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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW A SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pair©. FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1883. Mr. Moody’s bill don’t pan out. Mr. Moody should write another card, and try and tell the truth. Mr. Moody is a disastrous failure. The Sentinel will have to pet another card-writer. Mrs. Meeker, a murderess, is to be hanged, to-day, in Windsor, Vt., the first woman to suffer the penalty by hanging in New England. Col. Johnson, of the Citizens’ Street-rail-way Company, says there is no value in a competing company. Why does he operate i>ne in Cleveland? Will the Sentinel name any law passed on Ihe sixty-first day of the session of the Legislature and signed by Governor Morton or Governor Baker? Name the law. Queen Victoria’s John Brown had in him the making of a statesman. From the Savings of a thousand dollar salary he has been enabled to leave a bank account of nearly $5,000,000. TnK best assurance of proper conveniences and facilities in street railways is to demonstrate to the present company that it has no monopoly. Monopoly is in the way of justice to the people. By an examination of the House journals lit is found that no bill of any kind was passed on the sixty-first day of the session X>f the Legislature in 1863, as stated by Representative Moody under a great display of headlines in the Sentinel of last Tuesday. The act in relation to witnesses was passed oy the General Assembly of 1861, on Saturday, March 9, which was not the sixty-first day of the session, but properly and constitutionally a day for legislation, and the bill was returned by the Governor, with his signature, on the same day. It is stated that some of the ticket holders to trie advertised Nilsson concert at Buffalo, N. Y.. which failed to come off, are about to bring suits for damages against Manager Abbey. They claim that they were induced to come from surrounding towns by Abbey’s announcement of the concert, and in some Instances made two trips to secure reserved seats, and, through his cancellation of the concert, were put to loss of time and money. The case ought to be tested in court. The public should be informed whether a manager can cancel engagements without notice, simply because he finds it will not pay to keep them. The loss on tickets may r be ob7iated by refunding the money, but this does not make up for loss of time and other expenses.

Yesterday’s report of suicides shows a total of seven. The reasons are as varied as they well could be. George H. Johnson, of New York, shot himself because his wife had abandoned him. Herman Newman, of Pottsville, Pa., hanged himself on account of troubles arising out of a contemplated marriage. Colonel Corey, of Norfolk, Va., cut his throat on account of insomnia. Mrs. Shufflebotham, of Glen Beulah, Wis., shot her babe and herself on account of ill-health. Herbert W. Eaton, of Calais, Me., who shot his brother and partner in business, shot himself. Thomas Gow, of Leavenworth, Kan., took morphine because he could not break off drinking, and a twelve-yearold boy of Canaan, N. Y., hanged himself for Home reason not given. The record is a ghastly one. In the coroner’s investigation of the Foreman tragedy it was developed yesterday that in the circumscribed territory of Royalton, Zionsville, Brownsburg and Jamestown there had been $150,000 of insurance placed on the lives of aged people. This is a startling revelation. Stripped of technicalities, it is nothing more nor less than gambling, with human lives as “chips” in the pool. Each speculator in reality bets that his man or woman will die first. With an eye to business, and with cold-olooded calculation, each of these speculators has looked over the ground and picked out someone so old and decrepit that death seems certain to come soon. In most instances the policy-holders have no insurable interest in the persons named, which clearly renders their acts illegal. But those more circumspect, or more highly favored in having aged and infirm relatives, have placed insurance on fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, each with the secret hope that he may realize a profit in the speculation. There is nothing regular nor respectable in it from beginning to end. The only hope of gain is in the early death of the person selected to make an involuntary and unconscious race for the grave. Just so soon as a man places a policy on the life of his father or grandfather in the “graveyard insurance” companies, just that soon he becomes pecuniarily interested in his speedy death. It is a species of ghoulish gambling, infinitely more infamous than faro and more despicable than three-card monte. Gambling with money is regarded fts a crime and disgrace. What then must be said of men who gamble in the lives of relatives? To the covetous and unscrupulous it is a constant incentive to crime, and to any man mean enough to engage in it, it is enough to cause him by neglect, if nothing more, to imperil the life of the one insured for his benefit. It is an easy thing to get rid of one so old that death seems a matter of a few weeks or months. It is not necessary

