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of yesterday. On behalf of immediate personal ifrieods of the late Vico president, and of the general body of people in Indiana, I feel authorized to tender their very grateful and sincere thanks for your kind and timely interest in a movement so honorable to his memory and so •well earned by his public services and his private virtues.’ Permit me to assure you that no net on yonr part, in the midst of your incessant labors for the public good, will be longer cherished or more highly prized by the people of State than your symphthy with the effort to erect a monument to his fame. With the highest respect and warmest personal regard, I am “Very faithfully yours, “D. W. Voorh~es. : ’ THE OFFENSIVE SPARKS. Washington Officials Unable to Decide Wliat to Do with Him. Washington Special. What shall be done with Sparks? This is the question that was asked by the Secretary of the Interior, repeated by the President, and echoed by ether members of the Cabinet. Before this inquiry the reduction in the tariff, the silver question, civil service reform shrink into insignificance. The Commissioner has been confirmed, he is a strong partisan, and, having some following. cannot bo dismissed. What shall be done with him? A solurion of the knotty problem comes to one of the advisers of the President as an inspiration: “Send him as minister to Austria.” “Just the thing,” says another; “his wife is a Catholic and he will not be rejected by the Austrian court” “But he cannot speak the German language.” “So much the better; he will not got himself and us into trouble, as Mueller has done.” The troublesome affair appeared to be satisfactorily settled until the Secretary of State quietly remarked: "No Sparks in mine, if vou please. I have had trouble enough with Keiley and with the minister to Brazil, and now with Consul-general Mueller.” It is not propable that these were the exact words used, for the descendant of Chevalier Bayard does not use slane, but, as tho colored brother remarked, they are "synonymous.” So the government is all at sea again, and still has to carry Sparks, and a heavy load it is. Noi is it certain that he would accept a mission to an expensive foreign court at a salary of only SIO,OOO. Like the good deacon whose obstinacy induced his brethren to meet and pray that his disposition might be changed—“and if Thou can’t do it. Lord; if it be too hard for Thee, then take him to heaven.” “Won’t go!” said the incorrigible deacon. When Mr. Sparks finds that hia transition to Vienna is desired, to get him out of -the Land Office, and thus relieve tho government, he will probably respond, "Won't go!” If so, his brilliant scintillations will continue to illuminate Washington, and excite the alarm of many landholders in the Territories. Land Commissioner Sparks, in an interview last eveniug, said: “If the President is not satisfied with ray management of the Land Office, then [ am much mistaken. I have not seen him for some time, as he has been busy about other things, bnt I know he is pleased with the way the office ia being run. The statement that my decisions have been overruled as rapidly as I made them is manufactured out of whole cloth. The Secretary of the Interior has never overruled a decision made by me, although he has sometimes suggested changes. Complaints against me and tho management of the Land Office come from people who are interested in land frauds and jobs. The complaints in tho West emanate from editors who are interested and from lawj*ers who have to get along somehow. We have a great many from there. These stories are, I believe, the work of people whose interests have been affected by my methods in running the Land Office, and I know that one of the articles printed in a Western journal was written upon the office paper of a big firm here. ”

MINOR MATTERS. Prof. Greener Talks of the Prospects of tlie Grant Monument Association. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 21).—Prof. R. T. Greener. 2he secretary of the New York coinmittea which is ondoavoring to raise half a million dollars for a monument to the memory of General Grant, spent the Christmas holidays in this city with bis family. _ To your correspondent he said today: “The outlook for a worthy monument is decidedly good. Wo do not expect to raise a mill ion dollars, but we shall get enough to orect something that will be a credit alike to the city and the Nation.” “How is it the wealthy men.fwhose names appear on the list of starters of the project, do not appear amoug the contributors?” "It would be unwise to get all the big contributions first. After wo have perfected tho plans and have collected all we can in small sums, it will be timo enough to ask the big fish for their contributions.” “How much have you now?” “About SIOO,OOO was tho amount collected when I left Now York.” "What do you expect to get?” ; “Oh. $300,000 would be a very satisfactory amount.” Tim House Committee Chairmanships. Washington Special. Speaker Carlisle has thus far arranged his committee chairmanships: Appropriations—Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania. Ways andMeans —William R. Morrison, of Illinois. Military Affairs —E J. Viele, of New York. Naval Affairs—A. S. Hewitt, of New York. Coinage—R. IVBland, es Missouri. Commerce—John H. Reagan, of Texas. Elections —Henry G. Turner, of Georgia. Judiciary—J. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia. Rivers and Harbors—A. S. Willis, of Kentucky. Foreign Affairs— A. G. Curtic, of Pennsylvania. Public Lands—Thomas R. Cobb, of Indiana. Indian Affairs—W. S. Holman, of Indiana. Territories —John Aruott, of New York. Labor —Martin A. Foran, of Ohio. Patents —Charles L. Mitchell, c Connecticut Invalid Pensions —C. C. Matson, of Indiana. War Claims —George W. Gedd 5, of Ohio. District of Columbia —John is. Barbour, of Virginia. Law Respecting Election of President and Vice-president—Win. M. Springer, of Illinois. The Search for tlie Amethyst. Washington. Dec. 29.