Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 45, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 March 1884 — Page 1

IrtkeS Date on the 13th a resolution wasffered fora constitutional amendment m*Bg the President’s term six years. The pjhopneumonia bill was taken up. Senator opposing it. The Fit*. John Porter bill ■then eons, dereil without notion.In the ■sc roiiFid sra ion of the Post o<Bce appro4|tion bill was resumed in committee of, whole, and the clause limiting salaries of ttmastersto $4,600 was stricken out. Sev1 amendments td increase appropriations were defeated. In the Senate on the 13th the hill for admission of Da kota was reported favorably. A joint resolution for immediate appropriation of $£5/00 for use in suppressing foot and mouth dtsef so in Kansas wr g reported and laid over. Toe Kitz John Porter bill was taken Up. Hr. Man lemon spoke in oppe s i ion to it. snd Mr. ho ran followed with a uitter tirade on the sarae side The bill then passed by a vote of 3ft to25.In the Housea resolution was adopted calling- for m-julry wbetbera grantrf 9M.W) a?res t f land to the State of Michigan tohbai-bor construction was 1 able to forfeiture. like Post-office appropriation bill was considered in committee of, the whole, and an amendment increasing the appropriation for the free delivery system to ?i,U00,C0J was adopted. -In the Semite on the 14'!i the joint reso- ) ntfon to appi-opriate $25,000 Iter eradication of fimt anil m nith iliaoaco arrow oalt^il nn unit foot and month disease was caUhd up and brought on a long discussion as to the eonsti- . «urionsl points involved in a measure which was intrn led to empower the Commissioner of Agriculture to go into the State and kill infecte 1 animai s, if necessary, to stamp out the disease. No conclusion had been reached when the Senate adjourn :d tl! Monday...... In the House the bill granting a pension to Sepririlna Randolph Mieheman, grandchild of Thomas Jefferson, was taken up, acd after considerable argument as to its constitutionality, the enacting clause was stricken out. A night session was held to consider pension bills.

PEESCWAl AMU POLITICAL. In his testimony before the Springer committee on the 10th, A. M. Gibson reiterated 'that the Government selected for trial the most complicated of the Star-royte cases. -' v Os Ihe 10th Prdtt, the savings bank csaaKiroc ef.Reading, -Mass.,, was sentenced to four yean’ imprisonment for embezzling the bank's funds. He is seventy-three years old, and has been in jail five years. General Gordon recommends Zobehr Pasha to succeed himself as Governor of the'Sondan. On the 11th the Senate ratified the Mexican treaty. On the 11th the yacht Atalanta, with Jay Gould on board, reached Havana. On the 11th Dr. Mary Walker had an altercation with a colored messenger at the Capitol in Washington. The negro fled in dismay: The California Democratic-State Convention will be held at Stockton, June 10. In the Seventh District of South Carolina, Robert Small received the nomination for Congressman, to succeed Macksy. deceased. Wesley A. McPherson and William * Wright, street-car conductors, were each fined $103 in St. Louis, Mo., on the 11th, for insulting two young ladies on the public streets.. They were sent up for six months in default-. Th e so-c ill dnevv testimony reported to have been discovered in relation to the Fitz Jq£n Porter case proves to be a fraud. Orkin Carpenter, on trial for the murder of Zara Burns at Petersburg, III., will rely on an alibi for his defense. The Arkansas Democratic Stats Convention is culled for June 25. The situation of General Gordon at Khartoum is regarded as decidedly critical. Otf-lbe -l£th George McFadden was ^Mimeted in Sheridan, Tex., charged with complicity in the Pacific Express robbery in Et Louis, Mo. The attention of District Attorneys is called by Attorney-General Brewster to the Federal laws regulating the shipment of explosives, and he has directed that due vigilnnce be exercised to prevent such shipments from being irregularly made. This its to stop the infernal-machine busi

