Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 39, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 February 1884 — Page 1

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IVUWS JUN xJxCUkb. Compiled from Varions Swum*. CONGRKSSIOUr.II* FEOCEEDINCS. I* thAgenate on the 28th the bill relating totheenibreementof the anti-polygamy law In Utah wag repoited for pa«sa;re- Both house* adjourned on account of the death of Representative MacJcey of S iuth Carolina la the Senate on (he 28::h the bill repeal* tag the timber-culture law was placed on the tsal ?ndar. A resolul ion instructing the Postal Committee to inquire whether telegraph chiirges had been af leered by etoek dividends ox ‘he Western Cnion Company wan laii over, gpi rman's reeolntiou on the Virginia and MisBisinppi elections was adopted after a brief disjBssibtt. Resolutions appropriating $11,000 <pr improvements above the Bock Island are ser ai; inquiring as to the expetkney of admitting all printed reading ma' ter to the, mails free, and to appropriate $100,OOp fer the Crow Indians were adopted. The House tptiacco rebate bill passed. The Mil rega ,-ding titles to Mexican hind gi ai ts iras disen ssed without action. In the House a res olution was adopted to hold the furi oral of Mr. Mackey in Representative Hall on the 30th. Bills were introduced in profus ___profusion for tariff changes, public buildings, bridges, pensions. and relating to currency and latror topic!- Mr. Hopkins offered a resolution ‘to investigate the charge of attempted corruption • made by ex-Speaket: Keifcr against General Boynton. Correspondence between Keifer and Boynton was read arid a committee was finally appointed te investigate. ' In the Senate ox the SJth petitions were presented asking for the passage of a law to prohibit the sale of liquor In the District of Columbia and the several Territories. The conference report recommending that the Senate recede from its amendment providing that only roluuteers be sent oil the G reely relief expedition was taken lip. Mr. Snulsbury suggested that If the Seerotairy of the Navy had a irrudg? against any officer ho could gratify it by detailing him for this perilous service. He hoped the Senate would not recede. Mr. Hale took a contrary view. B store a decision was reached the hour ’ andved for adjournment to attend Representative Mackey's funeral.In the House a resolution was adopted extending the scope o:f the Hot Springs investigation. Several billB were introduced and referred. Business wasthen suspended, and the members of both branches of Congress assembled to attend the funeral services, which were held in the Hall of the House. ~— In the Senate on the 31st petit ions for p inhibitory liquor laws were presents from a dozen State s. The Senate refused to concur in toe committee report on toe G reely bilj. a id new conferees were appointed A bill was introducer! to relievo commercial travelers of license tate,. A message from the President called attention to discriminations a gainst our commerce in Cuba and Porto Rico. Air. Platt's resolution for inquiry as to cost of telegraphic correspondence was agreed to. 1 he bill relating to Mexican land grant titles was debated with >ut action, and the Senate adjourned to Monday..:.In the House a f solution of inquiry as to the certification of 150,000 acres of land t"> the Santa I’o Hoad was adopted, A bill passed forfeiting numerous lailrohd land grants in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas; also the bill forfettj'JJf too Texas Pacific grant. A message from the Secretary of State giving information regarding tho restriction of American meat exrHPtfi U-D! ril-rtoro, nwlntoH

The Senate was not in session on the 1st. .In the House a hill was introduced prohibiting the retro val of employes of the *}nn®n- except for cause, during vacation. I be Fitz John Porter bill was taken up. ’WoF lord advocating and Calkins opposing it. 1 helps followed, favor;nr its passage. Bout elle protested against it on behalf o f bis State tod many members of the Filth Army Corps It Porter’s) with which ho served. Ltard made :m eloquent appeal in behalf of hi; old comlpander. Henley also favored the bid and criticised the action of Outcheon forttasting imputations on General Grant and shea strikingthem out of the record. Several other speeches were made in opposition 1o the bill, and ex-Govern»r Curtin of Pennsvivania closed the debate In, its favor. The bill ltassed—184 to 78. . iC^iyped till M md.;v, PERSONA A AND fouticaa. On the 2&th Mjrtin Sellers, of Kendallvillfe, Ind., committed suicide rather than testify in n merger case. President Bryce, of the National Telegraph Company, has transferred the capital stock of that company to the Baltimore and Ohio Company. David H. Bates, Fice-President, will remain i8 charge ot the National ‘Company’s property, and George D. Williams will remain General Manager. The State Department fa imvestigatthe case of Colonel Emilio Nunez, a Philadelphia tobacco importer who was ktaken from an jlmerican vessel by a Spanish man-of-war. Reuben Spkinger, of Cincinnati, O., _has added $20,0DO to the Longworth bequest 'for an art school. It is announced that Henry Augustine who murdered two of his relatives near Laporte, Ind„ three years ago, has been arrested in Kansas. An order has been issued by the French Government prohibiting the circulation of a book grossly libeling the Ger-'-waa Imperial I’amily. Senator Allison has been re-elect-ed by the Iowa Legislature. On the 31s;t the. ice was running at -Louisville, Ky., and boats were getiing ready to leave for Pittsburgh. An issue win be made by the Brit'sh -Conservatives on the Government’s Egyptian policy. On the 30th an employe of fthe Grand ■Trunk ailroa-i, indicted for causing the death of J. W. Perkins, at Mechanics’Falls _>n_I882,^»»s fougd guilty and fined $1,000. The Ohiq State Prohibition Convention Til'd'S iMIolmnhii.An /; tion m°ets ib-Columbus on March 6. On the 29th the Abbe Chubert was fined $30 in. Montreal, Can., lor kissing his landlady. He was given the alternative ot two months in jail.

i It ha* been #11 bat proved bat Kngg, the tong Island mulatto now is custody, is the assassin of the. May bees arc. the assail!an« of the Townsends as vrril as the steamer r.uung ui iue oi/in jrresiaent 'Arthur gave the Orst state dinner o£ the seasonJay Gould is said to have taken hold of the Northern Pacific to jntrai it.. General Lew W j-ace, United States Ministsr at Constantinople, has demanded from the Porte indemnity for indignities offered to several American citiThe Marcuis of Lorne continues to take active part in meetings and movements to stimulate — •-— — land to Canad On the 30th the arrived at Honolulu, carrying King Kalakna a Russian decoration in diamonds. On the 30th C. Norvm Green, Ihomss T. Eckert, J. Gould, Augustus Schell, John VsnHorne, Harrison Durkee, Geo. J. Gould, Chas. A. Tinker, Roswell H. Rochester and W. H, Abel were elected .directors of the American Tore graph Company at a nujstinr held in Mew York. An old resrident of Marion Connty, Ind., named >Vm. Gladden, died the night of the 29th, agpd eighty-eigh t. The morning af the 30th his wjfe, ten yeiu-s younger, also died, supposably from griei. They had been married sixty years, and for half a century had lived on the farm where they died., A COMPLAINT is made by AttorneyGeneral Rlwster that his cleii sal force is jtoo small td supply the pa;pem called for The Senate Postal Committee was t_ . by Dr. Norvin Green on the 31st in opposition to Government coi trol of tele

