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may press it too far ssrae time. It is not n South America alone that this feeling exists. The common Mexican hates us bitterly, and those of the higher class equally distrust us.’’ Tnis officer continued, saying that in a visit to Mexico he discovered a strong sentiment there in favor of an alliance with England. He added that the Mexicans think they could secure great commercial advan’ages by such an alliance. ‘‘The trouble with our government," said this officer in conclusion, “is that we have no practical diplomacy. What the new Secretary of State may do in this respect 1 have no means of knowing. A really great diplomate, like Palmerston or Beaconsfield were in England, or such ns Metternich was to Austria and Gortschakoff to Nicholas ami Alexander of Russia, would see in this a great\nove on the international chess-board, and to the successful player a stake worth the winning." FEMALE CLERKS MUST GO# A Treasury Official Says They Cannot Be Managed by Male Chiefs of Division. Washington Special. “What appears to be the sentiment of the present administration in regard to the employment of women as clerks?” inquired the correspondent of a high treasury official yesterday. “Unless the rules of the Civil service Commission are chanced,’’ was the reply, “the women will bo slowly eliminated from the departments. Four out of five heads of departments will ask for a man when there is a vacancy made by the resignation, death, or dismissal of a wdman. I have had two vacancies within the past month, and have filled them both with men. lam opposed to women having places in the departments urdess they can be put into divisions by themselves under chiefs of their own sex. Then 1 beHeve their work would be up to the average of the men; but whenever they are brought under the rule of men they use the arts and privileges of their sex to get, out. of work altogether, or to slight it whenever they can. Moreover, all the bother about leaves of absence comes from the employment of women in the departments. One of the committee which recently inspected our department told me that no change in the rule in regard to sick leaves and leaves of absence would have been made unless it had been necessary to bring the female clerks under an iron clad rule. Out of sixty five cases where the leaves from all causes had exceeded sixty days in a year, forty-nine were female clerks, and the men employed outnumbered the women four to one. “But the ladies in the departments seem to be unanimously opposed to having women over them.” “Then they warrant all, by implication, I say on the subject." “Do you think women would make good chiefs ■bf division?" “I do. It would take no more judgment to select good chiefs from fifty women than from fifty men. All men are not fit to direct others. Some of the best clerks have proved total failures as chiefs. I have nearly a score of ladies in my division, and I could select at least three out of them capable in every respect to run nayown division after a little experience—I mean with a corps of exclusively female clerks." MINOR MENTION. No Likelihood that the President Will Call an Extra Session of Congress. Bpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 10. — There is not the slightest prospect that the talk about an early or extra session of Congress will amount to anything. There is a determination on the part of the President, his Cabinet and other counselors, to proceed in the regular way, let come what may. The workingmen of the country mean well in their demand for an extra session, aud will doubtless present a strong case. They make a good argument when they say Congress at its regular session will not consider the workingman's interests, and the only way to secure consideration is through an extra session; but the leading Democrats iu the House who hare been here since this agitation for an extra session say it will not work, that the party would as soon assume the responsibility of inaction on the workingman’s measures as to risk the result of a special session. Men Who Swear to Offensive Partisanship. Bperinl to tho Indianapolis Journal. W ASHINGTON, Aug. 10. — An inspection of the affidavits filed in the First Assistant Postmastergeneral’s office for tho purpose of securing removal of postmasters now in office shows that the wire pullers are using tho lowest creatures to swear to affidavits that no decent Democrat in the respective communities would put his name to. In many instances the affiant can only sign his name in such execrable scribbling that the clerks have the utmost difficulty in making out the name. The bodies of tho affidavits all show superior penmanship, indicating that the leaders draw them up and then get ignorant, drunken loafers and rounders to swear to them. This is done for two reasons: First, because decent men will not perjure themselves: second, because suits for slander would be brought against such affiants in vain, as nothing could bo made by obtaining a verdict ngamst them, they being execution-proof. These facts disclose a shameful condition of affairs —euough to cause any honest man to blush. If this is not “offensive partisanship" too, what is it? Chief Bnshyliead’s Tribute to Grant. .Washington, Aug 10.