Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1889.

in set on and Montana to Justice Field's, the Ninth. Until last night, the name of Washington was changed in the bill to Taconia, but it was then stricken out.

Joy in Dakota. St. Paul, Feb. 20. The news from Washington to-day has been received with considerable excitement throughout the Northwest, the first thingdone being of a regular Fourth-of-July style. Iluron, which has been chosen as the capital of South Dakota, fired forty guns, brought out colored lights, and to-night is painting the town a bright carmine. When the news reached the Legislature, in session at Bitnarck, some joyful member started up the Doxology and every one joined in with all the lung power he had. From other parts of the Dakotas come similar reports, the joy of the people being boundless and being shown in various ways. . THE TODACCO TAX. General Belief that the BUI Will Not Be Allowed to Come Up for Consideration, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Feb. 20. Your correspondent to-day asked Judge Kelleyif he thought there vas any probability of the passage of the bill to repeal the tobacco tax at this session of Congress. 'There is only a possibility, and not a probability," he said; "if Speaker Carlisle should recognize some one to move the repeal under a suspension of the rules, which would be in order at any time during the last six days of the session, I think there would be a sufficient number of .votes to make the necessary two-thirds majority; but I do not think the Speaker will recognize any one for the purpose. lie is pledged against it." "But, if he should, would any of the Democrats filibuster to prevent consideration of the billf" "It would be a most extraordinary spectacle if they didn't." I asked the same question of Representative Cannon. He said: 'No; I do not think that Carlisle will recognize anybody for that purpose. He has refnsed to do so many times, and I think he willcontinue to refuse until the end of the session. He considers himself the representative of his party, and as bound to carry out their will. ne believes that the great majority of the Democrats on the floor, which is probably true, is opposed to the reduction of the revenue by the repeal of the tobacco tax, and, therefore, he can best serve their interests and comply with their wishes by refusing to recognize anyone to make a motion for that purpose; but even if he should do bo, the bill would be beaten by filibustering." Representative Steele, of Indiana, who is an intimate friend of Speaker Carlisle, and lives in the same house with him, said about the same thing, although he was not quite so emphatic as Mr. Cannon. Major Steele says that if a certain number of Democrats should express a desire to vote upon the repeal of the tobacco tax, he thinks 3Ir. Carlisle would give them an opportunity. THE CABINET SLATE. Washington People Think that One or Two Changes May Be Made. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Feb. 20. The Cabinet slate given in these dispatches day before yesterday continues to stand the test of public opinion at the national capital, notwithstanding the changes made by the reports from Indianapolis. Although both gentlemen are held in high esteem here, it is not generally believed that either Representative Thomas or W H. II. Miller will be in the Cabinet. Senator Palmer, of Michigan, is given either the Secretaryship of Agriculture or the Navy. He is wealthy, has a splendid home here, where he can do much toward making the social end of the administration a success, and he is both capable anu popular. Since Gen. Alger is out. Palmer stands prominently to the front, in the minds of Washington people. Mrs. Noble, of St Louis, is here house-hunting, and it is stated by ber hnsband's most intimate friends that he will be Secretary of the Interior. There can be no longer doubt about Mr. Windom being Secretary of the Treasury. In response to an invitation to dine with friends in Washington he has pent regrets that he is busy closing up his business affairs in New York that he is not able to give a moment's time to pleasure. So far as opinion in Congress and private circles goes, the slate continues to stand to-night as follows: Blaine. Secretary of State; "Windom, Treasury; Rusk, Wan Noble, Interior; Wanamaker, Postmaster-general; Baxter, Attorney-general; Palmer, Navy or Agriculture; W arner Miller, ditto, ditto. It is stated that efforts are being, made to have Warner Miller reconsider his refusal of the Department of Agriculture, and that if he will not do so, to have him accept the Navy. It is believed that the name of Switt, of California, may be substituted for that of liaxter, of iennessee. THE PENSION" OFFICE. Contrast Between Campaign Activity and . the Present Condition of Affairs. