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ertson ■will undoubtedly be aided by hi* Republican colleagues in any investigation which lie may undertake. A STATE DINNER. The First Event of the Kind Since President Cleveland Came Into Office. Washington, Jan. 14.—The President gave his tirst state dinner of the season this evening, in honor of his Cabinet. The White House was tastefully arranged for the occasion and presented a brilliant appearance. The East Room and parlors, adjoining the state dining-room, were lined with tropical plants and the mantels were banked with flowers. The principal decoration of the dinner-table was an immense floral ship of state. The Marine Band was stationed in the main vestibule and discoursed its finest music during the dinner. One reform instituted by the band was the omission of “Hail to the Chief. ’’ The President is said to be very tired of hearing that tune. The following is a list of the guests: The Secretary of State and Mrs. Bayard: the Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Manning; tho Secretary of War and Mrs. Eudicott; the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Whitney; the Postmaster-general and Mrs. Vilas; the Secretary of the Interior; the Speaker and Mrs Carlisle; the Lieutenant-geueral and Mrs. Sheridan; Admiral Rogers (the admiral of the navy being ' indisposed); Senator Harris (the Democratic nominee for President pro tem. of the Senate); Senator and Mrs. Edmunds; Miss Love and Miss Utley, of Buffalo, who are guests at the White House; Hon. Edward Cooper and Mrs. Cooper, of Now York; Mr. D. Willis James and Mrs. James, of New York; Miss Weddell, of Cleveland, who is a guest at Secretary Whitney’s; ex-Secretary McCulloch and Mrs. McCulloch. The President pro tem. of the Senate and Mrs. Sherman, who had accepted tho President's invitation, were called out of the city. The Attorney-general was unable to attend by reason of a slight indisposition. The President escorted Mrs. Bayard and Secretary Bayard escorted Miss Cleveland. After the dinner, a short time'was passed in promenading through the parlors and the conservatory, which was illuminated for the occasion. MINOR MATTERS. Curious Attitude of Lieutenant Simpson on Account of Ilia Marriage. Washington Special. Tho Senate military committee had before it to-day the consideration of a verywnteresting case. Lieutenant Simpson, of the army, was nominated last year by President Arthur for promotion to a captaincy. Previous to this nomination he had been court-martialed and sentenced to dismissal for marrying a woman of questionable character. Neither the President nor the Secretary of War approved the findings of the court martial. The Senate rejected the nomination as made by Mr. Arthur. At the special session of the Senate, last spring, President Cleveland renominated him. He was again rejected, principally on account of his marriage. The Attorney-general afterwards held that this rejection put Simpson out of the army. The Presideut, several days ago, nominated Lieut. Steever for promotion. He was tho next to Simpson in point of seniority. If Simpson is out of the army Steever isentitled to the promotion, but the military committee held that Simpeon is in the army. It is probable that the latter will be retired, and then only will Steever receive his promotion. _ Assistance for the Supreme Court. Washington Special. The bill introduced by Mr. Jackson, of Tennessee, providing for the appointment of one law clerk and of one stenographer for the Supreme Court of the United States is understood to be much nearer the wishes of the justices of that court than the recommendation of Attorneygeneral Garland that each justice should be provided with a confidential short hand clerk. One of tho ablest and most industrious members of the court, being approached with regard to the latter measure, replied that he did not kr.ow how ho could use a stenographer in the preparation of his opinions. He had to make up his mind, he said, slowly and by degrees, frequently changing his views, as the weight of authorities consulted by him preponderated first to one side and then to the other. It was impossible for a justice to dictate his decisions as a representative or senator would “rattle off” a letter to an importunate constituent. There is no doubt that the appointment of one competent law clerk to hunt up the authorities on any given subject, as referred to in the respective briefs filed, and to abstract them and lay them before the justices in chambers for" their consideration, would greatly lighten their mechanical duties: and one confidential stenographer would be able to transcribe from dictation the oral parts of the decisions rendered, and would confine the possibility of a premature disclosure of the opinions of the court within the narrowest possible limits. What is most needed to relieve the overwhelming pressure on the Supreme Court is the passage of ex Senator David Davis’s bill for an intermediate court of appeals. This was forcibly illustrated yesterday, when out of ten or twelve opinions rendered six were in cases between : rivate parties, where the court, after bestow.:ig much time on the hearing and on the examination of the record, discovered that it was without jurisdiction because of the insufficiency of tho amount involved. The Southern Nominations. Special to the New York Tribnne. Many of the nominations conlirmod to-day were of persons