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she preferred not to take it during tho communion service. The clergymen there, respecting fcor prejudices, provided grapes for her as a sutBt.tute. MINOR MATTERS. Secretary Manninc Will Submit His Tariff Correspondence to Congress. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 3. —Although greatly disappointed at the result of his researches. Secretary Manning has determined to lay before Congress, in pamphlet form, the letters he received from people throughout tho country on tariff reform. They represent every possible idea of tariff matters, and will make an interesting little volume. Two-thirds of the expressions received Mere against a reduction of the tariff, and very many of them proposed an increase upon numerous articles. Secretary Manning believes it is useless to talk about a reduction of the tariff if the masses are to be consulted, because they are largely against it. The fact of his making known such of the expressions received as he may wish to publish is considered more of a compulsory matter than anything else. It would be impolitic to keep them a secret The Presidency of the Senate. Wasliinzton Special. ( The President of the Senate has many compensating benefits for the labors he performs and for the restraints to which he is subjected. The office itself places him next to tho chief magistrate in official dignity, and confers upon him many social and ceremonious distinctions. He receives $3,000 per annum, in addition to his compensation trf $5,000 as a member of Congress. He appoints a private secretary, with a salary of $2,102.40; a messenger, with a salary of $1,400, and a telegraphic operator at $1,200. By a conventional practice, he also appoints a member of the Capitol police, who receive $l,lOO per annum. In addition to these privileges, he gets as a perquisite, without the least color of law, all the ornamental equipment of the Vice piesideut?s chamber, such as rugs, bric-a-brac, vases, fireplace furniture in rare brass, silver inkstands, etc. All these articles are costly, and they are paid for from the contingent fund. Ho is provided with many luxuries, and lives a cheerful life, while he is also a power in legislation.

Appointments Yesterday. Washington, Dec. 3.—The President to-day made th% following appoinments: Wm. W. Anderson, of Kentucky, to be agent for the Indians of the Crow creek and Lower Brule agencies in Dakota; John A. Sullivan, to be collector of internal revenue of the Second district of New York; Lafayette Dawson, of Missouri, to be United States for the district of Alaska; Wm. G. Langford, of Walla Walla, W. TANARUS., to be associate justice of the Supreme Court of tho Territory of Washington: Charles R. Pollard, of Delphi, Ind., to be associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana. The Postmaster-general to-day appointed the following fourth-class postmasters: Indiana—At Millvilie, James Sharkey; Spados, H. Price. Illinois —At Elvira, Thomas Gore; Wayne, J. Arndt. Ohio—At Big Run, John Shirley: Dexter Citv, Aaams Staerver; Sheridan Coal Works, A. P. Jones; Vienna Cross-roads, Samuel Fricks, sr. The Silver Question. Washington Special. Members of Congress are arriving at tho capital in great numbers to-day. The silver question naturally comes to the front. There is a growing impression that many Republicans who voted for the silver bill will be ready this session to back the*President in his recommendations. The radical silver men are very anxious and determined, but there is a noticeable difference in the tone of their argument. It was maintained by Messrs. Bland, Hatch, Reagan and others, last spring, that there should be no legislation whatever on the subject. Mr. Hatch, who declares himself to bo even more radical than Mr. Bland, admitted to your correspondent this mornine that something would probably be done. ‘Tf the President makes reasonable recommendations,” he said, “they will be respect fully considered, but the most that will be done will be to decrease the coinage.” At the same time he declared that “the country would not tolerate any legislation acain6t silver.” Important Order from the Land Office. Washington, Dec. 3.—Commissioner Sparks, of the General Land Office, to-day promulgated the following important order, modifying his order of April 3 last, to suspend final action in issue of patents on settlement and improvement claims for examination with respect to compliance with the law. The order of April 3, 1885. is modified as follows: The Commissioner will certify and request the issue of patents upon ali entries not subject to reasonable doubt, viz.: First, in contests where the rights of successful parties have been established; second, where examinations have been made by government agents and no fraud appears; third, homestead entries where residence, improvement and cultivation have been made according to law; and a board, to consist of the Assistant Commissioner. chief clerk and chief law clerk, is hereby organized to pass upon and report said cases to the Commissioner.