that violence should be resorted to; it is enough to fail to properly nourish and clothe, to administer remedies, or to shield from the asperities of the weather. Any of these is a genteel way to murder, and is not likely to be detected. It may seem harsh to talk thus, but a man mean enough to invest in this kind of business is very near mean enough to want to win in any way that may not hold him accountable before the law. It is unqualifiedly infamous, and as public sentiment has not been strong enough to put it down it is well that laws have been passed making it a penal offense for anybody to organize such companies or to solicit business for them. No honorable man who realizes their true character will have anything to do with them. The bill passed by the last Legislature must be rigorously enforced in the interest of public morals. “Any requirement can be demanded on thirty days’ notice or its right ceases. A better regulated provision would be hard to find, and if the regulations have not been enforced it has been the fault of the Council. The Council has given notice to the Citizens’ Company that it must do certain things. This is according to the agreement with the city.”—Daily News. This is paltry quibbling and unworthy the News. Surely the cause of the monopoly of the present street railway company does not require such advocacy as this. The “thirtyday clause” does not apply to any one of the several questions asked of the company. Every one of these, with the possible exception of the transfer system, covers abuses that are and have been practiced by the company in violation of its charter over which there is just now so much mock “modesty” and crocodile honesty. The thirty-day clause has nothing under heaven to do with the abuses the correction of which the Council now demands. For nearly ten years the company has persistently violated its charter, defied the people, laughed at the Council, and pointed out that its charter provided no penalties for doing or failing to do anything. When abuses.have been attacked the company has snapped its fingers and said “What are you going to do about it?” But when anew company comes and asks the right to build a competing line, all at once the old management becomes very submissive, and, in the language of President Johnson, is ready to sign anything that the Council committee will prepare. We submit that the present attitude of the street-railway company is the best argument in favor of the passage of the ordinance for the new company. Break the monopoly the old company has hitherto supposed itself to possess, and we shall have a good and satisfactory street-railway service, and not before.

The London Economist is authority for the statement that “English trades unions want girls under fourteen prohibited from work with hammer and forge,” and is of the opinion that it “is a dodge to cut off female competition.” Despite such repeated instances of the poverty of English working classes that compels girls under fourteen to work with forge and hammer, there are those who still maintain that the lot of English mechanics is no worse than that of American workmen. Girls of tender age grimed with the smut of forges, and women battered into premature old age by working at nail making. Such is the picture of the industries of England, and in competition with such desperate people are freetraders anxious to place the working men of America. It may never be in America that girls will be obliged to work with hammer and forge—they can take to the broad fields if worst comes. But to invite competition with England on an equal footing is to invite a similar state of affairs in our own land. The nail and bolt-mills of England are largely “manned” by w’omen and girls, laboring unnatural hours for the bare necessities of life, and who are now’ threatened by the labor unions, who would deprive them even of this hard w’ay of making a scanty living. Shall the women of America be reduced to the same extremity by the poverty of their husbands who are dependent upon their daily labor for support? This is no picture conjured up by “protectionists,” but simply the inadvertent revelation of the struggle in England between man and woman for the hard privilege of earning bread at