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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Playful Pleasantry of a Vincennes Man Causes a Bloody Affray. More Information Abont the MeMolten Mnrder—Church Dedication at New Castle— The Case Against Madcr—Gleanings. INDIANA. A Harmless Joke Leads to a Serious and Possibly Fatal Affray. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. V incenses, Oct. 5.—A bloody affray occurred this afternoon at Druliinger's Main-street saloon, in which Joseph Miller, a carpenter, was stabbed in the back and cut in the faoe in such a frightful manner that there is no hope of bis recovJery. Miller entered Drullinger’s saloon about 4 o’clock, and engaged Joseph Meyer, a German, in conversation. They laughed and chatted for awhile, until Miller knocked Meyer’s hat off in a ocular manner, and stooped down to pick it np. Meyer reached down and slapped Miller on the side of the head, when Miller erabbed a pitcher of water and emptied its contents upon Meyer. Meyer then Dulled out his pocket-knife and used it with frightful effect upon his adversary. Miller was cut several times about the face. Roth bellieerents then got out of doors.and Meyer stabbed Miller in the small of the back, making a wound three inches deep, the end of the blade breaking off in one of Miller's ribs. Drs. Beard & Beard and Davenport dressed the wounds. The physicians say the victim's wounds are exceedingly dangerous, with little hope for his recovery. Meyer was immediately arrested and placed in jail Episcopal Church Dedication at New Castle. apccia 1 to the Indianapolis Journal New Castle, Oct. s. —Bishop Knickerbackcr, of the Diocese of Indiana, consecrated on Sun day last beautiful St. James Church, erected by the little band of Episcopalians in New Castle the past summer. The church was beautifully adorned with flewers and tho harvest festival decorations of grain, fruits and vegetables. The church was crowded at three services, morning, afternoon and evening, many standing through the services. The Bishop was assisted in the service by the missionary in charge, Rev. Willis D. Engle. The singing was led by a surplicea choir of ten boys and six men, which is to render the musical portions of the service regularly. The Bishop preached at the consecration on the text Ps. 77, verse 111. ‘'Thy way, O Goa, is in the sanctuary.” In the afternoon he addressed and catechised the Sunday-school and young people, and in the evening preached on confirmation and conferred the apostolic rito on four persons. The first service of tho Episcopal Church in New Castle was held by Bishop Knickerbacke,r in February, IcSB4 Finding a tew Episcopalians desirous of having service, he arranged for a monthly service. Such interest was developed that in January, 1885, Rev. W. D. Engle was appointed missionary, and since spent each alternate Sunday there. A subscription was started and the means secured to purchase a lot and erpct, 1 his beautiful church and pay for it. The church is carpeted throughout, has bell, font, communion service and linen, and every equipment for good work, and is filled every Sunday with a devout, worshiping congregation. Mr. Engle has also, in connection with New C.'i#tle, services at Kennardand Wilkinson, at each of which places a lot has been donated for a church site, and subscription papers are being circulated to secure the means to erect churches in the spring. In both these towns the Episcopal Church is the first to establish regular service and to move in the matter of church erection.

More Talk About the McMullen Murder. Special to tho lndiananolis Journal Ckawfordsville, Oct s.—The arrival of Janies Rankins here has caused quite an excitement. and the McMullen murder is again the chief topic of conversation. The possibilities and probabilities of James Rankins having committed the murder are freely discussed. Rankins claims to have affidavits of reliable parties which will go to prove that he was sick at the date of the murder, Jan 7, 1885, and not in this part, of the country. Rankins visited the jail on Saturday and asked Coffey why he had lied in saying that ho had done the deed, and Coffey auswered, looking Rankins square in the eye: “I told the truth, and you and your family know I did.’’ All day Saturday a large crowd followed Rankins around as if be was a great curiosity. It is generally conceded that James Dennis will be a free man in a few days, unless the grand ;ury, now in session, makes anew indictment against him to conform with the ast statement of Coffey. Dennis is held now •or killing the McMullens with a club, whereas, according to the present situation of the case, tie did nor killing, but was only present while Rankins did the murdering. If the grand jury brings no bill of indictment against any of the other persons charged with taking a part in the affair, and Dennis is cleared, then Coffey will be hanged on Oct. 16. The scaffold is all ready to put together at the carpenter shop of E. C. Griffith, and is made to hang two men at once. Nothing has been done toward making the inclosure except the setting of the stakes, which were driven last August. In case of Dennis be ing tried again his lawyers say they wiil take a change of venue, to Frankfort, if possible. Wabash County’s Township Trustees. 6pecial to the 1 mlianatfohs Journal. Wabash, Oct. s.—Agreeably to a call of the County Commissioners, the township trustees of this county met to-day and presented to the Commissioners, in special session, a full account of all orders outstanding. The report was as follows: • Chester township—One order for SIOO, due John Forest for school lot in Now Madison, Ind. La Gro township—Owes some small amounts in the county. No orders out. Liberty township—two orders, in aggregate $245. due to Flemming Road-machine Company, Fort Wayne, and a few small debts in the eounty. Noble township—Owes not to exceed S2O in all. Pleasant township—One order to A. H. Andrews & Cos., Chicago, for $249.50; one order to Flemming Road-machine Company, for $80; one order to W. P. Barrett of Wabash county, for $65; one order to Hussey Bros., of Indianapolis, for $l5O. Paw Paw township—One order to Hussey Bros, for $227, and other small amounts. Waltz township—One order to Hussey Bros, for S4OO. The reports were all sworn to. The Orthodox Friends. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Richmond, Oct. s.— The minute of the state of the Society of Orthodox Friends *,was approved this morning, and authorized read in luarterly and monthly meetings. The tliirtyhird repost from White’s Institute showed that )t the seventy one pupils sixty were Indians. About $13,000 have been expended in improvements. An objection being made to the term Sunday-schools, it was decided to call them “Bible schools.” A proposition to petition Congress against carrying the mails, military drills and interstate commerce on Sunday was indorsed. The report of the trustees in favor of providing funds made necessary by an improper investment made by the former clerk, Charles F. Coffin, was approved. The board of trustees of Earlhara College reported a deficiency of SI,BOO, and the president!

