Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1885 — Page 4

THE INDIANAl'ÜLlS DAILT SENTINEL MONDAY MORNING APRIL 13 1885

MONDAY, APRIL 13. OrriCEi 71 and 73 Weat Market Street RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. f ndUntpolli Seatlnel for 18. Daily, San day and Weekly Edition. DAILY. Delivered by carrier, per week... 2 Daily, Including Sunday, per week..-. . 33 Dally, per annum, by mail . 10 00 Dally, per annum, by nail. Including San day, by mall .. 12 00 Dally, dell re red by carrier, per annum 12 00 Dally, delivered by carrier, per annum. In eluding Sunday. it 00 Dally, to newsdealers, per copy Sunday edition of eighty-four columns. .1 2 00 . 2 V . 3K .1 1 00 Banday Sentinel, by carrier-.. To newsdealers, per copy WXIXLY. Weekly, per annum. The postage on sub&crlptlons by mail la prepaid by the publisher. Newsdealers supplied at three cents per copy. Postage or ether charges prepaid. Entered a second clus matter at the Pos to See at Indiana pol la. Ind. TBE SUNDAY SENTINEL. While rot so much addicted to vaingloryisgassomeof oar city contemporaries, we will sot refrain from a word of p raise of oar Sandsy edition of yesterday. Its six teen large pases o! 101 columns comprised aeventy-five columns of original matter and of fresh selections. It contained six columns of telegraphic news, fire of local information, three of society news, four from its edi torial writers and four of " Woman's Work." Then there was the second chapter of Charles He ad e's great story, "Lore or Money, or a Perilous Secret" (which will be run through the Sunday Sentinel to completion), James Red path entertaining paper entitled "The City of Many Nations," Mr. Charles II. Reeve's essay, "A Rationale of Punishment;" a sketch Irom Rob Roy on "War Days in the South" (to be continued), our illustrated Nea York correspondence, Jenny Jane's fashion letter. Dr. Talmage's sermon and columns of attractive miscellany in prose and verse. But we deslra it understood that our next Sunday's edition shall, if possible, be superior to that of yesterday, and each succeeding Sunday's better than the one preceding. The present enlarged size of sixteen pages will b continued. Please understand that the Sunday Sentinel shall be to its readers a toothsome feast of many courses, Including not only the substantial meat?, but every delicious viand. Fifty-two of these repast are given per jear for $2, or less than four cents each. Send alone; f 2 for the yearly ticket. Rfcfstly 37J 000 acres of good land In North and South Carolina hare been thrown upon the market. The Boston sanitary authorities are cantioning the Bcstonians against letting cold beans stand too long. Cincinnati, at the recent municipal elec tion, polled 51,300 votes, 8t. Louis 41,000 and Chicago about 00,000. Prohibition is now on trial in 103 of the LIT counties in Georgia, and will soon embrace the whole State. Another member of the Illinois Legislature is dead. His name Is J. H. Shaw, and he represents Cass County in the lower Heute. It is now said that the New York mugwump wears his ears away back on the nape of his neck, so as to leave room for his smi'e of satisfaction. Dealers in provisions and military hardware are unanimously of opinion that America can stand an Anglo-Kassian war if England and Russia can. I discussing Missouri affairs the SL Louis Globe-Democrat expresses the opinion that if the State only had twice as many mules and only half as many Democrats, Missouri would be a truly great State. Ir looks very much as though John BaU was getting to a point in life where he would have his hands full. There are a great many people in this world that will not regret this fact and with good reason. Ir the Chicago Republican press by their incendiary and inflammable appeals do nt bring on a series of bloody and disastrous riots in the near future, the experiences of the pest in working out certain bad results, will be gratifjingly faulty, at least in one instance. At a meeting in Cnicago the other night where the election laws were freely denounced by Republicans, it did not seem to occur to these blatherskites that their party has had control of tbe Illinois Legislature almost continuously for the last quarter of csntnry. Whatever defect there is In theee laws, the Republican party is responsible for. It is understood that Mr. Phelps has re canity been receiving instructions from the administration as to the policy to be pursued at ths English court. A correspondent gives aa inkling as to what may be expected. He tayt that suggestions have been made by the British Minister to our Government regard inj the repression of incendiary speeches and publications by the dynamiters. The fact is recogutxed that nothing more can be done toward tha prevention of dynamite fttfj than h&i already been done, and free

dom of speech and of the press cannot be Interfered with. Ills expected that the new Minister will explain to the British Foreign Omca much better than a layman can the separation of the Federal from the State power, and just what the Federal Government can not do without intrenching on the rights cf the States. It may also be deemed judicious, as the result of this consultation and Mr. Phelps' conferences in London, to recommend to. Congress next winter the enactment of laws which, while not interfeting with the freest expressions of opinion, will make It easier to pualsh a man for any overt act tending to incite to crime in another country, such as the organization of societies for unlawful purpoies or the collection of money for the purposes of crime.

