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THE DAILY JOURNAL BY JNO. C. NEW * SON. '• 111 ... r~: - jss 'WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. HKATII, Correspondent. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1886. BATES OF SUBSCBirTION, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID BV TUB PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One year, by mail. - $12.00 One year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 Six months, by mail G.OO Fix months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three month?, by mail 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 One month, by mail 1.00 One month, by mail, ineluding Sunday 1.20 Tor week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) 25 THE SUHDaTjOURNAL. T*er copy 5 cents One year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WEEKLY EDITION.) Onfo year SI.OO Less than one year and over three months, 10c per month. No subscription taken for less than three months. In clubs of five or over, agents will take yearly subscri[#ions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for their work. Address JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis, Ind. 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Deem; Education in the Turkish Empire—A letter of much interest from a special correspondent; The Present Condition of the Great Question of Irish Home Rule, by Joseph Hatton; A Special Article on the Tea Trade of the World, and the Voyage of a Tea Ship; Sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmagc on “The Choice of a Wife;” The Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home—Report of a special inspection by Mrs. Abigail D. Hawkins, for the G. A. R. Besides these there will be poems by Allan Bottsford, Will Robert Williams, and the local writers; several original sketches of interest, and the usual miscellaneous and newsy features, and the social news of the city and other towns of the State. The Sunday Journal commends Itself to the support of all intelligent people who desire a paper whose columns are filled with matter of the very best character. TO THE PUBLIC. 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Up to latest accounts Senator Payne Lad not prayed for investigation. TnE metropolitan police should be on hand hereafter at the meetings of the School Board. It is hinted in Bavarian circles that King Ludwig is insane. Bavaria can hardly be regarded as a news confer. Wednesday was a red-letter day for the New York Grant monument fund. Subscriptions to the amount of sl6 were received. The occasion demands celebration. The weather having moderated, it is about tim® to look for peremptory removals from the Indianapolis postofllce. It is a cold day when someone does not have to walk the plank. By the will of the late J. B. Lippincott, of Philadelphia, the publishing house passes into the hands of his threo sons, and provision is made for continuing the business to which, as be says, *T have devoted the best energies of my life.” Cold weather is not without its uses even in the usually sunny South. Its effect there has been to arouse a spirit of charity and benevolence, such as the more familiar forms of suffering among the poor of that region could scarcely excite. An English Cabinet Minister solemnly assures a “cable special” reporter that he does not know in the least what is going to happen in political circles. Such ignorance is deplorable. Os course, if he had known, he would have unbosomed himself to the reporter without reserve. President Cleveland is being urged to fill no vacancies among commissioned officers of the army by promotions or appointment of outriders, however well qualified, as by so doing it is declared that an equal number of West Point graduates, for whom no places are left, will be compelled to retire to private life.

Recent examinations held at West Point indicate that this anxiety is uncalled for, and that the matter will adjust itself by tho process of natural selection, and the survival of the fittest. Twenty-nine cadets failed to pass tho examination, and that many, at least, Mr. Cleveland will not have on his mind to provide for. As the time fixed for the reorganization of the party is near at hand, it is important that Republicans should give the question their attention. It seems to be generally conceded that the Slate central committee acted wisely in directing an early reorganization of the county and State committees. It is a fact well known to all Republicans that the best work done in the past was when the party was organized early in the year. By this means the county committeemen get acquainted early with the political situation in the county, and with each other, and thus are able to do better work than if the organization had been later. The same argument applies with still greater force to the early reorganization of the State committee. As it is the local work which wins the victory, so it is of the utmost importance that qualified men should be put on tho county committee. No man should be made a member of the county committee for tho purpose of pleasing, or pacifying, or complimenting him, but only those men who will do the best work should be chosen. The success of the campaign depends almost entirely on the men composing the county committees, and we cannot afford to make a mistake in their selection. One man on the county committee who is not the