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Methodical ways are a accord nature to him. Ho always rises at 7 o’clock. He drosses Tory leisurely and plances over the morning paners after he is dressed. He breakfasts at 8. There is hardly ever any one with him at breakfast except his sister. Miss Cleveland, unless there are special guests in the house. From his breakfastroom he goes directly to the library. This is his favorite room. It is a long oval chamber, plainly furnished with red leather sofas, chairs and other library furniture. There are in this room a number of the portraits of ex Presidents. The President's desk is of light wood, and at the south end of the room. The windows back of him are wide and high, and take in a very comprehensive view, reaching way over beyond the Smithsonian Institution, at the left, down the Potomac to Alexandria, directly south, and over to Arlington at his right. It was out of this window that Lincoln, through a glass, saw the confederate flag flying over Alexandria, when Colonel Ellsworth, of Chicago, was calling upon him. Mr. Lincoln's remark that the confederate flag ought, at least, to he out of sight of the capital, undoubtedly stimulated Ellsworth to the act of tearing down that flag, which act cost him hri life. Upon the right of this room is another where the Cabinet meets. This is where Mr. Hayes used to receive his visitors. The libraryroom was the place where the surgeons who attended upon Garfield used to meet to make reports to the Cabinet. The President, when he comes into the library in the morning, finds a bundle of papers upon his desk. These are selections made from the mail by Colonel Lainont, his private secretary, and ti e documents in such special cases as the President has expressed a desire to consider. A stenographer comes and takes his seat at the President’s riglfc. Colonel Lainont joins him and, from 9 until 10, the President disposes of these eases After 10 o’clock he sees his regular callers, the senators, members and leading politicians from out of town, who come to talk to him upon the one subject of offices. Straggling through the ciowd there will occasionally be a caller who has come for the purpose of paying his respects. This latter class is very few in number. The President's reception continues until l o'clock, except upon the two Cabinet days of the week. He then receives only until 12 o’clock, or when there is a large delegation at the White House to see him e generally comes down to the East Room and oolds a reception there. He lunches at 2 o’clock •and then goes back to his work. He keeps at shat steadily until 5 o’clock, unless he is interrupted by some very prominent caller who cannot bo put off. He leaves the White House at that hour and drives with his private secretary until 7 o’clock. He then returns homo and dines. His dinner is always a plain one. He gets back to his work again at 8:30. He works until midnight before he retires. There is very little change in the routine of his daily life. Upon the Saturdays which ho does not see general callers he simply devotes the extra time he gains thereby to endless papers which are always accumulating upon his desk. He goes out for longer drives Sundat’s, and occasionally upon that day takes a walk. But even a portion of that day is devoted to the consideration of public businesa There never was a harder working President in the White House. General and Personal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Washington, Dec. G.—Capt. George B. Rumley, of Moore’s Hill, led., arrived this morning. He was here two yenrs ago, looking for a place to “catch on,” and remained three months, but foiled. He will try his luck again. Capt. L. P. Warder, of New Albany, assistant Door-keeper of the House of Representatives, will be retained in his position under the reorganization. He has made a courteous, efficient officer, and has won friends wherever known. It is said that Mr. O. O. Stealoy will be appointed clerk to Speaker Carlisle. Mr. Stealev and the Speaker are warm personal friends. Mr. and Mrs. John Beall arrived on Thursday from Indianapolis, and will be given a reception, to-morrow evening, by Colonel and Mrs. Joyce, at their home on the Heights. Mr. and Mrs. Beall will hold formal receptions on Jan. 13 and 2i ), from 3to 6 o'clock, at 825 Vermont avenue. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. WAR 1-HtPABTMENT, a Office of the Chief Signal, Officer V Washington, Dec. 7. la. m. ) Special Indications for Twenty four Hours from 7 a. M., for Indianapolis and Vicinity— Fair weather, colder on Monday, followed by rising temperatui'e. For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee—Colder, generally fair weather, northerly winds, becoming variable; rising, followed in west portion by falling barometer. For the Lower Lake Region—Local snows, followed by fair weather; colder, followed in extreme west portion by rising temperature, northwest winds, becoming variable; rising, followed by falling barometer. For the Upper Lake Region—Light, local snows, winds becoming variable, generally shifting to west and south, rising temperature; falling, proceeded in east portion by rising barometer. For the Upper Mississippi Valley—Fair weather, followed by loeal snows, winds becoming variable, rising temperature in northern and central portion; falling, followed bj* rising temperature in extreme southern portion; generally lower barometer. For the Missouri Valley—lncreasing cloudiness, with local snows, slowly rising temperature, lower baromer, winds shifting to east and south, but occasionally variable. Local UOKorratiuni. Indianapolis. Dec. 6. Time, j Bar. j Thar. 