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, J-'eb. 20.The Pension Office has practically suspended the issuance of pensions. It was announced today by the Commissioner that no more lista of pensions would be given to the rress. The chief of the division explained that this was because very few pensions have been issued during the past three or four weeks, and that the issuance has almost completely ceased for the present. The Commissioner does not want a public com parison between the work of tho Pension Office now and that of eight or ten months ago. It will be remembered that during ine campaign ana ior tnreo or four months before the election there were issued six davs in the week, at the Pension Office for tho press. lists oi pensions allowed, and that thev ran away up in the hundreds, and sometimes there were a thousand issued in a dav. Pensions were poured out by wholesale. During the campaign there were about eight thousand issued for Indiana alone. The Demo cratic and wuewumD nress nomted to this with great prido, anu. declared that the soldiers had better mends in this adminis tration than they ever had. When the polls were closed and it was discovered that Mr. Cleveland was defeated, tho ardor, in favor of the soldiers, their widows and orphans cooled at tho Fension vince. uuin mree weeKS me number of pensions allowed had decrersed. until there were not as many granted ;n a week as had been granted in a day a month beiore. mere navo not been as many granted duriug the past two months as there were allowed in a day during tho neat of the campaign. Ine soldiers can now Bee wuo ineir menus are ana were. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. Interesting Figures from a Report Prepared by the Commissioner of Ibor. Washington. Feb. 20. Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, has submitted to Congress his special report on the statistics of the laws relating to marriago and di vorce in the United States from 1S67 to 1SS6, inclusive. The statistics of marriage in this report cover only Co per cent of all the counties in the country. The reason of this Incompleteness is that the counties not reported have no records. The statistics relating to divorce are very complete, and sover over 06 per cent, of all the counties in the country and more than US per cent, of the population. The whole number of di vorces granted in the United States courts is given by years as follows: In 1S67, 9,037; 10.150: 1SC9. 10,92): 1S70. 10.W2; 1871. 11,157J, 12,090; 187U, 13.1M; 1874. 13.9S9; li75, 14.212: 1876, 14.KJ0; 1S77. 15,687; 1878. 16,09; 1879, 17.083; 18o0, 111,003: 18S1, J0.702; 18:2, 22,15SJ, 23,195; 1W, 22.V94; 23,4?-; Total for tne twenty years. 323,716. The renort shows that in live States ami the Ibtrict of Columbia the number of xnarristfes can be obtained with practical completeness. 1 ho btates are Connecticut, Massachusetts. Ohio, IUiode Island and Vermont. The number of marriages celeiTitcd ia each during the twenty years

covered by the report, so far as returned, is as follows: Connecticut, 96,737; District of Columbia, JVt.Oto; Massachusetts. 308.105; Ohio, 544.562; Khode Island, 49,503; Vermont, 54,913. The statistics of marriages are fairly perfect in several other States, although nut twenty-two States have State registration of marriages. Dnring the last hve-vear period of tho twenty years the States of Connecticut, Maine and Vermont are .the only ones showing a decrease in their divorce movement. Dakota shows the largest increase during tho last five-year period. Of the 338,716 divorces granted in tho United States for the twenty years covered by the report, 216,738, or 05 percent of the whole, were granted to wives, and 111,983 were granted to husbands. The causes in which wives are the petitioners more larpely than husbands, are cruelty, where the wife seeks divorce, as seven to one; in desertion, where the proportion is over one and one-half to one; in drunkenness, it is nine to one. The husband is shown to have sought divorce for the adultery of the wife in 38,155 cases, while the wife has obtained a divorce in 28,480 cases for adultery of the husband. The cause for which the greatest number of divorces were granted is that of desertion, being 126,557, or 38 per cent, of the whole number. The Commissioner says it is apparent that the divorces granted fordrunkenness, tho total being 13,843, cannot, in any 6ense of the word, represent the total number in which drunkenness or intemperance is a serious factor. This number is only 4 per cent, of the total number of divorces, while in a few representative counties, where investigation was carried on outside of alleged causes, it is shown that intemerance was a direct or indirect cause in over 20 per cent, of the whole number of divorces granted in such counties. MINOR MATTERS.

Beginning: of the Celebration of the Centennial of Georgetown University. Washington, Feb. 20. The centennial celebration of Georgetown (Jesuit) Univers ity, for which arrangements have been in preparation for many weeks, began this morning. All day yesterday and this morning archbishops, bishops and priests were arriving at the university from almost every State in the Union. The university buildings wero elaborately and tastefully decorated with flowers, flags and banners bearing appropriate legends. At 9 o'clock a procession composed of the various bodies of clergy, students, cadets and alumni was formed and marched to the Trinty Church, i , . . . , wnere ponuucai mass was ceieoraiea Dy Cardinal Ui boons, lhe UardinaL the arch bishops and the bishops all wore their richX. a .1 1 1 M1f - m a 1 esi costumes, ana xne oniiiancy oi tne attire, the gray uniform of the cadets, the Itriests with their white cassocks over their ong black robes, tho students and the alumni all wearing medals commemorative of the occasion, all combined to present a picture rarely witnessed. Father Healy. an ex-president of the university, delivered the centennial