Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1885 — Page 1

si VOL. -XXXI-NO. 24. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1885. WHOLE NO. 1.5S2.

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GOSSIP IN WASHINGTON.

Bjeer Leaning Bis Duties Auditor Alexander Anxious to Meet Es Successor.. Il Hawkins on Filing Charge Senator Yoorhm' Speech Perhaps ITnequalaMl in the Language lion. En Ifen derson ta le. Recognized. . :' free ial t ihe syninel. VMnv;Tfvx, July 12. CViibsioner Sjiark, of t-J5 Land Office, srdvisM J. K. Fjwr o take his time in Washington and leaie Lrsnfuties completely. . lie will be asslfwtl for the present to the &te of Wisconm. Mr, Speer, gray beards and brushed T;p, Ti' fine sjecimen of Hoosier manhood, lie Y.as brought row -Tennessee to Indiana during . tho fru"es, and haslong Ev?d in Indianapolis. This city, however, h as familiar to him an the capital of Indina, he having edited paper here for some jean. M r. S'iccr was me of a very few men on whom the Indiana delegation was united lroia the first. Some dissatisfaction may be expressed in regard to the appointment by Democrats unacquainted with the nature and imjMirtance of iiis services. The work he , accomplished required the highest order of ctmrage and talent, tic broke Butler's grasp in both West Yirgiuia and Indiana, but this was only known to the ino.it prominent jmjIItieians. Kor the reason that he was an independent and an unpurchaseable quantity he could serve the Democracy but he never asked for office as a reward. The delegation took that njoii themselves. Mr. Hendricks said to Mr. Cleveland: "You mut take t are of Mr. Speer. I would feel in duty lound to give him an office that Would be agreeable, if I could. Jut dealing makes that requirement." A gentleman who heard the conversation detailed it to me. 'Mr. JSpeer." lie continued, "is a man of modesty, culture and pride, whose disposition in regard to asking a personal reward for his services, largely resembles your own. "You will never hear from him personally or y request." As a matter of fac t, Fifth Auditor of the Treasury Alexander is anxious to resume the practice of law in the city of Indianapolis. There has been no time s ince the 4th of March that he would not gladly have met his successor. The evening before" he embarked he appeared before Secretary Manning and asked to be relieved. " u. the stibject of ajfointing your successor I have not thought," the Secretary replied. Mr. Alexander then asked for a leave of ten days, which was granted. It looks likcjthe apijinting wer was half inclined to believe the Republican declaration, that the Democratic party is unable to run this Government. Ed Hawkins said that under no circumstances would he prefer charges against (General Foster. When pressed t do so by Iii? friends he replied: "I would not do such a tiling for an office of double a United States Marshal's salary. How could I ask to have him rniovi d "because lie is an active Republican? Why have friends petitioned for my appointment? This argument was used. Ed Hawkins is an active Jiemoerat.' I lioie to get the ottice when General Foster' sjterm expires, and I do not wish to lose any of the activity that formerly characterized my course in political campaigns. Active partisanship is meant the exercise of a privilege oinmon to all Americans, and to me it is a rigid that I would unwillingly surrender. V Judge Ward lefore leaving Washington got the assurance of the Postmaster General that the postofhees in l.afayette and Tipton would be settled within three weeks. How, he was not given to anderstand. The Judge recommended the appointment of liob Rouinson in Tipton. He said that Robinson's Ktition had leen signed by every leading mocrat in the city. Senator orhee, after the trial of that case in Indiana, will go to the Hot Springs, in Ark ansas, where he hopes to remain until the 1st of September. He is terribly overworked. His experience in the Johnson trial made a trifle of all his subsequent ex-1-erience. The Judge was one of those oldfashioned fellows who hold to the common law, and will admit the insanity of no man able to repeat the multiplication table. nly the strongest constitution could have endured the mental strain through which the advocate passed. Senator Vorhees told me he never before had exactly such a client as Johnson. He is a cultivated, and I may merely say, the iiHHrriati.ni of mind. There was everything in such a client to enlist the sympathy of such an advocate. In the case there was seduction, suicide and murder. The agony of Johnson over the despoliation of his home, over a dishonored grave, the shame and the cruelty of the endeavor to fasten upon him the guilt of wife killing, wrought upon the great criminal lawyer's feelings as they had never been wrought upon before. Johnson's cause became the advocate's cause completely. The four-hours' speech made ' by Senator Yoorbees will not in my judgment be compared with hin previous efforts, but accounted one of the Lest, if not absolutely the liest, in the language. Nowhere within the realm of English literature is there more to touch the human heart than his tearfully eloquent tribute to John Howard Payne, the author of "Home, Sweet Home," and the characterization of the malice that impelled Major Gordon and Governor Porter to pursue John fon is the work of a perfect master. Senator Voorhecs gave the speech to his stenogra pher, who secured a copyright and will publish it in a few days. Hon. Leonard Wild and Judge Dan Noys. citizens of Laporte, were to-day introduced to the President. In the course of the conversation that followed Mr. Cleveland observed: "Matson, you are not required to remain in Washington on account of Mr. Henderson. Iam fully of your opinion in regard to his appointment, and it will be made. It does me good to be the medium through which these glad tidings of great joy are revealed to the Hoosiers. It was the sweet nintrelsy of his jokes that quickened life in the Democracy, and if this campaign dr-ig-Jtoan end without recognizing him I will never smile again. Mr. Henderson's -on, who holds position in the Congressional Potofnee, is taking a vacation in Indiana. - Jap Ti'RrE.v. Special to the f?entineL Washijktox, July 10. An Ohio man was yesterday asked if, in his judgment, the recommendation of Index Noye would not injure the Hoadly boom for Governor, and he replied in the affirmative. He explained that while bright mind one of the foremost lawyers in the country Governor Madly is impulsive, and in his recommendations disposed to do what our Uncle Joseph McDonald never does crns himself.

