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ns the executive session. The secret sessions of the Senate exist no longer, in fact; for, in spite of the efforts at secrecy, the proceedings are always made public, and there is really no reason why the record of a man who desires an office under the government should be discussed sub Tosa, while the record of a soldier asking a penmen is public property. A Modest. Man from Dakota. pe rial to tho Inrtiav.ap-dla Journal. Washington, Dec. 22.—An amusing incident occurred at the White House recently. Robert Lowery, late receiver of the land office at Hnron, Dakota, called with Delegate Gifford upon Presi dent Cleveland to pay his rospects. Mr. Lowery told the President that he was very much pleased with his course in regard to the ejectment o' the cattlemen from the Indian Territory, and in fact the policy of the administration on the whole pleased him very much. Mr. Lowery added: “Thoro is one thing. Mr. President, however, in wtaieh I think you were unwise. I refer to the 'Tottioval of Robert Lowery from the receivership of tbo land office at Hnron. Lowerv. to mv certain knowledge, worked sixteen hours a day, including Sundays. E collected naoro than $2,000,000 for the government. and his accounts were correct to a cent, and on the Sunday before be was suspended he signed his name sixteen hundred times. I think that, his services were entitled to some consideration/’ The President smiled at the modesty of the picturesque gentleman from Dakota, but gave him no hope of being reinstated. The Departments During the Holidays. Washington, Dec. 22.—The Cabinet meeting to-day was attended by all the members except Secretary Whitney, who is in New York. The session lasted about three hours, and was devoted to a general discussion of the business pending in each of the departments. The question of shortening the hours of work in the departments during the holiday recess, according to the long-established custom, was also considered. It was decided that in addition to closing the departments on Christmas and New Year’s day, they should be closed at noon on each, of the days immediately preceeding those holidays; that they would be open for business as usual in the interim. This course was adopted in view of representations that business in several of the departments, notably the Treasury, is somewhat in arrears, and might accumulate to serious proportions if the hours of work were shortened. Patents for Indiana Inventors. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 22.—Patents were issued to-day as follows: Henry C. Anson, Derby, steam-engine valve; Peter M. Dice, assignor of one half to E. H. Butterbaugh, North Manchester, hand marker; Charles E. Doyle. Peru, press copying hook; Samuel G. Ilighfill, Boston Station, butter cabinet; John Lovett, Indianapolis, assignor of onehalf to J. Pickering. Cincinnati, combined washer andlinch pin; Christopher Mussel, South Bend, apparatus for filling vessels with fermented liquors; Arthur Rice, New Albany, sand molding machine; Francis T. Roots, Con n era wi lie, clothes pounder; Davis S. Spesse, Vincennes, thread holder and cutter for sewing machines; Samuel S. Speicher, Urhana. broadcast seedplanter; John E. Swope, Elizaville, car coupling; George W. Wright, Leavenworth, fastening for double doors; William F. Wetmore and S. H. Bratt, South Bend, assignors of one-third to J. B. Birdsell, water tube for boiler. The Coast Survey Superintendenoy. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 22.—1 t is likely that Mr. Frank Thorn, the Buffalo man whom Mr. Cleveland appointed temporary superintendent of the coast survey, will remain at his post until Congress decides whether or not the scientific bureaus of the government shall be consolidated. Mr. Thorn, while laying no claims to scientific knowledge, has furnished the coast survey what it has so sadly needed in the past, namely, a thoroughly competent business head. Where the President has depended upon his knowledge of individuals in selecting appointees he has rarely been misguided. It is only when he has listened to the politicians that the mistakes have occurred.