sermon, in which he re viewed the history of the universitv from its establishment bv John Carroll, one hundred years ago, to the present day. The evening programme included an address by the chancellor. Rev. E. II. Welch, S. J., and the awarding of degrees. States Must Regulate Gambling In "Futures. Washington, Feb. 20. During the last session of Congress bills were introduced in the House to punish dealing in "futures'' in agricultural products, and "to prohibit fictitious and gambling transactions in prices of articles produced by American farm industry. Tho bills were referred to the committee on agriculture, who took tne subject under consideration, and beard arguments In support of the bills. To-day the committee took up the matter for disposition and decided to report both bills adversely, and authorized the appointment of a 6ub-committee to draw up a report to that effect. The committee investigated the matter thoroughly and arrived at the conclusion that Congress has no jurisdic tion over this subject; that the limitations imposed by the Constitution mako it improper for Congress to pass the measures proposed, and that it is a matter for State legislation exclusively. Falrchild's Secret Order, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Feb, 20. T. F.Eyan, of In dianapolis, is hero looking after our seal interests. lie would like very much that the "secret order" issued by Secretary Fairchild to Captain Shephard, of the revenue cutter Hush, last spring, permitting a general slaughter of seals by anything flying the English flag, might reach the publio eye. The latest facts of this disgraceful f iece of business are that tho Secretary of he Treasury decided to have a free-for-all hunt for seals in Behring 6ea for English vessels. Tho order was dispatched to Ottawa, Canada, and thence to Victoria, B. C. Mr. Kyan thinks that when the "mudsills" or societv are nunished for minor offenses, it is about timo that men holding high official pusmons should be made to show if their hands are clean. Dr. D. W. Bliss Dying. Washington, Feb. 20. Dr. D. W. Bliss, one of tho physicians who attended Presi dent Garfield, is lying dangerously ill at his residence in this city, and is not ex1 1 a. - I 1 A. -T 1 pecieu to survive me nigni. xie nas Deen in uan. neann ior many monins, ana last evenincr his condition was aggravated bv an attack of paralysis followed by cerebral hemorrhage. General Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Feb. 20. M. M. Thompson, of Fort Wayne, is at the Howard Ilouse. Harry A. Orth, late of Lafayette, who was recently married in Boston, and has located here, has bought of Lizzie F. Anderson, for $7,000, a lot located on Q street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets northwest. It is in a fashionable quarter of the city, and is a good location. ine secretary oi &iate was to-day informed that a supplementary treaty of com merce, amity and navigation, between tho United States and Japan, nad been signed in Japan. Lieut. Landon 1. Jouett was to-day dismissed from the navy with one year's pay. The acting Secretary ot the Treasury ac cented the following bonds: Registered four-and-a-halfs, $512,300 at $1.09 1-8; $1,000 at $1.09. Mr. Phelns. United States minister to En eland, called at tne White House to-day. . i f ill. At f- t J, 1 ami nau an interview wiin tne rresiaent. The President's reception this afternoon was attended by over 300 persons, mostly , it. i..f...i ii .r j . r lauies. lie iookcu w en auu seemeu m excellent spirits. ine l'resident nas signed tne xuearaguan canal bill. A Fraudulent Failure. V Oscoda, Mich.. Feb. 20. R. Solomon, of Au Sable, a dealer in dry goods, boots and. shoes, etc., failed last November with heavy liabilities and assets considerably short of the amount creditors thought ought to have been available. Soon after the failure a stock of iroods valued at b 7.000 was seized. near Escauaba, and later goods to the value of several thousand dollars were cantured in a barn in this city, all said to be a part of the holomon stock. JLnst weeK a raid was made on the National Hotel block, and twelve thousand dollars' worth of iroods were found. They are also said to have been secreted by Solomon. Last night otticers entered Solomon's residence, at Au Sable, with a writ of attachment, and in the atic found dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes valued at nearly $15,000. Mysterious Disappearances Explained. St. Louis, Feb. 20. Advices from San Saba countv, Texas, say that W. I. Smith, a citizen of that county, mysteriously disappeared last week, and a large party, Kconred the country in search of him. On Monday thev found a placo where he had been hanged. The rope and Smith's gun, watch and other personal ell'ects were found, but the body hau been removed. The party, also found tne body of Asa Brown hanging from a tree not far'from where Smith had; been strung up. He had been robbed of, money, but his enn and cartridges wero lound near by. lirowii was a neignoor or Smith's and a brother of M. J. Brown, exsheriff of Leo county. Who committed the double crime is not known, and great excitement exists among the people. Public Aid to a Ga Company, Special to tb Indianapolis Journal. Gukenvillk, O., Feb. 20. The vote to-day on the question of issuing $130,000 bonds to pipe natural gas twenty miles to Greenville resulted. OM for and 13 against it.

