Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 October 1883 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. f Compiled from Various msom and rouncu. The Corean Embassy "ware shows through the vaults off the Treasury on the * • ' , A dispatch from Washington of the |2d says: Lieut. Garlington, while refusing jto enter into any extended conversation regarding the Greeley' relief expedition, repeated what he said in New York relative jto the supplementary orders. He iays: ‘"*1 never received any such orders. The -trouble is, somebody has beeh talking too much.” A correspondent of the London * Tiroes has a report from Greenland to the Effect that Lieut. Greeley was murdered by mutineers. It issupposed to come from the name improbabiesom-e as theNordenakijold report. Rear Admiral Sands, retired, died 'on the 3d aged eighty-nine. A Madrid dispatch of the 2d says: Xing Alfonso received ovations during his *intire Journey from the frontier to Madrid. Peasantry poured info the capital to welcome him. All special ^dispatches agree itbat sucfh enthusiasm was never before ween in Spain. King Alfonso has given 10,000 Ifrancs for the poor of Paris. Bancroft, the historian, celebrated his eighty-third birthday on the 3d. On the 3d the Bi shop of Clofifert, Ireland, in a speech it Loughrea, denounced the system of State-aided emigration. Jay Gould, Russel Sage and Thomas

p*\ Kyan are the three new names In the (Louisville and Nashville directory* Sir Stafford Northcote iiropening lit club at Belfast, Iieland, on the Sd asked ithe Irish Conservatives to unite against the (party that would destroy their religion and their liberties. On the 8d General Roger A. Pryor sailed for England to be one of the counsel fctr O’Donnell. He thinks it will require stronger evidence than yet given to secure 'a conviction if there is a fair trial. -r — On the 8d William Sheffield, aged ‘sixty-five, senior partner in the banking bouse of Sheffield &: Norton of Napoleon, O., and a member of tha Henry County bar, committed suicide by shooting.. O^the 3d Rice A. Beal, a'wealthy and influential citiisen of Michigan and a (resident of Ann Artier, died at Iowa Falls, la., aged fifty-eight. A young farmer named J. L. Stranger, of Wayne City, 111., on the night of the'Yd blew out the gas la his room at the Prescott House, New York, and was found (nearly dead in the morning. It was thought he would recover. The uxoricide, James McSteeiv was (hanged on the 4th at Pitts»bg|h, Pa. On the 4th Luse & Sibeth, East India merchants, failed at London, Eng,, for, £230,000. . Advices of the 4th say General Lew. Wallace is still negotiating the petroleum question with the Porte. Proceedings have been begun by 'Senator Sharon to show the fraudulency of the marriage contract Miss Hill claims to hold. , , % , King Alfonzo has received the congratulations of all the crowned,heads on account of the enthusiastic reception accorded him at Madrid. On the 4th Joseph Smith, one of the Jrish informers who was refused an asylum in Australia, landed in Marseilles and suddenly disappeared. He will go to .India. Air the State Conference of the M. E. .Church in Milwaukee charges were filed against Rev. C. A. Stock well, who deserted 'his post to stake a mining claim in Dakota. In the First District at North Carolina the Democrats have nominated Thomas W. Skinner for Congress in place of Pool, deceased. On the 5th Chief-Justice Coleridge went to Baltimore. The resignation of General Thibaudin, Frjsnch Minister of War is announced. On the 5th Sir Stafford North cote, in a speech, denounced the foreign and home policy of the British Government. The Executive Council of Boston on the 5th rejected the nomination of E. G. Walker, colored, to be Judge of the Municipal Court A dispatch from Madrid of the 5th says: Challemel Lacour, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been advised that the full text of Grevy’s apology to King Alfonso will be officially published, and that the leaders of the demonstration in Paris against the King will be punished. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. The oldest son of Mrs. Unibs, at Ashford, Wis.f on the 1st, pointed a loaded gun at his little brother, not knowing it was loaded, and when he pulled the trigger the boy was instantly killed. At Amherst, N. H., during a recent thunder-storm, tlie residence of Harvey Wheeler was struck by lightning and Mrs. Wheeler killed. Water waa scarce, and Wheeler extinguished the fire with milk. An assassin recently made an attempt on the life of the British Consul at Scutari, Albania.

or me isu oi a cage in a coalmine at Leigh, England, on the 2d six men were hilled. On the" 2d Pilisbnry & Hulbert’s elevator at Fargo, Dak., burst under pressure of the grain stored. Howard & Candler, wholesale druggists, Atlanta, Gfl.. were burned out on the 2d; loss, $30,060. A deaf mute named Deyer, living at Iowa Station, 111., assaulted his sister-in-law on the 2d, nearly killing her, and then . heat his own brains out with an axe. Fire destroyed the panorama of Tel el Kabir on the 2d in Bellevue Gardens, Manchester, Eng. The fire was caused by • the accidental discharge of rockets. There was considerable alarm among spectators, especially as the panorama was near the cages of wild beasts- NO person was injured. Damage by fire, £30,000. On the 3d Hopier A. and Dr. Francis Q. Herr, of Philadelphia, were {arrested, charged with extensive mining frauds. I City Marshal Harris was shot [through the heart at Cedarvllle, O., on the 4th, by Isaac Weymouth, whom he was attempting to arrest. Wm. Rvbuee fell seventy feet from a pew building in Cleveland on the 3d, striking on his face, receiving fatal injuries. i\ On the 4th Thomas Palin was found [dead on the street in Philadelphia with a revolver near him and a ballet in hia brain. It Is not known whether it was a murder or a suicide. A Tex^s desperado named Claib Young, who killed a man named O’Donnell In 1878, was arrested recently near Raw- - 11ns, Wy. ~ The Bank of England has been bilked oat of $200,000 by An abseiling EARLTon the morning of the 3d the [ttslmrgh Exposition buildings caught fire * iijosfwwv