A long pending suit against I,be heirs of ex-Governor Alvarado ot California for $2,000,003 worth of land has beendecided in favor of the defendant*. Soke three months ago Mrs. Clagget, of the Salvationifrmy, was fined in the Police Court at Wheeling, W. V«„, ifor disorderly conduct in pl aying the t iimborine in a street ]>arade. The higher court has reversed the judgment. While seeking tiie origin of the enormous fortune left by Mgr. Di Cesare, who was lately assassinated, the Italian police have discovared that be was a pa; master of the Neapolitan soldiers and brigands sent in ISO) and 1861 into the Kingdom of Italy by King Francis of Naples. CHIMES AND CAPSUALTIEfl. On the 36th a train of the Nashville, Chattanooga <!§ St. Louis Railroad was derailed near Chattanooga, l.'enn., and the engineer and firemen were fatally injured. Fire destroyed the Phoerix Glass Works at Phillippsburg, 'Pa., or; the SOfh; loss, $125,000. • At Rome. N. Y., during a Are on the 30th, an explosion occurred by which two men were killed. At South wick, Mass., by an accident on the New Haven &. North Hampton Road on the 30:h, several trainmen a;id' passengers were badly injured. J r A tenement on Sixth avenue, New York, burred the morning of the 3>th, the ocenpants escaping by way of the roof. Two wome a were fatally burned and others were seriously injured. At Dubuque, la., on the .'iOth, Fred Schubert, an old man seventy years of age, was struck by a train of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. Be clung to the cow-catcher and was dragged several hundred yards, receiving injuries from which he will die. In Hamilton, Canada, four; dwe’lings were crushed by weight of a; cumulated snow on the 31st. On the Slst the Monon passenger train ran into White River, seven miles from Indiunapolfs, fud., where the bridge gave way. Seven persons are reported killed. On the 31st a train struck a boulder near Chattanooga, Tenn.,andwaswrecked, several train hands being injnrtd. A Bjmilar accident occurred near the same place three days previously.

. v/ii vuo wiou ai unvfcai^viK uuiiu killed its baby brother, aged three months in East Jit. Louis, 111., by a blow with a nursing-bottle. On the 31st Harry Lee clerk for Woodrough & McParlin, Cincinnati, was arrested in Toronto, Ont., /charged with forging the firm’s name for *10,001. Fire destroyed, Adamson's elevator at Toronto, Ont., oij the 1st j 1 ass, ^'’SO.OOi'. Great excitement hast been created at Wood Haven, L. I., because of a strolling peddler’s attempt to choice a woman who refused to buy of him. On the 1st a frightful gasoline explosion occurred in Alliance, O., demolishing the new store of 1\ M. Orr nnd burying eight or ten persons in the wre ck. Several are repoj-ted killed. -f On-the morning of the let Henry B. Holmes was burned to death, together with thirty hoad of cuttle, in his barn near Bloomington, Neb. On the 1st Henry Loop ai d JohnFinlayson mere instan tly killed, t, man named Gerrod fatally and several others seriously wounded by the explosion of it boiler in a shingle mill near Blanchard. Mich. MISCE LlANEODfl. Patrick Conroy, of New York, who murdered Pet^r Keenan whils on duty as policeman, is to be hangecf February 8. The deuth watch has been placed over him. On the 2Sth the Merchants’ Telegraph and Cable Company filed articles oi incorporation in New York. The capital stock is $13,001,090, with' power to increase to $20,000,0)0. Is the Pittsburgh (Pa.,) district all the foundries but one are shut down. The Attorneys for Frank, James have applied for a change of venue in the Blue Cut case. On tfie afternoon of, the 30th the icegorge in the Mississippi Rive;: at St. Louis began to move. It did not go far, however, but did considerable damage to boats tied up and :ie!t others in position to-*fe further damaged when the move continues. On tiie 30th the Merchants5 and Mechanics' Bank of.Leadville, Col., suspended after a heavy run, leaving only one bank open in the town. In New York a speculati ve mania has developed in tea, based upon - the alleged short crop the past season, and an advance in the price of the article may be looked for. Pres ident Arthur will recommend that Congress abstain from any immediate legislation touching the exclusion of American meats from France and Germany. °

At the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., hazing is again going on, the three upper classes asserting their time-honored prerogative of ty rannizing over the fourth. The Commissioner of Patents in his annual report of the operations of the Patent Office for the calendar year shows an increase of seventeen per cent, in the number of patents, trade-marks and labels issued over the preceding year; the cash receipts increased 4137,000; excess of receipts over etipenditures, $300,000; cash on hand, $2,376,476.

All of the fc.fty-seven bodies of the victims of the Created Butto mine disaster in Colorado, have been reco-rered. Os tthe 30th the Ohivers® Telephone Company filed a certificate of incorporation ill Ne w York? capital, .'■3.500,110). A number of snow slides are reported from the mountains of Utah. Several houses have been swept away, but no lives lost. Os the 30th Patrick O’Hara was found guilty alt Patterson, N. J., of the murder of Mrs. Richard Fullalove. He was recommended to mercy. AufiTRAXixs dispatches report great crop prospects. South Australia is expected to export 18,000,000 b ishels of wheat and Victoria 7,000,000. Os the 30th the Board of Trade Teleegraph line, from Chicagc to St. Louis, and the Pacific Mutual Telegraph line from Sit. Louis to Kansas City, were purchased by the Bankers’ and Merchants’ Telegraph' Comjiany of New York. The first namiMl was bnilt four years and the latter two yearn ago, and both are fourwire lines. Th e debt redaction for January is caThe Grand Jury in New York censures the Excise Commissioners for failure to enforce the law. A iinx will shortly be .introduced a the Now York legislature to tax ail liquor at Cincinnati, Patrick ■is wife a ad chopped the

