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more. Thirteen hundred for Gates; none for Fontelieu. There were no Republican alligators in Bayou Pigeon swamp that day; they were solid for Democracy and reform. And this is a true history of the manner in which Kellogg's district was wrested from the Philistines, and handed over to the party of saccharine and light By the time the November elections came, the finishing touches had been put upon the district. The Governor of the State sentthe roiUtia over there early in the summer, to quell the noisy remonstrances of the Republicans. Later, a well-aimed volley into a Kellogg barbecue disposed of eighteen undesirable voters, and finally, the Democratic chieftains conceived and executed the lofty thought of putting Fontelieu and all the rest of the prominent Republicans into jail, and keeping them there, without a hearing, until after elecion. In fact, it is scarcely necessary to dwell upon Kellogg’s defeat. As the gentleman who brought in the Bayou Pigeon box would say, Ca va sans dim! THE MERCENARY SNEAK. Facts Circumstantially Alleged to Show that St. John Hold Himself Out. St. Louis, Jan. I.—Mr. J. B. McCullagh was chatting with D. R. Anthony, of the Leaven worth Times, and one or two others, when a reporter entered the Globe-Democrat sanctum today. He good-huinoredly assented to a brief talk on the subject of the alleged purchase of John P. St John by the Democretie party in the late campaign, but remarked that there was not much to say, except that St. John was an undoubted liar, and that there was ample proof that he had sold out. “I know enough of tho facts,” he said, “to know positively that he was bought by the democrats. You see, the Republican-committee was negotiating with him before the Ohio election, but the arrangement was not pushed and the committee drew off after the election. Meanwhile the Democratic committee 'closed their bargain.” “You .think there is absolutely no doubt about this statement 1 ?” “None at all. There are letters extant which prove it beyond a doubt. Mr. Clarkson, of the bes Moines Register, who was a member of the committee, and who had charge of the department which conducted the negotiations, has the proof of the fact. This is in such shape that he is bound, to some extent, and cannot use it; but the fact is certain. I ara sure of it. St. John wanted S:S3.OCO and S3O a lecture.” “That was on the Republican side?” “Yes, that was the proposition made to the Republicans, and while they were considering it, or rather, I think, .after the Ohio election, when they drew off, the Democrats caught him.” “The intention was not to have him withdraw, but to lee tu ref’ “Yes, because in case of withdrawal some 'one else would haveTieen substituted in his place. He was to continue to deliver his lectures, but was to advocate Blaine instead of Clevoland as the next best chance. That is, he was to throw his inliuenee in favor of Blaine.” “Do you know r anything about the bargain with the Democrats?” “No; of course, it is not known how much he was paid, but I know he did not get all he was premised, because he has been writing letters about it since. The committee needed part of 4fce money to pay Conkling for his services, and had to take it from St. John.” “1 suppose you have seen Mr. St. John's denial of the charge?” “O, yes; I' have seen it, but it amounts to nothing. It is simply replying to my statement that lie is a liar by asserting tbat I am teliiug an untruth."

St. John in a Huge. St. Louia Special. John P. St. John, the “God and homo” candidate, arrived in the city to-day, and gives vent tp his feelings iu the most bitter langu.'ige. He was seen by a Tribune correspondent and asked what answer he had to make to the charges published in Sunday’s Globe Democrat that be sold out to the Democrats during the last campaign for $.38,000. The paper says editorially: “We have received a letter from J. P. St. John denying that he sold out. He is an unmitigated liar. We have seen proofs of his perfidy.” When this was submitted to St. John he said: “The charge is a d—d lie. So li. C. Kerens, of St Louis, and J. B. McCullagh say it- Let me give you a little history. Dec. 8 the Globe-Democrat published editorially the statement that the rumor that St. John had been bought by the Democrats was a fact, and that proof eouid be adduced. I wrote to tho paper from Olathe pronouncing the statement an infamous and malicious lie and challenging its authors to prove it. McCnllagh did not publish the letter, but replied by denouncing me as an ‘infamous and unmitigated liar.’ 1 then sent the paper and my letter to the Pittsburg Times and asked that it should be published. This was not done. Kerens says there is documentary evidence to prove that I sold myself for $38,000 That is an untruth, and I challenge liinri or any other man. or any political party or its representatives, to prove* it, or stand branded before the public as common scandal mongers. I am a man of the people, and the people want proof, not low denunciation. These men who are abusing me can uncap the vials of their wrath, slander and yiilificatien and pour them upon me. That doesn’t matter, but 1 want them to distinctly understand that I can’t he bluffed, brow beaten, or driven. Their attacks do not frighten me, and they must bring their proof, or shut up.” An attache of the Globe-Democrat