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portal contest lie f?ill remain away for about two Weeks, and la tie meantime the conduct of the Interstate commerce bill, if the conference feport it agreed to tn the Senate, will be left in tbe band of 'ilr. Crisps of Georgia, the thf.rd member of tbe House conferees, Mr. Wearer, of Nebraska, being also at home looking after bis senatorial prospects. The joint committee on public printing hat Authorized tbe Public Printer to issue the annual advertisement for proposals for the next year's supply of prin tine paper. The proposals will be opened on the 2d of February at 10:30 o'clock. CoL Charles F. Blunt, of tbe Engineer Corps, will be placed on the retired list of the army on Monday. Second Lieutenant William M. Gibson, Third Artillery, has been selected to fill the racancy of first lieutenant in the ordnance department, caused by the recent death of Colonel McAllister. The house committee on revision of tbe laws, to-day authorized a favorable report to the House on the bill to authorize the appointment and prescribe the compensation of clerka to Senators and Representatives who are not chairmen of committees. A favorable report was a'.so ordered on the bill to prohibit tbe appointment of congressional tomtnlttees to attend funerals at tbe public expense, outside of the District Columbia, and limiting tbe expense in such cases to the actual cost of burial. A section of tbe bill also prohibits the draping of public buildings except upon the order of the President

lessee by Ftre. Cpftcial to ffie Indianapolis Journal. Bloomihgtqk; III. Jan. 8. The fine farm residence of Mr. George Price, located abont two miles southeast of this eity, was destroyed by fire this morning during a violent snow storm. Tbe family had barely time to esoape with their lives. One or two of the lady occupants suffered intepsely from exposure in going to the nearest neighbor's, a mile away. Everything in the house was lost The loss is from $6,000 to $3,000, with no insurance. ?pbij(3Kield, O., Jan. $. This merning the Ohio Southern railroad machine and car shops cangbt fire by an explosion of a torch in the round-house, and were destroyed. Six locomotives, and two cars of valuable machinery, and tfhe building were destroyed. Loss, $140,000; fully insured. , Palmzr, Mass., Jan. 8 The recently-constructed hetel, located at Belchprtown, was totally destroyed by fire this morning. The structure was owned by B. F. Butler, and valued at S80,000; insured for $10,000. The fire was of Incendiary origin. Ear Clatrb,, Wis., Jan. 8. The Foster sawmill, at Fair child, in this county, burned early this morning. Loss, $30,000; insurance, $20,000, mostly in New York companies. Obituary. St. Louis, Jan. 8. Judge Aaron Shaw, for many years a prominent Illinois politician, died at bis home in Olney, III., last night, at the asre of seventy-six years, )urine his life he held the position of State's attorney twice, was a member of the Legislature and of the Thirty-fifth Congress, and was once elected circuit judge. " Wasbixotok, Jan. & Brevet Brig. -Gen. f nomas Duncan, United States array, retired, died yesterday afternoon, after a short illness, at his residence in this city. , Duriug tbe war of the Rebellion General Doncanjwas struck on the head by a cannon ball and a portion of bis skull Knocked off. Trepanning was resorted to, and for more than twenty years be has worn a silver plate, which took the place of tbe abstracted portions of his shattered skull. ' Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 8. Owen Ball, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Lafayette, died to-day, aged sixty-seven, years. Mr. Ball has been prominently Identified with Lafayette and her interests. He was the head of the wholesale grocery -house of Owen Ball & Co., and was for year connected with the City Council. Mr. Ball was the father-in-law of CoL John S. Williams. Third Auditor of the Treasury. A widow and ten children survive him. Brewers Strike Adjusted. St. Louis, Jan, 8. Committees from the brewers' pool and the Brewers' Ution settled a)l their differences to-day, and the strike, which was begun last September by the members of the latter, has been ended. The strike -was the outcome of the publication, by toe pool, or a set or res olutions adopted by the pool te the effect that unless boycotts instituted by the tan;oo against two" local breweries were lifted, all members of the union would be discharged. The men strucK ana nave remained out ever since. All, however, left the city excepting Sixty-nine, Tbej?e will be reinstated, and their names will be Stricken from the blacklist The ipen's wages have also been raised, the previous Ttiaxltf urn price beinar now the minimum rate. in relurhJdr this the union has lifted all boy cotts against St Louis breweries. Searching for an Embezzler. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 8. Police Marshal Frey to-day sent out notice to the chiefs of police throughout the oountry giving a descrip tjon of the general appearance of William T. Spureeon. and asking bis detention on the charge of embezzlement Spureeon was bookkeeper and confidential clerk for the firm of Hirst, Purnell & Co., of this city, and bad been in their emply twelve years, until Dec. 21, when be left the city, since which time nothine has been heard from him. The members of the firm are extremely reticent about the affair. It is intimated, however, that Sourgeon's defalcation will amount to nearly $10,000. ProC E. C Smith, fl pedal to tha lodianatolia Journal. Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 8. Prof.- E. E. Smith, who, last Wednesday, shot at and attempted to kill Dr. Geerge F. Beasley, returned from Chicago this morning, and this afternoon, with his faiaily, started for Henderson, &y., where he will make his home. The attending physician reports the Professor's mental condition slightly improved, but ptxyslcally be ta very bad, requiring constant attention. He declines to assign any reason for the shooting, and, in fact, seems ignorant of its occurrence. Killed by a Falling Tree. Special to the Iadlanapolls Journal. Evansville, Ind., Jan. 8, This afternoon, wjille a number of young men were hunting near this city on Humphrey Fickas s farm, a coon was treed, and the party cut the tree. As it fell, Henry Felker, one of the number, was canjrht and pinned to the ground by a limb. His abdomen was 6truck, rupturing the blood vessels and inflicting internal injuries. His left leg was crushed. Felker was carried to the residence of his father-in-law, Mr. Fickas, where he died in twenty minutes. Itaftiness Embarrassments. XJTiCArN. Y., Jan, 8. Daniel J. Cushman, of TJtica; owner of six clotbiDg stores in Utica and Northern Central, has made an assignment to J. I). F. Stone. His liabilities are about $100,000; preferences, about $25, 000. Wilkesbarui, Pa., Jan. a Henry M. Bansen, an extensive dealer in furniture, carpets, and fancy wares, doing business under the name of the Anthracite Bazaar Company, has failed. His rlace was closed by the sheriff to-day. His liabilities and assets are unknown, but are said to be large. Condition of Judge Tburman. Columbus. O.. Jan. 8. The report sent out that Judcre Thurman is seriously ill is without foundation, lie was temporarily indisposed at tbe close of the Jackson banquet this morning, bat with a little rest is all right again. Steamboat Omoers Indicted. New Qrlkaxs, Jan. 8. A special from Bayou Sara to the Times-Democrat says: "The grand jury of the parish of Peinte Coupe have found a true Pill or manslaughter against an me omcers of the burned steamer J. aL YY bite," John Roach Very Weak. NewYokk, Jan. 8. There was no change in the condition of John Roach up to a late hour to-night. He is suffering very' much, and is rery weak. Steamship Newi. Southampton, Jan. 8. Passed: from New York for Havre. LaBretague, Kvxbyoxk should visit The Soap Store, No. 0 Cir.Tonf