The steamboat companies on the River Nile have been asked to place their greatest carrying capacity at the service of the military for the Khartoom campaign. r United States officers at Atlantie ports are watching for tlie arrival of the schooner T. A. Kennedy, whose master is said to have absconded from San Andreas with a cargo belonging to the vessel's NA sealing steamer has been bought by the Government for the Greely expedition. She is of the age, tenage and bnild of the lost steamer Proteus. The latest sensation in London is the failure of P. W. Thomas b Co., whose liabilities are over 14,000,000 and assets nothing. One of the members of the firm has absconded. '* ■ At Troy, N.Y., on this 31st, the police broke np a patrol of union molders maintained at the Malleable Ir on Works, where non-union men are employedOn the 31st three human bodies packed in whisky casks and shipped from Baltimore to Chicago vr.;ro seized by the police, and John Cs,risen, a veterinary surgeon, who paid express charges on them, was arrested. It in supposed to be a dis-secting-room consignment. Since June 30 the public debt reduction has been $85,007,4SS. On the 1st the National debt less cash in the Treasury was $l,486,i'83,719. Fob the week ended the 1 st the failures reported in the United States and Canada numbered :if3. Stkes, who killed Kate Townsend, in New Orleans, has been acquitted. ' It is expoeted that the garrison at Tokkar, in the Soudan, will speedily be forced to surrender. On the 1st John C. Collins, a California stage-robber and murderer, was hanged at San Francisco. On the 1st the rivers were reported out of their banks in Wastern Pennsylvania, and considerable bottom land was inundated. A Raid was made by sixty policemen on a cock-pit at Philadelphia, Pa., the night of the 1st, and ninety-five spectators and seventy-two chickens were captured. A delegation representing the labor organizations of the country is at Washington favoringtegisiation to prohibiSTmportation of foreign laborers under coni tract. ' ‘

inn xeuem uisasiei. on me luonon route near Indianapolis was caused, it is supposed, by weakening the truss of the bridge by withdrawing some of the rods while making repairs. A number of prominent citizens of Reading, Pa., raced horses on the highway recently, and have been arrested for it under an old law passed in the last century. Toe penalty for it is confiscation and sale of the horses and cutters. It is reported that Post-office Inspector Lanier, recently dismissed the service, nas fled to South .America. He is charged with swindling a large number of Postmasters out of considerable sums by calling on them for funds to aid in the arrest of criminals. In the United States Court, in San Francisco, Judge Hoffman in a long explanatory decision dm the 1st on the Chinese habeas corpus cases, concluded that in accordance with articles of the treaty, Chinese who were in the United States at the date of the treaty, November 17.18SJ, and who left the United States before the passage of the restriction act May 16,1882, are entitled to land. Last year the Marquis de Moores shipped 12,000 sheep from Wisconsin and Iowa to ranges in Montana. He now reports that fifty-five jier cent, have died. The animals swell up and bleed at the nose before death. Post-mortem examination disclosed extravasation of blood in the intestines. It is an incurable disease heretofore unknown. Within the past three years one hundred and thirty-five companies have been incorporated under the “telegraph companies’ act,” in New York. The total capitdl represented by these organizations is $226,000,030. In no other lime of incorporation do' the records of the Secretary of State show such competition. A consolidation has been effected of the Iowa and Minnesota Telephone Company, with headquarters at Dubuque, la., and the Iowa Union Company, of Davenport. Committees we re appointed for the extension and improvement of the line. LATE SEWS IlXttS. Wendell Phjlleps died on the 2d at his home in Boston. Josephine Gaiameyeb, the actress, died on the 3d in Vienna, . M. Kouhek, the French statesman, died at nine o’clock the morning of the 3d in Paris. The remains of De Long and companions, with escort, passed through Berlin on the 3d. Adolph Hebsch, wanted for swindling in Texas, was arrested in New York on the 3d..

Governor Crittenden was asked to pardon Dick Liddla« that he might be used as a witness in the coming trial of Frank James. The pardon was refused. Sandy Robinson,, a negro who had murdered . a Deputy ftheriif, was taken from jail by a mob at Crockett, Tex., on the morning of the 3d; and lynched. There were several Nationalist meetings in Ireland, on the 3d. * At Ballymote, Sligo, there was a riot in which several Orangemen and Nationalists were wounded. There was a grand Imperial Ball at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg on the 2d at which the Csar and Czarina circulated freely among the seven hundred and twenty guests. No Nihilists were invited.

Arrangements lor the Winter Carnival at Montreal, Cun., ate completed. Long Island has another sensation, and is now agitated over an, atrocious poisoning case. Sixty-two new pupils recently arrived at the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian training school. The coinage for January was $4,221,000, of which $2,330,0>J0 was in standard dollars. The Vienna police have made out a list of foreigners who are -to be expelled from the country. The Mexican Central Railroad is to be completed to the Rio Grande by the middle of March. A grain warehouse at Minneapolis Minn., burst on toe lid, letting out 4o,u00 bushels of wheat; damage, I'M,0)0. . A diver employed by tele Boston Underwriters reports the steerage of the wrecked steamer Cily of Columbus full of corpses. We. Meagle, one of the witnesses in the Phcenix Park tr, sis, complains of frequent assaults and general hostility from the Dublin sympathisers with the assassins. The House Public Lands Committee will Recommend forfeiture of the grants of

JWWS WITH THE TIDE. The XeRtMtC and Mechanics* Bank inf Lcadviiii', Colorado,, Unable to Stand the Ffessnreof a Determined Ron, Closes Its Door*—t Inly One Bask Left—Serious Failores Anticipated. Leauviixx, COL., Jan. 39. Another financial trouble engrosses the city. At two o’clock: this afternoon the Merchant. ’ and Mechanics’ Bank, heretofore considered an exceptionally strong institution, ;losed its doors, being unable to withstand a ran made Upon it. The ran Was started last evening just before the bank dated. The officials were wholly taken by surprise, but paid all demands until the close of banking hours. The Directors then held a meeting to decide upon what course to follow. It was pretty positive that the run would be continued in the morning, and the officials well knew that the bank could not stand it. They endeavored to effect a loan of $50,000 from the First National Bank in Denver. The money was placed in the express office in Denver, so it is said, bat before the train left the*:officials changed their minds and had the gold retorted to their vaults. Th's morning when the bank opened for business a heavy inn was commenced, which continued until the last dollar was paid out over the counter. The doors weic then closed. The depositors, who were: then clamoring for their money were informed that as soon as the South Park train arrived from Denver the bank would open again and pay off all claims; As the expected aid from Denver is not forthcoming it is certain that the bank will never open. The bask was officered as follows t Presi dent, L. M. Smith; Vice-President, J. Smith; Cashier, S. Ayres. The bank has been in business fouir years. Its authorized capital stock was $50,000, which was subscrib'd and paid in when the bank opened i ts doors. According to the las: annual statement, made a month ago, the average deposits wen e $250,030. It was said to have n surplus fund of $7,503; undivided profits, ;3,000; real estate to the value of $17,000, i.nd paid average dividends of eighteen per cent, annually. It ts not thought that over $100,000 were drawn out alter the run began, and that the unpaid deposits now araountrto $350,000. This amount the officials claim the assets of the bank will fully pay. i failure of the Merchants’ and Me- „ ics’ Bank will have more of a disasi8 eflect upon the business of Leadville than that produced by the collapse of the First National Bank eight days ago. With the Merchants’ and Mechanics’ Bank the largest business institutions carried their deposits. The failure of the First National was not wholly unannounced, and many of the business men having been forewarned withdrew, their deposits and placed them in the Merchants and Mechanics1 before the collapse. They

