Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1883 — Page 3

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. Important Railroad Meeting To-Day— Cause of Head Collisions. Finest Trains in the West To Be Run oil the Big Four—Prosperity of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago. TODAY’S MEETING. Officials Who Are To Be Here and What Is to Come Up Before Them. The meetiugto be held to-day is an Important one if the programme is to be carried out. Among the official* who are to be here are Vicepresident McCullough, Manager MeCrea and General Solicitor Brooks, of the Pennsylvania company; J. H. Deverdux, president, and E. B. Thomas, manager of the Bee Line systems: Win. B. Me Keen, president, and Colonel Joseph Hill, superintendent of the Vandalia; M. E. Ingalls, president of the C., 1., Bt. L. <SrC. These gentlemen constitute the power* that be of the Union Railway Comparer, V. T Malott, vice-president and general manager of the latter, of course, being included. Os the outside lines, C. C. Waite, president and general manager, and C. J. Hepburn, of the C., H. & D., and L. B. Stahlman and John MacLeod, of the L., N. A. C., are to D© here. The fact that General Solicitor Brooks, of the Pennsylvania company, is to be present indicates that the reorganization of the Uulon Railway Company will he considered. Vice-President McCullough, of the Pennsylvania lines, in bis recent conversation 89 regards improvements at Indianapolis, said if be could hold President Ingalls, of tneC., 1., Bt. L & C., and President McKeeu, of the Vandalm, in conference long enough to ones t;*lk the matter over, definite action would be '.*L*sn to-day as to the reorganization of the Union tail way Company and the building of anew nlon depot. Several other matters which have hnng fire some months are to be considered; one, the Srlce of transfer of cars over the Belt road when aulsd by locomotives of other road 6; another, the admitting of trains of the Chicago A Indianapolis Air-line into the depot, and theve are several ether questions of minor importance to be settled. TOO MANY HEAD COLLISIONS. Tliirty-Dollar Telegraph Operators Expensive Employes to Railroads. Within the last thirty days there have been three head collisions on Indianapolis lines, two of which, it Is stated, were caused through the carelessness of incompetent telegraph operators. In one case the operator was a S3O-per-inonth salaried man, the other a $35-per-month man. The #3O man’s wreck will cost the company, it is said, a sufficient sum to have employed No. 1 telegraph operators on their line at a good salary for two year* at every station on the road where there are telegraphic instruments. Speaking of this matter of cheap operators, a traindispatcher yesterday remarked that he was constantly anxious lest Home one of these low-priced operators would be careless and neglect to give an order, and give him trouble. He then cited a cose which occurred this week. Two freight trains were coming in opposite directions; there was but ona telegraph station bet ween them, and lie called and called for the operator, but no answer came. Fortunately, both trains met and slowed up at a water-tank, and an ugly wreck was thus prevented. On inquiry, it was found that the operator he had beon calling bad gone mto a field near by to witness the breaking of a colt. Os course the operator was discharged, although me wreck had been avoided by the merest accident, as not three times a week do engines take water at that tank. The Train-dispatcher then went on to state that throughout the West fully 50 p#r cent, of the telegraph offices were manned by these cheap operators, and the only wonder was that there was not ten accidents where iliore'is one, adding that people would nor dare travel were one-half the narrow escapes from collisions made public. The train dispatcher took the ground, which is certainly tenable, that it would lie better to run all trains on schedule time and rules and regulations without telegraph orders than to run the risks now taken by employing, at the smaller stations,s3o to $35 men as operators. The fact is that head collisions are becoming too numerous, which is evidence that there is something wrong iu the handling of trains. LOCAL PASSENGER RATES SHAKY. Passenger Agents Working in Unison with the Scalpers Passenger circles now present an unusual phase. Some of the passenger men have asso3iated and dealt with scalpers the last few months to such an extent that they have learned the tricks of the scalpers, and it is difficult for a party who purchases a ticket through these outside offices to distinguish whether be is dealing with a ac&tper or a genuine railroad ticket ugent. As the matter now stands, if a scalper is unable to sell a ticker to a party, said party is directed to one of the outside passenger agents’ offices, then said agent will cut the rate until he he secures the party to go over the lines he represents. Sometimes the party becomes bewildered between the scalpers and the agents, and appeals, as one did yesterday, to a newspaper mao for information, and hs the newspaper man is paid no commission, ho directs the traveler tq the up-town Union railway ticket office, where the amiable George Reek has charge of matters. From time to time the railroad officials call ou newspaper uieu to do something to punish the wicked scalpers who Interfere with the uniform course of railway management. But. what .s to be done with the railway ticket agents who work wirb the scalpers, and, if the scalper fails to effect a sale, cuts the rate below scalpers’ figures.

