Pike County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 47, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 April 1883 — Page 1

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Jl » • NEWS IN BilEl Compiled from Various St arooa, FtmosAi. iso fouh ;al Lieut.-Colon el Frankli i HarfHrooB, United States Engineer ' orps, was Ifound dead in his room at a Boat a (Mass.) hotel on the 36th. Congestion of the brain was the cause. Ex-Presi*ent Diaz and tarty had arrived at Washington, p. C., os t the 36th. William L. Remminway, of New ^Tork, the well-known Methodist, has given ktearly $100,000 to church and cht -itable institutions. The seat of Representative Dukes in Ithe Pennsylvania Legislature hat been declared vacant. The law to authorize sett ement of |the Memphis debt has been sign d by the Governor of Tennessee. Alfred Clint, the celebrate l English landscape and marine painter, is dead. Frank Byrne, the man whe n Carey, the Dublin (Ireland) informer, accused of being connected with the Invim ibles, had arrived in New York on the 28tl with his wife. He said he had come to ste y. John Brown, the well-known personal attendant of Queen Victoria, is dead. - His death occurred at Windsor Castle on the 28th. The Massachusettg House of Representatives has passed a bill pro' iding for biennial election of State officers and biennial sessions of the Legislature. The death of Thomas H. 'Herndon, member-elect of Congress from the First Alabama District, occured at Mo ile a few days ago. Secretary Folger’s he; lth was much better on the 29th than it h d ben for several days, and it was hoped by those about him that within a week h< would be so far recovered as to be able to t ike a trip to Bermuda. The Tennessee Legislature 1; its passed ag art making gambling a felony " > Joseph Tysowski, of Washington, [has been appointed Chief of th s Mineral jDivision of the General Lands Bee, vice (Sickles, resigned.

JSx-Senator Kellogg*, m ;tn interview at Washington on the 29th, professed ability to disprove the allegations in the ^affidavit of Contractor Price in a statement that he was preparing and wou i publish <n a few days. ® The death of General N. 15. Buford „ occurred at Chicago, Ills., a few 1 iglits ago. 'He graduated at West Point in 1827 and held the rank of Brigadiar-G neral of Volunteers during the war of the rebellion. •He was born in Kentucky in 1807. The enthronement of the B ight Rev. Edward W. Benson as Archbishop of Canterbury took place at Canterbury, Eng., on the 29th with appropriate ceremc lies. CIUMES AN1> CASUALTI ES. For violating the New York election laws in 1879, Washington E. Hall and Thomas Boland were on the 20th sentenced to eighteen and twenty months imprisonment respectively. — A-Xocnoiady named Jennj t-Sariliser was drownecrin the overflow on li ear Creek, mear Vicksburg, Miss., recently, by the -capsizing of a dug-out in which ; le was going out to the boat. N. L. Dukes, the Union to vn (Pa.) Xwhose acquittal of a mur ler charge tly caused so much exci ement, returned to that place the other night, and ■was promptly waited on by a committee .■who notified him to leave to vn within twenty-four hours. The Deaf and Dumb Asylum on Hawthorne Hill, near Frederick on, N. B., .with the barns and all the out buildings, was burned the other night. The house of a Mr. Bruce, near Fifield Station, Io., was burned a few t ights ago, and his t\yo children perished in he flames. Four thousand dollars’ worsh of fancy goods were seized at Montrea , Cana., a few days ago for undervaluation Two boys were burned tc death on the) 28th in a frame house in Allegheny City, Pa. A The Grand Jury of the I istrict of Colambia returned three addit pnal presentments in connection with the star mailroute frauds on the 27tlp In one James T. Brady was charged with unlawfu ly receiving $3,000 from Price, the contractor; in the second ex-Senator Kellogg, of <ouisiana, and Brady were jointly accused < f conspiring with Price to defraud the Government by the expedition of routes; and iuthe third Kellogg, individually, was allege I to have unlawfully received from Price $20,000 in consideration of the exercise of his influence in securing certain adva tages for Price from the Post-office De partment. The indictments were found upe the evidence of Price, who claimed to h ,ve made the payments to Brady and Kellc jg in cash and post-office drafts. Russell Brown and Pm rick McGlew, accused of the murder of Irs. General Dorris, Brown’s grandmot ,er, at St. Louis, MoJ, entered a plea of gtiil y of manslaughter in the first degree on the 28th, and were sentenced to ten ye ,rs in the penitentiary. Opposition of his daughters to his marriage and the commence! .ent of a breach of. promise suit caused Herman Newmann, a prominent mercii int of St. Clair, Pa., to kill himself a few c lyt ago. Asa P. Leopold, Treasui ir of the Town Board of Crystal Falls,Mi< i.,charged with having left that town ree> ntly with of fh* town funds and ®,* 0 short on an old account, was arrested the ther night in Chicago, 111,

judge H. u. MCVJOMA3 an wife, of St. Louis, Mo., were murdered C 1 the 89th by Apache Indians at Tbompeo i Canyon, eighteen miles east of Lordsb rg, H. 1|. Their son was with them and ii was supposed was captured. A rumor prevailed that troops and hostiles bad a:i engagement in the Whetstone Monntaii and that the troops were woftted. Thecit zenr were urging the Government to adopt i vigorous policy. * An earthquake in the neig tborhood of Miskalez, Hungary, the othei day, during a performance in a theater, caused a panic, in which many persons were injured. Several miners at Querii a, Colo., having been sent to prison for st sling ore, their friend* had organized a rei pi of terror there on the 29th. They hs 1 ordered shoot fifty persons to leave l >wn, and were parading the streets ti reatening the lives of more peaoeaUe citi ens. The Governor was appealed to for tr ope to restore order. Twentt-one of the twenty -six persons arrested at Balinrobe, Ir land, recently for complicity in the men er of Teerick in June, 1880, have been rule sod. Several important rivers in Hungary had overflowed their ban ts on the 29th, and a number of villages wi re threatened. Br n landslide on the (inoinnati Southern Railroad, forty miles 'rom Cincinnati, O., on the nth nib, a rain was wrecked and sixty persons injnn 1, sente it p-#s thought fatally.

