Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 47, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 April 1884 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. t CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS, '.j I In the Senate on tl|^24th the minority report on the exclusion of American meats from Germany eras presented. A motion to make the Dakota bill, a epeclil order for Thursday week, was defeated. Consideration of the t»ill to tlx the salaries of District Judges was resumed, the discussion being mainly on the cause prohibiting Judges from appointing their relatives to positions. The educational bill was then taken up and a long discussion ensued in which Senators Ingalls and Vance took chief parts. The ■ conference reio.t on the resolution apnroprinting ¥10,000 for contigent fund of the Senate was adopted.In the House Mr. Kills asked consent to o"er a resolution appropriating $300,000 to avert the threatened overflow at New Orleans. After mint discussion the .resolution was rejected. The House refused to conour in certain amendments to the deflcleney bills. Bills were Introduced: To establish uniform rating for Invalid pensions; to provide for cheaper correspondence by telegraph; to repeal the restriction on coinage of diver dollars. , In the Senate on the 25th memorials were presented protesting against the pa** sage of pending bills relating to parents. Bills were repotted favorably: To sell the Iowa Indian reservation in Nebyjaba; to readjust compensation for raliroMUauM transportation. A resolution-w«* adopted inquiring Why the Attorney-General JW, not furnish certain Information regarding the Star-routes. The bill to increase the salaries of district judges was taken up and the amendment agreed to prohibiting judges from appointing relatives to Court positions. The bill passed. The joint resolution was adopted providing that Government employes be allowed full pay for holidays. The education blit was further discussed without action—In the House several unimportant measures passed after which the bouded whisky bill was taken up and debated at some length. An effort to obtain consent for a resolution to appropriate $125,010 for the flood sufferers along the Mississippi was mot with objections. In the Senate on the 26ih the bill for allotment of Indian lands insovoralty was passed. The transfer of Minister Sargent to the St. Pet*rsburg mission was submittel and confirmed. The bill passed author hdng an examination of certain Missovrl war claims. Debate on the educational bill was continued at considerable length. The resolution appropriating for the Mississippi River flood sufferers the unexpended balance of the Ohio flood fund, amounting to $125,000, was adopted_In the House the same appropriation was agreed to. The bonded whisky hill was taken up and a motion adopted that the debate be closed in . an hour and a half on the 27th. 1 In the Senate on the 27th a bill was introduced to prohibit the sale of indecent publications. The joint resolution authoring a reward of $23,030 for discovery of the Groely party was reported with an amendment. The bill to nay claims for damages caused by the ITte Indians passed. Also the bill to authorise the Court of Claims to giant a rehearing In the ease of Chas. , P. Chouteau for add Itional compensnthmfdr building ironclads. The education bill was debated without action_,.In the House the bonded extension bill was finally disposed of by striking out the enacting clause, IK to S3. In the general strie to secure precedence for the next measure for discussion the b./to retire -the trade dollars was taken up but no netkm was reached. In the Senate on the 28th, a joint resolution was reported, proposing qpd amendment to t he Constitution for woman Suffrage. The bill p issed authorising a reward to private parties ft r discovery of theGreely expedition. The education bi'l was taken up and Mr. Lamar addiessel the Senate, favoring its passage. Mr. Cullum wanted the bill modified so that it should only apply to the South. Mr. Geoirge favored the hill as it stood_In the House a resolution was introduced and referred fixing June 2 as the firs' date for adjournment. The McGanaban bill was ta bled. Several private bills passed, and a night session wa3 held to consider pen

r FEItSONAL AKU HJUTIClt. In a recent interview Marquis Tseng intimated that it France should make demand for ah indemnity such as has been mentioned it would lead to ah immediate and open war, with the chances against France. On t' c 25th Avene, a member of t’ e French Chamber, was wounded in a duel with Julet, a journalist. P. A. Jordan, one of the proprietors of the Johnson type foundry in Philadelphia, Fa., died on the 55th. Mr. Danielson, proprietor of the Providence (R. 1.) Journal, died on the 55th, He was active in many business enterprises. ' Ex-Governor John W. Hoyt of Wyoming has written a leading member of the New York Legislature strongly recomnv’Tid ng 5Voman suffrage. The Massachusetts Repu’.lican State Committee warns local committees not to permit Federal office-holders to hold mem bership in snch committees. On the 26th, portions of Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Georgia were visiLed by destructive cyclones. Many lives were lost. The New Hampsh're Reupblican State'Convention has been called tor April 1st. On the 26tli Minister Lowell hoisted the colors on the Greeley r« lief ship Alert. A suit for damages against the City of Boston has be-n filed by ex-Mayor Palmer, his wife having received injuries likely to prove fatal from falling upon an icy sidewalk. It is said that Sims Reeves is coming to America to wind up his public career as a singer with eclat. The reason why Admiral Hewett disbanded the Abyssinian scouts was because they were outlaws and robbers. The Emperor of Germany has expressed to the President of the Reichstag his displeasure at the defeat of the antiSocialist law. The Legislature of Connecticut has rejected bills allowing women to vote on school and license questions. Minister Sargant has been nominated by the President and confirmed by the 8ena(e to succeed Minister Hunt at the Court of St. Petersburg. . On the 26th Francis Marco Cummins died at Goshen, H. Y. He was a 6aptaia in the Mexican war, and in the civil war rained the first company west of the Alleghenies. James Nutt, of Pennsylvania, lately found not guilty of the murder of his sis.- ! ter s betrayer, Dukes, is to take charge of his mother’s farm, near Leavenworth,