But Strang isn't it, that a Demrrat who was elo-CU! Governor of a .Republican State, ml on the frautiism, should have perpetrated a blunder so gross. AIL of the crime culminating in tie inauguration of a man to the Presidency, wliom the American people had rebuked at th ballot-box, was known to Governor Hoadly. The central thought of his campaign was the wrong inflicted upon the Republic by witholding from Mr. Tilden an office to which lie had been legally elected. No man better than he, knows that of all the crimes in our annals, not absolutely attended by bloodshed. Index Noyes connived at the wickedest. The scoundrelism that could culminate in such villainy, was not the rash act of a thoughtless moment. It was in the lone, and jienneated every fiber of his physi

ology and controlling the spirit. Jerre Black said that no man. who had not completely lost the faculty of blushing would claim that Hayes was elected. Every rogue who conspired against nn honest electoral expression was rewarded. I doubt the honesty of any man except Fred Douglass, who held an apprentice office during the period that fraud, first triumphant in American history, flourished. All that Julian's attack ujnn and subsequent reply to Schurz implied, time will reveal, that the Interior Iepartment then was. Tell it to the Ute Indian that an honest Secretary would ever have allowed the patent ing of the Maxwell land prant. But all this may le cht short. With all his strength gone, lloadley lias testified to the fraud, and now we have him recommending fur honorable office one of the principal conspirators. The Ohio man continued his discourse with something like this. "When Governor lloadley realizes the mistake he has made he will be greatly humiliated." A pull altogether was made by the Indiana delegation while Mr. Hendricks was here in the interest of Hon. Eb Henderson's recognition. It was argued, 1 am informed, that the withholding of a reward from Mr. Henderson will in the future le likely to dampen the ardor of aspiring young men uosing a committeemen. An Indian agency was asked, but neither the President nor Mr. Lamar said anything that could be construed into encouraging. Both gentlemen suggested that Indiana men were being urged too vigorously, and that the State ought to be satisfied with the apjiointments already made. While in talents and possibilities of service the Indianians called ny President Cleveland to office certainly average big, the State in tHjrjortion to the vote falls short of having her share. State Statistician 1'eelle who recently circulated with interesting activity among the departments, might erhaps best promote the interests of his friends by plunging into rn!e and figure work on this subject. " V The redisricting of the State for Congressional purposes by the last Legislature is not a matter of large iVmocratie pride, so far as I have been able to learn. For Judge Ward, its victim, large sympathy is expressed, but political sympathy is only the uncertain evidence of a quantity that was never known to materialize. Before coming to Washington I happened to. know something of the hold Judge Ward had uton the respect and confidence of his ieople. I held to the opinion that he could carry the district against any Republican. Nine seeing more of him, becoming acquainted with his ability and fidelity, two elements that must centel in all publicists of strength, I have got to know why. He Is not a rich man. Doxey, through Wallace, of Lafayette, during the last camaigii accused him 'of living in a rented house, out he has remained at Washington and faithfully latored for his friends. He has steadily grown upon the administration, as he must grow upon all who care to learn him well, and the result under the circumstances have been very gratifying, and the future is full of promise. Jap Tirpkx. GENERAL, GRANT. I He Continues to Improve The Improve tnent Said to be Characteristic of Caurer. Mr. Gkeuor, X. Y., July 13. Dr. Douglas said this morning that General Grant passed a good night, and when asked how many hours his patient had slept the doctor evidently felt it needless to go into minute details of so quiet a night. The General went through the night with little or no cocoaine, and thjjS morning he was bright and his spirits improved, as has been the case every Monday for four weeks. The sick man is taking food plenteously and has swallowed his liquid nourishment without apparent pain. His voice is clearer and stronger this morning and his pulse has greater volume than yesterday. The fitfully vicious disease of cancer has seldom develoed a change so remarkable as that which marks the closing hours of General Grant's first month on the mountain. On Saturday he was sadly depressed in spirits, and to-day he said that he felt bright and anxious to work. This sudden change, apparently for the better, has caused earnest comment, and laymen are jumping to the conclusion that General Grant will recover. The doctors, however, say that this sharp revulsion from shadow to light in so brief a snace of time is one of those changes that in themselves are evidence of cancer, and yet the record of the last two days has not been made without some surprise to the physicians in attendance. The medical summary of the situation, as the patient closes his first month on Mount McGregor, is not disheartening, though it deals only with cold facts, -so far as ascertained. All accidental inrilteration seem to have subsided, and the outside of the neck, which was swollen even with the cheek when the patient came here, a casual observer would now note scarcely any enlargement. Dr. Shrady arrived this afternoon to relieve Dr. Douglass, until the latter shall have obtained rest, without a protracted respite seems imminent to him as a result of his constant vigil with General Grant. During this week sjcial efforts will be made to secure i-crfect quiet for General Grant, in order to continue, if possible, the present favorable condition. It must not be understood that the cancerous fixture has become dislodged, but rather that it has relaxed, and is comparatively quiescent. The present remarkable change in General Grant's condition is pronounced by Dr. Douglas as one of those strange phases of temporary improvement that is characteristic oi cancerous disease, and how long It may continue neither he nor any one can tell. The day with General Grant was one of quiet, without incident, other than related. He retired for the night at 9 o'clock. Dr. Shrady remaining at the cottage, and all conditions indicating a restful night. The cottage was quiet at 11 o'clock. Drowned While Bat hin-;. Straccfe, Jf. Y., July 12. Three young men, carpenters, from Clevelaad, came here last Tuesday to work. This afternoon they went boating on the lake, and, deceived by the apparent depth of the water, undressed and sprang overboard KM) feet from the shore. Only on could kwim. touts Haaks sank in. fifteen feet of water and was drowned. The others were rescued. JIaaki was twentythree yean old.

