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The New York Academy of Music Crowded With Germans The Sleeting Addressed hy General Sigel, Ottendorfer and Other. New York, Sept. 2). The Academy of Music was crowded to-night, as were the streets in the vicinity, on the occasion of the German Democratic mass meeting. The interior of the building was handsomely decorated and there was a considerable display of fireworks. General Franz Sigel called the meeting to order. Among the Vice Presidents were George Ehret, Henry Clanssen, Jr., 1'hiJip Ebling. John Eichler, Peter Doelger, Henry Bisehoff, Jr., and Davis U. leungiing, all brewers. General Franz Sigel presided, and in the opeai . . TT 1 1 a. V 1 : ids epeecn saia: "ve coa t oeueve in prohibition. We want a Dainosratic republic; we want to join the rinks of the party that caused the downfall of the Tweed rirg, and opposes other rings of the same kind. We want not enly a change in the highest officials of the administration, bat a thorough weeding out of all corrupt officeholders. May the victorious Democratic party, with its glorioas allies, act from this standpoint." Oswald Ottendorfer.editor of the Staats ZeituDg, was chosen president of the meeting and was received with cheers.. Every mention by Ottendorfer of the names of Cleveland and Hendricks was greeted with cheers. Ottendorfer closed hia speech by 6aying of Cleveland: "You have a man as plain as he is unpretending: a man who hesitates not a moment to show to the door the friends of corruption and demagogues as soon as they dare approach him; a man who can not ba induced by r ereonal or political considerations to leave the path which sound common sense has shown him to be the riht one, and for these reasons has repelled the worst elements of his parry while Blaine has attracted them. Governor Solomon, of Wisconsin, reviewed the Mulligan letters, and said he believed Blaine to be a thoroughly corrupt man; a man unworthy the votes or confidence of the people of this country. Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the New York World, in the course of his speech, said; "The history of the State of Elaine is ample proof cf what Elaine represents. Why, if the laws passed in Maine, with the full aid and content of James G. Blaine, wereEtiir.in force to-lay, no foreign-born citizen would have a vote cast for him. This enlightened Republican State of Maine has for many years prohibited, and does now prohibit, the sale of ale, porter, beer and malt liquors, wines, cider, as well as all distilled spirits, making it a criminal otTense, punishable by both tine and imprisonment. I hold that prohibition can have no place in any system of government based on the will of "the people and the free consent of the governed. We are guaranteed the inalienable frights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Prohibition is repugnant to every idea of popular self-government and American freedom. It is eaithatically unconstitutional, revolutionary and void; destructive and subversive of the very foundation of a true Republic and fraught with danger to its existence." Resolution in the spirit of the speeches were adopted. The preamble said: "James G. Blaine is one of the most fanatical champions of the most narrow-minded temperance compulsion and of political disfranchisement adopted by citizens." The following telegram from Governor Cleveland was read: I regret that I am not abla to attea.I the meeting to-nibt. I hope It will be as successful as its Toof-l enthusiastic promoters can desire. (Signed) GrovER Cleveland. Mayor Edson also eent regrets. Eefore the meeting adjourned Carl Schurz appeared on the platform. Iiis appearance was the signal for the most enthusiastic and prolonged outborat of applause that has been heard in the city during this campaign. The audience simply went half wild and shouted and cheered for over three minutes. At length Schurz, after haviog been called to the footlights, was permitted to say he was weary after his extended tnp through the West. He told his hearers that he had met with the kindest reception all through the West, and that everywhere he found great enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket An overllow meeting was held in Irving HalL TUE STAR ROUTE INVESTIGATION'. Committee's Report Make More Startling Disclosures Than Ever During Hayes' Administration $1,000,000 Were Stolen. Washington, D. C, Sept. 29. The Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice, which, during the last session of CoDgres?, investigated the Star-route prosecutions, has completed its report for submission to the Housa on re-assembling. The i port is signed by Messrs. Springer, (Chairman) VanAIstyne, Hemphill, Fjan and Crisp, Democratic members of the Committee. It details at length the history of the Star-route frauds, front Hayes' administration down to the time of the commencement of the suits, and declares that the frauds upon the service could not have been committed without the knowledge, co-operation and assistance cf Thomas J. Brady, and that not only the contractors tut many ether persons in high official position in the Gov ernment were either criminally cognizant of the frauds or guilty participants therein. It declares the amount out of wbich the Govern a en t was defrauded in Star-route mail service during Hayes administration exceeds ?4,XK),0X). At one time the Government was paying $150,000 per year for carrying mails to offices that yielded less than SV2 C00 revenue. Ibe ktory of the attempt to arbitrate the Salisbury and Parker cases is told at some length, and the report has the following to tay concerning these combinations: It appears from the evidence that two of the rcoct powerfnl combinations of post rote contractors were known as the ealisbnry and Farcer combinations. Ail efforts at procuring indictir.tnts