appointed to offices in the South. The Southern senators are eagerly pressing these cases, and some surprise has been expressed by Southern Republicans at the apparent willingness of the Senate to sanction the appointment as federal officers of men who have been conspicuous aiders and abettors of election frauds. The President has made a clean sweep in tho South, replacing Republicans who fought in the Union army by ox-confederates. For instance, General Badger, who was removed as collector at New Orleans, was almost shot to pieces by rebel bullets. Mr Jonas, who was appointed his successor, was a confederate officer. There were no charges against General Badger, except the flimsy one of offensive partisanship; but his successor was almost the first person confirmed by the Senate. At Vicksburg the President has appointed as postmaster a man who publicly recommended the Democrats to “kill the white bosses,” referring to the Republican leaders. At Meridian he has appointed as postmaster a man convicted of election frauds. There are numerous appointments of this kind in the South. It is not comfortable at home for Southern Republicans to make themselves conspicuous in opposing such appointments; but they say that if the Republican Senate is going to confirm them without question in advance of Northern appointments, then it wili be construed m tho South as a notice to the Democrats that they may go on with their election frauds without further question. A Story of Two Candidates. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Washington, Jan. 14.—J. G. Gwinn, of Attica, Ind., and L. G. Bernard, of Cincinnati, have been here several days seeking the position of superintendent of the railway mail service for the division having headquarters at Cincinnati, and of which A. Burt is the present incumbent. Both of these moa have been conducting a vigorous campaign, but neither had met the other till to-day, when they at once arranged to hold a’caucns to night for the purpose of determining a more harmonious plan of operations, and ascertain if one could not be induced to withdraw. It is not generally believed that either has any chance or securing the place. Cost of Collecting Customs. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jam 14 —To day the Secretary of the Treasury transmitted to the House of Representatives his estimates of the aost of collecting customs at the different ports of the country for the fiscal year ending June JO, 1067; Following

are tho estimates for the port of Indianapolis: Collector, $2,000; deputy collector and inspector, $1,000; clerk, $720; operator and packer, $600; total estimate. $4,320. Port of Evansville, collector, SI,OOO. Information About Appointees. Washington, Jan. 14.—Several communications were sent to chairmen of committees to-day from various executive departments, couched in substantially the follewing form: Df.paktmkst, Washington, Jan. 14, 1886. To Hon. . Chairman Committee on , United States Senate: Sir—l have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your communication of date, calling for information to the reasons for the suspension (or removal) of and the appointment of as herewith the information in my custody concerning the appointment of . I have no information as to the President’s reason for the suspension (or removal) of Mr. . Very respectfully, , Secretary. The papers thus transmitted relate solev to the appointees. No issue has yet been raisea with the Presideut on this subject. It is further learned that the President, as vet, has neither expressed nor formed any determination as to what he wilt do in case an issue is raised. Not Legally Suspended. New Yokk, Jan. 14:*^—A Washington special says: “Some time ago the case of Mr. Kent, nominated to be naval officer at Boston, was referred to Mr. Frye as sub-committee, to report whether Daniel Hall, his predecessor, had been legally suspended, Hall having received no official notice of his suspension. Mr. Frye finds that there must be a legal and actual notice of suspension served upon an officer who is to be removed; also, that the actual and legal notice was never served upon Mr. Hall, and that his surrender of the office, under protest, was not a resignation or abandonment, and that he is still a de jure naval officer. The conclusion is that the President should be requested to withdraw the present nomination and renominate Mr. Kent, in place of Hall, removed, and not suspended. The facts in this case apply to a number of customs officers.” General and Personal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 14.—At the Dulles-Foster marriage, last evening, Mrs. Senator Harrison dainty trained dress of shrimp pink silk and old point lace; her daughter, Mrs. McKee, of Indianapolis, an evening costume of pale pink satin, with front of pearl passementerie. Mrs. Voorhees’s dress was a princeso robe of old gold, embroidered in leaf patterns of bronze and ruby. Miss Voorhee3 wore a pretty toilet of dead-leaf silk, with ornaments of turquoise. Miss Eleanor Foster, oldest daughter of Gen. Foster, returns at once to Smith College. Northampton, Mass., to resume her studies, which she left to attend her sister's marriage hero last evening. Miss Foster is much annoyed by the printed rumors of her engagement, as no such event has transpired. State Senator Menzies, of Posey county, is here, and is said to be looking for an office, but he refuses to disclose