GENERAL NEWS. Meeting of Managers of tbe Pacific Roads To Be Held To-Morrow. The meeting ot the mauagers of the Pacific roads in San Fraucisco to morrow is looked forward to with a good deal of interest. It is believed that the Central Pacific company, which holds nearly one-lialf of the Atlantic & Pacific stock, will succeed in obtaining the full control of that road. The fight will be between tbe Central Pacific and tho Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe companies, both holding about the same quantity of the Atlantic & Pacific stock. The balance of power is in the hands of Eastern capitalists. Miscellaneous Notes. Tbe Boston & Albany railroad no longer has •‘gentlemen's rooms” and ‘‘ladies' rooms” at its stations. They are now’ inscribed: “Men's room” and “women’s room.” The story about the Northern Pacific is tkat the estimates for completing the road are far under the actual cost, and that it will take a great deal of money to equip the road, necessitating anew loan of 3512,000,000. The emaciated Massachusetts Central road chows more signs of vita iry. The Boston Ad vertiser says: “The road will probably be opened this fall. The bondholders wlil be called together next iuonta to complete reorganisation. Construction will most likely be resumed next spring, and it is quite possible arrangements will be completed by that tune whicßwill make the Massachusetts Central more Hum a looul line. The Rome, Watertown <fe Ogdensburg road nvust bo an old fogy affair, as tbe railroad commissioners or New York have found it necessary to recommend that all passenger coaches and engines be equipped with automatic air-brakes; that the track hi* inspected more frequently; that the road direct its attention toward the adoption of a safety switch, which shall prevent the accidental return to tlie main track of cars switched therefrom. Shipments to Baltimore tho last few days have been quite heavy. The business men at that point seemiugly are beginning to awaken from their lethargy. While its export business has fallen off largely the last two or three years, Baltimore’s imports as well have been declining for a long time. The improvement in its railroad connections and the lower rail rates which have added so largely to its export trade seem not to have profited its import trade in the least. Its imports last year were the smallest,with one fxcepilon, since 1808. From that 3-ear until 1874 Its imports increased rapidly ($15,863,000 in 1869 to $29,300,000 in 1874). They have decreased nearly every year since. PERSONAL* AND LOCAL. Conductor Robbins Offered a Good Position on a Western Road—Movements of Railroad Men. C. E. Henderson, general manager of the L, !>. <fc W. road, has gone East to be absent several lays. M. E. Ingalls president, and H. J. Pnge genera! - ’eight agent of tue Cincinnati, Indianapolis,

St. Louis A Chicago lines, arrived in the city last evening and will remain through to-day. H. W.Davis, general manager of the Midland Line, is in the city. This line now baa in service 4,200 care, and will increase the number 500 within the next sixty days. Thomas P. Barry, general passenger agent of the Cincinnati, Washington A Baltimore road, spent yesterday in the city looking after the interests of the C., W. A B. in this section. Alonzo Robbins, conductor on the Vandalia, has been offered and will probably accept the position of assistant superintendent of the eastern division of the Missouri, Kansas A Texas road. Mr. Robbins has been on the Vandalia twenty-two years, and is highly esteemed by President McKeen and all officers of the road, who will doubless regret his retiring from their service. Local Notes. Engine 37, on the C., 1., Bt. L. & C., on Monday last hauled six cars, two of them sleeping coaches. eleven miles in thirteen minutes, the time taken to make one stop to be deducted. The Chicago, St. Louis A Pittsburg has asked western connections here to hold baok for a day or two the business of the Erie lines, that they may clear their road of accumulated loaded cars. The corn crop of Indiana and Illinois will be fully as heavy as has been predicted. This insures good business for the railroads of these States. The Southern States will be large buyers of corn this year, while