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THE DAILY JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1880. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. F. S. Heath. Correspondent. THIS INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: LONDON —American Exchange in Europe. 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard das (Japucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—FaImor House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOULS— Union News Company, Union Depot, and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business By act o£ tho last Legislature the majority of the voters of the State of Indiana were practically disfranchised. Their first duty is to recover their rights as citizens. The Sentinel took its dose of crow with as much grace as could be expected under the circumstances, but symptons are not wanting to show that it isn't really fond of the bird. Tiiere is no doubt that it is well for brethren, yea, even Democratic brethren, to dwell together in harmony; but what are they to do when harmony refuses to be discovered and entered into? General Logan has refused numerous invitations to speak in other States, and will confine himself to work in Illinois. He will be busily engaged in the campaign from now till the da}' of election. Perhaps that portion of Democratic harmony intended for Indiana’s use was swallowed up in the late earthquake shock. It wasn’t much of a shock, but there wasn’t much harmony to get away with. INDICATIONS are that the subscriptions for the relief of the distress caused by the earthquake at Charleston will be sufficient. The people are ever ready to respond to appeals coming from a plucky city in distress. Governor Gray, as a member of the Indiana Legislature, voted in favor of the fifteenth amendment. He was a Republican, then, and to that period he looks for the proudestfect of his life. The Democratic, members bolted, in the hope of defeating the measure*. Mr. P. A. Ward, one of the leading Irish Democrats of this city, is tired of the slights and insults that have been heaped on his fel-low-irishmen by that party, and will hereafter exercise his rights a:s an American citizen without bowing to the commands of the bosses. The approaching election has brought to light the fact that John I. Davenport, the great fraud-hunter, still holds his office as supervisor of federal elections, and is preparing for his bienuial campaign, whereat there is a goneral howl all along the Democratic line. If Mr. Hendricks keeps the run of Indiana politics, and has learned who has assumed exclusive charge of his sainted memory in this district, the horror of the situation must cast a temporal-}* gloom over his corner of the happy land, and fill him with a desire to return and take a hand in the fray.

The American cup is likely to remain the American cup for some time to come. In the race yesterday the Mayflower beat ♦h'* Galatea by nearly two miles, and twelve mi’ .Acs time. Os course, the result is still in doubt, but the feeling is that the American boat will win at least one of the remaining two races. The opponents of Mr. Bynum claim to have confirmation strong as proof of holy writ to support the charge that that vile and shameless man maligned Indiana’s favorite Democratic son, the late Mr. Hendricks. It is not stated whether this confirmation is in the possession of Mr. Simeon Coy or Mr. “Goose” Eden. The discoveries made of systematic outrages of little girls in the city of New York and its suburbs are enough to inspire the belief that a death penalty should attach to such crimes, when committed upon children of a certain age. Thero have been found monsters who have despoiled innocent children literally by the score. They deserve to die for their shocking depravity. If it wasn’t for Mr. Blaine and the sea serpent what would the Democratic and mugwump papers of New England do in this dull season? It is noticeable however, that although Mr. Blaine never raises Ins head and looks around without throwing them into spasm3 of rage, they show a reserve and caution in their attacks upon him which are in great contrast to the boldness of their approaches to the serpent. The explanation why Mr, Benedict was chosen Public Printer has been found in the fact that ho was a copperhead during the war. It must be this, for it is not pretended that be is qualified for the position, having had no experience in the business, except such as eould be gained in a little country printing office that could be hauled away in a common lumber-wagon. It is recalled now that on the occasion of tho departure of Union troops for the front, Benedict cursed them, and hoped they would “leave their bones down there.'

