Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 December 1884 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF Compiled from Various Sources. | Congi wsioaal Proceedings* In the Senate on the 8th the Chair laid ■before that body the naval appropriation bill as It came from the House. A letter was tread from General Grant respecttully declining a pension, even if the bill were unanimously passed; and Mr. Mitchell, the author, withdrew the bill. The Senate amendment to the unearned land grant bill wras insisted upon and a new conference committe was 'appointed. Among the bills introduced was one to provide for an appropriat ion to promote the colored people’s world’s exposition to be held at Chicago.In the House a number of new bills were introduced, among the more important being the following: An amendment by Mr. Townshend that the consent of the House shall be required as well as that of the Senate.in making treaties; an amendment to the act making a loan in jaid of the New Orleans World’s Exposition: •to open for settlement^ certain^ortions of ‘the Indian Territory; to suspend the coinage :Of standard silver dollars; to prevent the jcoritraction of the currency. Discussion of the inter-State commerce biU was resumed. ThIe Senate on the 9th further insisted upon its amendments to the naval appropriation bill, and a new Conference Committee was appointed. Mr. Sherxhan introduced a bill providing for the erection of a statue to the memory of Lafayette. A motion to take up the Oregen Central land forfeiture bill was voted down. By a party vote the bill for the admission of Dakota was taken up, Mr. Harrison addressing the Senate at considerable length. The Texas Pacific Railroad land grant forfeiture bill was made the ‘special order for the 16th. The bill to provide for the sale of the Cherokee reservation In Arkansas was passed.In the House Mr. Chalmers introduced a bill to restore republican form of government to Misstesipipi. Consideration of the inter-State cbmjmerce bill was resumed, Messrs. Barksdale Kof Mississippi), Horr (of Michigan), Reagan i(of Texas), Boyle and Weaver (of Iowa) taking part. There was quite a lively debate [between Messrs. Horr and Reqjgan. } In the Senate on the 10th Mr. Sherman presided. An invitation to attend the 'World’s Fair at New Orleans was received. On the strength of a letter from Captain lEads, the inte-oceanic ship railway bill was withdrawn. Mr. Vest spoke on the Dakota bilfc He declared that the population ;Of the Territory was not enought to entitle it to representation in Congress After a •britff executive session the Senate adjourned >......In the House, the resignation of Representative Scales (of North Carolina) was ^received. Mis, Keifer offered an amendment requiring that hereafter all military appointments to the grade of Second Lieutenant be confined to graduates of the Military Academy, and {o meritorious nonSissioned officers recommended for ►tion in the manner now provided by Mr. Morrison offered a resolution providing for a recess from December 23d to January 5th. Referred. Consideration of the inter-State commerce bill was resumed. Mr. Turner (of Kentucky) supported the Reagan substitute. A message from the President was received transmitting the report of the Secretary or State in reference to framing a law for the preventing of collisions at sea.

In the Senate on the 11th Mr. Van Wyek '(of Nebraska) offered a resolution that the rules be so amended that hereafter treaties, ■which concern matters of revenue, be considered in open session. On objection the matter went over one day. The Galveston harbor bill was made a special order for January tith. The Oregon Central land forfeiture bill was discussed at length. The Dakota bill was discussed by ’Mr. Harrison - (of Indiana) who Btrongly urged the admission of the Terri - tory into the Union. Mr. Sherman offered a joint resolution, which was passed, appointing Saturday, February 21st, as the day for the ceremonies connected with the completion of the Washington monument. AdJor.rnedjuntil Monday_In the House Mr. Hancock’ reported the invalid appropriation bill; referred to tho committee of the whole. Consideration of the interstate commerce Ibill was resumed A general understanding was reached that debate shall Close the next day the subject is taken up. Mr. hands'll gave notice that at the proper time he would move to recommit the whole subject. Mr. Hiscock offered a resolution to appoint a joint committee to investigate the New York canals, and their relations with inter state commerce. Th® Senate was not in session on the 12th. The day session of the House was almost entirely taken up with the discussion of a resolution introduced by Mr. Warner (of Ohio), who claims that his colleague, J. i>. Taylor, during the recess had printed in the Record a speech that was not delivered, on the floor, and which reflected on committees of the Senate and the House, on members, and on the House itself, lie wanted that speech expunged from the Record. It seems that the speech released to was a thrust at pension legislation, and Mr. Warner was chairman of the House Committee having in charge some special pension matters. Mr. Warner animadverted oh the prevailing custom of „ printing speeches in the Record that are never delivered on the floor. On this latter point Mr. Cox (of New York) was called to nis feet, and the debate was both spicy and fiery at times. Mr. Warner’s resolution was adopted. The House also passed the Senate resolution In reference to the ceremonies in connection with the completion of the Washington monument. At the evening session a number of private pension bills were passed. Adjourned until Monday. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A daughter of Mathew Arnold was married to a London lawyer, Fred. W. Whitridge, on. the 9th. Miss Mary J. Caldwell, a New York young lady, wants to give $300,000 as the foundation of a fund to start a Catholic college. The Committee to investigate the conduct of Marshal Wright in Ohio at the October election will subpoena General Dudley to testify. An old beggar named Pierre Prefaux, who died at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 9th, had over $5,000 on deposit in a savings bank. He died intestate, and left no clew to his htfirs. The Prince of Wales will not ask Parliament for an allowance for his eldest son, Prince Albert Victor, until the young man takes unto himself a wife. A London dispatch says the Duke of Edinburgh has been appointed to command the Mediterranean squadron. On the 9th Lord Chief-Justice Coleridge of England, sentenced Captain Dudley and Mate Stephens,, of the Mignonette, to be hanged. They killed and ate the flesh of a companion while in a starving condition at sea. The noted Cincinnati philanthropist, Reuben R. Springer, died on the 10th. The first acts of the Diaz administration in Mexico aro giving satisfaction. The Japanese Prince Alexis Saigo, a nephew of Colonel Oyama, Japanese Minister of War, died at Washington, D. C., on the 10th. He was only eleven years of age.

