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THE. DAILY JOURNAL. P.Y JNO. C. NEW * SOX. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1885. jl— . z=r '■ ■ 1 -' -.1 THE INDIANAPOLIS JOLKNAL. Can b* font-. 4 at tbn following placa*. LONDON —AmeiitAn Excaange ia Knropo, 449 <&rand. PARIS —Anioriean Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulevard don Capucmes. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHIU AGO—Palmer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley A Cos.. 154 Vine Street. LOUTSITU.K—C. T. Doarins. northwest corne Third and Jefferson streets. ITT. T/OFTS—Union News Company, Anion Depot and Southern Hotel Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 J Editorial R00m5.... 242 It won't be very long until Kentucky letters will all have to be addressed to Canada. wmmMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmm Law seems to be enforced in the criminal court. But when shall we hear from the graml jury about tho robber}’ of those ballots? TnE Globe-Democrat says that “James F. Legate holds in his possession letters, written by St. John, authorizing him to do precisely what he did.” Ip Indiana Democratic statesmen don’t keep their hands off, Joseph E. McDonald will stand no chance at all of getting into Cleveland’s Cabinet It is all wrong to condemn such men as Most to bo flogged, but if communism gets a hold in the United States, the day will come when the people will wisli he had been. The people who pay taxes, and who are interested in the prosperity of the city, are unanimous in demanding a reasonable and proper enforcement of the laws in the interests of public morals and good order. Rats. cutting by the several steamship Companies makes it possible to sail from New York to Antwerp for $lO. Mr. Frenzel might take advantage of the opportunity to study the customs in countries where laws are enforced as vritten. Men who thought that the Republican party was not good enough have the satisfaction of seeing public affairs in the hands of a party represented by John P. Frenzal and a Legislature that refuses to make a showing of the State's moneys. - Will the Democratic State officers force Mr. J. W. Murphy into an abandonment of his place ns a member of the Board of Police Commissioners, or compel him to resume allegiance to what, for want of a better name, we call “Frenzelism.” During the past eight months the city of Chicago has realized $1,400,000 from saloon licenses. Sipce the traffic in liquor will go on, it is a wise thing to compel it to pay something liko a share of the expense attendant u|>on and resulting from the sale of intoxicants.

While the outcome does not of necessityfollow the principle involved, the metropolitan police law has resulted in scandalizing the people of Indianapolis. It has made the execution of law u farce, and has done more to bring it into disrepute than all other lawlessness committed in ten years. The would-be traveler has often noticed with surprise and regret that great reductions in railroad passenger rates are invariably Xnade in an opposite direction from that in which he wishes. So few of us, for instance, are emigrants who can take advantage of the one-dolhir fare from New York to Chicago. A NUMBER of United States senators were elected yesterday.* In this State, Mr. Voorhees, of course, was elected, and in New York Mr. Evarte. In Colorado Secretary Tellor failed of election, he not receiving a majority in the Senate, but it is expected he will be chosen on the first joint ballot to-day. In Pennsylvania Mr. Cameron was elected. The Century Magazine has made a most ibrilliaut editorial and business stroke in securing a series of papers from the pen of General Grant. Nothing more notable as a piece of enterprise could have been conceived. We print this morning copious extracts from the General’s first paper, which apiears in the February Century. It gives the old commander’s story of Shiloh. SINCE the story gained circulation that a fortune of seventy-five millions is in the bank of England awaiting the discovery of the legal heirs of John Sands, who emigrated from that country to Pennsylvania, in the seventeenth century, the claimants who have suddenly sprung up are numerous as the sands of the sea. It may be added, also, that the individuals of one family are quite as likely to share the millions as the atoms of the other. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat invites Mr. St. Johu to sue for libel. It promises him a Democratic judge, a Democratic or Prohibition jury, and if he wants it, he himself may be the foreman of the jury, and then “before the close of the case he will be compelled to acknowledge, with tears in his eyes, thats he is the worst political dead-beat ever known to American politics. He will publicly thank us, In the name of the Prohibition party, for exposing him/* It is reassuring in these dull times to read the discovery of a silver mine in Georgia di*t the owners declare “$20,000,000 could