t An Austrian Count, President of the Court of Cassation, wits found murdered at his residence in Ofen a few days ago. He had been strangled and his tongue had been cut out. The house was ransacked by the murderers. A hussar, who was on the premises, has been arrested Mrs. Meaner, protesting her innocence to the last, was hanged on the 30th ult., at Windsor, Vt., for the murder of her little niece. Ifar the murder of F. N. McDowell, Oliver Bristow was executed at Camden, S. C., and Charles William Beaver paid the penalty of an assault on a little girl with his life at Leesburg, Va., on the same day. A forest fire was reported raging on the Blue Mountain, near Lehigh Gap, Pa., on the 30th ult., and much valuable timber was being destroyed. David Whelan, an infotmer, was shot dead at Maryborough, Ireland, on the 39th. One arrest was made. Threats having been made to blow up the Post-office at Cork,Ireland,that building was being guarded by military on the 30tb ult. . - Reports from the Scottish coast on the 30th ult. said terrific and Jdestructiue gale had visited that section. Three vessels had gone ashore in the vicinity of Aberdeen. A bark was . reported ashore at Hollyhead and the crew of thirty-three persons drowned. Three men, FeStherstone, O’Herlihy and Carmody, arrested the night before, were arraigned at Cork, Ireland, on the 30th ult., upon a charge of- being members of a secret society having headquarters at Cork. The object of the society was, according to the claims made by the authorities, to commit murders whenever it was believed such a course would advance the interests of their organization, and to blow up buildings in the principal cities of the British Isles. Upon a preliminary examination bail was refused, it being strongly intimated by counsel for prosecution that a number of witnesses were ready to testify in support of the charges. At Greenfield, Mass., Conductor E. L. Hasley, of the New Haven & Northampton Railroad, has been found guilty of manslaughter, he disobeying the orders and causing a collision on the State Road last September, in which ’three persons were killed and others injured. Cassius C. Meukle, alleged absconding member of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) paper manufacturing firm, which recently assigned by reason of his withdrawing large sums of money from the partnership fund, has been arrested at Cincinnati, O.

MISCELLANEOUS* Catherine McCann, a Chicopee (Mass.) boarding-house keeper, has sued Father P. Healy, of that place, for $10,000 for libel. The priest denounced her place some time ago, and, she claimed, ruined her business. Three feet of snow was surprising portions of North Carolina on the 27th, a two-days’ violent storm having contributed that amount. The snow-storm extended over the northern part of the State and the southern part of Virginia. The first appointment of a woman as a- Notary Public, was that made by J3ov ernor Murray, of Utah, the other day, who conferred that honor on Miss Mary Greenwood, of American Fork. Lord & Munn, Montreal (Cana.) shippers of western produce, have failed. Liabilities $250,000. The prosecution having failed to make out a case, ex-Congressman Thompson Butler, charged with raising a note from $400 to $4,000, has been released by the Pittsbnrgh'(Pa.) courts. A meeting of a thousand Knights of Labor was held at Bloomington, 111., the other night to insist on the reinstatement of seven employes of the Chicago Sc Alton Railroad, discharged for petitioning an increase of pay. The speakers urged all employes to quit unless reinstatement was made. The City Council of Lincoln, Nebr., proposes to raise the license for dramshops from $1,000 to $2,500 a year. About a hundred thousand pounds of bullion, withdrawn from the Bank of England on the 27th, was for shipment to New York. The Board of Trustees of the Palatinate College, Myerstown, Pa., recently deposed President Russell by leasing the entire institution for twelve weeks. The result was that the students were in rebellion. American artists in Europe are excited over the clause in the new American tariff increasing the tax on works of art, and will petition Congress to repeal the same. The Western Nail Association has decided to keep the mills running instead of closing down for two weeks on April 7. Cause, improved trade. It was charged on the 28th that the British police allowed “No. 1” to escape because his arrest would weaken Carey’s testimony. About two hundred Mormon families were sent to the forks of the Snake River, Oneida County, Idaho, recently, to settle that region, and to extend the sway of the kingdom.

Ai4. the Executive Departments at Washington were closed on the 28th, the day of the funeral of Postmaster-General Howe, their flags draped in mourning and flying at half-mast. The pillars office at New York were draped] flag placed at half-mast. Business was suspended in the afternoon. At Chicago the Custom-house was draped in mourning. The funeral services at Kenosha, Wis.,trere exceedingly simple and appropriate, and were attended by many distinguished officials and others. The body was taken to Green Bay in the afternoon for intermentat Woodlawn Cemetery. The survivors of the Jeannette Arctic expedition, left in Siberia by Engineer Melville and Master Danenhower to continue the search for Lieutenant Chipp's boat, reached New York the other day, in charge of Ensign Hunt. * The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has issued a circular to collectors, giving minute directions relative to the allowing of claims for rebate to tobacco manufacturers under the hew tax and tariff bill. E. 6. Weichmann & Co., jobbers of woolens, of New York, have liabilities amounting to $800,000. The thirty-fourth annual pork-packing in the West bjnati (O.) Price Current, packing for the winter to have 1 212 hogs, against 6,747,760 last crease, 86i,4S2. Average net pounds ; increase, 3.46 pounds, of lard shows a decrease of 10.11 _ hog. Tie pork produced shows an increase of 111,000 barrels. Stocks of the products in the West on March 1 showed an increase of 88£Bf> barrels of pork, 33,000,000 pounds of meats, and a decrease of 21,700 tierce s of lard, compared with the same date last A committee of the Iridf National League was connected with the dynamite party Of America