Postal Agencies. Washington, Dec. 22.—Postmaster Judd has secured the permission of the Postmaster-gen-eral to inaugurate in Chicago the New York city system of postal agencies, by selecting fifty proprietors of drug stores or other places of business, who will be paid a salary of $24 per annum each for keeping on hand for public convenience postage stamps, postal cards, special-delivery stamps, and printed information as to domestic and foreign postal rates, collections, deliveries and departures of mails. Postmaster Judd says he will have no difficulty in immediately patting the system into operation. There are a great many business men willing to conduct agencies for this nominal compensation for the sake of the business thus attracted to their stores. Abuse of Power in the Signal Service. Special to tho ludiananolie Journal. Washington, Dec. 22.—The investigation now in progress into the abuse of power by officers of ho Signal Service will, it is thought, lead to radoal changes in the conduct of affairs in that iranch of the army. Thore is no pface in the government service where a radical change is so urgently needed as in General Hazen's school for martinets. _ General and Personal. (Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 22.—Representative Cobb made another call upon Assistant Secretary Fairchild, of the Treasury Department, this morning, in the interest of Bedford limestone for the now government building at Pittsburg. He called Mr. Fairchild’s attention especially to tho durability of that material, demonstrating that age does not impair its beauty or firmness. Indianians believe that Bedford limestone will be selected. Ex Senator McDonald, Joe Littler and Harry Francis left here this afternoon for their homes in Indiana. The appointment of James H. Shouse, of Vincennes. to be a special examiner of the Pension Office, was secured throueh the influence of Representative Cobb, instead of Representative Matson, as published. The Secretary of the Treasury to-day appointed Joseph Stealey. of Indiana, to be inspector of hulls of steam vessels for the district of Louisville, Ky. The Star says that after Senator Beck had made his speech in favor of the continuation of silver coinage, yesterday. Senator Evarts, who had listened attentively throughout the whole speech, said: "Beck is right, and I intend to make a speech on the line. His arguments cannot be refuted.” Mr. Voorhees j'esterday presented in the Senate a petition from Theophilns Fisk Mills, a son of the late Clarke Mills, setting forth that, by order of General Meigs, he mad 6 a plaster cast of the face of tho late General Raw.ins, immediately after the latter’s death, and took measurements, etc., for a bronze equestrian statue of the General; that he was never paid for his labor, and asks for $17,500, saying he had expected to get $35,000 for his work. Representative Burns, of Missouri, who is spoken of in connection with the chairmanship of the foreign affairs committee of the House, says that one of the most important duties of that committee this session is u> compile the laws relating to our consular and diplomatic system. Ho has been studying tho question, in connection with the consular and diplomatic appropriation luil, and says that the laws are in a bad condition. Officials of the Postolfice Department report hat ihey are receiving an unprecedented number of applications for the establishment of postoffices in Kansas and Nebraska, indicating a rapid settling up of those States. The Senate committee on postoffices and postroads has referred all nominations of postmastters for Indiana to Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, who is the sub-committeeman, and his report will be adopted by the majority of the committee. The Secretary of the Treasury to day appointed Edward Marsland to be inspector of boib rs of steam wssels at the port of New York, vice J. K. Matthews, removed. Renbon A. Hill, Indian agent at the Bi&ckfeet Agency in Montana, has resigned.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of all Kinds in the Two States. A Police Officers Life Saved by a Test Button—A Partially Successful BurglaryAssignment at Greenslurg—Notes. INDIANA. A Fort Wayne Policeman's Narrow Escape from Instant Death. Special to tne Indianr.polis Journal. Fort Wayne, Dec. 22. —At 2 o’clock this morning policeman Henry Lapp discovered a burglar moving from house to house in the Seventh ward. The policeman at first supposed he was a caller for trainmen on some of the railways, but distrusting bis pecular movements, he followed him closely, and the burglar having entered a yard in which was a fine residence, only the building separated the officer and the suspected person. Policeman Lapp placed his hand upon his revolver, which motion the other seeing, shot from behind the corner of the wall. His aim was evidently directed at the officer’s star, and was exceedingly well delivered. The shot struck the officer on the top button on his vest, and passing through his thick winter clothing, impinged upon his breast bone. The fellow thereupon fled. The force of the bullet stag gered tbe officer. Only the vest button saved his life. The bullet was found in the policeman’s underclothing. _ A Partially Successful Burglary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Rushville, Dec. 22.—A burglary occurred at Homer, in this county, Sunday morning, at 4 o'clock. The safe in the store of H. E. Sklower was blown open with such a crash as to arouse the near neighbors. Mr. S. fired out at the window when the burglars fled without getting the money. A considerable quantity of clotliing was taken. Mr. S. and his clerk were soon at the scene and heard the robbers firing their revolvers as they retreated, presumably to prevent pursuit. In the confusion they were permitted to escape, although there was bright moonlight, and a neighbor saw them leaving. Last year a safe was blown open in the same store. Assignment at Greensburg. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Greensburg, Dec. 22. —The boot and shoe dealers, Donnell & Son—the firm composed of Thomas N. Donnell and James S. Donnell—made an assignment this morning to Wm. A Moore. The liabilities are about $9,000; assets probably $4,000. Preferred creditors’ claims amount to $2,150, secured by chattel mortgages on the stock, which were made yesterday. The members of tho firm camo here from Shelby county about a year and a half ago, opened a stock in the Seitz House building, and recently opened a branch store at Hartsville, fourteen miles southwest of here, which is also included in the deed of assignment.

