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nately, members must hare copies of the bills "which they introduce is order that they may 6end them to their constituents, and the result is that to supply four or five to eaeh one necessitates the printing of thousands and thousands which are never used, except by the butter dealers of Washington. In the document-room on the House side five or six men are kept busy at present packinc away these bills in pigeon-holes, from whence they will never be brought until the close of the Forty-ninth Congress, when nearly all of them will be dumped iuto ihe junkbox and disposed of as waste paper. The Proposed Free-Trade Party. Washington Special. There is talk in Washington of organizing a new party, which shall be composed entirely of revenue reformers. One of the leading and most influential of the free traders in this country, in a private letter addressed to a gentleman in this city, says: “There is a strong desire now' manifest to convene the national free-trade committee at Washington, in January, 1886. This possible meeting or the free-trade national committee is proposed in order that anew political party may be organized out of the two now existent, which shall attract all friends ot com mercial freedom from each of them My judgment, honestly expressed, is that the Republican free-traders and Democratic free traders added together would make a larger number of voters than would be left in both of the old parties after the exodus.. Just as Garrison, Wendell Phillips and their adherents held the power between the Whig and Democratic parties, so now Wells, Hurd, Perry, Sumner, Morrison, Beecher and their disciples can swine the majority to or from either party now organized, and just as Garrison and Phillips won at last, because their fight was for linman liberty, so will the freetraders win, because they fight for liberty to commerce, and ask, since freedom is granted to roan, to speech and to the press, that it also be given to exchanges. ’’ The Revolutionary Widow. Washington Special. One of the strangest things in connection with the history of pensioners before Congress is the fact that no applicant ever becomes discouraged. The same names appear every year among those who are seeking to be placed upon the rolls of the government. There is no more striking lustration of this than in a bill whieh has been introduced by Congressman Peters for the relief of Rebecca Burcb. This bill calls for the payment to Mrs. Burch of $8 a month back pension from 1835 to 1878. Rebecca Burch is eighty-nine years old. She can hardly expect to draw a very large amount of money if Congress should act upon her measure promptly. But there is no doubt that Mrs. Burch is just as anxious to have her bill pass as any one of the more youthful applicants. She is one of the very few. but apparently neverending stock, of revolutionary survivors. &he is the widow of William Burch, who died in 18i§. He served as private in Captain Henderson’s company, of Colonel Morgan’s regiment of Virginia volunteers, during the Revolutionary war. Rebecca Burch is probably being backed handsomely by her heirs, as the bill further provides that she shall be allowed a back pension from the time of the death of her husband, private Burch, in 1835, up to the date of her present pension, 1878. Ruling: us to Pay of Mexican Soldiers. Washington, Jan. B.—The Second Comptroller of the Treasury has decided that Oliver Hayward, late sergeant with the Second United States Artillery, is entitled to the three months’ extra pay allowed the soldiers who served in the Mexican war. The Comptroller holds that the war with Mexico ended May 30. 1848, when ratifications of the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo wore exchanged, and not, as heretofore held, on July 16, 1848, the date on which the War Department made official announcement of the same. Under this rnling all soldiers who served in that war, and were not discharged until after May 30, are entitled to the benefits of the act of July 19, 1879.

The Hendricks Monument. Special to the ledianavolis Journal. Washington, Jan. B.—A meeting of the Indiana Association hero was held to-night to organize for collecting contributions to the Hendricks monument fund. All the members of the delegation to Congress from the State, and a number of other Hoosiers were present. Senator Voorhees and others made short speeches, and a committee composed of L. Dalton, C. R. Faulkner. Richard Johnson, Joseph Nichol, Col. John S. Williams and Capt Thomas H. McKee was appointed to receive contributions. Representative Ward was made chairman and P. H. Perinot secretary of the meeting. Swaim*s Vacant Place. Washington, Jan. B.— lt is rumored in army circles that the President will shortly recommend to Congress the passage of a bill authorizing him to fill the office of Judge Advocate-gen-oral of the army. General Swaim, who formerly held that offico, was sentenced by conrt-mar-tial to suspension for twelve years, at the end of which period he will be placed on the retired ist. It is said that the President desires to fill lie office, but is uncertain as to his powers in >e premises. A plan has been suggested that o nominate a person for the office and let the mate pass on the legal questions at issue. General and’ Personal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 8. —General Browne arrived here to-day, direct from his home at Winchester, and will remain indefinitely. He reports Mrs. Browne’s condition considerably improved. Joseph Gent, of Columbus, is here. He has not made known his wants. George B. Cobb has been appointed by his father clerk of the House committee on public lands, and has entered upon his duties. John Wester has been appointed to one of the clerkships of Colonel Matson's committee on invalid pensions. Mr. McGee, of Columbus, has been appointed to the principal clerkship of the committee, which has four clerks. Representatives Steele aud Matson were among the