Kas. A mass meeting of the people of Limed o,Ill., was held on the 36th, at which they denounced the administration of Justice in l*<ESn County, and adopted a resolution requesting Orrin A. Carpenter, late defendant in Idle Zui a Burns murder case, to remove without unnecessary delay. / General Lew Wallace, Minister to Turkey, had an audience with the Sultan 'on the 34th. An emphatic denial was given to the report that the Forte had demanded America to recall Wallace. • In his suit against Sergeant-at-Amis Thompson, Hallett Kilbourue has again received a verdict, this time ton $37,900. This is the third verdict in his favor, the other two having been set aside as excessive. Wm. L. Thomas, the former publish*? of the St. Louis Commercial Gazette and the St. Lewis Miller, and also theTreasnror t Missouri Fress Association, hascomthe publication of the Home and aifd associated-with him Mr. Alf. Fawn, formerly of the Globe-Democrat. Thu paper is published in the interest of pupils, teachers and parents, . Augustus Schell died the morning of be 27th at bis home in New York. On tbo 87th Tom Thumb’s mother died at Now Haven, Conn. In bis irecent American tour Mbttfce w Arnold bitted J8,0J0, Of. A, «Hgbe Mi m* : >eri JBft

l’ARNEix expo ts seventy-five of h ;s followers to be elected t Parliament. Church, the defaulting Treasurer of Troy, N. Y., was mTested in Hew YoiJc City on the 2Tth, Prime Minister Ferry says tie French Government; will submit plans for the revision of the Constitution in May. On the 27th Ge neral Graham again dispersed the rebels at Tamanieb, and now considers his campaign at an end. The lrojuois Club, of Chicago, bus extended an invitation to the Democratic members of the He use of Representatives to seats at a banquet to be held in Chicago, at the Palmer-House, April 15. TtiE newspaper! of Berlin assert tint Mr. Sargent has dooUned to accept the appointment as Minister at St. Petersburg. They say he intends to retire from diplomatic service and; return to the United States, with the exjieoMtion of re-entering the ISenate. . • On the morn'ng of Ihe 23th Trinse Leo pold, youngest son of Queen Victor a, died at Cannes, 1''ranee. He was in bis "rKiTiiv daughter of the Emperor Francis Joseph i of AnstrM, is affianced to Arehduke Charles Louis, brother of the Emperor. Ihe Directors of the Western Vitim Telegraph Company at a meeting in .New York, On the SSth, passed resolutions of sympathy with the family of the late Augustus Sch ell,who was one of the company’s diiroctors. I* nn address in New York, t :«> night of the 28'„h, Rabbi Browne replied to Dr. J. P. Newman's recent sermon on foreigners as clt'zms. The Rabbi staled that the Jews of Hew York paid onequarter of the 541,000,000 of the annual taxes raised in the city. They were in other respects model citizens. King John of Abyssinia will receive Admiral Hewitt and other members of th < English Mission. 'Phe King has 35JI00 w »r- : riors around him. —— The friendly Sheiks in the Soudan l elieve that Osman Digna will now conf ne Lis efforts to robbing caravans. CRIMES AN L) CAUSUALTIES. On the 25th twsn'y-five cari o' the Hew Jersey Central Railway line were wrecked, completely blocking the road. A seaman named John McPherson, on the steamer Thetis, of the Creely relief expedition, was drugged and robbed a lew nights ago in a New York dive. The popular dissatisfaction over the verdict in the case of Berner, one of the murderers of Kirk in Cincinnati, culminated on the night of the 28th, in an attempt to execute mob law on the culprit. The latter had been secretly removed immediat -ly after sentence. A mob of from ten to fifteen thousand per: o is s tacked the fail and were fired upon by 8tate troops otation.ed therein ancl a number were wounded, sqme mortally. Berner escaped from the officers who were taking him to prison. , On the 28th a Cincinnati juror was fined 550 for offering to procure a verdict for one of the parities to a suit for a snail consideration. On the 28th a'bui'ding in process of demolition iu Cincinnati, suddenly Hell, trarjrmg hair a ddi!*mw'Wkmw.“ rem-nWY' taken out badly hurt and one was missing. Jut) Crouch smd D. S. Holcomb have been held for tri al for the murder of the Crouch family at Jackson, Mich.

MISCELLANEOUS. Another conference of New York exCan federates and members of the Grand Army of the Republic is announced to take place March 31, to; further discuss means of building a home far invalid ex-Confede rate soldiers. . < lx the sale oil the thirty one cars of Kansas corn at Cincinnati for the beuelLo. the flood sufferers, outside prices wereioalized. ® The rise in the Lower Mississippi has made serious inruads in newly constructed levees, and the country is almost entij-ely submerged. The City of New Orleans was, on the 25th, in imminent danger if any further rise occurred. The Lost-office Department b contemplating a fast mail from Chicago to New York. The House Commit' eo on Lands has completed its report on the bill declaring forfeiture of the Nor.hern Pacific land grant. tt"’'-'-Ox the 25th a herd of imported Jeifsey cattle sold in New York brought prices ranging from $22S! to Jf440 a bead. Ox the 2flth the Devon cattle breeders of the United States met at Pittsburgh, Pa., and organised a National Associat ion. The well-known seaside resorl in Maine, Point of Pines, was sold ou the 25th under mortgage, and purchased for the bondholders for $13-1,000—less than hall the original cost. Ox the 25th a transaction wai consummated at Colors, Ala., involving the investment of $1,000,00) capital by a Michigan company in an iron furnace and agricultural implement manufactory. Three hundred Arabs have joined the British, but the Bheiks stay aloof. A new bill to prevent the sale of oleomargarine as butter has been passed by the New York Legislature. Ox the 26th troops were cal’ed ont to quell a riot caused by striking iron-work-ers at Pesth.