Tammany, 500 strong, will participate in the ceremonies attending the inauguration of President Cleveland. A proposal is made that the President, surrounded by his Cabinet and others, shall from the White House open the New Orleans Exposition by electricity. ■ Prime Minister Ferry has been informed by Earl Granville that English negotiations with China with a view of settling the Franco-Chinese difficulty amicably, have resulted in failure. The American Base Ball Association has dropped the Virginia and Indianapolis clubs. Offioers elected: H. D. McKnight, President; Chris Von der Ahe, Vice-Pres- | ident, and W. C. Wycoff, Secretary and l Treasurer. 1 The President consented to start the l machinery of the New Orleans ExposiI tion by electricity from the White House | oil the 16th. 1 In West Virginia a curious political I complication has arisen as the result of the (change of the time for State elections Waited upon October 14th. I The silver jubilee of Archbishop Lynch’s consecration began at Toronto, Ont, on Hie 11th, accompanied with imposing f eslvities. \ Ex-Chief of Police J. I. Ruffin of Cinnnati, O., died on the 12th. eon of the Bishop of Rochester, Eng., become a Roman Catholic. rrOovXRH0R Long, of Massachusetts, reasons why the people of this State the Michigan treaty.

* General liRIERE De Liste threatens to resign the command at Tonquin unless he is reinforced. On the evening of the 13th representatives of the press and artist ic professions gave a dinner to Mme. Patti in New York. It is said that Marshal Wright, of Cincinnati, O., used $14,105 of the people’s money in employing deputies at the October election. r The dinner given by the Executive Committee of the New York Merchants’ and Business Men’s Cleveland and Hendricks Clubs on the evening of the 12th was a grand affair. Os the 12th Mr. Foster, United States Minister to Spain, met the Special Committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce appointed to consider the SpanishAmerican treaty. General Brisbix, President of the Executive Committee of the National Cattlemen’s Association, declares that a majority of the cattlemen are in favor of the leasing of public grass lands. lx Paris on the 12th, at the funeral of Bastian Lepage, many English and American residents placed wreaths upon the coffin. Meissonier, Cabanel and other artists were present at the ceremony. It is said the Marquis of Salisbury is in feeble health, and will go abroad in the hope of being benefited by a change of scene. At the celebration, February 21st, at the completion of the Washington monument, General Sheridan will be Marshal of the day. The notorious Canadian crook, Lightfoot Jim Green, just released from the Kingston Penitentiary, has joined the Salvation Army. CK1MES AND CASUALTIES. On the 9th six persons were Cremated in a burning dwelling at Trenton, a small mining village near Delano, Pa. Only a seven year-old child escaped, who was dropped from a window of the burning building by the father, Frank Farrell, who returned for other members of the family and perished with them. On the 10th James L. Flint, a member of the New York Union League Club, was arrested on a charge of having persuaded a man to vote under another’s name for Cleveland. News was received at St. Paul, Minn., on the 10th, that a commercial traveler named Baird had been killed and robbed of $4,500 near Golden City, British Columbia. Eddy, Hammond & Co., for whom Baird traveled, have offered a reward of $1,U00 for the capture of the murderers. Three young men, J. W. McKee, Frank H. McDouald and Charles H. Locks, all of Buffalo, N. Y., were arrested in ■ St. Louis,

Mo., on* the 10th. The hrst-named was book-keeper for a firm in Buffalo, and took away with him $1,148.70 of his employers’ money. The young men spent all but $505, which was recovered. They were willing to return withouta requisition. JohnP. Haidkn, who resides near Little ton, W. Va., accidentally shot himself, wife and four children on the 11th, while taking a load from a gun. None were fatally injured. 1 By the jburning of a candy factory at Detroit, Mich., on the 12th, three lives were lost. j During a storm in the Rappahannock River, Virginia, on the 12th, many colored oystermen were drowned. On the 12th two Oregon cowboys tied one hand behind them and fought a duel with knives, in which both were killed. On the night of the ilth a Hocking Valley miner, who deserted the ranks of the strikers, was made the victim of a piece of villainy. An attempt was made to blow up his house and murder his family. On the 12th Alfred W. Beardsley, of the First Michigan Volunteers, an inmate of the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, O., was found dead at Middlepike, 300 yards from where his wife and child lived. Dayton, O., is exercised over a mysteripus poisoning case in two families living in a double tenement in that city. Four persons were taken violently ill. with indications of poisoning. All is theory, but suspicion points to a street-car driver. MISCELLANEOUS. On the 9th the Lonsdale Company of Providence, R. L, posted a reduction of ten per cent, to take place in two weeks. In the lumber regions of Northern Michigan the condition of the laboring classes is said to be most wretched. Labor among the Swedes can be had for ten cents a day with board consisting of rye bread and coffee and a meat meal three times a week. On the 9th the Arkansas train robbers had a preliminary examination at Little Rock. France will put an increased, tariff duty on imported cattle. Measles and diphtheria are causing a great many deaths in New York. - The Congo Conference committee has accopted England’s proposals [regarding the Niger. At Sharon, Pa., a large iron mill resumed operations on the 9th, and will run during the winter. At Steinberg, Moravia, on the 9th, four Anarchists were arrested, and a large amount of dynamite was found on their premises. The French Government, for political reasons, telegraphed Admiral Courbet and General Briere de Liste on the 9tb to maintain the defensive attitude until further orders. Latest reports state that all negotiations between France and Chinr. looking to a settlement are off again. The Monongahela Valley coal miners are attempting to revive the strike which so signally failed a few weeks ago. The Springer committee has received from the Attorney-General the correspondence on file in his office relative tq the employment of Deputy Marshals at the Ohio election.

