Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1883 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. A resolution was' passed by the Dec. 18. calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for copies of mortgages given by the Texas and Pacific railway on lands granted to it. Anson G. McCook was elected Secretary of the Senate; Charles W. Johnson, Chief Clerk, James R. Young. Executive Clerk; Rev.E.D. Huntley, Chaplain, and W. P. Canaday, Ser-geant-at-Arms. Along debate took place on the proposed rule relating to the election or President pro tern, and his right to name a substitute, but no vottrtf as taken. The House of Representatives was not in session. Mr. Cullom, of a bill In the Senate, De<?. 19, providing for the acceptance of the Illinois and Michigan canal by the Government. Mr. Fair presented a measure for the sinking of artesian wells In wild lands in Nevada owned by the United States. Mr. Van Wyck offered a resolution of inquiry as to how much land has been certified to railroad companies since the Supreme Court decision of 1875 on the indemnity clau-cs. The Honse concurrent resolution for a holiday recess was amended to read from Dec.. 24 to Jan. 7, and passed. There was considerable debate on the new rules, several of which were agreed to. In the House, the oath was administered to Mr. Skinner, from the First district of North Carolina, after some objection by Mr. Keifer. A joint resolution for a holiday recess from Dec. 24 to Jan. 3 was adopted. Mr. Blackburn offered a resolution for the creation of five special committees, and Mr. Reed caused to be added one on the alcoholic liquor traffic, all of which were agreed to. The speaker appointed a special committee on the centennial anniversary of Washington's surrender of his commission. The Senate amendment to the holiday recess resolution was concurred in. • The resolution of Mr. Van Wyck, calling for information in regard to lands granted to railroads, was, after some debate, adopted by the Senate, at its session on J)ec. 20. Mr. Cullom Introduced a bill for the appointment by the President of live Railroad Commissioners, to exercise supervision over Inter-State commerce. Mr. Miller, of New York, presented a bill for ai monument to the late Gen. Warren. A communication was receivedfrom the Secretary of the Interior stating that no action has been taken by the department in relation to the attempted transfer of the Texas and Pacific land grant. The Senate adjourned to Dec. 24. The House indulged in debate over a resolution by Mr. Geddes to grant a month’s extra pay to discharged employes, whicji was finally sent to the committee on accounts. Mr. Keifer caHed up his resolution for the appointment of a committee on woman suffrage, which was rejected, by 124 to 88. A resolution was passed requesting the President to order a national salute from the various forts of the country on the anniversary of the surrender of Gen. Washington’s commission. Objection was made to the introduction of a bill to amend the Chinese restriction act, and an adjournment to Dec. 34 followed.

EASTERN.

The schedules in the assignment of F. Mayer & Co., wholesale clothiers, New York, show liabilities of 82,760,992, and actual assets of only 81,769,374. The Christian convention at Philadelphia to forpi an anti-secret society league denounced Masonry particularly, and resolved that the G. A. R. was “an insidious, dangerous and useless form of secret organization..” Unusual dullness prevails in manufacturing business in Connecticut. Capt. Gordon, who abducted a child from Astoria, Long island, has been fined 81,000 and sentenced to five years’ hard labor. The of Capt. Nutt, killed by Dukes at Uniontown, Pa., has been com. pelled to bring suit to recover insurance of 85,000,

WESTERN.

