Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 May 1884 — Page 1

W. P. KSIfrBT, sad PabUther. VOLUME XV. , THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1884. — ' m —x

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Virions Sources. It is estimated the export of wheat to Australia from England in 188i will be 11,030,00) bushels. Tub bark Theresa, with a number ot the survivors of the steamship State of Florida, strived at Quebec on the 12th. Senator Morril.1, ol: Vermont, was absent ou the loth from the Senate for the first time in twenty-nine years. Business during the i|>ast year was the most unsatisfactory in the history cif the Toronto, (Out.) Corn Exchange. ,Y ; The Treasury Department is ready to re deem bonds embraced in the 127th call prior to the date of maturity—June 20,18S4. A SETTLEMENT of the Credit Mobil ier litigation has been effected by the Union Pacific buying the stock at 120 per share. Two large blast furnaces will be erected on mineral lands near C hattanooga, Tenn., owned by English and Scotch capitalists. A verdict of not guil.y was returned in the case of E. B. Wheeler for the kiliing of Marshal J. P. Matthe ws at Hazelhurst, Miss.

Queen Victoria wan s to bay the Villa Nevada at Gaunes, where Prince Leopold died, and convert it into a convent and chapel. t Rumors are again in cii culation to the effect that the Erie Railroad lost nearly $2*001,€00 by the Marine Bank and Grant & Ward failures. Ik-London on the 14th, consequent upon the New York failures, American securities ^ell off and there wt.s one small failure on the Stock Exchange. In the jail at Birmingham, Eng., where Daly, Eagan and other dynamiters are confined, a detachment of troops have been stationed to guard against rescue.The bill regulating the manufacture, sale and use of explosives was adopted by the German Reichstag on the 15th, after which tfcat body adjourned until June 10. Cyrus W. Field says- the cause of the crash in Wall street is reckless speculation by mea who have no right to speculate— officers of banks, railway presidents and others. * The New -Jersey Democrats, in State Convention on the 14th, denounced the' frauds of 1810 and indorsed Tilden and Hendricks as their choice for President and Vice-President. Dublin authorities have been warned of attempts to destroy the Nelson column, and a laborer with a bug of gunpowder and a long fuse was arrested on the 13th inside of Dublin Castle. Over $10,003 was expended during the year among the freedmen of the South1 by the National Temperance Society, and they report that the blacks maintain the pledge equally as well as the whites. The Comptroller of the Currency says the banks of the country, as a rule, are in exceptionally strong condition—tar better than 1873—and that most of them are carrying unusually large reserves. Collector Robertson of New York has been sued for the recovery of several hundred thousand dollars collected as duty on paper boxes containing stockings and cotton laces, from R. M. Oberteuffer. Jt is a test case. _ W. Boo. an Cash, the murderer of Marshal Richards, was killed by a Sheriff’s posse at Cheraw, S. C., on. the 15th, while resisting arrest. One of the posse had a finger shot off by Cash, a ad one - of Cash’s friends was badly injured. ■ ' Among the additional indictments returned by the Cincinnati Grand Jury are one against A.F. Shaw, foreman of the jury that tried Berner, for forgery, and one against Wm/Mack, for arson, in setting l|re to the Court-house. The House Committee c-n Public Lands is of the opinion that 160 t.cres of land is sufficient for any one person to acquire by settlement. Under the present pre-emp-tion, homestead and timber culture laws, one may acquire 480 acres, or 160 under each. Secretary Folgkr iyas notified on the 16.h thaJU mob at Key West intended using personal violence to the Spanish Consul there. Special Agent Hobbs was telegraphed to confer with the naval .authorities and take measures to. avert trouble.

Senator Chaffee, young Grant’s father-in-law, lost heavily by the Grant & Ward failure, and is aaid now net to own a cent. A few weeks before the failure ho gave his aon-in-law over half a million dollars in securities to bold for him, bat Warjj got hold of it and It took wings. l Judge Richard Reid, ol Mount Sterling, Ky., while suffering from aberration of mind, committed suicide by shooting himself through the brain, lie left a note reading: “Mad—-mad—forgive me, dear wife, and tore the boy. The community was greatly excited over tie event. Among the appointments of the board of management of the World’s Industrial Exposition are Dr. G. B. Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, as Chief of the department of Agricultur e, and Hon. John Eaton, of Hew Hampshire, as Chief of the Department of Education and Instruction. • -•- A frightful accident oconrred on the Baltimore ft Ohio -Road, a mile east of Connellsville, Pa., on the 14 th, by which a number of laborers wore killed and many others injured. A freight train heavily loaded with ore ran into a gravel train on a sharp carte of the road. Id one car six ^killed and four burned to death. New York financial circles were badly excited on the 14th by numerous failures. The following eraaprise the list: Donnell, Lawson ft Simpson, the Bank, O. SL Bogart & CSo., . Robinson ft Co,. Goffe & Ran. ft Foote, J. C. Williams, er, and tbs Atlantic State : Brooklyn. The e was a run on Bnix and the Seeond National Bank, reported by the Bank In- ► be sound. Tnroughout the reports were that no danger its In otlaer cities sufferI of those failures.

