Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1884 — Page 1

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

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WHEN INDICATIONS. Thursday.— t'loudy weather, local rains or snow. The last day of the period for receiving guesses on the contents of the Globes at the WHEN Is TO-DAY. No guess can be received after the close ol business to-day. The Committee on Award will begin the count of the shot and beans in the four Globes to-morrow, Friday, Jan. ii, to determine who are entitled to our Holiday Presents. The programme of the committee for to-morrow will be announced in to-mor-row’s papers. BULLS IN THE ASCENDANT. Great Activity in Wheat and Corn, and the Bears Discomfited. Increased Firmness in All Markets —T’nnior that Armour Is Attempting a Huge Corner in Provisions. Special.to the Indianapolis Journal. Chicago, Jan. 9.—The receipts of both wheat and corn were smaller than had been anticipated, and there was increased activity to-day in both pits. Wheat, was persistently hammered, but for the time the “bulls” were in the ascendency. * There was a reported decrease in the visible supply of about half a million bushels, and a telegram was received from New York that the export demand was increasing. On this William Murray covered a large line of “shorts,” and went “long” to a considerable extent. The sarv panics who were buyers on yesterday were buyers early, but some of them sold later, when advices were received from New York that there was absolutely no demand for export. The buying and selling of “longs’’ in amounts by such men as Messrs. Murray, Hobbs, Comstock and others are not indicative of the real status of the market. They are not “stayers.” A ripple of news, either favorable or unfavorab -a of the market a cent either way, and some or even a smaller change will cause them to dump their holdings and either take a small profit or pay the differences. Hence they are considered an element of weakness rather than strength to the side to which they temporarily attach themselves. From to-day’s disclosure it seems as though Cincinnati, St. Louis and Indianapolis were of similar minds at the present on the market. They appear to be “bulls” on wheat and “bears” on com and provisions. Nearly 1.500.000 bushels of May wheat were sold on the call at sl.Ol 3-4® $1 .021-8, and the market closed firm ■with $1.02 bid. Schwartz & Dupoe were heavy buyers on both hoards. Cora was very active and unsettled, but fluctuated within small limits, there being a difference of opinion in regard to the January deal. Nat Jones and B. W. Clarke & Cos., (the successors to N. B. Ream & Cos.) attempted to probe the situation. W. T. Baker & Cos., sold heavily of February corn and the market was forced down about l-4c. At this point A. H. Bliss, Seymour & Hunt, Schwartz & Dupee and other large speculators, bought liberally and the market, recovered all the loss in February and advanced 3-8 c in January. There are but few who doubt the existence of the January deal and its being carried over into February. Corn closed very firm on the curb to-night at the following prices: hid, January 55 7 8c; February, 55 3-4 c; May, 59 5-8. The demand for cash meats is picking up a little, hut the speculative market does not respond with animation. There were reports that Armour lias been buying extensively of pork and ribs with an eye to “hulling - ’ the market. This ean he taken with some allowances, and it may be time. It is not Armour's way of starting a boom. When he goes on the war-path, he does not let his right hand know what his left hand is grasping for. and as a general rule it is best to copper all of Mr. Armour's public transactions in connection with the markets. Thera is a large “short” interest in the market and some concern like Armour’s, Fowler Brothers or the Packing Company would have little difficulty in making a spurt, still the crowd are believers in lots of hogs eating bad corn, who will down the market in the spring. An old packer remarked to-day: "Those packers who have bought the fewest hogs, will be the happiest in the spring-time coming.” Thirty-five thousand barrels of pork: 2,750 tierces of laid, 550,000 pounds of short ribs were traded on the call. Everything closed steady, at the following prices bid: For February pork, $14.55: lard, $8.90, and short ribs $7.42 1-2. There is a firmer feeling to-night all around, hut the source of strength I have yet to discover. Frightful Experience in a Snow-Storm. Kingston, Onft, Jan. 9.—On Thursday last, William and John Sherlock, of Haw Island, left Clayton, N. Y., l'or home on foot. A snow storm came on and the two became separated. John, exhausted, dug a hole In the snow and crept in. !>-;<! the next day was found by some fishermen, almost unconscious and terribly frost bitten. His feet and hands dropped off in the lionse. Search fertile missing man resulted, yesterday, hi finding the body buried in the snow. Wanted the Insurance. Jehsev City. Jan. 9. —The supreme medical examiner of the American Legion of Honor found that two candidati irregularly admitted to the order, by Dr. Peacock, have died, and he the order will refuse to pav the iusurince. He fouii.l on- of Peacock's candidates dying ■Y ,!i consutiEfption. and in this case the man sur-. t( .dcred his certifi-ntc, admitting that he bad lot been properly initiated.

