Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1883 — Page 1

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WHEN INDICATIONS. WEDNESDAY.—Fair Weather, stationary or slight fall of temperature. JUST AS WEPREDICTED. Put This in Your Pipe and Smoke It. Yesterday a card appeared to public gaze stating that a special meeting of the State Board was called for the purpose of awarding certain exhibitors at our late State Fair a premium. This is the same old 7 and (>, and wo brand it as a deception and wholly false. The WHEN speaks from the State Board records, as there was NO special meeting called during the State Fair to consider or award any display or exhibit a premium. In the first place, there was no premium offered on or the class of goods even mentioned in the premium list on which a red ribbon is claimed. Put this in your pipe and smoke it. The party claiming a first premium is not Attcwu or even named on the books of the State Board as competing for a premium, and yet they would nave the people of this vicinity think they took firat premium. Put this in your pipe an:’ smoke it. The WHEN knows what they are talking, and would say, if there should be one stray mortal who believes that such a premium was awarded we refer that individual to the books of the State Board of Agriculture. Seeing is believing. WHEN

FREE TRADE. Convention of Opponents of Protection of Rome Industry at St. Louis. St. Lotus, Mo., Oct. 2.—A conference of representatives from the various free-trade organizations of the country was held at the Polytechnic building this morning. ExGovernor Phelps opened the convention with an address. He spoke of the necessity of close organization, and outlined the objects of free trade. He said free trade was a necessity, and in giving the history of protection said that political parties had always urged it as a temporary measure. Every party taught that it was ephemeral, but protection still existed, and still the cry was, “in a few years longer the object will be accomplished.” He deprecated the fact that the tariff on tobacco had been lowered, to the detriment of necessities. Speeches were made by others advocating the organization of the Northwestern and Mississippi valley Free-trade League. Action on this Iquestion was postponed. A committee on organization, etc., was appointed, and the officers of the Missouri Free-trade League were elected. At the afternoon session a committee of one from each State represented was appointed to prepare an address embodying the principles and purposes of the freetraders. Letters were read by the secretary from ex-Governor Lee, of lowa, Thomas G. Sherman, of Brooklyn, James H. Canfield, R. G. Mills, of Texas; W. H. Wells, and others. Short speeches were then made by Brownlee, of Detroit; Russell, of Michigan; Merriwether, of Tennessee; Harpole, of Kansas; Scammon, of Missouri; Fhilpot, of Iowa; Eddy, of Michigan, and others,mostof whom stated that they believed in absolute free trade and direct taxation, and were in favor of making that a direct issue, but some of them thought it inexpedient at this time to take such advanced grounds. The report of the committee on platform was submitted, but discussion and disposition of it deferred until to-morrow.

TRADE AND INDUSTRY. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union Before the Senate Committee. New York, Oct. 2.—Miss Frances E. Willard, of Chicago, president; Mrs. C. B. Buell, of Connecticut; Miss Anna Gordon, of Massachusetts; Miss Mary H. Hunt, of Hyde Park, Mass., and Mrs. Frances J. Barnes, of this city, appeared as a delegation from the the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union, before the Senate sub-committee on labor and education, to-day, and urged that a subject in which they had so deeply interested themselves be laid before Congress. It was asserted that the Union, with its thirtyone auxiliary and territorial unions, was the largest society ever composed exclusively of Fomen and controlled entirely by them. The number of local unions was about 3,000, with a membership of about 50,000, besides a large number of juvenile organizations. The witnesses showed the good work they had accomplished in various sections of the country, and spoke of the support given them by the press in their efforts to suppress intemperance. First Convention of Stationary Engineers. Chicago, Oct. 2.—The first annual convention of the National Association of Stationary Engineers was held hero to-day. The forenoon was spent in the reception of dele-gates-tfnd the transaction of informal business. The object of the association is the self-improvement of the members and the elevation of the trade. The association is opposed to everything savoring of trades unionism; its constitution prohibits from taking part in any strike movement. It is the intention at present of the convention to found a benefit fund to assist members in time of sickness, or their heirs in the event of death. The delegates present represent thiftv-five lodges, representing nearly every leading station in the Union. A public reception was given the members this evening by the local lodges. Discouraging to Strikers. Montreal, Oct. 2.—Francis Schmidt, one of the discontented French glass-blowers, was tried for deserting Ins employment .without leave and sentenced to thirty days in jail aud S2O fine. Failure of Carriage Dealers. Boston, Oct, 2. —Kimball Bros., dealers in carriages, etc., have made an assignment. The firm is well known. The liabilities are believed heavy. The failure is attributed to decline in trade. Injury to Life by Storm in Kansas. Leavenworth, Oct. 3.—ln addition to the damage reported last night, Mrs. Michael Marshall was seriously injured h her house being blown down, in the country. The house of Charles Pike was blown down, and his three-year-old son killed. At Arrington Bpritigs, on the Kansas Central, the store of Uecket & Son was blown down and both father and son injured, the son fatally. Hop Bitters strengthens, builds up and cures inutiouahy, from the first duse. Try it, sl.