A gambling-house was raided m Paris on the SOth and twenty-six ladies were caught*playing baccarat. The Pennsylvania Railroad officers hare promised liberal co-operation With Southern railroad* next year in assisting transportation to and from the World’s Exposition at He w Orleans. Additional reports of damage to life and property by the recent tornadoes continue to como in from Ohio, Kentucky and South Carolina. On the 26th a dam connected with the water works of Newport, R. L, gave way, and the waiter swept over Mrs. .India Ward Howe’s estate, causing consider able damage. ' On the 26th. among the resolutions adopted by the Inventors’ Convention at Cincinnati, waa one declaring that the Patent Office should be made a department with a Cabinet officer in charge. Reports of numerous murders of Christians by Moslems and of Moslems by Christians come from various parti of On the 26th ths ice broke np ats St Paul, Minn., leaving the river clear far tie Hirst time in many years at that date. Advices front Tonquin state list a Prince ot the roy al family of Annan, has been convicted ot promoting the masiuiCre olf Christiana anil has been hanged. On the 26th the President sent a tries-. snge to Congress recommending appropriations for the reconstruction of the nary. The authorities have released the sister of Degareff, leader of the party which assassinated Colonel Sudeiktn, the Ruislan Chief of Police, whq—raa arrested tome days ago. For eight months of the fiscal yrar 'Internal revenue receipts fell off f«,«!.260t • *

A destructive storm of wind swept i Ter Denver, Col., on the 27th. blowing at • »01 1/CUYOl y WU, WU DUO Ul'JWIUjJ •« Hie-rate of fifty to sixty-five miles an boor. 1 [any houses were unroofed and Other damrge done. On the 27th in the ice breakup at I lath, Me., flumes, lumbi-r and mills were I idly damaged. Efforts are in progress ti> reopen < ommunication with Upper Egypt by way of the Nile. On the morning of the 27tb the first t hrough train from the City of Mexico arrived at Kansas City, Mo. j J The German Keichstag is poshing l ight ahead with the bill appropriating : 0,000,000 marks for torpedoes. Tub Woman’s Christian Temperance Inton in Canada wants temperance text ! ooke introduced in the public schools. Citizens cf Cincinnati have been holding mass-meetings to abuse the Jury : or the light verdict in the Berner murder ( ase. There are urgent calls for mate.ials or repairing levees from many points in 'WfdMuta, and the situation continues Several Senators have recently f arted for a pleasure trip to Florida, leaving legislation to worry along: without On the 27th Montreal was reported as « xpecting a flood. reports nia le to th a Reichshow that iu a single small; town 4n3 ere affected with trichinosis last year and sixty-six died. Telephone apparatus is now so periaet that conversation between New \ ork end Boston can be carried on in a whisper. On tho 27th a dynamite bomb was c iscovered by the Leipsicpolice in a crowded building. |t was loaded, bntdidn’t happen to gooff. A resolution was adopted in the National Quard Convention at Cincinnati on the 27th, recommending the Erlocum mill la bill now 1 efore Congress. The House Committee on Banking and Currency meditates recommending a change in the National Banking laws so t >at directors may be held accountable for i regularities. The River and Harbor bill will-ap-propriate about ; 5,HO),000 for t;he Mi-sis-sippi and tributaries, and about JH>,000,000 fir harbors on the lakes, gulf end ocean. It will be appropriated about April 20. Near Newcom rstown, Ohio, the malady known as “grub” is hilling sheep by wholesale. Several cases of trichinosis have developet in Westmorland County, Pa. During the week ended the 2fth then were 172 bu lues* iailures in the Unit'd States and thirty-two in Canada. The managers of all the permanent expositions in the country will hold a ctn1 notion in St. Lou's, Ha, June jj. During May the United States Civil fiervice Commission will hold examinations in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado. The Home Labor Committee will report a bill to Cougross to prohibit theemjiloym nt of United States prise ners under the prison contract lo,bor system. ^fw YoriPwitd the' white elephant not long since- captured in Siam. Ir was eletinitelv decided at' a massmeeting held iu Louisville, Ky., the night of tho 23th, to hold another exposition in that city. The capital stock of .f200,000 has already been subscribed. On the 28th the seal’ng st atr.er .Aurora arrived at St. Johns, N. F., from t he ice fields with 28,000 prime seals, worth f O 1,000, all taken in five days. The voyage lasted only eighteen da vs. Other sealers were equally successful. It is asserted by the Manchester (Eng.) (inaniian that negotiations are trending between England and America with a view to adding to the extradition treaty a clause which shall cover the •authors of the dynamite outrages. The British Government shipped by steamer Grecian, leaving Glasgow for Boston, March 22, 270 emigrants taken from the Work House of Swineford, County Mayo, Ireland. On the 28th the steamer Balfcee, lxrund from Liverpool for Havre, went ashore at Lansden and filled with water. Allen board wore saved by rocket apparatus.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. After three days and nights of terror the situation at Cincinnati appeared on the morning of the 31st a little more peaceable. This was only brought ebon', by the ■ oncentration of troops from nil parts of the State and the application of stern repressive measures, which hava involved a deplorable loss of life, and the wounding and maiming of very many more. The city has suffered almost irreparable loss m the destruction by Are ol its 'Court-house with all the records and one of the finest i libraries in the world, and seme private buildings, while a large amount of plundering has been carried on in the ostensible ^search for arms and ammunition by the mob. Ischia has had another earthquake. The New York banks at the close of business on tbe 25*tli held $7,,21,451 in excess «f legal requirements. Arab shicks have asked for the appointment ol a British Governor for Toka:*. Eight men were killed bj an explosion of nitro-gtyc trine at Thompson’s Point, N. J., on tbe 29 h. The Illinois convict, Mooney, who killed his ccil-mate, has been sentenced to bang.