The libel suit of George 1J. Hite, father of Wood and Clarence Hite, members of the James gang of outlaws,, against the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal for publishing certain statements regarding the relations of his wife with the late Jesse James, has resulted in the jury finding for defendant. The amount sued for was $25,000. In consequence of the difficulty of obtaining hotel accommodations for the Knights Templars there was talk recently of not holding the triennial conclave at San Francisco. It was announced on the 2lltb that the work of clearing out the Biraidwood (111.) mine would be abandoned. No bodies were discovered the day before, and it was estimated 6,000 car-loads of materia] remained to be removed. The mine would be closed. The Edison Electric Illuminating Company has been organized; capital $1,000,000. Ex-Governor Rice, of Massachusetts, is President. The annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac will lie held in Washington, D. C., May 16 and 17, The stockholders of the Philadelphia (Pa.)Permanent Exhibition Company have resolved to wind up the affairs of the company. In order to appease the demand of the working people of Paris for cheaper rents, the French Government has awarded a contract for the erection 6;’ a large number of dwellings. The will of the late Gustavus S. Benson, of Philadelphia, Pa., disposes of property amounting to $900,000. He bequeaths $20,000 to various Presbyterian institutions. A club has been organized in New York in opposition to monopolies and in favor of the promotion f>f wise and pure government. Office-holders and candidates for office are barred. A bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Second street, Philadelphia, Pa., was torn down the other night by laborers supposed to be in the employ of the Newton Company. The Jeannette Board of Inquiry convjned at Washington on the JlOth, and three of the late arrivals of the crew app :ared before it. They had no complaints to make. t

Dr. Otto Wilhelm Struve, Director of the Imperial Observatory of Pulkowa, Russia, was in Boston, Mass., the other day to test the object glass made to order for the Russian Government, the largest ever constructed—thirty inches in diameter. An analysis of explosives seized in Liverpool, Eng., the other day showed them to be of a composition so easily combustible that it was said to be a wonder they did not explode while being carried through the street. , German artists have petitioned their Government to intercede with the United States Government regarding the increased duty on objects of art. The Secretary of State has authorized Minister West to say to the Canadian authorities that this Government lias no objection to such a change of Canadian customs regulations as would admit of the importation of' bonded whisky into Canada from the United States In packages of less than one hundred gallons. The failure of Antonio Lewils,Schutte & Co., general merchants and cigar importers, London, Eng., with liabilities of £82,000, has been announced. Lieutenant Vesy, United States Navy, and other members of the expedition sent by the American Government to Patagonia to take observations of the transit of Venus, arrived at Liverpool, Eng., on the 20th on their way home. The business ^failures in the United States and Canada for the seven days ended March 30 numbered 182, ns against 195 for the week previous, distributed as follows: Western States, 58; New England, 14; Southern States, 32; Middle States, 22; Pacific States and Territories, 15; New York City, 9; Canada, 32. The number of failures for three months were 2,806,against 2,127 for the same period last year. Considerable uneasiness has been reported among the people of Loraine, who nourish a bitter anti-German feeling. Three hundred and fifty enligr&nts left Belmullet, County Mayo, Ireland, the other day for America. An immense throng of people witnessed the departure. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Advices on the 1st regaiding the winter wheat crop, all sections considered, were reported not encouraging. The prospect varied greatly with locality, but as a whole was unfavorable. The Chicago, Burlington ds Quincy Railroad earned over $5,000,000 in dividends last year and carried $750,000 to reserve fund. During the recent terrific gale off Yarmouth, Eng., six fishing smacks went down and forty sailors were lost. Burglars blew open the safe in a drug-store at Rushville, Yates County', N. Y., the other morning, and stole over $3Qc 000 in notes, bonds and mortgages, aft $3,000 cash.

The towboat Polar btar blew up the other Afternoon near Henderson, Ky., and from fifteen to twenty-five persons were reported missing. The Illinois Supreme Court has ren- * ^ tile Pullman Car Company a common carrier. Bepobts that the whites were organizing to exterminate the male Apaches on San Carlos reservation were said to be given credence in the Southwest. It was reported from Cork, Ireland, on the 1st that the polios believed an infernal machine factory had been established in that locality. In the collisidh the other night on the Vandalia Line, near Brazil, Ind., William Stewart, fireman, was instantly killed, and William Brannan perhaps fatally hurt. The loss to the railroad was large. The St. Petersburg (Russia) police raided a house full of Nihilists recently capturing eight and about 144 pounds of dynamite. Three of the officers were wounded and one of the Nihilists committed suicide. A committee of examiners was on the 1st engaged in counting the cash in the United States Treasury. A boiler explosion at St. Dizier, France, on the 1st killed twenty-six persons and injured thirty-eight. There was a promise of trouble in Memphis, Term., the other day over the desecration of the Catholic Cemetery by. the original proprietor of the ground, who claimed that part of tile purchase money bad never been paid. A FLEET of thirty-seven barges, loaded*with 450,000 bushels bf coal, broke loose at Pittsburg, Pa., on the 81st ult, and swept down the river, sinking four steamers and tearing everything afloat that lay in its way. De. George Buchanan, of Philadelphia, Fa., son of the famous bogus diploma doctor, Jehu Buchanan, was convicted recently of having caused the death of Elisabeth Holstein, by a criminal surgioal opera

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Thu New Dos Dow. The low provides that the Township Assessors shall list all dogs over six months old, between the first day oit April and the ] first day of Jmte each year, and that each male dog shall be taxed one dollar, each female two dollars, and each additional dog over one owned by any one person, two dollars. Auy Assessor failing to list any dog shall toe fined not exceeding five ] dollars in each case, and any one making a false statement of the number of dogs harbored may lie fined $100. „ Any dog that kills sheep maj’ be killed, and any person who harbors a dog after it is known to have killed sheep nj»y be fined $100. The killing of any listed dog which has violated none of the provisions of the law is a misdemeanor subject to a fine of $100. All money derived from the taxation of dogs shall constitute a fund to be used for the payment of damages sustained by dogs killing or maiming sheep, and the Township Trustee is required to collect annually from the County Treasurer the taxes and fines from this source. Owners of sheep which are killed by dogs are required to report their losses to the Township Trustee within ten days, and any person making a false statement of the amount of damages maybe fined $100 and imprisoned in the county jail for thirty days. The surplus over the money paid for damages to sheep shall be applied to the school revenue of the township. The act of April 13,1881, is repealed.* I ndiana Items. The Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat—No. 2 Red, $1.0601.08'*. CornNo. 2, SOSOolc. Oats—42<®43c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat—No. 2 Red, $1.08®1.09, Corn—No. 2,. &aOu5>,c, Oath —No. 2, 44.'S045c. Rye—No. 2, 62JiftS63Xc. Barloy—Nominal. Dr. E. S. Elder, medical attendant on the recent trip down the Ohio River .of Governor Porter and the 'Board of Trade Relief Committee* reports that along the river from LawrenCeburg to Cairo, 111., exclusive of New Albany and Jeffersonville and that immediate vicinity, the flood overflowed 23,741 people; of these 2,310 subsequently sickened,and 220died. He found a mali gnant type of typhoid-pneumonia at Lawrenceburg and Leavenworth, cerebro-spinal meningitis at Mount Vernon, typhoid and small-pox at Caseyville. The State Board

