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gives him $30,000 a year to be counsel of the company, not bo much because he needs him, as to #bow that there are different men in his world to appreciate an obligation from Grover CleveEverybody around the table, to whom I hearkened, was a Democrat, and not one voice was Raised for the President. MINOR MATTERS A. Crying Abase In Which Secretary Manning Proposes to Have Reform. Washington, Nov. 15. —Secretary Manning intends to break up the abuses of the substitute system in his department, under which, heretofore, employes who were sick were permitted to put on substitutes to fill their places. The system is said to have been greatly abused by employes in good health supplying substitutes, who received only a portion of the salary of the position. usually one-half of it, the other half eoing to the regular employe. An order for clerks who are represented by substitutes to return to sheir desks goes into effect to-morrow. There were to-day about seventy-five substitutes at work in the department. The order will probably not be enforced with a severity that amounts to cruelty, but the cases will have to be of undoubted merit where exceptions are made. _ The Fntnre Course of the Labor Party. Washington Special. One of the foremost leaders of the neu r Labor party, who is now in this city, said to-c'ay that it was by no means a foregone conclusion that that party will run George or any other candidate for the presidency in 1888. The prime pur pose of the Labor party is to advance its ideas. If this can be effected through the regular party organizations, the Labor party will be thus spared the trouble and expense of maintaining a separate organization. Having shown their strength in New York and elsewhere in the recent election, the Labor men, ho says, will now, first of all, essay to compel the Republicans and Democrats to put into their platforms what the Labor party demands. If the Labor element obtains in this way the rcognition which it seeks, it is probable that there will be no special labor candidate in 1888. That ie to say, if the Republican platform should be constructed in a manner satisfactory to the labor party, and the Democratic platform should not he, then the labor vote would be cast with the Republicans and vice versa, while if both platforms should be satisfactory in this respect the labor vote would divide itself between the two parties, according to natnral affiliation. But if neither the Republicans nor the Democrats should give the labor men what they want, then they would undoubtedly run a separate ticket. It -is probable that the recent conference between Mr. Blaine and Mr. George, in New York, was in relation to this particular point, in the main; and it is generally believed here, moreover, that the conference was of Mr. Blaine's seeking, and not of Mr. George’s. A Black Eye for Lowry. Washington Special to Cincinnati Knqnirer. Speaking of the reported intention of Judge Lowry, of Fort Wayne, to contest the election of Mr. White, who-defeated him for Congress at the recent election. Congressman Matson, also of Indiana, remarked yesterday: “I am afraid Judge Lowry will have an up-hill job in a con test before the House, in view of his record in voting on the Hurd-Romeis case from the Toledo. 0., district last session.” It will be remembered that Lowry voted against Hurd both in committee and on the floor of the House. General and Personal. Special to the Indiauacolla Journal, Washington, Nov. 15.—Albert W. Wishard, of Indianapolis, is at the Riggs. F. S. Heath, cashier of the Citizens' Bank, of Oxford, 0., left for home to-night, after three days in New York and Washington. Captain James Fritt, of Gosport, a special pension examiner, located in Chicago for some time past, is in the city, and will likely remain here. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ending November 13 was 853,144; same week last year, 628,117. The shipments of fractional silver coin since Nov. 1 amount to $406,544. The detail of Lieutenant Garlington as military attache at Bogota will not be made, as the Lieutenant does not desire to go there. Roscoe Conkling made an argument, to-day, at the Patent Office, before the examiner of interferences, in the Field-Wiley printing telegraph case. The notorious “California Duchess" made her appearance again in Washington last week. Saturday afternoon she made herself so offensive at the residence of a foreign minister that the police bad to be called to eject her from the premises. It is understood that steps are being taken to procure an indictment for black-mail against the persevering feminine fraud. The House committee on appropriations will meet m the 22d inst.. to begin work on the regular appropriation bills. Chairman Randall expects to have the sundry-civil bill ready to report to the House immediately after it assembles. The President this afternoon made the following appointments: Samuel D. Leavitt, to be collector of customs for the district of Passamaquoddy, Maine; Louis J. Weiler, surveyor of customs for the port of Michigan City, Ind., in the district of Chicago. Second Comptroller Maynard has decided that a Boldier who, after havine served for two years or more in the army, deserted some months after the close of the war, but who subsequently received an honorable discharge, is entitled to a bounty of SSO under the 13tb section of the act of July 28, 186a The First National Bank of Ashland, Wis., has been authorized to commence business with a capital of $50,000.

