Pike County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 46, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 March 1883 — Page 1

PETERSBURG, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1883. VOLUME XIII NUMBER §4&.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Scarce . PERSONAL. AND POLITICAL,. Lord Caklingkoko has assumed tho duties ot President of the Council and Min* tster of Agriculture in the British Cabinet. The Rhode Island Democratic Convention,in session at Providence on the 20th, indorsed the nomination of William Sprague (or Governor. Justice Cox, of Washington, has issued a mandamus to compel the payment ot a portion of the award made by the Mexican Claims Commission in the case of Benjamin Weil. Dukes, the Pennsylvania Assemblyman whq was acquitted on trial for the killing of Nutt, has not occupied his seat at any time during the session, and a resolution has been adopted not to admit him till the report of an investigating committee was received. New York’s Aldermen have granted the Governor's Boom for the reception of John Howard Payne's remains, and the New York Press Club would escort them from the ship. The Tennessee Legislature has passed a bill pensioning all Confederate soldiers of . that State who lost an eye during tho late war, and aKo to Federal soldiers not pensioned by the United States Government. The Secretary of the Treasury has called for a detailed statement of the eondi-' tion of the Treasury, with a view to acting upon (he various propositions which biive been submitted to him in regard to the future financial operations of the Goverumeiyt. The OSpital punishment bill recently x passed by the Maine Legislature tailed to specify a mode of execution, and is therefore inoperative. The Director of the United States Mint has decided that an officer of the Mint could not accept any other office without vacating hhs-Federal office. ^Secretary Forger had returned to Washington on the 21st, after a pleasant cruise on the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac Biver. lie gained strength by the trip, but a great deal of business bad aecn-muia'edon bis desk and gome o.' Ms friends feared he would again break down under tho burden of official work. Tue remains of Charles Zoehner, a noted German revolutionist from Iudianapoiis, were cremated at Washington, Pa., a lew days ago. ■ It was reported from Washington on the 22d that a correspondence was iu progress between tbe State Department and the British authorities relative to the extreme utterances of prominent Irish leaders now in this country regarding the recent dynamite explosion and attack in London. The other day the entire population of Hermopolis, headeAby the Bishop, attended tbe funeral offFrederick II,bluer, .-one of the oldest American Missionaries in Greece.

xhk remains of John Howard Payne lay in state in New York City on the 23d, nnd there were m:iny visitors. <Ex-PKEMIKBJarADDINGTON will represent Franco a&jfo coronation of the Czar at Moscow, BusJja. H. S. Farrell, editor of the Iowa City Republican, lately became the purchaser of the old wagon in which John Brown used to carry runaway negroes from Missouri, and in which the arms at Harper’s Ferry were taken to West Liberty, la., to be shipped thence as carpenter's tools. • CRIMES AMD CASUALTIES* James Mkrrit & Co., of Pierson, Mich., have been declared by the Post-office Department to be engaged in fraudulent advertising, and the Postmaster at Pierson has been directed to discontinue the delivery to that firm of registered letters or money Orders. It was reported from London, Eng., on the 2ist that the police were in possession of a clew to the recent explosion in the office of the Local Government Board. A woman observed and fully described the appearance of a man apparently plaelng an infernal machine against the building. It was expected an arrest would be made. A person was arrested at Moscow, ltussia, the other day while ordering clockwork of a suspicious charac er. The Governor of the city had been warned that the Kremlin, where the Czar is to be orowned, would be blown up at the lira: of the coronation ceremony if the Czar refused to

gram a Constitution. James Savage, who killed two men in Montague County, Texas, recently, one lor liavmg assisted an officer to arrest him «' me time previously and the other for att< inpting to avenge the slaying of. the first, has been released on $2,000 bail. The wife of James Hyland, liyftig a few miles from Gowrie, Iowa, was found dead the other day, and there was evidence of murder from choking and kicking. She and her husband had separated and he was arrested for murder. Hyland accused, a neighbor named Bond of the deed. The house of Mrs. Hannah Rudolph, at Newport, It. I., was destroyed by tire the other morning and Mary Barry, a domes' ic, perhhed in th» flames. John Kane, leader of the Mollie Maguires of Fayette County, Pa., was shot four times by Superintendent F. C. Keightley, of the Youngstown Cake Works, four miles from Uniontowu, Pa., the other evening. The shooting appeared tb have been in self-defense. Keigbtley gava hiineslf up. Two brothers, named Feete, Cashier and Paying Teller respectively of Ihe Second National Bank, of St. Paul, Minn., were discharged frqm their positions recently on suspicion of having stolen $15,000 of the bank's funds. An eruption of Mount /Etna had begun on the 21st, accompanied by an earthquake, causing a panic in the vicinity. Several houses had f dlen. Bbook3 Johnson, a colored servant of the Misses Judson, whose bodies were found in the ruins of their burned dwelling at Hsriford, Conn., the other morning, has bet n arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the matter. The house of Duncan Dales, near Byers Station, O., burned tjie other night, and when the fire subsided the neighbors found the dead body of Dales under the bed with a rope around bis heck. It was thought be Was strangled by robbers, his body hidden under the bed and (he house fired. A EIRE at Columbus, Ga., the other morning swept away the Fontaine Cotton Warehouse, together with 3,400 bales of cotton, forty roHs of bagging, 300 bundles of ties, twenty barrels of sirup- and fortyone bales of domestic, besides other property on storogo. The loss wss estimated at $200,000; insurance, $145,000. The other day six men were horribly burned by a colliery explosion near Lost Creek. Pa. On the border of the Seminole Nation, In the Indian Territory, tour men engaged in card-playing fell Into a quarrel, three being ehot dead. The survivor was followed by ’friends of the dead wen and riddled with •jtulltW.