AT a meeting in New York the Directors of the American Association of baseball clubs suspended Tony Mullane, the contract breaker, for the season of 1885, and thereupon O. P. Caylor offered the resignation of the Cincinnati Club, and gave notice that they would apply for admission into the National League. " On the 10th the National Association of Health Boards met at Washington D. C. At Cork, Ireland, on the 10th, the police seized a number of rifles and bayonets discovered outside the city. On the 10th the Congo Conference discussed the question of free navigation on the Niger River. Mr. Kasson, the American delegate, presented a neutrality project. The National Association of| Trotting Horse Breeders met in New York on the 10th. On the 11th an investigation of the alleged irregularities in the office of the First Comptroller of the Treasury was begun in Washington. At a meeting of the Western Nail Association at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 10th, the card rates were reaffirmed. The cotton mills of Leljan, Abraham & Co., at New Orleans, closed on the 10th on account of the depression in trade. At Pittsburgh, Pa., the machinery molders have virtually accepted the fifteen per cent, reduction ordered in wages. THE hanking firm of Wilkinson Brothers, Syracuse, N. Y., closed on the 10th, and their affairs are in the hlkuds of a receiver. They were rated high, and the failure was H surprise.

The coal miners’strike in the Hooting Valley seems practically ended, and the old men are offering to resume work The House sub-Committee on Pens! one has agreed to report an appropriation of $00,000,000 for the next fiscal year. Ox the 10th the flint glass workers of Pittsburgh, Pa., struck against the twenty per cent, reduction. Factories are running with apprentices, who take the places of journeymen. “ At Dayton, O., on the 10th a monster jaguar escaped from BarretB’a circus. The beast killed a great many cattle and hogs, and the people turned out and killed it after an exciting chase. Ox the 10th a San Francisco woman t ried to kill herself, but, failing, she put a fatal bullet into heh husband. Cause, jealousy. Ox the 10th the possession of the' St. Louis (Mo.) Chamber of Commerce bedding was surrendered by the Chamber- of Commerce Association to the trustees of the second mortgage bond-holders. Three of the notorious Welsh Mountain, or Buzzard gang of outlaws in Pennsylvania, have been committed for trial. Ox the 11th twelve Nihilists were captured in St. Petersburg, and important documents were seized. A subterranean passage leading tc the tax receiver’s office was discovered, at Retehitza, Russia, on th& 11th. The United States Supreme Cou-t is three years in arrears with its docket, and relief legislation is to be pushed. Ox the Uth, at the National Health Conference in Washington, D. C-., Dr. Campbell, of Richmond, Va,j stated that the death-roll among the {colored popula tion was so large as to excite the pity and commiseration of the whole community. He attributed it not to a constitutional peculiarity, but to poverty. The military were ordered out tc: the scene of trouble with the strikers at Angus, la., on the 11th where a threatening condition of affairs existed. A number of forged drafts on the Iowa Loan and Trust Company are said to l>e in circulation. The Wilkinson Bros, failure at Syrac use, N. Y., has involved others and caused several assignments. The American Base Ball Association concluded its session at New York on the 11th. A number of important changes were made in the rules in reference to suspensions, expulsions, rain-checks, etc. Atrocities by the Turks in Macedonia are said to be increasing. Orders have been issued to the Chinese commanders to suspend host ilities. ; Ox the 12th the preliminary examination of the Arkansas train robbers took place at Little Rock. ;. ■ 1 ■

1 HE submarine telegraph cable between Senegal and France has been completed, and the first message was sent on the 12th. At Angus, la., quiet has been restored among the striking miners, and the calling out of the military was premature. Twenty-one deaths from cholera were reported in Paris during the week ended the 12th. ^ During the seven days ended the 12th there were 348 failures in the United St ates and Canada, as compared with 320 the previous week. The Chinese naval service now contains 126 Germans. Bradstreet’s weekly trade review shows no gain in the industrial situation. Holiday purchases at business centers cause an improvement in many branches of business. On the 12th the International Monetary Commission at Rome concluded its sittings. The proposal of America to suspend the coinage of silver was not : discussed. Secretary McCulloch has prepared a circular to take the place of all previous circulars concerning the importance o;E old rags, providing that no old rags shall be landed in the United States except upon thorough disinfection, Russia is anxious for an international commission to settle the Egyptian debt question. , j In the vicinity of Bradford, Pa., oil circles are excited ovor a new v.-ell which produces 350 barrels au hour. On the 12th a huntfred hosiiery operatives left Nottingham, Eng., for America, where places had already been engaged. George Cook was hanged at Laramie, Wy. T., on the 12th, for the murder of James Blunt in November,; 1883. Sidney Hall, the colored wife-mu rderer, who was to have been hanged at Hamilton, Ga., on the 12th, was granted a new trial, so the execution was off. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The town oi BrooKville, Ind., waif almost entirely destroyed by fire oq the 14th. Another attempt was made to blow up a miner’s house at Nelsonville, O., on the 14th. In a wrestling match ait St. Louis, Mo., ou the 14th, between lVm. Muldoon, ofiNew York, and Colonel J. H. McLaughlin, of Detroit, Mich., Muldoon was the winner, gaining three out of five falls. It was an exciting contest, and the whole five bouts ware wrestled. Fire destroyed the Calumet sewer-pipe works hear Toronto, O., on the 14th. Loss, $100,000. It was the largest establishment of the kind in the country. The charters of 648 National banks— nearly one-fourth the entire number—will expire between January 1st and June 1st, 1885.’ The Salvation Army, began a campaign in Montreal, Can., on the 14th, and a mob made things very lively for them. In Boston, Mass., at the recent election, in a total vote of 51,765, ther e was a majority of 13,449 in favor of licences to liquqr dealers.