Vessel Abandoned by Its Crew. Chicago. Nov. 15.—A marine mystery seldom heard of is renorted from Escanaba. On Saturday morning Captain Colemau, of the schooner Moonlight, reached that port, and reported sighting a large vessel on Whale’s-back reef, flying a signal of distress. The tag Delta went out and found the schooner Jshpeming, coal laden, and towed her to Escanaba. The yawl was gone and there was no one aboard, the crew having abandoned the vessel without even waiting to secure their dunnage. The vessel was not damaged, and has not leaked adropeinee she was released. Nothing has bedn heard from the crew. About the only solution of the mystery that suggests itself is that the crew left the vessel after she struck the reef to obtain assistance, and were either drownec or have landed at some point and have not made their whereabouts known. The port that they would be the most likely to go to is Escanaba, but as the wind was blowing strong from the northward they may have gone to Menominee, or some other point on Green Day. If they reached Menominee it is possible they secured a tug and aro now searching for the vessel. National Cattle-Growers’ Association. Chicago, Nov. 15.—At the annual meeting of the National Cattle growers’ Association, held at the Sherman House this afternoon, it was decided by a unanimous vote to unite with the National t attle and Horse-growers’ Association of America in forming anew organization, to be known aft the Consolidated Cattle-growers’ Association of the United States. This action was taken in accordance with the recommendation of the conference committee appointed last November looking toward the merging of the two rival !tssociations. A joint meeting of the members of both of the }ld associations is to be held at the Chicago Board of Trade Tuesday morning, the 16th, when a formal consolidation will take place. The general delegate convention of cattle-grow-rs, to be held under the auspices of this consolidated association, will occur at the same place Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday. Force To Be Used Against Prospectors. Caldwell, Kau., Nov. 15.—A company of soldiers have been ordered to this place from fort lisno to keep prospectors out of the Indian Territory. The greatest excitement prcvaila Thousands of claims have been staked out in the Territory below Caldwell, where silver is believed to exist in large quantities. Pain is never felt after .St. Jacobs Oil has been once used. It conquers pain.

FEDERAL AID TO SCHOOLS. Adion Taken by the Committees Appointed at Bar Harbor and Topeka. Boston, Nov. 15.—The meeting of the committees on federal aid to the common schools, appointed in July last by the National Teachers’ Association, at Topeka, and the American Institute of Instruction, at Bar Harbor, which has been in session here for the past week, adjourned to-day to meet in Washington at the convention of State School Superintendents in February. The gentlemen composing the committee fare Rev. A. E. Newship, editor of the New England Jodrnal of Education, of Boston; Hon. William Preston Johnston,president of Tulare University, New Orleans; Hon. E. C. Corrigan, of the Massachusetts State Board of Education; Hon. M. A. Newell, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Maryland; Col. Homer B. Sprague, president of Mills College, California; John W. Peaslee, Superintendent of Schools, Cincinnati; Rev. William H. Dreher, president of Roanoke College, Vireima, and Superintendent’Dutton, of the New Haven public schools. The committee discussed the Senate bill for federal aid to the common schools, and voted a report favoring its principles, but no action was taken as to the special features of the bill. In accordance with the resolutions of the conventions at Topeka and Bar Harbor, the committees were so enlarged as to give each State and Territory local representation mthe convention at Washington. The following school officials were elected to serve on local committees in the representation of States and as members of the Federal Aid Convention. All State and Territorial Superintendents of Pnblic Instruction; superintendents of schools in the South of cities and towns of 10,000 or more inhabitants; all school superintendents of cities of 50.000 or more inhabitants; the presidents of the National Teachers’ Association and the American Institute of Instruction: the general agents of the Peabody and Stnte school funds; Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, superintendent of the educational department of the Woman’s National Christian Temperance Union; Hon. Hugh Thompson, of South Carolina: Mayor Courtenay, of Charleston; Rev. A. D. Mayo, Judge Brecknev, of Kentucky, and others prominently connected with the national aid movement It is thought a second interstate educational convention, like that held at Louisville in 1883, may be called, though no formal action was taken to memorialize Congress other than to propose a mass convention in February. The committee is sanguine that aid will be granted, either as provided in the Senate bill or through some similar draft. WARNING TO LANDLADIES. What Happened Because Only One Thicken Was Placed on the Boarding-House Table. New York, Nov. 15.—A boarding-house at No. 590gden street, Newark, is kept by John H. Wilten, who also runs a bar, while his wife, who weighs about 250 pounds, has charge of the house. There are eight male boarders. Seven of the boarders were at the table, last night, and Mrs. Wilten was busy at a side table preparing some water cresses, when a roast chicken was placed on the supper-table. Immediately one of the boarders reached over, and, seizing the fowl, placed it on his plate. Indignant remonstrance arose, but the appropriator of the lonely fowl announced his intention to bold on to it There were three additional chickens in the kitchen, ready for the table, but before the landlady could interpose a word, the boarders arose from their seats, and, seizing knives aod crockery, a general fight began, some attacking the man witn the fowl and others defending him. Mrs. Wilten screamed and ran from the room to call her husband, who, with great discretion, remained on guard over the property behind the bar. In the fight the table was overturned, and the crockery and food were scattered about and trampled to fragments. A telephone call was sent for the police, who arrived in fifteen minutes. Ail but two of the combatants had left the house. Thomas Campbell was found with a cash four inches long on his neck, running from his left ear to his windpipe. He was bleeding badly. John Welsh had a bad cut on his head from some instrument, both his eyes were closed, and his face bad been pounded until it was a mass of bruises and cuts. The other boarders, who escaped, were said to be more or less battered. The dining-room was a complete wreck, even the table being broken into fragments.

