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letter from Mr. Bayard asking him what he neant by coming up to the Department for the purpose of provoking a quarrel with him. Bayard Must Go. Washington Special. A number of leading Democrats have urged upon the President the necessity of making a change in his Cabinet so far as the Department of State is concerned. A prominent New York Democrat had one or two conversations with the President on the subject last week. He said to the President that the burden of the criticism of his , administration had been occasioned by Mr. Bayard's appointment, and that his continued presence in the Cabinet would do more to render the administration unpopular and unsuccessful than any other one thing. This gentleman called the President’s attention to the fact that Mr. Bayard had willfully and needlessly cot out with all of his old senatorial friends, so that their support there could not be relied upon and that for anything relating to a foreign policy it was foreordained to failure from the fact of Mr. Bayard being in the State Department. This gentleman further said that no one questioned Mr. Bayard’s honesty or the fact that he was wellmeaning. llis lack of judgment, however, was so great and he wa3 so headstrong that he could not be considered in any sense an adviser fit to be admitted to the President’s counsels. This gentleman has since said that the President gave great attention to what he said, and very plainly intimated that he would not be unwilling *> get rid of Mr. Bayard, if he could do it in a way that would not reflect too much upon the Secretary. He was not overanxious to have him in the Cabinet in the first, place. He had a great respect and regard for him. but he was willing to acknowledge that the Secretary had caused him more trouble than any other member of his Cabinet. This visiting Democrat is of the opinion that Mr. Bayard will ultimately be dropped from the Cabinet. He does not think that there will be any hurry about it. Mr. Bayard may be given a chance to get back to the Senate as Mr. Saulsbury’s successor. It is possible that he may be sent abroad to one of the missions. Phelps could be recalled without endangering Vermont with the Democracy. It is not customary to expect a Cabinet officer to go abroad during his term to any other place, except England. The people of Delaware say Sir. Bayard could not bo elected to the Senate now if he wanted to, and if the election of Saulsbury’s successor was at hand. He has lost his popularity in that State with his local people as much as he has with the national. MINOR MATTERS. The House Committees—A Contest for Sunset Cox’s Chairmanship. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Nov. 24.—Speaker Carlisle has begun the consideration of his committees, and intends having the list completed, as anticipated in these dispatches, by the time Congress convenes, so that they may, and probably will, be announced on the day following the assembling of the House. It begins to look as though there would be a contest over the chairmanship of the committee on naval affairs, occupied by Sunset Cox in the last Congress. The position is to be tn important one, in view of the proposition to rebuild the navy and expend large sums of money. Wise, of Virginia; Ballantyne, of Tennessee, and McAdo, of New Jersey, old members of the committee, are mentioned for the place. Mr. McAdo has especial fitness for the position, and corues from the coast, while the others mentioned are from the interior.

Commissioner Edgerton aud Judge Patton. Washington Special. President Edgerton, of the Civil-service Commission, is a short, sturdy, white-haired and white-bearded gentleman, with bright eyes and a cheery manner, and he would easily pass for a man twenty years younger than he is. Calling upon him a few days ago, he introduced his lifelong friend, Judge Benjamin Patton, a tall, bony, smooth-faced, florid man, somewhat lame, but very vigorous for his age. Mr. Patton informed me that he was appointed when but twenty-two a district attorney of the United States, at Pittsburg, by President Jackso a. He was on very intimate terms with the President, and said that he recalled the fact that cne day during Jackson’s term he called upon him in the room now used bj’ the Cabinet with a copy of a papercontnining Webster’s famous Worcester speech. Jackson asked him to read it. * Mr. Patton sat down at the end of the Cabinet table and rend aloud, Jackson sitting aside near the fireplace and listening intently without interrupting. When the reading was finished he reremarked that he cared not what Webster said about him so long as he told the truth. It may nstonish the “Old-fashioned Democrat’’ to learn that Mr. Patton is a civil-service man, and that he has written an excellent leader on the subject, which ho addressed to Mr. Edgerton. and which has been printed and given extensive circulation. In features Mr. Patton somewhat resembles the late Thurlow Weed. Patents fur Indiaua Inventors. ‘‘pedal to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Nov. 24. —Patents were issued to Indianians to-day as follows: George M. Bates, Tipton, gate; Charles M. Collins, South Bend, machine for welding tires; James Dushane, South Bend (2), wrench and rapid transit wrench; George 14. Dunn, Groensburg. bill file; Jacob Fisher and A. Coquiilard, South Bend, fire escape; Orlando V. Flora and E. E. Madison, roller skate; James H. Frazee, Rushville, cultivator; Jesse H. Fuigham, assign or of one-halt' to the Wayne Agricultural Company, Richmond, fence machine; Samuel L. Houston, Richmond, cotton seed planter; Franklin B. Hunt, assignor to Richmond Sulky Plow Company, Richmond, plow; William P. Jenkins and J. L. Streeter, Muncie, poultry car; William Lehiner, Logansport, tire shrinker; John W. Maloney, Indianapolis, spark arrester; Jesse D. McLure (deceased), Jeffersonville, S. S. Johnson, administrator, book rest for chairs; Martin (J. Mock and W. S. Maywood. Muncie, show window ventilator; Matthew R. Moore, assignor to a pneumatic company, Indianapolis (2), machine for making molds for castings, and pattern-box for sand-molding machines; Christopher Mussel, South Bend, apparatus for filling kegs with beer, filling vessels with fermented liquors, and corking device for vessels; George G. Roth, South Bend, vehicle spring.