Two thousand dollars worth of hard* ware imported from the United States was seized by customs officers at Montreal, Cana., the other day tor undervaluation. Thk other day a rope sustaining a swinging scaffold, on which three men were engaged in painting the aide ot a large elevator at Peoria, III.,broke and Jacob Wattonschwullcr was killed and Joseph Vail fatally hurt. It. O. Shupp caught the rope and escaped injury. A recent dispatch from Dublin, Ireland, stated that counsel for the murder conspiracy prisoners were confident they would be able to shake the testimony of James Carey. A committee of ladies were soliciting funds to defray the expense of defending the prisoners. The President has been called on to appoint a Postmaster for*the town of Greenhorn, Mont., the vigilantes having removed the late official for alleged barnburning. Four prisoners confined in the Terri-, torial Penitentiary, at Boise City, I.. T., overpowered their two guards the other afternoon and made their escape. Anderson Thomas, who had been fearfully stabbed by Sim Wilson, died at Dallas, Tex., a few days ago. The Coroner’s Jury, returned a verdict charging Wilson %ith the murder and he was remanded to jail. ; ' \V|Li,iAM H. Stewart, the post-office clerk who was arrested at Cincinuaii recently for stealing from letters, made a confession on the 22>^and seemed disposed to make restitution. lie was in good circumstances, the sou of a respectable, well-to-do citizen. A recent San Francisco (Cal.) special recounts the discovery of an embezzlement in the office of State Harbor Commissioner John S. Gray, who fled when the shortage, estimated at $10,000 to $100,000, was discovered. A break in the protection levee at Fairview, Miss., was reported on the 221. Several plantations in the rear were overflowed. Five men were executed in different parts of the country on the 23d. Fred. K. Wait was hanged at Franklin, Texas, for killing n Jailer; Nicholas Walker, at Little Rock, Ark., for killing Thomas Jenkins; two negroes, William Burks and George Cunningham, at Lafayette, Ga., for murder and robbery, and James Hoit, at Graham, N. C., for a criminal assault on Mrs. William Tlrrell. J. B. M arston, interest clerk of the Equitable Trust Company, New York Ci y, has written to his brother acknowledging that he had appropriated <80,000 of the company’s funds.

Locis and Nathan Lay, farmers near Bozeman, Mont, hail a quarrel the other (lay with Irvins Hunter, another farmer, and the next morning Hunter was found dead in his field, where he had been seed* ins, with bis guu near him. The Lays had fled, but the Sheriff’s posse were after them. The jury in the case of George W. Levi, on trial at Louisville, Ky., for complicity in the City Hall frauds, disagreed on the 22d and were discharged. X number of other indictments run lined to he tried. The other night three boys under sixteen years of age, students of Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Ind., were arrested for setting Are to the south hall of the College. They made a confession, and also said they broke into a store in the city some time since and set it on fire. The deficit of Kay, late bookkeeper for the Merchants' Bank, Montgomery, Aik., is placed at 160,00). The cause was cottan futures and eards. The following persons were indicted for complicity in the 'recent Philadelphia (Pa.) Alms-house frauds: William E. Curren, John C. Albertson, Charles H. Kirke, J. H. Parke and Henry H. Myers, Contractors; ex-Store-Keeper James F. Brown and Board-ing-House-Keeper Kate Adams. At daybreak on the 23d, at Lake Valley, Colo., Major Fountain’s command surprised two notoriousQ^tlera—Jack Walls and William Gillard. They bad 2)0 yards’ start when Fountain ordered his men to fire and both rustlers fell dead riddled with bullets. The jury in the case of Nugent and twelve other members of the Armagh Assassination Society on a charge of conspiracy to murder, at- Belfast, Ireland, returned a verdict of guilty on the 2 id. Twenty-thkke smacks and one hundred and thirty-five persons were lost In the recent gales on the English coast.

MISCELLANEOUS. Trains were snow-bound on several roads in the East on the 20th. . The issue of standard silver dollars for the week endedon ih®17.li was $191,500; for the corresponding period last year, $132,000. Secretary Chandler has issued an order fixing a day’s labor in the iiavy yards at eight hours. The Cincinnati, O., packing season shows an increase of 40,522 head packed as compared with last year. A board of army officers has been ordered to convene at Washington, D. C., to examine a new process of baling hay and report on the advisability of its adoption for nse in the army. Mayor Millspaugii, of Shawneetown III., has announced that no further aid for the flood sufferers there was required. President Arthur has received a letter from Berlin, Germany, enclosings contribution of $1,000 marks from a number of prominent lrShkers of that eity for the flood sufferers of this country. The Boston (Mass.) Board ft Aidermen has passed an order for the statue of Paul Kevere, to cost $5,000. Secretary Chandler has ordered a board of officers to appraise the vessels which have been condemned and stricken from the navy register under the law. The Secretary of the Interior has requested the Secretary of War to order a detail of troops to proteot Yellowstone Park from depredators. A large employer in Birkenhead, Eng., has discharged ail his Irish workmen, declaring he would no lunger disgrace himself by paying people who harbor assassins. The river was reported near/y. within Us banks in the Helena neighborhood on the 21st. Flood trouble had broken out at Halifax, N. 8. A )huw and rain caused disastrous freshets. The Government counsel undertake to prove that the Armagh Assassination Society was established by one Burns who went from America for the purpose. The Exchange Bank, of Denver,Colo., after several days of a heavy run closed its doors recently at.-J a Receiver was appointed The liabilities were said to be $560,000, with assets of $400,000. It is estimated that the Canadian Government has been defrauded out of nearly $1,000,000 by evasions of customs duties at Montreal. The report that the Dean of Cantor* bury bad received a letter threatening (bat the Deanery would be blown up on the occasion of the enthronement of the new Arcbb|abop has been pronounced untrue.