against these parties failed. A material witlies against Salisbury was one Thomas A. McI'evitt, who held a lare amount of expedited services. It seems Mclevitt Had been Indicted in Philadelphia lor fraudulent bidding on certain routes in Texas a matter quite distinct from those In which his evidence was chiefly sought. Woodward was directed by Attorney General MacVengh and Postmaster General James to procure aa atlioavit from McDevitt as to his knowledge of frauds in the Salisbury cases. McDevitt made a full tutemect of all the facts Within his knowledge, und was given by Woodward an implied promise of immunity, in consideration of his making full J1. closure. Toe binding force of this implied promise was recognized by Jarnes and MscVcagh. McDevitt added that he would freely communicate any furtner information within his knowledge whenever called noon bv the Government. Notwithstanding this f ill disclcmre on the part of McDeviil. and the loiJilied promise of immunity which he received rom woodward, the Philadelphia indictment was pressed to trial, and McDevitt was convicted and sent to the penitentiary for one year. Woodward protested to the President and the Attorney General that in the vrial and conviction of McDevitt the oleinn pledges of the Government had beon broken, and urged Executive clemency In bis behalf, which waa not ft ran ted. Woodward testifles. also, that McDevitt was the witness he ihould have relied udod to break into the Salisbury combination and show their methods of doing b iirefs. and that he was tae only witness accessible to rnaie proof against the powerful combination;

but that the Government took that witness and Eent him to the penitentiary." The report continues: The manner of procuring an expedition was reduced to a science. The affidavits of contractors and others were used as a foundation upon which the expedition and increased service were allowed. The brazen effrontery and perjury of tbete affidavit makers Is without parallel in the history ot criminal prosecutions. Affidavits, signed and sworn to in blank, were kept on hand by the contractors, just as they laid up supplies of grain for their horses. These affidavits were the sole measure lor the cost of the expedition, and ao other evidence was required by the department for grantln? an increase of services, and increases of speed, which cost the Gorernment hundreds of thousands of dollars. A stock of these blank affidavits was kept on hand, and blanks filled when occasion reouired to use them; and the papers filed with the department were the basis of tecuring large and valuable additions to each contract. Thus perjury was made the basis of all the frauds rerpetrated. A considerable portion of the report is devoted to the subject of employment and compensation of attorneys. The amount paid for this purpose, as far as ascertained, is $144 840. of which George Bliss received ?07,Toi A review in reference to the testimony in explanation of the failure of the Government to secure conviction in two Star-route trials is given, but the report says the Commission had not time to pursue the iavestigation in reference to the attempts to bribe jurors. In reference to tne contractors not Indicted, the re pert says: From a tabular statement from the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, the amount which it claimed could be recovered from the Salisbury and barkers is estimated at $544,40:;, while the record of evidence In tne Postornce Department at the beginning of the investigation by the Department was meager against the Salisbury and l'arkers, yet the evidence subsequently procured through special agents, sent out for the purpose, showed thai the operations of these parties as contractors were sparingly fraudulent, aud that they should have been indicted and convicted, and prosecuted in civil suits for the recovery of large sums illegally obtained from the Government, fcome mysterious and powerful influences must have operated to secure their immunity. The next subject considered is in relative to the failure to indict ex-Governor Kellogg, and the report says: George Bliss seemed to oppose all efforts looking toward such an indictment, and cpon this point continues as follows: There is a wide issue of veracity between Bllsa BDd members of the Grand Jury, as to efforts made by Bliss to secure an Indictment against Kellog. Tne foreman of the jury. Mr. Mitchell, and Messrs. Willard, tuiaoDstou, Stewart and Tuesdell, appeared before the committee, and each corroborating the other, stated substantially that Bliss, after the evidence of Walsh had been concluded before tte Grand Jury, stated that James B. Prica was expected to arrive in the city on tne following day and would appear before the jury as a witness for the Government in that case, and secure aa adjournment over one lay on that account. This was on Friday, and the promise was that on Saturday Price would appear as a witness, iotimat:n? that Price's testimony was necessary to make out the Government's case. On Saturday, when the jury met, Bliss announced the failure of Price to appear, and was compelled to submit tae case on the evidence already taken. The jury then voted rot to present an indictment. Bliss stated that he did not expect Price's attendance, but might have Eatd to the jury that the case would ba stronger wheD tried be.'ore a petit jury, for then they expected t- l.ave Price as a witness for the Government, but each of the erand jurors above mentioned was positive that taii was not what Bliss said. It fnrther appears from the evidence of Merrick and Kerr that at the time this Grand Jurv was in srs.non, the Government had no knowledge whatever that Trice would ever be a witness in its behalf. He was then under indictment for conspiracy, and no proposition had been received to accept him as a witness at that time.