It was further discovered that he had printed a little paper during the war, which was not distributed where published, but was secretly sent South, where its sentiments were more popular. For the rebel in arras there is respect of a certain kind, but for the copperhead, who had not the courage to fight for what he believed to be right, there is precious little sympathy. This is the kind of man the President has seen fit to put !, ito a place for which he is in no wise fitted. Such is another instance of civil-service “reform” as practiced by the Democratic administration. The Democratic party is driven to desperate and disreputable straits when it take3 to lving, as it already has, about the gentlemen composing the Republican ticket. Mr. Lemcke, of Evansville, a gentleman standing high in his own city, and the Republican nominee for Treasurer of State, has .already been thus assailed, and takes occasion to promptly reply to the same with a vigor and sincerity that must carry conviction to all who are not drowned in the meanest and narrowest partisan prejudice that ever disgraced a man making any pretense of fairness. The card of Mr. Lemcke needs no reinforcement. It speaks for itself. Here it is: •■To tho Editor of tlio Indianapolis Journal: “The Indianapolis Sentinel has given currency to a statment in which it is asserted that in 1882 I refused to support the nominees of ray party for the Legislature. The statement is utterly false and without foundation in fact. I have always supported tho ticket of the Republican party, legislative, congressional and presidential, and as a man of convictions which have been hardened by long training could at no time have got ray own consent to break from the ranks of that party, with which I spentony youth and early manhood, and whose many triumphs I have shared and enjoyed. Tho originator of this falsehood has adroitly amplified the same by asserting that, as compensation for such fancied aposcacy, I was rewarded by a commissionership on the Metropolitan Police Board of Evansville. This is too contemptible to deserve attention, and for refutation of thi3 slander 1 can only refer to the present Auditor, Treasurer and Secretary of btate, together with exGovernor Porter, who made the appointment at the request of the citizens of my town, Democrats and Republicans alike. “J. A. Lemcke. “Indianapolis, Sept. 7, 1880." Mr. P. A. Ward, in the indignation he feels at tho way he and his fellow-irishmen have been treated, gives voice to some very pertinent criticisms of those who manage the Democratic party to their own good. It is about time that men like Mr. Ward cut loose from such associations, from those who have little or no use for an Irishman unless he can be used as one would a tool. It is not enough that sop in the shape of John E. Lamb and Thomas Ilanlon be thrown these gentlemen. The day is coming when the Irish voters of Indiana will not consent to be counted like so many sheep, to do the bidding of their political masters. Mr. Ward has given vent to his Irish ability to cut deep in a way that tho i bosses of the Democratic party will despise. The picture he paints is so true to nature that there will be no chance to deny it. He evidently knows the men he talks about. The New York Sun expresses greatest disappointment over the fact that the speech by “Old Saddlebags,” on the occasion of the Democratic congressional convention, was not one of acceptance. But it gives him ail credit for the “harmony” that has been secured. “Thanks to Old Saddlebags,” says the Sun, “Bynum will make the canvass as the nominee of tho Democratic party and not as a guerrilla candidate.” This shuts out the Sentinel, which has not hesitated to take to itself all the credit of the reconciliation reached. The Cincinnati Enquirer pays a doubtful compliment to Mr. Holman, of this State, who addressed the people of Batavia, 0., on yesterday. It announces that “Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, would also be there,” and that lie wr.s “one of the prettiest speakers of his State, or of the country.” It is possible, of course, that this remark was not intendedto offend; but the suspicion will obtain that it was the intention of the Enquirer to offset the proverbial homeliness of Indiana’s great objector. Atlanta evidently aspires to become the Eden of modern times. Not content with getting rid of the liquor traffic, the ladies of that city are now waging war against the houses of prostitution, and will not stop until they are all closed. Tho moving cause of this reform is that there have been several disgraceful scandals and fights recently in those houses, %and the ladies will have no more of it. These houses are at perpetual warfare with womaukind everywhere. The claim made by the defeated candidates for the congressional nomination in the Tenth district that tho nominee is a “one-horse doctor” is pi-obably not intended to mean that he is a veterinary surgeon with a small practice. Unless a little harmony is shipped into tho district, however, and fed to the Hon. Thomas Jefferson Wood, the unfortunate candidate will not have a shred of his professional reputation left by the time the campaign is ended. In the death of lion. William Baxter, of Richmond, Indiana loses one of her best citizens. His services in the Legislature were' conspicuous, and always on the side of right. He came into special prominence by reason of the fact that he was recognized as tho father of the “Baxter bill,” of 1873, which was a local-option measure. He was a well-known and successful business man. When the earthquake struck a little town in Georgia the other night the citizens were gathered in a church enjoying a magic lantern show. After the first shock an old woman suggested that it was a visitation from the Lord for using tho church as a show house, and thereupon the