There is a c.-.ance that postal relations with Mexico may be established on a basis similar to those with Canada. Berner, the murderer, wh > was the cause of the riot in Cincinnati, has been' safely lodged in the Penitentiary. An engineer was killed ami a large number of cars wrecked by a collision near Haltsburg, Pa., the morning of the 29th. Flood news from Missouri River points in Dakota to the 89th continue to cause anxiety. Bismarck and Mandan were threatened. Queen Victoria has received expressions of sympathy from tail the potentates in the world in the hour of her bereavement. Under the new German tun? consular supplies are no longer adm.tted to that country free of dnty. Retaliation is meditated. The Illinois Supreme Co>nrt has decided that the $103 saloon licenses, issued in Chicago to forestall the Hat per high-li-cense law. are valid. The bill to pension all the soldiers of the late war at the rate of twenty-two cents per month for each montn of service will be reported adversely. A haunted house at Wilkesbarre, Pa., is causing great excitement. A committee hae been appointed to And out what cauees the nightly disturbances Sensational rumors are received from the seat of war in Bgypt. The latest te that General Gordon had surrendered Khartoum to $bo film phophet,

NEATLY FOILED. % _ An Attempt to Bub » Texas Bank Rcatlj and Effectually Frustrated by a Shrewd Betective—The Principal Bobber Killed in the Act—Oue ot HU Arcumpliecn Sun. coeds la Escaping. Wichita Falls, Tax., March SI Yesterday afternoon there occurred here one of the most daring attempts at bank robbeiy the country has erer known. Charles E. Bugle r, Willy Hays and a boj eighteen years of age, named Frank Par. menter, and John Kinkaid, a member of the Hanger force, constituted the party, the latter playing in with the party to trap them. The plant have been forming lor several weeks, tut were not perfected until last night, when Kinkaid, being in their confidence and getting the plans. Informed Lieutenaut Schmidt fully as to the entire scheme, and the latter notified Colonel J. G. James, cashier of the bank, of what was going to he attempted. Sergeant Grime:) was stationed in the „bank vault?and Ashly James, cashier of the bank, was at his coonter, no one else being in thb han't at the time appointed, but for some reason the attempt was not made until half in bonr later. While ParmenLer and Hayes were outside Hear the bank entrance bolding the horses, Bagley aadKtnkalcp^ftered. They |>assed through n passage w tvy- around the counter, Bagley in the lead, smoking a pipe. As he entered he told Mr. James he wanted some New York exchange, and James told him k> stay in front of the counter; that they did not, allow any one to come behind. Bagley answered, “I will come, anyhow,” aud 1:ook his pipe out of his mouth and put it in a case. When he had passed around to a railing, separating the business from the other part of the room, he drew his six-shooter, covered James and continued to walk around to an entrance to the inclosore where James was, and where the money and vault were. When he covered James he called on him to throw up his hands, which James did. Bagley had a bag in tils hand, and told James to put all his money in it. James did not comply immediately, and Bagley said: “--you, I will kill yon if you don’t,” and at the same time presented Ills pistol to James’ heart, as If he would shoot. At this movement Sergeant Grimes fired the contents of ;i double-barrel shot-gun into the robber, and Kinkaid followed with a six-shooler. Bagley staggered and fell riddled with balls. One pistol shot entered near the left nipple. Lieutenant Schmidt and another ranger were stationed across the street in the route they were expected t» take on their retreat. A book agent by the name of Wear was in the bank at the time tlie robbers entered, and was talking to James, who excused himself to attend to those gentlemen. Wear went towards the door, but stopped to see what was u;p, and suspecting now matters Stood started to run across the street, when Psirmenter called to him to scop, and he not heeding he emptied his pis tol at him, and the teller of the bank, who was stationed in the store across the street, hearing the shots, ran out, and seeing Wear running from the bank, supposed he was one of the robbers and presented his Winchester, ■and told him to throw up his hands, which Wear did, calling ont, “I am not one of them.” Lieutenant Schmidt fired at Hayes,who started to run, hat did not I1 wing his man. One of the rangers emptied bis pistol at the boy at close range, but did not hit him. The boy Parmenter told his pals as they entered the bank that he woald be there dead or alive when theyjcamc out, and was captuied at his post and did not flinch under the fire of the rangers. Kinkaid, Sheriff Davis and others are still In pursuit of H lyes, who lias not yet been captured, and as he is well mounted he may not be overhauled soon. It is said he is wanted tit several places for robbery. It is supposed he is wounded. The coroner’s jury at the inquest ol Bagley, who lived for two or three hours, brought in the following verdict: “We, the jury, And that the deceased, Bagley, came to his death by wounds made with sho ; from the pistols or guus of some of the ranger force while he was engaged in an attempt to rob the bank of John G. James, and that the rangers were justlfled-in said killing; and we commend Captain Schmi tt and liogcrs, Grimes and Kinkaid for their efficacious action in preventing the robbery.” Among the jurors was a brother-in-law of the James buys, who is a citizen of this place. One of the men of the gang has been at tending stage s tand on the Seymour route, and it was intended to have him come, to divide the party, anti rob the Bank of Henrietta at the same hour, but he was lame and conic! not go there, so the Henrietta scheme was abandoned. Bangers started for this man yesterday. Parties are ont from Henrietta to capture Hayes, and it is hardly possible t hat he will be able to make good his escape.

A CRY FOlt SUCCOR. The Appeal from the Flooded People of the Lower MUitimlppl Vallejr tor Help. HoDKEr, Miss., March 27. The situation in this vicinity is deplor able in the extreme—water, water, everywhere. The country between the levees and Bayou Mason Hills is overflowed from one inch to twenty feet deep. Those able to get ont are moving their stock to the high lands in tiie west and over the river to Mississippi. Thonsands will no doubt be lost, to say nothing of loss of life and suffering and destitution among the people. The only salvation and prevention of starvation hi for the general Government to come to our relief with supplies for man and beast. The people are taking refuge m gin-houses, on rafts and house loits as in 1882. Words cannot paint the picture of destruction and desolation witnessed by the naked .eye in every direction. The United States steamer Vidalia and barge, in charge of Captain F. M. Cooper, is, and has been for several days, doing good work in movl ng stock, and in fact dping everything in* his power to relieve thepeople and prevent loss of all kinds of property. TprrlBe Thunderstorm. Petkrsbcro, Va., March M. A tremendous thunder storm burst over this city shortly after midnight last night. Rain came down In torrents. The thunder was so severe that it shook the houses. The Appomattox River at this point is very high. Tile meadows on theChesterfleld side of theriver are submerged and the water is still rising. The protracted spell of bad weather this month has greatly retarded all fanning operations in this section, and farmers are watching with anxiety for sign of brighter skies.

