Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 December 1884 — Page 1

VOLUME XV. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1884. NUMBER 31.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. r Conpmlooal Proceedings. The second session of the Forty-eighth Congress was called to order at noon on the 1st. In the Senate the Chaplain in his opening prayer alluded to the deaths of Senator Anthony, Secretary Folger and Representatives Kvtns and Duncan, and implored that in the new era the only rivalry might be that tending in the path of National progress. Many of the desks of Senators and that of the presiding officer were loaded 'with elaborate floral devices....In the House the roll-<mll disclosed 222 members present. Mr.> Shevely, successor to Representative Calkins, of Indiana, resigned, appeared and took the oath. Formal announcement of the death of Representatives Evins and Duncan was made. At 1:40 p. m. the President’s message was ^received and read, and referred to con^mittee of the whole.

in tne b^nate on the 2d Mr. Vest offered ft resolution to investigate tbe leasing of lands in the Indian Territory and made some pointed remarks on the subject. Mr. Dawes also took part in the discussion and branched off upon the. matter of leasing public lands in general. Mr. Sheffield, the new Senator from lthode Island, was sworn in... ...In the HouseJIr. Follett offered a resolution asking a full investigation of the vrhys and wherefores of having United States Deputy Marshals at the polls in Cincinnati on the 14th of October. A spirited discussion followed, which was entered into by Messrs. Follett, lteed, Keifer, Converse, Barksdale, George D. ^tVise, and others. Mr. Keagan called up the inter state commerce bill, which was discussed by that gentleman at considerable length. In the Senate on the 3d the report of the commission appointed to select a site for the pedestal of the Garfield statue wras referred. Mr. McPherson introduced a bill to suspend the coinage of silver dollars. Mr. Vest’s resolution calling for an Investigation of leases of lands belonging to Indians in the Indian Territory was again taken up, and after amendment to Include? leases of lands in the Indian reservations, the resolution' was agreed to.In the House the Senate amendment to the bill forfeiting the unearned land grant of tlie Atlantic & Pacific Koad was not concurred in. The House then went into committee of the whole on tjflo bill making temporary provision for the naval service, and without discussion it was passed after the committee rose. The inter-State commerce bill was nest reached, and after discussion of the two measures pending the matter was laid over lor further consideration. In the Senate on the 4th Mr. Mitclfell introduced a bill granting a pension to General Grant. Mr. Cameron (of Pennsylvania) offered a resolution directing the Committee on Finance to inquire into the expediency of expending the surplus revenue of the United States or any portion thereof for the purpose of reviving the shipping interests anu export trade of the couutry, and report by bill or otherwise. Mr. Hill submitted a resolution opposing the recommendations of the President and Secretary of the Treasury that there be a suspension of tbe coinage of silver dollars, and that the issue of silver certificates be prohibited.In the House Mr. Morrison introduced a bill authorizing that surplus revenues in the Treasury in excess of $100,000,000 not 'otherwise appropriated, be applied to the redemption of United States bonds. Me. Dockery (of Missouri) offered a bill to repeal all laws authorizing the appointment of special deputy-marshals at the polls, and the appointment of supervisorsof elections. Discussion of the inter*Statecbmmerce bill was resumed. Messrs. Anderson, Shively (of Indiaha) and Hopkins taking part, all of whom favbred the Keagan substitute over the com’rnittee bill. ! PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. f> -Governor Cleveland attended the performance for the benefit of the Actors’ Fnnd at the Academy of Music, Now York, on the 4th. Herr Euoene Richter was challenged by Count Herbert Bismarck, for an alleged insult to the Chancellor. The challenge wfls peremptorily declined. ^ On the 3d Ben G. Owen, the defaulting Secretary of the Philadelphia Academy of Music, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary. " Dr. Windthorst’s fight against Bismarck in the German Reichstag was continued on the 34, and the latter was defeated by a decisive vote. General Brie Re De Liste informs the French Government that he expects to ran all the Chinese out of Tonquiu within two months. On the 6th the Senate confirmed the appointment of Postmaster-General Hatton. A tarty consisting of Secretary Teller, ■Postmaster-General Hatton, Assistant Postmaster-General Hazen, and Railway Superintendent Thompson will attend the * opening of the New Orleans Exposition. The effort to place General Grant on the retired list of the army has been revived, and. a movement will soon be made in trie House to pass the Senate bill for that purpose. Governor Hoadly of Ohio has reprieved Patrick Hartnet, the wife murderer who was to have been hanged on the 6th.

un me aa tne veneraoie ex-uovernor Cobum of Maine was taken seriously ill after attending the session of the State Electoral College. Levy, the cornetist, has again committed matrimony. Ho was united to Miss Stella Costa at Erie, Pa., on the evening of the 4th. The lady is No. 4. Bonchea, the Cuban agitator, was captured on the 4th with his band, two of whom were killed. Ax Omaha, Neb., on the 4th, a man was arrested who was thought to bePusey, the defaulting chief clerk of the Kansas State Prison at Leavenworth. j ' On the 4th the electoral votes of the several States were received by the President of the Senate, the first to arrive being that of Pennsylvania. ^ .Mrs. Downs, wife of Rev. W. A. Downs, of Riverhead, Long Island, eloped on the 4th with Deacon G. Mitchell Terry, leaving behind two young children. The friends of General Grant do not favor the pension project. They desire that he be placed on the retired list of the army. At Toledo, O., on the 4th Neville, the bigamist, was sentenced to seven years with hard labor in the Columbus Penitentiary, the full extent of the law. Stanley, the explorer, opened the session of the Geographical Society at Edinburgh on the 4th. Mr. Cleveland, it is said, will resign the Governorship of New York January 6th, and will then turn his attention to matters of National import, such as Cabi-net-making, etc. ’ Colonel Ovama, the Japanese Minister of War, arrived in Washington on the 4th. ' u It is reported that Teemer, the oarsman, has quarreled with his backers and managers. He says that pf the nine races rowed the. past season, only one was for a Stake a$ advertised. He is particularly anxious to row Jake Gaudaur again. The notorious Mother' Mandelbaum, her son Julius and her clerk Stronde, charged with receiving stolen property in New York, and who were under heavy bonds, failed to respond when their cases were called on the 4th. It is supposed they have skipped to Canada. The Willard-Paxton elopement at Washington, D. C., is the topic of the day at the Capital. It was a complete surprise to everyone, more particularly the man Miss W illnrd was to have married. The man arrested at Omaha supposed to fee Pusey, the defaulting Kansas Prison Clerk, proves to be another man. On the 6th the convicted polygamists, Amman M. Tenny, Bishop P. J. Chistofferson and C- J. Kump were sentenced at Prescott, Aril., to pay a fine of $600 each and be confined for three and a half years each in the Detroit (Mich.) House of Corirectwn.