Minor Notes. There are now exactly 600 prisoners at the southern prison, eight of whom are sick. A sneak thief entered Bradford’s jewelry store at New Albany, on Monday, and stole a fine gold necklace. The dedication of the new M. E. Church, at Knightstown, will take place on Sunday, the 27tb. The building cost $12,200. The old Barnett House, at Logaosport, one of' tbo oldest hotel buildings in the State, has boon condemned and sold, and will be torn down within the next month. New Albany is largely in debt, and $50,000 of next year’s taxes will, it is said, be used up before April. Citizens are talking of enjoining the issue of more bonds. The saloon owned by Charles Lumbert. of Royal Center, was burned by incendiaries. The loss was covered by insurance. Royal Center is a towu of 200 inhabitants and has four saloons. The remains of Mrs. Albert Manor, who, during a temporary fit of insanity, caused by grief at the loss of a child, committed suicide at Xenia, 0., will be buried at New Albany to day. Tho farm-house of Mr. Thomas Shuey, in Clinton township. Cass county, was totally destroyed bv fire while the members of the family were assisting a neighbor in butchering. Loss, $1,200. The case of Harrison county against Amzi SV. Brewster, county auditor, for alleged overdrafts on his salary, on trial at Corvdon before Special Judge Bicknell, lias been continued until the next term of the Harrison Circuit Court. Alexander Shane, of New Albany, for ten years employed on the Louisville bridge, at the falls, was probably fatally injured at Kankakee, 111., on Sunday, by the explosion of a stationary engine at a bridge upon which he was working. Mr. Leslie Dobbs, son of Rev. C. E. W. Dobbs, D. D., late pastor of the Baptist Church at Madison, was married at Madison yesterday at 1:20 P. m. to Miss Nettie Hurlbut. They departed on mail boat for their future home, near Baltimore, Md. A wonderful revival of roligion is in progress at tho M. E. Chnrch at Orangeville, in Orange county. About fifty persons havo united with tbe church so far, and the interest continues to increase. Peopie drive ton to fifteen miles to attend the meetings. Vincennes, since the advent of Flora Belle and Zoe B. on the turf, is gaining quite a reputation for fast horses. Peter Mallett, of that place, has a three vear-old that can trot a mile in less than 2:40, and pace another mile in tho same length of time. The horse is a bay gelding, fifteen hands high. Mrs. Rebecca Wolf, of Logansport, whose son, Robert Gallion, lost his life in the war, has been granted back pension at the rate of $8 per month since December, 1862. She is a poor washerwoman, and the pension, which will amount to $2,400, could not fail in hands that would appreciate it more. An item has been going the rounds of the press that the only pensioner of the war of 1812 died recently. Capt Cyrus Vigus, of Logansport, aged ninety-six, fought in tho war of 1812, and has drawn a pension ior years. He is hale and hearty, and promises to celebrate his onehundredth birthday. At North Liberty George Chadwell was in Mike Blue's house with Blue's wife. Blue came home, and knocked the door down with an ax. Chadwell escaped through a hack window. Blue met Chadwell a few minutes later, and a fight ensused, in which Blue was stabbed seriously, if not fatally. Chadwell is in jail. The Chicago & Indiana Coal Railway Company filed a mortgage on their track, etc., in the recorder's office at Terre Haute to the Metropolitan Trust Company, of New York, for $1,000,000. The bonds bear 5 per cent, and run until 1936. The document i3 the most volumuinous ever filed iu the recorder's office of Vigo county. A daring attempt was made to rob John S. .Smith’s general merchandise store at Galveston, on Sunday night The thieves entered the building about 9 o'clock in the evening. They were detected, and pursued several miles in the country. A number of shots were exchanged by the burglars and their pursuers. The scoundrels succeeded in escaping. Intelligence has reached Vevay that two promising young gentlemen, one twenty-one and the other eighteen years of age, Stauard and Dufour, sons of l>r. S. H. Cocheroil. and grandsons of Oliver Dufour, were buried in one grave at Washington, D., C., on the 10th inst. The first was a medical student, and was to have graduated at Baltimore in March last. They died of diphtheria. Henry Kero, a bridge carpenter, while at work, yesterday, repairing the L. E. & W. railroad bridge across White river, near Muncie, was struck by a piece of falling timber, and dangerous hurt about tbe bead and shoulders. Ills re Cos very is thought to be exceedingly doubtful. At tho same place, and in the same way, a few

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days ago, C. D. Leslie was hurt, and shortly after died from tho effects of the injuries received. ILLINOIS. Cuttings from Correspondence and Gleanings from Exchanges. William Osman, senior editor of the Free Trader, was, on Monday, appointed postmaster at Ottawa. The funeral of Dr. Theodore Lemon, a pioneer of Vermillion county, who died Saturday, took place on Monday at Danville. At Freeport, Martha Brinkmeier, six years old; has died from the effect of burns. Her clothing caught fire at a kitchen stove. J. W. Peterson, forty-five years old. for twenty years editor and publisher of the Union and Banner at Carlyle, died at that place on Monday, of pneumonia. Mrs. William Beck, a widow living at Shelbyville, was rendered insane by attending holiness revival meetings, and had planned to surrender her property and sacrifice one of her grandchildren. She is under the surveillance of relatives. At Springfield, .Julius A. Labarthe. aged ninety. was run over by a street car on the Citizens’ railway and instantly killed. Labarthe, being deaf, failed to hear the approach of the car, while the driver, who was making change for a passenger, did not observe him until too late to check the speed of the car. The street-car company is generally criticised for taking the conductors off the line and making the drivers act in a double capacity in order to economize. Miss Bessie Dodds, Miss Stevens and a Mr. Timmons, of Redmon, came to Oakland, on Monday morning, intending to take the train for Charleston, where Miss Dodds and Timmons, who were eloping, were to have been married. In the afternoon Miss Dodds declared she would not get married. Soon after two officers from Redmon arrived and arrested the trio, taking them back to Redmon. Miss Dodds is the daughter of A. H. Dodds, a farmer in Edgar county. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Mark Davis, a coal-miner, aged nineteen, was killed by a fall of rock at Palmyra, 0., yesterday. It is stated that Gus Maister, collector for F. X. Kaltenback, brewer, of Buffalo, N. Y., is a defaulter to tho amount of $17,000 or SIB,OOO. He has left the city. Hon. Allen G. Thurman has been selected as umpire of the Ohio mining arbitration committee. The committee appointed to wait on him report that he will accept. Officer Jack Lusby shot and killed Charles Davis, (colored) at Georgetown, Ivy., last night. Davis and his wife were fighting, and Davis tried to shoot the officer, when he attempted to arrest him. At Cynthiana, Ky., Messrs. H. D. Frisbee and J. K. Lake, well-known cattle-breeders, had an altercation on the street, ending in pistolfiring by both. Mr. Frisbee was seriously if not fatally wounded. Trouble has already begun with the illegal oyster dredgers in Chesapeake bay. One fight with the police has already occurred, and the captains of seven piratical vessels have been heavily fined at Baltimore. General ButlerGis a delegate from Post 42, of Lowell, to the Grand Army convention to be held in Boston in January. It is predicted that he will lead the movement in favor of the eight-dollar-per-month pension bill. The forty- two shoe factories at Brockton, Mass., which have been silent for so long a time, oponed their doors yesterday for work under the terms of the award made oy the board of arbitration between the manufacturers and employes. William Graham, a bachelor living five miles south of Clinton, Wis., was confronted by a pistol held by a masked man, Monday night, and compelled to surrender $4,000 which he had in his house. Henry Lawson, a neighbor, has been arrested, accused of the robbery. William Moore and John Ridgeway were walking on the railway track near Coaltown, Butler county, Pa., Monday night, on their way home, when they were struck by a coal train backing up to the mines. Ridgeway was killed instantly, and Moore so badiy injured thathe died during the night. * 'W There was a decided break in the Monongahela river mines strike reported yesterday. On the fourth pool nearly every mine is in operation at tho reduced rate, and in the second and third pools the mines of Wood & Cos., Lynn & Cos., Penney <fc Cos., Horner & Roberts, D. O’Neil, and the Lovedale Coal Company have received large accessions to their working forces. No trouble occurred at any of the pits yesterday.

Funeral of Bishop Crautbailor. Green Bay, Wis., Dec. 22.— The funeral of the late Bishop F. X. Crautbauer was held from St. Francis Xavier Church this afternoon, the remains being interred in a vault under the main aisle of the cathedral. Nearly all the bishops of Wisconsin, Dakota, Minnesota and Michigan were present. Requiem high mass was celebrated by Archbishop Heiss, of Milwaukee, followed by an address in English by Bishop Ireland, of St. Paul, and an address by Vicar general Botts, of Milwaukee. All public buildings and many private residences are heavily draped. Organizing to Resist Reduction of Pay, St. Louis, Dec. 22. — A number of railway conductors engaged on the Missouri Pacific system, headed by C. S. Wheaton, have been in secret session here to-day. It is stated on reasonable authority that the purpose their meeting is to take steps looking towards the consolidation of the order of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, and the conductors and brakemen, and to take measures to resist an anticipated movement to cut down time and pay of conductors by the managers of the Gould system. Priests Must Not Talk Politics. Montreal, Dec 22. —The priests in the Roman Catholic diocese of Montreal have received a letter from the Holy Father prohibiting them from meddling with politics in any way, and not even to speak in private on political matters. Although the Riel matter is not openly referred to in the letter, it is alluded to in a manner which would seem to show that what several priests havo said rogarding the national government has greatly displeased Bishop Fabre. James Starling's Horrible Death. Nashville, Dec. 22.—1n Chattanooga county, northern Georgia., yesterday, James Starling was killing hogs, and used a half-buried hogshead as a scalding vat, which was filled with boiling water. Starling attempted to pitch a hog into the vat, but stumbled under the weight, fell headlong into the seething liquid, and al though lifted out, instantly he was literallyboiled, the flesh dropping from his body in huge flakes. He was dead when taken out. t$l.">0,000 to a Bishop. Wheeling, W. Va., Dec. 21.—John Bruce, a retired shoemaker, who died at the hospital here last week, worth $150,000 and without heirs, leaves ail his real estate, stocks and cash, with the exception of $6,000 bequeathed to Mrs. M. J. O'Kane, with whom he boarded for several years, to Bishop Kain, of this Catholic diocese, as his own forever, reserving $2,000 to be expended by Sheriff Handlan for charity as he sees fit, and SI,OOO to erect a monument. Another Challenge for the Queen's Cup. New York. Dec. 22.— At a meeting of the New York Y”acht Club., to-night, a challenge from Lieutenant Henn, of the British navy, offering to sail his yacht. Galatea, against the New Y'ork club’s representative for possession of the Queen’s Cup, was read and accepted. This is the trophy successfully defended bv the Boston yacht, Puritan. ngain9t the English yacht, Genesta. last summer. The race will be sailed uext season. Different Style of Inoculation. Chicago Inter Ocean. It is now stated that snake inoculation is successfully praciiced in Dutch Guiana. In this country a large number of citizens annually inoculate themselves for snakes in the boots. The success of their efforts may be judged from the criminal and mortality records. The most stubborn cases of dyspepsia and sick headache yield to the regulating and toning influences of Hood's SarsaparilWi. Try it

