Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 May 1884 — Page 1

VOLUME XV. ; PETERSBURG, INDIANA. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1884._ ‘ NUMBER 1.

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JNEYVS IN BRIEF; Compiled from Various Sources. | CONGRESSIONAL, PROCEEDING!!. / In the Senate ob the 5th the agricultural appropriation bUI was favorably reported: also the House b.ll to adopt International regulations for preventing collisions at sea; also the b.ll granting a pension to the widow of General Judsoo Kilpatrick. Bills were Introduced and referred: To prevent the acquisition of real estate by aliens; to restrict uilens and foreign corporations in the oivhersh p of land; to grant the Gulf, Colotado & Santa Fe Air Line Railroad the right to construct bridges over navigable watercourses. The shippiog bill was taken up and occupied attention until executive session.In the House the Virginia contested election case of O'i errati vs. Paul was called up. After considerable debate a vote was taken on the minority report declaring O’Ferrallnot entitled tb his scat, which m lost—yeas. It; nays, 148. A resolution Beating O’Ferrall was then adopted. Mr. Laird introduced a bill granting patents of lands to any Pacific Rail-roid-which shall complete its road within thirty days from the passage of the aot. The tariff bill was considered in the evening session. In the Senate on the fith Senator Vestreported favorably the bill lor the erection of a public building at Detroit. Memorials favoring the suspension of the coinage of the silver dollar were presented by Senator Bayard and others. A bill was Introduced by Senator Cockrell to facilitate the negotiation of bil Is of lading and o.her commercial instruments. The free bridge bill across the Potomac River was then fatten up and a substitute lor the original bill offered and passed. Mr. Vance addressed the Senate in support of Vests amendmeut providing for free ships .In the House the morning hour was dispensed with and the tariff bill taken up in couimlttee-of-the whole. Speeches were made -by Messrs. Brown orPennsylvanla,Townsend, Gibson. liandaU, Blackburn, Eaton and others, the debate being closed by Mr. Morrison. There was an excited scene when Mr. Converse moved to strike out the enacting -yj'raoso. -The motion prevailed—169 to 156. In the Senate on the Tlh a bill'to place General Grant upon the retired list of the army was introduced by Senator Edmunds and referred. Bills were also introduced to create the Quillinette And district in Wa-hlng-ton Teiritory; to provide for adjustment of accounts of workmen under the eigut-hour law. Mr. Hill addressed the Senate on the bill to declare forfeited the land grants of the New Orleans. Baton Rouge Sc Vicksburg Railroad Comuanr. The shipping bill was taken up In the Home a number ot bills reported from various committees were referred. The Senate amendment to the bill repealing the iron-clad oath was concurred in. The bill for the fetef of Fit*-John Porter, with the Senate amendments, was considered, and the amendments were non-concurred in. The Senate hmendments were non-concurred In in the bill establishing a bureau of animal industry. The bill passed donating a part of the abandoned mili: ary reservation at Fort Smith to the city of Fort Smith, Ark., for the benefit of the pubLo schools. In the Senate on the 8 h messages were received from the House announcing nonboncur.once in the pleuro pneumonia bill and the Fitz-Jobn Porter bdl and committees of conference were appointed. The bill granting pensions to soldiers of the Mexican warwas reported favorably lromthe Pensions committee and placed on the calendar. The shipping bill was then tnkeu up. Mr. McPherson s amendment cutting off compensation for the retur n trip of ships that may take out the United States mail was rejected. A motion to strike out the section providing for foreign mail pay was lost. The House hill, as amended:, then passed.In the House bills were reported to enable • National banks to change their location and name aud to increase their capital stock; authorizing the appointment of a Missouri River Commission; to amend the patent laws. The House went into committee of the whole on the state of the Union. The bill appropriating *l,0tw,000 for the World's Fair at New Orleans was taken up and passed. In the Settle on the fith the Indian appropriation hill was taken up. The Senate amendments Increase tlie appropriation $757,413, making the total sum to be appropriated fd,lil3,803. Fending debate on the bill the Senate went Into executive session.In the House a remonstrance from the Louisville Board of Trade was presented against the enactment of a bankrupt law. The bill passed granting the widow of General Frank P. Blair an additional pension.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Judge Waixa.ce has ordered Shipping Commissioner Duncan, ot New York, to , show cause why he should not be removed for malfeasance in office. I All endeavor will be made by Lord Randolph Churchill, with his followers, to form a new party, the chief feature of which will be the adoption of a Conservative Democratic programme. On tho 6th the Corean Embassy paid their respects to the President. Another Invincible named Casey was arrested on the 6th on the testimony of Momn, the informer. Treasurer Eugene G. Woodward of the Philadelphia Board of Publication is short m his accounts $10,000. The money belonged to the General Assembly of the church. The correspondence between Lord Randolph Churchill and the Marquis of SalisbuiVis reported as acrimonious, and no hopeilfiL«'*«conciliation are possible. Ojffthe 6th General N. Norris Halstead, whoyounded the astronomical observatory at Princeton College, was killed at a railroad station at Newark, N. J. Jakes A. Connelly, ot Illinois, confirmed by the Senate as Solicitor of the treasury, has declined. Jg Captain Stevens, an. Irish officer, recently expelled from the British army, has been given acommis-ion by the African •International Association to enlist 2,066 . housnas for service iu the Congo country. ' This King of the Belgians is said to have offered to send Stanley in charge of an expedition to the Congo region to aid Gordon in bis retreat from Khartoum if the Euglish Government will recognise the International African association. On the morning of the 6th Charley Ford, who was a participant in the killing of Je3se James, and who, with his brother Bob, has been playing throughout the country in variety halls, shot himself through the heart at bis father’s home near Richmond, Mo. Various causes are assigned in ex

