Pike County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 June 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XIII. PETERSBURG, INDI RIDAY, JUNE 9, 1882. NUMBER 4. Democrat. • # • ■ v W. P. KNIGHT, Publiiher. OFFICIAL PAPER OP THE COUNTY. Offlee in Kellay’a New Baildla*, Ktain Street, Sat. Hath and Seventh.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. 00NGRKSS10NA& PROCEEDINGS. A modification of the measure recently reported by Mr. Bayard as a substitute for the House bonded spirits bill came from the Senate Finance Committee, May 26, and was ordered printed. The bill providing for the removal of obstructions to the free navigation of the navigable waters of the United States, and requiring bridge corporations to erect •, sheer booms, etc., to aid boats in passing without striking bridge piers, passed. Consideration of the Japanese indemnity fund MU was resumed, without action. Adjourned until the 891 h. In the House, the usual dilatory maneuvering was occasioned by calling up the election contest. After some confusion, Mr. Blackburn moved for a committee to investigate alleged irregularities in handling the testimony. Mr. Calkins asked timo to submit a counter proposition. Mr. Belford proceeded to reprimand the. minority for its action in the pending ease, and was commanded to sit down. Mr. Washburn demanded the regular order, objecting to any man acting for the Republican side without consultaton or authority. The question (hen recurred on a dilatory motion, but as there was a special order for the night session to consider the pensions Mill, and as the Democrats refused to allow than order to lie rescinded, the House, on motion of Mr. Calkins, adjourned for one day. IN the House of Representatives, May 27, Mr. Calkins submitted a proposition that the Mackey-Dibble cast be discussed for six hours, after which the question of recommittal should be voted on, and if decided in the negative the House should then consider the case till decided without filibustering. The proposition was declared unsatisfactory by Mr. Randall, A succession of roll-calls followed, all resulting in nothing. Mr. Dunn introduced a Joint resolution appropriating . 5100 000 for the relief ef persons rendered destitute by the recent overflow of the Mississippi and its tributaries.

A resolution instructing the Committee on limitary Affairs to inquire into the propriety ana necessity of making further provision for sufferers by the Mississippi overflow was adopted by the Senate, May 29. Bills were repotted favorably: Setting apart a tract bf land on the Colorado River of the West.in Arizona,fas a public park; to enlarge the powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture—.In the House, Mr. Reed called up for consideration the proposed amendment to the rules prohibiting dilatory motions on the contested election case. Several motions were made by Democrats, and the point of order was raised that on motion to amend the rules dilatory motions can not be entertained. The point was debated by Reed and Randall, JKasson, Kenna, Carlisle, Blackburn and Robe ton. The Speaker sustained Reed's p >int of order. Randall appealed, and on Rebel's motion the appeal was tabled. Mr. Cox (R Y.) presented a protest signed by over IMF Democratic,, members against the ruling of the Speaker. The report of the CotouiUtee on Rules was adopted —yeas 150, nays 2. At fi:45 the House determined to proceed to the consideration of the contested election case. Mr. Miller (Pa.) took the floor to open the debate, whereupon a motion to adjourn for one day was agreed to. Immediately after the reading rff the journal in the House of Representatives! May 30, Mr. Springer objected to its approval on the ground that it omitted all reference to two very important motions which he submitted, and to appeals which he made from the Speaker’s refusal to entertain them. Ho moved to have the journal corrected so as to include these two motions, which were to lay on the table tjie report of the Committee on Rules, and to recommit the report, with instructions, together with the Speaker's refusing to entertain them, his (Springer’s) appeals from such refusal, and the Speaker’s declining to entertain them. The Sneaker said if the Clerk had journalized these motions and appeals he would have acted improperly. Mr. Springer said the motions were proper and should have appeared on the journal, winch should show* correctly and truthfully what was done, even though the journal might then contain a condemnation or the nmn wlfo sat in the Speaker’s chair. [Indignant calls to order on the Republican side and a declaration by the ~ ker thafcthe gentleman was not in order,] _ donal itirguthent ~tn favor of Mr. Springer's position. After further remarks by Messrs. Burrows, Kassou, Kelley and Randall, the motion to correct the journal was rejected—yea9,89; nays, 134. Mr. Miller spoke in favor ot the report of the Election Committee in the case of Mackey against O'Con-1 nor. The discussion was continued by Mr. Davis, of Missouri, againt the report, and by Mr. Paul, of Virginia, in favor. - A bill- for the relief of Fitz John Porter was introduced in the Senate, May 31. The House army appropriation bill was reported and ordered printed. Mr. Logan introduced a bill to allow Minister Hurlbut’s widow her husband's pay for a year. Referred. The morning hour was devoted to the Creek orphan bill, but no action was taken. The hill giving the Mississippi, Albuquerque & In-ter-Ocean Railroad right of way through the Iudian Territory was called, but Mr. Ingalls objecting, it was laid over. The Japanese indemnity bill, came up, but was laid aside. The House wrangled all day over the election contest and the previous question was called at live o’clock. The resolution seating Mackey was adopted—150 to 3—and Maekev appeared at the bar and was sworn in. Mr. Mcl,ane,of Maryland,then rose to a question of privilege, and sent tojthc Clerk’s desk resolutions reciting the facts in connection with the Speaker’s refusing to entertain motions and appeals of Mr. Springer ou Monday last, declaring that he was not allowed his right, as a representative of the people, to submit motions affecting the merits of a measure th en pending, and that thus the right of the House to construe its own rules was not accorded; also, resolving that said decision and ruling of the Chair, and his refusal to allow appeals therefrom, were arbitrary, and are condemned and censured by the House. While the preamble and resolutions were being i*ead more than half the members on each side were on their feet, and showing great excitement, and as soon as the leading wits concluded Mr. Reed (Maine) moved to lay the ^resolutions on the table. Th'e, veaa and nays were finally demanded and the storm subsided. The resolutions ■were laid on the table -144 to 88. After voting to consider the Biisbee-Finley contested election ease, the House adjourned. u