the forge and by the anvil and in the sultry air of rollingmills. It has not yet come to that pass in America, and it is the intention of the Republican party that it never shall. No finer tribute could be paid to the character of any man than the following words, spoken by Rev. Robert Collyer at the funeral of the late Postmaster-general Howe. Mr. Collyer had come from New York to bear his personal testimony to the worth of the distinguished dead: “We have our different views and our differing theories as to the policies and methods of public management, but here in thT presence of our beloved dead we are not Republicans, we are not Democrats, we seek not to further our opinion in any given direction in policies or in faith. Our hearts all beat just alike in the presence and under the influence of the one overmastering emotion of the hour. We forget all party, and only remember the life and the record of the grand, noble man, ihe citizen and the gentleman—a strong man, with deep and sure convictions, and so brave about it all. Dr. Buslinell used to say that there was a patience of judgment and conscience so mastering that if it bid its votary go over Niagura lie would go. I believe Senator Howe was a man of whom such a remark could he made with truth. Had judgment and conscience bid him go over Niagara he would have gone. With him the judgment sent was not set on earth; it was the great white throne. I believe he was actuated by the deepestand most abiding honesty of almost any man I ever knew.” A New Jersey cD-rgyman, while looking for some friends In a New York church, was arrested as a pickpocket by an able detective. After marching his victim to the station house, the

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officer kindly allowed himself to be convinced of his mistake, hut said he: “Suppose, now, that I had not bothered him, and he had turned out a pickpocket. Why, I should have been mad enough to have kicked myself into East river.” It is to be regretted that the clergyman was not mad enough to have performed that service for the zealous officer. “Nearly all of the strong-minded women of tile country have come to the rescue of the cause against the animadversions of the Rev. Morgan Dix, but we do not hear anything from Lydia Pinkliam on the subject. We do not understand how this special friend of woman can remain silent in such a crisis.—St. Louis PostDispatch. Bless your heart Lydia hasn’t time, and. besides, she is the particular frienu of Rev. Morgan Dix’s stvle of woman. It keeps her busy to lake care of those wives and mothers who have no “higher” education, or any other education worth mentioning, and whom Mr. D*x regards as the loveliest of their sex. That sort ol woman is Lydia’s chief source of reveuue. When a Philadelphia woman has a little grudge against a respectable neighbor or wants to play an “awfully funny” Joke ou a friend, she writes a letter to the lady warning her that if she does not stop drinking and abusing her children she will l>e summarily dealt with. The name ol the president of the Humane Society is then attached to the note, after which the fun begins. Since the recipients of the humorous productions have begun to set detectives ou the trail of the writers the fun has ceased to he funny. _ A distinguished, military-looking gentleman has been doing a good business in Pennsylvania in manufacturing coats-of-arms for aspiring families and escutcheons, giving the war records of ex-soidiers. He has suddenly disappeared after an uuusually successful season in Pottsville, leaving his family and numerous creditors, including the proprietors of four hotels. The military man’s own escutcheon is now supposed to be a hotel clerk rampant on a sulphur-colored field. At abenchshow just opened at Ottawa, the dogs ou exhibition are valued at $150,000. This must of course be understood to be a “trade” valuation; that is, the owners of the two thousand $75 dogs do not expect cash, but are willing to swap off the beasts for one thousand at $l5O each, or five huudred at S3OO, or for one yellow dog at $150,000. To the Editor or the 1 ndiauapolis Journal: Are the commissioners appointed by the Governor to locate the insane hospitals, to superintend the erection of the buildings, or do tneir duties cease after determining upon the locatiou? Indianapolis, March 28. A Reader The four commissioners with the Governor constitute a board “to superintend the locatiou, the lettiug, the construction and the equipping of hospitals for the insane.” The iaw provides that they shall hold their offices two years unless sooner releused by order of the Governor, and that their salary shall be at the rate of $5 for each day’s work, not to exceed, however, $209 per annum.

