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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY- 1, 1887.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1887. "WASHINGTON OFFICE 313 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can bo found at tho following places: LONDON American Exchange in Strand. Europe, 449 PARIS American Exchange in Iari3, 35 Boulevard do Capncinea, SEW YORK-Gedney IIou"se and Windsor Hotel. CHICAGO-ralnier House. CIN'CINKATI-J, P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street.' LOUISVILTiE C. T. Dearinff. northwest comer TLird and Jefferson streets. ST. LOTIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern lloteL WASHINGTON. D. C.-Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Call. Uusinew Orice......'J38 Editor-al Rooms 242 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. The Sua Jay Journal for Sunday, Jan. 2, 1887, will contain a number of special features A story by Christopher B. P. Epwortb, entitled "Antolne Morelh," a tale of other days; a letter from Rev. J. C. Fletcher, as to the holiday sea son in Italy, with interesting details of Amain and P.Tatutn; Lady Colin Campbell's children's rhymes, illustrated by KateGreenaway, of which allueion is elsewhere made. The local paces will be full of interesting features, and every de partment of the paper, news and miscellaneous, will be of value and interest to all classes of readers. The edition of last Sunday was early uxhauated, but to morrow we will print enough Jo satisfy all demands. The Sunday Journal bejins the new year with tbo largest circulation it ver attained, and with a constantly increasing asinesa and patronage of all kinds. TlIE Journal wishes to all its readers, and .atror.s, and friends a happy New Year. Mn. Perkins has been taken from the tounty jail on a bond of one thousand dollars. Professor Smytiie may be a wicked heritic. but if he wants to bo a candidate for tnything he can be sure of the support of - that large and interesting class of sinners who want "another chance." It is to be hoped that young Mr. Perkins will spend his brief vacation out of. the coun ty jail in a prayerful consideration of whether It will pay him to longer attempt to protect ;he gang by his silence. Mr. Perkins having had a week's rest from the giddy whirl of society, will bo in trim to Hake a great many New Year's calk to-day He will probably find the refreshments more so his liking than the collations which have been recently served up to him. The Andover case is in such a shape that the question as to whether there i3 probation after death will be decided by the civil courts rather than by ecclesiastical council. If the lecision is in tho affirmative, law will be more popular than old-style Andover theology. The late Mr. Bumble ventured an observa tion regarding the law, that has been fre quently repeated by common, ordinary men whoaro not able to grasp all the refinements and subtleties whereby the law is made to subserve the interests of scoundrels instead of conserving the good of society. "Extra Billy" S.uith, once a Governor of Virginia, wants to succeed Riddleberger in the United States Senate. As this states man, in his prime, was distinguished chiefly for his eagerness to get office, and is now ; nearly ninety years old, his ideas are probablv iust about progressive enoush to suit Virginia Democrats. . The charter of tho Illinois Central Railroad Company requires it to pay the State of Illi nois 7 per cent, on tho gross earnings of tho road. The biennial report of the State Treas urer, just completed, shows that during the two years from May 1, 1884, to April 30, 188G, the railroad paid tho State $725,207.93. It is . partly owing to this large railroad revenue that the State has a balance on hand in the .... ,.t d! 411 Til The Sentinel is inconsistent. It is glad to lee that tho Democratic legislators who have arrived at the capital are in a fighting mood. tt likewise expresses the wish that the Indi ina educators remain in the town long enough to teach the General Assembly how to behave. The Sentinel knows that these instructors would not encourage fighting, but would teach that it is only certain four-legged aniO.nls which may with propriety delight to bark and bito. A EOT of butter was recently shipped from yt. Louis to an Arkansas dealer, who sent it back, claiming that its strong smell showed it fco be oleomargarine, but It was tested at the revenue office and proved to be genuine but--icr. Good oleomargarine is better than bad - sutter, and if made of clean, wholesome materials and byleanly processes there is no reason why oleomargarine should not have and hold a secure place in .tho list of eatable articles. Only let it be good of its kind, and sold !jt what it really is. Jt has been suggested that the ailment which has been growing common among our statesmen of late is not rheumatism, but gout. Gout is invariably the result of rich and Ligh living, pretty long continued. - Some of our public men in Washington aro pretty high livers, but we hardly think they practice gorging themselves so systematically aud for a length of time sufficient to cause the gout. A for General Logan, he was an abstemious tun and plain liver. President Ai thur was a

