Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1884 — Page 1

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LUCKY TIM. Tim Flannigan always lived qnite high, For nixt to the roof he had a home; A laborin' man who kept a job, For Tim was niver a hand to roam. Wan evening Tim was ploddiu' home, His legs wur heavy, his pockets lite; Sea Tim to himself: ‘The laborer’s lot I’m not regardin’ with delite. He slowly trudged along the strata. When down forninst him on the ground He spied a bundle nately tied. It wondered Tim what he had found; He picked it up wid a cautious hand— Begovra! It might be a dynamite! But when he saw ’twas Bull Dog, thin His heart went thumpin' wid delite. Bedad, sea Tim, it’s the laborin' man le the lucky mortal after all— It’s him as hes his eyes cast down Picks dainties up the rich let full; For if I’d had me wish this nite. ’Twas Bull l)og that I most desired; *Tis Bull Dog hue cut gives delite To a man that's falin* wake and tired. When dimes are scarce and Bull Dog gone Tis thin the world gets lookin' blue; But not a rason for complaint Has a man wid Bull Dog as his ohew. ****** And Tim was right beyond a doubt, For chewers now on every hand Agree with Tim that Bull Dog is The finest chew in all the laud. BOiiD EVERYWHERE.

A GREAT FEMALE FINANCIER. Mrs, Howe Completes Her Term of Imprisonment and lie-Engages in Business. Boston, Dec. 3. —Mrs. Howe, of the Woman’s Bank, after having served three years in the Bouse of Correction for swindling depositors, and whose case attracted great attention at the time, has, it is reported, announced herself as the agent in anew enterprise on Concord street, which, from the advertisement, Boems to be a somewhat similar institution to the Woman’s Bank. Seven dollars per month interest is offered on SIOO, with three months interest in advance. The original Woman’s Bank offered 8 per cent, per month on SIOO. and three month's interest in advance, and largo deposits were received with disastrous results t-o the depositors. A reporter called at the office of the new institution and found a Mrs. Ewell in charge. In answer to an inquiry about the interest on money deposited, and if the investment would be safe, Mis. Ewell said: “If you deposit SIOO to-day, you carry away with you s2l of interest, and if you deposit SIOO the day after, you get the same interest, and so on, up to SI,OOO. When people put their money into banks they do so without asking questions. The breaking up of the Woman’s Bank was not the work of Mrs. Howe. She did not fly to Montreal or elsewhere, and she now comes nobly forward with a proposition to pay G per cent, per year for the time she was in prison for all deposits made with ber.” Mrs. Ewell said she was the proprietor tnd Mrs. Ho wo the agent.

NATIONAL CAFITAL NEWS. Colonel Mafson Talks Concerning (lie Trospect for the Mexican Veterans. lie Thinks the Bill to Tonsion These Men Will Be Taken Up. Amended and Probably Passed by the Present Congress. No Probability (bat Any Tariff Legislation Will lie Attempted This Session. The Opponents of Further Coinage of the Silver Dollar Exhibit Increased Confidence—Capitalists and the South. THE MEXICAN TENSION BILL. Mr. Mat.on Think. It Will Be Amended and Tas.ed During: the Coming: Session. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 3.—A great many inquiries are being sent here from every part of the country in reference to the Mexican pension bill and the probability of its passage at this session of Congress. The bill is so broad In its present form—being an amalgamation of nearly every general bill on the subject presented in this Congress—that it interests every class of men who has served his country in war since 1846. I asked Chairman Matson, of the House committee on invalid pensions, to-day, whether he thought the bill would be passed this winter. •Yes, I think it will come up just as soon as the appropriations are not occupying the attention of the House, and that it will pass, in some shape,” he replied. “There was much prejudice against the bill before the election on account of the political influence it would wield, but now there can be no North, nor South, nor Democracy, nor Republicanism in it, and, in some shape, I believe it will go through this session.” “Will it be amended by conference committees?” ‘Trobably. It will be given a turn in both houses again, I should think, however. Besides granting pensions to those who served fourteen days with the army or navy of the United States, in Mexico, or on its frontier or coast, it contains the provisions of my bill revising the general pension laws. Briefly, the revisions make these changes: Pension agents can charge but $lO attorney’s fees for securing pensions, and can not collect that until the pension is allowed. Persons who served for a period of three months in the war against the rebellion, have an honorable discharge, and who shall become disabled hereafter from any cause whatever, shall receive a pension of not more than $24, provided that person is not receiving a pension already. Widows and minor children receiving $8 a month will receive sl2 instead. Invalid pensioners receiving $8 a