AFFAIRS AT THE CAPITAL. The Proposed Retaliatory legislation in Behalf of American Pork. An Alleged Democratic Scheme to Nominate Senator Voorhees for Governor and Mr. Cobb for the Senate. • Operation of the Tariff Si pee Its Revision by the Last Congress. Mr. Belford Expresses His Condemnation of the ltules Under Which the House Operates—Notes and Gossip. AN INTERNATIONAL. QUESTION. The Importance of American Fork Products in the Markets of the World. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 9.—The American hog is daily rising in national importance and all indications point to an early vindication of the character and utility of that animal against the aspersions of the monarchies of Europe. Today the hog was introduced in both chambers of the Capitol, and such notice was taken of the animal as can leave no doubt that it is to be made an international question. Representative Browne, of Indiana, in his bill introduced yesterday, seems to have expressed the popular notion of the proper method to insure justice to American hogs, and there arc reasons for believing that his measure will receive the sanction of Congress and approval of the Executive at an early day. At the last session of Congress a bill was passed to prevent the importation of adulterated and exhausted teas, which has been productive of most gratifying results. The experience of the past year lias demonstrated that the law can bp made more effective by certain amendments, and these will be recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury in a letter which will be sent to the committee on ways and means this week. Chief Inspector Darts, who is an acknowledged expert in teas, is now here in consultation with Secretary Folger on this question. THE INDIANA DEMOCRATS. A Scheme to Make Mr. Voorhees Governor aiul Mr. Cobb Senator. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington. Jan. 9.—Since the Indiana congressmen who were home during the holidays have returned to Washington, they have been talking freely of the political situation in their own State. The Democrats have been especially active. They are giving Voorhees a boom for the gubernatorial chair. Said one this morning: “For two years I have been talking with Senator Voorhees about him accepting the governorship. At first the idea was for him to take the office as a stepping stone to again enter the Senate. That scheme now is impracticable, and if he is elected it must be with the under standing that he will hold the office during four years. In all of the conversations Voorhees has neither said he would or would not accept the office. The feeling among Democrats is, however, that if the party required liis acceptance he would comply.” “What is the special reason for selecting Senator Voorheesr I inquired. “Indiana is a doubtful State, and the feeling is general that Voorhees could carry the State easier than any other man. While he has no special desire to fill the office, it might be used by him for something higher. He has been spoken of for the presidency. As long as he remains in the Senate he cannot get that position. He might, however, reach it from the gubernatorial chair. If Voorhees is made the Democratic candidate for Governor, Colonel Gray will probably be made Lieutenant-governor.” “Who will succeed Mr. Voortiees in the Senate?” “Cobb would most likely be his successor. McDonald, if lie did not get the presidency, could go to the Senate, but he does not desire anything of that kind.” THE TARIFF. Mr. Nimmo’s Statement of Its Operation Since March, 1883. Washington, Jan. 9.—Mr. Nimmo, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, has submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury a statement in regard to the operation of the tariff act of March 3, 1883. as far as the same is shown from available data at the present time. It appears that the reduction on the average ad valorem rate of duty on dutiable goods for the quarter which ended on Sept. 30,1883, as compared with the corresponding quarter in 1882, was only 2.12 per cent., making due allowance for the changes in the law with respect to valuations, casings and coverings. TJie reduction in the aveiage ad valorem rate of duty on sugar was only 2.7 per cent.. for the quarter which ended on Sept. 30, and somewhat less for the months of October and November. Tho reduction in the average of the ad valorem rate on clothing and wool was 9.7 per cent.; combing wool, 7.8 per cent; carpet wool, 2.40 per cent. Nimmo says these reductions are very much less than was expected, either by the friends or opponents of the dpw law. He adds, however, that the results ascertained thus far are, to some ex tent, vitiated by the excessive importations prior to June 30 of goods upon which duties were in creased and the postponement of importations of goods upon which the duties were decreased by the new law, BELFOIiD'H WRATH. The Colorado Statesman Denounces the Rules Under Which the House Works. Washington, Jan. 9. —In the House, to-day, during the debate on reference of the President’s message on Mississippi river