INDIANA AJfD ILLINOIS NEWS

The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of Various Kinds in the Two States. A Child Supposed to Be Dying from Hydrophobia Blood roisoning An Aged Pensioner's Death Insult Fatally Resented. INDIANA. An Alleged Case or Hydrophobia 3Iad Dog Scare at Danville. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. IIuxtingburg, Feb. 20. People near Hillam, Dubois county, are excited on account of mad dogs running at large. A child of John Kemp was bitten on Friday by a dog supposed to have hydrophobia. Last night the child was seized with convulsions, and its death is but a question of a few hours. DaxvIlle, Feb. 20. A growling, snarling dog, foaming at the mouth, made its appearance on the streets this morning. The town marshal was notified, and in a few minutes the cry of "mad dog" was up, and a score of people were quickly in pursuit with guns. Sistols and cudgels. Tho hunted animal ed before the howling mob, evidently more frightened than mad, and was killed afteracnase lasting half an hour. Some assert that the dog showed no real symp toms of hydrophobia, but the town marsnai and an old physician who saw him before the chase began, positively state that ho was mad. Several docs are said to havo been bitten by him, and a general alarm has spread over the town. A demand for muzzles, guns and rough-on-rats has already becun. Tho dogs said to havo been bitten will be closely watched. i Deaths In the State. Brookville, Feb. 20. Aaron B. Line, president of the City Council, died suddenly last evening. He was eighty-two years of age. Tekre Haute, Feb. 20. Mrs. Anna V. Lakin, grand matron of the Order of tho Eastern Star, of Indiana, died yesterday of pneumonia. . Richmond. Feb. 20. Mrs. Mary J. Quinn, widow of Rev. Wm. Paul Quinn, one of the first bishops pf the A. M. E. Church, died on Monday and was buried to-day. Seymour, Feb. 20. Frank L. Sawyer, member of the firm of Sawyer & Stanheld, of this city, died at the residence of his mother, at Orange, Mass., this morning, of creeping paralysis. CitAWFORDSviLLE, Feb. 20. Adam Marks, who has resided in Coal Creek township, Montgomerv county, sinco 1838, died on Tuesday. He was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1801. Narrow Escape ol a Passenger Train. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, Feb. 20. The Big Four passenger tram, due here at 1:30 a. m., had an almost miraculous escape from a horrible accident. The grade on tho west side of the Wabash river is pretty steep and the track curves considerably. The passenger train was on time, and as it emerged from the west side cut the engineer noticed that a long freight train was on the track directly ahead of him. He applied the airbrakes and succeeded in bringing his train almost under control before his engine struck the caboose of the freight. The caboose was "thrown from tho track, immediately took fire and wasburned,. The men In tho caboose succeeded in jumping off and all escaped injury. The collision occurred on a trestle that is eighteen to twenty feet high. Pensioner Found Dead in an Orchard. Special to the Indianapolis JournalGreensburg, Feb. 20. Joseph Sextine, whose homo was about three mile&east of "Vc3tport, Decatur county, was fonjnd dead near there last evening. He had started from home about 2 o'clock to go Jo Westport, after which nothing was seciuof him until the school children on their way homo saw him lying deadina neighbor's orchard Deceased was fieventv-five vcars old and a. member of the Fifty-secona Kegiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was a pensioner, and had, when found, $187.31 in his pockets, although he had long been known as an inveterate beggar throughout tho county. Dying from Blood Poisoning. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Wabash, Feb. 20. A very peculiar accident , happened a few days ago to Juel Milan, a prominent Dunkard and pioneer, residing seven miles north of the city, which will result fatally. "Mr. Milan was engaged in butchering r. hog, when two lingers of his left hand were scratched by a bono in the animal. In a few days symptoms of blood poisoning appeared, and his hand and arm are now in a frightful condition. He cannot recover. Mr. Milan is seventy-four years old. Fires in Bartholomew County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Columbus, Feb. 20. The residence of William jPittman, a few miles west of this city, was destroyed by tire last night, together with its con tents. The loss is about SS00; insured for S300 in the Northwestern. of England. A brick school-house in Harrison township was destroyed by an incendiary tire at an early hour this morning. None of tho contents were saved. Loss about $900; insured for $400 in the Continental, of New York. Suing a Defunct Hallway. Special to the Indiananolls Journal. Columbus, Feb. 20. The law firm of Hord & Ewing, of this city, to-day entered suit, in the Circuit Court of this county, against tho St. Louis & Cincinnati Railroad Company, which is now a defunct enterprise, for $7,000, in payment for services alleged to have been performed in procuring an appropriation of So3,000 to aid in the construction of the roaa. The individual defendants in the 6uit are William H. Alley and P. H. Blue, of Sullivan, Ind. Triplets Aggregating Eighteen Pounds. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Salem, Feb. 20. Mrs. Stephenson, tho wife of a young attorney of this place, yesterday gave birth to well-developed triplets, weighing five, six and seven pounds. The smallest one died a few hours after birth, but tho other two, a boy and girl, aio doing well, as is their mother. Fatal Blow with a Monkey-Wrench. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. r Huntington, Feb. 20. At Mentor, ten miles east of here, Thomas Seals struck Alvin Sherman with a monkey-wrench, inllicting fatal wounds. Seals claims that Sherman insulted his girl. Seals has disappeared. Sllnor Notes. The Terro Haute Rifles want to join tho State militia. Black measles of a malignant typo havo made their appearance in Jefferson township, Morgan county. Col. Martin Adams, one of the best known citizens of Clark county, is fatally in. lie nas resiaeu mere since iouo. Wm. Riggs, of Bennettsville, went to sleep on the railroad track near Sellersburg. Tuesday night, and was run oyer and killed. John Booker, a farmer living near Columbus, has been arrested upon the charge of selling cancer-jawed dressed beef to butchers of Franklin. Clark county boasts of an aged negro named Walter Evans, living near Memphis, who has been married three times ami is the father of thirty-eight children. Sister Ann, of St. Mary's Academy, Michigan City, aged seventy-three, recently fell froin a chair, and received injuries that may prove fatal to her on account of her age. Wabash is having an epidemic of diphtherial croup that is proving fatal in every ra6e. Forty-eight children nave died, ami the physicians seem unable to arrest the progress of the disease. The following are the now officers of the colored literary society at Crawfordsville: President. L. R. Monroe; vice-president, John Jordan; secretary, C. A. Tracer: assistant secretary, Miss Parthenia Woodf ork;

corresponding secretary. Miss Kitty Woodfork: treasurer, Miss Bessie Williams; critic, Willie Garr. Medaryville is elated over the discovery of natural gas on a farm near that place. The well is only fifty feet deep, but the pressure is so 6trong that 6tones are hurled in the air, while the llames, when the gas is ignited, shoot up thirty feet . Tho family of Allen Everhart, of Seymour, partook of a hearty supper on Tuesday evening, and were immediately taken violently sick, with symptoms of arsenical poisoning. Medical assistance relieved all but Mrs. Everhart "who may not recover. The trouble is attributed to eating potatoes, the vines of which had been spainklecl with Paris green while growing. Miss Annie Zinck. residing near Memphis, while talking to a number of friends, a few days since, tnoughtlesslv placed a cockle burr in her mouth, and, while laughing, swallowed it. It lodged in her throat, and came near choking her to death. She was placed in a carriage and taken to Charlestown, where the obstruction was removed by a surgical operation of the most delicate kind. The K. of P. celebration at Washington and Salem wero notable affairs. At the former place 800 guests attended a banquet, and speeches were made by Mr. A. C. Barber, Rev. James Oraelvena, Col. N. H. Jepson and Capt. H. H. Hyatt. At Salem the Knights held an entertainment in the Methodist Church, whicn was largely attended. Choice music and an address by Rev. A. R. Julian, of New Albany, presiding elder of the district, contributed to tho success of the evening. Celebrations were also held at Columbus, Greensburg, Covington

anu otner places. ILLINOIS. A Woman Preacher Successful Revival Work at Martinsville. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Marshall, Feb. 10. A successful revival has been in progress at tho Church of God in Martinsville, during the past two weeks, under the charge of the pastor, Rev. Miss Mary Berkstresser, who has tilled the pulpit there for several years past. The total number of conversions tc date is nineteen, and the accessions to the church number thirty-one. The meeting closes this week. Brief Mention. Tuesday morning Melvin Beall was found frozen to death near Warrensburg. Robert G.Smith, a stock-dealer of Galena, assigned Tuesday. Liabilities. 7,500; assets, unknown. t A three-days' Masonic school of instruction is being held at Decatur. Nearly two hundred Masons are in attendance. Mount Vernon, on Tuesday, appropriately observed the anniversary of the cyclone which destroyed that city a year ago. Charles H. Cottrell, a noted horse-thief, has been sentenced, at Galesburg, to eight years' confinement in the Joliet penitentiary. Mrc Alice Anderson, of Danville, has recovered gl, 500 from the Ohio, Indiana & Western railway for injuries received last September. The trial of Walter C. Turtle, ex-Rheriff of Vermillion county, charged with embezzling $4,000 of county funds, began at Danville, Tuesday. The Brewster House, the leading hotel at Freeport, was badly damaged by fire and water last Monday night. The damage is estimated at $4,000. A sheep which was imprisoned for sixtysix days, in an overturned straw-stack, on the farm of William Howe, near Tuscola, was released alive on Tuesday. Launcelot Lodge, K. of P., of Marshall, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the order by a reception and ball. Guests were present from Casey, Urbana, Terro Haute and Noblesville, Ind., and Atchison, Kan. United States Marshal C. L. Berry arrested and took to Peoria, on Tuesday, Thomas Hunt, proprietor of the Windsor Hotel, Monmouth, and Frank and John Murray, brothers, on a charge of violating the postal law. , Mrs. William Henry Harrison, aged seventy-six years, died at Parkville, Champaign county, on Monday night. The husband of Mrs. Harrison is a relative, of tho Jresident-elcct and a short timo ago paid "f tie latter a visit. Ho was named after tho General's grandfather. ; James Moran, a boy sixteen years old, living at Brooklyn, was recently bitten bv a mad dog. Last Thursdav he was attacked by hydrophobia, and while his mother was attending him he bit her. Tuesday both mother and son were suffering with rabies, aud it is thought neither will recover. Explaining Smith's Absence. ' CniCAC.o, Feb. 20. J. A. Smith, alias John Alexander Thompson, a self-styled "converted actor." who has been conducting large gospel temperance meetings at theTvng Mission failed to put in an appearance to-night. Instead, one of theolhcers of the mission read a long newspaper clipping from Dundee, Scotland, saying, that Smith had victimized a number of churches, married a widow there, and fled with her money, while he already had a wife and three children