Prohibition in Canndm. Toronto, March at. At a meeting in thin city of the Ontario Blanch of the Dominion Temperance Alligece last evening the com* mittee to wifbm.vras referred the subject of the Scott act agitation, reported that they believe^ the time had arrived for concerted agitaUqn in the line of Prohibition, and recoinmeirded that immediate action be taken by the Alliance to secure the passage of the Scott act in the twentynine counties in Ontario. The Alliance issues a circular in accordance with this action, urging agitation for the suppression of the U<|nor traffic throughout «W Dominion.

BiOT AND BMXIDSHED. Citizens or Cincinnati, Ohio, exasperated Over the Defeat of r.he Ends of Justice, Seek Summitry Venge i oce—An Attack on the Jail Brings Them in Confli ct With the Militia, Resulting hi the Eilitnc and Wounding of Several Citizen *—The Mob Arming—Escape of the Murderer, BerCincihnati, O... March 29. The most exciting night ever knowir in Cincinnati has just closed, and the city (his morning is in a stunned and dazed condition, people asking each other with hated breath and blanched cheek, “When Is aii this to end?” The deep feeling of indignation which has possessed aii minds at the pusillanimous action of onr courts in a general shielding of murderers from the penalties dne to their crimes was multiplied and intensified by the shameless verdict of imprisonment (br a limited term of the red-handed murderer Berner, indicted for and clearly proven guilty of the deliberate and brutal ip order of Wm. U. Kirk. > A meeting was called by some of the best citizens to protest against the action of the jury, and by seven o’clock Music .Ball was well filled with a constantly Increasing crowd, lioug before the meeting was called to order ten thousand people crowded in the hail and surged about the corridors and filled the space in front of the building. The Hooks of the people were ominous of evil. Those who called the meeting soon saw that they had raised a storm that might and in a whirlwind, but it was too late to back oat. They organized with a long Ust of Vice-Trcsidents and the usual officers. They intended to counsel together and advise as to the best means of ridding Cincinnati of the stain that was en her. The more moderate the better, hi the presence . of the angry element. The people were aroused—it was not, a (nob of the lower classes, but an angry gathering id the best citizens, indignant beyond control—a smouldering lire that only needed a breath to fan it into a roaring fiame. i>r. Kemper, a respected citizen, was made chairman, and made a conservative speech counselling moderation and disclosing how to correct the abases of criminal proceedure and jury trial. An allusion to the Berner jury was met by cries of “hang them;” “hang them ail;” “lynch’em.” One man called out: “1 thought we came here to organize a vigBance committee; if so, let ns, go to work.” Shouts of “Yes, yes,” mingled with a few feeble noes” greeted the suggestion. Order was partially restored and the speaker introduced General Hickenloopcr, who spoke in the same strain, with frequent interruptions of the same sort.v Then Judge Carter comes forward and addresses them, giving his long experience on the bench, and saying he had not heard of such an outrage on law in all his life before. If the jury was. believed to have been dishonest in this matter they shonld •be allowed to leave the country, for they were not fit to live in a civilized country. A voice called out: “tYhaJ about Tom Campbell, the great criminal lawyer?” * "If he is as dishonest as you seem to think he is, let Wm go, too,” replied the answc roof. tfftig t&p'ers alfnost 'lfSw'the

A big brawny fellow iu an np. tr gallery let down a rope in the sigut of all. It was suggestive, and in a minute a score more of ropes were in sight, and shouts of “Hang ’em all;” “gut the jail;” “shoot them down on sight,” etc., were heard on all sides. Resolutions strong and sharp were brought in and passed with a whirl. A friend of Campbell, Benners Layrner, tried to amend them, but the erowd would have none of it. They became more and more boisterous; their blood was getting hotter; the tiger in meu's bosoms was awakened. The leader saw they must, if possible, avert mischief and as quickly as possible adjourned at 9:45, and in live minutes the hall was empty. Mayor Stevens was sick in bed and the whole duty of preserving the peace rested upon the Sheriff. At five minutes of ten the fire bells struck G21, the number of the Courthouse. Instantly the city was in commotion. Everybody knew what it meant. Crowds filled the jail. Fifteen thousand people were there in fifteen minutes. The first overt act was by some lioys who began to stone the jail. Very soon a crowd gathered. It was soon reinforced from the Music Hall meeting. In a short time all the windows of the jail were broken. The crowd had ropes-. They broke into a carriage factory across the street and took out a huge beam sledge-hammer, 4c. A dozen men ran with the beam as a battering ram against the jail door aid forced it open. The police upon arriving in ths vicinity of the jail commanded the crowd to move; not being obeyed, they fired, biit as no one was hurt it was presumed the police fired in the air—they being deeply in sympathy with the movement to condemn the outrageous Berner verdict. A shot or two was fired from the jail, but the crowd refused to move. Inside the Sheriff, Jailer and Deputies kept themselves as calm as possible. The mob found Berner gore. They tried to find the Burkers and to batter down the cell door of one of them. By this time the police were thick about them. They got possession of the jail and restored order in a slight degree; but they did not dare to make any arrests; the mob would not allow it. They filled the house and roamed about unchecked seeking some luckless criminal on whom to wreak vengeance. There was shooting but it was up to t his time only from the mob firing in the air. The First-Regiment of the O. N. G. were drilling in their armory a couple of squares away from the jail. Sheriff Hawkins brought over a detachment and introduced them into the jail through the cellar. The mob filled the corridors. They were ordered to withdraw, but refused, and the militia opened fire, shooting, perhaps, sixty rounds. The corridors were filled with smoke, the gas went out and pandemonium reigned, but the mob was driven out. What the e ffect of the shooting was os the mob is not at this hour (midnight) known. Two policemen were shot bj the rioters, one militiaman, one civil ian and one boy, the last badly hurt. " The mob remained outside howling, yelling and threatening vengeance. They gathered up material and made a bonfire against the strong, thick stone walls of the jail. The flames made a great light and a yell was raised that the ]ail had been fired. It looked as though the mob had determined on a wholesale holocaust. Au alarm was turned on and the engines came to the scene, but could not get near the place for the crowd, and seeing what it was, went back again. Then was no danger there of fir ). The mob kept present. howlirg as very demons, but doing nothing. Iso confusion was ever worse. No one eould get inside thus jail to find out the situation there. It. was an hour and a half before a boy shot inside could be brought out. During the confusion it was next to Imposs ible to - get at the facts, bnt at 1. :S0 a. m. things were quiet! ip down some. It then filet between Idle nob and military. When Up inner dtor between Up reception that ther e was an actual con