last year the reverse was the case. Pennsylvania, New York. New England and Canada will also be heavy buyers. The attorneys in the Illinois Midland camk expect that, before the close of this mouth Justice Harlan will order the road sold at foreclosure saie. It seems definitely settled that Waring Brothers, who hold 75 per cent. of the mortgage bonds, will bid the road in, rebuild it and then lease, probably to the Vandulia. In facr, it is stated by par lie* who are in a position to know that such a programme is already agreed upon. Two Indiana prelects seem to have gone glimmering, as the saying is, namely the Indianapolis, Eel River A Southwestern and the Terre Haute belt road. Construction companies which weut to the expense necessary to making bids for work on the Eel River road are disgusted and expect that nothing Is to come of the proposed project, while the parties who were to build the belt road at Terre Haute are said to have come to the conclusion that it would be a poor investment. The continuous blockade of the Indiana, Bloomington A Western yards, west side, is causing a good deal of growling among shippers, and it Is stated that the feeling has readied such a height that grain dealers will pay one to two cents more on the bushel for grain in other yards than they will when standing in I , B. A W. yards. If tne 1., B. AW. people would put some of their heavier engines into the switching service and run the “tea kettles,” as the boys have christened them, into the shops, business in the yards could doubtless be bandied more expeditiously. On Oct. 10 two entire new trains will be run between Cincinnati and Chicago, over the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Bt. Louis A Chicago road. Each train will consist of a postal, a baggage car, two coaches, a parlor cur and two Pullman sleepers. Barney Bmith & Cos. are now building the coaches and parlor cars, and promise President Ingalls that they will be finished to pat on at the time above designated. One of the novel features of the trains will be that iu each of the coaches and parlor oar will be smoking apartments, toilet rooms, etc. It is stated that these will be the handsomest and most complete trains run iu the West. One of the officers of the Pennsylvania lines remarked yesterday that their through passenger trains were now so heavy that it looked as if they soon would be obliged to put on another train between Pittsburg and St. Louis, and should they, it would probably be an extension of the Pennsylvania limited express, which will be welcomed by the western traveling public. The Pennsylvania limited express, which at first was probably a cause of great anxiety to the officers of the road, has become an established institution. Its superior accommodations and speed are appreciated by travelers who are willing to pay extra for them. Passenger traffic over the Vandalia lines has increased so rapidly the last, few months that through trains are so heavy that to make the time the largest passenger engines the company own are brought iuto service. The twoeugiues recently received from the Pittsburg Locomo-tive-works are doing excel leu t service, and the management will order four more of the same class. These engines have al7 by 24-inoh cylinder, sixty-six Inches in diameter drivingwheel; weight, in working order, 83,900 pounds; weight on drivers, 54,850 pomids. These engines with ease haul ton to twelve cars at an average speed of fifty miles per hour over the heaviest grades ou the road. Probably on no road lu the West has there been a more remarkable increase in bmuness than on the Louisville, New Albany A Chicago road. Within the last three years fifty-five firstclass locomotives, twenty passenger coaches and 2,3<)0 freight cars, besides the increase In line cars has been added to the rolling stock of the system, and the officers state that to-day twenty additional engines and 1,000 freight oars could be used to great advantage. Not ouly have shipments of coal, stone and lumber increased in the last three years remarkably, but their merchandise traffic between Chicago and Southern points has developed surprisingly, and as a local road tne Chicago A Indianapolis division far exceeds their expectations on opening the road.