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S WIFE.

Incidents of Mrs. Lincoln's RemarkableCondnct Toward Iler Husband. Explainable Onlj Upon the Theory of Her In sanityGen. Badeau Witnesses Explosions of Iler Jealousy of Prominent Ladies Correnpondence of f he Indianapolis Journal. Nkw Yokk, Jan. 8. The account of Lincoln's love-making in his history by Nicolay and Hay, seems almost ominous when read by the light of later knowledge. The anxieties and forebod ings, and absolute agony of the future President, on the eve of marriage the most incredulous might say, presaged the destiny that im pended. For no. one knows the eharaeter of Abraham Lineoln, his god-like patience, his in effable sweetness, his transcendent charity amid all tbe tremendous worries of war and revolution and public affairs, who is ignorant of what he endured of private woe; and no one rightly judges the unfortunate partner of his elevation and unwitting eanse of many of his miseries, who forgets that she had "eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner." Tbe country knows, bnt has preferred to forget the strangeness of Mrs. Lincoln's conduct at intervals, after her ausband's death. M.nyof the most extraordinary incidents in her career were not revealed, out of delicacy to other? and tenderness to one who had been the sharer of Abraham Lincoln's fortunes, and the mother of his family; but enough was apparent to shock and pain the public sense, when finally the conflict with her own son, so highly respected, the dragging of their affairs into a public iocrt, the necessary supervision of the poor lady's finances and restraint of her actions, if not of her person disclosed the fact that her mind had been diseased. This threw a light on circumstances until then inexplicable. It relieved Mrs. Lincoln herself from the charge of heartlessness, of mercenary behavior, ef indifference to her husband's happiness; it approved the action of the son which, in some quarters, had been gravely misunderstood; and above all, it showed the suffering Abraham Lincoln must have endured all through thole years in which he bore the burden of a struggling nation upon his shoulders whether he knew or only feared the truth; or whether he went on calmly in the sad thought that his saddest forebodings before the marriage were fulfilled. Tbe first time that I saw Mrs. Lincoln was when I accompanied Mrs. Grant to the White House, for her first visit there as tbe wife of the general-in-chief. The text that I now recall was in March, 18G4, when Mrs. Lincoln, wit; the President, visited City Point They went on a steamer, escorted by a naval vessel, of which Capt John S. Barnes was in command, and remained for some weeks in the James river under the biuff on which the headquarters were established. Here they slept and usually took their meals, but sometimes both ascended the bil and were entertained at the mess of General Grant . On tbe 2Gth of March a distinguished party from Washington joined them, among whom I remember, especially, Mr. .Geoffroi, the French Minister. It was proposed that an excursion should be made to the front of the Army of the Potomac, about ten or twelve miles away, and Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Grant were of the company. There was a military railroad which took the illustriqus guests a great portion of the way, and then the men were mounted, but Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Lincoln went on in an ambulance, as it was called a soft of half-open car riage with two seats besides that for the driver. I wait detailed to escort them, and of course, sat on the front seat facing the ladies, with my back to the horses. In the course of conversation, I mentioned that all the wives of officers at the army front had been ordered to tbe rear a sure sign that active operations were in contemplation. I said not a lady bad been allowed to remain, except Mrs. Griffin, tbe wife of Gn. Charles Griffin, who bad obtained a special permission from the President At this Mrs. Lincoln was up in arms. "What do you mean bv that, sir?" she exclaimed. "Do you mean to say that she saw the President alone? Do vou know that I never allow the President to see any woman alonef She was absolutely jealous of poor, ugly Abraham Lin coln. I tried to pacify her and to palliate my re mark, but she was fairly boiling over with rage. "That s a very equivocal smile, sir, she ex claimed. "Let me out of this carriage at once. I will ask tbe President ii be saw tbat woman alone." Mrs. Griffin was one of the best-known and most elegant woman in Washington, after wards the Countess .Later hazy, a Carroll, and a personal acquaintance of Mrs. Grant, who strove to molify the excited spouse, but iu vain. Mrs. Lincoln again bade me to stop the driver, and when I hesitated to obey, she thrust her arms past me to the frost of the carriage and held the driver fast But Mrs. Grant finally prevailed on her to wait till the whole party alighted, and then General Meade eame op to pay his respects to the wtfa of the President I had intended to offer Mrs. Lincoln my arm and endeavor to prevent a scene, but Meade, of course, as my superior, had the right to escort her, and I had no chance to warn him. I saw them go off together, and remained in fear and trembling for what might occur in the presence of the foreign minister and other important strangers. Bnt General Meade was very adroit, and, when they returned, Mrs. Lincoln looked at me significantly and said: "Gen. Meade is a gentleman, sir. He says it was not the President who gave Mrs. Griffin the permit, but the Secretary of War." Meade was the son of a diplomatist, and had evidently inherited 6omeof his father's skill. At night, when we were back in camp, Mr?. Grant talked over the matter with me, and said the whole affair was so distressing and mortify ing that we must never either mention it to any one; at least, I was to be absolutely silent, and she would disclose it only to the General. But the next day I was released from my pledge, for worse remained behind. The same party went in the morning to visit the Army of the Jame3,on the north side of the river, commanded by (Jeneral Urd. The ar ratigements were somewhat similar to those of the day before. We went up the river in a steamer, and then tbe men again took horses and Mr?. Lincoln and Mrs. Grant went in an ambu lance. I was detailed, as before, to act as escort but I asked for a companion in the duty; for. after my experience of the previous day, I did not wish to be the only officer in the carriage. So Gen. Horace Porter was ordered to join the party. Mrs. Ord was with her husband; as she was the wile or tne commander or an army, she was not eubjeot to the order for re turn; though before that day was over she wished herself in Washington or anywhere else away from the army, 1 am sure. She was mounted, and, as the ambulance was full, she remained on her horse and rode for a while by Ahe side of the President and ahead of Mrs. Ldncoin. As soon as Mrs. Lincoln discovered this her rage was beyond all bounds. "What does the woman meanV she exclaimed, "by riding by the side of the President, and ahead of me? Does she suppose that he wants her by the side of himV She was in a frenzy of excitement, and language and action both became more extrava gant every moment Airs, urant again endeavored to pacify her, but then Mrs. Lincoln got angry with Mrs. Grant; and all tbat rorter ana i coma ao was to see that nothing worse than words occurred. We feared she might jump out of the vehicle and shoot to the cavalcade. Once she said to Mrs. Grant, in her transports: 'I suppose you think you'll get to the White House yourself, don't youf Mrs. Grant was very calm and dignified, and merely replied that she was quite satisfied with her present position; it wasfar greater than she bad ever expected to attain. Then Mrs. Lincoln exclaimed: "Oh! you had better take it if you can get it 'Tis very nice," Then she re--jf! ;ure,"iVboci " tttra.