FERSO^iiX AJifl GENERAL. w Delegates to the National Convention were elected by the Democracy of Virginia on the 14th. r : A treat* for.the regulation of the liquor' traffic with Siam, similar to the ones in force with England, France and other nations, has been signed at "the State Depart-' lnent. ON* of the high-pressure boilers in the Pennsylvania machine shops at Altoona, Pa., exploded on the 14th, blowing the fireman, Hayden O’Hara, to atoms and injuring a number of other persons. . .. Tax Odd-Fellows of San Francisco laid the corner-stone of their new halt, on the 14th. Nearly all business was suspended,, Governor Stonemr.n having proclaimed the day a legal holiday. The hall will cost 1230,000. Miners to the Falls Creek, SI?. Marys and Hardscrabble mines, Dubois County, Pa., have struck against the introduction of the screen system, and 1,600 miners at Canton, O., are threatening to strike. The report that Hassell Sage had “laid dowu” on contracts Is denied. The visit of Prince William to ^. Petersburg Is said to bn partly political. The run on the Second National Bank to New York subsided on the 13th. Mark S. Brewer, American ConsulGeneral at Berlin, starts fear home on the 27th. . , v - ‘ The Mexican Senate has ratified the reciprocity treaty between the United States and Mexico. At the National Jockey Club races at Washington, D. C., on the 13th, Gath, to taking a hurdle, caught his foot and, falling upoji his head, broke his neck and

Suit has been filed against Donnell, LawsQn.& Simpson by the Fort Worth, (Tex.) Water Company for the recovery of $13,000, said to be due on the sale of bonds. Washington is the headquarters for cranks. An old lady claiming to be ^ Queen Lucinda from Louisville,” wanted possession of the Executive Mansion on the 15th. A. A. Shaw. Treasurer of Clare County, Mich., was robbed of $5,030 on the 10th by parties whobuekod and gagged him. Six hundred horses had arrived at Louisville for the Spring meeting'of the Louisville Jockey Club, which began on the 16th. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church began its session at Saratoga, N. Y., on. the 15th. Kev. Dr. Hays, of Denver, Col., was elected Moderator. Judge John Fris*?x, of Nashville, Tenn., was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at McKeesport, Pa. At Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 15th, during a game of base ball, James Tash struck William Fortune over the head with a brick, from the effects of which he died. Both were lads of sixteen. Paymaster Whipple’s party was attacked by road agents on thel3bh between CUendive and Fort Buford, IX T. Ser geant Conrad was killed and two privates wounded. A PROCLAMATION restoring to the public domain lands set apart for the Jicarillu Apache Indians in New Mexicoi embracing 3,071,030 acre:;, was issued by President Arthur on this 15th. There was a lively shooting affray among well-known citizens of Poplar fiidge, Ala., on the 14th. The affair grew out of the lack of readiness on the part of one of the participants to marry a young lady. Two of the participants were mortally and two others seriously wounded. The Metropolitan Bank of New York has Assumed business with a change of Presidents, Geo. I. Senoy being succeeded by Henry L. Jacques. Fisk & Hatch and A. W. Dimock & Co., brokers, suspended. John Ketchum, known as one of the Breathitt (Ky.) ga ng, was killed by a man named Bowles in Rock Castle County, on the 15th. During the seven days ending the 16th there were 183 failures in the.United States and 37 in Can ada. General indication is manifested among the speculative fraternity at the action of Russell Sage in settling at a discount. Bismarck’s successor as President of the Cabinet will be Boetticher, Prussian Minister of State. « Father McEvoy, of Indianapolis, Ind., has been appointed English confessor for Sis Peter’s, Rome. The Newark (N. J.) Savings Institution bus suspended, fl.sk Sc Hatch owed the coueern $»,6JO,00(X - No materials fer a biography were left 'by the late Judah P. Benjamin. His private papers he destroyed. There was a heavy frost in and around Janesville, Wig., a few nights ago, and tt e fruit crops are reported badly damaged. At Baltimore, Mdi., on the 16th, the tourtenth quadrennial General Conference of tt e Methodist Prot estant Church began its sessions. Bank Examiner Scriba said on the 16th ht thought the trou hie was over ~ in New . Yark, so far as the associated banks were concerned.