'Hum. Wind, j Weather Rain. 6a. M. .1*21).70 : 23.0 88 Sweat (Cloudy 10 a. M.. 29.71 25.6 70 Sweat Fair. 2r. M . 20.73 25.3 70 West (Clear op. M . (29.80 10.0 70 Nwest;Clear 10p.m. (30.031 7.0 80 Nweetj Clear. Maximum temperature. 20.2; minimum temperature. 7.0. General Observations. War Department, l Washington, Dec. 0 9 p. m. £ Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. rfr i 00? j? 11 % S. 3 ; 3 . Q go 7T* ©OI£ Z 2 © STATIONS. 3 • 2 7 "i o ; r : • © ! : ; ; i r : : j : New York City |20.54 33 Swest 1 [Clear. n City 1 29.59 34 Sweat dear. Vicksburg. Miss ... 30.00 50 South ! Fair. New Orleans. La 30 02 54 K’east! (Clear. Shreveport, La .... 20.00 47 South! Clear. Fort Smith, Ark...{29.98 40 N’east Clear. Little Rock. \xk... (29.94 44 Veastj Cloudy. Galveston, Tex. 29.01 03 South; Clear. Memphis, Tetin. 20.05 42 North Clear. Nashville, Tcm. ;29.98 38 West j Clear. ljouisvilie. Ivy 20.0 4 29 West j r Clear. Indianapolis, lad... 30.01 9 Nwest! (Clear. Cincinnati, 0 30.93 25 Xwest.! Clear. Pittsburg. Pa .20 74 It! Xwest 1 .01 Clear. Oswego N.Y 20 20 19 South j .01 Cloudy. Toledo <> 29 m 4 7 West i .05 Clear. Kscanaba, Mich ...'2O 02 —3 Xwest (Clear. Marquette. Mich.. 29.90 1 West I .02 Li snow. Chicago, hi 30.05 1 West ! Clear. Milwaukee. Wis 30.02 —s.Xwest [Clear. Duluth. M un 30.21 —ls West ! Clear. St. Paul. Minn 30.23 —l3 West { Iciear. liftCrosse, Wis 30.18 —s. North;... . Clear. Davenport, In .|30.14; I.Xwest! Clear. Dos Moines, la 30.17 5 North ... .[clear. Keokuk, la (30.14 9 Xwest, 'Clear. Cairo, 111 130.00 35 Xwest . (Clear. Springfield. 11l (30.07 15 North (Clear. St. Louis, Mo -30.00 22 Xwest [Clear. Latnar, Mo ’3O. 11l 28 North; 'Cloudy. Leavenworth, Kan 30.15' 20 North Cloudy. Omaha, Neb 30.22 11 North, (. !ear. Yankton, Dak {30.24, 5 X'east ! Cloudy. Moorehiad. Minn 30.27 —l9 Calm j (Clear. Bismarck, Dak 30.20 34? east 'Fair. Fort Buford, Dak 30.00; 13 East j Ltsnow. I' 4 ■ Aiaiboui.M.Ti29.7o: 2.5 Sweat (Clear. Fort Ouster, Mont.. (29.90, 33 West j Fair. Dead wood. Dak ...30.04! 34 X’east ; .03 4'load v. North Platte, Neb.. '30.11 29 Fast .00 Sleet.' Denver, Col 29.99 54.S’oast ’Clear. W. La Aniraaa.oob29.99 , 36 SVast Clear. Dodge City, Kan... 30.12 20 Fast | Clear. Fort Elliott, Tex.. >30.08 SliX’eastl Clear. Fort Hill, I ud. Tor j ( 1 !... . Fort Stock ton, Tex. [30.00 CIS west ‘Clear. El Paso, Tex >30.03 tiOjNwesi jl iar. Balt Lake City, U. T3O 02) 34|Nwest, [Clear. Hospitals and curative institutions successfully us© lied Star Cough Cure. No opiates.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of all Kinds in the Two States. A Bowlder Thrown Tnto a Passenger CoachCharged with Forgery and Larceny—Decision in Regard to Bank Directors, INDIANA. A Bowlder Thrown Into a Passenger Coach and Two Travelers Injured. Sl<erial to the IndianaDolis Journal. Vincennes, DecfO.— A dastardly outrage occurred at Carlisle, twenty miles north of this city, last night about 10 o’clock. As the Evansville & Terre Haute north-bound passenger train was passing that point, some person threw a huge bowlder through one of the car windows. Pieces of glass and splinters flew into the face of Jesse Barfield, a passenger, and a traveling man suffered some injury by the flying missiles. There seems to be a number of desperadoes along the line of this railroad who have some spite against the company, and are determined to do injury. Fair Association Organized, fpeciat to the Indianapolis Journal. Greenfield, Dec. s.— The organization of a fair association was completed her© to day with the most promising for a successful career. Every part of the county has equal representation, and the whole county is thus interested in its success. The following officers were chosen: President, J. Ward Walker; vicepresident, Parries White; secretary, Charles Downing; treasurer. Nelson Bradley; directors. Eph. Marsh, H. B.’Thayer and J. Ward Walker, Greenfield: Marion Steele, Center township; Frank Tyner, Blue River township; Coleman Pope. Brandywine; Anton Sheltmeier, Sugar Cre<“k; Georg© W. Parker, Buck Creek; Dr. William Justice Greene and Charles H. Fort, Jackson township. Ten thousand dollars has been taken, and the demand for stock was so great that $25,000 will be issued. Stockmen and farmers are taking great interest. Death of Kzra Larlirop. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Greensburo, Dec. G.