The sentences of death passed upon Captain Dudley and Mato Stevens of tho Mignonette for killing and eatipg tho boy Parker have been commuted by royal clemency to imprisonment for six months without labor. ! i Joiiji C. Shoemaker, of the Indians,polis Sentinel, has filed an affidavit asking that further proceedings be stayed until. Mr. Blaine answers his last batch of interrogatories. Bismarck’s golden jubilee, which will signalize the fiftieth anniversary of his entrance into official life, will be celebrated in Berlin next spring. The Kadical press of London are poking sharp sticks at Lord Granville fcr his procrast inating tactics, which have enabled Germany to outstrip England in the matter of African colonization. The English newspapers complain that they are not allowed to know the truo state of affairs relating to the Nile expedition owing to General Wolseley’n rigorous censorship of press dispatches. France has purchased seven British steamers to transport additional troops to China. Andrew May, a prominent manufacturer of Indianapolis, Ind., and noted as a zealous temperance advocate, fell dead from heart disease on the 13th, aged seventy years. A meeting has been in session for several days, in Boston, of members of the Masonic fraternity of the ninety-fifth degree, Rite of Memphis or Mizraim, and ancient and Primitive Rite, for the purpose of establishing a un'on Sovereign Sanctuary from the fortieth to the ninetysixth degree.

CRIME IN GOTHAM, ladles Assaulted And Robbed On PnbUe Thoroughfares—Plucky Resistance By a Millionaire Widow to an Assault by Three Robbers;—No Police Where Police Ought to Re. New York, Decen b -r 11. Mrs. William Humphrey, the California widow whose husband was connected with the Big Bonanza and who estimates her wealth at millions, was attacked and almost garroted in West Thirteenth street to-day. Her reticule, containing $500 in checks and as much more cash, was snatched Irom her hand and ripped apart, but owing to the lady’s heroism and the ready assistance of several other ladies’ and gentlemen passing by, she lost only $70. At noon Mrs. Humphrey left her residence to cash checks and do some shopping, placing her cash and checks in her reticule. She first went to Macy’s and purchased several small presents for Christmas, and cashed $500 of checks, i It was then her intention to go to Tiffany’s, but noticing THREE YOUNG MEN keeping close to her and suspecting that they had seen her cash her check, she returned to Macy’s, but when she again came out the men were at her heels. Mrs. Humphrey then hurried across town. When she crossed Seventh avenue the first man came nearer to her and touched her on the shoulder, saying in an inquiring tone of voice: “I believe this is Thirteenth street?” “It is,” Mrs. Humphrey replied, calmly, “and you and your friends behind had better pass along.” Without another word the desperado threw the lady agaiust the iron railing of one of the houses and said: “Let go that bag or l’U BEAT YOUR BRAINS OUT on the railing.” Mrs. Humphrey shot out her right arm and caught the villaiu By the collar while she clung to her reticule with the other. The other two men then sprang forward and bent the lady backward over the railing, while she screamed for assistance and clung to the reticule. The side from which the lady’s handkerchief protruded was towards the then, the reticule was tom in half, and one of the men snatched the handkerchief side and fled. The other two men fought, and the lady held the other side of the bag. Several gentlemen who had noticed the garroting rushed up Thirteenth street. A coach also stopped and two ladies sprang out, just as THE MEN FLED.

Tbe assault had not tested more than ten seconds. The ladies from the coach went to Mrs. Humphrey and revived her. The gentlemen, accompanied by a crowd followed the desperadoes, but all escaped. An employe of .Macy & Co., said that only three days ago a lady was passing west along Thirteenth street when she was attacked and §50 stolen from her, and the day previous to that two ladies were attacked on Seventh avenue and Thirteenth street at six o’clock and robbed. Captain Brogan of the fifteenth Precinct in which the crime occurred, said he had heard nothing of it, aud was quite indignant when the character of the street was painted for him. A STRANGE STORY. A Romance of the Dissecting Table—A Young Lady, Buried in a Trance ami Resurrected By Medical Students, Comes To on the Dissecting Table, and Now Said to Be an Inmate of an Insane Asylum. Great Barrington, Mass., Dec. 11. 3 A startling romance has just come to light in Egremont township, and is causing much excitement. In 1879 Miss Estelle Newman, daughter of an influential and wealthy family, apparently died after a long illness from spinal complaint. There was an elaborate funeral ceremony, and the body was buried in due form. At the time of Estelle’s supposed death and burial a youug medical student, named Worth H. Wrigh};, was home from the Albany Medical College. This Dr. Wright graduated in a year or two and began practicing medicine, but he was addicted to intemperance, and one night at Newtown, Conn., fell into the hands of roughs AND WAS MURDERED. It is now the report, which causes the excitement, that Wallace Wright, brother of Dr. Wright, says that on the night Miss Newman was buried, in company with his brother and two othei medical students, he proceeded to the cemetery an exhumed Miss Newman’s body, filling the grave as carefully* as before. The remains were placed In a sack with good care and conveyed to the Albany dissecting rooms, where, to the horror and surprise of all, the lady, with whom Dr. Wright had for several years been well acquainted, was found to be alive and in a brief period came out of her trance. She was insane before the trance and so she continued. Being tenderly nursed she so far recovered that she was taken to some insane asylum in Schoharie County, New York, where she IS 8TIIA ALIVE.