said tonight that Mr. McCullagh had seen the proof, and that Senator Plumb, of Kansas, also saw it. Speaking of the Prohibition party. St. John said: “There are huudreds of meu in it more fit for the presidency than I. ” ISEXATOR MAHONii. He Tells What Disfranchisement Has Done and May Do in the South. Interview in Pfeiladelph a Press. *T haven’t even read Cleveland’s civil service reform letter to George William Curtis, but if the President-elect could take a little jaunt through Virginia and see the Bourbons there already wrangling and fighting over the offices that they expect to be made vacant next March, he would be amused and instructed. “The speech made by Blaine in Augusta, just after tho election, was one of the ablest presentations of the situation in the South I hava ever read, and its words ought not to be forgotten by the Northern people. I, myself, long ago called attention to the political strength exercised by Bourbon voters in the South. “After the Danville massacre,” continued the General, “several of the senators, including Sherman and Edmunds, pressed me to bring this outrage to the attention of the Senate and country. I agreed to do so, had one day, while discussing the subject with Mr. Sherman, I called his attention to some points Involving the treatment of the negro by flie Republican party that I have never been able to understand. I said: ‘Mr. Sherman, when the Republican party made the negro freq, I, who had done all in my power to prevent it, thought emancipation an awlu.l thing. Weil, as years passed by, I impreveii tad now the wonder is that having made him new. the Republican party will not protect him in his freedom. I believe that we will have jUMiher civil conflict in this country, not over the quotation of slavery though. Although £ fought against the Union, I declare 1 would never consent that those who attempted to deatrov it should again become its mlors. If the t :on*foderatei> Lad wen, I am very wire the North would mot * ve been allowed to manage .federal g ivunment’ *• “I calk I Mr. Shermaufa attention to the condition of affair# in the country. The South is J reprinted in the Senate entirely by Southern D< rooerats, and I believe thirty-two of their ttt'.rty-six senators were Confederate brigadiers. jiy try year the number efy Republican repre-

sentatives in the lower bouse from the South is decreasing, and it is only a question of time when the Bourbons will have as solid a representation as they have in the Senate. This is due to the willful, deliberate, lawless overthrow of the rights won for the negro civil war, and guaranteed to him by the amendments to the Constitution. I told Mr. Sherman then—this was nearly a year before the election —that the South coming to the front every four years with 153 electoral votes would certainly, in the course of time, elect a Democratic President. Some freak, accident or fraud in one of the Republican Northern States would give the Democrats a majority of the electoral votes. Atl this, I pointed out to him, was due to the failure of the Republicans to insist that the negro should enjoy the political rights conferred upon him by the laws of the land. “I told Mr. Sherman that when the Democratic party did get in to power, as it was bound to do, there would be business trouble ahead. Capitalists and business men generally have never manifested any confidence in the Democratic party. Its wild financial spasms and general lack of conservatism inspire public distrust. Instead of tho volume of the business of the country being increased, new manufactories and workshops opened, and ventures undertaken by business men, there will be a general contraction. A man who had money in bank would want to go there quite often to see that be could get it. Men in business would curtail their affairs and keep as close to tbe shore as possible, until they were assured of a thoroughly reliable and conservative administration of affairs. “Meantime there would bo almost a financial panic. Mills, furnaces and factories would be closed, and thousands of men and women thrown out of employment. The upshot of it would be probably bread riots, for when a man is hungry be dosen't always think before aeting. In such a state of affairs, you see, an uuorgiriized mob of thousands of men moving on Washington would not be altogether unnatural, and thu3 another conflict begins. I did not believe, when I said this, that the next administration would be Democratic. It may not happen, and I trust it will not, but there certainly would never have been an opportunity for a catastrophe of this sort if tho negroes of the Southern States had been protected in their rights.” CLEVELAND A FREE-TRADER. The President-Elect Is at the Head of America’s First Free-Trade Club. Cincinnati Special. Frank Ilurd, the Toledo congressman, has been spending several days in Cincinnati, attending, to legal business. He told this story yesterday at tho Grand Hotel, in the presence of ex-Mayor Means and several Democrats of local prominence. The first free trade club in America, he says, was in Buffalo after the civil war. The meeting was called by leading Buffalo Democrats and a few free trade Republicans. They met in the law oflico of Bissell & Cleveland and perfected the organization of the Free trade Club. This organization exists to-day. and Grover Cleveland is its president. He was