oi ntaira nas reports oi smau-pox: at a number of Indiana river towns. The resignation of President White, of Purdue University, brought about because of his opposition to the secret societies, has been accepted by the Trustees. Wabash County harbors a brute by the name Of William Robinson, who stole the liquor provided for his sick child. He was drunk when the child died, drunk at the funeral, and drunk as long as the liquor lasted. A colored man named William H. Mayes met with a horrible death at Indianapolis a few afternoons ago. He was sent with a wagon to a coal-yard to get a load of coke. When he arrived there he immediately began shoveling at the bottom of the pile of coke, which was about twenty feet in height. He had worked about five minutes, when the whole mass came down Hike an avalanche, covering him from view. Workmen who heard the terrible crash came out and quickly ascer tained what had ,happened, and in a short time the lifeless body of the man was pulled out. William Wimjpfleld, a shoemaker, aged about forty-five years, committed Suicide at Spencer, Owen County, a few afternoons ago, in a back room over his shop, by hanging himself. He leaves a wife and two children. Despondency was supposed to have been the cause of the rash act. Clinton County having been made the forty-fifth Judicial Circuit by the Legislature, Joseph C. Suit, of Frankfort, has been appointed Judge by the Governor, to serve till the general election in 1881. John Morrison, Jr., was shot the other night, near Fairview, Switzerland County, in an affray with a young Kentuckian named Holbert, and died the next morning. William Thornton, who lives in Gibson County, became enraged recently at his horse because it had a mulish and stubborn disposition, and was addicted to balking, and for revenge upon the animal Thornton cut out its tongue. The suffering of the animal was terrible. Thornton was arrested and now languishes in jail for his infamous misdemeanor. i A crazy man by the nuue of Lewis Whitaker was brought to the station-house at Indianapolis the other night. -He had always been considered by his family a very harmless maniac until he seized a hatchet and attempted to kill the whole family, a wife, daughter and son, chasing them out of the house.

The Grand Temperance Council of Indi* ana, according to an official call, will meet in semi-pnnual convention, in the Third Presbyterian Church, on North Illinois street, in the city of Indianapolis, on Thursday, April 5,18113, at 1:30 p. m. Each and every lodge, league, union, club or .other temperance organization of the State, of whatever complexion, creed or method of work, is most earnestly requested to send not less than five delegates to this meeting of the council. Churches, societies, and' other moral and philanthropic organizations in sympathy with the efforts to secure constitutional prohibition of the liquor traffic in the State are most cordially and earnestly invited to send a full delegation of representatives, and all persons in sympathy with the movement residing in districts or localities not thus represented are invited with equal cordiality to most with and take part in the deliberations and actions of the council. The post-office at Greensboro, Henry County, was robbed the other night of postage stamps and money to the amount of $136. L. D. Bundy’s jewelry store was also mitered and robbed of $23 worth of goods. Three students of Wabash CoBege at Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, were arrested the other day for arson, ai d confessed to attempting to bum several buildings and the south hall of the college. . During a quarrel at Alfordsville, Daviess County, a few days ago, resulting from an old grudge, John Gold stabbed John Bingham to death, and fatally out his father. Dr. A. W. Bingham. W. C. DePauw had an insurance cif $3,000 on the buildings burned in New Albany , Floyd County, a. few days ago. Mr. DePauw will rebuild Kingsley Mission Church. William Smith,who was recently arrested at Taswell, Crawford County, upon a charge of having in his possession e die for making bogus nickels, has been acquitted. Elias MoVick, of Terre Haute, who at.tempte^to minder his wife, died a few days ago from the effects of a self-inflicted wound. Mrs. McVickha* almost recovered. Probably the oldest native-born citizen of Floyd County is Harvey Taylor. He was bora In 1809, and has continued to reside in the county since that time, and now lives on the farm upon which he was bora, in Greenville Township, near the Georgetown line. 1 prominent German, who was among Gut political prisoners who escaped from Germany in 1840 with Carl Schurz, died; at Indianapolis a few mornings ago. In accordance with his request his body was cremated at Washington, Pa,