Presidents callers to day. Judge Moody, recently chosen United States Senator by the Legislature which met at Huroft D. TANARUS., a few days ago, was at the Capitol, to-day, and Judge Edgerton, bis colleague, is expected to arrive to night. It is probable that a resolution wfll be adopted admitting them to the floor as a matter of courtesy. Secretary Lamar has returned from a visit to his home in Mississippi, aud was at the State Department this morning. Commissioner of Patents Montgomery is expected to return to the city ou Monday next, when the telephone case wiU be taken up and decided. The following named persons were to-day appointed and sworn in as committee clerks: John F. Elliott, of Texas, Indian affairs; W. C. P. ltix. of Wisconsin, military affairs; Abram C. Weaver, of lowa, expenditures in the l?eprtxnent of the Interior; J. Bones, of Ilhnols, claims: Clifford Sanders, of Missouri, labor; Closden, of Ohio, Territories; Louis U. Hoble, of Texas, cotnmerco. Hon. A. C. Mellette, formerly of Muncie, now of Dakota, and Governor-elect of the proposed State of Dakota, arrived here to-night and will remain several weeks. Civil-service Commissioner Edgerton savs it is Commissioner Eaton, and not himself, who will shortly resign. Senator Sherman’s Thanks. Columbus, 0., Jan. A—At the opening of the legislature, this morning, the following teletram was read in each branch, being addressed to tbo Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, respectively: “Please convey to the Republican members of the General Assembly iny profund and grateful thanks for their nomination as senator. ••John Sherman.” 1 find Athlophoros just what you claim for it. It has real merit, and is a medicine whose merit I have proved. 1 cheerfully recommend it to my customers for rheumatism and neuralgia. J. D. t'owLER, druggist, of Lansing, la-

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Clironide of Happenings of all Kinds in the Two States. Charges AsrainstT. H. Jameson WithdrawnCase of Religious Insanity at Logansport —A Whole Family Dies Mysteriously. INDIANA. The Charges against T. IT. Jameson Explained and Withdrawn. Special to tut Indianapolis Journal. Rochester, Jan. 8. - The charge of embezzlement against Thomas H. Jameson, postmaster, and Waggoner, mention of whose arrest was made in the Journal of Wednesday, has been withdrawn, and the matter satisfactoril y arranged between the parties. The transaction was a family affair, and Mrs. Nancy Gould, the relative who caused Jameson's arrest, acknowledges that she acted rashly, and deeply regrets the course pursued. Since coming to this locality from Indianapolis, several years ago, Jameson has made many friends, who rejoice with him in the fact that he has been vindicated from the unjust charges that threatened his previous good name and honorable record. A Series of Fights on Hoard a Train. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, Jan. B —A party of men, all under the influence of liquor, boarded a westbound train of the Kankakee line, last evening, at Lebanon. They were going to Thorntown, and refused to pay fare, but on the train being stopped to put them off, they paid. Later, Conductor Earhcart was passing through the car, when one of the gang attacked.him with a pair of brass knuckles. The conductor got the best of him and gave him a severe beating. A short time later A. M. Stimpson was going through the coach, aud this same rough attacked him with a butcher-knife. Earheart came to the rescue aud succeeded in disarming him. As soon as Stimpson and Earheart left the car. the fellow attacked Charles Scanlon, a brakernan, who again gave him a severe drubbing. The gang then remained quiet until Thorntown was reached, when they began war on the trainmen with revolvers, bricks, etc. A number of shots were fired without effect, and the trainmen were again victors. Earheart was struck on the head by a brick and quite badly hurt. The gang boasted that they would renew the attack the next time the crew went through the town. Case of Religious Insanity at Logansport. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Loganspoet, Jan. 7. —Frank Mettusch, a shoemaker of this city, has lost his reason, and now lies in the county jail, a pitiable spectacle. Mettusch was a man of unusually strong trsjjts of character. He was a tireless reader, and was probably as well informed on general topics as any man in the city. Recently his reading has all been in the religious line, and to such an extent has he followed this bent that for months his acquaintances have noticed that his mind was failing. On Wednesday he claimed that he had received a call from heaven to preach the gospel, and he accordingly packed his trunk and purchased a ticket to Indianapolis. He failed to board the train, and after midnight was found east of the city, lying in a fence-corner, stark naked. He was brought to town and placed in jail. His feet were terribly frozen, and had he not been discovered he must certainly have perished. He will be sent to the asylum. Five Persons Die Mysteriously. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Cbawfobdsville, Jan. B.—On Haw creek, below Ladoga, lived the family of James Owens, five in number. Along in September one of the family was taken ill, and finally died. What •was the cause of the death could not be deter mined by the physicians, but it was thought to be of a low grade of the typhus order. Another member of the family was taken dow* and died; then another, and another, until the entire family was dead. It is thought that the cause of their sickness was from drinking impure water from a well. Mr. Owens had dug anew well about ten feet from an old well, and Lad used the old one for a cess pool, and it is doubtful whetherthe earth between the two purified the poisonous gases which, in all probability, passed from one to the other. There is considerable uneasiness in the neighborhood, and an effort will be made to ascertain the true cause of the deaths.

