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pome States North hare claims that are surely just They relate to forape furnished troops and depredations committed by soldiers in both armies.” POSTAL TELEGRAPH. Provisions of Senator Cullom's Hill for the Purchase of Existing Lines. WASiriN’GTO.v, Doc. 21.—Senator Cullom introduced a postal telegraph bill to-day. It provides for the purchase of any existing lines, under the provisions of the act of 1868, at an appraised valuation, to be ascertained by a commission of five disinterested persons. The bill proposes the purchase of existing lines when this course may be deemed advisable, under certain limitations as to the price to be paid. It recites a provision of the act of 18G8 to aid in the construction of telegraph lines, as follows: “The United States may. .'it any time after tho expiration of five years from the date of the passage of this aci, for postal, military, or other purposes, purchase all the telegraph lines, property and effects of any or ail of said companies, at an appraised value, to be ascertained by five competent disinterested persons, two of whom shall he selected by the Postmaster general of the United States, two by the company interested, and one by the four so previously selected." The bill then provides that the Secretary of State, Secretary of War and Postmaster-gen-eral shall constitute a board to be known as the postal telegraph commission, which is authorized and directed to purchase and acquire for the United States any existing lines, under the provisions of the act of 1868, and subject to the approval of the President. It is expressly pro vided that no line shall be purchased until it has been shown to the satisfaction of the commission that such line has earned enough during the twelve months prior to the passage of the act to meet the necessary expenses of its maintenance, reconstruction and operation. Before any line is purchased, the commission is directed to ascertain its actual value, whichis to be computed on the basis of SI,OOO for every SSO of net annual earnings, and it is provided that no line shall he purchased at a higher valuation than that ascertained upon the basis thus presci-ibed. To pay for any lines that may be acquired, it is proposed that thirty-year 3 per cent, bonds shall be issued, which will not be disposed of at less than par. The remaining provisions of the bill in relation to the extension and operation of lines that may be acquired are similar to those contained in Senator Edmunds’s bill, and Senator Cullom states that his purpose in presenting his measure is that the postoffioe committee investigating the Bubject may have both methods that have been suggested for the establishment of a postal telegraph system before it for consideration. PENSION DECISIONS. Desertion Does Not Affect n Pension Earned Under a Previous Enlistment. Washington, Dec. 21.—The Commissioner of Pensions has rendered a decision upon the application for a pension to an ex-veteran who deserted and never rejoined his command. The case, briefly stated, is as follows: The applicant enlisted March 4, 1862; was wounded in action June 15, 1863; was honorably discharged March 1, 1864; re-enlisted in veteran volunteers March 2,1864; deserted Aug. 10, 1804, and never rejoined his command. The Commissioner holds that his discharge from his first enlistment contract perfected his rights thereunder, which were not forfeited by his failure to comply with the terms of a subsequent contract The Supreme Court of the United States today affirmed the decree of the Court of Claims in the case of Hattie A. Burnett, widow of the lato Gen. Ward B. Burnett, against the United States. Mrs. Burnett, subsequent to the death of her husbaud, filed an application for a widow’s pension, and was allowed a pension of S3O per umonth. She claimed to be entitled to $72 per Enonth, the rate of pension her husband was reviving at the time of his death. Tho Commissioner of Pensions refused to allow her that amon.it and she appealed to the Secretary of the Interior. The latter officer transmitted the matter to the Court of Claims for adjudication, and the court held that the degree of disability by which her husband’s pension was rated made no difference with her right; that after death all degrees of disability, irrespective of the real facts, are considered by law “total disability,” and the rate of pension given to that grade becomes tho rate of pension for the widow.