IBK House Judiciary Committee decides tbat Congress has not a legal right to forfeit the land grant of the New Orleans, Baton Rouge & Vicksburg Railroad. Mrs. Lbiakd Stanford has given <3,600 to the kindergartens of San Francisco, Cal., in memory of a son lately deceased. The Public Prosecutor at Leipsic demanded a sentence often years forHeutch aid five years for Kronewski, charged with treason. DisTihUtnina members of the -^Western Export Association will close for thirty to fiity days, commercing the first- of June. Senator Sherman, in an interview on the 16th, said there was no danger of a general panic—that the trouble was purely local and unlike the panic of 1673. At the meeting o:f the African Methodist Episcopal Conference, in Baltimore, Bishop Payne stated that the slave trade in Central America is stiR carried on. In National Convention at Cleveland, Q., on the 16th, the Ancient Older of Hibernia as declared tbat organisation absolutely and entirely Roman Cat holic in its inception, aims and objects. Four Milwaukee boys of tender years were recently found by 1 heir fathers encamped near that city, armed with pistols aid knives. The lads were going to hunt buffalos ahd Indians, . Fires on the 16th: Taylor's pork-pack-ing house, Trenton, N. J.; loss, 170,000; Celt's block, Suspension Bridge, Niagara Fells; total loss, fc^OfO. A. number of buildings at Petersburg, Inch; total loss, 00,009. '

-'VAt Greeh'-OIe, S. C., on the 16th, Rlwj* Anderson, fer the mu- ter of tou Griffith end Alfred and James McCullough, fa the:: Mid ae» (colored), far the murder of Epli Saxon, were hanged cm the same scaffold Georg* AittSlEW Hokw and WiUt&m Hy Gribben, the tnurdere -s of Harry Williams at Folk, Ashland County, O., were hanger: on the. 16th ak Ashland, 0. A crqwd o| 10,000 pe®S%athereu outside the jail and! nine companies of militia were present U preserve the peace. XL) I11TH CONGRESS. Ik the Senate on the 13th a resolution oi Inquiry passed authorizing the qommittowfcri Judiciary to look into the facts forming th< baste pf Senator Garland sbiU to amend the Thurman act elating to Government claims ajra nst the Union and Central Pacific roads. The Indian appropriation was discussed al length, but without anion_In the House Mr. Cox (of New York! . introduced a bill to place General Grant on the retired list. Messrs. Hewitt and O'Neill (of Missouri) introduced bills relating to the tariff. Mr. fiel! ford introduced a hill to prevent the sudden contraction of currency; Mr. Tucker,-tn repeal internal .revenue taxee on tobacco and on brandy and trine manufactured from fruit. Conference committees were appointed on the Jlta John Forter bill and on the bill establishing a bureau of animal industry. A number of bills relating tc the Bistrlct Of Columbia passed. Ik the Senate on the 13th the bill placing* General Grant on the retired list, with the rank and pay of General, passed without do bate. The shipping bill was taken up and the morion for a conference committee was adopted. Con sideration of the Indian appropriation bill ins then resumed, and after some debate the bill was passed_In the House the bill passed providing for civil government in the Territory of Alaska. The ’i'ownsheud bill providing that a Territory shall .have a population equal to that of a Cong ressional district to entitle it to representation in Congress was laid on the The bil l passed extending the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Wyoming and stipulating (h it the Legislature of Dakota snail hereafter consist of twenty-four members of the Council and forty-eight members of the House;

