Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1885 — Page 2

2

vieted of the plot to liberate prisoners at Johnston's Isand, in Sandusky fbay. Lincoln was appealed to and promised that Beal should not dte. Seward personally interfered and finally secured Beal's execution. A meeting was held at. St. Catherine’s, Canada, a few weeks afterward. The plot was hatched there. It was born of personal malice more than Southern sympathy. The Beal case, and it alone, accounts for the attack on Secretary Seward. But this malicious scheme of a small cabal oi vindictive men grew into a widely ramified conspiracy. Most dreadful of all, it became known among large circles in Washington. There were plenty' of men in the Capitol on March 4. who went there to hear a different man from Lincoln make the inaugural address. It is terrible now to think how rotten the honrt of the political center of this Nation then was. The surrender at Appomattox was a crushing blow. It came soon or than was expected. Lincoln's death had been resolved upon and the date fixed. But only a comparative few knew that this chango had been made in the scheme. “1 have often wondered if General Lee had not obtained an inkling of the terrible crime in contemplation, and hastened the capitulation, lie never would have sanctioned a dastardly act. After the shooting file abject fear manifested by some people in Washington who had not been attacked is remembered yet. Too many people were banged, or not enough. The most experienced men in the service were put on the case. But one by one they were withdrawn. 1 was detailed for special duty, but stuck to the consi ir; ey. I found I was shadowed by other people. I have always suspected there was a conference one very dark night between Stanton, Wade and Grant, that referred to the secret information obtained about the conspiracy’. 1 was not present, though I was in the house when it occurred. The arehivoßof the House judiciary committee contain, or did contain, some of the most startling testimony imaginable. General Butler and George S. Boutwell knew all that General Grant knew. If either man wouid tell what he knows, though it is not all the story, we might have the revelation yet. What I have merely’ hinted at shows how wise General-Grant was to keep this awful secret so loner, and how indiscreet be would have been to confide it to anybody.” NO SWORD WAS OFFERED. General Grant’s Rook Settles tbo Question About Lee’s Surrender. New Yrrk liera'd. The plaster cast of the dead face of General Grant taken by Mr. Karl Gerhardt remains locked up in the secret drawer of a safe, to which the sculptor himself alone has a key’. It was said at the time the cast was made that it would be used in preparing steel engravings for the Grant memoirs, which are uow in the hands of C. L. Webster & Cos., the publishers. Manager Hall, of that firm, yesterday denied this statement. “The cast will boused by Mr. Gerlmrdtfortho purpose of sculpturing the face of General Grant," he said, “and tho portrait to be used in the book is Marshall's beautiful .steel engraving, of which Mr. George W. Childs said. ‘lt is the best and strongest portrait of General Grant I have ever seen.’” “Is tlie cast a very’ good one?” asked the Herald reporter, to whom the statement was made. “Ii is absolutely perfect. General Grant dictated a ureat (lea! of the last volume of his memoirs to me, and I know that this cast i3 an exact reprodnetion of his face. This is not remarkable in view of tho fact that the plaster was applied to the face immediaUdy after death.” “To whom did General Grant dictate the story’ of the surrender at Appomattox?” “To me.” “Did he settle the question as to whether General Leo offered his sword in token ot submission?" “In the book he has settled that whole story, giving all the details of the scene with wonderful accuracy. He also settled the famous apple tree story.” “Won't you give the particulars of the sword story’ as General Grant has told it?” “I really cannot do so, but I can tell you this much, that General Grant did not demand Lee’s sword. Lee did not offer his sword, and Grant never thought of suggesting such a thing.” “Then the sword of surrender was a mere fiction?” “It was, absolutely.” “What was General Grant's manner when he dictated the story of the surrender; did he seem to bo at all affected?” “He showed much feeling and stopped frequently, as if trying to select in his own mind the kindest phrases possible when speaking of the confederate officers. Os Lee he speaks in warm terms, both as a soldier and a man. All through the memoirs General Grant has told characteristic stories. Several of them are about Lincoln, and about Sherman’s march through Georgia. Sometimes he would tell a first class war story to somebody who happened to be in tho room, and would not allow me to take it down. lie said, however, that he thought his book ought to have amusing stories here and there in it in order to prevent the historical parts of it from being dry’. General Grant was wonderfully thoughtful in his dictation, and acted in the most deliberate manner, seldom making me go back over my notes. Ho would remain silent with his eyes fixed as if in deep study* for several minutes, and then he would go ahead at he rate of about a hundred words a minute. I lOticed one thing, and that was that he seemed s o bo endeavoring to remove every fallacy about tho war that had caused bitterness.” MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Mrs. Grant Will Not Go to New York to Attend tlie Filial Service. Mt. McGregor, Aug. s.—Mrs. Grant still remains here, and does not expect to go to New York. With her are her friends, Mrs. Newman, Mrs. Dent, Mrs. Sharp and Mrs. Corbin. Her family will join her on Monday next. Meeting of Ex-Confederates. New York, Aug. s.