Henry Babst, of Belleville, 111., fatally shot Miss Mary Hammer, and took refuge in the railway round-house. At that place he undertook to kill a son of the Sheriff, who threw up the pistol, by which Babst was instantly killed. Nathan Massengale, of White River, ’ Stone county. Mo., proposed to Hiram Loomis that they exchange wives, Massengale offering his 8-months baby as boot. The trade was accomplished, but Mrs. Loomis, in quitting her home, demanded a horse, which she claimed to be hers. The difficulty was bridged after a few shots were exchanged between the men, and the new arrangement pleases all parties concerned. The only notable dramatic attraction bi Chicago is afforded by the Florences, who are filling a two weeks’ engagement at McVicker’s theater. These fine artists appear this week in their favorite play of “The Mighty Dollar,” Mr. Florence personating the amusing character of Hon. Bardwell Slote, the member from the Cohosh district, and Mrs. Florence appearing in her no less amusing role of Mrs. lien, Gilflory. The sixth, seventh and eighth days of the Emma Bond case, at Hillsboro, 111., were unproductive pf any new or startling develbpments, the time being largely occupied by arguments of counsel touching the admissibility of certain evidence. Judge Thornton, leading counselforthe defense,madeamotion for the discharge of Clementi and Pettis, on the ground, as he claimed, that no testimony had been elicited Implicating them in the -crime, and pressed his motion upon the court with a powerful argument. Judge Phillips, however, refused to view the matter in the same light that the defendants’ able counsel looked at it, and decided to let the case be passed upon by the jury. The ninth and tenth days were devoted principally to the efforts of the defense to establish an alibi. Clementi, o«ie of the defendants, first told his story, which was a very straightforward and - apparently truthful one. He accounted clearly for his whereabouts and movements on the day Of the commission of the crime. Pettis corroborated Clementi’s narrative—the two, according to their testimony,, having passed the day together at the Pettis house—and the Pettis family reinforced the defense by -corroborating the story of the two deThe Supreme court of Michigan affirmed the judgment from the Superior court of Detroit in the casft of McLean vs. Scripps. This was the libel suit of Prof. McLean, of the Michigan university, against the Evening News, of Detroit, in which plaintiff was awarded 820,000. Live-stock dealers scattered along the line'from New York to Cheyenne have incorporated the Ogalalla Cattle company, with a capital of $5,000,000, the main office being • at Omaha.

SOUTHERN.

The books of the Union Pacific road shot? that two-thirds of the stock is owned in New England. Dallas (Tex.) telegram: The Irish fiag was displayed at half-mast and draped in

mourniag over the Catholic holiday bazaar in this city, In respect to O'Donnell, executed in London for the removal of the informer Carey, and a full face portrait of O’Donnell was attached to the banner, and is said to have been blessed as that of an Irish martyr by holy water being sprinkled upon it before it was attached to the flag. * ' A solitary horseman robbed a mailcoach and its passengers in the vicinity of Cisco, Texas. Guilford Soon, colored, was hanged at Kinston, N. C., for a criminal assault in May last on Mrs. Elizabeta Jones. A crowd of 3,000 people gathered at Giddings, Texas, to witness the execution of a negro murderer named James Taylor. Jerry Cox, a negro, was hanged at Georgetown, 8. C., for the murder of H. H. Rembert. He had secreted in his cell an iron bar, with which he intended to kill the Sheriff on the way to the scaffold. Cox maintained his innocence to the last.

WASHINGTON.

A large O’Donnell meeting was held in Ford’s opera-house, at Washington. Richelieu Robinson, of Nejv York, presided. Congressmen Calkins, Finerty and Belford made spirited speeches expressing their indignation at the treatment America had received after asking for the respite. The usual resolutions were passed. The following proclamation in regard to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Washington’s surrender of his commission was issued by the President Dec. 21: Whereas, Both houses of Congress did, on the 20th inst.. request the commemoration of the 23d inst., as the 100th anniversary of the surrender by George Washington, at Annapolis, of his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the patriot forces of America; and Whereas, It is fitting that this memorable act, which not only signalized the termination of the heroic struggle of seven years for independence, but also manifested Washington’s devotion to the great principle that ours is a civic government of and by the people, should be generally observed throughout the United States: Now, therefore. I, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States, do hereby recommend that either by appropriate exercises in connection with religious exercises on Dec. 23, or by such public observances as may be deemed proper on Monday. Dec. 24, this signal event in the history of American liberty be commemorated, and, further, I hereby direct that at 12 o’clock noon Monday next a national salute be fired from all the forts throughout the country. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done this 21st day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and- eighty-three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and eighth. Chester A. Arthur. The Grand-Jury at Washington has found true bills against pension attorneys named N. W. Fitzgerald, S. C. Fitzgerald, and A. B. Webb, for the illegal use of the mails and for devising a scheme to defraud soldiers and their widows.

POLITICAL.

Friends of Thomas A. Hendricks send out from Indianapolis a statement that he has not gone abroad foj medical advice or treatment, and is in as robust health as at any time within ten years. Bills are about to be introduced in each house of Congress to send back to China the indemnity fund of 8650,000 paid years ago on account of to American residents during the insurrection in Canton. The Chinese Government has never made a request for the return of the money, but Minister Young states that is deep feeling over the matter in the Flowery kingdom. Merchants, hotel men, politicians, and prominent citizens held a meeting in St. Louis last week, to take steps toward securing for their city the Democratic National convention. Denver is making strong efforts toward the same end. The Democrats of Louisiana have nominated Gov. McEnery for re-election. The Louisiana Democratic State convention adopted a resolution demanding a law to suppress lotteries, which demoralize society and corrupt politics.