right man in the right place will undo all the good work that may be done by the other members, or prevent them from doing anything at all. Mistakes should not be made in a matter of such importance, and it is expected that the party will give this matter the attention which it’deserves. Especial care should be taken to select men who are industrious, discreet and active. There is no place on a committee for a lazy man or a thoughtless one. After electing good members of committees, the next thing 3s to elect good officers for them. Asa good army is worthless if led by poor generals, so a good committee may be rendered useless by inefficient officers. Tho chairman and secretary should be men of experience in politics, of unquestioned integrity, and of untiring energy. They should be prompt to attond to all the duties of their offices, good advisers, and cautious. Too much care cannot be taken in their selection. There seems to be a strong determination all over the State to select the best men for all these places. All this applies with equal force to the election of the officers and members of tlie State committee. If the Republicans of the State will give these matters the attention they deserve, the victory will be half won. This is the “off year” for the Democratic party, and all the indications point to their defeat. Let the goo<| Republicans of Indiana be cautious, discreet and vigilant, and their success is assured. It has been openly and often alleged that Senator Payne, of Ohio, holds a seat in the United States Senate which was purchased for him with money. Members of his own political party, high in its councils, make this charge. It has passed the line of mere gossip and rumor. The charge is made pointedly, without circumlocution, and with dates, details and pregnant circumstances. No selfrespecting public man has ever allowed such a grave accusation to go unchallenged. It would naturally be expected that he would at once demand a thorough investigation of the charge. On tho contrary, Senator Payne announces that he will not take any notice of it, and, in effect, that he is willing to rest under the charge in silence The public will treat his silence as a confession. Experience teaches that silence is the approved tactics of the guilty. Innocence is aggressive, and demands the earliest opportunity to make “false accusation blush.” A senator of the United States cannot afford, under such circumstances, to act on the defensive, in the manner of an indicted man acting under the advice of skillful criminal lawyers. This charge has been repeated so often in the press, upon the authority of prominent Democrats, that the public aro coming to .take it for granted as true. This belief grows and strengthens, yet Senator Payne has never made an express denial of the truth of the charge. Mr. Payne owes it, if not to his own self-respect, to the dignity of the Senate, to meet this charge face to face. If he is guilty he is unworthy a place in that distinguished body. This stigma, through him, reflects also upon the Senate as a body. If its seats can be purchased with money—if they have a known cash price in the market, like seats in a stock exchange—then, indeed, has the Senate fallen from its high estate. As long as Senator Payne declines to act in the premises his fellow-senators should show him and the public that they appreciate the gravity of the charge and the dignity of the Senate. They should not recognize him in any way. They should shun him as they would a leper. They should 60 treat him that no man hereafter could ever afford to buy a seat in that body. They should make him as lonesome as “the man without a country.” It is not Mr. Payne’s character alone that is involved; it is the character of the Senate, as well. Let it be understood that seats in the United States Senate can be bought with money, and that with impunity, and the result can readily be foretold. It will be the beginning of the end which will bring the man on horseback, who, in history, has always come when tho r|pre-

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’lentatfrtt of the people became notoriously corrupt. Let tho Senate look to the safety of the Republic. Both parties claim that cheating and intimidation were practiced at the polls in Cincinnati, Both are probably right, but the courts, after thoroughly sifting the evidence, awarded their seats to the Democratic members. The Legislature has made no investigation. On the strength of an ex parte statement, without giving any opportunity for rebuttal, the majority expel nine members of the minority, and make Sherman’s election sure.