In the Senate ontbe 14th Messrs. Vest and Cockrell explained their position in regard to the bill to place General Grant on the retired list. The former voted “no" on the bill, end the latter was not present when the bill passed, but would have voted the same way. The bill passed authorizing a pontoon brhkge to be built over the Mississippi River near Dubuque. The House hill providing for a bureau of labor statistics ' was taken upi and discussed until adjournment—In the House the resolutions unseating McKinley and Peele were laid over. The bill for a mint at St Louis was favorably reported. In the committee of the whole the consular and diplomatic appro]iriation was considered. A motion by Mr. Robinson, of New York. to abolish the office of Minister to Great Britain was lost. A memorial was presented from the Women’s Silk Culture Association for the establishment of u bureau of silk culture. Ik the Senate on the 15th a communication was received from the President recommending an appropriation to carry out the boundary provisions of the treaty bet ween the United States and Mexico. A resolution was offered oy Mr. M organ directing the Committee on Finance to investigate the causes of the failures in New York. Mr. Cuilom introduced a bill to prevent speculation by officials of the National Banting Association. The invalid pension bill was reported favorably. The hill loaning $1,000,000 to the New Orleans World’s Fair passed. Adjourned unt‘1 Monday,—Hi the House bills were passed: Authorizing a b ridge across the Missouri River in Nebraska: providing for the extension of. tho Chesapeake & Ohio Road: authorizing bridges ocros the Rio Grande between. Eagle ;Pas3 and Piedras NeKras, and between Laredo and Nuevo Laredo. The consular and diplomatic appropriation bill was taken uip in committee of the whole and an amendment to increase the salaries of ministers to Austria ami Italy from $10,000 to *12,000 was lost, as were alt other amendments to this bill. Visitors to the annual examinations at West Point-and Annapolis were ap pointed. There was nb session of iho Senate on the l€th, that body having adjourned until the 10th In the House the bid passod authorizing tho construction of bridges across the Wisconsin, Chippewa and St. Croix Rivers. In committee of tab whole the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill and the army appropriate n oii I were discussed, and with the river and harbor appr pnation biU were reported to the House. No further am tionwashad. An evening fesson was held for the consideration of pension bills. —-■* n » —■— CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. ThRcE was no session of the Senate on the 17th......In the. House bills passed: Granting the consent of Congress for the construction ol1 S~dam across the Mississippi ad St. Clottd; extending the duration of the Alabama claims Court of 'Commissioners; for the appointment of two additional Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Dakota; to change the Eastern and Northern judicial districts of Texas, and attach part of the Indian Territory thereto. Senate amendments to the Indian Appropriation Sill were non-concurred in. There was a lively debate among Missouri members over tile tail dividing the Eastern and Western Districts::ot Missouri into divisions, and, p rescribing times and places for hold"."?* Vjrt therein. Damjw. i tobacco has been done by frost in Laneast er Couny,Pa. Only one death resulted from the Pakachoag (Mass.) mill tire—George Snow, a lad of fifteen. Detectives are still gnardingthe Prince of Wales in Parks.- - Donnell, Lawson & Simpson’s assignee says their assets: will exceed their liabilities .il.0OO.OOQ.

i he report oi sue uenerai uomerenee or the Methodist Church is against the expediency of licensing women to preach. Tubes cotton warehouses were burned in Liverpool on the 17th. Estimated damage £300,000. DeLesskps calls the attention of European ambassadors to the universal character of the Suez Canal. Eight millioi dollars in legal tenders were forwarded by the Treasurer of the United States to the Assistant Treasurer in Hew York to be used in caso of necessity. After electing officers for- the ensuing year the Ancient Order of Hibernians in National Convention' at'Cleveland, adjourned to meet two years hence in St. Paul, Minn. • , ; Lord St. Leonards, who was arrested fof an assault Or at M servant, wants to be tried by a jury o( ) peers. Senator Anthost a friends assert, that he will resign shortly. Genebsa Shesmaithas written a letter stating peremptorily that he is not a candidate for the Presidential nomination. Mr. Roots, of Hatch & Foote, will 'dispose of his library, said to be a very valuable one, in order to help pay his debts. Governor Wour of the Chickasaw Nation recommends legislative action against the adoption oh the freedmen as citizens. < - General Gravt has wen offered a home for himself and family for life by Leland Stanford. At St. Petersburg on the 18th the attainment by the Csarowitclt of his majority was duly celebrated. '

Several Illii far ttratu iInjury FromU* DKWITT COUNTY. Canos, III., Hay IT. InDe Witt' County the crops are iuuci oetterthau is usual at this season. Over most of the territory winter wheat has started o ut remarkably, and will mak 5 eighty per cent, of a crop. An unusual acreage of oats was sown, and the pros * pect for an immense yield surpasses tha, of any previous year at this Season. Tht grass crupis tjtpttilly as gpod. Rawing lor corn is mostly completed, and some planting-is done. The spririg work} perhaps, was never so far forward at this season ol the yaw. The ground breaks up in good condition. The fruit crop bids fair to he good in nearly all kinds. MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Litchfield, III., May IT. Farmeis have been pushing their plowing for and piauting com tins week, being assisted in their labors by some ten days of flue weather. The wheat is coming forward well, but there will not be a firstclass yield in any event. But little oats were sown on account of the wet weather, but what has been put in looks well. The scan; about the injury to the fruit by frost appears unfounded, as the trees have been loaded with blossoms, and fruit-growers anticipate a good season for their business.