tutted to Mrs. Ord, but Mrs. Grant defended her frund at the risk of arousing greater vehemence.

Once when there was a halt Major Seward, a nephew of the Secretary of State, and an ofB-. cer of General Ord's staff, rode up. and. trying to say something jocular, remarked: "The President's horse is very gallant, Mrs. Lincoln; he insists on riding by the Bide of Mrs. Ord." This, of course, added fuel to the flame. "What do you mean by that, sirl" she cried. Seward discovered that he had made a huge mistake, and his horse at once developed a peculiarity that compelled him to ride behind, to get out of the way of the storm. Finally the party arrived at its destination, and Mrs. Ord eame up to the ambulance. Then Mrs. Lincoln positively insulted her. called her vile names in the presence of a crowd of officers, and asked what she meant by following up the President Tbe poor woman burst into tears and inquired what she had done, but Mrs. Lincoln refused to be appeased, and stormed till she was tired. Mrs. Grant still tried to stand by her friend, and everybody was shocked and horrified. But all things come to an end, and after a while we returned to City Point That night the President and Mrs. Lincoln entertained General and Mrs. Grant and the General's staff at dinner on the steamer, and before us all Mrs. Lincoln berated General Ord to the President, and urged that he should be removed. He was unfit for his place, she said. to say nothing of his wife. General Grant sat next, and defended the officer bravely. Of course General Ord was not removed. During all this visit similar scenes were oc curring. Mrs. Ltineoin repeatedly attacked her husband in the presence of officers because of these two ladies, and I never suffered greater humiliation and pain on account of one not a near personal friend than when I saw the head of the state, the man who car ried all the cares of the Nation at such a crisis subjected to this inexpressible public mortification. He bore it as Christ might have done: with an expression of pain and sadness tbat eat one to tbe heart, but with supreme calmness and dignity. He called her mother," with his oldtime plainness; he pleaded with eyes and tones, and endeavored to explain or palliate the of fenses of others, till she turned on him like a tigress; and then he walked away, hiding tbat noble, ugly face that we might not catch the full expression of its misery. General Sherman was a witness of some of these episodes and mentioned them in his memoirs many years ago. Captain Barnes, of the navy, was a witness and a sufferer, too. Barnes bad accompanied airs. Ord on her unfortunate ride and refused afterward to say tbat tbe lady was to blame. Mrs. Lincoln never forgave him. A day or two afterward he went to speak to the President on some official matter when Mrs. Lincoln and several others were present The Presi dent's wife said something to him unusually offensive thatallthecompany could hear. Lincoln was silent but after a moment be went up to the young officer, and taking him by the arm led him into his own cabin, to show him a map or a paper, he said. He made no remark. Barnes told me, upon what had occured. He could not rebuke his wife, but he showed his regret and his regard for the officer with a touch of what seemed to me the most exquisite breeding imaginable. Shortly before these occurrences Mrs. Stanton had visited City Point, and I chanced to ask her some Question about the President's wife. "I do not visit Mrs. Lincoln," was the reply. I thought I must have been mistaken. The wife of the Secretary of War must visit the wife of the President; and 1 renewed my inquiry. "Understand me. sir!'' she repeated: "I do not go to the White House; I do not visit Mrs. Lincoln." I was not intimate with her at the time, nor indeed ever, and this remark was so extraordinary that I never forgot it, but I understood it afterward. Mrs. Lincoln continued her conduct toward Mrs. Grant, who strove to placate her, and then Mrs. Lincoln became more outrageous still She once rebuked Mrs. Grant for sitting in her presence. "How dare you be seated," she said, "until I invite you." Altogether it was a hateful experience at that tremendous crisis in the Nation's history, for all this was just before the army started on its last campaign. But the war ended; and the President and Mrs. Lincolu had returned to Washington when General Grant arrived from Appomattox, bringing Mrs. Grant with him. Two nights afterward both General and Mrs. Grant, and the Secretary of War and Mrs. Stanton, were invited to ac company the President and Mrs. Lincoln to the play. No answer had yet been sent when Mrs. Stanton called on Mrs. urant to inquire if she meant to be of the party. "For," said Mrs. Stanton, "unless you accept the invitation, I shall refuse. 