Injuries received by Queen Victoria recently lc slipping on a stairway were reported serious on the 21st. It is said the only coin of the United States that strictly conforms to the law is the $20 gold piece. Other coins either lack something prescribed or bear some device unauthorized by law. The out of logs in Northern and Central Wisconsin for the season Just closing would, according to careful estimates, be about twenty-five per cent, below the average, amounting in the aggregate to something like 1,600,000,000 feet. Montana, stockmen reported lately that their herds bad wintered unusually well, the losses not exceeding fire per cent. Grass was coming up finely, and there was every reason to expect a favorable season. During the closing hoars of the last session of Congress a bill passed authorlzIngjhe Postmaster-General to readjust the salaries of certain postmasters, but the bill made no pecuniary provision for carrying out its requirements. It was said at thePostoffice Peparttnent that the law could not be executed without aa appropriation and -an additional force of clerks. It was estinmted that the readjustment of salaries directed by the bill would require an expenditure of at least $2,000,000. f The New Jersey Fire Insurance Company, of New York, after an existence of half a century, has retired from business. The Attorney-General, iu his review of a recent proposition to build a bridge across the Niagara River, said no action had been taken by Congress in the matter and the President had no power to grant the necessary authority. The Canadian Parliament has passed an aet authorizing the erection of the bridge as far as Canada la concerned. Indian Agent Townsend, who bad recently pasted through the Creek Reservation on the way to hli post, reportedjtha other day that e state of complete anarchy prevailed there in consequence of the animosities existing between the two factions of the tribe, work being neglected for marauding, and that tho entire population were badly demoralized. Agent Townsend urged the necessity of Government intervention to restore order. 'A. child of five years who was bitten by a dog at Sioux City, Iowa, died of hydrophobia a few days ago. The will of Albert Goodyear, of Boston, Mass., was suppressed six years and found recently among his wife’s effects after she died. There were several outside bequests. The discovery would result, in litigation between the hoirs. A Berlin dispatch of tho 21st sttid

nothing was known there concerning the reported scheme of Bismarck to acquire land in Mexico tor colonization purposes. Lissagart, son-in-law of the late Karl Marx and managerof Le Citoyen, has been convfcted of inciting to disorder in Paris, France. Twenty duels between German and Austrian students are reported to have resulted from exercises held at Tienna in honor, q| Wagner’s memory. It was reported on the 21st that the Chilians were marching on Lapaz, Bolivia. A statement has been prepared by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue which shows the receipts of the office tor the fiscal year to be $146,400,000. Receipts from July 1, 1882, to March 31, 1883, execed the receipts for the corresponding period last year by $2,200,000. A table issued by the Bureau of Statistics recently showed that the exports of pork had not declined alarmingly during the last few months. About 20,000,1100 pounds were exported during the four months ended February 28, as against 31,000,000 during the corresponding'period last ‘year. The first type cast from Utah metal and Utah antimony was turned out in Salt Lake City a tew days ago. * The business failures in the United States and Canada for the seven days ended on the 23d numbered 193, as against 223 for the week previous, a reduction of thirty. The statement of Malster & Raney, ship-builders, Baltimore, Mil., who made an assignment recently, shows nominal assets oi $228,436; available assets, $74,449; liabilities, $114,0«6. Emigration to America from Swit. Zetland is alarming the Swiss Government. Several districts are fast becoming depopu* lated. CQMIEKSED TELEGRAMS.

M. Siqismund LaCroix, a RadioelI, hits been elected to the French Chamber of Depu tes In Gambetta’s district In Paris. The Williams Sewing-machine factory at Montreal, Cana., burned the other night, causing a loss estimated at about; a quarter of a million dollars. The steamships Hjiy and Salier, which arrived from E^FPe on the 24th, brought 2,155,000 francs in gold for this country. It was reported on the 25th that the public buildings In London, Eng., were guarded oy twe thousand soldiers. An explosion of gunpowder occurred near the office of the Department of Justice at Rome, Italy, on the 24’.h. The search at the Diamond (111.) coal pit for vie tins of the great disaster had hern rewarded try the discovery, up to the evening of the 25th, of six bodies. The levee fronting the town of Thebodeaux, JLri., at the mouth of Bayou Terre Bonne, broke on the 24th and great fears were entertained that the town would be submerged. Patrick Egan, Treasurer of the Land League, arrived at Chicago, III., on the 24 h, and would remain several days in consultation with prominent Irish leaden. A statue of Charles Sumner was unveiled in Lewiston, Me., a few nights ago. Hon T. O. Howe, Postmaster-Gen-eral, died suddenly at the residence of Ids nephew. Colonel James H. Howe, atKenosba, Wis., on the 25th. He contracted a severe cold a week before at Green Bay. It was reported recently that the straight-out Democrats of Rhode Island were not satisfied with the lndenement of William Sprague for Governor and would make a nomination. The remains of John Howard Payne arrived at Washington, D. C., on the 24th and were placed in the chapel nt Oak Hjll. By a boiler explosion at Knightstown, Ind., ibe other da; one man was killed and another seriously injured. The Indians of Arizona, were reported on ths war-path on (he 24th. They ware killing white men and Mexicans around Total Wreck. The troops were ordered out. Judge Jackson, of Louisville Ky., rules that the fact of a man's having read about a case In the newspapers does not disqualify him for Jury service. .A building was nearly demolished in Pittsburgh, Pa., the other dar by an explosion of escaping gaa. Two women were badly hurt. Captain Caret, who commanded ttys party of English soldiers with Prime Napoleon when hilled, in Zululand, filed recently.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat—'.So. 2 Bed, $h08®1.08«. Corner No. 2, 53f,io3*c. Oats—«*4Sc. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat—No. 2 Bed, $1.00® 1.00. Com-No. 2, 58036,Sc. Oats —No. 2, i'«48c. Bye-No. 2, 84*®«Wc. Barley—Nominal. A flouring-mill belonging to F. M. Eagle, a Wabash capitalist, located near Lagro, Wabash County, fell into the fSalomonie Biver the other morning. The recent rise in the stream weakened the walls of -the building, and it tumbled. All the machinery, valued at $2,500, was saved. Mr.. Eagle estimated the building to be worth $6,000.