— ln one of the parlors of the Hoffman llouso assembled, this eveniug, upward of fifty’ ex confederate soldiers, to do honor to tlie memory of General Grant. Among the most prominent were Brigadiergeneral R. D. Lilley, of General Jackson’s brigade; Col. W. L. Duff, of the Eighth Mississippi Cavalry; Sergeant A. M. Davies. of the'l’hirty fourth Virginia Infantry; Douciass Walker, of the Hampton Legion; Gen. W. \\. Luring, Mai. W. 11. Quincy and Gen. J. B. Gordon, of (fen. Longstreel’s corps, and Maj. D. B. Ridgeford, provost marshal of Gen. Lee's army at Richmond. William Hancock Clark, acting secretary, called the meeting to order, and Gen. J. B. Gordon was elected chairman. The latter stated the purpose of the meeting. He said ho would cali them fellow soldiers, and he knew they never would forget General Grant at Appomattox when lie gave tho Southern army such honorable terms. Resolutions were unanimously passed, paying a high tribute to the noble qualities of the dead General, setting forth his efforts in life and success in death in restoring peace and good will between the North and South, and testifying to his magnanimity at Appomattox. Selling Seats —Emblems on Residences. N’**w York Special. If every square inch of window room along tlie funeral line of march from the City Hall to Riverside Bark was put up at auction to day it could be sold, it might be said, for almost any price tlie owner might ask for it. There aro reports of entire fronts in Broadway having been disposed of to persons of a speculative turn of mind, who, in turn, expects to sub let them, ->o as to make a handsome profit on the original investment, just as the theatrical ticket speculators do. by forestalling tho public, 1 do not Know whether these statements are true or not, though they come to me from trustworthy sources, but certain it is, the pressure not only from city people, but from all the country round for a “look’’ or “coign of vantage” is such as to tempt such speculations. Balconies, stoops, and even roofs of houses next to the windows will be the most eagerly sought for. As some compensation lor the wretched taste exhibited at the City Hall in the matter of bad poetry, it is pleasing to see the appropriateness in most instances of the sentiments and legends which have been chosen’ to adorn private establishments, and which have been very

properly drawn from the ample and fitting vocabulary of the great Captain himself. For instance: “Let us have peace:” “Take your horses and go home, and Help raise a crop;” “My advice to Sunday-schools, no matter what their denomination is: hold fast to the Bible, as tlie sheet anchor of your liberties: write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.” These, and many other historical sayings, meet the eyp in many directions, and more than one place of public worship, with great propriety, has given the one last quoted a permanent position over their porticos. There has been an informal interenange of opinion among some of the clergy as to the prt*priety of making Saturday conform as far as possible to the spirit and letter of the Governor’s proclamation, which recommends that it be a religions observance, in harmony with the letter of the statute, but nothing Las corao of it. Tho predominant opinion is, that it is best to leave the matter to the individual discretion of the churches and pastors. There would be do impropriety in adding to the impressiveness of the obsequies by superadding religious services to the civic and military display, but as the President of the United States has made no such recommendation or suggestion, the omission of these would be no just cause for complaint, especially as the clergy on the Sundav following will have ample opportunity to speak from the pulpit morning and evening. No Appreciation of Art. Mt. McGregor Special. In such a time as this the last incident is welcomed as a break in the monotony. So when Fred Grant’s little daughter cam 3 crying along the veranda this morning and carrying a copy of a New York newspaper, which had a cut of Grant’s tomb; what she had to say was listened to in a fine spirit of appreciative humor. “I thought grandpa was to have a beautiful grave.” [Sobs.] “So he will dear, and the most beautiful monument any man ever had.” “Well (sob,) look at that picture. He ought to stay here, not in such (sob) a horrid place as that.” A crescendo of sobs, and with that she ran away, throwing the obnoxious picture over the railing. There is no doubt of tho fact that the picture might start tears from tho eyes af those older than the daughter of the house of Grant, and in its contemplation a gentleman, whose artistic eminence is never questioned, said he wondered how a newspaper could print morality and such pic ures in the same sheet. This led to some criticisms over LeClerc’s picture of Grant, which a dispatch reports as being subscribed for in the sum of SIO,OOO by fifty Chicago gentlemen, forty of whom have already put down their s*2oo. Tho critic said that LeClerc had never done such poor and careless work before, and before he (lied had privately admitted that it was very had. Gen. Grant had said the picture was a good one, but the General’s idea of art was as valuable to art as the illustrations of the advertisements of soap in the magazines and newspapers. In fact, ho did not know a good picture when he saw it. Governor lloarily’s Lack of Courtesy. New York Special. It is a subject of remark among the many Ohio people in New York that so far not a line has been received at headquarters of the military department, or anywhere else, from the Governor of that State. So far as the Grant people are concerned, there is nothing to indicate that the Governor of General Grant's native State lias yet heard of his death. While they have, of course, said nothing of this, there are many Ohio people in New York who feel that Governor Hoadly might have at least sent some word representing tho feeling which exists in the hero’s native State concerning him. The Projected Ft. Leavenworth Monument. Leavenworth, Kan., Aug. s.— The work of perfecting local organization for the proposed Grant monument at Ft. Leavenw’orth is being actively pushed here, under the general management of Mayor Neely and General Miles, who have already received encouraging letters from the Governors of most of the States and Territories. In the Department of the Missouri, Genera! Miles has appointed Captain Hathaway, of Ft. Leavemvorth, as treasurer of the fund, to whom subscriptions may be sent. Action of New York Legislature. Albany, Aug. s.