—A copy of a proclamation to the Chrokees and othor Indians of Indian TerJ ritory, issued by Chief Bushyhcad, July 30, has been received at tho Department of the Interior. This document is well written, iu good English. It begins as follows: “A great man has gone from earth, who, more than any other of the personages prominent in tho great events of the present age, represented in his life and conduct the noblo principles and tendencies of modern civilization. The name of General Grant is associated with the awakening of a great Nation's conscience, and with the exhibition, on a vast scale, of that spirit of brotherly love and charity which is the test and proof of human progress."* The proclamation then recites the honors paid to Grant on his tour around the world, and says the Indians have special cause for sorrow in the death of one who was their constant protector and friend, and concludes by suggesting that tho members of the tribes appropriately observe the day of his burial. An Excellent Order. Washington, Aug. 10.—The recent general army order sending officers back to thoir regiments after a period of four years on detached duty, is provoking much discussion among officers in Washington. But two officers now on duty here will be compelled to join their regiments at once. They are Captains Gregory and Davis, of General Sheridan's staff. Captain Davis was recently assigned to staff service, but he has been on detached duty for a numl*er of years. Officers who favor the order say that favoritism is now ended; that officers will not be allowed to remain from their commands ten or fifteen years; that captains who have never seen their companies will have an opportunity to look at them, and that men who have been on the frontier for almost a score of years will now be permitted to taste the sweets of army life. “That order," said an officer to-day, “means tne resurrection of the army." Personal aud General. •i pedal to the Imliauapulia Journal. Washington. Aug. 10.—John A. Gunn, of Lawrence county, who was recently appointed a special agent of the General Land Office, and who has been hero scvoral days receiving instructions, will go to his home the latter part of this week, and start to Huron, Dakota, where he will be located for a while, early next week. lie takes well to his work. Commissions were issued to the following fourth class ludiaua postmasters to-day: James

K. Parkey, Bowers; George T. Gordon, Grandview; Horace S. Strickland, Owenaviile; Bradford GlHzebrook, San Pierre. Juago Carlton, of the Utah Commission, will leave here for Terre Haute to morrow, Maj.fWm. P. Gould, of the pay department of the army, has been placed on the retired list Ex-Minister John W. Foster is expected to join his family in September at Lske George, where they aro spending the summer. A1 B. Bunch, of Anderson, and Charles Morris, a well known Hoosier. put their names on Ebbitt register to day. Congressman Kleiner, who has been here some time, working on postmasterships in his district, expressed a good deal of diseust to day at the slowness of the administration in discussing changes in offices. He has succeeded in securing Democrats for all but four or five presidential offices in his district, and is somewhat chagrined because he has not had those filled. lie has his war-paint on. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ending Aug. 8 was $285,998. The issue during the corresponding period last year was $221,498. It is said at the Treasury Department that there will be no changes of any consequence in that department during Secretary Manning's absence. He is reported to have left instructions in regard to filling certain vacancies, including one or two chiefs of divisions, and making a few minor appointments, but nothing beyond that. A report that Supervising Architect Bell is to be succeeded in a few days, is contradicted on good authority. The candidates for his place have all gone home disappointed. The White House is now closed to visitors, and will not be reopened until the President’s return in September. In the meantime the building will be overhauled, and made as clean and comfortable as possible. Considerable repairing will have to be done, and several improvements in the arrangements will be made. The clerical force will remain on duty during the summer. Assistant Private Secretary Pruden is in charge. The President will always be within telegraphic communication with the White House, and will in that w'ay attend to all matters requiring action on his part. THE LIST OF CASUALTIES. A Wagon Overturned and Two Persons Killed Outright. Chicago, Aug. 10.