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crowd chased the showman into a swamp and returned to hold a prayer-meeting by way of propitiation for their sius. If every church in the country under whose roof services not of a roligious nature are hold, is to be shaken up as a warning, an active earthquake can find employment for the rest of tho season. Only two Philadelphia servant girls made their appearance in answer to a call requesting them to organize as Knights of Labor. The girls were probably under the impression that to be a Knight of Labor involves obligations to do the work he or she is paid for doing, and only two of them were willing to make such rash pledges. A London scientist advances the theory that close clipping of the hair prevents the proper conveyance of electricity to tho brain, and tends to the softening of that organ. The cliam pions of the cause of woman will at once see tho advantage of this as an argument proving the superiority of the once down-trodden but now highflying sex. _ Forty-eight Chinese miners were run off from Douglas island, off the Alaska coast, the white miners threatening to kill them if they remained. Tho people on the shore immediately took them back to the island as soon as they attempted to land, and turned them over to the mercies of their persecutors. And this is civilization. If every aspiring editor and publisher would adopt the course of the Knights of Labor and refrain from printing a paper until subscriptions had been taken to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, the dismal wrecks of so many “successes from the start” would not be scattered through the land. • The Toronto Globe tells of a young marksman who “at 500 yards struck squarely the head of a pin stuck in the center of a common envelope.” That was quite a feat; but the wonder raised is whether he could have done as well had the envelope been something more than a common one. _ The public schools in,many parts of the country opened on Monday last. In view of the oppressively warm weather, the teachers and pupils of Indianapolis may well congratulate themseves on their additional week of freedom. A Tuscola man has had 50,000 silk worms at work for him during the past season, anu will have GOO,OOO worms for next year’s business. Worms will be plentiful soon. Tho chestnut season is close at hand. A big cat and a big bat fought for three hours in the Kansas City postoffice before the former succeeded in killing the latter. All this in the interest of civil-service reform. Geronimo — (Ting! ting!!) Weil, that’s so; let it go this time.

AIlOliT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The Rev. Dr. J. H. Vincent, founder of the Chautauqua circles, is going to Europe for the good of his health. Randolph Kalloch, a son of ox-Mayor 1. S. Kalloch, of Ban Francisco, and brother of tho man who killed Charles Do Young, has been arrested for stabbing a citizen of Fresno in a row over a woman. The Vatican library contains 21,000 manuscripts, of which, 2,164 are Oriental, 3,052 Greek and 17,059 Latin. A complete catalogue is now, for tho first tuna, being prepared, and is to be published. Princess Louise, on© of the daughters of the Queen, says that she is “always out f money.” She is paid $30,000 a year out of the pockets of the British people, but there are many ways in which a princess can get rid of gold. At a marble-yard in Pittsfield, Mass., may be seen a hug 9 oblong block on which are carved the names “Henry Wilson Shaw” and “Josh Billings.” It will presently be pl.ved over tne quaint philosopher's grave at Lnnesborougb. Harriet and Virginia Washington, of Berryville, Clarke county, Virginia, said to be the nearest surviving relatives of George Washington bearing his name, are in delicate health and pressing need. They are middle aged, highminded ladies, who enjoy the respect of the community in which they live. The smallest oscillating engine in the world has been made by John R. Hare, of Baltimore. Its bore is one-sixteenth of an inch and the stroke one-eighth. The wheel, shaft and crank weigh eight grains, tho cylinder five, and the stand and piliar twelve grains, making the whole weight ono pennyweight one grain. It is about the size of a half-crown collar-button, and is completely covered by a No. sor child’s thimble. It will be run by compressed air. It makes 3,009 revolutions a minute. Mr. Hare has also made a comparative giant, which is covered with an English walnut shell. The San Francisco Post tells of a certain discreet waiter of the city, employed at the once famous Poodle Dog restaurant, who was once indiscreet. He entered the room where a lady and gentleman were dining—they were just finishing their soup—without any preliminary knock. What he saw led him to stammer: “A thousand pardons, Monsieur; I was too precipitate.” “Why, you idiot,” said the gentleman, “what are you standing there for, with your bead under the tray? Did you never see a gentleman kiss a lady before in this restaurant?" “Oui, Monsieur; but nevaire before ze feesh—nevaire!” Here is one veteran who deserves an honorable place in the records of his country, He doesn’t ask for any sentimental bosh in the statement of his case. His name is James O’Mally; residence, Dallrs county. Iowa; age, one hundred and twelve years; cou’.du’t see the side of a barn with a telescope, and uses tea, coffee, tobacco and whisky to great excess. To still further mark his departure from the regulation ceutenarians be refuses to give advice, moral or otherwise, to anybody except to say that duriog ail his life he has caught on to all tho fun that came along, and has nothing now to think of with regret. In a recent interview Mr. Sankey, tho evan gelist, said: “The power of music in converting souls to Christianity cannot be overestimated. The supreme question, then, as far as church music is concerned, is what style of music will produce the greatest effect upon the greatost number of people. The experiment thus far. proven inductive.ly by Mr. Moody and myself during a long number of years, shows that simple, pure music finds a greater response in the average human breast than any other kind. Reasoning from this basis, I conclude that the music of the future must appeal to the feeling, must be pure, simple, and unpretentious. M. De Ginns is described as a highly-intelli gent-looking man of about sixty-five, who shows the cares of office. Ho stoops, and his beard is suow white. His stay in Franzensbad was said to be primarily due to the approaching marriage of his daughter, Olga, to M. Rosetti-Solesco, which had been fixed for the Ist of September. M. Solesco is a Roumanian boyar aud a diplomats of promise. He is a nephew of Prince Cuza, the former ruler of Moldavia and Wallachia. and was a follow-stud;nt in Paris of King Milan, of Servia. The French papers sav that Mille. Olga de Giers has inherited her father’s diplomatic talents, and is the author of more than one of his state papers. A centenarian named Lenoir died recently in Paris at the ripe age of 103 years. Lenoir was a parrot. During the rsign of Louis XIV he was hatched out in therojal palace, and there he continued to live through all the vicissitudes that animated French governmental affairs. Since the reign of Charles X it has been very difficult to teach any new phrases to Lenoir, but

he possessed already many that he chattered with great volubility and often with singular in,nppositenes3. They did get him to learn “Vive Gainbetta!” and he used to alternate that phrase with “A bas Robespierre!” which was a memory retained from the time of the Reign of Terror. Lenoir’s last words were “Grace pour Marie Antoinette.” When events in the Reign of Terror ard names ot those then conspicuous were mentioned before him he would repeat “L’an 681 terrible.” TIIE TICKET AND PLATFORM. Farther Expressions of Opinion by the Republican Newspapers of the State. An Kxjdicit and Unequivocal Declaration. Sheibyville Republican. The Republican State platform is clear, explicit unequivocal. There is not an obscure sentence in it. Nothing is left to interpretation. Every proposition is stated in clear, concise, unmistakable language. It takes a bold and manly stand on all the questions of the day. The greatest interest was very naturally felt in the temperance plank, which, like all the others, is in definite and plain language. There is no need to call for a wise man to interpret that plank. It is a clear statement of the party, but does not go to extremes. The surest sign that it is wise and conservative is the opposition of the extremists. It was not designed to please the extremists, but to state principles upon which all reasonable men can stand, and this has been done The Republican party has never gone into battle on a braver, clearer or more ringing document than that put forth by the late convention. Flensed with the Platform. Boston Advertiser. If six months ago it had been foretold that the Republicans of the State of Indiana would be the first to adopt in State convention a vigorous and aggressive resolution in favor of civil service reform, it would hardly have been credited. Nevertheless, that is the fact. They have spoken in a way which the Republicans of the States where conventions had previously been held ought not to have failed to speak. Their declaration is in these words: We favor a thorough and honest enforcement of the civil-service law and the extension of its principles to the State administration Vrherever it can be made practicable, to the end that the corruption and flagrant abuses that exist in the management of our public institutions may be done away with, and they be liberated from partisan control. It is likewise gratifying to observe that tho Indiana Republicans are sound on the currency question. The Republican Party and tlie Liquor League. Loeansport Journal. Tho “middle ground” of the Republican array on the liquor traffic question is advanced ground, and strone ground. This army will not waste any ammunition upon the Prohibitionists on the “mountain top,” and they will fire harmlessly into the pure ether of their great exaltation. But tho battle will rage between the Republican army and the liquor-league alliance, encamped away down in the swamps and slums of a lawless liquor traffic. Shot, and shell, and grape, and cannister will pour down unon this camp in a destructive avalanche, while the “low-down” allies will find it impossible to reach the heights of the “middle ground” with their feeble armament. They have invited disastrous defeat in the choice of their positions, and may reasonably expect to be annihilated. General Sumptuary has lost his power as a tactician and leader, and thero is no longer any terror in his name. Satisfactory to the Republicans. Madison Courier. The Republican press and people have no difficulty with the resolutions adopted by the recent convention. It was to be expected that the Democratic editors would find the declarations unsatisfactory, and it is not surprising that the Indianapolis News is not altogether pleased. Unless the exact words tho News wanted were used that super critical sheet would fault them. Moreover, a platform that exactly suited the News wouldn’t carry the Republican vote of a single county in the State. It is a great thine to be independent, but it is more practical and useful to concede somewhat to the views of others in order that sound principles may have the backing of enough voters to insure their prevalence by legislative action.