—Members of both branches of the Legislature assembled in their respective chambers this morning and appointed committees to attend the funeral of General Grant. Suitable resolutions were then adopted, after which they adjourned. Governor Ilill and Speaker Erwin, of tho Assembly, as trustees of the Capitol, decided, to-day, that a suitable moraorial slab be sunk in the pavement on the spot where General Grant's remains lay in state. Dispensation to tho U, R,, K. of P. Fort Madison, la., Aug. s.—Supreme Chancellor YanYalkenburg has issued a general dispensation to the Knights of tho country, authorizing tho members of subordinate lodges and divisions of the Uniform Ranks, Knights of Pythias, to appear in full uniform and regalia at the memorial services of the late Gen. U. S. Grant on the Btli inst. Observance of tlie Bth at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Aug. s.—This city will observe Aug. Bby an adjournment of the Chamber of Commerce, a suspension of business, and a meeting at night in Music Ilall. where General Noyes will deliver an oration. Minor Mention. Mayor Lamb f.sks the citizens of Norfolk to appropriately observe the day of General Grant’s funeral. Every leading merchant in Nashville will close his place of business on tho day of General Grant's funeral. Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, has issued a proclamation asking a suspension of business in that city on Saturday. The President is in receipt of a number of communications from different parts of the country, suggesting and recommending that he declare next Saturday a national holiday, upon which day there shall be a suspension of both public and private business. The President is not, however, empowered to declare a national holiday, as his jurisdiction in that respect does not extend beyond the limits of the District of Columbia. His authority there is similar to that of Governors in their respective States. Traitor to a Secret Order Mobbed. Memphis, Tenn., Aug. s.—No. 12 Dean avenue, the residence of Rev. 11. N. Countee, colored, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, and manager of tho Living Way, was suddenly surrounded yesterday by about 200 masked negroes, who fired volley after volley of bullets into the building. Loud calls were made for Mr. Countee, but lie failed’to appear. The negro porter fired his pistol at the mob and managed to escape. Countee has been a member of one of the secret societies, but resigned and began denouncing them. The members of this society take an oath not to divulge the secrets on penalty of having their scalps removed and their brains exposed to the eye of the scorching sun. Countee is said to have made himself liable to this rule. Long John Wentworth's Gurial-riace. Chicago, Aug. s.—The Rose Hill Cemetery Company, of Chicago, has just sold the largest tract of burial ground that was ever purchased by one person m the West, and for which the largest price on record in tho West was paid. The purchaser was Mr. Wentworth, a wealthy ex-mayor of this city, who is familiarly known as “Long John.” The price paid was SIO,OOO cash for 20,000 The plat is located not far from the entrance and has a commanding view Upon this Mr. Wentworth proposes to expend about SOO,OOO, which will be put into a heroic statue of himself, upon a granite pedestal, and which he expects to go down the ages as his monument. A County Treasurer Missing; Also, S 10,040. Kansas City, Aug. s. —The Times’s Topeka. Kan., special says: “D. V. Moffett, treasurer of Coffey county, is in arrears to tlie State for taxes collected to the amount of $10,040. The State Treasurer telegraphed to Burlington, the countyseat, ami received a reply that Moffett had not been seen there since July 29. The missing man has hitherto boruo n good reputation."

TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1885.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS A Disease that Defies Medical Skill Appears in Porter County. Brutal Murder in Fulton County—Murder and Suicide in Warren County —Mau Killed by Lightning—Notes and Gleanings. INDIANA. A Strange and Fatal Disease Appears in Porter County. Valparaiso, Aug. s.—At Porter Station, a village of three hundred inhabitants, twelve miles from this city, in the extreme northwestern part of the county, an epidemic is raging which in the last three days has carried off five persons, leaving fifteen dangerously ill, and about twenty-five others of whose condition the doctors cannot speak with any degree of certainty. The people of the village are mostly Swedes, of cleanly, thrifty habits, and until the present epidemic broke out among them, they have been remarkably healthy. About ten days ago the first symptoms of the scourge made its appearance, and manifested itself In vomiting and diarrha-tic discharges. The doctors were at a loss as to the cause, and were unable to prescribe any remedies to alleviate the sufferings of the patients. The afflicted stated they felt a sort of leaden weight in the stomach and bowels, which quickly changed to the vometing and dircharges. A remarkable peculiarity observable in those who have already succumbed is that while they retain clear consciousness to the last, yet the eyes give forth a wild expression and the general appearance of the countenance conveys the idea of insanity. The most powerful drugs have failed to give temporary check to the disease. Porter i3 supplied with meats by butchers of Chestertown, one mile east. Investigation has revealed that, one meat-shop here has not been kept in a healthy condition, tho night watch having stated that on a few occasions he could hardly pass the door from tho unpleasant odors emitted, while a doctor of the town, who. a few days ago, entered the cooling room, asserted that never did he experience a worse odor in a college dissecting room. Unfortunately for the people of Porter, it is said that it was the proprietor of this market who supplied them with the bulk of their meats. The poison which has caused the deaths so far is of an alkaloid nature. The following are the names of those who have died; Mrs. Trowe, aged fifty: John Pearson, aged eighteen; August Gustafson, aged twelve, and two children under ten years of age. The case appears to be similar to that which occurred recently at Momence, 111. IJrutal Murder in Fulton County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Rochester, Aug. 5. —Michael