THE SEASON FOR FAIRS. Complete List of the County and District Fairs to He Held in Indiana. The following is an official list of the county and district agricultural fairs of Indiana for the season of 1883, giving the place of holding and the time, the dates being inclusive, together with the name 0/ the secretary of each association: COUNTY FAIRS. Blackford—Hartford City, Sept. 18 to 21, B. G. Shinn. Cass—Logansporl, Sept. 18 to 22, D. W. Tomlinson. Elkhart—Goshen, Oct. 9 to 12, John W. Irwin. Fayette—Counersville, Sept. 18 to 21, A. B. Claypool. Fulton—Rochester, Oct. 3 ro 6, John M. Davis. Gibson—Princeton, Sept. 17 to 22, 8. Vet Strain. Greene—Linton, Out. 1 to 5, Peter Schultze. Henry—New Castle, Sept. 18 to 22, William W. Cotteral. Huntington— Sept. 18 to 21, L. F. Bagiey. Jay—Portland, Oct, 2 to 5, Robert B. Stevenson. Knox—Viuoennes, Oct. 8 to 13, Gerard Reiter, Kosciusko—Warsaw, Sept. 18 to 21, S. W. Oldfather. Laurange—Lagrange, Sept. 2G to 29, H. M. Kromer. Lake—Crown Point, Oct. 2 to 5, Geo. T. Mallet. Luporte—Laporce, Sept. IS to 21, George C, Borland. Morgan—Martinsville, Oot. 2 to 6, E. W. Pax eon. Marshall—Plymouth, Sept. 25 to 28, W. H. Conger. Noble—Llgonier, Oct. 17 to 20, J. H. Hoffman. Orange—Paoli, Sept. 19 to 22, Geo. A. Busk irk. Porter—Valparaiso, Sept. 25 to 23. Timothy Keen. Pulaski—Winamae, Sept. 25 to 28, Jesse Taylor. St. Joseph—Soulu B ud, Ocr. 1 too, O.Q. Towle. Steuben —Angola, Oct. 9 to 12, B. F. Dawson. Tipton—'Tipton, Sept. 18 to 21, Wiu. Barlow. Wartick—Boonville, Oct. I to 6, 8. W. Taylor. Washiugtou—Salem, Sept. 17 to 21, Fred. L. Prow. Whitley—Columbia City, Oct. 2 to 5, Thomas R. Marshall. DISTRICT FAIRS. Edinburg Union--Eainblirg, Bartholomew, Bent. 18 to 22, John A. Thompson, jr. Fountain, Warron arid Vermillion—Covington, Fountain, sept. 18 to 21, Homer Sewell. Northeastern Indiana Agricultural Association—Waterloo, DeKalb, Oct. 1 to 5. Ida Blair. Orleans Agricultural Association—Orleans, Orange, Sept. 26 to 29, Henry Reed. Plain field Horticultural and Agricultural Society—Plainfield, Hendricks, Oct. 13, Win. H. Mills. Union Aer) ultural and Mecbankal Associa-tion-Union City, Randolph, Sent. 18 to 21, J. G. Stall. THE STATE CIRCUIT. Michigan State Fair—Detroit, Mich , Sept. 17 to 21; Henry Fralich. president; J. C. Sterling, secretary, Indiana State Fair—lndianapolis. Ind., Sept, 24 to 29: Robert Mitchell, president; Alexander Heron, secretary. Northeastern Indiana Fair Waterloo, Tnd„ Oct. 1 to 6 i R. N. Crooks, president; Ida Blau, secretary. Gottlieb Wachstetter on Trial. The trial of Gottlieb Wachstetter, Indicted jointly witn the McCarthy boys, for the attempted robbery of Warren Wilhite, sheriff of Montgomery county, on the 6th of July last, began In the Criminal Court yesterday, and the entire day was spent in impaneling a jury, but at the hour of closing court the box had not been filled The special venire was exhausted, aud a

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score or more of unlucky business men, who happeued to come into the court-house, were brought iu and examined, but nearly all were excused or peremptorily challenged Both sides have nearly exhausted all the peremptory challenges alloted to them. Major Gordon and John 8. Duncan are defending Wachstetter, and Prosecutors Brown and Robbins are assisted by John B. Elam. The case promises to be hotly contested throughout. The McCarthy boys will be placed ou trial next. Amusement Matters. Jennie Yeomans concluded her engagement at English’s last night, and to-night Mr. Thomas W. Keene, the tragedian, will make his only appearance here this season, presenting ‘’Macbeth,” a men is regarded as his strongest play. Mr. J. N. Gotthold is the leading support, and the company otherwise is a good one. A good performance is anticipated. The last three nights of the week Gus Williams will play “One of the Finest” for the benefit of the police force. Alt ha Grand, this afternoon and evening, Tony Denier’s “Humpty Dumpty” company will give concluding performances, and will be succeeded to-morrow night for the remainder of the week by Miss Minnie Maddern, a popular star, in “Juanita” and “Puritan Maid.” The Park Theater has an excellent company this week, and the performance will well repay attendance. The Zoo is doing its customary large busiuess, and the bill gives satisfaction. SOUTHERN OSTRACISM. A Young Man’s Family Cut Because He Became a Union Soldier. New York Tribune. “I volunteered two months ago, and I shall always regret it,” said a tine-looking young man who came from a Southern State to a group of acquaintances yesterday. “I have a wife and child South, and the last letter I received 6aid that because I had become a Union soldier she (my wife) had been jeered at and insulted. There are some people in the South who hate the Union still, and who consider it a disgrace to belong to the Union army.” “And why did you join?” “I was destitute, far from home, and almost starving. My clothes were seedy and I was refused work, though I sought hard to ootaiu it. Iu desperados, I consented to join. I am a ‘drummer* by occupation and came to New York four mouths ago seeking a place in some dry goods house. I had money and spent it. I die sipated more than I should, and was too proud to ask my relatives, with whom my wife now is, for further assistance. I found New York a cold place, even in midsummer; so I, like a fool, bfecame a soldier. But I have made application for a discharge, and I hope my relatives on my father’s side will obtain It. for me. My father was a confederate colonel, and my relatives and friends sav I have disgraced his name by becoming a Union soldier. I was told that if I became a soldier I would have a good time and could go West and see something of the world (I'm only twenty-three years of ace), and if I was dissatisfied I could easily get a discharge.” The young fellow turned away bemoaning his fate.