MISCELLANEOUS. Burned: Livingston’s mills at Paducah, Ky., loss $50,000; the ferry-boat Garden City, New York City, loss $100,000; a wagon manufactory near Buffalo, N. Y., loss $25,000; a dry-goods store at Van Alstyne, Tex., loss $20,000; the steamer Josie Henry, near Memphis, Tenn., loss $80,000; the Chilled Plow company’s warehouse, Benton Harbor, Mich., loss $25,000; Rowland’s shovel works, Holmesburg, Pa., loss $60,000; Nudd’s eavetrough factory, Minneapolis, Minn., loss $20,000; a brick block at Lowell, Mass., loss $60,000 —nine firemen were injured by an explosion during the fire; the Standard theater, New York city, loss $75,000; two business blocks at Dubois, Pa., loss $60,000; the' glucose works, East St. Louis, 111., loss $50,000; seven business houses at Corsicana, Tex., loss $70,000; Leiberling’s strawboard works, Akron, Ohio, loss $10,000; Walker’s sugar refinery, near Franklin, La., loss $250,000; an office building at Halifax, N. S., loss $80,000; a bank and store at Weeping Water, Neb., loss $15,000; Moore’s flouring mills, Walkerton, Ont., loss $35,000; an elevator, warehouse, freight depot and other property at Winona, Minn., loss $150,000; a drug store at Kansas City, Mo., loss $15,000; Lowenstein’s clothing store, St. Louis, Mo., loss $20,000; Darrett’s tannery, Waterbury, Vt., loss $35,000; sixteen buildings at Candelara, Nev., loss $80,000; the postoffice and eighteen stores at Rockford, Mich., loss $50,000; S. P. Creasinger’s fine residence at Fowler, Mich., loss $23,000; fourteen stores at Rat Portage, Man., loss $150,000; two squares in the business part of Fortville, Ind., loss $20,000; four stores at Point Pleasant, W. Va., loss $15,000; a Preschurch at Lacou, 111., loss $10,000; a warehouse and dwelling house at Augusta, Ga., loss $30,000; William Glendale's elegant residence at Proctor, Ohio, loss $30,000; the Occidental hotel, St. Louis, Mo., loss $12,000; a dry goods store at Farmland, Ind., loss $20,000; a clothing store at Lyons, lowa, loss $10,000; a public school building at Cherokee, lowa, loss $12,000; a hotel and other property at Ishpeming, Mich.; a school-house at McLean, 111., loss $10,000; a warehouse at Baltimore, loss $75,000; Peck, Stow & Wilcox’s edge-tool factory, Cheshire, Ct., loss $40,000; the high-school building, Eau“Claire, Wis., loss $15,000; Royce’s stave-mill, Fremont,