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The Governoi of Michigan has ordered an investigation Into the truth of affidarils charging N. Delong, Mayor of Muskegon, with attempting to bribe an Alderman to vote for one of his nominees for office. A. F. Brackman, who for some weeks was the laughing-stock of St. Louis, died the other day in the Missouri Insane Asylum. He came from Nebraska with an • .abundance of money, married a chambermaid at the Planters’ House, gave her a wardrobe costing $1,500, and was deserted -*on the day succeeding the wedding. He was several times arrested for eccentric conduct on the streets. An autopsy revealed the fact that he died from softening of the brain. 1• ? The Attorney-General has decided that Secretary Kirkwood is not eligible for appointment on the Tariff Commission. Nothing of importance was brought to light in the investigation of alleged irregularities of the offices of QuartermasterGeneral, Commissary-General and Third Auditor. English papers print a story that both Gladstone and Harcourt have been warned that at a recent Irish meeting in London the hope was expressed that Gladstone would be assassinated next, and this expression was received with loud and significant applause. W. B. Rogers, venerable ex-Presi-dent of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dropped dead on the 30th, while addressing the graduating class. The police ut Cairo, Egypt, are forcing the people to sign a petition to the 8nltan for the deposition of the Kbedive.the recall of the eonsu Is general, and the withdrawal of the ultimatum. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Eight prisoners, including two murderers and one highway robber, effected their escape from the ]all at Tuscaloosa, Ala., on the 27th, by .cutting the hinges off tbh cell door and running over the lailer. At Springfield, Ohio, May 39, a man named Kitzmiller, becoming enraged at his daughter for keeping company with a man of whom he disapproved, drew a revolver and shot her dead. He narrowly escaped, lynching at the hands of his neighbors before j^e was taken to tall.

Willis Ebwards, a notorious desperado, was killed in the Jail at Monroe Court-house, N. C., the other day, in an affray with the Sheriff and his posse. Edwards succeeded in severely wounding the Four men who attempted to subdue him. Frank Miller, whUe robbing the residence of H. P. Moore at Erie, P.»., the other night, was nearly beheaded with a icythe. Ale. Burnett committed suicide at Topeka, Kans., on the fiigi, by shooting himself in the temple. He had been released from the County Jail the day lieforo, having served>#ut a sentence of thirty days for selling liquor without a license. • A number of Dunkards assembled in Eapho Township, Lancaster County, Pa., a few days ago,-for the purpose o:t raising the framework of a meeting-house. The lower story and about one-half of the if con d story had already been successfully put together, and between forty and fifty persons were standing on some Joists on the second story on the unfinished part of the building', placing the rafters in position. There was a spau of forty or fifty feet, and over tills had been stretched some girders, upon which these persons Were standing. They worked without accident until between 9 aud 10 o’elock In the morning, when, with a loud crash, the timbers broke and fell, carrying their living freight with them. The weight of the falling mass caused other parte of the building to topple over and fall on the struggling human beings below,' sis of whom were fatally injured and forty-two more or lesS seriously hurt.

LAWRENCE -MK.sk ek, agca oo, was burned to deatb in Milwaukee, AYis., May 29. He had been confined to bed for some days by an attack of asthma, and fell asleep wtth a pipe in his mouth. When his wife was alarmed by his cries she found the bed a mass of flames. She endeavored to put out the fire, and finally succeeded, but not until her arms wore badly burned. James Flynn and.Herman Lemer were drowned near Mason City, Ohio, the other day. A skiff in which they weire rowing was drawn under a barge. John Ferrell, aged 20, was killed by lightning at Golden, Colo., on the 29th. At Quincy, 111., on the 29th, Dc. G. C. Hoffman, managing editor of the Daily Germania, was assaulted by A. B, Hellhake, Casper Hellhake and Dr. Spear, and shot in three places, it is thought fatally. The assault grew out of an account of an attempt at suicide of a sister of the Hellhake boys. The case was called on the 30th, and on the representation of attorneys, and the fact that the Doctor was still alive and the physicians unwilling to positively stale that he would die, the Police Magistrate fisted the bail, of the Hallhake brothers at $10,000 each, and of Dr. Spear at $20,000, postponing a hearing for nine days. In default of' bail they were committed to jail. There is but one sentiment among the people, that it was the most uncalled-for, dastardly and cowardly attack ever made on an unarmed man. Carrie Massie, aged 17, convicted of the murder of Mr. Evans, at Summerfield, Ga., in March, has been sentenced to hang. Fred AVaite, who stole a drummer’s valise in Texas about a month ago and was taken to the ltobertson County Jail, on the morning of the 28th killed the Jailer, robbed years old, and bails from Illinois. Frederick Jackson, a reputable farmer near Cleveland, having received numerous insults and threats at his own door from Thomas J. Merriam, drew a revolver and shot him through the heart the other day. Jaekson then surrendered himself, and is sustained by public opinion. M18CKD1 j AN EOCS. Brave Bear, the Slioux Indian who would have been executed on the 9th of March for the murder of a soldier named Johnson, near Fort Sully, Dak., but for an appeal to the Supreme Court and motion for a new trial, has been resentenced to be hanged on the 20th of July, the Supreme Court having denied him a trial. He fully deserves the sentence, as he is clearly guilty not only of this murder, but of others, including an entire white family near Pembina. Upon being asked if he had anything to say before being sentenced, Brave Bear replied: “I have taken the white man’s part always. I am disappointed at the treatment of the Whiteman. They can do as they please with me, and cut me to pieces if they choose.” So saying, he received the sentence with the utmost unconcern. The striking operatives of the Reading (Pa.) cotton mill have returned to work at 10 pgr cent, reduction, after five weeks’ strusrale.

