Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1884 — Page 2

®lje Jjcmocmticgentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA J. W. McEWEN, - - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week* EASTERN. Tilden G. Abbot, the defaulting Cashier of the Watertown (Mass.) bank, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment. ■William Sprague’s mansion at Providence, B. 1., was sold for $34,400. It is un. derstood that the purchase was for the Boman Catholic Bishop of Bhode Island, who will convert it into an academy or convent. Col. George Bliss, of New York, the distinguished lawyer and politician, has been converted to Catholicism by Mgr. Capel. A man was killed in Newburg, N. Y., by the explosion of a barrel of beer. Hiester Clymer, who died recently at Beading, Penn., served for years in the State Senate and in Congress, and was once the Democratic candidate for Governor. By a collision between a church excursion train and an accommodation train on the Camden Bead, near Ashland, Pa., tight employes were killed and a number badly wounded. The disaster occurred at a sharp purve, and was caused by the non-reception of a telegraphic dispatch. Both locomotives were destroyed. A heavy frost visited various parts of New England on the night off the 14th, causing considerable damage to growing crops.

WESTERN.

An express train on the Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore Boad was wrecked near Loveland, Ohio, the engineer and fireman being seriously burned and bruised. It was found that the spikes had been drawn from sixteen ties, and that one rail was taken up. A negro named William Scott, who was suspected of the crime, narrowly escaped lynching. Calhoun Benham, the California lawyer w-ho acted, as Judge David Terry's second in the celebrated Broderick-Terry duel, died in San Francisco, recently. Judge Edgerton, of Dakota, has granted the motion made to quash the indictment against Gov. Orway. of that Territory, on the ground that the grand jury had no jurisdiction over the official acts of the Governor. Three Deputy Sheriffs at Salt Lake, armed with Winchester rifles, executed Fred Hoyt, who had been three times tried for murder. He sat upon his coffin, blindfolded, and the officers fired from a point ten paces distant. The body of a man named Bechtel was found in the Jim Blver, near Mitchell, Dakota Territory, and it is believed that he was executed by the vigilantes. Alex. Fiddler, a notorious crook, was found banging to a tree near Sturges, Dakota Territory. The lynchers are unknown. The Grand Jury at Omaha has indicted Mayor Chase and City Marshal Guthrie for blackmailing gamblers and lewd women. James Hazlett, who retired from the stationery business in New York with a competency, killed himself in Minneapolis, on account of a disappointment in love. Nine horse-thieves made a raid on that part of Montana Territory adjoining Idaho, last week and made of with a number of horses and cattle. They were pursued and tracked to a place near Eagle Rock, Idaho, where they were “treed.” They made a feeble resistance, during which one was killed and another seriously wounded. The others were captured.

SOUTHERN.

- A shooting affray occurred in New Albany, Mies., between J. R. Reeves, Mayor of that town and editor of a local newspaper, and Lloyd ford, who is described In the dispatches as “a good-for-nothing desperado.” The dispute arose about politics. Each fired five shots. Ford was fatally wounded, Reeves escaped unhurt, but his father received a flesh-wound. The State Bank of West Virginia, with liabilities of $119,000, has closed its doors. The State is a creditor to the amount of SB,OOO. Recia, a Cuban, was hanged in the jail-yard at Key West, Fla., for the murder of a companion. A*sale of shorthorns, which ranks third in point of excellence to any in the United States heretofore, was held at Lexington, Ky., last week. One hundred and eight animals were sold, the total amount realized being $87,450; average, SBIO per head. Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, has issued a pastoral letter to the priests of his diocese, impressing upon them the necessity of observing great care and prudence in the management of church picnics, and decreeing that no intoxicating liquor shall be sold at any of them. The citizens of Memphis sent a committee to Washington to ask an appropriation of $350,000 to prevent the Mississippi River from undermining the custom house as well as private buildings.

WASHINGTON.