1 will not sit without vou in the box with Mrs. Lincoln." Mrs. Grant also was tired out with what she had endured, and decided not to go to the play, little dreaming of the terrible experience she was thus escaping. She was determined to go that night to Burlington, in New Jersey, where her children were at school, and asked tbe General to accompany her. She sent a note of apology to Mrs. Lincoln, and Mrs. Stanton also declined the invitation. They may both thus have saved their husband's lives. After the murder of the President, the eccentricities of Mrs. Lincoln became more apparent than ever, and people began to wonder whether her mind had not been affected by her terrible misfortuna Mr. Seward told me that she sold the President's shirts, with his initials marked on them, before she left the White House, and that learning the linen was for sale at a6hop in Pennsylvania avenue, he sent and bought it privately. Shs lingered at tbe executive mansion a long while after all arrangements should have been made for her departure, keep-. ing the new i'resinent out of his proper residence. Afterward she made appeals to public men and to the country for pensions and other pecuniary aid, though there was no need for public application. She went abroad, doing strange things and carrying the honored name of Abraham Lincoln into strange and sometimes unfit company, for she was great ly neglected, and felt the neg'ect . W hile I was Consul-general at London, I learned of her living in an obscure quarter, and went to see her. She was touched by the attention, and when I asked her to my nocse, ior it seemed wrong that the widow of the man who had done so much for us all should be ignored by any Amorican representative sne wroiw me a rote or thanks, botraying how rare such courtesies had become to her then. The next I heard of the poor woman was the Bcandal of the courts in Chicago, when the fact was made clear that she was insane. It was a great relief to me to learn it, and doubtless the disclosure of the secret which her son must have long suspected though, Hike the Spartan boy, be cloaked his pain was to him a sort of terri ble satisfaction. It vindicated his conduct; it told for him what he had concealed; it proved him a worthy son of that great father who also bore his fate so heroically. The revelation not only snowed these two as noble sufferers, but redeemed the unfortunate woman herself from the odium for which she was not responsible. The world had known that she seemed to defy and malign her son, that she had appeared to do things tmworthy of the wife or widow of tbe great martyr of our history, bad even seemed to blot the Nation's fame; but the pitiful story or Miramarcasts no reflection on Maximilian's Empress, and the shadow of insanity thrown across the intelligence of Mrs. Lincoln; relieves her from reproach or blame. Instead of afmocking figure, disgracing her name, and station, and country, she too, becomes an object of commiseration, not knowing the purport of her own words or the result of her own deeds, or perhaps vainly struggling to restrain them both, and regretting in her saner intervals the very acts she was at other times unable to control. And Licnoln who that reveres and loves his memory will not respect his character more profoundly, and feel that he has another and a tenderer claim upon our sympathy and honor, since we know that even this cup did not pass from him. Amid the storms of party hate and rebellious strife, amid agonies not irrevererently be it said, li&e those of the cross for he suffered for us the hyssop of domestic misery was pressed to his lips, and he too said: "Father, forgive; they know not what they do." Adam Badkatj. The Wyandotte Train-Wreckers. Wyandotte, Kan., Jan. 8. The trial of George Hamilton, a prominent Knight of Labor, charged with train-wrecking and murder, closed this evening and tbe ease was given to the jury. The general opinion is that the jury will not be able to agree upon a verdict on account of the conflicting character of the testi mony. Hon. Bailey Waggoner spoke for the State in the forenoon, followed by ex-Governor Johnson, of St Louis, for the defense, and Judge Langhlin, of St Louis, closed for the State to-night The court room has been crowded at each session during the argument

THE DEAD MISERS.