Joseph John Mills, reported for the year 189 students and 11 graduates. About three-fourths were Friends. A strong appeal was made for monev. putting the sum needed at a round SIOO,OOO. The committee on Sunday-schools reported that 27$ per cent, of the 5,5G0 scholars in their 133 schools were Friends. Libel Suit at Wabash Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Wabash, Oct. s. —The State cases against William Ward and Henry Crumrine, two well-known farmers living near this city, came up in the Circuit Court here to-day. They were last spring charged by a neighbor with stealing hams, and the grand jury found indictments against both men. After the case was presented to-day, the jury gave a verdict, immediately. of “not guilty.” Both Ward and Crumrine have brought suit for libel, based on this charge, in the sum of $5,000 each against the Wabash Times. The verdict to-day will have an important bearing upon the libel suit when it is brought up. The Case Against Jacob 3lader. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Wabash, Oct. s. —Three bills, one charging murder in the first degree and two in the second, were found by the grand jury against Jacob Mader, who shot James Anderson in a saloon row here a few weeks ago. The case came up to day m the Circuit Court. The prosecutor waived the indictment charging murder in the first degree, which was done at a late hour, and and Judge Walker admitted Mader to bail in the sum of $5,000. A change of venue has been taken to Miami county. Farm Resirieuce Burned. Special to the lrdianapolis Journal. Shklbyville, Oct. s.—At 1 o’clock this afternoon the large brick residence of James Cooper, in Hendricks township, eight miles west of this city, caught fire and was burned. The building originally cost. $6,000. Mr. Cooper carried an insurance of $2,500 on the house and SSOO on tho furniture in the Continental, of New York. * Elinor Notes. There are now GOO inmates in the southern penitentiary. A Crawfordsville boy went fishing and caught his lower lip on the hook, and a doctor had to cut the end of the hook off in order to release the boy. Frank Perry, of New Albany, will leave, today, for Honduras to superintend the putting together of a boat built by the Howards, of Jeffersonville, for persons in that country. Thomas Wickens, a sixteen-year-old boy, living at North Vernon, had both legs cut off while getting off a moving freight-train. He would have graduated at the high-school next year. A freight-car of the L., N. A. & C. railroad, loaded with paper, was totally destroyed by fire last Sunday night on the side-track at the paper mill at Mouticello. Loss, S7OO. No insurance. The three-vear-old son of William Farnaer, of West Hendricks township, Shelby county, who badly mangled an arm by catching the same in a sugar-cane mill, last week, took lock-jaw and died yesterday. An election was held yesterday in Lafontaine, Wabash county, to decide whether or not the town shall be incorporated. The vote stood thirty-two for and thirty-nine against. The anti-incorporation party celebrated their victory with fire-works. The shot that caused the death of Geo. Wilson, who was killed by Thomas Wilson, near Russellville, had entered his back, passed through his liver and lodged just underneath the skin in the front of his body, and was cut out after his death. Ben F. Laffertv, of the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis railroad office in New Albany, is dangerously ill. Mr. Lafferty was stricken with paralysis ten years ago, losing the use of both limbs. During all these years he has been employW, and has been hauled to and from his work. The fourth annual Carroll County Harvesthome Exhibition held atCamden, was one of the finest shows of stock, farm and garden products and poultry ever made in that part of the State. There were from 3,000 to 4.000 people in attendance each day, although the weather was unfavorable. Arrangements /ire being made to hold it four days next year, and to pay premiums. Yesterday asmallbov named John Grimes, found a mail sack at Crawfordsville, between the junction and the Vandalia depot, which had been cut open and the contents rifled. The sack evidently had been exposed to the weather some time. The letters were torn up and scattered near by, and, from the scraps, it is ascertained that the letters were coming to Crawfordsville. The latest Bedford sensation is the elopement of William Palmer, sixty years old, with Mrs. Hardy Williams, forty years old. Both parties are married. Palmer's family, financially, is in good fix, as he deeded, about two weeks since, his entire interest to his wife of about $50,000 worth of real estate, he taking with him from $3,000 to $5,000, but the other family is in poor circumstances. The funeral of Capt. A. M. Early, who died at his home in Wabash on Friday, took place today. Mr. Earlv wasseventy-eightyears old, and had lived in Wabash county nearly forty years. During canal days ho was in charge of a packet boat for some time and became very extensively known. Mr. Early's death had been anticipated for some time. About two months ago he embraced the Catholic faith.