—New York Graphic. It would be ha and to crowd more misstatements into a space of so many lines. There was no charge of intimidation in the late election. The Democratic party made a “shotgun” charge of cheating to draw attention from the frauds practiced in the Fourth ward. The only court that sifted the evidence decided against the claims of the nine, and the Supreme Court, a Democratic body to which appeal was taken, decided that each house must pass on the rights of its members to seats. Taking the Supreme Court at its word, and acting on the unquestioned evidence adduced by the local court, which showed that not one of these men was elected, the very properly refused them admittance. The other misstatement, by implication, is that this was done to make sure the re-election of Senator Sherman. This is not true, for he was sure of re-election had these nine men been given seats to which they were not elected. The Legislature was in possession of evidence that showed that in one precinct some Democrats had changed “726” to “926,” and it was on the strength of this bold attempt at fraud that the election of these men was claimed. Not to be too pointed, it may be said that no thoroughly honorable man would have claimed election on such grounds, and a man has to be pretty thoroughly saturated with prejudice to defend the attempted steal. The proprietor of the Washington Critic expresses himself, in an interview, as opposed to civil-service reform, for the reason that it will virtually turn the government offices over to rich, college-bred young men. Just what a rich young man wants with a government office which comes under the civil-service rules he does not state. As for the the college men will get all the places, the result of many examinations shows that these youths are alarmingly apt to be left far in the lurch by applicants who have gained their knowledge in the public schools. But perhaps Mr. Kilbourn objects to the supremacy of the public schools. Senator Payne’s indifference to the Donavin charges does not indicate that any senatorial investigation will take place on his motion; and it appears that it would not be in accordance with precedent for the Senate to order an inquiry until tho State Legislature shall have first looked into the facj JSo far as known, however, there is nothing to hinder the Ohio Legislature from doing its duty promptly. Its good work of electing Sherman can properly be supplemented by the investigation of its own Democratic members, and of the man chosen by them to represent the people. The result of the negotiations by New Mexico with Colonel Baylor, the Indian fighter of Texas, to induce him to come over and exterminate the Apaches, will be looked for with interest. So many things are better done by private enterprise than by the government that if Baylor succeeds where Crook has failed, it will suggest the propriety of disbanding tho army, and “farming out” such little wars as the people of the United States are likely to be troubled with. The House of Representatives yesterday passed the Iloar succession bill, just as it came from the Senate, by a vote of 183 to 77. The House was not stampeded by the stories of all the awfully awful things that might, could, would and should happen in contingencies impossible to occur in a hundred thousand years. The succession settled, now let Congress take up and pass that other and more important bill regulating the counting of the electoral vote. When the official copy of the resolution reaches him, Secretary Whitney will inquire into the charges made by Mr. Boutelle, of Maine, concerning the mismanagement of tho Norfolk navy-vard and the discharge of exUnion soldiers to make room for ex-confed-erates. To look into the business merely as a matter of justice and loyalty, and to right a wrong, would be contrary to the peculiar principles of “reform” practiced by the Navy Department. The citizens of Bloomfield may conuratulato themselves that they had a sheriff with nerve enough to prevent the mob from lynching the murderer Epps. Epps deserves hanging, btxt no community should voluntarily disgrace itself by acting outside the law. The duty of the court now is to afford the miscreant a fair and speedy trial, and not fail to hang him if his guilt be established. Hon. A. G. Thurman, of Ohio, in a letter to his intimate friend, Hon. O. B. Ficklin, of Charleston, 111., says: “You will never be gratified by seeing me enter public life again. I am the retired list, with my own full consent, and with no inclination whatever for active life, except as a private.” Senator Jones, of Nevada, it appears, is lost. At least he ha3 not been in Washington this session, and no one knows where to find him. It is thought by some that he is in Alaska, developing his mining interests; but, as telephone connection with that interesting

region is cut off, owing to the exchange being frozen up, there is no means of communicating with him before next May. In the meantime, the silver men want Jones, and want him badly. Self-interest should suggest to him the advisability of being on hand for a brief period. The New York Sun makes a report of the prison population of the Empire State, which shows a very gratifying and steady decrease during the past ten years, though the population of the State has increased 674,000 during that time. In 187 G there was a total of 3,509 in the State’s prisons. In 18S5 there were but 2,961. Eastern papers which have a fancy for alluding to the Wabash simultaneously with the mention of Mr. Holman, are respectfully informed that this Indiana statesman lives as far from that noble stream as it is possible to get while remaining in the State. When at home Mr. Holman is found close by the O-hi-o. Jeff Davis approves of Cleveland and expresses great admiration of his fidelity to the Constitution. Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. Davis led the fight for the Constitution, while the Republican party held on to the government, without which the Constitution was not worth very much. The New York Herald is in error when it says that “fifty million people, through their representaves in the press, clamor” to know anything about the scandal between Ida Downs and Parson Bristow. There are fully that many people in this decent land that care nothing about it and want none of the particulars. “Where are the nine?” Why, they've been “bounced” by the Republican majority in order to elect John Sherman.