Heatk of the Postmaster-General. Kenosha, Wis, March K. Postmaster-General Timothy O. Howe died In this city this afternoon. Mr. Howe came here on Monday last to visit with relatives for a few days before returning to his official duties at Washington. Before coming he had been at his home in Green Bay, and had visited Appleton, Oshkosh and other cities in the northern part of the State. A week ago today he took a long walk in a driving snowstorm and contracted a severe cold. His Immediate friends urged him to remain there Until the difficulty arising from the attack should pass away, but on Monday, feeling no worse, he started for this city, his friends at Green Bay believing that all danger was passed. Arriving here he experienced the same feeling of illness, but nothing serious was feared. Tuesday symptoms of pneumonia set in. He was not oonflned to his bed, however, till Thursday, when, his symptoms becoming alarming. Or. I sham, of Chicago, was sumnmned. As the result of the physician's ministrations the symptoms of the case improved, and Mr. Howe became so much better that it was hoped and believed that all danger was at an end. Saturday night, how i ever, a sudden change for the worse took place, and dispatches were forwarded to Washington and other points addressed to the family and immediate friends of the sick man asking them to come here on the first train. Mr. Howe continued to grow worse until two o’clock this afternoon, when he passed away. He remained perfectly conscious till about ten o'clock this morning and suffered hut very little. After that hour he wandered somewhat in his mind, and his utterances at such time showed that his official duties weighed upon his mind up to the moment of his death. He was conscious at times, and at eleven o’clock showed unmistakable evidence that he recognized his daughter, who arrived from Washington at th»t hour. His death was peaceful and without pain. He seemed to pass away as though entering • upon a natural ricep, and for some moments after death It was almost impossible to decide that he was not simply asleep. Mr. Howe died at the home of his nephew. Colonel J. H. Howe. He came to this City two weeks ago, when ho first arrived from Washington, and spent several days here. He was then In excellent health. He went from here to Green Bay, find his intention was to return here and complete his visit before returning to Washington. Judge Howe was a native of Maine, born at Livermore in that State, February Si, 1816, and Was consequently sixty-seven years old. His wife died in 1881, and his only surviving relatives are his son Frank, daughter, Mrs. Totten, wife of Colonel E. Totten, Washington; his nephew, Colonel James H. Howe; and his niece. Miss Grace Howe, of Kenosha.

The News rt Washington* Washington, March 28. “Flank, your father Is dead.” It was Id this eruel manner that a comparative stranger informed young Mr. Howe upon the street this afternoon that his father was no moro. The shock which the son received was scarcely greater than that felt by the entire community this evening whan it became known, and .the surprise was less, for dispatches which had been received by members of the family during the day bad prepared them for a fatal termination of Judge Howe’s illness. Assistant Postmaster-General Hatton, early this afternoon, received a dispatch from Kenosha indicating that Judge Howe’s illness had become of a more alarming character. He immediately dispatched a messenger to the President and to the house of Judge Howe. This messenger had hardly left when another dispatch came indicating still more alarming cons jKW, “d joon after came the news of his death. Mr. Hatton immediately took a carriage, went for Seerotary Lincoln and for Secretary Chandler, and with them proceeded to the White House, the President was visibly affected. He had scarcely heard of the serious turn in the illness of his Postmaster-General before the news came to him that he was dead. The death of the Postmaster-General, outside of his immediate family, will bring siUoere grief to no one more than to the President of the tinited States and to the remaining members of his Cabinet. And to Judge Folger, who is himself lying upon a bed of pain, the news, when bis physicians permit R to bo broken to him, will be a terrible shock. They were nearly of the same age, their habits were judiolal, and, though comparative strangers before they had entered the Cabinet, their relations had become of the most cordial character. The President had learned to look upon Judge Howe as one of the most trusted of his counselors, and, while the Postmaster-General seldom volunteered opinions, there was no one shout the Executive council-chamber to whom the President more readily turned for suggestions than to the late Postmaster-General.

The Burning Railroad Car* The passengers who escaped from the burning sleeper on the Pennsylvania Railroad tell thrilling stories of their narrow escapes from being burned alive. One of the most remark- ; able was that of General Dudley. Commissioner of Patents. He had only time to seize his artificial leg, tuck it under his arm and drag himself along the aisle toward the door, keeping his face close to the floor to avoid the blinding, suffocating flames. AH he reached for his leg ho remembered that Representative Ben Wilson, of West Virginia, who occupied a berth some distance down the car, was deaf, and tfie thought flashed across his mind that perhaps the alarm might not have aroused the sleeping man. As he orawled along on his hands, knee and stump, he felt in every berth, making all possible speed, but not missing a bunk in his blind search for Wilson. Sure enough, there lay the Congressman in one of the berths sound asleep, in the very embrace of a fiery death, totally oblivious of his danger. The Commissioner shook him vigorously, but he could net arouse the sleeper. Reaching over the prostrate form he raised the window,-and then, jumping into the berth, he seized Mr. Wilson by both shoulders and Bhook him with desperate earnestness, which at last accomplished the object, and the member of Congress crawled through the window as the train came to a halt. The General remained cool in spite of the heat and blinding smoke, and be again placed his face within two or three inches of the floor and dragged himself through the doorway and fell from the platform more dead than alive. The car within, two minutes was all ablaze, and but. for General Dudley’s presence of mind, there would have been another vacancy in the West Virginia Congressional delegation. Very few of the passengers got away with anything except their night clothes. Luckily, General Dudley’s pantaloons were fastened to his artificial leg, and when he carried that off in triumph the attachment came with it.—Cbr. Chicago Tima. _ A Big Nevada Wildcat. On Sunday night last, as Daniel Tyer and Bill Dye were strolling about a mile from theii home, near Wallace, Calaveras County, they heard their dogs making a noise a short distance away. On reaching the scene of the trouble they found that the dogs had treed « monstrous wildcat. The cat seemed to feel quite secure, and it stretched itself at full length along one of the branches of the tree and turned its half-sleepy-looking eyes on the dogs beneath. Tyer got his shot-gun loaded with buckshot as quickly as possible, and, blazing away, knocked the wildoat off the limb to the ground. A terrible fight at once ensued between the animal and the besiegers. It soon vanquished the dogs, and then started for the young men. Tyer was just asquick a* the cat. He had but one charge in his gun, and he knew he must put that where it would do the most good. As the cat made a spring Tyer fired, killing the infuriated animal. Ths eat weighed a hundred pounds. It was twen-ty-four inches in height and four and hall feet in length, and measured thirty-eight inches around the Ixsly.—Virginia Oily l hr >n Tnc Louisiana Supreme Court says hotels are responsible for valuables stolen front guests, and that wanting notices do not relieve them of the responsibility. “ Mirror acturep in the Hew Jersey Stats Prison " will be the legend on the sole ot emry pair of boots hereafter made is that