room and cell rooms was broken down the military fired: on the mob at that place and Lew * Kent, a laborer and member • ot the mob, was shot and killed. This seemed to break the spirit of the mob, though they did not retire hastily. A number of brickbats were thrown by them at the soldiers and police, but generally there was not much bitterness of feeling displayed on either side. The great superiority of the defenders of the jail over the unarmed and impromptu mob was so manifest when the former opened fire that It would have been utter folly tor make any further effort. Some twenty-five or thirty men were arrested in jail. The jailer’s residence in the jail, which was entered Jay a portion of the mob, was Rudely handled, the windows broken and furniture smashed. From this -a number of men made their way into the kitchen and thence to the lower corridor. After the apparent relinquishment of the main effort to get at the prisoners the mob lingered outside, throwing stones and brickbats at the windows. 1:15 a. m.—News just comes from the jail that the mob is not defeated yet. They have broken into the armory of the Veteran Regiment and taken the guns. More firing has been done pt the jail. The mob is now looking for-ammu-nition with a prospect of success. The mob broke into the National Guard armory, took out about 1,000 muskets, formed three abreast and marched to the jail. They shot away all their ammuniand then marched down Main street and broke open Kittredge’s gun store, which they rifled, taking everything they could lay their hands on in the shape of arms and ammnnition. 2 a. m.—At this hour the number of the mob is perhaps from 2,000 to 3,000. They are swearing they will yet get in and hang all the murderers inside. They have proenred a barrel of coal oil and poured it over the Sheriff’s office, swearing they would yet burn down the building, and some are meditating an attack on the gun stores for arms. The militia and police are all on the inside awaiting developments. The mob fired on the soldiers when the latter came np from the cellar. The murderer^ in the cells were scared nearly to death. Johnson, the black burker, was nearly white. The First Regiment’s armory has been guarded for three nights in anticipation of this affair, but the Veteran regiment, of which Sheriff Hawkins is Colonel, did not take the same precaution. 2;15 a. m.—Newton Cobb, of Manchester, O., was shot in the shoulder by a soldier, through the jail window. Cobb was a by-stander on the sidewalk. The crowd claim soldiers are firing unnecessarily upon the outsiders rnereiy looking on. On the othir hind the soldiers dread an effort to burn the place or blo w it up by rolling coal oil barrels into the basement and justify themselves la clearing the sidewalks on that account. It is said that a number of women spectators have been hiKt with random shots. The firing of gunsis still heard at intervals. 2:30 a. m.—The firing by soldiers from the windows has been "terribly destructive. The following wounded have been gathered into the drag-store at Court and Walnut streets and at the hotel near: James Green, dying. Walter Fay, dying. James Turk, mortally wounded. F. Soehn, bad wound In thigh.Kd.Duleff.shot in thejegp. _ . . These were all bystanders, ami there & a growing bitter feeling against the soldiers. The mob has taken all the arms they want from Kittredge’s store, including a small cannon. Cincinnati. O., March 29. Berner was sentenced to twenty years in the Penitentiary, the full limit of the law. It appears that after the sentence he was disguised and placed in a buggy with Deputy Sheriff Dominick Devoto and driven to Linwood, where they «ot aboard the Morrow accommodation . and went to Loveland to await the arrival of Criminal Deputy Joe Moses with the necessary papers for committal to the Penitentiary. It became known that Berner was at Loveland and a crowd gathered. When the train with Moses aboard came in and Devoto and Berner went to board it the crowd made a rush for Berner. He ran through a car and escaped, and is still at large. Berner, when he escaped from the mob, rushed through the ladies’ car, knocking a woman down. A man shouted, “Train robber! Shoot him!” Four revolvers were drawn but none fired as he was so quickly out of the car. He jumped off, and was seen by a woman to run to the river bank, where he passed ont of sight and has not since been heard from. The people blame Deputy Sheriff Devoto for carelessness in going about with Berner with no handcuffs.

A Fateful Fall. Cincinnati, O., March 38 While a four story buildiug on Central Avenue was in course oi demolition, its walls fall .in at noon, burying eight laborers. Bennett Heckman, Geo. Willey, Wm. Andebrach, and Joseph Ackerman . were removed to the hospital, badly injured. • Aug. Kirehenmeyster and three others have not yet been found. -LATKH. August Kirehenmeyster, a sub-con-tractor, was the only person killed outright at the accident at noon to-day. Seven persons were taken ont of the ruins more or less injured, and taken to the "hospital. The body of Kirehenmeyster has not yet been found. A Chance for a Damafe Salt. Alton, III.. March 38. The Springfield accomodation train on the C. & A. Boad arrived late last evening and stopped only a moment at the depot. Captain John Cotter was a little slow in alighting from the coach in which he came and was poshed off just as he reached the lower step. The train was In motion when he fell and the wheels of the last coach passed over his left hand, almost catting it off. He was also bruised about the head and shoulders. As he is quite an old. man, it is feared the wounds will Drove fatal.