General and Personal. Special to tlie Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 3.—Miss ltosa D. Stine, daughter of Major J. H. Stine, formerly of Union City, now an employe of the Treasury Department, was married, last evening, to William Berry, a Virginian, at the residence of the bride’s parents in this city. The bride and bridegroom left on the night train for Indiana on a short tour. Dr. J. T. McShan, Mrs. A. C. McShan and Miss Mattie McShan, of Carmel, Ind., are at the Ebbitt. Andrew J. Davis has been commissioned postmaster at New Ifrankfort, Ind. Senator and Mrs. Harrison arrived from Indianapolis yesterday evenine, and have since been busy arranging their winter quarters in the Woodmont, a commodious and attractive building facing lowa Circle, in the northwestern part of the city. Mr. Watson, Senator Harrison’s secretary, arrived this morning. General Browne is expected here for a few days at the opening of Congress. All the other members of the Indiana delegation are in the city. Representatives Cobb, Matson and Holman will make argument before Assistant Secretary Fairchild, ot the Treasury Department, to morrow, in favor of the use of Bedford stone in the superstructure of the government building at Pittsburg. Representatives of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburg are here, and will advo cate the use of granite. The Indianians believe tri6ir material will be selected. The building is to cost $1,500,000, and the stone will be worth about $225,000 or $230,000; granite will cost over SIOO,OOO more than Indiana stone. Watson ( lark, of Lafayette, has been appointed a watchman at the Treasury Department, through the influence of Third Auditor Williams. Clark’s salary will be $720 a year. Third Auditor Williams’® report of the operations of his office for the month of November shows requisitions on the Treasury for $12,711,242, of which $10,974,743 were for army pensions. Duriug the four months ended Nov. 30 there were 740 claims disposed of in the horse claims division of the Third Auditor’s office, against 130 lor the same period last year, 201 in 1883, and .119 for that period in 1882. There are yet 10,203 horse claims unsettled, involving sl, 575.037. The National Trotting Association. New Yobk, Dec. 3. —The board of review of the National Trotting Association concluded their session to-day. They will again meet at Chicago on May 11. The board disposed of 104 cases, a few being laid over for final adjudication at the Chicago meeting. The biennial meeting of the members of the entire association will be held at Chicago ou the second Wednesday in February.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS A Township Trustee Found Short in His Accounts to the Amount of $2,800. Semi-Annnal Meeting of the Mitchel District Medical Society—Assignment at Morristown—A Boy Commits Suicide. INDIANA. A Wabash County Township Trustee Found Short In His Accounts. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal Wabash, Dec. 3. —A big sensation was caused here this afternoon by the announcement that John Wharton, trustee of Noble township, in which this city is situated, had misappropriated nearly $3,000 of the township funds. Mr. "Wharton was seen by your correspondent this afternoon, and admitted that he was 3hort a considerable sum—how much he did not know; but declared he had done all in his power to make good the deficit, having turned over his house and lot and photographic apparatus, all he had in the world, to his bondsmen. He began using public money for private purposes last snmmer, when he required funds to rebuild his house, which was destroyed by fire, and there has been a constant drain since. His checks never specified the character of the payment, and as the draught on the balance in the Citizens’ Bank has been heavy of late, the president, -James McCrea, who, with A. M. Atkinson and ex-Sheriff Asa Ross, are on his bond for $30,000, became suspicious and investigated the matter. Wharton’s books were found in a wretched shape, hut enough was learned to discover a shortage of $2,800. "Wharton will undoubtedly be removed when the County Commissioners meet, next week. He is not a man of extravagant tastes, but is not competent to fill a public position. No illegal warrants have been issued by him. Mitchel District Medical Society. Boeciftl to the Indianapolis Journal. Columbus, Dec. 3. —The thirty-first semi-an-nual meeting of the Mitchel District Medical Society, which includes all of southern Indiana, convened in this city to-day. This is the most important meeting the society has ever held, and the programme is pronounced superior to that of the State Medical Society. A number of eminent physicians are present from other States, and others are expected to-morrow, the session lasting two days. Dr. Williams, of Cincinnati, delivered a public lecture to-night on the subject, “Uneommonnesß of Common Politeness.” and Rev. L. G. Curtis one on “Hygiene.” Both were able and well attended by citizens generally.