THB PEOPLE'S PAPER. There ended on Saturday, by the passage of the Williams Telephone bill in tue Senate, a vigorous contest before the Legislature between a monster monopoly and the interests of the business people of Indiana. The Central Telephone Company, a branch of the American Bell Telephone Company, has been exacting from $t to $ per month rental for each of the several thousand telephones in use in Indiana. This shameless extortion met a foe in Representative 8. W. Williams, of Vincennes, who intrcduced a bill in the Houss to reduce the tolls from $5 to $3 per month for the use of single telephone, and from $t to $2 53 per instrument where one renter had two or more in use. The bill was parsed by the Hoase with only 12 votes against it U;on its being transmitted to the Senate efficers and itockholders of the Central Telephone Company, the American Bell Telephone Company and the Western Union Telegraph Company the three corporations being sub stantially one and the same assembled in Indiat spoils from various cities to work for the defeat of the bill. These were supplemenled by a corps of lobbyists, and throughout last week the most active lobbying done daring the session was carried on. This proceeding was before the eyes of the Indianapolis preis, and jetcf all the papers here, not another one than the Sentinel uttered one word in behalf of the bill and the interests of the people of the State represented by tbe bill. While the Sentinel was daily making an earnest fight for the passage of the measure, its contemporaries, one and all, were dumb as oysters. The extortion of the monopoly was so flagrant that none of them dared champion it, and even the two Senators who epekegagainst the bill made no claim that the tolls sought to be reduced were not extortionate. That the other papers should maiutain silence upon a controyersy pregnant with such importance to the basiness interests of the 8 täte Is passing strange. But certain it is that they were oppressively silent and the Sentinel was left to champion the people entirely alone. But tor the Sentinel's exposure of the wicked extortions of the telephone monopoly aad it9 strenuous advocacy of the Williams Tele phone bill the latter would not have become law. Even a prominent Republican Senator has volunteered to say so much of the Sentinel. Remembering tbat the people of the State will be saved not less than $50,000 par annum by this one act of legislation, we naturally feel rejoiced over it, and will be pardoned for pointing with pride to our participation in the good work. And there is ample evidence in this case that the Ssntinel la the faper for the people. VALUABLE HEALTH HINTS. The annual report of the State Board of Health rx ade recently to the New York Legislature nay be of benefit to these interested in euch matters in our own State. It declares diphtheria baa found lodgment in nearly every part of the State, conn tin; in nine months, 2,C33 recorded victims. The deaths certified as from typhoid fever numbered SG4, the larger proportion occurriog in villages acd rural districts. D arrbeil diseases have carried off 7,26 person, th deaths being distributed impartially in urban and rural districts. The three maladies named typify "filth diseases," their fatality being everywhere regarded as indicating pollution of air and water by decomposed organicusually excrement matter. Dr. Carroll says nine tenths of the wells in Tillages are Impregnated with sewage. It is not through drinking water alone that filth poisoning exists; it comes as well from polluted air, from filth sodden earth, etc Cerebrospinal fever, a-cclaeJ with faulty house drainage, has shown itself in scattered districts In all sections of the State, with a mortality record of 287. Erysipelas caused 200 deaths, and malarial fevers 300. Making no allowance for deficient returns from some of twenty-two cities with their conjoined population of 2. G44, 155, and estimating the whole population of the State at 3.300,000, we have a remainder of 2 70.j.845, which, if the annual death rate did notlexcced 17 per 1.000 would give for the nine months ol,4! deaths. In connection with these data attention is called ia the report to some information regardirg the cholera,which is quite as valuable in Indiana as in New York. In the face of a pexslble importation of cholera it is Important that the duties of local authorities ahculdbe conscientiously and energetically performed, and the work thus done will in no caie be wasted. The Aa'atio scourge is not contagious from the person; its seed must find atoll outside of the body to multiply in, ai.d ihis soil is filth. An index to the potential lavages of imported cholera in any given locality ia tbe epidemic presence of typhoid fever and diarrhea, and measures adopted to repel the exotic pestilence will bear their fruit in preventing the latter disuses also. Purity of water, soil, and air, tbe prompt and thorough removal of all sources of pollution by decomposing organ io filth, will deprive foreign or demestic epidemics of all their terrors. That t tore ugh ail drainage will abate malar, a I fsfen Is a tact placed beyond coajeci-

ere or argument. Apart from natural marsh lands in the various smaller districts, artificial and malarial influences have been created by tbe injudicious action of municipalities or privat Und owners in obitructing the drainage channels of water courses, and thus inducing soil saturation where nature had provided healthful conditions. The Influence of defective school hygiene is a subject deserving the careful consideration and watchful care of health boards, as it affects the welfare of coming generations. The agency of school intercourse in disseminating infectious diseases is everywhere recognized, and in all well-ordered sanitary districts a rule exists prohibiting the return to school of any pupil convalescent from contagious febrile disorders without a medical certificate that the risk of infection is past.