PLEURO-PNEC.UONI1. The Chicago Live Stock Exchange Slakes a Proposition to the Bureau of Animal Industry, Which is Declined. Chicago, Sept. 20. Some days ago the Chicago Live Stock Exchange passei resolutions, and forwarded them to Commissioner Loring, of the Department of Agriculture; expressing doubt as to the truth of the reports of the Bureau of Animal Industry, concerning the existence of pieuro-pneu-monia in the West, and proposing, as an experiment, to boar all the expenses of placing ten head cf cattle in a pasture with the alleged infected herds to learn whether they would contract the disease. Commissioner Loring referred this communication to Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, for tuch action as he might deem advisable. Dr. Salmon's reply is furnished the Associated Press by the Breeders' Gazette. He traces the existing disease from its source, in a herd of unregistered Jerseys, bought by C. IL C. Dye, near Baltimore, last fall, and taken to Troy, O.. and shows how the contagion spread by the distribution of these cattle, and by distribution from herds thus infected, covering in this waylall the points at which cattle have died recently of alleged pleuro-pheumonia; or have been examined by the bureau ana been pronounced a.'Hicted with luDg plague. That it is genuine contagious pleuro pneumonia, he asserts, is amply proved by the concurrence of every competentveterinariau who has seen post mortems of thesa cattle made. He points out that these involuntary experiments by cattle owners have been on a much larger scale than that proposed by the Stock Exchange; that C00 head of cattle have been exposed, and that while, in the largest herds the eilectof such contagron was only beginning to be apparent, no less than ninety bead have died or been killed as the result of having thus contracted the plague. He says it would take from three to five months to complete the proposed experiment, which has already been tried more thoroughly than they would try it, and that to suspend the efforts to stamp out this menace to Western herds in the meantime would be criminal. He therefore declines the proposition of the Stock Exchange, and refers it to those whose cattle have been slaughtered for facts as to the disease in their herd3. FOSTOFFICE CLKK ARRESTED For Attempting to Violate the Bankrupt X.awH of Indiana Wanted Also by an Insurance Company. Wasiiisgtos, Sept. 26. Seth W. Tuley, alias Philip Nolan, a PostoSice Department clerk, was arrested yesterday on a charge of violating the bankrupt laws of Indiana. After his arrest it was learned that he was wanted in Indiana to answer another charge, that of attempting to defraud an insurance company. It is said that Eeven or eight years ago Tuley insured hia life in the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, at Milwaukee, for S,000, and after paying two or three premiums disappeared; that shortly afterward his wife removed from Indianapolis, where they had been living, to New Albany, and from the last caned place filed an application for the payment of her husband's insurance, accompanying the application with what purported to be proof ot his having been drowned while crossing a creek, and of the ioternient of his remains in New AlbaDy; that the insurance company was about to pay the policy on Tnley'a life when they learned he was seen subsequently to the date of his alleged drowning. In July lest Tuley, who then and since has called himself Nolan, and said he was from Texas, was appointed under the civil service in the I'CBtolLce Department. Since his arrest he

has admitted his name was Tuley and that he is wanted in Indiana for attempting to defraud an insurance company. He was sent to Indiana last night. JOHN W. GARRETT'S FUNERAL.

The Foneral of the Great Railroader Conducted In the Simplest Possible MannerIt Waa Largely Attended by BaltL moreans, Railroad Magnates and Others. Baltimore, Sept. 23 The funeral ot the late John W. Garrett took place to-day from Montebello, the country residence of the deceased. The services, agreeable to the expressed desire of Mr. Garrett during his illness, were of the simplest character, conducted by Rev. Dr. Leyburn, pastor of the Associate Reformed Church, of the Board of Trustees of which Mr. Garrett had for many years been President A very Iarga concourse of relatives and friends assembled at Montebello at 9 o'clock, where services were commenced, consisting of singing the hymn, "Kock of Ages," by the choir of the church and the reading of the burial service by Dr. Leyburn. The remains were then taken to Greenmont Cemetery, the funeral cortege comprising upward of 150 carriages. "Within and outside the cemetery walls fdlly 12,000 persons were gathered to pay the l?t tribute of respect to the deceased. The Mayor and members of the City Council, Board of Trade. Corn and Flour Exchange, Chemical and Fertilizer Exchange, officers and employes of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad all along its route were fully represented. Many prominent railroad men were present, among whom General Roberts, President, and Edward Smith, First Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad; II. J. Jewett and John King, Jr., of the Erie Road; John S. Barbour. President of the Virginia Midland; W. W, Peabody, President of the Ohio and Mississippi; Albert Fink, Commissioner cf the trunk lines; Mr. Sergeant, of the Grand Trunk; Franklin B. Go wen, of the Reading; General George B. McClellan, Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington City, and George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, were all present. The floral tributes were most elaborate nnd appropriate, consisting of floral engines, a broken car wheel and other emblematic devices. DEATH OF J. W. G ARRET T, The President of the Baltimore Railroad Itesolutions of Condolence and Itegret Paused. Dei:r Park, Md., Sept 2G, John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, die! here at 3:25 this morning, after a protracted illness, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. Mr. Garrett