improvement, Mr. Bel ford remarked that this discussion showed the damnable, infernal character of the rules under which the House acted. There was the committee on ways and means composed of the brains of the House. Then there was the com mittee on appropriations composed of the whitebuttoned mandarins. The other committees were slaves, compelled to bow their necks and ask the Speaker to recognize them. It was a spectacle as sweet as the Hebrews observed when they saw tho oil running down the beard of Aaron, to see the Democratic brethren quarreling over the great subject. He was in favor of voting not only $1,000,000, but $30,000,000, to accomplish a great advantage for the people. The Treasury to-day, governed by New York influence, held in its vaults hundreds of nitons of dollars, kept there, in his judgment, for the sole purpose of

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advancing finances in New York and Pennsylvania. But the House to-day is in the control of the South and West, and lie thanked God for it. The country had submitted to the domination of two Status—a little section not as large as one county in his State—long enough. Now let the Southern and Western men stand together, say they would open the vaults of the national treasury and use the money to improve the water-ways of the country, to the end that the interest of the people should not bo overborne and tom down by railroad corporations of the republic. Every committee should l>e given the privilege of reporting at any time. Members should have the right to call up measures at convenient seasons. Two men, under the present rules, controlled the House—the Speaker and the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Holman), who exercised the veto power by way of constant objection. THE COMMITTEES. The Work Done by the Various Committees of the House. Washington, Jan. 9. —The House committee on agriculture this morning discussed, in a general way, the subject of pleuro pneumonia among cattle. Mr. Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, expressed his views on the subject in a short speech. Mr. Grinned, of lowa, chairman of the committee appointed by the convention of cattlemen at Chicago to visit Washington in the interest of legislation with reference to diseased cattle, was present and arranged with the subcommittee, consisting of Congressmen Hatch, Dibrell, Williams, Winans, Wilson and Ochiltree, to meet the representatives of the cattle interest at the Agricultural Department to-morrow. Pleuro pneumonia among cattle will be the first subject considered by the House committee on agriculture, and it is expected a bill will be reported at an early day. The bankiug and currency committee organized this morning. The general question of legislation to prevent a contraction of the national bank currency was briefly discussed. Messrs. Potter, Hunt, and Ermentrout, Democratic members of the committee, expressed themselves decidedly in favor of such legislation. Mr. Potter gave notice that he proposed to introduce a bill providing for the exchange of the existing bonds for a twenty-year 2 per cent, bond, providing that the circulation issued on such bonds shall not be subject to the 1 per cent, tax. Mr. Adams, of Illinois, contemplates introducing a bill which provides for national bank circulation, based on the deposit of coin, instead of United States bonds, lie says he fears that no method like that proposed by Mr. Potter will be adopted, but if such a measure is favorably received, he will give the bill his aid and support, and will not attempt to secure the passage of any bill which he might prepare. At the meeting of the Senate committee on foreign relations, the Mexifr-* treaty was discussed at considerable length, out not disposed of. . At, the meeting of the Senate committee on claims, Senator Jackson, as a sub committee, reported favorably the petition of Collins Adams praying for compensation for captured cotton. The committee, upon division, adopted the report. This action involves an old claim amounting to $250,000, recovered from the government about 1873 by one Henry Prichaud. Shortly after the money was paid suspicions of fraud were raised, and allegations of complicity by officers of the Department of Justice were made. Civil suits were brought by the government, to recover the money and punish the alleged criminals, but. it was unsuccessful in each case. The report of Senator Jackson is in effect that Adams was a fraud in the Prichaud case. The amount the present claimant seeks to recover is $16,000, the cotton *in question being a portion of thatpaid for before. DISEASE AMONG CATTLE. Annual Report and Recommendations of the Commissioners. Washington, Jan. 9.