THE GAME SPOILED. Scheme of Ambitious Irishmen to Use Parnell as a Bait to Catch Irish Republicans. New York Special to Pittsburg Dispatch. The Democratic leaders are already laying plans to recapture the immense Irish vote which Mr. Blaine's candidacy swnng into the Republican party last year. Those who have control of the Democracy now in this State are shrewd, far seeing men, who already realize the power that the Irish vote will be in the next presidential election, and they have started out to get the Irish organizations of the State under the control of a few men who will be able to dictate the course of those bodies politically. The coming of Mr. Parnell to this country is to be the’means employed to bring about this end. They hope to be able to capture the Irish leader, take him on a junketing tour through the country, and thus get themselves recognized as tho true leaders of the Irish-Americans. In this way they could prosecute with more certainty their schemes for political preferment and gain. A brief reference to the Irish defection of last year will aid in a thorough understanding of the present situation. When the talk of the Irish vote going for Blaine was first started the Democratic ’leaders pooh-poohed it. claiming that the dynamite element were the only ones eneaged in it. But when Alexander Sullivan refused a re-election to the presidency of the Land League, so as to be free to work for Blaine, and a central organization was formed here of eminent Irishmen, those of their countrymen whose political life in this municipality depended on ther ability to wield the Irish vote became alarmed. They held a meeting at the New York Hotel. Among those present were nearly all the Irish city officials. They abused Mr. Sullivan, tried to break up the meeting and yet another ex-president of the League was employed to go about the country peddling this abuse in behalf of Cleveland. The result of the election, in spite of the well known alliteration, proved that the thinking Irish-Americans had cut loose from their leading strings, and that the politicians of their own nationality wore no longer to control them for selfish needs. Events that have since transpired prove conclusively that their defection was no spasmodic movement, that it was the outcome of a growing sentiment, and that they had come to stay. The old stand-bys then tried another dodge—to break up the municipal council of the League by withdrawing. Some of them —a very few—did withdraw, but the Council has since gone on growing in power, and it is stronger here to-day than ever. When Mr. Parnell’s visit was determined on several of the leaders saw in it an opportunity to regain their power over the Irish vote, and the same ones who made up the New York meeting during the Blame campaign reorganized as the “Hoffman House committee for the reception of Parnell.” and subscribed the beginning of a Parliamentary fund, which they announce will soon be swollen to SIOO,OOO. The Democratic papers were brought into play and padded with the right kind of information. It was announced, through them, that nearly all the city officials of Irish birth or descent, and many prominent Americans, had promised their support to the movement; that a citizens’ committee had been formed with delegates from the National League ar.d other organizations; charging that there “are deplorable dissensions” in Chicago, and asserting that a prominent Irishman had cabled to Mr. Parnell not to jeopardize his position by coming to this county at all. The truth about all this is that the “Hoffman House committee” is self constituted; that the National League has no affiliation with it, and has not been asked tc join it; that Mr. Patrick Egan, president of the Irish National League of America, has written to Michael D. Gallagher, president of the Municipal Council here, requesting him to take measures for the reception of Mr. Parnell, and naming as his associates on the committe tho Rev. Charles O’Reilly, the League treasurer; James Mooney, of Buffalo; Rev. T. J. Conaty, of Massachusetts; General Kirwin, of this city; Congressman Finerty. of Chicago; O’Neill Ryan, of St. Louis; H. F. Wilhere, of Philadelphia; Thomas Dougherty. Patrick A. Collins and John Boyle O'Reilly, of Boston; Alexander Sullivan, of Chicago; Patrick Ford, of this city; Judgo Rooney, of Brooklyn; the Rev. Maurice Dorney, of Town Lake, 111., and Mr. Egan himself. This takes the work entirely out of the hand of the self-constituted Hoffman House committee, which is already badly disrupted, and split into three factions —the Mayor Grace faction, the Joseph J. O’Donoghue faction and the Eugene Kelly faction. Mr. Kelly wants to he the head and front of the Irish race in America, Mr. O'Donoghue wants to be mayor of New Y r ork and Mayor Grace wants —it is not known exactly what The purpose of these men is to get Governor Hill down here at the Parnell reception—his coming is already announced—and boom him from that time on as the groat friend and patron of the Irish cause. By the prestige they would naturally gain by piloting Mr. Parnell through the country they would be able to get a firmer hold than ever on the Irish societies, and Governor Hill’s name would be judiciously used as a club to knock them all in line. But the scheme has now leaked out, and it is not believed that it can be successful, inasmuch as the League, which is the recognized voice of the Irish people of America, has proceeded to organize a reception committee of its own, entirely ignoring the work of the wire-pullers. Mr. Parnell will certainly act in accordance with the League’s suggestions, and have nothing to do with outsiders if they should object. There will be nothing for the “Hoffman House committee” to do but turn in and work with the League committee. Certainly, if they have the cause of Ireland at heart, as they profess to have, and not their own personal and political advancement, they will not endeavor to thwart the work or programme of the recognized head of This country—Mr. Egan. The leaders on both sides in this city are not inclined to talk about their doings, and this aspect of the question has never been made public before. It is not at all improbable, however, that the details of this far-sighted scheme to pocket the Irish vote among a few leaders—to be bartered about for their own selfish designs, will be laid bare when the proper time comes; but until then those interested do not feel warranted in talking.