She frequently speaks of Dr. Wright, nowdeceased. In support of this strange story a'cousin of Miss Newman learned that a gentleman, of Hinsdale, of good standing in the community stated no longer ago than Monday that the brother of the doctor informed him that the statement is true, and that Worth Wright so informed him. The relatives of Miss Newman appear loath to investigate, for what reason is unknown, unless it be the expense of supporting Miss Newman in her insane condition, they hardly being able at this time to assume so great a responsibility. The informant further states that unless her relatives take action soon the authorities will be applied to for permission to open the grave, which will settle the question whether Miss Newman is alive or not. Alleged Fatal Clubbing. Chicago, III , December 11. Wm. Linn, a packing-house employe, died at 10 a. m. Yesterday at his home, No. 37 Blair street, as is alleged, from the effects of a clubbing at the hands of Officers Bosecrans and Pembroke of the Iiinman street station, on the night of the 5th instant. Linn said that the cause of the beating was that he did not “move on” fast enough to suit the policeman. Dr. Marshall, who attended Linn, states that he died from blood-poisoning, the result of wounds in the back of the head, received at the packing-house. —-»»»—»~i- . .Serlojb Charges. Montreal, Can., December 11. Mr. LeBlanc, member of Parliament for Laval County,^and C. A. Corneille, Queen’s Counsel and a crown prosecutor for this district, were arrested yesterday on a charge of tampering with the Grand Jurors of the criminal assizes. It is alleged that by undue influence they obtained the acquittal of Henry Bulmer, a director of the Exchange Bank, who was charged with obtaining an undue preference by withdrawing deposits after the bank’s suspension, while co-director Burton, who was tried on a similar charge, was sentenced to ten days’ bnprisomnent

FRENCH LEAVE. A French Baker of Nyack, S. I., Take* ttnceremonious Leave of His Family and Elopes With m founder Woman—A Practical Wife. Stack, N. Y., December 12. Nyack has an elopement, and the people here are happy. The parties are N. Melchior, a well-to-do French baker, and Lizzie Baerman, a pretty French-German girl, twenty-three years of age, who has resided here for a couple of years with a family on Cedar Hill avenue. Melchior came to this place with his wife and family over two years ago, and opened a bakery on Depew avenue, and soon built up a large and paying business. He purchased some fine property in Upper Nyack, and made himself and family a very pleasant home there. His wife is an Alsatian, about thirty-five years old, and quite good looking. So far as people knew they always lived happily together. The young woman with whom Melchoir eloped, is short and gracefully formed, with jet black hair and sparkling eyes. Melchior met her several months ago and an intimacy grew up at once between them. She remarked to several parties that she “thought a great deal of the baker and would .ike to be his wife.” The elopement occurred last Saturday morning. On <%hat morning Melchoir kissed his wife good-bye, as he usually did when he went away, and said he was going to New York to buy flour. At night Melchior did not return and his wife was a little worried, but did not then suspect the truth of the matter. He did not come back Sunday, and then HER SUSPICIONS WERE AROUSED. Early in the week she went to New York, called at the place where he customarily purchased flour, and found that he was not there ou the preceding Saturday. When she returned home, she made a search through the house to see if anything was missing, and found that he had taken all the money, but twenty cents. She discovered, also, he had taken four suits of clothes and other things, which indicated 1ft- had prepared for a journey. A little later she ascertained that the girl, for whom he had formed suqh an attachment, had also gone away on Saturday morning, and it was not long before she found proof that they had eloped. Mrs. Melchior feels badly, but not heartbroken, and longs to get hold of her husband and his companion. She yesterday sold his horse and wagon and some other personal property, and says site will dispose of everything for which she can find buyers, so that if he ever comes back he will not have a cent. She is going to New York, and says she intends to leave this country and go to Europe. It is suspected that Melchior and the girl have sailed for Europe

Open Consideration of Foreign Treaties Agitated. Washington, D. C.. December 12. Considerable pressure is being brought to bear upon Senators with the view of having them abandon the rule which requires all treaties to be considered in secret session. The claim is put forward by merchants and others, and it appears to be justifiable, that the practice of shutting out the public, especially when revenue treaties are under consideration, is wrong, and in many instances disastrous to business. While the resolution offered in the Senate by Van Wyck to open the doors on the Spanish treaty was objected to yesterday, it is thought it may yet receive favorable consideration. There is a'great deal of opposition to the Spanish treaty in the Senate, and it is quite probable that it may fail of ratification. A Republican Senator from the West, in talking with a representative of the Unifed Press to-day expressed grave doubts of the ratification, and many others entertain similar views. It is hinted that Blaine Will use his influence against it. Brutally Murdered. CnATTAXOGGA, Tens., December 12. An old man named Freeman was brutally murdered in his house Wednesday night near Madison, Ala., on the Memphis lload, by two negroes. They had an ax as a weapon and literally cut him to pieces, his brains being laid bare and his head almost severed from his body. The butchers were arrested and one of them named Johnson confessed that they committed the deed. Last night when the Sheriff started to convey the prisoners to Huntsville for safe keeping a mob of 200 whites and blacks assembled at the depot to lynch the murderers. Just as the train rolled in the wildest scene ensued. The negroes, thinking they would soon be in the hands of the mob, commenced praying, while the howling mob shrieked for some one to lead them to seize the negroes. The Sheriff, by a skillful movement, got the negroes aboard the train, .which came near being wrecked by the lynchers. They are now in the Huntsville jail. A Horrible Death. Fort Keogh, M. T., December 13. Anton iWarning left Chateau November 13th to get logs from the mountains. Not returning within a fortnight his friends became anxious at his prolonged absence, particularly as he had only seven days’ rations with him. On Thanksgiving Day two friends started to search the mountains for him. Following his trail, alter a long hunt they came upon the poor fellow dead under a fallen tree, and frozen stiff. He had been made a prisoner by the weight of the great tree, and died a terrible death of starvation and cold. After the accident he had written a note and tied it aronnd his dog’s neck, telling the particulars of his sad misfortune, bat the faithful animal wonld not leave his master, and was sitting on the body when it was foand, nearly lamished. Warning was twenty-four years of age. He came West about a year ago from Janesville, Wis., where he has a father and sister residing.