LT5UTEN4NT JOHN W. UANENHOWER and Hiss Helen Sloan were married on the 13th at Oswego, N. Y. The bill introduced % Representative iliand to stop the coinage of one and three-dollar gold pieces and to limit the coinage of double eagles to twenty percent, of this bullion purchase will be reported J favorably. I* bis communication to the Secreta-j ry of the Na vy, Captain Hares, the Arctic exptcrer, expresses a belief th are good for find i up- .Craalvb and si Osr in St. Louis , Mo., for the mnrrier «rhi*Wife in (October, 18J6; 0*1 the lStJfJai Havana for St. Augustine, Fla. Tfi« th 13!,h V*. Legislature of Massachusetts on ih rejected the bill anchii e to women. ■iiiTice Tiller, uieB press robber, was arrested in Milwaukee, Win,, on the 13th, and the balk of the stolen

see immediately. The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom were referred the Dasker-Bis inarck resolutions, (rill report commend ing iihe action of tttt State Department, and recommending sufetantially that tbn German Chancellor Its left to settle it with iihe Reichstag. - In a recent interview at New Yort regarding the recent explosion at Fulham, England, O’Do novae Rossa. declared that he knew some dayq before its occurrencs that the explosion wins to take place. Tin news now comes tha t the supposed ontraj» was merely the accidental explosion of a child’s toy, and O’Donovan Rossa is left in n ridiculous attitude

CRIMES AND CAT7SUAI.TTE8. On the 11th a sleeping car, with fifteen passengers, wan upset toy a broke ! rail on the Michigan Central Railroad, bat nobody was seriously injured. Is East St. LonL<;, 111., the Advance elevator burned the' evening of the lit! with 353,000 bushels of grain, about one hundred freight car; and a dozen frame buildings. Near Alpine Pass, Col., a. snow-slide occurred on the 11th which swept away all the (wildings at Woodstock together with seventeen people, all but two of whom weiw killed. ! On the 12th fire destroyed twenty* three buildings at Allegan, Mich. On the 12th a f eight collision, near Newberg, N. Y., resulted in the burning jf ten oars of refined til. Oj* the 12th five laborers were injurs d and one killed by a fall of coal in the Avondale shaft at Wilkesbarre, Pa. On the 13th $13>000 worth of naphtha exploded at Hunter ’s Point. L I. Br a coal, mine hfplo^ie® at Pocthontas, Ta, on the 13th one hundred and sixty lives were lost. It win tine of tie most; appalling disinters on record. B f the tire in Grand Rapids, Mich ., on the 13th, two livus were lost and a ftietnan was made blind. The leading inventors of the count 17 have issued a call tor a mass Convention, to take action to prevent pernicious legislation by Congress. The Convention will lie held in Music Hall, in Cincinnati, Mnroh 25. Responses from all parts of the United Status and Territories, it iis reported, already show that an attendance of 3,003 may be expected. ' A few days ago fonr miners were killed by a snow-slide at Aspen Mountain, Colorado. A Danish mechanic, convicted of arson at Copenhagen, confesses that he is the man who set fire to the Victoria dock, London, Eng., in 1681.

KISCEI LAXEOIT*. The cattle plague infection is said to | have teen carried, into Kansas in the clothing of two herdsmen recently arrived from Scotland. While the council of tihe Ru siim Empire approves the plan of an American company to erect grain el evators, I he \ Czar’s views on the subject are regarded as donbtful. Ox the 12th the Merchants' Association or Milwaukee, Wis., passed a resolution calling for the suspension of silver coinage. At Bridgeport, Conn.,, the Salvation Army has been again raided! by the police. Three members fi ned on the 12th took in appeal. < Recent advicits from the winterwheat districts of Nebraska . give prom ise of a crop equal to that of last year, which was the largest in the history ef the State. Congbess is ur>*ed by the New York Board of Trade anti Transportation to puss a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Tie *sury to pay$l,000,(100 annually for a period of ten years fear improvements on the Erie Canal. \ • The proprietor of an estaminet near Madeline, not far from Bordeaux, France, is un der police surveillance. He is alleged to be a Fenian and a receiver of funds 'or the Irish cause. A fast mail train service has been ordered on the Milwaukee &; St.- Paul Builroad . The service will be extended to the Northwest as far an Minneapolis. It will bring the through mt. J service from New York to St. Paul! inside of forty-eight hoars.