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neaua - ana nasten nis acaiu in mat way. We do not understand President Cleveland to be an habitual high liver, but with his temperament and full habit he cannot stand much of that sort of thing. Before going to 'Washington he knew very little about good living, and he could hardly have developed a case of gout in the short time he ha3 been there. I 1886-1887. ; r . The year 188G was one of general business prosperity in the United States. The state ment i3 made in a large sense. There have, of course, been occasional halts in the march of improvement, and some serious interrup tions of business. 'Most notable and mem orable among these were the labor troubles,' the great railroad strike in the Southwest, the labor riots at Chicago, and the eight-hour strikes all over the country; That these ovents had a depressing effect on business at the timo cannot be denied, and probably the aggregate results of the year are not as encouraging as they would have been otherwise. But great as these disturbances were, their effect was but temporary and transient. They certainly did cause a shock' to reviving confidence, arrest the anticipated growth of trade, and reduce the transactions of the year below what they would else have been; but confidence soon recovered from the shock, business was resumed with renewed energy, and, in spite of these drawbacks, the aggregate trade transactions of the last year far ex ceeded those of any of its predecessors. The troubles referred to were very damaging to business while they lasted, but later . events have shown that the great business heart of the country the vital arteries of trade were untouched. The rapidity and ease with which the business of tho country recovered from these serious disturbances furnishes a remarkable illustration of the elasticity and recuperative power of the American people. Another disturbing cause, and one that is still felt in some degree, was the tariff agita tion in the last session of Congress. A3 long as there was probability or danger of a general tearing up and turning over of business interests under the pretense of re forming the tariff, capital was timid and trade sluggish? Investers held on to their money, manufacturers curtailed operations, and enterprises of all kinds languished. As soon as the free-traders were defeated con fidence revived and capital began to seek in vestment, old manufacturing establishments began to branch out and new ones to be started, fires were lighted and idle workmen were given employment. With the present session of Congress the free -trade agitation was renewed, but received its quietus so soon that its injurious effect on business was hardly perceptible. No doubt it will be again renewed, and have to be mot again It is an ever-present evil, a perpetual menace to trade. It i3 not so much that the American people could not do busi ncss and prosper under a tanu very different from the present one, perhaps even under a free-trade system, for they can adapt themselves to anvthingand do business under any system that any people can. But it is the constant agitation and threatened inter ferenco with the established order of things that alarms and wearies the people. The busi ness interests of the country want a rest, They demand repose and ask to be let alone, They dread agitation and deprecate frequent changes. The people would rather put up with the imperfections of any system under which they are prospering reasonably well tho tariff system, tho railroad system, or any other than incur the possible disasters involved in a radical change. "Festina lente" is a good motto for statesmen as well as reformers: they should learn to go slow. But, in spite of drawbacks, there has been great improvement in the business of the country during the last year. All portions of the country and all branches of trade have participated in the improvement, but some more than others. In this city it has been very marked. There is no branch of trade or business interest that is not in better condition now than it was a year ago, and that will not begin 1887 with brighter prospects than it did 1886. This may not be true of every individual engaged . in trade, but it is true of every branch of trade. The volume of business in all lines has in creased. Tho largo increase in our clearinghouse transactions during the year has been a subject of general remark. The railroads centering here all report a decided increase of business over last year. It is estimated that the local railroad traffic has increased 05 per cont. and the through traffic 20 per cent. The coal busiuess has increased about 15 per cent. Of Indianapolis, as of the country at large, it may be said at tho threshold of the new year that never was its business in a more healthy and nourishing condition or the future prospect brighter. "A Happy New Year" has a substantial sound this morning. The Pittsburg Dispatch intimates that the reports that the natural gas is giving out in at city aro circulated by interestod parties to injure the city. It adds: "Every manufacturer and dweller in this city knows that the quantity of gas lately being supplied i3 larger far than it was bofore; that the service has been more regular; that the wells in the great fields upon which Pittsburg depends do not show signs of exhaustion." The permanency of tho supply is one of the most important questions connected with natural gas. Necossarily, discussion on the point must be largoly conjectural, for as it is impossible to know with certainty where or how the gas is generated it is equally impossible to know