—Three w agons full of people, returning from a picnic, came abi*east near the suburban town of Jefferson, late last night. A race ensued, and the horses were lashed into a run. Suddenly a drunken man in one of the wagons arose and snatched the lines from the driver. The wagon was overturned instantly, and th o occupants thrown out The driver was killed, falling under one of the horses, while a baby was knocked out of its mother's arms and mangled to death. Several other people were badly injured. The locality is remote from telephone connections, and the names of the victims have not vet been learned. Part of a Train Plunges into Welland Canal. Mkrritgn, Out., Aug. 10.—As a heavily-laden Pacific express, drawn by two engines, was entering the Grand Trunk yards here, at 2 o’clock this afternoon, it was found that the air brakes would not work, and the train could not be stopped with the hand brakes. The swing bridge at the crossing of the Welland canal, just beyond the depot, was partly open, and tho train dashed past the depot and both engines and tho foremost cars were plunged into the canal and adjoining pond. The extent of damage is not known. One en gineer is known to have been killed and the other train hands to have been badly scalded. None of the passengers were known to be injured. ratal Fall from a Scaffold. Detroit. Aug. 10.—The Evening Journal's Grand Rapids special says: “While painting the dial of the clock in the tower of the Second-street Methodist Church, this morning, John Fox and Fred iScliurer were thrown to the ground—a distance of seventy feet—by the scaffold giving away from them. Fox was killed outright, his neck being broken. He leaves a widow and four children. Schnrer's ribs were crushed in, ana he was injured internally, so that ho died at noon.” Two Brakemen Killed. Pittsburg, Aug. 10.—At Superior station, late last night, the Western limited express on the Fort Wayne railway struck Oliver Mitchell and Price Dillon, two brakemen, who had just alighted from an accommodation train and were crossing the track. Mitchell was killed instantly, and Dillon so badly mangled that no hopes for his recovery are entertained. OBITUARY. Mora Phillips, the Founder of the City of Galveston. Philadelphia, Aug. 10.— Mora Phillips died at the Monmouth House, Spring Lake, yesterday afternoon, age seventy-five years. lie was one of the largest real estato men in Texas. Many years ago he was shipwrecked on the coast of Texas, and was so delighted with tho country that he bought a large tract of land and erected the first house upon the ground where the city of Galveston now stands. His fortune is estimated at $10,000.000. W. I*, llurlbert. Cincinnati, Aug. 10.—A dispatch from Waukesha, Wis., announces the death there, to-day, of William P. llurlbert, a prominent and wealthy resident of this city. The funeral will take place here on Wednesday. A Centenarian.# Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 10.— Samuel W. Allerton, of Newark, died to day, aged ninetynine years, eight months and five days. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Edward W. Sadler, dealer in yarns, New York, has made an assignment. The herds of swine in South Essex, Britain, are being decimated by hog cholera. Fire at Eugene, Quebec, yesterday, destroyed property valued at $40,000. Insurance, $7,000. An Erie, Kan . special says: Mrs. Frankie Morris, who was on Saturday found guilty of murdering her mother, was married on Sunday evening to Harvey D. Copeland, of Wichita. James Ilarding. a pickpocket, and John Robbins, a housebreaker, serving long sentences at the Work-house at Cleveland, escaped on Sunday night by sawing the bars in their cells. The firm of Emmons & Roach, iron manufacturers, New York, has made an assignment on account of depression in trade. The junior member of the firm is a grandson of John Roach. The window-glass manufacturers’ conference committee will meet a similar committee of workers next week, at Pittsburg, to fix a scale of wages for the ensuing year. It is believed that a settlement will be reached without a strika The Montreal branch of the Irish National League have decided to send a manifesto to the various branches of the league and other Irish societies throughout Canada, and to solicit subscriptions m favor o# tho Irish Parliamentary fund. A Canton, 0., special says. “Assignments were made yesterday to C. C. Bowe, of that city, by Rank Bros., millers, and David Rank, senior member of the firm. Liabilities, $50,000. Assets about $20,000. Unfortunate Arizona mining speculations are said to have precipitated the failure. Rev. W. R. Coovert, of Pittsburg, pastor of the Church of God, will leave for New York on Thursday for the purpose of commencing proceedings looking to the recovery of Harlem Commons, in that city. He says he had discovered facts which show that the Coovert family are rightful heirs, and he ia sanguine that his claims will be established. Death of One of General Grant’s War-Horses. Charleston, W. Va., Aug. 10.—John Baker, of Eagle, Fayette county, a soldier who fought with Grant at Vicksburg, was the possessor of a horse which was shot under General Grant the day before Vicksburg fell. Though old, the animal was without a blemish,"except the sear received lit VicKt burg. Last Thursday he refused food, nnd, in spite of medical treatment, died on Saturday.