not buy.” A shadow is thrown ovor the claim by tbo statement that the vein has been traced through a mountain, a distance of eight or nine miles, with an electric machine. It will be recalled that an induction balance failed to locate the ball in Garfield’s body, though the most convincing claims were put forward in its support. As was outlined in yesterday’s Journal as a possibility, the Democratic State officers have addressed a letter to Mr. John P. Frenzel, in which they a?k him to recall his resignation as a men)her of the Board of Police Commissioners, because they would regret “to lose his valuable services,” and because of “the faithful maimer in which you have discharged the trust.” Now, let us see about this. In his letter of resignation. Mr. Frenzel gives as the reason for leaving his office that “a different policy has been determined upon by a majority of the board, in which 1 do not concur.” What is that “different policy?” Let Mr. J. W. Murphy, president of the board, answer. Here is a quotation that tells the story, taken from tho Journal of Sunday last: “The proposition was that the superintendent of police be instructed to enforce all laws according to the letter of them, and that, therefore, all saloon keepers be notified, through the press and the patrolmen, that on and- after Wednesday, Jan. 21, they will be required to close their places at 11 o'clock and not to open them on Sundays at any time. ‘This means 11 o’clock, too, and not 12/ said Mr. Murphy very emphatically.” So we have Mr. Frenzel resigning his office because he could not concur in a “policy” to “enforce all laws according to the letter of them,” and that on and after Wednesday, Jan. 21, saloon-keepers “wiil be requix*ed to close their places of business at 11 o’clock and not to open them on Sundays at any time.” This is the “different policy” which Mr. Frenzel cannot concur in, and which is inferentially condemned by Governor Isaac P. Gray and the other Democratic State* officers. We ask the people of the city and of the State to look at this spectacle. The Police Board to enforce the laws, as they have sworn to do; one member resigns because he does not believe in enforcing the laws; thereupon the Governor of the State, and other State officers, write him a letter complimenting him upon his “valuable services,” and “the faithful manner in which you nave discharged the trust.” Was there ever a more shameful and shameless exhibition? Was there ever a more miserable prostitution of official power and place? Were ever solemn oaths of executive officer's more wantonly trampled in the dust? In all kindness we say to Governor Gray that he has dishonored himself and his office. He has sown the wind, and will reap the whirlwind before the expiration of his term of service. The Governor of the State cannot himself set the example of forgetting fealty to the laws; he cannot ostentatiously compliment a man who makes a virtue of his contempt for law and of his oath of office without expecting a storm of lawlessness and violence, which he will have no moral power, either in himself or in his office to repress. Governor Gray should not allow himself to be bound hand and foot by the Liquor League Philistines; he cannot afford to dawdle in the lap of the whisky Delilah. If lie does, he will suffer the loss of his locks and of his strength.

Senator Bailey, of this county, has come to the rescue of the saloon-keepers, by proposing an amendment to the liquor law so that they can keep open their places of business all night, although they must close on Sundays and on legal holidays. This is to do away with the “11 o’clock" clause, which hour, we presume, has been found to be “inconveniently early.” If Mr. Bailey knows anything of the history of saloons at all—and as a member of the Democratic party it is to be presumed ho has made something of a study of their political importance at least—he knows that a large majority of the crimes for which they are directly responsible grow out of the fact that they are kept open until a late hour at night. There would be very few brawls, and assaults, and murders if saloons were peremptorily closed at a reasonable hour at night. We think 11 o’clock fully late enough. Mr. Hendricks thought 9 “inconveniently early," but he did not object to 11. Mr. Bailey’s amendment is directly against the public peace, and in the interests of violence and immorality. Discussing the question of the enforcement of the prohibitory law in the State of lowa, the New YprkTribuue, which is foremost among the secular press in opposition to the liquor power, says: “The Tribune regards the prohibitory policy as one which ought in no case to be adopted, unless the people are disposed and determined to enforce it faithfully, honestly and thoroughly. It is far better to have upon the statute books no law whatever against the use of intoxicating liquors, than to have a law which the {eople refuse to enforce or to obey, and which therefore tends to bring all law into contempt. The effect of such legislation, where public opinion does not enforce it, is to weaken the cause of temperance, to destroy the influence of sincere and worthy reformers, to prevent the adoption of other methods which are at least in a measure effective, and to greatly diminish the force of those moral influences upon which, after all, any and every legislative iolicy of reform must finally depend for its success.” When Mrs. Julia Ward Howe took charge of the woman’s department at the New Orleans exposition she probably did not understand that she was to provide funds for putting the exhibits into shape. No provision had been made for this department, however, and Mrs. Howe took part in an entertainment which realized S6OO, and is now calling upon the women of New Orleans to save a disgraceful failure by contributing enough more to pay for the unpacking and arranging of the