m. Bcrknck has been elected President of the Swiss Confederation for 1885. THE,Virginia Senators strongly oppose the confirmation of Hugh McCulloch as Secretary of the Treasury. Rather, Seagraves & Co., bankers, Toledo, O., assigne<l on the 5th. Liabilities $500,000; assets nominally equal. Deacon Terry, who ran away with a minister’s wife at Long Island on the 4th, has written his better half that he is happy in his new relations, and his old haunts will know him no more. The Attorney-General has been requested by the Committee on Expenditures for the Department of Justice to produce all correspondence between the Department and United States Marshall Wright, of Cincinnati, in reference to the employment,of Deputy Marshals at the October elections. The Eing of Burmah, against the advice of his ministry, has employed a French Company to manufacture fire-arms at Mandalay. Rev. Dr. J. M. Arnold, editor of the Michigan Advocate, formerly in ch&rge of the Methodist Book Concern in Detroit, Mich., dropped dead m the street on the afternoon of the 5th.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Fire destroyed six business buildings at Schuyler, Neb., on the 2d; loss, $25,000. On the 2d the Bauer Cooperage Company’s works at Lawirenceburg, Ind., burned. .Loss, $50,000; fully covered by insurance. On the night of the 2d J. & G. Fisher’s piano factory in Nejv York was damaged by fire to the extent of $125,000; only partially insured. On the 2d the body of a man was discovered in the reservoir at Reading, Pa., from which the water supply of the city is furnished. The remains were those of ffm. McKinley who had been missing twelve days, and they were badly decomposed. Fire destroyed Petes' Schroeder’s brewery at Perham, Minn., on the 3d; loss, $50,000. On the evening of the 2d a building in which the Salvation Army were holding meetings.at Biddeford, Me., was fired by incendiaries. The building was cleared without panic. On the 3d two miners named Sharpless and Boyle, were fatally injured by an explosion of fire-damp near Coal Bluff, Pa.,afhe gas igniting from their naked lamps. On the 4th the buildings, nearly all the cars and fifty horses belonging to one of the Baltimore street railway companies burned. A terrific explosion occurred at the powder magazine at the Virginia Military Institute on the 4th. No one killed. On the 4th three young boys were drowned at Rondout. N. Y., by venturing too far on thin iee, which gave way beneath their height. On the 5th Cook Toets, the hlind wife murderer, was hanged at Owen Sound, Ontario. a At Strafford Corner, N. H., thd house of Stephen Young was blown to pieces the evening of the 4th by a dynamite explosion. One person was instantly killed and eight were more or less seriously injured. On the 5th Captain Herman Giseke, an old and well-known citizen of Omaha, Neb., committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. At Salinas, Cal., on. the 5th, Solomon Torres and Jose Manuel Soto were hanged for the murder of Ah Din, a Chinaman, on December 20th last. On the 5th fifteen business houses were either destroyed or damaged by fire at Myersdale, Pa. On the 5th the thirteen persons who were poisoned with arsenic in their food at Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., on the 4th, were pronounced'out of dangei*. * A thrilling story of jealousy .and murder came from Walworth, Neb., on the 5th. Thomas'Furquin shot and killed Maly and Fanny Finley and their attendant beaux, named John Williams and Charles Watkins, just as they had returned from a dance. He then brained the father of the girls with the butt of his gun, and rounded up the tragedy by killing himself with a pistol shot. John Purscht, a native of Vienna, residing in St. Louis, Mo., hacked his head with an axe and took oxalic acid on the 5th. He succeeded in ending his career. Leo Heller, a young iron-worker, attempted to kill a Miss 1mm in a Justice’s office in Cincinnati on the 5th, and being prevented, jie killed himself.