Business Embarrassments. Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 22.—The assignment of Dow, Short & Cos., private bankers here, was filed this morning. Charles P. Baldwin is the assignee. The failure was precipitated by the failure yesterday of Silverstein & Cos., clothing merchants, for whom tne bank carried about $40,000, which is a total loss. The preferences amount to $28,000. The deposits are about $40,000, including trust funds. Preferred rediscounted paper to a large amount is held by the Syracuse banks, and is secured by real estate mortgages. It is expected that the depositors will be paid in full. Nominal assets are $120,000. and the liabilities $60,000. Among the assets are $70,000 in bad notes St. Louis, Dec. 22.—Charles H. Leeds, secretary of the Stationers' National Board of Trade, has been here for two days past, making an official investigation of the affairs of tho St. Louis Stationery and Book Company, which confessed judgment last week in favor of Hugh li. Hildreth, in the sum of $45,000. Mr. Leeds has not completed his examination, but up to the present time he has found that the liabilities of the company amount to $200,000, including the sum due Mr. Hildreth, and that the assets are $150,000 in excess of that amount. Piqua, 0., Dec 22.—O’Ferall & Smith, manufacturers of agricultural implements, have assigned to M. H. Jones. , Liabilities, $20,000; assets about tbe same. Leetonia, 0., Dec. 22.—James Hape, an extensive dealer in flour aud grain, made an assignment to-day to Charles Nisbor. Liabilities and assets not known. Cleveland, 0., Dec. 22.—M. J. Weinberg, dry goods dealer of Akron, 0., made an assignment to-day. His Kindness Rewarded. Portland Special. H. Thatcher Clark, of this city, has received a legacy from an unknown man wnom he befriended. The story goes that some time ago, while Mr. Clark was at the depot, his attention was attracted to a feeble and poorly clad old man alighting from a train. Mr. Clark watched the stranger a few moments. He seemed somewhat bewildered, and knew not in what direction to turn. Mr. Clark make a few inquiries, and learned that the old mao had arrived at a strange

city, where he had not a single friend. Tie had no money with him. Mr. Clark invited the stranger to his residence, and pave him a dinner. As soon as he had finished his meal the old man arose, said good-bye, and went on his way. Mr. Clark never heard from the man again until a day or two ago. when he received a letter from a lawyer of Chicago. The latter informed him that he had been bequeathed several thousand dollars by the old naau he had found in the depot and took home. MANY CHI! t !’>l\S GIFTS. Queer Scenes in the Stationery Rooms in the Capitol at Washington. Washington Special. The stationery room in the House wine of the United States Capitol had its “opening” of Cnristmas goods a few days ago. and looks very tray indeed. It is there the members of the House and the ladies of their families get most of the Christmas cifts they give to their friends, for each member of that House is allowed by law $125 per annum for stationery, which he can take in money or get its worth in the numerous articles that come under the head of “stationery," on which term a most liberal construction is placed. There can now be seen in that room dressing boxes for ladies and gentlemen, shaving-cases for the latter and manicure boxes, all of the finest varieties, the boxes being in colored plush covers; toilet mirrors, fancy stands of perfumery in cut-glass bottles, ivory-handled and other brushes, and combs in boxes and separately”, opera glasses and plash bags to carry them in, fans, music covers, clocks, candles for sealingwax and candlesticks for them, autograph and photograph albums, scrap books, card cases, pocket-books for ladies and gentlemen, as weli as portfolios, knives, pencils, pens, ink, boxes of fancy paper, cards, etc., and all that comes under the head of stationery ordinarily. All of these goods are superior in quality, and made after the newest styles. Many ladies have been visiting that room daily, during the past week, to get their Christmas supplies. The law making the allowance of $125 to each member for stationery for each session of Congress was passed at the time the franking privilege was abolished, and it is said many members purchase more than double that amount in postage stamps for their necessary correspondence. On the other hand, some of them draw more stationery of the nature above indicated than can be paid for out of the specified sum. in which case the excoas is charged against them and deducted from their salaries. Some of them rarely have anything for themselves from the stationery room except the least costly and most absolutely necessary writing materials, and let their wives or daughters get what they choose there for themselves and friends. One distinguished member, who has served eight years, has from the first told his wife that the stationery fund washer perquisite, and she has drawn liberally upon it, hut has given away most of the articles in presents to friends. One generous and confiding congressman told a constituent to go to the stationery room and eet something for himself as a souvenir, and later found that the man had helped himself to twenty dollars’ worth of goods. Some others commute for their stationery and draw all of it in money. It wasjeharged that acer tain Western senator, who lived in a most miserly wav during his term, paid for his board wholly with his stationery allowance, drawn in money. The Senate also has its stationery-room, but as the House has so many more members the supplies of stationery can be ordered for it in greater variety, and the Senate’s stationery-room, in which Christmas gifts can be obtained by senators and their families, looks very contracted indeed as compared to that of the House.