SHKLBT COUNTY. Su slbyville, III., May IT. • Prospects for wheat In this vicinity are very encouraging, having improved Very much within the past week, and indications are that an average crop will be the result. The cold snap of last Thursday did no material damage to the .fruit, as far as can tie ascertained. The pleasant weather of the past week has been ail that the farmers could wish for, and they are taking advantage of it and pushing their work, but being late at starting the acreage for corn will be considerably less than last year. * CHAMPAIGN COUNTY. s 1 Champaign. III., May IT. Prospects have greatly brightened in Champaign County within the last two weeks. The greater part ol corn land has been s eeded this week, and is in very tine condition. An immense amonnt of laud has been tilled within two years past, and iit has made a great difference with the planting. Wheat is now doing remarkably well with the moderately warm and drying weather. About eighty per cent, of a crop is Standing and daily improving in quality. ' Oats .will be a .very large crop. The grass and pasture Helds never looked better than at this time. The whole*outlook is cheerful. MONTGOMERY COUNTY. ttOKoaus, III., May IT. Farmers have taken advantage of the recent flue weather in preparing their ground for the corn crop. Some have already planted a portion of their land, and should the weather continue favor* able next week will see a large acreage in. The prospect for wheat is good for a fair crop. Oats look well, and a larger acreage than Usual has been sown this year. Apples, pear:;, cherries‘and small fruits win be very abundant, and the prospect thus far is good for one of the most bountiful seasons we have had for several yesirs. EFFINGHAM COUNTY. Effingham, III.. May IT. The outlook for wheat in this County is only moderate. The yield will be below the average. Many fields were entirely kilted. The acreage of oats is large, and the crop is in an excellent condition. Fanners are busy plowing for corn. The prospect for a large hay crop is very good. The fruit crop promises to be unusually good, except peaches, which were all killed during the winter. EXECUTIVE CLEMENCV. Extended llo Two Convicts Who Bravely Defended Deputy Warden HcJOonald from the Attach or Frank Kaude. Sfkingfhelh, III., May IT. William Baab, a convict at Joliet, sentenced lor life from Vermittiom County in 1880 for murder1, and James Moon, in the same '"institution fioin Cook Cqnnty, who was sentenced!o ten years in 1880 for arson, baye had their sentences commuted by Governor Hamilton on account of their j bravery in going to the aid of Deputy Warden McDonald wh en the latter was at- ’ tacked by the desperado Frank Bsnclq, in the Feuil entiary in March last. Thfc sentence of the first was commuted to ten years, and crediting him with good belavior he will be free February 4, 1887. The latter's term will expire October 4. 1884. The timely assistance of Raab auS* Moon saved the file of the deputy' and jrobabijr the lives of others.

THE FAMILY HO>OR. A Murderer Writes at Letter to the PubHc Defending the Character of his Parent*. PfTTSiJURGH.PA.. May M. John D. Shea, the convict in the Western Penitentiary, who is wanted by Detective Browning, of St. Louis, to answer a ciiarge of murder, has written i letter relative to his case. He says: “My mother and my father are respectable aged people. The criminal work my mother Is engaged in at the present time, or at least since 189T, is' washing clothes for ti living. The criminal work my father i t engaged in is getting his bread by the sweat of his face at hard days’ labor in San Francisco, Cal. All I waut Is a fair chance. Detective Browning has been at the same old game of running my poor Old father and mother down in the columns of the press to get the public to believe that I was raised by A family ol Fagius.” Destructive Fire. “ YiSfcsiskw, I8D., May is. A fire at i rao this morning swept away one of thfe haudsomest and most prominent business blocks of Petersburg, land., a town some fifteen miles southeast of this city, destroying- .property to the amount of from *50,000 to *85,000. TWo dry goods s tores, a hotel,* grocery store, un a^icnlfuraV implement bouse a Democrat printing office, besides t awyers’ s.nd • doctors* offices, were mrued. i.U were well insured. The :anse of the lire is uukuowu. This is he fourth large Are in Petersburg in two ears.

SHOCKING DOUBLE TRAGEDY. A "Wronged Husbaml Kills tlie Invader at the Sanctity of Hte Some Toaether with the Partner of the Gnllty Liason—Two Families Plnuged in Bfonnilng. Colombia’ 111., May 17. A terrible tragedy [occurred at the residence of Monroe Gray, ten miles southeast of this place, yesterday morning, which has plnnged two families into deep mourning. An erring wife and an unprincipled husband bare been harried to untimely graves. Mouroe Gray, with his wife and two children, a girl of ten and a l>oy of twelve lived on a farm which he rented from Wm. Ditch, a wealty farmer who lived on the eastern outskirts of the ,sr*3r& iad been diseased and be had used up leariy all of his money in liaving them rented in East St. Louis, lie finally deeded to go to farming again and as he itad little or no monev he applied to Ditch, who advanced him funds and let him go c n the farm where the tragedy occurred. Thursday Gray drove to Ditch’s house and asked him to go with him to his (Gray’s) farm to see about repairing a dike a few miles to the east. Ditch accompanied Gray hack to his .home and remained there ait night. It was arranged I thatyesterdaymorningtheyshouldgoover | to the house of a contractor named Axley,. : a few miles east of Gray’s, to engage him | to do some work.