Neglecting tlie Education of Hoys. Cj* aw fords ville Journal. We see everywhere to-day among tlie class of people whose children are forced to maiutain themselves, girls kept in school until they finish rhe course and are graduated, while the boys are put in shops and stores where they may earn money, to the total neglect of their education. The girls are fitted to tuke their places In any society, while the boys, having been denied these advantages, or being unwilling to profit by them, must remain their inferiors always, unless they obtain such influence and position as are accorded the man who is distinguished ms a mere getter of money. There, will be between him and his better educated sister a total lack of sympathy und inability on the part of each to appreciate the best qualities of the other. Each will live in a world apart from the other, absorbed iu pursuits tbe benefits of which cannot be intelligently shared and appreciated. It may not result in widespread unhappiness and discontent, but there is little reason to expect any other result. An Arkansas Negro’s Memory, New Orleans Times-Democrat. A negro with a remarkable memory has been discovered at Little Rock. He was employed by a contractor to get out certaiu stones of a specified weight, and weighing several car loads. When the car was unloaded complaint was made that some were too large and others too small, but, to the surprise of the contractor, the negro gave the exact weight of each to a pound, although there were no marks to distinguish one stone from another. When asked the weight o! a stone he had not handled it was found he could give no idea of it. Evils of the Salvation Army. Crawfordhville Journal. Religious service that rouses the bad instincts of the rabble and requires the assistance of the poiice to quell ricts which arc the result of the blatant vulgarity of so-called worshipers, ought to condemn itself in the estimation of all moral people who have any common sense. The blasphemous songs and speeches of exhortors—the “captains,” ‘lieutenants” and other officers of the Falstafdan troupe—should complete their condemnation, and they should lie rorced to disband or conduct themselves with propriety. George Washington’s Amours. Louisville Courier-Journal. An Indianapolis man complains because the Indianapolis journal, under tne head of “Washington’s Amours,” republishes a series of stories to the effect : ;hat Washington was at various times during bis life guilty of certain moral lapses, which have received the condemnation of modern, not to say religions, society. Either the author of these stories, or this man who complains, is anxious that the public should be deceived us to George. Open Up the Indian Lands. Columbus Republican. It is certain that in the march of iirogresß all these lands will soouer or later be devoted to tbe use of the husbandman. The only way the red man can retain any portion of them is to adopt a civilized mode of life and hold lands as others hold them. The time may not have come yet to break up these tribal relations and assign each his share separately, but it will come to that when all the laud is needed lor agricultural purposes.