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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. A Private of Garlingion's Party Tells Why the Proteus Was Lost. Drunkenness and Lack r Discipline the Principal Reasons—Renewal of the Rumor of Greely’s Death. Commissioner Dudley Denies that, the Soldier Has Grown Avaricious, And Offers Figures Showing that Nearly a Million Men Have Not Asked for Government Assistance. THE LOSS OF THE PROTEUS. Indications that Lack of Discipline Was One Cause of the Disaster. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Oct. 2. —Lieutenant Gariington, of the Greely relief expedition, continues reticent, but artificer Meritz, a private connected with the expedition gives a full account of the expedition and the trouble with the crew of the Proteus in an interview to-night. “The crew of the Proteus,” he says, “were a set of pirates, and when the Proteus was wrecked refused to help us save the provisions or clothing, but stole what we had. We had on board the Proteus fifteen months’ provisions for forty men, and only saved three months’ provisions for twelve men. If we had remained on Littleton island all winter we would have been just so many more men in distress. The crew of the Proteus numbered twenty-three men, and we were eight. They saved three guns, and we had none. If we had run short of provisions during the winter, not one of the eight would have seen spring. Captain Pike could not control his men, and told Garlington they were a set of dogs; they got roaring drunk while the Proteus was sinking. There was no misunderstanding between Pike and Garlington.”

Reviving the Rumor of Greely’s Murder. London, Oct. 2.—The Times gives a report from an Upernavik correspondent of the Copenhagen Journal that Lieutenant Greely, of the American arctic expedition, was murdered by a mutinous crew. The report comes from Hans Hendrik, an Eskemo with Dr. Nathorst. Hendrik says he got the news from Eskemos at Cape York. The Times considers the report improbable, as Dr. Nathorst has never mentioned it. Note.—Dr. Nathorst was the geologist of the Nordenskjold expedition. Professor Nordenskjold telegraphed to the Associated Press from Scrabster, under date of Sept. 22, that an Eskemo, named Hans Christian, who was an interpreter with Dr. Nathorst, reported having met a partv of Eskemos at Godhaven who had come from Wolstenholm. This party stated that they had been informed by other natives that the commander of the American expedition, and another member of the party were dead. The report printed in the Loudon Times may have been based upon the same story. An Encouraging Report. Dundee, Scotland, Oct. 2.—The captain of a whaler just arrived, reports that he had an interview with some natives near Dalrymple Rock. They stated that they saw a party of white men east of Smith sound, who were supposed to belong to Lieutenant Greely’s party. VETERANS OF THE WAR. The Hundreds of Thousands Who Have Not Applied for Pensions. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Oct. 2. —Pension Commissioner Dudley, in his annual report, which was submitted to the Secretary of the Interior this afternoon, takes exception to the charge made in certain quarters that the soldier is degenerating into a grabber and is trying to coin his services and his wounds into the highest possible amount of cash, often to the prejudice of the interests of the national government. To show the injustice of the outcry against the soldiers, General Dudley states that there are living to-day almost as many veterans who have not applied for pensions a3 there were soldiers on the roll of the army in May, 1865. There were 1,000,516 names on the rolls on that date, and there are at the present time 962,000 veterans have never asked a dollar of the government. There are on file in Washington 169,000 certificates of disability that have not been acted on, simply because that number of living veterans, who are clearly and indisputably entitled to pensions, have not asked for anything at the bands of the government. Although lists of the pensioners now on the rolls were printed in many newspapers throughout the country several days ago, not a single complaint has reached the pension office going to show that persons not entitled to receive pensions are getting assistance. KNOW-NOTHING VANDALISM. True Story of the Disappearance of Pius IX’s Rlock of Marble. Washington Special, It is believed by many that the dredgers now at work in the Potomac river improving the flats may find the marble block presented to this country by Pope Pius I N for the Washington monument, which was stolen during the Know-nothing excitement in 1854 and thrown overboard. The Post today prints the following account of the affair, as related by one of three survivors of the nine who committed the act of vandalism: “Nine of us did the job on Sunday night, the slli of March, 1854. We attended a meeting of the Know-nothing order, to which we all belonged, on the Tuesday night previous. There was a good deal of speaking going on about the shame of having a stone from any king or potentate inserted in the monument of u man who had fought against royal