About eight o'clock Gray went out to his barn to hitch up his team and left Ditch sitting with Mrs. Gray in tha sit-ting-room of the small three-room house. Gray had been in the barn lint a short time, when, in reaching up to take down some harness, some timothy seed fell in one of his eyes. He placed ills hand over the optic and started back to the1 house to have his wife get jthe seed out. Ashe . opened the sitting-room door he saw that the room was empty, and instantly his suspicions were aroused. He had heard that Ditch had beep in questionable relations with the wives of other men, but never suspected that his home circle would be invaded. He stealthily entered the too®, crossed it to the east side, pushed ofen the door of his wife’s bedroom and there witnessed a sight that aroused all his. manhood to the highest pitch, pe closed the door of the bed-room and crossed to the west side of the sitting-room to a stand, in the drawer of which were two large navy revolvers. As he grasped the weapons the door of the bed-room opened, and Ditch appeared. The latter immediately grasped a chair with which to defend himself, and as he did so Mrs. Gray also came out and begged her husband not to shoot. Gray, however, took deliberate aim with one of the weapons and: fired two shots, both of which took effect in the body of Ditch. As the latter fell to the floor Mrs. Gray again appealed to her husband to spare her life, bat he refused to listen to her. He fired and the ball from the large 44-calibre weapon passed through her abdomen and she fell by the side of her paramour. The first bullet fired at Ditch entered his right side just below the nipple, and the secoud passed through his abdomen. Gray left his wife and Ditch lying os the floor dying, and started with his two children to the house-of a neighbor, td whom he told the details of the tragedy. When he returned au hour later, both victims were lying dead in almost the same position in which Gray had left them. Then the news of the affair spread over the country like wildfire and before noon the little cottagqftras filled with fanners, and in the yard outside stood little knots of people discussing in subdued tones the details of the horrible drama that had been enacted. Mrs. Ditch, the wife of the murdered man, was informed by a messenger of the death of her husband, and not being advised of the particulars visited the house of Gray, where a most. touching scene was enacted. No one had told her of the canse of the shooting;, she i ad simply been told that Uray had shot her husband; but when she reached the house the nature of the tragedy davrned upon her and she burst into a violent fit of weeping. She embraced the tody of her husband and seemed to bave forgotten everything but that he had been ruthlessly taken from her, and to have forgiven him for his infidelity to her. Friends took her away and soon after she accompanied the dead body of her husband back to their now desolate home :tn the village. The Coroner was not in the county and his Deputy held an inquest, which was rather an impromptu affair and developed nothiug beyond what has been given above. He decided td require Gray to give bond in $1,009 for his appearance before the Grand Jury, but this did not seem to tie necessary as Gray; showed no inclination to make -his escape. He seems to feel fully the nature of his act and displays no grief over it. He acts as if he was convinced that he had dealt justly with those who had so deeply wronged him. He is willing to take all the legitimate consequences,’ and will stay here until wanted. Sheriff Wilson went down to Gray’s farm as soon as he was notified, but did not offer to make an arrest, as he felt confident tiiat Gray would not attempt to leave the country.

Hr Was Wanted. Roodhouse, III., May 17. Sheriff W. M. Morrow received a telegram yesterday morning from Deputy Sheriff Phillips of Louisville, Clay County, this State, telling him that he bad Newton Fields under arrest and to come and get him. It will be remembered that Fields got into a difficulty some time last winter with his father, A. J. It. Fields, and a brother, Louis J., just north of this city, shooting both, and made his escape. He was indicted by the Grand Jury at the last term of our Circuit Court. Sheriff Morrow left on the first train. Triple Lynching. *' Little Rock, Ark., May ML ▲ peddler named Ward left Prescott recently.and entered Howard County, but not returning when expected, his brother went in search. He learned of suspicions circumstances which led to the arrest of the two Pope brothers and King Kendall. One of the Popes confessed, giving the details of the shooting of Ward iu the back of the head and burning the body. It Is reported here this morning that the citizens of Howard County took the three men out and pmmutly hanged them,