whether the supply will hold out. The State-1 . . . , , i. ., I. . I ment above quoted is exphoit that so far as J

Pittsburg is concerned the supply shows no J signs of failing. J The Cincinnati Sun is making a bold and manly fight for Democratic reform within the party. This is a big contract, but tho Sun goes at the work with an apparent ap preciation of its magnitude. As a starting point, it is demanding a thorough investigation of the Ohio election frauds and pouring hot shot into the McLean crowd. The Sun says: "Judge Wylie, of the Common Pleas Court of Franklin county, is being congratulated iiom all parts of the State, and -by the respectable elements of both parties, for his honesty and courage in granting a special grand jury to inquire into the cases of the men who are alleged to have forged the tallysheets of the Thirteenth ward of the city of Columbus. A stupendous howl was raised by the McLean organs when it was proposed to call a special lury to hear these cases, and Judge Wylie was solemnly advised that the whole natter should be ignored. He was reminded bv the gangstera that a regular grand jury had heard all the testimony that was available, and had found that there was noth ing whatever in the case; that the scandal had been trumped up to injure tho Democratic party, and that he should not ailow his court to be used for any such purpose. The mention of the Democratic party in this connec tion was wholly gratuitous. It is John R. McLean's tactics to hold up the Democratic party in front of him to shield him from any threatened harm. Let it be known in Colum bus and elsewhere that the McLeans and the Democratic party are as far apart as the poles. The Democratic party of Ohio is the party of honesty and integrity. The McLean gang is the opposite of this. It is all that is corrupt and dishonorable in politics and in business. Therefore the Democratic party must not be conjured to frighten away investigation at. Columbus. Ihis ha3 been done too otten already." Yes, it has been done too often, and in other States than Ohio. The situation at Columbus, as described by the Sun, and the existing one in this city are strikingly similar. There is, however, this difference: ' There is no Democratic paper here to denounce the fraud and its perpetrators and read them out of the Democratic party. A Special Feature. In to-imorrow's Journal we shall publish a collection of the nursery rhymes written by Lady Colin Canibell, illustrated by Kate Greeaaway, to which allusion was made in the recent divorce trial as the literary work in which the distinguished plaintiff was engaged at a certain time. Lady Campbell was the only person to the suit who emerged with credit. It i3 the general verdict that the trial left her with an enhanced reputation. The rhymes are such as Kate Greenaway deemed worthy of her unique and delicate illuotration, which have been redrawn iu outline for newspaper use. They will appear in the Sunday Journal for Jan. 2, 1887. Beginning with today, the Craw fords ville Journal will be issued twice a week on Satur days and Wednesdays, and will be changed to a four-page, seven column paper. The Journal stands in the front rank of Indiana county papers, and it is gratifying to note this evidence of its increasing prosperity. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Bill Nye complains of the notable lack of lo cal gags in Booth's "Hamlet" The Kev. Moses Knockout is the name or a popular Pennsylvania evangelist Burlington Free Press: Speculations are usually followed by peculations. CuaS:s E. Pilgrim, the new "boy preach er," is said to be just sixteen. He lives ia Phil adelphia. General Sherman s biggest vice, next to kissing pretty girls, is his regular attendance at the circus. Age tells. For the first time in forty years the venerable Hannibal Hamlin this winter wears an overcoat. Mr. George Burns, one of the three founders of the Cunard Steamship Company, is still living at the ago of ninety-one. : Sublime person: Will you not come with me to hear the lecture on the utter? Frivolous and unasthetio person: Depends on who's the utterer. Bonanza Mackay gave every employe of the Commercial Cable Company, both in this country and Europe half a month's salary as a Christmas gift ' There is a streak of economy in the group of candidates for the Nevada senatorship. They have agreed not to spend more than $100,000 in the fight. Abbe Liszt's body still lies interred at Bayreuth, and the dispute about the place of its ultimate sepulture is apparently no nearer settlement