planation of the act. Is ISzeter Halt, London, on the 6th, an eujnenee of 8,000 people cheered Canon Hoare when he alluded to the shame the English people felt at General Gordon being left without assistance in Egypt. . L The eminent Philadelphia surgeon. Dr. I 8. D. Gross, died on the 6th. He was an [ honorary member of several royal and National societies in the Old World. , Judah P. Benjamin, the eminent lawyer and well-known as having been Secretary of Stnje of the Southern ConfeJdied in Paris on the 7th It is announced that deckei , representing the German GovernGent i.t Washington, will be succeeded by err Vou Alvensteben. On the 7tb there was a large attendance At* tb© flin©***1' in P4n/iinnnt.l r>I A vnliKJaKc Toebixu —f~PWt failing to lUtUi on rouirocw rump a. Keese has been suspended by the New York Produce Exchange. ■ Oh the 7th the statue in honor of Tyndal, burned; at the stake in 1686, was unveiled by the Bari of Shaftesbury. Jobs' V. Slates, of Norwich, who gave 11,000,(00 for educational purposes in the Sou h, died on the 7th. Wiujam Misskt, paying teller of the Baltimore Bank of Commerce, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling $17,00). ■ IHOESSOU, and Wilson want the privf cross-examining Walsh and Price are called as witnesses in the Kel•e before the Committee on Expendin the Department of Justice, duo Cbaho will be invested by itta full powers on the Anam quei Garfield monubeen received from artiste in France. Italy, Germany No decision will iw re*cb«d

On the 8th nearly all the principal* con* corned in the Murine Bank and the Grant & Ward failure* made assignment*. IH his reply to his partisans, Prino) Jerome Napoleon nays a republic can not be displeasing to a son of the drat Consul. { On the 8th G iadstone appeared at the Health Exhibition in London and was received with mingledcheers and hlsset;. A banquet will be tendered Minister Sargent previous to his departure from Berlin. A MEMBER of the Canadian Parliament. B.. J. McKim, has been arrested for forgery. The Governor of Kansas is in torrespondence with parties who claim to have located the Benders. A bill will be introduced by Congressman Hewitt to amend and simplify the present tariff lair. In the Sharon divorce case mare wit ieses are coming forward and confessing to period- I Ex-Mayor Saunders ot Lawrence, Mass., has been held to bail charged \vith ballot-box stuffing. Judgment has been awarded ex-Coroner Hope, of Cincinnati, of six and one-qulsrter cents against the Commercial-Gazett e for libel. Surr in attachment has been brought by the Marine Bank against Grant & Ward,, an d General U. EL Grant is made co-defend-ant. Ward’s elegant residence has been (inserted by the family and is in the hands of the Sheriff. It is denied by Attorney-General Brewster that the Department of Justice; connived at the dismissal of the Kellogg case. Secretary Lionolij recommends ain additional appropriation of $100,0.0 for the Southern flood sufferers. The $88,000 verdict obtained by Hollett Kilbourne against ex-Sergeant-at- irms Thompson has been set aside as excessive. The London 'Ames of the 9th explains the hisses with which Gladstone was greeted at the Health Exposition as a condemnation of the treatment of the Government towards General Gordon. Tux trust fund of 4251,000 raised for General Grant is all safe, but outside of that the General hasn’t a nickle, ai d is head and heels in deb’.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. On the 3d the steamer Romano, from Hull for Boston, was sunk by a collision at sen with the Nevada from New York for Liverpool. Passengers and crew ivere transferred to the latter steamer. On the 6th the wif^if J. H. Wrighs, an insurance agent of Toledo, O., shot Miss Celia Enright, a telegraph operator if. the Produce Exchange office of the Western Union in that ci ty. Jealousy prompted the affair. Miss Enright's wounds orb not dangerous. News of the sinking of the stea State of Florida tire received; from Farther Point, where the steamship Titania patsed inward on the 7th. Only forty-four par sons out of 167 on board the vessel were saved, and of the hark with which she collided inly the Captain and two men were rescued. The total loss of life is 135. On the 7>h Captain H. N. Adams, Assist-, ant Superintendent of the Government Canal Works at Louisville, had nis neck broken in an accident at the wharf. Alphokso Lecuoyits, a fruit-packer, jumped irom the fourth floor of the Clark House, Minneapolis, Minn., the morning of the 7th and killed himself. Insomnia. On the moraine: of the 7th a spreading tra k on the St. Louis division of the Wabash Road, ten miles south of Decajtur, 111., threw three passenger cars off the track and injured about forty people, some seriously. t On the 7th the train containing the Directors of the Mexican Central Road was wrecked south of Huajuquilla by Mjexicans opening a switch. Another wreck occurred a week previously. Ten women were blown to pieces by explosion of dynamite at Noble’s factory in Ayrshire, Scotland, on the 8th. On the evening of the 7th William Eilis was shot and killed by George Jenne, in a dispute about a log-chain, at Tidioute, Pa. On the 8th Baron St. Leonards was committed to jail in Brentford, Eng., oh a charge of indecent- assault upon a domestic in the family of a friend he was visiting i In St. Petersburg, during the trial It of Dubetski and daughter, Nihilists, the former stabbed himself fatally and the latter seriously.