The Universal Peace Union convened in Washington on the 28th. Mr. Ela, auditor of post-office accounts, who is really an officer of the Treasury Department, refused to obey an order of the Postmaster-General to remove to the Treasury quarters. Secretary Folger declined to interfere in the matter. By order of Mr. Howe, the auditor’s room was unlocked and his furniture, books, and papers were quickly transferred to the upper floor by a hundred fhessengers. There is much excitement in Dakota over the opening of the Chippewa tract to settlers. The Interior Department has decided that the Indians have no valid claim to 9,000,000 acres hitherto held apart foir them. A crowd of settlers are ready to start, and two railroads are already projected to pierce the region. - - Marcus he Bastihe, a youn?French Canadian, was assaulted by members of the congregation of the French Canadian Catholic chapel in New York City, May 28. The cause of the assault was the distribution by Bastide of tracts printed in French calculated to persuade people to accept Protestant beliefs, lie had attended services at the chapel and the officiating clergyman denounced his books to the congregation. Services in memory of Abraham Lincoln were held at the monument near the entrance to Prospect Park , Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 28th, in the presence of a large number of visitors. The monument was decorated with flowers. The graves in the cemetery of the Naval Hospital, the “Martyr’s Tomb” in Fort Green Park, and the graves of Grand Army companions and soldiers in the Catholic Cemetery were tdso decorated. A collision between trackmen of the Denver & New Drleans and Denver & Rio Grande roads occurred near Denver, Colo., May 28. The latter road undertoohtoblock the progress of the former by running an empty engine under a full head of steam Into a gang of men laying the track at a crossing. None of the men were Injured, but the engine was derailed and plowed up the track for a considerable distance. Secretary Teller has just made an Important ruling in regard to the construction hereafter to be placed upon the act of June 3,1878, authorizing citizens of Colorado, Nevada and the Territories to fell and remove timber from public domain for domestic purposes. The department has construed the words "for dcyaieBtic purposes” to mean the cutting of timber by individuals for their own use and not for sale. . Numerous suits have been brought and msny are now pending upon this basis. Secretary Teller holds to tafce this view in to

defeat thi very intent of the act, which was to provide a way by which the needed timber for m ines, mills and pioneer towns can be legally obtained. He holds that any such use within the State or Territory, whether by individual cutting timber or by a mill or mill man to whom it'has been sold, is con - sumption for domestic purposes protected by this act. Secretary Folger has recently had a startling experience in the engraving and printing bureau, the other night Prof. Casilear found two of the Government dies, representing the tens on the National Bank notes, lying outside the safe and within the reach of the watchmen. Through Colonel Irish the dies were sent at once to Secretary Folger. who took time to satisfy himself that the event was caused wholly by carelessness. Mr. Bell, the custodian of the plates, was dismissed, and Captain Burrows, of New York, was temporarily plaoed in charge of the safes. Serious trouble between church and state is reported in Coahuila, Mexico. During the Faster holidays the Catholic clergy of Saltillo, the capital, attempted to have a street procession, which was prohibited. Angry words arose between the clergy and authorities, and several priests were imprisoned, whereupon all the priests were requested to leave Coahuila, and especially Saltillo, the capital. Divine worship has ceased all Saltillo, and the people now have to travel to Monterey lo have children baptized. This caused great public dissatisfaction and a serious outbreak is imminent. Troops ire being concentrated. The Mexican press is divided on the subject, the ablest Journals defending the Governor in his counie. Reed, counsel for Guiteau, has ap. plied to Judge Gray for a writ of habeas corpus. The Judge preferred to wait until the ease has been presented to his associates. A to rnado passed over Greenfield, Mass., May 29, severely injuring several persons and wrecking a number of residences tod barns. At Ashfield twelve barns were demolished, hundreds of trees uprooted, houses unroofed, and the whole section devastated.

DisuoKAliua uii was generauy onserved. The body of Zou Watkins, the young girl who disappeared f-om St. Louis, Mo., some time ago, was found in the river at Carondelet on the 30tb. It is thought site committ ed suicide while temporarily insane. D. G. Hull, late custodian of the Post-ofliee building at Lincoln, Nebr., and Master i n Chancery of the United States Courts, has been indicted on twenty-two. counts charging hint with signing vouchers that were either partly or wholly false and fraudulent. The vouchers were for supplies for building materials, furniture, etc., and by his operations he is said to have defrauded the Government out of several thousand dollars. Advices from Sonora state that the hostile Indians, pursued by Mexican troops, are fleeing in the direction of Arizona. The excess of exports for the twelve m%nths ended April 39, 1882, is $69,670,7615; excess of imports of gold and silver coin and bullion for the same period is $11,627,506. Eight persons were killed by a railway collision near Heidelberg,-Germany, the other day. ... -* .. .... -jtfcu ~ i"*'1-**1- - -■ cfflfTthe Pond liquor law unconstitutional. In the star-route cases at Washington, Judge Wylie overruled all motions to quash the indictments. The defendants Were then arraigned, and all pleaded not guilty. Rustlers from Arizona aTe committing extensive depredations in New Mexico. Governor Sheldon has placed the La Mesilla military company in the field; Sheriff Bull, with twenty-five men, is in pursuit of a gang- which robbed a ranch near JSiva Springs, and the Las Cruces militiamen are scouring the country for others who robbed Randall Station. Frank Leonard, a New York fireman, mounted a rotten ladder and rescued three persons' from a burning tenement, May 29. He made them leap six feet from a window into his arms, as he stood upon the shaky support, and passed them safely down to others. Meetings in Chicago and St. Louis between representatives of the mills and of amalgamated workers in iron and steel resulted only in a determination to close the works over a vast region of country, either by lockouts or strikes.