ABQUT PEOPLE. Princess Louise is expected to return to Ottawa next week. Robert Goklet, of New York, has completed a SIOO,OOO cottage at Newport. Minister Lowell is called the “Right Hon. J. Russell Low'ell” by the London society journals. MissSu-an B. Anthony has reached Englana, and her address is “American Exchange, 449 Strand, London.” Ex-Senator Windom, of Minnesota, has reconsidered his determination to sell his Washington residence and will occupy it next winter as usual. Gladstone has writteu an autograph letter to the St. George Union, of New York, returning thanks for an illumiuated address sent him by the Union. Ex-Senator Yulek, of Florida, will shortly erect in Washington a magnificent stouo residence, of unique architecture, adjoining tho residence of the British Minister. The fact that seven senators had their sons appointed to clerkships during the recent session leads the Boston Herald to call for a rehearing of Charles Sumner’s philippic against nepotism. London Figaro: Mr. Oscar Wilde, will It is reported, soon pose on the stage as au actor. Mrs. Langtry make tlx money thereby, aud why not Oscar! He will probably' make his debut in the United Btates. Tombstone Epitaph of Arizona tells of a dear little boy who, when told upon his first day at school that the first letter in the alphabet was called “A,” said to the school-ma’am: “How in h—l do you kuowl” A Turkish pasha has shown his appreciation of the work or our mission schools in his country by the following remark: “Wheu a girl has come hack from the American mission school, you should not say a girl, but a school has come.” Miss Linda Gilbert is now endeavoring to secure additional educational facilitiesand other reforms in the prisons of Baltimore uud Washington. lu May she will sail for England and devote the summer to efforts in behalf of prison reform there. Boktel, the new tenor over whom European opera-goers are in ecstacies, was formerly, like Wachtel, a cab-driver. His old companions in that trade in Hamburg, where he was discovered, have just presented him with a silver “whip of honor” which cost $l2O. The subscription for a memorial to the late Lord Frederick Cavendish bus already been closed. It will take the form of a recumbent statue, to be erected in the Priory Church at Cartuxel. Lancashire, where ho was brought up and passed the early years of his married life. The law library of the lae Justice Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, is now offered for sale at Portland, Me., and an effort is bring made to have it purchased as a whole aud kept in that city as a public library. It is said to be the largest law library in Now Euglaud except one in Boston. Mr. Georoe W. Childs writes, In reply to an inquiry as to whether he had been benefited by the use of liquor or tobacco in his meutal labors: “I fear I shall be unable to add to your fund of Information. Never having used spirituous or vinous stimulants or tobacco in any form, I have no personal experience of the way they affect the meutal faculties of those who use them.” Word comes from the Ursuline ConveDt in Brown county, where Archbishop Purcell resides, that tho venerable pielate is enjoying better health than he has for twenty years. He is rem arkably well for one so aged, and, with the care and attention of his faithful friends, is enabled to banish from his mind to some extent the financial troubles which have weighed so heavily upon him. District- attorney Wanger, of Norristown, Pa., receutly received through the mail a mysterious looking package about three inches in length. Upon removing the wrapper containing the address lie was horrified to find that he was the recipient of a coffin made of leather. Upon the lid was inscribed the word “Death,” aud above was a skull aud cross-bones, but upon the lid being removed there was reveaß and to view' a diamond of great brilliancy, deftly set in an unique scarf-pin. MLLK. Riiea is taller than most. European stars. Her head is exquisitely shaped and crowned with a heavy suit of dark, almost; black, hair; her face is delicately but clearly cur, her dark eyes brilliant as her diamonds, and her mouth might have served as an original model for the bow of Cupid. Her couutenauce moves with

every emotion, and is refined, intelligent and expressive to a high degree. Her form is lithe, graceful and oharmlngly molded, all of whioh personal attributes combiue to call forth the homage reoelved by her. The rat, says Professor Huxley, has no place In a well-built city house. The mouse Is harmless, but the presence of rats means a connection with the rat’s place, tho sewer. Hence, when he knew that there were rats in the basement of his house, Mr. Huxley had the floor of the room taken up, and found an opening into the sewer where the builder had omitted to close up the opening to a side drain, designed, bus abandoned before using. During all the years that the house had been occupied this opening had been in unsuspected existence and had given open passage to the emanations from the sewer. THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. If the English troops are to remain in Egypt until all that Mr. Gladstone announces is effected the occupation may as well be considered permanent. If they are simply to prepare the way for the payment of bondholders, then the war with Egypt must go ou record as a national outrage.— Chicago Tribune. If the Republican protective tariff shall be Indorsed by tbe election of Mr. Randall, then the Democratic parry will stand as approving the Republican conduct of affairs and as destitute of principles or policy of its own, and yet as disturbing the oountry by a great contest, having no higher uim than the spoils of the office pattronage.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Republicans in New York, Pennsylvania and elsewhere have learned at their cost that nothing is to be gained by dissensions and divisions. Once in a while a little bitterness acts well medicinally, but agreement and united action are the best in a fight. Ohio Democrats might take a few useful lessons from Republican experience in tbe Empire and Keystoue states.