the size of his ambition. Ex-Senator McDonald and Representative Matson were at the White House this morning, and saw the President. It was reported to-day that the object of Representative Holman in securing the removal of Joseph M. Dufour, of Vevav, principal clerk in the office of the supervising architect of the Treasury, was to make a place for Dr. Woollen, who has been a congressional aspirant against Holman, but friends of Dr. Woollen say he would not accept such a place. It is worth but $2,000 a year, and has no prominence. Mr. Holman is trying, however, to get a place for Dr. Woollen, who is visiting friends over in Baltimore and awaiting returns. Capt. John H. Lord, assistant quartermaster in the United States army, is at the Ebbitt House, from his station at the Jeffersonville, Ind., clothing depot. To day Representative Steele presented in the House the petition of G. W. Hayworth, late postmaster at Xenia, Ind., asking Congress to direct the Postmaster-general to pay him $287 due him on postmaster's commissions. Indiana men have lost their fight for Bedford limestone for the general superstructure of the government building at Pittsburg. To-day a contract was awarded for granite. The Hoosiers made a splendid presentation of their case, and were defeated only by the peculiar circumstance of a condition of atmosphere at the Smoky City. J. McCabe and wife, of Indiana, are here. Senator Voorhees to-day introduced a bill to amend the pension laws. The bill was prepared by and introduced at the request of Sedgwick Post, No. 38, G. A. R., of Indiana. The statement that President Cleveland has determined that no answer shall be given to requests from the Senate for information as to the reasons for removals or suspensions from office is authoritatively denied. No such request has yet been mado of the President by the Senate. The number of employes required in the customs service the next fiscal year is estimated at 4,026, and the total expense of collection at $6,510,535. The persons employed during the year ended June 30, 1885, numbered 4,527, and the expense of collecting was $6,918,221. Several gentlemen representing the Travelers' Protective Association appeared before the Senate committee on commerce, to-day, and a3kod the repeal of the laws imposing State and municipal taxes on commercial travelers. Admiral Porter is seriously ill. The total value of the exports of domestic cattle and hogs, and of beef, pork and dairy products for the twelve months, ended Dec. 31, 1885, was $93,713,020, against $96,449,142 the previous year. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. J. F. Richardson (Republican) collector of customs at St. Albans, Vt., has voluntarily resigned. Lizzie Ennes, of Cincinnati, was burned to death at her house yestoaday, her clothes catching fire from the grate. A small dwelling, owned by Timothy Harley, of Lewiston, Me , was burned at midnight on Wednesday. It was occupied by Kate McCartney, aged sixty years, who perished in the flames. Sydney Rosenfeld, tho dramatic author, was arrested, at Philadelphia, yesterday, charged with conspiracy to defraud and annoy John A. McCaull, the theatrical manager. James Shiffert and Wilson Eck were instantly killed by a cave-in of rock at Hertzel’sore mine, near Alburtis, Pa , Wednesday evening Several other miners had narrow escapes. The report that a dozen men are under the rock is erroneous. On Wednesday evening, Marshal McGraw, of Mount Oreby, 0., attempted to arrest Clayton Brooks, who was drunk. Brooks made a show of resistence, and McGraw fired. Brooks died on Wednesday night. McGraw was taken hastily to the county-seat to avoid lynching. At Pittsburg, the bakers’convention yesterday adopted a constitution and effected a permanent , organization under the name of the Xatiounl Uniou Bakers. The headquarters will be in New York. Congratulatory telegrams were received from San Francisco, Omaha, Kansas City and St. Louis. Henry White and Fred Quallraan, both young men, went hunting near Orrville, 0.. yesterday. As they were climbing over a fence White’s gun was discharged, the contents entering his thigh. Quallman borrowed a horse and sleigh from a farmer and started for Orrville. When they were about a mile from town White died from loss of blood. The master painters of New York city have issued a circular to tho painters of the country, with a view to organization for the purpose of mutual protection. The association will not dictate prices, but confine itself to boycotting manufacturers for alleged abuses in the trade, such as the adulteration of paints, the suppression of the manufacture and sale of mixed pamts, discount on glass, etc. School-House Burned* Milwaukee, Jan. 14.—At Chippewa Falls, the solid brick school bnilding erected last season, at a cost of $20,000, was destroyed by firs this morning. Loss, 18.000; insured for $14,500. That most distracting trouble, lumbago, is effectually remoyed by Bt. Jacobs OiL