tUJDEKSJSD XELtUKAuS. The Creek orphan bill was slightly amended in the Senate, June 1, and passed. The bank charter bill was ordered printed, with amendments, in the House the election contest of Bisbee against Finley, of the Second Florida District, was decided by a resolution declaring Bisbee entitled to the seat—141 to 9. The vote in the Senate Military Committee on the question of favorably reporting Sewell’s bill for the relief of Fits John Porter was as follows: Yeas—Messrs. Sewell, Cockrell, Maxey, Grover and Hampton. Nays—Logan and Cameron of Pennsylvania. Harrison and Hawley were absent. Reduction of public debt during May, $10,375,441. The town of Willow, Colusa County, Cal., was almost wiped out by a conflagration on the 30th, the loss being estimated at $175,000. The Wyoming Valley Hotel, Wilkesbarre, Pa., was damaged to the extent of $100,000 on the same day. The Globe Parcel Express building and several other warehouses at Manchester, N. H., burned oujthe 31st. The loss is enormous. O. S. Pomeroy, of Strongville, Ohio, was in the erowd about Garfield’s tomb at Cleveland on Decoration Day. In presence of several thousand persons, he was held up by two men and robbed of $2,000. T. A. Ducharme, a well-known boat;, builder of Port Huron, Mich., was accidentally drowned by the capsizing of a small boat on the river, near Sarnia, May 31. Thomas Flahkrtt and two other young men were drowned in the river at Holyoke, Mass., on the 31sL General Terry has information from Milk River that Big Bear is making ready to come south of the boundary to hunt, with five hundred ledges, and has sent word that he wilPfight if an attempt be made to drive him away. The Senate committee investigating the bonded spirits bill examined S. B. Miller, President of the Western Export Association, and Edwin Stevens, of Cincinnati, May 31, and relieved them from further attendance. The examination resulted In placing before the committee much Information relative to the distilling interests, but failed to show that any money had been raised o r expended by the distilling men to influence legislation. Miscreants defaced the soldiers’ monument on the grounds of the State Normal School at Mlllersvllle, l*a., May 30, bespattering it with Ink and other substances. Charlrs Siebard, of New York City, loaded » revolver, May 31, and said to his wife: “I think I will shoot you.” (‘AI1 right; go ahead,” phe carelessly replied, exposing her breast.N He immediately fired, and she fell dead. Jealousy.

The Jeannette Survlvgrs. N*W tobk, Tho steamship Celtic, ' " Danenhower, Dr. Newcomb, J«ok Cole and Charles Tort Sing, survivors of the Arctic steamer Jeannette, arrived early ti-dny. Wh“s the vessel was reported off Fire Island a party consisting of the immediate relatives and friends of the voyagers started in a t;g from the Battery to meet them. As the fug ran alongside the Celtic, Lieutenant Danenhower leaped on board and affectionately embraced bis mother anti father, and was warmly welcomed home by tho others. Lieutenant Danenhower then invited his relatives and friends to his cabin on the steamer, and presented all to his associate survivors.. The party then listened to a recital of the dreadful sufferings in the far North turd the tale of the fate of Commander De Long and his men until the steamer reached her deck. Arrived there. Lieutenant Danenhower was surrounded by congratulating friends, who had gathered to give him a hearty welcom e, and they did. For an hour ho was kept busy shaking hands and answering inquiries. Whilo ail this was happening on the upper deok a far different scene was presented in the small cabin below. There, with his arms pinioned behind him, was poor Jack Cole, boatswain of the Jeannette, crazy from tong suffering. His brother, Thomas Coie, and his son John were quiok to go to him, and the unfortunate mgn immediately recognized them, affectionately greeting both. It was sad txt^aee the weeping son, sorrowing brother and demented father. Immediately after speaking to his son his mind again wandered, and he was once more away among the ice-fleids, struggling with the fate threatening him. He will be sent to an asylum. Lieutenant Danenhower says he has great confidence that Jack will recover with proper treatment in a few months. It was found necessary to secure him during the voyage, as tho slightest thing would make him frantic. Lieutenant Danenhower said, in answer to inquiries concerning his voyage, that he was not as yet prepared to talk. “There will be a thorough,, searching examination,” said he, “and then people can see how this matter stands. So l’ar as suffering is concerned we did suffer, and suffered terribly. See my eyes. Some say I shall lose the sight of both. 1 hope not. One (the left.one) is almost entirely blind, but the other appears to be at present all right.” In answer to a question propounded as to his views on Engineer Melville. Lieutenant Danenhower earnestly said: “Please say this for me: That I never used language in the sense ascribed to me, derogatory of Melville. Say that I consider him a brave man and an honorable gentleman, who suffered with us. The attack on him was unjust and cowardly, particularly in his absenec. Melville did all in bis power, and did that well. I regret exceedingly that anything touching his fair name should have been said, for it was undeserved. It was unjust both to him and to myself. Walt till the examination comes; wait till Melv ille comes home and has a chance to speak for himself.” Dr. Newton Newcomb, who accompanied the Jeannette expedition as naturalist, wiis very indignant over the treatment of Melviilo, and termed it cowardly, mean and deserving the highest censure. “Why,” aaid the doctor, , “1 was so incensed when I road these base charges against Melviile that I was on the point of inditing a letter to the press of America on tho subject; but, on reflection, concluded to wait. I want to say that what is charged against Melville is as untrue as it is cowardly. Why could not his accusers wait till ho reached home and had a chance to defend himself? But to stab him in the back, to attack him when he has no chance to defend himself. Is a most cowardly piece of business. “ If I thought,” continued the doctor, “that I could find one of the poor fellows who were lost, 1 would turn this minute and go _... ____ ifMkl has no fascination for me. I simply go as a matter of business, and if I am called upon to go again to-morrow, I am ready and willing to go.” f Lieutenant Danenhower said of the lost members of tho Jeannette's crew that possibly an oar or small portion of tbeir boat might he found, but that would he all. Charlie Ton Sing, the Chinaman steward of the Jeannette, said, when asked if he would go again, with a funny grin: “Yes, mebbe.” He appeared the strongest of the entire four, and viewed with an air of stoicism all his surroundings. On leaving the steamer Lieutenant Danenhower and party were drivon to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where rooms had been engaged for them, and where there was a'family breakfast. When he spoke of Commander De Long his voice was choked with emotion and his eyes moist. A Cat’s Fatal Bite. Philip Speyer, sixty-four years of age, of No. 840 East Eighth street, died on Friday from the bite of a cat. About three weeks ago a pet female eat, which had been with the Speyer famiiy for years, gave birth to kittens and carried her young to a closot in the cellar of the house. Tho eat then abandoned tho little ones and could not be induced to return to them. Mr. Speyer endeavored to force her to do so, and with this pur pose carried the cat to where tha kittens lay. Twice the cat got away, but was catght, and i n trying again to compel bor to stay with the kittens Mr. Speyer was bitten on tho thumb. He paid no attention to tho bite, however, but when he went up to his room he was surprised to see that his clothes were bloody. The marks made by the teeth of the cat were veiry small, but the blood treely spurted from them. A daughter of Mr. Speyer tied his thumb in a rag, thus stopping the flow of blood, but the pain increased and soon became unbearable. Mr. Speyer then went to a neighboring drug store, where he obtained a lotion that temporarily relieved the pain. During the night, however, ho was restless and could not sleep, and almost before daybreak started to work, fancying that in the bustle of business be would find some relief. At noon he was compelled to go home arid take to his bed. Toward night his thumb and arm began to swell: he grew feverish and excitable, and requested bis daughter to send for the family physician. '.The doctor found bis patient suffering from Ilymphangitis-an inflammation of tho lymphatic vessels—that turned into erysipelas, crept up h s arm and made a suppuration of the tissue. Bemedles wore applied and the arm was lanced in several places, but the agony of tho patient still continued, and his arm began 1» swell to immense proportions. In spite of a II efforts to save him he Anally died on Friday afternoon, after many days of most excruciating agony. For tho flist week after being bitten Mr. Speyer was at times delirious, and often it required soveial persons to hold him In bed. Dr. Lilienthal said that 'death was due to exhaustion, and that the poison which produced tho erysipelas may taavo come from the cat’s teeth or have been, absorbed from the atmosphere into the bite.—JY. Herald.

