Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — Page 3

©jejDcniocniticSentitiel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. i I. W. JTcEWEN,- - - Publisher

The Current : Do not be afraid to fcttj. Any permanent investment you contemplate may be safely entered upon now. - Tub year 1885 finds four English Judges still actively pursuing their judicial labors after attaining the age of fourscore yeafs. They are Vice Chancellor Baoon, who is in his 87th year; Judge Petersdorf, in his 85th; Judge Hulton, is his 83d; and Judge Baylev, of the Westminster County Court, also in his 83d year. Women serve on juries in Washington Territory, and at the recent trial of a faro dealer there the jury consisted of six persons of each sex. James Mitchell met Susan Thompson for the first time in the box, proposed marriage to her and was accepted, and the wedding took place immediately on the conclusion of the trial. The faro dealer was convicted. Mbs. Eugenia Makes, of Frankford, Philadelphia, whose death is announced, was a slave of Thomas Jefferson and was at his bedside when he died. She took great pleasure in telling that while at Washington she cooked so nice a breakfast for Gen. Jackson that he went to the kitchen to compliment her, and accompanied his compliments with a $5 gold pieoe. Mb. Henby C. Pedder, formerly the confidential employe of Arnold, Constable & Co., and the largest stockholder in the Manhattan Magazine, who lived in royal style at a costly villa in New Jersey, and who disappeared suddenly, is said to be living now in St. Kitts, one of the West India islands, where he was born, and living in good style, too, but that can be done at St. Kitts, it is said, with $25 a month.

Teaching a school for Indian boys ,in New Mexico is attended with some inconveniences. The other day several Apache braves visited a school at Albuquerque where their sons were pupils, full of wrath and whisky. They wanted to clean out the whole establishment because they had heard that the Indian lads were occasionally punished. And the only way to pacify them was to get them so drunk that they were helpless. Once every two years the Arkansas preachers have a chance of entering into a political contest. The chaplaincies of both houses of the Legislature are elective offices, and sometimes the struggle for success is attended by all the features of a vigorous campaign. “Look here,” said the Rev. Bograndle, addressing a member of the House, “I want your vote. I ain’t much of a hand at singin’, but when it comes to prayin’ —standin’ right up an’ axin’ the Lord to bless a Legislature w’y I am etarnally thar. I-can pray the socks ofen any of these other fellers.” The North China Herald reports that there died lately at, Pekin the greatest Chinese mathematician of the present century, His name was Li Shan-lan, and he was professor of mathemathios at the Foreign College in the Chinese capital. “He differed from the mathematicians of Europe in this respect, that he denied the nonexistence of a point. ‘A point,’ said Prof. Li, ‘is an infinitesimally small cube/ and in saying this he only renroduoed the theories of Chinese sophists 2,000 years ago.” And when you come to think of it, how can anything be without length, breadth, and thickness ?

At the late meeting of the California State Teachers’ Association A. L. Bancroft delivered a .lecture on a proposed new alphabet. The Sacramento Union says: “Previous to.the address charts •were distributed showing the proposed ‘San Francisco Alphabet for Bevised English Spelling, 1884.’ This shows a scheme of thirteen vowels, four diphthongs, and twenty-four consonants. The system may be summed up particmlarly ka the statement that it is ‘shorthand’ written in a long way. The charaoters, apart from the ordinary alphabet, resemble ordinary letters now in use generally. Mr. Bancroft explained the ohart at length, and claimed for the ‘San Francisco alphabet’ a variety of advantages." Ton opinion is advanced by several London papers, and is echoed by certain New York journals, that Edmund Yates ha 3 no other course open to him than to resign from the several dubs with which he is connected, in order to save expulsion, which seems to be oonsidered the inevitable alternative. As Mr. Yates is in prison, Rerang a four months’ sentence for a libelous paragraph which appeared in his paper during his temporary abBenoa, and was written by a titled woman oontributor, it will probably net be clear to the ordinary comprehension why Hr. Yates should be expected thus to abase himself by withdrawing himself from the dubs end

tacitly acknowledging himself unfit for association with the members. His imprisonment is, under the circumstances, neither disgraceful nor degrading, and the reason why he should be put under social ban is not apparent at this distance. On the contrary, a common sense of justice would seem to urge that sympathy be extended to him by his friend and associates. If he is wise he will refuse to resign, and, should the expulsion come, he may feel serene in the consciousness that, if a stigma exists, it rests not upon himself, but upon the clubs which force him out because of a misfortune that he could not avoid.