than ever. The Vassar Miscellany is authority for the statement that "'a girl can limit her incidental expenses at Vassar College (inclusive of books) to $25 per annum." Editor Dawson, of the Charleston News and Courier, is an English-born Catholic, and a personal friend of the Pope, from whom he often receives special messages. Word comes of the death of the Countess Beust, whosurvived her illustrious husband only a few weeks. She was once noted as the most beautiful woman in Germany. The artesian well which has just been completed at the assay office in Wall street, New York, is 4G7 feet deep. The water is very cold, but so much impregnated with lime a3 to be scarcely fit to drink. Rev. Robert Collyer preached a sermon from his New York pulpit, last Sunday, taking for his text "Little Lord Fauntleroy." Mrs. Burnett can henceforth count herself among the apostles and the prophets. Lord Ronald Gower has started a movement for the protection of Landseer's lions, at the base of the Nelson monument, which are being shamefully defaced by the Socialist mobs that hold their meetings in Trafalgar square. - Washington Post: Tennyson has at last bequeathed to the English language a word that will rhyme with "youngster." It is "tonguester." Now. why i3 not the auctioneer a lungster and a bark-rsper a bungster? Our language must be enriched. Senator Sherman and General Sherman are said to exchange letters almost daily when eut of one another's society. "Cum o" is what John always calls the soldier, and "Now, John," is the 6tyle that the General uses iu accosting the Senator. Mrs. John C. Miller, of Key tes ville, Mo., has a ship biscuit'whicb, it is said, was brought from England in 1630, and which has been handed down from generation to generation. It is kept in a glass bottle, and is as hard as a boarding-house roll. Omaha World; Nellie "Were you ever tobozganing in Canada!" Minnie "Yes; but ii isn't half so nice as it is In Omaha." "Too coldr "No, that doesn't matter; but the slides are so awfully steep." "Steeper than oura?" "O ever

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bo much. Why, they are go dangerous that the gentlemen can't do a thing but just watch the course and steer " "Oh"' Mat Hcddleston, Sirs. Cleveland's cousin. who is living at the White House, rides a tricyclo after school hours every day. She shows great skill in the management of the machine. President D wight, of Yale College, has sent a toboegan to the Dean of Canterbury, Eneland. The intellectual ties which bind the two continents are erowins ever more and more diversified. A Philadelphia newspaper desires its read ers to believe that a large terrapin was nailed in a box and given neither food nor drink for three months, and that, when it was taken out, it was round to weigh an ounce more than it did when it was put in. Mrs. Alexander, who wrote "The Wooing O't," is a short, stout, elderly lady with a kind ly simple expression, and snowy white hair brought'down over her temples. She looks as if she could make a good, comfortable flannel shirt rather than write a successful novel. Ferdinand, of Saxe-Coburg, would like to ac cept the doubtful gift of the throne of Bulgaria. He was torn in Vienna, 1861, is a grandson of Louis Philippe, of Coburg, and elder brother of Louis Philippe, heir-apparent. The prince has traveled over most of the European countries, and is highly intelligent. Col. Michael Sheridan 6ays that the re port that General Sheridan has purchased ICO acres of land in Perry county, Ohio is untrue. "I only wish it were true." he exclaimed. "It would please us all if the General had money enough to invest in real estate of any sort The truth of the matter is that the General received eighty acres of land, located in Perry county, as an inheritance." William Fulton, a wealthy farmer of Inde pendence, O., who is suing for divorce, testified the other day that, being unable to keep any papers or other valuables in the house without his wife getting them, he made up a package of them and put it in the manger of his big bulL "ihey were pretty safe there," said Mr. Fulton, "because it wasn't safe for any one on the farm except myself to go near the animal He was a very handy bull." Dr. W. H. Hale, an Edinburgh physician, who is traveling in this country, has a cane which, he says, cost $3,500. The head contains over three pounds of eighteen-karat gold,, and is mounted with sixty-five diamonds. The gold snake which entwines the upper part of the cane has ruby eyes. In the top of the head is secured a gold chronometer-balance watch, the cover of which contains a gold monogram of its owner, studded with twenty-four diamonds. The ex-Empress Eugenie was seen lately at Chiselhurst by "Olive Harper," who thus writes to the New York Mail and Express: "Her beauty had much faded, but it bad taken on a womanly softness born of suffering, and to me, at least, it would have been far more attractive than any youthful charm she had then lost Her hair was still abundant, J her eyes and lips still lovely, and that nameless grace and incomparable attraction was still hers. The beauty of intelligence like hers never fades." The same correspondent says that Queen Victoria's pictures flatter her grossly, "but I am 6ure I don't want to raise a war between two countries by giving a fair and square description of her personal appearance." COMMENT AND OPINION. Senator Logan was not a man who saved several millions of dollars in a short term of years on a ?5,000 salary. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The report that the Czar has been drunk naturally leads one to suspect that the great Russian lives in a prohibition town. Atlanta Constitution. Illinois has already begun to groom Gresham for the race of lbes. He has many good points. but we hardly think he will rate high in the pools unless Mr. Blaine's rheumatism should become chronic. New York Graphic. What shall it profit a free-trade President to call an extra session of a House containing only seventeen Democratic majority to perform the taritt smashine which was dodged by a House havine forty Democratic majority? Philadel phia tress. With such a state of feeling among women. it is hardly reasonable to expect that men should get excited over tho woman suffrage question The time for that will come when their wives and daughters demand of them the right to vote, and then the demand will not long remain ungratified. New York Sun. No labor organization which allows Itself to be ruled by Socialists and Anarchists can have the confidence of any large number of persons in this country. The soil is not favorable to the dissemination of socialistic ideas, and Mr. Powderly has the good sense to appreciate that fact New York Tribune. There is no Democratic administration. There is an administration of inertia, of false pretense, of the foolery of alleged reform. We have not had a ray of tho real thing. When ever, if ever, the Democrats get the Senate, and House, and the President, and the Sunreme Court, we shall have a Democratic administra tion. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Nothing has contributed moro to bring civil- - -a; . . . , . service reiorra inio uisrepute man tne conduct, during tho past two years, of those newspapers which profess to be its especial advocates. Having vouched for Mr. Cleveland as a reformer they have been unwilling to confess their blun der, and have invented apologies for him which were both, dishonest and absurd. Miiwankee Sentinel. Frof. Canlkins's Resignation Requested. Cincinnati, Dec. 31. The executive committee of the Freedman's Aid Society, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has taken final action concernintr the Caulkins-Johnson affair at Chattanooga University, upon which they have been deliberating for some time. Prof. Caul kins, of that university, wa3 charged with dis courteous conduct in public to Rev. Mr. Johnson (colored), of Chattanooga. Tho direct con trol of the faculty of Chattanooga Universltv be ing vested by the charter in the local board of trustees, the rreedman s Aid Society executive committee will communicate to that board that a majority of the committee believe Prof. Caulkins to have been euilty of conduct, and to have shown a disposition toward thj colored race unfitting hira to serve the society as" a teacher, and that the trustees should at once ask for his resignation: and that while such is the opinion of a majority, the entire committee unite in condemning such conduct as that of which the majority believe the Professor to have been guilty. Obituary. St. Louis, Dec. 31. Rev. Truman M Post. D, D.. the oldest Protestant minister in thiscity,died to-day, in his seventieth year. Dr. Post was born in Middleburv, Conn.; came West immediately after graduating from college at that place. and settled at Jacksonville, 111., where he practiced law until 1842, when he assumed the pas torate ot a congregational church in this city. In 1847 he received a call to tho Third Presbyterian Church of this city. The church almost immediately reorganized on a Congregational basis, and he continued in charge until four vears ago, and became one of the most noted and. influential preachers in the city. This was the first Congregational church established in Missouri. Dr. Post had been suffering from heart disease for some time. Last Wednesday his ailment assumed a serious character, and he sank rapidly until to-day, when ho died. The Potter Slorder Caae. Norfolk, Va,, Dec. 31. The trial of George W. Hill for the murder, last month, of J. D. Potter, closed in the United States District Court, this evening, with a verdict of acquittal. Potter was a draughtsman in the steam engineering department of the Norfolk navy-yard, and a married wan. Hill's daughter, a pretty girl of sixteen, attracted the attention of Potter, who visited her as a single man until the imposition was discovered and his visits were forbidden. He afterwards wrote her several notes, which were received and read by her father. One afternoon in, .November Hill and his daughter called upon Potter at his ofike. The father became greatly enraged during the conversation which ensued, and, drawing a pistol, shot Potter, who did in a day or two.

A FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE.