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tyranny, and finally it was agreed that nine men should be selected by lot to destroy the stone. I got one of the prizes. Between 11 and 12 o’clock on the Sunday night following we went over to the monument. It was pretty dark, but two of us were blacked in the face and detailed to look after the watchman in the box. One of the men went up to the box, looked in, and found the watch man reading by a lamp. He placed his pistolin the hole, and told him to keep his seat, and he would not be harmed. The other man tied a rope securely about the box. The man with the pistol staid there until our return. The other one helped us in the work of getting the stone away. It was about four feet by eleven feet in size, of a peculiar kind of white looking marble, striped, and with a Latin inscription in gilt letters on it. With some skids, bars and blocks, which we found on the ground, we rolled it from where it was lying in an old shed at the foot of the monument down the bill to a scow that was moored in the canal basin, now known as Babcock’s lake. After some little trouble we got it safely oil board and started out of the basin into the river, and down the Washington channel until within about fifteen yards of the Long Bridge draw. While on the way down we chipped a piece off one corner of the stone, about the size of two bricks, with a sledgehammer, each taking a small piece. When we got near the bridge a confederate gave us a signal that all was O. K., by swinging a red lantern from the bridge. We then eased the stone over the side of the scow, and away it went, with a splash, to the bottom of the river. We then went back in the scow to the monument, relieved the man who was standing guard over the watchman, cut the rope around the watch-box quietly, and scattered in different directions for our homes. This is the true story of the whole transaction. The stone has never been found to this day, but I guess the dredges will get it when 4'iey commence to deepen that part of the river.” GENERAL NEWS. A Larger Public HuiUling Wanted at Pittsburg, and Work To Be Stopped. Washington, Oct. 2.—A delegation from Pittsburg called on the Secretary of the Treasury, this morning, to urge that the public building now constructing in that city be completed in accordance with the provisions for the extension embodied in the original plan. They ask that work be suspended on the building till they have an opportunity to urge upon Congress the advisability of providing an increased appropriation, so that the building may be extended. According to the plan on which the building is now being constructed it would cost about $750,000. An additional $500,000 would be needed to make the extension regarded as necessary. The supervising architect says it is probable the work will not be carried on after the completion of the first story until Congress takes some action on the request for extension.