A COWBOY DIPLOMATS. How Hubbard, of Texas, Treats His American and Japanese Visitors. Washington Special. A gentleman who has just arrived from JapAn says that the people there do not know what to make of Hubbard, of Texas, the new minister sent to take the place of the polished and scholarly Judge Bingham, of Ohio. Hubbard proves to be coarse, ill-bred, ignorant of all diplomatic matters, and a mortification to all Americans in the East. A short time since a gentleman from the United States reached Japan, and concluded he -vould call od the American minister. He went o his residence, and was ushered by a very dirty -ervant into a room whore a man, whom he misjok for a workman, was stretched out on chairs a ithout coat or collar, his suspenders down, and otherwise in a thoroughly unpresentable condition. The visitor sat down, expecting to be asked to enter some other room where the minister received his callers. After a little the man in his shirt sleeves growled out: "What do you want?” •‘To see the minister,” the visitor replied mildly, when the conversation ran on thus: “Who are you?” “1 am •, from Boston." “What are you doing here?” *1 am traveling around the world, and simply called to pay my respects to the American minister. ” “Well. I’m the minister. You must have and and little to do at home to be going around this way.” At this the American said: “Good morning, sir” —and left. Additional stories are printed here of him from the same source. At Tokio he insists on being addressed at all times as “Governor.” Shortly after his arrival at Tokio a dinner was given in his honor, to which the other members of the diplomatic corps in the city were invited. The French minister was among them, and sat next to the distinguished Texan. In the course of the conversation some subject was mentioned, and the French minister turned courteously to Mr. Hubbard and said: “That is true, also, of your country, is it not monsieur?” Hubbard paid no attention to the remark. It was the first time he had ever been addressed as “monsieur,” and he regarded himself as insulted. Presently he snorted: “Don’t monsieur me. I have been Governor of the State of Texas, which is three or four times as big as the whole of your old France.” Upon the occasion of his presentation to the Mikado, the latter undertook to be polite to the “Governor,” and very courteously inquired of him whether he had been able to go about much in Japan and see the country. To this inquiry our Texas friend promptly replied that he had not seen much of Japan—“the climate was too hot for him to travel.” To have such a cowboy follow Judge Bingham forcibly illustrates some of the changes which are in progress. TROUBLE FOR THE CABINET LADIES. Their Resolution to Return Calls by Card Only Likely to Cause Them Annoyance, Washington Special to New York World. At a recent meeting of the ladies of the Cabnet, at Mrs. Endieott's, it was agreed upon their part not to return calls in person tliis winter. The ladies intend to return all calls by card, except in the case of calls due on personal invitations. which the ladies will pay in person. If tlrfs decision is adhered to it will make a very •weeping innovation in Washington social cus toms. This plan of paying calls has been attempted before. At the outset of the Garfield administration Mrs. Blaine, as the bend of the Cabinet ladies, sought to establish that rule, but •ho met with such a storm that she was obliged to give it up. If such a veterau social leader in

Washington as Mrs. Blaine could not carry out snch a programme, it is more than probable that the present Cabinet ladies will meet with more than ordinary difficulties. In the first place, the wives of the senators are very tenacious of their social rights. They always insist that they are entitled to first calls from the ladies of the Cabinet, as in their opinion senators rank Cabinet officers. They argne that, as Cabinet officers have no recognized position in the fundamental law, the senators, having the latter, should rank the former. The exact position of senators has been a subject of much controversy at Washington. They have disputed for a long time the claim of the justices of the Supreme Court that they should rank them, but the justices have prevailed. The wives of the Supreme Court justices would be just as tenacious as the wives of the senators in insisting upon having their calls returned in person. If the Cabinet ladies make a rule of paying calls by card they will have their calls returned by card. This will do away with the faintest semblance of sociability in the houses of the leading officials of the administration. The wives of the veteran members of the House would probably prove as obstinate as the ladies already mentioned. The wives of Cabinet officers in the past have had a great burden upon them in the way of social duties. They hold a reception every Wednesday, and to those receptions come the members of the official and unofficial families of Washington. To return all the calls made on that day involves aTfreW deal of labor and time, but where these calls are punctiliously returned the result is great popularity. The Cabinet officer whose wife supports him socially is ul ways a much more effective official and is much more successful in accomplishing what he desires in Congress. The wives of the senators and members play a very important part in Washington politics. If the wives of the Cabinet officers should have arrayed against them the ladies of the Senate and House, the administration certainly would feel the effect of that adverso influence. MINOR MATTERS. Postmaster Jones Confident of Securing an Appropriation for PostolHce Improvements. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 2L— Postmaster Aquilla Jones left for his home at Indianapolis to-day. Before his departure ho stated to a Journal correspondent that he would undoubtedly succeed in having the postoffice building enlarged and the office rearranged and otherwise improved, as an agent of the Treasury Department, who wa3 sent to inquire into the needs, had reported favorably, and that the report was indorsed by Supervising Architect Bell and Secretary of the Treasury Manning. In the House, late this afternoon, Representative Bynum introduced a bill appropriating $45,000 to do the work asked for by Postmaster Jones and recommended by the Treasury officials. As Mr. Bynum’s bill will receive the hearty support of Secretary Manning, it will be passed, without much doubt, at this session of Congress. The Squabble About the “First Lady." Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 21.—The ridiculous squabble as to who will be regarded as tho ‘ first lady of the land” at presidential receptions and on other official occasions, has broken out afresh within the past week, and is now raging with unusual violence in fashionable circles in this city. The incentive of this new attack of an old disease is found in tho fact that, as the President has no wife, Mrs. Sherman, the wife of the Republican President pro tempore, will be the receiving lady at all official receptions and levees which she may attend. This is gall, and wormwood, and milk-sick-ness to the wives of Democratic Secretaries, senators and representatives who have aspirations for social distinction. Many plans have been sincerely discussed and then abandoned, one after the other, till Miss Clevelamd suggested that the usual guard of ladies of the first lady be dispensed with this winter, and that she alone do the receiving at the President’s levees. As Mrs. Sherman is very retiring and domestic in her tastes, it is very probable that the schemers will be permitted to carry out their plans without interference on her part.