month on account of disabilities incurred in the rebellion will leave an inheritance of sl2 a month to their children under sixteen years of age. Pensions granted widows on account of minor children will be continued without limit to ago, if sucli minors are of unsound mind or physically helpless, provided the widow retains the custody of such children in the ovent she remarries. Dependent parents, in order to prove a meritorious case for pension, need only show that they are without present means of comfortable support than his or her own manual labor, or contributions of others not legallybound for his or her supoort, which will give them sl2 a month. The fact that the applicant was regularly enlisted and mustered Into the service shall be prima facie evidence of soundness at tbe time of enlistment.” “You believe that the clauses in the bill not relating to the Mexican war will be passed as yon have stated them?” I inquired. “I think they will,” replied Colonel Matson. “They are just and popular and a great pressure is being brought for their adoption. I think the bill will be called up very soon, slightly amended and passed. ”

THE TARIFF QUESTION. No Probability that Any legislation Will Be Attempted at This Session. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 3. —lt is the general opinion among all shades of congressmen that nothing will he done with the tariff at the present session. Col. Morrison, chairman of the ways and means committee, said to your correspondent in answer to an inquiry as to his intention; “It’s no use talking about tariff reduction at this session. In the first place there is not sufficient time to discuss the question properly; then there are not enough tariff reformers to carry a real reform measure through, and lastly, if such a bill should go through the House it would die in the Senate before March 4. I shall make no attempt to got through any tariff bill during the life of the Forty-eighth Congress. We shall do well enough to clean up some of the other matters on the calendar, aud let the tariff go for the present.” Waldo Hutchins said that he did not care to say anything upon tho subject of tariff, outside the House. His views would be given on the floor. He added, however, that he thought the whole subject should be left until the meeting of the Forty ninth Congress, which body would, he thought, reform the tariff and a good manyother things. Randall’s friends are confident that there will be nothing done toward reducing duties on imports this winter. They do not like the recommendations of the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to raw materials, but think he spoke lightly concerning the tobacco tax. May bury, Houseman and Carleton. of Michigan, Democrats and supporters of Carlisle, expressed tha geueral sentiment of that wing of the party when they stated that “next Congress would bo time enough to reform the tariff, although the recommendations of Mr. Arthur were timely and in strict accordance with their views. * TIIU SILVER DOLLAR. Prospect Hint Congress Will Vote to Suspend Its Further Coinage. Special to tbs Todlanapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 3. —The House committee on coinage, weights and measures was built for the purpose of favoring the silver men. 1 Hence all attempts at legislation looking toward the rC peal of the silver eoinago law have failed. There are several important bills of this character before the committe, but the chairman (Bland, of

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Missouri) has persistently refused to call the committee together to discuss them. Mr. Lacey, of Michigan, lias been regarded as one of the most level-headed men on the silver question in the House, has worked manfully in favor of the needed legislation, and last session he frequently expressed the belief that this winter would soe some action taken upon this important question. The recommendations of the President, supported by the report of Secretary McCulloch, have led him to believe that the eyes of the silver men will be opened at last, and he expresses more hope to-day that the coinage of the silver dollar will be restricted before March 4 than he has ever felt before. Throughout the country, at least in all business sections, the demand for a cessation of coinage of 85 cents labelled $1 has been growing stronger each year, and it is the belief of the thinking men in the House that the power of Blaud, Belford and other silver cranks has at last been broken. BUSINESS IN THE SOUTII. German Capitalists Seeking Investments— The New Spanish Treaty. Special to tlio lrdianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 3. —“You have probably observed that a large delegation of German citizens have come here from my State and New York in a few days,” said a Pennsylvania member of Congress this afsernoon. “Well,” continued he, "they are going to the New Orleans World's Fair, and will make a tour of the South before they return. Their mission is to seek investments for several millions of dollars.” “In industries?” “Anything that will yield a profit,” replied the member. “An impression is rapidly gaining ground that the South is to be reconstructed in business as well as politics, and that it affords excellent opportunities to work investments. These men who are going there will speculate in real estate, open factories, work in timber —do anything that will yield money. They will not work themselves, but their capital will work. If it were not for the prospective ratification of the treaty with Spain the sugar industries of the South would be helped now.” “Do you think the treaty will be ratified, and will it effect the sugar-growing industries of the South?” “It is the intention of the Republicans to do it, and they will. It will fetch the price of sugar down one-third, and a Democratic administra tion, with tariff reform as a motto, must not revoke it”