1 A Formidable Indicteeat. The formidable array of charges brought against the State Xfopartmetit by General Badeau, exConaoVGeneral at Havana, is not affecting the public n»',nd as seriously as would be £i.ni> al to expect from then gravity and the length of the ind’etiaent presented bv tint ex-offieial. There is rather ft position to treat the allegation complainant with undue levity, the State Department is cap; egregious blundering will be read mitted, and it might without priety even be accused of dexe) less excusable than Wanders Yet wheu Badeau makes; the accusation the matter seems to assume a fegtefigm aspect. The Grant’s old r JHI Badeau accuses the State Department of almost every offense It could !n an official capacity be guilty of. If it had made a special effort to be as contemptible as imbecility acid neglect of duty could possibly make it "appear as a branch of the Government, it could not have done worse than the retired Cen-sul-General charges it with having done in its intercourse with the Spanish

auinoriiies. n ” persistently screened corruption;” it “was " derelict In public duty;’’ its policy was “vacillating and ignominious;’'’ its neglect of injuries and insults to American citizens, seamen and trade in the islands of Cuba” was habitual; its negotiations with Spain were “injurious to the interests and honor oi the country,” etc., etc. Here is a list ef derelictions and offenses that should entitle the State Department to the holt for “cussedness” in a general way. And when it is considered that tbesecharges are made by the! rty who wrote the unembellished ah -liablebiography of U. S. Girant, the disgrace of baring such a State Department assumes impressive proportions. Probably the reason why the public is not more excited over these disclosures is that although Bade&ivs statements are not the most reliable, yet almost any description of blunder or exhibition of weakness can be expected of a department in charge of Freiinglinysen. There ha3 been evidence of its imbecility in the management of our relations with Germany. '"Its slip-shod diplomacy has been apparent in other cases in which the National interests have been mismanaged. its reputation for weakness and general inefficiency has been established at home ana abroad. ' ‘ ' V The biographical Consul-General alleges that he telegraphed his accusations eight times to the department without their being noticed, when he threw up his commission in disgust The pubno is thus enabled to size the extent of a disgust that could induce an old Grant office-holder to resign ■»$*>,- 000 salary. But it is intimated that the consular fees of Havana, amounting to about #18,000 a year, have act been reported or any return made of them to the Treasury at Washington for the year daring which Badean occupied the position. Great hullabaloo? are sometimes raised to divert attention from embarrassing accounts. But whether the fault is with the ConsulGeneral or the Secretmy of State iu this oase, the people are not going to grot excited over the delinquencies oi Republican officials when the opportunity to turn them all out is so near at hand. —Exchange. Defeat of Revenue BcfoRn. It has been often said by the RepteKimn that the fate of the bill reported by the Committee on Ways and Means for the redaction of war taxes, known as the Morrison bill, depended on a small margin of votes. That it would be sustained or defeated by a very small majority has been apparent for several weeks to every one who gave close attention to the subject The final trial of strengt h between the protectionists and revenue reformers came yesterday, and the bill was defeated on a motion made by * protectionist to strike out the enacting clause by a vote of 158 in the affirmative to 151 in the negati ve. This, it is entirely probable, ends all effort on the part of the Democrats to reduce taxation and the surplus revenues during the present Congress. There would seem to be no use iu spending further time after the long and able, bat unsuccessful, battle for so reasonable and conservative a measure as that which has just been killed. No doubt t here will be feints made to reduce in tern si revenue taxation or remove it entisely from whisky and tobacco; bat these will be of little consequence. The people do not want free whisky ami tobacco, and their representatives will SuutBy persevere in an effort to do what is sc. manifestly against the popular inclination. '

The straggle which has ended bus not been without value. It lias doaje isych to educate the people and to inculcate wise opinions on the uppermost question in American polities. It haa also done mnch to define the position of parties. The Democrat:; though unfortunately not solid for revenue reform, have shown that the weight ami authority of the party is on that side of the question not only In their party platforms but in the halls of legislation. On the other hand, the Republican party stands for a continuation of needless taxation and the imposition of duties which bring a vast and demcraiiring surplus into the Federal Trmsery. Those Democrats who have ehttsen to act against their party and to become the afiiesbf the Republicans are but a fragment of the organisation whose National triumph tbev imperil and whose opinions oh the mostHfcaf question before the people they do not sham, There will, of course, be bo retreat or lowering of the flag of the Democracy. They will go into the Approaching National campaign with the doctrine of revenue reform inscribed on their banners with all the emphasis of unabated earnestness, and those who battle with them will have to marsh under that sign and with that profession of opinion. This is no time for hesitancy. nor will there be w:« rail vigor doubting in the ranks.—St. JA&ts Republican. —There are fifteen thousand Americans firing in Pam. rich