—The Secretary'of the Treasury received a telegram from Captain Hooper, of tho revenue steamer Rush, at Sau Francisco, stating that, after consultation with Captain Healy, of the Corwin, he had decided to undertake the search for the missing whaler Amethyst. He also inquired if the cruise should be limited to the Aleutian islands, or whether he should push northward, following the ice pack as it broke up in the spring. Secretary Manning replied as follows: “Take the necessary supplies and proceed at once. Officers have been directed to report to you for duty immediately. Employ a surgeon and use your judgment as to the northern limit of the cruise.” It is believed at the department that the Rush will be able to sail from £an Francisco for Behring sea on Thursday next. Patents Issued to Indiana Inventors. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 29. Patents were issued to Indiumans to day, as follows; Dempteer Beatty, Mishawaka, manufacture of felted mittens and gloves: Jacob Cain, assignor to Fort >Vayne Eiectric-light Company, Fort Wayne, electric arc lamp regulator; W'm. Casv <ly, South Bend, boat: Jason B. Hughes, Greensburg. corn shock compressor: Lerout 1 R. Jones, Winchester, horse power: Patrick W. McGuire, South Bend, tire and felloe for wheels ireissue); 3. George Roth, South Bend, vehicle spring; George N. Sceets, Evansville, assignor of onelislf to M. t'risle, Oakland City, steam boiler; Lucien Still wagon, GreencriStlo, cuff adjuster. _ Mr. Vilas'* First Colored Clerk. Wa -him.ton, Dec. 29. -About a mouth ago John T. Morton, of Arkansas, was appointed, through the Civil service Commission, to a thouland dollar position in the I'ostoffieo Depart

mont. Nothing was known of him, however, except that he was a school-teacher, and that the result of his examination was entirely satisfactory'; and when, this morning, a colored man presented himself, everybody was surprised. Ho was the first colored man appointed to a clerkship in that office. General and Personal. Special to the IndiauapoTia Journal. Washington, Dec. 29.—Representative Steele has collected a party of ladies and gentlemen to visit the battle-field of Bull Run, ashortdistanco from here, in Virginia. Commissions have been issued for the following Indiana postmasters: Hezekiah King, at Boggstown; Geo. W. Shiroy, at Cedarville; Elmer C. Argadine, at Forrest Hill; Wm. F. Killion. at Piaiuviile; Max ft. Kireliner, at St. Omer. Indiana Democrats, now here do not seem to believe that John B. Stoll, of South Bend, will get tho public printership. There does not seem to be unanimity in his indorsement. It is reported that Senator Gorman, of Maryland, has been promised the office for one of his friends. Gorman has already a majority of the appointments at the Government Printing Office. Senator Yoorhees accompanied the congressional party which left to-night to attend a banquet to be given by the Boston Merchants’ Association. Senator Harrison is still in the city, hard at work in his committee-room for his constituents. The Senator never leaves his post of duty when there is anything that can be done for hia constituents. THE FIRE RECORD. Burning of a Cotton-Seed Mill anil Other Buildings—Loss 10300,000. Greenville, Miss., Dec. 29.—A cotton seed mill was burned this morning. The building was about four hundred feet long, and, with machinery aud contents, was valued &t $130,000. The insurance is $32,000. The flames spread to eight or ten small dwellings adjoining, and these, together with 330 bales- of cotton in the yard, were consumed. Tlie total loss is estimated at $300,000. The insurance is believed to be less than SIOO,OOO. The ownership of the cotton was divided between a considerable number of firms and individuals. Store and Dwelling Darned. Philadelphia, Dec. 29.—About 1 o'clock this morning fire broke out in the store of John Ilageman, at Juhenstowu, N. J. The store and contents were destroyed,as were three dwellinghouses. It is ascertained that many of the goods are missing, creating the belief that the store had been robbed and then fired. Residences aud Stores Burned. Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 29.— Nine frame residences and stores burned down on East Ninth street this morniug, causing a loss of $13,000; insurance, SO,OOO. The losers are R. D. Peeple3. John Sully, J. P. McMillan, Sons and Daughters of Zion and R. V. Brennan. Obituary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, 111., Dec. 29.—Mrs. James Miller died here to-day, aged ninety-four, in the homo in which she has resided for over fifty years. She was the relict of lion. James Miller, who died iu 1872, and who was twice elected State Treasurer —in 1856 and 1838 —the first time on the auti-Nenraska ticket, tue second as a Republican. Mr3. Miller leaves three sons, two of whom reside here, and one at Sullivan, 111. Cincinnati, Dec. 29.—Captain Ed C. Armstrong, a well-known electrician of this city, died this evening, of consumption. It was through his efforts that the system of police patrol-wag-ons aud was adopted as an adjunct to tho police department of this city'. He was quite a young man. His brother Prank was for many years superintendent of tho Western Union Company at this point. Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 29.—A telegram from Hot Springs, Ark., says: “Hon. E. A. James died tbis morning, in this place, of sciatic rheumatism. He was a leading Tennessee politician, an elector in 1880. a leader of the anti-scaling movement in 1882, and a State senator.” Nashville, Dee. 29.— Ex-United States Senator James E. Bailev died at his homo m Clarksville. tbis morning at 7:50 o’clock, after a protracted illness, in his sixty-third year. He represented this State iu the Senate from 1877 to 1881.