Ok the 5th,John Smith, who murdered ifmsiahHarden last spring, escaped from jal ai; tbffiand, Md. He was Under sentence of death. ' Ok the 4th while firemen were exercis np: with a Skinner truck at Providence, R. I., the ladders being thrown up a height of iuety feet, and two firemen were-within five tent of the top, the ladders careened, and broke. Alexander McDonald was killed by the fall, the other fireman caiao down with the wreckage, 'but was not seriously hurt. Ok the flth'.a eject in the Auditor’s office at Halifax, N. B., was arrestedior embesxllng $95,000. Ok $he~-6th a Reading- locomotive smushyd a street $ar in Philadelphia,'killing ' Vivo' persons and serfoiMv tnjnrlug eig ht or ten others. On the 5th in a freight collision on the Fan-handle Hoad, near Cblumbus, O., Thomas Cranshaw was killed and another man wounded. mscELUNsem A. few days since a Montreal bailiff was pitched through a show window by a man-oit-warsman for uttering slighting remarks about Prince George. The press of Germany intimates that the insults offered King Alfonso were indirectly aimed at Germany, -and are considered1* sign of weakness. On tshe 2d a panic occurred in Christie Street Grammar School, New York, and a tern l>le catastrophe was narrpwly missed. On the 2d the validity of the $15,060,000 scrip dividend issued by the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1«81 was affirmed by the New York Court of Ap

*-— , The parade of the Veiled Prophets in St. Louis on the evening of the 2d was favored with good waathel- and viewed by an en ormous multitude. The ball was the usual crush of elegant costumes. A delegation of Pittsburgh motchants asks that work on the new public building there be suspended till an additional (500,000 appropriation can be secured to enlarge the structure. On the 2d a delegation from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union appeared before the Senate Labor Committee and urged the importance of temperance legislat ion before Congress. On the 2d the inter-State Levee Convention at Vicksburg adopted a resolution declaring it to be the duty of Congress to provide for improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and recommending permanent organisation of all the people of the valley, to secure this end. . On the 3d snow fell at Maniwaki, Canada. Recent Madagascar advices indicate that the French garrisons are blockaded. An excursion party of three hundred Oregon, pioneers started East on the 3d oyer the Northern Pacific. Tub Pennsylvania Legislature has defeated another effort to frame an apportionment bill. At the Mexican border in Arizona sanitary inspection has been established to guard against yellow fever. . A f§*$, 13th the Biennial Conference of Church worieri begins its Session & Philadelphia. A mile has been made l>y the Canadian Pacific Railroad that no one shall take into a passenger car any package or lunch basket. A resolution was recently adopted by the City Council of Stratford-on-Avon condemning the proposition to disturb the remains of Shakspeare. On the 3d a legislative committee to investigate certain matters in connection -with the. Standard Oil Company began its sessions in Philadelphia. The; amounts distributed in the several Slates by the Trustees of the Peabody Educational fund, the past year are as follows: Alabama, $4,773; Arkansas; $4,050; Florida, $2,923; Louisiana, $2,125; Mississippi, $4,400; North Carolina, $8,390; South Carolina, $4,225; Tennessee, $12,000; Texas, $13,00# Total, $71,175. On the evening of the 3d as Deputy Marshall Young entered the Lee County jail at Fort Madison, Iowa, one of the prisoners knocked him senseless with a stick of wood and all the prisoners escaped. The Sheriff was absent. The report that the Army of the Cumtierland had abandoned the idea of erecti ng a monument to Garfield in Washington was canard. For the twelve months ended August 31, the value of imports of merchandise was $706,884,864; for the previous twelve months, $742,006,913; decrease this year. $34,204,349. Value of exports of merchandise for the twelve months ended August 31, $820,710,919; for the previous twelve months, $737,325,758; increase this year $83,383,161. Trie difficulties in the French Cabinet seem to be growing more serious. Trie Corean Ambassadors are making a study of the United States postal system. Trie weavers at Ashton-under-Lyne, Eng., renewed the strike on the 4th, and 1,500 operatives went out. / On the 4th Jos. Pollard & Co., of New-castle-on-Tyne, iron merchants, failed for $400,000.

is ooumera Russia martial law was proclaimed on the 4th on account ot Jewish disorders. Tin impeachment of the Norwegian Ministry is announced. The Prime Minister’s trial began on the 4th. No changes in the Spanish Ministry will be made till the foreign entanglements are cleared up. Alt Neufchatel, Switzerland, a public meeting has been called to demand the'expulsiion of the Salvation Army. Iki the past year immigrants were landed at Philadelphia to the number of 18,406. Of these 294 were “assisted.’ On the 4th the General Conference of the Evangelical Church began a fifteen-day session at Allentown, Pa. . , Commissioner of Internal Revenue Evans has refused to compromise the suit against Qoodridh Bush, the Boston distiller. Fok sinking the fraftes of O’Donnell, Carey’s slayer, a man has been imprisoned fora month In Limerick, Ireland. It is shown by a statement-prepared by Director of the Mint Bar chard that the stiver on hand July 1,1878, and purchased since then, waa 123,447,480 ounces, of which ll$l,3>Mb224 ounces has been used in coinage of silver dollars and soma subsidiary silver coin ; 304,875 ounces has been wasted by operative officer* of th* mints and sold in sweepings, leaving a balance on hand July 1,1888, of 806,881 ounces. This remainder hai lieen weighed and verified by officers ot the Treasury Department. The profits on the coinage ot this silver including repayment by the Adams Express Company, amount to 917,842,118, of which sum $1(^681,713 Is deposit*! in tbs Treasury of the Called States, $838,800 has been paid for shipping silver dollars, $51,533 for loss on sweepings sold, $7,4» for wastages, and $48 forlorn on reeoinage, leaving a balance In the coinage mints, June 33,1888, of $1,178,BBfi, nil of which since that date hap boon cotewI Into the ttewwy.