POLITICAL ITEMS. -it must be remembered that th« whole’South is how making noble ef* forts to enlighten the children of the people, and that, nevertheless, the ex-! istiag educational agencies are still inadequate,. Federal aiid alone can accomplish what all tree friends of education so much desire.—Charleston News and Courier. -Well, it has come to this at last«s everything seems to come to us—a little late- That the ftoliticians of the party sen, what - the people saw foot fears, ago, that Mr. Tilden is the universal choice. He himself has but to say the word, aad that ends it. The eonlirm k~Aes«stftfte OMwterhfenr i&opte have. pressed a deal of indignation at action of the white Republicans drawing the color line and organiizii strictly white man's party. Tlie Ma at ail events, ehonld not allow the whites to withdraw from their political affiliation until certain 'pledges relative to forty acres and a mule liave been fulfilled.—Louisville Couritr-Journai. -The Cleveland Ffa»» Sealer thinks the Ohio Republican Tariff plank ** is »n attempt to steal Democratic thunder.'1 The Republicans might well retort that the Ohio Democratic Tariff platform is not only ait attempted but a completed theft of Republican thunder. The two are constructed precisely the same way by both Democratic and Republican protectionists. — Wbsfatnptow

-Could anything- better uhistrate the confusion which sometimes overtakes men. not wholly mad than the suggestion to substitute McDonald for Hendricks on the old ticket? The old ticket is Tsiden and Hendricks, nothing more, nothing less. The displacement of Headricks for McDonald, or any otter man, would make tire lorn of Indiana * certain, and ought to. — Louisville 2 Courier-Journal. -Just about the time a lot of firaiy Kentucky Democrats, who have fallen into the error of supposing that' they are the Democratic party of this country, were reading Samuel J. Randall oivt of the Democratic party, hundreds oi thousands of Democrats in Pennsylvania were resolving to present his name to the Nationai Convention as their first and lost, choice for President of the United States.—'Omaha Herald. ——Every-prospect promises that the Chicago Republican Convention will be r. sb'ighter-honse. as that was four years ago *t the same place, and as that was eight years - ago at Cincinnati, in ; which all the prominent leaders and all that have the courage and sonai-eness j to be candidates will be killcs-off, and— ! the Convention, in its inability to nominate the foremost man, will sud- | dcnly take a senseless stampede to ! some nominee whom not even a single ! delegation would have considered Bej fore. —Cineinnali News-Journal. A Decided Original. He is a queer creature is Blaine, of Maine. He is a decided original, and as full of tricks a * any monkey that ; ever appeared in the on ly greatest show i an earth—or in any other show on any [ other earth. Neither politicians or peo- | pie know where to have him or what to ' do with him. It begins to now look ! very much as if one of the places to | have him is to be the place of Republican candidate for the Presidency; hatappearances may be deceptive, as they often are in Blaine's case. Even if he should be a candidate the question what | to do with him will be as difficult as ever. I Starting out with the most pro- ; nonneed determination cot to be a can- | didate, Mr. Blaine apparently betook himself to his book and hammered away at it as. diligently as if he were a space writer dependent for. his daily bread upon the performance of a stated amount of daily labor. The booms of the boomers went thundering through the land, bet he kept Ids ears closed j and heard them not. His own boom 1 was laid up in lavender. He knew apparently no had no record upon which to run for even a nomination, much less for an election. Moat of his party papers told him so and many of them told him why with a fullness, not to say cossreness, of detail which left nothing either totha imj agination or to the ingenuity of opposing partisanship. He m ade no defense; ! bis friends made none. His unavap- : ability seemed to be an accepted fart, i and his withdrawal from the race a 1 foregone conclusion. Suddenly it; *p- ; pears that he has r.n admitted strength I of 138 votes in the Chicago Convention j and a claimed strength of 850; his I friend Phelps, of New Jersey, comes to ! his defense with 'an ehdwrate sponging | out of rll the wicked stories his party ! has been telling about him, and the pre- | tense that he is not a candidate, but a i poor struggling -author is thrust into | the dim background.

\ .! hb nTcr m uiis oomw wuwar Never that we recall. But this wooing has been wonderfully successful; and the winning of the party is among the roost prominent of political portabilities. If the^ami&auon is secured the party—in the main—will* accept it. It will cost a good deal of swallowing. There aire brave words innumerable about “tainted candidates” and “rottes- records” and “tattooed men” to be eaten before Bl*s“* can be sbooted for with anythin; unanimity. But the swallow < party ol moral ideas is capacioc practice has made It very expert. the savages who eat only tainted meat, the “proud old party” rather likes candidates that have keen left too loug outI side the refrigerator. 'They will take i Mr. Blaine with Phelps' very flimsy cer- | tiiieate of character and the assurance of the New York Tribune, “the party will have to rob the cradle and the grave to find a candidate of whom no evil can be said.* And they will leave the task cf defeating him, and of protecting the Republic from the dishonor bis election would entail, to the Dem- ■ at least, is one of the present probabilities. Alliance must be made. Convention convenes about the time tee first crop oi' swa-stroke® rii 5' ]W nance