Attempt to Blow Up Railway Bridge. El Paso, Tex., Dec. 29.—1 t became known here yesterday that a bold attempt was made, on the night of the 23d inst., to blow up the bridge of tho Southern Pacific railroad across the Rio Grande river, several miles above the city. Dynamite was placed on the track and the bridge-bolts loosened. A dozen or more men, speaking English, seized the bridge-tender at about midnight, bound and blindfolded him, and then marched him to his cabin. It was the intention of the men to blow passenger traul No. 20 from the bridge, and then plunder the passengers ou the rocks below. The train, however, was several hours late, and. as daylight approached the robbers fled. A San Francisco dispatch says: “Referring to the dispatch from Es Paso, Tex., stating that an attempt was mado on tno 23d inst. to blow up the Southern Pacific railroad bridge over tho Rio Grande, Goneral Manager Towne, of that road, said a thorough investigation of the matter made to-day shows there is no foundation for the statement, nor can he understand how it could have originated.” Traveling Men in Convention. Chicago, Dec. 29.—The annual meeting of the Northwestern Traveling Men’s Association began to day. Tho attendance is about 500. In his address, President Miller stated that tho year closing was the most prosperous the association had known. The membership was 3,569. The report of tho treasurer showed $17,000 on hand. James C. Miller, president, and T. Quincy, secretary and treasurer, were re-elected. For board of directors (two years) the election resulted: Conrad Witkosky, J. S. Gadsden, W. B. Main, W. H. Stanton. The president was voted SSOO for his services last year. Chicago was selected as the place for the next annual meeting. St. Loins, Dec. 29.—The annual meeting of tho Western Traveling Men’s Association was held hero to day. Only routine business was transacted at the morning session. An almost entirely new set of officers were elected during the afternoon, James Bannorman being chosen as president, and John J. Gilmore secretary and treasurer. Six vice presidents and six directors were also elected. The Atlanta Constitution’s News-Collectors. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 29. —To-day the novel spectacle is presented iu this city of a gathering of correspondents of the Atlanta Constitution, over 300 in number, from all parts of the Union. About one hundred are from Georgia, fifty from North Carolina, fifty from Alabama, and tho remainder from New York, Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville, their expenses for traveling, etc., all being furnished by the paper. To-night they were tendered a magnificent banquet, at which 350 plates were laid. Speeches wero made by Hon. Eph Howell and a number of the correspondents. During the day the visitors were shown around town in carriages, and introduced to the Governor. They also received many attentions from tho citizens. A Ruffian of Tender Years. McKinney, Tex., Dec. 29.—Thomas Henson, a boy aged fourteen years, enticed three little daughters of John Gallagher, a resident of St. Paul, m this county, some distance from their home yesterday evening about sunset. After getting them in a secluded spot, he brutally assaulted Laura, a child of seven or eight years of age. The other children fled. The child is fearfully injured, and m&y die from her injuries. Deputy She rill Brooks arrested Henson last night, and lie is r.ow iu jail, though there is somo doubt as to how long ho will be permitted to remain. In spite of ail the new remedies which are con stantly introduced to the public. Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup still takes tho lead for the cure of Coughs, Colds, etc. Price 25 cents.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1885.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of all Kinds in the Two States. Costly Freight Wreck at I.ogansperfc—A Case of Alleged Suicide Which Slay Prove Murder—A Blood-Drinking Mauiac. INDIANA. t A Costly Collision of Panhandle Freight Trains at Legaiißport. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Loganspokt, Dec. 29.—There was a costly wreck on the Chicago division of the Panhandle, inside the city limits, last night. A through freight coming down the hill north of the city got beyond control of the engineer and dashed into the rear of another freight that was pulling through the city. An engine and five cars were thrown into Uhl’s race. Four of the cars were loaded with dressed beef, from Armour Cos., of Chicago. The wreck will cost the conpany $15,000. The trains came together within Ivventy feet of the Eel river bridge. Had the crcsh occurred a few seconds later, the entire tram would have gone in the river. No lives lost New Republican Paper at Kokomo. Special to tb* Indianapolis Journal. Kokomo, Doc. 29.