The House and Senate conferrees on the Post-Office Appropriation bill were unable to agree as to the compensation to be paid letter-carriers, also as to the amounts to be paid railroad companies for carrying the mails. On all other points they agreed. The record of the Swaim Court of Inquiry, which was laid before the President, sets forth that the evidence discloses “a series of transactions discreditable to any officer of the army.” The President has decided to order a court-martial for the trial of Brigadier-General Swaim. Herr von Eisendecker, the German Minister to the United States, has presented his letters of recall to the President. The remains of Noah Swayne, an ex-Justice of the United States Supreme Court, were interred at Oak Hill Cemetery. Maj. Jared A. Smith, of the United States Corps of Engineers, has been ordered to report for duty as Engineer of the Fifth and Sixth Lighthouse Districts, vice Gen. O. E. Babcock, deceased.

Ex-Senator Spencer, of Alabama, in a letter to the Springer Investigating Committee, denies the truth of- 8. W. Dorsey's statement that he (Spencer) had implied to Dorsey that by payment of $12,000 he would be granted immunity from prosecution for star-route irregularities. The necessary papers to secure the extradition of John C. Eno were made out at Washington, a*d officials left with them for Canada.

POLITICAL.

The Nevada Democratic State Convention, which met at Austin, passed resolutions demanding the nomination of Tilden and Hendricks, the removal of all restrictions on silver coinage, the absolute exclusion of the Chinese from the United States, and the enacment of laws preventing the acquisition of public lands by aliens.. In the California Democratic State Convention, a proposition by John H. Wise to send delegates to Chicago for the old ticket was followed by deafening applause for several minutes.

New York special: “Roscoe Conkling has joined the Manhattan Club, and that makes him a Democrat,” said the Hon. Zimri Butcher, an intimate legal friend of the ex-Senator. “No Republican can get in, as the Manhattan is an exclusively Democratic organization.” M. L. Ayres, residing in Walworth County, Wis., who was recently chosen an elector-at-large by the Democratic State Convention, is dead. Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Fourteenth Ohio District, which is now represented in Congress by George W. Geddes, Democrat. Geddes’ majority in 1882 was about eighteen hundred. Barclay Henley has been renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Third California District, and J. H. Budd by the Democrats of the Second District of that State. Mr. Delaville, a new man, was nominated for the new Sixth District. The California Democratic Convention adopted resolutions in favor of the nomination of Tilden and Hendricks. If Tilden should not accept they declare for Thurman, of Ohio, as a second choice, and repudiate the candidacy of Justice Field. They declare against Federal interference in the affairs of the States, against high tariff and the ownership of lands by non-resident aliens. Hon. Samuel J. Tilden has addressed a letter to Daniel J. Manning, Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of New York, formally declining a nomination for the Presidency. He writes: “I ought not to assume a task which I have not the physical strength to carry through. * * ♦ In my condition of advancing years and declining strength I feel no assurance of my ability to accomplish these hopes [of reform]. I cannot now assume the labors of an administration or of a canvass. • • • I have but to submit to the will of God in deeming my public career forever closed.”

A meeting of the Massachusetts Independents, over which Charles W. Cadman presided, condemned at Boston the Republican Presidential nominations, and trusted the Democrats would name men suitable to their views. They also instructed their Executive Committee to call a convention not later than Aug. 1. President Eliot, of Harvard, in a speech, hoped a new party would grow out of this movement. A committee was appointed to hold a conference with the Independent Republicans of New York, and letters from sympathizers were read.

In order to ascertain the Presidential preferences of the Democratic masses in the central portion of the country, since the declination of Mr. Tilden, the Chicago Times secured interviews with several thousand influential gentlemen. The dispatches indicate that the Western States are largely in favor of Cleveland and McDonald as the strongest team. Ohio urges the claims of Thurman, and Indiana shows a full appreciation of McDonald. The Democracy of Massachusetts are united in support of Butler. In the Southern States Bayard proves a prime favorite.