—Chicago Times. They were “bounced” in accordance with the opinion of the Democratic Supreme Court on evidence that even Democrats do not care to question. Sherman would have been elected anyhow. John E. Deutsch, a wealthy farmer living near Corydon, is said to have suicided because of being refused by a Louisville lady whom he wished to marry. The tide has turned at last For several years the loss was on the Louisville side of love's ledger, and the ladies of that town were badly left. The doubts of this ono seem to have been awakened. _ They are now being alluded to by the admiring press as “the gentlemanly base ball players.” It will not be thus next summer when the weary reporter, who has wended his way to the field for an hour’s recreation, bets on the particular club of “gentlemen” which happens to sell out the game. Report has it that the New York Legislature has authorized the Grant Monument Association to hold $7,000,000 worth of property free of taxation. The $7,000,000 is probably “Cincinnati” for $1,000,000. An Eastern poet writes an ode to his lady’s “dainty glove of pearly hue,” which he further describes as being a “number two.” Tho poet’s lady is probably a midget in a dime museum. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Judge Albion W. Tourgee has patented a metal harness. Senator Beck’s son George is getting rich on his Wyoming ranch. General Berdan, the famous eharpshooter, will, before long, return to this country for an extended visit. The English Church Times advertises a home for “ladies suffering from the effects of intemperance or from the excessive use of drugs.” It is probable that Mr. Andrew Carnegie’s offer of $250,000 for a public library in Pittsburg will be accepted and the terms complied with by that city. John Jacob Astor has promised the Young Women’s Christian Association of New York $25,000 for the building fund if they raise that much from other people this month. Mme. Nilsson is to be congratulated on getting the $50,000 which her husband’s relatives borrowed from her through him, and which, ever since they have been trying to avoid repaying. A dinner in Guatomala'concludes with coffee. It is not the fragrant decoction one might expect in a coffee-produciug country, however, but a thick extract, handed round id bottles, from which each person takes a small quantity, diluting with hot water. The walls of the famous mosque of St. Sophia, in Constantinople, are said to be sadly in need of restoration. The cubes of mosaic constantly fall out, or, worse, aro picked out to be sold to strangers, and many of the arcades and lesser walls would tumble down had they not been rudely shored up. Alphonse Daudet is satisfied with his present fame, and thinks a seat in the Academy could add nothing to it. Besides, it would be intolerable to him to have to think each minute, “Will this read well, coming from an Academician?” “Can I. an ‘lmmortal,’ afford to be seen there?” etc. So he prefers to remain outside. There is some prospect that cocaine, tho valuable anaesthetic, will not always be as costly a remedy and, therefore, as inaccessible to tho people in general as heretofore. According to the Vienna Medical Journal, cocaine has been successfully procured, not from coca leaves, but in a synthetic way from chemicals by W. Merck, in Darmstadt, and others. Princess Isabella, who recently inherited $1,000,000 from her mother, evidently has not the fear of Pasteur and the rabies before her. She keeps twenty dogs and twenty cats in her Parisian palace, who, being fed to the full, aeree very happily together. She intends to found a home for the aged and indigent of both races. General Schenck, who still lives on a milk diet because of kidney troubles, recently secured the payment of a claim of $3,000,000 to an American citizen who built a railroad in Uruguay, which was seized by the government “I understand,” says a correspondent, “that the General got a fee of $25,000 in this, which will buy all of the crackers and milk he will seed the rest of bis life.” The weeping willow, says the Garden, seems to have had a romantic history. The first cion was sent from Smyrna in a box of figs, to Alexander Pope. General Clinton brought a shoot from Pope s tree to America in the time of the Revolution, which, passing into the hands of John Parke Custis, was planted on his estate in Virginia, thus becoming the progenitor of the weeping willow in America, A recent writer notices the fact that although the present century has beer., par excellence, the century of science, yet it has given birth to the marvelous of Scott, Byron, Keats, Shelley, CarlyK Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Leopardi, Vic or Hugo, Tourgueneff,