William M. Evarts, who has recently been elected Senator of the United States, was bom in Boston, Feb. 6, 1818. He was the son of Jeremiah Evarts, who was born in Sunderland, Vt., Feb. 3, 1781, and died in Charleston, S. C., May 10, 1831. The latter graduated at Yale College in 1802, was admitted to the bar in 1806, practiced his profession in New Haven for about four years, and from 1810 to 1820 edited the Panoplist, a religious monthly magazine published in Boston. In 1812 he was chosen Treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and in 1820, when the Panoplist was discontinued and the Missionary Herald was issued by the board in its stead, he took charge of the latter periodical. He was chosen Corresponding Secretary of the board in 1821, and retained that office until his death. William Maxwell graduated at Yale in 1837, studied in the Harvard law school under Judge Story and Prof. Greenleaf, and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1841. In 1849 he was appointed Deputy United States District Attorney in New York City. He held this position four years. In 1851, while temporarily acting as District Attorney, he distinguished himself by the prosecution of the persons engaged in the “Cleopatra expedition,” a Cuban filibustering scheme. In 1853 he was counsel for the State of New York in the famous Lemmon slave case. In 1861 he and Horace Greeley., were rival candidates before the Republican caucus for United States Senator from New York. The name of Mr. Evarts was finally withdrawn, and Ira Harris was elected. In the impeachment trial of President Johnson in the spring of 1868, Mr. Evarts was principal counsel for the defendant. From July 15, 1868, to the close of President Johnson’s administration he was Attorney General of the United States. In 1872 he was counsel for the United States before the tribunal of arbitration on the Alabama claims, at Geneva, in Switzerland. Mr. Evarts was a member of the law firm of Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, in New York, and was President of the State Bar Association. For many years his reputation as a lawyer has been national, and he has been engaged in many of the most important cases tried in the country. Among others may be mentioned the celebrated Parrish will case and the contest of the will of Mrs. Gardner, the mother of President Tyler’s widow. He was the senior counsel retained by Henry Ward Beecher in the action brought by Theodore Tilton, the trial of which lasted six months. The most important cause in which hjr. Evarts was engaged as an advocate was that of the Republican party before the electoral commission at Washington, in the early part of 1877. Mr. Evarts is also widely known as an orator. On many important occasions he delivered addresses which received marked attention. Among these was the eulogy on Chief Justice Chase, at Darmouth College, in June, 1873; the centennial oration in Philadelphia, in 1876. and the speeches at the unveiling of the statues of William H. Seward end Daniel Webster in New York. Mr. Evarts has been a Republican from the organization of the party.

Broken Chords.