—There is a movement on foot to start a second Republican paper in this city. Lee Linn, of the Wabasr Courier, was present at a meeting of a few whe are interested in tho movement, last night, and the representations to him of probable support were such that he decided to accept. It is reported that he will be here, ready for business, inside of the next two or three weeks. There is also a street rumor that an attempt will be made to buy the plant of the Gazette-Tribune of its present proprietors, instead of startiug an opposition paper. The latter is hardly probable, however, as Messrs. Hoss & Johnson are not known to have any desire to sell. An Old L.ady Fatally Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Huntxngburg, Dec. 29.—An old lidy named Dodds, who lives at Dale, near here, fell into the fire-pla?e yesterday, and was fatllly burned. She was alone in the house at the tine, and, being unable to either get out or extinguish the flames, her clothes were burned ilmost off of her before assistance arrived. She was a widow, and lived with an only son. Arrested for an Old Murder. Vincennes, Dec. 29.—John B. Archer and George Holt, principals in the murder of John B. Bunch, a farmer of Martin county, this State, in the summer of 1881, were arrested at the residence of the former, five miles east of this city, late last night, by the sheriff’s posse, and brought to this city aud lodged in jail tbis morning. The Archers and George Ilolt are a desperate set of outlaws, who lived near Bunch’s farm and were a terror to the old man. They managed to entice him from home to look after his stock, when they pounced upon him and murdered him, and after throwing the dead man in Lost river, where the body lay for several days, through fear that the remains might be discovered bv a party of men who were searching for them, took up the body and boiled the flesh from the bones and buried them in a grave in a country cemetery. The disappearance of Bunch was a great mystery, until revealed by Archer’s wife, whom he had willfully abandoned and left penniless and in utter want, and who, in her extremes, told of his whereabouts. She is an inmate of the poor-house. Her statements implicate beside John B. Archer and Holt, Samuel Thomas and Martin Archer and John Lynch, for all of whom warrants have been issued.

Elopers Married at Jeffersonville. Louisville, Ivy., Dec. 29. —Sidney Barbra and Miss Katie Wolford, daughter of Congressman Frank Wolford, were married at Jeffersonville, Ind., to-night. The young couole ran away from their home, at Columbia, Ivy., and rode forty miles in a buggy to Lebanon, Ky., where they took the train for Louisville. The young lady is about nineteen years old. Minor Notes. The Seymour Daily Republican lias changed from a morning to an evening paper John C. Hester, of Chicago, has purchased an interest of O. M. Howard in the Crawfordsville Tempest. Burglars entered the store and residence of Frank Sears, on East Main street, Xew Albany, while the family was attending cliutch, and stole $lO3. John Lee, the colored crook arre&ted at Richmond for snatching Judge Newman’s watch, was sent to State’s prison for three years and fined $5. William Baine, his two sons and Joshua Stephens, all of Marion, are in jail for stealing. A slaughtered hog, a lot of clothing and other plunder were found on the premises. On next Sunday morning Rev. Lucifer Jones, of the Gibsonville Church, will baptize thirtyfive converts in the river, at the foot of Mulberry street, Jeffersonville. The parties are all colored. L. S. Yeargin, a reporter on the St Louis Globe Democrat, was married at Crawfordsville, last Saturday night, to Miss Minnie E. Lamb, a niece of United States District Attorney John l^Lamb. At the close of a Christmas festival, given at Now Washington School-house, someone threw a bottle into the crowd coming out of the schoolhouse, striking James McLain in the eye, putting out that organ. Thomas R. Fugit has resigned as manager of the New Albany woolen mills store, and is succeeded by Mr. Samuel W. Vance. Mr. Fugit will take a position in another department of the same company. Josiah Hutchinson, an old resident of Coal Creek townshiu, Montgomery county, died last Sunday. He had lived where he died since 1535, and was the father of Mrs. McMulien, who was murdc-red, on Jan. 7, by J. W. Coffee. Israel Penrod, the oldest man in Wabash county, died at his home in Chester township, that county, on Monday. Mr. Penrod was remarkably well preserved, and was able to chop wood all day until a short time before death. The little daughter of Roland Scrioner. a wealthy farmer living a few miles east of North Manchester, was fatally burned while playing about an open grate tire. Her clothing ignited and was burned off before help arrived. The child died after twelve hours' intense suffering. On Monday, Dr. O. K. Gnyer, of Lewisville, finished a thirty days' term in jail, on what his friends believed to be an