wdio uia&iug a gooti move, but it proves not to have benefited them much. The commercial agencies predict a wholesale number of business failures in the immediate future an account of the collapse of the Merchants’ and Mechanics’ Bank. It is not thouglit4he depositors in the tank will lose much money. The lass will fall upon the stockholders, who compose some of the bes&Jtnown business ■ men in the State. Then! is now only one bank left in Leadyille, and its strength will be tested to the limit to-day, as a disastrous run is expected to be made upon it. It is a new Dank, with great wealth at it-<^>ack, and it is thought it will withstand (the attacks made cn it by seared creditor^ A great deal of money was placed in its vaults this evening and 150,009 was started from Denver last evening. , s 'The history of the banking business- in Leadviile for the past few years has probably e ever, before been equaled in sny city in the country. Only two weeks ago the city bad four banks, and all of them were considered in good standing. Two months previous the Bank of Leadviile had failed, but this was considered- to be only the result of bad management, not thatthe business of Leadviile was in such a de pressed state that any or all of the banks were liable to go under on the slightest squeeze. Two weeks ago the City Bank of Leadviile made an assignment. It, , found that the affairs of this bank were perfectly straight and that tbe depositors were paid dollar for dollar. The t.ssignment was made, it is alleged, owing to the fact that the bank was not pa y ing. A week ago came the announcement that the First National was in a shaky condition, and a run then made caused that institution to go-under. The loss of $20,000 to the depositors, the flight of President Dowatdt, the reported stealings, etc., are still fresh in the minds of the public. Now comes the collapse of the Merchants’ and Mechanics’ Bank. This institution, it was said a s the time of the other failures, was on »U exceptionally good financial basis, and that there need be no fears that it would go under, a nd it was amply able to meet any run or demands that might be made upon it, and so it was generally considered. The first intimation of a break was on Tuesday afternoon just before the bank a closing hour, when a small horde of creditors made their appearance at the bank and demanded tbeir deposits. A BOCK 0.\ THE RAIL Ca a Serious Wreck and the Severe Injury of Two Men. Sbdaua, Mo., Jan. 30. Tbe passenger train which left Sr. Louis at 9:20 this morning encountered a large rock one mile east of the Gasconade river, and d id not reach here until 12:45. The engine, tender, baggage car and mail car were wrecked, and the engineer, known as Stonewall Jackson, and the fireman,Jahies Brooks, scalded and otherwise seriously injured. Wm. Roberts, postal clerk, who was cn the wrecked train, madwthe following statement: “The train w* on time. The first thing I noticed was that the car I

"" imoivou u severe jok ana a canting forward. I looked out and the mail car was standing crosswise of the track and the It comotive down the bank about thiitv feet (ind very near the ice in the river. The engineer, Stonewall Jackson, was in the cab fist, with his hand on the throttle ami lev6r reversed. The steam was coming out in su:h a volume that I was unable to see the fireman, Jim Brooks, who was fast under t he cab. Jackson was soon gotten out and lonnd to be badly scalded, and it is feared that he inhaled the steam. Brooks was :iot so badly soalded, but had many bruises; but it is quite probable that he has no bones broken. Brooks refused to receive any stimulants, and he also refused morphine. Jackson told me he saw the rock coming down the hill, but he was powerless to get either one way or the other to miss it. The rook was about five or six feet in diameter. Jackson and- Brooks reside in St. Louis. The trains transferred at the vg-eck and proceeded on their way. The wounded were taken to St. Louis. An American in a Mexican Prison. Laredo, Tex., Jan. 30. Mi'. Sutton, United States Consul-Gen-eral for Northern Mexico, has just returned front an official visit to Monterey and Saltillo. He reports that a young American named Mudde, mid to be an accomplice of one Leggett in the murder of Contractor Wiccland, near Garcia Station, has been confined in a Mexican prison over a year with out any cha rges being preferred agsrtns t him, and that the Mexican authorities and American Consul at Monterey were laboring tinder the opinion that- Mudde escaped from prison eight months ago along with Leggett. _ Fate' Powder-Mill Explosion. Portland, Me., Jan. 30. A terrible explosion demolished the pow-der-mill at Gambo Station, Windham, this forenoon. Reuben D. Kennedy was at work in tins mill at the time mixing “cake,” and it wss supposed he would be found terribly mangled. Search was made in the ruins of the building without success, and the unfortunate man was found on the ice some 300 feet from the mhl. He lived about one honr. . He wan badly burned, and sustain; ed internal injuries by the shock. He tail ed almost to the last moment of bis life, and said that grit must have got into the “cake,” and caused the explosion. Fortunately, most of the men employed in the mill were away at dinner when the mill wan blown to atoms, ■ '

A PLU>GE TO DEATH. A Fancnger Train «*n the Monoil Route Plunges Through a .Bridge Orer Whits Riser, Near Indianapolis—Si* Persons Boasted to Death lathe Burning Gars and Several Injured. Indianapolis. Ind., Jan. 31. The accommodation train from Morion, due here at 10:30 o'clock a. m., had made the last stop before reaching Indianapolis, and was just getting under headway when it began to cross the bridge over White River. The tfain consisted of an engine, baggage and express cdr. smoking-car and ladies' coach. Conductor W. 8. Losejr Was in charge, and John Bremer was engineer. The latter, after leaving the station, however, bad gone into the baggage-car for some purpose unknown, leaving James Nonan, the fireman, in charge cf the engine. The bridge was of the ordinary Howe trusse pattern, eonsisting of tiro spans, each 150 feet in length. A speed of about fifteen miles per hour bad been attained, and the train had pulled its lull length on the bridge, when Nonan felt the baggage-car sink! ig.^ileduuMis hand on the throttle-valve at the moment, and instinctively pulled her wide open. As the engine shot forward the baggage-car plunged downward, and the tender was separated at both ends from its connections and -the engine fairly Climbed into S position of safety on the remaining span. The jerk lifted the tender off i.he rails, and it ran a short distance on th: ties and String? ere without leaving the bridge. The first break in the bridge occurred directly Under the baggige Car, which seemed to be pressed dow i by some supernatural power, and it dropped like lead into the water below. The smoker forged ahead a few feet and cropped squarely upon the forward car. The rear coach Went down through a second break in the span and the channel was choked with the debris of the bridge and of the'forward part of the train. News of the disaster ret ched the city in a few minutes. The railr cad officials acted with the most commendable promptness in dispatching a relief anc. wrecking train. Inside of an hour after the accident occurred the train was on the ground, but little could be done owing to the want of peculiar facilities with which t > work. The sight that presented itself was sufficient to justify the harre wing rumors that .rapidly found their wa r into circulation through tte streets. Hi If the bridge was down ana with the deb: jis of the cars in ftiunes, which originated rom the stoves in the coaches, nothing be t the wheels and other iron work remained. A dozen men were endeavoring tojinench the flames with buckets of water, bat un: tvailinglyf Soon a large backet brigade v as formed of Volunteers on the relief train, and the burning wreck was rapidly cool< -d so as to permit the work of recovering tl e bodies to begin. The dead and seriously injured were all f*nntinoil in Alto mine n5 Alto omntr.c onrl