THE SOLDIERS’ HOMES. Probability of an Entire Change in the Management of These Institutions. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Washington, Dec. 3.— Under Cleveland there will probably be an entire change of management of the National Soldiers’ Homes. During the past summer a subcommittee of the House committee on military affairs made an investigation of the management of the homes. It visited all three of them, located at Augusta, Me., Dayton, Ohio, and Milwaukee, Wis., and looked through them and took the testimony of inmates and those who frequently visited them. “It is possible lliat the committee will make some vigorous recommendations,” observed General Rosecrans, who is chairman of both committee and subcommittee, in speaking of the possible outcome of the work to-day. "I would not care to say what will be recommended, exactly,” he continued, “but I expect to see a change of the management at the Dayton Home. We want kindness and hospitality to exist at the homes. We hope to see them homes indeed, and not prisons. Our report may cover 230 to 300 printed pages, and I believe it will result in some good.” Another member of the committee intimated that the findings of the committee would alone be enough to warrant removals, and that he had no doubt that Mr. Cleveland would act promptly. NOMINATED FOR OFFICE. List of Nominations Made by the President During the Recess. Washington, Dec. 3.—The President to day sent to the Senate the following nominations: Hugh McCulloch, of Maryland, Secretary of the Treasury; Frank Hatton, of low- Postmas-ter-general; General Schuyler Crosby, of New York, First Assistant Postmaster general; James Harlan, of lowa, Presiding Judge of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims; William S. Scruggs, of Georgia, En voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the United States of Colombia; Jehu Baker, of Illinois, Minister Resident and Consul general of tho United States to Venezuela; Thomas O. Osborne, of Illinois, Minister Resident and Consul general of the United States to the Argentine Republic; Thomas Adamson, of Pennsylvania, Consul-general of the United States to Panama; G. H. Heap, of Pennsylvania, Consul-general of the United States to Constantinople; Fulton Paul, of New York, Consul general of the United States to Bucharest; Willard P. Tisdel, of Ohio. Agent of the United States to the States of the Congo Association; William P. Dunwoody, of lowa, Member of the National Board of Health. Consulsof the United States—Wm. A. Brown, of Indiana, at San Juan del Norte: Geo. 1., Gatlin, of New Jersey, at Zurich; J. Maurice Duke, at San Salvador, Charles Einsteiu, at Stuttgart; Frederick F. Farmer, of Massachusetts, at Three Rivers, Canada; Gilroy W. Griffin, of Kentucky, at Sydney, N. S. W.; Gilbert R. Osman, of Michigan, at Auckland, New Zealand; DeWittS. Reilly, of New York, at Athens; George F. Underhill, at Cuidad. Bolivia; Robert K. Wright, jr., of Pennsylvania, at Colon (AspinwallJ; Jas. F. Wilson, of Missouri, at Milan. Wm. E. Curtis, secretary to the Central and South American commission; Walter Q Gres ham, of Indiana, circuit judge of the United States, Seventh judicial circuit MINOR MENTION. Expectation that Mr. Hart, Postmaster at Frankfort, Will He Reappointed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 3.—At the Postofllce Department this afternoon, tho Journal corre spoudeut was informed that among the first expirations of postmasters’ commissions in Indiana will be that of Major W. H. Hart °f Frankfort His term expires on Dec. 20. It is understood nt the department that he will be reappointed. His personal attention to all the details of his office is evidenced by the rating of his office at the Postoflfice Department It is of tho very highest order. He has held the position for eight years, and has personally supervised every portion of the work, bringing it up to a degree of efficiency unsurpassed by any office of its class in the Union, while the personal popularity of Major Hart as a citizen and officer is represented at the department to be high throughout the city and country. Indiana Visitors to Now Orleans. Special to the Indianapolin Journal. Washington, Dec. 3.— Most of the Indiana members will spend tho holidays here. Probably two or three of thorn will go to the World's