MISCELLANEOUS. Isaac A. Stanley, paying teller of the National Bank of Commerce at Cleveland, has been lodged in jail for embezzling SIOO,000. He made a confession to the Directors, and turned over his personal property. Dr. Cosse, of Chicago, who went to Canada to secure a reward for exposing dynamiters, quarreled with and killed a man named William Hamilton in a disreputable house at Orilla. Joseph Thompson and George Lowder were hanged for murder at Pictou, N. 8. Marrero, Secretary of the Cuban revolutionary committee at Key West, was arrested by the United States Marshal for having explosive material in his possession and concealing sealed letters to prominent revolutionists. Business failures in the United States for the week numbered 184, against 182 last week. The Dupont Company gives /he Vulcan Powder Manufacturing Company $75,000 to suspend operations for a year. Of clearing-house certificates aggregating $24,000,000 Issued during the recent financial flury in New York $12,000,000 have been already canceled. Obituary: The Rev. Dr. Alexander J. Baird, of Nashville, Tenn., died suddenly at the Park Avenue Hotel, New York, while on his way to attend a meeting of the Presbyterian Alliance at Belfast, Ireland. He was in his 60th year. He had beea a pastor at Nashville since the close of the war. Col. J. G, Bayne, a Greenback leader in Kansas, who had lately been devoting his energies to the extension of the Fort Scott Road, died of heart disease in Wichita. Commander Samuel B. Gregory, U. S. N., died at Boston, Mass., aged 71.

FOREIGN.

English public opinion is opposed to permitting France having control with England over Egyptian affairs. French public opinion, on the contrary, is dissatisfied that France has not greater influence in these matters. Gladstone's supremacy is menaced on account of his concessions, Ferry’s on account of his lack of aggressiveness. At Jerez, Spain, five members of the Black Hand Society were executed for a socialist outrage. Five others have beeil sentenced to imprisonment for life. In conversation with one of his'

warmest supporters, Mr. Gladstone declared he expected to be out of office in a few weeks. Seven men were executed at Jerez, Spain, for a Black Hand Socialist outrage. Five others were committed to imprisonment for life.

The marriage of Princess Elizabeth, of Hesse and the Grand Duke Sergius, of Russia, occurred, with the customary pomp in the chapel at the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg. Two services were performed, the first in accordance with the orthodox ritual, and the second according to the Lutheran rites.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

John Gallagher, formerly hotel-keep-er at Gridley, 111., is reported to have been lynched at Walmsvllle, M. T. He fired on the Sheriff and posse who went to arrest him for counterfeiting, when the mob took and hanged him to a tree. S. Sommerich & Co., wholesale milliners of New York, have made an assignment. The firm has been in business thirty years. It failed in 1861 and compromised for 25 cents on the dollar, and failed again in 1875, when it paid 35 per cent, of liabilities amounting to $89,000. A lad at Bridgeport, Conn., was paralyzed by hooking a wire to the electric light conductor, and in twenty minutes expired. M. G. Norton, of Winona, Minn., has resigned his membership in the National Republican Committee on account of the press of private business. Ex-Gov. Davis, who seconded Blaine’s nomination, will probably take his place on the committee. Ex-Gov. Routt, ex-Senator Chaffee, and Mr. William A. Hamill are candidates for the United States Senatorship from Colorado to succeed Senator N. P. Hill. It is understood that Mr. Hill would not be averse to re-election.

In a horse-race at Pittsburgh the judges awarded the contest to Ascender, when it was claimed that Brunswick finished full head in front. An attempt was made to mob the judges’ stand, but the police curbed the outbreak. The Canadian Department of Customs refused to citizens of Kentucky permission to take whisky into the Dominion and then export it to New York. A resolution has been proposed in the Toronto (Ont.) Board of Trade, urging the Dominion Government to increase the tariff on American flour, so as to protect the Canadian millers. The resolution will be debated at the next meeting of the Board. The tariff now is 50 cents on the barrel. The proposal is to increase it to 75 cents.'

George W. Roosevelt, United States Consul at Bordeaux, while witnessing a balloon ascension near that city, in company with his wife, was fired upon by a French soldier. The bullet passed through Mr. Roosevelt’s hat and scratched him on the head. The soldier, with two companions escaped. It is thought that he mistook Mr. Roosevelt for a superior officer against whom he had a private grudge. An explosion occurred in South London, which was at first attributed to dynamite fiends, but which is said to have been the result of experiments made by an electrician for scientific purposes in his private house. The electrcian nas been arrested, and will be held until the matter is fully investigated. An injunction was issued at Louisville to restrain the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor, from transferring their headquarters from Kentucky to St. Louis.