Money and Talnable Tapers Found , on the Premises Occupied by Perry and Price. Philadelphia, Jan. 8. A search, to-day, of the house where the two old men, Joseph Perry and Richard Price, were found lying dead yesterday, brought to light a large amount of hidden treasure. Perry was the one who owned all the riches. He retired from a firm of auctioneers several years ago, with independent means, and took Price, who was his cousin, as a companion. He was a close-fisted man, and scarcely allowed himself the necessaries of life. The house, Mo. 1025 Locust street, where the two old men lived, and where they were found yester day lying on the floor dead, is a dilapidated two-story frame structure and ita interior was even more wretched than its outward appearance. Its occupants never held any communication with their neighbors, but the neighbors, on one or two occasions, manifested an interest in them far enough to make complaint to the board of health of their fright ful filth. Both the old men appeared on tbe street clad as beggars, and always looked hair starved, wretehed, drunken and besotted. In an undertaser'a establishment the bodies lay to-day, ghastly in death. Their appearance was revolting, and showed a frighlfnl condition of personal neglect A post-mortem examination was made to-day, and the inquest will be held on Monday. This afternoon the coroner's messenger, with three distant relatives of Perry and a lawyer. began a search of the filthy old house. Tbey began in the second-story front room, and before they had proceeded far on their hunt had un earthed substantial evidences of hidden wealth. Removing a filthy coverlet from the bed, an old dirty piece of paper was found containing bank notes amounting to $137; a small parcel next discovered contained $40 in gold; an old. dirty canvas- hag held $500 in bright gold coin of tbe denominations of $5, $10 and $20; and $170 in bright, new gold eertificates were wrapped in a piece of filthy cloth. Another bed in the room was then searched, and the first thing found was $300 in fifty -dollar gold certificates, wrapped as the other, in eld rags and paper, and stuck under the corner of the mattress. An old rag tied around the bed-post was found to contain $945 in gold pieces. - In addition to the packages cootaining the money, great piles of paper were broucht out in old musty boxes. They contained deeds to property, mortgages, bank-books, insurance policies, ground rents and other valuable documents. The amount of cash found footed up $2,157, and the securities discovered are valued at $76,000. These discoveries bring the total amount up to about $100,000, a large sum having been found yesterday. ' DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN", JnrfiCMtions. Washington, Jan. 9, 1 A. m. Special indications for twenty-four hours from 7 A. M. for Indiana Colder; snow. For Kentucky and Indiana Easterly", shifting to colder northerly winds and snow. For Eastern Michigan and Wisconsin -Fair weather, except snow in the southern portion; easterly, followed by northerly winds; colder. For Western Michigan Colder, fair weather; westerly winds. For Illinois Colder, northerly winds and snow. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Jan. 8.

Time. I Bar. Tber.lHom.lWmd.tWeather R.ain 6 a.m... 30.35 7 88 JTeast Cloudr. 2 P.M... 30.30 14 87 N'eaat Lt. snow 0.02 9 P. H (30.25 16 92 East U.snow 0.02

Maximum turo, 5. temperature, 16; minimum, temoeraGeneral Observations. War Depabtment, ) Washington. Jan. 8. 11:40 p. m. v Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. W p i o B ODg.: o 5 s- 5 : 5 a STATIONS. o 3 St a New York Citv 30.46 17 1 North 15 Kast 4liS'east I Cloudy. Washington City. . . 30.4G, iCiear. Vickaburii. .Miss uU. l.-i Cloudy. New Orleans. La.... 130.13 47S'east tair. .Shreveport. L..... 30.1 33 N west .03 Cloudy. .04 Cloudy. .18 Sleet. Fort Smith, At k . . . . little Rook. Ark... Galveston. Tex 10, West 30.15 80, N west 49; North 32 N west 37 S'east 30.06 Foear. Memphis, Tenn.... Nashville, Tenn.... Louisvill. Ky Indianapolis Ind 30.12 30.14 Thret'ns Ulear. 30.23 30 26 27iN'east 16 East 22 East 19 East 2South .02 Lt snow. Cincinnati, O 30.25 'Lt snow. . j Clear. I Cloudy. .08 Cloudy. ....(Clear. Clear. Pittsburg. Pa Oswego, N. Y. Toledo. O 30.27 30.50 30.35 12 N'east! Kscanaba. Mich.... 30.42' 11 fCahn Maruuette. Mich... 30.38 5 i West Chicago. Ill 3O.30I 13 N'east ....Lt snow. Milwaukee. Wis.-.. 30.31 18 East . ll;Lt snow. Pulnt.h. Minn 30.38 St. Paul. Minn 30.44 8:8 west ....'Clear. ICiear. ....! Cloudy. 13Calm TCrosso. Wis 130.431 3iNorth Davenport, la ;3O.30 8! N'east .10 Lt snow. les Moines, la 30.33j Keokuk. Ia 30.27 Cairo, 111 30.18 Sprinarfield. Ill 130.24 8t- Louis. Mo 130.22 3!N'east 9: N'east .04!Lt snow. .04 Lt snow, 26'North ,02;Lt snow. 16 East. .03 Lt snow. 14! N'east .06; Lt snow. .10;Cloudy. Lamar. Mo 30.32j Leavenworth, Kan. 30.33! Omaha, Neb 30.43 Yankton, Dak 30.42 Moorehead. Minn. . . 30.37 Bismarck. Dak 30.28 Fort Bnford, Dak.. Ft-Assinibolne 'l.T. 6i North 5jNwest! 8iNwest 21! Cloudy

.03 Lt snow. .. Lt snow. ..... Clear. Clear. .....'........ Fair! " Cloud v. Clear.' .01, Clear. .....:Clear. Clear. Clear. ...... Cloudy. Clear. 'Fair. i Clear. .....! Cloudy.