—Cincinnati Journal. Unless women are less sensitive than men how are they to be expected to remain enamored of husbands who either “smoke cigarettes by the bundle” or subsist on cigars that are offensive even to other smokers, or speud many iiours daily in sucking pipes of various degrees of rankness? To rernaiu in love with the smoker of a certain type implies either an abnormally large heart or defective olfactories—New York Word. Every other iuterost has to pay its fair amount. Why should the saloon be exempt? Tbe poor man is heavily taxed. Why should a saloon-keeper be let ofl? They produce ninetenths of the disorder, the crime, the distress, and the pauperism in the city. Why should they not be compelled to do something haud--Bome for the city’s improvement, and help lessen the burdeus of tho poor and the workingmen!— Chicago Tribune. The political forces %ill have to bo divided In 1884 on the live questions of the time, and none of these has a more vital interest tiian that of national taxation and the relations of the government to the industrial interests, including that of trade ou the ocean in all its phases. Parties cannot ignore these questions; they cannot be on both sides or them. This speakership contest is iuterestiug and significant mainly as preliminary to the next great political struggle of the country.—New York Times. Never has Massachusetts been afflicted with such a Governor lief ore, aud we venture to predict that it will be many years before she is so affiicted again. It will tie a painful but useful experience to her, and if it shall demonstrate to the country at largo that a man is not a “reformer” merely because he assails everything that is established and respectable, the whole uatinu will be benctttted. Slam-bang statesmanship is “takiug” on the stump, but it always has been and always will be a distressing failure in office.—New York Tribune. The inquiry is made, if prohibition does not prohibit, why do saloon-keepers universally prefer the license system! The answer must suggest itself to all who will reflect a moment. The business of all honorable and responsible dealers is destroyed by prohibitory laws, whether drinking ceases or not. A class of irresponsible person* wiio are willing to defy the law and sell surreptitiously may profit by prohibition, but no ot her retailers can. The qu stiou, therefore, is not free from difficulties. The facts affecting it are complex, aud are not to he passe 1 upon without careful examination.—Si. Louis Kepublicau.

THE LAST RITES. Burial of the Remains of the Late Post-master-General Howe at Green Bay. Green Bay, Wis.. March 29. —The train bearing the remains of Judge Howe arrived at the Chicago & Northwestern depot at about 5:50 o'clock this morning. Attached to the train were two Wagner sleepers, occupied by the funeral party. A committee from the Brown County Bar Association received tbe body, which, being placed in a hearse and escorted by the committee, was taken to the Howe residence on Main street. At 10:30 o’clock the bells in the city began the tolling of sixty-seven strokes, the age of the deceased, and the casket was borne from the house to the hearse in waiting and conveyed to the Presbyterian Church. The coffin was of plain black, with black and silver trimmings, and lined with beautifully finished white satin. A silver plate bore the simple inscription:

TIMOTHY OTIS HOWE, Died March 25, 1883, Aged 67.

The face of the dead wore a perfectly lifelike expression; indeed, an old friend of the Judge said: “If it were not for the appearance of the head and the fact that the doctors have pronounced him dead, I would not be in favor of burying him. He looks as though he must be alive.” The eves were closed easily and naturally, as though in sleep. There was no sunken appearance about tbe face; indeed, a faint, life-like flush remained, The body was dressed in a black full-dress suit. The hands w r ere crossed easily upon the breast. Before 2 o’clock, the hour set for beginning the funeral exercises, the church was packed to the doors, while several hundred persons, unable to gain admission, stood in the streets until the conclusion of the services. The floral tributes were profuse and magnificent, some of the principal pieces being those used at the services in Kenosha, yesterday. The funeral services were begun at about 2 o’clock, with a chant, “Abide With Me,” by a Presbyterian choir. Rev. L. J. White, pastor of the church, offered a brief prayer, which was followed by the solo, “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” by Mrs. M. I). Kimball, sung to the air of “Robin Adair,” a favorite song of Mr. Howe’s. Rev. H. M. Simmons delivered a very affecting tribute to the life and character of tbe distinguished statesman, embodying substantially the thoughts and expressions delivered by him at the services in Kenosha. The services at the cemetery consisted simply of the reading of the Presbyterian burial service for the dead by Rev. L. J. White, and a few remarks bv Rev. H. M. Simmons. As the coffin was being lowered into the grave, Miss Grace Howe, a niece of Judge Howe, was overcome by emotion and fainted; she was teuderly cared for, and soon recovered. Each of the pall-bearers passed around the grave and dropped upon ttie coffin a small bouquet given them at the cemetery for the purpose. The floral decorations at the grave were very beautiful, and will remain until they dry and crumble aud mingle with the dust of him to whose memory they were grateful tributes of loving hearts. There are no visitors from Washington, but quite v a large attendance of notable men from the State. The Dukes Vacancy. Harrisburg, Pa., March 29. —Speaker Tounce has concluded, in compliance with the request of the citizens of Fayette county, to issue a writ for a special election to fill ihe scat in the House declined by Dukes. April 24 will be named as the date for the election.