THE IXDIAKAPOL.IS JOURNAI*, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1885.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of Ail Kinds in the Two States. Distressing Death ofa Child —Madison County Teachers' Institnte—Death of a Wayne County Fioneer—Fatal Accident. INDIANA. Horrible Death of a Child by Strangling on a Picket Fence. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette. Aug. 10.—Word was received here to-day of ahorrible accident, which occurred near Dayton. The three-year-old girl-baby of Eli Brand was climbing on an iron fenee in the yard, when her foot slipped and she fell, her head catching between two pailings. The accident occurred at about 2 o'clock, and when the body was found, two hours later, life was extinct. The body was found by the child’s father, who happened to step into the yard. He had heard it cry for help about 2 o’clock, and paid no attention to it, and the first intimation of its death was the horrible sight of the body sus pended before him. A Persistent Rascal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Richmond, Aug. 10. —Anna Elstro, who lives with Dr. Weist, was awakened at an early hour this morning by feeling herself grasped by the shoulder by a man, who told her he would kill her if she spoke. She screamed for help, and a struggle ensued. During the tussel she seized him by the hair, and discovered thereby that he was a negro. Her cries alarmed the house, and the scoundrel hearing help approaching, made his escape. Dr. Weist, pistol ia hand, followed him out of the house, but lost trace of him. and was about to return to bed when he heard screams from tho house of Robert Morris, near by. Mr. Morris and wife were away from home, and two young lady friends wero staying for tho night with his daughters. Dr. Weist went to their assistance, and learned that they had been awakened by the entrance to their room of a negro, in his shirt-sleeves, ho having gained access to their room by placing a ladder to the window'. They fled to another room, and barred themselves iu, when the negro placed his ladder at a window of that room and again attempted to gain entrance, when their screams for help attracted the attention of Dr. Weist, and he took his departure. Madison County Teachers* Institute. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Andersen, Aug. 10. —The annual meeting of the Madison county teachers’ institute convened here this morning wit ; a larger attendance than known for years before. One hundred and twenty-five teachers were present at the forenoon session. The institute i3 under tho personal management of Dale J. Crittenberger, county superintendent, and gives promise of being one of especial interest to teachers. Such wellknown instructors as W. W. Parsons, president of the State Normal School; Prof. E. E. Smith, of Purdue University; Prof. R. I. Hamilton, city; John W. Holcombe, Superintendent of Public Instruction; W. A. Bell, editor of the Indiana School Journal, and Prof. W. A. Ellis, of Alexandria, are in attendance. The teachers are displaying a lively interest in the institute work, and it is believed the session will be a profitable one. Lectures will be delivered on Tuesday night by President W. W. Parsons, on Wednesday night by State Superintendent Holcombe, ar.d on Thursday night by Secretary of State Myers. The institute will close on Friday night with a teachers’ reunion and social. The Recent Fulton County Murder. Special to the IndianaDo'is Journal. Rochester, Aug. 10. —The inquest over the death of Michael Kain, who was murdered at his home in Wayne township last week, is still iu session. At the beginning of the investigation it was thought that no positive evidence could be procured pointing to Patrick McGuire as the murderer, although it was a well-settled fact in the minds of the people that he was the perpe trator of the crime. The testimony of Marietta Granel, a young lady living near the scene of the murder, has caused quite a sensation, as it is very damaging to McGuire, and will greatly assist the prosecution in convicting him, if he is apprehended. A reward of S3OO is offered for the arrest of the murderer, but there is no clew to his whereabouts. Mysterious Disappearance. Special to the Indiauapolis Journal, Vincennes, Aug. 10. —A sad case of mysterious disappearance has just come to light here. Joe Pollock, the young son of Mr. Joseph Pollock, sr., proprietor of tho Broadway flouring mills, went to Texas to engage in telegraphing. Since the 4th of August he has not been seen or heard of. Young Pollock was stationed at Lone Oak, Tex., temporarily, as railroad agent. On the night of the 4th inst. friends of Pollock noticed several bad characters around the depot, and suspicion of foul play is entertained. Some of the best detectives in the country have been engaged in the case, and to day left for Texas to thoroughly investigate the matter. The last heard from young Pollock was a letter he had written to his parents, dated on the 3d. Death of a Pioneer of Wayne County. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Richmond, Aug. 10.—Hugh Moffit, a wellknown Friend, died at his home near this city, last night of cholera morbus. He was one of the old stock of Wayne county pioneers, coming here in 1811, when five years of age, with his parents from North Carolina. Having no children of their own, he and his wife raised a number of homeless ones, including Mary Baker, who married Hon. William Baxter, Mattie Tyler, wife of Orin Mote, Lizzie Moffit, wife of H. E. Moon, and several who are yet young, all of whom will mourn him as a father. Negro Tramp Shot. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Seymour, Aug. 10.—Last night a negro tramp was shot in the head by Frank Champion, white man. The shooting occurred in the southwestern part of the city, which is largely inhabited by colored people. It is reported that the shooting was without provocation. Champion has left the city. The physicians say the wounded man cannot recover. A Colored Man’s Head Crushed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, Aug. 10.—As Wm. Wilson, colored, was working on the edge of a pit fourteen feet deep, in tho wheel works foundry, this evening, a plank fell from the derrick above him, striking him on the head and knocking him into the pit. His skull was fractured by the fall and he died a few moments after. Sudden Death. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. M UNCiis, Aug. 10.— On Saturday evening Mrs. George Wilson, of this city, was called to the bedside of her daughter. Mrs. Neely, who had been long Afflicted with consumption, and was

supposed to be dying. No sooner did she look upon her daughter, as she thought in the last throes of death, than she was seized with paroxysms of the heart. She was carried to her home near by, where she died before medical aid could be summoned. She was highly respected, and her death has created deep sorrow in tho city. Terre Haute Nail Works. Terre Haute. Aug. 10.—At a conference held Salurday between President Nippert, of the nail works company, and a committee representing the puddlers, the latter were informed that their services were no longer required. Hereafter steel plate will be shipped from the Vulcan steel works, St. Louis, to run 144 nail machines. One hundred men are thrown out of employment. Minor Notes. The Waveband Banner has been purchased by John Q Russell. Crawfordsville has a man drawing a pension who was a deserter from the army. James C. Logan, an old and honored citizen of Madison, died on Sunday night, aged seventynine. Whitesville, in Montgomery county, is so healthy that their only physician is preparing to leave. The horse-thief detective companies hold their twenty fifth annual convention at Crawfordsville, to day and to-morrow. Thanight train on tho 1.. B. & W. caused the death of two houses belonging to Ben Ornbaun, at the depot in Crawfordsville, Sunday night. The flouring and saw mill of John W. Ikerd, one mile east of Bedford, has burned. Loss about $5,000. There was $3,000 insurance on it. Burglars entered the house of Dr. S. B. Collins, at Lal’orte, and carried of SSO. At Turner Butterworth’s, near by, they took a gold watch and some jewelry. The trial of Chesiey Chambers, charged with assault and attempt to kill Weber and Davis, and the robbery of the L., N. A. &C. railway express car, will commence this week at Bloomington. Joshua Cook was strfick in the side at the Hickory Mill at New Albany, Friday, and so badly hurt by an ax handle that was thrown from one of the machines that he has died from the effects of his injury. Frederick Pepper, the New Albany barber who was accidentally run over by a J.. *M. & 1. train at Jeffor.soTi\ille, causing the amputation of his right leg, was reported in a dangerous condition and not expected to live. Mrs. William Mills, living near the Ohio State line, in Wayne county, dropped dead yesterday. Her husband had just died from the effects of a carriage accident, but whether that superinduced a heart trouble or not is not known. Mr. John A. Crozier, of the Madison Courier, who was suddenly and it was’ thought fatally attacked by hemorrhage of tho bowels on Saturday afternoon, has since rallied, and is slowly gaiuing strength, with hopes of final recovery. At Jeffersonville George Crodoff, a colored man, under the