Assignment at Morristown. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Shelbyville, Dec. 3.— Stephen Buck, of Morristown, late this evening made an assignment for tho benefit of his creditors. Among the assets is 115 acres of land in Hanover township. Judge O, J. Glessner, of this city, is named as the assignee. Mr. Buck was security on the paper of James Tyner, who last week failed, and this precipitated his own assignment. Liabilities unknown. Minor Notes. Richard Richardson, of Union Mills, LaPorte, died suddenly on Wednesday, of paralysis. J. W. Jacobs, of Jeffersonville, grand reporter of the Kuights of Honor, is dangerously ill. Cards are out for the wedding of Rev. J. W. Clokey and Miss Florence Day, at New Albany. There are 1,785 pupils in the public schools of Jeffersonville. Os this number 1,448 are white auu 337 colored. The Methodist denomination at Crawfordsville are taking subscriptions for the erection of a new church edifice. Michael Brand, an old and respected citizen of LaPorte, was found dead in bed yesterday morning by his daughter, who went to call him, he not arising at his usual time. Heart disease is the supposed cause. John Harrod, assistant yardmaster at ,the J., M. &I. yards at Jeffersonville, while making a coupling, was caught between two cars. His left collar-bone was broken, his shoulder dislocated, and he was severely bruised over the shoulder blade. Andrew Jones, a well-known farmer of Shelby county, while crossing the public square at Shelbyville, yesterday morning, fell unconcious to the ground with brain trouble, and it was thought was dead. Bystanders carried him to a physician’s office, and last night he was in a precarious condition. Mrs. Robert Stewart, wife of. a prominent farmer, of Liberty township, Wabash county, dropped dead at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, at the residence of her son. in the western part of Wabash city. She had been in excellent health of late, and her demise came without a moment’s warning. Her death resulted from paralysis of the heart Eck. Burkit, who was last week acquitted of the charge of committing an outrage on his niece, has left Cass county to avoid bping hanged by a vigilance committee. He was given twenty-four hours to get out of the county, and he lost no time in taking his departure. In the trial of the case in court he was acquitted on purely technical grounds. The Indiana Horticultural Society closed its annual session at Pnrdne yesterday. A large number of delegates from all parts of the United States were in attendance. The principal discussion was in favor of the extermination of the English sparrow, to the encouragement of other small birds. The reports of the officers showed asteady growth of the association during the past year. The trial of Will A. Kearney, now in progress at Logansport, is attracting universal attention there and throughout the State. Kearney is charged with stealing ahorse from a man named Smith, last September. The plea of the defense is insanity, and they are making out a strong case. The indications are that Kearney will be be sent to the Insane Asylum rather than to the penitentiary. The trial will continue through the week.

ILLINOIS. A Seventeen-Year-Old Boy Commits Suicide by Jumping Into a Well. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, Dec. 3. —James Corridan, aged seventeen years, committed suicide, this morning, by jumping into a well. He had been sick for some time, and it is supposed that he feared he would become a confirmed invalid like his father, who has been a sufferer for eight or ten years. Brief Mention. At Mattoon. a raid is on against gamblers. A dozen or more have been fined S4O each and costs. Anson Ashley Babcock, a well-known pioneer, died at Freeport, Wednesday morning, in his seventy-third year. At Mattoon, a five-year-old daughter of Peter Stuckoser was burned to death while building a fire of leaves in the yard. At Macomb. Joseph P. Updegraff, seventy-five years old. fifty years a prominent citizen of the city and county, died, on Tuesday, of paralysis of the heart. The State commission has decided to locate the Soldiers’ and Sailors' Home at Quincy, on a site called Ellington Park, overlooking the Mississippi river. William C. Glenn, a lad of sixteen years, who assisted his father in the postoffice at Rochelle, and was induced to perpetrate frauds and open registered letters, has been sentenced to imprisonment for fifteen months in the House of Correction, at Chicago. At Decatur, E. G. Emmet, of Chicago, traveling canvasser for D. Appleton & Cos., was placed under bonds to await the action of the January

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grand jury, on a charge of obtaining money from Chas. Laux. proprietor of the St Nicholas Hotel, under false pretenses. He was committed to jail The City Council of Gilman has offered a reward of SSOO for the arrest and conviction of the man or men who murdered George W. Rossiter, on the night of Nov. 27. THE DEATH OF THOMAS CHADECK. Circumstances Which Indicate that the Unfortunate Man Was Killed by His Wife. Axtigo, Wis., Dee. 3.—The tragic death of Thomas Chadeck, the postmaster at Deer Brook, remains shrouded in mystery, although all the circumstances surrounding the ease indicate that it was not a case of self-destruction. Tho location of the wounds in Chadeek’s body taaks it plain that Mrs. Chadeck’s statement that he shot himself is incorrect The most plausible theory is that Mrs. Chadeck did the shooting herself. This is supported by the following circumstances: On Sunday night last Mrs. Chadeck got her husband’s revolver out of the store and threatened to 6hoot him. At that time two of her children took the weapon away from her. It is said that she then intimated her intention to again get the pistol and carry it with her. On Monday afternoon she visited a house of questionable character, where she met Charles Sanford, with whom it was charged that she has been intimate for some time. Then her husband called for her. and, according to the statement of the woman who keeps the house, requested her to go home and stay with her children. She told him that she would go home when she got ready, and he left her As he was walking away, she shouted after him not to follow her again, or he would be sorry for it. A few minutes later Chadeck was seen coming toward the Levines place. liis wife ran into the woods He followed her, and a.few seconds later the pistol shots were heard. Presently Mrs. Chadeck rushed back into tbe Lavines place, shouting that her husband had shot her and himself. The generally-accepted theory is that Mrs. Chadeck turned on her husband with the revolver, perhaps only intending to frighten him; that he seized her and forced her hands back, and in the struggle the pistol was discharged, wounding her in the shoulder: that he, horrified at the accident, started back, when the probably infuriated woman aimed tne pistol at him, and that he threw up his arm to protect himself, the bullet passing through it, and inflicting tho wound which caused his death.