Ohio, loss $20,000; six business buildings at Medford, Minn., toes $20,000; an Episcopal church at Port Chester, N. Y-, loss $30,000. Failures: J. Levy, dry goods, Bock Island, HL, liabilities $15,000; Cohen & Koenigheim, gents’ furnishing goods, San Antonio, Tex., liabilities $75,000; Louis Rothberg, clothing, Denver, Colo., liabilities $35,000; E. Barusch, clothing, Cadillac, Mich., liabilities $10,000; Tyler & Frost, shoe manufacturers, Lynn, Maas.; the Henry Buggy company, Freeport, Hl.; Joseph Mullet, woolen manufacturer, East Brookfield, Mass.; R- C. Wickham A Co., bankers, Tioga, Pa., liabilities $80,000; P. Sullivan, ladies’ shoes, Cincinnati, liabilities $35,000; C. A. Davis, wall-paper, Cincinnati, liabilities $25,000; Slack & Gavill, blanket manufacturers, Rushville, 111., liabilities $60,000; Blumenthal Brothers, general store, Palestine, Tex., liabilities $35,000; Clay Oldham, groceries, Terrell, Tex,, liabilities $25,000; James Sutherland, produce, Owen Sound, Ontario, liabilities $130,000; Robert Given & Co., dry goods, Des Moines, Iowa; D. A. Drury, shoe manufacturer, Spencer, Mass., liabilities $80,000; G. F. Wood, lumber, St. John, N. 8., liabilities, $8250,000; West & Sweeney, paper manufacturers, North East, Pa.; D. M. &E. G. Halbert, dry goods, N. Y., liabilities, $400,000; Lane & Son, grain brokers, New York, liabilities, $350,000; Mark Smith, clothing, Erie, Pa., liabilities, $12,000; J. Livernois, fruit importer, Montreal, liabilities, $76,000; H. R. Jones, banker, De Pere, Wis., liabilities, $50,000; Sattler Brothers, clothing, Bt. Paul, liabilities $80,000; W. P. & A. M. Parsons, builders, New Jork, liabilities $500,009; McKinney & Horn, notions, Philadelphia, liabilities $35,000; Goodwillie, Wyman & Co., printing presses, Boston, liabilities $50,000; P. & M. Raymond, wholesale grocers, Fargo, D. T., liabilities $50,000; George McDowell & Co., wholesale stationers, Philadelphia; the Beaver Lumber company, Yamachiche, Quebec, liabilities $108,000; O. A. Newson, real estate, Columbus, Ind., liabilities $27,000; W. P. Metcalf, broker, and the American Catpet Lining company, Boston; Sheldon & Co., millinery, Bloomington, IIL, liabilities $10,000; the Enterprise Machine company, Geneva, Ohio, liabilities $70,000; George W. Craig, dry goods, Montreal, Canada, liabilities $70,000. Ten thousand persons witnessed the opening of the new cantalever bridge across Niagara river. The bridge was tested by sustaining the weight of twenty locomotives and twenty-four cars loaded with gravel, without apparent deflections. A war of rates has resulted in the ocean steamships cutting the third-class rate to Europe to S2O. The failures for the week aggregated 280, an increase of 31; but the greater portion of the insolvents were small traders. A bloody riot occurred in the City of Mexico because the new nickel money was refused at the market. A mob paraded the streets, breaking windows, and all places of business were quickly closed. Cavalry charged the crowd and restored order. During the night of Nov. 28, while the American schooner 8. J. Watts, of Jonesport, Me., was sailing into the Bay of Port au Prince, the vessel was boarded by a boat’s crew from a Haytian gunboat and forced to turn from its course. -The schooner was serched by the cut-throat crew, and Captain and seamen subjected to all manner of indignity, Not th® slightest respect was paid to the American flag which floated at the peak.

FOREIGN.

The German Crown Prince visited the Pope, and held a lengthy interview. Sarah Bernhardt attacked Mme, Colombier in her house in Paris for being lampooned in her book, “Sarah Barnum.” The friends of the women indulged in a free fight in another part of the residence, and a number of duels arising from the affair are pending. Garnier defeated Daly in the billiard contest at Lyons—3,ooo to 2,970. Austria is having trouble with the disaffected provinces which she has recently gobbled, though little news is allowed to go forth from Vienna. A loss of $500,000 was incurred at Lisbon, Portugal, by the, burning of the Government dock-yard and warehouse. Dispatches coming from Hong Kong, through French sources, announce that Admiral Courbet has scored an important victory in Tonquin, having captured five of the fortified outposts of Sontay, with a loss of 200 men and fifteen officers killed and wounded. John Moylan, just returned from America, who had taken possession of a vacant farm at Clonbar, near Galway, Ireland, was shot dead by an unknown man in the presence of his wife. A Paris cablegram says: There is still much excitement in theatrical circles over the attack made upon Marie Colombier by Sarah Feeling runs high, and there are advocates for both parties. Bernhardt publishes a card to the following effect: To My Friends the Public: I chastised Marie Colombier because she insulted me, When she was in want I brought her to America and she shared my profits. She has deceived me. I gave her gold. She gave me calumny. She called me “Sarah Barnum." lam not a Jumbo. Then I gave her the lash. She weighs 300 pounds; I weigh seventy-five pounds. But she ran from me—this vile, ungrateful woman, this woman whom I have befriended—this Colombier who was nothing until she met Sarah. I have done with her. I did not chastise her for advertising purposes. Sabah Bebnhabdt. Kerrigan, the informer, whose evidence resulted in the hanging of six persons, was shot the other day at Cong, Ireland. Sir John Glover, leader of the British expedition to Ashantee, has again been appointed Governor of Newfoundland. The United States Consul at Odessa reports that crude petroleum is used to sprinkle the streets at Baku and as fuel on locomotives and steamers. The French have captured Sontay, and Admiral Courbet has been gazetted a grand officer of the Legion of Honor. Bismarck openly opposes secret voting for members of the lower house of the Prussian Diet, and favors universal suffrage with public balloting. The Crown Prince informed Pope Leo that the Emperor William and Bismarck much desired religious peace in Germany. The dynamiters on trial at Edinburgh were found guilty, five being sentenced for life, and five othersjo seven years' penal servitude. De Long’s remains, with those of his