Lieut. Schuetze’s Siberian Mission. Washington, Nov. 24.—The following letter has been received by Secretary Bayard from Lieut. W. W. Schuetze, United States navy, who was sent to Siberia, last summer, to carry the presents awarded to certain of the natives of that country who befriended the survivors of the Jeannetteo: “I have the honor to report my arrival here on the 25th inst., on my way to the mouth of the Lena river. My route from St. Petersburg was the one usually followed in summer. Prom Moscow to Tomsk. the travel by steamer occupied ten days, and thence by wagon to Irkutsk, seventeen days. From Tomsk the t:me used was unusually long, the roads being the worst known for years. * * * Owing to this unexpected delay in the latter part of the journey, I will have to wait here until the winter road opens to Yakutsk, probably in the early part of November. I shall then proceed to Yakutsk as rapidly as possible, and proceed to fit out the expedition to reach Irkutsk before the spring break up. Cold weather has now sot in near Yakutsk, and the only practicable summer travel by boat is interrupted. * * * The usual visits with the officials of Irkutsk have been exchanged.” The letter is dated Irkutsk, East Siberia, Sept 25, 1885. _ The Tariff Will Bo Let Alone. Bpecial to the Indianapolis Journal: Washington, Nov. 24. — “1 don’t think there will be much, if any, agitation of the tariff question by Congress this winter,” said General Foster, late minister to Spain, to your corre epondent “The treaty I negotiated with Spain I understand has been pigeon-holed; also, Secretary Bayard is opposed to commercial treaties, because he is a tariff reformer. Reciprocity or

commercial treaties reduce tbe customs dues, you know, and, therefore, obviate the necessity for or chances of tariff reform.” This seems to be the universal opinion of all good authorities upon the subjects of reciprocity treaties and tariff reform. There is trouble for the party in power whenever it takes up treaties or a general revision of the tariff. Yesterday’s Appointments. Washington, Nov. 24. —The President to day appointed Richard D. Lancaster to be surveyor of customs for tbe port of St Louis; Oliver P. Remick, to be first assistant engineer in the revenue marine service of the United States; M. L. McCormick, of Grand Forks, D. TANARUS., to be Secretary of Dakota Territory. To be Registers of land offices: li. Yeakley, of Little Rock, Ark., at Little Rock, Ark.; H. C. Tipton, of Melbourn, Ark., at Harrison. Ark.; C. H. Warner, of Colfax, W. TANARUS., at Walla Walla, W. T. B. Coffey, of Salem, Ore., to be agent for the Indians of the Umatilla Agency, in Oregon. The Postmaster-general to-day appointed the following fourth-class postmasters: Illinois—At Grand Tower, Thomas W. Jenkins; Kingston, John H. Questinger; Naomi, G. W. Price; Reynolds, William G. Davis. Indiana—At Wallace, It. C. Hybarger, jr. Ohio—At Agosta, S. Grubbs; Antiquity, Theodore Winters; Beloit, F. P. Sherry; Lamartine, J. W. Shambaugh; Langtry, G. M. Ervin; Rockland, Thomas O. McTaggart; Syracuse, Thomas A. Carroll: Torch, M. W. Tobey; Tupper’s Plains, B. H. Sanborn; Westmill Grove, James H. Moffatt The President’s Message. Washington, Nov. 24. —There was a full attendance at the Cabinet meeting to-day. The session lasted about three hours, and was devoted almost entirely to the consideration of the President’s message to Congress. The document is in an advanced state of preparation, and will be completed several days before the meeting of Congress. One of the questions discussed to day was the order in which certain topics should be considered. The President favored the custom adopted by a majority of his predecessors as to.the order of precedence, with a few exceptions, and was sustained in his views by all the other members of his Cabinet.