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1886.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS Epps, the Murderer of James Dobson, Sent to Knox County for Safety. Desperate Struggle with a Tippecanoe County Maniac—A New Scheme for Swindling Farmers—Notes and Gleanings. INDIANA. Murderer Epps Arrives at Bloomfield, and Is Immediately Started for Vincennes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomfield, Jan. 14.—Epps, the murderder of James Dobson, arrived here this morning, at 9:30 o’clock, undisturbed, further than by some boisterous demonstrations at stations near where the murdered man lived. The danger was avoided by bringing Epps here at an unexpected time. Last night 500 people crowded the country church from which, only a few hours before, the body of Dobson had been buried, and with uplifted hands they swore the terribfe crime should be avenged. Pickets were sent out after Epps, who, it was understood, was coming in a sleigh, and when they returned with the sleigh and reported that Epps had been taken by rail the excitement was intense. So bitter was the feeling at Bloomfield all day that it is evident something is brewing, and your correspondent has just discovered that a committee of five is in town arranging for a lynching, which they say will occur some time soou, though it is believed a crowd is now organized, waiting for darkness to hide the scene, to follow in wreaking vengeance. The excitement is intense. Epps has been either crying or praying all day, and says he killed Dobson, but that he had no motive, and was asleep at the time. Later.—The prisoner will be taken to Knox county at once. Desperate (Struggle with a Maniac* Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, Jan. 14—A few days ago a man named Louis Adams, his wife and three children applied at the county poor-farm for shelter. They were nearly naked and almost starved, and were given rooms. Adams seemed to be more intelligent than the ordinary poor man, and felt deeply the disgrace of being a pauper. Yesterday afternoon Superintendent Gwinn, of the poor-farm, was called to Adams’s room by a loud outcry, and found the man trying to. kill the youngest child, saying he would throw the carcass out of the window. He was overcome by a couple of the farm hands, and confined in a room Jby himself, where he soon became cool and more Rational. Last night, before going to bed! fifainn, accompanied by Engineer Harris, made the rounds of the cells to see that all vas right Adams called to Gwinn, asking him to come and help make his bed. He seemed to be in his right senses, and Gwinn consented. No sooner had he entered the room, however, than the maniac set upon him, declaring he would beat his brains out. Harris rushed to his assistance, but the strength of the madman was so great that they could barely protect themselves. Calls for help brought no response, and the struggle was kept up for over half an hour, when Harris succeeded in knocking the man senseless. Gwinn and Harris were completely worn out. and could not have continued the struggle five minutes loneer. while the madman seemed to be as strong as when the fight begun. Adams was placed under control, and seemed to be much better to-day. He will be removed to Indianapolis as soon as the papers can be made out Minor Notes. Large tobacco crops are being projected in southern Indiana. The New Albany Gas Company has declared a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent Colonel Snodgrass, of Watson, whi*e making some purchases in Jeffersonville, lost a wallet containing $265. At Jeffersonville, to-day, General Saxton will award the contract for making 100 aruy wagons to the highest bidder. Henry Sclimutte, who came to Evansville in 1832, died in that city on Wednesday. He leaves a widow and six grown children. Dr. W. Falsetter, of Evansville, has "been apEointed consulting veterinary surgeon of the llinois State Board of Agriculture. Charles Rauth, of Jeffersonville, while fooling with a toy pistol, wasbadiv burned about the leg by the accidental explosion of the weapon. Michael McLaughlin has been arrested at Union City, with a large amount of pocket cutlery and a number of razors in his possession, supposed to be stolen. Reed S. Magrew. of Terre Haute, is charged with having accused Joseph Rupp of stealing $2.70, and Rupp has brought suit for slander, laying his damages at $2,000. A little daughter of F. Andrus, of Terre Haute, was accidentally shot with a Flobert gun in the hands of a boy named Frank Smock. The injury is painful, but not dangerous. Eureka Council, K. and L. of H.. of Jeffersonville, have paid $2,000 to W. A. Jackson, guardian of the children of Mrs. Fanny Fitzpatrick, of that city, that amount being due at the death of Mrs. B itzpatrick. The indictment against John Cash, the streetcar driver of Evansville, for manslaughter, in causing the death of Ed Gordon, has been quashed. He will only have to answer for carrying concealed weapons. Lewis Hutt, of Chicago, recently had a S7OO horse stolen from him, and on Wednesday night Marshal Middledorf, of LaPorte, captured the thief, John Berry, and horse at New Carlisle. They were returned to Chicago. William A. Stinchcomb, a reporter on the Louisville Commercial, and Miss Julia M. E. Baumberger, daughter of the Swiss consul at Louisville, were married on Wednesday by ’Squire Huckeby, at New Albany. Thomas Payne, of Salem, armed with two revolvers, terrorized a number of the citizens of that place for two days, and shot James Hamilton, county recorder, in the breast, making a slight flesh wound. Ho is insane, aud has been taken to the Hospital for the Insane. A Terre Haute girl eleven years old was taken to the home of one of her schoolmates, the other day. Soon after she went away a gold watch and chain, a pair of gold bracelets, a cold pin, two silver thimbles and several other articles were missing. The little