Clear, Strong and Dignified. Minneapolis Tribune. In the adoption of this resolution the Repub lieans of Indiana have committed themselves to the policy of fighting the whisky ring. If their position on this subject has been equivocal in the past, it is so no longer. They may be said practically to 1 ave taken the ground of tho socalled “anti-saloon Republicans.” They are in a position to sweep tho Btate on this issue. In its treatment of national and general matters the ludiana platform is clear, strong and dignified. Satisfies Republicans. South r end Tribune. Except among the political Prohibitionists, the temperance plant in the Republican platform gives tho best satisfaction. Os course, it does not please the Prohibitionists who are such pimply for th© sake of having a third party. Nothing short of the annihilation of the Republican party will ever suit them. The Platform Commends Itself. Lafayette Courier. Tho Republicans of Indiana have put forth a platform which must commend itself to the good judgment of every man in the State who is not buriod in the abyss of Bourbomsm beyond the hope of resurrection. It meets all the issues of the day fairly aud squarely, and is a whole and healthy political creed in itself. Improves with Time. Richmond Palladium. The more the Republican State ticket is examined the more thoroughly it is approved. In character and ability it is tho equal of any ticket presented for many years. The press commendations are all united in the statement that better selections could scarcely have been made. A Poor Kind of Party' Man. Lafayette Journal. The true Republican will not sulk and refuse to take a part when the fight comes on. The roan who works hard to carry the party when he and his friends aro candidates, and stands back when others aro in command, is a poor kind of a Republican. The Ticket a Tower of Strength. Lafayette Courier. The longer the Republican State ticket stands the greater is the satisfaction that it gives on all sides. It is a tower of strength, from top to bottom, and earnest and untiring work on ail sides will insure its electiou in November. One Thing Curtain. Evansville Journal. It was remarked at Indianapolis that the Republican platform included everything except the subject ot infant baptism. There is one thing it did include, predestination of the Democratic party to defeat. Annoying to Democrats. Seymour Hcpub'ican. The liquor plank in the Republican platform is annoying the Democracy of Indiana just now. Nothing so irritates your good Democrat as real or imagined menance of his favorite beverage. No Occasion for Criticism. Vincennes Commercial. There is no room for criticising the platform, for it is as perfect as such a document could be made. Hanna's Diplomacy. Philadelphia Telegraph. Someone complained that Bayless W. Hanna, our minister to Bueuos Ayres, did not live in nice quarters. He heard of it. and has fitted up rooms that dazzle tho naked eye. He is determined that if diplomacy consists of wall payer and polishing up the handle of the big front door, he will give ’em enough of it. Novelties of the Season. Philadelphia Press. The sea-serpent, the earthquake, and the grand international spectacular performance of Envoy Sedgwick show that the American demand for novelties is meeting with a cheering and enthusiaatio response. Add to these the great pa no-

ramie view of the Prohibitionists and ram-sell-ers standing shoulder to shoulder in the fight against high license, and we have a vast aggregation of curiosities, and anybody dissatisfied with it can have his money refunded by applying at the gate. _ The Thirty-Second Indiana yifan try. Louisville Conrier-Jonrnal. The Thirty-second Indiana Regiment, with members from St Louis, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Seymour. Terre Hante. Evansville and New Albany, has been holding its reunion here for several days, and ha3 been entertained by the Turners. The regiment has a tomb at Cave Hill, which the members visited yesterday ancP decorated, with appropriate ceremonies. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, United Stales pension agent, w.s to have been with them, but was unable to attend. The mombers were photographed in a group at the cemetery. In ihe evening a permanent organization was effected, with officers ,s follows: Casper Hodderich, president, and Henry Mueller, secretary and treasurer. Both are of Fort Wayno. The next meeting will be held iu Indianapolis a year hence. The Liquor Law in Missouri. Macon Special. Ou July 1 the City Council refused to grant licenses to the five saloon-keepers of Macon. These went out of business, and in their stead sprang up eight gallon-houses. To-night an ordinance was passed by the City Council rigidly restraining thse gallon-shops. The ordinance provides that liquor may be sold in Quantities of one gallon or more, in