baggage car, and these 1 ring one on.top Of the other were in deep w »ter near the pier. The river was high and ;he current strong and icy, adding to the difficulties of the work, which was quite tedious, there being only one skiff to work in. It was a sickening and heart-rending 1< bor. Five formless and almost unrecoj-nizable trunks or other portions of the t uman body were taken from the smoldering pile. =»The '-names of those dead, t )gether with their residence^, wore: John H. Brewer, engii eer, Lafayette. J. E. Ricketts, baggag) master, Monon. Abel Smith, American Express Messenger, Madison. George Lowry, broken lan, Buena Vista. John Bray, Demins, 1 id., passenger. Lynn Clark, Westfield, a passenger, injured fatally. The others injured, all of whom were pasrwws save White and Parker, are: W. P. Houk, Westfield, Ind., head cut and bruised. William A. Zamars, ex-Sheriff of Hamilton County, arm broken, face cut, side bruised. William T. Swiggart, Carmel, skull fractured and hip hurt. B. J. White, bridgeffian, bruised. Charles Parker, bridgeman, face and head cut. Mrs. Sullivan and baby, wife and child of section boss, braised. J. B. Horton, slightly ■ scorched and bruised. r Thomas Parr, Superintendent of Bridge Repairs on the road, who was working on the bridge when it went down, is missing,' aud it is believed bis body is underneath the wreck at the bott jm ot the stream. The ladies’ car was thrown on end, and frightful scenes ensued. Mrs. Sullivan, with he r babe tightly and securely clasped, stood on her head, wedged in between seats. She was released and all made their way out, only to hear the frightful cries of the more unfortunate in the front cars, In the smoker were instances of unparalleled sufferin gs and of great bravery. From this car there was no escape for the unfortunates, t hose injuries did not allow voluntary motion. The s uspicion raised by a statement of Conductor Losey that three unknown bodies are yet in the wreck is strengthened by the report t hat several persons are missing. Among them are Elwood Moon, a merchant at Hortonville, who is said to have been on the train and has not since been seen. He has a w ife and ten children. Another passenger iff whom nothing is known is Mat Hayes, of Louisville, a traveling agent for Fairbanks’ Scale Company. His wife is the daughter of M. McCord, Secretary of the Indianapolis Car Company, who drove out to the scene of the wreck in search of his son-in-law. Although the bridge was being repaired, stay-bolts being tightened and nuts removed, no signals • were displayed calling for cau tion in running over the structure, and the most ordinary precautions against danger under the circumstances appear to have been neglected. Those of the wounded, who are so badly injured that they could not be moved were cared for in the village, Dr. J. W. Bates’ residence being turned into a sort of hospital. Lindley Clark, of Hadem, Han., formerly a resident of Westfield, Is fatally injured, his hqrts being internal and on the head. He has a family.

*». a. oeemans, proprietor of the vv eatfield Mills, and ffm. T. Swiggart are in a serious condition. W. P. Houk, who was badly burned and cut about the head, is a postal clerk on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad, running between Cincinnati and Chicago. He wastaken to his home in Westfield. He bad been laying off for some days, and was on his way to Indianapolis to resume his run to-night. This is the most serious accident of the nature that has ever occurred in Central Indiana.. It created great excitement in the city and the bulletin-boards were eagerly scanned for the latest information from the wreck. The management of the road is quite popular and offer the victims ot the terrible affair every convenience. The road itself was the object of sympathy in the unfortunate experience that brought two such dreadful catastrophes to the same line in successive months. Bounced the Hoodlums^ Sax Francisco, Cal., Jan. 3L A number of whisky, hot coffee and doughnut sellers, headed by Dennis Kearney, recently “jumped” a strip of land lying between the confines of the Golden Gate Park and high-water mark. Thi y built shanties, and began plying their trades. Qniet efforts to evict them failed, the sqauttera claiming they were on United States land, beyond the city or State authority. Early this morning the Park Commissioners, with twenty-five men and six policemen, proceeded to “Hoodlumville” and quietly “wiped the town out.” The owners, on the alarm being given, rushed to the spot, but were too late to prevent the demolition. Will They Nevefc X.earn? Dali as. Tax., Jan. 31. W. P. Vaughn, of Goliad, Tex., returning , from a visit to.Ulinois, was to-day swindta£i by confidence crooks out'trf $010. One re)*~ resented himself as a" old acquaintance named Steward, telling Vaughn he had been East and purchased a big stock of goods to engage in business at Victoria, Tex. A third party with the words “Express Agent” on the front of his cap came up and presented a. bill of charges amounting to $1,300 against the alleged stock of goods. Vaughn took a $1,000 bond of the Butte Cjiy, Mont., Gold and Silver Mining Comp any and advanced 1010 on it. The bond is worthless and the swindlers are gone.

AN AGENT Of DEATH Swan Utm lam*, as Hanf Hera PefMtSa Injured and Foot Building* ' Demolished by an Kiploiloa of Oaaoline at Alliance, Oalo, ^ Auoancs, Oh Feb. t The most dreadfdl disaster that eve* occurred in the city of Alliance befell us Sbont four o’clock this afternoon. At that hour a terrific explosion of gasoline topic place in the store of F. M. Orr, the result of which was the entire demolition of the Orr block, together with the Hiller building oh the west side and two frame buildings on the east side. Bat great as was the loss of property, it is as nothing compared to the loss of life which resulted from the explosion. - The following are the names of those known to hare lost their lives: F. M. Orr, proprietor of the store and block. * Elmer Orr, his son, Mrs. Homer Highland, his daughter, A two-year-old son of Mrs. Hosier High* land, Two small children Oftfrs. Frank Brans, aged respectively two rears sttd fddr months. Besides those above named there were two or three others in the store at the time of the explosion, whose names have not been learned, but who Were spoken with beneath the rains before life had been crushed or burned ont of them. At present all those positively known to have perished have been extricated from the debris, Some of these are charred and mangled beyond recognition. The work, however, of clearing away the rubbish and searching for bodies is being vigorously pushed forward by the aid of such light as is afforded by the moon and a bonfire In the street. Besides those who perished the following persons were more or less injured i Robert Joyce, Jerry Miller, Fi auk Evans, Maggie Miller, Mrs. Freaee, Mr; Baker, J. D. Lewis, John Curry, Charles Hayden; The two lust named are of the minstrel troupe of Dnprez & Benedict. v Some escaped, as it seemed, almost by a miracle. The grocery store of Mr. McConnel, adjoining, had some seven Or eight persons in it, but all of them were dragged out not severely hurt. The scenes immediately following the disaster were well calculated to affect the most indifferent. The buildings were an indescribable mass of ruins. Men and women were rusuing about frantically beseeching that something might be done. Mr. Homer Highland, whose wife and child perished, was almost beside himself with grief and horror, as was also Mr. Frank Evans, whose wife and two children | likewise perished. Mrs. Orr was com- j pletely prostrated by tire shock.