Business Embarrassments. Boston, Nov. 15.—Clark Bros., real estate brokers, are in financial dificulties. Their liabilities aggregate over $15,000, with $12,000 nominal assets. Taunton, Mass., Nov. 15.—The Eagle Cottonmiils Company is financially embarrarsed to tho extent of about $50,000. A meeting of the creditors has been called for Tuesday. P. B. Deau is the manager. Pickens, Miss., Nov. 15.—The large stores of Tucker. Sharp & Cos., of this place; Sharpe, Tucker & Cos., of Vaughau’s Station, and Sharp <te Tocker, of Sharpsburg, were closed to-day by attachments. Short crops ar.d bad collections are assigned as the causes of the failure. No statement pas been made. Denver, Col., Nov. 15.—Julius Perlinsky, dealer in clothing and men’s furnishing goods, assigned to-day to Henry J. Melz. Liabilities, $42,000; assets, $22,000. To a Chicago firm he owes $25,000. The remainder of his liabilities are distributed among the principal cities. The sheriff this afternoon took possession of the dry goods house of L. B. Weil upon a confessed judgment in the District Court in favor of the Colorado National Bank for SIO,UOO. Tho stock is estimatfd to be worth $45,000. How a Bogus Minister Made a Neat Living. Philadelphia, Nov. 15.—" Rev.” William Smith (colored) was to day committed to prison without bail to answer at court a number of charges of larceny and fraud in swindling various churches and their congregations. Smith admits that pastors of fifty-three churches of various denominations fell victims to his wiles, and that his schemes have netted him $3,700 in the past two years. His favorite method was to introduce himself as a worker ic the missionary field of South Africa, and he invariably received an invitation to address the congregation. He would then inform his hearers that in the African regions under his care it was a general custom among the natives to throw the superfluous female children into the rivers to feed crocodiles, and it was his aim to found a home for these unfortunates in their own country. At the end of service he stood at the door with his hat in his hand, receiving contributions. It was shown that he obtained from a number of churches in the city various amounts ranging from $2 to $25. A note book found in his pocket shows that he collected $1,500 in" Boston and S3OO in Baltimore for his African asylum, and that towns throughout the State and New Jersey were victimized to the extent of SSO to $250. Disliouest Postal Clerk Arrested. Chicago, Nov. 15. —George Colter, a newlyappointed postal clerk, operating on the St. Paul limited train between Minneapolis and Chicago, was arrested this morning by Inspectors Doubleday and Smith, charged with rifling the mails. Extensive thefts of valuable letters, principally those directed to M. A. Dauphin, of the Louisiana Lottery Company, had taken place of late, and a watch was set and decoys sent. On Nov. 3 twenty letters were found by the side of the track near Milwaukee, all directed to Dauphin. The currency and available money contents were abstracted, and the express and postoffice money orders mutilated. On his person wss found $9 in cash, and tho decoy letters mailed to go on his train. Thought It Was a Legitimate Transaction. New York, Not. 15 A Chatham, N. C.,special says: "A white man named Moore was sent to the chain-gsng, Saturday, for having traded wives with another man. When Judge Gilraor asked him what he had to say why sentence should not be passed, he replied that he did not know that his act was a crime. A man came to his house with a woman who was better looking than his own trite, and bantered him for

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! a trade, so be ‘swapped’ and paid $1.50 to boot. As this was his first ‘swap,’ he hoped that the court would impose a light sentence. The other man who was a party to the trade has uot been apprehended, as be lives some miles in the country, and the officers have been unable to catch him." _ A RETIRED ADMIRAL’S TROUBLES. ♦ He Paid Attentions to a Handsome Young Woman and is Charged with Larceny. New York, Nov. 15.