The Miners nd Their Trouble*. Pittsburgh, Pa.. March 28. The rate fixed by the meeting of miners on Wednesday does not meet the approval ot some of thr pits. Consequently half of the miners employed in the fourth pool went on a strike yesterday. In the third pool also there is the worst kind of a kick at some of the pits. The diggers refuse to work for three and one-quarter cents, and the operators moreover are not a unit in the payment of that rate. The sentiment of a majority of the miners in the river district is in favor of a strike, if for no other purpose than limiting production. A Mysterious Oil Strike. Pittsburgh, Pa., March Ml There is much excitement in the oil trade over a new well at Dubois, Clearfield Co. The derrick and approaches to the well are tightly boarded up and no person except the workmen are allowed within the enclosure. Even the employes have been obliged to take an oath of secrecy. Several scouts from the Bradford regions have been there within the past few days, but when the attempt was made to examine the workings of the alleged mystery they were flnuly denied admission

The Republican Newspaper Campaign. The readers of Republican newspapers now-a days appreciate the fact, well known to" journalists, that reporters can find what they are sent to look fop. The Wew^ York Time*' correspondents see nothing but anti-Arthur feeling. The New kork Tribune and the Philadelphia Press are gifted with meh who encounter an almost unanimous Blaine feeling. The Springfield Republican, wbieh can not only, in its own opinion, discern the face of the sky. bnt also read the signs of the times, can discover (or divine) a general yearning for Edmunds. The .Chicago .Tribune and the hyphenated Inter-Ocean, of that city, the apostle of truly E! Mahdi Republicanism in the ■Northwest, perceive that the mountains flame ami the prairies flush and the vaileys gleam, white all the little hills do clap their hands, for John A. Logan. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette which now unites the Napoleonic might of Field Marshal Halstead with the essential ethics of that truly good man. Deacon Richard Smith, is able only to size and sei -e.thc claims of Honest John Shcrm in. The Indiana papers of radicalism are certain that either Senator Ben. Harrison or Postmaster-General Gresham should be the “ the coming man.” And so it is. There are as tuanv preferences among the people as there arc desires in eilitoi ial breasts. Republican journalism has simply become a mechanism, for ascribing the wishes and antipathies of editors to gene al readers. The sole value of the prevailing practice of priuting Presidential pointers, in such newspapers, lies iu the presumption that the newspapers reflect a local or a larger sentiment and piake themselves the mediums of it. The impartial Democrat who reads with judicial mind the medley of impressions in Republican papers finds certain facts or cnaraeteristics running through them. The first thing that (trikes the attention is that there is not very much about the Presidency in that party at all. Imliffereutism "is more |hc rule than interest. The “booms” for various aspirants have their initial impulse in the ambition of the wouldbe candidates themselves. The rest is lire work of not unselfish or unthrifty (riends of theirs, who kno v how to ply |he arts of mention, interview, gossip, advocacy, report, suggestive avowal mil safe disclaimer. The notable inertness of the Republican rank and Hie encourage these efforts. Tfccy are neither resented nor ratified. They are pm ply unopposed. Continued little bylittle, the efforts have a tendenoyv-be-tng neither antagonized nor indorsed, to create a sort of passive acceptance for themselves. The sheer effect of iteration can be predicated of them— ■but not more. Still that has enabled the candidates in sporting parlance, to •be entered for the race. They are now taking tfiferexercise on the track; but the jockeys and the stable boys number more than those on the grand .stand and the pool-sellers have not begun business at all. Another consideration which the ante-couvention “booms” among the Republicans impress is the varied character of the reasons or “cla ms” put forth. A qualification forrbePresidency is hardly urged at all, if at all urged. It is made second to the assertion of “availability.” This “availability” docs not signify that tho candidate has special points of favor to any condition of public opinion; but it signifies that his friends claim for him some desirable special strength . which makes him a little stronger" than the Republican vote itself. Mr. Edmunds is urged because it is asserted that '“the Independents” would support him. That assertion has nowhere been tested by evidence—but it may be regarded as on offset to the known fact that the Vermont Senator is unpopular with the working masses of his party. As plain people are wont to dwell on the beauties of the mind, so are these Republicans who have not commended themselves to the manly and active forces in politics addicted to references to “the Independent vote,” “thebetter element,” etc. As a fact, politicians man Republican conventions, make Republican nominations and conduct Republican campaigns. They may not be able always to nominate whom they would; bnt they are invariably able, in the Republican party, to de eat the nomination of those for whom they have “no use,” They have “no use” for those whose vocation it is to profess to be better than other people, and their aversion to Pharisees is not to their discredit. The special claims urged for the others can be stated in a word. Mr. Blaine’s strength with the corporat'ons is urged for him. General Logan’s friends insist that the entire “soldier vote ’ would be for him. Mr. Sherman is advocated on the gi-onmT'that “the mowed men would put up for him.” Mr. Harrison and Mr. Gresham are haiied as those who conld “insure Indiana.” It is true that a genuine desire for Mr. Blaine exists among some Republicans. It is as true that lie is hated by other Republicans and distrusted by independent men. The bald and bold question of his strong)# with corporations accounts for that distrust, as well as the shifty conduct of the man in public positions. Corporations and Mr Blaine are not benefited hy this kind of talk for him. Corporations have become expert in politics—not by showing their hand. There is a great sentiment against them. Mr. Blaine’s enemies conld well advert'sc his corporation alliances. His friends are not wise in doing so. The assumption that General Logan carries the soldier vote or any other classifiable vote in his pocket, is" not a justice or a compliment to that vote. Soldiers are citizens; they are Democrats or Republicans, according to convictions. They are not men who sink principle, on an office so large as the Presidency, even in comradeship. The claim for Mr. Sherman is based on the policy and potentiality of corruption solely. The light which history has cast on Horsey's methods makes the avowal of a purpose to renew them only the hardihood of desperation, and the American people can be trusted to deal with it, if it is attempted. The ability to “insure Indiana,’' claimed by Mr. Harrison and Mr. Gresham is worthy of consideration. Neither has ever run successfully before, the people of that State. The claim is" good only to draw attention to them, for a while.