In the Senate, June 16, Mr. Ingalls created a breeze by charging that Mr. Brown had inserted in the official report of the latter’s speech on the Georgia claim words which were not used in the debate. Bills were reported to increase to $300,000 the appropriation for a public building at Erie, and to forfeit the unearned land grant of the Atlantic and Pacific Road. Mr. Van Wyck offered a resolution directing the Committee on Judiciary to inquire whether the Union and Central Pacific Roads have guaranteed interest on bonds other than those specifically authorized by Congress, or have issued new stock in violation of said act. Interesting debates took place on Mr. Butler’s resolution for an investigation of the banks of New York and on the Utah bill. In the House, bills wete introduced to give to every honorably discharged soldier or sailor 160 acres of land, and for the erection of a home for union and confederate soldiers at Denver. The Committee on Elections reported in favor of admitting Mr. Morey from the Seventh Ohio District. Mr. Deuster presented a measure to punish the prosecution of fraudulent claims against foreign governments by fine and imprisonment. An evening session was held to consider the deficiency appropriation bill. An English journal is a little “tart” when it calls us a nation of pie-eaters.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK Beeves $ e.oo @ 8.00 Hogs 6.25 & 6.00 Floub—Extra 4.00 @ 6.50 Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 96 & .98 No. 2 Red 1.01 @ 1.02 COBN—No. 2 White 69 @ .71 Oats—White 38 @ .43 Pork—Mess 16.50 @17.00 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.50 @ 7.00 Fair to GoOd 5.75 @6.25 Butchers’ 5.00 @'5.75 Hogs s.oo @ 6.00 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 @ 6.75 Good to Choice Spring... 4.50 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 86 @ .87 No. 3 Red Winter. 93 @ .95 COBN—No. 2 54 @ .55 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .33 Rye—No. 2 63 @ .64 PAULEY—No. 2. 62 @ .65 Butteb—Choice Creamery 19 @ .20 Fine Dairy 14 @ .15 Cheese—Full Cream. 08 @ .09 Skimmed Flat 03 @ .05 Eggs—Fresh 14 @ .15 Potatoes—New, per br1......... 3.50 @4.25 POBk—Mess 19.60 @20.00 LARD 08 @ .08M TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 95 @ .97 Corn—No. 2 56 @ .57 Oats—No. 2 36 @ .37 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 87 @ .88 COBN—No. 2 ... .56 @ .58 Oats—No. 2 31 @ .33 BABLEY—No. 2 60 @ .62. POBK—Mess 19.60 @20.00 LABD 7.75 @8.25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 99 @ i.oo Cobn—Mixed. 62 @ .53 Oats—No. 2 si @ .32 Rye so @ .57 PORK—Mess 18.00 @18.75 CINCINNATL Wheat—No. 2 Red i.oo @1.03 COBN 66 @ .67 Oats—Mixed 34 @< .85 POBK—Mess 18.50 @19.00 LABD 07&@ -08 DETROIT. Floub ■. 6.50 @7.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.00 @ 1.02 Cobn—Mixed 55 @ .56 Oats—No. 2 Mixed. 34 @ .33 Pobk—Mess 19.60 @20.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red., 93 @ .95 Corn—Mixed 51 @ .53 Oats—Mixed .' 3; @ .33 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 6.00 <a e.eo Fair. 6.60 @6.25 Common.. 3.75 @ 4.28 Hogs 5,50 @6.00 Sheep 4.00 @ 4.50

SENATE AND HOUSE.

Proceedings of the Federal Con-, gress Boiled Down In the Senate, June 10, Mr. Logan presented a memorial from a Cincinnati mass-meeting, demanding a quarter section of land for each soldier, sailor, or marine who served in the Union army. The consular appropriation was debated in secret session for some hours. The House adopted a concurrent resolution for final adjournment on June 30. In committee of the whole, on the river and harbor bill, Mr. Ochiltree secured the cancellation of the clause appropriating 4250,000 to continue work on Galveston harbor, and Mr. Holman bad an item for the improvement of the Little Kanawha stricken from the bill. An evening session was held for the consideration of Indian affairs.

Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution in the Senate, June 11, calling for information as to the supply of beef to Indians. Mr. Butler presented a resolution for a special committee to examine into the condition of the national banks in New York City. Two secret sessions were held to consider the item of $250,000 in the consular appropriation to cover the expense of executing the neutrality act. A vote on the passage of the bill revealed the fact that no quorum was present. The House, in committee of the whole on the river and harbor bill, refused to strike out the clause for the construction of the Hennepin Canal. Motions for an increase in the items for the improvement of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers were lost,but $75,000 was appropriated for completing the surveys of the Mississippi. The Senate, on June 12, passed the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill. Senator Vest offered an amendment to the bill providing that no money shall be paid out of the public treasury for printing speeches in the Congressional Record which are not spoken in the Senate or in the House. It is understood that the item of $230,000 was passed in secret session, with only three dissenting votes. The money Is to be used, it is said, to secure from the Nicaraguan Government for the United States the absolute and exclusive right of waterway between the Atlantic ana Pacific Oceans along the line of the projected Nicaragua Canal. The Mexican pensions bill was debated at considerable length, but no action was taken. The House passed the river and harbor bill, by 157 to 104, after striking out the Hennepin Canal clause. By a vote of 8 to 5 the Committee on Elections refused to reopen the Virginia contested-elec-tion case of Massey vs. Wise. Three Democrats voted with the Republicans in the majority. The Senate, on June 13, rejected a treaty for an international copyright and patent system which has already been ratified by twenty-four governments. The time of nearly the entire session was spent on a bill to pay the State of Georgia $35,555 for money expended for the common defense in 1777, and when a vote was reached no quorum was present. The House adopted by a vote of 115 to 52 the Senate amendment to the postoffice appropriation bill increasing the item for the delivery service from $3.60v,000 to $4,000,000, but refused to agree to the amendment for an increase of the item for railway transportation. The consideration of j.he bill was not concluded. At the evening session seventy-six pension bills were passed. There was no session of the Senate on the 14th. The House devoted its session to consideration of the amendments made by the. Senate to the postofflee bill. By a vote of 125 to 95 it was agreed to make the appropriation for special mail facilities on the trunk lines $250,000. A motion to increase to $4,300,000 the item for railway postoffice clerks was lost, and the House insisted on disagreement with the Senate.

Why He Was Thankful.

The disposition of some men to look on the bright side of everything was illustrated cn a far Western road. An old gentleman had been an attentive listener to the somewhat remarkable experiences of his fellow-travelers, breaking into the culmination of each anecdote with a pious ejaculation of praise for some redeeming incident in the subject under discussion. Finally they got to setting matters up on the man, and telling stories in which it was hard for him to find anything to be grateful for’ But he managed to get there each trip, until the boys were nearly at their wits’ end. “But one of the worst I ever heard of, ” commenced one, winking at his companions to look for a smasher, “really the worst, was on the Savannah and Pensacola Boad, in 1842. We ran into a coal train, and not a soul escaped. No, not a soul! Every one was killed!” There was a moment's pause, and every one looked at the old man to see how he would take it, “Thank heaven!” he exclaimed fervently, “thank heaven!” “What for,” demanded the relator of the story, “what are you thanking heaven for now?” “To' think you were killed by that train!” ejaculated the old gentleman, rolling up his eyes. “If you had been spared, what a liar you would have been by the time you reached your present age! Thank heaven for that disaster!” And, after that, the boys let him alone.— Germantown Telegraph.

Done by “A Simple Twist of the Wrist.”

“It -was as good as a circus,” said Sergt. Mulholland. “I was walking along Broadway when I saw a black-and-tan cab coming furiously up Murray street. The driver seemed to be doing his best to stop the animal, but it was unmanageable. A tall, well-built man, who did not see the runaway, was crossing the street. Everybody cried out to him, but the horse was close upon him before he saw it. Quick as thought he put out his right hand, seized the horse by the nostrils, gave a sudden twist, and the runaway was lying flat on his side on the crossing. The cab-driver was too much astonished to say a word, and the stranger picked up his hat and walked off as coolly as though nothing had happened. I learned that he was Mr. Lemuel R. Sturges, the owner of a cattle-ranch in Texas. He knew a trick the cowboys have of throwing a steer by giving its head a little twist. He practiced it on Broadway, and that runaway horse got a lesson that he won’t forget if he has any sense.”— New York Sun.

A Silence Sent For.