John Riley, n brakeman on the Cincinnati, Indiana]>olis, St. Louis & Chicago ' Road, was instantly killed the other night south of Indianapolis by falling between the cars, several of which ran over him. He was a married man, and leaves a family at Shelbyville. George Wells and Ed Johnson were out duck-hunting near Carlisle, Sullivan County, the other morning. Johnson leveled his gun to fire at a dock of ducks, and just at the instant of firing Wells raised up some distance in front of him to fire also, and the entire, charge from Johnson’s gun entered the back of Well’s head, killing him instantly. The wife of Charles E. Barrett, a prominent carriage manufacturer at Indianapolis, was a few afternoons ago assaulted by a negro, who struck her with a brick and knocked her down, and then pounded her in the head and face until she was horribly disfigured and rendered insensible, after which he rifled the house of a watch, some jewelry, and a small sum of money, and made his escape. It was feared Mrs. Barrett’s injuries would prove fatal. Rev. John D. Crouch, a ptdneer of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at Indianapolis a few days ago, aged eightythree. Henry Howe, a switchman at Indianapolis, met with a fatal accident a few mornings ago. He was engaged in running switches, when he canght his foot in a frog and a backing freight train struck him, hurling him to the ground, severing his left leg from the body near to the hip. The wounded man was taken to his home, where, after intense agony, he died soon after. William Parley, of Putnam County, who escaped from the Southern Prison last fall, where he was serving a sentence forlarceny, and who, aftermakinga call upon the Governor, voluntarily returned to prison to finish his sentence, was recently pardoned by ithe Governor, as he" had only a few months to serve. A young man named Campbell, of Rock Creek Township, Huntington County, while riding through Greenfield the other day in a drunken condition, was thrown from his horse, his head striking a bowlder, fracturing his skull. He had since been unconscious and would probably die. A railway train ran upon a hack near Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, a few days ago, killing the driver and two passengers:. A young man named Wilker left his home near Sprtngborough, White County? a few mon ies* ago to go to the woods to work. Not returning in the evening, some folks went in search and found him dead. An examination discovered no marks of violence or injuries of any kind. Mrs. George Kell, Sr., of Huntertown, Allen County, a lady of seventy years, while preparing breakfast the other morning, was stricken with paralysis and fell on the hot stove, burning her so severely as to cause death. She was not found until some time after the accident. Gustavus H. Voss, a well-known lawyer and a capitalist of very large means, died at Indianapolis a few days ago of typhoid fever. An Indiana court has decided that payment on an insurance policy taken out by a man for the avowed purpose of paying his debts after he had committed suicide can not he enforced. The other night John Dearduff, an old bachelor living near Hartford City, Blackford County, was robbed of $106 in money. A party named Aaron Rhoten was in his dwelling at the time. A man disguised entered the dwelling and struck the old gentleman on the head, and then secured the trunk containing the money and fled. A few mornings ago half a block of

wooden buildings, consisting of stores, shops and offices, was" entirely destroyed by fire at Michigantown, Clinton County. Loss, $6,000. Much sickness is said to prevail in the territory south of Evansville, inundated by the recent overflow of the Ohio River, the prevailing diseases being typhoid fever and dysentery. Many families were in extreme destitution, having lost their substance by the floods. George Mullinger, an employe at Pape’s saw-mill, near Tipton, fell on the saw the other evening while it was in motion^ lacerating his arm so that it was amputated' above the elbow. Dr. Thaddeus Stevens, Secretary of the State Board of Health, was dismissed the other day for incompetency, and his successor, Dr. ]Q. H. Hawn, chosen. Stevens protested, and said he would not surrender his office. Miss Laura Stine, of Lafayette, who went from that city to Germany, with her mother, to complete her education in music, died in Berlin some time ago, and at her request just before death, her body was sent to Gotha, a small province of Germany, and cremate!. The urn containing the ashes would be sent to Lafayette. Marion Lafollett has been elected Superintendent of ScGools in Boone County, in place of T. H. Harrison, resigned. After preliminary examination, Joseph Pendleton, an old resident and wealthy farmer of Madison County, has been held to answer the charge of arson. The residence of Mrs. Sarah E. Lawrence, two miles northwest of Knightstown, Henry County, was consumed by fire from sparks from the chimney a few days ago. Loss, $2,000; insurance, $1,300. By a resolution of the General Assembly, the Secretary of State was directed to have published, for immediate distribution to the counties, 10,000 copies each of the Road law, the Dog law, the Drainage or Ditch law and the Decedents’ Estate act. At Marion, Grant County, the Fifth-ward school building caught Are during Sthool hours the otter day. The two hundred pupils succeeded in escaping from the building without a single one being injured. Before the fire was extinguished the building was damaged $1,000. Many business houses in the public square at Bloomington, Monroe County, were consumed by fire early the other morning, entailing a total loss of $75,000; total insurance $26,000. Farmer Hunt, who likes on the White : Water River, a few miles above Lawrenceburg, lost forty acres of land, and his neighbor, Fred Newhouse, had a barren and rocky mill-site converted into ten acres of as rich land as the fertile valley affords by the recent flood. The soil wss washed away from Hunt’s land, leaving oijly rocks and (travel, r. ■

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE LADY DIXIE. l*a<ly Florence Dixie Assaulted by Masked Men In Women's Apparel at Windsor— She Swoons Away. hot. Protected by a Faithful Doj, Escapes without Serious Injury—Denial that Any Irish Organisation Had Anything to Do With the As- < ska alt. IiOKDOK, March IS. -lady Florence Dixie was attacked at Windier yesterday by two men disguised in wom- «»'« clothes. Her dress was cut with daggers Is several places, but she received no injury. lAdy Florence was walking in a secluded «!*>t near the woods when the men asked her what time it was. She replied she had no natch, and afterwards noticed that, though they were in women’s clothes, their faces had been shaved.