inmates of a work-house in London. Smith first attracted attention in Chicago by his eloquence at an experience meeting, and, having apparently excellent credentials, was sent by the Y. M. C. A. to lecture at the Tyng Mission. Smith claims the newspaper reports are the result of spito-work ox his wife. Steamship News. TriE Lizard. Feb. 20. Passed: Moravia, New York to Hamburg; Lahn, from New York to Bremen. New York, Feb. 20. Arrived: Leerdam, from Amsterdam; Devonia. from Glasgow. Glasgow, Feb. 20. Arrived: California, from New York; Michigan, from Baltimore. Queenstowx, Feb. 20. Arrived: Tudor Prince, from New York. Holyhead, Feb. 20. Arrived: Egypt, from New York. Rotterdam, Feb. 20. Arrived: Gallina, irOIU JJcHULUUIC. Hong Kong. Feb. 20. Arrived: Arabic, from New York. White Man Sold at Auction by a Black Con stable. i Helena, Ark., Feb. 20. J. M. Chatworthy, a white man, drew a pistol on a negro Monday, for which he was fined 50 and costs, making a total of 54. Not having the money to pay the amount, he was put np at auction, yesterday, by a negro constable, to be sold to the hitrhest bidder, ac cording to the law. which also.reonires that the debtor shall be kept by the purcnaser xnenumDer oi aays required to pay out the fine at the rate of 75 cents a day. In this case 8eventy-two days service woiild bo reauired. Tho bidding was not verv livelv. and-tho prisoner was finally knocked down to one of his friends at 25 cents a day. Two lives Ixst in a Burning Ilouse. Philadelphia, Feb. 20. An overheated 6toveintho dry goods and notion store of Isadore Horn, at Wo. 915 South street caused a tiro to-night which resulted in the loss of the life of two persons, althoueh the monetary loss is almost insignificent. In ine imru aiory iiv eu Jiai oenwariz, a notion peddler with his wife and three daughters. Jchwartz ran to one of tho windows and jumped to tho ground, est,Yri(T Tfitlinnt inlnrv xrfri Vi niAntinninff but his wife aud her babe were sullocatctl before they were able to reach a placo of saiety anu ineir Domes were aiterwarus cremated by the names. A Prohibitory Freight I late. San Francisco. Feb. 20. The f ruit-nack-ing companies have received notice that the overland rate on canned goods, including fruits, vegetables and hsh has been raised by the Transcontinental Association from the present rate of 1.10 to S1.20 per hundred pounds. The managers of packing companies in mis city aeciare mat tne new rate will amount to a nrohibitorv tariff and will completely tie up tho trade, confining tho market to this coast. The increased rate amounts to an advance of 20 per car 1 A .1 A 1 . .sv 1 on iruuauuu egciauies, anu hj on usu. A Prosecution That Didn't Pay. Chicago, Feb. 20. Emil Leonard was accused, before Judge Tuthill. to-dav. of robbing F. T. Jones of $200, on the West Side, last summer. The testimony given by Mr. Jones was not corroborated, and Leonard was discharged. The complaining witness was nrougnt irom mmervillc, Urc, 2,540 miles away. Ho received an oruer on the countv treasurer for &5i.GO for his Si witness fee and mileage, coming and re turning, at the rate ot o cents rer mile.

.THE TARIFF REF0RHERS. Plenty of Nois Characterizes the Convention Free-Traders Sat Upon by the Chair. Chicago, Feb. 20. The Tariff Keform League resumed its session this morning, with Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, in the-chair. Mr. J. H. Smith, of Ohio, read a paper on 'The Senate Bill and the Mills Bill Compared." It was in tho nature of a defense of tho Mills bilk The paper discussed . Senator Sherman's figures on the wool tariff, and held that the position of the Senator from Ohio was not well taken. The writer's characterization of the fanner as a lineal desceneant of Issachar, "tho 6trong ass crouching between two burdens, willing to bear and a servant to tribute," brought laughter and a round of applause. The next speaker was Mr. A. W. Thomas, of El Paso. Tex., who said that if tho Senato tariff bill were enacted into law it would kill the new silver-smelting Industry of Texas and the Southwest by its dutj on fluxing ore, which now comes from Mexico, duty free. He declared that this duty was for the benefit of smelting in Colorado and New Mexico. Mr. Thomas was followed bv Mr. Emer

son Chatt, of i Massachusetts, upon the growth of free-trade ideas in that common wealth. The convention then took a recess. George A. Clark had ended a paper upon "Leather, ana the Effect of the Protective Tariff upon It," at the afternoon session. when the venerable James U. Hancock, of Pennsylvania, chairman of the platform committee, claimed the attention of the convention, and read the following declaration: First-We hold that it Is the natural right of every man to freely exchange Ins labor or tno Sroduct of his labor to the best advantage. We eelare ourselves unalterably opposed to the socalled protective system, ana demand the prompt, abrogation of all protective features from tho larin. Second We believe the American Nation will reach its full measure of prosperity only by en acting, at the earnest day practicable, such legislation as will apply the American principle of free trade between tho States to tho. united States In their relations to the world. The committee on resolutions, about evenly made up of pronounced free-traders and tariff-f or-revenue men, had wrestled over a report for five hours. It was finally determined, as a compromise, to offer a re port as above, in two parts, so that it might be conveniently divined. The reading over, a dozen delegates jumped to their feet and a lively wrangle ensueu. a viva voce vote was ratten on tne first section, and it was carried almost unanimously. The big debate of the day was on the second part of the report. Eugene M. Wilson, of Minnesota, and W. S. Forest, of Chicago, led the conservatives, while W. T. V. Croasdale, Rev. Hugh Pentecost and Henry Georce marshaled the onposition. Mr. George closed the fight, snouting: "l am in favor ot tree trade; tree, free, free, unrestricted trade." Applause, The chairman resolutely suppressed others who wanted to speak, and put the question. Tremendous roars for and against went np. The spectators, carried away by tho contagious enthusiasm, joined in the clamor. "The second nart of the resolution is lost," shouted the chairman. He was not done saymff so before a storm of cries for division ascended. The chairman paid no attention to this, but peremptorily declared a motion to adjourn in order, and after trreat confusion the hall was trradually cleared, the free-traders announcing tnat tney would demand a reconsideration to-morrow. To-nicht orations on tariff reform tonics were delivered before a great audience by iienry iieorge, Captain Uooman and J. o. Burroughs. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. A fine- Rnecimem of tlm fur saaI. vreichlntr 150 pounds, was killed yesterday in Jamacia bay, on tho Long Island coast. Ives and Stavnor are still in LudlowRtrAAT. inil Kaw Ynrlr. TTiaxt Trrfpo itmnr. ance of tho.rumored compromise in their case wnicn is expected to set tnem tree. Sergeant Gano, of the Chinatown squad, San Irnneisco. and tlirpo of t.h Tnlirpmpn under his command, have been arrested on indictments found by tho grand jury, charg ing tnem witn receiving uriues irom Keepers of Chinese gambling dens. Th dead bodv of .Wm. M. Ratterlow. his skull crused, was fished out of a waste race atonoof tho mills on Eggleston avenue, Cincinnati, yesterday. Batterlow was a printer by trade, and was well known about Greentown, Ind. It is supposed he was murdered and thrown into the water. John Williams, linen steward on the Cunard steamship Servia. was arrested at New York, yesterday, charged with at tempting to smuggle several thousand dollar worth of silks. Ho says he was hired to smuggle the goods by a leading silk mercnant ot that city, a warrant lor whoso arrest also has been issued. J. H. Saulsburr. a letter-carrier in tho Chicatro nostoflice. was arrested vesterdav. The charge against him. and he admits its truth, is tbat about Jan. 1 he opened a let ter containing a draft on the Adams Express Company, forged the payee's name upon it, and collected tho amount called for. Ho claims that this is his only theft. At San Francisco, yesterday. Emma Ben nett, employed as a saleswoman in a store handling Japanese goods, 6hot Emanuel Jjavis twice, and then either committed suicide by shooting herself through the head or was shot by Davis. She died two hours later. Davis is dangerously wounded. The cause of the shooting is unknown. A telegram from California. Mo., savs that Robert Kemp, an old and respected citizen, has received two notices from "White Caps," to leave the county. Contrary to the advice of friends, he is nrenaring to leave. Mr. Kcinp's recent service on the grand jury is presumed to be the cause. I hero is considerable feeling, and the bet ter class of people are very indignant. A telegram fromA-ustin, Tex., says that in tho united Stares Court, yesterday. Ed Reeves, a train robber, was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. W. O. Johnson, son of I'ostmaster Johnson, of Austin, was sent up one year for embezzlement of postoffice, money-order funds. He created a sensation in court by declaring he would kill himself before going to the penitentiary. Four-fifths of tho stock of the Boston Gas-light Company has been sold to tho Bay State Gas-lignt Company at $1,200 a share. The actual value of the company's property, judged bv the sale of its stock to the Bay State, would be $0,000,000. Besides the Boston company, the Bay State company has secured control of tho Roxbury Gas-light Company and the South Boston Gas-light Company. Dangers of Idleness Among Prisoners. Albany, N. Y., Feb. 20. Superintendent of State Prisons Lathron, in answer to a resolution of the Assembly calling for information relative to the effect of tho repeal of the contract labor law upon the condition of prisoners, says: "More than three thousand are shut up and are in imminent danger of corrosion, deterioration and even destruction as rational beings. This condition, which has been created by legislation, can be removed onlv by legislation. The evils will last until the cause shall be removed and an adequate remedy provided for this evil." Knights of Honor In Missouri. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 20. It now seems probable that the Knights of Honor will withdraw from tho State of Missouri. The Insurance Commissioner insists on classing this secret society as an insurance company, and demands that it put up one assessment as a guarantee to the insured. This would amount to $154,000, and while tho order is willing to deposit that sum as a secret so ciety, it will not admit that it is an insurance company, because it would then bo compelled to make a like deposit in other folates. Fatally Shot by ller Ilnsband. Louisville. Feb. 20. Henrv Dalton. who lives near Stanford, Ky.. idiot and perhaps fatally wounded his wife, last Sunday morning. He had ordered her to get up and make a tire, and because she did not do so ho struck her with a chair. Her brother remonstrated, awl Dalton got down a snotgun. uotn rau, but no tired, and four buckshct struck her in tho breast. Dalton then lied, but a mob is searching ior mm. Colleges Consolidated. Ciiattanoooa. Tenn.. Feb. 20. Tho trustees of the Chattanooga and Grant Memorial Universities, the latter located at AtherjR. Tenii.. havo ncrrped nnnn a rnnsolidationof tho two schools under the name ox tho Grant Memorial Universitv