General and Personal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Nov. 24.—Postmasters’ commissions were to-day issued for the following Indianians: Frank M. Wright, at Fairview; Chas. W. Phillips, Folsomville; John T. Benson, Hooker; Reuben B. Johnson, Losantviile; Robert S. Bruner, Needmore; George W. Archbold, Pleasant Mills; Cyrus E. Fink, Yountsville. Permission has been given to the postmaster at Nashville, Brown county, to deliver mail to carrier between Nashville and Morgantown an hour in advance of schedule time during the fall and winter, when the roads are bad, provided no complaint is made. Special mail service from Butlerville to Fargo, Jennings county, has been ordered discontinued. W. E. Barrett, of Clay county, is here, aud is a candidate for an Indian agency. Hon. Richard Huncheon, of LaPorte, who has been here several days, will go to New York tomorrow for a short visit. J. T. Casteel, of Brazil, is registered at the Ebbitt House. Major Archie McGinnis, of Bloomington, recently appointed special examiner in the Pension Office, has been assigned to Louisville, Ky., for pemanent work, and will start for that citv to-morrow. Chief Clerk Youmans, of the Treasury, who has general charge of the purchase of supplies for public buildings under the Treasury department, has determined that contracts for such supplies must be made at the regular market rates, and that, where proposals for supplies are in excess of such rates, the purchases shall be made in open market. Reports received at the Treasury Department indicate a growing scarcity of iO-cent silver pieces in all parts of the country. In accordance with instructions from the Treasury Department, about s4o,oo(fin dimes wore coined at the Philadelphia mint about a week ago. These, however, were found insufficient to supply the demand, and the Superintendent of the Mint has since been instructed to coin into dimes all the uncurrent subsidiary silver coin there may be at the mint. Walter Johnson, of Michigan, was to-day appointed law clerk of the Patent Office, vice D. A. McKnight, who was appointed law clerk in the office of the Assistant Attorney-general. The Secretary of the Treasury to-day appointed J. C. Dugan to be local inspector of boilers at Louisville, Ky. Minister Cox has advised the State Department that the Turkish government has issued two decrees, dated Oct. 19 and Nov. 1. The first prohibits for one year the exportation of horses, mares and mules from Turkish territory, and the second prohibits, until further notice, the exportation of cereals and cattle from the provinces of Adrianople, Monasteri, Kassova aud Scutari. During the month of October, 25,918 immigrants arrived in this country, a decrease of 179 compared with October, 1884. The chief of the Bureau of Statistics says that the total values of the exports of merchandise during the twelve mouths ending Oct. 31, ISBS, were $717,179,352, and during the preceding twelve months, $734,935,770. The values of imports for the twelve months ending Oct. 31, 1885, were $772,417,322, and during the preceding twelve months, $652,753,413. Commissioner Coliuan, of tho Agrioultu ral Department, will not be able to attend tho cattlemen’s convention in St. Louis, this week, on account of the illness of Mrs Colman. The commissions of William Harrity, postmaster at Philadelphia; Win. Hyde, St. Louis; R. J. Harriman, Toledo, O.: I. Gibbons, Keokuk, la., and John Huger, Lafayette, Ind., were among those signed by the President to-day. Gen. J. B. Stonebouse, late assistant Adjutantgeneral and prosent acting assistant Adjutantgeneral of tho State of New York, who was stricken with paralysis at the Ebbitt House, a little over a week ago, died tc-nigkt.

Tlie Strike of the Nailers. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 24. —It is asserted in a morning paper here, to-day, that the Eastern nail manufacturers are furnishing the striking nailers of the West with funds to carry on the strike, which has been in progress since last June, and that they have agreed to continue the contributions till the strike ends one way or the other. This action, it is said, accounts for the promptness with which the manufacturers of nails in the East granted the advance asked by their nailers. The Eastern nailers, too, are making weekly payments, and all the striking nailers in the Western districts feel very much encouraged by the outlook. Hunters Hanged by Farmers, Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 24.—For several weeks the farmers residing in the bottoms of St. Francis river, between Wittsburg aud Jonesboro, Ark., have suffered at the hands of hunters who have burned the undergrowth. Several thousand acres of fine grazing lands have thus been laid waste, which will cause suffering to the cattle that were wont to remain in that locality The farmers have banded together for self-pro-tection against these hunters, and it was rumored last night, at Jonesboro, that three hunters, who had been caught in the act of firing the undergrowth, had been hanged by the indignant farmers. Western Export Association. Cincinnati, Nov. 24.—The monthly meeting of the Western Export Association was held at the Grand Hotel to day. H. B. Miller presided. The attendance was small and the proceedings harmonious. The December price of whisky was fixed at $1.09. The production was ordered to be the same as in November. Joe Emmet 111 with Delirium Tremens. New York, Nov. 24 —“Joe” Emmet, the actor, was to-night taken from the St. James Hotel to Bellevue Hospital, suffering from delirium tremens. Catarrh is caused by impure blood. Therefore, to cure catarrh, purify the blood. To purify the blood, take Hood's Sarsaparilla.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 185.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of all Kinds in the Two States. Clement Grausinger’s Horrible Confession —Shocking: Death of a Five-lear-Old Girl —lmportant Tax Decision—Gleanings. INDIANA. The Horrible Confession Made by Clement Grausinger on His Deathbed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Logansport, Nov. 24. —Clement Grausinger, an old resident of this county, died in Washington township on Sunday moTning. On his deathbed he confessed to having murdered his only daughter, who kept house for him, six years ago. The girl was then twenty years of age, and she and her father lived alone on a farm near Walton. One evening Grausinger startled the neighbors by the announcement that his daughter had committed suicide. Her body was found in tbe smoke-house, and a halter strap tied to a cross beam, under which was a barrel, gave color to the story. On his deathbed Grausinger acknowledged that he and the daughter had been criminally intimate, and that in order to cover up their shame he determined to kill her. He sneaked up behind her one evening when she was paring potatoes out in the yard, and throwing a halter strap around her neck strangled her. He then carried tbe body into the smoke-house, and arranged the surroundings to help out tho story of suicide.