Headers see none of the reasons which should stir the thought and heart of a party, in a Presidential year, moving within Republicanism at this time. The endeavor to interest Republicanism at all in the question is forced and has met with very rjnaliged success so far. The party, however, is not without excitement, There is a struggle of factions in it. The objective point is the organization machinery, in the struggle going on, the Stalwarts are ahead. They hove the machine. Thev mean to keep it. Thev may not be able to mate the nominations. They will sot fail to dictate those which are ipade.—gflfewy Atyw.

Ornamental at Least. The New York Times praises President Arthur’s dinners, receptions and other forms of hosnitality as the finest of the kind since Buchanan's day and equaled only by those of the early Presidents, who had only the etiquette of the Old World to guide them. - m m “The usages of polite society,’* says. the Times, '“have a right in the 1 House. If we are willing to consider the mere pecuniary aspect of the matter, we must see that the hWldsome salary of the President is partly estimated on the presumpt'on that be ' is expected to entertain many people handsomely. He is given a tine house, furnfture, fuel,; . a portion of a household force and other things, in order that he mav fill his high office with the dignity and We- • gance-befitting the Chief Magistrate of a great, generous and good-living KeImblic. A stiugy President is cordially disliked. What we may call the official hospitality of President Arthur's Administration is without a flaw.” But, referring to the abuse which tha Germans are heaping u ou United States Minister Sargent at BerHF for doing hi * duty and warning h's fellowcitizens that Bismarck’s prohibition of the American hog was made in the interests of “protection” .and not of, health, the Times say3 that it will probably hasten the day when all our diplomatic service will be overhauled and the missions to foreign powers, being superfluous aud mere relics of a time when diplomacy had a meaning, wilt * be abolished. But if ministers and mieskms are becoming superfluous • bec&iffie it is no longer necessary to the good understanding of two nations that they should cultivate social relations at one another’s capitals, then, for the sanfe reason, “ White House hospitality ” is becoming superfluous. Missions and ministers mean that two nations can not deal with one anot.her unless their representatives cat, drink, parley, dance together and call ceremoniously upon one another. So in order to keep up this business an ambassador is sent to “entertain” and be entertained at the European capitals, and the President is expected to “entertain” European ambassadors, at IV ashington. This is the basis of “ White House hospitality.” It is true, it includes others besides foreign min- * isters, but this originated it, and this is its central notion. - • The relations of this Nation with others are mainly business relations and not political; henco, as the Times says, Consuls-Gencral can attend to them. For the same reason, “White House hospilality,” so far as the interests of the people are concerned, is a mere ornament. The people are nob1 interested in it exeept as curiosity mongers. Their dignity and hospitality are not representative, because the only use they have for a President is to execute the laws and Administer the Government. There is a certain romantic notion that because the President stuffs him-. self and his guests with elegant viands., and drinks seven kinds of wine, and1 covers bis table’ with flowers, and kuows how’ bt usft -'niCfjkma and Anger-bowls and ^'accomplished in the litany of th» dinner serviee generally, the people are somehow greatly honored. ' Bo far, ofC course, as they nave a gentleman in - ^ stead of a boor or a skinflint in the office they are honored; but there is a vast deal of humbug in thinking that his gormandizing and bis inviting others to eat and drink with him in the highest style of art reflects glory upon the people who elected him. * , . As a matter of fact, t^e White House, as the social center of the NatioD, should be abolished. It should be used merely as a business office, where the President is expected to do his duty and serve his fellow-citiz ns. For the rest, he should go his way Jike any private person; give dinners, receive company, er rest in family retirement, according to h's tastes. Tnere is no reason for his fivlng a dinner as part of his official uty, or even of his important station, than there is for his going to the choicest kind of plays and tos e the very best of actors at the theater. But for the tradition rn the matter, a newspaper would as soon think of praising him for the one as for the other.—Detroit Free Press. #

The Duty of Congress. Congress has been three months in —j' session. Long before its organization it was known, on the testimony of. Republicans who had been participant iai some ol the acts, that Indiana had fetch purchased in 1880 by an enormous corruption fund raised to save the Repub- ' iican party after the defeat in Maine;* that United States Judgeships had been sold in advance for $100,000 in cash by the Republican candidate for President; that a Cabinet position had been pledged to a New York banker as his reward for raising the Indiana corruption fundr-' - — and that the election in New York had teen purchased in the same year by “a golden stream from Stephenson’s bank.” * It was known that the present Presi- - dent of the United States, while Vice-President-elect, had boasted at a banquet given in honor of ex-Seuator Dorsey that Indiana had been carried by “soap.” These are the worst crimes that could be committed against a republican government. They strike at its very existence. They strike the United States Supreme Court, the iinal arbiter of the Constitution, of its purity and independence, and rob tho people of the right of sovereignty. ' T Yet the Democratic majority of tho * Honse of Representatives has remained for three months inactive and apparently indifferent and has made no attempt to investigate these infamous crimes and to hold up their perpetrators to public indignation. * t • In the course of the regular business of Congress the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice have found it necessary to investigate the expenses and methods of the Star-route, prosecutions. Incidentally they have stumbled on some startling facts! , President Garfield's Republican At-torney-General has told them that he left the Cabinet, after Garfield's murder, because President Arthur and his advisers were in sympathy with tlgp public robbers, and no one desirous of an honest prosecution could receive any moral support from the Administra

President Garfield’s Postmaster-Gen-eral has said that Garfield was probably murdered because of his prosecution of the Star-route thieves, and that in his belief the Attorney-General and Post-master-General were also marked for assassination. Do not these incidental revelations prove the necessity and the duty of searchinjj^Conp-essional investigations? —Mrs. Stevens, of Auburn, Kv., has a scrap quilt made of 14,2*9 piece?.