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goods. While New Orleans papers were uttering harsh criticisms over the appointment of a Northern woman to the position, Mrs. nowe went on serenely to do the task the Southern sisters should already have accomplished. Governor Gray is lawyer enough to know that when Mr. John P. Frenzel “hereby tendered his resignation, to take effect immediately,” and filed the document with him, that that ended his official existence. To ask him to “recall” such a resignation is to make a joke of official place, the mere plaything and sport of the passing temper of an overly-conceited man. Mr. Frenzel ceased to be a police commissioner the moment he filed his resignation with the Governor. If the State officers desire to continue the services on the board of an individual who openly boasts that he does not concur in a policy looking to an enforcement of the law, the only way they can do it will be to re -elect him. The defaulting paymaster of the Northern Pacific'railway, who was captured in northern Michigan, explains that he was at work trying to earn money enough to make restitution to the company of the money he had embezzled. Who knows, now, but that is what the Canadian colony is doing? The members have been criticized for their anxiety to be let. alone; but perhaps it is because they dislike to be interrupted in the laborious efforts to pay their debts. The New York Evening Post, anti-Ropub-lican, says: “Air. J. S. Clarkson’s detailed statement of his negotiations with James F. Legate to get St. John out of the way as a Presidential candidate, discloses a very curious state of affairs. We think that Mr. Clarkson has sub stantially made out his case and redeemed his promise to provo St. John a mercenary rascal.’

High art votaries have their little foibles as well as the less gifted portion of mankind. Some of their eccentricities, indeed, are of a character the like of which no ordinary mortal would ever dream, but this, it may be claimed, is due to the same superiority of mind that leads them into tne realms of art at the beginning. A demonstration of tho vagaries of the artistic mind has recently occurred in London. A year ago Richare Ciaudo Belt, English sculptor, brought a libel suit against Charles Bennett Lawes, another sculptor, claiming damages on account of a charge made by the latter that he (Belt) did not model his own works, but palmed off as his own the productions of two obscure artists, whose names, were also mentioned. A long trial re suited in a verdict of $25,000 damages against Mr. Lawes, who, however, escaped payment of the amount, to which were added enormous court fees, by declaring himself bankrupt. A new face has been put upon the affair and a sensation caused in artistic circles by a confession made by Belt’s chief witness at the trial to the' effect that he and another witness had conspired to perjure themselves in Belt’s behalf, in order to share tho heavy damages which ho expected to receive. It is also mentioned dentally by this witness that Belt does not model what he calls his own work, and that the assertions of Lawes were founded ou fact Asa result of this disclosure Mr. Lawes was discharged by the Bankruptcy Court and will apply for a reversal of the verdict Some Philadelphia humanitarians secured a warrant for the arrest of a dime museum proprietor for excessive cruelty to a “wild man," whom he kept chained to a staple and clothed In filthy rags. When the humane citizens, with two police officers in their wake, arrived at the show, Hi Ki, the alleged wild man, snapped at them viciously, as was his custom when inquisitive visitors approached too closely. He also glared through the mat of hair that covered his face, and gave an inarticulate but ferocious growl. Iu spite of these savage indications, the citizens and the officers grappled with the monster, and in tho struggle, which was all on their side, the wig and matted beard came off, disclosing to view a jolly and sleek-faced negro, who gave his name as Hezekiah Thompson, and evinced great disgust at an interference which might, prevent his securing a week’s salary of five dollars. The humanitarians insisted that he was cruelly treated, and took him in charge, but as he probably knows a good job when he finds one, Hezekiah may be expected to find his way back. On Monday last Mr. Seth Franklin, a prominent citizen of Cleveland, was fearfully horsewhipped by a handsome widow named Knight Her grievance was that he had kept company with her and was about to go and marry a handsomer young lady. This was more than the widow could submit to, so she sought him and slashed nim. Those calling on Mr. Franklin to condole will doubtless remain to congratulate. He made a narrow escape when he forsook the widow. A Pittsburg pastor, who preached a sermon on “Hell” last Sunday, holds firmly to the belief th&t a literal hell of fire and brimstone exists now, and will exist forever. If he is in search of converts, it was a little unfortunate that he should have urged his dootrine just at this time. A burning pit is viewed with more or less complacency during a severe oold snap. If the aristocratic belles of Gotham look anything like the alleged portraits of themselves which appear in the New York World, there is no longer any room for surprise over the vast number of metropolitan youths who are taking advantage of the reduction in railroad fare to go West and grow up. The Iloosic Falls sister, who was disturbed by unruly boys while in attendance upon a revival, and who got down and prayed that the Lord might “make their hearts as soft as their heads,” took a cruel way to subdue them, but it certainly must have been effective. The statement that a New York banker ba3 just paid $45,000 for a Rembrandt painting must cause the stockholders and depositors to inquire within themselves, “Whose money did he do it with!” A nephew of the Scotch poet, Thomas Campbell, has been arrested in Parkersburg. W. Va., for stealing chickens. A case of hendecaayllabio heredity, porhapa. To thp Fdltor of ttio Indianapolis Jonrnat: What salary does the Vice-president command! h. Indianapolcßt . 18.000.