-10 Calm 30! South 25iN'east 15'West ljEast 2, South Fort Custer. M. T-130.39 Dead wood. Dak 30.24 North Platte. Neb.. 30.40 Denver, Col 30.32 12; S west -9 West VVLasAnims. Col. 30.36! Dodge Citv. Kan... 30.44! Fort Elliott, Tex... 30.28 Tort Sill, Ind. T 30.40 Fort Davis, Tex 30.01 El Paso, Tex. 29.94 14: West 7! North 1 Nwest 6iNorth 33 Calm Salt Lake Citv, U. T. 130. 24 191 Cold YTeather in the Northwest Chicago, Jan. 8. A special to the Times from Fort Keogh, M. T., says: "The weather last night was the coldest of the season. The spirit thermometer at the post hospital registered fifty below zero, which is the minimum, bnt it must have been much colder. To-dav, iu the bright sun, it is twenty-one below, with the air frosty ana crisp, and no wind blowing." Sent to Prison for Life, 3peeial ta the Indianavolla Journal. Evansviixb, led., Jan. 8. Lindsey B. Me r.iniey, a young KentucKian, was sentenced m tbe Circuit Court here, to-night, to the penitentiary for life for murder. On Oct 15 McKinley came to Evansville, got on a big . drunk, and then meeting an old Italiau named John Martin in the American House, he grossly insulted him two or three times. McKinley then threatened to kill tbe Italian and on meeting him in the office of the hotel, later in the ofternoon. shot "him down iu cold blood. McKinley's counsel endeavored to estabnsn me iact mat tne young man was insane, but it did not have much effect with the jury. McKinley comes of a prominent Henderson county, Kentucky, family, who did all in their power to save biuo, but without avail. . Death of America' First Brewer. New York, Jan. 8. Ferdinand Gentner, who is said to have been the first man to brew lager beer in America, forty years ago, died at College romt, Y., to-day, aged sixtv-eight. He was a native of Bavaria, and a practical brewer. Mr. Gentner started numerous beer breweries in different cities in this cour.trv. Death from Prolonged Fastlnjr. Louisville, Jan. 8. Mary Harlan, a wellknown woman of the town, . ended a forty-two days' fast at the City Hospital this morning by dying. Five years ago she was a well-kncwn milliner, and did a good business. About two months ago she found herself recovering from a bigspreeatthe work-house. She positively refused to partake of any food, and after fourteen days

of fasting the work house officials sent her to the hospital. There it was tbe same way she refused to eat or talk, and it was believed her reason was dethroned. Last sight she beckoned the nurse to her bedside. In low tones she told her sad history, and said nobody would have cause to regret her death, as she had not a relative in the world. She furthermore stated that she had starved herself to death.