ILLINOIS. Accidental Death of William Sharkey, a Clark County Farmer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Marshall, Oct. 5. —This morning, at about 8 o’clock, William Sharkey, an aged farmer of Dolson township, was loading lumber in this city, when his team became frightened and started to run. He sprung for the lines, and was struck violently in tne side by the brake beam. He was injured internally, and died at 4 p. m. He leaves a family. Brief Mention. Hog cholera is thinning out the herds of farmers in Moultrie county. Charles Cook attempted suicide at the Commercial Hotel at Vandalia by a heavy dose of morphine. His life was saved. Fish Commissioner Bartlett says there are specimens of German carp at Quincy, three years old, weighing from twelve to thirteen pounds. Sarsfield Clark, an old resident of Edgar county, died on Sunday at Paris, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. W. S. Harding, ageii eighty four years. Mr. Henry Swavne, son-in-law of Senator David Davis, fell from a scaffold yesterday at his new residence, in Bloomington, and broke his arm in two places above the elbow. The miners’ strike at Centralia is beginning to threaten dancer to life and property. A mob again visited the house of George Knohl, who has continued to work through the strike, and stoned his house. Threats are made that unless Knohl stops working he will be killed, and the company’s works destroyed. Two New York city attorneys have been grantJ ing decrees of divorce as coming from the Supreme Court of Illinois at Clayton, Adams county. 111. Clerk Stiiveiy, of the Supreme Court, who has been cocnizant of their doings for some time, has investigated the affair, and turned the matter over io the United States postal authorities, in order that suit might be brought against the offenders for using the mails for unlawful purposes. Fir 6 Losses for September. New York, Oct. 6. —Tho New York Daily Commercial Bulletin, of Oct. 6, estimates the firo loss of the United States and Canada, for September, at $0,525,000, which is less, by $370,000 than in September, 1884, and some SIIOO,OOO, less than the average fire list of September for the past ten years. The Bulletin gives % list from its own files of 165 fires, where the loss reported was SIO,OOO and upwards, but there were only seven fires.of SIOO,OOO or more during the month, and only one which exceeded $200,000. The fewness of large fires is considered the cause of so favorable and hopeful a gain. The diminution of the fire loss in both August and September is pronounced au encouraging symptom.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1885.

THE ROOK SPRINGS RIOT. Tbe Chinese Fired Their Qnarters to Prevent Civilized Whites Stealing Their Money. Cheyenne, Wy. TANARUS., Oct. 5.—A special to tho Sun from Green River says: “Some testimony of a startling character was given to the grand jury, to-day, calculated to throw new lieht on the transactions at Rock Springs daring the riot there. Rev. Timothy Thirlway, a Congregational minister, who resided at Rock Springs with his family during the riot, made a sworn statement showing that the Chinese set fire to their own houses in order to prevent the white men from robbing them of their money, which T s buried in the ground under their dwellings. Subsequent events have shown that this was the case, for, as shown, when the Chinamen returned to Rock Springs they commenced excavating under the ruins, and in one instance over $6,000 was found.” Timothy Thirloway, being duly sworn, made the following statement: “I am a minister of the gospel, and was residing at Rock Springs on the 2d of September last, on which day the riot occurred, and was in the vicinity of Chinatown. On that day I heard there was a large number of men moving round toward the north end of Chinatown with guns, clubs and other weapons. I stepped out of my house with my wife, and saw the first two houses that were set on fire. While we were standing there, I could see a number of white men on the north side of Chinatown, and at the same tune four Chinamen came out of a house only a shoit distance from us. They were some two hundred yards from the white men. The four Chinamen had not moved more than twenty yards from the house with their bundles when someone called them back, and they remained in the house two or three minutes before coming out again. In the meantime a volley was heard on the north side of Chinatown, and almost instantly the Chinamen rushed out of the building. They had hardly left when we saw the building was on fire. No white men were to be seen near the house, and it was apparent the house was fired by the Chinamen themselves. My daughter, who talked with some of the Chinamen afterwards, can tell you more about that and the object of the Chinamen in setting fire to their own houses. The two houses that were first burned belonged to the railroad company, and were knowm as Nos. 15 and 16. Among the Chinamen that came out of No. 16, the first set on fire, I recognezed Ah Quong.” The statement of Miss Elenor Thirloway was as follows: “I came to Rock Springs last December, and have given instructions to the Chinese at my father's house in the evening. I think we had the confidence of the Chinese, who regarded us as their friends. Just as soon as thev returned, some of them came to see us, and told us about their troubles. Ah Quong, who lived in tho cellar of gang-house No. 16, which was the first house set on fire, told mo that ‘China boy was scared, afraid American boy would get things, and so China boy set fire to the house.’ Lew Ah Sin, a nephew of Ah Say, the Chinese interpreter, also told me the same facts about setting on fire the houses of other Chinamen—that they wore afraid the white men would find their money, and for that reason the Chinese set fire to their houses. Ah Quong said: ‘China boy no likee American boy; catch him things, and China boy set fire him house. ’ ” Mrs. Thirloway testified substantially as hor husband. A REVOLT OF CONVICTS. Texas Criminate Make a Break for Liberty, ana Twenty-Five are Killed by the Guards. Rtr.SK, Tex., Oct. 5. —Yesterday, at the terminus of the Kansas & Gulf Shore line, near Lufkin, Tex., sixty convicts, working on the road, made a desperate break for liberty just as they had finished their supper. With deafening yells they started up in a body and rushed for the neighboring woods. The guards opened fire on them with deadly effect. The latest report says that twenty-five of them were killed or wounded. The prisoners were in one large body, and the guards simply emptied their repeating-rifles and small arms into the moving mass. Rumors of an intended mutiny in this camp have been rife for some weeks past These rumors were strengthened by the fact that many of the convicts were serving life sentences, and were known to be desperate characters, and extra precautions were being taken. Every means possible is being used to recapture the thirty-five who succeeded in eluding the rifles of the guards. All avenues of escape are being guarded, and possees are being organized to scour the country. The scene of the outbreak is some miles from a telegraph office.

DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department, i Office of the Chief Signal Officer, > Washington, Oct. 6, ia. m. ) Special Indications for Twenty-four hours from 7 A. m. for Indianapolis and Vicinity— Fair weather, stationary temperature. For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee—Generally fair weather, north to west winds becoming variable, rising, followed in west portion by falling barometer, stationary temperature in eastern portion, slightly cooler in western portion. For the Lower Lake Region—Fair weather, slight changes in temperature, northwest winds shifting to southwest, higher, followed in western portion by falling barometer. For the Upper Lake Region—Generally fair weather, light rise in temperature, winds shifting to west and south, falling barometer. For the Upper Mississippi Valloy—Fair weather, slowly rising temperature, variable winds shifting to south and west in the northern portion, lower barometer. For the Missouri Valloy—Fair weather, slowly rising temperature, variable winds generally shifting to south and west, lower barometer. Local Onservations. Indianapolis. Oct. 5. Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. | Weather;Rain. 6A. M.. 20.90i 49.0 G 8 iS west Fair. ” 10 a. m.. 28.99! 54.2 GO West Fair 2P. M.. 30.0 G 55. G 50 iWest !B’air. 6p. M-. 30.10 50.3 07 |Nwest Cloudy. 10 P. M.. 30.1 G 47.0 70 |Nwest,Cloudy. Maximum temperature. 56.8; Minimum temperature, 41.3. _ Snow in Michigan. . Chicago, Oct. s.—The first snowfall of the season is reported from East Farras, Alpena and Sheboygan, Mich. At the latter place a fierce storm was raging last night, with tjie temperature below freezing point. Heavy frosts fell in lowa Saturday night. Serious Fire at Jersey City. Jersey City. Oct. 5.—A fire broke out tonight in Taylor’s machine shop, and soon communicated to N. E. O’Donnell’s cooperage warehouse, Goky’s dry docks and Jones & Wyman's dry dock. The loss will reach SIOO,OOO. The insurance is about $60,000. A number of vessels in the neighboring slips and several large manufacturing establishments were in imminent danger for a time, as a strong wind carried the flames and sparks directly toward them. Fine Cattle Burned to Death. Atlanta, Ga., Oct s.—The large stables of C. L. Johnson, an extensive dairyman, burned yesterday, and 128 head of cattle perished in the fiame3. Most of these were fine-bred cows. Several hundred tons of hay were also destroyed. The loss is estimated at $50,000, with only $5,000 insurance. An Illegal Receivership. Abilene, Kan., Oct 5. —Judge Nicholson, at Junction City, to day, decided that the receivership obtained by the Travelers' Insurance Com-