IHSCELliLKGODS. At Massillon, O., an agricultural machinery shop resumed operations on the 2d, giving employment to 550 men. The 5 executive committee, on the improvement of Western water-ways will meet in Washington, D. C., on January 13th. The chief of the revenue marine service in his annual report shows that the relief wort performed excels that of any other year. They assisted 240 merchant vessels, wrecked or in distress, valued with their cargoes at $7,000,000, and saved many lives. The total cost of the service for the year was $851,311. There was coined at the various United States mints during Ifovember gold coin to the value of $1,535,71%, and silver coin, $2,504,000, of which $2,450,000 was in. standard dollars. The Pilot Commissioners of New York on the 2d adopted a resolution petitioning Congress for a resurvey of New York Harbor. On the 2d at a meeting held in Hilwau - kee, Wis., of prominent horsemen of the State, the “Wisconsin Association of Trotting Horse Breeders”. was formed. H. L.JDousman, of Prairie du Cliien, is President, and R. I). Torrey, of ltacine, Secretary. The letter-carriers of Philadelphia, Pa., think they ought to have additional pay for extra work. It has been decided by the Shoe and Leather Insurance Company, of Boston, Mass., to retire from business. Ox the 3d the g eneral managers of the Missouri River Railroad lines met and agreed to a restoration of rates to hold good for two years. The rate between St. Louis and Chicago and St. Louis and Kansas City was placed at $7.50, and from Chicago to Missouri River points at $12.50. 5> A London dispatch says the Secretary of the Chinese Legation at "London has submitted proposals to Earl Granville, British mediator, that France can accept. New York business men held a meeting on the 3d and passed resolutions urging on Congress the immediate passage of the bankruptcy law drafted by Judge Lowell and passed by the United States Senate. Almost an epidemic of diphtheria has recently prevailed among children at Montreal, Can. At South Framingham, Mass., the shoe manufacturers are reducing wages and hours of labor. Near Dresden, O., a farmer recently lost fifteen head of cattle by a disease thought to be pleuro-pueumonia. The committee of the French Chamber of Deputies have decided upon the increase in duty on foreign grain and flour. On the evening of the 4th the Southern Historical Society had an interesting meeting in St. Louis, Mo. The British House of Lords passed the franchise hill cut the Wih.

Near Worcester. Mass., a party of boys, the oldest (wily about twelve years of age, recently built a den in the woods. When discovered, on the 4th, they had plenty of revolvers and ammunition, and were developing into a first-class gang of des peradoes. The proposition to adjourn Congress and that all.hands go to the New' Orleans Exposition does not meet with general favor among members, many of whom think there is too much important work needing attention. On the 5th the annual report of the Secretary of the Navy was made public. A rumor was current on the 5th that the Western Union had abscirlied the Postal Telegraph, but later the rumor was denied. The business failures in the United States numbered 264 during the seven days ended the 5th; in Canada, 26, an increase of seventeen over the preceding w eek. The clergy of Connecticut, have inaugurated a crusade against Sunday traffic on the railroads within the State. An investigation is to be made into some serious allegations of irregularities in the office of the Comptroller of (he Treasury. The Memphis district cotton report shows a decrease in the yield of about fourteen per cent. In portions of East and West Sandwich, Ontario, a malignant epidemic of diphtheria is causing serious mortality. A reward of $5,600 ha.8 been off ere 1 by the Citizens’ Committee of Chica;o for the detection of the perpetrators of the election frauds in the second precinct of the Eighteenth Ward.

ihe centennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church began in Baltimore, Md., on the 9th. At South Norwalk, Conn., the hatters are on a strike, and had become so demonstrative on the 5th that the Governor was called upon for troops. f f In the Hocking Valley nominal peace prevails, but no compromise seems probable. The operators say it is merely a question of time when the miners will be compelled to surrender to their terms. On the 6th the Narragansett Park property at Providence, R. I., was sold for $30,000. It was bought by a syndicate whq will apply for a charter and run the track. Strono opposition is manifested by the fishermen of Gloucester, Mass., to the restoration of the fisheries clause in the treaty of Washington.4 Munitions of war for China ate being loaded in ships at London. Instead of discharging employ es during the winter, Cincinnati planing mill men will keep them at work on lower wages. New York business men are pleased with the treaty just signed between the Dominion Republic and the United States. The French Government will hail with delight the proposed attack by the Chinese on Admiral Courbet’s fleet. If that is done there will be music on the waves. A surface railway will be constructed on Broadway, New York, after all, as the Board of Aldermen have passed the bill over the Mayor’s veto. The trial of eight anarchists accused of being in the dynamite plot aga inst the lives of the Emperor and Crown Prince, was commenced at Leipsic, on the 6th. The proposition to restrict the production of pig iron by banking the iurnaces for a month or more has been allowed to die. Reports received at Pittsburgh are more encouraging. From reports received at Cleveland, O., twenty-five iron mills have resumed within a month, giving employment to 12,175 men; and' in thirty-nine establishments wages have been reduced orfkn average of 12 1-2 per cent., and twenty-seven- establishments haveclosed down entirely, throwing 12,275 men out of work. The pay of the Germans on board the Chinese fleet, includes an Indemnity of 4,000 taels to their relatives in the event of their being killed. Fifty mounted rebels advanced to within 800 yards of the Egyptian forts at Suakim on the 5th, killing several men and women and capturing forty-two camels. Property and life is insecure outside the guarded portion of the tpwn. The report of favorable mention of the Nicaraguan Canal scheme in the American Congress, has caused great satisfaction throughout Nicaragua and neighboring Republics. The question of Improving commercial relations with America is exciting much interest in the British IVest Indies, and some progress has already been made in negotiations to that end, which the British Foreign Office is conducting. LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The capstoue on tue IVashington monument was set on the 6th, and a meeting to celebrate the event was held on a platform which was i>00 feet from the ground. One of the persons present was a mechanic who laid the corner-stone thirtysix years ago. The height of the monument is 550 feet, overtopping any statue ever built in the world. The Home-Rubber Works, at Trenton, N. J., burned on the 7th. Loss, $70,000. The close of the Plenary Council at Baltimore, Md., on the Jth, was the occasion of a most imposing' ceremonial. Francis Murphy, the temperance advocate, began a series of meetings at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 7th. Oscar K. Harris, a well-known journalist of Washington, D., jp., died on the 7th. He reported the Surratt murder and President Johnson impeachment trials. During November British imports decreased, compared with November, 1883, £3,784,000. Exports in Novemljer decreased £2 350,000 compared with November, 1883. “ The New York Central Railway has declared a quarterly^ dividend of one and a half per cent. The California State Board of Viticulture has adopted a resolution requesting Senators and Representatives in Congress from that State to oppose the execution of the Mexican reciprocity treaty. Imports to the port of New York for the week ended the «th were $6,523,000, of which $1,068,000 were dry goods and $5,455,000 general merchandise. Rev. Edward Brennan, aged sixtyfive, pastor of the Roman Catholic; Church at Cumberland, Md., was found dead in his bed on the 6th at the residence of \ icar-General McColgon in Baltimore, where he was visiting. Heart dis<3ase was the supposed cause. Joel Parkhurst, a Pennsylvania millionaire, died at Elklandl, Pa., on the 6th, aged eighty-five years. ‘-W- W. Sanford, of Dubuque, la., died at Sherburne, N. Y., on the 6th, agecl seventy years. He leaves a fortune of over $1,000,000. Sidney Sanford, his brother, is his only heir. Fire in West Randolph,' Vfc, on the 6th, destroyed six blocks of business houses, seven dwellings and a hotel. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $30,000. Most of the goods were removed from the business houses. The Hawaiian treaty was signed at Washington on the 6l;h by Secretary Frelinghuysen on behalf of the United States and by Mr. Carter, representing the Hawaiian Government. Charles Rogers, a guard in the Penitentiary at Westminster, British Columbia, has been sentenced to te hanged January 28th, for the murder of another guard in November last.