Commissioner Black Provides for His Friends. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 2L—Commissioner of Pensions Black appears to be a good man—for his own State. Your correspondent is informed that since he took charge of that office he has appointed, or secured the appointment, of no less than thirty five citizens of Illinois to places in his office. Many of these, uo doubt, perhaps most of them, have secured places outside of the civil-service limits, but if even one-fourth of them were within the limits there must have been a positive violation of the civil-service law by somebody, for it would be unreasonable to suppose that only Illinois Democrats passed successful examinations, while Democrats from Indiana and other States are told that they have not the ability to pass an examination. Indiana does go Democratic half the time, but Illinois never, and the latter gets all the good thiugs, while Indiana gets all that is left after the good things are grabbed by the Suckers. Awaiting: Spooner’s Debut. Washington Special. A man whose debut is awaited with interest is Mr. Spooner, of Wisconsin, the youngost man in the Senate. He has a reputation for oratory in his State as great as that which Postmastergeneral Vilas enjoys, and if he brings into public life the same ability and eloquence he has shown at the bar, he will prove not only a welcome, but a valuable addition to the Senate. Mr. Spooner was a member of the Wisconsin Legislature when he was very young, but beyond this he has never held an official position. He was regarded second only to the late Senator Carpenter at the bar of Wisconsin, both for his learning and as an advocate, and his manner of speaking is said to be very similar to that of his brilliant predecessor. New Presidential Postmasters. Washington, Dsc. 2L—The President sent to the Senate the following nominations for postmasters to-day. These are new appointments: At Peoria, 111., John Warder; at Evansville, Wiß., J. V. Sonn; at Nevada. Mo., W. R Crickett; at Weatherford, Tex., N. B. Johnson; at Can ton. 0., William Archer: at Hyde Park. 111., E. S. Hawley; at Vandalia, 111., H. B. Stout; at Shelby. Ivy., J. N. Bell; at Howell, Mich., I. S. Bush; at Stauton, Miss., Patrick H. McGary; at Oskalooaa, la., Wm. T. Smith; at Little Rock, Ark., Thomas W. Newton. General and Personal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 21.—The Democratic members of the Indiana delegation to Congress called at the White House this morning to urge the appointment of Harry H. Francis, of Michigan City, to the secretaryship of Wyoming Terri tory, but as the President does not receive callers on Mondays they will make another pilgrimage to the White House to-morrow. Senator Voorhees introduced bills to-day to increase the pension of Mrs. E. M. Boggs, and for relief of Julius A. Kaiser, Charles E. Kreager, Theodore M. Piatt and Louise S. Fitzgerald. Representative Lowry will spend the holidays at his home in Fort Wayne, and when he returns, in January, will be accompanied by his wife and daughtor. Among the nominations sent to the Senate today were those of the following Indianians: August M. Kuhn, to be collector of customs at Indianapolis; Thomas Hanlon, to be collector of the Seventh district, and J. O. Henderson of the Eleventh district. The issuo of standard silver dollars during the weekended Dec. 19, was $029,211. The issue during the corresponding period of last year was $‘"*4,995. There is to be an attempt to secure an investigation of the Panama canal operations in Washington. One of the rumors is that it can be shown that American bankers are to receive 25

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per cent, for all American subscriptions. If is reported that none of the bankers in this country who assisted in placing the loan hold any of the stock. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the nomination of John Bigelow to be assistant treasurer of the United States at New York. . A large number of recess appointments were sent by tho President, to-day, to the Senate for confirmation, including nssociatejustices, United Stales marshals, district attorneys, assistant treasurers, collectors of customs, surveyors of customs, collectors of internal revenue, postmasters, Indian agents, etc. Blotz & Cos., of Louisville, were the lowest bidders to day on the stone work of the government building at Louisville. Bedsore 'limestone is to he used in the general superstructure of the building. TELEGRAPIIIC BREVITIES. The cotton crop this year is estimated at 6,900,000 bales. A. J. Johnson & Cos., of New York, have brought out a revised edition of their encyclopedia, at a cost of $60,000. Judge P. Goode, of the Nineteenth judicial district of Louisiana, committed suicide yesterday, at his home,* by shooting. The Singer sewing-machine factory, by an arrangement with the Elizabeth, N. J.,* City Council, will resume operations to-day. J. T. Murphy, of Cleveland, 0., who constitutes the Ohio Oil Company, assigned yesterday. Neither the assets nor the liabilities are known. A movement is now on foot in Baltimore to procure the passage by the Legislature of a stringent law against the opium joints in that city. At Buffalo, N. Y., at a late hour on Sunday night, at a christening at Geo. Michaelski’s house, Joseph Mallerhad adispute with Michaelski and fatally stabbed him. Mailer is under arrest An experienced navigator of the Mississippi river says that despite the large sums emended for its improvement, it is more destructive to vessels and property along its banks now than it was fifty years ago. While it is true that forged drafts for large amounts purported to be accepted by the Camden Consolidated Oil Company, of Parkersburg, W. Va., have been