pany for a large amount of property owned by T. C. Henry, in and adjoining this city, was illegal and void. This decision restores the property to Mr. Henry’s control, although tbe Travelers’ will probably appeal to the Supreme Court. The amount involved is nearly $200,000. HELP FOR PARNELL. New York and Brooklyn Irishmen Propose to Send Fifty Orators to His Assistance. New York, Oct. 5.—A large meeting of gentlemen who have been active in Irish National League matters in this city and Brooklyn was held this aftereoon at the office of Mr. John Rooney, No. 145 Broadway, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best and most effective means of assisting the Hon. Charles Stewart Parnell in the coming election for members of Parliament. Mr. John McGuire, of Brooklyn, was elected chairman. A long preamble and accompanying resolutions were adopted. The preamble sets forth that the general election about to take place for members of Parliament offers to tfie people of Ireland an opportunity to prove the;r loyalty and devotion to the cause ot Irish nationality seldom if ever equaled in the history of that persecuted country; and asserts the steadfast and unswerving fidelity of the Irish people to the cause of national independence and the great results accomplished under the leadership of Mr. Parnell and his associates; emphasizes the depression and depopulation of Ireland through the system of landlordism; gives warning to England that she has not only depopulated Ireland to deal with, but that “over 10,000.000 of her exiles of the Irish race on this continent look on with anxious eyes, and with strong arms and willing to render such assistance as may be needed by their brothers in Ireland to accomplish, this end.” It concludes as follows: Resolved, That we send fifty of the representative men of our race in the United States to assist Hon. Charles Stewart Parnell and his associates on the hustings, for the purpose of electing candidates selected and approved by that heroic and trusted leader. The following is a partial list of those who are named to perform this service: Rev. James Conalty, of Worcester: Rev. Dr. O’Riely, of Detroit; Rev. M. J. Dorney, of Chicago; Rev. Dr. George C. Betts, of St. Louis; Rev. Father Cronin, of Buffalo; Rev. James Taafe, of Brooklyn; Hon. P. A. Collins, of Boston; Hon. Joseph J. O’Donaghue, of New York: Hon. John Boyle O’Reilly, of Boston; Hon. John Finertv of Chicago; William E. Robinson, of Brooklyn; Hon. Martin A. Forau, of Cleveland; Judge Pendergast, of Chicago; Hon. T. V. Powderly, of Scranton, Pa.; Alexander Sullivan, of Chicago; James Mooney, of Buffalo, N. Y.; John Devoy, Dr. William B. Wallace, Dr. J. C. McGuire, Gen. Dennis F. Burke and Miles O'Brien, of New York; John C. McGuire, Michael McGuire, P. J. Hanway and John Rooney, of. Brooklyn; M. F. Wiehane, of Philadelphia; D. C. Feely, of Rochester. and Hugh J. Carroll, of Pawtucket, R. I. The committee adjourned, subject to the call of the chair. Os the gentlemen named, the following have signified their readiness to go: Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, of Detroit; Rev. M. J. Dorney, of Chicago; Rev. Dr. Geo. E. Betts, of St. Louis; Gen. M. Kerwin, of New York: John C. McGuire, of Brooklyn; Hugh J. Carroil, of Pawtucket, and Hon. John Rooney, of New York. The money for expenses will be forthcoming. A Chicago dispatch says: “Ex-Congressman John F. Finertv, being asked, to-night, whether he would accept the invitation tendered him to visit England and Ireland to work for the Parnell party during the coming campaign, said he had received no intimation that such a scheme was on foot, Mr. Fioerty said he should probably not be one of the proposed party, but gave no reasons for the statement.”

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES, Capt. John Lane and Joseph Lamb, prominent farmers of Hancock county, Tennessee, had a quarrel at the home of the former, in which Lamb shot Lane dead in the presence of his family. The explosion of flood rock, at Hell Gate, New York harbor, which was set for Wednesday, has been postponed to the end of the week, no day being yet fixed. The preparations for the event have not yet been completed. A movement has been started at Pittsburg for a public meeting of Irishmen, similar to the one held in Chicago on Saturday night. Addresses will be delivered by Alexander Sullivan, Gustave McCarthy, and probably J. Boyle O'Reilly. Jacob Bender and Cowley Stern, injured in Friday’s boiler explosion at Pittsburg, died on Sunday, making four deaths so far. Henderson, Hey wood and Lavender are still very low, with little prospects of the two latter recovering. The other victims are doing well. Lafayette Tweedy, who was stabbed by Joseph Whitmore, at Huntsville, Ark., died yesterday morning, and Cobbe and the two other men who were also assaulted by Tweedy for impeaching his testimony in a lawsuit, are in a precarious condition. Whitmore is in jail and in danger of being lynched. One Gould, alias F. H. Bassett, is wanted by the Italian miners at Vulcan, Mich. He was the mine time-keeper and a private banker, and sold exchange and passage tickets. He left for Chicago three weeks ago, ostensibly for medical treatment. The depositors now learn that he has fled. The bank has ruspended. The liabilities are $7,000; assets, in an old leather pocketbook, $lO. He left a wife and two children. Affairs of Rindskopf Bros. & Cos. New York, Oct. s. —ln September, 1884, Simon and Morris Rindskopf, Raphael Buchanan and Jacob Rosenthal, composing the firm of Rindskopf Bros. & Cos., clothing manufacturers, at 618 Broadway, failed and made ageneral assignment for the benefit of creditors to J?.:ob W. Mack, • giving preferences to the amount of over SBOO,000. The liabilities of the firm amounted to more