JNiimusTS in Petersburg give the police notice in advance that they will till informres. Tub New York1 Assembly Committee reported adversely on the Ixlll designed to protect newspaper dealers from libel suits like that ot Mario Prescott against the American News Company jtor circulating a pai(>er containing matter injurious to her. Tub monthly meeting of the Western Nail Association was held, at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 12tb. Trade was; reported li lily good, sleeks fair and prices maintain Bd. The card-mte rema ins unchanged. A sub-Committee of the Senate Fureign Affairs Comm ittee has recommended a law authorising the Ffesldcnt, in case oar products are arbitrarily excluded by eny foreign power, to retaliate by exclud ng their products. The authorities! of Vienna •exorcise a dose scrutiny in else of all packages arriving from England, America aud Stitt.

©tor neuter trial at Petersburg, IB.. lWi to defendant’s intimacy with tl dared girl, Kara Barns; Ok tie l ith the anniversary n jaypMipatioaal Woman’s Foreign Ji »r; Society tooh* place in Philasl Pa. The number of auxiliary social reported at 8,379, an increase of il calf. The animal has the body of tie-beast, while its head is alleged to be a pcrfectlysbf,,petl image of that of a human being. Ha ir has grown along the back of t)»e neck, bat the skull is bare like that of ail infant. Sfkeca Miller, one of the men who th rew dynamite cartridges into the bouse of Pawling, at 1 oughkeepsie, N. Y., has been convicted of murder in the second dego ee, and ano her of the gang immediately pleaded guilty. This forfeiture of the Oregon Central land grant has been agreed to by t he Senate Committee on Lands. Ok the 14th it was expected the road from Soakem to Berber would be dear in ten days.

This laborers employed on the Cape Cod sliip canal have struck because tue cook spoils their food. The Nihilist leaderof Sudeikin’s murderers! is said to have sailed for America. Notwithstanding the enforced home pork diet, trichinosis continues tc> prevail in Germany. At Somerset, Ky., Frank Slagle was hanged on the 14th for the murder of two men at Cumberland Falls. A girl ol fourteen, named Maggie Garrity, took a fatal dose of Paris green in Chicago oa the 14tb, because her mother scold ad her . GW the 14th it was found neccssarvto close and seal th o $r.e>ains to tb* burning mine at Pocahontas, Va., in ordir to put out the fire. The VirginiuLegislature has passed ttie bill making the Commissioner ;©i Agriculture an elective officer over the ■Governor's'veto. In San Francisco on the 14th the sale of' tickets for Patti’s second appearance resulted in a violent crowd at lie box-office a id a regular riot with threats To tear down the theater and mob the speculators. On the 14th a slight earthquake shock was felt throughout Alicante, a p||pvince oi SoutkweatetfJffiML r The CLineSe cic ar-umkers]^ trike has ended in Han Francisco, Cal. * In Portland, Me., the apothecaries are being prosecuted for. lading to {egister under the SlateUw. The amount of penalties np$n conviction will be very: heavy in moat cases. ■: The Chamber of Commerce of Lyons, France, protests against the embargo on American pork. Twenty-3even delegates, including the United States, have signed the International convention for the protection of su bmarine cables. The Dominion Government has objected to some of the emigrants sent ont by the Tukes Committee, and has notified the English Government that man}' of them are unsuited to colonial life. { Considerable excitement prevails at Columbus Junction, Louisa County, la., over the reported outbreak of the foot and mouth disease. A request has been sent to Caplin .lames B. Fads, in London, by Director General Burke, of the World’s Exposition at New Orleans, to ascertain the terms on which the steamer Great Eastern can be bad to bring exhibits from Liverpool and serve as a floating hotel at the Exposition wharf until the following June, then returning to Liverpool with a fall cargo through the jetties at the mouth of the MississippL LATE HEWS ITEMS,. In the House of Representatives on the 15th consideration of the Post-office appropriation bill was resumed and an amendment adopted reducing mail compensation to land-grant roads. After a rather exciting discussion over a motion to make the Star-route appropriation $5,000,000 instead of $4,000,000, the House adjourned. A counterfeit twenty-del Ur silver certificate is reported to be in circulation. Among the spoils captured by the French at Bac Niuh were lJU cannon. Frank Leslie’s widow is about to marry a French Marquis. The New York-banks at the close of business on the lath held $0,615,000 in excess of legal requirements. Marquis Tseng has asked England to mediate between France and China. In the French Chamber the Left will oppose farther military operation in Tonquin. -