Air never seems so unhappy as it does when it is beiog crowded through a tin horn by a man wtth a bad breath. —Musical Record. To add sweetness to the harmony of a piano, just cover the keys with molasses before the-performer commences to fondle them.— Washington Hatchet. It is said that a violin played among a flock ot geese will start them to dancing. Every one who has attended a dance is aware of this fact.— Newman Independent. A lady in Connecticut has a harp 300 years old, andJohnßon says he wants her to come to his boarding-house and match it against a piano he hears there every day.— Cincinnati Merchant Traveler. As a young lady of Siverlyville was singing “My Heart's in the Highlands” a few evenings ago, her brother remarked that there would be more peace in the family if her voice were there also. —Oil City Derrick. Gounod says: “Those who do not like music are diseased.” Heaven help us! for we must be far gone. Miss Pedalnote favored us with some music the other evening, and people said it was splendid; but it seems that we were diseased and didn’t know it.— Bouton Transcript. I know no such thing as genius; genius » nothing but labor and diligrnmgmjmmUr Moaartk.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Thx attention of the Legislature was almost entirely devoted to the consideration of he Investigation of the State Treasury, on 4th nst. In the Senate Mr. Gibson introduced the majority report, stating that all was well with the .reasnry, an i deprecating further investigation as needless and expensive. From the report it appeared that the State had never received interest on anv public monev derosited in bank, and that It was doubtful whether a Treasurer could be compelled to account lor such interest by law. The committee recommended that the law be changed. Senator Koulke presented the report of the minority of the committee, which concluded with the declaration that the minority believe that there is a large deficiency in the Treasurer's office, and that it should at once be investigated. The majority asked leave to file an additional report in reply to the charge of the minority, and the matter went over lor a day. In the House, the committee was instructed to report whether any legisla ion on the subject was necessary. The majority, after Rtating that the Treasurer had made a showing, say they had discovered no reason whatever why a legislative committee or any other committee should be appointed at this time to investigate further into his aftairs. In support of the minority report reoommeuding an investigation, Representative Sayre charged that Treasurer Cooper had been an habitual violator of law; that he exhibited to the committee a certificate of tts.ooo from the Merchants' National Bank, which was dated Nov. IC, wnich was Sunday, and that it bore marks of fraud. Mr. Sayre thought it high time to make a thorough investigation. The committee had been unable to learn the true condition of arfairs. By a strict party vote the minority report was tabled and that of the majority concurred in. The Senate, on conclusion of the reading of the reports, took up the House bill increasing the Treasurer's bond from $150,000 to $1,000,000. By a vote of 30 to 15 the bill was amended by making the bond ssoo,nuo, and was then parsed. The He use passed the bill by a unanimous vote.

The House joint resolutions were passed In the Senate on the 6th inst., urging Indiana Representatives in Congress to labor for the repeal of the pension law of March 3, 1879, for the pensioning of Mexican veterans, to secure the revoking ot lands to railroad companies that have not completed their roads in the prescribed time, and to secure the equalization of bounties to soldiers. The Senate passed the House bill fixing the State Treasurer’s bond at $500,000, and the House bill appropriating $3,000 to the New Orleans Exposition display. Petitions for .nstruction in the schools on the effects of alcohol were presented by about thirty Senators. Committees reported on the following bills; That the bill to protect the ballotbox be amended and pass, and the report and amendment were adopted; that tho bill to suspend the Imprisonment of defendants In criminal cases pending appeals be made the special order for Thursday at 11 o’clock; that the bill for recording liens and mortgages on real estate be amended and pass; that the bill to abolish the offices of City Treasurer and Assessor, be amended and pass. The amendment provides that the act shall not be enforced until the expiration of the terms of the present incumbents, and the bill passed to second reading, without printing. The committee also reported: That the bill limiting the amount of taxes to be levied by commissioners in counties having a voting population of 25,000 do pass; thatlegalizing acts of the Union Loan and Savings Company do pass; that to prevent the spread of pienro-pneumonia be tabled; that creating a connty dog fund do pass; that enabling cities to purchase lands for sanitary purposes do pass; that an eight-hour law be enacted and adopted; that the concurrent resolution on the contract system in prisons be amended and adopted: that Sarah May’s claim of SIO,OOO for services of her deceased husband do pass, and that the money be taken from the State-House fund. The House passed the bill to repeal the act authorizing aliens to hold real estate. The State Treasurer’s bond bill, as amended by the Senate, fixing the amount at $500,000, was called up in the House. Messrs. Gordon and Reeves spoke in favor of maintaining the former action, placing the bond at SIOO,OOO, while Messrs. Gooding, French, Moody, and Browning advocated concurrence In the Senate amendment because it was important to pass the bill before next Monday, at which time the Treasurer would renew his bond. Mr. Browning called upon the Democratic members “to have more sand In their crops,” and not to be browbeaten by the threats of the minority. There was nothing In the rumored defalcation, he said, and the House had already devoted too much time to Mr. Cooper’s affairs. In the reports of standing committees the passage of the building association bill was recommended, as was also the passage of the McHenry bill looking to a uniform system of text books in the common schools. Several educational bills were indefinitely postponed.