Much alarmed she started to walk away, and was followed by the men, one of whom seized tier. She struggled to escape, but, seeing their daggers, fell in a swoon. This occurred at .4:45 o'clock in the afternoon. She did not recover tier senses until 5:15. lady Florence has been prostrated today. The story of the affair was elicited from her only at intervals. The saving of her life is attributed to her St. Bernard dog, which is supposed to have . protected her while she lay in a swoon. lady Florence gave the New York Herald correspondent the follow account of the affair: “I returned came here for the purpose of retirement and qoiet, as I have a great deal of work to do, though at this period of the year I Invariably stay at our seat in .Leicestershire. Ou Saturday afternon at a quarter to live I sauntered into the plantation which adjoins ‘The Fisherics' with my St. “Bernard dog, and had reached the gate opening into Windsor road, when Hay attention was first attracted to a soMier and a woman passing by. While looking after them and mentally remarking the line physique of the man, I was addressed by what appeared to be two tall women, dressed in long cloaks of dark stuff and wearing veils, trite asked me to tell them the time. I replied that I had no watch upon me, and turned back again into the plantation. I was about crossing the stile when I noticed that the women had, followed me. This roused my sus* pioipn, as the ground was private, so 1 faced round to meet them. I had scarcely done so when one seized me by tike throat and struck me violently ou the head) and threw me on the ground. I called loudRr for help, when they poshed clay Into my mouth. I then saw by their clean-shaved china that they were men in the disguise of women's apparel. While prostrate I saw the other man raise a knife and aim a savage blow at my right breast. The knife struck the steel ribs of my oorset and glanced off. Without uttering a word, he again made a stab, which I caught in my left hand. I remember seeing him false his hand to strike another blow, which I received in my right hand. I also remember healing the noise of a cart in the road and seeing my dog fly at the men. Then I swooned. I came to my senses half an hour afterward, and found myself lying in the same spot where I feli. X got up and walked back to the house, and told my husband and brother of the terrible outrage. They immediately departed ter Windsor to lay the account before the authorities.** To the noble animal of the St. Bernard breed Lady Florence Dixie attributes her marvelous escape from the assassin's knife. It is presumed that the dog followed tee would-be murderers for some distance, as it returned to the house after tee arrival of Lady Florence Dixie. Your correspondent questioned Lady Florence as to tee motive of the crime. She said: “Tbewhole affair is most mysterious. lean ascribes motive to no one, as my sympathies ter the Irish people have been openly avowed and are well known." It was assumed that tee attack would -be laid at tee door of the Irish, an assumption which she warmly repudiated, adding: “In these days every crime must be of Irish origin." Later. London, March 19. Lady Florence Dixie, who was attacked Saturday by two men disguised in ^omen's clothes, says tee men spoke no brogue. She remembers seeing her St. Bernard dog drag one of them backward. The affiur is puzzling every one. There is no clew to the assailants. The gardener potting geraniums thirty yards from the soene neither saw nor heard anything of the occurence. Lady Florence says she called to her husband for help. She states she should be sorry to attribute the outrage to the Ladd League. Nxw York, March 19. O’Donovan-Bossa said to-day he was very certain that no Irish organization had anything to do with the assault upon Lady Florence Dixie. “Irishmen,” he said, “do not make war updn women.” In Dublin Mr. Forster’s life was spared on many occasions because he shielded himself behind women. Be very much doubted whether the asshult had ever taken place. Lady. Dixie was a "crank,” and perhaps her love of notoriety had led her to promulgate tee story. But he thought It more probable that tee “ base hirelings" ef tee British Government had “ planned the whole affair tor tee purpose of exciting tee British populace against tee Irish." from Ireland six weeks ago, and

Mr. snenaan, woo was seen in tne office or the Irish World, said: “I look upon the affair as an attempt to disparage the Land League* and to prepare the public mind for the contemplated slaughter of the men who are now on trial in Dublin. I believe the assault was planned by some of the emissaries of Dublin Castle. Ido not believe that Lady Florence Dixie was a consenting party. I have too high an opinion of her to imagine for a moment that the would lend herself to a purpose so vile. Her mother, the Marchioness of Queunsbury, is one of the most popular women In Ireland. Lady Dixie has proved that she at least sympathises with the Irish people. I know of no reason whatevor why the Irish people should entertain the smallest dislike towards her, unless, indeed, the letters which she has recently written on Land-League matters might be supposed to furnish some grounds for hostile feelings toward her.** These letters, in my opinion, were a severe and perhaps unjustifiable criticism of a public movement and Its officers, but at the same time the criticism was pardonable. If the Government should succeed in establishing anything like a desperate feeling against the Irish people in England, It would only result in increased destruction of property and deeds of violence in which t he upper classes will themselves suffer equally with the Irish. The rabble of the English cities furnishes all the Ingredients necessary for the formation of the most dangerous and uncontrollable mobs.” Mr. Patrick Egan was seen at a late hour at the Grand. Central-Hotel, having Just returned from Waterbury, Conn. With reference to the assault upon Lady Fiorenoe Dixie he said that after reading very carefully all the newspaper reports of the alleged ooourrenoe he had arrived at the conclusion that the entire story is either a lie out of whole cloth or that the unfortunate lady is the victim of an hallucination. He was certain that no Irishman would be guilty of a cowardly attack upon a defenseless wnman, and regarded the attempt to give any political ooloring to the affair as very absurd. Lady Dixie's recent unjust criticism of the Land-League leaders had awakened Borne feeling, but it partook rather of pity and eontempt—certainly not hostility. If it was proven that the attack really had occurred, he should be inolined to regard it as the result of soma family complications. But the whole story looked highly Improbable. If the attack had oocurred, as asserted, either herself or the dog would bear some marks of the knives. It was hardly possible that the steel of her corset should have turned aside two successive stabs as she had stated. Sktxral boys, among them the ten-year-old son of Captain Grace, a prominent citisen, were playing ball at Alleghany City, Pa., the other afternoon, when two unknown youths came op and insisted in joining in the sport. Grace refused to play with them, when one of them picked up a large cobble stone and hit him on the head, fracturing the skull and producing a fatal wound. The murderer than made hjs <*• cape.