The Arabs have broken the telegraph line south of Berber and are firing ou Nile steamboats. The Kansas authorities profess to -eel confident they can easily er adicate the cattle plague. Bakek Pasha’s Egyptian t roops were •eised with a panic a few nights ago and tied from camp. Tue first through train over the Mexican Central line left the City of Mexico on the 15th. Fifty men have been sent from Chatham to the Soudan to fill the plac es of these disabled in the “Black Watch” regiment. A. M. Finch has been arrested at Staunton, Va.,. for a heavy embezzlement which occurred some years ago in Ohio. Extbaoudinakv activity has recently developed in the Herman navy. ‘The marines and torpedo service have been doubled. v , Tiller, the St. Louis Express robber, made an ineffectual attempt to eg>»pe on the l«h, and it was no: owing to nny vigUar.ee on the part of his escort, with whom he was closeted at the Limtell Hotel, hat he failed. Gec. A. Vincent, the bank forger, i« vented at Sing Sing, N. Y., being a fugitive from that prison. He will probably » sent there If not convicted in 8t. Louts, Mo. , . Another collision occurred near roronto, Ont., on the 15th, at the same point where so many men w kUled In a similar accident This two lives wefo lost.

of tiie woman and children lifted the air air and added more honor to the scene. Everybody appeared parafyied at the spectacle, and it ms some time before the bravest of the men present realized the extent of the disaster, and began to take steps to ascejtain it. After two hoars had elapsed and nothing accomplished by the panic-stricken crowd, a man with a ghastly white face mounted the debri s and cried out: “For God’s sake, men, let’s stop tills. We all have friends and relatives down below, and maybe we Car help them. Let’s see about it, and let tine women iolks, do the crying.”

A LEAI’EB WANTED. Every one of Abe officiate of the camp were below, Wes ides one hundred and fifty laborers?/ J here was no one to lead the resc&wf party, and it was with the utmost difficulty that voiunteers could be induced to go near the month of the mine. The Header again addressed the men present, and then throwing a blanket anyizrKehls head made an effort :o ascertain if it were possible to enter the mine. Be soon returned and announced that all attempts at a rescue of the poor creatures who were entombed was useless. . 4 ... ■ TagiiLt snwiHis. A *’*“3c vc!\lum ul name then began pouring out of the mouth oi! the m'tneanti 1 illuminated the country for mites around. Crowds of people collected in groups of a half ilozen or wore, dDeussnd the terribie situation and lamented the tfeatb of either father, brother or husband. * When it became evident that nothing could be done before daybreak, every endeavor was made by the meti to quiet the women, one of whom, in her frenzy, fore the hair from out of her hesi <1 by the handful and cried out: “Oh, my ]>oor husband, he is burning to death; won’t some one help Mm?’’ LIGHT AT LAST. When day davroed the Jborror became apparent. The men were by this time more composed and the woeidn in a measure quieted. The latterwegiii to gather up the fragments of thebotffes^of the unfortunate miners who liad been rising near the month of the shaft at thetfaie of the. acci- ! dent and were blown npwaitl out/of the mine. Every one of the fifty me® at this point was killed, as the numerous fragments of limbs testified. \ Telegrams were sent to Lynchbhrg and other cities for a id, but it was ndt until noon that assistance arrived, and then surgeons and physicians arrived from Lynchburg by special train. All tbe morning men from the surroumpng country kept pouring i» the scene, having been attracted by the great volume of black smoke. The banters in the mountains were among the arrivals, and they were invaluable in aiding the juuuc-stricken residents. The greater part of the victims were Italians and Ge rmans, and their names cannot, with any accuracy, be ascertained, except in a few instances. EARN] 1ST WORKERS. A party of miners from Coalfield mines, under command of Gorge Dodds, arrived daring the afternoon and took charge of affaiis. The residents were forced back from; the vicinity of the disaster and the work of collecting the human remains proceeded with. The fragments were removed to a house near by. The collection was a ghastly one, and the 1,500 population remaining above ground seemed to be crazed, by the scene. None had any hopes of ever seeing any of the entombed miners alive. Young girls half naked dashed he re and there, regardless cf those around them. Many had their clothing stained with b!<x>d by their search among the human fragments. DRIVEN BACK. At brief intervals man after man would make a determined effort to force his way into tbe mine only to be driven back by the flames and smoke. At seven o’clock last night it was thought an entrance could be had as he smoke shovved signs of decreasing. A party of men attempted to get in, and had gone below ground, when a volume of flame shot up, and it was with difficulty the men escaped with their lives. Upon the party reaching the surface, it was discovered that one of the rescuing pirty, an Italian named Carlo Franchi, vras missing, and had evidently dropped from the cage into the raging furnace below. The others of the party were all badly burned. THE NINE BURNING. At eight o’clock the mine was sending forth a roaring funnel of flame, setting fire to the outbuildings and destroying the fan house, which had been looked upon as the salvation of any of the men who might be still alive. When this last calamity was witnessed by the evicted residents a heartrending shriek went up, and a rush was made to stive the building. The effort i were without avail, and it was soon a muss of rains. It is now certain that the entire mine is in flames, and it will be a week before it will be extinguished if it can be at all. There are no hopes for <thc entombed miners whpsc families are left penniless and homeless. NO 8TUND OF LIFE. At midnight it was decided to make another attempt to enter the mine this morning by an annsed drift which connects a branch shaft filled with rubbish. Men have gons into thin brnneh and sounded the wal ls with hammers, hoping to hear some signal from below. The tapping was kept np for more than an hour without a vail and was then abandoned. The general opinion is that If the men were not killed by the explosion they have been suffocated. -