Matters connected with the State Treasury consumed a large portion of the Senate session on the 6th Inst. By a party vote the majority report, which declared that there was no necessity for further investigation, was adopted. The report of the conference committee on the bill to Increase the Treasurer’s bond to $700,000 was also adopted by the Senate. This was accepted by the House, and the act Is now a law. In the House, the Committee on Temperance recommended the indefinite postponement of all bills referred to it, including Hanlon's 12 o’clock bill, McHenry’s high-llcense bill, and Schmidt’s bill to amend the law relating to the granting of license by county commissioners. By a vote of 66 to 28 the House laid on the table the following resolution offered by Mr. Gooding: “ That It is the sense of this House that the per centum of State tax should not, at the present session of the Legislature, be increased, and that the appropriations should be economical as far as practicable, avoiding the Increase of expenses by Issuing bonds or otherwise." Representative Jameson proposed a bank bill providing as follows: That any bank president, cashier, clerk.etc., who shall draw and issue any draft, check, or bill of exchange calling for the payment of money on the account of drawer when the drawer shall not have funds to meet such draft, or check, or bill of exchange shall be guilty of a felony; and that any bank official who shall receive money for deposit when he knows the bank to be insolvent shall likewise be guilty ol a felony. Upon conviction the violator of the provisions of the bill shall be imprisoned not less th<n two years nor more than ten, shall be fined in any sum not less than SI,OOO, and shall be disfrancised for a period not exceeding twenty years. The following bills were also introduced and referred: To provide for the better education of pauper children; to appropriate $55,616.03 to pay John Martin for work on the insane esylnin; to regulate the height of railroad bridges; providing how counties and townships may aid railroads; concerning free gravel roads; defining the liability of railroads for the killing of stock; to aid the Common Council of cities of three thousand inhabitants to change wards for consolidation and otherwise; to legalize the election and official acts of the officers of Ligonier; to prevent the giving away of intoxicating liquor; to amend the law relating to the taking up of estrayed animals; to amend the justice of the peace act; to amend the act regulating proceedings in criminal cases; to create liens in favor of decedents' estates; to prohibit the sale of tobacco to persons under 18 years of age. The Hou>e passed bills permitting the slaughter of English sparrows, and to repeal the law of 1881 by wp'ch Judges were authorised to try certain cas<& without the Intervention of a jury. Reports of committees and the reading of bills occupied a brief session of the Senate on the 7th Inst. In the House the following bills were introduced: To provide that the Revised Statutes of 1881 shall be sold at $2 per volume; to provide penalties under the aco conotrnmg public offenses; concerning partition fences; providing for the payment of interest semiannually upon county bonds; fixing penalties for keeping honscs of ill-fame; providing for a State Finance Committee, composed of the Governor, Auditor, and Secretary, who shall designate where the public fnnds shall be kept. The bill was ordered printed. Also, concerning claims against counties; relating to toll-gates and gravel and macadamized roads; to regulate the disposition of surplus school revenue by towns in trustees; fixing the fees of surveyors; appropriating $2J,000 to erect new buildings, bath- room", etc., at the Northern Prison, and for the purchase of a library; to establish a meteorological bureau in connection with one of the State oolleges, and providing for an annual appropriation of $3,0u0 to maintain a signal station, etc.; to require private banking institutions to make and publish three reports each year; to regulate the construction of sewers by cities.

The latest statistics on the comparative longevity of the sexes show that under 15 years there are more boys than girls, bnt over 75 years there are more women than men, and from the age of 90 to 100 the proportion is abont three to two in favor of the women. A steam flouring mill at Madison, Dakota, uses hay for fuel, of which it bnrns three and a half tons every twen-ty-fonr hour*. thiawoTld on* mns t puldodta on

THE SAGE OF DEERFIELD.