A Stid and Fatal Accident. Herman Wnlsten, late a student at Brlnker Institute, comer of Broadway and Tremont streets, was accidentally shot and instantly killed about one o’clock this afternoon by W. H. Watson, also a student at the same institution. It !b the oft-told talc of a loaded gun not belie ved to have been loaded, a boyish freak, an explosion, a mortal wound, and death. School had been dismissed at the usual hour, and the students had scattered promiscuously about the premises. Wulsteu and Watson, accompanied by two younger scholars named Eddie Oliver and Bert Thatcher, descended to the basement of the institute building directly beneath Prof. Blinker’s office, occupied as a recitation-room. In addition to its use for educational purposes, it seems the room was appropriated in part as a storeroom. Among the articles left hero was the gun which vras subsequently used with so deadly effect. Upon reaching the apartment Wulsten perched himself upon a desk and began the manual of arms with a gun improvised from a Stick lor the occasion. Wutsou seized a gun standing handy and imitated the examSle of his fediow-student. While both wore ius occupied, and upon the command to take aim, Watson responded, and, pulling the trigger under a belief that the wea pon was not loaded, the same was discharged. The charge struok its victim in the forehead and plowed Its way across the skull, mangling the bones from the brew to the occipital in a horrible manner, and scattering blood and bratns ln every direction.—Denver (CM.) Spee d! to CM tdgo Trtt-uui.

and tlie Paste. debasing effect of party spirit betrays itself so shamelessly as in to of General Mahone with the ilieaii majority of tho Senate to the bill for removing the disabilities of Dr. Tebbs to the Juditiary. Committee, which disposes of the subject for the presfent session at least. By the vote of Mahone the question was decided against the ex-page of the Confederate Senate. 'A" newspaper correspondent in Washington remarks that this vote was “ odd.” It was indescribably infamous. This ex-Major-General of the Confedracy hail raised troops and levied war against his country. Under his orders thousands of men were hewn down in battle. It is true enough that he has sought to enhance his military glory at the expense of better men; but what reputation hq owns was acquired in the war for the destruction of the Union. He entered into thi3 rebellion’in the tidiness of his manhood and the ripeness of his judgment. When the war was over he Anyiched himself by entering into combinations of speculators who robbed the impoverished State of Virginia of its railroads. believed of his disabilities, Mahone enters the Senate of the United States and holds the balance between parties in the Government against which J>e had waged war for four years. Yet this ex-Conlederate Major-General is seen giving his casting vote in the Senate against removing the disabilities of a young man who desires to enter tho army as a surgeon, and whose only crime against his country was his infantile service as a page in the Confederate Senate. When Tebbs, the little page, was carrying harmless messages in tho Confederate Senate, Mahone, the rebel Major-General, was sending deadly missives intcfe$he ranks of his countrymen; yet the ex-Major-General who sits in the Senate, the arbiter between parties, with his offenses pardoned, refuses to pardon the offenses of the expage in the same cause. What will the grizzly veterans on both sides who faced each other in battle say of such an act? What will decent men everywhere think of it?

The conduct of the Republicans in the Senate in raising such a question was exceedingly puerile, but the vote of Mahone with them was unspeakably mean. The Republicans had at least a partisan motive, though an extremely small one, in making an issue over such a case of disability as that of a poor page. Senator Edmunds wanted to erect a “ monument” that there was a right and wrong side to the rebellion, and he pounced upon Tebbs for that purpose; but Mahone could have had no other motive but his innate baseness and servility. Fealty to his new party ties required no such act of degradation; but he performed it with keen satisfaction because it was congenial to his treacherous nature. By voting against removing; the disabilities of the ex-page he was enabled to gratify in a small way his hatred of those whose contempt he had already earned'. Mahone, in his tortuous career, has not only betrayed — TwBL*.an in __ _ mdsTOwt an imBdible stain of -repudiation on his State, and he has found apologists and defenders. But for this last aet of petty meanness there can be no apology or excuso. The partiality of friendship must turn from its author in disgust.—Philadelphia Record. A Noteworthy Fact. It is a note worthy fact that during the three Democratic Congresses, from 1875 until 1881, no lobby for any purpose made its appearance at Washington. Schemes of plunder like those which had made the preceding Republican Congresses asteneh in the nostrils of the people found no eneonragment during the six years of Democratic ascendency in the Federal Legislature. Land grants and subsidies, Credit Mobilier jobs and real estate pools, whisky rings and guano claims, were unheard of in those days except as they were exposed and thrust away from the doors of Congress. It is equally noteworthy that no sooner have the Republicans recovered control of the two houses than the harpies of the lobby reappear and scandals similar to those which formerly made Congress a by-word and reproaeh again pollute the atmosphere of Washington.