dead comrades, have arrived at the city of Irkutsk, in Russia, and were received by the 'populace with high honors. Many wreaths were placed on the coffins, and poems reciting the sad fate of the explorers were distributed among the people. i Overdank, the Socialist, who was hanged at Trieste a year ago for an attempt to cut off the career of the Emperor of Austria by an explosive bomb, endeared himself to certain Italian Republicans. They indulged in demonstrations of respect* to his memory, for which several of the celebrants were jailed.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Governor of Missouri has requested Senator Vest to secure at Washington a suspension of the Federal capias in the case of Frank James, as the State prosecutions will be continued with vigor. Gov. Crittenden holds that the Federal writs actually deny the right of bail to citizens of a State. The noted bandit gave bail in $3,000 at Kansas City last week, and was released from prison. the actress, was hissed and guyed unmercifully upon her first appear ance before a London audience. The Observer, the leading Sunday paper of the English capital, harshly criticises her, ungallantly observing that she is old, vulgar, and ungraceful; that her voice is harsh, and that she is a dead failure. The other Sunday journals are equally severe on the American actress. A family of six persons, framed Gray, believed to have been from Illinois, were drowned in attempting to ford a stream in Logan county, Ark. Bill Younger, one of the band which operated with the James brothers in Minnesota, was arrested at a coal mine in Alabama and lodged in jail at Loudon, Tenn He will be taken to Missouri, on a requisition from Gov. Crittenden, to stand trial for four murders. A school and synagogue in the suburbs of Constantinople was burned, fifteen students perishing in the flames. The t upper house of the Prussian diet has passed a resolution forbidding hunting on Sunday, under heavy penalties. As a step toward conciliating the Vatican, Gen. Von Thiel, commanding the Eighth German army corps, has been retired, and is succeeded by the Catholic Gen. Von Loe. France lias again prohibited the introduction of American salt meats. Thiswas the result of a defeat in the Chambers of Minister Herisson, under whose liberal policy the French had been temporarily restrained from cutting off their own food supplies. Despite the efforts of the London police to discredit the recent rumors of the discovery of certaiirplots to blow up Newgate and London Bridge, it has been learned that threatening letters have been received at the Mansion house. Survivors report that on the steamer St. Augustine, which burned in the Bay of Biscay, terrible scenes were witnessed. Sailors stabbed and drowned themselves in frenzy, and the second mate shot himself. One of the captain's legs was cut off by accident, when at his request a weight was tied to his body and he was cast into the sea. Michael Davitt makes a violent attack on the British Government for its continued suppression of Nationalist meetings, which, he says, is accomplished by a contemptible subterfuge and not by open measures of repression. Mr. Davitt makes a strong showing of the ridiculous position of the London police, who attribute every plot or pretended conspiracy .to American or Irish agitators. The President of Mexico has ordered a strict enforcement of the law in regard to nickel money. There have been no further outbreaks. The American Iron and Steel Association reports that the prices of those staples rule steady, that the consumption equals the output, and that a further depression in the trade is not anticipated. Charles H. Loring has been appointChief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering in the Navy department. Judge Wylie disposed of the Spencer contempt?case in Washington, finding the defendant not guilty. In the course of his decision he was very severe on District Attorney Bliss. The effect in the star-route cases, it is thought, will be felt in the future hearings, and it is already predicted that one oi the results will be an investigation of the Department of Justice. %

THE MARKET.

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RULING OF CAREY.