A TALE OF BLOOD, The Terrible Deed of > Rejected Suitor for » Young Lady’s Hand in K^brasaa—Six Lives Sacrificed on tbe Altar of the GrveaEyred Monster. Omaha, Xkb., Decembers. Details reached here yesterday of one o1 the most diabolical wholesale butcheries ever committed in this State—the killing of five persons by one man, followed by the snicide of the murderer. The scene of the slaughter is the town of Walworth, Custer County, a locality without telegraphic facilities* which fact accounts for the time taken for the story to reach the outside world. Although the crime was committed Wednesday night, the news did not reach here until last night, and even now the facts are not all known. The victims of the horrible affair were: John Finley, a widower about sixty years old. Mary Finley, his daughter, aged sixteen. Fannie Finley, Mary’s sister, aged eighteen. John Williams, a suitor for Mary’s hand. r

unarms vvaiKins, Fannie limey s lover The perpetrator was Thomas or Timothy Furquin, who was a rejected suitor of one of the young ladies; it is uot known which. All parties were residents of the town where the tragedy occurred. The motive for this horrible butchery was jealousy. The two young ladies have for some time been receiving the attentions of Watkins and Williams, and it was generally supposed there was to be a double wedding about Christmas time. Young Furquin has always been considered an exceedingly quiet, industrious and inoffensive young fellow, and though it was an open secret that he had been an admirer of and suitor for one of the Finley girls, and had been rejected, no one ever thought that he was capable Of such a crime. He has for some time been giving tokens of his unfriendly feelings toward the young men who proved successful in winning the favor of the girls, but no one 6eems to have ever heard him make an open threat. On Wednesday night the two Finley girls, in company with their lovers, Watkins and Williams, attended a dance. Young Furquin had asked one of the girls to go with him, but she declined on the score, it is believed, of a previous engagement. This seems to have been the acme of his bitterness over his unrequited love, and to have, driven him Intoamurderous frenzy. He did not go to the dance, but laid in wait for the party, nursing his hatred and planning his revenge. When the party drove up to the gate of the Finley homestead, after their night of pleeasnr, Furquin was there with a double-barrelled shotgun, loaded with “blue whistlers.” The party were in a spring wagon, just large enough to comfortably carry the four. The jealous man was hid, and, unseen by his victims, he levelled his gun and fired both barrels in quick succession at them. The contents of the gun literally riddled the bodies of all four, killing them almost instantly. Hearing the shooting and the deathscreams of his daughters, old man Finley rushed from the house, and, as it proved, to his owh death, for the murderer struck the old man a blow over the head with the butt of the gun, and repeated the blow until the poor fellow’s brains Were beaten out. The murderer then completed his horrible work by blowing out his own brains with a revolver. CONTRADICTORY STORIES. Such is the story of the horrible affair as obtained from a number of sources and reports, all of them, more or less, in their character, contradictory, but all agreeing in their general features. One report says the murderer burned the house after committing the crime, while another says his body was found on Ae river bank some distance from the others, indicating that he had some idea of escaping after the slaughter, but changed his mind. Your correspondent has been endeavoring to obtain full details of the affair, or absolute confirmation of the ste y above given, but has been unable up to midnight to get anything direct from the scene. The Bottle and Its Effects. Wilmington, N. C., December 5. A duel was fought between twefiyoung men in Morning Star township yesterday, in which the weapons used werfe, on one side, a whisky bottle, and on the other side, a clnb. John Dulin and Bufus Mulllo were intimate friends. Dulin had a large bottle of whisky, and they sat down in the woods and became merry over its contents. After the bottle was empty the men disputed as to their respective abilities as men, and finally undertook to settle the question then and there by a combat. Dulin took the bottle by the neck and used it as a clnb, while Mullis selected a piece of oak-plank about the length and width of the bottle. Dulin gave the first blow with the bottle, striking his antagonist full on the head and felling him to the ground, Mullis staggered up and managed to hive Dulin a blow on the head. He fell as though he had been shot, the edge'of the plank having cut through his skull. He died soon afterward. Mullis ited and has not been apprehended.