unbroken packages only, not to be used on auv premises controlled by the liquor seller; all billiard and pool tables must be removed from the room where the liquor is sold, and screens and painted windows are not allowed. The gallon houses must be closed at 9 o'clock at night, and heavy penalties are attached to violations. Temperance people regard the action as a long step toward prohibition. llardly Necessary. Philadelphia Press. It was scarcely necessary for Collector Magone, of New York, to deny the report that he was a Prohibitionist. Ho was appointed by Grover Cleveland. Intoxicated by a Change of Climate. New York Hour. Mr. Bayard’s foreign ministers are nil right until they get out of the country, when they act like lunatics or Yahoos.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. At 10 A. M. yesterday, Henry A. Nowhall, in driving around a street corner at Malden, Mass., struck the curbstone, and was thrown from his carriage. He died of his injuries at noon. Mr. Newball kept the principal dry goods store in Malden. The liabilities of Leopold E. Isaacs, an absconding tobacco merchant of Montreal, exceed $160,000, with practically no assets. It is stated that several forgeries and other swindling schemes have been brought to light, and that steps will be taken to secure Isaacs’s extradition. He is in Philadelphia. Charles Sinclair, r. middle aged man who arrived at Chicago from Kansas City on Monday, was fatally stabbed by an unknown man, on the lake front, at the foot of Indiana street, late the same night. Sinclair says he was endeavoring to part two men who were fighting. The police think it will be impossible to arrest his assailant, as they have been given no description of him. A terrible tragedy occurrod at Liberty, Va.. on Monday night between two young men named Wilson and Fizer. at a bawdy house, over a mulatto woman. Wilson shot Fizer fatally, and, it is supposed, shot the woman also, her body being found in an orchard near the house with a bullet wound in her head. The young men are highly connected, and great excitement exists. On Sunday afternoon, Hiram Jen Dings and Allie Howard rode over to Sam Bailey’s place, in Harlan county, Kentucky, and shot Bailey down without warning. Bailey died, and the men surrendered themselves. No cause for the killing is assigned. In the same county, on Friday, Letcher Love shot and killed a woman named Martha Spencer, without receiving any provocation. The Canstatter festival, at Latter’s Park, Heading, Pa., was the scene of a tragedy, on Monday night, in which Morris H. Sanders, a mclder, was the victim. During a quarrel with his divorced wife, Sanders drew a revolver and shot her in the head, and then turned the weapon upon himself and put two bullets into his own Load. He died half an hour later. The woman will recover. John T. Oliver, aged sixty-three years, a carpenter. shot and fatally wounded his wife, Mary, on Pennsylvania street. Buffalo, N. Y., yesterday. Oliver and his wife had not lived together for over a year, and the woman rejected all his efforts at reconciliation. Oliver was arrested, and made a statement to the effect that he intended to kill his wife and himself, but that he could not raise the hammer of the pistol for the second shot. His reason for the act was that she would not live with him. El Coyote’s Revolution. St. Louis, Sept. 7.—Tho Globe-Democrat’s Eagle Pass, Tex., special says: "The long threatened revolution in Caohnila. Mexico, has at last developed into a definite shape. News has been received from Piedras Nepras, that a band of revolutionists yesterday seized tho town of El Pana, Mexico, and took complete possession of it. During the circus in Piedras Negros, all able-bodied men were arreted and pressed into the revolutionists’ military service, and placed in the cuartel for safe keeping during the night. This morning, 159 strong, they were mounted on confiscated horses, and, accompanied by 100 regular soldiers, were taken to El Pana, to combat the revolutionists who are supposed to be under the leadership of F.l Cayotie, Mexico’s most celebrated bandit and revolutionary leader. When the opposing forces come together hard fighting may bo expected. American Social Science Association. Saratoga, Sept. 7. —At the session of the Social Science Association, this evening, tho following officers were elected: President, Carroll D. Wright, Boston; vicepresident. Francis Wayland, New Haven; general secretary, F. B. Sanborn, Concord, Mass.; treasurer, Anson Phelns Stokes, New York. Directors—Dorman B. Eaton, Horace White, Charles A. Peabody. New York; Washington Glaciien, Columbus, O.; F. J. Kingsbury, Waterbury, Conn ; T. W. Higginson, Cambridge; G. T. Angell, Boston; 11. L. Wayland, Philadelphia; F. R. Woodward, Spartansburg, S. C., and George W. Cable. New Orleans. A chairman and a secretary for each department were also elected. The association will meet the department of health to-morrow. Appointments by tbo President. Washington, Sept. 7.