—The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury has transmitted to the House the report of the Cattle Commission, consisting of James Law, E. F. Thayer and J. H. Sanders, for the past year. The commission recommends that the national government prevent the shipment northward out of the area infected with Texas fever, of all cattle whatsoever, except from the beginning of November to the beginning of March. Special attention is invited by tho Assistant Secretary to the recommendation of the commission that the Secretary of tne Treasury be empowered to order the slaughter and safe disposal of till imported herds which nmy be fouud infected on arrival in the United States or may develop contagious disease during quarantine; that he also be empowered to have all swine imported into tho United States subjected to inspection by veterinary surgeons and if necessary prevent the spread of contagious disease by having them slaughtered, or submitted to quarantine regulations until they shall be considered uninfected, and that an appropriation of $1,7)00,000 be made to defray the expense of preventing further spread of the lung plague among cattle in this country, and stamping out the plague now existing. A supplemental report of the majority of the commission, signed by Law and Thayer, and at a later date than the first report, is also submitted. This report deals especially with the inadequacy to the end sought to bq accomplished of the inspection of cattle at ports of export, and recommends that such inspection and guarantee he delayed. Their reason for doubting the adequacy of inspection at ports of export is that neither lung plagues nor Texas fever can be certainly detected by such examination, because those diseases pass through an average stage of incubation or thirty days, during which it is impossible for even the most accomplished expert to detect the presence of the germ in the system. The residt would be, if such inspection were the only thing relied upon, that cattle which had been exposed to infection in stockyards several days before inspection would pass that inspection, but three weeks later, when they arrived at a foreign port would show marked symptoms of disease. This result would destroy absolutely the efficacy of the certificates of inspection as guarantees to the foreign importer of the cattle. MORE PENSIONS WANTED. Demands Before Congress Aggregating Two Hundred Millions. Special to Chicago Tribune. The most dangerous attacks on the Treasury are the bills proposing additions to the pension rolls. Each bill is backed up by petitions which apparently come ex-soldiers. The large part of them are collected by claim agents, one of whom lias gathered 30,000 signatures of alleged soldiers asking for additional pension legislation. Aside from the general bills, which involve by official calculation over $200,000,000, there have already been introduced nearly 1,000 private pension bills. Many originate with attorneys, who send bundles of them to members with a request to present thorn. They then charge those interested $25. Not one in ten of tli is class can ever pass. Many have no merit. Few sent in by claim agents are ever followed further than the fee. The proposition to equalize bounties has been introduced by a dozen members. There have been several official calculations made of the amount which the passage of such a bill would require. The Paymaster-general estimated that it would take as a minimum $157,000,000, and that the amount might run up to $103,000,000. No official calculation places the sum at less than $125,000,000. At least 250 additional clerks will be needed to make the settle ment The next scheme in tho order of magnitude is the one for removing all limit upon grant-

ing arrears of pensions. This also is strongly supported by petitions which pension agents have procured. Related to these plans are the petitions arising from soldiers protesting against the reduction or the abolition of internal revenue taxes. This form of petition was prepared and printed in Washington, and sent out by prominent claim agents. With it went an explanation and an argument. Immense editions of this argument were printed and mailed to those on the lately printed pension lists. It was set forth that the plan to abolish internal revenue taxes was that of monopolists and those hostile to the soldiers; that all soldiers should promptly write to their members of Congress and protest against any reduction of taxes. A bill which is being urged with great persistence is the bill for pensioning all who wore prisoners of war for two months, without regard to the question whether or not they suffered thereby in health, this is an insiduous measure, since few politicians have the courage to take even an apparent stand against pensioning those who suffered as prisoners, and there are very many deserving eases. Added to these are the bills to pension all who served fourteen days in the Mexican war, all who served in the various Indian wars, and the two extraordinary bills of Price, of Wisconsin, and Peters, of Kansas, one providing for pensioning all who served in the Union army upon their reaching the age of forty-five years, and the other providing tor pensioning all who served sixty days for the terms of their natural lives. For all except these last schemes there is a great pressure here. A paper strongly favoring all except these last has been sent broadcast through the country, one week’s issue reaching 