.The crew of k whaling ship say Esquimaux report seeing five of Lieutenant Oroely’s command 3h Smith's Soufi. ON th® 5th invitations for the annual reunion of the Army of the Cumberland, which takes place October 24,were sent o#t. The Bank of England offered a re-J ward for the arrest of George Warden, the absconding cashier. The bank loses from £50,000 to £100,000. In Dublin subscriptions have been opened ifor a monument to the men sentenced to penal servitude^for connection w>th the Fenian movement of 1807. I* uncharged by Assistant Post-mas-ter-Oeneral Hatton that Emory Smith of the Philadelphia 'Pt/iss aided in concocting a scheme by which the Government was swindled oht of $7OO,O0b. In the Hungarian Diet a motion of censure :is to be introduced regarding the Government’s action in the Croatian matter. i » Frequent snow squalls were prevalent on the 5th in Nova Scotia. * The French Cabinet is in favor of pushing the Tonquin campaign vigorously. The impeached .Norwegian Ministers’ trials have been postponed to December 1. The Army of the Tennessee holds it reunion at Cleveland, O., October 17. An Invincible vengeance committee has been formed to hunt down all informers. • Half an inch of ice formed on the night of the 4th at Port Jervis, M. Y. All crops are killed. On th® 5th the French consulate at Saragossa, Spain, was mobbed by a crowd whom thspoliee dispersed.

Efforts are being made1 by the Cana-, dian Government to lighten Sunday labor in the postal service. i. ' Claims against France are being made by British merchants because of the blockade in Madagascar. The Spanish ambassador at Paris has submitted a statement of grievances with a demand for satisfaction. For the past week the volume of business transactions shows an increase in the West and a decrease in the East. At Manchester, Eng., on the' 5th, a meeting representing 170,000 miners resolved to- demand a fifteen per cent, advance in wages. A meeting of Nationalists announced to be held on the 7th at Ennis, Ireland, was prohibited by the British Government. On the 5th the Minnesota Conference of the M. E. Church adopted a resolution looking to an extension of pastoral terms. It is announced that the yellow-fever epidemic at Vera Crus has subsided. Quarantine against Pensacola has also been raised by neighboring cities. The National Bank of New Orleans has sued Postmaster-General Gresham for $100,000 damages on account of the recent lottery decision. An investigation is to be made by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue into the charge that an organisation has been formed in West Virginia to protect moonshiners. The National Association of-Station-avy Engineers elected J. G. Bleckerley, of Ch%gQ, Presidential R. J. Kilpatrick, of St. Louis, Vice-President. According to calculations made by officials in the Indian Bureau there are at present 140 Indian reservations embracing an area of about 150,000,000 acres of land, an area four times larger than that of all the New England States. Postal authorities say nearly onethird of the postal notes issued from the city Post-office at Washington are drawn to the order of M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, and the' lottery people say to the Post-master-General, “What are you going to do about itf” A man named Tinker, present at the murder of Lord Mountmorris, killed near Ballinrobe, Ireland, September 25,18St) has turned iinformer and has given the names of the assassins, some of whom have left the country. A draft has been received by the Parnell Fund Committee in Dublin for $7,082 from Dennis O’Connor of Chicago. The fund will close at the end of December, and it is expected, with the donations from Australia, it will'reach a total of $40,000. On the 5th the fifty-third semi-annual Conference of the Mormon Church commenced its sessions iu Salt Lake City. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Negotiations between France and China were reported.on the 7th as at a standstill. The Czar and Prince of Wales arc going hunting together in Sweden. Siam has been invaded by predatory bands similar to the Black Flags of Anana. Work has been begun on the Garfield Memorial Hospital at Washington, Charles Creighton,Hazewell, for twenty-five years a writer on the Boston Traveller, died on the 7th. The Presiding Elders’ Conference of the Northern Methodist Church meets November & The Prohibitionists in Washington are waging an aggressive war on the saloonkeepers.

mis socialists will bold a national conference at Pittsburgh, commencing on the 13th. This ‘trial of O’Donnell, who killed Carey, is set for the ]l5th inst., bat a postponement will be asked by the defence. At North boro. Mass., on the 7th, a man named Brockton shot his wife and himself. He is dead; the woman will recover.. ■ Re ports from the cattle ranges in the Indian Territory say the autumn round-ups are progressing rapidly and with satisfactory results. At Milwaukee, on the 6th, Albert Estermann killed his wile with an iron bar and disappeared, leaving a note that he had gone to hang himself. Sergeant Mason’s counsel will apply to the President for the ftrt) records of the case, including the report of the'Judge Ad-vocate-General. The Northern Pacific stockholders have re-elected the oild directory, aad authorised the issue of $30,000,000 second mortgage bonds. In the Episcopal Convention at Philadelphia Bishop Elliot t of Texas stated that it would ijs a long while before the church eould reach the northern States of Mexico. Ambrose Daggett worked for David Greely near Liberty, Me. He fell in love with this employer's i mqghter Ella. On the 7th ho killed the yodknfc lady and then blew his own brains out. He was jealous of her.' A great meeting was jjeld at Neufchatel, Switzerland, on the 7th, at whiob the fSalvation Army was denounced. It was decided that tie members of the organisation should not he allowed to enter or remain ha the country. Col. James Tunis, special ' government land agent, who has been investigating land frauds' in tine Territories, says he has discovered more crookedness and rascality in land enti les than the most imaginative mind could Ninceire of,