A Fair-Ground at Madras tho Scene of a Panic and Great Loss of Life. Lord Randolph Churchill Offers to Resume Office on Conditions, but Lord Salisbury Rejects Dis Proposition Cable Notes. DISASTER IN INDIA. A Fire at a Great Fair Causes a Panic and Serious Loss of 1.1 fa. Madras, Dec. 3L Fire broke out to-day in the reserved inclosure at Peoples' Park, where the annual fair was being held. A panic ensued, and it is reported that several hundred persons were burned or crushed to death. THE ENGLISH CABINET. Churchill Makes an Oifer Which Lord Salis bury Emphatically Rejects. London, Dec. 31. Lord Hartington has in formed Lord Salisbury that he and his col leagues, including Mr. Goschen, were in accord in the belief that it is inadvisable to form a coalition government, but promise to continue to give the Ministry a cordial support. The Times regrets the loss of a coalition Min istry through the opposition of the Conservative rank and file. It says it cannot look with much hope to the work of the coming session of Parliament Irish and foreign affairs will task the Ministers to the utmost The courage with which the Conservatives profess to be ready to face the trials in store for them can only be praised at the expense of their intelligence. It is semi officially stated that Rt Hon. Will iam Henry Smith will retain the office of Sec re-. tary of War. The Right Hon. Edward Stanhope will succeed Lord Randolph Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Earl of Carnarvon will take the office of Colonial Secretary, which Mr. Stanhope now holds. The other offices will remain unchanged. The Standard says: "The Cabinet is prepared to give any post to the Liberal-Unionists, except that of Premier. Efforts will be made to induce Sir Michael Hicks-Beach to become the successor of Lord Randolph Churchill as leader of the House of Commons if the negotiations for a coalition should fail." - In the course of his reply to a deputation that waited upon him, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach said: "We want the full support "of the Unionists, which, to my mind, cannot properly be given while a part of them are outside the camp. Owto regretful circumstances, a chance was lost last summer. That chance has reoccurred. If you are able to influence the Liberal-Unionist leaders so that they shall avail themselves of that chance, do so. There is not a man in the Cabinet who is not willing to. make any sacrifice to obtain such a result The matter will rest with you and your leaders." Lord Salisbury returned to Hatfield to-night, leaving thft composition of the Ministry still un certain, lie has ottered Air. Goschen the posi tion or ucanceiior or tne .exchequer, and is waitins: his response. Air. uoschen has con sulted with Lord Hartington, and is taking time to consider. At a late hour to-night he bad not replied, and had given no sign of what he in tended to do. Lord Randolph Churchill to-day. through Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, consented to resume office on condition that Lord Salisbuty give assurances that he would support his f Churchill's) proposed reforms of abuses in the naval and military administrations. Baron Rowton conveyed the offer to Lord Salisbury. who rejected it in terms that will h widen the breach between him and (JhurchilL The Cabinet appointments mentioned to-day meet with general acceptance in ministerial circles, but nothing will be definitely settled until the next Cabinet council. The Globe says it doubts that any of the ap pointments reported to have been made in consequence of Lord Randolph Churchill's resign a tion have really been made. It adds that the Marquis of Salisbury's choice for the chancellor ship of the exchequer relinquished by Lord Ran dolph is limited to AJr. W uliam Henry Smith, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach and Lord George Hamilton. Nothine, however, says the Globe, as to who shall succeed Lord Randolph Churchill is settled. The Standard says that Mr. Gladstone will not assent to a reunion of the Unionists and Liberals unless it be agreed that the bill for the government of Irelaud shall precede the land bill, and that a separate Parliament chall be granted. FATHER GALEOTE. The Supreme Tribunal Refuses to Commute the Death Sentence. Madrid, Dec. 31. The Supreme Tribunal has refused to commute the sentence of Father Galeote, who was convicted of the murder of Mgr. Isquierdo and condemned to death. Father Galeote Is the priest who, in order to revenge himself for an order of suspension inflicted upon him for immoral conduct, by the Bishop of Madrid, shot tho latter with a revolver at the doors of the Pro-Cathedral, on Palm Sunday last Before being executed by means of the garrotte, on the plain outside Madrid, Father Galeoto will be solemnly and publicly degraded from the priesthood. One by one his ecclesiastical vestments w ill be removed f rom him, and after his head has been shaved to obliterate all traces of the tonsure, his hands and the crown of his head will bo scraped with blades of steel in order to erase all traces of the sacred oil