Horatio Seymour's Estimate of President Cleveland and the Work Awaiting Hint. (Albany Cor. New York Herald.] Your correspondent recently met Col. Dunlap in-. Albany. He was on his way home from Utica, where he had seen and conversed a long time with ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour. He represents the Sage of Deerfield, who has now passed his seventyfifth birthday, as somewhat oppressed by the weight of years, but upon the whole enjoys good average health and spirits. His mind is as clear as ever, and he still possesses that graceful flow of conversation and aptness of expression which have made him through life so trusted as a monitor and so cherished as a friend. The men of his generation have almost all passed away; his early co&pamons and rivals alike exist only in memory and in the record of their acts, and the venerable ex-Governor, in his charming but modest country honse, sits calmly and expectantly awaiting the summons to follow them. He is thankful that he has been spared to see the final triumph of the Democratic party in the late Presidential election, and expresses entiro confidence in Mr. Cleveland and his policy. CLEVELAND A BRAINY AND SAFE MAN. “What,” Col. Dunlap was asked, “is his general idea of the President elect?” “He lodks upon Mr. Cleveland as a big, brainy man, conservative in his opinions and likely to be found equal to any emergency. If care and discretion be exercised in the important point of selecting his Cabinet, his administration will be not only a successful but a brilliant one. Mr. Seymour, however, fears that too much will be expected of the President at the outset of his official term, and some disappointment may be expected from the impossibility of making radical changes immediately. It will take time to assimilate the entire executive force of the country to the views and designs of the new regime. This, however, will be facilitated by tho result of the. investigations which must be made into the doings of the Republican officials who liuve held power so long. A GRAND WORK FOR THE DEMOCRACY. “Irregularities of every nature may be expected to be found in every branch of the public service, and in some notorious corruption has run rampant. When the books are overhauled, as they must be, such wrong doing as-may be found will be punished bv the removal of the wrong doers. The public, remarked Mr. Seymour, must be made to realize that we have a clean Government. In harmony with this purpose, too, the civil laws must be respected. It is Mr. Seymour’s opinion that the opportunity is now opened to the Democratic party to identify itself closely with the future of this country, to direct its destinies, and to carry on the Government in accordance with the traditions of its great leaders, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. ” “What are the views of Mr. Seymour upon the tariff question?” “He thinks the question must be squarely met and dealt with, and that its settlement will form one of the features of the coming Presidential term. Agricultural, as well as manufacturing and commercial interests must be considered. For instance, the great Northwest must find the market which it demands for its products, for without reciprocity of foreign trade it will find itself without an outlet for them; and the strength of this local feeling was shown by a large Western vote at the recent election. Mr. Seymour believes it possible to equalize the interests of different sections and earnestly desires it. ABUSES TO BE REFORMED. “The subsidies given by the Government in the shape of public lands, and otherwise, to railroad corporations, he also thinks require attention. In every case, the recipients ought to be compelled to live up to their contracts; they should be taught that they are the servants rather than the masters of the great popular interests. The Governor favors emphatically a ship canal from the lakes to the Hudson River, since the demands of commerce have outgrown the capacities of the Erie CanaL In this connection, he expressed a hope for the control of the isthmian canals by our own countrymen. “Gov. Seymour does not believe that the prevailing hard times are due to the Presidential election, and attributes the depression, which he believes to bo but momentary, to the overproduction of goods beyond the limit of dema ®d and necessity. Ho thinks it a grievance that the election machinery should be so largely in Republican hands, and suggests an early endeavor to at least equalize its control between the two parties. He was very frank, too, in deploring to me the divisions in the Democratic party, and thinks it a most praiseworthy object to endeavor to straighten them and harmonize the party differences in New York City/; The Philadelphia Press was among the organs to declare that with the election of Cleveland the country, industrially, would go to the “demnition bow-wo<ws.” The believers in the prophecies of that paper expected by this date to see affairs as tho Irish sailor, who had taken to landfaring and plowing, described his team which he had deserted at a yellow-jacket’s nest. Running to his employer he ejaculated: “The larboard horse got over to the starboard side and the starboard horse over to the larboard side, and the whole craft is drifting to the d 1 generally. ” And yet so early after the occurrence of the calamity it deprecated, the Press has thrown out the following: “There is some encouraging news from manufactories which give hope, if not a positive promise, of the future. Sheet and rail mills and one of the blast furnaces at Bethlehem are starting up on new orders and several mills at Cleveland, Ohio, are preparing to resume operations at an early day. These evidences of returning confidence can not fail to have a good effect upon others and inspire a hopeful feeling in all.”