A golden-haired Silence put its head in at a door. “Did you send for me ?” “Of course I didn’t,” replied a man in a long apron. ; “A messenger boy said somebody along here wanted to see me.” “Well, ’twan’t me; I’m a barber. May be it was the merchant next door. I heard him say he was going to quit advertising. ” It is very funny, but as a general rule the waiter in a swell restaurent is about the only person about the premises who doesn’t wait for anything. The man who orders the chop does most of the waiting. A manufacturer of white-wine vinegar claims that his compound is so much better than the old-fashioned concoction that he has adopted the sign: “Who will care for mother now ?” The first woman settler of Cosmopolis, W. T., will get a premium of SIOO.

WRECKED ON THE RAIL.

An Excursion Train Filled with Children Collides with an Ao* commodation. Eight Bailroad Men Killed—Nearly a Score of the Passengers Injured. • [Philadelphia telegram.] There was a crash on the Camden and Atlantic Bailroad this morning. Two trains came together with terrible force. Eight people were killed, and of the dozen or more wounded several will probably die. At 8:30 a train of three cars left Camden, N. J., for Lakeside with children from the Second Presbyterian Church on an excursion. At 7 o’clock an accommodation train of seven cars left Atlantic City for Camden and Philadelphia. The trains should have passed at Ashland Station. Superintendent Bannard sent a' telegram to the operator at Ashland to hold the accommodation on a side track there until the excursion had passed. Somehow the accommodation got by Ashland, and about a mile this side rushed headlong into the excursion train. . “I was sitting in the smoker of the accommodation,” said James Anderson, of Atco, N. J., “when I heard the shrill whistle of a locomotive, which was followed by similar signals from another locomotive close by. I thought that something was wrong, and I immediately jumped to my feet. At that instant the air-brake was applied, and the movement of the train was brought to a stop so suddenly and with such force as to throw me down on the floor of the car. I quickly regained my feet, and on glancing around I found that all the other passengers, of whom there were about twenty in the car, had also been thrown out of their seats. This was all the work of a few seconds, and was followed by a terrible crash as the two trains came together. The smoking-car was the third from tho locomotive, and was pretty well used up. After the collision occurred we all scrambled out of the car, some escaping by the windows. Both locomotives were completely demolished by the collision, and the escaping steam made it impossible for some time for any one to approach within fifty feet of the wreck.

• “ Great excitement existed among the people in the two trains, especially among the women and children composing the excursion train. The sight presented after the accident occurred was a terrible one. The train-hands and the male passengers were running to and fro, so much excited that they were unable to render any assistpance to the injured and dying.” As soon as partial quiet had been restored the uninjured went to the assistance of the founded. Fireman Nicholas Barber was taken out dead, with his entrails protruding. Mail Agent Winfield Hiles was, with great difficulty, gotten out. He was lying deep under the debris, and it was some time before he was discovered. He was heard to call “Here I am,” and was When gotten out he could not give much account of himself, as he was terribly injured internally, and died in a short time. Frank Fenton, the surveyor of the road, who was on the train, was taken out after about two hours’ work, mangled in a terrible manner. Both engineers were killed. Conductor Albert Smith and the brakeman, Gustavus Edwards, of the Lakeside train, were taken out dead. Smith was counting his tickets in the front car. It was nearly an hour and a half after the accident before medical attendance - was gotten on ( the ground. The most affecting thing of the affair was the fact that the daughter of ; Civil Engineer Fenton was on the excursion train. She looked for her father and was told that he was safe and had gone ahead to flag the trains. She then waited and walked to Haddonfield. In a few minutes after she had gone her father was taken out of the ruins, his head almost flattened where it had been crushed. The point where the collision occurred is considered the worst on the line. It is about two miles from Haddonfield, and one mile from Ashland, with a heavy down grade and curve in both directions. In the middle of the curve is a wooden bridge over Cooper’s Creek. There is only a single track on the curve, with a light embankment on either side. The accommodation was running at the rate of twenty-two‘miles an hour when it entered the curve.

Hunted Down.