THE GREAT SLANDER SUIT After Forty-Nine Days of Work, the Testimony Is Closed. The Examination of Captain Rice Proves tlie Cause of Another Exciting and Sensational Scene. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, March 29.— At last the testimony in the now celebrated Gougar-Mandler slander suit is all in. This day began the tenth week of the trial, and this evening closed forty-nice days of actual work in the case. The defense closed their rebuttal this morning, and the plaintiff ended the case this evening by sur-rebuttal. The plaintiff’s sur-rebuttal was unimportant, its tendency being to show that the temperance campmeeting at Battleground was largely attended on the day when Captain Wallace and Mrs. Gougar were said to have taken a walk together. Immediately after dinner the most exciting scene of the whole trial occurred. Captain Alex Rice, former partner of Wallace, and for whom an attachment was isssued, was put upon the stand by the defense, after four days’ absence, and asked the following, as an impeaching question: “Did, or did you not, in the month of March, 1882, speak to Dr. Seawright, in your office, and say that a committee ought to be appointed by the church to examine into the conduct of Captain Wallace and Mrs. Gougar, for fear it would bring the church into disrepute, and did not Dr. Seawright reply that a person never got any thanks for any such thing?” The question was objected to, and the objection sustained. The question was then asked if he did not say, in the presence of Dr. Seawright, that Captain Wallace once, when he returned from a fishing excursion to the Kankakee, stated to his family that he had received an important telegram from Frankfort, and that he (Wallace) went to Frankfort and there took a horse and buggy and drove out to Rossville, where Mrs. Gougar was to speak, and that Captain Wallace and Mrs. Gougar drove back in the evening to Frankfort and put up together at the Coulter House, and did you not say that there ought to be a committee appointed by the church to see Captain Wallace and Mrs. Gougar? The question was objected and sustained. Captain Wallace arose, however, and said, excitedly: “I want to see any man who makes such a statement. It is only put forward to cast slurs upon my character. It is not true, and I want the matter investigated at once.” Said the Judge: “The matter is not before the court, and this conduct is reprehensible.” Captain Wallace responded: “I have stood a great many of these iow-flung assertions, and lam not going to stand it. I would like to see the man that would swear to it.” The court said: “Withdraw your objection, and w’e can investigate.” Mr. Davidson—" This is not the place to attend to that matter.” Wallace (striking his bands together)—“l won’t stand it, and want to see the man who will testify that I was ever at the Coulter House with Mrs. Gougar.” The Judge said: “This is all out of order,” but Wallace still continuing, be called upon ihe sheriff to maintain decorum. The witness was then dismissed, and Wallace went out of tbe court-room. Meeting Dr. Seawright, he said: “I will kill you if you swear to such a thing as that.” Seawright said that Rice told him the story. A few more words passed, and Wallace came back and said: “I knew it was a lie; he will not swear to it.” The court again called him to order, and said: “This case must be tried according to, the rules of law. and the question is not before tbe court.” A great many improper questions had been asked in this trial, and the Judge hoped to see no more scenes like the present. Argument in the case will begin to-morrow afternoon, at 1 o’clock. 'JSiere will be three speeches ou each side, and the speakers will not be limited. The lawyers wanted to put off the argument until Monday, but the court would not permit postponement. Mr. Lunsdon, of the defense, will open the argument.