Kain, a prominent and well to-do farmer, was foully murdered at his home, in Wayne township, early this morning. For several years past a bitter feud has existed between the families of Kain and Patrick McGuire, who lived on adjoining farms, and many quarrels have resulted between them. About one month ago, McGuire and wife brutally assaulted Mrs. Kain and injured her severely, for which offense tlioy were fined in a justice's court, at Kervanna, on last Thursday. Motion for anew trial was made, and a hearing was had yesterday, but the application was not granted. McGuire was not present when the motion was heard, but his wife was, and, being unable to either j>ay her fine Or secure a bailee, she was brought to this place last night and lodged in jail. Mr. Kain arose early this morning and left the house to attend to his customary duties. Soon afterward Mrs. Kain entered the barnyard, where she found the prostrate body of her husband in the last agonies of death. lie had been struck a terrific blow over the right eye with a blunt instrument, the force of which fractured his skull. Several more severe blows were administered, and the face of the murdered man was pounded almost into a jelly. Mr. Kain was a quiet, inoffensive citizen, and respected by all. Tho tradgedv has caused the utmost excitement, and posses are scouring tlie country in search of McGuire, who is doubtless the murderer. A reward of S2OO has been offered for his apprehension. McGuire is of Irish descent, fifty years of age, weight 130 pounds, height five feet four inches, and has a very florid complexion. A corresponeent at Logansport sends this further information: Mike Kain, was an old man, sixty five years of age. and with his wife as his sole companion, has lived and toiled on the farm on which he was murdered for over a tiuarter of a century. * * * The murderer was traced one mile south to Mill creek, where he washed the stains from his hands and clothes. Here the trail was lost. He is supposed to have started towards this place in an effort to get to friends in Cincinnati. An intense excitement prevails in tho neighborhood of the murder. Frol)able Murder and Suicide. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Williamsport, Aug. s.—Dr. Aborn, of Marshfield, Warren county, who has been deranged for some time, came near killing Dr. Boyer, of this place, yesterday, by cutting his thioat with ono of his surgical instruments. Dr. Boyer, in his endeavor to save himself, received very severe wounds in his hands, but it is thought he will recover, although lie is not ablo to be brought home. His wife was sent for, and has%one down. After the occurrence, Dr. Aborn drank a bottle of something, but at last reports they had not ascertained its contents. He then said: “Now you can take me.” His constant fear has been that they would tak him to the asylum. Later.— Since writing the above, word comes th at Dr. Aborn died about 12 m. to-dav, Aug. 5. Dr. Boyer is in a critical condition, but will probably be brought heme to-day on the eastbound train. A Man Killed by Lightning. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Madison, Aug. s.— On Tuesday afternoon as William Rutledge and John Burnsides were at work in a field near Kent, a storm came up and they sought shelter from the rain under a tree, Mr. Rutledge leaning against the trunk aud Mr. Burnsides standingnear. While they were occupying these positions lightning struck the tree, running down the opposito side of the trunk until reaching a point a short distance above liutledge's head, when it ran around the trunk and struck him, killing him instantly. Mr. Burnsides was stunned and lay for some time unconscious. Gov. Gray at the Third Regimeut Camp. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LaPokte, Aug. 3.—Governor Gray and staff, numl oring seventeen persons, arrived to night by special car, to be present, to-morrow—Govern-ors' day—at Camp Kirk, and review the troops. Large crowds are expected. Governor Gray will be the guest of Mayor Nyo, except to-morrow noon, wheu himself r.nd party will take dinner in camp. The Governor will be received at camp at 10 o’clock to-morrow, and at 1:80 irill review the troops in front of the public square. Minor Notes. James Chambers, a citizen of New Albany, has died at Todmorden, England. Congressman Lowry, of the Foit Wayne dis-

trict, has been summoned to Washington by ur*?nt business. The barn of Martin Higigns, near Flatroek Station. Shelby county, was burned on Tuesday. Loss, $2,5 X); insurance, SI,BOO. The Montgomery county Sunday school union will hold their next meeting at Wesiey Chapel, Crawfordsville, on Thursday, August 20, Maurice Thompson, State Geologist, will address the old settlers of Carroll county at their thirtieth annual*reunion on next Saturday. The barn of A. D. Byerlv, near Montpelier, w.vs struck by lightning and entirely consumed, with contents of grain and farming implements. J. W. Riley, the Hoosier poet, will read one of his productions at the Grant memorial exercises at Delphi, Aug, 8. Judge John H. Gould will deliver the address. County superintendent Fry, of Montgomery county, will hold a five days’ institute, beginning August 24. in the South hail of Wabash College, Crawfordsville. A dwelling-house on tho farm of Andrew Murtwo miles north of Metamora, was destroyed by fire. Cause unknowu. Loss, $(i(X); insured in tho Phoenix, of Hartford, for S3OO. Mrs. Sallie Locke, the venerable mother of Mr3. John B. Mitchell, died Monday night, at the residence of Captain Mitchell, at New Albany, aged eighty seven years. Deceased had been in feeble health for somu time. The colored people celebrated Emancipation Day at Richmond, yesterday, by addresses, etc., at Glen Miller, and a festival at the opera-house in the evening. There were addresses by Bishop Turner, of Georgia; Bishop Campbell, of New York, and Bishop Shorter, of Wiiberforce University. The Fort Wayne postoffice has been transferred by United States postofhee inspectors from F. W. Keii, Republican, to William Kaough, Democrat. Mr. Keil was not in the city when the change was made. Tho office ranks as second class, and the postmaster has a salary of $2,800 a year. The Walsh distillery at Lawrencebure has received two immense pieces of