—Senor Vincent, de Mestre, a member of the Spanish legation, wbc< recently returned to this city from Rio de Janeiro, was arrested yesterday at the instance of Mile. Jeanie de Mayard, at opera singer, who came here on the same steamer with him, on a charge of having robbed her of 1,100 francs, which, she says, he took to get changed for her into American money. In the police court to-day the hearing in the case was set down for Saturday next Captain De Mestre is a retire! admiral of the Spanish navy. He has frequented New York through eighteen years past. About six mouths ago he went to Rio de Janeiro. There he was in close relations with Emperor Dom Pedro. He returned here to arrange a commercial treaty between the United States, Brazil and the Argentine Republic. He has in his possession letters from the United States Minister at Rio, to President Cleveland, Secretary Bayard, Perry Belmont, and well known New York merchants. The accused says he first met Mile de Mayard at the Hotel Royal, in Rio, where she was living as the mistress of a connt, who was a friend to the accused. On the steamer he paid attentions to Mile Mayard, and on arrival took her to the house of a Mrs. Austin, in this city. Mile. Mayard was out of funds, and asked De Mestre to tell Mrs. Austin that he (De Mestre) had her money, changing it for her. When the Admiral refused to do this, Mile. Mayard called Mrs. Austin into the room and accused De Mestre of stealing her money. Then De Mestre left the house, and the next step was his arrest, for purposes, he says, of black-mail. Mile. Mayard is about twenty-five years old, dark and handsome. She speaks no English. She had in court her four-year-old son Cabriette. WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. WAR Pep \RTMtf.NT, I Office of the Chief Signal. Officer, > Washington, Nov. 16, la. h, ) Special Indications for Twenty-four Hours from 7 A. M. for Indiana—Fair weather: stationary temperature. For Ohio —Fair weather: slightly warmer; variable winds, generally northerly. # For Indiana—Fair weather, nearly stationary temperature; winds generally northerly. For Illinois—Fair weather; colder, easterly winds, shifting to northerly. For Missouri—Fair weather, followed by rain or snow in the northwest portion; cooler winds, shifting to northerly. For Eastern Michigan—Generally fair weather; higher, followed by lower temperature; variable winds, generally northerly. For Western Michigan and Wisconsin—Local rains; colder, variable winds. For Minnesota and Eastern Dakota—Local sno i. T s; colder; winds generally northerly. Local Observations. iNIHANAPOI.IS, Nov. 15. Time. Bar. Their. [Hum. Wind, j Weather Rain. 6A. u... 30.37 33 I 87 SwestjCioudy 2p. M... 30.33 49 j 37 N’east (Clear 10 P. M... 30.34 37 j 59 N'eastiClear Maximum temperature, 50; minimum temperature, 30. General Observations. War Department, 1 Washington, Nov. 15, 10 p. m. J Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. s’ a 3 ? 2 3 o. cj- p*STATIONS. I o | §2= jf ? g : ? S’' ? •fill j New York City (30.30 42 Nwest Clear. Washington titty... 30.36 39 Nwest Clear. Vicksburg, Miss.... 31V. 19 52|S’eaat Clear. New Orleans. La— 30.16 56 East ..... Fair. Shreveport, La. 30.12 53 S'east Clear. Fort Smith, Ark... 30.09 48'S’east Clear. Little Rocir. Ark... 30.24 46'Calm Clear. 3-alveston. Tex 130.04 64' East Cloudy. Memphis, Tenn (30.31 46 S’east Clear. Nashville. Tenn (30.24 44. North (.Hear. Louisville. Ky ;30 30 45 N’east Clear. Indianapolis. Ind... 30.36 38 Calm Clear. Cincinnati, 0 30.321 43 West Clear. Pittsburg. Pa 30.38 37 Nwest Clear. Oswego, N. Y 29.3 lj 38 North Clear. Toledo. O 30.40 j 36 North Fair. Escauaba, Mich.... 130.39; 28|Calm Clear. Marquette, Mich— 30.38! 31 1 North ..... Clear. Chicago. 11l 130.40 40 East Cloudy. Milwaukee, Wis 30.37 38 Swest Clear. Duluth. Minn (30.38 32 Calm Cloudy. St. Paul. Minn 30.40 North Cloudy. LaCrosse. Wis 30.43 34 N’east (Fair. Davenport, la.. 30.35 35*S'east .‘Cloudy. Des Moines, la. 30.25 41 East Clear. Keokuk. 1a.% 30.29 36 East ..... Clear. Cairo, 111 3(1.25 46 East Clear. Springfield. 11l 30.32 42 East tilear. St. Louis. Mo (30.25 46 S east Clear. Lamar. Mo 30.T5 47;S’east ‘ Cloudy. Leavenworth, Kan. - (30.12 4718 east Cloudy. Omaha, Neb 30.19 40 N’east! Cloudy. Yankton. Dak 30.31 38 Swest] .17iLtsnow. Moorehead, Minn..]30.37 28 Nwest; .‘Cloudy. Bismarck. Dak. 30.45 27!North |Clear. Fort Buford. Dak.. (30.55 23 Swest (Clear. Ft.Assiniboine.M. T 30.76 22:8 west Fair. Fort Custer, Mont. - 30.64 16 N'east (Clear. Deadwood. Dak 30.58 18 North .17 Lt snow. North Platte, Neb.. 30.16 23 North .06 Lt snow. Denver, Col 30.31 lOlNwest, .10 Lt snow. W. Las Animas. C01j30.08 23 S’east i .06 Lt snow. Dodge City, Kan ‘3) 92 47jSouth! Cloudy. Fort Elliott Tex... 29.78 48 South Cloudy. Fort Sill. Ind. Ter.. 30.04 55: Swest Cloudy. Fort Davis. Tex 29.76 53Swest Clear. El Paso, Tex 29.69 63|Northj Clear. Salt Lake City, TJ. T(30.26 27[ j Fair.