elected president at the start and has continued to be its president ever since. Mr. Ilurd was asked why these facts were kept quiet during the campaign. He replied that when Cleveland became prominent in politics each member of the club was instructed to keep the matter secret for fear that protectionist prejudices would injure his prospects. Out of personal good will toward him all the members have been very close-mouthed about the matter. Some time ago Mr. Hurd had a conversation with Mr. Bissell, in which both expressed surprise that the secret had been kept so well, and according to Mr. Hurd's views Cleveland is a radical free-trader, who will advance his ideas when iu power. Hurd says the idea of Randall going into the Cabinet is bosh, as Cleve land’s free-trade views will not permit such a recognition of protection. Catharine Club Vs Marriage. Reading, Jan. 1. —A sequel to the hasty marriage of Miss Catharine Clubb, the only daughter of a wealthy citizen of this place, to Franklin Herdvman, who served five years in jail here some years ago, was developed here to-day, when it became known that the bride of a few days intended applying for sf divhrce. When the groom returned to Reading, after seven years’ absence, be registered at tho hotels as Francis Newman. The Herald says of the affair: “Herdyman came back to Reading dressed in the finest clothes, sporting an elegant watch and plenty of money. Ho formed the acquaintance of Miss Clubb on the streets, and, being of fine address, a mutual attachment sprang up between them, aud they were married. After the ceremony they both repaired to the bride's home, from which the bridegroom went to his hotel, where he spent the night. The bride now claims that she did not know that Newman was Herdym,n, and intends applying for an immediate divorce, which, it is alleged, tho husband will resist.” Herdvman is now in Philadelphia, but intends returning to Reading iu a few days. The bride's father is worth several hundred thousand dollars, ’

The Liquor Traffic in I>os Moines. Des Moines. la., Jan. I.—The enforcement of the temperance laws in Des Moines is by no means flattering to prohibition workers. Last June over fifty saloons paid licenses at the rate of SI,OOO a year, and at the present time fully as many places where spirits are sold, with little attempt at concealment, are running, making enormous profits. Many of these places have made application to the board of supervisors for a permit to sell at wholesale for "medicine, culinary, and sacramental purposes only,’’ which will be considered at the January session. The board .is Democratic by oiiq majority. Whether an injunction would lie against the board granting such permits lias not been considered. One of the three dormant breweries has resumed operations, and a prominent hotel has refurnished its bar, which has been closed for six months. A Husband's Cruelly. • New York, Jan. L —At Winfield, L. 1., a terrible case of cruelty was brought to light. Last June Mrs. Katie Schmeller. wife of a prosperous tailor of that place, gave birth to a child. Two days after her confinement the husband insisted on her going to work in the tailor store. She worked in the shop for two days, and she not being able to perform the task assigned her, the husbendlocked herself and child up in a dingy room in the attic, without any bed or covering, save the clothes she had on.* He supplied her with food every day, but without knife, fork or spoon. She was afraid to leave the house, because ho had threatened to shoot her. When the cold weather set in she could stand it no longer, and fled to the house of a neighbor, where she novr lives. Sho i3 about to bring suit against her husband for the support of herself and Child. Mr. Sullivan’s Grievance. New York, Jan. 1. — In a conversation concern iMg the reports of his attack on a defenseless girl in Boston, John L. Sullivan said: “The Associated Press agent in Boston lias been tryingto injure me for a long time. I don't know what his object is, unless it is to injure my reputation. I believe ho is connected with the Herald, and when I leave here Saturday for Boston I shall begin proceedings against the authors of these stories. This story was made out of a simple fact of inv having tapped a girl on the face with a boxing glove held in my hand. As to my household affairs being broken up, that is merely a continuation of the former nonsense. My family are now in Rhode Island, and I am going back there to live.” Bark Wrecked and Fire Men Browned. San Francisco, Jan. L —News was received this morning of the wreck of the German bark Lile. near Petrola, Humboldt county, CaL, on Dec. 26. The vessel left Cork on Oct 5, for San Francisco. Frst officer Van Lofner, the cook, G. Rrone, and three seamen—F. Pamzner, 0. Daiukeff, and F. Burrydorff—-were drowned. The captain and others were saved. The vessel and cargo are a total loss. Boiler and Press Works Burned. Nashua, N. H., Jan. I.—Fire destroyed the boiler and steam press works of I. J. Crawford and damaged the store house of Henry Stearns. Crawford’s loss is $17,000; partly insured. Mark Twaia Sues tlie I*rioe-Cutters. Boston, Jan. I.— Mark Twain has instituted a suit to restrain Estes & Laurie t, publishers, from sailing his new hook below the subscription pric*.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY. JANUARY 2, 1885.