Official Visit of the Curean Embassy. Washington, Oct. 2.—The Corean embassy paid an official visit to the State, War and Navy Departments to-day. The Secretaries of all the departments were absent from the city, and the embassy was received at the State Department by Assistant Secretaries Davis and Hunter and Chief Clerk Brown; at the Navy Department by acting Secretary Nichols, Rear-admiral Shufeldt and Commodores Walker and English, and at the War Department by Adjutant-general Drum. The head of the embassy took occasion to thank Admiral Shufeldt, on behalf of the Corean government, for his good offices in bringing about the close relations between the United States and Corea. Admiral Shufeldt said he expected to make another visit to Corea next year. Confederate Hattie Flags Wanted. Washinton, Oct. 2.—Application has been made to the War Department by a few survivors of a confederate brigade residing at Norfolk for permission to use their old battle flags, now in possession of that department, on the occasion of a reunion to take place in a few weeks. There are several hundred confederate battle-flags stored in the War Department. Adjutant-general Drum said to-day the application would nave to be refused, as neither the Secretary of War nor the President can give or lend these flags without the sanction of Congress. Tlie Presidential Portraits. Washington Special. Anew life-size portrait of President Arthur, painted by Andrews, was brought to the White House a day or two since, and hung in the corridor, where it catches the rose-tint reflections from the stained glass. It is a remarkable likeness, and the execution is very fine, though some pronounce it a little too ideal to be in good taste. Every line is in accordance with perfect grace, but the figure seems posed for effect. The subject is represented as stepping from the portico, and has paused with one foot still lingering upon the last step, where lies a red rosebud that has fallen from his button-hole. The face appears conscious of the grace of the position, and seems to invite attention. Portraits of all the Presidents, except Buchanan, now occupy places upon the walls of the White House. Fine bust portraits of Adams, the first occupant of the White House, and Van Buren, which have been consigned to the dust and oblivion of the garret ever since their respective administrations, have been rescued from a pile of rubbish, and, by direction of Mr. Arthur, liung up in the red parlor, together with the lifesize portrait of General Grant, after having been retouched. The absence of Buchanan’s portrait is not explained. Notes and Personalities. Washington, Oct. 2.—A petition for a mandamus on Mr. Knox, Comptroller of Currency, has been filed by S. V. White, banker, of New York, to compel the Comptroller to pay him $21,374, balance claimed due the petitioner as a creditor of the Miners’ Bank of California, out of the dividends declared by Mr. Knox, General George W. Gettv, in command of the artillery school at Fortress Monroe, was to-day placed on the retired list. He will be succeeded by Colonel John C. Tidball, of General Sherman’s staff. Proposals for steamboat service on the route from Natchez to Vicksburg, and from Natchez to Bayou Sara, and from Baton Rouge to Bayou Sara, were opened at the Postoffice Department to-day. James G. Stewart was the lowest bidder. The coinage at the mints during September was $6,276,210, of which $2,350,000 was staudard silver dollars. Three Lives Lost by a Falling Roof. Chicago, Oct. 2.—As a contractor named Henry McNichols was working on a store at the suburban village of Rogers Park, this morning, the roof fell in, instantly killing McNichols, Patrick McDonald and another workman whose name is unknown.

NEWS BY ATLANTIC CABLE King Alfonso Greeted with Great Enthusiasm in His Capital. lie Says Spain Will Lang Remember tlie lusult—Grevy Milch Affected by the Affair —French Investigation Ordered. Threatened Resignation of the French Cabinet 31inisters. Tlie Pope Asserts His Independence of Italian Law—No Treaty Between Germany and Spain—Cable Notes. AN INSULTED MONARCH. Alfonso Says Spam Will Long Remember tlie Hisses of the French Mob. Paris, Oct. 2.—King Alfonso, in declining tlie invitation of President Grevy to prolong his stay in Paris, remarked that Grevy’s apology for his treatment by the people might make him forget the bitterness of his entry, but Spain would long remember the hisses of the populace, who would not see that behind the King it was a nation they were hissing. As the train bearing Alfonso to the frontier left the station in Paris his Majesty requested General Pittie, secretary of President Grevy, to inform the President that he left him with a deep sense of his courtesy. Arrival in His Own Country. Irun, Spain, Oct. 2.—The train containing King Alfonso and suite arrived here this morning. The King was received with unbonuded enthusiasm by tlie crowd in waiting. In parting at the frontier with his French escort the King bade the aide de camp of President Grevy to convey his thanks to the President for the cordial welcome he gave him in Paris.