A force of thirty carpenters have commenced to make coffins for the dead. They are working in a plateau to the east of the drift and are surrounded by torches. As the rude ecffins are completed they are distributed to the forty families who have fonnd or think they have found some portion of the corpse of one of their relatives. There have been several disputes about the bodies as owing to their mangled condition identification is exceedingly difficult. xnn CAUSE. Nothing has been done in the way of ascertaining the cause of the disaster, but H is surmised that ope of the miners at work struck a gas fissure, and that the escaping gas ignited from his lamp. kumbbb or victims. The company employ some 850 to 400 men, but the best estimate is that there were in the mine 153 miners, besides a number of the camp or town officers and bosses, bringing the number of viotims up to nearly 160 persons. No hope is entertained by anybody of rescuing any of the poor fellows.

After It Brief Season as n Roaming Capital. 1st Ose FwiAo £i]ireH giwinr Safely in the r.intches of s!iw l,aw-Ao Luer.iew WI«; the TJiiet. .. . MiT»w.'.r*r.n, Wis., March 13 JPieflite TifWr was arrested here to-day by a Milwaukee detective, IlehafTeVOd ou his personal this time ofbis arrest. This afternoon your correspondent was admitted to Tiller's cell. When asked if he uas the man who robbed the Express office, he said: + “Well, my name is Prentice Tiller, and I suppose l*m the man who took the money. It amounted to about $125,000. I was bora in Louisville, where my father is a city detective. I was employed in the office of the Pacific Express Company at St. Louis. “How did you happen to take the money?” “On the afternoon of Mar-h 2, I was in the front office alone, and the idea struck me to rob the safe. I went into the tack room and saw that'the watchman was busy. Then 1 pot all the money into two common express satchels and skipped. Since that time I’ve been in Chicago and here.” “Who Was the man with yon when the robbery was committed?” “What man? I was alone.” “Wasn’t there a woman in the business?” “No; I was alone.” “Will yon return to St. Louis without a requisition?” “Yes, I might as well.” “And plead guilty?” “Don’t know about that. Perhaps I will.” “How much time will yon get for this job!” / “I don’t know. Probably ten years.” “Where were you last night t” “I took in the town lastnight. Do you know it, this is the first morning I haven’t read the papers. If I’d seen the pajiers you wouldn’t have got me to-day.” Ask edby Mr. W. H. Tndswcrtb, chief of the American Express Company’s city employes: “Were you not in our office Sunday night?” Tiller replied, “No.” - * “But you did visit the Express office Sunday night,” said Mr. Todsworth, “and when yon came yon wore a wig. What has become of it?” “Oh, I dropped that almost immediately afterward,” said the prisoner, thus giving himself away unceremoniously A Dishonest Bank Official. Sr. Louis, Mo., March U. It has just transpired that T. J. Dieterichs, teller of the Laclede Bank, is a defaulter in the sum ol $30,250. The peculations have been going on since the first of January. Upon the discovery of the embezzlement, which was only made after the dishonest teller had been given an indefinite leave of absence to recover ill health, the case was given into the hands of the Fidelity and Casualty Company, who requested that it be kept seeret as they were the parties whe must suffer the loss. fin Foot and Month Disease to Illinois. Chicago, 111, March 13. For the past few day rumors have been published of the appearance of the foot and month disease in Effingham County, 111., but one or two isolated herds, which were supposed to be affected, when visited failed to show symptoms of real com tagion and no alarm is yet feit. Governoi Hamilton, of this State, has been urged by the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association to quarantine the cattle of this State against the infected cattle in Kansas, and he declares he will issne a proclamation to that effect within one or two days. Norwalk, o„ Huron 14 Mrs. Blinziy was arrested and seut to jail to await trial on a charge of cruelty to achild,? tggie Montgomery, adopted some time a from k charitable institution near e.eveland. The women said she used a hot poker in punishing the child. Her skull was fractured and the scalp loose as though from hair-pulling‘and her feet in hoirible condition from^nriEu ing or freezing. The neighbors tbreXened to lynch the whole Blinziy itamily during the examination before the magistrate ; C ”