was a native of Baltimore. He complete! his education at Lafayette College, Pa., when only nineteen years of a?. He then returned to Baltimore and entered the counting house of his father, where he remained nntil he was elected director of the Baltimore Railroad, in 1S57. During the year following he was elected its President, and from that time the success of the road seemed assured. Through his management the connections of the road west of the Ohio River were made. His labors were continuous. Though he possessed a robust constitution two years ago his health failed, but he did not withdraw from active participation in the management of the road until about a year ago. About that time Mrs. Garrett lost her life by au accident that caused a shock to hia nervous system from which he cevtr recovered. A meeting of the directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company waa held in- Baltimore this afternoon, when resolutions were adopted expressive of the sense of the body at the loss which this city has sustained. At a meeting of the Stock Exchange re3 lutions of condolence with the family of the deceased and of regret were adopted. A THRILLING ACCIDENT. Four Passenger Cars on the Grand Trunk Thrown Down a Twenty-Five Foot Eminent. Toronto, Ont., Sept. 25. Three Pullmans and the private car of Chief Engineer Hannaford, of the Grand Trunk express for Montreal and Boston, left the track near Pickering Station, last night, owing to a broken frog, and went over an embankment twenty-five feet high. At the time of the accident it was very dark and the rain waa pouring in torrents. The crash of the rolling cars, screams of the women, groans and shrieks of the wounded, all emanating from the intense darkness, were terrible to listen to. The horrors were muitiplied when Chief Engineer Ilannaford'a coach took fire. The flames burned fiercely, despite the pouring rain, and quickly communicated to the Fallman coach that came next, though there the flames were stayed. A large number of townspeople qaiefcly gathered and assisted in rescuing the passengers from the burning Fallman. Quick as possible they were collected together and the roll called, when it was found that about a dozen were injured, but none seriously. How all escaped ia a mystery. One of the coaches was smashed into kindling wood, and ail were whirled over and over several times, yet many escaped absolutely unhurt, while most of the wounds are of Hght character. The injured were taken to Whitby, where medical aid was procured. The damage to the track and rolling stock is estimated at $100,CW, PISTOL AND PITCUFORK. The Horrible Tart They Played In an Indiana Tragedy. Hammond, Ind., Sept. 22. At Hessville, near here, yesterday, a party of eight ordered several rounds of drinks in Joseph He3s saloon and refused to pay for them. This led to a quarrel and a scuffle, in which a window was broken. This so incensed Hess that he took up a pitchfork and stabbed a German named Yearsen in the breast, and his son, Edward Hess, took np a double-barrel shot-gun and fired into the crowd, completely riddhnz Thomas Welsh in the neck and breast. Half a dozen shot entered just below the heart of George H. Adams, a colored man. James Conley was shot in the right arm. After the shooting was over a hand-car was procured and the wounded brought here. Welsh died on the way. He begged for water and als) for his companions to cut his throat. His sufferings were terrible. Adams can not recover. Welsh is supposed to hail from New York; Adams is from Irondale, 111.; Conley is from South Chicago, and a son of a saloonkeeper. All the party were employed in a brick-yard near Hessville. Edward Hass, who did the shooting, is about twentyfive years old and works on the railroad as a laborer and bean a hard reputation. He escaped soon after the shooting. He got a hand-car and pulled out toward Chicago, being assisted in hia flight by three of his companions.

THE LOVERS' TRAGEDY.

It Was the Absorbing: Topic of Conversation at Dallas llonlatetch Ia a Young German Officer, and Miss 3Ianays Is From Fort Worth. Dallas, Tex., Sept 23. The lovers' tragedy cf yesterday, wherein George Houlstech slew Miss Fanny Mannys and then committed suicide, has been the all absorbing topic of conversation, and during the day the bodies were visited by curious hundreds. Further investigation of the identity of the victims to a love denied by unrelenting parents, shows that they Lailed from Fort Worth, and that their visit to Dallas was to consummate their murderous ends. Miss Mannys' body was claimed by her brother this evening and taken ' to Fort Worth, while Houlatech was buried here. Later developments reveal the fact that Houlstech was a young officer in the German army, visiting America on a year's leave of absence. Houlstech and Miss Mannys had been stopping at an obscure hotel for several weeks. His parents in Germany lefused to sanction his marriage, and his leave of absence about expiring, they concluded to die rather than be reparated. TUB CHOLERA. It Still Continues Its Ravages In France, Spain and Italy. Madrid, Sept. 2S. During thepa3t twentyfour hours throughout the cholera -infected districts there have been eight new cases and six deaths. Pakis, Sept. 28. Three deaths from cholera in the south of France to day. Oran, Sept. 28 Six suspected cases were reported here. Five proved fatal. Rome, Sept. 2S. A fresh case of cnolera was reported here to-day, the patient being a soldier. In the Kingdom of Italy in the last twenty-four hours, there have been reported 40b new cases and 222 deaths, including 116 cases and 74 deaths at Naples, and 39 cases and 25 deaths at Genoa, Since the outbrr ak of the disease in Italy 13,220 persons in Italy ht re been attacked and 0.4S0 have died. It Still Clings to the Originally Infected French Cities It Also Continues to Create Feaiful Havoc in Italy. Toclox, Sept. 20. Four cholera pajients are still under treatment at Bonrencontre Hcspital, and one at St. Mandrier, where there has been one death to-day. Maksailles, Sept. 20. Six