fair at New Orleans, should the recess for tho holidays come by tlie 13th inst., as is now predicted. A special congressional train will be run from here as soon as Congress closes, and will toko tbe statesmen and members of the press who desire to go. Judge Holman, Colonel Matson, Messrs. Ward, Cobb and Lowry will have their families with them during the winter. The report that Mr. Lamb will have a wife before he enters private life is denied by his host friends. The Monument’s Lightning-Rod, Washington, Doc. 3. —Many people have followed the line of the towering Washington monument up to the skies and puzzled over the problem of guarding against lightning strokes. The solution is made plain by the block of aluminum which arrived to-day, and the explanation of its use which is furnished. This block, of pyramidal form, will bn the extreme apex of the monument, it serves the purpose of the top cap to tho column, and is expected to fulfill the mission of an electrical conductor. To its liottom part is attached a heavy copper bolt or cord, which is at once divided into fonr parts, one of these being carried to either of the four heavy columns supporting the elevator. These in turn are connected with the well near the base of the monument, thus tusking a complete and ample connection between the summit Hil l theearth, and forming one of tbe best lightning rods that can be constructed. A similar connection between the temporary top of the column and the earth has always been maintained, thus protecting the workmen as well as the structure itself from the effects of any eloctrical disturbance. Letter-Carriers and the Eight-Hour Law. Washington, Dec. 3.—A delegation of Philadelphia letter-carriers called upon Postmastergeneral Hatton to-duy, and presented a memorial stating that the character of their employment comes within the provisions of the eight-hour law; that they are entitled to compensation for extra hours of labor given the government since the passage of the labor act, and requesting Mr. Hatton to provide a remedy. The Postmastergeneral informed the delegation that congressional action would be necessary in the case, and indicated a willingness to further the pro ourement of the necessary legislation by all means at his command. Personal and General. Washington, Dec. 3, —Secretary Teller, Post-master-general Hatton, Assistant Postmastergeneral Hazen, and Railway Superintendent Thompson will form a party to attend the opening of the New Orleans Exposition. Senator Mitchell will to-raorrow Introduce a bill granting a pension of $5,000 a year to General Grant for life, beginning at tlio date of his retirement from the presidency. Representative Willis expects to offer a joint resolution at the first opportunity, providing for a loan of $1,000,000 and SI,OOO additional for each congressional district, for the proposed international agricultural exposition at Louisville, next fall. Illinois Democrats shew some confidence in the prospect of Congressman Morrison succeeding Logan. Mr. Morrison stated last night that he lmd a Republican State senator pledged to vote for him in case of a tie on joint ballot, and that ho would prove the strongest man in the party caucus.

TIIE KENTUCKY SCOURGE. Four Hundred Deaths in Three of the Counties Where the Affliction Is Lightest. Lfe*. isville, Dec. 3. —The Courier-Journal staff correspondent, investigating the plague in eastern Kentucky, sends the following from Mt. Pleasant to night: “The further I travel into this plague infected country the more horrible beeomestlie situation, and the more I wonder that the eutire population, or at least that portion of it who have been attacked by the prevailing epidemic, have not been swept into the world beyond. lam able to write clearly only after conversations with men from all parts of the county, who are here to-day from distances ranging all the way from five to forty miles, to secure supplies and have grinding done. The water mills in this county, as in most of the mountain counties, are useless because of scarcity of water, and the steam mill here is patronized by families living far and near. From all sources of information I am able to make an estimate which may be relied upon as being as nearly correct as any that could be made without a personal visit to every house in the county. There have been in Harlan county, since the latter part of Augurst, over 200 deaths; of these, at least 100 have died from flux or cholera infantum, superinduced by use of impure water. There have been about 200 cases of sickness known to be flux, and a large amount of illness from other causes, especially amonsr children, such as whooping cough, bronchitis, sum me c complaint, etc-.; in many cases a complication of these diseases existing. “The spring and summer, up to the latter part of August last, were unusually healthy; then sickness began, and since then 00 per cent, of the deaths have occurred. I mot and talked with Dr. Blair, of this place, this morning, lie is of opiuion that the recent ruins and frosts have had a tendency to abate the epidemic, the virulence of which, ho thinks, is governed by the temperature. If the weather becomes about uniform night and day, the disease abates. Ipecac lias been, until