—The following appointments were made to-day: Thos. F. Tobin, of Tennessee, to bo surveyor of customs for the port of Memphis, Tonn.: Thos. C. Manning, of Louisiana, to he envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Mexico; .John Drayton, of South Carolina, to be consul of the United States at Tuxpan; Charles H. Simouton, of Charleston, S. C-. to be United States district judge for the district of South Carolina. Obituary. Milwaukee, Wis., Sept 7.—William Jervis, who for ten years was the manager of the old Milwaukee & Mississippi railroad, the precursor of the present Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul system, died this morning, aged seventy-three years. His brother, John 8., an eminent engineer who supervised tho construction of the Croton aqueduct, died in New York two years ago. _ Chicago University a Thine of tlio Pant. Chicago, Sept 7.—The Chicago University is now a thing of the past. At a meeting of the trustoos, held to-day, it was formally resolved to terminate the corporate existence of the institution, After a great many efforts, it was fouud that tho claim of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Maine, amounting to $300,000 and interest, could no be raised. The Cloutmnn & Brigh.Mn Failure: Dover. N. H , Sept. 7.—The faiNr® ot Cloutroan & Brigham, shoe created genuine surprise in Farmington, where tn!* firm manufactured their shoes. Mr. Cloutman rated as being worth at least $500,000. 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ployed a very large number of operatives. The shop is worth $75,000. Mr. Cloutman said thi morning that every dollar he or his wife nos* sessed ie assigned. He hopes, when the creditors meet, that such arrangementj-wiil be made that the shop will be kept running and the operatives kept employed. Mr. Cloutman sat in the convention that nominated Cleveland at:;l Hendricks, and was one of the committee that notified those gentlemen of their nominations. Tho shoo factory at Farmington was attached by the sheriff last night, at the Suit of Rogers, Wood, Loring & Cos., for $22,000. LIBOR NEWS. A Proposition for a Complete Reorganization of the Knights of Lnhnr. Pittsburg, Sept. 7. —lt is understood tlrbt at the national convention of the Knights of Labor, at Richmond, next month, changes in the present laws will be made that will amount, practically, to a complete reorganization of the order. Tho district plan has not proven so successful as was expected, for the reason that in many places districts have been foamed within districts, and in consequence tho local strength has been divided. The great number of district assemblies also makes it impossible for tho general officers, even with the assistance given the executive board at the Cleveland meeting, to keep up with business The result is that important matters frequently cannot be investigated promptly enough to prevent dissatisfaction. To remedy this, it is proposed to model the order upon the government of the Unitod States —that is, to have State organizations and a supreme or national assembly. State assemblies, under the new plan, vill have control of the territory under ,their jurisdiction, but the acts of their officers will bo subject to reversal by the general master workman. Thus Mr. Powderly will retain supreme control, while gaining relief from tho routine work that now falls on his shoulders. The plan has been thoroughly canvassed since the adjournment of the Cleveland convention, and there is little doubt but that it will be adopted. A Proposed Amalgamation. Pittsburg, Sept. 7.—A general movement is on foot to combine the journeymen plumbers, who have a national association, and the eas and steam-fitters, who mostly belong to the Kuighte of Labor, into one national organization. The plumbers and gas and steam-fitters of Chicago, and other Western cities, will meet in Chicago to-morrow to consider and arrange the terms of amalgamation. Similar meetings will bo held in all the large cities. Action will be taken ou the matter by the assemblies in this city at their next regular meetings. The negotiations are already in progress in New York and other Eastern cities. There are about 8,000 men in each of the two trades interested. The proposal is that either the plumbers’ union shall join the Knights of Labor in a body and form a national district with the gas and steam-fitters, or that the latter trade shall leave the Knights of Labor and join the plumbers iu forming an independent national union. Proposed Settlement Rejected. New York, Sept. 7.