It would of course be a futile task to undertake to convince the- average Republican that his party representatives in Congress are generally corrupt or that their personal integrity does not compare favorably with that of the Democratic Representatives. It is not proposed here to attempt so vain an undertaking But the fact that Republican Congresses breed and sustain the lobby and invariably produce the most shameful public scandals is susceptible of easy explanation. The Republican party not only puts a liberal construction on the Federal Constitution in making appropriations of the public moneys, but it disregards thelimitations of that instrument altogether when it finds it necessary so to~ do in carrying through any of its favorite schemes. It is accustomed to act on the principle that all power not expressly withheld from Congress by the Constitution is vested in that body by implication. It was taught the doctrine of “ the higher law” during the war and it cannot unlearn the perilous lesson in times of peace. It has so long assumed to be a law unto itself that it cannot recognize its obligation to maintain and defend the fundamental law by virtue of which alone the Government exists. Hence it is that special legislation of every description by which it is sought to plunder the Treasury finds favor in Republican Congresses. It is permitted to enter the Congressional portal under a loose construction of the Constitution, and once having obtained a foothold, it works its way through the influence of the lobby ana the personal interest of members. On the other hand the Democrats are strict con structionists. They have been taught by’ their statesmen, from the days of Jefferson to the present time, that the Federal authority is limited to the powers expressly granted in the Constitution and that those powers can not be exceeded by Congress upon any pretext whatever. They believe that the taxes of the people can not be constitutionally applied to any purpose but the payment of the necessary expenses of the Government and of pensions and the principal and interest of the public debt. lienee they are opposed on principle to all legislation of a special character calculated to benefit a class or an individual. In this fact is found the secret; of the exemption of Democratic Congresses from the presence of the unolean birds that perch in the lobbies of Republic n bodies. Strict construction scatters and kills the filthy brood.— Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot. —Pittsburgh, Pa., and vicinity has twcuty-Ui e glass factories,

3 - AN ARTHUR MAN1 I am an Arthur man I Whatever else I may be, Or whatsoe’er the way be, A sure enough Arthur man. If Grant, my friend and neighbor. Wants credit cash or labor, I’ll help him wrnrn I can; But let him once get boorish. Or Eghteen-eighty-fourish, And I’m an Arthur man. I am an Arthur man! They call me accidental. But that’s not detrimental. And hinders not my plan. I’m President securely. Quite solidly and surely. The chief of all the clan; And as a politician w Who kn >ws his true position, 1 am an Arthur man. I am an Arthur man l To other men I’m kindly. But do not serve them blindly. Or put them in the van; While 1 the grist am milling, My sacks with Hour l*m filling, And theytnay have the bran; For though 1 love them duly, J love myself most truly, And am an Arthur man. I am an Arthur man! In spite of sore defection, 4 1 won the last electiou, For it was I who ran. M.v friends who rallied round mo Have not ungrateful found me, My foes I bar and ban; But for the next convention Ono man alone 1 mention, And he’s an Arthur man. —0. A. A., in N. Y. Sum. Probably Correct.

The report which attributes to Mr. Blaine the design of being a candidate for Congress in his old district is supported by many probabilities. It would be a new beginning of political life on a lower round of the ladder; but that can’t be helped, if the gentleman is to get back into political life at all. For a man who has been Senator and Secretary of State-to descend to the House would be considered by some a lowering of ambition. But the House of Representatives is not the inferior deliberative body which this view makes it. The House is. in fact, the seat of National authority in thiseountry. It does not possess the gravity and solemnity affected by the SenSle, but it possesses privileges of a most important character that are denied to the latter body. It represents the people, while the Senate represents the States; it has the exclusive privilege of originatingrevenueand tax-bills; and if the Executive or a Judge is to be impeached, the House alone must do it. Its hall affords the very first held for parliamentary tactics, eloquence and party leadership. It is in the House that nearly all our great popular leaders developed and exhibited their powers; it is there that Mr. Blaine gained his most brilliant triumphs; and is return to that body, besides affording him the opportunity he just now sorely needs of placing himself anew before ther country, would supply to his party what it very sorely needs—a House leader. A man of Mr. Blaine’s florid powers and vigor and admitted ambition cannot remain quiet in retirement from the field where stirring work is going on. He chafes under the confinement. His career is but half completed. He was not permitted to serve out his term in the Senate before being called to the the heal! of that'office for eight years;" and he had only fairly mapped out the daring foreign policy which was to make the Garfield Administration memorable before Guiteau’s’ pistol upset the whole business and ended the aggressive Secretary’s earfeer right in the middle of it. And so there is nothing for the ambitious gentleman from Maine to do but begin again. Strangely enough, he does not propose to resume his old vocation of brandishing the bloody shirt and espousing the cause of the negroes and carpetbaggers in the South. He has come to the conclusion at last that that miserable business is exhausted, and the attempt to rehabilitate it would bring neither honor to himself nor profit to the country. He will tnrn his attention to the subject of revenue. He admits at last what the Democrats have asserted over and over again these last fifteen years, that the Government is exacting too excessive arevenuefrom the people, and he will raise the cry for a reduction of taxes. It will not be the first time that a Republican leader has found it profitable to indorse Democratic measures by making them the rule of his new political life.—SI. Lorn's Republican.