On the morning of the 8m the steanker City of Portland, which left Portlnnd, Me., on the night of the 7th for St. John, N. B., struck on Grindstone Ledge at Owl’s Hejad and. was wrecked. The crew and severity passengers were transferred safely to tinother vessel, but the cargo was a total lojss. Or the night of the 8th an engine and a dozen cars were smashed near Huntington, Pa., by the wreck of a freight train. On the 9th two children perished by the burning of a school buildinginRoth Hocksville, Pa., which wits struck by lightning. KOn the 9th, during a game of base ball at Chillicotbe, O., the grand stand gave wsy and about forty persons were more or less severely injured. Ho one was killed. On the 9th another attempt was made byrobbers to wreck and rob a train on the Mexican Central Bead. One of the rubbers was killed. Tiuos. Leonard, an Englishman, was shockingly murdered at Nebraska City, Neb., on the 8th, by unknown assailants. Robbery Is given bis the probable cautie. —... MISCELLANEOUS. The Grand Orient of Italy has published a reply to the Pope’s encyclical letter against secret orders. The suspension of Dunlap & Twaddeiil, jute spinners, Glasgow, with liabilities jbf $150,000, is announced. The Court of Inquiry to examine ini the conduct of the Fourth Regiment during the Cincinnati riots convened at Dayton bn the 8th. It win be< in session a week or longer. Thus far this year the total exports of domestic cottons have been 62,7i2 packages, against 67,986 the same time in 1879, the largest quantity in any previous year. A GENERAL strike of the stove molders in Pittsburgh and Allegheny is looked for within a few days. Considerable of a panic was caused in New York on the 6th by the failnre oi tie Marine Bank of that city and the suspen- ' sion of Grant & Ward, bankers and brokers. The bank had a capital pf $409,010 and a surplus of $210,000. The failure of Grant & Ward was occasioned by the oollapse of the bank. Jay Gonld takes a hopeful view of the situation of the country, financially and commercially, and does not think the Marine Bank in New York amounted to much. The steamship Nevada, sank in collision with the Romano, wits valued at $209,000. The Swiss Republic wants to get rid of t;be salvation army. In consequence of a severe hall storm, heavy damage to mops is reported near Dayton, O. ; if The American Mediterranean squadron has arrived at Tenedos. '1 During the year past donations anil legacies to the Ameri can Tract Society am given at $102,809. Two English railroad companies,^owlnj; to the depression in trade, have discharged 2,6)0 employes and cut down salaries tei, per cent. Fighting between ihe Chinese and Black llaji Js reported at ».

Till new law governing explosive*, pre seated in the German Banders rath on the 7th,. is very severe, penal servitude and death being among the penalties tor the violation of the law. Excitement in New York over the failure ot the Marine Bank has quieted down, and the belief is now expressed that it could have been averted by proper management. On the 7th the commissioners appointed to represent the various States at the World’s Exposition in New Orleans met in Washington. Plans and suggestions were discussed. According to the annual report of the Lake Shore Road the increase in net earnings for the year were $343,990. On the 7th the Allentown Ironworks, Philadelphia, Pa., were sold for $90,000, and will soon be running again. Thx sessions of the American Forestry Congress at Washington closed on the 8th. Last year the American Bible Society circulated 1,397,051 copies of the Bible in this country and 451,104 copies abroad. The International Health Exposition in London, held under the presidency of the Prince of Wales, was formally inaugurated on the 8th with imposing ceremonies by the Duke of Cambridge. It bids fair to rival the Fisheries Exposition. Jakes Clark, confidential clerk of Rudolph Hochkofler, commission merchant of San Francisco and Austro-Hungarian Consul there, is short $30,009 in his accounts. Commissioner Evans has ordered a change in the manner of collecting the matured tax on whisky, to take effect August 1. Dr. Keller, of Arkansas, at the Medical Convention at Washiog'on, D. C., on the 8th, said in a few years oremat ion would be regarded as a sanitary necessity. The alleged bribery in connection with the late Kentucky Senatorial election has been found by the committee of investigation to have no existence in fact. On the 8tb an investigation of the affairs of the Marine Bank was begun. Excitement has moderated, the general impression being that President Fish was hasty in his action. Papers found in the possession of soldiers slain in the late insv.rrention at Fuigeros, Spain, indicate that the military conspiracies were extended and growing formidable. On the 8th the spring meeting of the Kentucky Association began at Louisville with warm weather and the track ankle deep in mud.

i uek* were non developments m the Sharon divorce case on the 8th. A colored witness who had previously testified in behalf of Miss Hill acknowledged she had been bribed to perjure herself. On the 8th seaman Nindermann resumed his testimony before the Jeannette Committee of inquiry. Testimony was also given by John P. Jackson, Paris correspondent of the New York Herald. The Methodist Episcopal General Conference at Philadelphia on the 8th discussed the use of the church hymnals. Rev. C. C. McCabe, of New York, said the people would sing such hymns as they please, no matter what, the Conference said. The steamer Titania with the crew and passengers of the Stata of Florida landed at Montreal on the 8th. Crowds were gathered at the wharf to see them. The stories of the disaster are heartrending. The steamer Thetis of the Greely relief expedition arrived at St. John's, N. F., on the 9 h. Another edition of the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion will be issued shortly. TnE sessions of the National Medical Association at Washington closed on the 9th. On the9th many buildings were damaged by thunder-storms in several of the Eastern States. On the 9'h James S. Coleman (colored) was hanged at Columbia, S. C., for the murder of Sarah Willis. Delegates frotn California in Congress are making ah effort to secure the passage of the bill to organize the Territory of Alaska. . i George Horn and William Gibbons, two murderers, in jail at Ashland, O., awaiting - death on the 16th, attempted suicide on the 9th by taking morphine, but were saved for the hangman. A murderer in Utah named, Mope alias Weloome,has selected shooting as the means of death in his case, his execution being set for June 12. His case has already cost the Territory $15,000.

. LATE NEWS ITEMS In the Senate on the 10th a concurrent resolution of the Legislature of California, relative to the appropriation for the improvement of the Sacramento River, was presented by Mr. Fraley, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. The Senate, shortly before one o'clock, suspended business to permit members tc attend the unveiling of the statue of Chief-Justice Marshall... Th# House was not in session, having adjourned over till Monday. The Alert sailed on the 18th for the Arctic regions. At Fall River, Mass., the operatives' strike is at an end. Reports of the 10th said Charles O’Connor, the eminent New York lawyer, was not expected to live. A Manitoba barrister named John Boult be s has absconded with $70,000. A Plumber in 8t. Paul, Minn,, fell from the fifth story of a building and only broke his ankle. Monsignor Capel will probably be offered an American bishopric. ] Giovanni Pratt, the Italian poet, born in 1810, died on the 10th. The Sweetland Manufacturing Works, Wallingford, Conn., burned on the 10th. Loss, $4\0J0. Ex-Governor Paris C. Dunning of Indiana died of apoplexy at|Bioomlngton, in that State, on the 10th. Lieutenant Chebmsidx has been decreed Governor of Suakim by the Khedive of Egypt. The charge of forgery against McKim, member of the Canadian Parliament, has been dismissed. Department of Agriculture returns indicate the winter wheat product a‘; 360,000,000 bushels. Prop. Gregory says there is nothing in the Civil Bervice law to prevent officials from attending political conventions. William H. Vanderbilt sailed for Europe on the 10th, bat before he left; he sent for General Grant and returned to Mm all the deeds to the property which the General and his wife had made over to; him the day previous. It is reported President Artliur lost money by the Grant & Ward failure. Senator Sabin has determined to reiign the chairmanship of the National Republican Committee. Thomas. C. Jones, President of the Conductors’ Life Insurance Company of the United States and a well-known railroad man, died on the 10: h. S. P. Burt, a Boston millionaire who married hit servant girl a month ago, dropped dead in the Metropolitan Hotel, Milwaukee, WIs., on the 10fh. I —" There was a large attendance at the unveiling of the statue of Chief-Justice-Mar-shall at the Capitol grounds in Washington 0;$ ttolQtbt