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. A Man Relieved of Suspicion of an Awful Crime —The Kokomo First National Bank Goes Into Liquidation. - INDIANA. A Mystery Explained and a Man Relieved of Suspicion of Murder. Special to the lndianaoolig Journal. Westfield, Jan.1. —Nineteen years ago next April Albert, son of Dr. J. L. Benson, of this place, suddenly disappeared from home, and as one John Patterson disappeared about the same time, it was supposed that young Benson had been foully dealt with and that Patterson was responsible. Some three years later information was received that Patterson was in Missouri and had been convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged. This strengthened the theory that young Benson had been murdered, and every out-of-the-way place in this part of Hamilton county was searched for him, but no tidings of his whereabouts was obtained, hence he was given up as dead, and inquirey ceased. On Wednesday last Mrs. A. L. Barker, sister of the missing one, received a letter from him, which tells of eighteen years of roaming over this and other countries. He has now settled in Jefferson county, Kentucky. A Kokomo Bank Goes Into Liquidation. Special to tho Indiauauolis Journal. Kokomo, Jan. 1. — The First National Bank has gone into voluntary liquidation, that conclusion having been reached to-night. A steady but quiet run has been made during the past thirty days, and the deposit line has been reduced about $100,000. The assets are ample to pay all creditors in full. The bank had applied for an extension of charter, which expired on the 11th inst. Minor Notes. W. C. DePauw & Cos., of New Albany, are the lowest bidders on plate glass for the new Cincinnati postoffice building. Gray Griffith, aged fourteen years, was drowned in Flatrock river, near Columbus, while boating. Two others in. the boat with him escaped. A young man named Lewis, from Battle Creek, Mich., on a visit to his father, near Portland, while out coon hunting, had his arm blown off by the explosion of his gun. At Evansville, a woman named Solomon, eighty years old, wandering aimlessly about tbe street, has been taken to the city jail—the Evansville home for the aged. Fred W. Heath, of the firm of Heath & Cos., bankers and brokers, of Muntie, and Miss Laura Bennett, of the same place, were married yesterday, Revs. Simpson and Stabler officiating. The fountain presented the city of Madison by the Odd-fellows will arrive in a few days and be set up. Its size can be estimated when it is known that two cars are required for its transportation. Henry Sclmitzer, of Garrett, undertook to drink what he thought was cider with a cold lunch. The liquid proved to be concentrated lie- He drank several swallows and is dangerously sick. B. J. Ice, who had a dry goods store at Anderson and one at Marklesville, a village in the south part of Madison county, has made an assignment. Henry J. Bronmenberg was appointed assignee. The liabilities are about $15,000, with $7,000 assets. At Connersville, the historic law suit of W. T. Dale and others against L. R. and O. I. Thomas is now on its third trial. It began sixteen years ago, and has been through the Supreme Court twice. Some of the original parties died off and their administrators have taken their places.

ILLINOIS. Members of the Bloomington Bar Call on Hon. David Davis. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Bloomington, Jan. I.— One of the pleasantest incidents of New Year's day was a congratulatory call made upon ex-Vice-president David Davis and his wife, at their home in this city, by twenty-five members of the McLean county bar. Senator Davis was delighted, and spoke briefly and feelingly. Speeches wero made by Judges Reeves and Beads, and several other members of the bar. Brief Mention. There is a project on foot for erecting a millccondensing factory at Highland. Mrs. Jean Lindsey, relict of Rev. James Lir '- sey, of Bloomington, died at her home in Lil . Tazewell county, aged ninety-five years. Professor James H. Brownlee, of the South "••n Illinois Normal School, lias been made presh, at of the State Teachers' Association for the e/.su ing year. At Rockford a burglar entered the house o ? R. D. Woodruff, and holding a revolt- r at the h< ads of Woodruff and his wife, took $223 worth of jewelry and left. At Waukegan, cm Tuesday, tho rope of a bucket in which debris was being lifted out of a well, broke, and the bucket fell upon George Heiting, breaking his skull. Near Shelbyville, Alexander Andes; a conductor on the Peoria, 1 iecatur & Evansville railroad, fell from a freight car into Biack river, on Tuesday night, and was drowned. Only nine of the thirteen Peoria distilleries are now in active < Deration, and using only 12.000 bushels of grain daily. The revenue collections from the Peoria district for December were $1,103,920. * At Carmi the head of the mud-drum of the steam engine at Staley <fc Zeigler’s flouring mills blew’ out. The escaping steam badly scalded George Woolheater, the engineer, on the arms, face and neck. Two unknown persons called at night at the house of Joseph Ramey, living near Vienna, llamey was in bed. and his wifo and two children went to the door. As the door was opened a gun was discharged, each of the family receiving a portion of the shot. The would-be assassins then fled. Ramey had a week before received a notice to leave