Inside Facts Regarding the As* sassination. One of the Avenger’s Counsel Reveals the Motive for the Crime. [From the Chicago Daily News] The following Extract from a letter written by one of O'Donnell’s counsel will be read with interest. In connection with the trial there are facts given which have not heretofore been published: At last the truth may be told of the killing of James Carey. It was not to be told as long as a shadow of * chance remained to prevent the sacrifice of a patriot’s life for that of the infamous wretch whom he deliberately swept off the earth. For Patrick O'Donnell did deliberately kill James Carey, and he deliberately killed him because he was James Carey. There was no struggle. Carey made no attack on O’Donnell. O’Donnell never set up the plea of self-defense. Had he been permitted to tell the truth the flimsy subterfuge of self-defense would never have detracted from an act he considered meritorious in the sight of God and man. He knew the consequences of the act and would have manfully accepted them. Had Judge Denman permitted him to speak before pronouncing sentence, as he was bound by the law to do, O’Donnell would then have told the whole truth and vindicated himself. His savage denunciation of the British crown while the officers of the court stifled his words and dragged him from the dock to his cell, were not the furious whining of a coward, but the frenzy of a baffled and honest man, who, having deliberately done what he considered a duty, and for which he was perfectly indifferent to death, had been compelled, against his will, to occupy an ignoble attitude, and a ho burned to escape from mistaken advisers. I convey to the Dally News, on the highest possible authority, the true story of the killing of Carey and the events which have made up the train of its consequences. O’Donnell did not know Carey on the voyage from England to the Cape. He was not a member of any society. He was merely a rolling stone. He had wandered restlessly over many parts of the American States, incapable of peaceful residence. He had moved about in Ireland, and spent some time in England. With no definite aim he was going to Australia. Nervous and restless, almost to the verge of insanity, indifferentto natural ties, and reckless of his actions, be took with him for companion an unfortunate who was neither maid nor wife, a fact sufficient to show that he had not gone on a commission of vengeance whose fulfillment would fill the world with his name and turn the fiercest glare of notoriety on his character and habits. He had an unascertained constitutional disease which at times deprived him of some mental faculties and all but paralyzed his will. The circulation? of his blood was so uneven in his left side that the left arm was frequently palsied, and he had learned the use of an electric battery which, when found in his possession after the tragedy, was promptly thrown overboard as an infernal machine. So unstrung was his nervous system that it was absolutely necessary for him to abstain from alcoholic liquors, which he had not tasted for two years. He was a Donnegal peasant, tall and strapping, but feeble nervously, rude, and tunable to read or write. But he had learned the truth that every peasant in Ireland knows —the truth of the ruin of his native land and the degradation of its people by England- He knew that the latest instrument of that ruin and degradation was the monster James Carey. He had no suspicion that the man with whom he had played cards and drank an occasional glass of beer was this monster. But the news was ahead of the ship, and a local paper at the Cape contained an excited article denouncing the government for polluting Australia with the wretch. O’Donnell heard this article read and was shown a wood-cut of Carey, whom he at once recognized. He instantly resolved to kill Carey, out of sheer instinctive sense of duty as an Irishman. On the impulse of the resolution he said to the man who had shown him the wood-cut. “I’ll kill him!” as was sworn on the trial. O’Donnell forgot the man and incident, and Cubbitt's appearance was a surprise. < From the moment he formed his purpose he never wavered in it. But he knew it would not be easy to kill Carey, and he could not afford to make the attempt and fail. Carey was well armed, vigilant, and suspicious. O’Donnell determined to ship with him to Port Elizabeth, go with to the farm Carey had told him he was going to take, and then, without concealment of purpose or motive, show that there was no spot on which an Irish informer would be safe. O’Donnell became nervous and excited. In a reckless hope of calming himself he drank, the morning of the fatal day, a glass of whisky. It robbed him of self-control. He was not intoxicated, but his discretion was gone. Finding himself suddenly alone with Carey and his traveling companion he could not resist the desire to kill him at once. Carey, with lightning quickness, perceived his danger. The two Irishmen glowered at each other. Carey hissed: “Do you know me?” O’Donnell hissed back: “I do. You are Carey, the informer. To hell with you 1” The bullet sped with the words, and the deed was done. Carey clutched bis own revolver, but it was too late. O'Donnell discharged a second shot and a third to make sure of his work, and Carey rolled to the deck. No human eyes saw the encounter except O’Donnell’s companion, who threw her arms around him and filled the ship with her cries. He had weakly told her that morning his determination to kill Carey, and that he would be hanged for it. When Mrs. Carey reached the scene O’Donnell said to her: “1 had to do it,” meaning simply that he felt it to be his duty as an Irishman to kill the wretch who had sworn away innocent lives and enticed honest men to the gallows. His silence remained thereafter unbroken.