than $1,800,000. Shortly afterward certain of the creditors, having claims aggregatingabout $300,000, brought suit in the Supreme Court to set aside the assignment, upon the ground of fraud, and moved for an injunction and the appointment of a receiver of the firm’s property. Judge Donahue made an order enjoining the assignees from paying money out of the estate, and appointed Abraham Kling receiver, but directed that he should not enter into possession of the estate pending a trial of the base by the court upon the merits. This trial was reached in June last, and to day Judge Van Brunt gave a decision holding that the plaintiffs, had not presented any legal proof of frand to substantiate the charge of fraudulent intent in making the assignment, and therefore dismissed the case. An appeal will be taken. Fatal Quarrel Between Politicians. Holly Springs, Miss., Oct s. —The conventian for the nomination of county officers and members of the Legislature was held here today. After it. had adjourned a difficulty occurred between S. W. Mullens, formerly a member of the Legislature, and W. W. Watson, an attor ney, both of Byhalia. Pistols were used range. Watson was shot in the right side, and died in a few moments. Mullins surrendered. An Important Suit Finally Settled. Oxford, Mass., Oct s. —An important suit betweeu Col. E. B. Evers, of London, England, and Thomas Watson, of Chicago, involving ownership of a million acres of land in this State, was finally disposed of in the United States District Court here, on Saturday last, by decree of Judge Hill, in which all the lands are awarded to and revert back to their original owners, Col. Evers and associates. Warrants for the Arrest of Lynchers. Charleston, S. C., Oct. s.—Dr. W. A Culbreath, brother of Mr. Culbreath, who was murdered by masked men at Edgefield, has sworn out warrants for the arrest of twenty-four persons implicated in tho so-called lynching, including Memphis Culbreath, a son of the murdered man. Assignment at Chicago. Chicago, Oct 5. — Merrick A. Richardson, a hardware dealer at No. 75 Lake street, made an assignment to day. The liabilities are given at $55,000, and the assets at $70,000. "

FIVE MINUTES WITH A MAD DOGA Physician in a Dark Cellar with a Syringe of Hydrocyanic Acid. W. PockMngton, in St. James’s Gazette. I/ast week I received orders to go to the Britannia public bouse, in Soho, and poison a large retriever beloneing to the landlord. My master had seen the dog during his rounds, and found it in a dangerously rabid state. I filled a small bottle with hydrocyanic acid, and, taking a syringe, went off at oi ce to see about it. Arriving at the house, I stated my business, and was handed over to the pot boy to be conducted to the dog, which 1 could hear howling every few seconds. There being no yard to the house, they had chained the dog down in the cellar to a staple in the wall. “’E's a werv bad case, sir," said my guide, “an’ I’ll be glad when it’s all over; for, although he was a great pet with us all, an’ that fond of the kids you never see, it’s awful to see ’im not know any of us. but when we goes near ’im to have "in come a flying at us. Think ’ell suffer much? There ’e goes! ’ear'im. All day long’©’owlslike that” I assured him it would soon be over without much pain, and descending some steps, we parsed through a room in the basement that was dimly lit by a small and grimy window. Cases of wines and spirits were ranced against the walls, and we could hear the tramp of the thickly shod customers in the bar or tap-room just above our heads. Opening a door, we passed into another room; this was lighted only by the small window in the room we had just left, as it shone through the now open door. “He's in there." said the pot boy, pointing to another door in the wall opposite. Thinking there was a window in the room, I pushed the uoor open, and immediately heard the rattle of a chain and the hoarse half howl, half growl of the poor beast, whose eves I could see against the far wall gleaming through toe dark. Window there was none. “Why on earth didn’t you bring a light?’’ I asked, angrily; “you don’t suppose I can poison him in the dark?” “Thought I ’ad a match,” said the boy. fumbling in his pockets; “there's a gas jet just inside the door." I had no matches, so I sent him up stairs to get some, and awaiting his return, sat down on an empty keg near the door. The dog seemed uneasy, and fancying the light throueh the doorway annoyed and distressed him, I pushed it to with my hand. The boy was some time gone (I found afterward he had been to ask his mistress if she would like to have a last look at the old dog), an 1 I sat there thinking over the job. The air of the cellar was close, and the smell of the wet sawdust on the floor was most unpleasant. Clank went the doe’s chain against the wall or the floor, as he moved uneasily about, wondering, I dare say, what was my errand there. Then the movement ceased for a time, or. partly absorbed in my thoughts, I failed to notice it. The next minute I started, feeiing something rub against my leg. Looking down, I saw two glaring eyes just at my knee. The dog was loose, the 6taple having worked its way out of' the damp aud yielding mortar.