unjust sentence, for attempted bribery of a pension agent. They received him with a band of music. Speeches were made, resolutions of respect were passed and an elegant supper was giveu the Doctor. At New Albany William Horner, colored, who claims to be less than one-eighth blood, applied to the county clerk for license to tnarfy a "white woman, with whom he has been living two years. The clerk took the application under advisement and will probably issue the license, as the law permits and eighth or sixteenth-blood colored to marry a white. The entire night police forco of Vincennes has been discharged—Eugene Crandal, Jacob Metzger, Gottlieb Vieke and Tom Shay—whom Mayor Wilhelm and the committee on police found off duty one night last week between 12 and 1 o'clock. One was caught in a house of ill fame, another at homo asleep, the third sleeping at the Union Depot, while the fourth was drunk. A $123 gold watch and chain havo been presented to Rev. J. H. Ford, pastor of the M. E. Church at New Castle. He came to Now Castle eight months ago from Logansport, where ho served the Broadway Church as pastor three and a half years. His influence was soon felt, and his church was crowded to overflowing. He has received into the church over two hundred persons, besides infusing a revival infiu-

ence into New Castle such as never was known before. The watch was presented by citizens, irrespective of church relationship, as a token of esteem for him as a-minister aud a man. Last October Mrs. Cordelia Small, a wealthy young widow of Vincennes, against the earnest protest of relatives and friends, wedded Jordan Riel, a widower, formerly of Knox county, but for some time residing at Orlando, Fla. News has been received of their separation a few days ago, on account of incompatibility of temperament and that lady's failure to furnish him with money. They have a singular way of collecting bills at Henryville. Henry Heyns owed James McJenkins $2.50, and declined to pay it. On Saturday night Heyns went to a saloon, and there met McJenkins, who knocked him down and pounded him unmercifully. He still refused to pay the bill. An hour later they met again, and McJenkins whipped him again. Then Heyns paid the bill The Merchants’ and Manufacturers’Exchange, of Lafayette, has decided to close a contract •with the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company for the establishment of an office in that city. $5,000 has been subscribed by the merchants of the city and will be paid to the telegraph company who agree to establish a line from Lafayette to Logansport, refund all subscription money to subscribers by use of the line, and further agree to maintain the same rates for messages as are charged at Indiauapolis, for a period of five years. The office will be established at once. ILLINOIS. Facts Showing that the Death of Young Miller Was Not Caused by Suicide. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Marshall, 111., Dec. 29.—The case of the suicide of young Vooriiees Miller, at Effingham, mentioned in the Journal of the 20th, is taking on a different and darker phase. The father of tho young man says ho left home on Thursday morning in good health and spirits, intending only to go to town for a few hours. They both were intending to go to Cherry vale, Kan., the next week. The young man came to town, went directly to the depot, and left on his fatal journey. His father thinks he was drugged and robbed, as he had a much larger sum of money when he left home than was found on his person. The drug must have affected his mind. The case will be investigated. Smallpox at Peoria. Chicago. Dec. 29.—Dr. Rauch, secretary of the State Board of Health, returned from Peoria to-night, where he said he found thirteen cases of smallpox, but thought the city authorities had the disease fully under control. Hearing of smallpox at Eaton, Dr. Rauch drove there, and learned of a case at a farm-house several miles from the town. Driving there, he found a man suffering from the disease. Ho also learned that the na ture of the disease not being known thereabouts, a large party had been held at the house a night or two before. Dr. Rauch immediately drove back to town and telegraphed to Chicago for vaccine. He left instructions that every person who .attended the party referred to be vaccinated at once. He thicks the spread of the disease there can be prevented in this way. A Blood-Drinking Maniac. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Marshall, Dec. 29.—Henry Deitzel, a promising young man from Darwin, was brought here to be tried for insanity. He has been very violent of late, anfi constantly demanded blood to drink. Chickens were killed for him, and he drank their warm blood. When the supply was exhausted he mashed his hand terribly, and drank the blood from that. His mother is in the insane asylum now. He will be taken to a hospital ia a tow days.