BOYCOTTING A NEWSPAPER.

A Novel Plan to Diminish the New York Tribune’s Revenues. [New York Telegram.] The Trades Union Council has taken up the printers’ fight in the Tribune office, and ha« issued notices to all the theater managers that union men will boycott theaters advertising in the Tribune. Co-operative aid will be asked of every trades union organization in the country to further the following scheme: Many leading papers in America have branch business offices or news bureaus in the Tribune building, occupying the greater part of the immense structure, and an effort will be made to have them move out through the influences brought to bear on the home offices through the local trades unions. President O’Donnell, of the Typographical union, admitted the existence of some such scheme when he said to a reporter: “We haven’t got through with the Tribune yet, and before we do we will have your office moved out of the building.’’

PERSONS AND THINGS.

A man with a stitch in his side can only feel so-so. A daily medical journal has been started in Paris. In Florida they run the defendant out of town if he is acquitted and doesn’t treat the jury. - The Eyptian war prevented the gathering of the gum-arabic crop. Recently the gum has risen 10 per cent, in price. Diphtheria Is very fatal in some sections of Boston. A Mr. William Eaton, of that city, lost four children by the disease in six z days. A storekeeper in Toronto, Canada, has been fined S2O and costs for selling chances to guess the number of beans in a bottle for prizes. James Russell Lowell is called the Indian Summer of American Literature, while Benjamin F. Butler is the. Dakota Blizzard of Politics. _ St. Louis is to have a new 2-cent morning paper.

A PARIS SENSATION.

Marie Colombier Horsewhipped ( t>y Sarah Bernhardt. A Duel the Result of the Scandalous Affair. [Cable dlsnatch from Paris.} . The scandal of the day is the appearance of a book called “Memoirs of Sarah Barnum,” by Mlle. Marie Colombier, who writes what purports to be the memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt, the authoress’ ex-friend and directress during her tour in America. Marie Colombier begins with Sarah Bernhardt in the cradle, drags her whole life through the mire, and winds up a tolerable sot-disant prophecy where Sarah is represented dying and having cut open her head and from striking the bedstead during an attack of delirium tremens. The first outcome of this abominable book was a duel yesterday morning between Octave Mirabeau, who wrote a scathing critffism of , the volume, and M. Paul Bonnetain, who wrote the preface to the memoirs. M. Bon-/ netaln received two slight wounds. M. Bon-f! netain's seconds were Prince Karageorgevitch and the Marquis de Talleyrand. The duel begun in the morning by the mon was continued in the afternoon by the women, and under the most unique circumstances. Mdme. Sarah Bernhardt went in the morning to see M. Clement, Commissaire aux Delegations Judiciares, to find out whether the law did not give her the right to seize the book and stop its sale. She was told that she must first take legal proceedings and await the decision of the Judges. Sarah, with her blood thoroughly aroused and too impatient to wait for legal technicalities to suppress the book, took justice into her own hands and sallied ferth, armed, nob with a sword, nor a revolver, nor a mitr&ille, but with a plain stout horsewhip. Sarah drove straight to the apartments of Marie Colombier. At the moment of her departure Sarah, boiling over with fury, did notconceal what she meant to do, and her friends present —namely: Mlle. Antoinine.Mme. Jean Ruchepin, and Kerbernhardt—who knew wett where a woman’s anger begins, but not at all where it ends—also jumped into a carriage and followed Sarah. Arrived at the Rue Thann, .Sarah went up the staircase and rang the ’bell. The moment the servant opened the door she darted into the salon and foqnd herself face to face with Marie Colombier. The two women for an instant eyed eaeb other, then like a hungry tigress Sarah sprang at Marie Colombier, vociferating murderous epithets, and lashed her adversary straight across the face with her horsewhip. Mlle. Cylombier shrieked with pain and rage. She was not alone, for M. Jehan Soudan and Mlle. , Defresnes happened to be visiting her. M. Jehan Soudan burst into the room to separate the two women. He tried to seize Sarah in his arms to hold her down, but at the same moment M. Jean Richepin, who had just arrived behind Sarah, dashed open the door and clutched M. Soudan by the throat. Sarah again sprang at Colombier, lashing and cutting her with the whip. M. Maurice Bernhardt, M. Kerbernhardt and Mlle. Antoinine ( arrived upon the scene of the drama. Mlle. Colombier turned and fled, Sarah pursuing. , The wild chase continued into one room and out of another, nobody being able to stop them, Sarah and her victim jumping over chairs and tables and dashing into a thousand pieces mirrors, etageree, and pictures, Sarah all the time whipping Marie. At last Mlle. Colombier managed to escape by the servants? sffiiirway. 1 Sarah Bernhardt, utterly exhausted but revenged, withdrew. In passing through the front door, Sarah showed her horsewhip to the concierge, saying; “ Marshal Canrobert gave it to me, but I give it to Mlle. Colombier as a souvenir.” An hour later Sarah Bernhardt played her role at the Theatre Porte Martin in the dress rehearsal tor “Nana Saib.”