A Negro Criminal Lynched. Nashvilie, Tenn., Nov. 15.— A special to the American, from McKeuzie, Tenn.,says: “Charlie Dinwiddy. colored, was arrested here Saturday night, charged with assaulting and robbing one Jennings, a white man. A preliminary examination was to have been held to-morrow, before Esqmre Mebane, it having been continued from 10 o'clock to day for wnnt of counsel. The negro was under guard at the calaboose, beintf in charge of Marshal Bryant and others. About 10 o'clock to-night twenty-five masked men rode into town,! coining from the direction of Huntingdon, and proceeded directly to the calaboose, where a portion of the crowd instantly dismounted and rushed into the calaboose with drawn pistols, overpowering the guard; they then riddled the body of the negro with pistol balls. He, in his frantic efforts to escape, burst his chaia loose from its fastenings and knocked over the stove, which was full of fire. Their work being done, the men mounted and left, without even sneaking a word. An inquest is being held. The negro was a desperate character.” The Patrons of Husbandry. Philadelphia, Nov. 15.— At to-day's session of the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, a resolution was submitted and referred to the committee on the good of the order, providing for the holding of all future sessions of the grange in Washington. Resolutions were passed providing for the holding of the next annual session at Lansing, Mich., and at Elmira. N. Y. A resolution was defeated making provision for obtaining legislation from Congress in favor of the farmers of the country. Hon. Norman Colrnan, Commissioner of the United States Agricultural Department, delivered an address at the afternoon session. The seventh and highest degree of the order was conferred on B. C. Harrison, of Alabama, acting high priest. Losses by Fire. Milwaukee, Wis-. Nov. 15.—Fire at Necedah, Wis., at 2:30 this morning, destroyed nine buildings and the Welch House. Total loss about SB,OOO. with fair insurance. Tifpin, 0., Nov. 15.—Mr. L. Nichoels’a residence was burned to day. Lost, SB,OOO. Mr. Nichoela fell from the top story of the building, and sustained severe injuries.

BASE-BALL RULES. Changes Agreed Upon by the Joint Meeting of Delegates at Chicago. Chicago, Nov. 15. —The joint rules committee, consisting of Messrs. A. G. Spalding, of Chicago; John I. Rogers, of Philadelphia, and John B Day, of New York, representing the National League base-ball organization, and Messes. Zack Phelps, of Louisville; 0. P. Caylor, of Cincinnati, and Win, Barnie, of Baltimore, representing the American Association, began its meeting at the Tremont House this morning. The work of the meeting will be to arrange a set of playing rules that will be agreeable to both organizations, and do away with the system now in vogue. To harmonize and expedite matters the committee invited the captains of several of the leading base-ball clubs of the League and American Associations to join their deliberations. Captains Anson, Ward, of New York, and Morrill, of Boston, of the League, and Comisky. of St. Lonis; Swartwood, of Brooklyn, and Stovev, of the Athletics, were selected. Stovey, Morrill and Coraiskey were not present. N. E. Young, of the League, and A. J. Reach, of the Philadelphia club, were present. In" the work of organization Mr. Pbelps was elected chairman and Mr. Rogers secretary. At the close of the day’s session, numerous changes had been decided uoon. In place of the stone at the home-plate, a base similar in size, but made of white rubber, was recommended. The position of first and third bases was moved seven and a half inches, so that the bags would be inside the foul lines, thereby helping the umpire in deciding whether a hit fell in fair or foul ground. The new rules of the American Association concerning the position of coachers were favorably received. They require that the coacher shall not be nearer than sixty-five feet to the homeplate, thereby preventing a coacher from running along the line from third base to homeplate to disconcert an opposing player. Action on the pitchers’ rules and location of the pitcher’s box was la’d over until to morrow, The League rule concerning the position of benches and bat-racks was incorporated in the rules of the American Association. It was unanimously agreed that in the future all cluhs playing under the national agreement shall use either the Spalding or Reach ball. This was done to prevent the using of “dead” balls, soft balls, or ‘‘lively" balls by other associations in their exhibitions with League or Association clubs, and to make & standard ball. It was also required of the American Association that each ball must be weighed, measured and sealed with the name of the secretary upon the box containing the ball, the, same as is in vogue in the Leaene. In the using of the two balls, the committee suggests that when a ball is batted out ot sight of the players another must be substituted, instead of waiting until the batted ball is returned. 'Whenever a ball is ripped or damaged, another must be at once brought into plav. The American Association was allowed to nse the fiat bat if it so desires, the same as tha League. The Lengue field rules, with slight modifications, were also extended to the Association teams. „ TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The fish pond of Chris Kaitse, near Columbus, Wis.. was robbed of 3,000 brook trout, valued at SI,OOO, on Saturday night. Henry Berry, aged fourteen years, and Henry Dakarba, ten, were drowned in the Calumet dam, at Houghton, Mich., Sunday evening, while sliding on the ice. Francis McCabe, the New York boodle aiderman, who was last week adjudged insane, secured his release on bail from Ludlow jail yesterday. The required bond was $20,000. At Norfolk, Va., yesterday, a verdict of acquittal was rendered in the case of John B. Whitehead, for misapplying funds of the Exchange National Bank, of which he was president at the time of its failure. While Samuel Simons, aged nineteen, was oiling shafting at the Empire works, at Akron, 0., yesterday, he was caught in the belt and whirled around fifteen times, striking timbers above and below the shaft, and breaking his arms and legs and otherwise mangling him. He was naked when thrown off the shaft, and died qn-a few minutes. At Anteiope, A. T.. Sunday night, three Mexicans rode up to the store of C. S. Stanton. Two of them entered the store and opened fire on Stanton and another man named Kelly. The third Mexican fired through the window. Stanton was instantly killed. Kelly returned the fire, killing one Mexican. The other two, seeing their companion fall, hurriedly fled. Stanton was implicated in the Barney Martin massacre, a few months ago, and bora an unenviable reputation.