—The arbitration committee of District Assembly 49, Knights of Labor, to-day met the executive committee of the Clothing Manufacturers’ Association to arrange of the clothing cutters’ strike. The Knights submitted this proposition: That the manufacturers declare tlie lockout at an end, open their shops and take back all on strike. The association rejected the proposition, and the spokesman declared that the non-union men at work would be retained at all hazards. Such strikers as wore needed, however, would be reemployed. The conference then dissolved. Fight Between White mul Colored Min rs. Cleveland, Sept. 7.— Several days ago sev-enty-five colored miners, from Virginia, were pat to work in the coal mines at Franklin Station, near Coshocton, 0., to take tho places of white miners who have been on strike since last May. A special from Coshocton to night says that a conflict has just taken place between the., negroes and whites, twenty shots bring exchanged. Nobody is reported killed. The sheriff is organizing a posse to go to the scene of the trouble, and detectives are guarding the chutes and mine buildings. _ Remand for IJnboycotted Beer. St. Louis, Sept. 7.—The trouble between the striking union brewers of this city and tbeir former employers bas taken an interesting turn, and the ULion men find it difficult to supply the demand for beer which is not boycotted by some ono or other. The union has boycotted beer brewed by the firms against which they are striking, and the latter refuse to sell to the saloons who sympathize with the strikers. Beer made in other cities and by firms popular with the union i3 therefore in great demand. New York Anti-Saloon Republicans. Binghamton, N. Y., Sept. 7.—The State antisaloon Republican convention for tho appointment of delegates to the national convention to be held in Chicago, met here to-day. Only eighteen out of the sixty counties of the State were represented, and those in the immediate vicinity of Binghamton. No well-known Republican figures in the lists of delegates, which, indeed, are more than half made up of citizens of Binghamton and its neighborhood. Several of the delegates are clergymen. After organizing, a platform was adopted, the second plank of which is as follows: Past history has proved that the only efficient sources of political power are the two great established parties, and there is no case on record where any reform has been accomplished by a separate party organized for that purpose, except as it combined with others; we therefore demand 6f tho Republican party, to which wo are proud to acknowledge allegiance, that it shall tako a firm and decided stand in favor of temperance and against the saloon, and : hat when in power it shall .-.dopt and enforce measures for the restriction, and at tho earliest possible moment, for the prohibition, of the liquor traffic. The platform also favors the submission of a constitutional amendment relative to liquor-sell-ine to the people of the entire State, and local option to the several counties. A committee appointed for the purpose presented the names of tho delegates representing tho State at Chicago, which were agreed to, and the convention adjourned sine die. Among the names of the delegates are these: Judge Noah Davis, ex Post-master-general T. L. James, L. A. Sleicher, of the Albany Evening Journal, and Rev. Lymau Abbott _ Telephone Exchange Association. St. Louis, Sept. 7.—This morning, at 11 o’clock, the National Telephone Exchance Association bpgan tbeir convention in the main parlor of tho Southern Hotel. That building is filled with delegates, interested electricians, and camp-fol-lowers, such ns supply men, etc. About one hundred and fifty delegates are present, representing nearly every State. The executive committee, consisting of C. N. Fav, president, ex officio member; Jas. Bigler, Newburg, N. Y.; Henry Metzger, Pittsburg. Pa.; C. F. Cutler. New' York, and It. M. Bailey, Williamsport, Pa., met this morning and considered the conduct of the convention, deciding to meet and have sessions from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m , and from 3 p. M. to sp. m., daily. C. N. Fay presided this morning. The first business was roll-call, address of the president and report of the secretary, and discussion on changes of tho constitution and rules of the association left over from the last meeting. Sept. 10, ISBS, at Providence. The papers will be taken up to-morrow. Mrs. Schilling Not at Montreal. New York, Sept. 7.—A telegram from Montreal states that Airs. Victoria Schilling is not in the convent of the Sacred Heart there. Miss Pauline Hall, however, reiterates her statement that Airs. Schilling went to the convent, whether she remained there or not. It is generally accepted as a fact that the lady will eventually re enter her father’s household. Detective Norris Under Arrest. Tiffin, 0., Sept. 7.—John T. Norris, the wellknown detective, was arrested here, to-day, charged with compounding a felony. He undertook to procure bail, but was unsuccessful, and eras placed in jail over night.