and Heine, which shows, he thinks, that whatever may be the disenchantment of science, it covers too small a field to beat back the imagination of man. The Philadelphia Record publishes a list of the persons who were reported to the police as missing last year, and the number reachea GOO. Among those who “mysteriously disappeared” were fifty-six girls between the ages of twelve aud twenty-one, and seventy-four boys, aged from twelve to twenty, the others being adults. What a field for dark imagination or gloomy speculation the facts provide. Ex Senator Jlreph Cilley, who succeeded Levi Woodbury, of New Hampshire, in the United States Senate, in 1840, is still living in Nottingham, N. H., at the ace of ninety-five. He served in the war of 1812, and was wounded at Lundy's Lane. One of his brothers, Jonathan Cilley, a member of Congress from Maine, was killed ;n a duel, near Washington, in 1838. The event caused a profound sensation at the time. William EL Vanderbilt and wife have recently visited Jekye island, on the coast of Georgia, aud are said to be in treaty for its pur chase. It is nine miles long and about three miles wide, and its whole length forms one of the most beautiful beaches of the Atlantic coast. Andrew Carnegie now owns the extreme end of Cumberland island, adjoining Jekye, and has spent $250,000 in improving it. His house alone cost $150,000. The following prophecy concerning the destruction of the world was made by Nostradamus, the celebrated French astrologer, who died in 1566: “Quand George Dieu crucificiera, Que Marc lo resuscitera. et que Saint Jean lo Portera; La fin du monde arrivera”—which means that the world will come to an end when the feast of St. George falls on Good Friday, the feast of St. Mark on Easter and Corpus Christi day on on St. John’s day. Such is the case this year. The new bishop of Ely, Lord Alwynne Compton, comes of about the most cultivated aristocratic family in England, and ono which has already given an eminent prelate to the episcopate in the person of that militant prelate who donned armor and jack-boots in 1688, Bishop Compton, of London. He occupied the see nearly forty years, was a famous botanist, and the first to introduce into England many foreign trees and shrubs, notably those of North America. „ A few of these, or of their descendants, may yet be seen at Fulham Palace. Mrs. Evarts, the wife of the New York Senator, is a sensible, well-mannered lady with no pretentions to aesthetic dressing. She sees visitors promptly and thus spares busy people the agony of waiting. To them the plain, black stuff dress and linen collar she appears in is the extreme of elegance. Mrs. Evarts wears her white hair combed back from her face and bound with a black ribbon. She has merry brown eyes and a kindly face. The house occupied by the Evnrtses is in a fas!* 5 enable neighborhood, a few doors from that which is making ready for Secretary Whitney. It is spacious and of hospitable intention and some entertaining will be done in it this season. Noble* nincompoops seem to be Lord Salisbury’s favorites for garters. His first choice fell on the Duke of Northumberland, the next on Lord Abergavenny, who, if he had not been born in the purple, would have been an absolute nonenity. He never even took a degree at college, aud, it was said, could not have passed for his step in the Life Guards. He never sat in the House of Commons, and has kept all his eloquence entirely to himself in the House of Lords, his services to his party having simply been those of a sort of parliamentary watch dog at the party clubs. Men like Lord Dufferin or Lord Lyons are not deemed worth what is given to the most ignorant of country gentlemen. One of the daughters of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton gives an amusing account of the way her mother and Miss Susan B. Anthony work together on their “History of Woman Suffrage.” Mrs. Stanton is a stickler for the philosophy of the suffrage movement, and Miss Anthony is punctilious about dates. The two dear old ladies often get into excited discussions over ther subject, and dip their pens into their mucilage bottles and their mucilage brushes into their ink bottles in their excitement over their work. They sit at opposite sides of a large double desk in Mrs. Stanton’s library, and occasionally they find each other so persistent in opinion that they sit back and stare at each other in a silence that is very near anger. Once in a while they will march out of the room by different doors, and there seems likelihood that their beautiful friendship of forty years wiil be broken, but after a while they will be found peaceably at work again together. COMMENT AND OPINION. From the amount of eloquence which is being poured forth in the Senate on the subject, it seems to be clearer than ever that speech is silvern. —Pittsburg Dispatch. The tendency to set aside real statesmen for money kings in choosing senators is a bad one and should be discouraged by the people who elect legislators.—Philadelphia Times. Perry Belmont and Secretary Bayard make a great team in diplomacy. One never knew anything about running foreign affairs and the other has forgotten how. —Philadelphia Press. High license under strict supervision is the true antidote for the evils of intoxication; not a chimerical attempt to regulate tho appetites of entire communities. —Philadelphia Record. The Mormons are said to have a powerful lobby at Washington with abundant cash at its command. The Mormon Church is very rich, and can pay as much for votes as any corporation.—Milwaukee Sentinel. We do not hesitate to say that the Southern congressman who desires to handicap his section and his constituents, cannot do bettor than throw up his ear-muffs for Henry Watterson’s freetrade theories. —Atlanta Constitution. The nomination of Thurman was the tardy tribute vice sometimes is shamed to pay to virtue and honor. In this way it was an indication of a triumph of the better elements which the future will bring forth.