TAMMANY. There is some talk in the Rspublican organs which charges certain threats as being indu'ged in by the Tammany Democracy as to what it will do in case Mr. Cleveland does snot meet the views of the organization. We are glad to note that at a meeting of Tammany last Friday Light, after the adoption of resolutions expressing sorrow and regret at the present sad condition of General Grant, resolutions were also passed indorsing the prompt action taken by the administration to protect the rights of American cltizeas on the Isthmus of Panama; recognizipg the efficient action of Secretary of the Navy Whitney in promptly dispatching a naval force and material there, and renewing the pledge heretofore given by Tammany Hall of its cord sal support to the present administration by the indorsement of President Cleveland in his application of the policy which his recent appointments indicated. The following occurs in a leading Republican newspaper of Chicago: The next committee will be known as a vigilance con mittee. and it will be made up with referenoe to pluck and mnacle. To which the Times of that city gives the following vigorous reply: "So there is to be an attempt to execute the wild threat of the campaign orators, it seems. It is time for the people ot Chicago who have not lost their senses to consider what the threat means. To begin with, the first effort of the mob and their bosses to execute their purpese will bring on a collision with the lawful authorities of the city. It will be found that there is a9 much ' pluck and muscle" in and behind the Mayor and police force ai can be enlisted by the revolutionists. The result of a struggle between law and lawlessness between the constituted authority and a seflappointed vigilance committee is happily not doubtful; the third city in America will not be suraendered to the rule of a mob. But what will be the effect of such a struggle? Substantially all business will be suspended. Merchants will bs compelled to close their shops, even if they are not gutted by thieves while the Rattle rages. Incendiary fire, eet to cover the depredations of marauders, will illuminate every block. The streets will swarm with idle men from closed stores and factories. The whole commerce and Industry upon which 600,000 or 700,000 people live and prosper will be paralyzed, and hunger may drive thousands to crimes that in a state of peace and order never thought of." After mentioning other certain direful outcomes of such incendiary appeals the Times concludes: "These things are now to be looked squarely in the face. The proposition to dethrone the law and set up a king mob, rashly made in tbe heat ot a canvass, Is repeated in cool blood. There is a 'committee of safety,' which, according to its organ, is to transform itself into a vigilance committee. It is raising large suras of money. Are they to be used in arming the revolutionary mob? There has been some talk of a public meeting to denounce ballotbox frauds; but the need for an indignation meeting to denounce the plotters of revolution is much more apparent." Several Republican members of the Legislature were outspoken in favor of the Williams Telephone MIL In the House, Hon. Hiram Brownlee, of Grant, made an earnest argument in its behalf. Senators You che and Ms cey sustained the Sentinel's position, that, in a question as to the constitutionality of the bill, the people, rather than the monopoly, should be given the benefit of the doubt. Of the Democrats in the Senate, Hon. Eli W. Brown was particularly active in organizing the support of the bill, while Hon. James H. Willard spoke most effectively in its behalf. Thk telephone monopolists desire now to have oral argument presented to Governor Gray against the constitutionality of the Williams Telephone bilL Well, Messieurs Monopolists, we shall not call such