Minor Notes. William Master, for shooting with intent to kill, at Stmman's Station, has been released on $2,000 bail. A bov named Rohr was caught in a shaft in a South Bend furniture factory, and escaped with a broken arm. August Wheeler, a tramp, was knocked by a *train from a bridge near Osgood. He escaped with a broken arm and a dislocated shoulder. John MeClintock, a farmer at Pontanet, has assigned to Samuel M. Stevens for the benefit of his creditors; assets, $5,000; liabilities, $3,000. The Winchester Journal, an excellent county paper, makes a handsome appearance in the new dress with which it enters its twenty-fifth year. The New Albany City Council have resolved to pay off the interest on the Air-line bonds, due in January, about which there was a Controversy. Joseph Carlisle, a farmer residing near Wabash, has been victimized by lightning-rod sharpers to the extent of S2OO, through the signing of what he supposed was a harmless bit of paper, but which turned out to be a promissory note. It is stated that the editors of the Logansport Pharos, a Democratic paper, are using their efforts to defeat the confirmation of Charles R. Pollard, of Delphi, who was recently nominated to a vacancy on the Supreme Court bench in Montana Territory. Ford & Owens, merchant tailors and clothiers of Terre Haute, dissolved partnership, William E. Owens retiring. The remaining partner, Augustus C. Ford, then made an assignment to Ray G. Jencks. It is thought the assets will nearly meet the liabilities. Oliver Stauffer, who has been employed in tearing down the old Barnett House, at Logansport, yesterday fell from the building and received serious injuries. Ho lias been unable to speak a work since he was injured, and fears are entertained that he will not recover. It is said that charges are to be brought against Rev. A. A. Curme, of Richmond, a Methodist preacher. One charge is that, as a member of the Richmond City Council, he attended a Sunday caucus; another, that he did not make his word good with a candidate. The league polo between the Royals, of Muncie, and the Maa;ottes. of Lafaj’ette.was won by the latter —3 to 1. Fahnestock leaves the Mascottes to-day, and will join the Galesburg team. This leaves the Mascotte team without a leader, and a strong effort will be made to retain him. ILLINOIS. Callings from Correspondence and Gleanings from Exchanges. The next Illinois State fair will open Sept. 6. Mayor John Hopper, of Jacksonville, died on Thursday. The man Flynn, at Chester, who murdered his wife and then shot himself, will recover. William Jones was found dead in a store-room, in Decatur, having died from drunkenness and exposure. Noah Draper, a wealthy farmer sixty years old, near Hillsboro, was found dead in a field. Heart disease. Rev. R. C. McGuire, of Tampia, will fill the vacancy In the Peeatonica Catholic Church caused by tne death of Father Ryan. Walter H. Way, of Nashville, thirty-six years old, formerly editor of the Joaraal of that place,

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has died of consumption. He was a lawyer, and had been State's attorney for Washington county. The assignee of the insolvent|Wagner Bank, at Forreston, has effected a settlement with the creditors on the basis of fifty cents ou the dollar. Mrs. William Augustine, of Vandalia, a deaf and dumb women, charged Henry Greenfield, a peddler, with indecent assault. He was arrested and fined $25 and costs. A license to incorporate the Voorhees Starch and Refinery Company, at Danville, was issued at Springfield on Thursday. Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, is one of the incorporators. The principal event of the beginning of the winter term of Knox College on Thursday was the opening of the large new wing of the seminary building, erected at a cost of $15,000. The Illinois State Board of Agriculture on Thursday refused to interfere with the sale of butterineor olemargarine, expressing the belief that the articles were both wholesome and cheap. Neal Wilkerson, received at Chester penitentiary in December, 1881, to serve a life sentence for mail robbery in Texas, has been pardoned by the President He was released on evidence of Tom Moody and Albert Smith, both of whom are serving life sentences, who recentlv made affidavit to the fact that they did the robbery Wilkersou and William Petty were sentenced for having committed. Petty was released about six weeks ago. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The total imports of dry goods at New York during the past week were valued at $1,889,324, and the amouut thrown on the market atsl,573.931.. While Benjamin Scott, mayor of Leansfield, Logan county, Ohio, was attempting to rescue his wife from a burning house, yesterday, a heavy timber fell upon him, inflicting injuries which caused his death. The attitude of Greece towards Turkey is becoming more friendly. The Greek consul in Crete has been recalled. The reserves are being disbanded, and the departure of troops for the frontier has been countermanded. Masked burglars forced an entrance into the farm-house of Jumes Dather, near Warren. 