negotiated in banks on the Pacific coast, the oil company will suffer no loss, and reports that it loses a large sum are true. At 3 o’clock last Saturday morning the jail at Rockingham, N. C., was forcibly entered by fifty masked men, who secured a white man named John Lee, took him out of town and hanged him to a limb of a tree. Lee murdered Solomon Welsh, three weeks aeo, for money. The New England Society, of ; Brooklyn, celebrated the sixty-fifth landing of the pilgrims, last night, with a dinner. Speeches were made by President Silliman, Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. Noah Porter, Senator Frye, of Maine, exMinister Astor, George William C-urtis, and others. Dr. T. J. Maddox, who was killed in the fight with Indians near White House, N. M., on Saturday, is a son of Dr. Thos. Maddox, of Washington county, Maryland. He was commissioned ns assistant surgeon in the army in October, 1881, aud his first assignment to duty was to the Department of Tfxas. Dr. Maddox was thirtythree years of age. On Sunday night Patrick Conley died at the St. Louis city hospital from tho effects of a blow upon tho head by Henry Peters with a bungstarter, last Tuesday night. Peters is a bartender, and the trouble between the men arose from tho refusal of Conley to pay for drinks which were furnished by Peters. The latter is under arrest, and will be tried on the charge of murder. W. H. Bowling, who, last spring, shot and killed a young man named Gill, who was assisting the sheriff to arrest Bowling, was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary yesterday, at Mount Sterliug, Ky. A day or two before the killing Bowling, who is a desperate character, had enticed a farmer's dauehter away from home, and so great was the indignation that he barely escaped the wrath of a mob. At Sharonville, 0., on Sunday. Scott W. Heffner, a carpenter, was shot and killed by Frank Mullen, a barber. The men lived in the same building, using the same hall. Heffner defiled with tobacco spit the floor, which Mrs. Mullen had just cleaned, and they quarreled about it. Mullen, upon hearing this, took up the quarrel, and Heffner assaulted him with a butcher-knife,, when Mullen used his pistol, with fAtal effect At Hannibal, Mo., three men, Thomas Ashby John Briscol and James Taylor, were arrested yesterday, and. on being searched, were found to have a lot of cloth gloves, etc., the marks on which prove almost conclusively that they were stolen. The goods were all marked the game, although the men claimed to have bought them in Canada and Dakota. The mark is a peculiar one, and may lead to the discovery of the merchant who Inst the goods. The cost-mark on the articles includes an “O” with two marks through it and a square with two marks through it. while the soiling price of a pair of a pair of pants was “J H Y,” and that of a pair of cuff-buttons “L H Y.” The officers feel sure theyhave a trio of crooks, and are making every effort to find out from whom the goods were stolen.

EDISON’S LATEST WONDER. The Great Inventor at Work on a Monster Phonograph for General Use. New York Special. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, has resumed work on the phonograph, and is now engaged in perfecting it so that he can briLg it into everyday use as is the telephone. Mr. Edison has not given the phonograph any attention since 1878, when he gave himself up wholly to m.tking his electric-light invention successful. He i3 now building a phonograph with a five-foot wheel to bo driven by steam. The sound will be transferred from the phonograph to a wheel forty times its diameter, the sound being thus amplified forty times louder than the humau voice. It will have a funnel thirty feet long. If placed on top of a building, Mr. Edison claims that a person standing two blocks away will be able to hear it talk plainly. He has also got so far as to make the machine say “ah” distinctly, by means of many wave lines. Mr. Edison said to-day: “After I get this machine perfect I will construct phonographs for office use, to take the place of stenographers and type writers. All you will have to do will be to hand it to the office-boy, who, by touching a spring, can make it repeat or talk back all that you havo said to it and translate it at will. Then again, you can have oue at home, and when a thought strikes you all that is necessary is to talk it at the machine, and you have it boxed up for next day. I have no doubt that it will be a great success. Prohibition in the South—No Use for St. John. New York Letter. Judge Lochran, of Georgia, is quite a familiar figure about the hotels along Broadway. He has come from Georgia,.where he has been one of the leaders of the prohibition movement, which has just swept Atlanta. He exnlaius that there is a wonderfully strong sentiment in the Sooth against the sale of liquor. “But the temperance movement,” said he, “is a very different thing there than here. Our people have no respect for such cranks as St. John and people who follow him. At the late election in Atlanta the beet people of both parties simply came forward in a general movement to beat the liquor-sellers on a square issue. Our people do not take any stock in the third-party movement in favor of prohibition, and in that part of the countiy no Democrat could be induced to vote the Republican ticket, even if it were a temperance one.” It was rather refreshing to hear the Judge talk of this temperance movement in a country where liquor so largely enters into the ordinary business of its every day life. For Conghs and Throat Disorders Use Brown’s Bronchial Troches. “Have never changed my mind respecting them, except I think better of that which I began thinking well of.”—Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Sold only in boxes. The O’Leary-Weston Walking Match. New York, Dec. 21.—When O'Leary and Weston stopped to night, the score stood: O'ljeury, GOG miles, one lap; Weston, GOG miles, ten laps. Young and middle aged men suffering from nervous debility, premature old age, loss of memory and kindred symptoms, should send 10 cents in stamps for large illustrated treatise suggesting sure means of cure. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of all Kinds in the Two States. Bad Feeling in Fountain County Cauied by Expenditures of Public Money—Suit to Recover Valuable Property—Gleanings. INDIANA. Bridge Trouble in Fountain County—Threats to Destroy Public Property, ftiecial to th Indianapolis Journal Veedersbuug, Dec. 21. —The action of the Fountain County Commissioners in deciding to purchase the toll bridges that span the Wabash at Covington and Attica, is producing great excitement in the eastern and central parts of the the county. In several townships popular subscriptions are being raised to defeat the measure by legal steps. Cain township started a petitiou to-day requesting Commissioner Wilson, who had pledged himself against the measure, and who supported it, to hand in his resignation. Threats are even made to blow up the bridges in question with dynamite. The action of the Commissioners is condemned by many, and they will be enjoined from taking possession of the bridges mentioned. Suit to Recover Valuable Property. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, Dec. 21. —The heirs of Aaron Claspell to-day brought suit against the city to recover property formerly ussd as a market space. The land referred to consists of part of Fifth street, between Columbia and Main, in the center of the business portion of the city, and was deeded to the city in 1847 by Mr. Claspell, for express use as a market space, and if diverted from such use was to revert to himself or heirs. Several years ago the Council abandoned the market space, and ordered hacks, etc., to hitch in the street. The heirs now claim the property by the provisions of the deed. The property is now very valuable. Boiler Explosiou at New Castle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. New Castle, Dec. 21. —The boiler of the Murray & Bridgeman saw-mili, located near the center of town, exploded this afternoon, seriously injuring both gentlemen named above, Mr. Murray dangerously. The mill is a total wreck, and pieces of boiler, timbers and debris in general are scattered for several squares. It is not known whether a flaw in the boiler or a scarcity of water caused the explosion.

Minor Notes. Jeptha Poster, a well-known colored man of Richmond, has become insane from epilepsy. Christmas will be celebrated at the southern prison, by giving the prisoners an extra good dinner. M. C. Henley, the Richmond skate-maker, will shortly engage in the manufacture of agricultural implements. The new building of the Young Men’s Christian Association at South Bnd was formally dedicated on Friday. The Mascott polo team, of Lafayette, defeated the Chicagos, champions of the Western League, last evening, three goals to one. The gambling business at Jeffersonville is said to be flourishing, most of the patrons, however, being from the Kentucky side of the river. The Seymour Daily Republican has passed its first month. Considering the limited field in which it is located, the Republican deserves great credit, and certainly has earned success. At a business meeting of the • Greensburg Presbyterian Church, yesterday, a call was extended to Rev. Dr. Sutherland, of Newark, 0., to become pastor, to fill the place of the late Dr. Sloss. Rev. Miles Bassett, pastor of Fourth-street Baptist Church, New Albany, celebrated the twentieth anniversary of his ministry on Sunday. He set a to the deacons of the church. Two vaudeville actresses, May Lenox and Birdie Walker, are under arrest at Louisville, for robbing an Indiana man named D. F. Forrester. of a solid watch and chain, a fine revolver and S2O in money. Mrs. Thomas Hillyard, of Evansville, was kicked by a horse and her richt leg broken in two places. She was also kicked upon the hip and shoulder, and her injuries are dangerous. She had gone into the horse’s stall to place a child upon the animal's back. Last Sunday was the “great giving day” at the Methodist Church in Crawfordsville, for a fund to build anew church edifice. Special services were held. The sum of $13,055 was secured. Mrs. H. S. Lane headed the list with $2,000. The Sunday-school scholars contributed $250. A special fund of SSOO was subscribed, to be given for Rev. Aaron Woods, an aged minister of their denomination at Yountsville. There is also a fund, almost secured, of SSOO for a window in the new church to be dedicated to said Rev. Woods. E. H. Ketchara, of Indianapolis, is preparing plans and specifications for the new building, which is to cost about $20,000. The will of the late Miss Elizabeth Monroe, of New Albany, among other bequests, leaves to her colored servant, Emma Dawson, SSOO in money and a bedstead and bedding complete; to Mrs. John Dorst, for care in her illness, SSOO in cash and a feather bed: to Mrs. Julia Bull, for the same consideration, SSOO in money, and to Maria Barbee, for same, SSOO. To her niece, Miss Flora Mitchell, of Crawfordsville, she bequeaths her organ. To her sister, Mary Louisa Smith, she gives her house and lot, and the contents of the house, at the northeast corner of Market and West Second streets. New Albany. To her sister, Nancy Renick, she gives a house and lot at Xenia, 111. All the rest and residue of her estate she bequeaths in equal parts to her sisters, Mrs. Nancy Reuick. Mrs. Mary Louisa Smith and Mrs. Pauline Epperson. The estate is valued at $20,000.