Rebellious Telephone Subscribers. Rochesteb, N. Y., Nov. 15 —At a meeting of Bell telephone subscribers, held to-night, an association was formed consisting of six hundred lessees. It was agreed by these that they would order their telephones removed at noon, on Nov. 20, regardless of unexpired contracts. It was further agreed that any new arrangement with the company would necessarily include recompense for any loss by reason of unexpired contracts. The present members of tho association consist principally of representatives of business houses, and it ia thought that the remaining 400, which represent private houses chiefly, will -join the association. The trouble grows out of an announcement by the company that hereafter the rental would be considered as covering a fixed number of conversations, and that connections made over and above that number would be charged for in addition to the reutal. The French-Eversole Faction Fight, Louisville, Ky.,Nov. 15.—A Courier-Journal special save: “The war in Perry county. Kentucky, between the French and Eversole factions, has broken out afresh. Almost every citizen of the county has taken sides with one or the other of these mountain merchant princes, as they are called. Both factions seem to come to the conclusion there can be no settlement except by extermination. Both factions are armed, and the first shot will bring about a war. The feud between French and Eversole dates back several years. They are rivals in business, and oontrol the entire trade of several mountain counties The report that both were killed, some time ago, was not true.” Marriage of Hon. A. S. Hewitt’s Daughter. New Yoke, Nov. 15.—Amy Hewitt, daughter of Hon. A. S. Hewitt, was married to-day to James O. Green, son of President Green, of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The ceremony took place at Ringwood, N. J. About three hundred guests went from this city by special train. Among tlTose present were Allen Thorndike Rice. Griswold Lorillard, Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Loriliard, ex-Mavor Cooper, Bishop and Mrs. Potter. Judge and Mrs. C. B. Daly, and many other well known people. A feature of the occasion was the presence of many of the workmeu from Mr. Hewitt’s iron works. A National Bank Closes Its Doors. Little Rook. Ark., Nov. 15. — The First National Bank, of Pine Bluff, Ark., closed its doors tins morning. C. M. Neel, the principal owner, has been a heavy operator in real estate and cotton, and owns the Swan Lake railroad. He explains that the suspension was caused by drafts on cotton and commission merchants not being honored. He is understood to possess large means, but nothing is as yet known as to the extent of his liabilities. Flection Swindlers Held to Answer. Columbus, 0., Nov. 15. —Aleernon Granville, ex-prosecuting attorney. Robert Montgomery, Dr. C. R. Montgomery. B. H. Marriott and Otto W. Horn, defendants in the tally-sheet forgery case, were this afternoon bound over to the Court of Common Pleas. Fred Stf übe was dismissed. Justice Fritchev said he had considered the evidence very carefully, and gave his decision from his honest convictions. Galveston’s Missing Treasurer. Galveston, Nov. 15.—N0 word has yet been received coneeruing the whereabouts of W. J. Burly, tki passing county treasurer. An investigation to-day revealed the feet that Sheriff Owens had paid Burke, within the past four month!, oyer $5,000, which has not been turned

over to the bank where the treasurer usually deposits the mono}'. His bondsmen are now examining bis books and accounts. It is thought that even if any further shortage is discovered, the amount cannot be large. Certain non negotiable bonds belonging to the school fund, which were in the keeping of the treasurer, are missing. It is now reported that Burk was seen on a train going to New Orleans on the night of Nov. C. What Whisky Did for Dr. Blakeney. New York, Nov. 15.—Dr. Edward Blakeney, once a leading physicians of Brooklyn, was arrested to-day for breaking into a drug store last night and attacking the night clerk with a a knife. Blakeney has for some years been going down hill on account of dissipation, and is now a confirmed drunkard. He broke into the drug store to get whisky. After being stabbed the clerk fell, ard remained quiet. Blakeney, thinking him dead, proceeded to find and drink a quantity of whisky. He then went out on the street, and fell in a drunken stnpor. The clerk was but slightly hurt. Blakeney’s crime, however, is a State prison offense. Lncy Lilly’s Unpaid Bills, New York, Nov. 15. —Mrs. Lucy C. Lilly, a writer for the Harpers, hired a house at White Plains a year ago, and has been living in expensive style, cutting a dash in that quiet community. On Oct. 9 she disappeared, leaving a laree number of unpaid bills. Judge Dykman yesterday granted attachments against the property in the house to satisfy creditors. The judge ruled that the defendant had left the State to defraud her creditors, and he therefore put the sheriff in possession. It is said that many bills against Mrs. Lilly have been forwarded here from Pittsfield, Mass., for collection. Steamship News. New York, Nov. 15.—Arrived: La Champagne, from Havre. London, Nov. 13.—Arrived: British Crown, from Boston. Glasgow, Nov. 15.—Arrived: State of Pennsylvania, from New York. Southampton, Nov. 15.—Arrived: Fulda, from New York, for Bremen. Queenstown, Nov. 15.—Arrived: British King, from Philadelphia; City of Richmond, Egypt, from New York. Abducting a Court-House. Montevideo, Minn., Nov. 15.—0n Saturday last a crowd of men and teams from Madison loaded the Lac qui Parle Court-house, which is a frame building, about thirty by forty, two stories high, on four large truck wagons, and on Sunday morning moving off the building to Madison commenced. Last evening the courthouse was a lone distance out from Lacqui Parle, and it is probable that it is now at Madison, fourteen miles distant Intense excitement prevails throughout tne county. An Alaska Commercial Agent Shot Dead. West Randolph, Vt, Nov. 15.—A telegram from San Francisco announces that Benjamin G. Mclntvre has been shot dead by a Swede named Pete Anderson, at Kodiac. Alaska. No particulars have neen received. Mclntyre was general agent for the Alaska Commercial Company, of San Francisco, and had charge of the seal business of that company in the district of Kadiac. His home was in this village, where he leaves a widow and three children.