JEFF DAYIS AYD MS AMY. m —M ■■■ ■ Light in Which the Wonld-Be Dictator Was Regarded by the Rank and File. Ilis Unpopularity and Whence It Arose—Despotism in Richmond—The Move to Make Lee the Head of the Confederacy. T. J. Murray, In National Republican. At this late date, when the bitterness and heart burnings engendered by the civil war may reasonably be supposed to have nearly subsided, as far, at least, as the soldiery engaged on both sides are concerned, it is proper that all soldiers should add their mite of recollection of the contest to the general mass of material which is gradually being accumulated for the critical analysis of the historian of tlio future. I don't think that either federals or confederates need be ashamed to have the whole truth as to the four years of blood and agony published to the world for the benefit of posterity. No true and unbiased history of the contest can be written now, it is certain. Any one may realize this at a glance by turning over the pages of histories written from a federal and from a confederate standpoint, and comparing their conflicting staten^ents. During the winter before the collapse of the Confederacy, the writer was very frequently in Richmond and Petersburg, having been one of the officers of the guards of the trains running between the two cities, and was thus in a position to hear all the rumors current, and to note at first hand the prevailing public sentiment* I think that after the removal of General Joseph E. Johnston from the western army, the abortive attempt of his successor, General Hood, to raise the siege of Atlanta, and the success of General Sherman’s march to the sea, the feeling among the people of the South at large, and of the soldiers as well, was one of utter despondency. Indeed, civilian passengers on the trains, even though the writ of habeas corpus was suspended, and President Davis could with a wave of his hand cause the arrest and imprisonment of any person whom he might deem to be disaffected, just as Secretary Seward* on the other side claimed ho could do “by the tinkling of this little bell,” did not hesitate to damn the Confederate authorities, and to attribute to their fross mismanagement the untoward conition of affairs. It was perhaps my duty to have checked these discussions as having a bad effect on soldier passengers, but the truth is the charges chimed in with ray own belief. And here I may state that, as far as I can remember, President Davis was not a popular man in the army of Northern Virginia As far as my knowledge goes, he never visited the camps or reviewed the troops, and except for some highsounding, well-worded proclamations they might be said to have no acquaintance with him. The disaffection which existed among the mass of the people in the later stages of the war over the rigid, I might say ruthless, execution of the conscript act, the arbitrary collection of tax in kind by insolent tax-gatherers, who very often made their own Rweet will the measure of law and justice in making seizures of property, and, more than all. the suspension of habeas corpus by the confederate Congress at the peremptory demand of Mr. Davis himself, was naturally reflected in the camps. Whether from an honest conviction that the possible success of the cause depended on all the reins of power being held in a firm grip by the central authority, or whether an overweening vanity that induced the belief that his Buperominent ability was all-sufficient to guide the ship of state into a fair haven, it is pretty sure that Mr. Davis, during the last year of the war or thereabouts, was virtually the dictator of the confederacy. The Confederate congress met but to register his edicts, and all show of opposition was severely sat down upon. It will bo recollected how quickly Congressman Henry S. Foote was arrested and hustled out of the confederacy when he attempted, in his caustic style, to criticise some of tho messages of Mr. Davis. Though Mr. Davis virtually assumed autocratical powers, he did so under the plea of urgent military necessity, and the people and the armies quietly submitted. Had Mr. Davis assumed for a moment to be acting otherwise than as a constitutional President, he would have been thrust from office in less than twenty four hours by the troops. The files of the Richmond Examiner, then edited by John M. Daniel, for this period, would make mighty interes ting reading If they were accessible. He sometimes handled the Confederate authorities without gloves, as it were.