0., Thursday night. "The members of the family were threatened with death if they gave an alarm. The thieves ransacked the house, seenring considerable monev, and escaped. Robert Severs, of New York, a graduate of Oberlin College, and,well connected in the East, was arrested at Cleveland, yesterday, for forgery. Rivers, while clerk to Lieutenant Edwards, of the United States army, forged Edwards's name to checks aggregating SSOO. The woman’s suffrage committee, at its meeting at New York, Thursday night, passed a resolution denouncing the pending bill to take suffrage away from the women of Utah, calling m on New York senators and represen taflivesHo oppose it, and declaring woman's suffrage the true cure for polygamy. The request was telegraphed to Senators Evans aud Miiler, at Washington. The hearing in the case of Millroy. the Montreal tailor charged with smuggling clothing into this country, has been set for Feb. 2, at Plattsburg, N. Y. A number of New York brokers and prominent ladies of Fifth avenue, who have bought clothing and ruling-habits from him, have been subpoenaed to testify. The federal officers claim to have traced $25,000 worth of smuggled goods to him. Julius Beck, of Chicago, met with a frightful and somewhat unusual experience on Thursday evening. He was driving in company with his uncle, Ignatz Beck, down Blue island avenue in a buggy. Just before the viaduct was reached, the horse became frightened at a passing locomotive. It reared and plunged about wildly, causing the buggy to tip, throwing Mr. Beck out The horse then started on the run for the viaduct, and on reaching it. jumped the railing, taking buggy and boy along. The whole outfit landed thirty feet below in a coal yard. Julius was very badly injured.

One of Napoleon’s Veterans. Chicago, Jan. B.—A very aged person, who claims to be a Pole and entitled to the title of Count Zewaski, was in the Police Court to-day for striking a man on the street with a caue. For eight years he has been an inmate of the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, Ohio. The court thought the prisoner was slightly demented, and decided that he be turned over for examination by thjAcity physician. Tne old man hay a very remareable history. He says he inherited the title of count from his father. He was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1791. When only fourteen years of age. he joined Napoieon’s armj’, and 4 was with the Emperor on his march to Moscow. He also claims to have fought in the battles of Austerlitz and Waterloo. He whs subsequently, when with the patriot Kossuti. captured, ami ordered to be banished to Siberia. Before he was transported he made his escape'hnd came to America, bringing with him his war-horse. This was in 1851. He enlisted in Sigel's regiment and served nearly four years. He also ciaims to have fought under Grant. The Lancaster llank Embezzlement. Boston, Jar,. 8.-— State Detective Dyson arrived from Rutland this morning with the valises containing the property stolen from the Lancaster National Bank by President McNeil, which were found secreted at Tinmouth yesterday. One bag was found to contain $50,000 in interestbearing bonds of the West Rutland Marble Company and a quantity of bonds and certificates of the Wyoming Beef Company and the Low Cattle Company. In the other bag was found nearly $15,000 in bank bills. Dr. F. M. Nelson, president of the Rutland Marble Company, was arrested while in bed this morning on suspicion, of complicity in the Lancaster Bank embezzlement. He was prostrated by excitement, and is under guard at his house. Henry C. Forester, cashier of the Lancaster Bank, was arrested to-night for being accessory before the fact to the larceny by President McNeil. Forester has obtained bail in SIO,OOO. *■ Obituary, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Morristown, Ind., Jan. B.— -Rev. Thomas Shipp died at his Pome to-day, at 10 a. m. The funeral will occur at the residence on Monday, the 11th, at 10 a. m. The interment will be made at Mount Lebanon Cemetery. In Favor of the Miners. * Columbus, 0., Jan. B. —Judge Thurman today rendered his decision as umpire in the arbitration between the operators and miners of coal in Ohio. He fixes the basis at 60 cents a ton, which is the amount asked by tne miners. The operators only wanted to pay 50 cents. James R. Keene’s Financial Condition. New York. Jan. B.—James R. Keene, the exCalifornia millionaire, in giving testimony before a referee, yesterday, stated that he is absolutely without income, and is engaged in no business, and that the money necessary for hia support he receives from his wife. Pasteur's New Jersey Patient. Paris, Jan. B.— Charles Kaufman, of New Jersey, was inoculated the tenth time yesterday. He wished to be inoculated again to-day, but M. Pasteur told him that ten oculations were certainly sufficient. Kaufman left Paris, this evening, on his return to America. More than 120 Years Old. Hannibal, Mo., Jan. B.—Lottie GrUffn, ft colored woman, who claimed to is over 120 years old, died yuslerday. She has a daughter here over eighty years of age. Several old citizens place her age at from 110 to 125. Correcting the Indictment. Baltimore. Jan. B.—William H. Rose, the embezzling book-keeper of Painter, Tongue & Cos., was arrested this afternoon, charged with having embezzled $15,000. Rose states that the amount ho took was SIB,OOO. Steamship News. Havre, Jan. B.—Arrived: Normandie! from New York. • A Stab at a Brother. Atlanta Constitution. The sick Chicago Times has resumed the habit of putting heads to its editorials. But wbat the sick Times really needs is a head for its editor. Send to C. I. Hood & Cos., Lowell, Maes., for a book containing statements of many rcttPmrkable cures by Hood's Sarsaparilla.