the country, on account of trouble growing out of a recent murder. Near Vandalia a party of searchers rescued two trappers named Smith and Carr, who have been in the Okaw bottom, just south of there, for a week, unable to get out, owing to the high water. They had given up all hope of a rescue, and, when found, were wrapped up together in their blankets and perched upon a box, half submerged by water. They had to bo carried and placed in the boat, being almost dead from hunger and exposure. The Rev. R. N. Smith, of Sterling, who was expelled from the ministry by the Rock River Conference for alleged adultery with two widow s of his church, has written a letter in which he says he has no further object or interest in life but to vindicate liis character and confuse the conspirators. He adds: “In closing, I want to declare my innocence of the vile and blasphemous charges made by these two conspirators, and to say that they are but the fulfillment of the threats of Mrs. Maria Libby, made when I hurled her from my lap, where she- had indelicately thrown herself. She turned, and shaking her fist in my face, said: ‘I see it now, know that you hate me, but I will be revenged. R. M. Smith, I will be your ruin.’” Further Reduction of Telegraph Tolls. New York, Jan. I.— The announcement of lower rates oa the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph lines has attracted attention among telegraph men, and provoked comments on that class of business. As published, it gives the impression that previously existing rates have been greatly reduced. At tho office of the Mutual Union Telegraph Company it was stated that the re- - Auctions, in but few eases, are only 5 cents

below the rates given by that company for six months past to the points mentioned. The Mutual Union Company now announces further reduction of rates from New York as follows: To Chicago, 15 cents; to Louis, Cincinnati and intermediate points, 20 cents. To all offices in Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut, and to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, 10 cents. The rates by the Mutual Union lines to all points West to and including St. Louis and Chicago have been but 20 cents since July. The rates now given are in no case higher, and to many points are lower, than those given by the B. & O. Company. IS HE PLAYED OUT? Scorching Comment on Mr. Beecher and His Recent Speech. New York Sun. The political congregation of Plymouth Church looks coldly upon its political pastor while he flounders in the hottest of hot water. When he first began to speak in the late campaign a chill came over his emotional followers m Brooklyn. As lie proceeded on his edifying career, unpacking his heart wit h words and scolding like a drab, they congealed into stony indifference. Since then nothing has moved them. He has hurled his best phrases at them, put on his liveliest eait of aeting, beaten tbe brass of his eloquence, and filled all the air about him with bis grievous sincerity. They have looked on in open-eyed and dismal apathy, and the more they have congealed the warmer it has grown for Beecher. He is at his wit’s end. Never before was he in such a fix. No matter how deftly his skilled fingers run over the keys, the great instrument with which heretofore he has been in such perfect acoord is silent; it makes no response. He has punctured the bellows of its emotions, wounded it in the recesses of its political sentiments, where its feelings are the most real and its convictions the deepest, aud he can play on it no more. Beecher is in a bad way. When he was in his great emergency before,he addressed himself with deperato cheerfulness to the task of lying his way out of it. The measure of his success was in a direct ratio to the degree of sympathy he inspired in the peoplo he appealed to; and the natural consequence was that while he grappled to.hirn the essential few he incurred the contempt of the unbelieving many. Then, too, ho had an emotional and frenetic sort of mendacity of which he is a master, and to which a certain morbid tendency that he had cultivated in his audienco made them an easy prey. Now. however, he is concerned iu lying of another kind, a colder and more commonplace form of mendacity, with no novelty in it •arid none of the quality that appeals to the imagination and substitutes warm impulse for the slower judgment of deliberate reason. He makes a poor fist of it. He has invented a now set of charges against the Republican party, ascribes new motives to himself for his course in the campaign, says he was actuated by his solicitude for the South, takes back his vehement assertion that all the men in New York were libertines and profligates, aud lies north, south, east and west with the vigor and the candor of a railroad map. But it doesn’t seem to be of any use. Tho people who wept with him when he was on the ragged edge and who covered his nest-hiding with garlands of flowers, the deacons who wept publicly and opened their coffers to his need, show no more feeling than so many wall-eyed pike. His friends may bolster up the pew rents next week and make a show of escape for their battered pastor; they may drag new elements into the congregation and fill the vacancies left by the sad-eyed seceders; but the impression prevails tbat Beecher has praueed up and down the vertebra) of Plymouth Church just once too often.