with which he was annointed on entering the priesthood. During these proceedings a dirge is chanted by the "freres de misericorde," the cowls of whose monkish garments are drawn down over their faces, leaving only two little holes for the eyes. On the occasion of the ceremony the unfortunate man will be soated on a chair with his back against an upright post fixed into the scaffold. A steel collar, the ends of which are passed through the post, is fastened around his neck, and as soon as the yellow bag has been drawn down over his face, "the executioner gives a turn to tho windlass, which causes the uteel collar to tighten, and at the same time forces the point of a screw against the spinal column, which it breaks. The body is then left during the whole day exposed to the public gaze on tho scaffold, and is only removed for burial at nightfall. Possible Renewal of the Triple Alliance. Vienna, Dec 31. Herr Von Tisza, the Hungarian Premier, is now in this city, conferring with the Emperor and the Austrian Ministers. There aro rumors that the resienation of Churchill from the British Cabinet has induced Austria to seek a closer alliance with Germany. Events are tending toward the ronewal of the triple alliance. , France Desires Peace. Paris, Dec 31. M. Goblet, Prime Minister, received a syndicate of members of the Paris Stock Exchange to-day. He told them ho did not believe that war was 'imminent France's relation with every power were excellent, and she desired nothing but peace, "But," he added, "to view the possibility of war calmly, the nation must be powerful enough to protect her rights." x Killed and Injured by an Explosion. Cleveland, O., Dec. 31. At 10:30 o'clock, this morning, two boilers in the Empire mower and reaper works of F. Seiberling & Co . at Akron, O., exploded wih terrific force. The two-story brick boiler-house was completely demolished. Several men wei'e. buried in the ruins, which took fire, and it was with difficulty that they were rescued. The following is a list of the injured: William Brown, aged seventeen, crushed so badly that he died in half an hour; William Seaader, a single man, badly cat ia the

head; Joseph IWeaver, married, fatally hurt by

falling timbers; J. E. arroer. colored, ourt s falling timbers; Cortland Datt, arm oroKen anc head cut The lots is estimated at $15,000. The cause of the explosion is unknown. - LABOR MATTERS Tho '"Improved" Knlchts Gossip Aboat V Powderly's Alleged Intentions. I't New York, Dec 31. The Herald say Members of District Assembly 49 smile at the idea of an 'Improved order of Knights of Labor,' : and state that no such a thing exists, and that even if it did it amounts to nothing. There is, however, such an organization, although it not very prominent at present Should ft spe- ; ciai meeting of the General Assembly beheld. the alleged unconstitutional acts of the Richmond meeting be undone, and all matters be set right, it is very probable that no more will be heard of tho 'improved order;' bot should a special meeting not he called, and dissatisfaction continue to spread, the 'improved order' will ,. probably have a boom. "A Knight of Labor, whose hair is gray in the j cause of 'labor, and whose honesty none can question, stated yesterday that, while in Philadelphia recently, he was informed by Rome politicians in the order that it was Mr. Powderly'g intention to save about $6,000 out of his 6alary in the next two years, then resign bis position, and stand as a candidate for the United States Senate from Pennsylvania. - "It has also been" stated that a movement is on hand to raise funds to present a case in the k courts of Pennsylvania to test the legality of " Secretary Litchman's and Treasurer Turner's positions. According to the laws of Pennsylvania, it is said, all secret societies having officers in the State must elect tbem according to the constitution of the society. It ia claimed that Litchman and Turner were not so elected. A Legislator Rejects a Pass. Chicago, Dec 31. One of the labor repre sentatives, George R oh r bach, received an annual pass from the Alton road, but his conscience troubled him, and he returned it with the following letter: C. H. Chappell, General Manager of tbo Chicago A Alton Kaiircad: I received your favor of tne 30tb instant, 185G, and. while feeling very grateful for the courtesy ex tended, I must respectfully beg to decline it being under no obligations to you whatever, nor wishing to put myself under any. and knowing no reason why this railroad pass should be sont, except it was for some reason of your own. or to further ends that ar to the advantage of railroads and detrimental to tho constituents I reperseut, aamelv, the people. GEOB9E 1'. HOUKBACH. Settled by Arbitration. Cleveland, Dec. 31. The board of arbitration to whom were referred the differences between the coal-miners and operators of the Mahoning valley, to-day. decided that wages of miners should be advanced from 55 to 05 cents er ton. The miners are pleased with the decison and will resume . work on Monday next About three thousand men are interested in this decision. JUDGE