ILLINOIS. Cullings from Correspondence and Gleanings from Exchanges. P. C. Cronkhite, who founded the Danville Sunday Ledger, sold it yesterday to W. 0. Bradbury. Henry Churchman, sixty-five years old, died at Decatur on Saturday. He had served as constable for thirty years. It has been determined that William Quist, who died suddenly at Rockford, died by his own hand by means of poison. Gerhardt, Rodes, a German living two miles east of Danville, was run over by an engine on the Wabash road and killed. The jury in the Weast murder trial, at Ottowa, returned a verdict of manslaughter, with three years imprisonment Thomas B. Parks, Weast’s victim, was a grain merchant at Benson, 111., and was shot about the beginning of October, because, it is claimed, he was too intimate with Weast’s wife. About a week ago Marion Huffacre and George Hiter became involved in a drunken brawl in a saloon at Kenney. Hiter struck Huffacre with a rock, which crushed his skulL Huffacre has since died. Hiter was indicted, but has so far eluded arrest. The fight was the result of a long standing feud. A large reward is offered for Hiter’a arrest A Noble Red Man as a Confidence Operator. Forkst, Ont., Dec. 21.—Geo. William Roberts, a Cherokee Indian, educated by the government, visited Indian tribes in this vicinity laßt week, representing himself as an ageut of the United States government, having authority to settle Indians in the United States. It is said he succeeded in victimizing nearly 300 Indians. The matter has been reported to the Washington authorities, who will endeavor to have Roberts arrested and prosecuted for swindling. Fatal Roller Explosion. Davton, Dec. 21.—One of the boilers of the distillery of F. C. Trebine. at Beaver’s Station, exploded to-da?’, killing T. W. Pottr, the engineer, Thomas Thann tom, th stock-feeder, and wounding three others, and destroying property

to the amount of $5,000. Potter leaves a wife and three children and Thaunton a wife and five children. —" ■ • ———— THE FIRE RECORD. A Large Portion of the Business Quarter of a Pennsylvania Town Destroyed. Pittsburg, Dec. 21.—Tarentam. Pa., twen-ty-one miles north of this city, was visited early this morning by the most destructive fire ever known there. The fire started in the Tarentum Licht and Heat Company’s office, on North Canal street, and. after burning the secretary and treasurer's office, spread north to Mechel’s millinery and bakery, Ingram’s jewelry store and dwelling, Dr. McCulloch’s residence, Goodwin's hardware store and dwelling, the Western Union telegraph office, telephone office and Campe Brothers’ general store and dwelling, completely destroying them all. The loss will reach $60,000, of which Campe loses $30,000. The insurance, has not yet been ascertained, but will probably cover one-half of the loss. The origin of the fire is not known. _ Grain Elrtator Burned, special to the Indianapolis Journal. Moncie, Ind., Dec. 21.—At a late hour, last night,fire consumed the large grain elevator owned by Jay & Cos., at Redkey, a small town on the Lake Erie & Western railroad, twelve miles east of this city. The building and entire contents, including 2,000 bushels of wheat, more than that amount of corn, a large amount of feed stuff, a steam-enarine and much valuable machinery, were burned. The loss cannot be less than $lO.000—partially insured. The fire is thought to have originated from the fire under the boiler. Bedford Business Buildings Burned. Special to the Icdiananolis Journal. Bedford, Ind., Dec. 21.—Fire was discovered at 6 o’clock this evening in the business houses on the northeast corner of the square, owned by W. W. Ferguson, D. F. Tilford, George D. Gowen and John Williams. The buildings were destroyed. Thfe loss is $17,000; insurance, $13.000. in the Hartford, Home, Franklin, Orient and Royal companies. Fire at Marietta, O. Marietta, 0., Dec. 21.—Fire broke out at 3 o’clock this morning in Malston & Kipton's hardware store. A strong wind prevailed, and the adjoining store of Thomas Hobson was speedily enveloped in flames. The fire could not be checked, and a dozen buildings on both sides of the street were destroyed. The hotel and postoffice were totally consuncjd, and a quantity of mail matter was lost Grate and Mantel Factory Burned. Chicago, Dec. 21.—The building corner of Adams street and Michigan avenue, occupied by the Butler Company, manufacturers of metal mantels and grates, burned early this morning. Loss, $40,000 or $50,000; insurance, about $30,000. _ Fire in a Manufactory. Chicago, Dec. 21. —The premises of the Link Beit Manufacturing Company, on Jefferson street, were burned this morning, entailing a loss of $47,000 on machinery and patterns, on which an insurance of $23,000 was carried. Stock of Dry Goods Destroyed, Quebec, Dec. 21.—A fire in Brunet & Laurent’s dry goods establishment, to-day, damaged the bui’dlng and almost destroyed their stock, which was valued at $75,000. Chemical Works Damaged. Cincinnati, Dec. 21.—Fire this morning at the Merrill chemical works caused a loss of $10,000; fully insured.