branches s direction, blown dear over the mortmain ridge fronting the approach »to the mins and picked up more than half a mile distant Even coal dust was blown over the mountain and covers the earth on the opposite side to the depth of hail an inch, and the blackened anti rent overcoat of a dead miner was pic ted np in a guleb nearly half a mile away. All the laborers’ shanties in the vi riulty were more or less w recked, and t wee on the line ot the mine approaches completely demolished. So terrific was the force of the explosion that windows in the house of a farmer two mile; off were shivered. A few minutes before the explosion a train of coal cars had been backed into one entrance to the mine and the locomotive had moved some distance down the track. Many of the cars were hurled down the tracks and vrecked and the debris thrown a great distance upon the mountain sides. Jleavy axles were wrong and twisted into all sorts and shapes. Wheels weds cracked and broken. The gulches in front of the mines were filled with the wreckage. The Pocahontas mine embraces .an area of twenty-five miles; that is to say,a person traversing the chambers and galleries of the iuin?s would have covered that distance. There are five entrances, every one ot which * t. _ though a pent-up luty was within. The Cbtrauce* were all tilled with foul air, which render*, the recovery of dead bodies impossible, livery attempt made to enter the mines has been attended with bad results, and in several instances the men barely escaped dying front the overpowering gas. Physicians were kept busy yesterday ministering to such cases. The farthest entry was by a Hungarian, whose son was buried in tire mines. Nearly crazed by grief, he could not be restrained and penetrated to a considerable distance, bat was eventually forced to jretire. He reported seeing a number ot bodies in one chamber, torn and mangled beyond all semblance of recognition. One was that of a youth aged thirteen, employed as a door bqjr, who was the pet of the mining camp. The little fellow had just entered the mine wheh (be explosion occurred. . Colonel George Dodds, of the Midlothian mines4nd other experienced mining engineers visited the mines this morning and made an examination. It was decided that it was unsafe to attempt to use the fan, and orders were immediately issued to have the mines closed and sealed as the only means of suppresing the fires which arc burning. The higher- coal drifts are not burning. It is the fine coal at the bottom of foe mines which is afire. The entrances will be tightly sealed so as to smother the fire. In one of-foe entrances a tube will be inserted to permit the escape of gas. Most of the miners killed were unmarried. The night force was mainly composed of foe youngest and most vigorous men. Hampton, foe night foreman, leaves an invalid wife and several helpless children. One of foe young men killed was the only son of a widow whose husband perish^ in foe mines several weeks ago. AFTER MANY YEARS. Matt Lewis, Who Murdered his Wife in St. toota, Mo., in li 18 Expiates the Crime on the Scaffold After Four Trials. i St. Louis. Mo.', March 14. vMatt. Lewis,foe negro who murdered his wife on the 13fo of October, 1873, was hanged this morning in foe presence of a limited number of spectators and reporters, in foe jail. > Shortly after 8 a. m. the procession which wgs to conduct foe condemned man to the scaffold formed at the door of ids cell,' headed hr several Deputy Sheriffs. When the death warrant had been read Matt stood np from his chair and his arms were pinioned, Lewis submitting very quietly. With a guard on either side, Lewis took his place and walked along with a firm tread. The procession moved oat of foe 'south door into the hospital, and across to the scaffold. Matt ascended foe steps without much hesitation. There was little delay when foe negro was placed under foe. noose. Before foe fatal plnnge, the Sheriff, addressing foe condemned man said: “Matt Lewis, you are about to suffer the extreme penalty of foe law for a great crime. Is there anything yon dosire to say before execution?-’ •“Nothing,” said foe prisoner, “but that I pray I may meet you ah “in Glory.” Mr. Mason shook bauds With him, saying: “Good bye, Matt.” The preacher did foe same, invoking a scarcely audible blessing on foe “soul of Brother Lewis.” The black cap was then quickly adjusted, and, and at a word from the Sheriff foe rope was pulled and “the drop fell.” Unlike former executions at foe City Jail, foe hanging of Matt Lewis attracted no crowd whatever. Up to within twenty minutes of foe fall of foe trap, theta were not a dozen persons about the building. ' They Feel • Washhtotow, D. G, March 15. The ratification of the treaty with Mexico bas given great encouragement to those who favor a reciprocity treaty with S’M| gf f ‘ are at work It of the Doigents have been sent to Washington from Ottawa to gM" Is can be taken to ' will be done at Washfoe Canadian initiative.