LOSSES BY FIRE. Collapse of a Louisville Warehouse—M. H. Wright and J. B. Italmsforth Killed. Louisville, Jan. B.—Late this afternoon, during a heafy snow-storm, tho front and middle part of the large four-story warehouse occupied by H. P. Forwood & Cos., Trabue & Cos. and J. B. Balmsforth & Cos., all cotton and commission merchants, fell suddenly, and, overturning a stove, started a destructive fire. The building was filled with cottoD, tobacco, molasses and dry goods in storage, and the flames spread all over the place instantly. Covered by the debris of the building it burned fiercely. The building is the center of a fine block of large wholesale houses, and it iooked, for a time, as if there was to be a conflagration, as the fire department was unable to get at the flames on account of the wreck. They soon got to work, however, and kept the flames confined to the fallen building, and at 8 o’clock tho fire was out The third floor was stored with cotton, and it wa3 this that gavo way, falling on the second floor, which in turn fell, and then, after tottering a moment, the whole front and middle- part of the build ing fell outward and blockaded half of the street There were eleven persons in the building when the third floor fell. Peter Perkinfe, a porter, heard the crash, and gave warning to seven men on the second floor, who escaped by jumping from a back window on to a shod. Charles Stamforth, a colored porter, gave the alarm on the first floor, and started for the front door. It is tiiought.he was caught and killed by the falling walls. M. H. Wright the manager of the place, and J. B. Balmsforth, one of the proprietors, were in their offices on the first floor, and started for the door, but it is believed that tfcev are still in tbe wreck, as they have not been seen and cannot be found. At 10 o'clock to-night there is scarcely a doubt that Major Wright and Mr. Balmsforth perished in the wreck. Their bodies have not been recovered, but men are at work removing the debris. Both were leading men in commercial circles here. Major Wright was a graduate of West Point, and had charge of the confederate ordnance works in Georgia during the war. He was about fifty-six years old. and leaves a wife and several children, one being a son, now at West Point. Wright was a member of the once large cotton firm of McNiel & Wright. Balmsforth is about thirty-five years old, and belongs to one of the wealthiest families in the State. He leaves a family. ♦ The facts in regard to # the losses are very meagre. The loss on the building is estimated at $25,000, and is insured. The goods stored in the warehouse belonged to many parties, and the total loss is estimated at $5O,OO0; partially insured. This is the third time the building on this site has been burned. During the war it was a government hospital and was destroyed, it is thoueht, to get rid of some records. The city barely escaped a conflagration at the time. It was rebuilt, and burned accidentally a few years later. Later. —Fifty thousand dollars’ worth of cotton belonging to the Louisville Banking Company, Trabue & Cos. and Balmsforth & Cos. was destroyed; insured for $40,000. Bamberger, Bloom & Co.'s loss on dry goods $25,000; insured. Loss on peanuts, mosses and miscellaneous property belonging to Trabue & Cos. and Balmsforth & Cos., $‘20,000; insured. The total loss is $110,000; insurance. $95,000.