TENNYSON'S EARLY LOVE. The Original of "Maud" and the Heroine of "Locksloy Hall." Those who are familiar with the story of Alfred Tennyson's life (the new name does not suit him so well as the old) will smile on reading his latest work, "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," over the spirit of self-deception which rnns throughout the verses. To the world "Maud" and "Locksley Hall" are beautiful poems only. A few know that they are something more than poems of the imagination they are heart records. In the sequel to "Locksley Hall," just published, the poet tells bis grandson tbat he could never have loved a worldling like Judith, who has played such sad havoc with the susceptible youth's feelings, but this is precisely what he did. When Alfred Tennyson was a promising young poet, crowned with Oxford's academic laurels, he wooed his first cousin, the story of which wooing he afterward wove into beautiful verse and gave to the worid. Another suitor, the wealthy heir to the earldom of Boyne, however, appeared on the 6cene and the fair Amy. afterward so liberally adjectived as "false and servile," became a peeress. Lord Boyne, who is the owner ot large estates and valuable coal mines in the county of Durham, the heart of the northern coal fields of England, freely extended his hospitality to his brides cousin at Brancepeth Castle, a modern but imposing mansion. The poet repaid the kindness by satirizing the good-natured peer, his brand-new title and his recently-acquired wealth most mercilesslv in "Maud" and "Locksley Hail." Independent of his wife's very natural indignation. Lord Boyne was not gratified to find his beautiful home described by a recent guest as a "gewgaw" castle, or at having the world informed in verse, however harmonious. that his wealth had come from the sweat of miners; neither did he enjoy the thought tbat the tongues of the world were wagging over the story of his money having bought him a wife who preferred another lover. It is possible, too, he failed to see the beauty of those Rembrandtlike touches wherein he is described as a clown and drunken. It might be beautiful poetry, tbe outraged host urged, but it was not good taste, and it was not true.' His lordship is certainly one of the most commonplace and uninteresting of peers or of commoners, but he is neither coarse nor drunken, and Brancepeth Castle, with its shivering larches, knew Tennyson no more. Mr. Tennyson's wounds healed like those of many another lovesick swain whose limited fac ulty of expression could not lead him into such betrayal of the lares and penates; but popular as he is an a poet, he has never gone to the hearts of the English people. In his early days he was radical to the core, and his verses overflowed with the best instincts of humanity. Time has brought him wealth and he has accepted a peer age, from whicn it is safe to assume tbat be no longer feels that contempt for new titles which he did in the days when he lampooned his successful rival. In reading his latest production one is reminded of a famous mot. applied by a wit to an overpraised nobleman: "I heard you were a lord among wits, but I find you are only a wit among lords. Alfred Tennyson was once a lord among poets, his new volume has proved him meroly a poet among lords. "TECUMSEU'S" TEETH. The Part They Played in the First Discov ery of Gold in California. Washington Critic. General Sherman, in a conversation with some friends at Chamberlin's a few evenings since, referred to this important historical event so pregnant with results affecting the whole world -rnbstantially as follows: 'XJaptam butter brougbt into Ueneral Masons otnee several small packages of samples and spread them out before us. The specimens presented varied in size from fish scales and split peas up to the size of beans. General Mason asked if I knew bow to test whether this stuff was gold or not I said cer tainly, and immediately tried my teeth on a lump and made an indentation which impressed me that it wa3 malleable. I then sent out for hammer ana an ax and pounded several pieces out fiat This was a crude but practical test, but we then applied acids, which verified tbe fact that the samples were genuine gold. "I was at once sent up to the diggings, and made a thorough examination of the gold discoveries which were rapidlv bMne found in new lo calities and in wonderful amounts. I returned to Monterey with a quantity of specimen sam ples, and drew up the official report to the government, which was signed by General Mason. This report, accompanied with a quantity of samples of gold, was forwarded by a special bearer of dispatches, who was no other than Henry D. Cooke, recently the first Governor of this mstrict or Columbia, lie was sent oil in a small sailing vessel, with instructions to inter cept a British steamer on the southern coast and make rapid transit to Washington, regardless of expense. "We had not then been advised of the ratifica tions of the treaty with Mexico ceding California to the United States, and were necessarily very anxious that tbe government should possess in formation of the discovery of gold at the earliest moment" Thus, less than forty years ago, "Old Tecumseh's" teeth made tbe first official impress, put the first government stamp of value on to the subsequent thousands of millions of gold derived from tbe mines of this modern land of Ophir. And it is a fair presumption that more than half of the 60,000,000 inhabitants of this Republic who are enjoying its wonderful prosperity, resulting largely from the discovery of gold in California, have' been born since General Sherman indented the first gold specimen with his teeth. How to Prevent a Cold. Medical Record. w- T- "I . - . - . 1 T"v tunaer tnis tiue ur. urown-cequara malces a contribution to the Societe de Biologic, which will be read with interest. Everybody catches cold more or les,s often, and nobody wishes to do so; hence Brown-bequard's "method' ought to be popular. Under the name of a "cold" are included a number of acute catarrhal inflamma tions affecting the nasal, pharyngeal, laryngeal, tracheal, or bronchial mucous membrane. In this country we even apply the terms to acute affections of the middle ear, the eye, the stomach, intestines, or bladder. The cause of these so-called "colds" is the influence of cold, damp air upon sensitive portions of the body, producing thereby a disturbance ot the vascular equilib rium. The result is a congestion which settles down, perhaps witn the help of rmerobes,as the late Dr. Austin Mint believed, into an inflamma tion. The most sensitive parts ot the skin, according to Dr. Brown-Sea uard, the cartarrhal genetic areas, are the neck and the feet In order to prevent "colds," therefore, one has only to harden these areas and destroy theif sensitiveness, 'ibis is done by daily blowing a stream or cool air, by means of an elastic bag, upon tbe neck, and by immersing the feet in cool water. The air is at first only slightly cool. but is each day made colder, until the neck can stand an arctic blast with impunity. The feet are immersed in water which is at first at a tem perature ot about U0J Fah., and this is gradually reuaceu to o r an. T" T Ct 1 i m . jyr. larown-csequaras metnoa is only a more rigid and elaborate form of a very well-known practice, viz., that or aaily bathing in cool water. is win, no aouot, do useiui it the person is not ageaor weae. &ucq methods, however, seem &tter a time to lose their efficacy. A Georgia Railroad Editor. Atlanta Constitution. Perhaps you know Jim Skinnerl RTrlrminr ia known to more people than any other newspaper "mi iu vwoTgia. come time ago a slight accident occurred on a well-known railroad. . Skin ner heard of it He went to one of the managers of the railroad and asked for the details. He didn't get 'em. He tried other sources, bnt he didn't increase his information. He tried the telegraph operators. Like faithful servants of a close corporation, they put themselves in the attitude of oysters and refused to . .1 : i ci.: . luuir vaivfu. o&inner new into a passion and went to bis office. This is what tinner wrote: "Another Railroad Horror Terrible Accident on the Blank ity Blank Libel! Great Loss of Life and Property!!! Yesterday at 6 o'clock a terrible accident oeenrrad am th Blankity Blank railroad, sixty miles from tho

