Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 January 1885 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources.

" Congressional Proceedings. ’ In the Senate on the 22d Mr. Blair called ' hp the hill providing for a commission to examine into the liquor traffic;-a bill, he said, that had been passed four times by the Senate, bat never acted upon by the House. Mr. Vest, who voted in the^neggtive, explained his position by stating that his vote did not mean au att itude of hostility to temperance, but he regarded the subject matter o. the bill as belonging exclusively to the States; and there was no evideuce that tha States were not able to deal with Hie question. The motion to take up the bill was carried—yeas, 24; nays, 18. Mr. Hale reported, with amendments, the House hill making temporary provision for the naval service, and gave notice that lie would call it up in. executive session, l'he House was not In session. In the Senate on the 23d Mr. Jonas presented a memorial from the joint commercial association of New Orleans protesting against the ratification of the Spanish treaty. Sir. Vest offered a concurrent resolution providing that Congressional shall be printed as delivered, with the exception ot verbal announcements, and when speeches are withheld for revision for more than one w eek the speech shall be printed as delivered. lie commented forcibly upon the manner inwvliieli the privilege had been abused dur&g the last campaign. The naval appropriation bill, as reported from the committee, was passed. The House was not in session. In the Senate on "the 24th when the morning business was disposed of the Chair announced his signature to tho concurrent resolution providing Jtor a holiday recess. Adjourned until January 5th.When Speaker Carlisle called the House to order there were only about fifty members present. The concurrent resolution providing for a recess until January 5th was called hp and adopted. No other business was transacted except tho announcement of some committee assignment# by the Speaker. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Hon. David E. Paige, Democratic Congressman from the Eighteenth Ohio District, was married on tho 22d to Miss Eva B. Leek, of Cleveland. A Chin aman, Yan Phon Lee, was among the first prize winners on composition in the Sophomore class at Yale College. Friends of Senator Garland say that he has accepted the Attorney-Generalship Under President-elect Cleveland. ' The funeral of Mo Oho, chief of the - Menonimee Indians, took place at Appleton, Wis., on tho 22d, according to the vites of the Catholic Church, Memorial services of the late Bishop 'Wiley, who died in China, were held in Boston on the 22d, with an address on his life and character by Rev, Dr. L. Thayer. A spy who has arrived^ at Dabbeh reports that 14,003 rebels had~been sent by El Mahdi to reinforce Osman Dlgna, but on hearing of the arrival of the British -troops at Kerti they were halted at Berber, • where they now remain to oppose the British advance. Secretary McCulloch has issued a circular providing that no old rags but those afloat on or before January 1st, 18-Si, on vessels bound directly to theUnited States shall be landed in the United States except upon disinfection by boiling in water from two to four hours, or subjected to the action of confined sulphuric acid gas. Captain Walter Pease, of Enfield, Conn., who celebrated his 100th birthday on the 29th of last March, died on the 22d. fie had lived under all the Presidents. He was the father of five children, all alive. He lived with his wife sixty-seven years, ' until her death ter »g4 Secretary Teller says there is no land within the boundaries of the Indian Territory subject to settlement. In the Nineteenth Pennsylvania District the election for Congressman on the 23d resulted in .the choice of Dr. John A. Swope, Democrat. It is thought that the Emperor of Germany will remit the sentence of death passed upon two of the Anarchists at Leipsie. On the 23d W. B. Thompson, late Superintendent of .‘the Railway Mail Service, was confirmed as Second Assistant Post-master-General. . W. K. Ackerman, formerly President of the Illinois Central Railroad, has been appointed Western agent of the Baltimore & Ohio at Chicago. On the 14th the Senate decided to take a recess until after the holidays. Commodore Winkield S. Schley, has been appointed chief of the bureau of equipment and recruiting of the navy, with the rank of Commodore. John Cooper, an English cotton/factory proprietor, of Nottingham, Eng!, arrived at New York on the 23d with 140 of his employes, and will start a factory at Providence, R. 1. In New York the contest for the United States Sepatorship is growing warmer daily. There seems to De no doubt but that the friends of President Arthur are working to seeure the prize for him. The woll-known German Liberal, Dr. Forckenbeck, has been elected to the Reichstag for Sagan. On the 24th the celebrated Sharon divorce case at San Francisco was decided iu favor of the plaintiff. An appeal will be taken. A paper was read by General IV. T. Sherman before the Military Service Institute at New York, on the 2?tU, his subject being the “The Militia.” Admiral Courbet, commanding the French fleet in Chinese waters, is reported ill and greatly worried. Street peddlers are selling in Paris a political toy representing Bismarck and Ferry embracing. The President attended services at St. John’s Episcopal Church Christmas Day, aDd thon had a quiet family dinner at the Exec* live Mansion. On the 24th the examination of Thomas Simpson for polygamy was concluded at Salt Lake City. He was held iu $2,500 bonds to await the action of the Grand Jury. The United States Commissioner at New York has decided that Joseph Moses Behrenfft, alias Barnord, wha-Tforged bills of acceptance for 839,000 marks in Germany, in November, 1883, shall be extradited. It was decided by the House Committee on Rivers and Harbors to remain at work daring the holiday recess in older to report the appropriations as goon as possible. It is thought that the amounts wilt aggregate about $10,000,003. On the 26th Thos. Van Valin died at Syracuse, N. Y., in his 105th year. A reception will be tendered by the City Club of Buffalo, N. Y., to Governor Cleveland January 10th. Chas. Francis Adams, Jr. denies the report that the Union Pacific RoaA is in distress for money. - Baltzer Gkhr, a resident of Crawford County, Pa., for eighty-four years, died on the 89tli in hi# 104tt*year. Senator Wads Hampton nas written a letter to a New York paper in reference to the race question in the South. The Secretary of State has addressed a letter to Senator Miller, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, in reference to' the Spanish-American treaty. The wife of Rev. Mr. Downs, the Long Island (N. Y.) Congregational minister, who elloped with Deacon Terry, has returned to her father’s house. Her husband has filed a divorce suit. General Sheridan is confined to his on, D.. C., by illness, sld not to be from a physibome