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The street cars were demolished and tho following-named passengers more or less injured, Dut none fatally: James I-mes, Mrs. Kobert Nitschke,Miss Bertha Schatfer, Miss Lizzie Schafter. Paul Hoffman, Miss May Pepin, Mrs. O'Mara, Miss Julia McMahon and Miss Elizabeth Marion. A REMARKABLE THEORY. The Strangest Suggestion Yet Apropos th Whltechapel ilnrderer. London Truth. I received a most extraordinary letter the other day from a man about the Whitecbapei murders: Thetruo authors," he writes, 'of these "Whitechapel and Bradford crimes are you radical humanitans, who have been sitting upon the safety valve of humanity until tho beast that boils within has burst up the whole concern. Formerly we hud to let off the 8tear, our bull and bear baitings, our public executions, our constant soldier and sailor Hoggings, our prizefights. Now, with the exception of a few field sports, of necessity confined to the more wealthy and genteel members of the community, this England of ours has no legitimate vent for that inborn ferocity which is as natural to a mau as thirst, hunger or love. Why, sir, thanks to your rascally and preposterous radical legislation. Englishman now passes throughmany au life from childhood to old age, and never sees even blood, except in an underdone chop at an eating-house. 'Consider, hir, who aro tho most polished people in the world. The Frenchman, softened by constant revolutions and tho puillotine; the Spaniard, mollified by bull fights: the Italian, whose severe treatment ot all domestic auimals. but especially post horses, leaves his mind suave, gentle and tender for intercourse with his kind. What men in all history (except, perhaps, our own Irish landlords) have been among themselves so polite, so amiable, so courteous as the chivalrous slave-holding aristocracy of Carolina and Maryland. Whyf Because they had a 6afety-valve. When they felt they wanted to let out they went down ainong their nejrroes and got it over. After an hour or 60 of flogging, branding and eye-couirinfr they came home, had a bath, put on a clean shirt, had an easy shave and descended to make themselves pleasant amone their peers at the dinnertable or in the drawing-room like Christian gentlemen. ' The plain truth is that if yon want to go through the pretense of expelling nature with a fork, it must be a wide-proncedfork that will let a good deal of nature through. We shall never get rid of these Whitechapel crimes until we recur to the wise measures of our ancestors and provide a little legalized and reasonable barbarity for our masses at 6tatcd intervals. Let us be moderately and rationally brutal one day in the week, in order that w5 may bo meek, eentle and, forbearing tho other aix. "It has been well said and in more senses than one that tho blood of martyis is the 6eed of the church. Why. sir, even in the middle ages (those 'Apes of Faith') the torch of Christian charity and brotherly lovo had to be constantly rekindled at the auto da fe. Let us then kill or torturo something from time to time a criminal, an animal of some sort, or if the worst comes to the worst, an insect (or why not a pauper!) to make us kind to tho weak ones of our race, the women and the little boj-8 whom (really for want of something else to do) we now butcher and mutilate iu Whitechapel and Bradford." Our Own Country lias Attractions PhlladelpMa Times. No Americans, men or women, should visit foreign lands until they have fully traveled and enjoyed their native country. Every part of it is now accessible by railway, and less than five days will whirlpassengers from New York to San Francisco. The far off Northwest, only lately an almost inaccessible wilderness, is now traversed by the iron horse, and Alaska isless distant than was Washington or Oregon half a generation ago. And from Northern lako to Southern culf there are the best land and water highways, thus bringing our more than sixty millions of people into the closest relations with each other. Such a country, with such beneficent institutions, should inspire , the highest pride of our young men and women, and its government, the simplest and best, should be gratefully studied hy all as their own priceless patrimon3 . "SL Tllden" a Clay Idpl, Alter AIL Charleston News and Courier fDem.) Mr. Tilden was courageous enough intellectually, but a little animal courairewas needed at this timo (18767), and he did not possess it. The News and Courier lias never qnestioned tho ability of Mr. Tilden or his political sacacity, but it is not wine toen courage indiscriminate praise of him as a statesman and patriot. Mr. Tilden in his cast of mind was more of a politician than a statesman, and he was not fit for a great emergency. It is too .uch the habit in this countr' to rega. . a public man as eminent in all things because he is eminent in one thint;. Either ho is all cood or nil bad. There is no shading in the picture. It was to make the shadows which make the portrait lifelike the News and and Courier suggested the devotees of St. Tilden were going tie too far. An Alleged Iniane Kecelrer. George Stahl, who was arrested 6ome days since for receiving stolen goods, waa the subject of an application for a re-commitment to the Insane Hospital 3esterday. Stahl was in tho asylum last November and was discharged after six days' confinement. He fell down the steps of tho Coffin Block, on East Market street, a few da-: since, and hurt himself badly. The hearing of his case in the police court has beeir continued until next Tuesday, by which time tho question of his sanity will probably bo settled. Fifer and Twines, who aro alleged to havo stolen goods found in KtahVa possession, are believed to be tho footpads who havo held up various persons in this city recently. Fifer admitted on examination that no is a thief and wants to go to Jellersonville instead of Michigan City, claiming that there aro convicts in tho latter prison who will kill him if ho goes there. Nearly everybody needs a good medicine at this season to purify tho blood nnd build up tho system. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the most popular and successful sirin: medicine and blood purifier. Jt cures scrofula, all humors, dyspepsia, sick headache, that tired feeling.

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