-A Gorgeous and Enthusiastic Reception by the People of Madrid. Madrid, Oct. 2. —Alfonso arrived this afternoon. An enormous crowd completely blocked the streets between the railway station and the royal palace, flags were displayed in every part of the city, and many shops were closed. The Queen went to the Eseurial to meet the King, and the cabinet ministers, civil and military officers and many deputies and senators welcomed him at the station. On the arrival of the train loud cheers were raised, lasting several minutes. Their majesties proceeded to the palace in a carriage, unescorted. They were surrounded and followed by a great mass of people, and the plaudits continued along the whole route, ladies in carriages and on the balconies waving their handkerchiefs. The enthusiasm was greatest in the square before the palace, where thousands had assembled, almost stopping the progress of the royal carnage. The King appeared on the balcony -of the palace several times, and afterward held a popular reception. To-night a grand serenade was given before the palace by all the bands of the garrison, and many houses throughout the city were illuminated. El Correo estimates that 30,000 persons attended King Alfonso’s reception. The King ordered that no one should be refused admittance to the palace. The salons could scarcely contain the immense crowd of aristocrats, officers, private soldiers, students and workmen. .Excitement in Spain Increasing. Madrid, Oct. 2.—The excitement of the Spaniards against France increases. Democratic and Republican journals unite in advising moderation on the part of the people. At the theater last evening the audience compelled an actress to substitute a national air for some French couplets forming a portion of the play being performed. The popularity of the royal family has vastly increased since the Paris proceedings. President Grevy Much Affected. London, Oct. 2.—A dispatch from Paris says: President Grevy is much affected by the treatment received by King Alfonso in Paris, and, it is said, even intimated atone time that he intended to resign the presidency. It is stated that the violent feud which exists between Wiisen, son-in-law of President Grevy, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and Prime Minister Ferry, lias caused dissension between the President and Ferry in relation to King Alfonso’s visit. How the German Press Regards the Affair. Berlin, Oct. 2.—The newspapers here regard the insults heaped upon Alfonso in Paris as a moral defeat of France. No power, they say, would now wish for an alliance with her. The insults to the Spanish King were, in their opinion, more directly aimed against Germany, who considers them a sign of weakness. No Treaty Between Spain and Germany, London, Oct. 2.—The Times’ Paris correspondent, who was on the train with Alfonso, reported that in an interview with Marquis De La Vega de Armigo, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was authorized to deny reports that a treaty had been entered into by Spain with Germany. liiveatigatiou Ordered. London, Oct. 2.—A dispatch trom Paris to a local newspaper agency states that Wal-deck-Roussean, Minister of the Interior, has ordered that inquiry be instituted as to what measures were taken to secure order on the occasion of King Alfonso’s arrival in Paris on Saturday. THE SON OF THE SUN. The Home and Inner Life of the Sacred Kinperor of Chtua. North China Herald. The ruler of the 250,000,000 of which the Chinese nation probably consists is now within five years of his majority, and is an occupant, while yet a minor, in the same apartments in which lived the Emperor who preceded him on the dragon throne. There he eats with gold-tipped chopsticks of ivory. There he sleeps on a large Ningpo bedstead, richly carved and ornamented with ivory and gold, the same on which the noble minded Emperors Kang Hsi and Chein Lung used to recline after the day’s fatigue, last century aud the century before.

Like one of those living Buddhas who may be seen in a lamasery on the Mongolian plateau, he is knelt to by all his attendants and honored as a god. There is this difference, that the respect felt for him is more profound than for them. The seclusion in which he is kept also is far more complete. Tlie building in which the Emperor resides is called Yang Hsin Tien, and is a little to the west of the Ch’ien Ch’ing Meu, in the middle of the palace. At the back of the central gate, on the south side, is the great reception hall. When ministers of state and others enter for an audience, at 4, 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning, according to custom, they have to go on foot to the center of the palace over half a mile if they enter by the east or west gate, and when they get on in years they can appreciate the Emperor’s favor, which then, by a decree, allows them to be borne in a chair instead of walking. The rooms of the Emperor consist of seven compartments. They are provided with the divan or k’ang, the peculiar institution of North China. The k’angs are covered with red felt of native manufacture, and tlie floor with European carpets. The cushions all have embroidered on them the dragon and the phoenix. Pretty things scattered through the rooms are endless in variety, and are changed in accordance with any wish expressed by tlie Emperor. The rooms are in all thirty yards long by from eight to nine yards deep, and are divided into three separate apartments, the throne room being the middle one. Folding doors ten feet in height open into each of these apartments to the north and south in the center of each. The upper part of these doors is all open work, in which various auspicious characters and fluwers are carved. At the back paper is pasted, to admit light to the rooms. The front is ornamented with gilding, sculpture and varnish of various colors. These doors remain open even in winter, because during that season a thick embroidered curtain of damask is hung in the doorway, which, by its weight, keeps its place ciose to the door posts and prevents cold air from entering. In summer this is replaced by a curtain admitting the breeze on account of its being made of very thin strips of bamboo. The silk threads used in sewing the strips of bamboo together are of various colors, and passing through the whole texture of the curtain from tlie top to the bottom are very agreeable to the eye. These summer and winter curtains are rolled up to give air to the rooms when required. Exit and entrance are effected on each side of these curtains by side doors. Along the whole front of thirty yards there is a covered flight of steps fifteen feet wide. The roof oyer this rests on two rows of pillars. The pillars shine with fresh vermilion, both within the rooms and on the steps outside, and are decorated with sculptured work, partly gilt and partly varnished. The lloppo, who lately returned from Canton, gave the Emperor a present valued at SB,OOO. It consisted of chandeliers holding 500 wax candles each. His Majesty has also some electrical machines and numberless foreign curiosities. The Emperor was vaccinated when an infant, before his high destiny was thought of, other ise it would have been difficult to vaccinate him, for, his person being sacred when Emperor, no lancet can touch him. His mother, the Princess of Ch’un, whoisa sister of the Empress of the West, will be raised to the rank of Empress dowager when he is sixteen, and his father will also be made T’ai Shang Huang. At least this is to be expected by precedent, so that after three years we shall again have two empresses dowager, but in this case they will be sisters. The Princess bis mother, goes in to see him once a month, and kneels when she first speaks to him, but rises afterward. His father does so too. The Emperor studies Chinese daily for an hour and a half, and Manchu also for an hour and a half. He spends two hours in archery and riding, and in winter amuses himself with sledging. He has a little brother of five, whom it may be hoped the mother takes with her when she goes to iue palace. The teachers who instruct him kneel to him on entering, but afterward sit. Tlie Emperor has eight eunnehs who constantly attend him, besides an indefinite number for special occasions. He has his meals alone, and the eight eunuchs wait round him, restraining him if lie takes too much of any one thing. His school-room is at the back of the Yang Hsin Tien already described, and the hall for conference each morning with ministers is a little to the east,