Thu Deadly Sootliing-Syrup. New York Advocate In Brooklyn a mother gave her infant one teaspoonful of soothing syrup, (regular dose half that amount,) and iu th morning it was dead. The syrup had soothed it to the sleep of death. To such concoctions is to be attributed the slow “slaughter of many innocents,” and the thirst for alcohol and tobacco, and the want of selfcontrol cf many who live to manhood and womauliood. The Cure for Cominuniara. Terre Haute Express, Let a communist, by eotne freak of fortune, acquire property or become financially interested in a great corporation, and you will see a wonderful change come over the spirit of Ids dream. He will be no longer in'favor of a division of wealth, but, to the contrary, will become more grasping and avaricious than the moat close-fisted corporation or monopiy in existence. Stolen Tunes. Broadway Lounger. Some time ago I was talking with a Western orchestra leader, a modest mau with a passion for music, and he told me that the rebel song, “Maryland, my Maryland,” had no tune of Its own, but had stolen a very old Gcrmau tune belonging to no very dignified words. He said that “Hail Columbia” and "The Star Spangled Banner” were both old and worn nines. Tying Red Tape. St. Louir Post-Dispatch. Twenty-five brave Americans are slowly nearing starvation in the darkening twilight of the long Polar night, and the departments are tying red tape about the attempts to save them. This Is the Dull Season, Philadelphia Preso Louise is going to ta e Lome home folds motliar-in-law. It is not known whether, if Louise lias to take sides, ahi will bo forlorn or Victoria. You ISet. New York World. This is n good j'oar for political “bosses” to take back seats. Keeping Accounts. Mr Thomas s. riiappoll, Treasury Deportment, Washington, D. G\, had congestion or the throat, and says that by the great paiu-oure, Bfc, Jacobs Oil, he was cured.

REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS. Impressions and Expressions as to the Campaign of 1884. John A. Martin, in Chicago Times, John A. Martin, the editor of the Champion, Atchison, Kan., secretary of the National Republican central committee, is at the Grand Pacific Hotel, where a reporter for tiie Times had a talk with nun last evening. “I can hardly say,” said Mr. Martin, “where the next national convention will be held. The national committee meets Dec. 2 next. Then the question will bo decided, possibly. Chicago is not likely to get the convention agaiu, because two national conventions are not held in the same place iu succession. Aside from that, Chicago is making no effort to secure it.” “When will the convention be held?” “The chances are that it will be held either in Saratoga, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, or Cape May. All of these places seem anxious to secure it. There is a prejudice against New York city, and it will not be neid there.” “How about Arthur?” “Arthurstauds well as President, and he is held in great esteem by our people. If he had come iu by a jnipular majority as Garfield did, Arthur would oe the most popular candidate in the field to-day. The people of Kansas have great confidence in Geu. Arthur. They look upon him as a safe and prudent man, and as a man of good, sound common sense. He is not ail originator of any policy, but he is an honest and sure executive.” “Who do the Democrats in Kansas favor for President?” “The Democrats in Kansas generally favor THden for a reuomination. He can have that omteif he wants it, I think, in the uationul convention.” Senator Sabin’s Views. Interview in Chicago. “What about Minnesota and the presidential election?” “The State will give 50,000 majority for the Republican nominee. Last election it gave 40,000. but the influx of Scandinavians will swell it 10,000 more. They all vote the Republican ticket, yon know. Voters in Minnesota are always brought out in a presidential contest, and the majority in the State election of only 30,000 is accounted for by the faoc that the farmers are slow and won’t vote w hen they see little use in it,” “Is Arthur talked of much in Minnesota?” “Yes, we hear a godd deal about him up there. He is popular with our people.” “Do you think he will be nominated?” “That depends. But if he is nominated I think he will be elected. New York is the pivotal State in the next fall campaign, and if Arthur carries it he is all right.” “Do you think he will carry it?” “Yes, I do. I don’t think there is any doubt about it.” NOT A CANDIDATE. A Friend of Mr. Blaine Declares that Statesman Out of the Probabilities. Special to Chicago Tribune. Riimsdell, wbo is known to be a special friend of Mr. Blaine, uiakos rbe statement that Mr. Blaine is positively out of all presidtntial estimates, and is not and will not be a candidate. Ruinsdell says: “As to the question of bis own candidacy for the presidency, ho was absolutely impatient at the suggestion. He has always said that he was never so happy and contented in Ins life; that he had not a care in the world, and that he never wanted to enter public life again. In the face of the fact, which cannot be denied—namely: that Mr. Blaine lias more friends than any public man in the country, he will not allow a delegate to be elected in his name, nor will he discuss the question of his candidacy at all. He is absolutely and truly a private citizen. Yet one can scarcely pick up a paper in which the name of Blaine does not appear. The old newspaper enemies of BUine, possibly appreciating the popularity he maintains all over the country, are fearful that he may break loose suddenly and overrun the country. They may hold their peace atid let the Bags of Augusta alone. He Is not a candidate for office, and does not intend to be, and no power can change his determination. It would lie foolish to say that Mr. Blaine does not longer take an interest in public affairs and in politics. He has not lost his faith in the Republican parry, and Is confident of its success next year. His ease of mind on this point has never for one moment been shaken. He simply thinks he is not the man, and does not give the subject of himself a thought. Mr. Blaine, unless I am greatly wrong, believes that the next Republican candidate for President should come from tlie West—Ohio, of course, not being any longer regarded as a Western State.”