girl was arrested, and after much lying, told where the articles were hidden—most of them at home, between two mattresses. The following is the record of the first bicycle owned in Indiana. The bicycle is a Columbia, and was first owned by C. W. Edgerton, of Fort Wayne. It has been sold ten times, and over twenty-five men learned to ride on it. The following prices have been paid for it: $92.50, SBO, SSO, SSO. SSO. S4O, SSO, $25. sls. S3O; total, $482.50. One man has owned it and sold it three times. It is now a wreck. The case of the State against James M. Kennedy, for assault aud battery with intent to rape, has been on trial in the Sullivan Circuit Court eince Monday, and ended yesterday by the jury returning a verdict of euilty of assault and battery, and fixing the punishment at a fine of S7OO and four months’ imprisonment in the county jail. Great interest was manifested in the case, almost the entire northeast part of the county being in attendance. ILLINOIS. A New Confidence Game Which le Being Played with Moderate Success. Special to the Indianaaolis Journal. Mattoon, Jac. 14.—Another plan has been evolved by the übiquitous swindler. The following is the latest scheme: A chap in clerical broadcloth and white choker enters a farmhouse and asks for lodging or dinner, as the case may be. During his stay he announces himself as a traveling Bible distributor in the employ of a religions institution, and he generally goes so far as to present the family with a handsome Bible from a well-filled valise. Se is earefol to

say that hia society requires its agents to pay their own way, and exhibits vouchers for all money so expended. After partaking of the good folks’ hospitality, he prepares to leave, and asks for his bill. He is genera ly told that no charges are made, but he calls attention to “the rales," and insists on paying twenty-five cents for each meal. Then he mildily requires a receipt on his blank, “as a voucher, you know," and gets the farmer to sign it. In ninety days there is a notice received from a neighboring bank to the pious farmer to call and pay a note for $156.25, which it has bought, and to which is signed the name of the farmer. Sadden Deaths In Moultrie County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Mattoon, Jan. 14—Three persons in Moultrie county have met with sudden death in as many days. George Williams, a fourteen-year old lad, living near Bethany, sunk into a snow-bank, complaining of being tired, and died in a few minutes, surrounded by his playfellows. Booker Preston, an old and highly-respected citizen of Nelson, ate a hearty dinner, and rising from the table, stepped to the door, to sink to the floor in death without a moment’s warning to the family. Mrs. Charles Drew, living near Sullivan, sat chatting by the kitchen fire, when she suddenly fell backwards to the floor and expired without a word. Heart disease is the assigned cause of each death. _ Crashed Between CSrs. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Champaign, Jan. 14—Joseph D. Connor was crushed to death instantly, last evening, at Seymour, this county, between two cars of the Champaign & Havana road. The train was switching cars, and backed up upon cars which stood a few feet apart, when Connor attempted to pass between the cars and was crushed, dying in a few moments. He was a son of John Connor, a hotel-keeper at Seymour. Brief Mention. John E. Hefferan, financial secretary of au A. O. U. W. lodge at Rockford, has been arreeted on the charge of embezzling SSOO of lodge funds. Deacon Rogers, of Dunlap, accused of burning the elevator of White & Warren at that place, on the 17th of September last, has been acquitted. Simon P. Parrish, a well-known colored politician of Quincy, was shot in the arm by his mistress, Ada Canada, also colored. He is not seriously hurt. George L. Vermilion, a young farmer living in the Decatur district, has become violently insane, owing to his failure to secure anew lease of his 160 acre farm. At Joliet, Robert Robertson, jr., aged abont twenty-six years, a well-known manufacturer, and a son of Robert Robinson, a retired capitalist, has become violently insane. M. M. Gray, sent to Chester penitentiary from Monroe county last October for one year, for killing Wm. Ditch, and at the same time killing his wife, has been pardoned by Governor Oglesby. H. A. Schwanecke, of Marshall, who has for some time been insane, has recovered his reason, and on Saturday sails for Europe to consult with leading railway magnates there in regard to a new railway system to be established in this country. The Northern Illinois Merino Sheen-breeders’ Association, at its meeting at Elgin, elected George *E. Peck president asked that no further changes or reductions be made in the wool tariff, and resolved that silver coinage was a necessity, and that its suspension would be subversive of the people’s interests. O. Fox, clothing merchant of Joliet, who has been in business therefor twenty-five years, has assigned to Peck. Brothers & Cos., of Syracuse, N. Y., for $19,000, and other judgments which have since been filed, in sums ranging from S2OO to $5,000, will swell the total liabilities to $35,000, while the assets will not much more thao satisfy the Syracuse firm. Judgments to the amount of SG,OOO have been transferred to LaSalle county, where Fox has been keepiug a branch store. Business Embarrassments. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Mattoon, 111., Jau. 14—William M. Birch, dealer in general merchandise at Neoga, 111., was attached this evening by the sheriff to satisfy the claim of a Champaign firm. The amounts of liabilities and assets are not now known. Ishpeming, Mich.. Jan. 14.—'This afternoon Talleen, Johnson & Cos., y. leading dry goods and grocery house of this city, assigned to J. W. Jocim, formerly a member of the firm. The liabilities are estimated At between $40,000 and $50,000; assets probably about $20,000, and possibly lesa Pittsburg. Pa, Jan. 14.—George Beeley, an Alpsville coke merchant, has assigned. His liabilities are not known. He offers to pay his em ployes in store orders and his other creditors 33 per cent. Buffalo, Jan. 14 —Jacob F. Bergtold, a painter, assigned this afternoon. Liabilities, $40,000. • Saved by an Engineer. New York, Jan. 14—A most dreadful accident was narrowly averted by a quick-witted engineer this evening. The north bound express on the New England & Long Island road was filled with prominent New York business men coming to their offices. Near Mattawan, and just before reaching a trestle bridge five hundred feet long, the cars were derailed by a broken frog. The cars, after dropping down on the ties, ran across the bridge, snapping the steel rails into bits, and tearing the wooden structure to splinters. The rear coach lost its truck, and was drawn’a long distance on its floor beams. George Clickner. the engineer, finding it impossible to slop his engine, which was tearing along at a rate of thirty miles an hour, saw that the only hope was to increase the speed. He threw open the throttle, and thus prevented the cars from toppling over the bridgo. The cars swayed from side to side, but they were safely carried out of daneer. The passengers were all more or less shaken up, but nobody was seriously hurt Death of Auditor Small of the B. & O. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 14—About four weeks ago, Robert H. Small, third auditor of the B. & O. railroad, was married to a young lady of Covington, and came to Florida on a wedding tour. After stopping in Jacksonville a few days, they went to Palatka, where Mr. Small began to exhibit signs of mental aberration. Last Monday he disappeared from the hotel, and spent the night at a farm-house some distance away. On Tuesday he started for a sail on the river, but his boat capsized. Returning to his hotel, he changed his clothing and again went in a boat, after which he was not seen until 11 o’clock this morning, when his body was found on the river bank, with his head resting on his overcoat. The physicians decided that he died from exposure. His body was embalmed, and reached this city, en route for Baltimore, to-day, accompanied by Mrs. Small. Priees of Barbed-Wire Fencing. Chicago. Jan. 14—A meeting of twenty-two of the leading barb-wire manufacturers of the country was held here to day, at which it was decided to form a national association. A temporary organization was effected, and a meeting was called to be held in this city on Jan. 29, when a permanent organization will be effected. The following schedule of prices was adopted: Galvanized wire, in fifty-ton lots. 5 cents per pound; in smaller lots, 5* cents; pointed wire, in fifty-ton lots, 4 cents; in smaller lots, 41 cents; thick-set wire, in fifty-ton lots, 4J cents; in smaller lots, 4£ cents. Bights of Oyster Farmers. Hunter’s Point, L. 1., Jan. 14—In Port bay, adjoining this town, oyster farmers have spent large sums iu laying out and . piauting oyster-beds. The town claimed ownership, and levied rentals against the farmers, which the latter declined to pAy. The case went before tbs courts, and the Supreme Court of Queens county decided in favor of the town. A large amount of money is involved in the decision. Steamship News. Bremen, Jan. 14—Arrived: Maine, from New York. Hamburg, Jan. 14.—Arrived: Moravia, from New York. Quehnstown, Jan. 14—Arrived: Arizona,, from New York; Peruvian, from Baltimore. '

THE RECENT STORM. Eighteen Lives Lost in Kansas, and the Retarns Not Complete—Heavy Loss of Cattle. Kansas City, Jan. 14 —The Journal’s Topeka, Kan., special, says: “The full extent of tho disastrous effects of the late storm in western Kansas are just becoming known as reports are received from relief parties and others. Reports have been received of the loss of eighteen lives, while half a dozen more persons are missing. These casualties occurred in the sparsely settled country in the southwestern and western parts of the State. It is feared that further reports will increase still more the list of fatalities. The loss in cattle is also considered to be very heavy.” Damage by Frost in Florida. Jacksonville, Fla„ Jan. 14.—The weather moderated considerably during the day, and has now returned almost to its normal temperature. Dispatches from all parts of the State confirm the belief that the cold wave carried frost to almost tho extreme southern end of the peninsula, and there is little doubt that the orange crop remainine on the trees is frozen. Probably every tree in the State will lose its leaves, and the belief is that most of the young trees, except where protected, are killed. The gradual thaw, under cloudy skies, is very fortunate, however, and the opinion now prevails that the old and mature trees, which have been relied on for producing the marketable crop of oranges, are not seriously hnrt, and will not be, unless exposed to warm sunshine within the next few days. It is estimated that oranges worth $1,000,000 were destroyed by the freeze. The Low Temperature in the South. Mobile, Ala., Jan. 14.