—EzraLathrop died at his residence, on North Franklin street, at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Lathrop was born in 1803, and in 1822 came to tMs county, settling on land that is now a part of the city of Greensburg. He was about the last of the pioneers of that day, and, by great frugality and industry, amassed a fortune of over $200,000, which descends to Rev. James B. Lathrop, a son, and to Mrs. Fred Mayer, of Indianapolis, and Louis Lathrop, vice president of the Citizens’ National Bank, of this city, who are grandchildren. Mr. Lathrop lived an upright life. He was a strong adherent of the Baptist Church, of which he was a consistent mem tier, and which he fostered liberally. He served many years as a justice of the peace, member of the City Council, and was also an old member of the Decatur county bar. Charged with Forgery and Larceny, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Siielbyville, Dec. G. —Walter Sleeth, a tough character, was arrested last night at a late hour, at London, by Officers Keith aud Bassett, chargod with forgery and larceny. Sleeth had forged two notes, some months, ago for considerable amounts, using the name of Johu Wheeler on one, and that of Mrs. Sidney Ensminger, of Pairland, on the other. The larceny consisted in the alleged stealing of jewelry and other property, to the amount of SSO, taken from Mrs. Seiota Hey, of this city, with whom he had been boarding. He fled to Ohio some two months ago. leaving numerous creditors unpaid. He is now in jail, and will have a preliminary trial to-morrow at 1 o’clock. Hendricks Memorial Services. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, Dec. 6.—ln spite of a furious snow storm, the Hendricks memorial exercises at Masonic Temple were attended to-day by 1,000 people. Ex-Mayor P. P. Randall presided, and paid a high eulogium to the departed statesman. with whom he had been associated for many years in the Legislature. Eloquent addresses were made by Coldftel R. S. Robertson, Judge W. G. Colerick, Hon. It. C. Bell, Rabbi Israel Aaron end W. P. Breen. A tender tribute to the dead Vice-president. from Judge Allan Zollars, was read by the chairman. The Endowment of Franklin. College. 3pecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Franklin, Dec. G.—Rev. Norman Carr, financial agent of Franklin College, has been laboring for some months to raise SIOO,OOO productive endowment for that institution, in addition to the non-productive endowment. He completed the SIOO,OOO yesterday. He will begin work immediately to raise money to complete the new building, which is to contain a chapel, library, gymnasium and society halls. The stone is now on the ground for the foundation, aud it is hoped to raise $25,000 soon, to complete the building. The outlook for Franklin College is cow the best it has been in its history. Kearney Sentenced to the Penitentiary. Special to the IndianaDolis Journal. Logansport, Dec. 6. —The jury in the case of Will A. Kearney, the prominent young attorney who has been on trial for the last week for horsestealing, returned a verdict, this morning, sentencing him to the 4 penitentiary for two years, fining him SIOO. and disfranchising him for three years. The defense was insanity. Boiler Explosion at Sullivan. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Sullivan, Dec. s.— The boiler in Eaton & Park's flouring-mill burst to day, completely wrecking the mil! and badly injuring Michael Ambrose, the miller, and slightly injuring C. A. Parks, one of tho proprietors. The loss is probably $2,500. Minor Notes. There are 1,145 pupils in the public schools of Crawfordsville. Capt. John Craig has been elected commander of the G. A. R. post at Jeffersonville. Rev. F. C. Jewell, the new Episcopal rector at Jeffersonville, entered upoD his duties in that city yesterdey. The Shelbyville Daily Democrat has been greatly enlarged in size and has taken on an old English title line. J. M. McCord, of Wingate, has been adjudged insane, caused by financial troubles and grief over the death of a child. A large religious revival is being held by the colored people at Gibsonville. Sometimes tho services continue all night. A collector for William A Dudley, a job printer at New Albany, has departed for parts unknown with $l5O cash collected for his employer. Galey Blue, of Darlington, who set the jail on fire and thereby made his escape, has been bound over to the grand jury by Mayor Stillwell, of Crawfordsville. John M. Glass, of Jeffersonville, has been chosen a member of the Republican State central committee, vice M. M. Hurley, of New Albany, who has removed to California. Henry Ackley, an old citizen of LaPorte, died on Friday of heart disease, aud yesterday C. M. Talmage, president of the Taira age lee Company, another well known resident ana business man, died of the same disease. Mrs. Anna Watkins, eighty-three years old. died at New Albany on Friday. She had lived in Floyd county nearly eighty years. She was the mother of Mrs. Louis Bareford, Mrs. Mattie McGowan, Mr*. Moses Smith and Mr. James Watkins. Shelby Wallace, of Orleans, and Mrs. Fannie Kinman, of New Albany, were married by Rev. R. G. Easley Thursday night. Mr. Wallace is a