influence of liquor, got into a fight with two white youths, Larry Kennedy and Thomas Brown, and stabbed Kennedy in the breast and Brown on the arms and shoulders, making painful wounds. Crodoff was arrested. As Wm. Pagel and Perry • Bennefield, of LaPorte, were returning from a pigeon hunt, Bennefield accidently dropped his gun, which was discharged, the contents lodging in Pagel's right leg. above the knee, making a terrible wound. The bones of the limb were badly shattered, and the leg was amputated. Posey county claims two centenarians; one of these, George Johnson, ajnegro, claims to have been born in Virginia in 1774, 111 years ago. For many years he lived at Alt. Vernon, this State, but is now at the county poor asylum. Dolly Fagin, a colored woman, claims to be 107 years old. She is a devout Catholic, and walks to church e” Sunday. Miss Frank Broy has appeared as an evangelist in Adams township, Madison county, and all that section i? indulging iu a series of remarkable religious exercises. Laughing, crying, shouting: fainting and trances are daily scenes. Services are held afternoons and evenings, continuing until midnight and after. There were about one hundred conversions during last week. ILLINOIS. A Farmer Bitten by a Rattlesnake Near Altainont. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Altamont, Aug. 10. —Frank Dorman, son of Peter Dorman, living about three miles north of here,.was to day bitten by a rattlesnake while’ shocking oats. At this time his life is in great danger, the fever running high. The foot which was bitten is much swollen. Fatal Accident Near Shelbyville. Shelby vi lle, Aug. 10.—To-day the bridge over Noble's creek gave way under the weight of a farm engine drawn by a pair of horses. The machine, horses and driver —Noah Friesner—and his companion were precipitated to the creek below, the men falling beneath the maebiifery. Both men and horses were killed. A Political Club Incorporated. Springfield, Aug. 10.— The Secretary of State to day issued a certificate of incorporation to the Grant Club, of Chicago, the stated object of which is to maintain the principles of the Republican party. Brief Mention. Altona lias a brass band composed wholly of women. OTA Knox county farmer is charged with raising wolves to secure the scalp bounty. Rev. H. S. Black, for some time pastor of the Baptist Church at Hillsboro, has accepted a call to the Baptist Church at I’ana. The prohibition camp meeting has closed at Decatur. It is not thought to have made any converts to the third-party movement The Galesburg City Council has granted the College City Street Railway Company the right to construct four lines of street railway. The principal line is to run to Lombard University, and will be completed beforo the end of this month. Frank Mazo, the man who in May last shot dead J. A. Welker, near Cobden, was delivered to the sheriff at Anna by two citizens of Johnson county. Three hundred dollars was offered for the arrest—s2oo by the State and SIOO by Union county. The dead body of a man has been found in Oak Ridge cemetery, near Springfield. A British bull dog pistol laid near by, and it appeared that a ball had passed into the head at the mouth and out behind one ear. The case is one of suicide, and the man seemed to have been dead several days. The body has not been identified. Postal clerks on the line of the Louisville & Nashville railroad between Louisville and St. Louis, and on other lines running through the southern part of Illinois, have lately been ordered to deliver and receive mail on Sunday the same as other days of the week. The order is meeting with a general protest from the public in the sections where the orders have b°en issued, they considering that the postal clerks have as much right to a day of rest as the com munity they serve. G. A. R. Camp at Gettysburg. Gettysburg, Pa., Aug. 10.—This was a pleasant day for the Grand Army encampment. Gen. S. S. Burdett, commander in-chief, accompanied by J. C. Linham, department commander of New Hampshire, arrived to-day, and this evening the different posts marched in review beforo the two distinguished visitors. Addresses to the veterans were made, one of which advocated a Grand Army of the Republic monument to Gen. Grant by fixed subscription of ten cents from each member. This was enthusiastically received. A subscription of this kind would aggregate $30,090. A Kansas Colonization Society. Topeka. Kan., Aug. 10. —The Veterans’Colonization Society was organized to day, for the purpose of promoting immigration into Kansas, to colonize veteran soldiers of the late war and their families on government or other lands. The capital stock is $60,000.