A Human Butcher. Lenoir, N. C., December 5. The trial of Ed. W. Eay, killing John C. Miller and Ed. Burleson, which was begun last week, was concluded yesterday. He was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. Bay is a desperate man, who is said to have murdered seven men since the war ended. He was a revenue officer, and in each instance he secured an acquittal, on the plea that the killing was done in the discharge of his duty. Opposed to the fishery Clause. Gloucester, Mass., Decembers. A meeting of owners and masters of fishing vessels was held here this afternoon to consider the fishery clause of . the reciprocity treaty with Canada. The unanimous sentiment of the meeting opposed the renewal of the fishery treaty, as a renewal meant free trade in fish, and Gloucester vessels could not compete with the English. A committee was chosen to confer with like committees from Portland, Provincctown and other ports interested as to a proper representation of the fishing interest. A Damaged Pillar. Nashville, Tens., December 5. It has been discovered that W- i>. Blanton, cashier of the freight delivery depot of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad in this city, is about $10,000 short in his accounts. Blanton is one of the pillars in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and « director of the Young Men’s Christian Association. The people feel as if one of their idols was broken. Blanton claims that he will be able to show lapses in the payment of freight on the part of merchants to the amount of his defalcation. Traveling Auditor Abner Jackson to hi possession of Blanton’s office, and is investigating bis account*.

SERIOUS CHARGES. A Confidential. Clerk in the Office of the First Comptroller of the Treasury stake* Some Damaging Allegations of Irregnlai Disbursements of Public Moneys—Work for the Springer Committee. Washington, D. C., December S There were lively proceedings before the Springer Committee to-day. J. J. Barker, confidential law clerk In the office of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, waa heard in response to the following lettert Washington, D. C., December 3. Hon. Win. 31. Springer, Chairman: Sib:—October 24, 1884, I wrote all open letter to the President, citing in* stances of wrongful extraction of public funds from the Treasury. I have no copy of that letter here, bnt inclosed Is an editorial from the Cincinnati Enquirer of October 28th, to give an idea of Its main points. I am especially familiar with the manner in which accounts are adjusted in the judiciary division of the First Comptroller’s office. In this division the accounts of commissioners, clerks, attorneys, marshals, etc., of the FederaTCourts are finally passed upon. Vouchers on file in the Register's office will furnish evidence of the fact,that for years if has been the rule to make Illegal allowances to these officials through the Comptroller’s office, by design, or inexcusable ignor

ance ol the provisions ol the law. I insist that more than half of the accounts presented by the court officials contain illegal or improper charges) many of these items are allowed. These im» proper allowances will aggregate an enormous sum. Convincing proof of this statement Will be found in the file rooms of the Register's office, bnt the evidence can only be produced by some one well-informed concerning the contents of the books and location of vouchers. When investigations of those matters nave been attempted, only those papers asked for by resolution have been exhibited. Persons being investigated do not usually volunteer evidence tending toward their own condemnation. Of course ip the limits of this letter, 1 can only briefly indicate the things complained of, but I should be very glad to furnish your committee with details. Very respetfully, J. J. Barker. Barker consumed considerable time citing instances where alleged fraudulent vouchers were presented by United States officials and allowed by order of Comptroller Lawrence in the face of protest by himself (Barker). He said that United States Commissioner Shields, of New York, presented an account of fourteen hundred dollars for swearing supervisors of election of 1880, to their accounts, when the statute provided other means of payment of the service. He bad protested against the allowance of this voucher, yet the allowance was made. United JStates District Attorney Stone, of Western Pennsylvania, had filed a voucher for $G0 per diem in term of court, where there were but four cases for trial, one of which was disposed of by demurrer, another nolled and the other two continued. The account was allowed without inquiry. In the eleceion of 1882 in New York, a voucher for $23,000 was allowed for supervisors of election, when it was shovyn that the supervisors were paid from $5 to $10 for two days’ service, but one day each was all the service required, and no evidence was produced to show that more service than one day was necessary. The examination proceeded at considerable length, and is still progressing. LAYING SPOOKS. .1 Tfie Mystery of Mystic on the Sound Satisfactory Solved—A Valliant Youth in Female Attire Captures a Ghost and Lands Him lu tiie Arms of the Law. New London, Conn., December 5. Three ghosts have been frightening tha women and children of the quaint little village of Mystic on the Sound, eight or. ten miles east of here, for several weeks. Women and girls were at first pursued almost nightly by a tall, white figure that rose up suddenly from the wayside, and seemed to . their affrighted vision to float Swiftly on the wind toward them. They sped down the street closely chased by the apparition and dashed into their homes out of breath and fell on the floor. At length the terror became so general that few women and girls ventured out of their houses after dark, and when they did so, hurried along their roads, often turning an affrighted gl— ■> over their shoulders lest the three ghosts might steal on them unawares. Next a company of young men was or* ganized to lie in wait, with loaded shot guns, for the ghostly disturbers of the peace, and several parties staid out all night for a week or more at different points about the village, lying on the frosted grass behind walls and fences, or in the shadow of unlighted buildings. No specter appeared in THE SILENT STREETS,

and the watchers went home and thawed out in the chimney place with draughts of hot cider. Thereupon a committee of two or three young men arrayed themselves in hoop skirt#; dresses and bonnets, and after dark minced coqnettishly up and down the sidewalks hoping to lure the ghosts into pursuing them. For two nights the ruse was without results, but a few evenings ago one of the ghosts was tempted out. He sprang at one of the masqueraders, who at first fled, leading the ghost on, until he suddenly wheeled, and, throwing his arms around the ghost, held him in a merciless hug. The captive was lugged before a police, justice, who bad him locked up. The ghost was Albert C. Briggs, a jack-of-all-trades of the village. He was sentenced to thirty days in jail for disturbing the peace. Who the other ghosts are is not known, as Briggs refuses to expose them. They have not been seen since his arrest \ » Counterfeiter Cap! re Alton, III., .December 5. Deputy United States Marshal Darwin arrested Barney Brewlington, an employe In D. R. Sparks & Co.’s mill here, on the charge of counterfeiting. Brewington has for years been an employe of the milling firm, and his habits have not been such as to give weight to the charge against him. The Government officers, however, claim that they have ample proof to prove his guilt and that of the other members of the gang of which he was a member. They charge that the headquarters of the gang was in or near Litchfield. The Result of Jealousy. Cincinnati, O., December 5. Katie Imm, a comely girl eighteen years old, swore out a warrant for the arrest of her lover, Louis Heller, employed at Clemens’ Iron Works, making affidavit that she feared bodily harm, as Heller had threatened to shoot her. The case came up in ’Squire Dunning’s Court this morning. When Katie entered the room Heller jumped up and levelled a pistol at her, but t ie ’Squire grasped the weapon and tried to wrest it from him him. Hellnr jerked it away and deliberately placed the muzzle over his own breast and tied and fell dead,