375,000 copies. A SCENE IN A CONVENT. The Opportunity Afforded by a Fire to Get Glimpses of Pretty Nuns. Washington, Jan. 9. —The particulars of a thrilling scene at the Georgetown Convent, on Saturday night, have just transpired. This convent is one of the oldest in the country, and has within its mysterious and closely guarded portals upward of one hundred sisters who have taken the black veil. Quite a number of them are young and beautiful, once petted daughters of noted families. In addition to the convent proper there is attached a large boarding-school for young ladies. Within one block of this building is the Georgetown College, a Catholic training-school for a crowd of hotheaded Southern lads. Late on Saturday night an alarm of fire was sounded, and the report was sent out that the Georgetown Convent was on fire. The first alarm was soon followed by a general one. All the engines in the northwestern part of the city were soon concentrated about the building, w’hile stalwart firemen tore open the doors and poured through the most sacred precincts of the convent, where no wicked men had ever before been allowed to enter. Women’s shrieks were heard up and down the corridors, and the utmost demoralization for a short time reigned. The fire was occasioned by a chimney burning out. The chimney fire communicated to the roof, and if it had not been for the prompt action of the firemen tlie convent would certainly have been destroyed. The most thrilling incident of the fire w'as when crowds of young boys, to the number of fifty or sixty, came charging down from the College, their hearts throbbing with a generous fire, each one resolved to save a pretty nun even at the peril of his life. The boys charged through the first part of tho house without much trouble, spurred on by the shrieks of the nuns, who were running about in disordered dress in the corridors, but when they reached the door of the nunnery proper they found a stern sentry in their path in the shape of a very cool, matter-of-fact Lady Superior. She said to this mob of fiery enthusiasts: “There are already too many men in this house; there is enough scandal and demoralization here without you.” And then she sternly tohl the youngsters to depart. She drove them out like a nock of sheep. In a few moments the fire was out. and then the firemen were hustled out. But the convent has not even up to the present time regained its old spirit of sacred privacy. SHIPPING. Provisions of Mr. Dingley’s Shipping Bill Favorably Reported to tlie House. Washington, Jan. 9.—The Dingley shipping bill reported to-day allows a vessel on a foreign voyage when deprived of the services of an of fleer of the vessel to supply his place with an alien until the return of the vessel to the home port, abolishes the extra wages system except in five specified cases, when one month’s extra wages will be allowed; increases the compensation of vessels for transporting destitute American seamen; prohibits the payment in advance of wages to seamen except on allotments or to relatives; abolishes consular fees for services of vessels and seamen; changes the mode of assess ing the tonnage tax, to a tax of three cents per ton on vessels of short voyage in the foreign trade, not exceeding fifteen cents per annum and six cents on vessels in long voyage trade; abolishes the hospital tax for seamen on vessels of foreign trade and provides for the expense of the marine hospital service such service to be borne by the government; gives sailing vessels the same privileges as steamships in unloading cargoes, and authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to remit charges and fines after money has been covered into tlie treasury as well as before. The bill is accompanied by a lengthy report giving reasons why the measures recommended should be adopted, and concludes as follows: “We do not by any means suppose the removal of the discriminating burdens named will alone relieve the American foreign carrying trades. Other measures must follow.” MINOR MATTERS. ivfr, Sherman and tlie Presidency of the Northern Pacific. Washington, Jan. 9.—Senator Sherman’s attention being called to the report that the office of president of the Northern Pacific railway had been tendered him and declined, he said: “The j office was not tendered me, but tlie matter has j been mentioned by leading stockholders and members of the directory. I have said that, while I would gladly undertake tlie duties of tie* office, and have the highest opinion of the value and success of the road, yet 1 could not. with due regard for the duty I owe my constituents and colleagues in tin* Senate, resign tho position of senator; nor could I properly, while senator, act as president of the company.” A Baseless Rumor. . Washington, Jan. 9.