-—Memphis Avalanche. State senators can hereafter speak twice on the same question. In this way the abrupt and premature adjournment of the Legislature can be prevented. Anything to keep the brethren with us till the June roses bloom.—Boston Record. Canada is becoming almost as restless as Ireland. Rumors of prospective Indian ontbreaks follow close upon the heels of predictions of civil war, and there is a general feeling of uneasiness throughout tne Dominion. We may have a war at our very doors within a year.—Minneapolis Tribune. The laboring men who earn their bread by the sweat of their brows have nothing in common with anarchists, and they would be as quick to rally against them in case of trouble as the trembling millionaire would be to contribute his money, if necessary, to put the mob down. —Chicago Mail. We should stop the coinage of silver as we stopped the issue of greenbacks, and make all the money as good as gold, thus upholding the highest standard and the public credit at the highest notch. In the value of this credit the poorest man shares, and through it the most beneficent works are accomplished.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. There is an agreement between England, Germany and the United States of neutrality in the Samoan islands, and it is not likely that Bismarck will be allowed to quietly absorb them. Perhaps he thinks that England has more important business to attend to now, and that the United States will not care. He will find himself mistaken, for German annexation would mean the destruction of American and British commerce in the islands.—Pittsburg Chronicle. The Nation practically holds their lands in trust for the Indians themselves. Their sole chance against extermination lies in adapting themselves to civilization, and this must be done under the sympathetic care of the United States, and upon the lands where they are settled. This seems to be plainly preceived by the administration, and its wise treatment of the question would be another strong title to the respect and confidence of all good citizens.—Harpers’ Weekly. The decisive point in Senator Sherman’s favor in all discussions in Ohio has been that he has not hesitated to confront with resolute opposition other leaders of his own party, and even a Urge majority of his political associate la the Senate, on every issue which seemed to him to

involve the permanence or the completeness and efficiency of the protective system. The whole country triumphs over its adversaries, at homo and abroad, and over all the foes of its industry, when such a man is returned to a position of power and of high trust —New York Tribune. Sparks may afford personal material for the historian, as many a crank has done, but the history of the Northern Pacific laud grants io too familiar to admit of even a temporary success, on the part of Sparks, in obscuring any important part thereof.—New York Mail and Express. The debased value of th* silver dollar is not the only objection to continued compulsory coinage, however, so that an order to the mints to put ono hundred cents’ worth of silver into every dollar to be coined in future will go but a short way in settling tho silver question. The displacement of gold coin to the extent threatened by the compulsory silver law will leave the latter metal the single standard, something less to be desired than a single standard of gold.—Louisville Commercial. The danger frtJm silver is not so great as was the danger from greenbacks any time from 1869 to 1875. We averted that We can avert this for a good while yet. There are two errors financiers would do well to avoid just now. Ono is to indulge in exaggerated estimates of tho immediate evil, because of the greatness of tho ultimate evil; the other is to act on such exaggerated estimates, and to thus court tho difficulty that should be resisted as long as possible. —New York Times. SOCIALISTS IN CHICAGO. An Investigation Discloses Mach Smoke with Very Little Fire. CniCAGO, Jan. 15. —At the time an infernal machine was found on Judge Tree’s premises, a few weeks ago, there was an immediate suggestion that it had been placed there by Socialists, and might be the opening move of a desultory dynamite warfare on wealthy propertyowners. A local paper instituted an investigation into tho character of the suspicious machine, and as to the present doings of tho little band of* Chicago Socialists. So far this inquiry has been productive of most alarming giving3 out in the way of revolutionary talk and a most reassuring paucity of facts to justify the fear that the community if any more in danger now from Socialists than it lias been in the last dozen years. Socialist leaders claim that they have established depots for tho fashioning of various bombs—but none were found—and that they have lists of prominent persons to be disposed of by dynamite, but none were shown. They claim that every Sunday morning for a year bands of Socialists have been going to the country to practice the throwing of bombs, and that tests of their effectiveness and the manner of explosions have boon frequently made, but nobody has seen or heard these experiments. The investigation showed the improbability that the Socialists had anything to do with placing the infernal machines at Judge Tree’s house or in the offices of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company. The