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The Erie Railwav Company offers a reward of SI,OOO for the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons who maliciously caused the accident at Scio, N. Y., where a train was wrecked late on Wednesday night Capitalists of New York, aided by John R. McLean and Thomas C. Campbell, are endeavoring to secure from the Cincinnati Council permission to lay mains in the streets for supplying factories and dwellings with fuel gas. On the farm of Milo B. Haynes, near Almont, Mich., internal-revenue officers discovered an illicit still in a low block house, with twenty gallons of fine liquor. The steam was conducted through a brush heap, covered with leaves. Four operators were arrested and taken to Port Huron. The Governor of Arizona calls attention to the extensive smuggling operations in progress along the border of Mexico in the line of mescal, cigars and live stock. He recommends that four mounted inspectors be placed on duty in the counties of Cochise and Pima. A north bound freight train on the Alabama & Great Southern railroad, while running at a high rate of speed, broke in two near -Porterville. The two sections collided, causing a frightful wreck. The caboose brakeman, named Colemann, was instantly killed, andPonductor McAllister badly injured. Yesterday afternoon about 800 Scandinavians passed throueh Chicago. They took a train on the Grand Trunk & Erie railroad for New York, and from there will sail by the special steamer Ole Bull to their old homes in Scandinavia. They puri-hased over a half million crowns in foreign exchange to Chicago to use while on their pilgrimage. New alleged forgeries by Janies F. D. Crane, the absconding county clerk of Westchester county, New York, are constantly coming to light. It was announced yesterday that he had forged a number of names to the necessary legal documents permitting the mortgaging of an insane womon’s property for $5,000, and that he fraudulently secured the signature of the referee in the case. At Detroit, yesterday morning at an early hour, the body of Bertha Buckworth was found in front of her home on Chestnut street, with her throat cut from ear to ear. The murder occurred some time between 12 o’clock and daylight, and the body had been dragged outside of the house. William Stevens, an employe of the National iron works, is suspected of the deed. They were to have been married on Saturday. Last night neighbors heard them quarreling. Stevens hns not yet been captured. Tho Standard Oil Company has a scheme under way to pipe Pennsylvania natural gas, for heating and illuminating purposes, to Buffalo. The plau is to lay a large trunk line from the V enango district to Corry, and from thence to Buffalo. At Corry will be placed the pumping machinery necessary to torce the gas on to its destination. The machinery is said to be constructed on the principle of the great Worthington duplex pumps used by the National Transit Company for pumping oil, modified in such a manner as to adapt them to their new uses.

The National Base Ball League. Chicago, Dec. 3. —The committee in charge of the affairs of the National Base Ball League has decided to limit the number of clubs in the League to six. They are Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. The franchises of both the Buffalo and the Providence teams are now in the hands of the League, and no other will be issued. The schedule for the season will consist of 300 games, each club playing twenty games with the others, and the programme will be so arranged that the fifty games played in each League city will be played in engagements of two week duration, at intervals of two weeks. More Murders by Apaches. Tombstone, A. TANARUS., Dec. 3.—lndians attacked the town of Duncan, ou the Southern Pacific railroad, yesterday, and killed one man. The Indians have cut the wires between Wilcox and Fort Grant* Mr. Lord, the military operator, has warned the ranchers who are in town to go home and protect their families. The Indians are between Percey’s Ranch and Camp Grant. A later dispatch says that a courier from D. H. Smith’s store was sent to warn the people who live near Stockton Pass, and was chased into Fort Grant to-day. It is feared that all the families in that vicinity have been murdered. Better Prices for Pig Metal and Iron Ore. Pittsburg, Dec. 3.—lron dealers report an advance of $] on pig metal and 50 cents on ore within the past twenty-four hours. This has been brought about by the steadily increasing demand for these commodities, especially here, and is the first apparent substantial evidence of a revival of the iron trade. Business in this city is reported good. The mills are booking plenty of orders at present, and through the use and economies of natural gas they have a decided advantage over the trade in general outside of the western Pennsylvania field. Obituary, Milwaukee, Dec. 3.—William Aldrich, exmember of Congress from the Second Chicago district, was stricken with apoplexy, to day, and died a few hours later. Mr. Aldrich moved to Fond du Lac from Chicago,|a few years ago, and has since been engaged in the milling business at the former place. Steamship News. New York, Dec. 3. — Arrived: Greece, from London. Movillr, Dec. 3.—Arrived: Devonia, from New York for Liverpool. Weighed in the balance and not found want-ing—-St. Jacobs Oil Price 50 cents.