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prominent and wealthy farmer of Orange county, and Mrs. Kinman is a sister of Rev. R, G. and Dr. E. P. Easley, of New Albany. The “knights of the switch,” of Harrison county, are again on the road. A band of about twenty-five mounted men rode to the residence of Benjamin Scott, who resides nine miles south of Corydon, and ordered him to take his children from a white school in the neighborhood and send them to a colored school. Fearing some punishment lest he did as commanded, Scott complied with the request. Another colored resident of the neighborhood was also notified to leave. , ILLINOIS. A Decision of Extraordinary Interest —Liabilities of Bank Directors. Springfield, Dec. s.—Among the long list of opinions filed late last night in the Appellate Court of the Third Illinois district, was one of extraordinary interest. The facts and doctrines involved are briefly these: Gardner Case was a depositor in the Bank of Bunker Hill, 111., and John Delano and others were directors. The bank failed, and Case brought suit against Delano and others, individually, to recover the amount of his deposits, resting his claim upon the ground that as such officers they were bound to know the financial condition of the bank, and the acceptance of his deposits after they might, by exercising due diliglnce, have known the fact of its insolvency constituted a personal and individual responsibility to him. The trial of the issue was had before Judge Jesse J. Phillips, in the Circuit Court of Macoupin county, where judgment was rendered in favor of Case. The defendants appealed, and the Appellate Court now affirms the judgment of the court below. This decision is said to be an entirely new departure, and is credited with being the first instance in which an attempt was made directly upon the directors of a bank to make them individually responsible for the deposits of an insolvent bank. It is remembered that immediately after the judgment was originally reudered in the Macoupin Circuit Court, and the fact published in the press of this city, numerou' letters came from banks throughout the country to know whether the doctrine of the case had not been misstated. The tendency of the decision will naturally be to make directors more diligent in familiarizing themselves with the actual condition of the institutions with which they are connected. Brief Mention. The woolen-mill of Peter Daily, at Canton, burned. Loss,$10,000; insurance small. -Origin of fire unknown. At Bloomington, tho Brooks family—Mrs. Brooks, Hiram and Olivia—suspected of poisoning Christy, have been arrested, and are now in jail. Two glandered horses were discovered at Lilly, Tazewell county, on Friday. They have been sick six months and great exposure has resulted. At an early hour Saturday morning burglars entered the vault of the Wyanet Bank, but did not succeed in opening the safe. They secured $l7O, which had been left in the vault Some of the revenue commission at Springfield hold that $1,500 per annum would he an ample salary for members of the State Board, while others want it fixed at $2,500 or $3,000. The salary will probably be fixed between these figures. Several years ago Frederick Keech, a picture dealer at Joliet, disappeared, deserting his wife and swindling his creditors out of a large amount of money. Nothing more was heard of Keech until last Friday, when the sheriff from Mount Carroll landed at the penitentiary with a gang of new prisoners, and among them was the former Joliet picture-dealer, with a sentence of three years for defrauding his creditors at Mount Carroll, where he had located after leaving Joliet. At Greenville the body of Charles D. Wright was found under the railroad tank at the station, his death being tbe result of exposure during a drunken debauch. He was well known in newspaper circles, having worked as a reporter on various St. Louis and Chicago paners. He wrote a series of sketches for the Inter Ocean, which were very favorably received. He also wrote a play of considerable merit. He worked on the Chicago Tribune and Daily News, and was always considered a good man. He had one great misfortune —an inability to resist the temptation to indulge in strong drink. About eight months ago he went to Houston, Tex., to take charge of a paper, but returned to Chicago in a few weeks. He was a married man, about forty-five years of age, and leaves a wife and several children in Chicago. TIIE FIRE RECORD. Burning of a Chicago Business Building, Involving Loss to the Extent of $300,000. Chicago, Dec. 6. —As the temperature approached zero, this afternoon, two alarms of fire sounded in quick succession, summoned half a dozen engines and shivering firemen to a blazing building near the corner of Van Buren and Franklin streets. The flames had gained such headway that the volumes of water brought to bear had, apparently, no effect whatever. Other engines and men came to tho aid of those first on hand, and while the fire continued to burn firecely, half a hundred firemen became coated with ice from hrad to foot, the street looked like a skating rink, and the adjoining buildings like architectural icebergs. The burned block is known as the Seip building, Nos. 257 to 273 Franklin street. The property destroyed is roughly estimated at $300,000. The occupants of the gutted stores are: Morrison, Anderson & Buckhart, C. M. Henderson, and Rollins, Shaw & Cos. The first-named firm car ried a line of jute, burlaps and paper bags, valued at $06,000. C. M. Henderson's loss is $75,000 worth of boots and shoes and raw material. Rollins, Shaw & Cos., dealers in worsted goods and handlers of dry goods on commission, carried a stock, owned mostly by Eastern houses, valued at $105,000. A late survey of the premises shows that nothing worth speaking of will be saved from either building or contents. The buildings were owned by Conrad Seip, and were valued at $50,000. The loss is fully covered by insurance. The firm of Rollins. Shaw & Cos. is the heaviest loser. Its insurance amounts to $130,000, and is distributed in amounts of $2,500 between Eastern and Southern companies; $5,000 with the Allemania, of Pittsburg, and the Greenwich, of New York, and SI,OOO on fixtures in the Girard, of Philadelphia. The buildings were insured for about $25,000 in the Connecticut and Commercial Union companies. Mr. Henderson stated to-night that his stock was insured for $75,000 but would not name the companies. Morrison, Anderson & Cos. errried only $45,000 insurance, which is placed chiefly in the Ducat & Lyon's agency. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The danger to Pannalee's stables, which adjoin the burning buildings, created considerable excitement. Huge waves of flame and smoko would occasionally shoot over the stable building, and it was deemed necessary to take the horses out They were turned into the street, and nearly created a stampede in their fright. One fireman was quite seriously injured by falling from a ladder. Not in several years has a fire occasioned such a complete destruction in so short a time. River Steamer Burned. Cairo, 111., Dec. 6.—The Anchor Line steamer Bayou Sara burned to the water's edge at New Madrid this morning. The fire was first discovered in the hold, and soon enveloped the whole boat- She had about twenty passengers, including several ladies, who escaped safely, but lost everything. The boat had about 1.800 tons in her cargo. She was built at Jeffersonville for the Anchor Line, and made her first trip in June, 1884 She is a total loss. Heavy Losses by Prairie Fire*. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 6.—A special from Burton, Kan., says: “During the high wind on Friday, a prairie fire broke out seven miles north of this place, which swept over an area of about thirty miles, destroying 1,000 stacks of hay and grain, and numbers of sheep, hogs and cattle sheds. It is not stated how far east the fire extended. Further and more definite reports of prairie fires in Silver Lake township, this county,

on Friday, bring advices of terrible loss to property, but the amount cannot be estimated. Gn Edwards's ranch 5,800 tons of hay was burned. Johnson & Williams lost 500 ton* of hay, besides fences, sheds and crops. Patrick McNeery was entirely burned out, losing everything but the clothing on the family. Edward Countryman was fatally burned, and John Leeper and John Berry are not expected to live. The fire is supposed to have originated on the Pottawatomie Indian reserve. It will be several days before the full loss can be given.” Fire anrl Loss of Life. Chicago, Dec. 7. —1:15 a. m - Shortly after midnight the large stove foundry of Cribbin & Sexton was discovered to be on fire. Three alarms were sounded within a short time, but before the engines reached the spot tbe building was a mass of flames. The plant is a very valuable one, all the firm’s patterns being stored in the building, and should it be destroyed, the loss will be great. 2 A. m.— The fire is stdl burning fiercely, but is believed to be under control. It is thought, however, that the stock will be almost a total loss. At 1:45 one wall of the structure fell oat, burying two firemen, whose names cannot be ascertained. Strenuous efforts are being made to get them out, but it is feared they are dead. A CLUB-HOUSE HORROR. Daring Attempt to Poison Members of a Montreal Club—A Narrow Escape. Montreal, Dec. 6.—Tho absorbing theme of conversation in ciub and other fashionable circles in this city is the narrow escape from death which eight well-known gentlemen experienced on Tue-sday evening, -vyhile dining at the Metropolitan Club. Shortly after 6 o’clock on Tuesday evening dinner was announced to the groups of gentlemen occupying the various apartments. Eight or ten members were soon seated at several tables. The first course on the bill of fare was game soup, which was soon served. Ten minutes after the potage had been partaken of, and just as the waiters were about bringing on the next course, one of the diners became pale, and to the horror of the other guests, was taken with a violent fit of nausea. Within a moment or two every gentleman who had tasted the soup was similarly prostrated. Tho sufferers experienced a general feeling of prostration, and were taken with dull pains in the region of the stomach. While the excitement was at its height, and when the poisoned guests were endeavoring to ease themselves, two servants in the kitchen evinced the same symptoms. Emetics were administered without a moment’s delay, and Gradually all the parties recovered sufficiently to permit of removal to their respective residences. Messrs. John Atkins, W. Price and J. G. Cotton, on reaching their apartment in Joyce’s Chambers, sent for Dr. Clark, who, on reaching tbe scene, promptly gave another emetic. The Doctor, from the hurried explanations of the affair given him, was under the impression that the poison had possibly resulted from a putrid condition of the game. The majority are not themselves yet, and a fatal result in one instance is feared. The club has