Sunday-School Union. Ppecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Cuawfordsville, Nov. 24.—The second quarterly convention of the Montgomery County Sunday-school Union was held to-day at Alamo, ten miles southwest of here. The opening exercises were conducted by Rev. Aaron Wood, of Yountsville. ‘‘Bible Education” was the subject of a few remarks by Rev. G. P. Fuson. This w 8 followed by “Elements of a Sundayschool Teacher,” by W. S. Moffett, of Crawfordsville, and “The Relations of Parents to the Sun-day-school,” by Rev. T. D. Fyffe, of Ladoga. Before dinner the miscellaneous business was transacted. After dinner the exercises were opened by a prayer and praise service conducted by Prof. O R. Freuch, of Crawfordsviile. Then followed “Geography and Biography in Last Quarter’s Lessons,” by Rev. A. Wood; “Suggestions for More and Better Work,” by Prof. O. R. French, and “Teaching of Next Sunday’s Lesson,” by Rev. A. Kummer. of Crawfordsviile. A picnic dinner was provided for those in attendance. D. Harter is president of the association, and T. N. Myers is secretary. , Captured After a Brisk Fight. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Wabash, Nov. 24.—Several weeks ago Dr. Joseph Watson, a squatter on the farm of John Bowman, west of this city, attempted to shoot Bowman, while on a drunken spree. Watson disappeared, and warrants for his arrest were placed in the hands of Constable Lines. Last Saturday Watson reappeared at the Bowman place. He was closely watched, and yesterday Officer Lines drove out to arrest him. Having secured his man, Lines started after a witness, when Watson broke and ran. He was tracked across the Missinewa river to a house in Peoria, Miami county, where he made a 6tand and lunged at the officer with a fish spear. The officer responded with bullets, and after all the buttons were shot off Watson’s coat he gave himsolf up, and was brought to this city and placed in jail. Watson was tried to-day and heavily fined. He is an old offender, having served a term in t.he penitentiary. v Important Tax Decision. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Evansville, Nov. 24. —In the Superior Court, to-day, Judge Dyer rondered a very important decision in the case of the Count} of Vanderburg vs. The Straight-line Road. In 1882, the Straight-line road had several hundred steel rails lying in its yards, and taxes amounting to $1,400 were assessed against it. The railroad officials claimed that the rails were for use along the line, but were detained here by the government for duty due on them. The county asserted, however, that the rails belonged to the company, and being in tho limits of the county, the taxes belonged here and nowhere else. The Judge decided in favor of the county, and rendered judgment for $1,352. Anew trial has been asked for by the railroad company.

Fined for Making False Tax Returns. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Muncie, Nov. 24.— The case of the State of Indiana against Breckenridge Reynolds, the wealthy old farmer of Monroe township, closed this afternoon. Reynolds was charged with returning a false tax list in the spring of 1884. and the evidence in behalf of the State showed that he failed to return notes due him and secured by mortgages on real estate, and amounting to somewhat over $5,000. After a short deliberation, this afternoon, the jury returned a verdict of guilty, as charged, and assessed his penalty at a fine of SSO. Mr. Reynolds is held to answer another indictment for a similar offense, committed in the spring of 1883. Shocking Death of a Five-Year-Old Girl. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Covington, Nov. 24.—A distressing accident occurred in Shawnee township, this county, last Saturday afternoon, at the residence of John Carnahan. His little five-year-old daughter went out to the chicken coop, and, with a match, set some straw on fire, which communicated to her clothing. Her screams attracted the attention of the mother, who ran to her assistance, but when she reached her the child’s clothing, with the exception of her shoes, was burned entirely from her body. The little girl lingered in excrutiating pain until evening, when death relieved her. Evangelist Woodworth. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, Nov. 24—Mrs. Woodworth, the famous trance evangelist, arrived in this city today, returning from Pennsylvania, and will renew her peculiar religious work in this State. The lady is accompanied by her husband and private secretary. A series of meetings will be commenced at Columbia City at once. Mrs. Woodworth has not yet determined upon the date of her first visit to the city of Fort Wayne, where she believes the field is very ripe for the evangelical harvest. Coining Sale of Railway Bonds. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Evansville, Nov. 24—On Friday next the sheriff will sell, at public sale, bond3 of the Evansville, Rockport & Eastern railway, amounting to $375,000. These are the bonds, suit for possession of which went by default in the State Court some time ago. ’ The sale is made necessary to quiet title, and the parties bringing the suit will probably be the purchasers. Postoffice Burglarized. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Aurora, Nov. 24—The safe in the postoffice here was blown open last night and robbed of upwards of S7OO in money and stamps. Dynamite was used. _ Fled with the Firm’s Money. Special to tho ludianapoUa Journal. Lafayette, Nov. 24—Frank M. Wright, a traveling salesman for John Rosser & Cos., wholesale stationers, collected a large amount of