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Threatened Resignation of tlie French Cabinet—Alfonso a Scapegoat. Paris, Oct. 2. — No members of the cabinet have actually resigned. The crisis is as yet latent, but tlie differences existing between General Thibaudin and his colleagnes are notorious, and his resignation may be regarded as certain. Challemel-Lacour, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and another minister, intend to resign on grounds of ill-health. It is believed that Prime Minister Ferry lias fully explained to President Grevy the position of the ministry. The Temps says tlie manifestation of Saturday was directed more against the cabinet than King Alfonso, who, happening to appear during a violent scene of internal politics, was made the scapegoat. Later.—A settlement of tlie ministerial difficulties has been postponed until the meeting of the Chambers. The cabinet will meet the Chambers as now constituted. Charged with High Treason. Metz, Oct. 2. —Antone, deputy from Alsace in the Reichstag, and member of the Alsace protest party, was recently forbidden to publish a newspaper in this city, by order of Marshal Manteuffel, Governor of AlsaceLoraine. Antone icplied to this order by writing to the Governor expressing the hope that lie would be avenged. The paper proposed to be published was to be called Tlie Metz. The prohibition was based upon grounds that its course would be too seditious and anti-German. The above letter of Antone and later utterances led to the preferment of the charge of high treason against him. Tlie charge, being substantiated in the preliminary hearing, culminated, according to an announcement to tlie Zeitug to-day, in the arrest of Antone upon a charge of high treason io the empire. RussiaMei>s Peace Only. St. Petersburg, Oct. 2.—The Journal de St, Petersburg denies that Russia is making military preparations on the Austrian and German frontiers, and that two army corps have been distributed between the Vistula and Bug rivers, etc. The status of Russia’s aim is only at the maintenance of peace. Six Miners Kilted. Leigh, Eng., Oct. 2.—As a cage was being hoisted in tlie Nelson coal-pit here, to-day, a rope broke, precipitating the cage to the bottom of the shaft and killing six miners. The Croatian Difficulties. Pesth, Oct. 2.—The Hungarian Prime Minister. at a conference with the Croatian deputies, stated that ae would ask. the Diet to

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grant him full powers to settle tlie escutcheon mie&tion in Croatia in a peaceable manner. He said be would receive the co-operation of the deputies in his efforts at a satisfactory settlement. Tho Pope Asserting Hts Independence. Home, Oct. 2.—A papal decree regulating procedure before the civil tribunals of the j Vatican is published. The decree ignores , the Italian law, and ordains that all contracts i between any portion of the Hope’s house* i hold and parties outside shall be regulated soleiy by pontificial law. OL 1> ABO jj 1T lON I STS. Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Organized Anti-Slavery Work. New York, Get. 2.—The fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of organized antislavery work in this city and of the formation of the city anti-slavery society was celebrated this afternoon anil evening in the Broadway tabernacle. This afternoon a number of surviving Abolitionists and their friends, including many ladies, assembled in the church. For about an hour those present conversed socially, relating reminiscences of stormy experiences. At 3 the meeting organized, Eliznr Wright, theoldest Abolitionist living, taking the chair. Mr. tVriglit spoke of his connection with abolitionism, and gave an account of tlie attack on the house of Lewis Tappan. George W. Clark, an abolitionist singer of thirty years ago, though now 72 years old, sang “A Mali’s a Man for All That.” Oliver Johnson spoke of the excited public feeling ou the question of slavery and the persecutions suffered by the Abolitionists. A. O. Wilcox read an anti-slavery poem by Whittier, and brief addresses were made by Mrs. Dr. Lozier and others. This evening Elizur Wright was succeeded in the chair by A. O. Wilcox, who told of tlie anti-slavery agitation. Rev. Henry T. Cheever read a letter from the daughter of James G. Birney. Hamilton Wilcox, secretary of the reunion, read a statement regarding the formation of the New York City Antislavery Society. The resolutions declare that to the former slaves and their kin we give warm congratulations on their bettej state, and urge them to deserve their libertS by pure and thoughtful lives.