French passengers from Chochin China, on the steamer Ab Del Kader, which put in at Bono, Algiers, for quarantine, died of cholera after having been landed and placed in the hospital. Five deaths from cholera here to Cay. and eleven deaths from cholera in the Sinthern provinces, including the Vicar General of Nimes. Rome, Sept. 20. The report of cholera in Italy for the past six hours gives a total of 3."5 fresh cases, and 212 deaths, including 171 cases and 100 deaths in Naples, and ninetynve ciises and fifty-five deaths at Genoa. A SAD DOUBLE TRAGEDY. The Bodies of a Young Slan and Young Woman Found in the Woods Evidently a Case of Murder and Suicide. Dallas, Tex., Sept, 2?. a double tragedy was developed this afternoon by the discovery fa the woods just beyond the corporation limit, tfn the west fork of Trinity River. The vicrrfns, waen first discovered, lay side by side. The rin's arms were extended and partly lying on that of his love, as if, in the agonies of death, he Fought to embrace her in a convulsive grasp. Ehe was apparently aged about eighteen. She wore a diamond brooch and was dressed with exquisite taste, which bore bo outward evinence of poverty. Be appeared to be a few years her senior. Between them lav a revolver with two chambers empty, tellln? the story of murder and suicide. Near by was found a note written In a clear, bold band, saying: "As we can not be united in life, we will be In death. George Fanstrick and Annie Manlor." The appearances and an examination cf the bodies lead to tbe conclusion that the note was written before reaching the fatal scene, and that after a final leave taking he fired the pistol into her mouth, thus killing her; and then placed the weapon to his right temple and again pulling the trigger fell close beside her. Death, Counties, was instantaneous with both. Beyond the names on the bit of paper, nothing further Is known which might eive a clue to their identity. The bodies were still warm when taken charge of by the undertaker, and will te held until a claimant appears. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. A Young Lady Assaulted by a Tramp and Knocked Off a Horse, Which He Tries to Steal. Pittsburg, Sept. 27. This afternoon, while a young lady named Strom, the daughter of a wellknown and respected farmer, was ont riding on the Rlttanning turnpike, on a valuable horse, she was stopped by a tramp, who demanded that she dismount and give him the animal. Upon refusal, he knocked her off the boiBe with a blow, and after beating her nntil she was insensible, mounted the horse and roe away. Miss Strom was found shortly afterward, and parties immediately started In all directions to hunt her assailant. He was captured some distance away and taken to Sharpeburg, where he care the name of Hugh Adams, and admitted the assault, but said it waa only for the purpose of robbery. There was great excitement, and for a time It was .feared he would be lyncued, as threats were freely made, but finally moderate counsels prevailed. Be was brought to this city and lodged in jail. Tne young lady is greatly prostrated, but will recover. A TERKI1ILE STOKSI. A Windstorm and Cloudburst do Consider able Damage to the North of Dayton, Ohio. Datto.v, 0., Sept. 23. A windstorm of unusual violence swept across the country twenty-five miles north of Dayton, Saturday, and a cloudburst, giving falls of five inches of rain in three-quarters of an hour. The water poured down the valley like a tidal wave, raising the Miami River at Dayton five feet in a short time. At Swift Run, two miles north of Pi qua, the banks of the lakes connected with the Piqua water supply gave way, and the flood rushed into the canal breaking the banks. There are two breaks in the hydraulic at that plaee. The Sidney feeder also broke. Four houses at St. Paris were damaged by lightning. North of Paris a number of houses were unroofed. North of Mechanicsburg houses and barns were blown down. At Dayton it rained hard to-day, flooding the lower part of the city. No more rain here, however, than desired. A BOLD ROniiEBY. A liar of Gold Stolen In View of the Clerks, in ISroad Daylight, and the Thief Escapes. , New York, Eept 27. To-day an unknown man stole a bar of gold worth I jOO, from the brokers' office of Martin & Runyon, In the basement of 102 Broadway, in the presence of the clerks. lie dashed ont of the door hotly pursued and ran np the steps leading to the offices in tbe building. Through the ofUce on the fifth floor he reached a

fire-escape, descended to the roof of an adjoinin; building, and got down through tbe scatUe of tne top into the street, where he escaped. It appears tbe thief visited the law office of Mr. Comstocs, tb rough which he escaped, both yesterday and this morning. He pretended to be a workman, and asked permission to examine the fire escape and some wires. Leave being given, he descended the fire-escape this morning and took the opportunity to open the scuttles in the flat roofs to which the escape leads.

Killed Him in Self-Defense. Special to the Sentit el. Clovekdale, Ind., Sept. 27. On last Thursday afternoon Dr. Willard Bridges and Cat. Fierson, a blacksmith, both of Alaska, Morgan County, drove to Quincy In Bridges' buggy. Dr. Bridges purchased some medicine, completed his business, and getting Pierson in the buggy started for home. Pierson had improved his time so well that he was fighting drunk, and becoming abusive, was ejected from the vehicle at a point two miles distant from Alaska. Just after dark Bridges was walking down the street with a man named Koxworthy, when 1'iemou came up, and drawing a knife, called Foxworthy whom he took for Bridges a s n of a b h, and started at him. As soon as be discovered his mistake he sprang at Bridges, wno picked up a piece of a board and struck him on the forehead. Piersoa fell and remained insensible until hi death, which occurred at 11 o'clock next lav. Bridges is a young physician and a sou of M. C. Bridges, a prcmioeut minister and merchant of Cloverdale. lie is a genial, good-tempered man and not of a quarrelsome