tbe firm’s money and left for parts unknown Wright came here from Dayton, 0., and is well connected.. Minor Notes. J. C. Kiri ey, a cigar salesman from Shelbyville, while going from Nashville to Morgantown, yesterday, was thrown from his baggy and very seriously injured. The residence of Newton Wilson, at Darlington, was burned with all his household goods and S2OO in money. Loss $1,000; insured in the Home, N. Y., for SSOO. C. J. Woolsey, the Waveland man who will sell liquor in spite of the citizens of said place, was, last Sunday, expelled from the Episcopal Church at Crawfordsviile. Thomas HarrUon, the evangelist, will visit New Albany some time during the winter, and remain a month, holding meetings at Wesley Chapel, Centenary and the opera house. Albert S. Miller, of Crawfordsviile, was married last evening to Miss Moore, at Paris, Ky. Mr. Miller is the manager of Music Hall, in Crawfordsviile, and is the only child of J. S. Miller, of the carriage works of J. S. Miller. Cornelius Williamson, a teamster, aged twentysix, and a native of Knox county, fell dead yesterday morning, at Washington. Daviess county, of heart disease. He was found stone dead, lying in au out-house. He leaves a widow and two children. At Jeffersonville Henry Gibson, aged twenty years, while engaged in repairing the roof of the car-works foundry, fell to the ground below, a distance of thirty feet. He was picked up in an unconscious condition. He received severe internal injuries, but it is thought they will not result fatally. The American and United States Express conV panies have for years been under the management of one person at Crawfordsviile, and occupied the same room. On Dec. 1 they will be worked separately. Tho American will retain George Robinson and the United States will employ Harry Naylor. At Anderson Caroline Litherington has filed in the Circuit Court a complaint charging George W. Pense with seduction, for which she asks SIO,OOO damages. Mr. Pense is a prominent business man, and hasconaucted himself heretofore in such a manner as to be above suspicion. Some think it is a black-mailing scheme, as Pense is quite wealthy. Two half-breed Indians became involved in a quarrel with a woman at Crawfordsviile, on Monday night. The woman sent for an officer, and Policeman Grimes went to the scene of the trouble. Upon his arrival one of the men, Jesse Harper, struck him, ard with difficulty the “greasers” were landed in jail. Their trial will came up on Wednesday. The Hon. Thomas F. Davidson, of Crawfordsville, is at Rockville, and has qualified as special judge to hear the murder trial of John C. Henning, the woman slayer. The case comes up before his Honor on Friday week. John R. Courtney, Henning’s attorney, has said he thought a change of venue to Newport would not be asked, as there is no need of it. Ed A. Forsythe and Miss Della Swift eloped from Seymour Saturday night, and. procuring license to marry, were duly united by Rev. John Poucher at New Albany on Sunday morning. Clerk Meyers received a dispatch from the father of the girl at Seymour, forbidding the issue of the license. It was then twenty four hours too late. The bride was scarce eighteen, and the groom twenty-one years old. Courier-Journal New Albany item: Col. W. W. Tuley celebrated his sixtieth birthday anniversary yesterday. He was born in a house that occupied the present site of the Occidental Hotel, .and has always resided here. He was a soldier in the Mexican war, held the office of city clerk five years, county clerk nine years, has been a member of the Legislature, and is at present master commissioner of the Floyd Circuit Court On Monday night, at Crawfordsviile, a rich musical treat was given at Music Hall by tbe DePauw Concert Company, of Greencastle, to a moderate sized audience. The piano-playing by Professor Howe was received with evident satisfaction bv the audience. Miss Nash sang the “Waltz Song,” by Arditi, and “Sing, Smile, Slumber.” by Gounod, and was enthusiastically applauded Miss Howe made her appearance in Paroche’s “Theme aud Variations,” and showed a high degree of culture. She has an excellent voice, reaching Fon the octave above the staff. Harvey Shaffer, a farmer’s son, and known as a bully, was arrosted on Monday on charge of rape. He met the thirteen-year-old daughter of David Mankins, living one mile southeast of Rockville, going home from a neighbor's house, and walked with her until they came to a creek. Here Shaffer tried to outrage the girl, but two Doys saw him, and he fled. The girl’s father swore out a warrant for assault and battery, and Shaffer was arrested and brought before Judge Jump. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, an 1 was put under SSOO bond, which he could not give, and was sent to jail.