•*iuhuo uuuuiug buuvtu iu have escaped save sbtue employ es engaged in the workshop attached to the rear, was Mr. Frank Evans. The great loss of life resulted from the fact that the second and third stories were used as dwellings. The persons within were not ail killed outright, as could be too plainly told by their audible but unavailing cries for help, E-v erything was done that could be-to rescue the victims.^but the rapid spread of the flames, notwithstanding the heroic efforts of the fire company, soon drove the rescuers back. The explosion was caused by the fumes from the gasoline. A child of Sir. Onturned the faucet in a barrel and the fluid fan out on the floor. Sir. Orr Was mopping it np which gas artsing therefrom ignited from a gas light. John Curry and Charles H. Hayden of Duprez & Benedict’s minstrels were blown out of Orr’s store through a plate glass window and carried clear across the street, where they were picked np badly injured. They were carried to a hotel, They Will recover. The Orr block, one of the finest in the city and completed only last fall, Is a total wreck, as are the Miller block and the building occupied by Mr. Fullerton as a leather store and by Miss Stanly as a millinery establishment. A reasonable estimate of the value of the property destroyed would be $50,010, a very small part of which was covered by insurance. The explosion was of such force that it was felt and heard for a distance of two miles. Those in the immediate vicinity thought for a moment that there had been an earthquake. Some idea of its force may be gl anffl from the fact that a team ot horses stafading in the street in front were tbruslragainst the walls of the buiid- j in'g on the opposite side of the street. All the window-glass on either side of the street for a distance considerably more than a Mock was smashed. It will take $2,000 or $0,000 to replace the glass broken, -- v -w »-> --- A THIEF AT BaT. A Desperate Negro Thiel’s Determined Fight and Escape from His Pursues —The Booty Recovered. Cairo, III., Feb. 1. Wednesday last a negro named Chas. Allen robbed a trank belonging to his partner, Lose Adams, of Jseventy-five dollars, and sloped. Yesterday morning officers Sheehan and Hogan were placed in charge of the case and were not long In locating the whereabouts of the thief, and <at nine a. m., yesterday, well' mounted, started up the track of the Cairo & St. Louis Railroad in pursuit. Seven miles out trace of the fugitive was found where he had rested at a Methodist Chnreh, taking a short cat from there toward the Cache River. As they camwin sight of the house of a colored man named Henderson the scamp was seen to enter the back door. Riding up a call was made for him to come out, which he did after a short interval, but in such shape as indicated business. He carried a double-barreled shotgun in one hand, a revolver in the other, and another large revolver in his jacket pocket. Upon a demand being made to surrender he drew

a bead on the officers with his gun, firing both barrels in rapid sucession, but without ' effect, the officers returning the fire. Be then brought one revolver into use, empty ini five loads at his pursuers, missing them entirely. Both sides shot about a dozen times, all remaining unhurt. Suddenly Alien broke into a rapid run, leaping ditches and fences, rushing through sloughs, swamps and ice, hotly pursued by^he officers whose horses at times sank into the swamp and water to their bodi s. The fugitive finally reached a dense cane-brake into which be disappeared. The officers deemed it imprudent to follow further, as they were short of ammunition, while the negro had one weapon yet unused. Henderson's wife was lound by the officers upon the floor in a fit, frothing at the month and giving alarming demonstrations of approaching dissolution, occasioned by the excitement during the, shooting. She was finally brought to her senses and delivered $73 of the money, which the thief had left for safekeeping.

An Execution in Mississippi. Pout Gibson, Miss., Fob. f. Simon Bonner, the negro murderer wa3 banged here this afternoon at half-past one. A crowd of perhaps two thousand persons, men, women and children, surrounded the gallows. Bonner ascended the scaffold with considerable firmness and stood quietly gating at the preparations for his execution. His composure was marked, but his countenance showed distress and terror. After a hymn had been sung and a prayer offered by one of the preachers, the black cap was drawn over his face, the noose slipped over his neck and the trap sprang. He fell about eight feet and died without a struggle. The Monon Koute Disaster. Indianapous, Ind., Feb. 1. )' The coroner this afternoon began an in- j Iqulry over the remains of five bodies that [ were recovered from the wreck yesterdav | on the Air Lino Railway at Broad Ripple. The testimony shows that the bridge * was built of good material and properly constructed. The workmen were repairing the bridge and had removed permanent snnportingrods, supplying their place with temporary rods, which were claimed to be is generally thought the «ocides?fi was caused by the weakening of the bridge, the result of removing the permanent reds. The body of Parr, the bridge foreman, has “o» yet been recov^teqi 5.

Secfttor Pajm’s 'V iews. At a recent banquet given at Columbus, by Senator Payne, to the Ohio Legislature, that.5 gentleman delivered the followfcg intereating and eareluliy-pre-pared address: Geutlemee of tbe General Assembly: You have seed llt to elect me to the highly honorable and responsible tWMition of a member Of the United States Senate.* No doubt the compliment Was mainly intended for the pattebtly waiting, long-suffering, ever faithful and truS Democrats of Northern Ohio. For the Bred time it* the history of the State they have been recognised add bonored by theif brethren. In their name 1 meet you tonight to thank y>.u fair the noble act of justice which has been sd gracefully and generously swarded to them. For Myself, also1. I have desired this social gathering that I Might in person assure you of my sincere ana lasting gratitude, and give you a frank expression of niy views on some of the present issues of the day. For fifty years I have been a resident of the State and a colaborer in the Democratic field. In forty-nine consecutive State elections I have supported and voted none other than the Democratic ticket; and every one of fiio c votes has been cast to a DemmWitte Ward in the city of C evfilsnd. I have actively participated in twelve Presidential canvasses, in which, among other questions, tbe issues of “The Jfesaoya'. of the Deposits,” by General Jacksea; “The Imigeemient Treasury." under Van Buven; “The Annexation of rexa*t” “The War with Mexico;” ’• "lie Popular Sovereignty " of Stephen A. Douglas; “ The Lceompton Constitution" of Buchanan; “ incipient Secession at Charleston;” “The Civil War under Lincoln;" "The Abofittei of Slavery;” 'The Resumption and Maintenance of Specie Payments; “The Gnat Fraud of 1SJR ' were by me discussed before the people without evasion or disguise; and I am proud to declare tifht to-night, reviewing tbe past from this advanced nsi!e-«tone in the journey of life, there is not one of the opinions then expressed that I would recall or change, or modify, if I had the power to do so. This is all I care to say in vindication of the orthodoxy of my political faith, or of my steadfast lovalty. to the Democratic party. Gentlemen, I am induced to accept this SenWorship to which you have elected me mainly by the hope and belief that in the discharge of its duties I may be useful to tbo State and fbo party; the last must be secondary to and in har»oi,y with the first, and both must have the apjirttnSrisfifif my conscientious convictions. 1 will li! n*S cash knowingly violate the Constitution or perpetrate a wrong. But to be dseful the representative must be cordially sfistaimkl by his constituents, and that they may sustain hid) there must be between him and them a substantia* Coincidence of views. As to the infinence of the lobby, I think you need have no apprehension. They navo always deemed ii expedient to give me a wide berth, and the increased rigidity that age imparts t£* the features will not be less repellant to their Insidious approaches. . V 1 will now proceed to some more important questions. And first