1'osVnjr the Boohs. The Forty-seventh Congress came in rich in great opportunities. It goes oat poor enough in its record of good j work ucc mplished. U may have been : well equipped wi h good intentions at the outset, but however worthy its purposes or high its aims, its achievements cannot, as a whole, be honestly commended. Its example should be studied by its immediate successor as showing j what to avoid, and not as a guide to be trusted or followed. The first session, which was needlessly protracted i>y intentional delay in the preparation and presentation of some of the regular appropriation bi'ls, in order that they migb be oaled with legislation that cotitd not otherwise be gotten through, will be remembered ehie y as ha.mg produced the antiChinese bill, the anti-t o ygamy bill and the Tariff Comm ssion—the last named being a device for putting off a present and most imperative duty. The Appor tionment bill, increasing the number of members to 835, and removing the seat of empire farther than before from the Fastern States, the Geneva Award bill, providing or the distribution of the ba anee of the money paid by Eng a itl for the destruct on of onr commerce, the compulsory retirement of army ofti cers at sixty four ye rs of age, and the extension of National Hank chapters were also fruits of that session. Of these the anti-Polvgamy bill, from which "much was expected, has proved a fail? ure, and the wisdom of other measures has not yet been entirely demon trated. Congress was expected to go at work, at once, as sobn as it hadetlected an organisation, on a careful revision of the Revenue laws. It declined to do this, preferring the t imsv device of a Tariff Commission. But the nm ority, feeling that something must be done in the way of tax-reduction, brought forward the Little Internal Revenue bill that proposed to cht off a ew millions, mostly from luxuries. The de'eat of this humbug by the Democrats in the Senate was the best work performed during that eight months > ession. The country gave the Democrats a heartv endorse ment for compelling the Kepubli ans to lay that bill aside. As to the River and Harbor Wll of last year, of which so mu h has been sa d, and against which so much of denunciation and ridicule and so 1 ttlc in the way of fair argument has been ad

vancea. we u ive only to say tnat. as Congress would not cut down ihe taxes, but insisted on collectng about *1;,0.000,000 of surplus reveni:e,it was better for the country to have large appropriations for publ e work. There should have been a prompt reduction of taxes and close cal. ulations in expend tures; but when Congress decline < to ligh en taxation there was no oftc slon for cheese-paring in relation to National improvements. Congress erred unpardonably in not reducing the revenues, but was not culpable in applying a few o man , surplus millions to rivers and harbors. . , The gross partisansh:p wh:eh dictated tne unseating Of Dent n-rats in order to give their opponents a good working majority, has been almost universally condemned. - haw was trampled under loot, precedent- were disregarded, decency Was outraged and honesty was shamed bv such exercise of power as can never be defended; bv such examples as, for the honor of the country, we hope no future Congress will follow. '• The verdict of the people in the fall elections was a most emphatie condemnation of the Republican majority in Congress as Weil as the general policy of the party >ud its re nbive methods of conducting political eamBa gns. When Congress reconvened it ecember, 1883. the majority seetned to have featf*the lesson of the elections and there was, for a few weeks, a strong hope that it wott'd make an honest adjustment of tariff and internal revenue taxes and do the other work that the people demanded. Under the in uence of this improved feeling Mr. Pendleton’s Civil service bill was passed, being voted for by Stalwarts who condemned it then and who have ’ nothing but contempt for it now. -- >" Nothing has been done towards the restoration Of our ocean carrying trade. Our coast is utterly defenseless. t nr flag has almost disappeared lrom the ocean We have not a single gun ashore or afloat that would be of any service in war. Our rivers are open to the fleets of any naval power. Onr great cities are at the mercy of any nation that owns one iron-clad. Congress was expected to provide for the Presidential succession in case of vacancy, but it has neglec ed this great duty. Congress was hound to past a law providing! or the ascertainment and deelaraton of Presidential “inability.” This imperative duty has al a been, neglected. The country reminded a National Bankrupt act, bnt this demand has not been honored. One of the worst sins of omission to be charged against the responsible party in Congress I< its refusal to take any steps towards pro'ecting the National life aga:nst ignorance. It will be the tfuty of the next Congress to inaugurate the great work thus; slighted.

Of the Tariff and Iniernal Revenue bill that was rushed through Congre s by an arrangement very si ilar to the Electoral l ommiss on, weshall have occasion to speak more at length at another time. It is very far removed from the re'ief measure that public sentiment demanded, and nothing objectionable or exasperating was spared in the long course of deceit and blundering that led up to the tinal consummation. We are glad, however, that the majority was, at least, compelled to take the respons bility of passing a Tax bill. The pol tical situation is fa-more favorable to the Democracy than it wou'd be had Democratic obstruction—which most of the Re ublioatis* hoped for an I some of them worked, for—, revenled any revenue legislation at all. The donate has been far more desirous than the House to do its whole duty, but we must s eak of Congress as a whole, and thus regarded it has most palpably failed to meet the wants of the people and the needs of the country. — Washington Post. The Agony Over. The great agony is over, and the country feels relieved. '1 he Fortyset euth Congress which, true to its political character, opened with the election of a manifest dunce for Spe ker and closed in disgraceful tumult ; nd riot, is a thing of the past, surviving only in an unfr.< grant memory and a more unsavory record The good it has accomplished could be written within the narrow compass of a tombstone, this fit monument to be erecte I for the Republican party, while the bad it has done, and the harm it has worked, would s'.agger the inventive faculty of its ablestapo ogisli. The chief bus ness of the long session of the 1 orty-seventh Congress was the passage of the notorious river and harbor appropriations, and the stupid parody of a tariff reduction the principal act of the shoit session.