Fire at Oberliu College. Cleveland, Jan. 9.—At 1:30 o’clock this morning fire was discovered in the third story of Ladies’ Hall, connected with the college at Oberlin, O. The building is a brick structure, and is owned by the college. A man named Hatch manages it and accommodates 150 female and 100 male students. The men board at the ball, while the ladies lodge there. It is reported here that all the inmates of the building escaped without injury. There was great excitement among the students, who rnshed from their rooms into the streets, clad in their night garments. The night iR very cold, and it is difficult to get water into the building. Two steamers are now at work, and it is thought other buildings in the vicinity will be saved. The hall is a wreck. The fire at this time has consumed the two upper floors. The building is 100 feet square, ana is worth $50,000, including contents, and is insured. The fire originated in the attic. Last night the people ou the upper floor smelled smoke, but a vigorous search failed to locate whence it came. It is now supposed that the cause of the fire was a defective flue. The students on the lower floor were successful in saving nearly all their effects. At this hour, 2:30, the fire is under control. Destructive Fire at Mobile. Mobile, Ala., Jan. B.—Fire broke out this afternoon in the wholesale grocery bouse of T. G. Bush & Cos. There was a heavy wind, and tbe departments, owing to an error in the alarm, went to the rear of the town before locating the fire. The fire quickly consumed all the houses in the block. The stores destroyed were Nos. 38. 40 and 42 Commerce street, occupied by G. M. Forchcimer & Cos., wholesale grocers, who had $75,000 stock; Nos. 46. 48, 50 and 52, occupied by T. G. Bush & Cos., whose stock was valued at $75,000, and a number of smaller dealers and cotton factors. The total loss is $160,000; insurance, SIIO.OOO. Fire in a Lumber-Yard. St. Louis, Jan. B.—Last night the fire department was called out for a fire that had been discovered in the office o? the John A. Gftnahl Lumber Company, situated on Broadway and Seventh streets. The fire spread with rapidity among the dressed lumber piled under sheds, 100 feet in depth by fifty feet in width, and caused a loss on stock and building of SIO,OOO, with insurance in home companies on the entire lumber-yard at $15,000. As to the origin of the fire it remains a mystary, but the supposition is that it originated in the southwest corner of tho office, where there was a stove.

Fire in a Mattress Factory. Sedalia, Mo., Jan. B.—Fire was discovered last night, about 10:30, in Mitchell’s mattress factory, in one of the principal business blocks, and for a time it was feared a $1,000,000 blaze was imminent, owing to the terrific gale and snow-storm, coupled with the intense cold; but the prompt action of the fire department placed the fire under control before it gathered headway, and the loss was confined to the contents of the building where it originated, and will not exceed SIO,OOO, though no accurate estimate has been obtained as yet. The loss is partially covered by insurance. Hotel Burned. Buffalo, Jan. B.—The St James Hotel, at Batavia, N. Y., was entirely destroyed by fire this morning. There were many narrow escapes. Two men jumped from the fourth story, and were severely injured. The hotel was owned by A. G. Collins. The loss is about $50,000; insurance, $25,000. Six Stores Burned. Laurel, IIJ., Jan. B.—Fire yesterday destroyed W. T. Steffey’s grocery and liquor store, and the stores of Mrs. S. A. Lynn, J. F. Hack man, M. E. Secrest, O. Hazard and T. J. Ford. Total loss about $16,000; insurance, SIO,OOO. Three men were arrested on suspicion of incendiarism. Why We Live. Minneapolis Tribune. At any rate. Mr. Cleveland must Admit that the newspapers are devotine themselves to the serious affairs of life. For instance, the World gives three columns to a quarrel between a mistress ana a nurse-girl over five cents’ worth of safety-pins. The press is the palladium of our liberties. _ The Penalty of Fame. Lafayette Courier. Ella Wheeler is paving the penalty of fame. Her new novel, “Mai Moulee,” is already alluded to in the best circles of Wisconsin society as Mad Molly and Maul Muley. ■ ' I. I-I Ml ' I.■! I The President's Carious Remark. New York Commercial Advertiser. H. R. Haweis, in writing to Lbs Pall Mai! Gazette of an interview with President Cleveland,

makes the President say; “When I was a bachelor I always made a point of taking my meals in a different place from where I'slept." Since when has the President been married? This reminds us that Mr. Haweis’s article appeared only a few days before the President made such wholesale remarks about “newspaper lying.” LABOR i\l) LABORERS. AXatters of Interest to Employers and Employed—Knights of Labor Notes. Philadelphia Record. The three strong points in the labor problem for 1886 are the eight-hour question, the increasing demand for labor, and the qniet movement among employers toward arbitration methods. The eight-hour movement lags, but it will gam strength as agitation increases. The Chicago bricklayers have taken the lead in the Northwest, and the furniture workers in this city have taken initiative steps in furtherance of the movement. The halting is due to the probable 20 per cent, reduction in earnings, and to the apprehension that others will be found to tafce the places of the eight-hour strikers. Machine-shop work will be more abundant during the winter than for the past eighteen months, because of the expected activity in all industrial channels. Many mechanics are returning from Western to Eastern States. Four locomotive works have put on 600 men. Locomotive builders expect orders within thirty days for oue hundred engines, in lots of from three upwards. Trades-unidnism gaining ground because of the prospects of more work at better pay. Employers are generally more favorably inclined to it than they were a year ago. The unions are in some crafts paying more attention to the skill of initiates, and also to the quality of service the members render—that is, they are endeavoring to remove the cause of complaint by employers, that unionism allows poor workmen to be paid as much as the more skillful, and compels the employers to retain them. Chinese merchants are refusing to handle Lancashire goods because of oversizing, and are taking, as our exports show, large quantities of American goods, a fact which American manufacturers are quick to note.'