For a second or two I nearly lost "onsciousness. My heart seemed to stand still, buo by an effort I kept from going off into a faint I shall never forget the next few minutes as long as I live. I was alone in the dark, with this rabid beast rubbing about my legs—first one and then the other, as if he were trying to find out who I was. Then he rested his nose on my knees, and looked straight up into my face. I sat like a statue, knowing that at the slightest movement he would probably seize me, and knowing (who better?) that such a bite in his advanced state of disease was almost cer tain death, and a horrible death, too. Nerving myself, I sat perfectly still, calculating, as well as I could, my chances of escape. Presently the dog put first one paw, then the other, on my knee, and. standing on his hind legs, gently rubbed his head against my breast, then over my arras, and then commenced to explore my face. I shut my eyes, and felt his nose pass several times across mv face, covering it with saliva. Yet I dared not move. I expected every instant he would seize me; the very beating of my heart might disturb and annoy him; and I felt that, come what might, I must tliug him off and make a dash for the door. Suddenly he ceased rubbing against me, and appeared to be listening. He could hear the steps of the pot-boy descending the ladder. I also could hear it, and knew not whether to call to him or keep silent. The dog now dropued down to my knees again, still listening, aud hs the light of the catidle streamed through the crevices of the badly fitting door he crept into the far corner of tho cellar, evidently dreading being put upon the chain again. Then I made a dash at tho door, swung it open, and banging it to behind me, sank, more dead than alive, on a case near the wall. Seeing my state, the man brought me quickly a nip of brandy, and I pulled myseif together. All this time the dog was growling furiously on the other side of the door, and tearing at it in his mad endeavor to get at us. Steadying myself as well as I could, I placed the light on a pile of cases, and, filling my syringe with acid, - opened tho door about two inches. As I expected, the infuriated beast rushed at the opening; and as he did so I discharged the contents of the syringe into his open mouth. In a few seconds all was over. When I went up stairs I found my trousers, vest, coat, hands and face covered with the saliva from his mouth. I felt sick and and looked—so the people said—white as a ghoStf in fact, I could hardly stand. The doe I had killed was bitten by the mad dog that ran down Piccadilly some three weeks since, and had only shown symptoms of madness during the last few days. GOOD-BYE, FLOOD ROCK. The Day and Hour Fixed for the Explosion of the Middle Reef. New York Telegram. “I do not know how it is,” said Colonel McFarland to a Telegram reporter this morning, “that all the papers, with singular unanimity, declare that Flood Rock is to be blown up Thursday, Oct. 1. No one ever said so in this office, nor was any special day fixed. General Newton has now appointed the day—Wednesday, Oct. 7—and I suppose all the families in the vicinity of Ninety-second street will begin to get nervous, and to consider the necessity of moving out of town until the performance is over.” “Will it be much of a performance, Colonel?” “Not from the journalistic and sensational point of view. At the explosion of Hallet’s Point Reef, in 1876. there was such anticipation of evil that even the nuns of the Magdalen Reformatory and their naughty charges were conveyed away to places of safety, and the wholo neighborhood on the New York side expected at the very least that there would not be a wholo pane of glass left in the place. The amount of explosive material used at that time was a little trifle of 50,000 pounds, and the disruption was entirely oil the Astoria side. But on Oct. 7 there will be an explosion of nearly six times as much matter, 225,000 pounds of rock rent, 50,000 pounds of dynamite, and the disruption takes place on the Middle Reef, or Flood Rock, whose surface is about half-way between Astoria and the New York side. Below the water the reef trends in the direction of the New York shore to some extent, and is an irregular kidney-shaped mass of about nine acres, eight of which have Deen mined and charged. Hallett’s Reef was a prolongation below the water of Hallett’s Point, and was about three acres and a half in extent There is, you will observe, far more reason for a scare now than in 1876. “But,” continued the Colonel, “in my judgment there need be no apprehension. The explosion at Hallet’s Reef was so tame in public estimation that I really believe the people in general were angry with General Newton for robbing them of a thrilling sensation. It wa3 considered too bad that not a pane of glass was broken, and that the vibration of the groudd even was imperceptible 200 feet from the explosion. The arrangement df the galleries was so perfeet, the disruption of the cartridges so even, that the water wave was limited to the actual shore line in contact with the ree? at the place where the shaft descended to the floor of the galienes. There were thousands upon thousands of people lining the New York shore, aud when all they saw was a column of water forced upward, and a yellowish, oily cloud floating over the scene of the explosion, the universal sentiment was one of disappointment.” ■‘From a scientific point it was consigened a great success, I know, Colonel,” said the reporter. “Do you expect that there will be the same absence of striking features the 7tii of next month?” “1 do, implicitly,’* replied Colonel McFarland; “I have no reasou for believing anything else. The explosion will be made about the alack of the flood-tide, when there will be the greatest amount of water above the reef, and this will