Salt River, the Famous Political Water-ing-Place. This famous old-time Kentucky water-ing-place opened for the fall and winter season on Wednesday last, the fifth instant, under the most favorable auspices imaginable. At this writing several thousand distinguished guests are registered at the Grand Republican Hotel, while thousands more are on their way from various States in the Union. The season promises to be one of the gayest in its history. The hotel is being rapidly chlarged and improved to meet this unprecedented and unlooked-for army of visitors, and hundreds of cottages are in course of construction along the banks of this beautiful stream. The climate is warm and delightful, as the Democrats have made it pretty hot for this latitude. The roses and honeysuckles are in bloom, also magnolias, lading the refreshing atmosphere with their fragrant perfume. Tempting and luscious oranges hailg ori the trees. The walls of the city are of jasper and the streets are of pure gold. The waters are as clear as crystal^ and as cold. St John is delighted with it and pronounces it of a stiperioiL-qualitv, as do also his vast armv of admirers.

Workmen in boring for salt water struck a vein of pure Nelson County whisky, and it flows lit intervals of twenty minutes about ninety barrels daily. Other wells will be put down at once in the Vicinity, and it may be a sufficient supply can bd obtained to meet the home demand. There is game here in great abundance, especially raccoons, of which an unprecedented number have, from some unexplained cause, flocked to this immediate neighborhood. Coon limiting is therefore one of the most popular amusements. . The new and elegant steamer Flora Lockwood arrived this morning bringing a vast number of visitors from Indiana. She leaves this evening for Pittsburgh to bring some 5,000 waiting transportation from New York. Mrs. Belva Lockwood, accompanied by Hon. Benjamin F. Butler, arrived to-day. Mrs. Lockwood journeyed all tjie way* from Washington on a machine called a tricycle, and Mr. Butler from Massachusetts on ohe called a bicycle, a feat never before accomplished. The grand opening ball of the season was given on Friday evening last, and was a grand success in every sense of the word. The entire company participated, and waltzed to the music of the Cleveland Democratic band, engaged at an enormous expense especially for the occasion. The costumes worn on the occasion were elegant beyond description. It is simply impossible to get a complete list of them at this writing. Among the most prominent, however, I noticed the following cast of characters, “a la bal masque:” Hon. James G. Blaine, as the Mexican izer; Hon. John A. Logan, as the National Cuspidore; Hon. Steve Elkins, as the. Manipulator: Hon. Jay Gould, ak the Associated Press; Hon. B. F. Jones, as Old Money Bags; Rev. Dr. Burchard, as Rum, Romanism and Rebellion. Hon. Chester A. Arthur paid his friends a flying visit and impersonated “The Lone Fisherman.” He returns to his friends, George W. Curtis and Roscoe Conkling, who prefer to spend the winter in New York. The only thing to mar the pleasure of the evening was the breaking of the platform upon which they were dancing.' Subsequent investigation revealed the startling fact that several of the planks supposed to be perfectly sound foundation generally. The party all fell, and great was the fall thereof. Hon. James G. Blaine is badly hurt. It is feared that he is fatally injured. Hon. John A. Logan, B. F. Butler. Mrs. Belva Lockwood, Hon. Joseph Mnlhattan and ex-Governor John P. St. Johu, all fell bv the wayside, receiving injuries of a less serious nature than Blaine, and they will all recover. The Cleveland Democratic band have genefpusly agreed to furnish them with a new and better dancing platform, where there shall be joys for evermore, dancing to the sweet strains of the grand old Democratic band, which .will play old familiar tunes to their delighted audience. I would say to all those who contemplate visiting this delightful Kentucky resort to take the Repimlican star-route, and you will be Sure to land here safe and sound. It is the best and cheapest route to both Salt River and Delusion. Many of the present guests have not been here for twenty-three years, and they are surprised at the vast improvements made by the Democratic pleasureseekers in that period. Quite a little city has been built, and the former oc'cupants leave it very reluctantly, as they have sorter become attached to it from a long residence. They are all leaving for the-city of Washington as the others come to take their places. were rotten and