Illness of Congressman Price. Milwaukee, Nov. 15.—Advices from Black River Falls. Wis., at 12 M., to-day, state that Congressman Wm. T. Price is very low, and that his physicians despair of his recovery. His disease is cancer of the stomach. MARK TWAIN’S NEW LECTURE. A Yankee’s Surprising Adventures at the Court of King Arthur. New York World. The regular monthly meeting of the Military Service Institution was held last evening in the museum building on Governor’s Island, at which Mr. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) read a learned essay on “The War Experiences of a Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court.” When Mr. Clemens came forward to the reading desk there was scant standing room in any part of the hail. He was received with much applause, and at once announced the purpose of his lecture, or talk, as follows- “ Ladies and Gentlemen: This fragment which by your courtesy I am to read here to-night is a story—a satire if you please—which I began to write some time ago, and which is not finished; so what I propose to do under the circumstances is to read the first chapter jnst as it is and then in brief synopsis or outline, tell the rest of it in bulk, do as the dying cowboy advised his spiritual adviser to do, "just leave out the details and heave in the bottom facts.’ It would be impossible to tell much of the story in so short a time as we have and 1 will begin it just as it is written.” Mr. Clemens went on to say, reading from the first chanter of his forthcoming book, that in exploring Warwick Castle in England he met a stranger who interested him greatly. They became very good friends, and one day the stranger said: “You know about the transmigration of souls; do you know about the transposition of epochs and bodies?” Mr. Clemens had not heard of it, and subsequently this stranger sent him a manuscript. Beginning the reading of the supposed manuscript, the lecturer read: “‘lam an American.’ Well, he did not look it. ‘I was born in Hartford in the State of Connecticut. lam a Yankee of the Yankees. My father was a blacksmith, my'uncle was a horsetrader, and I was both.’ This Yankee was struck in the head one day, and when he awoke he was sitting under an oak tree.” The narration goes on to say that there was a man clad in ancient armor from head to foot, and that this apparition said to him, “Will you joust?” “I said,” the narrative eops on, “ ’what are you eiving me! Git along back to your circus of 111 report you,’ but he went back a piece and then he came tilting r.t me and I saw he meant business and when he arrived where I was I was up in the tree.” [Great Lauehter.] Mr. Clemens continued the reading, which described how an arrangement was made by which the Yankee was induced to accompany the knight, believing him first to be from some circus and later ou an escaped lunatic. Describing a woman encountered on the wav, tho narrative said: “Around her head was a wreath of red poppies, but as regards the rest of her clothing—well, there was not enough of it to talk about. [Great laughter.] She walked along by the circus man and did not pay the slightest attention to him —did not even seem to see him; but when her eye on me she seemed to be turned into an image of stone, and there she stood gazing with a sort of 6tupefied attention till we turned a corner and were lost to view. That she should be startled at me instead of the other man was too many for me. That she should seem to consider me a spectacle, totally overlooking her own merits in that respect, 1 thought curious.” [Laughter.” Continuing, the manuscript stated that every one seemed to notice the narrator with great interest. while none paid the slightest attention to his conductor. The streets through which they passed were muddy and ill-kept, hogs rooted contentedly about and dogs were numerous. Finally, a blare of music announced the approach of a gay cavalcade of knights in armor, and this was followed by an ascent into a castle. With the asylum idea still uppermost, the uarrator asked an inmate if he belonged to the asylum, or if he was there only as a visitor. “And he said,” continued the narrator, ‘Marry, marry,’ and 1 said, ‘That’ll do, I guess you are an inmate.’ One gorgeously attired youth came to me and said, ‘I am a page.’ ‘Ob. go along,’ said I; you ain’t big enough for a paragraph.’ [Laughter.] Finally he mentioned in a casual way that he was born in the beginning of 51& Said I: ‘Won’t you say it again and say it slow?’ What did you say?’ ‘513.’ Said I: ‘You don’t look it.’ And said I: ‘Are you in your right mind?’ ‘Yes,’ said he. ‘And are all these people in their right mind?’ ‘Yes,’ said he. and said I. ‘Where am If and said he, ‘You are in King Arthur's court, and said I, ‘What year is it now?, and said he, ‘526, the 13th of June, and said I, ‘I shall never see my frieods any more, for they won't be born for more than a thousand years, and I seemed tc believe the boy, although my reason didn’t.” The above extract will show the nature of Mr. Clemens’s entertainment. Continuing, be said the page assured him. after the dinner of tho Knights of the Ronod Table was over, he would be called in and exhibited by the one who had brought him there, who wm the seneschal of the