There is good can's for congratulation, even, that the reportof the Committee on Coinage, fo pay the National debt in silver, w:?.s not raised to the dignity of a law. But great as were the sins of commission the sins of omi&iion committed by the la<t Congress, were still greater. The alm’ghty power of the lobby in frustrating useful legislation was Dever more apparent. Business was V ept on the tagged edge of doubt and fear through the machinations of the seif-1 (instituted th'rd house, whose occupation is now gone forever. And a ter ail the ruinous suspense no relief from the burden of taxation and d s- < rimination was found. When the last session convened under -he st nging effect of a disastrous defeat a desperate pretense at virtue was made by Kelfer’s associate!!, who plunged headlong into all sorts of reforms as if inate to their guileless souls. Now that the farce is over and the affliction happily passed, the country may looK forward' to a better promise The responsibilities of the 'Forty-eighth Congress will be vast, but so will also be its opportunities.—Omaha HeriihL Tabor’s Last Honrs in the Senate. Special adv'ccs frSm Washington agree that yesterday was the most exciting day ever witnessed in ihe United States Senate. It terminated the Hon. H, A. W. Tabor’s career in that august body, and! it seemed as if the v hole Nation rose up as one man and bewailed the hour in which the patriot and statesman quitted the scenes of his la ors and triumphs. Early n the day the streets were alive with people hurrying to the eapitol. The flags were hung at halfmast. and in ihaay a shop window appeared the portrait of the retiring statesman trimmed with crape and immor edles. The lobbies of tne Senate chamber were oruamenied with such mot too! as “The Nation Mourns,” “He was the Noblest Roman,” “(lone but Not Forgotten,” etc. Senator Tabor's chair was one mass of tube-roses and sniiiax, and numerous floral designs were piled npi n hi s desk. The ga leries WetU'lilled to overflowing with the moot beautiful and accomplished lad es o! the Repiiblic. and the floor of the Senate thamber was crowded by eminent persons who had been invited to witness the belove 1 and great man’s departure from the arena of inte leetual and polit'cal combat. ” Among the uota

Dies present were s. .j. iiiuen, i ,0111110 Seymour, yen. Hancock, Roscoe Couk1C hftrles t rancis Adams. < arl Sih rz,.)etl'ers :>n Davis, W. H. English Robert Toom s, VV. T. Sherman, cay Gott'd, George Will’am t nrt s, W. H. Vanderbilt, it ssell Sage. W. H. Bush, Joaquin Miller, K. B Hayes, l1.' S. Giant and *• harles A. . Dana. When Senator Tabor entered the room bearing a new j atent leather gripsack, and wearing a superb trousseau of broadcloth and diamonds, the vast crowd became hushed as the grave. It was generally remarked its the Senator passed down the aisle, looking pale and calm, and bowing n edestly to the riyht and left, that his appearance bore a striking resemblance to the popular steel engraving of Mary, t.tteen of Scots, i.o:hg to Mtoomtfftrr. Be proceeded once to his old pla C. from which he had thundered otit those Utterances which shook the world and Wilt live in all history as the rrandest monuments to his genius. Opening his gripsack, he proceeded to stow awav in it the conn less pamphlets, vol mesan d papers that hadarcuumia ted during his long term. It was a touching spectacle. Strong men Wept like babes, and several ladies, no'ably the wi e of the Spanish ambassador Were borne out of the gallery in :t swooning condition. When the dust-envelopeu treasures had finally been deposited in the grip sack. Senator Tabor took his sea*, and Senator Edmun is. as President pro te,m. called the Senate to order and in for' ed tnem that the time had come when they won’d have to part with tlieir most venerated and esteemed associate. j Heal tided to the ingratit de of the public, to that base born innppreciatioti which had ro bed the highest council of the Nation of its ablest ment er. He paid a glowing tribute to Tabor s s 'gacity, erudition and eloquence, and expr ssed the belief that without his cle r head to direct the Senate would hereafter drift along like a ru idetleas bark upon a tem e tt o s ocean. Senator Hoar followed in an eloquent apostrophe to Tabor, who n he addressed as the Adntirab e Crichton of American statesmanship. Senaator Sherman submitted a fere; of res olnticns lamenting Tabor'sdeparture, ami eulogi/.ing him as the first and foremost man in oug the people of o r glorott' la d lo d appla se). Senator Cameron seconded the resol tions in a si Cecil t hat betokened his deep emotion. The resolutions Were unanimo sly adopted, Senator Tabor maintaining his characteristic mo e ty to the last, and abstaining from vot'hg. The Senator arose to spea . There were tears in his eyes an.I his voice Was Very trem ilous. It were impossible to describe the delicate beanty of his remarks and the intensity of the scene that transpired during their delivery. As he Droceeded to recount his services, his love of country, and his devo

non to tne puDtic weai, tne men groaned and sol bed in speechless agony, and whole pla'toons of police were kept busy carrying insensible ladies ont of ihe galleries. Y\ hen Thomas H. Penton left the United tates Sena' e af er a thirty years’ term there was every^lemonsirat’on of grief, but no such desertion and woe as were manifest on this occasion. The Senate stoo 1 up as Tabor i assed from the midst of them and as he vanished through the storm doors of the chamber, his late colleagues fell upon bach others necks and'cried as if their hearts would break. At night there was a torchlight procession in ex-Senator Tabor’s honor. It was an imposing affair, numbering twelve thousand persons in line, and the entire American navy on wheels and gorgeously illuminated. Tabor, accompanied bv President Arthur and members Of the foreign legations and their wives, viewed the pageant from the front stoop of the hbbitt House. A charming feature of the procession was a huge papier mache yacht, repi esenting the ship of State, and manned by fortyone beautiful voting girls, repre>ent:ng the States and Territories, from Oshkosh;—Chicago News. —Happily there has grown up here and in England, during the last two years, a more prudent and rational spirit regarding mining enterprises. Men have learned that knowledge and experience are necessary in this business, as in any other, and that there is more truth than poetry in the old saying that it requires a mine to work a mine.—N. Y. Tribune. —A punster writes: “ The IHmes-Slar yesterday said Chicago had sixty millionaires. Always knew Chicago to be a windy place, but did not know it had as many miUion-airs as that.’’ But Chicago certainly hasn’t sixty million heirs, according to the last census_ fVwinnati Times-tjlaf, I -<Lk. * •><->- - ■