l tie cmei amusements at present consist of hunting for Republican majorities—it is exciting sport, as the game is soarce—fishing tor Irish votes, eating Grow, dancing to the strains of. the Democratic party, studying astronomy by the star-route, wondering if the Government belongs to the people or to the Republican party, and if it is possible to steal a few Presidential chairs without being caught, and whether Blaine is really a bigger liar than Joe Mulhattan, or whether the whole thing is not one ^ of Joe’s lies or a dream. Oh, it is a dreamy, blissful existence here. 'We are so charmed that we don’t know whether we are ourselves or our grandmother’s ghost, or our own mother-in-law, Belva in tights. Butler, the clown —but Salt River for us forever. We love the charming name, dear, darling, ducky Salt River—so full of fair, fat, freedom, and Rum, Romanism and Rebellion. The land of me pnd Blaine, Butler and Belva, so solemn, sad, suggestive. Come into the garden of Eden, Maud, and tarry with us. Come, all good Republicans, Prohibitionists, Greenbackers and Drummers. Come. Come to the Salt River fountain, and drink without money and without price; Come and enjoy its pleasures forever more. Sic semper tyramtis. flat justicia ruat coclhim, ignum vitae, cross-cut saw. —Joseph Mulhattan, in St. Louis HepubKean. An Audacious Demagogue’s Plea. That the negroes add to the electoral vote of the southern portion of the Union without bringing any strength to the Republican party is the foundation of Mr. Blaine’s recent outcry against the present adjustment of political power between the States. That as voters they are controlled, bought, bribed or driven, and thus only add to the influence of the #Uite men of their section, he assumes, and this is now sutficient in Mr. Blaine’s opinion to make necessary a remodeling of the Constitution or the reconstruction of

States. Yet, it Will be recalled that this same soud-mouthed demagogue received his nomination for the Presidency by reason of the increased electoral vote of the negro States, whose delegates were controlled by his strikers hi’ means and ^ methods which were worse than those he charges on Southern Democrats. Of this character of support in the Chicago convention Arkansas, largely represented by negroes manipulated by Powell Clayton, furnished a notable example. Mr. Blaine saw nothing wrong in thns defeating other candidates of his party whose support came from ^Northern States, To measure the votes of Southern negro delegates, bought or led like sheep, against the free votes of the Northern White men was all right and proper when it inured to the benefit of Mr. Blaine,' but the moment the weight of the negro population operates to the benefit of another he sees in it a great National peril and a badge of slavery to the mcn,who submit to it. As an audacious demagogue, James G. Blaine has no equal in "American life. As a falsifier of facts, as a pervertor of the law, as a deelaimer of revolutionary ideas among people whosi ear he has by reason of his position and talents, lie is the most mischievous public character who has appeared in bur history.—St. Louis lie* publican.

A Pernicious Harangue. During the last campaign of otir civil war, and when its result, so far as lighting was concerned, became daily more certain, Englishmen who had been anxious to see the disruption of the Union, and who had predicted that event as , inevitable, began to talk in ft different strain. It was true, they said, that the North might overwhelm the South by brute force; but the South would never be reconciled to the North; the Union, if continued, would 3*?. to one side at least, a hateful One, and its continuance a source of misery, stfeh^Us all loveless bonds between either persons or nations must forever prove. Americans who happened to be in England at that stirring time know how strongly this view was insisted upon there, the social tone in many Circles far transcending in bitterness even that of the Times and its many followers of the press. But Americans everywhere know hoW these unfriendly auguries were falsified. They know how the keynote struck by General Grant at Appomattox was followed by fraternal harmonies. And all the world knows how is has been possible, despite of precedent, and despite of malignant prophecies that were designed to promote what they foreshadowed, for a gigantic civil convulsion to be followed b\ universal accord, so that a new and far stronger Republic has been born of the Republic of the past. How was this auspicious and, ontside our borders, this unexpected, end attained? Was it not substantially attained by kindness, by moderation, by following the manly and patriotiffcourse which General Grant, happily for his country, indicated in the hour of his triumph? There ean be but one reply; and it is because of that reply, and because of all on which it rests and all which it implies, that we greatly regret the spirit and the statements of Mr. Blaine’s speech made at. Augusta. We do not intend at this time to discuss the details or figures marshaled by ' Mr. Blaine. There is much to say about them, but the discussion is foreign to our present purpose. That purpose is to point with emphasis and with regret that Mr. Blaine's spirit is not the spirit cf General Grant at Appomattox; that if the evils he complains; of exist they have existed during a score of years of Republican rule; and that patriotic Democrats, and-' especially patriotic Southern Democrats, have assured us with the utmost solemnity that, however hard it might be to cope with some existing evils in the South in previous circumstances, that they would and should melt like mist before the rising sun after a Democratic success in a Presidential' election. Such a thing has come to pass. The opportunity for that completed reconciliation, that cemented and solidified National unity that all patriots desire is, ; In the estimation of a large body of our count rymen, before us. The Democrat# have elected their candidate. Let them now serve the State as they have eagerly promised they would do if the people gave them the ehance. To seek, out of disappointment, to thwart them in illegitimate ways, to stir up sectional rancor, to revive animosities long laid away to be forgotten, may be fit work for a partisan; it is not tit work for a patriot. The time, moreover—apart from lofty and general considerations of the public good—is not a good time to prick and goad popular passion. The eloseness of the election, and the heat >md personalities that have disfigured the canvass, have within a few days brought the community close to* the edge of danger. Prudent citizens