GOVERNOR SHERMAN. Report that He Was Stricken by an Apoplectic Fit While Speaking. Moquoketa, la., Oct. 2. —During the progress of a joint discussion here yesterday afternoon between Judge Kinne and Governor Sherman, and while the latter was speaking he was taken witli one of his apoplectic fits and stood motionless and dumb before the assembly for several minutes. When about to fall he was rendered assistance by members of his committee on tho stand. Governor Sherman Not Sick. Des Moines, la.. Oct. 2.—A dispatch from Moqnoketa telling of Governor Sherman being taken sick there yesterday while in joint debate with Mr. Kinne, is a pure fabrication. Governor Sherman was at Dewitt yesterday, where he held a joint debate with Kinne in the afternoon, left there in the evening, and is now (at 3 o'clock p. m.) in Des Moines on his way to Winton, where he speaks to-nigiu. He has not been in Moqnoketa during this campaign, nor for three years. He is in good health, although much worn by reason of making two speeches a day and traveling at night. An Indian Tragedy and Robbery. Little Rock, Oct. I. — A dispatch from Indian Territory reports a terrible tragedy at the home of Isoma, an Indian eighty years old. On Sunday night, four unknown persons demanded admittance. The Indian refused, whereupon they fired into the hut, and beat down tho door. As the entered tlie Indian jumped out of the window, but was seized, and, refusing to tell where he kept his money, was subjected to inhuman torture. Remaining obdurate, the robbers shot him seven times and beat him insensible, then plundred the hut, carrying away not less than $5,000. Isoma will die. No clue to the robbers. Suit for a Fortune. New York, Oct. 2. —James F. Miller, of Scnrsdale, Westchester county, has brought action to recover $122,142, from Edward J. Dunning, a Wall-street broker. Plaintiff wanted money, and defendant took his notes to tlie amount of $98,000 to sell for him. As plaiutifi’s credit was good, defendant, as is alleged, used the notes for his own benefit. Upon threatening arrest, defendant paid plaintiff $25, 000, and promised to make the balance good. Plaintiff claims that he was damaged to the amountof $50,000, and sues for that sum and $72,000, difference between the amount of the notes and tlie $25,000 received. Tlie Dexter Savings Hank Case. Bangor, Me., Oct. 2.—The auditors in tho celebrated case of the Dexter Savings Bank vs. the estate of the late J. Wilson Barron, former cashier of the bank, made a report to the Supreme Court to-day. Barron was found one morning in the vault of the bank shot dead. The officers of the bank claimed that he committed suicide to cover up peculation, while his friends and tlie greater portion of the community believed he was murdered by robbers. The auditors’ report states that the balance due from the Barron estate to thebauk was $2,011, including interest. Grand Army Day at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Oct. 2.—This afternoon clouds overcast the sky and during the rest of tho day the weather was very chilly and threatening rain. The procession of the Grand Army ot the Republic moved promptly at 2 p. m., and traversed the principal streets of Pittsburg and Allegheny. Seven thousand men were in line, and no doubt many mora would have participated if the day had not been so unfavorable. The decorations were profuse, and unbounded enthusiasm prevailed. Nilsson’s Arrival at New York. New York, Oct, 2.—Christine Nilsson hag arrived. Her first words to a reporter were: “Here I am again, and never more delighted to be back. I suppose many professional people pretend to like New York because it flatters you New Yorkers, but I have always itad so pleasant a time here, and been so cordially received, that it is one of the few towns with which are connected absolutely pi easatt t rententbranees.” Query. —C.-in curing n couch with Hr. Bull’? Cough Syrup he called bullying a coufcul