The Republican Party’s Shame. The drift of the Republican party today is not such as to reassure the country and to argue a long lease of power. The majority of the people are not in sympathy with Stalwartism, and the course of events since Garfield’s death has not made them more tolerant of that faction of the party which looks backward rather than forward, and antagonizes the demand for Civil-service reform. In the House of Representatives, where Robeson and his man Keifer are accepted ns leader and representative of the party, the session has proved the unwisdom and wickedness of putting these men forward to act for the party which elected James A. Garfield President of the United States. Speaker Keifer has proved a monumental blunder—stupid, unfit for his post, and neither receiving nor deserving the confidence of the .House. Through such a Speaker, Representative Robeson, of New Jersey, of unsavory record as Secretary of the Navy under Grant, made himself first of the Committee on the Expenditures of the Navy Department, second on the Appropriations Committee, and second on the Committee on Naval Affairs. He thus sought to guard his past; but when Representative Harris asked an early consideration of his bill providing for a new navy, there were pointed and merited allusions to Robeson’s mismanagement of the navy department, and Mr. Harris failed to influence the House. Robeson blocked the way. Nevertheless." with this man’s past denounced on the floor of Congress, impeding the progress of important legislation, rising up to reproach the party, and with his puppet in the chair to make the Republican party ashamed —in the face of all this and more the Republican representatives have made Robeson Chairman of their caucus, and put him at the head of a select committee to determine the order of business, and to select the measures that the majority shall support during' the remainder of the session. How does Robeson prove his fitness for leadership in the present, to say nothing of his vulnerable “ ~ his vulnerable past? By wantonly precipitating the House into an acrimonious sectional discussion pf the most unnecessary and blameworthy character. This is the first bitter wat‘ debate which Congress has furnished since the united and sorrowing Nation was gathered about the bed and grave of our murdered chief magistrate. Shame on this contemptible leader of the party, and more shame on the Republicans in the House of Representatives who have invited "his leadership! — SprinafteM (Mass. 1 Republican*

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —The Rev. C. A. Johnson, of Hamilton, Ont,, was “repeatedly cheered” the other eveniug when he declared from his pulpit that the sun moves from east to west around the earth. —The Presbytery of Wilmington, N. C., has revived that, “under ordinary circumstances, no minister be allowed to act as a stated supply to the same church for a longer period than two years.”—N. Y. Post. —Governor Hoyt, of Wyoming, says that the Sabbath in Cheyenne is as quiet as any village in Massachusetts, and he attributes the improved moral condition of the place to woman suffrage, which prevails in the State. —Mr. Spurgeon says he regards it as a reason for devout gratitude that he has been spared to produce such alibrary of sermons, now numbering 1.635. He feels, however, that he has only coasted around the marvelous subjects which fill the Scriptures, and that he is now but at the beginning of his divine theme. « —John Hudson, t>f Detroit^ has organized a new religion, which he calls “Day Dawn.” He holds that every person attains Heaven and that there is no such place as the orthodox hell. He believes that the—millenium has begun and that. Christ has come for the second time, but in the Spirit only.—Chicago Tribune. —The shot-gun method of persuasion was tried some' time ago in Georgia On a lot of Mormon missionaries, with a view to discouraging them from making converts. It had the effect of making the missionaries seek other fields of labor. How, in Mississippi, moral suasion has been tried on a similar party of evangelists. They have been notified to leave the State and not come back again. The invitation to depart was couched in such terms that the Mormons at once accepted it without controversy. —Chicngq Herald.

—At the meeting of the Northwestern Ohio Teachers’ Association recently the current of discussion set in the direction of practical improvement in the public schools. Moral training was advocated and the abolition of “parrot work” demanded. One teacher declared that there is too much attempted in our schools, that there should be fewer studies, and that more time shonld be spent in teaching those branches which build up and strengthen character. He especially urged the teaching of pure English and the inconsistency of teaching advanced science when the pupil is scarcely able to frame a respectable sentence in the mother tongue. —The Chapel of Our Savior in New York City is a wooden structure floating in the East River, at the foot of Pike street. ' It is chained on each side to huge logs and it is anchored and steadied in various ways, but when the wind is blowing hard and the water is rough, or when a Sound steamer passes, the church is tossed about and the sailors who worship in it are more at home. It is intended for seamen, but many others nd it. Inside it dow ben wad* ing the waves, and'on another plots depicts him healing the sick. The churob is Episcopalian.—N. Y. Examiner. How Queen Victoria Dines. Shortly after half-past eight the queen enters from her own private apartments, followed by Princess Beatrice. Her majesty speaks a word or two to the visitors, and then all go to dinner. The private dining-room, which opens from the corridor, is a most comfortable apartment. The Queen always lunches in this room, and dines there when her party does not exceed sixteen. The further side is almost all window, looking into the quadrangle; the walls on each side of the door are covered with splendid tapestry, which was presented to William IV. by Louis Philippe. There are only two pictures—the Qneen§(by Angeli) at one end, and tjie Duchess of Edinburgh at the other. The dinner is always very good, tire carte being well conceived and well executed, and the dinners excellently served. On the menu the name of the cook, who is responsible for each dish, is written opposite to it, so that praise and blame can be equitably dispensed. Champagne and claret are the wines usually taken. There is a.large cellar of very tine old port at the castle, but very little is now consumed, nor is sherry (which

was me lavome wine or w imam IV.) in great request. In Prince Albert’s time, Tokay always appeared, as he invariably drank one glass after dinner; and as a supply was sent every Christmas by the Emperor of Austria, he got the best that Could be had. The royal dining-room is quite a brilliant spectacle, and the first time a visitor “ has the honor of dining” he is very like to lose his ^dinner while looking round the room. John Brown, in fuS Highland dress, is stationed behind the Queen’s chair, and occasionally the other “personal servant,” Lohlein (who was"Prince Albeit’s confidential valet), is also to be seep hovering about. There are footmen in tlieir ' state ljveries, pages and cellarmen in their respective uniforms, and the clerks of the kitchen, who carve at the side table. On ordinary occasions they are in plain black with knee-breeches, but at large dinners they appear in their uniforms. While the Qoeen is dining, the ladies and gentlemen of the household are taking their meals in the large dining-room, under the Presidency of Sir John Cowell; this room opens into the first of the three principal drawing-rooms, and is at the northeast corner of the castle, and the finest view from the whole place is obtained from its windows. The Queen dines here when she has a party of from twenty to thirty. On tha- very rare occasions when the number is still larger, and it becomes an affair of a state banquet, St. George’s hall is used. The Queen leaves the room with the ladies, and in two or three minutes t he gentlemen follow, and then comes the only personal intercourse that takes place between a guest and the host, as her majesty remains in the corridor for perhaps half an hour, and converses for a few minutes with each visitor in succession, after which she bows to the circle and retires. The guests and household then adjourn to the crimson or green drawing-room (there is some wonderful Chippendale work in this room Which would be the despair of ordinaiy dilettanti if they could see it, tand the evening closes with music and whist. These rooms contain numerous cabinets of priceless china. The Queen passes the evening in conversation with Princess Beatrice, or in leading, or writing, or in listening ta a reader, either in Her own sittiugroom, or in the adjoining one, wilier was formerly used bv Prince Albert. Both are invariably lighted up. Candles are used for the illumination of Her Majesty’s private rooms.-London Truth.