A TERRIFIC LANDSLIDE

Two Yilö of Forest Sweeping Down at lightning Speed. An Extraordinary Event in the White Mountain of New Hampshire A Scene of Terrific Grandeur A Farm Buried Out of Sight. Fjibyas HorsE, X. H., July 11. Since tha destructive Willey slide there has been no landslide in the White Mountain regions like that of yesterday. A thunder shower hung around the White Mountains all Thursday afternoon, trying to work its way north to Canada. It rained hard during the day and in the night it loured, making the mountain side roar with new-born torrents. Toward mominjjthe storm concentrated its forces for a final effort. Parsing Twin Mountain to Mt. Pleasant," it rolled on along the side of gigantic Washington and made an assault on Cherry Mountain, a triple peak about twelve miles to the north. X. M. Davenport, the town tax collector of Jefferson, had just got up, and saw the assault. He says the lightning played around Owl's Head, the central and highest peak, for a moment or two and then came a vivid Hash that seemed to light the whole firmament and opened up deep vistas in the pall of clouds. Before the report reached him he saw a little rift of fresh earth far up the mountain side near the summit, and while he looked the spot ran down the mountain, bearing in its wake trees, rocks aud everything but the solid ledges. Tall trees swayed two and fro for a moment and went down like grass before a mower. It was the commencement of a landslide, the greatest that has ccurred in . the region for many years. Owl's Head is "3,500 feet high. Relow it, to the north, in a little valley are several homesteads of farmers. Nearest the mountain is the house of Ezra Bordreau, a Frenchman. Some half a mile further down were the bouse and barn of Oscar Shanly, a well-to-do New England farmer. Rordreau says he thinks he was asleep when the slide occurred, but was awakened by the noise and ran to the window and looked out. "I seed it a-coming," said he, "and mv house lie too high, so they no reach him. When he all gone I say to nie boy, 'I is alive, I think, but Shanly he is gone too.' He make awful noise. He sound just like 40,000 horse and run away. Scare me awfully; scare my cow, too, so she give z.o milk." According to Mr. Shanly, he, with his three hired men, were in his ba;n at the time, which he think- was about G o'clock. He heard the clap of thunder, and thought it lasted a very longtime. The noise grew so loud tl-at, in spite of the arguments of his men, he went to the door, and there saw the slide coming, not forty rod awa.(. He ran back and sroke to his men, and they made haste to get out of the way. Mr. Shanly and his two men, Moses and Clef McDonald, ran to the east, and got beyond the torrents of trees and soil that came pouring down. The third, Iknald J. Walker, a farm laborer, twenty-four j-ears of age. w as milking a cow in the stall, and did not hear in time to escape from the barn before it was struck. He wasbursed in the wreck aud carried several rods. When found he was lying among the broken frame. A timber was across his chest, he was badly bruised, and his leg broken so that it will have to be amputated. Mr. Shanly describes the avalanche as terrible. Imagine oneof those revolving bushes with which the streets of St. Louis are swept, only have it magnified 10, AH) times, and some conception can be had of this slide. The machine that swept Cherry Mountain was H0O feet in diameter and -100 feet long. Instead of wires, the broom was made of forest trees fifty feet tall and a foot in diameter, and instead of being drawn by hotve-s it seemed implied by the force that guides the stars. Imagine the rolling, roaring, whirling monster, born of thunder aud whipped on by lightning, coming down the little hollow between the hills in the early morning, its sides skaking and throwing out tons of dirt at every revolution, its path marked by fire and followed bv smoke, and some idea can be had of the impression it made on those people. Mr. Davenport says it was between two and three minutes from the time the first spot apieared on the side of Owl's, Head to that when Shanly' buildings were crushed out of all shape, and as the distance made in that time is fully two miles, the spread was about a mile a minute, or faster than the speediest train. When the correspondent visited the spot to-day the field was covered twenty-five fett deep in mud over an area of forty acres, and in this mud were boulders weighing forty tons' and trees two feet in diameter and seventy-five feet long. Not a limb remained to tell that they ever had branches. Even the bark was gone jieeled off as if by a draw-shave. The whole mass is full of these monsters, stripped from fifty acres of oldgrowth woodland. Good judges estimate that there are 40o,jo0 feet of timber lying on Shanly's farm. The slide following a tortuous path down the mountain, twisting to left and right, but always going down. Just before arriving at Shanly's house the brookj which was the channel of the avalanche, made a sharp turn to the right, and the earth and mud and trees were tiuable to follow the curves. Meeting a little hill back of the buildings, the dirt raised 400 feet in the air and spread itself over Shanly's farm, covering an acre of lQ,tatoes, two acres of grain, a fine garden and about twenty-live acres of grass land, and spoiling his farm. The force was nearly Ient when it struck his buildings, but they were knocked out of all shape, and driven several rods to the north. His entire loss is between $30,003 and $40,000. He is a stout, healthy man, 40 years of age, and has a wife and three thildred who depend upon him for support. The avalanche swept away the whole of his life's labor. He and his family sat among the straw under the broken barn roof to-day and said it was all the shelter they could call their own. A herd of young cattle belonging to Mr. Marshall were chewing llieif cuds on the hillside when the slide came down and they were ground to pieces among the bowlders. The hoofs and horns of several lie under the logs just back of Mr. Stanley's orchard, a mile from the pasture. Several hundred tourists left Boston by the 0:30 train of tlie Boston and Maine Railroad this morning t-n route to the scene. Others have been going all day. Reaching the Fabyan or the Twin Monntain House, they take teams to the place, which is over an hour s ride away. The narrow country roads leading around Cherry Mountain wert thronged with visitors all day. The proprietors of the hotels did a brisk business in letting teams. Among others who went out to see the sight was a photographer, who carried his camera along to take some views. Alf over the track were groups of Iersons standing on logs and rocks looking with wonder upon the most wonderful scene. The ath made by the slide is about twenty rods wide and over two miles long. In some, places it has dug a furrow forty feet deep through blue clay and gravel. In others it is five or six feet only; on Mr. Shanly's farm, where it spread out, fully seventy-fly