RECOVERING THE BODIES OF THE DEAD MINERS. Anxious Crowds Gather to Witness the Re- , salts of the Ghastly Search at Braidwood. 111.—.Twenty-two Corpses Taken from the Ulne—Affecting Scenes. Braidwood, III., March 2ft. This was a day of intense excitement at the Diamond mine. When it became known early this morning that the bodies which wore discovered had been brought to the surface, crowds surged to the shaft, and a scene of the wildest confusion ensued. Behalves and friends of the unfortunate victims pressed about the morgue clamoring for admittance. In some oases identMcation was absolutely impossible. Even where the poor miner had escaped the horrible fate of being crushed by rocks and earth, the action .of the water had bloated and discolored his body beyond recognition. Up to 12:30 p. m., the efforts of the searching parties had been rewarded by the finding of twenty-two bodies.' Those identified were: Patrick Wall, Joseph Smith, Joseph Carroll, Frank Kloss, Mike Hannon, John Johnson, Mathew Redmond, John Cullough, A. Dembrosky, John Dembrosky, George Boukosky, August Patents, Frank Marry, Daniel McBride, Herman Umber, John Akins and John Boyd. The remains were in every instance in a most shocking condition. When being placed in the coffins even the most gentle handling caused the flesh to fall off in piqpes. The morgue itself was filled with the disgusting odors arising from the putrified mass. The fumes of the disinfectants but added to the horrible stenoh. The funeral train, appropriately draped, left Braidwood for the mine at seven a. m., returning at mne a. m. Eighteen coffins, with their disagreeable contents, were taken on the ears. But, disgusting as was the condition of the bodies, it did not detrfict from She grief of those whose loved ones were being taken to their final resting-places. A Mrs. Redmond, residing near the village of Diamond, signaled the tram to stop as it passed her house. With heartrending shrieks She demanded the remains of her boy, encased, in cine of the coffins. This terrible burden in hor arms, she rushed frantically to her desolate home, saying she could not permit her child to be buried without seeing that the body was decently prepared for Interment. i When the train with its load of humanity reached the depot at Braidwood a most distressing scene took place. Women and children shrieking and crying demanded that they be allowed to see the rer ains. This demand was acceded to, when tB* coffin-lids were taken off, the crow a passed And looked with ourious eyes and bated breath at the horrible sight exposed to view. One of the most affecting scenes occurred on the coffin con" taining the body of John Dembrosky. His bereaved wife, rending the air with her cries, wringing her hands, and weeping in the agony Of woe, called upon God to return to her the Support of her life.' Kind friends took her away, and the coffins were placed in hearses and taken as quickly as possible to the cemeteries. During the afternoon several funeral processions passed along the thronged streets

oi uraiawooo. The excitement seems to have abated somewhat, and, although crowds press eager!/ foi1* ward on the sidewalk, it is only out 6t idle curiosity. The remains of a miner who had been a member of some benevolent organization, are being conveyed to their last resting place. A band of music heads the procession, and then follow relations and friends in carriages and wagons. Trade is going on in the stores as usual, and is probably increased, as the town is full of strangers. The saloons, of Which there seems to be no lack, are crowded. The scenes in the morgue when the bodies were being identified Were of the most melancholy kind. A man came in, and, hastily scanside one, claiming If as bis iWlflIP. "At the skme moment a woman; Who had been engaged in the sad task,Of looking at the bodies in fearful hopes of seeing the face of a lost one, exclaimed that the same corpse was that of her husband. A dispute arose oyer this, when the woman said she could tell if she was right When the boots were removed, for the reason that her husband, upon the fatal morning, when he got up, finding one of his Own sockd wet, had taken one of hers. Accordingly, the . boots of tbe dead man were taken otr, and disclosed one man's sock and one woman's stocking. The scene at the Diamond shaft iast night was devoid of exciting detoils. Belays of miners stood about discussing the incidents of their work of excavation during the day. The funeral train, consisting of two coaches and two fiat cars draped in mourning, was standing on the track near by, ready for its next load of victims. The Daily ff.ua representative, running across Johnnie' Skinner, of tho “I” shaft, was told that, if desired, he could go down the Diamond shaft. Accordingly the party started. Upon reaching the bottom by means of the cage it was found that about one foot of water Still remained. Although the pumps are kept steadily at work the water does not seem to lower much. Pasting along the road of the mine the party encountered Immense piles Of soapstone, which had fallen from the roof, stopping up the passage. In numerous places it was only by crawling upon the hands and knees that progress could be made. Scab tered along the route were the relics of the dead. Here was a dinner pail, the contents Just as the unfortunate man had left them, save for the mold which gathered thickly over them. A little farther on was a mildewed coat, and still further a pair of mittens. As the advance of the exploring party was made places were pointed out where such and such a miner's body had been found. In one spot it was said a body had been found oh the top of the supporting timbers of the roof, doubtless where the poor fellow had crawled, hoping to escape the relentless flood. Twice the party crawled over the dead bodies of mules which were buried under the fallen rook. The exploration was continued to the point where the work of excavating had been stopped, some five hundred yards from the mouth of the shaft.

It is bard to convey an Idea of toe Immense labor to be accomplished before the work of search can be finished. Tons and tons of rook will have to be removed. A pit'boss of thirty-five years’ experience claims that the mine can not be cleared until the 4th of July next, and similar opinions exist among the miners. No conception of the task to be performed had entered the minds of the men until to-day. To-night a new system of work was put in operation. A shift of men was Sut to work at the mouth of the shaft, and II efforts will be directed toward clearing aH the debris away, so that the cars can be run on the traoks and utilized to take away the rubbish and stone. There is no doubt that many an unfortunate victim lies buried under these .masses of debris. Old miners say that in all their varied experience of disasters they never came across one in which there Was such an immenso mass of rubbish to get rid of. They also said that the mine was one of the safest in which they had ever operated. While the exploring party stopped to take breath after the laborious efforts which had been made, one miner said that many a time he had stopped right there and smoked his pipe, feeling as safe as if in his own cottage. Pitt Boss Gallagher said no more bodies could possibly be taken out before to-morrow night. As the remains of the vk>tims were brought to the surface to-day they were viewed by Coroner Werner, of Will County, and his Jury. No time is as yet set for the formal inquest. Shooting a Comrade in Play. LA Cross*, Wis., March a#. Yesterday afternoon Louis Hay, Frank Maher, and three other youths went to the gun-room of the Light Guard armory to play cards. May watched the other four, and, seeing some cheating going on, went to the looker, and taking out a gun, raid: ‘TH shoot the next man that cheats.” He then held np a brass Mien, and placed it in the gun. Boon he raw Frank Maher pass a card to his partner, and called out to him to look out. Maher turned to May, placed his hand on his heart, and raid “Fire away.” This May did, and the ball entered Maher’s left eyecoming out near his left ear. He fell to the floor, but the boys thought it only a continuation of the joke until they raw blood streaming from the hole in the unfortunate youth’s head. Mag wee nearly crazed with grief, for he and the dead youth were dose friends. He had taken the shell from e box containing thj ■holla fired byargot practice afew evening* ego, and supposed that it was not loaded* May was not arrested.