Mr. Randall's Horse Talk. Nashville Letter. While our pleasant host, General Jackson, was telling us about horses, their dams, etc., Mr. Randall listened with an appearance of deep interest and a knowing look. Said General Jackson: ‘'That horse was entered in fifty races, and secured places in all but three of them.” “Ah, yes,’’ said Mr. Randall, impressively, “you mean that in each race you determine what place he will be in at the close, and he has made that place every time but three.” General Jackson turned pale, and after a moment of struggle with his shirt collar, which suddenly appeared to be too small for him, and a look of great respect at the great statesman, mingled with pity: he said: “Well, ah, no; hardly. I mean he was first, second or third every time but three. Horses who don’t do this have no place in races. They are not named and have no position.” This story teaches that a man maybe a statesman and a high-tariff Democrat and talk learnedly on subjects appertaining thereto, and still find it advisable to go slow on horse talk. The Whisky Taxes. Washington Special in Sow York Commercial Advertiser. The whisky men are in a very happy frame of mind over the recent opinion of the Attorneygeneral, under which they are assured that Secretary McCulloch will extend them needed relief in delaying for a year to come the taxes falling due. Secretary McCulloch regards the whisky interest as a very important one in a business point of view, and that it is the duty of the government not to push it to such an extent as will disturb or threaten it with disaster, if it can bo done without violating the law. The whisky men say that Secretary McCulloch is disposed to construe the laws more liberally than did the late Secretary Folger. One effect of the relief to be extended to the whisky trade will be to deprive the government of upward of $20,000,000 of revenue during the next rive months, which amount entered into the estimate of probable receipts during the present fiscal year. Selling Stock to Buy Bibles. New York Special. The American Bible Society offers for sale $40,000 in New York 7 per cent, consolidated stock. This is done because the society needs money. It is the second sale of securities for the same purpose, and Mr. Taylor said: “The funds to be sold are a part of the earnings of the society, twelve or fifteen years ago, when our income in every direction was larger than it is now. The stocks are sold because with the increase of population come increasing demands on us for Bibles. We are particularly concerned just now in .sending Bibles through the South, among the freedmen, and in the new Northwest. To.get money we issued a general circular asking for Contributions, but the result was disappointing. Money must be had, or the society must contract its field.” Fatally Beaten by Burglars. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. I.—A special dispatch to the Times from Wilmington. Del., says that on New Year's eve two burglars entered the home of a widow named Rooney, at Wilmington, for the purpose of stealing $30,000, which they had heard she had just received. Not being able to find the money, and thinking it was hid somewhere in the house, the villains badly beat her and subjected her to fiendish cruelties. After being given $3 they departed. Mrs. Rooney’s injuries will probably result fatally. _ Heavy Reduction of Wages. Pittsburg, Pa,. Jan. 1. —The Pittsbnrg Bessemer Steel Work, at Homestead, have posted a notice that on Wednesday next they will reduce the wages of the employes in their railmill 33 per cent; those in the converting-mill 20 per cent., and those of laborers 10 per cent. The works employ about 1,000 men. The reduction will not afflict the operatives who belong to tle Amalgamated Association. These comprise a majority of the skilled workmen, and about half of the total foree. F. W. Whitlow Found Dead. Wilmington, N. C., Jan. I.—A welldressed stranger was found dead with his throat cut to-day. A knife covered with blood was lying near him. On his person was a|gold watch, s,>o, and a check book on the South Bend, Ind, National Bank, showing deposits of $2,300 by F. W. Whitlow. He had a cork leg. He Reads Between the Lines and Smiles. Philadelphia TMcgTaph. If Hendricks doesn't tie crape on his arm after reading that civil service letter of Cleveland's. it will probably be because he prefers to mourn in private. Meamubip News. , Nw York, Jan. 1. —Arrived: State of Pennsylvania, from Ghugow; from Antwerp; Europe, fromMamburg.

NEW YEAR’S AT TIIE CAPITAL [Concluded from First Page.] - counts. Conviction upon any one of these counts would have insured a sentence to the penitentiary for a term of years. The district authorities alone are responsible for Captain Howgate’s escape, and are the only ones to act in recovering him. For some unexplained reason the officers in the district attorney's office have never raised their hands to find out where Howgate is or to bring him back for conviction and punishment Howgate stole from the government over $300,000. It was a very good percentage of his ill-gotten stealings that went to certain merchants in this town who connived at his making of fraudulent vouchers. The process was a simple one. A dishonest merchant with an account of, say, $600, for a consideration might sign a blank voucher which could be used for a voucher representing $6,000. This Howgate matter, if opened up pretty thoroughly, would show the necessity ot an absolute and sweeping change in everything relating to the prosecution of crime in this District. It could be shown that those who were chiefly responsible for the prosecution of Howgate were his intimate and boon companions. Before his exposure these officials had often accompanied him upon his yacht down the Potomac. Through their intimacy, with him it is certain that they practically connived at his escape, and so far as any fear of prosecution is concerned, he might walk the streets of Washington to-day. GUARDING THE ELECTORAL RETURNS. The Difference Between Now and Eight Years Ago. Washington, Jan. 1.—The way the returns of the electoral votes of the States, as they are delivered to acting Vice-president Edmunds, are held preparatory to the final declaration of the two Houses of Congress, differs from that of 1870 as widely as the circumstances of that year differ from those of the present. Now they are placed in the safe with no ordinary precautions, for there ig no necessity for them. The returns of 1870, as they were delivered to acting Vicepresident Ferry, were put under extra locks and guards, day and night During the period of suspense, down to the action of the Electoral Commission, the greatest vigilance was observed. Threats from different quarters, as well as the excited state of the country, led to extraordinary precautions. One hundred extra policemen were sworn in and placed on guard night and day. The number was occasionally increased. This was done once in consequence of reports of plans maturing in Baltimore to make a descent on the Capitol to seize the returns. They were in a safe in a room at the Senate end of the Capitol. At all hours that room was closely guarded. Unknown to any one but the Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, at nights a man locked himself in that room, and remained without a light and in silence till morning. One night he carelessly drew a match to light a cigar. Though it was for an instant only, the light was seen and the alarm raised that all was not right in that room. The door was shaken and a call made, but the man inside remained silent. Preparations were made to force the door, and the Sergeaut-at-arms was sent for. After hearing the report of the officer of the night, he found a way to delay forcing operations till morning, when" the guard were relieved and the man inside came forth to confess his carelessness and receive a proper reprimand. The sudden light was a mystery to the guard as long as they were on duty. When the Senate went to the House to meet in joint session to count the votes, the box containing the returns was placed in the possession of a chosen man, who was strongly flanked on the way by the guards, but with as little display as possible, while the joint meetings were being held. Guards were posted in the galleries, on the floor—especially in the vicinity of the Speaker’s desk where the box was —throughout the Capitol building and in the approaches. This was kept up with military precision throughout the suspense, down to March 4. Meanwhile precautions on a larger scale were taken by men higher in office. A military force was concentrated in and about Washington, and held in readiness for any emergency—that of inaugurating Hayes, protected by bayonets, if necessary. A Cabinet official at that time said recently: “The preparations for a great emergency were more extensive than any record shows. The country was nearer its greatest crisis than was known, except to a few.”