—ln regard to tin* resolution adopted yesterday by the House, railing upon the Postmaster-general to examine into tlie truth of the statement to the effect that a British spy named O’Brien had been allowed to tamper with American mails in New York, when* plans were laid to entrap unfortunate men, some of them Americans, who were recently tried and sentenced in Liverpool, General Gresham said hr had absolutely no knowledge of anything of tlie kind having taken place. The chief of postoffice in spectors has been directed to proceed immediately to New York and personally make a thorough investigation into the truth of the charge. Gresham and tlie New Orleans Exposition. Washington, Jan. 9.—The Postmaster-gen oral, having received a communication from the Secretary of the World’s Industrial Cotton Cen tennial Exposition denouncing as “ridiculously and infamously false” the statements of one West Sleever that the exposition was under the control of the Louisiana Lottery Company, to day sent the following reply: “To Samuel Mullen. Euij.. Secretary of the New Orloann Cotton Expigitioii: “Dear Sir—l have received your letter* of the sth inst. transmitting a copy of the resolution

adopted by the board of management relative to the statement made me by West Sleever to the effect that the exposition was under the. control of the Louisiana Lottery Company. From what I know of tho character of the enterprise and the gcnt.lemv- connected with it. I did not suppose it was in any manner connected with the lottery. Permit me to express a lively sympathy with tin l exposition, which 1 hope and believe will have an excellent effect upon the business interests of New Orleans and the South generally. Yours very truly, W. Q. Gresham, “Postmaster-general. ** The Freed men's Savings Bank. Washington, Jan. 9.—The annual report of John Jay Knox, Commissioner of the Fre’edmen’s j Savings and Trust Company, for the year ending | Dec. 31, 1883, contains facts and figures of geni eral interest. Receipts, $205,811: balance on hand, $13,157; total, $218,908. Expenditures, in eluding dividends, $207,108. Total paid in dividends since the failure, $1,630,400: total number of claims, 61,131; but many creditors have never Jiut in claims. It is presumed that some are dead, and others have never beard that they can realize anything. Over 40.000 claimants, entitled to an aggregate of $192,353, have not called for their money. Notes and Personalities. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 9.—Sunset Cox has had another mental disturbance, and to-day threw out pointed intimations that he might, resign the chairmanship of the committee on naval affairs. Representative Peelle will leave Washington for Indianapolis on Friday next, to attend the ceremonies of unveiling the Morton statue. It is probable several others of the Indiana delegation will also attend. Brewster Cameron, general agent of the Department of Justice, has tendered his resignation to accept tlie position of receiver of public moneys at Tucson. A. T. It is understood that Medical Director Gunnell, of the United States navy, will be appointed surgeon-general of the navy to succeed Wales. Mr. Hill has introduced a bill to require that a government building he constructed in every town and city in the Union in which the postmaster draws a salary of SI,OOO and over. Mr. Hill says this policy will save the government $1,000,000 per year in rent. Paul C. Hendricks, of Indiana, has been appointed stenographer to the Postmaster general. O. G. Cox has been nominated by the President as postmaster at Verden, 111. THREE MEN KILLED. A Party of Snow-Shovelers Run Down by a Pennsylvania Passenger Train. Pittsburg, Jan. 9.— Brinton Station, on the Pennsylvania railroad, eight miles east of this city, was the scene, this evening, of a terrible accident, resulting in the instant killing of two persons and the serious injury of five more, one of whom has since died. All day a large foree of men had been employed on the Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania railroad clearing snow from the track. At the cut, just east of Brinton, some fifteen or twenty men were engaged, this evening about 7 o’clock, when the Walls accommodation suddenly rounded the bend at Brinton, and before all the men could get out they were thrown down. The train was stopped as quickly as possible, and backed to the scene of the accident, where a terrible sight met the gaze of tlie passengers and trainmen. The dead and dying were scattered along the track for fifty yards. The bodies of two men were found badly mangled and life already extinct. Five others were badly injured, and one has since died in the hospital. The names of the killed are not known, as the men were only engaged to-day, and were not even known to their fellow work men. The names of the injured arc as follows: Frank Collia, twenty-seven years old, single, back hurt, dangerous: Herman Sands, thirty years old. single, right leg broken: Frank Chilli, twenty-eight years old, married, dangerous scalp wound, left knee and arm fractured; John Fisher, thirty years old, single, right knee fractured; , back broken, unconscious when found, and died in hospital. • After the accident men crawled out of the snow in all directions, and it is not unlikely the bodies of others may be discovered. The accident was caused by the failure of the men to iiave a lookout to warn them of the appx-oaehing trains, and, as it was dark and a locomotive standing near with steam escaping, it wak impossible to hear or see the train coming. A YOUTHFUL TERROR, Repeated Efforts of a Colored Boy to Destroy liis Uncle’s Family. Washington, Jan. 9.