FACTS AND FIGURES. —Boiler explosions last year, in this country, caused the death of 250 persons, and 3J8 were injured. —Dr. Norman Ken-, of London, recently estimated the annual mortality caused, directly and indirectly, from drinking, at 120,000. —Hiram Sibley, the wealthy seedsman of Rochester, N. Y., has sent $•">,- 000 worth of seeds to the sufferers by the Mississippi floods. —«A well known journalist died recently at New York, Ilis effects were sold at auction to pay funeral expenses, and brought nine 'dollars and sixtythree cents.—AT. Y. Graphic. —It is the opinion of the Petroleum Age that over 21,000,000 barrels of erode oil will be required to satisfy the demand of 1882, or 200,000,000 more gallons than were consumed last year. —George Urban & Son have built and equipped with rollers a mill in Buffalo, N. Y., costing $75,000. They don’t have a stone in the building. It is the first flouring mill of the kind in the city. —Female candidates for the study of medicines in Russia are constantly increasing, The total number admitted within ten years is 959. Of these 281 have finished their studies, and 152 are now practicing. , —Among* the valuable minerals found in Arizona it is said that the importance of the opal has been overlooked. In Yuma County, especially, are these gems found in great abundance. They usually have a lime coating and are oval in shape. —- —A Pittsburgh iron manufacturer employs nearly 300 girls of ages ranging from fifteen to twenty years, as blacksmiths and iron workers. The labor they perform is not heavv, and the wajjes run from 75 cents to $2.50. a day each.—Detroit Pont. —Much anxiety is felt in Jamaica lest the plantations of pimento should be entirely destroyed to supply sticks for umbrellas. Each bundle of sticky contains from 500 to 800, and last year nearly 5,000 bundles were exported. Each stick represents a young bearing pimento tree. —The snm of $8 67, which remained of the fund used in celebrating ill Portsmouth, N. H., on the 22d of February,^ 1832, the centenary of Washington’s^ birth, was deposited in the local savings bank against the bicentennial celebration, and now, at the expiration of halt the time, amounts to $143.58.

WIT AND WISDOM. * —Why is -a locomotive like a beefsteak? Because it is good for nothing without its tender. —The hardest rocks aramade of the softest mud, just as the biggest swells are made from the smallest men. —The adventurer is generally a good®, melodist. At least, he always seeks fortune. This tune is generally written ia —Musical Herald.' . bank-notes. Some says Alphonse fault with man could only take out bis braid's and have them revised, he might frequently start business on a more satisfactory bads. His main-spring may be all right; the works only want a little cleaning,—Denver Tribune. —A prominent writer, of a eulogy on connubial bliss says it is often the case when you see a great man, Hke a ship, sailing proudly along the current of renown, that there is a little tug—his wife—whom you can not sec, but who is directing his movements and supplying the motive power. —“ So yon enjoyed your visit to the Museum, did you? ’ inquired a young man of his adored one’s little sister. “ Oh yes! and do you know that we saw a camel there that screwed its mouth and eyes around awfully; and sister said it look exactly like you when you are reciting poetry at evening parties. ' —A Maine grocer who had just “experienced religion” acknowledged in meeting that he hail been a hard sinner, cheated customers by adulterating his goods, etc., but, beingconverted, would repay any one he had wronged. Late that night he was awakened by a ring at his door bell. Looking out he saw s man. “Who are vou, and what do you want?” he asked. “I’m Bill Jones. You said to-night you would repay those yon had cheated. Give me that $100 you’ve owed me so long.” “Can’t yon wait till morning?” “No; I ain’t going to wait and stand in line all day.” He was paid.—Boston Globe. —Dana Krum, one of the conductors on the Erie Railway, was approached before train time by an unknown man, who spoke to him as though he had known him for years: “I say, Dana. I have forgotten my pass, and I want to go to Susquehanna. 1 am a fireman on the road, you know;” but the conductor told him he ought to have a pass with him; it was the safest way. Pretty soon Dana came along to collect tickets. Seeing his man, he spoke when he reached him: “Say, my friend, have you the time with you?” “Yes,” said he, as he fulled out a watch, “it is twenty minutes past nine.” “Ob, it is, is it?” Now, if yon don’t show me Sour pass or fare I will stop the trhin. here is no railway man that I ever saw that would say ‘twenty minutes past nine.’ He would say ‘9:20.’ ” He settled.— Chicago limes.

Hanging ror ms Hoars. A Mexican by the name of Senobio Martinez was brought to this city from the Medina, in Bexar County, who had a thrilling tale of terror to tell, rivaling some of the desperate aets of the Bexar County Vigilant Committee in its palmiest days, when Mexican horse-thieves might be seen hanging from the limbs of adjacent trees on almost any day in the week. During those times, too, several well-known gentlemen were even accused of going to church on Sunday with hangman's ropes in their pockets. He lives on the Medina, and tor a long time past has incurred tho displeasure of his neighbors" from the faet that Senobio has been suspected of appropriating other people’s horseflesh to ris own use and disposing of the same for private gain. , On Tuesday night a mob of unknown men went to the house of Martinez, took him away, and hung him up to a tree, leaving him shortly after for dead. The mob, however, neglected to tie the man’s hands behind his back, and by holding the rope around his neck with both hands for six hours, he succeeded in saving his life and was out down the next day by friends. The poor fellow./-, cannot tell who the parties were who committed the outrageous act, nor how many there were in the gang. He only knows that he went through the horrors of death, and is still much bruised, about the face and neck.—Sa&jMt««• Mqprm* r'