THE TELEGRAM CONTROVERSY. The Baltimore & Ohio Positively Declines to Sell Out or Inter Into a Pool. New York, Au£. 10. —The following cable message is self-explanatory: From Nukkmrurg, Ang. 5, 1885. D. IT. Pates, president Baltimore A Ohio Tcleeraph Company, Sew York, via Mackay-Ilennett Cable: Received through Mr. Pender the following from MY. Field, who sailed suddenly Saturday for America: “London, Aug. G. “Cyrnu W. Field to Mr. Pender: 9 “Russell Sage wants to know the best terms that Garrett would sell his lines right out for money. If he will not sell right out, what terms would he accent upon a pooling or other agreement upon a fair basis?” Mr. Field suggests that both companies agree to advance the tariff at once, keeping separate, but under a fair and binding agreement. Mr. Pender has wired him, at my request, as follows: “August 8. “Field, Steamer, Queenstown: “Have delivered your message to Garrett, who requests mo to telegraph you as follows: ‘I have your message through Mr. Pender, in which you say “Russell Sage wishes to know the best terms the Baltimore <fc Ohio company will sell its telegraph right out for money, and if the Baltimore & Ohio company will not sell outright, he wishes me to name terms for a pooling or other agreement.” I also have your message asking ir 3to advance the tariff at once, under a binding agreement with the Western Union. Cable Mr. Sage that the Baltimore & Ohio declines, as heretofore, to sell its lines, which are not for sale at any price, and also declines your proposition to advance rates.’ “I also wired Mr. Field, to Queenstown, as follows: “ ‘August 8. “ ‘Field, Queenstown: “ ‘Allow me to suggest as proper and fair, that, before sailing, you cable the other side, contradicting absolutely the lies which have been circulated about the telegraph understandings between us, and in which your name has been freely used. Unless you do this positively and in satisfactory shape, and repeat the same to me before sailing, 1 shall feel disposed to give to the public your message and mv reply. Robert Garrett.’” On Aug. 8, Mr. Pender also cabled Dr. Green as follows: “I observe that the Western Union has advanced from about 59 to 68, and a considerable portion of this advance has taken place since Mr. Field and I had an interview with Mr. Garrett. lam told it is understood in America that at that interview, and there was only one, Mr. Garrett approached Mr. Field ar.d myself with a view of effecting a sale of his system to the Western Union as a settlement of the existing state of things with the land lines. This is untrue, and it is only fair to Mr. Garrett that I should let you know this. Subsequent to the interview I cabled to you that a nooling arrangement. using the Atlantic & Pacific and the American Union purchase as a basis of settlment. might be negotiated. It seemed to me the information you have got elsewhere does not fairly represent the case, and I am anxious, therefore, that the real facts should be known to you and the public. Mr. Garrett has been perfectly open in all this business, and since I came to Hamburg he has read mo extracts from letters, showing that the statements going about on your side are exaggerated, and as I do not wish my name to be compromised in any way, I think I am justified in sending you this telegram. “John Pender.” Please give the above correspondence to the press, with such additional information as may be necessary to fully explain our independent position. Robert Garrett. President Bates’s Statement. New York. Aug. 10. —In relation to the cable correspondence between Messrs. Garrett. Pender and Field, Mr. D. H. Bates, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company, says: “The wild rumors which have been circulated during the past month concerning an alleged arrangement between the Western Union and Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Companies have been repeatedly denied by Mr. Garrett and my self, only to be renewed in some varied form, to meet what were each time deemed to be the most explicit denials. It is remarkable that the statements have not only remained uncontradited on this side by those who must have known their falsity, but it has now been necessary to secure an official denial from Mr. Pender, who is, I believe, an honorary Western Union director. The Baltimore & Ohio, which, since the absorption by the Western Union of the American Union and Atlantic and Pacific companies, in 1881, has operated an independent telegraphic system, has never faltered in its policy of maintaining its independence, believing that ample and substantial lines between the important trade centres of the country, built at low prices for cash, would command adequate custom, and afford a fair return upon investment, and instead of selling, as some would wish us to do, we are still extending and adding to our system, covering territory until lately occupied by the American Rapid, whose lines were recently absorbed by our rival, and contracts have been made for additional extensions to various other points. CHINESE OUTLAWS. How the Bronze Criminals Manage to Defy the Courts of California. San Francisco Letter. That the Chinese have secret tribunals of their own where false testimony is prepared, and whose edicts are death for the Chinaman to disobey, is no longer a matter of conjecture. They are not only not amenable to law, but they are governed by secret tribunals unrecognized and unauthorized by law. The records of these tribunals have been discovered, and are found to be antagonistic to our legal system. These tribunals are. formed by the several Chinese companies or guilds, and are recognized as legitimate authorities by the Chinese population. They levy taxes, command masses of men, intimidate interpreters and witnesses, enforce perjury, regulate trade, punish the refractory, remove’ witnesses bevond the reach of our courts, control liberty of action, and prevent the return of Chinese to their home in China without their consent. In short, they exercise a despotic sway over one-seventh of the population of the State of California. This system is inherent, and part of the fiber of the Chinese mind, and exists because the Chinese are thoroughly and permanently alien to us in language and interests. The testimony of a number of persons was taken, to the effect that rewards are offered and paid for the life of certain objectionable Chinamen. Charles T. Joues, the district attorney of Sacramento, testified that an interpreter in a certain ease told him that the Chinese would kill him if tbe defendants in a certain robbery case were convicted. “We went out of the court room,” said Mr. Jones, “and he told me he was afraid to go on I street. I told him not to go there, but I did not think they would trouble lam. Half an hour afterward he was brought back shot in the back, and a hatchet having been used on him. mutilating him terribly. This was in broad daylight, about 11 o’clock in the morning, on Third and I streets, one of the most prominent places in the city of Sacramento. There were hundreds of Chinese there at the time, but it was difficult, in the prosecution of the case, to get any Chinese testimony at aIL It happened that there were a few white men passing at the time, and we were enabled to identify two men, and they were convicted and sent to the penitentiary for life after threo trials. They attempted to’prove an alibi, and. after swearing a large lot of Chinamen, they said they had twenty more. The Chinese use the courts to get possession of women. Sometimes it happens that where a man is married to a woman they get out a warrant for his arrest, and before he can get bail they have stolen the woman, and carried her off to some distant place.” A Disagreement About Counting the Money. San Francisco, Aug. 10.—A seriousmisunderstanding is reported to exist between the outgoing and incoming administration of the United States sub treasury in this city regarding the count of the money in the vaults. Mr. Brooks, the newlyappointed sub treasurer, is willing to accept a count by weight, but Mr. Spaulding, the present incumbent, insists on every

piece being counted before the transfer li made. There are ninety-three million dollars Hi tbe vaults. To count it all over would take from six to eight. month*. A decision from Washington on the subject is looked for* CLOSING THE STAR CHAMBER, A Change In the Manner of Removing R©. publican Office-Holders. Washington Post. But it now seems evident that the department has discovered it? error and receded from tha false and fatal position originally assumed. Tha wrongs that have been inflicted cannot of course be repaired. Hundreds of men have been ex-, pelled from office and sent into the world branded* with mysterious crimes. They know that they wore removed by reason of charges preferred against them; but what those charges were, who preferred them and how great or bow little their enormity these things they do not know and will never be told. It is to be expected that the victims of so shocking a barbarity are charing under it and that their friends will cherish the wrong through all the years to come. Furthermore, it may be taken for granted that all fairminded men having cognizance of cases in point will hold in abhorenceand contempt the methods and their authors. It is to be questioned whether so much and such grinding injustice can be w holly condoned by this tardy and unacknowledged, though unmistakable, act of reparation. It is to be doubted whether the ghosts of all this cruel wrong will down into their graves under the exorcism of a Peccavi which ma; be substantial and distinct, but which is clearly lacking itv frankness. No formal admission has been made. No official utterance has transpired. The Star Chamber has simply been closed. The lettre do cachet no longer figures as an agent of the government. The outrage has been suppressed; the informer is out of employment; candid and straightforward practices have succeeded tha dark and sinster ones of a few weeks back. There has been no confession, but there has been a visible and conspicuous change. For so much tho Democratic party may well be thankful. To have its skirts cleared of that mean and reeking stain is something—it is much. Honest men may breathe more fieely now, and the people may tell themselves that the Democratic party, though it wgvered fora moment, is erect once more, dealing fairly in the bright radiance of day and walking upright before the world. Let us be thankful! Taxing Georgia Bachelors. Atlanta Constitution. The number of old bachelors is increasing in every community. They try to be very gay and frivolous, and are anxious to leave an impression that they are happy, but they cannot conceal the fact that they are bald headed and thinlegged. Married men in certain cases made and provided have a perfect right to be bald-headed and thin-legged, but a bald headed and thinlegged old bachelor is a standing insult to the community in which he lives. What right lias he to he bald-headed and thin-legged? What right has he to pretend to bo comfortable, and to assume all the privileges of citizenship, when he has evaded the first and most important duty of a citizen? L.et the bill to tax them he hurried forward to its passage. The times are ripe for iL Endowing College Professorships. Cincinnati Graphic. Better one well paid professor than two poorly paid ones. In this matter of endowing chairs,* much money has been wasted. A half-paid professor is a pitiable sight. Coming in contact with people of culture, he is obliged to keep up some show of taste and hospitality on a meager salary. 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