—A depraved, vicious looking colored boy. named Eskell, fifteen years of age, was in the (lock in Judge Snell’s court this morning, for committing a series of atrocious deeds. He lives with an uncle, a respectable colored man, named Benjamin, who testified that about the 20tli of last month the boy bought a box of “Rough on Rats” and a quantity of arsenic. When he went home lie put the contents in three quarts of milk, with the intention of poisoning the family, hut failed in the attempt. Tlie next day he renewed the attempt, putting the poison in a bucket of water, and Benjamins eight children drank from the bucket and were Liken with violent pains in the stomach, but all recovered. He also gave arsenic to the cattle, which made them sick, and killed one pig. He sprinkled arsenic on Mrs. Benjamin’s bread. She. however, discovered it and threw th#* bread away. He also attempted to set fire to tin* barn, but the corn-shucks burned so slow that lie thought he would be detected, and put out tlie fire. Just before Christmas lie attempted to cut one of the children’s throat while asleep, but she woke up just as he had his hand raised to cut her. He built a fire and called bis aunt out to see it, then threw a handful of cartridges into the tire and ran away, hoping she would be killed by the explosion. The boy stated that while living in Baltimore he poisoned his I mother and aunt*, who died from the effects, ami at one time attempted to set his mother’s house #n fire. He also said that while in Baltimore he used to poison persons and cattle for spite. He will be examined as to his mental condition. Tlie Dead at Belleville. St. Louis. Jan. 9.—The latest advices from i Belleville say that two more bodies were found to day, neither of which was identified. A re port was made by the surviving sisters, which was accepted by tho coroner as authentic ami official, to the following effect: “There were 63 persons in the convent at the time of the fire. Os these, 26 were sisters, 22 of whom were saved and 4 lost. There were 32 boarding pupils, of whom 10 were saved and 22 lost. There were 5 candidates, all of whom were I saved. Totals, 37 saved and 26 lost.” It is claimed that all of the lost have been found, but several little heaps of charred bones still remain unidentified, and it is more than likely it will never b# known who they represent. Two daughters of Samuel Scaling, Agnes and Mary, children of a prominent live stock dealer in this city, have not yet been identified, ami there seems to bo no hope of recovering them. The search will bo resumed to morrow, however, and one more, and tho last, remaining, lump of debris be thoroughly examined. The identified bodies will be buried to morrow; the others will be hold until’ next Monday. The unclaimed bodies were taken to St. Peter’s Cluuvli to-night, when* they lie in state in charge of the ‘night watch. Large numbers of persons visited the church to view the remains. Bishop Baltes, of Alton, will conduct the funeral services to morrow, and many priests of tlie diocese are expected to be present.

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BOSS JOHN’S NEW SEN ATOR. Payne's Selection Denounced as the Result of Infamous Corruption. A Mail Wlio Represents tlie Worst Element in Ohio Policies—Me Lean’s Career as Political Ross and Manager. .!. I?. McCullagh's Recollections of tho Famous Campaign of How Vallandigiiain's Political Aspirations Were Crushed by the Eider McLean in the Interest of Pendleton. I*A VN'K’S NOMINATION. Comments of a Number of Trailing Newspapers of Both Groat Parties. Columbus Special to Cincinnati News Journal (Dem.) As I repeatedly stated. Mr. Pendleton could only be beaten by an absolute purchase in dollars and cents of a certain number of men. and this purchase took place to gratify the avaricious ambition of the oil syndicate to intrench its stockholders and friends in high places. 3lr. Pendleton’s name will live pinnacled in history as a true and able public servant, uncontaminated with jobbery, while the machine bosses who laid him low will be associated in the public eye and ear with the Tweeds, Dorseys, and other personages whose records, when fully brought to light, became pilloried in the detestation of' all honest and fair-minded men. The results of this caucus are far reaching. Tlie temporary result is the joy of a gang of hoodlums who have pursued Mr. Pendleton with a hatred grown into their very being. Columbus Special to Louisville Courier-Journal. (DemJ Mr. Payne’s nomination is tlie result of the most corrupt conspiracy ever organized in this country, and was compassed by the most extravagant use of money known to the legislative history of any .State in the Union, not even excepting the once dishonored capitals of Pennsvlvania and New York. The defeat of Pendleton was brought about by money and political intimidation, used without