The New York Sun says that it has been suggested that the election of Mr. Evarts to the Senate may interfere with his professional pursuits, and that he makes a sacrifice in going to Washington. This assumption is unfounded. During his whole term as Secretary of State under the Fraudulent President, whom he helped to put in office, Mr. Evarts practiced law regularly and actively. The fact is recorded that he only wrote seven dispatches with his own hand in those four years. He turned the work over to his subordinates, as Mr. Frelinghnvsen has done since he entered the department. Mr. Evarts’ clients need not repine.— Omaha Herald. Recent movements ot prominent Democratic statesmen toward Albany have created a wonderful flutter among the Blaine orens. They don’t seem to “catch on” to r. Cleveland’s policy in requesting the presence of gentlemen of such wide differences of views on tariff matters as Carlisle and Randall are supposed to represent. This evident attempt to close up a gap so early in the season sits heavily on the great expectations of the average Blaine editor. Hero is just where he expected a row in the Cleveland camp.— lndianapolis Sentinel Editor McClure, who is traveling through the Houth, declares that the Democratic victory has destroyed the color line in politic* in that section. Nothing else oouid have accomplished the political Indt-

THE BOOMERS.

The Oklahoma Settlers Hold a Convention and Adopt Resolutions. .Topeka (Kan.l dispatch ] A State convention of Oklahoma boomers has been iu session here, with about forty delegates present. Resolutions were adopted to the effect that the use of the United States army to expel the settlers from sh eir homes in Oklahoma, who had settled on lands subject to homestead under the laws of Congress, has but one parallel in histoiy, to wit: Interference with State legislation of Karovas by United States troops in 1850, in the old border ruffian days. They denounce as an. outrage the use of United S’ates troops to deprive the people of their homes and property without any warrant of 1 iw, and that there is no excuse for the recent exercise of arbitrary power in the Oklahoma country, and denounce the invasion of any territory by an aimed force under any pretense as among the greatest of crimes. They announce that they are opposed to interfering with the rights of Indians to their lands existing under the laws and treaties of the United States, and will not defend men in the violation of their rights, and demand also thnt the protection of the Government should be extended to all settlers alike on the Government lauds; that it is not a crime to settle upon Government land, but a right given to every American citizen by lavy; that the Indian title to the Okloboma lands has been extinguished, and under the laws of the United States statutes the lftnds are subjeot to settlement, pre-emption, and homestead. The stand taken by Capt. Couch and his followers was commended. The action of the President of the United States iu ordering Col. Hatch to shobt down “men, women, and children, whose only crime was a desire to occupy Government lands," was characterized as an outrage that would disgrace the worst monarchies of the old world. It also resolved that the boomers have a right to settlo upon the lands, and that they will exeroise that right. The resolutions are finished by declaring that "the dispatches sent by tho Associated Press agent at Caldwell relating to the status or settlement of the Oklahoma lands, and charging that there are now cattlemen holding large herds of stock inclosed by fence on said lauds, are willfully false, and calculated to mislead the public.”

EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE.

Three Men Hilled and Scores Injured. [Denison (Texas) dispatch. I A terrible explosion of gas occurred recently in a coal mine near Savanna, Indian Territory. There were 100 miners working in the mine at the time of the explosion. Three are reported killed outright, eightynine are seriously burned, and forty-two are slightly burned or otherwise injured. The names of tho killed are: John Houston, Wrtliam Puxon, and Edwaril Griffiths. Only a partial list is obtainable of those seriously injured, among whom were Morgan Hughes, William Courtney, Peter Farrell, Frank Grimes, Robert McOhollup, David Richardson, William Boyle, Henry Davidson, Peter Carlbon, James Orlaudor, Charles Turpou, James ltesch, George Farr, H. Kerr, John Gibbs, Thornton Miller, Peter Curren, and William Cameron. Savanna is a small village on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, in the vory heart of tho Indian Nation, about twenty-five miles south of McAllister and fifty miles north of Atoka.

IRON AND STEEL.