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Tig? Indianapolis grain quotations are: Whott—‘Ao. 2, Red,- $I.04<»I.04K. Corn —No. 2,49®i9 '»c. Oats—27 «®23c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat—No. 2 Red, ■ $1.0501.06. Corn —No. 2, 65K®3«Ke. Oats—No. 2r 30030 c. Rye—No. 2, o6>.® 58Kc. Barley—No. 3 Fall, nominal. Jane Heint, a Revolutionary pensioner, died in Greeusbnrg, Decatur County, recently at an advanced age. She drew her pension as the widow of her first husband, a Captain in that war. The name of the post-office at New Harrisburg, Wabash County, has been changed to Disko. A post-office has been established at Winthrop, Warren- County, and J. G. Sailor appointed postmaster. Thieves stole three horses from Thomas W. Pea, Superintendent of the County Poor Asylum, and one each from Dr. J. H. Barnett, Samuel Dellinger aud Monroe Alton, of Harrison Township Knox County, a few nights'ago. In the suit of Sarah Hnslett, of Greencastlfe, Putnam County, against the Northern Insurance Company,'the jury brought in a verdict a few days ago for plaintiff. The husband of plaintiff had a life policy' for $8,000, which defendant refused to pay on the ground of misrepresentation in making out his policy and that his death resulted from intemperance. The case will be taken-to the Supreme Court. The executive committee of the National Greenback party of Indiana, together with about thirty members of the party from different parts of the State, held an informal consultation over the political outlook at Indianapolis a few days ago. It was agreed to hold a Greenback State Conven

*<««; city, on me oi next jpeDruary, at which a full State ticket will be placed in the field. At La Porte the other evening, while Marshal lay and Policeman Fetzer were pursuing a criminal through a dark alley, the latter was accidentally shot dead by his companion. Charles Vennor was fatally stabbed by. William Cross, in a Van Buren Township election row, near Shelby vilte, a few days ago. Cross escaped. During an altercation the other day neat Covington, Fountain County,- William Lyons knocked John Kissick on the head with a hay-fork, inflicting a probably fatal Wound. . A row occurred at a recent picnic north of Washington, Daviess County, which resulted in one of the beligcients being killed. The dedication of the new Presbyterian Church at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, took place a few days ago. One thousand five hundred dollars was the indebtedness of the new church,, and a collection was taken up, and every cent of the $1,500 was raised. 4 While Henry Bouyer, oi Greenfield, Hancock County, was pruning trees recently he fell to the ground with such force that ' his left'leg was driven in the ground several inches, breaking the leg in three places. 'His leg was horribly mangled and had to be amputated. A child of George Brown, of Lafayette, died a few days ago from eating nightshade henries. home in Milan, Ripley County, a few days ago. The doctor was in his seventy-fifth year. The coal miners of the western part of the Stale organized a State Miners’Association at Terre Haute a few days ago, and elected the following officers: President, William Galt, of Brazil; Vice-President, Thomas Burk, of Coal Creek; Secretary, David Lawson, of Knightsvilh& Treasurer, Thomas Roxbury, of Rosedaletf W. P. Winfield, a dealer in agricultural implements at Buena Vista,, met his death at a hotel in Indianapolis the other night by blowing out the gas. During the mule race at the recent Cass County Fair grounds one of the mules became unmanageable, bolted from the track and jumping the fence, landed in the midst of the spectators. James Dempsey, a prominent farmer, was'Struck in the abdomen by the front feet of the animal and received internal injuries that would doubtless prove fatal. John Storm, living near Loogootee, Martin County, was arrested at Mount Carmel, 111.,Jibe other night, having in his possession a" horse that had been stolen from Dorkie’s Station. He said he had been reading the life of Jesse James, and had taken Jesse for a pattern, determining to follow in his footsteps. Miss Rachel Fleehart, of Clark County, is over one hundred years old. She is probably the oldest maiden lady in the United States. Clem Schloss, a German shoemaker ol Logansport, Was swindled out of $200 by three confidence men the other afternoon.' The old diamond jewelry dodge was worked and three dollar’s worth of cutglass and rolled-gold plate sold for three hundred. A warrant wa,s issued for the arrest of Hie swindlers, but they had escaped. George W. Alexander, a stock-raisei near Vincennes, Knox County, was gored through the breast recently by a Jersey bull and carried about the lot on the horns of the infuriated animal, receiving fatal injuries.

ur. a. d. vannon, a nrotner ox Uongress man Cannon, of Illinoi s, died recently at Montezuma, Parke County. His remains were interred at Tuscola, 111. James Kearn and William Eartright bad a duel at Vincennes a few days ago about the girl they left behind them, and fired fifteen shots without effect, Kearn’s mother standing by his side throughout the battle. ■ At a railroad meeting a few evenings ago in New Madison, Wabash County, S. H. Argerbright, one of the speakers, was hit in the eye by a stone, thrown by persons hostile to the road, and severely hurt. W. N. Clark, of Cardington, O., who went to Indianapolis recently to secure a pension, hanged himself to a fence in the rear of the Public Library building. No cause was known. The dry-goods and general store of Thomas Wilkerson, at Scipio, Johnson County, was broken into. the other night and robbed of a large amount of clothing, tobacco, etc., and a silver watch and re; volver, amounting to $200 or .The notion and dry-goods store of Mrs. Stephenson, of New Albany, Floyd County, was entered by burglars the other night and silks, velvets, clress trimmings, etc., carried away -of the value of about $400. Miss Ada Atkinson, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy cuttle-dealer near Lafayette, was literally hacked to pieces by sn unknown fiend a few days since while the other members of the family were away from home. The recent annals of crime fail to produce a sample of innate devilishness which will compare with' fids most horrible and mysterious case. A man named Alexander Potts has been arrested for the crime. .Over 2,900 miles of ditches are completed and in course of construction in White County,

THE VEILED PROPHETS. ®»« Sixth Annual Yfclt of the Veiled Prophets to St. Louis—Brilliant Preparations for the Reception, Au Immense •wl Enthasiastle Crowd and a Gorgeous Pageant Representing the Wonders of Paftfland—The Grand Ball in Honor of The Occasion. St. Loots, Oct. A The sixth annual visit of the Veiled Prophet and his retinuo to this city was made in duo form last night according to that worthy's published intention. Hie preparations for his reception were upon a scale of magnificence not heretofore attempted, and must certainly have served to deepen the good impression which has led to these periodical visits. The principal streets through which the all gust party were expected to pass were ablaze with illumination, the thousands of variegated colored gas lights in pyramidal clusters and arches, with an occasional electric light, making a grand and beautiful spectacle and bringing out in strong rejief the lavish quantities of hut^Mfe everywhere displayed, among which the banner of tho Prophet held a conspicuous place, lleneath the lights and occupying every available inch of standing room, and ih the windows, on housetops and occupying temporary seats erected for the occasion, was one of the largest throngs that ever gathered within the limits of St. i-'-uis. it seemed as if the entire country had sent tribute in the form of its sons and daughters to bear away testimony to the splendors of the occasion; and to the credit of all it may be said that a more orderly crowd never appeared upon our streets, Evenr one appeared good-na-tured am^ submitted, to the pushing and squeezing and the occasional treading upon a favorite corn with stoical nonchalance intent for the time-being >to wait for and watch the wonders of*the hour.