recently, the principal ingredient of the prescriptions given by him, but a cholera cure, consisting of 2 drachms of cinchona, 2 drachma of nitric acid, 2 drachms of sweet spirits of nitre, and G ounces of epsom salts, the whole diluted with a quart of distilled water, has been used with more success than anything yet tried. This is given in doses ranging ic sizo from half a wineglass to a tablespoonful. "As to the disease being contagious, I find great diversity of opinion, but, have arrived at the conclusion that it is so only when the discharges from the bowles and urinary organs are allowed to stand and fill tho .oom with baleful exhalations and when people are careless about cleanliness. In this conclusion overy physician with whom 1 have talked supports me, aud it is doubtless correct. "I have now been at the county-seats of three counties in which the infection has a foothold— Knox, Bell ami Harlan —and in these,which are but on the outskirts of the districts in which it has been most fatal. I sum up a total of over 400 deaths since the latter part of August from flux alone, and fully the same number from other ills, mostly resulting from the use of impure or mineral poisoned water. If 1 include the deaths reported to me by Rov. Mr. Childers in Bath, Menifee, Wolf, etc., it would, no doubt, run the list up to 1.200. In a day or two more I will be in Letcher county, Kv., and Wise county, Va., and after my trip through there, will no doubt be able to pretty closely estimate the number of victims in the entire’ ter ritory which the scourge covers. From reports from Letcher, received here, it is evident*that the cases of sickness have run up into 300 or 400, aud the deaths have been about five out of ten.” Insanity of Rufus J. Childress. Louisville, Doc. 3.—Rufus J. Childress, a well-known political contributor to the daily press and magazines, is reported insane to night by his wife, who had to send for a policeman for protection against the violence of her husband, who imagines he is bewitched. Family troubles are said to have brought on insanity*

TWO TROUBLED STATESMEN. Char eel lor Bismarck Encounters a Rebuff' in the German Reichstag, And tlie Ministry of Jules Ferry Is Only lleld Together by the Personal Intercession of President iirevy. Bismarck Exhibits 111-Temper, and Makes Some Odious Comparisons. Contradictory Statements Concerning Peace Negotiations Between France and China —Jlcrr Richter Declines a Duel. GERMAN POLITICS. Bismarck Protests Against Repeal of a Law Affecting: Priests. Berlin, Dec. 3.—ln Ihe Reichstag, to day, Prince Bismarck declared that the reintroduotion of Dr. Windthorst’s motion to repeal the law empowering the government to expel or intern priests for illegally exercisiug their functions, after its recent rejection by the Buudesratb, was disrespect but to the Bundosrath. Moreover, ho said, the last two Prussian ministers of public worship had not applied the law. The attitude taken by tho party of the Center impeded an understanding between Germany and Rome. Prussia would not consent to repeal of the law, at least not for the Polish districts. The government would only accept a prelate for the archbishopric of Posen who did not sympathize with the efforts to separate west Prussia and upper Silesia from the Prussia state. The negotiations between Prussia and the Roman Curia, since 1878, had been practically without result, although Prussia had granted various concessions. These negotiations were still pending. Dr. Windthorst having replied to Bismarck, the Chancellor continued his remarks against Dr. Windthorst's motion to repeal the law expelling priests, etc. Bismarck declared that freedom of the church was not here challenged, and that Prussia’s rejection of the papal eandi dates for the bishopric of Posen was simply the exercise of her sovereign rights, and was in accordance with treaties. Bismarck said he was rejoiced to hear Dr. Windthorst state that he was opposed to parliamentary government. If it were possible for the government quietly to resign and 6ay to the majority: “Here are our portfolios; bo good enough to continue the dis patch of public business,” then matters would be even worse than now; if the majority, con sisting of the Conservatives, the Center with its adherents, the new German Liberals, the Vnlks partei and tho Social Democrats, had to reconstruct the government, the result be a ministry like that of England under Mr. * Gladstone. IT predicted tho breaking up of the Center party when the Kulturkampf terminated, a and its members would either join a progressive party or dis appear. Bismarck continued by saying that he was less concerned about the struggle between church and state than Dr. Windthorst supposed. The law, he contended, was directed against political agitation, and not against religious liberty. Dr. Windthorst’s motion to repeal tho iaw in question was passed—2l7 to 93—notwithstanding the opposition of Bismarck. The adoptiou by the Reichstag of Dr. Win thorst’s motion to repeal the law empowering the government to expel priests implies a complete failure of the negotiations on that subject be tween Prussia and the Vatican.