a proceeding "unconstitutional," though it would perhaps be unprecedented. Still, if the Governor can stand ip, we can. But we are ready to wager the two scalp of the American Bell and Western Union dangling from our belt that Governor Gray can not see the question through the spectacles of Senators Fculke and McCullough. The Governor's glasses are not smoked. If our Republican contemporaries please, there ii one McGiilicuddy, a Republican Itdian agent, in danger of being asked to resign. Commissioner Atkins has instructed McGiilicuddy to report at Washington, and ordered an investigation of h's doings. As he is probably only guilty of considerable thieving, auch treatment of him by the Cleveland administration is an outrage. So Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, (Republican, of course ) is alieady taking active steps to prevent McGiilicuddy from being cast out. Red Cloud, the Sioux Chief, has written the following letter about McGiilicuddy to Secretary Lamar: Beeret ary Lamar: My Feiksd-I don't want to hurry you. I know you hare trot a (real many lalnga to think about Bat, my friend, mr people are starving. I caa't sleep good because 1 Ulak about thsm La

then'jtat My heart is sorry for them. I want you to take pity on me and my people. Yoa told me you would look at the papers Colonel Pollock wrote about my agent. I want yoa to look at there ptMn aooa ai you can. ao you can know wbatl told you Is the truth. I told yoa my agent Is a bad man. Colonel Pollock calls him a bad man In hia papers. I ask yoa to look at them sood. so I can go borne to my people. They are looking for me, and my heart Is with them, but I can't go back to them until I get a naw agent. When I made a treaty with the Government In ltGi the commissioners said I should have a uood man for agent, and tbat, If the agent treated me or my people bad. the Great Father would take him away and give us a new agent. They said I should have something to aay about who should be my agent. My friend, I want you to take this bad acent away, and give us an azent that me and my people know is a sood man. My friend, I want you to read my words and bare pity on me and my people. I want to have another talk with you soon. (Signed) Reo Cloui. At the dinner given recently in New York to Mr. Henry Irving, the distinguished English actor, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, after remaiking that he suppoeed his bearers were surprised to find him at the dinner, said: "I was bom of old Puritan stock with all tbe poupular prejudices against the sttze, I was taugbt that the theater was the devil's house; tbat sn actor was unregenerate and Irredeemable, and an actress beyond words. In these belief, I retrained from attending theaters. Once, not long ago. I turned the thing over in my mied. I said: 'Now, jou are robust, fortified by family aurrounlngs, and seventy years old, wouldn't it be well to corroborate tbe opinion of seventy years' standing by going once to a theater? I Loud laughter and applauee. I Somebody aiked me if tne example would be all right. I replied that It would, as the theater must be harmless to anyoae who waited until he was seventy years old bslore be went. Great laughter.) What was the remit? 1 will sot cDesk of the temptation and fall, but the temptation and rise. I tasted tbe forbidden fruit and fince then have eaten of every at pie that came in my way Laughter aud cieeis. I shall dream of Ophelia aud see Miss lerryss locgaslilve. I Cheers. I There have been in pots many Beatncee. but now I know wbat Beatlce Is. I can aay that Mr. liyiDg ua touched many of the djepest siid tru(st chrds of my nature, and after he has gone I may feel that the autumn of li fe naa set in.' ' As Mr. Beecher concluded Mr. Irring bowed gracefully to nira.and the assemblage rose and cheered the reverend gentleman.