j U1 WlUKCVei p<UbJf unvc UWH VYWI ilHiUe I of this, and have been realty to join hands heartily to assure public tranquility- For this reason, while waving the minor questions of grace and delicacy involved in a defeated candidate’s faking such an attitude, at such a moment, those citizens will agree with us, we take it, when we express out hearty sorrow that Mr. Blaine spoke the "words he did speak at Augusta. Let us; add, without going into the discussion now, that Mr. Blaine throughout his remarks, and particularly so far as he indulges in auguries of the future, seems to us to overlook one consideration, and a most important one. It is this: That the South, no longer subject to slavery, is rapidly accepting and establishing all those agents of an industrial civilization which characterize modern society. It is varying its agriculture, opening mines, building railroads, constructing’ factories, and, in a word, rendering itself more and more homogeneous with the North. Very soon the same influences and tendencies, which mold opinions, must prevail throughout the whole country'. The ascendency of a partieulai elass, or of a particular race, which has been a matter of local self-defense, and, as we may say, aceideutal and exceptional, must give way to the more general influences. Parties must divide there as they do here, ar.d the phrase “a solid South” become a memory of times of transition, and not a permanent distinction.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser (Rep.). —Ladies are now carrying the rage for harmonious dressing even to thjur note, paper, -dhich must correspond with their complexion and hair. A few years ago the staple tints of fine stationery were white and cream, with a email percentage of lavender, azure and a few others. Now there are about twenty-five standard tints altogether, while the number of shades given to each tint is without limit.—N, Y. Mail.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.' •—The Disciples of Kansas will dedicate fifty new church houses in that! State this year. —Girard College has an endowment of $10,138,000; Columbia, $6.200,000,; and Harvard, $4,500,000. —The Toronto Ministerial Association has decided to petition the Minister of Militia to prohibit military parades Sundays. , —All the towns and cities of the State of Massachusetts arc now obliged to give school-books and all other supplies to the pupils free.—Boston Post. —The total expense of the Moody and Sankey meetings in London was £16,000, the whole having been contributed without any application for subscription. —Mrs. J. Lawrence Smith, of Louisville, has donated $8,000 to the National Academy of Sciences, the income of which is to be used for the encouragement of scientific investigation. —Woman suffrage in educational matters is now established in twelve States and several Territories, and in two or three others women may hold office on public educational boards.— N. Y. Independent. .—From the object-lessons of nature it is safe to say that the boy now cooped up in school, so as to shut him out from them, learns more—very much more—■

than he could In books m the same space of time.—Indianapolis Journal. _ —While tho politicians are dallying over the Mormon question the school teachers are attacking the evil in great earnest. Eighty-live schools are now maintained m the territory by outside help. These employ 195 teachers, who are paid $98,000 a year, and who give instruction to 7,500 children. The buildings have been erected at a cost of $300,000.—The Current. - —The statement is made that of the profits of his lectures here in 1882 Prof. Tyndal left $13,000 in tho hands of trustees for the benefit of American students who might wish to go abroad 'tff prepare themselves for original research in physics, and that, as but few satisfactory candidates have appeared, the fund has now more than doubled.—■ N. Y. Independent. —New Zealand, with 532,000 populaion, exclusive of aborigines, reports about 87,000 pupils enrolled, and 66,000 In average attendance, under about 2,000 teachers, and about 1,000 children in industrial schools. Provision is made for nornal instruction hrfour schools, with 147 student#; for secondary instruction, in twenty schools; and for superior instruction, in four colleges, the last established in 1882. —The proportion of men employed as teachers in the public schools decreases every year. In New York State during the last year for which full reports have been rendered (1882) there was a decrease of male teachers amounting to 537, and an increase of women to the number of 953. The change is significant of several things, and points to ti$ time when few of the schools will have any male teachers besides the Principal, if indeed most of them do not have a female Principal-—N. Y. Herald. ■ WIT AND WISDOM. —Every man must work at something. The moment he stops working for humanity the devil employs him.— N. Y. Examiner. ^ —Extract from a letter from Angelina: “Dear Henry, you ask.if I will return your love. Yes, Henry; I have no. use for it, and I return it with many thanks.”. - —“Wall, Harry, how do you and your sister get on, now that your mother is awav?” “Oh! Florie is just like a mother to me—she is so cross!”—N. Y. Independent. —Lady (to nurse from the Midlands, viewing, the trackless for the first time): "There, Jane! that ig'the sea!” Jane (with hazy geographical notions and some disgust): “Yes, mum; but where’s, the furrin parts?”—Boston Globe. —“Thgy had a partial eclipse of (he moon over in Europe the other night,”' remarked Gilhooly to Gus De Smith“Well, I should say it. was a partial! eclipse. We didn’t have any of it over in this country.”—Texas Siftings. —“Johnny, how many hours ?re there in a day ?” ‘'Twcqtv-three hours,’’ was the reply. “What nas becoflSe of the other one?”, “I don’t know, but I heard the teacher say the days were one hour shorter than they used to bo.”— Texas Siftings. —“Do you understand how to fix up my hair?” asked a lady of her newlyhired colored servant “Yes, mam,'I kin fix it up in ten minutes.” “You will never do for me. What would I do with myself all the rest of the day?” —Oil City Derrick. —A shrewd old lady cautioned her married daughter against worrying her husband too much and concluded by saying: “My child, man is like an egg. Kent m hot water a little while he may boil soft, but keep him there too long and he hardens.”—N. Y. Ledger.

—“Mamma, ” said a little boy to his mother the other day, “let Me see you break Maud 6.’s record; willj you?” “What do you mean?” asked the mother. “Why,” said the boy, innocently. “Papa says you can talk faster than a horse can trot.”—Buffalo Courier. —There are many ways in which it would be well for us to carry our childhood with us, even on into old age, if it were possible, in its truthfulness and open-heartedness, and willingness nos only to love, but to show that we love, as well. Why, that last alone would cure many a heart-ache of to-day.— Mary F. McKean. —Smith sent to a celebrated oculist to perform an operation for cataract. “How much will you charge me, doctor?” “Fifteen hundred francs.” “Will you guarantee a successful result?” “Hum! that would be difficult; but if you have not got tho amount I will give you time.” “Thanks; I prefer to give you a draft—on sight’’— —French. Must Have Been a Cold Night. The moon beat silently upon the Waves, and the waves: beat noisily upon the sand, and they strolled quietly along the beach, and as he looked down into her eyes, lovingly, he asked plead“Mildred, will you return my love?” “Yes, George,” she answered, hesitatingly, “ on one conditien.” “Only tell me that-condition,” hapleaded breathlessly. “It is,” she replied, solemnly, “that; you do not again ask me to accept it,”' and the moon and the waves and his heart continued to beat as they walked home sorrowfully and silently.—B<#h ton IW.