ILLINOIS. Culling* from Correspondence and Gleanings from Exchanges. A good vein of natural gas has been found near Mendota, at a depth of seventy feet At Carlyle, Julius Guyler, for attempting to outrage Mrs. Eliza Sanders, of Jamestown, was sent to the penitentiary for three years. Chauncy C. Crandall is on trial at Edwardsville, charged with embezzling S6OO from the Chicago & Alton railroad, of which he was recently agent at Alton. At Monmouth Samuel Claybausrh. who was shot by William Birdsall in a quarrel at a dance, Friday night, died on Monday. Birdsall is in jail, awaiting his examination. E. B. Fredericks, of Winslow, was to have been married yesterday, andjfltiad gone to Wisconsin tor his bride. On ariflviug thero he was put in jail at Monroe, charged with forging fifteen notes, amounting in all to SBOO. Two deserters have been arrested at Joliet Their names are Harvey Clinton and Harry Dodd, company E. U. S. Infantry, enlisted at Denver, Col., April 6, 1885; deserted Nov. 7, 1885, from Fort Lyon, Col. Clinton is a bright young fellow of good address, whose home is in Brooklyn, N. Y. His partner hails from Buffalo. At Salem a very peculiar case is in the hands of the master in chancery, C. E. Jennings. It is the celebrated case of William Wilkins et al., complainants, vs. the unknown heirs of Massic McCarp and others. The property has sold as high as $B7l, and after costs are paid there will he S6OO to bo divided among forty-five heirs, some of whom will get the sum of the one hundred and twelfth part. Business Embarrassments. Youngstown, 0., Nov. 24.—-The sheriff closed tho large dry goods store of H. Weinberg, today, on execution issued by relatives of his wife on notes aggregating nearly SB,OOO. After the closing of the store Weinberg assigned to E. M. Wilson for the benefit of hi3 other creditors, who are principally dry goods firms in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Liabilities, $30,000; assets estimated at $250,000. St. Louis, Nov. 24.—T. F. Maloney, a retail dry goods merchant, was attached this morning by 11. B. Claflin & Cos., and other Eastern creditors, followed by attachments by St. Louis houses aggregating $21,000. Maloney made an assignment about noon, and placed the value of his assets at $63,000. Charges Against a Magistrate. Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 24.—1 tis reported to-dav that representations have been made to the government respecting the conduct of Stipendiary Magistrate Koute&u. of Battleford, which may cause a postponement of the execution of the eight Indians sentenced to he hanged at Battle ford on Friday next He is reported to have threatened that every Indian and half-breed rebel brought before him after the insurrection was suppressed would be sent to the gallows, if possible. In view of all the circumstances, and particularly as Judge Routeaa was a heavy loser pecuniarily by the Indian outbreak at Battleford, it is contended that he should not have been allowed to preside at the trials of the prisoners A memorial has been received by the Department of Justice asking that the matter be investigated. The engine and tender attached to an eastbound train on the Navasto branch of the Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe railroad, were thrown' trom the track on Saturday night. The fireman, W. G. Danner, was crushed to death, and the engineer, C. C. Gordon, was badly scalded and bruised. It is supposed the accident was caused by the spreading of the rails.

ELEMENTAL DISTURBANCES. Unusually High Tides and Violent Rain and Snow-Storms in the East. Docks and Wharves Overflowed Along the Coast and Great Damage Done—Railway Travel Impeded by Snow Blockades. Ni:w York, Nov. 24. —The tide was three feet higher this morning than ever before known. The docks along the water front were submerged, and business was entirely suspended for several hours. The water was over a foot deep in West street, and the first floors and cellars of buildings in the lower part of the city were flooded. Exceedingly high tides are reported all along the Atlantic coast. Considerable damage is being done at Coney Island, Rockaway and Cape May. Dancing platforms, bathing-houses and walks are being carried away. At Hunter’s Point the streets are flooded, and out houses, wagons, etc., being carried to sea. That portion’of Sag Harbor near the bay was completely inundated this morning by the tide, and considerable damage was done. The effects of the high tide were felt at Riverhead, something which was nover known before. The river overflowed to such an extent as to flood the streets, houses, cellars and basements. At Port Jefferson, L. 1., there was the highest tide ever known in that vicinity. A part of the village was flooded, and many of the inhabitants were forced to retreat to the second* stories of their houses. At Rahway, N. J., a storm caused the Rahway river to rise so high that people living in the vicinity have moved up stairs, and horses and cows had to be removed from stables for safety. In some cases people have to row in boats to and from their homes. At Wilkesbarre, Pa., a heavy rain storm set in on Sunday, and continued throughout Monday until the evening, wheu it changed to snow. The storm is still raging furiously. Reports from the mountain districts are to the effocfc that ten inches of snow has already fallen. The snow at Penobscot, seven miles from Wilkesbarre, is imported twenty-two inches deep. At Easton, Pa., a snow-storm set in yesterday morning, and continued with occasional rain last night. The snow is now six inches deep on a level, and eight inches on the mountains, and is still falling. The storm has delayed many trains. A dispatch from Mount Carmel, Pa., says: “For thirty-six hours the heaviest snow-storm of years has been raging throughout* the coal region, impeding railroad travel and rendering work at a number of collieries impossible. Reports from a number of points show that from eighteen inches to two feet of snow has already fallen, and the storm shows no signs of abatement.” A