machinery for distilling purposes, known to tho business as cookers. The two weighed nearly fifteen tons, and required a strong force of workmen to handle them. The distillery is arranging to manufacture Holland gin. Mrs. Sarah Franklin, came to Cincinnati, 0., soon after the war of 1812, and lived there until 1858, when she removed to Moore's Hill, this State, where she lived up to her death, on Tuesday. She was ninety-four years old, and leaves a valuable estate, much of which is in property at Walnut Hills, O. Frank Graston, aged six years, whose parents resido at Port Fulton, wandered away from home, Monday afternoon. Search was made for the child, but he was not found. -The body of the missing boy has since been found floating near the coal fleet. It is supposed that while playing on the barges he fell overboard, and was drowned. A son of John Lyon w’ent to work for Ellis Burk, another farmer, living near Crawfords ville. Burk, at the close of a day’s work, offered the boy $1.33 for fourteen hours’work. A dollar and a half was demanded, and the two men fought over the seventeen cents. Lyon broke Burk’s arm with a club, and struck him on the head with a stone. Lyon would have shot Burk but for the interference of a neighbor. As Capt. John B. Mitchell, county clerk of Floyd county, has been appointed postmaster at New Albany, the vacancy to be thereby occasioned has brought to the front numerous candidates for tho office to be filled by the commissioners until tho next general election. Among tho list is Fred Sauer, deputy clerk; Charles Schwartzel, recorder; Mr. Rafferty, township assessor; Treasurer Miller; H. R. W. Meyer, ex sheriff; D. McMuliin; Charles Mcßride, ex-county superintendent. The report of the examining committee in the Harrison county shortage, is that Auditor A. W. Brewster has issued orders to theamount of $5,810. 82 in his own favor more than was due him, and that ex-Treasurer L W. Bowlingis adefaulter to theamount of $2,200. Tlie committee also report that there is a deficiency of $7,000 shown in the Treasurer’s reports, but that official has explained the matter satisfactorily. The result is looked upon as a victory for the Corvdon Republican, which was largely instrumental in bringing the matter to light. The firm of Briggs & Barrett, of Sullivan, dissolved partnership some time ago, and since that time a considerable degree of ill-feeling seems to have existed between the two men and their families. This culminated, on Tuesday, in an attack by Mr .. Briggs upon Mrs. Barrett with a cowhide, in the street, the latter seeking safety in flight. Yesterday morning Briggs and Barrett inet in the postoffice, when the former demanded of the latter an explanation of some report which he alleged Barrett had put in circulation concerning him. After some hot words Briggs attacked Barrett, who drew his revolver, when the two men wore separated by bystanders. Both are prominent men. Briggs being an ex representative, and a prominent candidate for Congress in the Eighth district, and Barrett having been a candidate for tho nomination for clerk of tho Supremo Court at the last Democratic convention. ILLINOIS. A Feoria Distillery Makes Trouble for the Whisky Pool. Peoria, 111., Aug. s.—President Miller, of the whisky pool, has been here for two days past, trying to arrange distillery matters. One or more representatives of Cincinnati and other distillers have also been hero. The cause of the congregating was owing to the fact that the Great Western, one of tho heaviest distillers in tho association, and which had shut down, had announced the intention to start up. The reason given by the Great Western men was that it furnished a class of goods not furnished by the other distilleries. The matter was not arranged, so far as known, and the Great Western will run. Grief Mention. Preparations are being made to sink the waterworks well at Springfield seven aud a half feet deeper than it is at present. There will be a reunion at Clinton on Oct. 1 to 3. inclusive, of the survivors of tho 107th and Forty first Illinois regiments. Dr. E. E. Waggoner has sold the Shelbyville Democrat newspaper and good will to Circuit Clerk Grevbill, the purchaser to take charge next week. The Democrat was Congressman Eden’s organ bore, and it is believed the transfer may injuriously affect Dr. Waggoner's chances for the postmastership, for which he is an applicant. On Tuesaav, the Polish citizens of Radon and vicinity, to the number of 3.000, celebrated the feast of their patron saints. Cyril and Methodius, apostles of the Sclavic nation, it being the tenth century of their death. High mass was conducted at !* o'clock a. m. by Rev. J. Enzeiberger, of Peopolis 111., after which a parado was participated in, hundreds being clad in their native costumes. Yanderen, of Moweaqua, charged with seducing and causing the death of Mrs. Smith, was taken to Shelhvville and placed in jail tor safekeeping, the feeling against him at Moweaqua being very strong. Smith, the dead woman’s husband, is a leading business man of the village. is wealthy, and will do his utmost to prosecute the alleged seducer. Yanderen has wealthy friends in Christian county. A Chicago Homicide. Chicago, Aug. s.—John, alias “Bull” Flaherty, a packing house hand, was drunk yesterday, and while passing the residence of Thomas Ityan at 4712 Loomis street, insulted Ryan and challenged him to fight. Ryan approached Flaherty who drew a revolver and pulled the trigger, the weapon missing fire. The mon grappled each other, and while struggling, Patrick Garritv, who is a friend of Ryan’s, attempted to separate them. Flaherty fired, the ball entering Garrity’s body. Ho fell and the fight continued. A great crowd collected, and the Rev. Father Hayes was called. He came, and while Flaherty and Kvan were fighting like tigers up and down tlie street, the priest administered tho sacrament to the wounded man. By this time Ryan was badly worsted and several of his friends made a rush ad knocked Flaherty down. They beat him nearly to death, while cries went up, “lynch him.” While those who could not get in a blow at Flaherty were hunting a rope with which to hang him, a police officer arrived, clubbed his way through the crowd and carried Flaherty away to the station.