SERIOUS LOSSES BY FIRE. Buri.ing of the Barnum Wire Works at Detroit, Causinga Loss of $260,000. List of the Losing Insurance Companies—Destruction of the Largest Saw-Mill in the World—sloo,ooo Loss at Sew York. Detroit, Dec. 3—This morning, at 6 o’clock, fire broke opt in tbe stock-room of the Barnum wire works. There was a delay of fully ten minutes before an alarm coaid be turned in, and the fire spread with great rapidity. Three alarms were sent in, and half a dozen engines called, but the whole building was a mass of flames before they arrived. A gale of wind from the west fanned the flames into a fury; huge cinders were hurled high into the air and carried blocks away, and for a time it seemed that the whole neighborhood was doomed. The efforts of the fire department were devoted chiefly to saving the property of the neighborhood, it being impossible to save the wire works. Notwithstanding the hard work of the firemen, the fire spread to Howard street The men were compelled to retreat before the flames with scorched hands, faces and burnt clothes. The heat was intense, and set fire to three double two story houses, which were about half consumed before the men could get to work on their rear. The occupants had been abie to move most of their furniture to a piace of safety. These houses were valued at about SB,OOO, and were insured for SO,OOO. After the fire in tbe works had burned for about, an hour the walls began to fall, and the firemen had many narrow escapes. The works are almost an entire loss. The building was valued at $112,000, the stock at $50,000, and the machinery at $150,000. The insurance is as follows: Scottish Union, Citizens’ of New York, Norwich Union, Niagara, Howard. People’s of New York, Lion and London Assurance, $5,000 each; Springfield, and Michican Fire and Marine, $3,500 each; New York Alliance, $3,200; Sun of California, German American Insurance Company of North America, Tire Insurance Association, Imperial. $3,000 each; Royal Guardian, Washington, Queen. American of New Jersey, United Firemen’s, National of New Jersey, Transatlantic, Boylston Mutual. National of Hartford. Security, American Central, Union of Philadelphia, Home Mutual of California, Buffalo-Ger-man, Northwest National, Mercantile of New York, People's of Pittsbure, Firemen’s Fund, each, $2,500; German of Cincinnati, Newark, Firemen’s of Dayton. Pennsylvania, each, sl,500; Providence of Washington, London and Provincial, Grand Rapids, $1,500 each; total, $110,700. Two hundred men are thrown out of employment. The history of the Barnum wire works has been of unusual interest in business circles throughout the country. Tho company was incorporated in *the spring of 1882, with a capital of $1(10.000, which was later increased to $200,000. Their prosperity seemed unlimited, and in December, 1883, anew company was organized on a broader basis, with a capital of $300,000. A large establishment was built on Wabash ave nue, in this city, in the spring of 1884, and branch factories and sales rooms were established in Chicago and Windsor. In July, 1884, a large number of attachments were levied on the works, for amounts varying from SSOO to $25,000, and it was charged that the indebtedness had been contracted by fraudulent representations. Eight suits were begun against the company in the Superior Court and two in she Circuit. In consequence, the company assigned on July 28. 1884, to Abram L. Stebbins, who was subsequently made veceiver by order of the court. At the time of the failure the assets were $404,644, and the liabilities $349,020. Soon after the failure a combination of capitalists known as the “syndicate,’’ bought up the entire indebtedness of the concern for fifty cents on the dollar. Pressing claims were paid, hut the company was not out of trouble. A few who did not go into the syndicate claimed that the receiver had conspired to defeat their claims. Suits and counter-suits were eommened in all the local courts, and these are now pending in the Supreme Court. Recently an effort was made to sell the works, but an order from court stopped the sale.

Heavy Loss at Bay City. Bay City, Mich., Dec. 3.—At 11 o’clock last night fire broke out in the cupola of the fireroom of the McGraw saw mill, owned by Birdsall & Barker. The wind was blowing lightly from the west and carried the fire to the main building of the mill, which soon became a mass of flames. The firemen saw that the mill must be consumed and directed their attention to keeping the fire from spreading, and by strenuous efforts confined the conflagration to the mill proper and the adjoining tramways. At 1 o’clock the mill was in ruins. It was located at the extreme south end of the city, and was the largest on the Saginaw river. At the time of its erection, in 1873, it was the largest concern of the kind in the world. It had an annual capacity of 40.000,000 feet of lumber, besides lath, staves, heading and shingles. Mr. Birdsall places the loss at $150,000, on which there is an insurance of S100,000, distributed in various companies. It employed 150 men. It is not known whether it will be rebuilt. A Loss of S100,000. Hartford, Conn., Dec. 3.—About 3 o’clock this morning fire was discovered on the fourth floor of the shop of the E. N. Welsh Company, of Forestville. The building, which is four stories in height, ard built of brick and wood, was entirely destroyed, together with the engine, boilers, machinery and stock. The loss is from SBO,OOO to $100,000; insurance, $43,000. About <we hundred men are thrown out of employment Boarding-House Burned. Troy, N. Y., Dec. 3.