iuc uay uau ueen lowry ana apparently unpropi tious, and as evening approached there was much speculation as to whether the Prophet would venture forth; but when five o’clock arrived and no sign of warningof his non-appearance was given, people began to prepare to welcome him, -and when the hour of his expected approach arrived, and the word was passsed along that the Prophet had left his cave, an involuntary murmur of satisfaction ran through the crowd. By and by-in the distance appeared a flood of crimson light illuminating the heavens, from out of which emerged the hrilliant calvalca.de, a squadron of mounted munioipal guardians with flashing sabfes acting as advance guard and escort. Then came the heralds and members of the household of the Prophet mounted upon gorgeously caparisoned steeds, followed by a cavalcade of twenty-two floats rep resenting fairyland scenes, the Prophet himself on Float No. 1, gaily perched a la “Hide a Cock-horse to Banbury Cross,” supported by his prime ministers. This was succeeded by the others in the following order: Float No. 3. Float No. 3. Float No. 4. Float No. 3. Float No. 6. Float No. T. Float No. 8. Float No. 0. Float No. 10. Fairyland. Fairies of Perfume. Fairies of the Wind. Fairies of Light.Fairies of Fungi. Fairesof Gnome. Fairies of Malaria. Fairies of Winter. -Fairies of the Mouths. Float No. 11. Fairies of Fountains of Many Colors. Float Na. 13. Fairies of Midsummer Night. Float IWs 13. Fairies of Good Luck, flout Nap 14. Sleeping Beauty. Float Mg. 15. Bonny Ktlraeuny. _— -----aeuny. Flop! No. 16. The Swan Maiden. Float No. 17. Lorelei. Float No. 18. The Magic Mirror. Float No. 18. The Magic Cat . 80. Fairies of the Household. Biaut" The brilliancy of these legendary pictures, fully brought out by the aid of the many colored torches of the attendants, the gay trappings of the horses and their grooms, the mounted esquires, and the whole moving to inspiring strains of many bauds of music formed a pageant that will live long in the memories of those who witnessed it, especially those _ of the little folks who saw so vividly portrayed scenes in what had beeji heretofore to them but mythological stories. The- passage of the cavalcade through the streets was accomplished successfully and without any mishap worthier mention, and everywhere along its route it was received with demonstrations of pleasurable approbation, and at many points was greeted with salvos of rockets and other brilliant pyrotechnic displays. In many places where the pageant passed the crowds gathered so close to it that the horsemen brushed those in front in passing and an outstretched arm would have touched (he floats as they parsed by, and yet in all Ais bedlam of pralicing horses and vigorous torch-beareTs not a single instance of a serious accident could be found. The grand cavalcade 1 finally arrived at the Chamber of Commerce, where the reception of the Prophet took place, which Was filled with an immense tnrong of the elite of this and other'States. Suddenly the orchestra struck up a march, the reception committee, which had come together in some mysterious manner, crowded closely about the entrance, and the steady stream ofpeople which had been pouring in ceased.. The hall was now well filled, there being probably twenty-five hundred people in its confines. The members of the reception committee stepped to either side of the door, and an old gray-haired and bearded Prophet, wearing a long robe of red satin richly embroidered walked in. Immediately after him followed two gorgeously attired attendants, and then they continued to walk slowly in pairs till about twenty had passed the door. Members of the reception, committee hadtaken charge of each man as he arrived. After about twenty had passed the door they separated, half going to either side of the entrance and forming a passageway which extended from the fountain to the door. They carried pikes, axes, banners, etc., and these implements they now held aloft. Their numbers were soon augmented by others who did not enter the hall, but dropped in at the end of the line until it extended down to the corridor of the Exchange building. There was a lull in the proceedings. Everything in the vast hall was quiet and looked expectant. Mr. E. C. Simmons, President of the reception com

auu ini. UT7111 y xwnw&o woikcu Sown the passageway formed by the double line of gorgeously costumed men. Then the royal party of the Veiled Prophet ap preached. The old Prophet him seif, dad in his richly embroid ered robe of white, came first. He a grand promenade of the hall, aid finally drew up in front of the rostrum, when at a signal the imposing line was broken, and the royal retinue of his Imperial Highness were left to wander at their own sweet will. They all immediately hied themselves to the seats, where they pieked their partners for the dance, ana the welcome to the Veiled Prophets was continued in merry festivities till the morning hours had well advanced —Four years ago a farmer of Trucker Meadows, Nev., allowed a swarm of bees to take up their abode iu the garret of his house. He is now a .wiser man, but nevertheless he can not get rid of them, for they have multiplied to such an extent as to become unmanageable and dangerous nuisances. The farmer and his family have long waged a war upon the honey-making insects, but to no avail; and he is now debating the < advisability of tearing the house down, or erecting another and moving out of the honey-factory.— Bt. Patti Press. —Tvrenty-eight years ago, while Ira M. Thomas, of Middleboro, Mass., was skating on a pond-hole in that town, he took off his skates and laid them by a fire built on the, iee. The congealed flooring gave way, and the skates were never seen again until last week. When the mud was being removed from the dried-up pond-hole they came to light and were recognized, being of the curltoe pattern, with brass acorns on the end of the runners. —Boston Post. —The electric light has darkened 150,000 gas jets in New York within a vesr.- Jf. r, Ntm,