disposition, while the murdered man has the leputation of being very ugly when drunk and somewhat of a bully. Bridges is a very small man and will probably weigh 130 pounds. From what ran be learned it is clearly a case of murder in self-defente. The Lady That Was Frozen to Death Watebbcry, Conn., Pepb 27. Carrie J. Welton, whose death from freezing, while descending Longe Teak, Colorado, was reported in to-day's papers, was born in this city in 1S42, and resided here the most of her life. She was finely educated and a brilliant horsewoman, with a propensity to do uncommon things, and to achieve a reputation lor courage and pnysical endurance. Her home here, Kose Hill L'ottuse. is tbe handsomest residence in the city. At her father's death tbe house was left to her mother and the ground to the caughter. Her father, a wealthy manufacturer, was killed several rars ago by a kick from his daughter's horse, ill; Ut ltnn had already this season ascended Tike's Peak, and had written home within a month of exploits performed and contemplated. Her mother is now on the way home from Europe. The body will b8 brought here fcr interment in the Uiverside Cemetery. Icebergs and Disasters. St. Johns, X. S.. Sept. 27 The steamer ErUtol, from Montreal for Bristol, arrived here with ner propeller bioken, smashed by a collision with ice.There are 075 icebergs between Cape Treels and I ape Kace. An average of fifteen icebergs pass St. Johns daily, going south in the track of the ocean steamers. Crafts arriving at St Johns report passing a large amount of wreckape on the coast of Labrador. On Thursday fierce hurricanes were experienced. On the same date the scnooner Lizette was lost but the crew was saved. Heavy disasters from the north are anticipated. Cocoeption Bay appears like a miniature Polar sea, being dotted with seventy-nine largo icebergs. Orange disturbances are developing rapidly throughout Ker i'oundiend. Murdered by a Tough. Dayton. Sept. '2$, Henry Slopy was murdered at Middletown, Sanday afternoon at 4:."0 by Sandy Jackson, a tough of the town. Jackson was drunk and attempted to stir up a row. Slopy ran avray and was struck in the back of the jaw with a rock, which broke his neck. The missile was thrown by JackEon. The assailant was arrested immediately. The people are greatly excited and threaten lynching. Special police were sent to guard to the jail, which is surrounded by crowds of threatening people. Double Infanticide. PiTTsr-ur.G, Sept. 23 This morning William Toilivar, colored, found two dead babes in an outhouse attached to his residence, on Shelby streets. Subsequent developments proved that the infants were the children of Melissa Jordan, a young colored woman, and, according to the Coroner's jury, she is guilty of double infanticide. A warrant was sworn out for her arrest, and she is now under police surveillance at West Pennsylvania Hospital. A Gang ot Safe-Hlowers Arrested. St. Loris, Sept. 2S James Homer, Frank Homer and James Murray, who have been blowing open and robbing snfes along the line of the Wabash Railroad, were arrested at Fem, Ind., yesterday by officers in tha secret service of the road. A complete set of burglars tools were found in their possession. They are the same parties who blew open tbe safe at the station-house at Denver, Ind., on the 25th inst. About 830,000 Missing in the Boston Trust Fund. Boston, Sept, 27. It is reported the amount missing from the trust fund in the security safe in the deposit vault, to which Charles . Htevens had access, is about 130,000, and that the total amount of the fund is about (100.000, which is held for the benefit of the two daughters of the late William IL O'Brien, of the firm of Jordan, Marsh & Co. Young Stevens is reported in Europe. It is believed he took only about (1,000 with nim. LYING ABOUT COLONEL GRAY. Another Lie Squashed About Oar Gallant Candidate for Governor. UsiON City, Ind., Sept. 22. Noticin g a Epecial in the Indianapolis Sunda y Times, dated Richmond, Ind., September 20, misrepresenting Colonel Gray, we feel that a reply is necessary. The communication is headed "Gray's Pardon," which communication purports to contain the statements of one Key. Achum Jackson, Hosman Clark and Jefferson G ist. Rev. Achum Jackson (if there is such a man) says he was subpenaed for the defence on the trial of Calvin Bunch; that Isaac P. Gray and James Brown wereBunch'a counsel. The said Harmon Clark says I remember the trial of Calvin Bunch, which I attended and heard the evidence. Colonel Isaac P. Gray, the present Democratic candidate for Governor, conducted the defence. Now I desire to say that the statements of those men are infamously false, as Colonel Gray was not engaged in the practice of law at that time, was not connected with the trial in any - manner whatever, and for the truth of this refer to General Thomas M. Browne, Judge John J. Cheney, Hon. Enos L. Watson and every member of the Randolph County bar. He was not even present at the trial. The said Jefferson Gist says Colonel Gray pardoned one John Brown, sent to the penitentiary from this county. That, too, is false, as the records in the Governors office will show. Colonel Gray did not pardon John Brown; he served out his time. Calvin Bunch served nearly twenty years in the penitentiary, and, the officers certified, without a single reprimand during his incarceration. There had been petitions on file eleven years asking for his pardon. Colonel Gray says that Governor Williams investigated the case and made a minute in writing: "Pardon to be granted before my time is out," and had so promised Bunch's son. Colonel Gray simply carried out Governor Williams' order, and granted the pardon about the last day of what would have been Governor Williams' term had he lived. The object of the campaign lie was to create the impression that Colonel Gray had pardoned a man whom he had . defended on his trial. The people of this county, irrespective of party, know it to be falsa. It is in keeping with the numerous campaign lies bow in circulation. Alles Javjta.

AB0ÜT LOGAN.