—The large boardinghouse of Mrs. Y. M. Hult burned this morning at 2 o’clock. The loss amounts to about $15,000. including that on the building, furniture and private effects of the guests. < - The Virginia Senatorship. Richmond, Va.. Dec. 3.—A caucus of Democratic members of the Legislature was in session over three hours to-night, with closed doors. The whole time was occupied in discussing matters pertaining to the election of a United States senator. A motion to postpone the nomination of a candidate until next Wednesday was defeated by a vote of 56 to 38. This vote was considered by many as a test between the friends of Hon. John S. Barbour and Hon. John W. Daniel, with the result in favor of the latter. By general consent it was agreed to adjourn until next Monday. His Heart on the Right Side. New York, Dec. a— -E. J. Levison Lytton, a cousin of Lord Lytton, who arrived here from England five weeks ago, died suddenly to-day of heart disease. He had served in several campaigns in India . and was a famous steeple-chase rider. While riding a race in India he met with a serious accident, and fias ever since felt his heartbeat on the right side. An autopsy showed the position of that organ to be on the right aide. A Murderer’s Dramatic Confession. ¶ Sherman, Tex., Dec. 3. —To-day Newton Chance, an aged itinerant preacher from the Indian Territory, was on trial for the murder of E. Junius Foster, editor of a newspaper in this city, in 1883, when a man named James Young came forward voluntarily and confessed that he was the murderer. Chance was acquitted, amidst great rejoicing. At a recent meeting of the Jockey Club the Duke of Beaufort’s rnotiou for preventing "The Whip” being taken out of the kingdom was carried unanimously. It is said to have been the whip used by Charles II when at Newmarket In shape it is like an okl fashioned postilion whip—straight and heavy. It may be ehal-

leoged for twice a year, and ran for orer the Beacon course of tour miles aud a quarter. George IV won it when Prince Regent, with a horse called A oriel, and it haa since been held by many of the most notable sportsmen of the day. The present holder is Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, who won it the other day with Laveret FRAGMENTS OF BIELA’S COMET. Scientific Explanation of the Recent Remarkable Metoric Display. New Haven Special. Prof. H. A. Newton, of Yale, has propounded some very interesting theories concerning the metoric shower of Friday night last. He says that the telegraphic reports indicate that the display was visible to the inhabitants of more than a quarter of the globe. The shower was observed in Teheran, Persia, which is seven hours east of this city, early in the afternoon, and he says it would have been seen here but for the superior light of the sun. The display in Asia was unusually brilliant, as was also the case in Naples and London. The display, the Professor says, consists of the fragments of Biela’s comet, the breaking up of which was first discovered by Edward C. Herrick, then librarian of Yale College and Francis Bradley, of this city, in 1846. Since their discovery of its disintegration the comet has rapidly broken up and is now in millions of fragments. Hundreds of thousands of years ago the comet traveled among the fixed stars, but its path and that of the sun eventually coincided so nearly that by the heat of the sun little pieces of the comet’s outer shell were cracked and broken off. These fragments, together with a light vapor created by the sun’s action, were in turn repelled from the sun and the comet, and gradually fell in line behind the comet and formed its tail, in this state ttie comet continued to circle about in its orbit every six aud two-thirds years, until about 1840, when it was observed to have become divided into two parts. This process has since continued until the comet is now but amass of fragments, which methodically continue to move around in the orbit of the comet, and once in sixjand two-thirds years the earth moves through this meteoric belt, and we are treated to an exceptional display of shooting stars, which, m their rapid movement through our atmosphere, take fire and give out light, fragments often failing to the earth. The display usually lasts two or three hours and vanes in brilliancy, the shower of 1872 being so intense that between fifty thousand and one hundred thousand stars could have been seen by a single party of observers. The display of Friday evening was merely the end of the main shower. Robert Brown, jr., at the Yale observatory, counted forty-four stars in twenty four minutes shortly after 6 o'clock. Some were quite brilliant and left trails of light behind them. At half past 9 the meteors were less numerous, but a party of three observers estimated them at 100 per minute, while between a quarter past 10 and half-past 10 Professor Newton counted thirteen stars. Aii of the meteors observed appeared to radiate from the constellation of Andromeda, and as the observer can see only one-sixth or so of those actually visiblo, on the basis of Mr. Brown’s observations, at G o’clock, probably about 650 meteors could have been observed by a sufficiently numerous party of observers. The last important display was in 1872, and the next. Professor Newton says, will be in 1892, but he adds that, without doubt, observers may see occasional meteors during the coming week, as the November display generally continues in a greatly decreased degree until Dec. 8, and on one occasion has been known to continue until Dec. 24.