A FEARFUL TRAGEDY. A Maniac Mother Slaughters Her Hr* Children and Ends Her Own Lite with a Rptihcr-Knlfe. Laredo, Tex., Opt. 3. Details of a horrible tragedy at Lampasas, Mex., an important town on the Mexican* National Railway, have just been received here. The information comes from a Texan who had been prospecting in Mexico, and who learned the particulars from an eyg-witness of the butchery, and who afterward assisted in burying the bodies. Mr. Rollins said that on one of the-large ranches about twenty miles to sputhward of Lampasas there lived for years past a' qufit, well-to-do Mexiqpn named Antonio Valdes, whose family consisted of a wife and five children, the eldest of the children being aged ten years, the youngest two. The wife, about thirty years of age, had beOn subject to epileptic fits and spells of melancholy of long duration. In the past few months she had exhibited many marks of temporary insanity, and when in such mental aberration invariably sought to do violence to her little ones. On Wednesday the afflicted woman was attacked with one of these fits of unusual severity. When she had recovered from the spasm heiVmsband went to work to herd a flock, of sheep belonging oh the ranch. He had been cone but a short while when his wife arose from her couch, and taking a butcher-knife, which had been carelessly left within reach, at once began the work of destruction. Her oldest child was the first to fall beneath the wild mother’s heavy blows, the victim’s head being almost severed from the body. In quick succession she slew, the other children, hacking and stabbing them in the

most barbarous and sickening manner. There they lay scattered over the room, five bleeding and mangled corpses. The frantic mother seemed to view them with grim satisfaction, filling the air with wild apd weird exclamations. Suddenly taking a parting look at the dead before her, she plunged the knife into her own heart, reeled to a corner in the room and fell dead. During all the time this fearful tragedy was being enacted eye-witnesses were powerless to prevent it. The husband was soan apprised, and returning to tne house he found his wife and children weltering in their gore. The lamentations of the poor man were pitiable in the extreme. He could not be consoled. In due time neighbors came and arrangements were made to bury the dead. Six graves were dug. The nextmorning the parish priest arrived, and the sad funeral rites were performed. »Six fresh mounds now mark the spot where lie buried all that Antonio Valdez loved on earth. A MILLION DOLLAR BLAZE. Total Destruction by Fire of the Pittsburgh Exposition Buildings—A Million Dollar's Worth of Property Consumed—Much of the Loss of Treasured Relics Irreparable. Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct.3. The magnificent buildings of the Pittsburgh, Exposition. Society on the north bank of the Allegheny River have been totally destroyed by fire. The immense ttructures, with their almost endless variety of exhibits, illustrative of every branch of art, science and mechanical skill, which were yesterday visited by thousands of people, and since the opening on. September 6 by hundreds of thousands, is now a mass of splintered and powdered embers and curled and^b^lrd ^ron.^^he destroy brain and brawn in which Pittsburghers felt so much pride. The fire was first dis-. covered at two o’clock this morning in the boiler-room attached to the machinery hall at the south end of the building, and before the watchman could give au alarm, the flames had spread to the floral hall, machinery hall and the main building, and in less than ten minutes the buildings were on fire from end to end. . When the Fire Department arrived on the grounds the flames were beyond control. The firemen turned their attention to saving the adjacent property, many residences on South avenue being in flames. By hard work, however, they succeeded in saving all those, with no more damage done than the burning of fences and, cornices. The-alarms soon aroused almost the entire population of two cities, and it is estimated that not less than from 75,000 to 100,000 people witnessed the conflagration. The reflection of the flames illuminated the country for miles around, making possible the' reading of the finest newspaper print. In one hour from the discovery of the fire a mere attenuated skeleton of the once magnificient structure was all that was left. Nothing was saved. Numerous theories as to the origin of the fire have been advanced, but so far most of ' them have" fallen to the ground. It is known to have started in the boiler house, and may have been caused by a spark from the furnace or the accidental ignition' of some contiguous substance from a gas jet left burning in the boiler house. The loss will probably reach $1,000,000. Secretary Patterson places the value of the building destroyed at $150,000, the insurance $40,000. The exhibitors will sustain a loss o£ about 800,000. i

An irreparable loss, however, was occasioned by the destruction of the relic department. The cash value of the articles contained therein did not exceed $10,000, but , many can not be replaced. In the annex was Arabian, the first locomotive overrun in the United States. It was also destroyed, and the Great Western Band case with a full set of splendid instruments. Im the safe were $0,000 cash receipts from yesterday’s admissions and Levy’s gold cornet. The attendance at the Exposition yesterday - was the largest of any day in*its history. Admissions day and evening were 21,000, and the crpwd last night was so great that the building was packed to its utmost capacity. The buildings which were destroy, ed were erected in 1875. The main,building was GOO feet long and ISO feet wide. Machinery Hall was 400 feet long and 150 feet wide. The Other buildings were small. The safe has been opened and the contents including $0,000 in cash and Levy’s cornet, found in good condition. The cornet was somewhat discolored, but it is not thought the tone has been injured. At a meeting this evening of the Directors it was decided not to rebuild. There i; a strong feeling among business men, however, in favor of rebuilding with iron. Several have already offered to contribute liberally. .. .... . ^ 1 • % ▲ Crime the Penalty for Which Is Heath. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct 3. In the trial of Capt. Barker on the charge of throwing his vessel, the Mary D. I^ach, upon a reef and losing her, the mate, Crosswell A. Smith, testified that when the vessel left Old Providence the reef could not be seen from the harbor, but in going out broken water was seen. Capt. Barker gave Smith orders to tack ship, at the same time adding: “I want this tone the last tack the ship shall ever make.” Smith to this made answer: “Whereareyougoingteput her?” to which the captain replied: " On the reef.” Conviction entails the death penalty. _ _ _ Suicide. Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 3. Capt. W. A. DeBow, proprietor of a restaurant, was found dead at Gilewest*s Hotel to-day, having committed suicide bf taking a large quantity of morphine. He secured a roam in the hotel yesterday and ordered the elerk to allow no one to disturb him. This morning he failed to respond when called, and the door being opened he was found lying on the bed. The deceased wasTormerly connected with the Commercial Hotel, and during the war served as Captain of the 2d Tennessee Cavalry. He had been financially embarrassed for some time, and several days ago was convicted and fined $125 for keeping a gambling