GRESHAM. He Intends to Remain on the Bench, and . Thinks Mr. Blaine Will Be Nominated. New York Tribune. ( The name of Judge W. Q. Gresham, of Indiana, has been heard often recently in connection . with the presidency in 1888. It is not long since the newspapers contained stories about a conference that was held in this city to boom him for that office. Then came his decision in the Wabash case, which caused Jay Gould to declare that Gresham had rendered it for the purpose of making capital for a presidential contest A Tribune reporter saw a letter to-day written by Judge Gresham since that opinion was delivered, in which he refers to the reports of the conference, and says "that be doubts whether it was ever. held. He declares that it ia his intention to remain on the bench p6rma nently. Probably the most remarkable thing in the letter, when considered as coming from a former member of President Arthur's Cabinet, and from one whose name was being pushed to the front by the former Arthur leaders, is a statement of opinion that Mr. Blame will be his . party 8 nominee in 1SSS, providing he is willing to accept the position, and will be elected. The gentleman in whose possession the letter has come, although he has permitted several persons to see it, has thus far refused to allow it to be published. Amelia Olsen's Murderer. Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 31 A man named Edmund Kenn was arrested here yesterday for drunkenness. During the afternoon he confessed to a detective that he is the murderer of Amelia Olsen, whose body was found on the prairie on the outskirts of Chicago, Jan. 16, 1864. He said he had accompained the girl to a dance, and that on the way home his passion overturned his reason and he assaulted and outraged the girl, and finally cut her throat He said his" father is now servine a ten-year sentence for manslaughter in California, which statement was corroborated by an examination of the orison records of that State. Kenn stated that he was haunted by his victim, and that he did not care whether or not he was hanged for the murder. To-day, Kenn, in sober mind, repudiates the confession, but it is stated that he toll the story of the murder to a South-side physl cian on Wednesday, when he was not under the influence of drink. The chief of police of Chicaco has been notified. Later. Chicago officers arrived hero to-night, and, after pumping Kenn several hours, concluded that his story was a hoax inspired by whisky. He will be released. Frightful Ride Down a Steep Grade. Toronto, Ont, Dec. 31. A thrilling account of a trip on a wild-cat train down the Rocky mountains is told by Wm. Tillia, a travelor who has just arrived here by the Canadian Pacific railway from British Columbia. Last week ' two cars of a passenger train, while being hauled up the steepest grade in Kicking Horse Pass, which is one inch to the foot for nearly two niiies, broke loose from the locomotive and commenced a mad career down tho mountain side. The brakes were frozen and could not be applied with effect. Some of the twenty occupants of the cars tried to rise, but the speed was so great that they could not stir from their seats. Tho cars reached a safety switch a distance of two miles from the place they broke loose from the locomotive, in one minute. The passenger car caught the safety switch and was piled on the opposite incline, a complete wreck. The baggage car, which did not contain any passengers, went on down the main line and did not leave the track. A number of passengers were killed and others received probably fatal injuries. Soma miraculously escaped almost uninjured. Secretary Lamar's, Holiday Visit. Macon, Ga., Dec. 31. Secretary Lamar is spending the holidays at his home, surrounded by his kith and kin and the friends of his early manhood. He has met with an enthusiastic reception and has been tendered a banquet, which, however, ho has declined. The reports relative to hia immediate marriage are idle surmises; but it is true that he is en?sged to the lady so ofton named, and that the engagement meets the entire approval of both the families concerned. It is also absolutely certain that no time has yet been fixed for 'the marriage coremony. The lady is cot of the fashionable world, and she has hitherto fonnd moro interest In domestic occupations and quiet charities than ia the fashioaa--blc pleasures of society. Opera-llouae Burned. Cleveland, Dec. 31. Fire at Girard, Pa,, this raorbir.g, destroyed several bultdinga. Including tho Opera-house Block, owned by Geo. G. Kibler. The loss will reach SyGo.OOO, and if divided between a dozen or moro persons. Rev. Uoodell Acquitted. Providence, R. I.. Dee. SI. The ecclesiastical committee investigating tho charire of immorality against UiV. Charles L. Goode'l, after " a two days' session, voted unanimously, this afternoon, to acquit him. Pleasing Holiday Reflection. Boston Ktcerd. If you received a present from any one yaalor day to whom you gave nothing, It does not put you under any obligation to buy something ia

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