CABINET CRISIS AVERTED. At the Request of President Grevy the French Ministry Remains in Office. Paris, Dec. 3. —A cabinet council begun nt 9 o’clock and terminated at midnight. At the urgent request of President Grevy tho oilier members of the ministry, as well as Waldeck-Ros-seau, Minister of the Interior, nbaudoued their intention to resigu their portfolios. The council, during the session, decided to resubmit the senatorial reform bill to the Senate, and demand the adoption of the scheme approved by the commission of tho Chamber of Deputies. Prime Minister Ferry and Waldeck-Rosseau will explain their views to the committee on Thursday. La Justice charges the Opportunists with causing the defeat of the government in the deputies and tho election of Gamier, Bonapartist. by voting with the Bonapartist body. Le Soliol pro diets that the defeat is but the precursor of the lesult in the coming general elections, in which, it says, the Radicals will bo everywhere the hast in the ballot An anti protectionist league has been formed in this city, its especial aim being to agitate public opinion against the proposed duties upon corn. Leon Say is the president, and the principal committee includes Deputies M. Beaulieu, Miland, Malcnari and Gustave Perrier. FRANCE AND CHINA. Conflicting Statements as to Peace Negotiations—Gen. De L’hle's Expectations. London, Dec. 3.—Lo Paris states that tho secretary of the Chinese legation at London has submitted proposals to Earl Granville, tho British mediator, which France can accept. The Chinese embassador, in an interview today with Earl Granville, protested that it was a breach of neutrality on tho part of England to permit French men of-war to coal and victual at Hong Kong. The negotiations relative to mediation between France and China have ceased. The "Tsung Yi Lnmon" lias rejected the over tures made by England in that direction. A Hong Kong dispatch to the Times, says: “It is believe! hero that China is determined to resist France to the end. She will insist on her suzerainty over Annam and on her right to maintain Chiuese garrisons nt strategic points in that country. She will insist, also, that the French legation to Annam shall be placed on the same footing as the legations of other countries. ” Transportation arrangements for forwarding French reinforcements to Touqtiin have been so timed that they wilt reach llaiphong about the end of January. General Briero de l isle advises tho government that he ox peels to clear Tonquiu of the enemy in two mouths* campaign —February and March—before tho summer heats will compel the troops to seek shelter in cantonments. The Temps denies the report that oholera has broken out in the fleet off Foi mosa. Le Paris says Admiral Courbet telegraphs the government that the health of the crows of the French fleet in Chinese waters is satisfactory. An A1 giers dispatch stated that the reported suspicious eases of sickness on board the transports bound to Tonquin proved, upon medical examination, to be very trifling. A Lint of ChiiioAc Successes. London, Dec. .3.—A Tien Teen dispatch states that the Chiuese claim the following successes: Oct. 2, they captured the forts aud city of

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Lohg Nan Ilsien, Tonquin and sunk a Trench gun-boat; after the engagement, the elders of over twenty Christian villages tendered their submission to the Chinese commander. On Oct 8 tho Trench were defeatod at 1100 Wei, Tonquin, and the Freuch commander shot himself; the troops became demoralized and fled. On Nov. 13, the Black Tlags repulsed three French attacks upon Reun Kwai; on the same day the Trench wore defeated at Tamsui. On Nov. 19, the French, including the Tureos, were forced to take refuge in the woods near Seun Kwai. At Formosa lighting continued six hours, and the Freuch losses were heavy; tlio Trench also lost several guns and wore pursued to tho waterside, where four French launches were sunk. On Nov. 27 the Chinese in Katn Gei province, Tonquin, defeated the Trench, who lost seven officers, while their general was severely wounded; on the same day the Trench made a successful attack upon tho Chinese positions at Kwan Yiou Kio. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. The Hasis on Which England Claims the Basin of the Niger. Berlin, Dec. 3.—Sir Edward Mulct, in his statement in tho Congo conference on behalf of England, said that in England’s interest traders had established a protecorate extending northward to Berlin and southward to Quibas bay, thus comprising the whole lower Niger country to the junction with tho Bonone river. England does not claim the rivers crossing the Rio del Rev. The river Niger is navigable 630 kilometers, and the river Benone 020 kilometers. Sir Edward Malet states that tho British discoveries were made since 1830, that the commerce of the Niger basin ha3 been solely English, and that the pi ogress of civilization there has been due to the efforts of British consuls. The position of Malet is indorsed by Granville, and tins attitude is supported by the delegates from Portugal and Italy. The Inventors* Exhibition. London, Dec. 3. —The executive council oi the International Inventors’Exhibition, to be opened next May, has resolved to receive American applications for space until Jan. 21. This further and final extension of time has been granted in order that American inventions may be fully represented. J. Pierrepont Edwards. British consul in New York, has been appointed special agent in the United States, with instructions to facilitate this object. Mine, ilugues’s \ feiim. Paris. Dec. 3.