leaders profess to be in possession of perfect plans of the underground system of Chicago, and careful reports of the ways by which the housetops at the various street corners caii be readily reached. From these reports locations have been selected for congregation and defense. About the only man in Chicago who thinks that the Socialists may find an opportunity for incendiary work through an association with tradesunions on May 1, is Mr. Joseph Greenhut, who is the author of the eight-hour agitation. He professes to think that the Socialists and the labor organizations are a unit on the question, and that the movement will dwarf all previous ones in forming tho labor system. He says that little dependence is to be placed in Socialist orators, the men who talk dynamite, treason and bloodshed. “But there are men,’ says he, cool, collected, truthful laboring men in the ranks of Socialists who will do the work.* They are secretly banded together, and not by open organization. Bombs are being made in considerable numbers and distributed. The labor organizations are arming with rifles, and while they are not permitted by law to drill on theatroets, they drill in their lodge-rooms. I think the great crisis will come on the Ist of May, or soon after. I think that the movement, if properly opened here, will extend all over the country, and of its success I have no doubt. The Socialists are heartily in the movement, and they have been talking dynamite so long that their trade will be lost if not productive of something in this issue.” Cleveland’s Water Fatnino. Cleveland, 0., Jan. 15.—The situation, so far as the water famine is concerned, remained unchanged until 10 o'clock this morning, when it was found that water was entering the tunnel, and*n engine was started at the pumping station. This is still working slowly, and the indications are more favorable than for many hours. A great majority of the manufacturing establishments which defend upon the city for water have shut down. Nearly all of the courts have adjourned, as the steam-heating facilities are frozen up. Hundreds of teams are engaged in hauling water from the lake, with which to supply the thirsty families. Should the present favorable condition of affairs continue, another engine will be put in operation at thegpumping station ns soon as practicable. All danger of a water famine is now believed to be past. Two pumps are now working eight strokes per minute, and they can furnish 16,000,000 gallons of water in twenty-four hours. This, it is thought, will supply the city’s needs if care is taken, although 34,500.090 gallons were used on Wednesday. The water-works officials think the stream in the tunnel will gradually increase in size, and that all the pumps can be started again within a day or two. Miss Mcllhanney’s Experience with Frost. Cleveland, 0., Jan. 15.—At an early hour yesterday morning a large farm-house Dear Waynssburg. Starke county, Ohio, caught, fire. Miss Jennie Mcllhanney, the owner of the place, waß,with the exception of two servants, the only occupant of the house. One of the servants discovered the flames and awakened Miss Mellbanney. Rushing from the house in her bare feet, the young lady stood on the icy platform near the well and pumped water for twenty minutes. Then, seeing that help was needed, she dashed away through the snow, a quarter of a mile, to the nearest house. When she had given the ulartn, she ran back. The temperature was 12 3 below zero, and Miss Mcllhanney was nearly paralyzed with cold. Her bare feetTmd limbs wore badly frozen, and it was with the utmost difficulty that the attending physicians prevented the necessity of amputation. The lady is now in a critical condition. The Cigar-Makers’ Strike. New York, Jan. 15. —Over 400 cigar-makers went to work to-day at the factory of Brown & Earl. The 500 men who quit work yesterday in the factory of Levy Bros, are still out This forenoon a conference was held between the joint committees of the Progressive and International Cigar-makers’ unions and a committee representing the manufacturers’ association. The union men insisted on the old schedule of prices, and said that the men would not work under the new system. The manufacturers met this evening and determined to lockout all their men next Wednesday, unless the men return to work in the shops of Levy Brothers, under the schedule of prices posted by the manufacturers on Jan. 2. To night the employes held a meeting, at which each pledged himself to his fellows to accept tho lockout and stay out until the manufacturers yield. Trouble Again Hrewiug la Detroit. Detroit, Jan. 15.—A few days ago an article appeared in the Polish Pilgrim, the orgau of St Albertus Church, over the signature of Rer. Father Domalgaeki, of the Catholic Church at Parisville, Mich., giving an alleged history of Father Kolasinski, the deposed priest of St Albertus, during his residence in Poland. Th© writer claims that charges of immorality were made against Father Kolasinski, aud for fear of excommunication that priest fled the country and came to America. This letter has aroused the followers of Kolasinski, who claim it was instigated by Father Dombrowski aud Thomas Zoltowski, the grocer, and they threaten to make another visit to the latter’s grocery. The saloona in Polacktown are crowded, and this letter is thesole topio of conversation. It is nearly three weeks since trouble last occurred in thid connection. *