_ CIVIL SERVICE. For twenty-three years the dispensation of Federal patronage has been in the hands of the Republican party. Appointments pave ail been made from the adherents of that party, and mostly from the class of active politicians. The Federal Judges, supreme, circuit* and district, with their clerks, marshals. assistants* deputies, registers, master commissioners, Assignees, have been and aro Republicans. The heads of departments and their subordinates through a'f grades, down to the messenger and porter, the sub-troas-urersy collectors of both customs jyid internal revenue, surveyor#, postmasters, letter-car-riers, numbering in the aggregate iuore than one hundred thousand, have beett supplied from the one party, while nine-tenths Of that party and the entire Democratic party have been aud are now absolutely proscribe! and debarred the public service. During this period money by the thousand millions has been collected and disbursed, and the books kept by those partisan agents, furnishing an opportunity and a temptation for peculation, fraud and concealment to which I should dread to expose even the iron-clad integrity of Democrats. Inevitably, corruption and great abuses have crept in and have been covered up; favoritism, protege ism, nepotism, imoecillty and senility have obtained secure lodgment; demoralization has followed, anf. the public believe that & fetid mass exists, pcA meated with rottenness and gangrene. Now, can this service be reformed and by what process? I answer, yes. And the process is: ■P*l>f« tar electing a. Democratic President— and that is assured the present year, unless unwisdom and madness from tie gods are permitt'd to block the way. Secondly, by a pitiless and radical overhauling and purging of the present service. An Augean stable can not be cleaned with a tooth-brush. You must turn on the hose, ply the hickory broom and scrub brush, disinfect the premises, and give them a wholesome atmospbe e for hopest incumbents. Then let care be taken that none but such as bear the Jeffersonian stamp of “honesty and capacity” be allowed to enter,' apd those only from the Democratic party until its full ratable share enter to guard and protect the public interest. If public office be a sacrifical burden, all citizens should be compelled <by conscription if need be) to share their portion. If, on the other band, as most believe, it is a privilege and a blessing, one-, hair or three-fourths of the whole population should not be excluded from enjoying t&eir just and fair share of it. By this means reform is praoticiib’e. and until accomplished no tliKc settlement of the question can be obtained. Secondly, THE TARIFF. Ofie year ago I ventured to make public sbme opinions in regard to the tariff, recognizing the divergence df Views in the Democratic party and declaring that such divergence was the chief obstacle to the success of the prrfcy. At the State Convention in June those opinions were considered, condensed and crystallized Into What has since oecOtBP known as the “Ohio PIAtform.’- It was Unanimously approved by the Convention. It distictly rejects a “high tAfiff,” cf “protection for protection's sake” on the one hand, and the equally inadmissible doctrine cf “frffe trade’* or “tariff for revenue only” on the other. It sought to fiud a corapromltfe basis intermediate between the two extremes, which being equitable and just would challenge the assent and concurrence of all fairminded men and measurably remove it from the Arena Of partisan politics. Let me illustrate its excellence by An application to the interests Of , Ohio. For several decalcs Ohio has held the third rank in the classification of States. Until the last her main dependence for growth was .in the development of her agricultural wealth. There were public lands To be entered, improved, populated and created into new counties; there were vast tracts of valuable timber, the building of canals, facilitating transportation to market, and later a system of railroads increasing these facilities and expending Annually in their construction many millions of money. But now these aspects are greatly changed. There are now no more lands subject tojentry; there are no more new counties in reserve; the valuable timber has been marketed: the canals have ceased to be tributary, and the railroad system is practieullv comnletacL Th« rcviI hus hf>pn »-nn«iA

©rably impoverished. the cereal crops are less bountiful, while the great improvement of agricultural implements, with the consolidation of small farms, has greatly reduced the demand for farm-hands. Bren her wool staple ia in peril of severe and injurious attack. 13 it not the duty of statesmanship to previse the sources of strength and (rtowth that shall enable her to maintain the grand tank which she has hitherto held? The last census shows where those germs of strength are to be found. We have already more than 20.-X0 manufacturing and mechanical industries in which—induced in great part by Congressional statutes—RUO,000.000 of capital are Invested, Ifi0,000 hands are employed, receiving’ annually in wages Sfi0.000.QU0i S2I5.000.000 of material are used, and tho manufactured product is S34S,000,000 in value. More than twenty per cent, of her population find their employment and livelihood in these ind ustries. Iron ore and coal and other raw material are simply Inexhaustible; her people are educated, industrious and enterprising and there is no reason why a thousand other home industries should not spring up and EoorisB in our towns and villages as they have sprung up and are flourishing in the towns and villages x>f New England. This will assuredly oe the result if only Congress wilt let us alone. We ask no high

tttwo vr ejrovuu prwecuoa mat iavormonopolies, bat we ask and demand stability and exemption from agitation. Let the law of March last have a fair trial, and as resulting statistics disclose errors and inequalities, they can and should be remedied: as already our farmers «re tasking a loud and just demand for the rest oration of the duty on wool. See how admirably the Ohio platform supplies the satisfactory solution of this economic problem. It reads: “We favor a tariff for revenue” (no resort to direct taxation or the voluntary contribution of States), “limited to the necessities of the Government”-—inegativing the Idea of protection for protection only) “economically administered” (not three hundred and fifty or four hundred millions as under Republican administration of extravagance and wast€$but two hundred and fifty or two hundred and and e^cient rule of tho Democratic party)! “and adjusted in its application as to prevent unequal burdens, encourage productive mduetries at home and afford just compensation for labor, and not to create and foster monopolies.” No fair criticism can question die justness and soundness of the policy here outnned. The man who would piaee wool and 3tber dutiable articles on the “free list,” and resort to direct taxes for revenue and thereby destroy these home industries, and demies tnls army c? labor hands to idleness and want, or drive, them into exile from the is >M>t a wise or beneficent friend of the people- This platform, then, in my judgment, »the tmres t and wisest that has evqr been presented for public consideration. It may be christened the three J*e— JOIDiClOCS, JUST, -JACKSONIAN. And here I declare it is my deliberate convtetiea that we, adhering to this platform, will carry the State at both the October and Sqvcmber election* I am gratified that the