rods. The place promises to be the attraction of the season, and tlte proprietors of the two leading hotels think they will have to add to their stables to accommodate all who will come. The mud is not dry yet, and it is treacherous to walk upon. It looks like a blot on the landscape." Above it Cherry Mountain smiles in the sunlight astif nothing had hapened on tha edges. The herds' grass and clover are in blooni, and along the brook the sweet helderberry blushes ml to ripeness. kTHE FIRE RECORD.

A Disastrous Fire Twenty Horses Ronsted Alive Two Men Perish in the Flames. Belfast, Me., July 12. The greatest conflagration since 1S73, when one-fourth of the city was laid in ashes, visited this city this morning, resulting in the death of two persons and damage to property estimated at $50,"0, The fire broke out shortly after 10 o'clock in the stables of the Belfast Livery Company, on High street, and before assistance could arrive twenty horses in the building were literally roasted alive in their stalls, The flames communicated with Howe's Block, at the corner of Main and High streets, known as the Telegraph Build'ng, which was entirely destroyed. The basement was occupied by Field Carter's fish market and F. M. Carter'?; meat market. The first floorfwas occupied by Wm. Priest, tailor; Freu II. Frances, boot and shoe dealer, and S. D. Fogg, confectioner. The second floor occupied by Nathaniel Delano, barber; Moses rticli, cobbler; F. A. Cade, tax collector, and W. C. Tuttle, dealer in organs. Mr. Tuttle, photographer, occupied the third floor. The building was insured, but the tenants are heavy losers, except Priest, who was fully covered. The American House, owned by H. M. Ijmcaster, and occupied by Wm. Weeks, the leading hotel in the city, next succumbed to the devouring elements. The guests all escaed with their baggage. The carriaire house beloneincr to the the Liv ery Company was totally destroyed. The company saved their carriages. The flames crossed "High street, igniting the roof of hitmore s store, and threatening the New England House and the Masonic Temple, but fortunately the hre was checked in this di rection. 6 Two men perished in the stable of the Liven C'omnanv. Their names were Weslev Twombley and" John Casey. Twombley's charred body was found on the sidewalk, as though he had fallen from the building. He was employed as a hack driver by the New f.nglana House. I asev s body was found in a stall beside the remains of a horse. Twom bley and Casey and a companion named James McCabe drove to North port on Satur day evening, returning about midnight. They were intoxicated. Shortly after thev entered the stables the fire was discovered, and without doubt they were the cause. Mc Cabe escajied from the building, but with hands and face badly burned. Among the losses are H. X. Lancaster, tt), ): Belfast livery onipanv. $10,000; Jones fc Lewis, $3,000; F. D. Fogg, $1,000; Mansfield. ?'0O0. while many others lose in sums varying irom ioo to si.uuo. Property to the Amount of Several Thousand Destroyed. Ai.baxv, July 12. A fire which destroyed several thousand dollars worth of property broke out on North Pearl street at 3 o'clock this morning.' Four of ti fuost heroic fire men of the city were buried under a falling wall. They were R. H. Townsend, Fred Wallen, Daniel Wheeler and W. F. Lubv. Luby was taken from the ruins in an almost lifelcs condition, and has since died. Wal len s collar bone and wrist were broken and a deep gash was cut in Iiis forehead. One of Townsend legs was broken in two places and his back seriously injured. Wheeler was kilhil outright. 1 lurches stable, where the fire is thought to have originated. contained twenty-eight horses' and many valuable carriages together with harness, feed. etc. All hut live of the horses ierished, and the building with all its other contents was destroyed! The fire progressed as though fanned by a lellows. The flames soon communicated to James A. ("ray's piano factory, a large threestory structure, with an extensive addition, and so rapidly did the flames envelop the building that wMthin ten minutes after they attacked the structure every window of the factory was a furnace, i he building contained valuable stock in various stages of manufacture, besides a number of completed pianos. Nothing was saved from the factory, which was, in an incredioly short time, completely gutted. Besides twenty-eight horses in Burch's stables, there were ten coaches, two hearses and a variety of other vehicles. Several frame buildings adjoining the stable and factory were jartly destroved. The total loss is between 7ö,000 . and $100,000. Insurance unkaown. emphatically Ini the Story. Special to the Sentinel. IOMi Branch, N. J., July 13. The statement in Sunday's issue of the New York World, attributed to Mr. Somervilje, of the Western Union Company, that the Baltimore and Ohio Company has been trying for the past two weeks, and is still endeavoring to get us (the Western Union) to take their wires, is absolutely false. I have had no conference or communication with the Western Union Company, or any of its officers, for months, and never at any time on the subject of a union with that Company. The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Comjany is controlled by the Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company, and Mr. Robert Garrett, the President of the latter, cabled me from London last Friday to deny the false statements. I sent a denial at once to the office of the New York Associated Pj-ess, but, as the item did not appear in the Saturday New York Associated Press papers, I infer the item was for some reason suppressed. D. H. Bates, President of the B. and 0. Tel. Co. A Bold Bank Bobbery. Pittsburg, July 12. At noon last Friday while the cashier was at lunch, a young man entered the Fourth National Bank in this city and told the clerk in charge that a gentleman wished to see him at the door. The clerk was out fora moment speaking to a man in a buggy, and when he returned $1,000 in cash was missing and the stranger had disappeared. The fact of the robbery leaked out to-day. 8t earner Capxlzed aut Eig-ht Persona Drowned. St. Tavl, July 12. Reports just received here of a storm which struck Lake Minnetonka this morning, capsizing a steam yacht, eight persons being drowned, including exMayor Rand, of Minneapolis, and two daughters, Mr. Clyckendall and son-in-law, and three others whose names are not known. All sorts of rumors are afloat. No particulars have yet been received. Went to bleep on a. Railroad Track. Clevelakp, July 12. Arthur Brannigan, while intoxicated, laid down on the Cleveland ami Pittsburg Railroad track, at Steubenville, O.. last night to sleep. A train passed over him, mangling his body terribly.