Brief Mention. James W. Barber, furniture dealer at Decatur, failed Monday. William Wright, a negro burglar, has been captured at Mount Vernon. The Rev. John Ryan, pastor of the Catholic Church at Pecatonica, died suddenly Monday. A man named Keen fatally shot a man named Bradford at Skillet Ford, Saturday. Keen has disappeared. At Tolono, George Himer was captured by a policeman while in the act of burglarizing Smith & Son’s store. The Elgin Board of Trade has elected its officers, D. F. Barclay being chosen president, and R. P. McGlincv, secretary. The vestry of Emanuel Episcopal Church, at Rockford, lias decided to call Rev. Douglas C. Peabody, of Pittsburg, to the rectorship. It is not known whether he will accept. The regimental organizations of the Seventh and Ninth Infantry, Illinois National Guard, have been desolved by the Adjutant-general, the men of the Seventh being consolidated with the Fifth Infantry, and those of the Ninth going to the Eighth Infantry. The dry goods establishment of Theodore Grove, at Freeport, has been closed, the proprietor making a Voluntary assignment to Aaron Blade. The liabilities are placed at $7,112.41, the principal creditor being Helen L. Grove, who put into the business $3,552.34. The stock is reported to be worth $3,240, with a book account of several hundred dollars. g"’ The Alleged Mexican Filibusters. St. Louis, Dec. 29. —The Globe-Democrat correspondent at Brownsville, Tex., telegraphs as follows: “Advices from Rio Grande City say that Major Kellogg, at the head of sixty United States soldiers, left Ringgold barracks for the Juan Maldona ranch, eighteen miles above, on the river, to arrest or disperse any armed forces there, gathered for the purpose of invading the city of Mier, Mexico. A deputy sheriff sent to reconnoitre, reported thaf there were about a dozen armed Mexicans at the ranch, and the efforts to get a force together there have proved abortive. It is also said the force is only a gathering of smugglers.” Mother and Three Children Drowned. Louisville, Dec. *29.—A special to tho Cou-rier-Journal says: “James Sander, with his wife and three children, -were crossing the Kentucky river in a skiff near Nicholasville, Ky., and, when nearing the opposite bank missed the landine-place, and the skiff struck a projecting snag, upsetting the boat Mr. Sander succeeded in getting ashore, but it was so very dark he was unable to render any assistance to his wife and three little children, and they were all drowned. Their bodies were all found to-day, and the mother and three children will be buried in one grave to-morrow. ” ■ 1 ■ Proposed Amalgamation of Glass-Blowers. Pittsburg, Dec. 29. —Arrangements are being made in this city to amalgamate the flmt-elass-workers, the window-glass-workers and the bottle blowers’ unions. A committee from each association are now holding a series of meetings, perfecting a basis of amalgamation. It is expected that the change will be completed within the next three weeks. The joint committee will then submit their plan to conventions of the respective unions for their consideration. Business Embarrassments. Louisville, Dec. 29.—J. C. Webb & Cos., printers, assigned to-day. Liabilities, $5,000; assets. $7,000. Coshocton, 0., Dec. 29.—J. C. Magaw made an assignment to J. McClure, for the benefit of his creditors. The supposed liabilities are SB,000; assets, $5,000. - ■- '■■■ A Furnace Resumes Operations. Sharon, Pa., Dec. 29. — The old Sharpsville furnace has just been “blown in” after an idleness of two years. The Joliet Steel Company has contracted for all the iron the furnace will produce, winch means a long and steady run. The Douglas furnace, of tho same place, has also been put iu blast. . Steamship News. Queknctow.v, Dec. 29.—Arrived: City of Richmond, from New York. New York, Dec. 29.— -Arrived: Circassia, from Glasgow; St. Laurent, from Havre.

PAGES BIG STEAL An Express Agent Steals SB,OOO, Dons Bis Wife's Clothes, and Is Speedily Arrested. , St. Louis, Dec. 29.—A man named Wm. E. Page, an Adams Express messenger, dressed in women’s clothes, was brought into police headquarters to-night, by Detective Frank Erskine, and taken into Captain Fruchte’s ate office, where he produced from various pi of his clothing $6,800. In a statement made the prisoner after he was placed in a cell, he said he was express agent and telegraph operator at Golden City, Barton county. Mo.; that he had stolen the money found on him, and more besides, which he did not know what had become of. He said he got drank ou Christmas day, and had been drunk ever since. The money came from the Bank of Commerce, of Kansas City, to Aldrich, Niles & Cos., of Golden City. He knew it was coming, and when it arrived he took it and all the other money in the office, went to his home, bundled up a lot of his wife’s clothes, went into the woods, dressed himself, and took a train for Springfield, Mo. There he boarded a Sr. Louis & San Francisco train for St Louis, and was arrested by Erskine between Pacific City and St. Louis. He says there were SB,OOO in the package he stole. The detectives think he secreted the balance. The robbery was committed on Monday, but was not discovered till last night Page says he doesn’t know why he committed the robbery, except that it was a drunken freak. He could have taken a much larger sum a few days before. He has a wife and two children. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Among the passengers from Australia by the steamer Maroa, which reached San Francisco yesterday, were Dion and Mrs. Boucicauit. Alfred Painter, proprietor of the Hotel Windsor, at Toledo, 0., who was shot through the abdomen, on Monday, by Henry A. Miller, died last evening. Miller is in jail. Le Monde, of Montreal, publishes a .rumor that the Papal decision in regard to the rights of Jesuits in Canada has arrived iu that city, and that it is against the order. Patrick Cosgrove, aged thirty-five, employed at a furnace in Niles, 0., was overcome by gas Tuesday morning, and fell twenty-five feet, striking on his head and breaking his neck. Late last night, John Harrington, residing at No. 1300 Washington street, New York, had a quarrel with his wife He seized a hatchet and struck her in the head, killing her instantly. Harrington was arrested. While making connection with the natural gas well recently struck, at Kittanning, Pa., J. K. Miller, Charles Neal and P. Colwell were severely burned by an explosion of the gas. It is thought Miller is fatally injured. The arbitration committee appointed to settle tie question of minine in the Hocking Valley, and who eould pot agree, yesterday submitted the evidence and arguments to Judge Allen G. Thurman, whose decision is to be final. At Rush Run, 0., Monday night, John Bone and Wiliiam Bindley became involved in a light over the ownership of a wagon-load of corn. Finally, Boone seized a piece of rail and struck Bindley on tho head, killing him almost instantly. James Turner, a nephew of United States Senator Brown, of Georgia, was run over by a freight train, in the Western & Atlantic railroad yards, at Atlanta, and ground to death. The engine was running backward, and there was no headlight to warn him of his danger. A freight train on the Chester Creek branch of the central division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore railroad left the track near Lenni, yesterday morning. Tho engineer was killed, one brakeman was badly injured, and another brakeman and the fireman slightly injured. The cause of the accident was a broken rail. Thomas Green, residing near Palmyra, N. Y. t has created considerable excitement by abstaining from nourishment of anv kind for the past fourteen days. Two weeks ago, while attending a series of revivals at the. Free Methodist Church, in his village, Mr. Green bocame possessed of the idea that he could obtain “power” by fasting and prayer. At Kingston, Ont., on Monday night, gas gained access to the cellars on Princess street through an old drain, and many persons were seriously affected. A man named Sharp and his wife were unconscious all night. The man died this morning, and the woman is in a critical condition. The others who were affected are out of danger. Rev. L. H. Kellogg, D. D., has resigned the professorship of didactic ana polemic theology in the Western Theological Seminary, in Allegheny City, on account of ill-health and in obedience to the imperative order of his physicians. He has started for the West Indias for rest and recuperation iu that mild climate. Tho wife of William Mackin, inspector of provisions at Quincy Market, Boston, shot herself in her husband’s office, in the market building, yesterday, and will probably die. No one was present at the time of the tragedy excopt Mr. Mackin, and tho facts of the case cannot now be learned. It is believed, however, that domostic troubles caused the act.

The St. Paul typographical union ordered a strike in the West Publishing House last night, arid tho whole forge—forty-four in number—went out. The union serves notice that no cards will be received during the pendency of the strike. They claim that the house put the slowest men at work by tao week, aud the best on piece work, giving the former all the “fat.” A letter written by John R. Swift, and dated Sept. 12, has been found near Indian Ladder, N. Y. The writer says that he murdered a man named Halley and threw the body into a hole. He also says he secreted in a cave $16,000 in gold and bills, which he gives to the finder of the letter. The letter states that Swift and Halley committed a robbery in Knowersville, last summer. At Pittsburg, yesterday morning, about daylight, James Kain, a desperate character, shot and almost instantly kiliwd John Wright, a colored man. because the latter accidentally ran against him on the street. For several days past Kain has been drinking hard. He has figured in numerous cutting and shooting affrays, within the past few years, but heretofore his victims have recovered. He has been arrested. Ou Sunday afternoon, at Stackley Prairies, Tex., Deputy Sheriff Clay Davis was killed by a mau named Garrett, who was under arrest for disturbing a Christmas entertainment, and whom the sheriff had allowed to visit his home for a moment. Garrett procured a rifle, and, pointing it through a window of his house, shot Davis dead. Garrett tied toward Arkansas. A posse is in pursuit The boiler of a threshing-machine in a barn near New Providence, Pa., exploded yesterday morning, killing two young men named Christian Hildebrand and Edward Helm. The former was hurled thirty feet. Frank Edwards was seriously scalded. The barn was set ou fire and consumed, with its contents. It contained twenty-three head of cattle, two mules, nine horses, three cows, ten hogs, 1,800 bushels of corn, 5,000 bushels of wheat and a large amount of hay. Location for the Columbus Celebration. Cincinnati Sun. If there is to be any such racket it should certainly be held at the capital of tho State of Ohio; for, some four miles out from that lively town, on the Westerville road, there is a small monument bearing the legend “Columbus 4 M.” Some historians, as fully entitled to respect as those of the Chicago press, have held this to bo tho gravestone of the distingushed Spaniard, and understand the “4 M” to be an instruction to the engraver as to the space that the inscription was to occupy. We cannot vouch for the accuracy of the story, but are quite certain that the claims of Ohio's capital are greater than those of Chicago. That Great Chinese City. Letter iu Baltimore American. There is an air of decay about Pekin which extends even to its temples. The number of its population is not accurately known, but. according to a Chinese estimate, which is probably in excess, it is 1,300,000, of whom 900.000 reside in the Tartar and 400,000 in the Chinese city. There is no direct foreign trade with Pekin, and the small foreign population is made up of the mombers of tho various legations, tho maritime