Fall River, Mass., telegram reports that an earthquake wave in the bay, at 9:30 this morning, caused the tide to rise three feet above mean high-water mark. At Kingston, N. Y., a blinding northeast snowstorm, accompanied at times by hail and sleet, prevails. Large drifts are obstructing railroad and other travel. In the Catskills, snow fell to a depth of ten inches. At Lock Haven. Pa., a heavy snow-storm has prevailed since Sunday night. The snow on the hills is reported to be three feet deep, and it is still snowing. It has snowed incessantly at Williamsport, Pa., for over twenty-four hours, and there is no sign of a cessation. Telegraphic communication has been practically suspended. At Bridgeport, Conn., the tide this afternoon reached the highest point known in that vicinity for many years. Wharves, warehouses and cellars along the water-front were overflowed to the depth of several feet, causing much damage. At Asbury Park, N. J., the storm 'of the last forty hours has been the most severe known for twenty years. From Barnegat bay to Sandy Hook the beach is covored with boards torn from bulkheads and summer-houses. The schooner Peacedalo has been knocked to pieces. The crew lost everything but their clothing. The ocean promenade and pavilions at Asbury Park were damaged SI,OOO. The bulkheads of the Elberon Hotel, William S. Warner’s cottage. Robert B. Winthrop’s cottage, and others at Elberon, were torn out by the surf. The long bulkheads of Richard J. Dobbins. at Long Braneh, and that along the front of the Howland Hotel, were torn to pieces. Nearly every bulkhead from North Long Branch to SeabrigDt has been wrecked. At the latter place the east wing of the Octagon House was torn away. The cottages of Dr. L. D. Bulkiey were undermined and one of them almost demolished. The cottage of Jessie Howland is a complete wreck. The tracks of the New Jersey Southern railway are undermined and the rails badly twisted. For a distance of two miles above the Highlands the tracks are covered with sand to the depth of three feet It is impossible, at present, to give an estimate of the damage done thus far, and it is feared that the high tide of to-night will greatly increase the loss. At Wilkesbarre, Pa., the fall of snow continues to-night, and is now over two feet deep along the lines of the Lehigh Valley and Philadelphia & Reading railroads. All the trains on the Lehigh Valley road to-night are run with throe to four engines. The storm has been very severe, and is said to he the heaviest which has visited this section in twenty years. At. Provincetown, Mass., a severe easterly storm has been raging since yesterday morning, causing extreme high tides, and a heavy sea. The tide reached a higher point on the Westchester shore of the Hudson river to-day than ever before within the recollection of the oldest inhabitant It covered all the docks from Yonkers to Peekskill from one to two and a half feet, and in many places came up even with the rails of the Hudson River railroad. Boats, boat-houses, fences and lumber from yards were cast loose upon the flood.

An Appeal in Behalf of Parnell. New York, Nov. 24.—The executive committee of the Irish Parliament Fund Association met to-night and issued an address to the citizens of the United States, asking for contributions to aid Mr. Parnell and his coadjutors in their struggle for Irish home rule. After stat ing the circumstances under which the contest is being made and the confidence with which the committee appeal to the liberty-loving, the address closes as follows: “The steadfast friends and advocates of Irish nationality have fully resolved to measure and keep record of the value of protestations by the practical results of individual answers to this appeal. The time is ripe, the crisis is impending, and, appreciating these conditions, this appeal is made to every liberty-loving citizen of the United States to join the friends and sons of Ireland in contributing the amount of money necessary to secure success.” An Inhuman Step-Mother. Cleveland. 0., Nov. 24.—At Delaware, 0., to day, Mrs. Wm. Dunlap, who had formerly moved in good society, being a member of a leading church, was sent to jail for sixty days, to subsist on bread and water, and fined SIOO, for cruelty to her step children. The story of her cruelty, as brought out at the trial, is most shocking. A few days since she covered the body of one of the children with soft soap, poured cold water on the little one, and scrubbed her with a broom. The other child had been suspended in a deep well with a rope. Other cruel treatment was clearly proven by the Humane Society. The woman was followed to the jail by a jeering and hooting mob. Death of Capt John H. McGinnis. St. Louis, Nov. 24.—Capt John H. McGinnis, superintendent of the East St. Louis, 111., connecting railway and the belt road of the Wiggins Ferry Company, was run over and killed by a train to day. , Captain McGinnis was a brother of Major McGinnis, of the United States army, and resided in this city. Fire at Conway, Ark. Little Rook, Ark.. Nov. 24.—Fire at (Jonway, Ark., early this morning, burned several wooden business buildings. The chief losers