cattle and the King’s foster-brother. Finally he was taken in, and then, in the most humorous 'style, he recounted the marvelous stories which each Knight at the table narrated and the deeds of valor which he had performed. Finally, the Yankee becomes one of the Knights and is clothed in armor and sent to destroy a castle and kill an ogre which guards it and to set at liberty some sixty beautiful princesses. The description of how a man of the present time would be supposed to feel in a snit of armor was one of the most humorous things in Mr. Clemens’s paper. One portion of it was as follows: “God has so made us that there comes a time when we mnsft scratch, and the more we want to scratch the more we wouid give SIO,OOO if we could scratch, and if that deprivation goes on there comes a time when we would give a million. First I wanted to scratch my head, then my arms, then my legs,” efcft. He went on to describe how he had perspired inside the armor, and how, on ascending the mountain, he froze stiff inside of it, and was finally, in a frozen state, rubbed off the horse by the animal passing under a tree, and, the armor breaking, he was liberated. He then concluded that, instead of seeking farther for the castle and the one-eyed giant, he would go back and lie about it, and that this succeeded very well, and he came to be recognized as a prime warrior among the Knights of the Round Table. Finally he returns to this country and finds that the Knights had turned themselves into a stock board, and seats at the round table are worth $30,000 apiece. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. Forty-Nine Years Old— What He Says Concerning Himself. Boston Record. The genial author was found in his sanctum, on Park street, deep in the mysteries of some magazine article or projected tragedy. “Have you come to find out how old I am?” said Mr. Aldrich, with a twinkle in his eye. “I see the morning papers put me down as fifty. They probably took it from the encyclopedia, which says I was born in 1836. W ell, I have never undertaken to correct the mistake, and so have the credit of being oider than I am. “But they are melancholy occasions after all—these birthdays. I always like to forget them if possible. I think a man ought never to celebrate a birthday after the first one—and that, of course, he never remembers—for each celebration is a sad reminder of the fact that he is growing old. It seems to me that a man ought either to die when he is thirty or live to three hundred years. For the moment he feels himself at the height of his powers, and at the same time realizes that he knows so little; the tide turns and he begins to fade away. Oh, no, my friend, I do not take a melancholy view of life, but state simply facts. “Mrs. Aldrich and I have always made it a rule never to remind each other of our birthdays. And when one is over, the happiest thought is that I have not been reminded of it. “However, I am truly grateful for this call. You may tell your readers that you found me hard at work as usual. Flowers?* My dear sir, my friends know me too well to send them." The poet spoke with a simplicity and feeling that irresistibly recalled his touching couplet:— And the lives that seem so cold, if their stories could be told, Would seem cast in gentler mold, would seem full of love and spring. Suddenly recalling himself from his reverie, he continued: “You find me, I suppose, as all newspaper men do, a hard man to interview. I either give them nothing or say so much that they don’t know where to begin. Say simply that I shall spend the day very quietly with Mrs. Aldrich and a few literary friends.” And the author of “Baby Bell,” one of the most tender and beautiful poems in the English language—one that will live long after its author —bade a kindly adieu to the Record. Bartholdi’s Fountain. Washington Letter. Few visitors to the national capital know that this city has the first specimen of the sculptor Bartholdi’s work ever seen in this country. It is not to be wondered at that this fact is not generally known, for the work was stupidly hidden away in the low, flat grounds adjoining the botanic gardens, where it is never seen. It is in the shape of a magnificent bronze fountain, and was brought to this country to be exhibited at the Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia. The government purchased it, and it was sent to Washington and stowed away for several years in the basement of the Capitol. Finally somebody discovered it, and it was set up on the low ground, where it now stands, hiddep by a great iron fence and out of harmony with its surroundings. The water supply in that part of the city is so feeble that the fountain is never kept plavine. The dust has accumulated upon it, and the grand work is now in such a sad state of neglect that it is to be hoped that the liberty and American-lovine Bartholdi, if he should chance to visit Washington, may pass on without discovering its hiding place. A Democratic Defiance. San Fran cisco Chronicle. They sav that in the warmth of an election address a well-known Democratic candidate made the following daring defiance: “If I ever go back on the principles of the Democratic party, may my right hand cleave to the roof of my mouth.” He is reputed to lift it to his mouth very frequently, so it was not a meaningless remark after aIL

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