But when the fortunes of the Confederacy seemed to gravitate toward the lowest ebb the troops began to agitate around the camp-fires the proposition to set up Gen. Lee as supreme dictator. All confidence in the government at Richmond had been lost It is doubtful if Gen. Lee would have accepted the position, even at the unanimous demand of the army; but the ominous muttering fiom the front struck upon the auricular tympanum of the government, and. as a sop to Cerberus, so to speak, they hastened to appoint Gen. Lee commander in chief of all the Confederate armies. An act which might have been of benefit at an earlier stage of the contest came too late. It was a mere “barren ideality." Gen. Lee, as generalissimo of the forces, had neither time nor opportunity to exercise the functions proper to the office. The Confederacy was already in the death throes. In a previous letter I have spoken of the appalling number of desertions that occurred during the winter of 1864 05 from Gen. Lee's slender ranks. Those desertions were not owing entirely to privations and lack of rations. Many of the troops believed that it was useless to fight longer, and that to continue to battle longer against the overpowering numbers and resources of the North was simply to invite a further needless sacrifice of life and property. Now I don’t mean to say that the bulk of the array felt this way, Their conduct in subsequent fights proved the contrary, but the feeling existed among considerable numbers. There was another matter which contributed in a great measure to the dissatisfaction of the men under arms. The conscripts sent in to fill up the skeleton regiments were not of the class that sprang to arms enthusiastically at the outset of the war. These men were, as a rule, poor and ignorant, or such as had been skulking for years in swamps, and mountain fastnesses to avoid being compelled to bear a ride in front of the enemy. The better classes, if I may so style them, were but slimly represented in the conscript levies. It had come to such a pass that rich or intellectual men would make almost any sacrifice or pay any amount to keep their sons, arrived at military age, out of the service. Civil offices, which made the incumbent exempt from conscription, were the eagerly sought prizes, and the scramble for them was disgusting. Any bomb-proof position was a bonanza worth fighting for—such as conscript officers, conscript-camp guards, sutlers to posts, tax gatherers, et id genus omne. Why, in almost every county in Virginia, for instance, there were judges of circuit and county courts who never had any cases to try, and who perhaps never mounted the bench; there were clerks of court and assistant clerks, who never had occasion to record a transfer of property; there were sheriffs and deputy sheriffs and constables, and so on, who had no duties to perform from one year’s end to the other-all clinging desperately to their offices merely to keep from serving at the front. And. will it be believed? there were sheriffs and clerks of court, etc., from counties that hed been occupied by the federals since the beginning of the war, walking around Richmond with exemption papers, although their terms of office had expired. Even after West Virginia had been cut off from the old State, officials from counties beyond the Alleghanies claimed exemption from military service, although they had performed none of the duties of their offices for three years or more. The disgraceful phase of the matter was that the claims of these skulkers were recognized by the authorities, and there was always a soft Bpot found on which to dump the tender body of the son of military age* of a rich or influential man. These are frozen facts. Now, this was an encouraging state of affairs, truly, fer the men who were starving, freezing, and bleeding at the front and vainly crying out to have their ranks filled up. It is scarcely to bo wondered at that the troops Were dis-

couraged on witnessing such bareface official disregard of their services and their sufferings. It &3 more to be wondered at that a greater number did not desert than did, although for my part I do not deem desertion from the colors justifiable under any provocation or circumstances. About the middle of the winter, if I mistake not, a proposition was broached in Congress to eßlist regiments of negroes who might volunteer for the service, the corps to be officered entirely by white men. Os course the proposition was prompted by sheer desperation, and I doubt i whether enough negro volunteers could have been found in the entire confederacy to form a brigade, even if freedom had been offered on volunteering. But tho sapient legislators at the bidding of Mr. Davis, it is to be presumed, had no idea of offering this condition. They actually wanted the negro to fight to perpetuate his own slavery. After a hot debate, if I recollect aright, the asinine project was abandoned and the bill shelved. Had negro volunteers been called for earlier in the war, with the condition of freedom on enlistment attached, perhaps a corps sufficient could have been raised to perform garrison and prison duty, and such like, and an equal number of white troops would have been released for service in the field. But, as usual, in their bungliug manner, the authorities moved too late. They always lockod the stable after the horse had been stolen. Despite the fact that the Confederacy was almost at its