city. Two passenger trains, running at sixty five miles an hour, collided, through tbe carelessness of incompetent officials. Tbe wreck was indescribable. Up to midnight the frag roenis of two hundred dead bodies had been re covered. Full details tn to-morrow's issue. You can gamble on it when the managers of ; that railroad read what Skinner had written there was consternation among them. They -waited ou the managing editor in a body, "Say," shouted the spokesman, "your mendacious reporter has played the ! The accident on our road yesterday amounted to nothing A single freight car was derailed, and that's all of it! Discharge your mendacious reporter, or we'll stop taking your paper!" I don't know how the irate managers were appeased, but Skinner wasn't discharged. The fact is. I don't think the slightest attempt to appease the-irate managers was made, because the managing editor was a sensible follow, and knew he had a good thing in. Skinner. The Farmer Who Learns. Farmers Review. The man who prides himself on never changing his views, on holding to the same opinions he did a quarter of a century ago, shows that be has learned nothing in all that time, and is ; proud of the fact The farmer whose methods of eulture of the soil and the breeding and feeding of animals are the same now a years ago shows that he belongs to this stand-still, learnnothing,, unprogressive class. Not that new ideas and methods are necessarily good because tbey are new, and better than old because thelatter are o'ld. But the law in nature is a law of progression, and if we would keep pace with, the times we must make progress. Progress, improvement and new discoveries, when, we come down to actual facts, consist only in a better understanding of natural laws and adapting our methods to harmonize with them. The successful breeder is be who best understands the natural law in relation to breeding by which the good qualities become fixed and the bad are eliminated; so of the successful feeder. He only applies the natural laws of nutrition to the supplying of his animals with food suited to the object he basin view, whether meat, milk or physical growth. None of these laws are as yet perfectly understood, and so there will always be much to' learn, and the man whose mind is open to the truth will find as each new year comes round that his views in many respects have been modified in the year past If be does not he may as well question whether he has beenliving worthily and profitably.

Died from Grief Caused by Disgrace Louis Johnson, who was indicted three month ago, and who has since been in jail and in the City Hospital awaiting; trial, died at the hospital yesterday, the physicians say, from grief, Johnson became the bondsman of J. J. Stein. the vagrant minister, and in doing st made oath that he was the possessor of real estate. It afterwards developed that he had none whatever, and he was indicted for perjury. He had never before been under arrest, and broke down soon after being -taken to jail, and had to be transferred to the ; hospital H recovered some, ana Was returned to jail, but three weeks ago had to be taken back to the hospital. He formerly lived in Chi. cago, and moved to this city jnst prior to his arrast He leaves a wife and five children, amongthem two grown daughters. Fire in a Drue Store. The night clerk in Hendricks's drug store, eor ner of uelaware and Washington streets, baQ just gone to bed in the rear room last night when he smelled tmoke, and getting up he found the floor of the store-room blazing,, having ignited from eoals that fell out of the stove. He turned in a still alarm, and tbe chemical soon extia guished the fixe. The loss was BmalL Tried to Wreck a Restaurant Lou Hinkley went into Thomas King's restaur ant, No. 315 East Washington street, last night, and quarreled withthe prorpietor, who ejected him from the room. On the outside, Hinkley pulled down the sign, and smashed the plateglass window. The police happened along about that time, and arrested him for malicious trespass.' ' ' "' . ., A G. A. R. Poet's Change of Nam. At a meeting of Geo. H. Chapman Post, G. A. R., last night, it was voted unanimously to change the name of the post to that of John A, Logan, and Thos. J. Sharp and Geo. B. Cooley were appointed by the post to attend the funeral of General Logan. , : ' At the meeting of the Central Labor Union to-morrow evening Lucius B. Swift will deliver an address, presenting the objects of the Indiana Civil-6ervice Reform Association and their relation to labor reform. ' It is not best to utilize trees as supports for grape vines. Not only does the vine completely shade the tree, but it becomes difficult to gather the grapes, while pruning ia almost impossible. Soap at all prices at Tbe Soap Store, No. 6 Circle. . A Common Cold Is often tho beginning of serious affections of the Throat, Bronchial Tubes, and Lungs. Therefore, the importance of early and effective treatment cannot be overestimated. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral may always be relied upon for tho speedy cure of a Cold or Cough. Last January I was attacked with ft severe Cold, which, by neglect and frequent exposures, became worse, finally settling on my lungs. A terrible cough soon followed, accompanied by pains in the chest, from which I suffered intensely. After trying various remedies, without obtaining relief, I commenced taking Ayer's Chexty Pectoral, and was . Speedily Cured. I am satisfied that this remedy saved my life. Jno. Webster, Pawtucket, H. L I contracted a severe cold, vrbJd suddenly developed into PnetratoniA, presenting dangerous and obstinate symptoms. My physician ordered th use of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. His instructions were followed, and the result was a rapid and permanent cure.H. B. Stimpson, Itogeis Prairie, Tex. Two years ago I suffered from a severe Cold, which settled on my Lungs. I consulted various physicians, and took tho " medicines they prescribed, but received only temporary relief. A friend induced me to try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. After taking two bottles of this medicine I was cured. Since then I have given the Pectoral to my children, and consider it The Best Remedy r for Colds, Coughs, and all Throat and Lung diseases, ever used in my family. f-Eobert Vanderpool, Meadvillo, Pa. r Some time ago I took a slight CoitU which, being neglected, grew worso, and settled on my Lungs. I had a hacking cough, and was very weak. Those who knew me best considered my life to bo in great danger. I continued to suffer until I commenced using Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Less than one bottle of this valuable medicine cured me, and I feel that I owe the preservation of my life to its curative powers. Mrs. Ana Lockwood, Akron, New York. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is considered, here, the one great remedy for all diseases of the throat and lungs, .and is more in demand than any other medicine ot its class. J. P. Roberts, Magnolia, Ark. 1 1 Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, j Prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Geld by all PrugKlsU. Price ti j. bottle fc

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