*’ Iu India, native manufactures are rapidly superseding English cotton piece goods, but the per capita consumption is not large, as a piece of cloth two and onehalf inches wide and twenty-four inches long is the only clothing worn by East Indian field laborers. An American meachant named Darragh sees a wide field there, and has built a cot-ton-mill at Alleppy„ with £O,OOO spindles, and is trying to borrow money enough in London to build two more large mills. Another enterprising American, who ran the liter-pad craze until he made a small fortune, is now in London importing American confectionery, and selling it through branch houses in all the leading cities of the United Kingdom. Philadelphia confectioners furnish him the bulk of his stock, and the trade is growing to immense proportions, as is shown by local and New York customs records. Silk manufacturers at home and abroad are looking for an advance in prices which will stimulate production. Half the silk-raising properties of France and Italy are under heavy mortgages. All large stocks have disappeared. A powerful syndicate has taken possession of the European market Silk has advanced abroad 10 to 20 per cent, within two months. It will ad vance further, and pure black silk, it is decreed, is to be the fabric of the future. A Boston paper says well-educated and welldressed girls work in dry goods stores at from $3 to $6 per week, while in the manufacturing centers of New England girls are earning from S4O to S6O per month. Dr. Woodward, of St Louis, epitomizes the whole question of technical education when he tells manufacturers that “we send the whole boy to school and not a part of him” when we send him to a school for manual training. The ten-hour law went into effect in Rhode Island yesterday, but employers will not allow any “washing up” on their time. Some manufacturers in New England have fitted ud reading-rooms for their employes. The matter has been talked over here, but no steps have been taken. In Germany, female factory hands are to be exempted from night work, and children are allowed to work only through a physician’s consent The Carnegies. of Pittsbnrg, have set a good example to employers generally in admitting to partnership their leading superintendents, numbering seventeen in all, ranging in capital from $105,000 to $5,000. The next step of these progressive brothers may be to adgiit every workman to the partnership in suras of SSOO to SI,OOO. Not a little trouble would be obviated if this course were pursued. Fifteen hundred tons of girders were shipped to the United State? a few days ago by an English firm. Only two firms in England are able to compete with German makers. The wages of the Sunderland ship builders will be reduced 10 to 12£ per cent, on Wednesday. A Scotch firm has just taken an order for five ships for South American parties. Last month’s tonnage contracts for new ships foot up 30.000 tons. A Glasgow locomotive-maker has just booked an order for thirty-two locomotives for export. Recent strikes have resulted in the starting up of several co-operative establishments, with the help of outside capital. Three co-operative nailmills are under construction. Cos operative shoeshops have been started, and other trades are agitatine for such experiments. Michigan workingmen are flocking into the Knights of Labor order. Green Island, N. Y., will soon have fourteen assemblies and a district assembly. Assemby sso. 4421 has been organized at Salem, Ore. One assembly in Lewiston, Me., has 1,200 members, and another 525. Troy, N. Y., has twelve local assemblies. Durham, N. C., has over 1,000 knights. In Rhode Island the membership is 5,000. Around Louisville, Ky., the order in growing rapidly. The census shows the membership of the following crafts: Miners, 234,228; boot and shoemakers, 194.079; blacksmiths, 172,726; cottonmill operatives, 169,771; painters and varnishers, 128,556; iron and steel-workers. 114,539; machinists. 101.130. In England 321,591 persons are working in leather. The brush-makers will organize a national union. The one hundred cigfr makers who started from New York on Dec. 25 picked up two hundred more along the way. At Chicago one hundred men had broken up housekeeping to go along, but there was room for only twenty-five. The train was due in San Francisco last night. The trades unions were to give them a grand welcome. The pro Der housing of employes is receiving the attention of investers in New York, who propose to build large tenements, upon which architects are now at work. One-third of the earnings of the New York city workers go for rent; in England, one seventh. Steinway, the piano man, says the horror of living in tenementhouses i3 only equaieii by the rent extorted for them. Storm, the cigar manufacturer, says most of the tenement-houses in New York are not fit for human habitation. The committee of five ot the National Association of Stove Manufacturers has issued a circular to the stove manufacturers concerning the domination of labor unions. It was foqn.i that 20 per cent, of the stove works are controlled by union rules, and 80 per cent are not There are about 100 establishsients in the association. Thirty-five employers favor the apprentice system. twenty-one are in favor of a square fight, and twelve favor conciliation. The committee advises every employer to rid his establishment of “disorganizes” and to crowd in apprentices. The Pennsylvania State Miners’ Association meets between the 18th and 24th of this month. The Ohio State convention of operates meets next Wednesday at Columbus. State President Harris declines the presidency of the anthracite miners. The miners everywhere are in a mood to agree to any fair basis for the future.