A SURE WAY TO INVEST MONEY. Those Who Put in the Cash Never Get It Back, but They Are Happy AH the Same. New York Mail and Express. The thirst for the antique seems to increase day by day. Old china, primitive wood-carv-ings. uncouth, ill-shapeu articles of bric-a brae, grotesque combinations of color, dubbed historic works of art, are all sought after and prized by the fortunate (?) possessors as priceless treasures. A number of firms in tbis city collect antique furniture and bric-a-brac to meet this craze. A reporter visited the establishment of one of the most noted firms and saw many odd specimens of bric-a-brac. A large clock, carved in walnut, and presenting a face which expressed the time of day, month, year, rising and setting of the sun and moon, signs of the zodiac, tides and changes in weather, was admired. A clerk said it was worth $4,500. A sideboard, made for the royal family in England, but found to be too large, had a tag attached calling for $2,500. The reporter was shown some brozes. The clerk said there was nothing to compare with them in the city. “Let me show you,” he said, “this group. It is worth only $1,200 and dirt cheap. There is nothing like it in America. Here is another which I must confess does not look like a treasure. It is valued at $300,” and he pointed to a little figure about seven inches in height representing an individual of evident foreign birth, in whose hand thero rested a tablet and from whose face relentless time had obliterated ail the features. “We find purchasers for such things as that,” "he continued. “Why. only yesterday I sold over SI,OOO worth to a man from the West He was fitting np his house, and the two figures he bought were only a little larger than that I expect him in again to-day, and will probably sell him twice that amount. What I sold him yesterday was not worth SIOO. These things have several different prices If you come in as a buyer, and we can almost always tell one. I would show you what I thought you wanted most. Yon can always tell what a man wants by the way he looks, and you can tell the price to set by the way he carries himself 'and the style in which he dresses. Now, I had a customer this morning. He came in, and the first thing he looked at was a mirror. Price? Oh, $350 to him. Any one who didn’t especially want it could get it for $l5O. I saw him look at the mirror, and I showed him nothing but mirrors, large and small, hanging and standing, and caught him for one worth S4OO. Where do we get these things? Well, that s hard to say. Some of them we have made for us; others we buy at auction, but as a matter of fact, the greater part comes from abroad. Our firm employs several foreign buyers, and they pick up the things here and there in European cities. Now, we have just received nearly $50,000 worth of articles from one buyer this week. They have not been marked yet. but when they are you cannot buy them for$200,000.” The attendant led the reporter here and there showing little china cups valued, or rather marked, anywhere from $lO to SSO. Little teasets from SIOO to $500; bronze figures of maximum price and minimum proportions; old bedsteads, armor, swords, mirrors, tapestry, jewels silver, and, in fact, everything that could have been wanted to furnish a house several hundred years ago. Some of the articles were broken, others in the last stages of preservation, others too cumbersome for any possible use, and the majority too useless for any possible benefit and too grotesque for any possible ornament The entire assortment looked about as useless as a watering cart in a rain-storm.

“TWO LOOKS AND A nOOT." The Native North Carolinian’s System of Telling Inquirers How to Get There. New York Sun. "Down in North Carolina, where I live,” said Frank W. Woodward, of Southern Pines, "the natives have a funny way of giving directions whin asked how a person may reach such and such a place, and it is apt to be a little puzzling to the stranger who hears it for the first time. The first day I was down in Southern Pines I wanted to find the poat.office. It's a fine country down there, and while the villages are not large they cover a good deal of ground. I had walked around a good deal without seeing anything that looked like a postoffice, and then I stopped a native in the street. " ‘Where can I find the postoffice?’ I asked. "The native swung his hand in the air, and, indicating the direction, said: " ‘Two looks yan way, on the left-hand side.’ *Thanks,’ said I, a little startled. ‘Two looks yan way,’ said I to myself, gazing in the direction the native had waved me. 'That's definite.’ After gazing for a while I noticed that the last thing in range of my vision was a bridge. ** ‘Ah!’ says I; That must be one look,’ and I started for the bridge. I reached it after a walk of half a mile. Then I gazed ahead again. The boundary of sight was a building on the left hand side of the road. " There’s the other look,’l aaya, and made for the building. Sure enough, it was the postoffice.