Matomc’s Political States. • M Mr. Mahone wore directly charged wii h being a Republican he would indij nantly deny the accusation. Neither Mi hone nor any one of his Democratic ret ruits will confess to Republicanism. He and they still claim to be Democrats ami affect resentment of any imputatio i against their Democracy. But Mr. Ms hone is either a Republican Outright or le is something that ought to be far mo re objectionable to the Democratic mil id than any decent member Of the Rei idblioan party. He is either a coward ly Republican who dares notown his pai ty name, or he is a renegade Democra selling his influence to the Republics n party; If he does not hold the opi dons of the Repttblicah party he Is like the Hessian ruler who sold bat alions to the British a hundred years age. If he does hold those opinions, he is s pitiful specimen of abject moral eov ardicc, afraid or ashamed to be km wn for what he is. Taking either hor i of the dilemma, reckoning Mahone as i trading Hessian or a Republican eon ard, and we have such a leader as Dei loerats can not follow in the progra nine laid out for the campaign of 188:. That programme is the amalgan ation of the Readjusters with the Nat ional Republican party. There is no 1 anger any disguise. The local qnestior that divided the Virginia Demo‘crais is settled and put out of the waj forever. Those Democrats who, in futi re, adhere to Mahone and his failing fortunes, will do so with the full under; funding that he regards them as the Hes dan contingent which he is to barter lor patrohage, While he professes to holt aloof frotn the Republican ofgatiizati m, ije does so because his position givt s him greater importance; because he, vith the balance of power itt his han Is and with promises of great things in .884, can command much better terms than he could as a regular member if the ‘-‘grand old party.” It is a goo 1 time now, while there is no intense poii ical excitement, for Democrats Who have been with Mahone on the debt ques tion, to calmly consider whether they can march with him into the Repub ican campaign of 1884 as a part of his stock in trade. If any of those De» ocrats have become converted to the Republican creed they will not be true Virginians if they are not brave enoi gh to take their black Republican bret iren by the hand and fully, openly, bold Iv avow their change of faith. The Old Dominion has never yet been so degrftc ed as to have her Presidential vote sold, but such a sale is contemplated by Mab lie, and he really counts on his abili ;y to make this trade by holding his Democratic supporters in a National CatU laign and delivering their votes for ttepi ibliean Presidential Electors.— Was iington Post.

So Further Use for the Negro, It Is very clear that the Republican part, ■ has no further use for the colored man except in a menial capacity. - Whe l hk vote was wanted he was, “ a man alia a brother” to be honored, respec ed and protected at all hazards from the ravenous Democrats, to whom he f« ight • possibly giv*r hie vote if not Sedu ously watched. But now that the bore lase'of Makone and Riddleberger has j rade Ids Vote of less consequence, he h. is become, in the chaste language whie 1 the Posi and Tribune once adopt-, edin speaking of him, a “darkey” again. N* thing could better illustrate the coloied man’s present low condition, as Com] i»red with his former importanee ih t! e Republican estimate* than the case of Slack, the laborer in the Naval Bure Ml of Construction and Repair at Washington.- Black, who was very approp ‘Safely iiatned, seems to have imbibe* . the notion that, being in Governmeni employ and on the Government pay-: oil, he was bound to do only Governs ent work. When, therefore, the ohiel of the Bureau wanted him to do men: ai service in the former’s household—to black the family boots and scoui the knives and makc'himseif generally useful—Black rebelted. Worm as he was, he turned and refused to do the v ofk of a private servant. Thereupon his chief ordered him to resign, and 1 e did so, Te:i years ago sttch an instance of triflii g With the black man Would have excit:a more commotion in Washington than ;he marriage of a divorced Senator or on} of Wiggins' storms. The Republican press wduld have blazed with headl ines denouncing the outrage. The Civil Rights biU would have been printed in full with the Fourteenth Alrtendment in italics, and the party of great moral ideas would have been appealed to by all its memories of past greatness and a 1 its hopes of future success to punis. i the man who had trampled on

•■me gentleman irom Ainca. Ana the S< eretary of the Navy, in the name of an indignant party, would have reinstated the discarded black man, while he re; irimanded or court-martialed or otherwise tortured his oppressor. Not ’ all this is changed. The colored nan’s resignation is approved by the S« eretary of the Navy ana the verdict - >f the* Republican party is, in effect, that he had no business to be “ a nigge ” in the first place, and that, being such, he had no business in the secom. place to refuse to do any menial servic * that was asked at his hands by those n authority over him. The colored nan has indeed fallen from his high < state when he can thus be treated by the party which has been so profuse heretc fore in protestations of affection for hi n.—Detroit Free Press. —T 10 memorial of the late Senator Wagn ;r, to be presented to his family by the Legislature of nW York, is done in Ind ia ink and water-color on cardboard orbluish-gray tint, and consists of thirteen taMets set in ebony and black relvet with embossed moldings of oxidiz 3d silver. These frames are held togeti er by massive hinges, and so arrange 1 as to fold together with double doors meeting in the center, and when closet! represents an elaborately carved gothic cabinet twelve feet high and five feet b: oad.—N. Y. Times. —-A a Amsterdam (N. Y.) merchant receiv ,*d several crates of crockery direct fi om England recently,1 On open- . ing tl e crates a large rat sprang out and w is caught and hilled by a dog that was a; hand. Another rat was found inside the crate, but it was dead. The rats lad stored a number of English walnu:s in the crate for provisions. The re dents had come all f be way from “Mer-ie England” and had been twen-ty-feu • days in the transit. —A young man by the name of Worley ac ndentallv shot and killed himself, near lies Ark, Ark., a few days since. Worle y went ont squirrel-hunting, and becoE ing tired and worn out sat down on a t ill slump, near the field where he was a en by s. colored man, and upon iumpi ig from the stomp struck the hamm er of his gu n against it, the charge passing through the heart.