wprklng-rien, consolidating themselves Into lat»X orgsnlzstions. and Iwtter understanding the rcNtipns of capital to labor, have almost universal'"' accepted the doctrine of this platform, and cad oo longer be deceived by the specious arirumrdt of the so-called r rectifier; nor can they^fi placed in antagonism ions by the selflsh appv>^ or threats eff ugregated capital that has vrown to unsafe proportions Under the banefu ipnuence or a too high protective tariff. My oVM Position is definitely taken. I adopt the Ohio p.wtform In letter and spirit. With the party I stariS on it squarely and perpendicularly. There d9_a broad line of demtirkation. extending from, the equator to the A re tie'" distinctly separating our citizens and interests from (he interests of England. Succeeding or racing, standing or falling, I will succeed or tk.il. stand or fall, on the American side of tbit line, and there in all cases will my voice ana my vote he found. We had a partial test of this tariff policy in the late canvass, which resulted fu the most complete and magnificent viotory ever won by our party. It has borne luscious fruits. Columbus was never wreathed in such Joyous sntile&as today. The departments are all in the kc -jT*Og of oor friends. W e have asserted our j -‘ -* — — yers lift taiv «hcb KI’Jl — v-‘——V. who, in all the aecompiNlynents lor the otiice, in talents in culture and spot left purity of character, is not surpassed by ?Qy of the Governors Of the thirty-eight of the Union. And what shall I say of U.S Democratic Legislature but that the high character and intelligence of its inemDera give eohfr dene®that their actions will be governed bjf wisdom and prudence, and furnish the gratifying assurance that positive progressive legislation, modified by a reasonable conservatism. guarded by a free and frank interchange , of views, will result in the enactment of laws; equal and Just in their character, that will make this session memorable for its regard for personal liberty and care for the rights of individual citizenship. And I anticipate with .confidence Such results from the Democratic Administration that the public wEl not soon desire a change. Wevertlng again to 8 natorial doty, I am inclined, to accept the word ‘•eiicom-a-jf * as the key-not? to most questions of public policy. In regard to tbc fuller development of our ‘ agricultural interests, to coast defenses, river and harbor improvements, including the Mississippi Kivcr. the recovery and advancement of the mercantile marine, the net,rotations, especially with Mexio > and Central and South America. Opening the markets of these countries to the products of our manufactories: educating the people, especially the illiterate colored, seventy-five per cent, of whom in some of the States can neither read nor write—why not to the utmost vergo of constitutional authority ~ri»ronni0;” each one of these by liberal appropriation/ No American right or interest shou d-be treated with indifference, mu.h less in an unfriendly spirit. »r: But I have detained you too long. I have said sufficient, I trust, to indicate the line of policy I shall pursue if permitted by a kind ProCidfipec to enter upon the duties of the high oief Which you have conferred upon Gentlemen. I ask .*<>» all to join me Th a sentiment: “The heai*1' pf the members of the General Assembly of CnT'O-”

In Unfortunate Admission. The country has been for twentythree years under Republic tn rule. For eighteen years, including the last two years, the .Republicans held full control of both houses of Congress and the Executive.* They have been in a pos tion to perfect just such legislation as they desired. They could make any laws they wished. Nothing stood in their way. Into what condition has Republican so-called statesmanship Ipd the country? Let’one of the leading Repi blicans answer. The Tribune, in reviewing the past year, draws the iollowing pictures: ** Eighteen hundred and eighty-three has not been regarded as a good year. From the outset it has had a bad reputation. It has been a year of universal' distrust and apprehension. Business men in the United States have plodded or staggered along frtfm month t*> * month, oppressed with the haunting thought that a panic was impending. They have been over cautious and undiflv suspicious, and have passed the year fighting shadows. * * * Bradstreet reports 10,187 failures t his year— about one-third more than in 1832, about 66 per cent, more than irt 1881 and ISO* perecut. more than in 1880. * * * There is complaint of dullness in the iron trade in this country, and reduction of Wages in that and the cotton and woolen branches of manufacture is in some quarter proposed. * * * The " shrinkage in volume of business here, v other th in in stoeks, will be close to 20 per cent, for the whole year 1883, in comparison with 1882, of’which a part is due to decline in prices, but probably more than half to comparative inactivity in trade.” What a revelation does this admission present of the result of Republican rule! —N. ¥. World.' Has a Haial Time of It. There is no end of amusement in the ■' quarrel between the two Republjuifn factions in Missouri, both of wfaKh put together do not amount to • a row of pins” in the politics of the State. They are snowed under by such an avalanche of Democratic majority that it is virtually the same as if there were no Republican party in Missouri. This minority party does possess one value, however, and that is In its power to cast the vote of the State in the Republican National Convention—and it seems that it is this consideration, which causes the hitch in the St. Louis postotlice appointment. It is understood that Mr. Arthur wants the Missouri vote at Chicago, but whether he will ggt it or not depends on how he fills this office. “If, as one of Mr. Filicv’s friends is reported as saying, “he appoints Filley, the Stalwarts will rally about h’m and givo him the solid Missouri delegation, or work to that end; if he doesn t, he will be ‘knifed’ to the ittiek, and the Stalwarts will then

This is one side of the matter. The other is presented by a Van Horn Republican, who is reported as taring that “Arthur is the choice of the Missouri Republicans to-day; he is gaining every day, and will be nominated with-”51 out a tight, provided he doesn't cut his own throat by monkeying with the St \ Louis Post-office.’1' It will be seen that Mr. Arthur, poor man, has a hard time of it The two factions of his party in Missouri have made the St. Louis appointment the test of his affection for them, respectively, and the' price of their support, with the alternative of being “knifed” by one side, and having his “throat cut” by the other.—St. Louis Republican. —A down-Easter who had a desire to see the country started out two years ago from his home in Maine on a' donkey to satisfy his, desire. Since that time he has traveled on donkey-back from Maine to the Pacific coast, and recently stopped at Cleveland, O., on his way back to his home. The trip cost him nine hundred dollars, but as hewas a consumptive when he “set sail,” and; now a man of robust health and endurance, he thinks the trip has paid him , many times the sum. His name is Robert lorenian.-*- Chicago Herald. —With regard, to the pride paid for female labor a statement was recently made in a public meeting in London, England, to the effect that in some establishments two pence halfpenny, or about five cents, is paid for the complete making of a lady’s ulster, which means almost '#t Whole day’s work. However, the pavment of man’s lahor is little better, U It he true that one con