always borne a reputation for its cuisine. The management is at present making thorough investigation to ascertain the authors of the outrage. * The soup furnished has been subjected to analysis by lir. J. Baker Edwards, public analyst, and the examination revealed the fact that the soup contained a sufficient quantity of arsenic to have poisoned every member of the club. The discovery has created great excitement. No one of the gentlemen can account for the presence of the deadly poison in the soup. A prominent member being asked what he thought of the affair, said: “I have my suspicions, but dare not make them public at present. There is no doubt, however, in my mind that the culprit will be brought to justice. We have detectives at work on the case now. and sufficient evidence has already been obtained to eause an arrest. Os course it will be very difficult to attach the guilt to the suspected parties, but at the same time it is the duty of the authorities to do everything within their power to clear the matter up. A most diabolical and cold-blooded attempt at murder was made, and the perpetrators must be brought to justice.” Police Magistrate Dugas and Crown Prosecutor Davidson made private inquiry into the case yesterday afternoon, examining the servants. Dr. Baker Edwards, who analyzed the poisoned soup, says that the quantity of arsenie in it was so large as to forbid the supposition that it could have come there by accident. He would judge that about half an ounce was used. Detectives are visiting the various drug stores to ascertain if any sale of arsenic has recently been made. So far they have been unsuccessful. It is said the presence of arsenic in the soup in such quantities alone saved the members. Instead of having the effect it produces when taken in small doses, the drug simply acted as a vigorous emetic. The physician who was called in said that the chances of the guests for life, had the nausea developed itself two minutes later, would have been small. A warrant was issued this afternoon for two persons for attempted murder. The names have not yet been made known. A Belligerent Millionaire. Baltimore, Md.. Dec. 5. —The bitter enmity which arose some months ago between Robert Garrett, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, and Henry Jones in regard to the portico which Garrett has put on the front of his new house, adjoining the Jones domicile on Mount Y r ernon place, has assumed a decidedly interesting phase. Mr. Jones last summer applied for an injunction against the completion of the portico and gained his case. Then Garrett took it to the Court of Appeals, where it now is. During the past twenty-four hours the residents within the precincts of Mount Vernon place, sacred to society and the famous group of Barrie statues, have been horror stricken over a report that Mr. Jones had said that in case the Court of Appeals decided against him he would give his house and grounds, next door to Mr. Garrett, to a colored orphan asylum. The property is probably worth $150,000, hut as Jones is a millionaire and the partner of Enoch Prast, who recently gave the city over a million dollars for a free eir culating library, he will probably not suffer from want through his generosity. Os course, the wealthy Mount Vernon people are wild with anxiety knowing that if Mr. Jones should desire to wreak such summary vengeance on Garrett there would be no law to prevent him. A Police Lieutenant Killed by a Negro. Louisville, Ky.. Dec. 6.— Edward Harding, second lieutenant of police, was shot and almost instantly killed, at 10:30 o’clock to-night, by a negro rough, William Courtney, who was himself shot and instantly killed, a minute later, by Officer Furguson. Courtney and Pat Polk, colored, were fighting in Shrader’s saloon about a woman that Courtney struck. Hearing the row. Harding, who was making his round, stepped in. Courtney pulled his revolver and tired at him. The first shot passed through the shoulder, and the second through the back of tho head. The officer fell against the wall and Courtney fired a shot into his back, which passed through his heart and killed him. Courtney then ran out to escape, but on seeine Officer Ferguson running to Jearn the cause of the shooting, he fired. Ferguson dodged, and before the negro could fire again. Ferguson shot and killed him instantly. Harding was about fifty years of ace. He was a captain in the Seeond Confederate Infantry, which belonged to the celebrated Orphan Brigade. He surrendered at Fort Donelson. For twenty years he has been connected with the police forco of Louisviile, having served as a patrolman, lieutenant, captain and assistant chief. He was a popular, brave and efficent officer. Manager Havlin’a Injuries. Cincinnati, Dec. G —The condition of Mr. John H. Havlin, manager of Havlin's Theater, this city, is now pronounced encouraging by the surgeons in attendance. He fell from the* flies of the theater to the stage, several evenings since The injuries to the knee-cap are very serious, and will confine him to his bed most of the season. The mosquito as a public singer draw* well, but never gives satisfaction. Salvation Oil, how ever, always gives satisfaction in curing at once insect bites or any other sores or wounds. Price 25 cents.