Tlic Wallace-Hovcy Episode. Lafayette Journal, Yesterday. As Mr. Hovey left the stand Mr. Wallace took him by the hand and shook it warmly. Mr. Coffroth arose and said: I suppose the dramatic part of the performance is for the jury? Wallace —There was no dramatic part, it was an act of justice. Coffroth—lt was an outrageous piece 7>f charlatanism. Wallace —It was my heartfelt gratitude toward a man I never saw before. Coffroth —This is an outrage. Court —I saw nothing. Coffroth—As the witness was leaving the room Captain Wallace shook his hand vehemently. Wallace —A man has not the heart of a man in him who would deny me the right to express my gratitude to an honest man. Coffroth*—-That goes far enough. If the court don’t set you down, somebody else ought to. The court here called order and rapped all to their seats. _ Railroad War in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa., March 29. —1n answer to a dispatch received at the central station soon after midnight, saying that, a force of men were destroying the new’ bridge of the Pennsylvania railroad at Second and Venango streets, a detachment of police was sent thither at once. When they arrived at the scene, about 2 o’clock this morning, they found the work of demolition completed. The wreckers, who are believed to be workmen in the employ of the Philadelphia, Western & New York railroad had, dispersed, and the police could obtain no information in regard to their identity. A force was left on tbe ground to protect tbe material. The Conkling-llaversticlc Murder. New York, March 29. —The grand jury to-day began investigation of the case of Geo. W. Conkline, Jr., who siiol and killed Wilbur 11. Haverstick, and he will probably be indicted and rearrested. Recorder Smvtli, in addressing the grand jury', instructed them to investigate the case, and said Police Justice Smith had exceeded his powers in assuming to decide that the homicide was justifiable. His action, the recorder said, does not stop the grand jury from indicting Conklin#. Counsel for Mrs. Uhler have received instructions to begin legal proceedings' against Dr. Amidon for recovery of $550 which

Mrs. Uhler claims to be due her out of ihe sum left by Haverstick at the time of death. New York, March 29.—Dr. Amidcn turned into court the property claimed by the woman and the administrators of Haverstick. Mr3. Uhler was ordered to show cause why she should not be made a co-defendant with Dr. Amidon. DAVID RAVIS AND BRIDE. The Happy Couple ou Their Travels—How 'llley Appeared in St. Louis. r St. Louis Republican, Yesterday. Senator David Davis and his wife arrived in this city at 6 o’clock p. m. yesterday, and took rooms at the Laclede Hotel. In the evening a Republican reporter called on the ex-Senator, and was ushered into the apartments of the newly-wedded couple. Senator Davis had risen, and he met the reporter at the threshold in a very dignified and polite manner. The Senator has been so often ♦toscribed that any description of his personal appearance is almost unnecessary, but it may be said that he is a gentleman past middle life, with hair that is rather whiter than gray,'a beard that was well cut, and oul.V covers the chin, leaving to view a mouth that is rather large, but very pleasantly and firmly lined. The Senator was dressed in a suit of black broadcloth, and wore a plain gold watch-chain that was passed around his neck and through one of the button-holes of his vest. With this chain the Senator toyed constantly in conversation. Seated in a rocking-chair at the left of tho fireplace (in which burned a bright, blazing fire), was Mrs. David Davis. This lady is about the medium height, with features and complexion and manners betokening that simple refinement which belongs, par excellence, if not alone, to the American lady. Mrs. Davis was reading when the reporter entered, and had evidently been reading aloud to the Senator when interrupted by the interviewer’s intrusion. Mrs. Davis was attired in a remarkably well-fitting traveling dress of brown silk, and still wore her hat, which was of like color, and in it was a very gracefully arranged brown ostrich plume. The reporter’s business being made known, the Senator said that he had just arrived from Cincinnati, that lie would remain in the city for a couple of days, and that lie was on his way to California and intended goii. over the Southern route. He and his wife were traveling for pleasure, and would remain in California so long as suited their pleasure. He would say nothing of a political