If you will smoke, follow the advice of of the New Y'ork Sub, as indicated in the following: We believe tbat the poison of cancer Is diatlact from the poison of nicotine. There are, however, a few lules commending themselves toevery physician which will tend to make tbe use of tbe weed less injurious, and which it Is well to Incul cate at this particular time. In the first place, smoke light colored cigars. They are less strong man tne aar .er anaaa. select tne boxes marked Claro" and ''Colorado Claro." and avoid those marked "Maduro." or even "Colorado Maduro." Secondly, never smoke ou an empty stomach. 8mok after luncheon, or after dinner or supper, out ao not smoKe long atter you have taken food or early In the morning. A light cigar after a beany meal frequently aids digestion, but it one smokes just before eating the appetite will be lessened acd food will lose Us relish. Thirdly, do not smoke he whole of the cigar. Sacrifice a fourth or tilth, because in the stump the poisonous oil or nicotine of the tobacco becomes concentrated. Fourthly, do not smoke more than three or four cigars a day. And in the last place, aiter smoking cleans the teeth, and thus avoid their discoloration and imgrcgnatlon with the fumes of tobacco. A moderate and cueful use of tobacco does not barm the teeth, but when excessive it causes tbe gums to recrde, and covers the themselves with the blackening oil of the leaf. The New York Sun gives the origin of "Chestnut!" as follows: Mr. Martin W. Ilanlcy. the theatrical manager formerly with Ilsrrigan & Hart, laughs at the idea that the term Chestnut," applied to a stale joke, originated in Philadelphia, when a minstrel company were perpetrating stale joke on tbe Kiskers at tbe Chestnut Street Theatre. He says It originated eighteen years ago. It was this way," he &aid yesterday; "In 1867 I was travelling through this State, putting an old play, called 'The Broken Sword,' on the stage, with Msrietta Ravel as leading lady. In the second act an old man stands in the centre of the stsge telling the story of the murder of the dumb boy. John Sanford, my comedian, sits on a low stool at the left. Interrupting the old man. The old man makes frequent reference to a hickery tree. Every time he says hickory the comedian gets off his stool and mti. 'No. chestnut: I tell you, chestnut,' till the old man is exhausted. At ter the performance in Rochester, P. Connelly, dead now, was in one of the dressing room a with others of the company, aad he started to get off a funny story. Everybody Interrupted with shouts of 'Chestnut!' It clang to the company all the season, and. of course, was soon caught bv tne prof e ion. That's the only true origin of it." The minute size cf our afternoon contemporary, the Evening Minute, is a thing of the past; it will henceforth be by comparison something of a blanket sheet a baby blanket theet The same low subscription will, however, be continued. SENTINEL SPECIALS. The Burning ot the Edlnburg Starch Factory. Shklhy villi, Ind., April 11. The town of Ed 1l burg, situated eighteen miles west of here, was visited by a disastrous fire this morning. Between 3 and 9 o'clock tire was discovered in the drying room of the starch work, situated in the extreme north end of town, acd before the flames could be stopped tbe fire was raging In all its fury. The town is practically without a fire company, and as a high wind prevailed it was only a short time untill the chief industry of the place was a great heap of ashes. Tbe orks beloDgtd to Mr. Samuel Cutslnger, of this county, but were leased by Messrs. Thompson k Schuley, of Kdinburg. The loss is estimated at 175,000, on which there is insurance in various companies amounting to ?X,tOO The insurance is placed as follows: Franklin, of Indianapolis, $1,000; Commercial UdIod, of London, $4,000; Western, of Toronto, $3 000; Pbcnnir.of Hartford, ?5 000; R)jal. of London. $5,000; Hartford, of Hartfoid, $4 000; London, Liverpool and Globe, $2 010, Continental, of New Y'ork, $1 500; Loudon and Lancashire, f 2,500; Pbuuix, of Leridon, $2,500: Lancashire, $3, 4 NX); Detroit, $1 ö(A); American. $1,000: Underwriter, $2,100; Eureka, $1,500; Security. $1500; Merchant and Manufacturers', $1,000; Germania, $1 (0; Irdiana. $1,000; Falls City, $1.000: Hope, $1.500; Pelican, $1,000; Michigan, $1,000 Seymour's ISudgat of Mawi, Special to the öentineL Sxtmouk, Ind., April 12. Paymaster Jackson, of the O. and M. Road, came in last evening and paid off in full for March. Tbe pay-roll at this point amounted to $27,424.71, which is a little less than for February. Mr?. Silas Prather, ot Clear Spring, aged tif'y yiars, completed her household work Wednesday evening, and sat down in a chair to rest, and expired without a struggle Probably heart disease Deceased was a a sister of W. L. and Colonel T B Boyatt, cf Brownstown. Tbe Jackson Circuit Court meets to morrow. The decket will not be large. The cross receipts of the Seymonr Poetoffice for the jear ending March öl were $1 SI2 11; cetprceeeds to the Government $2 1H2.1I. Mr. Arthur Smith, of Hamilton Township died Friday of eld age and measles, aged seventy-five years. Measles is finding new victims here almost daily. The live town of OrothersviUe is to have a Pre byte Han Church. Miss Laura Rider, a teal oos Christian lady aad good worker, has 4peut a few days soliciting subscriptions and