MISS CLEVELAND’S LETTER. The True Meaning of the Christmas Festival. Washington Post. The Children’s Christmas Club held their second meeting this year at the Franklin schoolbuilding, yesterday afternoon. Miss Mollie Vilas, accompanied by her mother, was present, and. at the suggestion of Mr. R Ross Perry, she was unanimously elected president of the club. Miss Cleveland, who had been requested to attend the meeting, wrote the following letter to Miss Vilas, and it was read aloud by Mr. Perry to the childreu: “Executive Mansion, > “Wash ngton, Dec. 18.1885. > “My Dear Mollie—l am glad you are going to take the lead in the Christmas club for remembering poor children who have no one to make Christmas for them. If you think it over, that is the true Christ part of Christinas, for you know He taught, not only by His words, but by Ilia own life, that “it is more blessed to give than to receive.” It takes a long time to learn that by heart, and if we all began when we were children we would not be so dreadfully selfish grown-up people, and there would be a great deal more comfort all around. I hope you will find out every forlorn, neglected boy and girl, and surprise them with a good dinner and something nice to take home and keep to remember you by, and, what is a great deal better, to remember Christ by. I shall try to call in at your meeting this afternoon before it is over, but.l may be a little late; but as you, dear Mollie, are the president, it will not matter how many common people like me are late. Yours always, “Rose Elizabeth Cleaelanix” Miss Cleveland arrived about 2:15, in company with Mrs. Lawrence, and the ladies were escorted from their carriage to the hall by Mr. Ross Perry. Miss Cleveland’s appearance was made the occasion of cheers and other manifestations of delight. She made no address, but simply sat at the desk in the middle of the room, surrounded by several ladies, while Mr. Perry made a pleasant little SDeech to the children. Miss Vilas distributed the badges as the names of the children who had paid ten cents at the former meeting were read out. The badges consisted of a small strip of white siik ribbon, with the inscription “C. C. C.. ’84,” printed in gold thereon, while a little golden bell was suspended from thß end of the ribbon. About 200 additional children registered their names, paid ten cents and received badges, which number added to those who joined the club last Saturday, makes a total of about 400 children now enrolled as members.

BUZZARD BEHIND THE BARS. The Famous Penn sy I van i a O utlaw Not Pleased with His New Quarters. Philadelphia Record “Well, if 1 thought 1 was to come here, none of us would have ever surrendered.” This remark, expressing his deep disgust, was Abe Buzzard’s greeting to an official at the Eastern Penitentiary yesterday afternoon. The redoubtable outlaw was brought to this city by two deputy sheriffs from Lancaster, who took the precaution to handcuff the big robber fast to themselves on the one side, and to John Lippincott, one of the Buzzard gang, on the other. Buzzard looked strong enough to run off to the woods, without any trouble, with the two companions to whom he was chained. Notwithstanding the oddlyfitting suit in which he appeared, the prisoner made a fin • presence. His linen was scrupulously neat, his face newly shaven and his hair done up in a somewhat dudish fashion. He has a fine face, to which a large mustache and goatee cave a somewhat brigandish appearance. He is thirtythree years of age, but looks older. Upon being taken to the bath he chatted with the doctor about his journey from Lancaster, and appeared to be deeply interested in the affairs of the penitentiary, to which this was his second visit upon the invitation of the court. When stripped he weighed 186 pounds and measured 5 feet 10i inches in height. After Buzzard’s bath the physician examined him and made a minute description of all the marks upon his body. He was then dressed in a gray suit, with a cap, and told to face the wall. The desperado did as he was bidden. A keeper placed a large bag over his head, and led him through the corridors, and finally landed him in a cell which contained a mattress, a blanket, a stool and a table. Upon the wall was a copy of the Ten Commandments. The door was closed with a bang, and the terror of Welsh mountain began his fourteen year term. A Cabby’s Terrible Temptation. London L. tter. A “fare’’ got out of a cab in London, and as he was paying the cabby he said: “Look here, my man, what do you wear that blue ribbon for?" The cabby grinned and touched his hat, saying: “The gents do tempt me so, and l do so love to fall." Substantially the Same. St. Louis U!obe-Democrat The Episcopalians have at last come to the conclusion that a revival is a good thing, and the

success of their recent protracted meeting in New York, held under the name of an “Advent Mission,” will doubtless stimulate that church elsewhere to effort in the same direction. These religious movements are known in different de| nominations by various names, but the thing in all, substantially the same. THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW. Extent of the Agitation—Probability of a General Strike lleing Averted. Philadelphia Rerord. The movement among laborers throughout the country in favor of constituting eight hours as a full day’s work in all the trades is exciting grea£ attention in ali blanchesof industry. The adoption of eight hours as the time of labor in government departments laid the foundation for the future agitation of the subject among laborers. Soon after the passage of the law a number of miners in the Pennsylvania coal fields organised a general strike, continuing, without any definite results, for but a brief period. The subject then lay dormant until the meeting. in December. 