Flaherty is said to bo an old criminal. Garrity was thirty-two years old and unmarried. He is at the Couuty Hospital and is not expected to live. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Perry Brothers, jewelers. Chicago, made an assignment yesterday. Liabilities, $40,000; assets, $60,000. The rolling-mill of Niedringhaus Bros., St. Louis, closed since May 1, started up yesterday with a full force. W. H. Robinson, dealer in boots and shoes, at Dubuque, la., has made an assignment. Assets and liabilities unknown. The Merchants’ Tea Company, of St. Paul, has been robbed of $5,000. and Frank Hennessy, a cierk who slept in the store, is missing. Charles Garhehs, of New York, doing business with Francis Garlichs, as a broker, has made an assignment. Liabilities and assets not stated. A mob at Oakland. Mission Tuesday night, hanged a man named Vance, who recently killed his wife and afterward attempted to kill himself. The Scottish Land League, of Chicago, will send its president, Rev. Duncan MacGregor, to Scotland to organize the crofters for the coming parliamentary campaign and to agitate for land reform in Scotland. Jack McDermott, arrested at Ashtabula. 0., several weeks ago for burglary, proves to be Charles Williams, alias Confidence Johnny, whp is wanted in St Louis for murdering lienrjr Moran, on June 9. Commissioner Colman was informed to day of an undoubted outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia in a herd of sixty thoroughbred Holstein cattle belonging at Port Richmond, Staten Island. Four or five valuable animals have died. Governor Stoneman, of California, has issued a proclamation, recommending that all State, county, municipal and public buildings be draped on the day of the burial of General Grant, and that all public and private business be suspended on that day. The twenty-two brick yards in the northwest and southwest parts of Chicago, which had suspended manufacturing bricks, owing to a difference between the men and the owners, all started up yesterday. The men finally consented to go back at the old wages. John Lohman, a passenger on the steamer Werra, from Bremen, which arrived at Hoboken yesterday, is under arrest and will betaken back to Germauy for trial, lie was detected in the act of robbing the safe in the purser s room, after having chloroformed that officer. The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin-workers, in session at Wheeling, passed resolutions expressing heartfelt grief at the bereavement sustained by the Nation in the death of General Grant, and providing for an adjournment on Saturday next, cut of respect to his memory. At Palmyra, 0., Yesterday, John Jones, a farm hand, declared his intention to kill hnnself, and warned the wife of his employer, Mrs. Charles Merwin, not to interfere, or he would kill her, too. Mrs. Merwin attempted to wrest Jones’s pistol from him, when he shot her five times and then killed himself. Mrs Merwin lived about two hours after being shot. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. Wab Department, a Office of the Chief Sion ah Officer, [ Washington, Aug. G, la. m. ) Special Indications for Indianapolis and Vicinity—Fair weather, a slight rise in tempera ture. [Note. —These indications are for the twenty four hours commencing at 7 A. M. For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee—Slight rise in temperature, variable winds, becoming southerly, fair weather, followed by local rains. For the Lower Lake Region—Generally fair weather, variable winds, slight rise in temperature. For the Upper Lake Regions—Local rains, variable winds, nearly stationary temperature. For the Upper Mississippi * Valley—Local rains, variable winds, slight rise in temperature. For the Missouri Valley—Local rains, nearly stationary temperature, southerly wiuds, becoming variable. Local Ottservations. Indianapolis, Aug. 5. Time. | Bar. j Thor. Hum. | Wind. I Weather Rain. 6a. m.. 130.021 01.8 85 | Nwest Clear. lOa. M-.l3O.08! 