THE FLOKLDA’8 FATE. »• MlulnySteam^rStaWot Florida Heard From—She CeUMee with (he Barit Fucma la Mld-0> sail and Both VeueU Stale Almost Immediately—Oois Hundred and Thirty-Are I>lrea I<oat—List of the Saved. Mnr Toss, May T. At the State Line o flics to-day It was ■aid that the State of Florida was stink in mid-ocean and ail hands on board except twenty-lOor had gone down with her. The agent refused to give any farther information, except that there had been received a telegram giving the above facts. Montbsal, Canada, MayT. The steamship Titania, which arrived off Farther Point atS:40a.m. to-day, sent the following statements ashore: “Have on board thirty-four persons, thirty-two from the steamship State of Florida, and two from the bar* which the Florida ran down in mid-ocean. The latter two are the Captain and a sailor uf the bark. 4U the others, hoth on the steamship and bark were drowned.” The bark went down with twelve of her crew. Only the Captain and two meu were rescued, making the total known loss of life 135. The twenty-fonr survivors will be tended at Quebec to-night. It is not known if the Florida’s second boat, with twenty souls has been picked up. Nliw York, May 1. It is now believed to be certain that fifty-two of the passengers and crew of the State ol! Florida were saved * Thir-ty-two on boa:rd the Titania, and twenty are reported to have been picked np by a passing ship, probably the one which signalled thoCity of Borne. One hundred and fitteen souls went down with the steamer Florida and twelve with the bark, making a total of 1117. Following is the official report of the third officer oi the State of Florida: Quebec, May 8. “Left New York on the 12th oi April with about 16” passengers and crew and a fall general cargo. All went well until the night of the 18th at 11:30, when we came In collision with the bark Ponhma, ol Chatham, N. B., Captain Hetbnrn. Beth ships went down almost instantly and out of the steamer’s passengers and crew only forty-four, including the stewardess, managed to escape in boats, and ont of the bark’s crew, of fifteen only the captain and two seamen were saved. Ne;it morning the bark was observed bottom np. The survivors, alter being thirty-five hours in the boats without food or water, were rescued by the Norwegian bark Theresa ol Chris tania, from that port bound to Quebec. On the 22d twen-ty-four ol them were transferred on board the ship Louisa of and from Cardiff for Quebec, where they remained until the 5th of May, when taken on board the Titania for Quebec. It is believed k35 lives were lost.

THE' SAVED. The following is the list of the saved brought by the steamer Titania: James Allen, third officer. Andrew N. Steele, surgeon. Wm. Armstrong, seaman. Francis Graham, seaman. David Walker, passage-worker. David Clnme, store-keeper. Alex. Mitchell, donkey man. James Thomas, foreman. Wm. H. Smith, passage-worker. Geo. Forrester, second steward. Neil McKellar, assistant steward. Jas. McKenzie, assistant steward. Robert Youug, assistant steward. John McDonald, able seaman. Jno. Sanotrarn, seaman. Jno. McFaw, assistant cook. Adam McFarlane, assista nt cook. Wm. Miller, baker’s male. James Bennett, London, Ontario, firstclass passenger. Andrew Fairband, second-class passenger. Davfd Strothers, second-class passenster.

Jonah Hale, steerage passenger. Jas. Patience, steerage passenger. Eliza Churchover, steerage passenger MORK COMING. Following are the remainder of the names of the saved, now on their way to Quebec on board the Norwegian bark Theresa of Christiana: Jas. Thompsou, chief officer. Thos. Bair, boatswain. Jno. Smith, boatswain’s mate. Peter Peterson, carpenter. Henry Anderson, lamp trimmer. Jno. Silverblade, quartet master. Jno. Miller, quartermaster. Jno. Smith, able seaman. Charles Love, able seaman. Geo. Armour, able seaman. John Beard, boatswain’s yeoman. Wm. Lawson, able seaman. Wm. Hyslop, second engineer. Edward Boyle, fireman. John McDowell, fireman. Jane McFarland, stewardess. Peter J. Bening, steerage passenger. Hugh Morgan, steerage passenger. . Martin Peterson, steerage passenge,. Francis Watson, steerage passengertotal, twenty. A Popular Loan. Washington, D. G, May T. Mr. F. F. Hlider, Missouri Commissioner for .he New Orleans Exposition and a friend of the St. Louis Exposition, arrived here to-day, to aid In pushing the bill for the loan of a million dollars to the New Orleans Exposition. He says from talks with Mayor Burke and Missouri members he thinks the prospects of the bill are very good. Should it pass lie thinks the success of the exposition would be assured. Ail the S tates are much interested in the passage of this bill, as it is understood if the loan is made each State will be allowed $5,000 with which to begin the work of preparing for the exposition. The Lake Shore's Karaing*. Cleveland, O., May 7. The annual meeting of the Lake Shore Road was held to-day? The directors’ an nual report shows the gross earnings at $18,500,000, an increase of over $250,000; net earnings, $7,500,000, an increase of $343,900. The operating expenses were $11,000,000; surp lus for the year, $55,600. During the last fc urteen years the road has earned 96 1-3 per cent, oa the capital stock, of which 81 per cent, has been paid the stockholders. The total funded debt December {>1, 1888, 'amounted to $42,942,000. A Teiacou Tragedy. Memphis, Tenn., Miy 7. A fatal affair occurred at Marior, Crlt tenden County, this State, beliweer W. D Hardin, ex-Sheriif, and a man named Murray. Recently Murrny accused HardRfi of slandering him. The twe men went to the person ‘n whoa Hardin had spoken of Murray, and the whole affair seemed amicably ar ranged. Murray then turned and walked away. Hardin opened fire upon him. Murray then faced about and drew hie pistol. Each man fired twice and every •hot took effect. ;Both men were fatally wounded, Hardin dying last night and Murray tM§ gwriilnij,