—This has been the severest spell of weather experienced along this coast It has continued, with very little moderation, since Friday morning. Monday was the coldest day ever recorded here. The weather is somewhat warmer to-day. The orange trees in this district are undoubtedly frozen, but if sap is not running up, they will thaw out if warm weather comes gradually. There are about 10.000 trees here, valued, when in full bearing, at S2O to S3O each, and producing annually a crop worth from $6,000 to SB,OOO. The crop for this year is lost. Whether the trees are dead cannot be ascertained until spring. It is probable, however, that the greater number have been killed. There have been frozen and killed cabbages, which, if they had matured, would have sold for SIOO,OOO. Most of the farmers have a reserve of plants, and expect to make a crop somewhat late, but as large as usual. A Small Cold Wave. Chicago, Jan. 14 —At 9 o’clock this evening the local signal-service officer is in receipt of information which enables him to predict that, inside of the next forty eight hours, the temperature here will fall from 15 to 20 degrees. National Law and Order League. Cincinnati. Jan. 14 —At a meeting, this afternoon, of the Cincinnati Citizens' Law and Order League, at which L. E. Dudley, secretary of the National Order Leagne, was present, a call was issued far the fourth annual convention of the Citizens’ Law and Order League of the United States, to be held iu Cincinnati, Feb. 22. AU State and local leagues, and kindred societies, are requested to send delegates. They are also requested to hold meetings on that day, with the view of making Feb. 22 a law and order day throughout the Republic. 'Horrible Death of a Child. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 14—A horrible story comes from Wellingford. The report says that a colored woman living near Pond Hill, wishing to call her husband, closed her baby up in an oven to keep it warm, the fire being nearly out. While she was away her husband came home, and, unaware of the whereabouts of the child, built a hot fire. The woman noticed the smoke comine from* the chimney, and hurried home, bat arrived too late, as the child was found literally roasted. Veo Retracts His Confession. Lowell, Mass., Jan. 14—C. H. Yeo, the man who confessed to complicity with President McNeil, of the Lancaster Bank, of Clinton, in the robbery of the bank, has retracted his confe vou. He now gays that Nelson and himself were alarmed about the property left in the marble company’s office when they got an inkling of the facts in the case, but fearing arrest for being accessory to McNeil’s crime, if they took the satchels back to the bank, caused them to hide the property. The Charge Against Judge White. Indiana, Pa., Jan. 14—Judge White to-day filed his answer to the petition of his brother, Alexander, in which he was charged with fraudulently altering the records in the case, and with having in his possession the alleged altered will of his mother. This the Judge admits in his answer, saying that he substituted a later drawnUD paper fer one that was on record, and which he had sworn to. He denies the alteration of the will, and says the charge is false and scandalous. STORIES OF PIO NO.NO. Told by His Confidential Friend, the Late Abbe Rumeli. Edward King’s Letter m Boston Journal. Among the bright books published a few years ago was one containing interesting reminiscences of the late Pius IX, by a certain Abbe Rnmeii, who was a kind of confidential clerk and companion of the great Pope. This Abbe Rumeli died recently, and both the Italian and Austrian papers, for he was well known in Rome and in Vienna, are filled with anecdotes of his curious career. He was educated at the College of Volterra with Count Mastal Ferretti, the gay and genial soldier student, who afterwards became Pius IX. When these youths had finished their studies they vowed themselves to a militarv career. and that they would begin in the Papal navy, which at that time had two war-ships, the Holy Trinity and Saints Peter and Paul. But being so diminutive, the navy scarcely gave scope to the abilities of two men whose talents were of first order; ar.d so Mastai Ferretti pursued his ecclesiastical career, and became successively Bishop of Spoleta, Archbishop of Iraola and then cardinal. Abbe Rumeli gave up all hope of attaining distinguished honors, and went to live near Imola. in such a profound seclusion that he soon was called the hermit; but he remained an intimate friend of his old college companion, and was made familiar with all his projects. Gifted with a veritable second-sight, he one day predicted M. Ferretti’s election to to the Papal dignity. One of the stories which the Abbe Rumeli was most fond of relating concerning the Pope related to the time when Pius IX was still Archbishop of Imola, and had received from Pope Gregory XVI an order to examine into the case of a young girl who said that she had the gift of miracles and a divine mission. This girl had installed herself iu a little wood near Imola, was said to live without food, and claimed to heal all maladies by the laying on of hands. The pilgrims came by thousands from the neighboring provinces to see this great wonder, and for a time