Telegraph News. New York, December 12. One who is in a position to know what is going on in telegraph circles, says: “Messages have been sent to Chicago advising the officials there that the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company had separated from the Bankers’ and Merchants’, and directing the Western Union men to take possession of the offices and wires, including those in the sugar district, Grand Pacific Hotel and open and regular boards of trade. Upon what terms the deal has been effected 1 can not tel1 iust now.” Gone to Seek Theln Fortunes, Cincinnati, 6., December 13. On Thursday Mr. William F. Strong, living in Hartwell, packed his household goods in a freight car, and it started in the evening fot Jacksonville, Fla. The next morning it was discovered that three boys of the village, sons of excellent parents, had disappeared. Then it leaked Out that they had concealed themselves in the car and had started for Florida, where they expect to make their fortunes. Before going they provided themselves with twenty loaves of bread, two dozen bottles of beer, a big roast of beef and a cask of water. They will be two weeks upon the road.

A WICKED ACT. Alleged Attempt to Blow Up an Entire Family ][n Order to Wreak Vengeance on One Member—One of the Outcroppings of the Ohio Miners* Strike. Cor.tMBis, O., December 12. Neleonville is terribly excited over the. Attempt of an unknown person to blow up the house of Kich&rd Barnccutt and kill his family, between nine and! ten o’clock last night. The house is located, on the hill-side, at the edge of town, and the intention seems to have been to roll the dynamite or explosive against the house and turn it over and DOWN THE HILL. But from the manner in which It was hilled it missed its aim and lodged under the porch below, where the explosion occurred, which tore the porch nearly to shreds. The house otherwise was not injured, and Baruecutt and wife, with live children, escaped. The explosion was heard all over that part of the country, and soon several hundred people had gathered at the sepne of intended destruction. The, citizens are greatly excited over jhe occurrence, and there is talk among them of having the town placed under strong rule. This information, which was secured at the office of the Coal Exchange, says no one could be found on the streets immediately after the explosion occurred, and this is taken as indication that some of the riotous element among the STRIKERS DID THE WORK. Barnccutt, who was one Of the strikers, went to work for the Coal Exchange one week ago last Monday, and since that time his son has been assaulted on the streets of the town. One of the syndicate operators telegraphs that he saw, last night, several bright lights in the direction of NelsonviUe, but the operator at the latter place has reported no fires. There is another report from this source that at an open meeting of the strikers yesterday they concluded to make an attack at Happy Hollow last night, if the weather was of a favorable character, bat as nothing has been heard from that quarter, it is supposed that nothing of the kind has occurred.

A SAD FATE, Three Female Employes Cremated in a Hurtling C'amly Factory at Detroit, Mich. —Four Others Missing ami One Fatally lnjnreil. Detroit, Mich., December 1:5. Last evening the girls employed in the second story of Gray, Toynton & Fox’s candy factory, on Wood bridge street, were territied by seeing tire break out in the rear of the department in which they were employed. A rush was immediately made for the tire escape at the front of the building. The upper sash of one of the windows had been lowered and the young women had to climb over it in order to reach the balcony. One, in descending the ladder, slipped and fell to the pavement and was seriously injured. Three girls were then seen to advance to the window, and immediately afterward a volume of tire and smoke burst out over their heads, and they were soon hidden from view. The firemen arrived in large force, but the flames had already made such violent progress that it was some time before an entrance was gained. When the fire in the second story had been partly subdued the bodies of the three girls were discovered.s One lay in the middle of the floor. Her face was badly burnt. The other two were stretched upon benches just beneath the partly open window. Their faces were blackened and presented a saddening sight, but the flames had not touched their bodies. Their names are: Miss Annie Lynch,, aged thirty; Miss Bertie Messmore, aged eighteen, and Miss Folglase. It is rumored that four more girls are missing, but up to a late hour this report has not been verified. The loss will reach $50,000; partly insured. A SPOILED SENSATION. The Stbry of the Resurrection of Mils Kstellc Newman Denied by Friends of tho Deceased Young Lady. Albakv, N. Y., Deter iber 12. The sensational resurrectioi story, Which was located in the little village of Egremont, in the Berkshire hills, is pronounced a hoax. It was claimed that the body of Miss Estelle Newman, a young woman who was supposed to have died from spinal complaint, was disinterred by medical students. It was said that life returned to the body while it was being dissected, and that the young lady is now alive in an. Insane Asylum in Schoharie County. A prominent physician declares that even U Miss Newman had not been dead when buried, the confinement in the grave would have ended her life before resurrection. Besides, there is no insane asylnm in the county named. The story receives another blow in the statement of W. R. Wright, of Hudson, N. Y., who denies that his brother, the late Dr. Wright ever confessed to him about taking the body of Miss Newton to Albany. Mrs. Chapel, a sister of Miss Newman, and Mrs. Newman, their mother, discredits the story. Her mania took the form of conviction that she must not eat, and she died from starvation and spinal complaint. Her flesh was so wasted that it was thought impossible she could have been brought back to life.