THE GRANT-WARD FAILURE. , Condition of Alriir* In Thi* the Mint Btupeudous Colajse Ever Known on Wall Street—Genorat O'-ant Penniless With the 1 Exception of the Tins* Fund-Everythin* tMren Up to Sntisfy Creditors. “Nothing has been found wrong so far with the Marine Bank except Grant A Ward’s overdraft,"’ Director Ambrose Snow said yesterday: “Examiner Sc riba expects to get through on Saturday. The assignment of Mr. Fish’s private estate for the benefit of the bank wU!» according to Mr. Waido -Hutchins, Mr. Fish’s attorney, yield nearly a million dollars for the bank. It is mostly real estate, and we may not be a. ile to realize on it promptly enongh to satisfy the examiner, and so the bank may drift into the hands | of a receiver after at. Then we have attached Ward’s private estate in New “But Ward made an assignment of his property for the benefit of his credit“Yea, bnt we will try to show that he did so to defraud Us creditors, and that he did net owe a cent to persons he preferred in his assignment. Be has already admitted to Captain Spicer, a director oi the bank, so Spicer says, that his stories about the Government contracts were all false; that the contractshadnoexistence, and that he paid out and deposited principal as interest.’’ “Do yon think Mir. Fish was involved with Mr. Ward?’’ “No. Fish is an honest conservative business man. Ward got bis confidence, and the rest followed. Fish’s fault was his over-confidence in his friends. Ward told him the story about the Government contracts and he believed it and left the whole business to Ward.” “Dofi’t you think that a conservative business man would be suspicious of two to three per cent, a month?” “Oh, I don’t know. Ordinarily he would, but in a financial center like Wail street, where men are becoming snddenly rich there is little to frighten a man in that profit. Fish had bis real estate to look after, and he relied on the Government, contracts, which he supposed were obtaiued through General Grant’s influence. He says he never saw any contracts or papers, bnt simply took Ward’s word for them. The "management of the bank was conservative. The Directors met there twice a week, and once in three months a committee examined the books and counted the cash and securities. Mr. James W. Elwell was the Chairman of the committee that made the last quarterly count, and that was within three weeks. He reported on his personal knowledge that everything was in a flourishing condition.” New York, May 10.'

••it me oauK's ianure is a Dad tauure,” said Mr. Elwell, “there mast have been an awful shrinkage within the last forty days. 1 am told that Mr. Fish’s person* al assignment will yield from $800,000 to $1,000,000 for the benefit of the bank.” “We have began proceedings against. Mr. Ward’s private property,and 1 believe the Sheriff is now in possession. Oar claim will be a first lien. The property is saiekto be valuable. It includes the house in Tierrepont street, Brooklyn, one-half the Booth Theatre, and other property. The prospects of the bank seem favorable.” “How came Mr. Fish to allow such a great overdraft as Grant & Ward’s?” “Let me tell you about that: I have been ibokiug over the accounts of Ward & Grant to-day. On May 2 (Friday), they had a balance to their credit ’of $800,000. The next morning (Saturday) they had a balance of over $800,000 aftet transactions of between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000. Their dally credits since January 1 have been in the hundreds oi thousands. On Monday, the 5th, when the previous day’s accounts were straightened up, there was an overdraft of $20,000, bpt in the meantime they had made a deposit of $250,000, and so they really began business with $230,000 tc their credit. Later in tjie day they deposited over $200,000. W’hat else they did you already know.” GRANT ALMOST DESTITUTE. “General Grant has lost every dollar,’1 Mr. George Jones, of the New York Times, said yesterday, “except the $250,000 trust fund, which is in the Park Bank Safe Deposit Company, in the shape of railroad securities. The interest is payable quarterly and amounts to $15,100 annually. It has been paid regularly to May 1. The securities were indorsed by Governoi Morgan, and the indorsement has since been confirmed by his executors. General Grant can only draw the interest, without being able to touch the principal. At his death he may will away the whole.” “ How is the fund invested? ” “In securities that are perfectly safe, but in case they should not pay the Interest the money will undoubtedly be reinvested.” “ Has Mrs. Grant a private fortune of her own.” “ I don’t know anything about that of my own personal knowledge, but I don’t believe that either General Grant or hjs wife have a shilling more than the interest from the trust fund. General Grant is left ih debt. He was too trusting, and he is not a good business man. We all thought that he was comfortable for life. It is really sad Something should be done for him. He should be placed on the retired list.” The executor:! of the estate of Governoi Morgan are hist widow, Edwin D. Morgan, Jr., JohnT. Terry, Solon Humphreys and Henry Day. Sympathy is f lit for General Grant, who has transferred its property to Wm. H. Vanderbilt to piotect him on the worthless check of $ir,0,i)00 accepted by him in return for his own. The General’s transfer includes two houses in Washington, a 'house in Philade pMa and a farm of considerable size in the suburbsof St. Louis Mrs. Grant is (Iso said to have transferred her propel ty to Vanderbilt. It includes a cottage i t Long Branch and hei house, No. 3 East Sixty-sixth street.