Phillips OB Massac* nsetts Republicanism. If there m one man in the world who knows the Republican party thoroughde and out and from bottom to ly, inside_____ top, that man is Wendeil Phillips. Jt may be said of him with literal truth that he knew the party before it was born, foe.he, as an original and uncompromising Abolitionist, was "one of its progenitors, presided at its birth and christening, assisted it to crawl, to walk, and finally to run. Mr. Phillips has always haa “the courage of his convictions” and a tongue to give the convictions sharp and vigorous utter* ance—no matter who was hit and hurt thereby. What he now thinks of his political offspring is stated with sufficient clearness and forte in the following paragraph “1 distrust and despise the Republicans as eiuSAHtina ABkjl -- - . tic * * * * - -vo^ire iin nt-puuncans as hypocrites and time-servers; as double-deal-ere; as soulless carrion masquerading In the grave-clothes of their honored predecessors. They hare no right to seek their candidate among high-minded and honorable men. Lot them choose Blitting leader from among the Tewksbury Marshes, those peddlers of poor men’s bones.” This, of course, is intended for Republicans generally, while its special application is meant for Massachuset ts Republicans. The latter hare always been considered, and certainly consider themselves, the very dream of the party; and if ^such is the character of the cream, what must we think of the skim milk? Evidently Phillips does not believe that Massachusetts Republicans are respectable or decent enough themselves to blackguard Butler, anil he broadly intimates that, in order to be consistent with their own principles

auu practices, cneir uuDernatonai candidate should be selected from the very worst of an uncommonly bad lot. This is “rough,” perhaps, but true. To impartial outsiders of both parties the Republican crusade ip Massachusetts against Butler is exceedingly suggestive as well as highly amusing. "As a selfstyled Democrat, for whoso acts the Democracy at large are in no way responsible, he is precisely what he was at the height of his Republican popularity. He displays precisely the same peculiarities in dealing with Republican rottenness in Massachusetts that he displayed in. dealing with rebellion in New Orleans. Then every Republican in Massachusetts hailed him as the prince of patriots and the flower of statesmen; now every Republican in Massachusetts regards him as a veritable child of the devil, wh'om an inscrutable Providence has allowed to afflict the godly ih “the grand old Commonwealth” for a season. The Republican managers of Harvard University strike hands with the Republican gaugers of beer kegs, and highest and lowest are united in the effort to “smash” Butler at all hazards and any cost. His crime, in their estimation, is as remarkable as anything else in the whole remarkable business. It is practically this: that he has brought Massachusetts info disrepute by digging up and exposing some of the corruptions and rascalities of the Republtean Administration there. If he nad been content to “play Governor,” like most of his predecessors for Boston Lancers would not have had to be ordered out to attend him to Cambridge omcommeneement day; Harvard would have made him LL. 1)., and the whole alphabet for that matter; and his term of office would have been as smooth and comfortable as he could possibly expect. But Butler had the same ideas about Massachusetts Republicans that Phillips has, and so proceeded to let in a little light upon their doings as rulers of “the grand old CommomvflSlth.” What the light revealed it is needless to say, but the insane hatred whieh the revelations have provoked proves that the light did not come too soon or go too deep. If Republican administration in Massachusetts had been all, or half, .its authors claimed for it, a thousand Butlers could not have found anything to condemn; but, being what it was, it has suffered accordingly, in the opinion of honest men at home and abroad. Never surely was there a finer specimen oiipoetic justice than this, that the man whom Massachusetts Republicans delighted to honor when he was “chastising disloyalty” in the South and belaboring Democrats in Congress, should prick with GubernationaT finger the glittering bubble of Massachusetts^tepnblicanism and let out such a fearful and wonderful smell. And now—as if to add the crowning drop to their cup of shame and disgust—comes *£endell Phillips, the chief of Republican apostles, to tell them that they deserve what they have got, and that if Butler,could have given them any more of the same sort they would have deserved it. Altogether, between Butler and Phillips, Massachusetts Republicans are in a bad way; nor do we see that their case could be materially improved dv the resurrection and election of .John Hancock or Samuel Adams as the successor of the present incumbent. Sincere repentance and systematic house-clean-ing are the only things that can insure them redemption and salvation.—St. Louts Hepttblican.

The New York Democratic Platform. At its recent State Convention, the New York Democracy adopted the 'following platform of principles: The Democracy of New York reaffirms the platform adopted at its last State Convention, which has received the approval of the people, as shown by a majority of nearly 200,000 at the last election, and they especially denounce the proposition that the people should he taxed to raise a surplus fund for the Federal Government to distribute among the States. We claim with pride and satisfaction that every pledge therein made has been in good faith redeemed. Valuable reforms have been wrought, useless offices have been abolished, civil service has been freed from the debasing and injurious influences of partisan manipulaotin, the freedom and purity of primaries have been secured, political assessments have been abolished, receivershlpabusesbeen corrected, the principle of local self-government has been adhered to, the efficiency of the National Guard has bceu increased, taxation for the support of the Government has been reduced, a State Bureau of Labor Statistics has been established, the rights of workingmen have been further protected, the injurious competitton of convict labor has been curtailed, and business method* have been the rale in the management of State affairs. On the record thus made, and to which It will steadfastly adhere, the Democratic partyasks the renewal of the award of theconfldenceof the people. We inrite afl reasonable friends of our improved State Administration, irrespective bf party, to join with the Democracy in preserving and perfecting the reforms in progress, and m extending them to aiUiranchesof tfaeState service. We heartily indorse Governor Clevelands Administration. It justifies the great vote which elected him. He has deservedly won the affection of the people by his industry, firmness, and intelligence and .aggressive honesty. The results wake his Administration one of the best the 8tate.hss ever had. —An unbroken lino ol rail now exists from Portland, Me., to its namesake in Oregon. A commission house arranged to dispatch tea freight cars tilled with canned corn oat up oy Portland (Me.) firms direct to Portland. Ore., without change. Each car would ba labeled from Portland, Me., to Portland, Ore., so that they could not fail to be noticed all along the tout*.—itotfm