PALL MALL GAZETTE.

Its Remedy for the Social Evils It Has Exposed to the World. Spurgeon Preaches n. Powerful Sermon on the Patrician Iniqnity of Loudon A "Woman's Mass Meeting to Protect Young Girls. LoxhON-, July 13. The Tall Mall Gazette this afternoon, in response to requests for its opinion as to the nature of the changes required in the present English criminal law, makes several important suggestions. It advocates: First, an addition to the criminal act, raising the age at which female children may legally consent to sinful conduct from thirteen years, the present period, to sixteen. Second, extension of the law prohibiting soliciting to both sexes. , Third, denial of any additional power over women to the police that will he armed at the suppression of crime and not at the suppression of vice. Thai if, complete legal lilerty for voluntary immorality between adults contracting on eual terms, but rigorous repression on sexual criminality in all cases in which the parties are under age, or the elements of full, free and intelligent consent are absent. Fourth, greatly increased stringency in the laws against procuration. The Gazette, in an editorial commenting upon the results of its revelation, declares that its "trumpet blat has roused the world." "No word was raised yesterday in the churches against us," continues the pa'per, "but all the forces of wickedness in high places are arrayed against us. Hon. W. 11. Smith A Sons, possessing the monopoly of news stands on the railway system of England, have suppressed their sales of the Pall Mall Gazette. The Prince of Wales has stopied his paper. The lit. Hon. Mr. Bentrick is posing in Parliament in the name of "outraged morality" and clamors for our extinction. The Gazette did not undertake this inquiry to unearth the vices of the great, but if we are driven to hay we will he compelled by the action of our assailants to speak out and spare ::one." Rev. Mr. Spurgeon yesterday preached a powerful sermon on the patrician iniquity of London, as expressed by the Pall Mall "Gazette during the past week. Mr. Spurgeon took for his text the sixteenth verse of the second chapter of the Epistle of Taul to the Romans, which he quoted in defense of the Pall Mall Gazette's work in making its exosurc3. St. Paul, so the preacher said, felt it necessary to mention the hideous vices of the heathen, and left on record an exposure of the sin of his day which crimsoned the cheek of the modest when they read it. It had to be written to shame the abominations of the age, almost pat shame. There was judgment for sin in this world for loth man and nations. Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Rome and Egypt were Empires of oppression and cruelty and full of iniquity. When the sin of these peojde could no longer be tolerated they were wqed off the face of the earth. Thus of nations. But no one could tell what blood shedding and suffering came upon men for their iniquities. "Why should London," exclaimed the preacher, 'be more favored than Rome? What is there aboat our beautiful race ou this or the other side of the Atlantic that we should monopolize God's favor? God will judge men s secret sins, too vile to be soken of, and which cause the Nation to shudder if dragged, as they ought to be, into daylight. Deeds of the closed rooms, done when the finger is put upon the lip, and the act committed which must never be mentioned lest the man himself le regarded as an outcast, abhored even of his fellow sinners. All. all shall he revealed. All that we have for our own comfort blinded our eyes to, and covered our gaze from thine inconvenient to see, shall be revealed. We here make a difference iietween the secret and the public, but God does not. Every secret sin is secret only by a lying Khantasy of the imagination." It is public efore God. It is necessary for the Church to warn men of what will happen if they continue in their sins, and not keep them iu a fools paradise until they be sent down to hells "dominion. It becomes every minister to cry aloud, and siare not one." A mass meetinz of women was held in Princess Hall this afternoon to consider ways aud means to protect young girls from the horrible pitfalls of London, as revealed by the Pall Mall Gazette. Mrs. Booth and other ladies made eloquent addresses. The meeting resolved that the laws on the subject should forthwith be made more efficient, and that the age erf consent be raised from thirteen to eighteen. The meeting also voted to send copies of the record of its proceedings to the House of Commons. A RIOT IN IRELAND. Bloody Encounter Between Citizens and Soldiers at Waterford. WATtrroRP, Ireland, July 13. The anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne yesterday caused a large increase in the usual Sunday number of drunken men to be on the streets last night. "Among them were many of the soldiers belonging to the Welsh regiment doing garrison duty here. A number of citizens got into a drunken row with the soldiers, during which the latter bayoneted to death one of the former. The commotion attracted crowds of men to the scene. When the civilians realized that one of their numlier had been killed, they became furious and fell upon the soldiers with such force that the latter were compelled to beat a hasty retreat to their barracks. The mob followed them up, but, being threatened with powder and ball if they attempted to force an entrance to the barrocks, they contented themselves with smashing the windows of the barracks with stones. The rage of the populaee was so great this morning that it was deemed best to transfer the Welsh regiment to some other place. This was done immediately, and a? the soldiers marched from the barracks to the railway station, surrounded by policemen, a mob followed them, hootiBg and stoning the soldiers. Several Parnellite members of Parliament have telegraphed that they will bring the matter before the Government and demand an immediate inquiry into the outrage. It is generally believed that the soldiers began the row. The name of the civilian killed during the riot last evening between the soldiers of the Welsh Regiment and the citizens was Teter Grant. During the hottest nart of the fight a soldier attacked Grant and plunged a bayonet . straight through the man's heart. Grant fell dead on the spot. This tragedy infuriated the people, and they fell with such fury ujon the troops that the latter retreated in full flight into the barracks. The barrack's buildings were beseiged all night by the citizens, who, although they were unable to break in, smashed in every window in the buildings. The . excitement in the city last! all night, and every soldier met in the streets was attacked. Some straggling soldiers were fearfully handled, being stoned, beaten and

kicked till unconscious. Those who escaped mob violence did it by fleeing to the barracks or police stations for refuge. Two privates were argested this morning on suspicion of Grant's murder. A number of civilians profess to be able to identify the soldier who killed Grant. The excitement in Waterford remains unabated. 'The Grand Jury held an inquest on the body of Peter Grant. They found that he came to his death by a bayonet wound inflicted by a soldier of "the South Wales Borderers,and that the regiment should be forthwith removed from the city. A CANARD.