Arrest of Suspected Murderers. Bloojomgton, lit., March 15. The three tramps—McMaion, Martin and McKenzie—who are suspected of the murder of Eggerberger, the Odell, HI, merchant, were arrested nea:: Heywcrth, this county, yesterday, and taken to Odell and held for the crime. The police am- j thorities of Odell identify them as the ! men who were ■■ Two of them went north from Odell at

Agai-iJf official d*.'honesty prevailing umnfcemiptedSy from the time Grant’# private secretary was involved in the rascalities of tfce whisky1 ring, *rd h's Secretary af War in those of the posittrader ring, down to the Star-route robberies under Hayes. Against the protection extended by ffee Adia aisir jtioa to public thieves, as shown by the predetermined failure of the Star-rnotB prosccotio v. Against the destruction of free government by the,, reversal and perversion °f thejiusUc will in elections, as in the fra«d#e»t inauguration of Haves in 18TS and the purchase of i*« President for Garde M in 1880. Against extravagant expenditure,; needless taxation, ttie rapid payment of the public debt and the accumulation of | an eanrmop : forroption fnnd tinier the name of ''surplus re venae.” _ Against the prodigal squandering of the public lands on railroad eorporai tions, which have received more than one hundred and ninety-two million acres in grants since the Republican party came into power in 1861. Against politica! assessments by the ; Robber Barons of Republicanism who ; hold toe knife to every Federal offieeI holder’s throat Puli! he contributes to a ‘‘fund to corrupt the ballot box. Against the bold bribery and corrnption practiced in Indiana in 1880 and after wards honored by a pnblic banquet over which President Arthur, one o! the 1 beneficiaries of the crime, presided. Against the sale of Baited States Judgeships and the pledge of Cabinet positions and foreign missions for money. Against legislation discriminating in favor of capital against labor, fostering monopolies and generally designed to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. ^ The Democratic army entered the field in 1882 to do battle against these evils. Volunteers Cocked to their ranks and they won a great victory. 6The vote alt over the Union showed ~a general desire to drive corrupt men front power, to restore the Government to its former simplicity, honesty and: constitutional ian'Jinarks. and to vindicate I he right and the power of Me people to elect their own public p .deers. The issues we have enumerated-formed, the basis of the Democratic platforms in New York, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, California and o$er State's, The question of ten per cent, more or less on iron and five per cent, on wool was loft to be settled when the timecame for practical reform in expenditure, revenue and taxatiefl. " - ; We respecfcfnliy submit these facts to the consideration of the Democratic House oi Representatives elected in ISf 2, which has ifow been nearly three months in session!—N. Y. Warlti.

