of Jrantarj. Ti er : :

cisun mas Bipenor ,aairty erou exists - - , , . "1. . an mis couuw auu uiucai jmhihiui been aroused ia the mattes. . Mrs. Ellen Mota oiler,., sMm oflfc victims of the recent Flovd Ccjaajiif. . tragedy, is still living, bat. &sn$e$n,t intensely. She cannot recover, s. l$ia,: brain continues to ooae 0toK,t4 woce-l I9in her bead. BenSon, tire mttrdi rer,1!!! be confined in the Jeffersonvill priril . until hisriAl, owingHNav 5iyiWlaiftt - . v.- 'if ' . Adam iV Kramsr, an oldaoldittv employed as an eaginocr At the KeiiOi wer furniture factory, n Hnn.:ugt,', while cnaasod in oiling the jote-iials i the machinery, fell into the pit la wHli th ponderowa ponderous fly-wheel revolts, snd was so horribly crashed (hat h died iit two hours. He leavesa tamiryS .-v The Christian Chnroh afc'barlfw town bought a Urge belt , si JLouisyitin And sent a team to Jeffersouv jll ., te ipi1. it. While the driver was AbsAot a man drove up, loaded the bell op hji wajeti... and disappeared with the dutnY. WktiK the Charlcstown t earns ter re turwid bo ho was met by the entire poptrlatiirtlf : whose re joioipg turned to th deelk disgaat when they found -thy w;s robbed, of their beJL Nothing 1 a bt eit heard of tt. " . The dead body of David Gtrry, Alt old farmer living in the nottief-a $fat ot Shelby County, wns found b A'CiB corner near his home. And a Frt ly-tBii whisky bottle near him. It is sttppotrit he perished from exposure. )... , . - While a number of boys . wsb nading Mr. and Mrs, Will Brown,, fk newly-married couple living ' 'tr Wayhostown, Montgomery County George Hendricks bid his lelt hkht blown into fragmente by the bursting ctf a gun while he was ttring to heif . crease the noise.. t Capitalists at Kokorao have Just ok-. ganized a new bank, to be known Cta) First National Bank' of Eokcmo. Th4 capital stock is -$100,000. George" . Bruner, Assistant Cashier of the Firw( National Bank at Anthony, KB.ifet be the Cashier, And Biobard B:udi4i President, The ufttitutntn. will oett its doors about April I. ,s "' ' 1 ' A Delaware man Mrho stole an uwbrellA has rooeived the complioAieiF . sentence of a tinefjf $6, one hour iu tkpillory, twenty lashee, throti jMim itfe nil and the oosta of pnwcutioii. ltL he stoKin a niilroAd or a factory, fdfisia convenience would have boo a nonflsetr to bh lAwror s fees. But if this is to be 4preoeConts benven help the DulAWAto- ' iann in wet wnathar! Is 1 not ait. 'Brother Boll'? St. Lapis JWigrtuivta "Poers are bcrn,' toys a wtlu men. bin tsy pot 1

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