Chapters in the History of Black Jack. The Black Laws of Illinois Prime Reading for the Colored Voter Recruiting (Soldiers for the Rebel Army. We have recently received several inquiries for information concerning Logan's record. We give to-day some of its prominent features, which we have, however, already published. We have another interesting chapter which we will give to morrow or within a day or two at farthest: BLACK LAWS, The following is a part of the famous black laws of Illinois. John A. Logan, Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency, is the author: "If a negro or mulatto, bound or free, shall hereafter come into this State and remain ten days, with the evident intention of residing in the same, every such negro or mulatto shall be deemed guilty ot a high misdemeanor, and for tbe first offense shall be fined the sum of $50. If such negro or mulatto shall be found guilty, and the fine assessed be not paid forthwith to the Justice of the Peace, the said,Jnstice shall, at public auction, proceed to sell such negro or mulatto," lOGAS's ENSLAVEMENT ACT. New York Weekly Xews.1 Rev. Wm. B. Derrick, the colored Blaine elector-at-large from this State, has recently returned from an interview with "Brother Blaine," loaded up with ammunition for the war. After appealing to his colored friends not to vote the Democratic ticket, he says: "We can not safely leave the Republican party and scatter our votes till the German and Irish element particularly the Irish element learns to respect our rights. Ireland is clamoring for liberty at home, and still she is unwilling to accord the same rights to us. The Irish have been our bitter and relentlees foes. Every vote they have cast as a people havo been cast to enslave us." This Mr. Derrick should know that slavery existed here as a colonial institution under the laws of England, and it has been abolished chiefly under Democratic administrations. In this State, especially, it was a Democratic Governor (D;sniel D, Tompkins) who recommended and finally signed the bill which abolished it. If Mr. Derrick had asked "Brother Blaine" for a copy cf the Illinois Enslavement act of February 12, 1S53, entitled "An act to prevent the immigration of free negroes into this State" he would have found jnst one act for the enslavement of his people, and the only act of the kind that ever became a law in this country. It was introduced into the Illinois Legislature and became a law mainly throe eh the eil'orts of John A. Logan, the very man whom the reverend gentleman expects to vote for as Vice Presi dent on the same ticket as "Brother Blaine." PRIME BEADING FOE THE COLORED VOTEU. "There was a law once in force in Illinois to the effect that any person caught in the act cf giving aid or assistance to any colored man, woman or child should be arrested, and, upon proof of the charge, should be put in prieon for two years. I was practicing law at that time in an Illinois town, where a little colored lad came to my house and said: Please, mister, won't you give me something to eat? I haven't had anything to eat in two days.' I called my wife and told her to get the boy a big slice of bread and butter it all over, and get some meat. 'Would it not be better,' she said, 'to have the boy come in the house, as everybody seems to be watching us? I said, 'No, I want this people to se that I am not afraid to give and sustain any of God's poor unfortunates.' The Grand Jury was in session at the time, and an indictment was soon fonnd against me for giving sustenance to a negro. I was accordingly arrested and brought before the court, and pleaded guilty to the charge, and stated in open court that I would do so again, and whenever I found the laws of man interfering with the laws of God I would violate the human law every time. The testimony given had the desired eifect, and the Court announced to the packed Court-house that be found the prisoner at the bar 'not guilty of tbe charge,' and I was set free. The man who was the prime mover and factor in this bill was none other than John A. Logan, the nominee for Vice President of the Republican party." Governor St, John's recent speech. AN INQCIKY AEOCT LOGAN. To the Editor cf the Sentinel: Sir Will you please answer through the columns of the Sentinel the following question? Did John A. Logan ever recruit soldiers for the rebel army? and oblige A Sentinel Reader. Mulberry, Ind. . ANSWEK. ' We have only Republican information on the question raised by our correspondent. When some of Mr. Logan's friends were urging him for the first place on the Republican ticket, the Chicago News, a Republican paper, on the 11th day of May said: But Logan did not confine his hatred to the North to mere words, as the following excerpt from an affidavit sworn to before John j. Harmon, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Alexander County, Illinois, September 30, 1868, will show: "I, John G. Wheatly, a resident of the city, coanty and State aforesaid, do solemnly swear that on the 2Sth day of May, 1SG1, I went from Williamson County to join Captain J. B. Cunningham's company (G) of the Fifteenth Regiment Tennessee Volunteers; that Major General John A. Logan, now a candidate for Con&resa-at-large, and who then represented this (the Thirteenth! Congressional District, was the chief person who raised said company and persuaded me to join the same; that said Logan accompanied us (about seventy in number) in the night part of the way from Williamson County to Paducah, the place designated for us to cross the Ohio River. We crossed at Paducah, according to John A. Logan's instructions, to evade Union troops, which he stated were stationed at Cairo. My son, R. L. Wheatly, Thompson Coder, Harry Hayes, William Tinker, Jackson Brown, Jackson Law, George Law, Joshua Law, Fleming Ghent, Martin Williams, aud others, all except the first, now residing, or were when I first heard from them, in Marion, Williamson County Illinois, were members of said company, and will attest the truth of this statement "It Is a fact that up to July S, 1SC1, although repeatedly urged to abandon his treasonable attitude. Logan never by voice or act gave in his adherance to the Union. On that date the Chicago Tribune received the following Ia its dispatch from Washington: " 'John Logan fails in, quits his dirty work, and even wants a regiment ' " If we had not seen this in a Republican psper we might have promptly concluded that it was a "Democratic lie;" but finding it in one of the great moral engines of "the grand old party," there is something staggering about its information. A LUNAR COLUMBUS. The Alleged Discoveries of an English Astronomer RelatiT to the Moon. (Philadelphia Inquirer. Most people old enough to have known anything of it, or to have been told of it by their immediate progenitors, remember