has raised over $300. This with to be donated by the Presbytery, together with other f ends obtainable, secures the erection of the building. The work will be begun eoon and pushed to &n early completion. As the season advances it becomes more apparent that tbe wheat crop in this county will be very light, perhaps less than half a crop. There is not a good stand to be found, and toousands of acres sown to that cereal Is being plowed up and planted to oats, corn, etc Will Gardiner, brakeman on the O. and M. road, was badly injured Friday by being caught between the bumpers. Seymour will have two circuses in this month John B. Dorie', on the 21st, and John KobiD son's the 27th. We have a good prospect for two or three more during the season. Thirteen employes ir the O. and M. shops here have just been discharged to curtail expenses Religious exerciees at tbe different churches were well attended to-day, the weather being clear and cold. A tramp printer answering to ths name of C. C McCarty was arrested this morning by roliwman l'aulkconeron tbechar?of burglar zirg tbe Business Printing Oflice last night and stealing some $10 in chaog. The money was found ou his person. He is in jail. "Sold. led Lying at the Point of Death. Special to tbe Sentinel. Umon City, April 12. About ; o'clock last evening the citizsns of the Ohio side ot town were startled by the report that Barney McCormick, a resident of over thirty year?, had committed suicide by cutting his throat, having gone to his stable aud done the deed, and was in the agonies of death when discovered. Long continued ill health, lack of employment and despondency occasioned the act Itev. Ebecezer Tucker, one of our city magistrates, an old teacher of the black race, one of the pioneer anti slavery men of Randolph and Jay Counties, a man of superior echolarly and literary attainment", the author of the History of Randolph County, is now lying at the point of death, his mind having gone out in advance of life. TUE FIRE RECORD.

Iii St II Im kd Botel and Apartment House, a Fire-Proof Building, Burned-No-body 8erlonaly Hart. Cleveland, April 12. At 7 :S0 o'clock this morning fire was discovered in a room on the seventh floor of the Stillman hotel and apartment house, on Euclid avenue, and In a very short time the entile upper story of the building was in flames. The chambermaid, who made the discovery, ran screaming down the corridors toward the office, and the guests, only a few of whom had arisen, ran from their rooms in the utmost confusicn. .The clerk, hearing the noise of the commotion, hastened up stairs, and when he learned the cause ot it quietly informed the frightened people that there was no danger, the bulldii g being regarded as absolutely fiie proof. His reassuring tone allayed their ffars, and the guests returned to their rooms. Meanwhile, however, the flames, which originated in a room where the scrubbing utensils were kept, were spreading fast, and the servants, whose quarters were on the upper floor, barely had time to escape with their lives, many losing all their clothing. E:aht steamers were railed, and it was not unt l after five hours' hard work that the fire was gotten under control. The roof was entirely destroyed, the heavy timbers falling and crashing through the floors m many places. In this way the fire worked down to the sixth floor, and thence to the fifth by means of ash sluices, but it was not allowed to spread. A heavy beam fell in front of the door to Harry Stevens' room on the sixth floor and shut him In. He was rescued from tbe window on an exteofion ladder. Beyond a few cuts, from breaking window glass, nobody was hurt. The Stillman is the finest building in Cleveland. It was erected only a year ago, at a cost of about $500,000. It was owned by Colonel W. H. Harris and Dan P. Eells. With tbe exception of the roof it was fireproof. The loss ou the building is about $50,000, on which there is no insurance. The guefts and families lose about $15,000 by water. The loss of the servants will aggregate 3,000. It is supposed that the fire was caused by a curtain blowing into a gas