73.5 51 iN'east Clear 2P.M. . 30.05 j 78.0 46 iNorth Fair 6p. M . 30.03! 74.2 53 East iClear 10 P. M.. |30.04! 66.3 70 iEast jClear Maximum temperature, 73.6. Minimum temperature, 58.9. General Observations. War Department, ? Washington, Aug. 5, 10 p. m. > Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. £ rr < ~,p < pg_ a p a a &■ a* a a • op cr STATIONS. 5- | I g ~ 3 rt § ; 5' • . <rf- , • . ® ; • • • • c/> • • • ' 'ft • New Orleans. La 129.99 78 Nwest Clear. Vicksburg, Miss 29.971 80; North Clear. Fort Smith, Ark 29.88; 77jKa~t Fair. Galveston, Tex 29.99; 84 South Clear. Little Rock, Ark. 29.93; 78 South !Clear. Shreveport, La 29.95) 83 South Clear. Cincinnati. 0 30.06 70 Hast Ciep.r. Indianapolis, Ind... 30.04 68(Fast Clear. Louisville, Ky 30.06 75'North . .1 .. 'Cloudy. Memphis, Tenn 29.96 SOjSouthj Cloudy. Nashville. Term 29.98 77 West ! Clear. l'ittsburg. Pa 30.07 65'North (Clear. Ch cage, 111 30.04 71 S’east! (Clear. Cairo, 111 29.98 1 80:East | IClear. Davenport. Ta 29.96i 70'S’east 1 Fair. Des Moines, la 29.87 74 S'east Cloudy. Keokuk, la 29.941 73J Fast dear. LaCrosse, Wis 29.91 j 70 South .53 Fair. Moorehead, Minn... 29.82 62}Fast Fair. St. Louis, Mo 29.97 75 South Cloudy, St. Paul, Minn 29.87 71 S'east Cloudy. Springfield, 111 29.95] 73 S east Clear. Leavenworth, Kan.. 29 86j 77 s'east .lOjClear. Omaha, Neb 29 85] 75!Fast ,06!Lt. lain, Yankton, Dak |29. v '3j 68 Fast .24 (Lt. rain. Bismarck. Dak. 29.76 65 ; South . ...Fair. Fort Buford. Dak... 1*29.77 1 65;N'east Cloudy. Ft. Ass niboiue.M.T 29.75 73‘S'east Clear. Dead wood. Dak j Fort Custer, Mont 29.74 76|Calm Clear. Denver, Col.. 29.74] 71 1 North .05 Fair. Dodge City. Kan 29.69] 80 North Cloudy. Fort Elliott, Tex... 29.70] 86] South Clear. North Platte. Neb-. 29.69 7i(S'east Fair. Las Animas. Col 29.71 75!Swest .01 Cloudy. Fort Sill. Ind. Ter ! Fort Stockton, Tex. 29.83] 86 S’east Clear. El Paso, Tex 29.71 87 Calm Clear. Lamar. Mo 29.91] 73 S'east Fair. Brownsville. Tex j. ...i Salt Lake City, U.T.'29.70 73 Fast .08 Cloudy. Duluth. Minn, (29.92 69 N’east Fair. Escauaba. Mich j 30.01 j 62 S east Cloudy. Marquette, Mich 130.001 58 S’east dear. Milwaukee, Wis.... 30.02 63 s'east Clear. Toledo. O 30.10 j 64* East Clear. Oswego. N. Y 30.09 55 Fast Clear. Now York City... 29.99] 67 Nwest .23 Clear. Washington, D. C.. 39.02; 72 North Clear. Theft of Bonds. Richmond, Va., Aug. 5. —Some ten or twelve days ago, Thomas Carpenter, secretary of the Virginia Base Bali Association, and bookkeeper for J. Ij. Schoolcraft, broker, disappeared from this city. It now appears that he held a key to the safety box in the vault of the State Bank, in which Mark Downey kept $38,000 in North Carolina, Petersburg class B, Uiddleberger bonds. Carpenter stole these, and is supposed now to be in Canada. Some of the bonds have come back here from Baltimore, where they were sold. A Fatal Bailway Accident. Charlotte. N. C., Aug. s.—As the south bound passenger train on the Air line road passed a point sixty miles south of Spartanburg, the second first class coach and two sleepers were sent rolling down the embankment. J. J. Ransome, conductor, was killed, and seven passengers dangerously wounded. The accident was caused by a rail turning over. Pork-Packing in the Went Cincinnati, Aug. s.—The Cincinnati Price Current will say to morrow’, of the Western hog packing: “The number of hogs handled last week is 140.000, compared with 110,000 for the corresoonding week last year. The total from March I to dato is 3,160,000, against 2,625,000.