fa It Audacity! The joint resolution of the Virgin!* Legislature, asking Mahcne to resign his seas in the Senate, is regarded by the Republican pfessas t most surprising erijibhiyn of audacity. “Unreconstructed relwls — daring and unscrupulous Rbnrboua—” are the mildest epithets applied fc> the legislative body whsch-bos intimated a desire to be rid 61 the fellow who has madgnod hiSK^soule ar.d disgraced his State. • It is generally jre^poseck that a Senator in Congress is given the position as a representative of the people. The Legislature is his immediate aad direct coast tejoftcj, It elects him to his seat It has a right to expeet from him g«od behavior and to condemn his bad peac

wilt begin. People are not j^nng to I pelted with politics before they are ready, this year. This is seen from the notable lull in political interest now; Four years ago, at this time, though the land was winter-locked, the people were politically fired with summer heat. How they are thinking that they will revert to polit'cs when effort and calculation will be effective—and not before. Meanwhile, they are watching both parties narrowly, being certain (hat ne ther is strong enough to command success, regardless of the record which it may make. The Democrats have acted wiser than the Republicans, in calling their convention a month later. Two months later wonld have been wiser yet. Still, the Rational campaign will be ran on State; lines and most oi the State Conventions for toll elections will not be likely to meet till a month or two after July &.

me sigmhcance of the place selected is principally geographical. The West was hound to have the convention, anyhow. That fact settled, Chicago is the best city of the West for the purpose. It is cooler than any other. The expos'! tionbuilding is the best adapted for convention purposes of any in the land. Bait access to Chicago is more ample than to any other city, except New York. The hotel accomodations are magnificent. The sentiment of the population is Democratic. While the principal newspapers are Republican or independent, they are shiewd anti polite enough to give faip-4eports and civil comments. Hgsides, there are in Chi- .*. veral*^ effective Democratic ’Tbeinprobability of the finding a candids.te in so % State as Illinois will enpartiaily to eanthc merits of aspirants. of the special vass but also strength in Cootmi ried to win. as b ith convcti cago, the people mixed up in the not, unless the plaU inueh alike on p suggest the otbe& avoided, by the elevatki. ;o{ \ above policy. Unless the plat' uis designedly made alike, they wilt not town. The organizations through which the Democracy act will from to-day accept notice of the responsibility laid noon them in this Presidential year. In due season they will doubtless ball the con- * ventions in the States to choose delegates to Chicago. There is time enough for such consultation and for such generous rivalry for favorites, within the party, to render the preliminary action in the States representative of the party therein and the crowning action in the convention harmonious, strong and patriotic. Each party has an obligation on it to bo true to its principles, united in its final action, and loyal to such action when falrlv taken, 'if the Democracy act in such a wrfy as to make every man in the party actively interested in stud desirous of its sucoess in the Nation, then it will also be likely to heed the fact, first, that it will be-confrented by a wary and powerful enemy, and, secondly, that success is going to wait on that ticket and platform which can ado to the solid partisan vote for them, to be relied on in almost any contingency, the suffrage of the independent citizens who go to the polls in increasing thousands every year, with the comfortable consciousness that they hold the 4 balance of power in the decisive States, lie »the best Democrat in reality who 1 bears this fact in mind and who labors 1 to get for his party the usufruct of the fact. —Albany Argus,

Will He Investigate t When Senator Sherman shall hare concluded his arduous labors and made report of the facts connected with the shooting of four colored men at Danville, Va., he ought to take time to think of the brutal butchery of a whole family of colored people at Avondale, a, two or three days ago. The riot at Danville grew out of intense excitement fomented by Republican Senatorsand the Stalwart Administration. It was a most lamentable affair, bnt it was no*" a cold-blooded, premeditated, deliberate cruel killing of men. The murder of Beverly Taylor and his wife and adopted daughter at Avondale, O., grew out of two things, the djisire of a medical college for eustomfpae corpses and the damnable avarice of some of Senator Sherman’s constituents. ms The dead at Danville fell in a mutual encounter of angry partisans, were swept out of life on a wave of furious passion for which the backers of Mahone here in Washington are chiefly responsible. The dead at Avondale were sold as corpses while yet alive, were knocked down and clubbed to death in their home with more brutality than is witnessed in a slaughter-house. When the “stiffs” ht.d been made to order, as it were, they were sacked and hauled to the market where they had been sold on i the previous day, and there the contract money was paid, fifteen dollars a head! Wifi Mr. bhermau take time to con- “ trast the Danville homicides with those of Avondale? Will he state which of