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. John CoflVlt, of Northwood.O , was caught by a caving bank in a gravel pit and cruaned to death. Laycock, the Australian oarsman, has broken a leg, aud negotiations for a match with Hanlan are off. Minnie Kceley, a beautiful young lady of Somerset, Kv., committed suic idc on Monday. Cause unknown. The residence of ex-M:iyor Lewis, of Detroit, was entered by thieves, on Monday night, aud $1,500 worth of jewelry stolen. The four white camels presented to President Garrett, of the Baltimore it Ohio railroad, by tbe King of Italy, have arrived at New York. The Ford brothers, murderers of Jesse James, were soujidly hissed during the performance ut the Buckingham Theater, Louisville, on Mouday night. Thomas Henlv, conductor of a construction train Bii the Texas & St. Louis railway, was killed on Monday by a locomotive running into a caboose. An old German of St. Louis, named Henry Lipphardt, despondent over financial troubles, committed suicide yesterday l>y shooting himself through the head. The dead body of the man found near Abilene, Kan., turns out to be John Fogle, of Franklin county. Tbe circumstances show that be wa6 murdered for bis money. Augustus F. Schneider, w r ho haR been in the employment of O. W. Thomas & Cos., 01 Louisville. for nearly twenty years, has been missing since lust Saturday night. Yesterday forenoon, just outside the city of Little Rock, Miss Orrio Lewl, aged sixteen, while riding ro school, was thrown from her horse and instantly 1:. .^d. Henry Hollingsworth and Richard Holt fought near Pulaski, Tenn., and tin- former received a blow upon the head from which be died. The two had been enemies for a long time. The Postal Railwav Mail-service Mutual Benefit Association is in session at St. Paul. Minn. Election of officers will take place to-morrow. Tbe next meeting will be held at Buffalo. James McEwen, a fourteen vear-old-boy, employed in the Oris iron and steel works, at Cleveland, was crushed into a shapeless mass on Monday by a half ton of iron falling on him. Surgeon Charles T. Gibson, of the United States army, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gibson, of Piqua, 6 , died at Fort Wingate. N. M., on Monday, after an illness of several weeks. In a fight, on last, Fridav night, at Little Missouri, over a game of cards, J. A. Pruden, a mail carrier, and Jack Harris, a stock tender, killed one cowboy and mortally wounded another. The official report of authraeire coal tonnage of all carrying eomoanles for August, shows a total tonnage of 3.324,711, an increase of 13,000 tons as compared with the corresponding month last* year, T. L. Shields, for the murder of one Sitton, lias beer, sentenced to be hanged October 12, at Charleston, S. C. An appeal whs taken. Shields shot Sitton for seducing Ins sister and refusing to marry her. An insane man. supposed to be D. P. Lip* enstlne, or Frankfort, Ky.. was placed n the Taunton, Mass., insane asylum, on Monday. He was captured in East Bridgewater, where he was delivering disconnected harangues on the street.