Dropped Dead. » Philadelphia, Pa., May 10. Mary A. Jones aged forty who lived, in a room almost bare of furniture, dropped dead last night at the corner of Fourth and Arch streets, of heart disease. The impression is that she was a miser although she pleaded poverty. On her prson was fonnd a bank book in which $5,300 was marked to her credit and between the leayes $100 in bills drawn yesterday. This is supposed to be only one portion of her wealth. It is said that she has large amounts deposited with private bankers. - ■ <i —-.— A Hero*. Sad Fate. Moawequa, Idc., May 10. The remains of Jeremiah Campbell, who was crushed beneath a locomotive at Decatur Thursday, were brought here for burial yesterday. Campbell served during the war as private and First Lieutenant of Co. E, Thirty-second Illinois regiment. He was shot through the head at Lookout Mountain and afterward was shot through his body. He laid on the battle-field for five days as dead. Later be served as United States detective. Finally Campbell entered the regular army and distinguished himself for bravery with General Custer and Major fleaoIntheir encounter ) with the Indiana.

A UR AND STAND COLLAPSE. A Crowded Greed stood Foils With Its ■ r.tTiog Load ot Chillieothe, Ohio—Forty Fersoos More or Lmi Severely Injured— More Serious Results Averted by Cool. Beaded Men. Chiixicothb, O., May 10. ^ An accident occurred at the Base Ball Park near this city yesterday afternoon. The first of the Ohio League games was being played between the Logans of this city and Riversides of Portsmouth. About three hundred people were on the grand stand, one-thlrd beiflg ladies. At the end of the second-inning a crack, ling was heard In the rear of the building and Immediately after, ward the entire structure collapsed with a tremendous crash. A scene of indescribable confusion ensned. Palefaced, horror-stricken men rnshed to the rescue of the unfortunates in the wreck. Cool-headed men Instantly set about releasing those buried in the ruins, and in a few minutes they bad all been liberated or succeeded in liberating themselves. The most exaggerated reports reached the city and In a few momenta a stream of hacks, carriages and people rushed to the ball park. * THE INJURED. Following is a list of those most seriously injured. Fortunately none were killed, although some may die: James Roberts, of Portsmouth, back badly sprained; internal hurts. Clifford Douglass, braises and internal. Dr. J. M. Pauley, serious internal injuries. . Jerry O’Keife, the same. Burt Mitchell, badly hurt about the head. Jos. McGuire, ngly scalp wound; sknll fractured. John Hippy, leg broken. Warren Chapman, ankle broken. Frank K. Gilmore, sprain of right thigh and injuries to abdomen. Miss Clenc Faus, the only lady injured, scalp wound nearly encircling the back part at the head. To add to the horrors of- the affair horses attached to carriages in the field came near stampeding, and but lor the strenuons exertions of a few cool men another catastrophe might have trod on the heels of this one. The total casualties foot up about fifty. The greatest wonder is that some one was not killed. The timber used in the stand was very light, but the carpenter, Mose Miller, in turning it over to the club said he would stake his reputation as a carpenter on its security. That he did not do his work properly has had terrible demonstration.

TRAMPS BEWARE. Michael Rile;, a Tramp, Convicted of Man* slaughter for Having Aided In Causing the l>eath of a Chicago A Alton Brakeman, Sentem oil to Ten Tears In the Penitentiary* Chicago,Iix., May 9. Michael Riley, impleaded with Richard Haley, charged with murder in having caused the death of Zacharias Brown, a brakeman on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, was tried yesterday before Judge Williamson. The testimony Was all in by ten o’clock, and the prisoner had testified iu his own behalf, denying that he had thrown the missile which had caused the poor brakeman’s death. Mr. A. S. Trude, on behalf of the prosecution, claimed a conviction for manslaughter,and frankly stated that a conviction of murder under the evidence would be too severe. The defendant, Riley, threw the stone which hit the deceased, Brown, on the head, and caused him to fall from the car to the ground beneath, where he was run over and killed. This act did not have in it the element ot malice or deliberation that stamps the murderer, but was none the less the act of a reckless, abandoned wretch, whose punishment should be imprisonment in the penitentiary fora good long term of years. Mr. Trude then reviewed the evidence at length, and closed by saying: “Acquit this man and you proclaim to the hundreds of railroad men whose duties bring them in close contact with the tramp and vagabond that the law will not afford them protection; that their lives are valueless in a jury’s estimation. To the trump you issue proclamation : ‘Go on; murder, rob, and rape, for a Cook County jury sanctions your acts.’ You cannot conceive with what rapidity yourverdict in a case like this travels. Every brakeman of the 4,500 which form an associat ion in this city will learn it in twelve hours after its rendition. Every tramp now waging warfare against society will learn it in about the same length of time, for there is an oddfellowship and community of interest among tramps. The moral effect of a verdict is indeed great, for good or evil. The result of a verdict which was an insult to the administration Of criminal justice can be seen by looking through the flame and smoke of crime-stricken Cincinnati. Justice-insulting verdicts made the temple of justice so obnoxious that the people arose in their might and burned it to the ground.” Mr. Longnecker made a strong argument in behalf of his client, claiming that there was but one witness who swore that his client threw the stone which caused the death of Brown, and that this witness was an accomplice. Mr. Anthony closed the case by reading the law to the jury add asking for a conviction of manslaughter, after which the court read the instructions to the jury, who, after being out two hours, rendered a verdict of guilty and fixed the term of imprisonment at ten years in the Penitentiary. The vigor with which offenders who commit these depredations on the Chicago & Alton Road are prosecuted will induce the thief and* tramp to avoid it. Vice-President McMillan is an unrelenting prosecutor, and through his efforts the Brighton rioters now wear convicts’ clothes in the bridewell, where they are working out long sentences, and the man Riley will tramp no more for ten years to come at least.

Murdered by Convict*. Mt. Sterling, Ky., May 9. A guard In charge of eight convicts whom he was transferring from Frankfort to a prison on the Kentucky Central Kailroad, reached here yesterday afternoonL and started on foot for the prison. Later live of the prisoners were met, who said one of the prisoners, complaining that his handcuffs were hurting him, took advantage of the opportunity to overpower the guard, seized his gun and killed him. Then three cf the prisoners escaped. The other five were trying to reach the prison. Encouraging Crop Prospect*. SHEi.BYvn.ns, Inn., May S. The prospects for wheat in this section are much more encouraging than they were two weeks ago. Abundant rains assisted by the recent warm weather, have given it a wonderful impetus, and in some places the plant Is growing so luxuriantly that it will fall down and lodge. Some wheat growers who, discouraged with the outlook, were thinking of plowing up their ground and putting in corn, have abandoned the idea and are jubilant over the change. Instead of a meagre half crop, as reported ten dayt ago, experienced farmers now predict i folly § three-fourths wop*.