FACTS AND FIGURE*. —Chicken Uusiness is not a small concern when it is estimated that §75,000.000 is the value, of the eggs of the country each year. —Maine sold 4125,000 worth of spruce gum last year. At five cents a coew this would represent an aggregate of 12,500,000 American girls and boys made happy. — The Edison lamp factory at Newark, N. J., can turn out 10,000 lamps a *\ day, and yet each lamp passes through more than iliO distinct stages during its manu'acture.—.V. Y. Sun. —A man has figured that there are in this country about 14,000,000 pet canaries which annnaltv use 1 8,000,000 pounds of seed, worth 411,000.000, and. that twenty-two manufactories made * 1,000,000 cages last year. —Cne ef those persons who “keep reco:ds” says that 134 feet of snow have fallen in the Ashgelot* Valley, New . Hampshire, during the past twentythree years The smallest fa 1 in one year was 38 inches; the deepest 101 inches. —In France upwards of a million ' foreigners now reside, only 30,103 of whom are English, while. 450jQ0© a to, Belgians. 250,000 Italians, 150, tM> Germans, 70,000 Swiss, and 60,000 Spaniards. Thirty years ago the Germans numbered only 67.081 and the Italians only 63,30'. —Already dt ring the present year seventeen separate notices of the discovery of gold and silver in the State of New York have been filed with the Secretary of State, These claims are d'stvibuted among the counties as follows: i erkuner, 5; i o'ton, 5: Hamilton. 3; anj} Saratoga, Otsego, Putnam and Rensselaer 1 each.—ft. Y. Times. —The report of the minister of crown lands o' the Province of Quebec shows that daring the year covered by the returns 214, st>7 acres of -public « lands were sold for the .-nm of 489.1 8.^>, on account of the same, and oc sales previously made. $89,741.'9 were collected. The proceeds of the sales of agricultural lands amounted to 458,839.81, and those of mining lands to $15,907.48.

—The largest cotton-mill in the ■United States is that o! the Clark '1 hread Company jnst opened at Kearny, on the left bank of the Passaic. It cost ovor $1,000,000. It contains 640 machines, weighing 10,000.000 pounds, which, in a single day of ten working .hours, could produce a length of yarn sufficient to enofrcle the earth four times, but so fine that it would weigh only 2,000 pounds.—Newark (2K J.) Register. —In all Great Britain and Ireland, with a popul tion approximating 37.000,000, there are between 11,000 an I 12.000 lawyers. ■ In tl\e United States, with a population larger by on’y If,- ^ OO >,000. there are 65.W0 lawyers, and in New York State, with a tenth of the country’s ponulation, abide a sixth of its entire body of lawyers. There is a lawybr to e ery 3,000 people in Great Britain, while in America there is a' lawyer .to every 800 people.—AWowy ,(Ar. T.) JourhtM. —The manufacture of macaroni and vermicelli is assuming large dimensons in (,’aliforn'a. A peculiarKind of wheat is used that is grown on the islands of the S'cr men to River from seed imported from It- ly. About 10,000 s cks of this wheat are used every year. Some 30.000 boxes of the macaroni arc consumed annually in the States and Territories west of the Rocky Mountains, exclusi:e of the city- of San Francisco, which uses 25,000 boxes more. Over 15,(V 0 boxes go to Mexico, Australia. Central f merTca. China, the Sandwich and South Sea Isl nds. Alaska calls for 10,000 pound -, and soqaeis sent even to Siberia. —San Franr.tsco Chronicle. WIT ANdViSDOX. —To love is to adm're with the heart; to ad:uire is to love with the mind. —A room hung wi& pictures is a room hung with thoughts.—Mr Joshua Reynolds. —It rather sets ap old man to pondering when, just before starting to enter col ege, his son says to him: "Say, dad. tell me all the tricks yon played when you were at Harvard.”—Boston Transcript. —The late styles of wall paper are so gorgeous that a family can no longer tal^e comfort weariug out old boots and split-back vesta around the house. Everybody sort o’ feels as if he was away on a visit.—N. 1'. Malt. —Fogg says he never understood the true significance of the term ** breaastufis.’' 111 after be exchanged his mother's cooking for the cooking of Mrs. 1 ogg. He says her bread’s tough enoujrh to satisfy an ostrich.—Boston Fost. —A lady fell near the post-office, and the gentleman who assisted her to her feet inquired: “Hid you break anv bones, madam?” “No. I guess not,” she replied; “but I'm just as mad as if I’d b oken a dozen ot ’em.—Chicago Hera'tl.

— ‘ Why, I d like to know,” said a lady once to a distinguished Judge. “ can not a woman become a success: ul lawyer " “It a mply arises from her invariable habit of giving her opinion without any pay,” answered the Judge. —Some of the ancient jokes that have been resurrected by Life are beautiful even in death. In one of Its recent issues the following appears as original: “ Neatthing in bonnets—the faoe of a handsome girl." This discovery is embalmed in the a’manacs of 149H 8.— N, y. Commercial Advertiser. —A prominent insurance man esti- , mates that females will live nine months and three days longer than males after the age of ninety-five ii parsed. We can credit the nine months, bnt the three days portion of the assertion is asking us to believe too much. The experiment is worth trying, however.— Ncrristown Htrali. —An Irish explorer was telling of a virgin forest into whose 1 eeesses he had penetrated, when a dull witted auditor interrupted him to ask what a virgin forest was. “A virgin forest, sor:" said Hlbernicus, eyeing the questioner with a glance of ine’.Vable disdain “a _ virgin iorest is a stretch of timber where the hand of man has never set fut!"— Detroit Free Press-. —Wiggins wan‘od wind. Wiggins wished waves. Wiggins wagered ‘wind would wallop wild. Wide wasting waters would wave. World would wobble. Wrecking winds would waft with woefu. wastage. World wondered. Women watched wakeltally. Widows waited. Wicked wights winked wittily. V iggins waxed wanton, .writing woeful words. Weeks wore. Wiggins’ wind wave weather wouldn’t work. Wrecks, waves, winds were wanting. World warbled. V\ itrgins was wrong. Wicked Wiggins! Windy WiggnstWould-be weather-wise, wild, weird, wiwtardWig* gu»l—■-Chicago Tribune,