[Ogden (Utah) Dispatch ] Last week nine Montana horse-thieves, one of the thieves Accompanied by his wife and three children, successfully “stood off” eight pursuers and got away with fifty head of stolen horses, driving them into Idaho. Another party of pursuers was organized at Eagle Rock, Idaho, who took up the robbers’ trail and captured a man and his wife and children and three horses near Camas. Following the trail of the remainder of the band up Snake River Valley to Rexburg, a Mormon settlement, the pursuers “treed their game” Friday night in a house occupied by a Mormon named Ricks. The pursuing party surrounded the house and waited for their men to emerge. About 8 o’clock yesterday morning two oi the thieves came out of the house and started for the stables. They were met by a ‘peremptory command, “Throw up your hands,” a request that was immediately obeyed, but one hand of each of the robbers contained a murderous six-shooter. Before they had time to use their weapons one of them was shot dead and the other captured. The remainder of the party surrendered and will be taken to Montana. All of the stolen horses except five were recovered.

CHIPS.

A citizen of New Orleans is making a fortune selling iced tea. Yaller Dog and Raw Dog are the names of two little towns south of Heppner, Oregon. Mb. A. W. Habmon, of Savannah, has a team of gray horses which has taken the one hundredth bridal couple to the nuptial ceremonies. Thirty thousand two-horse trucks are employed in the business of New York city. Upwards of $20,000,000 is invested in this industry. A curiosity in the shape of a single stem from a rosebush, containing 139 roses and opening buds, was on exhibition in Santa Rosa last week. A New York grocer, who sells kindling wood to the poor at 3 cents a bundle, figures that he gets $34.92 for a cord of hemlock worth $4 up country. Miss Marion Booth, a female compositor in the Pascagoula (Miss.) Star office, is only fifteen years old, but she sets 1,200 ems solid long primer, newspaper measure, in one hour. Mexico is afflicted with a large number of female counterfeiters.