! The Fads as We Find Them.

mere ss a uireetness »co«t jir. 1,1ien’s statestnasahip which does not jlease the Republican: politicians. He itrikes at the root'of the great issues which fills men's minds in considering she Presidential question. He tells ns that the Government has become “a menacing factor ia elections;" that it itses its myriads of office-holders, its alliances with vast pecuniary interests, its unlimited command of money levied from its dependents and contractors to sorrupt voters and Jwerthrow the will it the majority; that no reform of administration is possible until the people Irive out of power a party which is “under the dominion of false doctrines rod animated by enormous pecuniary interests in the perpetuation of existing abuses.” The public mine grasps these truths rod feeds upon them. The Republicans would bo batter pleased if Mr. Tiiden would submit to the people a proposition for tariff reform ana set them to disputing 03 to the amount of redaction that should be made in the duties on iron and steel. The Tribune describes the accusations which it says Mr. Tiiden makes against the Republicans as “vague and nebulous," and thinks they serve to illustrate “how admirable on the whole has been the career of the Republican party, i But the accusations do not come from Mr, Tiiden. He simply points out to the Democracy the facts of the s'tuation as they exist, m a plain, unembellished mauner. It was a Republican Secretary of the Treasury who carried the Whisky Ring frauds into the White House and laid them down at President Grant's door, through the pocket of his private secretary. It was a quarrel of Republican rascals over the spoils which led to the impeachment of Grant's Secretary of War for the Post-trader frauds. Republican papers, and among them the Tribune, denounced the Credit Mobilier scandals after a Republican Congressman had exposed them, and charged James A. Garfield with presenting “a most distressing figure" id the investigation. It was the falling out of Republican thieves which first exposed the Star-route frauds. It was the Secretary of the Republican National Committee who told of the purchase of Indiana and New York in 1880, who continued the story of the sale of a Supreme Court Judgeship for $100,000 and who explained that some of the wealthy Starroute robbers had paid bribes "to escape indictment. It was a Republican office-seeker who murdered President Garfield. It was a Republican ex-Post-master-General who swore to the belief that a plot existed to kill all who were concerned in the prosecution of Republican robbers when the President was assassinated. It waJh. Republican ex-Atlorney-General who testified that he left Arthur’s Cabinet because he saw that no one who desired to send the Star-route thieves to jail could have the friendship or the moral support of the present Repnblk-an Administration. Republicans are the denouncers of Arthur as the beneficiary of an assassination his own conduct helped to bring about. It is on Republican authority that the machine methods of this State are denounced as infamous and that the Republican leader and boss, Johnny O’Brien, is accused of violat ng law and practising frauds for the accomplishment of his objects. In the greatest political crime of this generation, the overthrow of the will of the people in the election of 1876 and the theft of the Presidency for the fraudulent Hayes, history, and not Mr. Tiiden, is the accuser of the Republican party. Is there anything “vague and nebulous” about these facts? Are the bribes received by Republican Congresses for subsidies and land grabs; the naval corruptions under Robeson and Chandler; the repeated Treasury robberies; the enormous fees of the political Star-route counsel; the “settlements’’ effected by friends of the Administration; the general dishonesty and demoralization in all the public departments—are all these “vague and nebulous," or are they notorious truths known to the whole country? Mr. Tiiden takes these facts as he finds them. He tells the people that before they can hope to accomplish any administrative reform they must drive from power this self-aceused and selfconyicted party. He remnds the people that against a corrupt, unscrupulous power intrenched behind myriads of office-holders and an unlimited command of money from dependents, contractors and corporations, they have a hard battle te fight. There is nothing “vague and nebulous" about this. It is the plain utterance of truth, and should open the eyes not of Democrats alone bnt of all honest Republicans to the work required of them in this election, if they desire to save the Republic from eventual destruction.—A«tu York World.

POLITICAL POINTS. • j --Tbe Philadelphia Inquirer has discovered that Arthur’s candidacy is purely the work of the machine. -—The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, proceeds with the work of harmonizing the party by remarking that “of all sharue-i'accd, unscrupulous, persistent ringsiers, Collector Robertson is the worst.’’ -If the nomination of Blaine is one of the political probabilities the New York Evening Post is pursuing a course poorly calculated to aid the success of its party, by republishing the old charges against the Maine statesman as a member of Congress and as Speaker of the House, among whioh the Mulligan transaction is not the least conspicuous.— Harrisurg Patriot. -The New Jersey Republicans refused to send Secor Robeson as delegate to Chicago, but send a black man instead. The New York Sun surmises very properly that “he is the whiter man of the two,” but thinks that the action of the Republicans would make Robeson’s "cheeks tiugle if he were capable of shame.” Robeson is one chronic blush as it is. We don’t see how he could present any stronger chromatic evidence of being constantly ashamed of himself than he does now. —Boston Post. -The Blue Book is an exceedingly interesting volume published from time to time bv the Government, giving the offices and pay of the officers of the Government. Senator Logan and family figure in this book to the amount of $38,000. This is the snm which the tax-pavers contribute annually in the way of salaries to Senator Logan and his relatives. Thirty-eight thousand dollars is a good deal of money for one family, Still the Senator does not believe in nepotism. If he were elected President the amount would probably be increased to $380,000. “But Login is au honorable man, and Storm and Shepard—all am honorable men, ’V<j&r.- & Y, Sun.