last gasp, the old crazy cry that France and England had decided to recognize the confederate government was raised about the middle of January, and with such circumstances of particularity that the rumorgaiued credence in the camps, and I believe the Richmond papers gayo some credit thereto. Tho next desire of the Southern heart for peace was that the blockade of the ports should be raised. Whether the confederate authorities started this canard or not I don’t say, but for the time being it exercised an inspiriting effect upon the troops. There were also rumors of negotiations for peace being on the tapis. It was known that Francis P. Blair, sr., had of late made several visits to Richmond. Finally, it was announced that a peace commission, with Vice-president Stephens at the head, had set out for Fortress Monroe to confer with President Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln's terms were simple —“Let the confederate armies lay down their arms, other terms to be referred for subsequent discussion.” The first condition imposed by Mr. Davis was “Sepa ration —other matters to be settled afterward.” Thus negotiations were blocked, 1 may say, before they were begun, and as Sir. Davis doubtless intended they should be, for he could not have credited Mr. Lincoln with such phenomenal stupidity as to yield when he had the game virtually in his own hands, the principle for which he had been contending for four years—the indissoluble union of the States. Mr. Davis has since said, I understand, that he would not consent to Mr. Lincoln’s terms, because he feared the people of the confederacy would not sanction las action. I don't think he had any such fear, for, as I have said, the people of the South saw inevitable defeat staring them in the face on a continuance of the contest, and it would have been only common good sense to have made the best terms possible before being irretrievably ruined. Now, I have stated, as well as I can remember, what I heard and felt as a subordinate in Lee’s army during the winter referred to, and I am sure I have set down naught in malice.

A BEAUTIFUL MURDERESS. Developments During the Trial of Nellie Bailey, the Western Fiend. Wichita, Kan., Jan. 20. —The trial of Nellie 0. Bailey, the beautiful siren, for the murder of Clement Bothemly in the Indian Territory, on the 13th of October, 1883, began here yesterday, and a damaging case is being made against the fair prisoner. Owing to the wealth of the murdered man, the cold-blooded nature of the crime and the beauty of the defendant, the case is the sensation of the hour. Nellie Bailey is a brunette, now about twentytwo years old. She is well educated, and comes of a family that moved in the upper oircles of New York, the home of her girlhood, and New Jersey, the State of her birth. She was the wife of a prominent banker iu Sedgwick City, Kan., who died under mysterious circumstances while traveling with her in the Northwest. In fact it is stated that while on the witness-stand during ner preliminary examination, she made acknowledgements that show she knows more concerning the death of her husband than is known by the general public. Clement Bothemly, the man Mrs. Bailey is accused of killing, was a wealthy Englishman, and a member of the British Association. It is stated that his relatives, also very wealthy, reside in London. He first met Mrs. Bailey in St. Louis, became infatuated with her, and they lived together as man and wife. He was several years her senior, and she appears to have continued the relations existing between them for the purpose only of getting possession of his money. The facts brought out so far are to the effect that she arranged with him to go to Texas and start a sheep ranch. Before they left, howevor. she induced him to deed to her property in Kansas valued at $20,000, he making false statements in executing the instrument She assumed his name and represented herself as his sister. About the Ist of October, 1883, Bothemly and the woman started overland for Texas with*2,ooo head of sheep and two teams, accompanied by William Hudson, a man who had been hired by Bothemly to help drive. That was the last heard of the party, but the evidence showed that on the 7th of October, while they were traveling through the Indian Territory, she shot Bothemly and buried his body at Skeleton Ranch. She then took possession of his trunk, containing jewelry and diamonds valued at $7,000, and also his outfit, consisting of sheeff and stock worth SIO,OOO, and, accompanied by llodson, resumed the journey toward Texas. C. N. Hollister, United States marshal at Caldwell, hearing the facts, started after the fugitives, and captured them about nine miles south of where the murder was committed. Bothemly's body was exhumed, taken to Newton, Kan., and buried beside that of his deceased wife. What part llodson took in the killing, if any, was not developed, or whether they had a quarrel. A Verdict of Acquittal. WioniTA, Kan., Jan. 20.—1n the United States District Court, to-day, Nettie C. Bailey was aoquitted of the charge of the murder of a wealthy Englishman named Bothamely, with whom she was traveling In the Indian Territory about a year ago. The defendant maintained that Bothamely shot himself, and that there were witnesses of the affair. The case was quite sensational, and the defendant has a romantic history. She is a handsome woman, well educated and has figured as a society belle at Eastern watering places. She has written a play and during her confinement in jail hAs engaged In writing a novel. She has had three husbands and gained notoriety by her adventures. The court room was crowded, and much interest was displayed. Negro Prisoners Badly Wounded. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 20.—A M. Hamner, aged fifty-three, keeping a small grocery store four miles north of Collierville, Tenn., was shot and killed, last Friday moruing, by unknown parties. Suspicion pointed to two negroes named Jesse Jones, alias Jesse James, alias Jesse Dupny, and Pen Drumright. They wore arrested and lodged in Hamner’s store for safekeeping. Yesterday morning, at 3 o’clock, some person broke open the store door and fired at the prisoners. Drumright was struck by three buckshot, and Jones by nine, and both seriously wounded. They were afterwards taken to Collierville, lodged in jail, and given medical attention. Excitement runs high in Collierville, and the probabilities are that both will be lynched. It has been proven that Pen .Drumright did the killing. —■ "■ ■■■■■ ———■ ■ i ■ Awards at New Orleans. New Orleans, Jan. 20.—Notwithstanding a chilling rain to day people wont to the exposition and business was oonducted as usual. The horsemen were in full force in the stock-stables, where the awards were; Best stallion, roadster, style and action, S. A. Brown, of Kalamazoo stock farm, Grand Sentinel, first prize; George Wirtz, of New Orleans, Aliooran, second prize; a A. Brown, Kalamazoo, Mich., Indicator,

third prize; S. A. Brown. Empire, fourth; B. E. Dale, fifth. Best three-year-old, J. C. Harris, Hart6ourne stock farm, St. Matthews, Kv., Belford. Belford is the grey colt which, en route to the city, jumped overhead from a steamer, sv am down the river ahead of the boat, made the shore and walked on board again uninjurod. BUSINESS DIFFICULTIES. Affairs of Oliver Bros. & Phillips—A Five Years’ Extension Asked. Pittsburg, Jan. 20. —The creditors of Oliver Bros. & Phillips and Oliver & Roberts Wire Company met here this morning at 10 o’clock to discuss the affairs of the firms. The attendance was large, all the creditors being represented. H. W. Oliver, jr., presented the following statement: “W o submit for your consideration a statement of our assets and liabilities. We feel certain that a carful persual of this statement will convince yon, as it has convinced us, that an allowance of a reasonable time on your part, aided by careful management o u ours, will enable us to pay all our debts. \\ ith this end in view, we propose to pay all claims against us not secured by mortgage by our notes, maturing as follows: _One-fifth on Feb. 1, 1886; one fifth on Feb. 1. 1887; one-fifth on Feb. 1, 1888; one-fifth on Feb. 1, 1889; onefifth on Feb. 1, 1890, each note to bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum from date. When the claims are respectively due, the parties holding our paper, indorsed or guaranteed by other persons, will receive the same indorsement or guaranty, on extension of notes, to secure these notes. We will deliver to any trustee or trustees that may be named by you, a mortgage covering all our real estate in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. We also propose to make semi-annual reports to said trustees of the condition of our business, and if, in their opinion, it is possible, without interfering with the carrying on of the business, to anticipate any of the payments above mentioned, they are to have authority to so direct. We also request a like extension of our individual liabilities, upon the same terms as above proposed to our partnership's creditors, to secure which each of us will execute and deliver to said trustees a mortgage covering all of said real estate, to be applied first to payment of the owners’ debts, end the balance to partnership debts. “The assets are considered unusually good. Our liabilities aggregate $1,508,338.93, and our assets are $2,319,352.42. The statement of the Oliver & Roberts wire company, limited, shows total liabilities of $902,432.23, and assets of $1,259,510.99. In this statement our plants are put in at cost, and the stock at the mill is estimated as being the same in quantity as on the Ist of July last, at which date our last account of stock was taken, with a dednetion of 12$ per cent for shrinkage in value. Wo assume tuat the mortgages on our real estate, which are all held by strong parties, can be carried as Ipng aa the interest is promptly paid. Os our bills payable, the sum of $141,000, secured by pledge of manufactured or unmanufactured stock, is collateral; this will leave $617,775.98 of unsecured claims, which we propose to pay by our promissory notes, maturing as fob lows: one fifth on Feb. 1, 1886, and one-fifth on each succeeding Feb. 1 to 1890, inclusive.” The statements were discussed at length, and a committee of five appointed to examine into them more closely. The committee retired, and after an absence of some time, returnd and reported favorably. It was then decided to take no final action until Thursday, the 22d inst, when another meeting will be held. In the meantime a thorough examination will be made by the committee, which was continued. The greatest harmony prevailed at the meeting. A disposition was manifested by the creditors to grant the five years extension asked by the firm, and it is thought such action will be taken at the noxt meeting.