The Trade In These Metals Looking Up. [Philadelphia telegram.] A general improvement has overtaken the iron trade of the East, and is showing itself at present in an active demand for nails an improved demand for bars, and an active demand for bridgo and plate iron. Nails have advanced to $2.15, and will likely advance to $2.20 or $2.25 within ten days, owing to the fact that there are no stooks to fall back on, and all the factories have been curtailing. Bars are SI.BO, and and inquiries are arriving .showing that a gsod deal of business is to be done. Beams and channels have been reduced from 3J cents to 3 cents, and negotiations are pending for 3,000 or 4,000 tons of material, for which inquiry has been hanging on tbe market for some time. It is probable that the next large sales of steel rails will bo made on a basis of $27, or possibly less. Small sales are made at S2B and $28.50. Crop ends are selling at S2O; old steel springs at $lB, and old rails at sl7 to $17.50.

CENTIPEDE COFFEE.

Carious Case of Poisoning In Texas. [Dallas (Tex.) special.] George Starling brought news to the city to-night that seven wood-choppers were poisoned at dinner to-day on Bois d’Arc Island, about twelve miles from this city, and that William Stroud, John Haynes, George Tripp, and Bob McCall were in a dying condition when he left, nnd that three others, James Smeed, Thomas Lawrence, and William Bell, were suffering violently. The poison was in the coffee that they drank, and on investigation a worm was found in the dregs which was pronqjxnoed by the men in the camp to bo a centipede. It is presumed it had been dipped up in a water vessel from the creek near the camp. Physicians with drags, etc., have hastened to the unfortunates.

IT WAS THE CAT.

Tbe Sounds That Disturbed Grave Congressmen. [Washington special.] The members and attendants about the House lobby have lately been disturbed by catcalls and tbe crying of young kittens, coming apparently from the solid wail* of the lobby. The sounds were mysterious and unaccountable. Workmen were sent for to-day to penetrate the wall to see if Poe's “cat" was w(tiled up in the masonry. The register in the vicinity of the sound was pemoved and out rolled three little kittens. Some homeless cat had crawled into the heating apparatus and finding her way between the walls had deposited her young there, where they would be protected from the winter blasts. They haye been named after three prominent lobbyists. There is a big squabble in the CongreSitional Church at East New York over a catch deacon who," to help aid a church fair, consented to'dance the Highland fling. The principal of the publio schools at Halley, Idaho, is about to lose his place because he insists on pronoonoing “Indian” “Injun” and plays billiards. Henry Ward Beecher has been elected President of the Keren no Reform Club of Brooklyn. *ark Twam mokes twenty eigen a

HURLED TO DEATH.

A Derailed Train on the BurlfngtOß Route Demolishes a Bridge Near Creston, lowa. Ihe Cars Thrown Into a Creek, and a Number of the Passengers Killed and Wounded, [Creston (Iowa) dispatcb.J An appalling accident occurred on the Burlington Railroad at u small stream ten miles west of hero this afternoon. As theNow York fast mail approached the bridge a rail broke benoath the forward cars of tho train. The rear coaches were throWu from the track by the defection. They topEled along on the ties until they were on the ridge,, when the two rear coaches and the sleeper careened and fell from the bridge into an icy abyss below, carrying down about twenty-five passengers many of whom were women and ohildren. Tho escape from general destruction was marvelous, as the cars are badly wreoked and the fall a desperate one. The coaches fell bottom upward into the stream, crushed through the ice, and, wedging into the chilly water, were held until tho front end of the train could be pulled out und a relief crew returned. The scene nt the return of the front oars was distressing in the extreme. A number of gentlemen whose families were in the coaohes, being forward in the smoker at the time of the accident, were apprised of the distress that attended the wives and ohildren by the agonizing appeals for aid and screams of pain that came from the battered mass of debris. A force of rescue was hastily organized, and, armed with axes, strong men hewed their way in to the imprisoned dead and wounded. * The scene inside of the cars was appalling. Many who were not killed were knooked unconscious by dismantled seats and debris, and lay limp and helpless. It was at first thought that the number of dead was very large, but on recovery from the wreck, and on the arrival of medical aid, which wns hastily procured by the company, many revived and were nble to be transferred to this city, whoro every attention is being shown them. Tho following is a list of the killed and wounded: Killed.—Robert Brown,Mount Pleasant, lowa. Mrs. Powell, New Albany, Ind. Mrs. W. 0. Carroll, Soquache, Col. Injured.—A. B. Cole, Grand Rapids, Mioh. C. H. Howell, sleeping-car conductor. G. R. Hawkins, conductor. 8. J. Lindsey, Creston, lowa. W. J. Davenport, Burlington, lowa. Dr. W. C. Carroll. Saquache, Col. Mrs. M. Farrell, Prescott, lowa. Isaiah Waterman, Corning, lowa. Tho accident was ono of those unavoidable ones, and was nn doubtedly caused by the sudden change in t ho weather.