customers, tho professors at the college and th, missionary body. In August, 1884, it was brought in direct communication with tho rest of the world by a telegraph overland to TieaTsjn. The' estimated population of China ia 405,213,152, or 263 souls per square mile through* out China proper. SHOT BY HIS PLAYMATE. Particulars of the Killing of Young Itefu>, linrdt, at Oxford, Md. Baltimore Special. Cadet Richard Reinhardt, of Indiana, was shot yesterday and instantly killed at tho military academy at Oxford, Talbot county, by his room-* mate, Patrick Gavagan. of Michigan. The shooting was not intentional, although the circumstances attending the affair will serve as another illustration of the danger of trifling with firearms. The Oxford academy is an old institution, and is attended by pupils from all parts of the Union. It is the custom on New Year’s to have an entertainment, and on this occasion the boys selected Buffalo Bill’s blood-and-thunder play of “The Wild West.” Many had gone to their homes to spend the holidays, while those who lived at a distance remained at the college. A few days before Christmas Reinhardt borrowed a self-cocking, bull-dog pistol, 38 caliber, from a young man named Valentino, a cadet from Texas. He also supplied himself from the same source with a number of cartridges, and found amusement in shooting at marks around the premises. The present is a season of vacation, and most of the student have gone to their homes, to spend the Christmas holidays. Yesterday morning Reinhardt was in his room with Patrick Gavagan and several others, and the two were giving imitations of Buffalo Bill’s performances. Reinhardt, growing tired, laid his revolver on the table, and Gavagan picked it up, and, supposing tho chambers had all been emptied, began snapping it at his friend. Reinhardt stood laughiue at and mocking him, when suddenly the weapon with a loud report was discharged. Reinhardt reeled back and tottered for a minute, with a ghastly stare on his face, and tho blood streaming from a wound in tho neck abovo the breast bone, then sank down. The others ran to his assistance and raised his head, but it was at once evident that tho wound was mortal. In a whisper the young man said, “Get a doctor; I am dying,” and almost immediately bocame unconscious. One of the lads ran out for the academy surgeon, Dr. Alexander Matthews, but when that officer arrived it was too late. Reinhardt was dead, having lived not over five minutes from the time he was struck. Great excitement followed when the unfortunate occurrence became known. At the coroner’s jury the facts given above were elicited, young Gavagan appearing as a witness among the rest His grief was distressing in the extreme. A verdict was rendered of accidental death from a revolver in the hands of Patrick Gavagan. Cadetr Reinhardt was the only son of Judge Reinhardt, of Indiana, to whom a dispatch was sent, relating the shocking occurrence. It is stated that on the night before Christmas Cadet Breckinridge was lying in bed in his room, when Lieutenant Staley, who was playing with the same pistol, accidentally discharged it, and the hall passed within a few inches of Breckinridge's head and entered the wall just above him. The body of, young Reinhardt will bo taken to Indiana for burial.

THE DEATH OF W. L. NEWBERRY. Statement of the Gentleman Who Succeeded in Preventing; a Burial at Sea. New Y'ork Special. It was learned to-day that W. A. Booth, president of tho Third National Bank of this city, was the gentleman through whose instrumentality the body of Walter L. Newberry, the wealthy Chicago merchant, who died on his way to Europe, and whose body was preserved in a caso of rum, was saved from being thrown overboard by the usual “burial at sea.” Mr. Booth said thi6 afternoon: “It happened in 1868, not in 1867, as the papers have it. We sailed on the same steamer, in the month of November. 1 had known Mr. Newberry's family, but had never met him. He was pointed out to me, however, as soon as he came on board. He was alone, and I remember that I thought this peculiar, as ho had a man servant up to the time he sailed. He occupied the state-room next to mine. The first part of tho voyage was very rough. After wo were about half way across, one night Mr. Newberry came to my state-room at about midnight, talking somewhat incoherently. I directed him. to his room, and he went in. The next day he seemed feeble. The following night he came to my room again at midnight, and said that he wanted his horses and desired to take a ride. He was ill the next day, and after two or three days he died. The steamer's doctor pronounced the cause of death to have been old age. The captain decided to bnry the remains at sea. I at once communicated with Mr. E. W. Welsh, who was well acquainted on board, and told him to use his influence to change the captain’s mind, stating that Mr. Newberry was a man of wealth,and that his family would pay all expenses of preserving the body. The captain still declined, but we made another appeal, and ho finally assented. The body was kept in ico or spirits, I am not positive which, but I think the latter. Tho remains were lauded at Havre, and were cared for by Mr. Welsh until Mrs. Newberry arrived. What was done afterwards I don't know.” Before putting new pork into the barrel it should be thoroughly scalded to remove the impurities, and to destroy any germs that would surely affect the pork if not removed. A barrel that has once been used to pack beef should never after be used as a pork-barrel. It will be found next to impossible to keep pork sweet in it. But this is a rule that does not work both ways. An old pork-barrel is one of the very best for keeping beef. _____________ For twenty years Henry F. Balcom, of Shirley, Mass.. suffered with rheumatism. He found no relief till he took Hood's Sarsaparilla.

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