jet. Dlsaatroos Fire In Missouri. Kansas City, April 12. A disastrous fire occurred this afternoon at Lee's Summit, a small town on the Missouri Pacific Railroad twenty-five milereast of this city. Twentyeight buildings were burned, comprising most all the business portion of the place. The lew will probably reach $100,000; insurarnut $10,000. The fire started in a photograph caltery from some unknown cause. A bote-retl sent from this city, by a special ta'n, arrived in time to do erood service. The Pcstoffice and Journal office were burned. Am eg notable losses are Gottrel's dry goods store, ?15. (03; Oker & Martin, lumber, $:,000; Lewis' grocery store, $10,000. CLEARANCES. The State of TrtMie for the fiMt Week, with the Percentages of Increase and Iftreaae. Bostojt, April 12. me following table, compiled from special dispatches to the Post, from the managers of the leading Clearinghouses of the United States, gives the clearances for the week ending April 11, 1835, with the percentage cf Increase and decrease In comparison with the corresponding week last year: New Yora. 401 &J1,4.J Dec... 6;i.0i,63i;Dec... 45.71 .to' Inc. 40,133,000 Dec. . 15,73 J.9G9, Dec-ll,90.000-lQC... 9.1W.IH lac10.00S.CC3 Inc. .. 7.:V)I.4'r Dee6.8 ,billh!C. S -ot.too Dec.. 4,695.315 D3C00 OeC 1,662 277! IOC 435.253 inc.. 1 $s2.8i l.NW.'iTil . .3J 4 ... S. 6 31 ...1 .3 .-12.3 .. 2 9 ... 6.4 .10:: 81 8 ...37.9 ... 2 5 as .20 i . -20.5 2.1 Boston.... Philadelphia....... - Chicago......... 6t XjOU-BW M....W Blumor&..... Cincinnati. Ban Fran&aoo . Pittsburg . New Orleans....--i Providence LoutoTille Milwaukee ... Kaueaa City..... t Detroit Cleveland-... Omaba ......... Indianapolis Hartford I.l .fil7 Deo 13 l l,t26.6lS'Inc. I 621.479' Inc.. l,17.6!lInc -1.24l.9ö3:DcC 77Z.516 Tne. 9 n.9r.: Inc.. 738.S45 Dec 77S.7Ö0 Dec. 725, IM Dec. 42.9lDec. .... 0.7 .22 6 ..... 5 1 ... .23 7 ... . 3 ." .....IS 3 4.6 1.6 26 4 Memphla. New HavenColutnbui Peona Portland Weroesier...... Bpringfield .......... 8t. Jr.stpa LowellBjratuse ..... 3 463.&1 Total 619 071,463; Dec. 2:7,;6.97i!Dec. .21.7 . 6.7 Outside Ne Yorkn.iHWM e Not: Cieveiand, Omaha and Syracuse not included In total Death Myatery Solved. Wabash, Ind.. April 1L A telegram received here from Andrews, to-day, states that the body of Chris. Wessner. a resident of Huntington, who mysteriously disappeared tome mouths ago, was found floating

In the river at Ceiden. It was fishld out an4 returned to the relatives. A large sum of money vu discovered in a pocket, which proves that his death was not the result o! assault. Wessaer was a German, about fifty years of age, and in at'luent circumstances. CUNNING HAH "aD BCRTOX. .

Secretary Mayard's Itetponae to Mr. Janet Flynn's Letter. New York, April 11. The following ts Secretary Bayard's letter in reply ta a request made to him to take appropriate action in regard to the cases of Barton and Cunningham, who are awaiting trial in London for complicity in the recent dynamite explosions: DvPAKTMf vT or Stats, ( Washington, April 10, lv- ) Mr. James Flynn, Correapondlng secretary or the Irtan National League of New York City, No. 61 Third avenue. New York: 8ib I hare received and given due consideration to yonr letter ef the 2th nit. and the resolution therein communicated. This Department is ready to lend promptly all lawful aid In its power to secure '"a just and fair trial to aay American citDen. whether native or naturalized, criminally charged in foreign countries, and triable in such Jurisdiction. There is. however, no provision by exlsUne law to defray the expense of employing legal counsel for the defense of citizens so sccused aa 1 held for trial, or for the employment of agents to attend and report the proceedings. I trust, however, tbe President will lecommend, and that Congress will provide a reasonable and adequate sum of money in order that careful supervision of stich important trials aa may Involve tne lives or liberties of American citiens, may be had. and aa Intelligent report of the proceedings be made, especially where the charge is serious aud the accuaed destitute of means and without friends. This department will t&kc sedulous lutereit in the treatment of law-abiding American citizens whilst in foreign countries, and do whatever ia within Its power to secure for them tbe fallest protection of the laws, and when charged with oSenses ail their rights to a fair and pablic trial and all legal defense. No other information of the citizenship of the parties charged or of the crime alleged than is contained in your communication ha been received at this department. Dae inquiry will be made and all proper steps tskeu. Ism, sir, your obedient servant, T. T. BiViitn. Another Member of the Illinois Legislature