Senators Sewell and McPherson, of New Jersey, FaUely Charged of Concocting Schemes to Further Their Political Fortunes. New Yokk, July 8. The True American, of Trenton, N. J., has published a diarge based on a statement by a man named Teter Watson, to the effect that William J. Sewell, (at present a Senator in Congress) and Senator John R. McPherson, of New Jersey, met in Room 2d, Continental Hotel. Philadelphia, December 3, 1878, and then and there concocted a scheme to secu-e aud advance the political fortunes of both, and also to assist the Pennsylvania Railroad ( 'ompany. Senator Mcl'herson has made a long affidavit in reply to the charges, in which he denies that there is any truth in them whatever, ami gives at length eorresiondenee between himself andanumberof other ersons brought about by efforts on his part to trace the story to some authentic source at various times between Octoler, 1R7!. and the present time. The first was to Senator Randolph, who, he understood, had spoken of the matter. Sulsequently he says. Senator Randolph denied the story, and said he would never speak of it again. The matter ilropied out of sight till October, 180, in the midst of the presidential campaign, when it was again revived, and Henry G. Kelsey, he asserts, took occasion to threaten him with it. Senator Mcpherson says he endeavored, without success, to get the name of the author of the story. He then discovered, bv reference to the hotel register, that P. H. Watson, of Ohio, occupied the room adjoining No. 20 on the night in question, and asking Lim to make the facts public. This letter was not answered. The Senator then proceeds to say that he engaged room 20 on the date mentioned, as he was going to Philadelphia on business; that he arrived late; met some of the men with whom he had business in the office of the hotel ; that, without going to his room at all, he went away on this business, and, without returning, took a late train for New York, so that he was not in the room at all. In this connection he gives confirmatory letters from James Montgomery, then of Chicago, but now of New York, and A. M. Fuller, of Philadelphia. All this occurred in ISsO. Again, he siys. all was quiet till the Presidential canvass of 1884, when it was revived, at a time when it was ejqected to hurt the chances of President Cleveland. Senator MePherson charges that the matter was brought up from time to time merely for olitical capital, and expresses the belief that Henry C. Kelsey and Henry S. Little inspired the attacks. In denying their truth he says: "I now and here aflirm with all the ponderosity and particularity that I did not meet General Sewell, nor any man. woman or child, in Room 20, Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, on December 3, 1878, either during the day or night, nor have I subsequent to that date iu Philadelphia or elsewhere for the object and purlose as charged." Disastrous Storm in the Allegheny Valley. PjTTsBt RCi, July 13. Shortly before dark this evening the Allegheny Yalley was visited by"one of the most disastrous storms ever known in tluu section. Rain fell in torrents for an hour, the wind blew a hurricane, and thunder and lightning was incessant. Rerts pf great damage have been received from various jints along the. Allegheny River between this city and Titusville. At Freejort four inches and a half of rain fell in an hour, flooding cellars, yards and streets and covering the West Pennsylvania and Butler branch roads with water to the depth of several feet. The tracks in some places have been washed away, and in others dbris is piled five feet high! Trains have been stopped in all directions. Peters Creek, near Leesburg, is swollen beyond its banks and numerous oil and gas derricks were washed down stream. Kirkpatrick & Co.'s steel plant at Leesburg is under water and the loss will reach many thousand dollars. The loss in hay and grain alone is. something fearful to contemplate. Lynched for Attempting to Out rag it Voun( Ijtdy. OxFonn, Mis., July 12. This morning about 2 o'clock a copjer-colored negro alout twenty-five years old went into the bed-room of two young ladies of high respectability, no other person being in the house, and attempted to outrage the eldest, aged nineteen. He dragged her out into the lull, when the younger sister lit a lamp and the intruder tied. An alarm was given, and at daylight the negro was arrested at his mother's house. He stated that he had stayed at home all night, but his mother said he had come home at 6 a.m. He then told other stories as to where he had been, but the circumstantial evidence was strongly against him. The young ladies fully identified him. At U this evening a mob went to the jail, took the negro out, carried him to the back yard of the Methodist Church, and hanged him to a tree. A Revolution in Venezuela. Havana, July 9. Lloyd's agent at St. Thomas received information from Venezuela on the 3d instant that a revolution had broken out in that country, and that the revolutionists had taken possession of the steamer Libertador with two large Krupp guns, and Torito, General PulgarJ Urdaneta, Pulido and other chiefs on board. The Government troops at Carupano had pronounced in favor of the revolution. It was asserted at Trinidad on June 27 that Maturin, Caniua and Barcelona had also pronounced against the Government. - Boy Stabbed. Special to the Sentinel. Crawfobdsville, Ind., July 10. As Frank Davis, son of Warren Davis, was fishing at the iron bridge near here this morning, Charley Davis, a son of A. C. Davis, came up and began throwing stones. He was told to 6top, but kept on. Frank then slapped him, and Charley stabbed Frank in the abdomen, inflicting a very serious wound. They are not related. Charley was sorry for what he had done and helied Fraak to reach his home. The Week Failure. New York, July 10. The business failures throughout the country during the last seven days, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co. to-day, number for the United States 15S and for Canada 27, or a total of 183, as against 204 failures last week and 205 the week previous to the last. The Western, Southern and Pacific States furnish about two-thirds of the whole number. In the Kastern sections the business troubles for the week are light and unimportant.