about the moon hoax. The idea of intelligent inhabitant? on the earth's well-known and popular satellite seems to possess a las cinaticn for the human mind, and it is now reported that amazing and unprecedented success has attended the last attempt at lunary discovery, which is said to have been made by an English Professor rejoicing La the name of Blendmann. The gentleman, aa it appears by the story, hit upon the idea that the trouble with the moon was that, instead of not having light enough, the astronomer had entirely too much light to see her by. The intensity of the light power of the moon's atmosphere be found was so great as seriously to aöect the correctness of the observation. Forcibly struck with this idea, as Dr. Hahnemann was with that of the man who jumted into a second bramble bush to scratch in again "homo-hop-athically" the eyes which the first bramble bush scratched out, the Professor set about divising some means of making the object glass of his refractor less refractory, which, he did by smoking the glass with the smoke of camphor, when, after months of experiment, he got a photograph of the moon in jest the required sort of twilight This photograph he magnified in a solar microscope to the extremely moderate diameter of only fifty-five feet, when lo! his research was rewarded by the appearance of towns, habitations, fields and seas, and signs of industry and traffic. At last accounts the Professor was still continuing hia researches. It is not stated that he worked with more than one glais, but the accounts of what be saw indicate that he had several. "It is not safe in these days," said a high Echool professor and distinguished electrician, to whom a paragraph from & London paper gravely detailing the Bleadmann discoveries was submitted, "it is not safe to say that anything told of the results of scienticc research may not be true, but I don't believe that." Then he pointed out the internal evidence in the account itself against its correctness. Astronomers, he said, no doubt Eaw the actual surface of the moon through its extremely attenuated atmosphere, if it had any. That it was a worn-out world was evident. Possibly, assuming the correctness of the evolution theory, it was a fragment of the earth. If so, it no doubt once had seas, but they had frobably been withdrawn into the inside. At east there were none visible on the outside. Again, to magnify an object required powerful light. It was precisely with the object of getting a strong light that telescopes were made larger and larger, and if the scientist found he had too much why did he not simply use a smaller telescope? The camphor smoke and the diameter of 55 feet made the Professor smile, and he said he had never met or heard of the enterprising and sagacious Blendmann. HENRY TVAKD BEECHER

Hopes and Believes Cleveland Will Be Elected and Gives Iiis Reasons. Evidently instigated by partisans of Mr, Blaine, a youthfnl acquaintance of Henry Wark Eeecher has addressed to him a letter rcakicg the following inquiry: "Can you advise young men to vote for Grover Cleveland? If the greatest and most eloquent of Christian ministers favor tho election of a conceded libertine, pray tell me what is to be expected from young men who find that such acts are not to be visited with reprobation from those to whom we have looked for years for counsel in morals and religion. It seems to me that no great Christian minister has ever so palpably held the destinies of good morals and religion in his hand as you do at this moment." To this young inquirer, and through him to his inEtigator, Mr. Beecher has returned the following emphatic and . convincing reply: FEtesKixT,, X. Y., Sept IG, 1SSI. My Deau Sir When you are older and have had a larger experience of public affairs and political ethics you will regard the letter sent to me with far different eyes than you do now. Who told you and by what authority do you state that Cleveland is a libertine a notorious libertine? Do you regard slander as a part of morality? That story is slander. Not a particle of evidence has been adduced to prove that Cleveland is now an immoral man. That he fell in one instance, twelve years ago, he frankly admits. All the stories of continued dissipation have been searched and traced to the grogshop and the brothel. Not a single witness has even pretended that he knew anything personally, and only hearsay evidence has been bruited by men who ought to be ashamed to offer their ears as sewers to dens of infamy and to suffer their tongues to commit adultery with notorious lies. As regards the sin of Cleveland in the Hal pin case, when divested of the exaggerations, so far from being an encouragement to sin, it will be a vivid example and warning to ambitions young men to avoid evil and to maintain social purity. Cleveland has already suffered loss, mortification and damage for the commission of a grievous sin, and to-day it stands in his path with a rod of chastisement, and if ha fails to gain the highest piace in this Government it will be by reason of that very transgression. That he will be elected I both hope and believe, but the chief danger to his ambition to-day springs from that sin ot twelve years ago. Is there no warning in that? no voice to young menT If I believed Cleveland to be a libertine I woud drop him instantly. I do not believe it. I regard him as a greatly slandered man for political purposes, and that abuse, instead of deterring .me from supporting him, appeals very strongly to my generosity and chivalry. That fee is a prudent man, honestly and earnestly desiring to administer every trust faithfully and loyally, I have no doubt. My message to every young man is, beware of his mistake of years ago and imitate his virtues of to-day. Henry Waro Beecher. Daring the Plymouth Church service Sanday evening, to an inquiry concerning the authenticity of this letter, Mr. Beecher reflied emphatically: "Yes, sir, I wroto it, and stand by every word of it." Josie Mansfield,' lor whose sake Jim Fist died, is very fat, very dark, and very well dressed. She shows off her ample proportions to wondering Parisians every pleasant afternoon in the year. She is supposed, by those who are unacquainted with her history, to be an immensely wealthy Cuban widow. Müs. Story, wife cf the imbecile owner of the Chicago Times, is a votc.m of commanding presence, ultra-fashionable in dress and of high ambition. It is said to be her aim, to be the owner and personal manager of her husband's newspaper, and to live in the great palace on the boulevard. A weiter in the Boston Watchman thus quotes a remark made to him by President Jared Sparks, of Harvard, concerning Washington, Boon after he had completed his life of the father of his country: "I find nothing," said Mr. Sparks, "absolutely nothing in all his private and public correspondence that might not, without detriment to his good name, be published to the world. Uncer all the circumstances I regard his public and private example and virtues cf the most remaraable in history, for their uniform and symmetrical excellence."