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In the letter of Mr. Hldeo, read d| the banquet of the Iroquois Club at Chicago, there is a point worthy of the thoughtful attention of all who feel aj deep interest in the stability of republican institutions. The point is that at. the beginning of the canvasses the op-i * position must embrace two-thirds of thej voters to maintain a majority at alt' election. This is Mr. Tilden’s opinion,, which, he says, he expressed as far back as 1876. If this opinion is well founded, it is easy to see how difficult it is for the party out of power to get' control of the Government. Mr. TUden has made politics a study for many1 years, and there is, perhaps, no man living better qualified to express such an opinion than he is. He has seen the influence of money and patronage in elections, and he knows how powerful they are. In National contests the Administration does not take the position of an impartial observer, but enters the arena and battles for the success of its party with all the resources at its command. These resources are enormous. There are more than one hundred thousand office-boldon who not only exert, tb»ir personal influence in behalf of Vueir party, in their respective localities, but they oontribute a large per cent, of their earnings to the same cause. So eager are they for success that they are not always scrupulous about the meiuis they employ. Money and offices ‘‘are among the weapons which they use. It has been shown beyond question that in 1880 the elections in the "October States were carried for the Republicans by a liberal use of money. The October victories' contributed largely to the November success; and who is there who does not know that every agency controlled by, the Government was forced to assist ini giving the Republican party a victory in November. At the dinner of the Republican chiefs at Delmonico’s to celebrate that victory, Dorsey, of Star-route fame, was openly complimented for the skillful way in which he used what the' assembled chiefs were pleased to call1 * “soap.” It will never be known, urob- ? ably, how large a part of the millions stolen from the Government by means! of Star-route and other frauds was used' to elect Garfield. Although Mr. Dorsey, has pretended to tell a good deal, he has been very careful to give no information on that point. MrV Tilden. is right. The opposition party, having only a bare majority of the voters, has no chance of getting control of the Government. It must have & majority sufficiently great to overcome; the powerful influences controlled by' the Administration. There are some Democrats who condemn the CivilService law. But from the stand-point' of Mr. Tiiden it is one of the wisest laws ever enacted. If it is enforced it, will deprive the Republican party of a great deal of its power. It will lessen the number of its active workers and cut down its corruption fund. . The Civil-service law is a step towards * reform that is imperatively demanded. The Administration ought not to be allowed to take part in politics. The means it employs are demoralizing, debasing and corrupt. It acknowledges some restraint now, but unless there is a reformation the time is coming when no restraint of any kind will be recognized; An opposition with two thirds of the voters at its back will not be able to get control of the Government, An honest interpretation of the ConstU tntion and the divbrce of the Admin-"" istration from partisan politics shouldbe demanded by the Democratic National platform.—Savannah News. A Letter From Mr. Tiiden. The third annual banquet of the Iroquois Club, of Chicago, was recently given in that city. Among the letters received from distinguished guests who were unable to be present was the following from Mr. Tildeu. Gkntlkmen :—I hare bad the honor to re ceive your invitation to the third annual banquet of the Iroquis Club to respond to the sentiment: “The Federal Constitution.” I have also received private letters asking a written response to the sentiment in case I am prevented from attending. I hare been for some titpe and am still exceptionally engrossed with business which I have no power to defer or abandon. I must, therefore, communicate with you in writing, and my answer must be brief. On the formation of the Federal Constitution. Qouveneur Morris, who had been' a conspicuous member of the convention, being asked what he thought of the Constitution. replied: “That depends upon bow it is construed." The Democratic party originated in a resistance by the more advanced patriots of the Revolution to the efforts which were made to change the character of our Government by a false construction of the Constitution. Jefferson’s election in 1800 rescued our free institutions from tbe perils wbiob surrounded them and secured sixty years of Administration mainly in barmony with theirdesign and true character. When an attempt was made to break up tbe Union and to dismember the territorial Integrity of the country the people were compelled to make a manly oholco between these calamities and the dangerous influences of civil war upon the character of the Government. They patriotically and wisely resolved to save the Union first and to re-' pair the damage which our political system might sustain when more imminent dangers bad been provided against. The first work was successfully accomplished, but twenty years have since elapsed and the work of restoring tbe Government to its original character is not yet accomplished. Our wise ancestors bad warned us that if we fell into civil discords, our free system was liable to perish in the straggle by an insensible change of its character. Mot only have the best traditions of the patriots who won independence and established freedom lost their authority, hut our cherished political system Is slowly losing its hold upon life under fungus growths of false constructions and corrupt practices. The Government itself has become a menacing factor in elections. As long ago as 1876 1 expressed the opinion that the opposition must embrace at tbe beginning of oai - vasses two-thirds of the voters to maintain a majority at the election. In this, history repeats Itself by force or fraud. Even in the comparatively popular svstem of England the monarch has until lately controlled a majority of Parliament and frequently decided elections by court favors, jobs, and money taken from tbe public Treasury. This Is a hard saying, but the recent publication of papers of her deceased statesmen leave no doubts upon tbe subject. In our own oountry tbe Government, instead of standing as an impartial arbiter amid the conflicts of maturing opinion and contending interests, has itself descended into the arena and, equipped with all the weapons of partisanship. Its myriads of office-holders, its alliances with or against vast pecuniary interests; its unlimited command of money levied from its dependents and contractors-has gained a majority in every case but one. In that case it collected miltary forces around the capital, and by this and other menaces intimidated the Congressional representatives of the majority or the people to relinquish the fruits of their victory and to surrender the Government to the control of the minority. No reform of Administration is possible so long as the Government is directed by the party which is under the dominion of lalse doctrines and animated by enormous pecuniary interests in the perpetuation of existing abuses. The first effectual step in the reform of our Government must be a fundamental change in the policy of Ha administration. The work of reform will be difficult enough with the whole power of the Government exerted in accomplishing It I have such faith In the benignant Providence Which has presided over the destiny of Our country in every great trial hitherto, that I do do not despair of our ultimate deliverance. Though I oan no longer aspire to be one of tbe leaders In this great work, I bid those of you on whom this august mission may fall God speed. (Signed) S. J. Tild«n. To 8. Corning Judd, Chairman of Political Committee of Iroquis Club.

-1—The Ithaca Journal does not think that Mr. Blaine will be nominated, but it expresses the belief that, if nominated, he would bo elected. The Journal regards it as absurd to suppose that the Mulligan business would injure the “Plumed Knight'’ any more than the 829 scandal hurt Garfield.