stint by an oil syndicate whose whole history is rotten with legislatures corrupted and courts debased. THE OIL BARREL IN POLITICS. Chicago Tribune. Wherever tlie barrel is there will the Democratic bummers be also. This is become an axiom of the conduct of the party. Whether it be Tilden or Tweed, or Butler or Payne makes no difference to tho leaders of th* Democrat in party, provided he will open the “barrel. This proclivity of the Democratic leaders to ate.u-h themselves to spoils is one of the evil signs of tlie times. It foreshad jws the oncoming of the peril that has always in the past done so much mischief in popular government—the purchase by the rich of the impecunious politicians. Tlie strength of the Democrats lies amid tlie population of the purlieus of the great cities. These people are the natural tools of the plutocrats who want to use the power of a brute majority to make raids on the treasury. AFTER PAYNE, WHAT? Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Payne was Tilden’s candidate for the presidency in 1880, and is to be brought forward with his hard and abundant money, his personal respectability. liis protective-tariff theories, his location between Pennsylvania and Indiana, and his seventy three years, with a vigorous Southern vice-presidential candidate behind him—-and a chance for the National Hotel disease. The money that did tlie work consummated last night will flow in increasing streams. Those of the Democracy who cannot be corrupted will be intimidated. Reliance will be placed upon the unprincipled condition of the Democratic party, and the time honored habit of voting the whole ticket at all times —and the rude, brutal power of dollars, however dirty. A MATTER OF SERIOUS REGRET. Louisville Courier-Journal, (Dem.) Mr. Payne has come to stand for what is worst in Ohio polities. The forces which, since the election of Governor PToadly, have gathered about him are just those which were used by a lot of unscrupulous politicians in Cincinnati to secure the defeat of the Democratic ticket last autumn. This ling now seems to be dominant* and it is especially obnoxious. Tho whole aim and puimose of the Cincinnati movement was to defeafMr. Pendleton; he was to be defeated at any cost, and he has been beaten by means which are exceedingly disreputable. Mr. Pendleton can bear his defeat withgreat equanimity, but the manner in which it has been accomplished makes it a matter of serious regret to the Democratic party. CASH AND CORRUPTION. Dayton Journal. If you are to believe what Pendleton’s friends have charged, every member of the Legislature who voted for Payne was bought with Standard Oil money. They allowed no consideration that was not corrupt and dishonorable to have a place in the mind of the member who voted for Payne. His action was dictated only by corrupt motives and Standard Oil cash. The fact seems to be, that no sm li provocation for a bitter and enduring light of factions has ever been presented in Ohio. And as honest voters look on and see the conflict, and realize that members of the Democrat i* family are charging each other with bribery. con'uption and fraud, they will turn away with disgust from the contention and sweep tho whole party into the ditch. MONEY SHAMELESSLY USED. Cincinnati Newt# Journal i Dem.) The work is done, and the sale is complete. Bosses and monopolies and rings for the control of political patronage have won a complete victory in a Legislature elected by th#* people, struggling against bosses, monopolies, and spoils rings. They have not yet gained a vietory over the mi purchasable Democratic people of Ohio. Money has been shamelessly used to buy a seat in the Senate by rn*n professing to beef the party which opposes the use of money in politics. That a Legislature of men claiming to he Democratic representatives has yielded to all the influences and forces Democracy exists to fight against is true. A SCANDALOUS USE OF MONEY. Terre Haute Express. While In* (Mr. Pendleton] may from this time on be considered as our of political life lie may find consolation in the fact that lie was driven into private life because he was too high minded forthe political party with which he associated. Ts anything could make the disgrace of his defeat more pronounced it is the fact, that the election of Payne was a victory for a huge monopoly that made scandalous use of money in bringing about the result. WILL NOT FIRE HOOSIERS. liidiHnapolit Sentinel (Dem.) Os course all good D*mocrals will bow to this expressed will of the majority of their brethren of tlie 1 Ohio Legislature, but the result will doubtless carry much disappointment to many members of the party throughout tin* country. We hope our Ohio brethren will not feel disappointed if they fail to hear a hundred guns saluting the nomination to day in Koosierdoin. TENDENCY OF THE DEMOCRACY. 1 ndianupolU New*#. We see tho Democratic party, no sooner encouraged by a few State elections, and the control of the national House of Representative* than, emboldened to throw off all pretence, and by the resources of corruption, kill a great ad-