THE INAUGURATION. Information for Intending Visitors —reparations for the Grand Hall. Washington, Jan. I.—The inauguration committee desire that organizations intending to visit Washington should communicate with the committee, stating the number of persons included in the organization, its intended stopping place, and other particulars, so that positions in the line of the procession may be reserved for them, and other necessary arrangements made. The Albany Jackson Corps, numbering seventy men and a band of twcnty-flvo musicians, has signiiied its intention to attend,, and has applied for a place in the line. The commandant writes that the corps has tendered its escort from Albany to Washington to the Presidentelect, who is a life member of the organization, but no reply lias yet been received. The committee on public order express a determination to have Pennsylvania avenue, from the Capitol to the White House, cleared of all kinds of vehicles and obstructions on the 4th of March, so that the procession may not be thrown into disorder. The committee states that the inaugural ball will be made a prominent feature of the occasion, and is expected to surpass any. thing of the kind ever attempted in this country. Work is progressing rapidly on the Pension Building, and the grand ball-room will undoubtedly be completed in season. The court of the building, which will be roofed over to form the ball-room, is 31G feet in length by 114 feet in width, and surrounded by three tiers of corridors twen-ty-two feet in width. This magnificent structure affords opportunity for decorations of the most striking and elaborate description, which the committee quarantees shall be provided. It is estimated that 15,000 guests can bo accommodated, but the number of tickets will be limited to 12,000, Quite a lively contest is in progress between musical organizations for the honor of furnishing the music for the ball. Dodworth’s band of New York, the Germanic orchestra of Philadelphia and the Marino band of this city are the most prominent competitors. The committee has practically decided to have three bands; one will be stationed in the center of the hall for dance music, aud the others for jjromenade musics General and Personal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, Jan. I. Major W. H. Calkins arrived here from New York late last night. He will remain until next week, probably, on professional business. Lycurgus Dalton, postmaster of tho House, was presented with a haudsomo gold-headed cane yesterday by employes in the postoflice. D. S. Alexander, commander of the G. A. R. post here, wa3 at the head of a procession of veterans who called upon tho President to-day. Ruined by Swedish Cheap Coding. Philadelphia Telegraph. Your British free-trader is very much like your Americau protectionist in one important particular, lie believes implicitly, heartily, and unreservedly, in the principles and practices of free trade when such principles and practices are of immediate and unequivocal benefit to liis pocket. When they work the other way about, he is as good a protectionist as you will find anywhere. Vide the case of the London undertakers —‘■‘funeral directors’' they call themselves in those parts—who are greatly exercised just now on the subject of coflins made of Swedish and Norway pine, which are first used for pack-, ing boxes for toys, and then sold to peoplo who ■can't uffurdcostly funerals at rates with which the Loudon undertakers cannot compete. Exactly what the undertakers are going to do about this matter don’t appear very distinctly, but that

thoy are opposed first, last, and all the time to cheap Norway coffins, the Cobden Club’s theories to the contrary notwithstanding, seems to be an unequivocal fact. The Fatal Caba Habit. Minneapolis Tribune. Philadelphia magistrates are advising ladies to discard the caba, says the Inquirer. We did not know the deadly caba habit had reached Philadelphia; but, if it has, then the magistrates are right in advising the ladies to discard it, for what is to become of American womanhood if once the poisonous caba gets a foothold in this country? The caba is an Indian herb, which is chewed by the natives of that country almost as universally as tobacco is in this. It is supposed to impart brilliancy to the eyes and clearness to the complexion. For a time it has a slightly exhilarating effect, but in a few short months the person addicted to it becomes a mental and physical wreck. It is a greater curse than whisky ot opium, and we hope the dreadful habit will b stopped before it spreads beyond the Quaker Indian Heirs to a Noted Estate. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In the Chouteau partition suit pending i% Judge Adams’s court two noble red men of the wild West, with the distinguished names of Little Bear and Begahitit were made partiesdefendant as the husbands of Sophia and Louisa Chouteau. It appears that one of the elder Chouteaus, in his rambles in the Rockies, left two little mountain flowers, who, in time, bloomed and blossomed into womanhood, assumed their father’s name, and ultimately fell a prey to the soothing flattery of Little Bear and Begahitit, and were by them led to the altar. Hence the appearance of their names in ths court records this morning. A Joyful Election Story. Tampa (Fla.) Tribune (Dera), We. as city fathers, very promptly introduced Georgia laws and customs to govern the election, aid it worked like a charm. We were also favored with a Georgiy attorney to consult, and everything savored so strong of Georgia that w are wont in the future to write Plant City, Ga. We introduced the Georgia system of numbering the ballots of each voter, and by this means we were able to expel from the ballot-box before the counting of the ballots the votes of a few independents, so far as to make doubly sure the election, and everything is supremely happy in and around our town. Heathens with Only One Name. Harvard Lampoon. One of the Japanese students, while out for a stroll, was accosted by a sophomore with the inquiry, “What's your name?” The gentleman from Japan answered politely, giving his surname. “Ob,” rejoined the questioner, “you heathens don’t have hut one name, I see.” “What was the first name of Moses?” was the reply. To Their Credit. Boston nernld. The wealthy men of Gotham find it easier t® raise SIOO,OOO to place General Grant on his feet than to secure an equal amount to furnish a pedestal for the statue of Liberty. -And it is to their credit that it is so. Grant has done mor® for liberty than any statue that was ever carved or molded. No Business Ability. Pittsburg Clironicle-Diepatch. “He never possessed the business ability of hig brother,” remarked old Shortmargins. "“Whyy James defaulted for half a million before he had been in business five years, and I very much doubt if Lewis is in a position to default for half that much to this day!” The Matter with Beecher. Philadelphia Press. Henry Ward Beecher explains and justifies his campaign conduct and manifests a strong disnosition to bo forgiven. We are willing. W® have thought all along that Brother Beecher must have been drugged.

NO POISON IN THE PASTRY IF sHI EXiRAQTSITSED. Vanilla,Yiemon,Orange, etc., flavor Cakes* delicately mid nai* urally a* the fruit from which they are made* FOR STRENGTH AND TRUE FRUIT FLAVOR THEY STAND ALONE. PREPARED BY THI Price Baking Powder Cos., Chicago* 111. St. Louis, Mo. MAKERS OF Dr. Price’s Gream Baking Powder —AND— Dr. Price’s Lnpnlin Yeast Gems, Seat Dry Hop Yeast. X'OSi S.A.IBX G-BSOCZEISafiL WE MAKE BUT ONE QUALITY. Administratrix's Sale of Real Estate. Notice is hereby given that, by virtue of a decree of the Marion Circuit Court, on THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1885, At ten (10) o’clock in the forenoon, at the law o?Sc* of Baker, Herd <fc Hendricks, No. 23 South Pennsylvania street, in Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana, tlie undersigned, as administratrix of the estate of William H. Morrison, late of said county of Marion, deceased, will sell at private sale, to make assets to pay the debts of said estate, and for not less than the appraised value thereof, the following described real estate, in Marion county and State of Indiana, to-wit: Lot. number twelve (12), in square number sixty* five (05), in the city of Indianapolis, the interest to be sold is the absolute title, including both the interest of said estate and the widow’s interest, and to be sold as free of incumbrance. The lot is situated at the northeast corner of Meridian and Maryland streets, and has upon it a substantial four-story brick building running from Meridian street east to the alley at the east end of the lot. The building contains Swo large business rooms, one occupying the north half other the south half of the lot. The property can be sold as a whole or in two parcels, each of the north and south halves constituting oae parcel The terms of sale are, in case of sale of the whole lot to one purchaser, not less than ten thousand (10.000) dollars cash, and, in case of sale in parcel*, not less than five thousand (5.000) dollars cash, in in either case the residue to be paid in installments, the hist maturing not later than eighteen (18) month* from day of sale, the deferred payments to be evidenced by the purchasers’ notes, bearing six (0) per cent, interest from date. auJ attorneys’ foes, and waiving relief from valuation and appraisement law*, the deferred payments to be secured by mortgage upon the property purchased. If the pro|erty, or any part of it, is not sold on the day named, it will be for sale at the same place on the same terms, continuously from day to day till sold. An abstract of the title may be seen at the office of Baker, Hord & Hendricks at any time. Persons desiring to purchase all or any part of the property, or desiring further particulars, should call upon or address the attorneys above named. MARY MORRISON, Administratrix. D. A. BOHLEN & SON, ARCHITECTS, 05 East 4 Etraat. } INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Telephone 744. *