TILDEN SPEAKS,

And Announces His “ Irreversible Determination” Hot to Be a Candidate. l> His Advanced Age and Infirmities the Reason for His Withdrawal. The following communication from Samuel J. Tilden has been given to the Associated Press: _ New York, June 10. To Daniel Manning, Chairman of the Demo-. cratic State Committee of New York; In my letter of June 18, 1880, addressed to th< delegates from the Bute of New YorktotiM Democratic National Convention, I said: “Having now borne faithfully my full share of th< labor and care in the nubile service, and wearing the marks of its burdens, I desire nothin! so much as an honorable discharge. I wish tc lay down the honors and toils of even quasi party leadership and to seek the repose of pnvat< life. In renouncing the renomination for the Presidency, I do so with no doubt in my mind as to the vote of the State of New York, or o 1 the United States, but because I believe that it is a nomination of re-election to the Presidency. To those who think my renomination and reelection indispensable to an effectual vindication of the right of the people to elect their rulers, violated in my person, I have accorded as tons a reserve of my decision as possible; but I cannot overcome my repugnance to enter into a new engagement which involves four years oi ceaseless toil. The dignity of the Presidential office is above a merely personal ambition, but it creates in me no illusion. Its value is as a great power for good to the country. I said four years ago, in accepting the nomination, ‘Knowing as I do, therefore, from fresh experience, how great the difference is between gliding through an official routine and working out a reform of systems and policies, it is impossible for me to contemplate what needs to be done in the Federal administration without* ar anxious sense of the difficulties of the undertaking. If summoned by the suffrages of my countrymen to attempt this work I shall endeavor, with God’s help, to be the efficient instrument of their will ’ Such a work of renovation, after many years of misrule, such a reform of systems and policies, to which I would cheerfully have sacrificed all that remained to me of health and life, is now, I fear, beyond my strength." ‘ My purpose to withdraw from further public service, and the grounds of it, were at that time well known to you and to others, and when, at Cincinnati, though respecting my wishes yourself. you communicated to me an appeal from many valued friends to relinquish that purpose, I reiterated my determination unconditionally. In the four years which have since elapsed nothing has occurred to weaken, but everything to strengthen, the considerations which induced! my withdrawal from public life. To all whei have addressed me on the subject my intention® has been frankly communicated. Several of my most confidential friends, under the sanction of their own names, have publicly stated my determination to be irreversible. That I ■ have occasion now to consider the question I is an event for which I have no responsibility. The appeal made to me by the Democratic masses, with apparent unanimity, to serve them once more is entitled to the most deferential consideration, and would inspire a disposition to do anything desired of me, if it were consistent with my judgment of duty. I'believe that there is no instrumentality in human society so potential in its influences upon mankind for good or evil as the governmental machinery for administering justice and for making and executing laws. Not all the elementary institutions of private benevolence to which philanthropists may devote their lives are so fruitful in benefits as the rescue and preservation of this machinery from the perversions that make it the instrument of conspiracy, fraud, and crime against tho most sacred rights ant interests of the people. For fifty years, as I private citizen, never contemplating an officla career, I have devoted at least as much thought and effort to the duty of influencing aright the action of the governmental institutions of my country as to all other objects. I have never accepted official service except for a brief period, for a special purpose, and only when the occasion seemed to require from me that sacrifict of private preferences to the public welfare. ! undertook the State administration of New York because it was supposed that in that way only could the executive power be arrayed on the side of the reforms to which, as a private citizen, I had given three years of my life. ’ accepted the nomination for the Presidency in 1876 because of the general conviction thai my candidacy would best present the issue oi reform which the Democratic majority of the people desired to have worked out, in the Federal Government, as it had been in the State of New York. I believed that I had strength enough then to renovate the administration of the Government of the United States, and. at the close of my term, to hand over the great trust to a successor faithful to the same policy. Though anxious to seek the repose of private life, I nevertheless acted upon the idea that every power is a trust and involves a duty. In reply to the committee communicating my nomination,*! depicted the difficulties of the undertaking and likened my feelings in engaging in it to those of a soldier entering battle; but I did not withhold the entire consecration of my power to the public service. Twenty years of continuous maladministration, under the demoralizing influences of intestine war and of bad finance, have Infected tho whole govermental system of the United States with the cancerous growths of false constructions and corrupt practice*. Powerful classes have acquired pecuniary interests in official abuses, and the moral standards of the people have been impaired. To redress these evils is a work of great difficulty and labor, and cannot be accomplished without the most energetic and efficient persona] action on the part of the Chief Executive of the Republic. The canvass and administration which it is desired that I should undertake would embrace a period of nearly five years. Nor can I admit any illusion as to their burdens. Three years’ experience in the endeavor to reform the municipal government of the city of New York, and two years’ experience in renovating the administration of the State of New York, have made me familiar with the requirements of snch a work. At the present time the considerations which induced my action in 1880 have become imperative. I ought not to assume a task which I have not the physical strength to carry through. To reform the administration of the Federal Government; to realize my own ideal, and to fulfill the great expectations of the people; would indeed warrant, as they could alone compensate, the sacrifices which the undertaking would involve; but, in my condition of advancing years and declining strength, I feel no assurance of my ability to accomplish these objects. I am, therefore, constrained to say definitely that I cannot now assume the labors of an administration, or of a canvass. Undervaluing in no wise that best gift of heaven—the occasion and the power sometimes bestowed upon a mere individual to communicate an impulse for good—grateful beyond all words to my fellow-countrymen who would assign such a beneficent function, to me—l am consoled by the reflection that neither the Democratic party nor the republic, for whose future that party is the best guarantee,, is now or ever can be dependent upon any one man for their successful progress in the path of a noble destiny. Having given to their welfare whatever of health and strength I possessed, or could borrow from the future, and having reached the term of my capacity for such labors as their welfare now demands, I but submit to the will of God in deeming my public career forever dosedSamuel J. Tilden.

SMALL TALK.

Peter McCraiii died in Cranston, R. L„ jail, where he was committed for debt. Two hundred hair-pins were found in> the stomach of a cow killed in Logan County, Ky. \ Poor old Vanderbilt has left only $64,000,000 registered Government 4 per cent, bonds. He gave his son for .pocket moneys7,ooo,ooo. The pronunciation of Joaquin should be* as if spelled Wah-keen, giving the “a” the* sound it has in ball, and accenting the second syllable. Mulberry, Ohio, has a colored citizen, named William Long, who claims to be 145. years old, and isn't sure but that he saw Christopher Columbus. A Boston woman warns train-boy® through the Globe that “if they throw anyof Col. IngersqU’s lectures in my lap I shall certainly throw them out of the window.” Munkacsy’s picture of the painted for the collector, Sedelmeyer, is so big that it required many horses and men to transport it from the painter’s studio to the gallery, which had to be enlarged in order to receive it