The Doctrine of Evolution. Columbus, S. C., December 12. At a meeting of the directors of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in this city last night Prof. Woodrow, whose teachings of evolution have created such a stir, was asked to resign. He declined to do so and was thereupon removed. Immediately afterwards the Rev. l)r. E, W. Beggs, professor of church history, and the Rev. Dr. R. C. Hemphill, professor of Biblical literature, tendered their resignations, to take effect June 30th, 1885, which were promptly accepted. Mysterious Assassination. Laredo, Tex., December 13. Early this morning on one of the public streets leading from the plaza, Theofole Devalina, a Mexican gentleman ol distinction and wealth, was found dying from a terrible wound in the head. l)evaliua is a political refugee and highly connected in Mexico, and it is believed his assassination was inspired from that direction. The back of his head was crushed from a blow with some blnnt instrument. He was nnconscions when found, and at a late hour the physioians declared he would never revive. A Maniac's Freak. Lancaster, O., December 12. Gottlieb Steckmiller on Wednesday night told his wife that God had summoned him to kill his family. He then took a two-year old child and made it helplessly drunk, and attempted to thrnst it into the five, but was prevented by the mother, who escaped with the children and gave the alarm. He was arrested after a desperate struggle. Yesterday, for some reason, Steckmiller was released from jail and went back home. He warned his family to leave home, and they fled. A sheriff’s posse found him at his house stark naked and armed with an axe, with which be was destroying things.

Examining the Books. A strong argument for change wa3 found during the late campaign in the desirability of overhauling the Government books and ascertaining what they really show as to the administration of affairs for the past quarter of a century. The impression has long prevailed that a thorough examination of these volumes would disclose far more in the way of extravagance, maladministration and corruption than was fully realized by even the severest critics of the Republican machine. This impression was a perfectly natural one. It resulted almost inevitably from the fact that the Govertnent was'being administered, year after year and term after term, by a party representing at no time more than a bare majority of the people, and during most of the time a minority. Sueh facts as came to light strengthened the conelusion. Extravagance was known to exist Frauds were known to have been perpetrated' in tile Post-office Department, the Navy Department and elsewhere, These frauds were disclosed by aeeident, not by the good will of the party in power; and instead of punishing the perpetrators the Administration seemed chiefly anxious to let them escape with as little noise as possible. What more natural than that the people should conclude that the disclosed frauds and shortcomings are exceedingly small in proportion to those which are concealed? What more natural than a popular conviction that a thorough overhauling of the books would furnish companions innumerable for the Howgates and Bradys and Dorseys who were unfortunate enough to bo found out? And what more natural, under the circumstances, than the Democratic appeal to the people based upon the necessity of turning the books over to a party which could afford to open them and would open them?

± tie-supporters oi tne machine sneered at the argument, and declared there was nothing iu the books that needed overhauling. They pointed “with pride" as they said, to the closeness with which collections of Government revenue had been made, and professed to regard the book-keeping of the Administration as unimpeachable, though it made no account of the millions stolen' by the Star-route thieves or by the rascals in other departments. But spite Of the sneer the people persisted in enforcing their demand. They have hurled the Republican machine from power; and in doing so they have been actuated quite as much by their desire to examine the books as by any other motive. Already there is valuable evidence that they did wisely. Already the trembling rascals in power are making efforts to conceal what the books show and to falsify them in preparation for the dreaded and inevitable examination. The tools of the Washington “ ring” begin the ball by seeking to destroy the evidence of their connection with that “ring,” their indebtedness to it for their appointment and the inference or evidence that they have used—or abused —their positions to pay off that indebtedness. ^ There will be a good many sueh efforts between.now and the 4th of March next, and a strict watch will have to be kept on all the departments to prevent the destruction or mutilat ion Of the evidence of misgovern ment. One of the first efforts, probably, will be directed to the destruction of the ‘ ‘secret sendee’ ’ roli, upon which so many are borne who do absolutely nothing to - earn the salary paid them by the Government, but put in their entire time in the service of some politician or office-seeker. All sueh efforts will, however, be futile. Is is too late. Exposure can only be avoided by some such device as that which Harrington adopted in procuring his safe to be robbed. And the resort to devices like that, even when they prove successful, is quite as strong evidence oi guilt as anything that cmdd be disclosed by the testimony destroyed.— Detroit Free Press. Political Revenges, If half what is rumored of Blaine’s determination to seek revenge for his defeat on sundry and divers individuals be true he is made of weaker timber than we credited him with. “Life is too short for political revenges,” aid the man who devotes himself to them generally finds that he is engaged in an exhausting and fruitless business. Occasionally it fails to the lot of a man to enjoy the confounding of his enemies, but ft is rarely the result of his own acts, But if Blaine adopts the policy of revenge his contract will indeed be a heavy one. for the prominent individuals connected with his defeat are so numerous as to need alphabetical arrangement in order to be remembered. The easiest way for him to get even is to put them all in his1 book. By a modification of the original design he can embrace the period of the late campaign, and on this he can become as analytical, satirical and prophetical as he pleases to. He can “bottle them up in epigrams,” after the

mauler ui xrauuis a whilom candidate for the Presidency. This scheme of revenge he will find much more satisfactory than attempting to bring political rnin on their head by plots and intrigues. Besides, it will leave his political capital in a better condition for the coming campaign of 1888. If he desires to pursue the wisest course of all he will abandon the revenge programme and also the spirit of his last speech. A man with a grievance is never attractive, and equally unpleasant is the individual who seeks to advance himself politically by stirring up old feuds. ’ r Blaine’s reputation for magnetism, arose from his jovial manners and good humor, and should he allow himself to become soured and disgruntled his personal following will rapidly decline. He has made “the effort of his life” and has failed, and failure itself will lose him many, friends. He had better be careful of those that remain if he still entertains ambitious proj ctsT He naturally feels sore over his reverse, but as the blame must rest upon his own record and the judgment thereon of the American people, he had better simulate virtue even if he have it not.—St. Louis Republican. —American capitalists have bought the pick of the coal and timber lands of British Columbia, and are getting a substantial grip upon the Northwest. Minneapolis capitalists have purchased a large tract on the Deer River, which it is claimed is » a huge reservoir of petroleum, and they are now sending to the Territory drilling machinery and men. —Victoria, Australia, would be a good place for daddy to go a-hunting. Twenty millions of rabbit-skins have been exported from there daring the last ten years.