fHE RULES OF TILE HOUSE. Changes Contemplated by the Resolution of Congressman Springer. Ex-Speaker Randall Points Out Some of the Dangers that Would Follow the Adoption of the Proposed Resolution. Washington, Dec. 5. —Congressman Springer's resolution, embodying his proposed new code of House rules, is printed for examination of members of the Houso. The principal changes proposed are as follows: “Anew committee created on ‘executive department,’ to consist of thirteen members; another on public expenditures, to consist of fifteen members; committees on railways and canals, on manufactures, on levees and improvements of the Mississippi river, on militia, on mileage, on revision of laws, on expenditures for public buildings, and those on expenditures in the several executive departments, abolished; the membership of the committee on ways and means raised from thirteen to fifteen, and several other committees raised; the title of the committee on Pacific railroads is changed to committee on railroads; that of the committee on invalid pensions to the committee on pensions. Army and the Military Academy and fortifications appropriation bills are referred to the jurisdiction of the committee on military affairs; the naval appropriation bill and appropriations for the support of the Naval Academy to the committee on naval.affairs; the postoffice appropriation bill, to the committee on postoffices and post-roads. ‘‘Measures relating to revision of laws” to the committee on judiciary. Measures relating to tenure of officeof President and Vice-president, to count the electoral vote, succession to the presidential office, compensating federal officers (except appropriations therefor) and reform of the civil service are placed in the jurisdiction of the committee on executive department. The committee on rivers and harbors, in addition to its present duties, is given charge of measures relating to the construction and improvement of canals. The committee on patents controls measures relating to manufactures. To the list of committees which have authority to report at any time is added the committee on public lands, which may report on bills forfeiting unearned land grants, and committees having authority to report appropriations, and other committees having jurisdiction of the sub-ject-matter thereof, are given authority at any time for the morning hour to report bills involving, but not making appropriations, the provisions of which shall retrench expenditures. Debates on points of order are limited to five minutes by the member making a point, and five minutes by the member opposing it, thereafter debate to be coufined to such members as the presiding officer may recognize, and limited to such time as be may indicate, not exceeding five minutes to each person recognized. Retrenchment bills are given right of consideration by committee of the whole, hitherto accorded only revenue and appropriation bills. Revenue bills, retrenchment bills, general appropriation bills and bills for improvement of rivers and harbors, are given precedence, in the order named, over other business in committees of the whole. The provisions of the present rules in relation to “riders” upon appropriations is stricken out and the following substituted: “Nor shall any provision whieh changes an existing law or embodies general legislation of any kind be in order in any general appropriation bill, or as amendment thereto.” Any committee when called during an hour may, in lieu of reporting, call up from the House calendar bills or resohitions theretofore reported by that committee, to be disposed of in the same manner as if reported at the time. Representatives of daily newspapers residing at the capital to be admitted, at the request of any member, to the members’ corridor aud rooms in the rear of the Speaker’s chair. Objections Urged by Sir. Randall, f From Our Second Edition oj Sunday. ] Washington, Dee. s.— Mr. Randall to-day gave to a reporter of the Associated Press his views respecting the proposition to change the rules of the House so as to take from the committee on appropriations jurisdiction over some of the bills: “The Democratic party came into control of the federal government,” he said, “with the distinct understanding that it would adhere to an economical administration. This cannot be overlooked or evaded if it expects’ to remain in power. In all governments the preparation of suitable bills to meet expenses has been confided to one organization. Nothing can be certainly done until, by careful and comprehensive scrutiny, the amount of necessary expenditures has been determined. Taxation depends upon the amount of expenditures, and increase of expenditures means increase of taxation. To keeD down extravagance of appropriation the estimates made by tbe heads of departments have been subjected to question and examination, item by item. The Treasury has been protected by every safeguard which could be devised. It is now proposed that nearly all these safeguards shall be broken down and the Treasury thrown open. Increased appropriations, judging from experience, will inevitably follow, as each of the many committees to be authorized by this change to consider appropriations, aud into which the appropriations committee, as now constituted, is to be divided, will naturally enhance its own importance. Instead of one committee having charge of the expenditures and checking unnecessary appropriations, there will be many, acting independently of each other, and nobody will know the aggregate of annual appropriations until it is too late to avoid tho disaster of a deficient Treasury, which may, at any time in the near future, be precipitated on the people. The proposition is too plain to need argument, and there is not a business man in the country who will not appreciate the correctness and force of this state ment The surplus revenue we now have will not continue forever, and habits of extravagant appropriations cannot be chaneed at once. The agricultural and river and harbor bills were taken from the control of the committee on appropriations, and here is the evidence of the failure of the venture. It is known that the expenditures under the first have been wastefully made, and it is notorious that much of the money appropriated in the latter might as well have'been thrown away. Tho appropriations for the Agricultural Department, from 1877 to 1880, inclusive, when they were under control of the committee on appropriations, averaged $190,047 per annum; from 1881 to 1880. the agricultural appropriation bills being under the control of the committee on agriculture, the appropriations averaged $439,610 per annum. The appropriations for rivers and harbors, from 1876 to 1880, when this subject was controlled by the committee on appropriations, averaged $7,390,928 per annum; from 1881 to 1882, inclusive, during which the committee on commerce and rivers and harbors have had the subject in hand, the annual appropriations have averaged $13,591,243. If this enormous increase of expenditures characterizes the first experiment of the withdrawal of these two subjects from the protecting safeguards heretofore enforced under existing rules, and generally since the foundation of the government, who can foretell the devastation of the public financies when the treasury doors are thrown wide open to unrestricted and unrestrained machinations and combinations of every character? Such a combination might enter Congress itself, and the general government would then become a hot bed to start into exigtenao every dangerous policy. In addition to preparing the regular appropriation bills for the service of each fiscal year, these committees would and should, by the same method of reasoning, be charged with providing for all deficiencies in separate bills, making two regular bills to come from each committee, thus multiplying the regular appropriation bills each session from the present number, fourteen, to not less than fifty To commit tbe power to control appropriation bills to the standing committees, coupled with their present legitimate powers, would cut the House off from every ave nue of information touching the public service except through the committee controlling each particular branch, thus breaking down what is now a most wholesome check possessed by the Houso, through the appropriations committee, over each committee, and by all of the committees over that of appropria