General Sherman to Move Again. St. Louis Spectator. When General Sherman was retired from the army he came to St. Louis with the avowed intention of spending the remainder of his life among ns. It was from St. Louis that he reentered the army at the outbreak of the war. He had a multitude of friends here, aud he looked forward with pleasure to years of peaceful retirement, after nearly twenty-three years of continuous public service. The friends of the hero are mor% numerous in St Lonis to-day than ever before, but something has changed his plans, and in a few months he will seek a home somewhere in the East While I am ignorant of the reasons which have brought snout this change of plans, I know that thousands of soldiers have read with deep humiliation the petty slurs cast upon him by one of our daily Capers. No opportunity has been lost to annoy im, and, seemingly, to gratify a personal spite towards the greatest living American soldier, it

will not boa pleasant comment upon the good name of St. Louis when the world shall know that General Sherman has left us. It is qnite possible that reasons altogether f#eign to what has been here intimated may have determined his course; but the facts remain, and the people of the United States will draw tneir own conclusions. A GORGEOUS MPLOMATE. Ah American Who Proposes to 81ilne— A Sort of Impromptu Jti igudier-General. t hfCAffo special. Mr. F. H. Winston, a well-known and wealthy citizen of Chicago* was recently appointed minister to Persia, and is shortly to leave for Teheran. Those who know Mr. Winston are amused this evening over a fact which leaked out this afternoon. Mr. Winston is accused of being just a little bit vain. At any rate he was averse to appearing in citizen's attire at the gemi-barhario court at Teheran, where the most dazzling and ornate costumes are on regie at the official receptions of the Shah of Persia. Some time ago it was suggested that Mr. Winston had a military air, and as he was a fine horseman would make a distinguished looking officer, and clad in uniform would make a more imposing entree as the American minister to Persia. This was agreed to, and the conversation came to an end only to be recalled, when it was found that the leading topic of conversation among military men and certain social and political circles was the reported appointment of Mr. Winston as a brigadier general of the National Guard of Illinois. Upon inquiry it was learned that the organization of the Natioual Guard of the State permits of three brigades with three brigadier-generals, two of which only have been organized. The third can be organized at the will of the Governor. The troops who would compose this brigade are mostly located in the southern part of the State, and in order to secure a brigade connection would not oppose the appointment of any worthy tnan to the command. It is said that strong pressure was broueht to bear upon Governor Oglesby, and that he issued a commission to Mr. Winston several days ago. The absence of Brigadier-generai Winston would be arranged by a leave of absence issued by the Governor as commander-in-chief of the National Guard, and the senior colonel of the brigade would be the acting brigadier in his absence. In order to facilitate this arrangement, General Winston, it is said, will waive the appointment of the brigade staff, leaving the acting brigadier free to select his own assistant adjutant general, quartermaster, and all members of the staff, except one aide-de camp, who will accompany Minister Winston abroad:. It is understood that General Winston will appoint his own son as aide-de-camp, and while the rank of an aide-de camp to abrigauier-general. is only that of a first lieutenant the general can appoint him, by general order an acting assistr ant adjutant-general and aide-de-camp, which would give him the rank of captain, by courtesy, and the right to wear the uniform of tbe rank.. The uniform of the National Guard of Illinois is. precisely like that of the regular army, except the buttons, and a captain of the staff can vio with the attaches of foreign diplomates in the richness and elegauce of his costume. General Winston’s uniform will be the same as that of a brigadier-general of the United States army, a chapeau with white plumes, dark blue coat, with double row of buttons arranged by twos; gold bullion epaulets, .with a single star, and plain, dark blue pantaloons. On dress occasions it is allowable to wear upon the breast, suspended by ribbons or clasps, badges of former wars, corps badges and service medals. The sash is of yellow and the belt of dark gold color. The sword may be of as rich and costly ornamentation as may please the wearer, A well-known military tailor of Chicago is said to by putting the final touches on the military wardrobe of the General, while Cantain Winston is patronizing a Broadway (New York) concern. Had time permitted a magnificent sword would have been presented to General Winston at the be given him at Kinsley on Saturday evening, but it will be handed to him by a committee Appointed on that occasion as he steps on board the steamer at New York. It is by no means improbable that a similar ceremony will be performed by tbe graduating class at Yale College, who will bid their classmate, Captain Winston, bon voyage. Before His time. Philadelphia Press. Grover Cleveland wrote a letter on Christmas day, 1884. pledging himself to an gngoajjftgd e;gforcement of the civil-servidS lavV. jPresßftmC Cleveland seems never to have heard of this, it having occurred some time before his inauguration. _ Prodding the Progressive Euchre Players. Presbyterian Banner. Card parties, which are said to have become very common of late, even in houses whero nothing of the kind was formerly permitted, are only preparatory schools for the gambling den.

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