MERCILESS OCEAN SALES.

Two More Vessels and Twenty-four ' Lives Added to the List of Lost. [Dispatch from Gloucester, Mass. J Two more vessels, with crews numbering ' twenty-four persons, which sailed ( early In November, are added to the long roll of those which sank in the terrific November gules which swept over the fishing banks. The schooner George H. Pierson sailed for George’s Bank, Nov. 8, with a crew of twelve men. The lost are: Capt. Patrick O’Nell, who leaves a widow and three children: the cook, James Ryan, and John Keogh, who leave widows; John Keogh, William Brennan, John Conners, Abner Larrabee, Isaac E. Isen, who leaves a widow; William Driscoll, Michael Ready, James Galvin, who leaves a widow, and one unknown. The vessel was owned toy Cunningham & Thompson and was insured. The schooner Helen M. Davis sailed on a fishing voyage to the western banks Nov. 17, with a crew of fourteen men, two cf whom, Wesley Brown and Maynard Hilta, were swamped early In the trip, while out In a dory attending to the trawls, and were picked up and safely landed In Halifax, thus leaving twelve who went down with the schooner itj the gale. Their names are Capt. Archie McDonald, William Nutting, Duncan McDonald, Joseph McMaster, Victorious McDonald, Jeffrey Dooney, James Murphy, Augustus Hfitz, Alexander Scanlan, Edward CoDerss Allen McLane, one unknown. They were mostly young* men and natives of Cape Breton. The vessel was owned by George Dennis, and was insured. The above vessels increase the lose by the November gales to nine vessels and 115 men, which, added to three vessels lost in the August gale, makes a total of twelve vessels and 149 men, leaving, as far as yet ascertained, thirty-four widows and thirty-eight fatherless children.

SMALL TALK.

Mrs. Jerusha Stowehl, of Peru, Mass., is 96 years of age. Recently she fell and fractured her hip. The wealth of Massachusetts, as assessed for tax purposes, is $1,781,297,061, an increase of $47,000,000 on the valuation of 1882. William E. Brockway, the forger, began life as an apprentice in a job printing office in New Haven thirty years ago or a Tittle over. Gen. Neal Dow, of Maine, has just received from an ex-COnfederate soldier a pistol which was taken from him when ho was captured during the rebellion. Cleanliness may ba next to godliness, but it Isn’t as healthful as dirt. Pittsburgh, the dirtiest city In the country, is also the healthiest. Death rate 16.2 per 1,000 last yean One purpose which Mr. Kasson has in retiring from public life is to devote htmself more closely to literature. He finds ib impossible to do this and to properly attend to the duties of a Congressman. George Grimshaw, of Langlade oounty, Wis., who is represented to be 101 years old, last year elearcd the timber from an acre of jard-wood land, and during the eammcr raised 150 bushels of potatoes. of an ore mine at Cbrson, Nev., suddenly stopped, and among the ore was found the pulverised remains of hundreds of trout which had been swept through A broken screen in the mill-race into the supply pipe. The Postofflce Department'has decided bow to spell the bothersome name, “Allegany,” which has been spelled in four different ways, all of them correct. The matter was referred to several historical societies, and in accordance with their verdict the word fs to be spelled in the postoffices “Allegany,” which certainly has the advantage of si triplicity. There are 625 Indians still living in Florida.