tions. A potent fact to be considered in connection with this proposition is the statement of ths Treasury, that tho estimated expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year aggregate $339.589,000,, while the estimated revenues for the same od amount to only $315,000,000, being an mated excess of expenditures over revenues of $24,500,000." _ Rad Investments for Creditors. Cincinnati, Dec. o.—lt is stated that since* the report of assignee John B. Mannix was published, in the case of Archbishop Purcell’s estate, the discovery has been made that the value of the property has decreased about $200,000, through unfortunate investments in stocks. Not the slightest blame attaches to Mr. Mannix, who acted under instructions of the Probate Court. The stock which caused the heaves! loss was that of the Cincinnati Southern Rail road Company, a large quantity of which wai purchased by order of court at par, and afterwards sold down as low as 30 per cent. Then , is considerable feeling manifested among the creditors here, and some action will probably be the outcome of the above statement. Murder at Nicliolasville, Ky. Nicholasvili.k, Ky.. Dec. 6.—Dave Hutchcraft shot and killed Wade Rue, near this city, yesterday. Hutchcraft was a witness in a case against Rue, and the two met at the polls Upon Hutchcraft glancing at Rue, tho latter remarked that no man could “eye” him like that and drew a revolver, but was killed before he, could pull the trigger. John Daugherty, who was stabbed by Georgs Reel on Friday night, died to-day. One Man Killed and Two Fatally Hurt, Denver, Dec. 6.—A Durango special to ths Republican says: “Several men were coming down Amargo canyon, on tho Denver & Ris Grande railway, this afternoon, on a push car, and on turning a sharp curve collided with a freight train, instantly killing J. Berlin, road foreman, and seriously wounding two others, who, it is thought, will die. Steamship News. Qttkenstown, Dec. 6.—Sailed: Wisconsin, fo* New York; Etruria, for New York, from Liverpool. Utilizing Drain Water. American Agriculturist. Prairie farms iu the West are often, in lats” summer, insufficiently supplied with water, while the soil in the spring is saturated. Drainage is becoming very common, and is indispensable in most parts of the West, where the land, in the winter, is so filled with water that the roads are in many places impassible. The object of draining is, to get rid of this water, but if this object can be secured and the water utilized, the only valid objection urged against thorough drainage, viz.; that the water is carried off from the soil and wasted, will be avoided. We should learn from the experience of other countries in this respect. British India, for instance, has a rainy season and a dry season, aud the large winter rain fall, is stored in capacious reservoirs, for use in the severe droughts which follow. Now the summer droughts in tho West are at • times exceedingly trying, and very great inconvenience is suffered for want of water for stock, while at other seasons the drains are carrying off enormous quantities from the land. Most of the rainfall comes in the winter, and is sufficient , to cover the entire surface of a farm to the depth of two feet This water flows away uselessly, and as much of it as possible should be stored. It may bo stored in cisterns dug all along tho lines of the main drains, and the overflow from these cisterns would pass off through the lower drains. Watering-places may also be made for the stock near these cisterns, and pumps could be used to bring up water when the drains aro not flowing. A windmill would raise the water into a trough, aud the overflow from it could run back into the cistern, so that the trough would be always full without wasting a drop. The cost of tho work could be easily made up in one year by the saving of labor in watering twenty head of stock. x The Mourners from the Lakeside. Chicago Tribune. The Cook County Democratic Club, while in their special sleeper, en route to Indianapolis, on Monday night, offered many tributes to the dead Vice-president, whose obsequies they were to attend. Various methods were adopted by the clubbists to express their heartfelt sorrow. One member, with his voice trembling with emotion, remarked: “Mickey, you old bog, av yes don’t pass up that bottle I’ll step on yer plue hat;" while another, evidently very deeply affected, said, “Smell of that,” at the same time laying down a full hand and gathering up considerable small change from the table. Thus they journeyed on, full hearts, hands, and—bellies. How He Got His Pointers. Wall Street News. An Indianapolis man who seemed posted on whether wheat was up or down before he had reached the Board of Trade or soen a telegram, was asked how he got his information. “Well, I’ll tell you,” he replied. “Every morning on ■ my way down at 11 o’clock I pass tho shop of a butcher. He speculates some and has a brother in Chicago. He knows me to boa bull. If wheat is a point higher he comes to the door and says: “Mr. Backus, shall I send you up a very choice fat steak for dinuer?’| If wheat is down a* point or so. he bows very stiffly, and says: “Shall I send up corn beef or a soup booe today?" Gould’s Disappearance from Wall Btreet. Providence Journal. The crocodile sometimes retires under the surface, but the wise Hindoo does not go in bathing near the spot where he disappeared. At the annual meeting of the National Batter, Cheese and Egg Association, at Chicago, last week, the committee on statistics reported that the decrease in value of dairy products in the last two years was uearly six millions of dollars, and this' in spite of the fact that the population of the country is increasing faster thau the number of cows, which ought to naturally values. The report attributed the result solely to the immense sale of substitutes for butter, of which no statistics could be gathered. The “Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants,” of England, has appropriated £SOO for prizes for couplers fulfilling certain conditions, and is endeavoring to obtain the use of goods wagons and of track on which to test them—almost the first sign of dissatisfaction with the existing mode of coupling in England. 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