The packing at the chief points from Maroh 1 to date is sb ,wn to be as follows: Chicago, 1.730,000; KanJs City, 539,000; St. Louis. 123,000; Cincinnati, 68,000; Milwaukee, 140,000; Indianapolis, 120.000; Cedar Rapids, 124,000; Cleveland, 77,000. TIIE FIRE RECORD. Nothing Left of a Wisconsin Town but a CheeM Factory and a Saloon. Lake Mills, Wis., Aug. s.—The village of Milford was almost destroyed by fire on Monday night. This is the fourth fire within a short time at Milford, and it is thought to be the work o an incemli.'fry. All that is left of the place ip a cheese factory and a saloon. Heavy Loss at Marinette, Wis. Marinette, W ie., Aug. s.—Afire which started in this place at an early hour this morning, resulted in a loss of $o 1.000. upon which there wa Q an insurance of $27,500. Stephens’s bank the Marinette Eagle office, two clothing stores, a jewelry store, drug store, postoffice and srnat* establishments were destroyed. The Admiralty Management, London, Aug. s—Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty, in one of, the firsft official statements he made after his party cam® into power, intimated, the public thought, that he had discovered frauds in the Admiralty accounts. Ho said the Tory estimates differed from those previously recorded by the liberal government by a sum sufficient for the Admiralty expenses for a period of six weeks. The gossips expected a great scandal to be exposed. The House of Commons appointed a committee to investigate the circumstances upon which Lord Hamilton based his statement. This committee to day handed in its report. The report exonerates Lord Northbrook from all imputation except that of carelessness. The report urgently recommends a more risrid financial supervision of the accounts of the entire Admiralty Department Steamship News. -*■ Liverpool, Aug. s.—Passed FastiDet: City of Rome, from New York. Queenstown, Aug. s.— Arrived: Samaria, from Boston, for Liverpool. Bremen, Aug. s.— Arrived: General Weirder and Maine, from New York. London, Aug s—Passed5 —Passed the Lizard: Rhineland. from New York, for Antwerp. New York, Aug. s. —Arrived: Waesland, from Antwerp; State of Indiana, from Glasgow; Wisconsin, from Liverpool. Murdered by si Policeman. Cincinnati. Aug. s.—Policeman John Roddy last night ordered Harry Hindman, who was lying on the sidewalk, drunk, to move on. Lindman jumped up and grappled with Roddy, and the two fell into the street. While struggling the policeman drew a revolver, and. placing its muzzle against Lindnian’s abdomen, fired. The wounded man was taken to the hospital, where he is reported dying this evening. UNPUBLISHED HISTOItY. Communications Never Made Public—Caleb Cushing’s Relations with Spain. Washington special. An ex State denartment officer, in discussing the features of the Keiley ca3e and the pieeed< n s governing the same, to show the necessity of having diplomatic representatives on terms of the closest intimacy with the powers to which they were accredited, said that it very often happens that a minister, by reason of his intimacy with the officers of the court where he is sent, is enabled to give this government the most valued information, too, that is never made public, except when some State Department clerk charged with the compilation of the diplomatic correspondence, fails to realize the importance of bis task, and a communication is published which leads to trouble instantly. A few years atro the American minister tc Venezuela was told by that government to leave without ceremony. The reason was that he had sent this government something in his official dispatches which was grossly offensive to the Venezuelan government, and they, without waiting to formally ask the United States to withdraw the minister, drove him away without delay. “If,” said the ex State Department officer, “all of Mr. Christiancy’s correspondence, when he was minister to Peru, were published, it is doubtful if he would ever have been allowed to leave that country without running great risk to his life. There was the correspondence of Caleb Cushing when he was Minister to Spain. Much of what he communicated to his superiors of the stato department will never be made public. It deals with the inner history of the Spanish court and throws light upon matters of history which have never before beon touched upon in any work. It is of such a character that it could not bo made, public at the present time without creating <4 storm across the water. You may never have ] seen it hinted even, but, while there is no direct evidence of the fact, it was long suspected that Caleb Cushing played a dual role when, he represented this government at Madrid. It is suspected that lie w T as not only the representative of this country, but his eminent legal learning made his services in demand by the Spanish government, and it is thought that he was a:so secretly the counsel of that government. A characteristic of his correspondence was the occurrence of unfamiliar words. Now and then, in the reading of his dispatches, a word was encountered that would send everybody to hunting up the dictionaries in order to clearly understand the force of the writer’s remarks. It was always found that the word used was most fitly chosen, and invariably pave a meaning which no other term could impart.” Democratic Struggles Against Reform. Washington Special. The action taken by the Virginia Stato Democratic convention respecting the civil service law* is understood to be the courso that will ho pursued by other Democratic State conventions to be held this year, except in New York and other Eastern States, where the cause of civil service reform has obtained a firm hold. The Ohio Democrats will meet in convention at an early day, and it is believed that they will go as far as their Virginia brethren in denouncing the law, declaring it unconstitutional and unworthy of the support of the Democratic party. Then the war is to be carried into Congress. Democratic representatives declare as much. Representative Bennett, of North Carolina; Representatives Hill and Warner, of Ohio, and many others have announced themselves as hostile to the*present order of things, and ready to co operate for radical changing or the repeal of the law. An effort will be made by some of the hot-headed opponents of the reform to-vote down any appropriations proposed for the maintenance of the civil service commission and enforcement of the law, and thus starve the (to them) odious thing out of existence. Didn’t Shake the Shingles Loose. Carolina Spartan. * The Rev. G. T. Harman, of Laurens, mado a fine impression at the district conference at Gaffney’s. The people praised both the matter and manner of his preaching, and liked him especially because be spoke with a natural toue of voice and did not shake the shingles loose by loud “hollerin’.” We do not know why preachers, in a small house whose seating capacity is 200 to 400, will make noise enough for an audience of about 18,000. WHITE’S NEURALGIA CURE (lives Quick lielief, and ElFeots a Permanent Cure of that most ful disease. it, and Suffer no more. I’rice; Small Bottles, 25 cts. Large Bottles. 50 ot\ For sale by all Druggists. E. B. WHITE, Sole Prop., Lancaster, 0