—The apartments of M. Moren, the man &hot, th** other day by Mine. Clovis llugues, Pave been searched and important documents found. including a list of witnesses suborned by Mm*. Lencrmand to testify against her husband, slv* wished to obtain a divorce, and engaged the services of a private detective agonc\ to prove, a guilty connection between hor husband* and Mine. Clovi* Ungues. Herr Richter Beelines n Challenge. Paris. Dec. 3.—Tho Morning News reports that Count Herbert Bismarck recently chal lengcd Herr Eugene Richter, on the gtound that tbe latter had insulted tho Chancellor in speech in the Reichstag. H-rr Richter refused to accent the challenge, lie declined he would not fight a duel with Prt-i.** Bismarck *veu. concerning a matter which occurred in Parliament, and if not with him, then much less with his son. Bank OfflelaN in Hard Luck. Bremen, Dec. 3. —Tho Vcrem* Bank lias suspended. The former manager committed suicide in prison, and the present manager is under arrest, Tho suspension of the hank caused a stoppage of the business of the firm of Brunings, of Bremen, who were largo shareholders in the bank. The .Ariaius-t'olrridge Suit. London, Dec. 3.—Mr. Adams has appealed against Justice ManUty’s ruling in the former's action for libel against Hon. Bernard Coleridge. Coleridge, at the same time, has notified Adams that he intends to •move for u reversal of tho Jury’s verdict. Rumored Death *f tho Ma’ulf. London, Dec. 3. — A dispatch from Dongala says the Mudir has received news that the Mahdi is dead, and his followers are dying fast, The camel corps and the .Staffordshire regiment will start for Ambukol next week

Cable Notes. Nicholas Fish, United Stales Minister to Belgium. has resigued. Lassalle has signed a six months’ engagement for America, in ISSfi, for SIOO,OOO The first telephone line ever constructed in Japan is now being built at Tokio. Mary Anderson's Lyceum Theater Company will perform "Juliet,*’ twelve nights in Pans, in May. Three dynamite cartridges, without fuses, were found yesterday alongside the rails of the Great Northern railway, at Derby. Advices from the gold coast of Africa state that trade riots had taken place at Minnobah, in which twelve men were killed and a number wouuded. The. rioters wore finally arrested. The building of h railway through the great St. Bernard mountain is under discussion, and application has been made to the Swiss federal council for a concession to enable the work to be attempted. Capetown advices state that Premier Upington has made a speech strongly favoring the Dutch party. He spoke in praise of the Bed)liana Boers, and censured tho policy of Sir Hercules Robinson, the Govern* r of Gape Colony. The speech caused much excitement, and indignation in the Colony. THE CHICAGO BALLOT SHINhLE. The Bogus Tickets Identified bv the Men Who Engraved and Printed Them. Chicago, Dec. 3. The federal grand jury today visited tho office Os tho County clerk and personally examined the vault from which it is charged the evdope containing tho ballots cast in the Second precinct of the Eighteenth ward was abstracted and 200 forged tickets put in place of alike number cast at the polls. Judge Blodget also issued au order for production of the ballots a second time before the grand jury, and that they be examined to determin what bearing the re cent testimony given hs to the printing of the forged tickets has upon the case. Tho Daily News will sav. to morrow, that during tho examination of the alleged forged ballots by tho United Suites grand jury, to day, Fallis, who engraved tho sac simile of the head of tho bogus Republican ticket, and Wright, of Hanscom & Cos., who set up and printed the body of the ticket, were called in and shown tho tickets which were supposed to be fraudulent: that Fallis identified the head as that engraved by him, by certaiu accidental slips of the engraving tool, and that Wright identified tho whole ticket as that printed by him on the night of Nov. 21, or seventeen days after tho election. At this time the original ballots wore in the custody of County Clerk Ryan. It has already been reported that Wright yesterday testified before the grand jury that the bogus ballots were delivered, on the evening of Nov. 21, to J. C. Makiu, secretary of the Democratic county committee. Tin* Oklahoma Colony. Emporia, Knn.. Dec. 3 —The Republican re reived, this evening, a dispatch from Arkansas City, signed by A. 0. McCord, secretary of the Oklahoma colony, stating that tho colony was well organized, and would positively move for Oklahoma to morrow, under the command g Vice president W. L. Crouch. s