T^e Last CNgnn. It has unhappily boeome customary to denounce Coiiotss when it adjourns, and the organs oOhe party which has controlled Congress are in sthe habit of meeting the denunciation with feeble apologies and deprecations. But no* '• even these will be brought forward in behalf of the Forty-seventh Congress. As Cromwell said of the Tory Parliament after he had dissolved it: “ There was not a dog to bark at their going.” This Congress leaves no apologists and no friends. It is one of the anomalies of onr system that a- whole session of Congress may pass before the elected representatives of the people can come together to execute the will of the people. At this last session the first effort, we believe, has been made to remove this anomaly, by legislation. It is natural that the effort should now have been made, for the anomaly has never before been so glaring and so mischievous. The seoond session of the Forty-seventh Congress has been held in defiance of a direct, emphatic and almost unprecedented condemnation by the people of the acts and omissions of the first session of that body. It is not wCTth while, perhaps, to attempt to appoition among measures or among men the ex>ct share of discredit into which the first session brought this Congress. The acceptai?ce of a man so tainted as Robeson as the* leader of the majority, and of Robeson’s man Keifer as the Spe’aker, excited a public disgust which was deepened by Robeson’s selections for committees. He put himself at the head of two important committees, one of item the Committee on Naval Expenditures, in which it was commonly believed that he Would take advantage of* the experience he had acquired in the Navy Department of the manner hfwhich he could most easily break into the Treasury. He put a colorless member, Mr. Hiscoek, at the head pf the Committee on Appropriations, and Mr. Hiscoek soon acquired a color, and a! very dark | color, as a man who could be trusted | not td scrutinize appropriations pro-: , i vided only they were lavish. He put j Reed, of Maine, at the head of the Jui diciary Committee, though Reed had | no standing whatever as a jurist; and Reed speedily showed that it was not necessary to'be a lawyer but only a man of business in order to extract profitable ' opportunities from what had alwayk been thought a committee of much honor but of few commercial obances. Reed contrived to have the question of the forfeiture of the land grants to the Northern Pacific Railroad5, referred to his committee, and to prevent for two

sessions any legislation looiung lowtuus a forfeiture. Without saying that Reed was bribed, we may see that Reed's reports and Reed's action were worth an enormous sum of money to the corporation in question, and that any man, lawyer or layman, who would father those reports and take that action without being hired to take it would be a very great fool. Of the measures jobbed and logrolled through the first session by these men the River and Harbor bill excited the most intense indignation. But it owed that distinction** chance rather than to any supremacy of demerit. It took a great amount of money out of the Treasury at a single haul, it was pushed through Congress in the face of outspoken public disapproval and it encountered the President’s veto. But \t was no worse or more profligate than the lavish appropriations for public buildings, or than a dozen other acts for which it became the scapegoat. In fact, the palm for impudent rascality probably belongs to the treatment of the Northern Paeifie question by the majority of Reed's committee, who, with the help of Keifer, has prevented the question from coming before the House at all.- The solemn sham of the : Tariff Commission was also among the efficient causes of the public indignation, but for this the President must at least share the responsibility with Congress. He might have appointed a Commission which would not have been a sham. Whatever the causes, the fact remains that the Forty-seventh Congress met for its second session under a burden of popular disgust such as no previous Congress has ever had to carry, anil which had already changed its efficient majority into a weak ttiinority of the Forty-eighth -Congress. The second session has done nothing v^hatever to relieve the odium the Republican party sustained from the acts of the first, and the last act of Congress was fitly enough the helpless adoption of a tariff of which not one of its advocates professed to be able to foretell the results either upon revenue or upon business. —N. Y. World. * I

Democratic Ability in Congress. j Much has been said of the unorganized and untutored party majority with which the Democrats will resume control of the House, and their opponents have been calculating on making great headway in the Presidential campaign of 1884 by reason of the mistaken and blunders which the Democratic majority is expected to commit. But while it is quite true that there will be many new and inexperienced men on the Democratic side, and not a few cranks whom it will be somewhat diflmult to manage, an inspection of the list of members shows conclusively that the Democrats will be much better provided with experienced members capable of leadership than • the Republicans. As to the Senate, the Republicans are not near so well off in this respect as < they have been for many years. Indeed,. it was remarked during all of the last session, by close observers, that there was no leadership on the Republican side. * This was apparent only to close observers, because no sharply defined political issues ardbe during the session. There are plenty of men on the Republican side of great ability, ready debaters and all that kind of * thing, but that audacious and triumphant aggressiveness which never hesitated nor scrupled to strike any and all obstacles from its path, in the days of Morton, Conkling, and Carpenter, has gone. On the outer hand, the Democratic side of the Senate has borrowed some of the aggression which for long years was so sadly lacking, and it feels so good that the Democrats say that the defensive and evasive policy which so _ long characterized them and which no one now doubts lost them the last Presidential election, has been abandoned forever. The two parties, through their representatives in Congress, will thus come together in December for the initial skirmishing of the Presidential cam- " paign much more evenly matched than heretofore as regards all the valuable qualities of political guidance and leadership.—Washington Cor. Baltimore Sun. . —A law has been passed in Maine to dorbid 4$e fcylfing of birds and game on Sunday, but an amendment to prohibit fishAg was voted down,