nature, because he was not upon political business, and he did not wish to “talk politics” at all. THE DIAMOND MINE. A Proposition to Abandon the Search for Bodies and Erect a Monument. Chicago, March 29. —Despairing of overcoming the obstructions in the Braidwood Diamond mine, which now make it difficult to search for bodies, a correspondent states that the owners are considering a proposition to close and abandon the mine, and erect over tbe entrance a monument to the memory of those entombed. This suggestion is opposed by friends of the dead men. No additional progress had been made up to late last night in clearing away the debris. A Braidwood special to the Daily News says: “No definite action has yet been taken in regard to the stopping of the search for the bodies of the dead miners, but this afternoon a meeting of the various mining sutperintendents will be held and action taken on the matter. A committee will be appointed to visit the families of those yet in the mine’ and see if some definite arrangements can be made with them. If they will agree, work will at once be stopped and the mine closed. The search still progresses, but without any bodies being discovered. Tho passage way has been cleared about 150 yards, and the exploring party are still at work. About 2,000 tons of stone was removed yesterday, and it is estimated that there yet remains about 6,000 car-loads of matter, weighing 12.000,000 pounds. Tho talk concerning tbe possible abandonment of the mine created a great deal of comment, and widow's whose husbands yet lie in the mine will have great objections to any such proceedings.” _ Serious Illness of Rev. Horace Buslinell, Cincinnati. March 29. —The many friends of the Rev. Horace Buslinell, the veteran city missionary of the Second Presbyterian Church of this city, and who has been the pastor of the Storrs Congregational Church for more than fifty years, will be pained to hear that he is lying very low with son.e form of brain disease at his residence. Mr. Bushnell’s advanced age, being over eighty*! years old, together with the character of his illness, gives scarcely any hope of his recovery. Hels unconscious, takes but little nourishment, and his end seems very near. He has been confined to the house for six weeks or more, but only during the last ten days has his disease seemed so fatal.

The Sorghum Sugar Industry. Sterling, Kan., March 29.—The works of the Kansas Sugar and Syrup Company were sold to-day to a syndicate of Eastern capitalists, most of whom are interested in the Champaign, 111., sugar-works. The company' will adapt these works to the manufacture of sugar from sorghum svrup, according to the Champaign method, and will invest $250,000 for the purpose and to establish auxiliary mills throughout this section for making syrups, which will be reduced to sugar at the Sterling works. This enterprise is expected to revolutionize the sorghum sugar business in this State, and will, no doubt, give great impetus to the cultivation of sorghum cane in Kansas. • Riotous Negro Strikers. Lynchburg, Va.. March 29.—The tobacco managers have agreed not to resume work with the strikers before the Ist of May, unless a majority' of all manufacturers consent. One factory, flow working, was besieged by r negroes this evening, and threat of violence made. The manufacturers gathered in force to defend their white operatives; police were stationed near the factory ready to quell disturbance. Whisky is flowing freely among the negroes. Embezzlers Arrested. New York, March 29. —Charles Booth, book-keeper, and James R. Burnett, cashier, formerly employes of H. T. Anthony & Cos., dealers in photographers’ materials, have been arrested for embezzling SIB,OOO. Booth bad a position in a large firm here when arrested, and Burnett occupied the position of book-keeper at the San Juan bank, Silverton. Colorado. Burnett arrived last night in charge of a detective. Dp. Otto Wilhelm Struve. Boston, March 29.—Dr. Otto Wilhelm Struve, director of tb° Imperial Observatory ut Pulkowa, Russia, has arrived to test the object glass, which has been completed at Cambridgeport on the order of the Russian government. The glass is tbe largest ever constructed, and is thirty inches in diameter. Fatally Cut and Left to Die. Easton, Pa., March 29.—A tramp this morning cut his wife’s throat, at Hectown, and then, with two other tramps, lied across the fields. The woman was found on the roadside. The physicians say her injuries will prove fatal. A party has otarted in pursuit of tlio tramps.