To th« Clergy. The clergy of the country, and of New York and the East especially, have taken prominent parts in the campaign that is now closed. They have gone into the fight, not only with the energy and strength with which Heaven has endowed them, but also with the prestige of their high and sacred office. In some cases they have done good. In others, they have worked evil, not only with respect to immediate results, but more especially in relation to those eternal interests of which they are the recognized priesthood. They have compelled many wished to think Weil of them and to tyust them to entertain no smail decree of contempt for their moraistandards and, consequently, to distrust the sincerity of their, professed love for truth, and the genuineness of their piety. The dramatic and carefully arranged reception of Mr- Blaine to the clergymen whom Mr. Elkins had herded in New York for that especial purpose was one of the most hollow, hypocritical and disgusting features of a disgusting campaign, and an exhibition that donbless lost more votes for the expected beneficiary than it won. Hardly more deplorable was the caucus of ministers in this city, at which a number wild have stood well in the community subscribed to a clean bill of moral health for Mr. Blaine. after claiming to have examined all the evidence that had been made public in support of the charges against him. The effect Ot such testimony was not merely to challenge an intellectual antagonism. It was a shock to the keenest moral sensibpities of a large and probably the best part of the community. We have not demand-’ ed that any one should accept our verdict of Governor ^Cleveland. We believe him to be one of the country's best and wisest men, but we have no quarrel with those who entertain a different opinion. Wc should have no criticism to make if not a single, clergyman bad been able to see his way clear to vote for Grover Cleveland. We should not have felt like sayingmuch to those who, impelled by ancient prejudices, swallowed Mr. Blame with

uiu siupuiuj' iu niuuj/w ms Leuuxut k/uw frhen a body of men of God assemble, nd after laying ’ before themselves the hideous and indisputable facts of Mr.' Blaine's public record, publicly declare that they can find in them nothing to condemn, we stand appalled. How are these, men’s minds constituted? What are the standards by which they gauge truth and error? How can they ask men to come to the Cross, to accept the truth, without inviting the reply that they do not know the path in whiqh they propose to guide others, and that as interpreters®)! truth their conclusions and those' of- the normal conscience .do not agree? We can not help thinking that in "putting their party before their country and their God they have seriously impaired their usefulness. We give this opinion less dispassionately but with stronger -conviction than we might have done in the heat of the campaign.—Boston Post. Builded Better Than He Knew. [From Aujrnst* Speech.] The eleven State3 that comprised the robaey had, by the census of 1880, 7,300,000 wlvltc imputation and ’S.:*»,000 cob ored population. The colored population ab man desire The country is to be congratulated that Blaine was repudiated on the 4th day of November. To round up the inherent dangerous demagogy of his character, it was fit that he make the Augusta speech. He built better than he knew. Will onr readers please compare the following extracts-Mme taken from that speech and one from his letter, of acceptance: •>' LFrom Letter of Ac- [From Augusta (Me.) ceptnr.co.] The elements which separated them (North and South) are fast disappearing. Prejudices have yielded and arc yielding, white a grow ing cordiality warms the Southern and Northern heart alike, [most to Can between eonfldence_ H___ are to-day more idatkm and by violence marked than at any and murder, whenever period in the sixty;violence and murder years preceding the are thought necessary, election of President.they are absolutely deLincoln? * * * Il'lprivcd of all politioal tlmro be occasional and power. If the outrage violent outbreaks in stopped there it would the South against this be bad enough, but it peaceful progress, the does not stop there, public opinion of the|for not only is thenocountjy regards tberagro population disfranas exceptional, and chised, but the power hopefully trusts that which rightfully andeach will prove the constitutionally bolast. longs to them is trans- # ferred to the white population, enabling the white population of tho South to exert an electoral influence far beyond that exerted by yhe same number of white peoplo io the North. , As the New York World says, in a reference to this matter, the explana-* tion is that when Mr. Blaine wrote his letter of acceptance he hoped and expected to eariy at least five Southern States. When he made his Augusta speech he was the disappointed and defeated candidate who had failed to carry a single Southern State and who had been, rejected by four of the Northern States. The instincts of the base, rab-ble-rousing politician, are clearly revealed in the extracts quoted.—Indiana State Sentinel. > «- Barely Escaping Annihilation.' '

The Republican organs are finding consolation in the assertion that the Democrats were only successful in the election of Cleveland “by the skin of their ^eeth.” This saying has grown out of the smallness of the Democratic plurality in this State. A little over a thousand votes is certainly a narrow margin in a poll of about one million and a quarter. But it must be remembered that Garfield carried New York-in 1880 by a little more than 21,000, so that the Democratic gain was actually over 22,000,* without, calculating the in* creased vote. The trath is that the Republican candidate only escaped^ a most ignominious defeat "by the skin of his teeth,” In Michigan, where Garfield got nearly 54,000 majority, Blaine managed to squeeze through with Jess than 3,000. In Iowa, instead of 78,900, which was Garfield’s majority, Blaine got a scanty 18,500. He came*within \n ace of losing Wisconsin. In Massachusetts Butler s fraud alone saved him. If he hail not escaped defeat in these States by a “scratch ’ Mr. Blaine would have “Keen left with only fourteen States at his back. Of course, in such an event Blaine would have been just as indignant as he now is about the injustice inflicted on Northern States by allowing Southern States to vote as they please in a Presidential election. But really “the skin of the teeth” plea applies to the Republicans as well as to the Democrats, in regard to the footings of'the recent election. Blaine suffered defeat. A little more would have been annihi-lation.—-tf. Y. World.