WOULD-BE MURDERERS A Lady of Chicago Robbed in Her Appartmer.ts by Thieves,

Who, After Discussing the Question of Kill ing Her, Leave Her Upon the Floor Bound Hand and Foot and Almost Dead From Fright. Chicago, July 0. The most daring and! adroitly executed robbery that has taken place in Chicago in many years was committed yesterday afternoon at 50 Eldridge Court, at the residence of Thomas Smith, head draughtsman of the Dearborn foundry. Mr. Smith is in receipt of a good salary, and, although a lessee of a box in the vaults of tha Union Safety and Deposit Company, it has been' his practice for some time past to intrust a large portion of his earnings with his wife. Mr?. Smith is a stout lady about twenty-six years old. When her husband went to work after dindcr she was left alone in their room?, which include all the apartments on the first floor. A ring of the bell called Mrs. Smith to the front door. Two men dressed as mechanics were rtanding there. They introduced theraselves as plumbers sent there by the landlord, Mrs. Smith, unsuspicious, led the way to tha kitchen. She stood by the door as the first entered, and after waiting a moment, turned to let the second man xass. As she turned he struck her a terrible blow with his fist, which caused her to fall on her knees. Before she had time to cry out her assailant's fingers were fastened in her neck. Then the other man drew a long rope from a sack he carried and proceeded to bind her feet and hands. A towel was drawn tightly across) her mouth and both ends tied together back of her head. The robbers then opened the bosom of Mrs.Smith's dress and got holi of. a wallet containing $1,03.. Suddenly the door-bell rang. One of the fellows coolly answered the summons. Mr. Timothy and wife, friends of the Smiths, had stopped to make a friendly call. While one of the robbers held Mrs. SJmith on the floor with his hand pressed over her mouth to prevent her uttering a sound, the other informed the callers that Mrs. Smith was ill and unable to see any visitors. Then he closed and locked the door. "What shall we do with her?" said he. ' "Kill her; that's the only thing to do," said the other, "then she'll never squeal." "I don't want to kill a woman in cold blood," returned the first speaker. ' "Yon needn't do it in cold blood," answered the other. "Just set fire to the house, and let her bum up." Then Mrs. Smith saw the man who spoke last seize a kerosene can as if to execute his threat. The can proved to b empty. Hecast it from him with an oath, and cried, "Let's dump her into the bath-tub and turn on the waver; she'll drown like a rat." A moment's consultation ensued, then the would-be murderers went out of the front door, closing it after them, leaving Mrs, Smith upon the floor lnnd hand and foot, and almost dead fror fright. Half an hour elapsed before she regained strength enough to attempt loosening the bonds about her writs. This task took another half hour. Dragging herself on her knees, she finally reached the front door. A passer-by was apprised of what had taken place and the police were notified. Up to this morning they have obtained no ciW and have been able to accomplish nothing except to caution Mr. Smith to say nothing ahcut the affair to reporters. Mrs.'Smithhasj been prostrated by the shfiek. She is now seriously ill. IN EACH OTEER'S ARMS. Sad Ikronniug of Two Brooklyn Young; Ladle Near Ponghkeepsie. Pot.'iiHKF.KPME, N. Y., July (5. Miss Minnie Kelly and Mis Fredcrika Gilbert, of Brooklyn, were drowned to-day near Barnegaf, four miles south of this city. They bad been in the habit of coming to Mrs. Nelson's cottage. a short distance from where the drowning otrured, every Saturday by evening boat and returning Sunday night. They came last Friday night so as "to pass the Fourth here. Miss Kelly was an excrt swimmer, and this afternoon proposed a bathing party, whereupon she and Miss GiUert, Mrs. Nelson, Horatio Nelson and bis little children went to the Hudson River. Miss Kelly and Miss Gilbert donned their bathing suits and it was proposed that Miss Kelly teach Miss Gilbert to swim. They waded to some rocks when both dived. Mrs. Nelson saw Minnie rise at about the same time Miss Gilbert did and saw Miss Gilbert seize Miss Minnie alont the waist and then both disapjeared. Even then Mrs. Nelson supjosed there was no danger, but after waiting for some time the swimmers did not reappear. She was about to plunge into the water after them, but was held till assistance arrived. The liodics were grappled for and were found locked in each other's arms. The bodies were taken to the Nelson cottage. Miss Kelly was twenty-twenty-two years old, and was in the employ of the American Bank Note Company, at No. 78 Chnrch street. New York. She resided with her father and mother and brother at No. 54 Second street, Brooklyn. Miss Gilbert was twenty-five years old, and for sixteen years had been a Western Union telegrrph operator in the railroad offices at No. J39 Broadway. New York. She re resided at No. 58 Second street, Brooklyn. They intended to return home this evening. Both were handsome and vivacious, and it is said that one of them was engaged to be married. Miss Gilbert's sister had come here with her, and is prostrated by the shock. Indiana Postmasters AppoiatdSpecial to the Sentinel. Washikgtos, July ll.-The following fourth clas Postmasters were appointed for Indiana today: W. F. Smith, Springport, Henry County. vice Handford Benedict, removed; Squire Frazier, Arcadia, Hamilton County, Tic James F. Fuder, removed; A. P. Beautty, Ceylon, Adams connty, vice F.J. McVbiimey, resigned; Charles Tilgcr, Saint Croix, Perry County, vice Lewis P. Dopaquir, resigned; William U. Nelson, New Lancaster, Tipton County, vice James Nelson, resigned; James S. Miller, Carson, Boouc County, vice Jefferson P. Iuzcn, resigned; John J. B'urtnu. Koral Center, Cas Countv, vice Thomas W. Hamilton, resigned: A. I. Carmichacl, Horrodsburg, Monroe County, vice t'riah X. Pearson, removed: Kufus Vanght, Xw Winchester, Hendricks County, vice R. F. Harper; J. B. Shannon, Trucotte. lutnam County, vie Jseobusü rider; H. A. Collin. Splceland, Henry Countv, vice C. N. Xiion; K. M. Blair. Blanche. Monroe County, vice B. F. Meridith; Miss Mollie Burgess, btilesve, Hendricks County, yjee B. M. entry: Henry F. Spraime, Waynesville, Bartholomew County, vice H, Alden Hägen; U. H. Click, Betersville. Bartholomew County, vice F. 1. Norton: Anderem Newton, St. Louis Crossing, Bartholomew County, vice H. F. Shaffer; E. H. Nark, Coatsvflle. Hendricka Countv, vice I. W. Risher: Mrs. Jane Sanders Clavton. Hendricks County, vice J. L.Turney; K. D. Snyder, Avon, Hendricks County, vice K. M. Hartley; K. V. Bowen. putnamville, Putuan Countv. vice ft. C. Bishop: J. M. Beck, Beok a Urove," Boone County, vice J. B. Beek; A. Secrest, Alaska, Owen County, vice W. 0. Sheets.