Assignment of Judge White. Pittsburg, Jan. 20.—J. W. F. White, associate judge of the Common Pleas Court No. 2, made an assignment to Charles F. McKenna, for the benefit of creditors. Liabilities about $25,000; assets probably not more than half that amount Precious Metals in Georgia. Chattanooga* Tenn., Jau. 20.—For woeks past a party of Boston scientists have been engaged in making a test of the silver and gold mines in the Cohuttah mountains, in north Georgia. They have made their report, which has thrown that entire section into a frenzy of excitement Mr. Jerome Prince, of Boston, and Charles Harness, of San Francisco, are the gentlemei who made the tost They state that, beyond any question, this strike is worth more to Georgia than all of her manufacturing industries, and that a great capital in Boston is waiting the result of their test to come at once and open the*mines. They say that the assay will run 80 per cent, and over, and that the vein is over 1,500 feet wide, and runs clear through the mountain, which is about eight or nine miles long. The ?entlomen have opened mines iu Novu Scotia, Colorado and California, and compute this one to be worth any ten they ever assayed. Mr. Prince states that $20,000,000 would uot buy the mines. A smelter will be erected at Dalton, Ga. Sensational Trial at Stoughton, Mass. Boston, Jau. 20.—The trial of Lysauder Wood, Thos. Blanchard and Frederick E. Lane, members of a G. A. R. port of Stoughton, charged with maintaining a lottery ir connection with a recent Grand Army fair, that town, began in Stoughton, to day. Justice Marden took the matter under advisement until Jari. 31, intimating that the case was one that should go to the grand jury. During tho trial to day, business iu Stoughton was almost entirely suspended. Under a Misapprehension. Brooklyn Eagle. There is a mighty effort making to sustain the charges preferred against the eccentric reformer, Mr. John P. St. John, but the great mass of his countrymen still stubbornly adhere to their belief that if he saw a man with a lantern looking for money to bribe him with, he would uot hesitate a moment to blow out the light A Blow at the National Game. Warsaw Times. If the leading journals of the country would resolve never to mention or report a game of base ball in their columns, within the year the national game would* dwindle to a few gamee played by boys at the back end of some liWse red school-house, and would become wholly "local” instead of "national.” Mr. Holman Fallen Into Bad Ways. Pittsburg Dispatch. The fact that Holman of Indiana has come to the front with a bill to give Madison, Ind., a public building to coat $750,000, or just what ia allowed to Pittsburg for a place one tenth its size, affords the least possible evidence of the fact that “they all do it.” The European Htylo. Washington Letter. Mr. Blaine’s family are living on the European style. The members take breakfast ia their rooms at 7 a. m.; luncheon, or. as ihe French call it, breakfast with the fork, at Ip. m., and dinner at 7p. m. Eight servants are employed at the house. The Value of Life. Pittsburg Dispatch. Perhaps the Illinois statesmen may not consider tho lives of lunatics very valuable. But enlightened humanity will give the verdict that they were worth more than eighty eight dollar* apiece. Inebriated Congressman. Satirical Washington Correspondent. One momber of Congress was placed iu the inebriate asylum last week by his friends. He ia out now, however. Some of the others do not seem to have any friends. A Matter of General Interest. Pittsburg Times. ' It lyould bo interesting to learn just how tha whisky monopolists acquired a proprietary interest in Secretary McCulloch. Painful Look of Faith* Philadelphia Press. Evangelist Moody is holding revival meeting* in Washington. We don’t believe he can die muoh good in that town.