WHEN GOULD WAS FRIGHTENED. His Experience with Commodore Vanderbilt —The Rattle in the Old Man’s Throat. New York Times. Here is a story that has never been printed. Jay Gould and Commodore Vauderbilt are its subjects, and Jay Gould is sponsor for it. He has told it to half a dozen acquaintances siuce William H. Vanderbilt died, and although he has sought to impose secresy upon his hearers it comes directly to me, and without any compunctions 1 invite the Times’s readers into my confidence. “I never was really scared but once in my life—scared so badly as to lose my head.” Mr. Gould’s own words I give, for it is best, perhaps. to let him spin his own yarn in his own way. “I never lost my head but once in my life. That was a year or two before Commodore Vanderbilt died, and it was in the Commodore’s house. Hoo!” (This is Mr. Gould's pet ejaculation.) “Hool It makes me shiver to think of it even now. A dead man, so I was sure, was on my hands, and visions of ttie gallows and all the long list of horrors indescribable danced before me, stupefied me, drove my sense away, made me for the time a madman, tied down, hand and foot, and brain in a tangle of circumstantial evidence that was fairly paralyzing. It was a horrible night —horrible! I wouldn’t undergo its tortures again for millions. “Commodore Vanderbilt and I had been having some prety lively fights over Erie r.nd other properties.” Mr. Gould continued wit! a shiver. “And the Commodore had made a miscalculation or two that had cost him heavily, and I hadn't found the warfare altogether full of profit either, and. as often happens among Wall-street men, we both put ourselves finally in readiness for a compromise. It was arranged that we should have a formal interview and fix up things amicably all around.- He sent me an invitation to visit him at his house, saying tnat a conference could be held there free from all danger of intrusion or publicity. I was to call early in the evening, and promptly on time I climbed the steps of his old down-town house. The servant answered my ring, ushered me up stairs, where, she said, the Commodore was awaiting me. He welcomed me in his bluff way, and apparently was never in better health than at that moment—a fine type of the well-preserved, haleand hearty, stalwart man who spends much time out of doors and isn’t afraid of hard work for exercise. “ ‘We are quite alone,’ said the Commodore, ns he waved me to a seat in his library there. *We are quite alone; only one or two servants are in the house, and I havo given orders that nobody else shall be admitted. So we may talk freely. There is no daneer from intruders, and we’ll come right to the point.’ “For an hour we discussed our business relations as we sat there in the upper room alone. We were not friends exchanging confidences and compliments. Neither of us tried to hoodwink the other into believing that our motives were philanthropic and unselfish; that would have been a silly waste of time. But we were determined to bring about a truce to open hostilities in certain directions, and as a business matter we naturally talked long and earnestly, and as if upon intimate terms. Many troublesome features of our antagonistic relations were disposed of. and we seemed just on the verge of a final settlement of the war when, of a sudden, the door bell below rang violently. The Commodore seemed strangely affected. He stopped short in his conversation in the very middle of an animated sentence. His manner amazed mo, but I could say nothing. He sat silent, with a stern lock on his face, glaring at the door as though momentarily expecting an armed enemy to enter there. The silence was oppressive; I could almost feel the atmosphere of the room pressing with a crushing force upon me. A servant soon entered. ‘A telegram,’she said simply, as she handed the Commodore an envelope and withdrew. Slowly, and as if nerved to defiance of some bitter foe, he tore the message from its covering. Restlessly I turned to gaze at a picture as I saw him begin to read. Cold beads of perspiration stood on my forehead; why I knew not. A terrible tremor went over tne. I felt as though I were at the edge of an open pit. Foolish, ridiculous, 1 felt the sense to be, but every second added to its horror, till suddenly I was startled by a sharp noise behind me. I turned. I was bewildered. Commodore Vanderbilt lay in his arm chair, gasping wildly for breath. A rattle was in his throat. His face* was ghastly white, his legs and arms were stiff, his mouth was set rigidly, his eyes were distended. I felt that I was in the presence of a dying man, and, as he had assured me so emphatically. practically all alone. ••Men who have not been through an experience like this cannot have even the faintest idea of what I suffered. My first impulse was to render aid. A dozen things I tried to do, and iu •very one l failed to accomplish anything. Ibe thought me of giving relief by looseniug the col-