Ex-Senator Tipton, of Nebraska, renegade Republican, is preparing to take 1 lie stump for his fellow-apostate, Hoadly. He at one time lived in Dayton. When quite a young man ho was a member of the Ohio Legislature with Clement L. Vallandigham. A special from Cheyenne says: “Harry Nosher, the man who ho brutally attacked his companions in a wagon, u few nights ago, killing Wengel and wounding Knight, was taken from jail here last, niglit by masked men and I hanged to a telegraph pole In the heart of the oit3*. Anegro named Manuel Montano, living in Norwic.li, Conn,, was snot some time ago by a policeman, the 32-calibre ball of the revolver passing through his liver and intestines. Tbe physicians pronounced the wound mortal, bur he is up, and walks aud talKs as if nothing had happened. Charles Bayer, an inmate of the Darton Soldiers’ Home, aged over sixty years, committed suicide ou Monday by shooting huuself through the heart-. The deceased was a member of the Thirty-second Indiana volunteer infantry, and was admitted to the home ou tho 30th of September, 1882. Tim Kentucky Methodist Episcopal conference i leeted Rev, (\ J. Howes aud Amos Shiukle delegates to tl' general conference. Rev Mr. Howes was made presiding elder of the Covington aud AtayevUltt district; B. Lane, pastor of

Union Church, Covington; 8. G. Pollard, of Sbinklc Chapel; J. D. Welsh, of Main street, Covington; G. W. Moore, ot West Covington and Ludlow, and E, T. Curnick, of Grace Church, in Newport. Henry Villard savs in a letter to the Chamber of Commerce of Astoria that the estimated cost of a line of roa t from the latter place to Portland is so great that the construction is not like ly to be undertaken now. A Post-Dispatch special from Bt. Joseph, Mo., flays a freight and passenger train collided at Corning, Mo., on the Kansas City, Bt. Joe & Council Bluffs railroad last night. Fred. K. Johnson, route agent, received severe injuries, and others were also injured. The two locomotives were badly wrecked. Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, yesterday vetoed a concurrent resolution instructing the appropriation committees or both bouses to report an appropriation bill for pay of senators and members up to and inclndiug 3ept. 10, and to report no other appropriation bill except for pay of officers and employes. Iu a conversation about spiritualism, at, Hyannis, Mass., on last Thursday night, Mrs. Alphonso Bradford, of mediuinistic propensities, got her nerves wrought up to a high tension, and wont into a trance, from which she had not recovered up to Monday evening. She lies cold and colorless, but breathing is perceptible. Mrs. Oscar Rammelsberg, of Cincinnati, has lost her voice. The misfortune was caused by laughter at the inimitable sayings of Marie Stoue, of the Boston Ideal Company, whom Mrs. Rammelsberg met at a French watering place. Eminent physicians in Paris are of the opinion that her misfortune will not prove permanent. Christopher Mann, of Independence, Mo., celebrated bis 109th birthday on Sunday. Mr. Mann is enjoying good health anti apparently will enjoy many other anniversaries of his birth, which occurred iu Virginia, in 1774. at a time when Virginia had not been divided into connties. In Kentucky he lived and was an associate of Dauiel Boone. Since May 1 the various steamship lines leaving New York city for Great Britain, France, Germany, Holland and Belgium have carried 31,261 cabin passengers. The greater part of these have been tourists. It, has required 306 steamers to carry them. The largest number have been sent by The following lines: Canard, 4.987: Gnion, 3,300: North German Floyd, 3,990; Whit© Star, 3,u00; Red Star, 2,500. Au experienced cotton statistician, who has personally examined the growing cron in every State, estimates that the yield of 1883 4 will be less than five and a half million bales; also that i lie baies will be 3 per cent, lighter and the waste in manufacturing 2 per cent, greater than last year’s crop, thereby practically reducing the crop to about five and a quarter milliou bales of the weight and spinning qualities of the crop just marketed. James H. Vaughan, residing near Mexico, Mo., was shot and almost Instantly killed, on Tuesday, by his sou, John Vaughan. The old man was drawing water from a spring near where the son was intent on killing a squirrel. The latter walked Into the brush with his gun cocked, und the trigger cume iu contact with a limb, causing the weapon to be discharged, the elder Vaughan receiving the entire load in his body, and dying before he could be moved to the house. Between 11 and 12 o’clock on Saturday night, Samuel Pauli, a fourteen-year-old boy of Wellsburg, 0., started, iu company with a negro, to walk from Steubenville to Brilliant. On reaching Mingo Junction they were set upon by a party of fifteen ruffians, who assaulted both the boy aud Ids attendant. The negro finally escaped, and the mob tied the boy to a tree, threatening him with bloody vengeance. The negro reached Wellsburg, and a party was Rt once organized for the boy’s relief. He was found aud released, the mob having fled. Young Pauli’s hair turned gray during the night, aud it is feared his mind is affected. At Strasburg, Pa., a number of young men went out on a lager-beer spree. During a fight which ensued, a young man named Esbelman was assaulted by Fillmore Hildebrand. 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