Then I understood that a look, in the Southern Pines system of measuring distances, meant a* far as an ordinary man conld sea I never thought about the possible necessity of a divis ion of the measurement into shorter distances, ‘ but pne day I fouud out that there was. I wanted to go to some parties who were camping in the woods somewhere in the vicinity, but I didn't know where they were located. 1 found a native who did know, and asked him how to get there. “ ‘Go three looks straight ahead over yan, then turn left an’ go two looks an" a hoot, Mi' thar's the camp.’ ‘‘Two looks and a hoot.’ That was a stunner. I didn’t want to show my ignorance, so 1 asked for no explanation. I started for the camp. I got over my three looks over yan and my two to the left. But what was a hoot? If it had been in Pennsylvania I’d have known at once, and would more than likely have had tho utensils with me to furnish the hoot without delay, especially if there had been a spring handy. But a hoot in the Pennsylvania sense, I felt, couldn’t bring that camp before my eyes. Then I considered the subject a while, aud finally thought of hoot-owl. “ ‘Thats the caper!' I exclaimed, and I gave a regular two lunged Southern hoot. The echo hadn’t died away yet, when back came an answer off in the woods. I went in the direction, and found the ca np. The North Carolina system ot measuring distances is very simple, but rather trying to blind people and mutes. “ T suppose you Know that a Nortqrn pig likes Irish potatoes as well as a bear likes honey, and that’s saying a good deal. Put him in a potato field and he’ll revel in bliss. If you want t keep on the right side of the North Carolina pig, however-a pig familiarly kuown as the razor-back —don’t offer him Irish potatoes. Neither the peach blow, nor the early rose, noi any other choice brand of potatoes will tempi him, and he eyes with suspicion any one whs sets them before him. But he will eat his way through a field of sweet potatoes, like an augei going through a pine board. But a whole crop of sweet potatoes, transferred from tl.e sqjl U his stomach, wouldn’t*'put any more flesh on i genuine, native, North Caro lina razor-back than a bushel of apples would t a cider mill.” The Captain’s Head Level New York Star. “Man overboard!” shouted the watch on th< deck of an ocean steamer. The vessel was stopped and a search was made, but to no avail. “Go ahead!” shouted the captain, and the engines were again started. “We’ll advertise for him when we get to New York.” Can’t Couie Too Soon. Boston Advertiser. One of the probable economies of the near future is the common use of gas for cooking and all heating purposes. The day is corning when the householder will no more think of laying in a supply of wood and coal for fuel than he now thinks of laying in a supply of tallow candles for light. A Sacrilegious Act. Leavenworth Times. Some scoundrel poured a quantity of whisky into the baptistery of an Indiana church recently, and during the next three days 500 men joined the church, and several of them insisted on being immersed soven times s day. The Offender Forgiven. Boston Record. Dr. Holmes can be pardoned for writing birthday verses to Mark Twain, as we would forgive him anything—unless, indeed, Mark Twain should think it necessary to return the compliment.

THE CITY IN BRIEF. The lottery cases, or rather those in which a change of venue has been granted, are to be tried before Judge Taylor to-day. A pound social will be given, Friday evening, Dec. 4, by tho G. H. Thomas Post Woman’s Relief Corps, at the post room, Parker Block. The guns loaned by the State to the Light In* fantry, for service at the late Vice-president’s funeral, were returned to the State yesterday, by Quartermaster Burke. Maggie Jones, for stealing several dresses and other garments from Mrs. McCorkle, was sentenced to three years in the Reformatory by Judge Norton, yesterday. City Clerk Breunig has his work so thoroughly in hand that every item of business will be brought up in readiness for his successor to begin directly where he left off. Early yesterday morning burglars forced the safe of G. C. Krug’s grocery store, No. 296 East Georgia street, by blowing the doors off the hinges. They secured about S9O. There has been an increase the past two days in scarlet fever and diphtheria cases. Two cases of scarlet fever were reported from the Orphan Asylum, on College avenue, yesterday. The city’s account for carriage hire in entertaining visiting municipal bodies at the Vicepresident’s funeral was $422. With other incidentals the appropriation of SSOO will be nearly exhausted. Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to Henry E. Goodwin and Lizzie Fitzgerald, Isaiah R. Beaver, and Annie Fitzgerald, John Oglesby and Penny J. Husbank, Nathan H. Coleman and Martha Crawford, George W. Pool and Emma Davis. Albert B. Cole qualified, yesterday, as guardian of Jacob and Anna Baker, the soldier’s children in the Knightstown Horae, whos mother resisted the appointment of Jacob D. Hamlin to the trust. Mr. Cole gave bond in the sum of $2,000 John N. Unversaw also qualified as guardian of Edgar, minor heir of Achsah A. Unversaw. At a stated meeting of Center Lodge, No. 23, F. and A. M., held Dec. 2, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Horace A. Sampsell, W. M.; Calvin W. Bush, S. W.; J. B. Mansfield, J. W.; Frederick J. Vogt, treasurer;, Albert Izcr, secretary; John Vanstan, S. D.; Henry Solomon. J. D.; William H. Branson, William D. Griffin, stewards; Joseph Bernauer, tyler. Installation Wednesday evening, Dec. 16w The Election Fraud Cases. Judge Norton has intimate that his decision on the motion to quash the information against Sterling It. Holt, charged with destroying a bal-lot-box, will meet the wishes of the defense. The cases against Hill and Smith were passed on the calendar during the funeral of Tuesday, but will probably be heard Saturday or Monday on any intermediary motions the defense may make towards having the information quashed or the matter dismissed. As in the Holt case, it il thought nothing can result from the prosecution. Catarrh is a very prevalent and exceedingly disagreeable disease —liable, if neglected, to develop into serious consumption. Hood’s Sarsa* parilla, acting through the blood, reaches every part of the system, effecting a radical and permanent cure of catarrh. 100 doses sl.

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