1884, of the National Federation of Trade i Labor Unions of the United States and C a. which assembled in Chicago. The eight-h jestion was there discussed in all its Pear and a resolution was passed urging all t ue and labor unions in this country to give practical support to the movement, first by urging on em, >yers the necessity and benefits of a reduction to eight hours in the daily po, riod of labor, and advising the organizations, if this method proved unsuccessful, to join in a concerted action on May 1. 1886, for the enforcement of the eight-hour system. According to the rules of the federatin' the action of the central body was submitted for approval to the many subordinate branches throughout the country. The Brownstone-cut ters’ Association, of New York, was the first organization to make a successful stand in favor of the change, while the Baltimore branch of the Granite-cutters' National Union made another successful demand for a uniform working time of nine hours a day at $3.25. The plumbers of Washington took up the movemen'i soon afterward, and were granted a nine-hour working day, with eight hours on Saturday. A large number of trade organizations in this city, members of the Central Labor Union, which is affiliated with the Federation of Trades, passed resolutions indorsing the movement, and providing for simultaneous action for its enforcement on the Ist of next May. While the general principles which actflated the agitation of the proposed reform were met with the approval by all the labor organizations of the country, there soon appeared a decided feeling in many quarters that the projected general strike was somewhat premature, and would have greater chances of success if deferred until more complete organization and better plans were secured. The Knights of Labor were among the friends of the measure who took this view of the situation. The entire subject was discussed at the last animal conference of the Knights in Hamilton, Canada. The delegates declared against the general strike on May 1 on the ground of inexpediency. This action of one of the most poworful labor organizations in the country naturally gave the movement a considerable set-back, as unanimity among all the labor unions throughout the country was essential to the complete success of the movement. It was also said by influential Knights that the eight-hour system would not be beneficial to many trades in their organiza_ tions. in which twelve and ten hours labor per day was the lowest limit attainable. Again, it was said that work was obtainable in certain trades only during certain ppasons of the year, when the hours of labor were necessarily prolonged. The argument also has been advanced that piece-workers would suffer from the change' The Cigar-makers’lnternational L’uion, however, has determined to adhere to the original programme. and as a preliminary step will demand, on Jan. 1, a reduction to nine hours labor per day. The Federation of Trade and Labor Unions, at its recent meeting in Washington, again discussed the subject, but opinion was divided on the advisability of ordering a genoral strike. A resolution was finally passed approving the eight-hour movement, but leaving to the various trade organizations the option of striking on May 1. This disposition of the subject, in the opinion of leading labor organizers, disposes of the eeneral strike on May 1, although it is said that agitation of the subject for future general action will be continued. David M. Pascoe, one of the most active labor advocates in this city, speaking of the subject, said that the great benefit which would follow the general introduction of the eight-hour system would be the immediate employment of thousands of men who are now upon the streets. A reduction in wages may ensue, he said, but this would speedily be followed by a general advance as the demand for labor increased.

THE PRESIDE ST’S NEW SEAL. An Eloquent Plea in Behalf of America's Distinctive Bird, the Wild Turkey. New York “nn. ' When Chester A. Arthur was President he got anew flag. Now that Grover Cleveland is President he has got anew seal. “The central figure" of this interesting novelty, we are told, “standing out in bold relief, is the American spread eagle, which king of birds was chosen as our national emblem because its attributes are so closely analogous to the characteristics of our Nation.” We are sorry th President did not*" improve this opportunity to give the really distinctive and characteristic bird of the North American continent some representation among our national emblems. VVe mean the wild turkey. The eagle has honor enough. He figures on the great seal of the United States, on the arms of the Union, and on the silver dollar. He is no more American than he is French, or Prussian, or Austrian, and, besides he is only a useless bird of prey after all. But the wild turkey is a bird after our own heart—a true native American, grand in aspect and magnificent in plumage. Benjamin Franklin wanted to make him our representative instead of the eagle, and the great printer was right. The wild turkey is well worthy of the distinction. He is not only beautiful, but brave. A more courageous bird does not exist. Our cat allows no eagles to enter the office, but he never tackles a wild turkey. The best weight of the wild turkey is about twenty pounds. In flavor the wild turkey is much superior to the domesticated turkey. The wild turkey ought to have been represented on President Cleveland’s new seal. Setting the Matter Kiglit. Lafayette Comet. The Comet has been giving Miss Stella Reese—a good deal of free advertising on the strength of her alleged wealth. Instead of being a Quakeress with $200,000 in her own right, she is not a Quakeress, and her private fortune is S2O, instead of $200,000. Sure Euough. Boston Record. Manual training is no doubt a good thing, but where shall the schools get their manual trainers? Awakb, Americans, and leave all meaner things To I w ambition and the pride of kings; '** Don’t sigh with pains, or burns, or accident. But use Salvation Oil, the greatest liniment.

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