were: R. Grissard & Gist, general merchants: A. Perry, grocer: Burton & Townsend, hardware; Pence & Cos., furniture; A. It Witt, drug store and postoffice; Schiethan Sc Watkins, and i. Heiliger, merchants, and the Ledger printing office. The total loss is $20,000 to $25,000, with small insurance. LIBBY PRISON ROMANCES. The Assistance Given Prisoners by Abblo Green and Bettie Van Lew. “Graff,” in Chicago News. The old. yellow, moth-covered books and papers of Libby prison tell a not unromantic tale of two women who were directly connected with two momentous events of the famous Southern prison. After the war these ladies figured in good positions in the gift of the government, which they had ever proven loyal to. although surrounded by rebels in the very hot-bod of treason. One of these was Miss Abbie Green. She lingered about the old warehouse so much, in her desire to do something for the Union prisoners confined therein, that she was told that if she did not stop fooling with the Yankee prisoners she would he hustled into Castle Thunder. But she feared not, and it was she, as mueh as any other person, who was the instigating cause of 117 men escaping in a body. In the prison was one Col. A. D. Straight, who had organized an expedition having for its objeci the raiding of the country in and around Rome, Ga, Forrest captured the whole of them, and they were sent to Richmond prison. Abbie Green happened to know Streight, and she smuggled in to him a pair of large Colt revolver, with the word that if he would escape he would be taken care of until he could get out of the country. One night some of the prisoners standing at "the window could, by the aid of a pale moonlight, see dark objects popping up as it were, from the very bowels of the earth in a vacant lot across the street. “Where in the are all those men coining from?” shouted one of the prisoners. “Shut up, you “Come away from that window and keep your mouth shut.” When the roll was called the next morning 117 men were missing. “I took my man Jim,” Said my informant, “the next morning, and made an examination of the lot across the street It was full of high weeds, and I directed Jim to get in and look about In doing so he suddenly disappeared. When I wont to the spot where 1 had seen him last, a yawning hole confronted me. I stood there in wonder for a moment, when I looked up and beheld Jim running out of the prison. Then the whole thing dawned on my befuddled mind. Those 117 men had got out of the prison in the same manner that Black Jim had got into it” By means of a large chimney the men had lowered themselves to the basement, where we kept a large quantity of straw. The men had dug down through the floor of the basement, across the street forty-two feet, and emerged into the vacant lot The dirt taken from the hole was piled in the room and covered with straw. “If it hadn’t been for a very peculiar accident,” continued the aged narrator, “we would have lost every able-bodied man in the prison that night” Col. -Streight got fast in the hole. The men had dug under a gas-main, making a sudden turn down and then up. Streight wa3 a big, heavy fellow,' and in going under he got caught between his shoulders and hips. The men in front pulled and those in the rear pushed, but for hours he remained in this plight, until toward daybreak he was hauled out more dead than alive. It was then too near daylight ta make the delivery general. One hundred and seventeen got away, but we captured more than half of them. Streight was taken care of by Abbie Green, in a little hut just outside the city, where food was provided till he was able to get away, which he finally did, and. reachefcWashington in safety.” Miss Green was give® a position in the United States Treasury—a position which she still holds. It will be remembered that when Grant became President he gave the Richmond postoffice to Miss Bettie Van Lew. This act was generally supposed to have been made as a recognition of many acts of loyalty to the Union during the dark days of the war. This in general is true, but there is one thing in particular which she did that is not mnch known. It was Bettie who, with her big-hearted mother, Mrs. Van Lew, received into their home a sick man from the prison to nurse back to life. This man was Calvin Hudson, jr., who, like Congressman Ely, went down to Bull Run to see jfeho fight, atkl by the rebels and made a prisoner of war. Both these men were from Rochester, N. Y., and they had been opponents in the race for Congress. Hudson had married the niece of Secretary Seward. He took typhoid fever, and failed rapidly. Through the efforts of Ely and others he was secured private quarters, and these at the residence of the loyal Mrs. Van Lew. For this Mrs. Van Lew incurred the wrath of the fire eaters,* and, if her house had not beeu protected by th* commandant of the prison (Capt “Corp” Gibbs), it would have been mobbed. Everything possible was done for poor Hud son. But it was too late. The shadowy valley had teen entered ere he had left the prison, and when the yellow leaves of October were thickly falling without his window the feeble pulse flickered and went out It was a sad death. He had 18ft his young wife in her bright home in the North merely to become an idle on-looker, never dreaming of the result of this unfortunate action. His last hours were made as comfortable as possible by the kind family under whose roof he died. He was buried in Mrs. Van Lew’s private lot in Church Hill Cemetery. Brave, generous, loyal Bettie Van Lew! Let the noys in blue revere her memory, and delight to honor the name of one who was true to the flag when it took nerve to be so.

Foolish Extravagance. New York Sun. Husband—A Wall-street man, it is said, has just paid $34,000 for seat in the Stock Exchange. Wife—What dreadful extravagance! Considering the few hours each day that are given to business in the Stock Exchange, 1 should think that sensible people, rather than spend so much money, would prefer to stand up. Steamship News. Hamburg, Nov. 21.—Arrived: Suevia, from New York. London. Nov. 24.—Passed Prawl Point: Persian Monarch from New York. New York, Nov. 24.—Arrived: Circassia, from Glasgow; England, from Liverpool. The Strike of the Nailers. Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 24.—The report of the secretary of the Western Nail Association shows 386 machines now in operation at th® manufacturers’ 17-cent scale. Strained His Side, No. 11 West 12Gth St., , ) New York, March 5, J I am pretty well known in New York as the one-armed baggage master at the New York Central depot Three months ago, in lifting a heavy trunk, I strained my side dreadfully. I immediately procured an Allcock’s Porous Plaster. Every hour felt less pain. I wore the plaster three days, then applied another, and was well in a week and attending to my businesa James B. Kennkdt.

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