Deawl. SPRiM.riiLi, 111., April 12. Death hu claimed another member of the Illinois Legislature, this time tbe victim being J. Henry Shaw, of Bardstown, Cass County. About 12:4 ") o'clock the clerk of the Hotel Palace, missing Representative Shaw at dinner, and not having seen him during tbe morning, went to his room to call him. Receiving no answer he looked over the transom and saw bim lying as though dead. The door waa broken open, and upon examination Dr. Kerr, who had been called, gave it aa his opinion that the Representative had been' dead several hours. The deceased has been ailing during the whole eersion, but not so that he could not attend to his duties most of the time. Mr. Slaw was over eixty years of age, and served ia the Thiriy-third General Assembly, this being bia third time. He has been an nnswervIr g Democrat. This makes the third death during the session. It was anticipated that upon Senator Davis' assuming office something tangible would be done in relation to the becatorship question, but this unexpected occurence will again throw it back for twenty days at least. What makes the situation still worse, it leaves the Home at a tie upon any question which will be construed into a party issue, and thus retard business. Members who wished business to progress are very much disheartened. The Clerk of Ca5s County hss been telegraphed the occurrence, and the Governor will be requested to Issue a writ for a new election to morrow, which will doubtless bs done, bnt an election can not take place before twenty days after the call. The appearance cf the body when found indicated tbat Mr. Sbaw died without a Ktrcggle. His district is largely Demociatic. Tne Coroner held an inquest this afternoon, and the jury returned a verdict that the deceased came ta his death from causes unknown to them. The Cholera Scare Over. Clevelasp, O., April 11. The coroner thia morning began tbe post motern examination of the body of the little Kussell child, whose mysterious death yesterday caused sy much apprehension among physicians. In view of the cholera symptoms the examination was of the most searching character. Tne result, however, has removed all fears. It was found that tbe cause of death was co!iti or inflammation of the transverse coloa, an nfantile disease. The Coroner is yet unable to understand why the death was so painless, a collapse having preceded it in th;s case as well e that of the child who died one week ago, Tbe people residing in the vicinity of Alum street, where tbe Russell family lived, were much excited, and it was generally believed that cholera had really inais its appearance. Cold-lilooded Border. Gilmer, Tex., April 11. At Coffee, twelve miles from here, to-day, Thad Reece killed Perry Minor in cold blood. They had been rival suitors for the hand of a young lady, who a few months ago married Minor. Reece at tbe time awore tbat he would have Minor's life in revenge, and several times since hss abused him shamefully. Minor always being at the disadvantage of being unarmed. To-day they met again in a saloon acd Reece brought up the old love affair, uiirg the most outrageous language to Minor, who finally laid: Shoot me it you will, but don't talk tbat way." Reece fired, tbe ball passing through Minor's left breast. The murderer then tied and is still at lare. Both men are highly connected. The War Ih Central America. La Lir.iRTAi via Gai.vxston, April 1- A treaty of peace has been signed between the government ot San Salvador and Honduras, the latter Republic has joined the allianc e against Gautemals. The armies of Salvador and her allies are advancing on the city of Gantemala from various points and are everywhere welcomed by the populace. Many ol the disbanded Gaulemalan troops are joining the allied forces. Amüsement The eld reliable amusement caterer, W. C. Coup, appears again among us to-night at the Grand Opera House with a very unique entertainment, in which hora and mule, are the principal features. We explained tbe entertainment fully in Sunday's 8sntlrel. Tbe Ciccmnati papers of )at week endorsed tbe exhibition as fully worthy of patronage. The Lorellas are strikingly similar in their slate business to the renownd lisnlon Bros.. aDd "Mishaps" was written especially to show off their great athtettc feat, wbicha-e rt polar hair raicers The tirst scene open in -Battersby's Flata." in Pans, and give the tbiee Lorellas as tbe guests of "Batter?bv" an opportunity to display their tale its which never fail to keep the house will with enthusiasm. The Museum begins a new week to dar and to-night with an entire change of programme and new curiosities. Open day and night until 10 p. uu The Mendelssohn Quintett Club wHl.gis-e a grand concert to-oigat at Pljcmtit Church.