the girl was at the summit of glory. But one day the future Pope, accompanied by his faithful hermit., both dressed in shabby cloaks and dusty shoes, dropped in upon the mystical young lady and began to question her. She was meek enough until the Archbishop of Imola ordered her to take off bis shoes and those of his companion, and to prepare water to wash their feet The young mystic rose up full of anger, and answered very tartly: “I am the servant of God, and not of man." “Then,” said the Archbishop, “Get out of this country at once. You are only an impostor. The first of Christian virtues, that of humility, is entirely lacking in your composition." He had the girl imprisoned, and then expelled from the province. Another bright story which the Abbe told of Pius IX, was of the time when the Pope was a simple priest He told this tale very often to visitors at the Vatican, and always told it with much simple eloquence and pathos. One morning when he was in the confessional, a feminine figure, veiled from head to foot kneeled against the grating and said: “Father. I have come, not to ceufess a past sin, but to demand absolution for a great crime that lam about to commit" “What is it?" said the

future Pope. “I am about to become a mother. I cannot survive this shame. I have resolved te kill my child nnd to kill myself afterward; but I must have your absolution, for at the terrible moment I should have no confessor near me.* The young priest was greatly frightened, because the woman talked with the courage of despair, and he scarcely knew what to say. For sonie moments he sat thinking; suddenly there flashed through his braut something that a famous politician had once said to him abont infantcide. “I cannot absolve you in advance,* he answered; “but swear to me in this holy place that you will not kill your child until after you have nursed it fora few hours. Then come back, and perhaps God will help you.” She made this promise and departed. It seem3 the physician Lad told the priest that there was not a case known in tho annals of crime in which a woman had put to death a child after she had begun to nurse it; and, said the Pope, when he told the story, sometimes with the tears running down his face, the poor woman came back to the confess*ional a few weeks afterward and told him that she had not dared to kill her child, because it was so beautiful and she loved it so much, but her own life, she said, was in danger, because her parents woull kill her if they knew of her fault. Whereupon the young priest buckled up his robe and went and arranged tht affair with the parents. ■ Keeping Boys on the Farm, Burdotte, in Brooklyn Eagle. “Why do the boys leave the farm?” wails a writer in an agricultural journal. Well, deal brother, there are several reasons. Odo is because the boy is not sixty-five years old at hia birth. Then, if there is a hoe on the farm weighing fourteen ounces, bright as nickel-plat* and sharp as a razor, and another hoe weighing somewhat less than a breaking plow, with aa edge on it like a hammer and a sapling with the bark on for a handle, the hired man takes one and the boy gets the other, and every mania America knows which is the other. Did you ever stand with such a hoe in your hands away down in a corn row on some airless, still, hot summer day, twenty acres of corn blades and tassels wilting about you, standing fourteen inches higher than your head, shutting out every last trace of breathable air, and then hear a locust down in the edge of the timber strike up his long, strident, monotonous call to make it ten times hotter? And all this time a cool creek, not a mile away, loitering ia deep, silent pools in shady places in the woods, or breaking into merry dancing ripples over the pebbles? And in the big deep holes the fish just lying around, lonesome for a boy? Well, then, you know why some boys leave the farm. Still, boys can be kept on the farm and made to stay there all their lives. You drive a long spike through a boy's abdomen and through a live oak tree, and clinch or bolt it on tho other side, aud then saw off the boy’s legs and break his back, and he will stay on the farm. Yes, there are some other ways, we know, but this is the only infallible method. An End of the Catch-and-Kiss Policy. Seymour Republican. The peremptory “firing” of the nine Hamilton county fraudulently-elected members of the Ohi Legislature, by the Republican representatives, yesterday, is a hopeful sign of the return of tht business end of tho g. o. p. in politics. Thing! have been run on a namby-pamby, catch-and-kiss policy so long that the masses of the Repub< licans in the North, like their brethren of tha solid South, are becoming indifferent to elections, siuce the brazen and open frauds of the Democracy are constantly allowed to go unwhipped oi ju*stice, and honesty at the polls, owing to tha studied efforts of Democratic scoundrels, is ab most a thing of the past. Best Goods Are Put in Smallest Faroels. The old proverb is certainly true in the casa of Dr. Pierce’s “Pleasant Purgative Pellets," which are little, sugar-wrapped parcels, scarcely larger than mustard seeds, containing as much cathartic power as is done up in the biggest, most repulsive-looking pill. Unlike the big pills, however, they are mild and pleasant iu their operation—do not produce griping pains, nor rentier the bowels oostive after using.

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