A BATTLE IN TEXAN

Between Hangers and Mexicans—Many Hilled on Hoth Sides—Alleged Jlurborlty of the Rangers. Laredo Texas) special. A messenger arrived late last night with the news that a bloody battle had taken plao© at Carrizo Springs between a band of rangers under Sheriff Tomlinson and a large body of Mexicans from New Laredo. A few days ago three Mexionn horsethieves were caught near the Springs by some of the rangers, and are alleged to have been lynched. Some members of the band escaped and ware pursuod. The Mexicans started for the Rio Grande. Sheriff Tomlinson joined the rangers witß two of his deputies, and the pursuit was pushed with vigor. Thursday afternoon the Texans overtook the Mexicans, who had been heavily re-enforoed by other members of the band, and by a score of Mexican fugitiv.es. As only half of them were mounted their progress was slow. The rangers were all armed with Winchester rifles and Colt’s revolvers, and were led by Capt. Shelley and Sheriff Tomlinson, They opened fire when within shooting distance, and at the first volley a half a dozen Mexicans fell, and those who were mounted put spurs to their horses and fled. Th'e others returned tho fire of the posse and wounded five. William Marshal, one of the wounded, hoa since died. The Texans emptied their revolvers after their rifles were discharged, and the result was that ten Mexicans were killed outright, and it is believed that fifteen others were wounded. Several of the wounded were captured by the Texans and a horrible story is told regarding their disposition. It is said that many were shot to death on tho field. The most reliable information places the Mexican force at 120 and that of the Texans at .fifty.

PERISHED BY THE SWORD.

Execution at Halle of Two of theNlederwald Celebration Anarchists. [Berlin dispatch.] Reinsdorff and Kueobler, the anarchists, were beheaded by the sword of the executioner at Halle yesterday for attempting to take the life of the German Emperor and others at the Niederw.ild celebration. Kuechler’s eyes were full of tears and he tottered as he was being led to tbe blook. Prom the time pf leaving his cell until his death he did not utter a word. •He was assisted by a Protestant clergyman, to whom he frequently turned. When Reinsdorf was handed over to the executioner, he exclaimed, with a loud voice, “Down with barbarism! Long live nnareby!” Immediately before he had been singing the popular drinking'song, Stiefel mnsst sterben, bist noch so jung.” “Stiefel,” literally a boot, is the German equivalent for a “schoonor” of beer, and as the Teuton tosses down the liquor, he joyfully sings, “Boot, you must die, young as thou art. ”

HERE AND THERE.

The pictures of the Mahdi bear a strong resemblance to those of Nioolini, Patti’s tenor. The New York and New ’England Railroad has supplied its dining cars with electric lights. The Buffalo Commercial-Advertiser has reduced its pnee, and will hereafter be a 2-cent paper. The strawbeiTj crop in Georgia mast be running behind. The latest lie is to the effect that a ten-pound trout stopped a mill, wheel The town of Westboro, Mass., did not have a fire during the year 1884. The fire < department was called oat once to pat oat a fire in a freight car en route through the town, which was stopped for the pnrpoee. Col. Burnaby, who was killed at Abu Klea, has left the finished manuscript of a Clitical novel, bat it contains such merd- » criticisms of certain political ries that it is doubtful if it will be published, ** * to*”