aid materially in repressing the effect of the explosion. I think the time will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 9:30 a. m. It has not yet been determined whether the explosion shall be made from Astoria or from the top of the flood rock itself. In the former case there will be a temporary cable attachment In the latter case there will be an automatic arrangement” SHERMAN AND GRANT. The Testimony of the Medical Director of the Army of the Mississippi, Rock Island Special. The Daily Argus contains an interview with Dr. Samuel Craig Plummer, a mernbor of the medical department, of the Army of the Mississippi, and one of the surgeons so cruellv maligned by Murat Halstead in his letter to Governor Chase in 1863. When spoken to upon the subject. Dr. Plummer said: “I remember full well all the scenes and incidents of that memorable year. I was with* Sherman long enough to understand him aud his habits fully. I was medical inspector when Dr. Moore was medical director, and when bo was transferred I promoted to the medical directorship. This placed me in closer intimacy with General bherman than I had been before, and having, as I had, the charge of all the liquors used for medicinal were the best that could be obtained, I had every opportunity of knowing who were the inveterate drinkers. There never was a more sober lot of men than General Sherman, General Grant, and their staff officers. I know Dr. Kittoe, of Galena, and Dr. liowier, of Chicago, who took my place as medical inspector, and I never saw odb of them under the influence of liquor in any particular. I never allowed a drop of liquor to pass my lips, nor did any of the other surgeons.” “Were Generals Grant and Sherman in the habit of being under the influence ot intoxicants?” “Never, sir. Being General Sherman’s stuff surgeon, I saw him almost emujtantly, and he seldom, if ever, touched a drop.THe was particularly careful in this particular; and as for Gen. Grant, I never saw him in the lpast intoxicated, and. in fact, never saw him touch a drop until after the surrender of Vicksburg, when he drank a glass of wine on the flagship. We all knew* the effects of overindulgence in liquor, especially at such a critical time, and none of our generals, staff officers, or members f the medical staff were given to intoxication, or to drinking.” Evaporating Fruit. Farmer and Fruit Grower. On all small farniß it often happens that there is a surplus of fruit. Markets are low, and the question is, “What shall we do with it?” With the man that mades a specialty of fruit-growing, the question is a more important one, as there is more risk of loss. To attempt to dry all would be a serious task, and with its attendant risks and the prices generally received, it is such that the grower is generally loath to take the trouble to work them up. Wherever introduced, evaporated fruits are preferred to dried. They retain so much more of the freshness of green fruit* that when fairly tried, they are purchased in preference to the dried fruits, even at a higher price. At the present time evaporators are comparatively cheap, are easily worked, and arp of various sizes, so that the farmer or fruitgrower can procure the size most suitable for the quantity of fruit he raises. By doing the work himself or at home, he can use a considerable amount of fruit that would otherwise go to waste. Where large evaporators are running, it is necessary to hire considerable help. They must run some risk, and require a profit sufficient to repay them for capital invested. Todo this they must secure their fruit at a lowex price than the fruit-grower thinks is right So, then, if the fruit-groWer has an evaporator of his own, and can thus work up all the surplus fruit on the farm and dispose of it at a fair price, he will find the work profitable. Even the family use of one of the smaller-sized evaporators will be found profitable, as the fruit is much nicer and better than when dried,, while the work can be done so much moi-e economically and in a shorter time. If the work is well done, that is. if care is taken to prepare the fruit in a good shape, bleach nicely and then evaporate it, you can have the very best of fruit on the table all the year round. When this is done it can hardly be distinguished from the fresh fruit when made into a pie or stewed into a sauce, while the more liberal use> of them would, in a measure, reduce the quantity of surplus fruit that is often forced upon the market, and better prices could bo realized. There is quite a number of makesof evaporators, and fruit raisers will find it profitable to investigate the merits of all that convenience will allow of, and procure one best suited to their needs. I should perhaps add that not only are fruits of various kinds evaporated, but also pumpkins, sweet potatoes and tomatoes are preserved in much better shape than they can be kept in any other manner. Lake Mistassini. Ottawa, Oct. s.—Mr. A. P. Low, of the Geological Museum, has returned from Lake Mistassini, where he completed tho survey of that sheet of water. Instead of the lake being of greater proportions than Lake Superior, he found that it was only 125 miles in length and from fifteen to twenty miles in width. Stabbed by a Drunken Husband. Cleveland, Oct. s.—At Zanesville, 0., to-day, George Howell, while intoxicated, quarreled with his wife, and stabbed herin the breast, just below the heart. Mrs. Howell’s mother endeavored to separate the two, when she was stabbed in the back. Mrs. Howell will probably die. Howell is under arrest A Reduction that Only Works One Way. Philade phia Press. The wages of the employes of the Pullman Palace-car Company aie about to be reduced 10 per cent. We are not advised, however, tha T this is to he followed by a corresponding reduc tion in the price of sleeping-car tickets. I persuaded J. W. Waltz, who has been suffering with rheumatism for five months, to try Athlophoros. One bottle did him so much good that he is now on his fifth bottle and is almost well. George G. Pfleger, Fort Wayne, Ind.

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