lar. ard my hand was upon the Commodore’s scarf, when a million new horrors crowded npon mo. What if someone should come into the room now? What if J were found bending over the dying man, my hand at his throat? My head began to swim; all presence of mind departed. I, was benumbed in body and in mind. It upon me thnt I was recognized as an opponent, if not an enemy, of Commodore Vanderbilt. What would men say when it was reported that he had met a sudden death and that I alono was with him? Would not the very worst be guessed and believed? Our financial warfare was widely known. Would men hesitate to suspect or scruple to accuse me of murder with all this chain of horrible circumstance clinging about me? That room, and its books, and its pictures, and that stalwart mail dying in his chair went whirling , round and round in my vision. Host all control of myself, gave up the purpose of assistance, and sank as helpless even as was the gasping victim stretched out there before me. “1 looked again; the gasping was over: the face was ghastlier than ever; all consciousness was gone, and—so I felt sure—life was extinct A desperate impulse seized me. I reached for the bell-cord and pulled it violently again and again, but no answer came; it snapped in my hands. Then I jerked the door open and called loudly below for help. Two servants answered theu. One hurried for a doctor, the other, with a resolution and a presence of mind that 1 had been unable to command, tore off the shirt-collai and bared the breast. How I sought with that woman there for some sign, some slightest scrap of evidence that life was not gone, but it seemed a hopeless task till the doctor came. The Commodore then was taken to a bed. and, at the doctor’s suggestion, I went to a room down stairs to await news of what the real condition was. I sat in the dark room below, pursued by devils in vision after vision, for an hour or more. Then the doctor came. In my excited state I could scarcely wait for him to articulate one word after another, and in my impatience I broke in: “Ts he alive? Will he recover? Tell me, tell me quick!’ “ *Mr. Vanderbilt is out of present danger,’ said the doctor, his calmness in strange contrast with my wild worriment. “ ‘But,’ he continued, ‘of course no more business can be talked to-night The Commodore lias lately become subject to attacks such ns you have witnessed to-night end he will rate it as a great personal favor if you will please try to forget what you have seen, and let nobody else know of it.’ “What a load these words lifted from me. I hurried into the street scarcely knowing or caring where 1 might co. It was ecstasy, the feeling that was upon me then. Only a man who has been rescued from direct danger can understand the sensations of the moments that followed. Then came reaction; a fever attacked me, and weak, exhausted, over-excited, and overstrained in every nerve, I came close to serious sickness. The horrors of that one night surpass all the unwholesome experiences that I ever endured. I would not go through it again for any treasure that could be offered. It was a hideous night, hideous beyond all hint or description.” Such is Jay Gould’s story of the one time in his life when he was “really scared.” As Jay Gould himself tells it I repeat it. The City in Brief. George T. Porter gave bond yesterday as executor of Mrs. Porter’s will. It was in the sum of SBO,OOO, with his father, Albert G. Porter, as , surety. | Christian Schildmeyer yesterday gave bond in the sum of $3,280 as guardian of Christina King,' who was declared by the Circuit Court to be of unsound mind. The committee appointed at the Hendrick? memorial meeting, ou Sunday night, for the purpose of forming an Irish branch of the Hendricks Monument Association, met last night and organized by electing John Carlon president, James H. Deerv secretary, Thomas Madden treasurer, and Michael O’Connor, Cornelius Kelly and James Reuihan, executive committee. Subscription lists will be prepared and distributed at once. A # 1,500 Fire. About 11 o’clock last evening the gi*ain WAro house of Dietrich Musselman, in the rear of his grocery, corner of Meridian and Wilkins streets, was damaged by fire. A considerable quantity of grain was ruined, bringing the total loss to about $1,500. Musselman has an insurance, but he refused to give the name of the company. The fire started, it is supposed, from a hot stove in the rear of the grocery, which the warehouse adjoins. The Threes answered a still ularm yesterday afternoon, and put out a fire in a woodshed at 301, East McCarty street I have been a great sufferer from rheumatism for fifteen years, and have received more benefit from the use of Athlophoros thau from any remedy I ever used. Mrs. A. Newton, wife of ex Mayor Newton, 707 West Fifteenth street, Des Moines, la.

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