African Bights and Afrit— Wrwgs. A year from now both parties will probably have grade their Presidential! nominations, and the hot political fight with which the country is afflicted every forty-eight months will have fairly begun. In that fight the Republicans will; undoubtedly attempt to use the gnn which has been m constant service > since 1856 whenever the Presidency was the ^price of victory. Wo mean, of course, the antiquated piece of artillery, composed in equal parts of African rights and African wrongs, as represented by the relations of the two races in the South. At present it happens to be in the shop for repairs, and perhaps alterations; and before it, comes out again a brief inquiry in regard to its capacity for future mischief will not be inappropriate. In other words, as ReSpubllcan organs and orators win certainly try to “fire the Northern heart” on the Southern question at the apwhen partisan lies have as yeti had no chance to operate upon it. First and foremost, the South is as quiet and peaceful as tho North. There All? a» Ivw Tlulftllvuo ol lsgrvr, lu piUJAll" tion tp< population. In the Southern States*as in the Northern, probably fewer; and these are entirely non-political in character and purpose-^merely the usual manifestations of human depravity. The extensive assortment of * crimes which existed, or was said fo proaching how that < ching National election, let us see that question really stands td-day

nuvu uuuuiuu. uc^uiivauuiu was in the full bloom of its power, has practically disappeared altogether since the Southern people were allowed to manage their own affairs in their own way—and chose the Democratic way. In 1876 Republican authorities declared that every year over a thousand persons belonging to that party ;wbre killed or grievously maltreated on account' of their political opinions in Louisiana alone. Singularly enough, however, as 'soon as the Electoral vote of that State was stolen for Hayes, while at the same time the Republican candidate for Governor—who had more votes than Hayes—was told to consider himself-de-feated, political murders and maltreatment there came to'an end; so that to-day a white or black Republican is as safe and serene in Louisiana as in Massachusetts. The occupation of Eliza Pinkston & Co, was gone the moment the last Federal soldier left New Orleans, and that famous firm went into hopeless bankruptcy. Though the South, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, and from the Ohio to the Gulf, is packed with Republican office-holders and agents, no Republican Munchausen is sufficiently impudent and shameless to manufacture a new supply of the old falsehoods. The “Southern outrage” mill has stopped grinding; bulldozers, bulldozing, Ku-Klux and rifie clubs have returned to the land of fable where they were bora; and the most stupid and prejudiced Republican in the North knows that the Sonth is quite as orderly and well-behaved in ev his own! no damage to' anybody, except the ignorant negroes who invested in it; and that the two races are living and working together as harmoniously and happily as the ordinary casualties, cotff fiicts and chances of life will permit. In short, the Southern question, in all its political, social and industrial phases, is, if not actually settled, in process of final and satisfactory settlement. All it requires to reach that desirable consummation is to be let alone. The policy of interference was tried from 1865 to 1877, and its results make the darkest chapter in the Nation's historyThe policy of non-interference has been tried from 1877 to 1883, and its results are before the world to speak for them-, selves. * Such being the plain and undeniable facts in relation to the present condition and prospects of the Southera question, it is difficult to see how this old Republican gun can be utilised in the coming campaign; but that an effort will be made Jo drag it into the field in suppqrtof the Republican ticket is suffieientljHSertain. The simple truth of the matter is* that the Republicans can not get along without it. To take from them the Southern question would be another case of the play of “Hamlet” minus the melancholy Dane. They must have their “customary suit of solemn black;” they must have the always virtuous and oppressed negro, and the always wild and wicked Southera Democrat; they must have a Union eternally threatened with disunion, and “results of the War” eternally in danger of becoming no results at all; they must have a Southera Vesnvius always preparing to belch forth flame and blood, and crying for Republican water to put it out; they must play the same | old tune on the same old fiddle, hoping/ the people will dance to it in the same old fashion. 'We think the people will decline to flourish “the light, fantastic toe” any more on any such provocation. We think that the people, seeing how peaceful and prosperous the South is iu \

rooo, can noi in inoi Demaue to dolieve that it is a hell upon >arth. The old Kepnhlican gun may, and doubtless ' will, be brought to the front as usual; but the unmistakable indications are that the pbet’s rhyme will receive brilliant and vigorous illustration thereby: “But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at. And though well aimed at duck or plover. Bear wide and kick their owners over." —Exchange. —Mrs..Ellen M. Gifford’s donation to the Massachusetts Society*ror the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has been utilised in the purchase of a lot in Brighton on which a two-story building is being built. This is designed as a sheltering home for cats, dogs, and birds who are vagrants and in need of kindly care. There will be sheds at the rear for invalids. The world is moving toward its happy day with gratifying rapidity.—Boston Transcript. —Two Toledo girls, fourteen years old, left home recently to tea West, start a sheep ranch, many rich miners and live happily ever after. They were arrested at St. Louis just as they were boarding a train for the West, and had with them the dime novel which related an experience of this kind and a pair of old pistols and a rusty knife with which to defend the train in case of attack from Jesse James. — Toledo Blade. —There are only, six distilleries of rum' in this country and all six are in Massachusetts. Of nearly half a million gallons bf rum exported last year toe greater part went to Africa. The Germans say of a man who has taken to be mentally just enough alcohol stimulated that he is “illuminirt;” but rum is plainly not the kind illumination which'the Dark Continent needs, —Boston Emit. ' - ' ■ f