AT JNew Haven, Conn., on tne 23d, several members of the Salvation Army were arrested for parading the streets wit hoot a license.

CRIMES A.M) CASUALTIES. Ox the 23d Rudolph Schiche, of Cincincinnati, O., was arrested in his employer’s place of business on a charge of embezzlement of money. He asked to go into a closet, and on coming out dropped dead from the effects of poison he had provided in anticipatiou’of arrest. He was to have been married the same day. While driving in a sleigh at Mt. Carmel, Pp., on the 23J, Henry Strong and Wm. Etfwine, were hurled over an embankment and killed. On the 23d a man answering the description of Kline, the train robber, was seen at Clarksville, Ark. A large party started from Little Rock in pursuit of him. At Dayton, O., during the night of 1:lio 22d, gophers inserted a pound of powder in the safe doors of P. E. Gilbert, and a fearful explosion blew the doors twenty feet. They got sixty cents for their trouble. Pike destroyed Morrison’s spinning mill at Dundee, Scotland, on the 23d. Loss, $40,000. At Detroit, Mich., on the 23d, Michael Beck, an inmate of a charitable institution, was struck by a train and fatally injured. He only lived a short time. A former resident of Atchison, Kan., named Charles Linden, was murdered on the 23d in Boulder, Col., while attempting to waylay and rob a pedestrian in that place. Linden drew a revolver and ordered the person to deliver, when the latter grabbed the weapon and struck Linden over the head with the butt, which caused his death. Christmas afternoon Minneapolis was visited by a $200,000 conflagration. On the evening of the 24th W. C. Harvey, of Panora, la., was shot, badly injured and robbed of $3,000 that he was carrying home with him for safe-keeping;, it being after banking hours. A collision occurred between the steamer Chetudra and the bark Hohnestrand off Eddystoue, op the south coast of England, on the 25th, and both sunk. The crews escaped in boats. A negro named Sanford Sisco, whom Abram Gafnee, of Park Ridge, N. J., declared assaulted and robbed him on the 23d, was arrested on the 25th. Fire destroyed the Masonic Temple at Cincinnati, O., on the 24th, causing great loss to the order, as well as business firms occupying stores in the building. On the 25th John Goetz, Jr., who was injured by a natural-gas explosion at Butler, Pa., died after terrible suffering. One of iiis sisters is out of her mind on account of. the death. At Ithaca, N. Y., on the 24th, the Coroner’ Jury concluded a three days’ seeret investigation into the death of Mark A. Blakely, of Lansing. The verdict says the shot was fired by his son Charles, who has been arrested. On the 24th Wm. S. Kerker, late Teller in the Second National Bank at Irontou, O., indicted on nineteen counts for embezzlement of the bank’s money, Was found guilty in the United States Court on three counts, charging fake entries, whereby the bank lost $3,0®J. On the 261* e ljt F a 'con-keeper of Aki-ou, C‘,, - charge of wife murder. —M**" On the 2tith Fred Barir.b'rock, of Dayton, O., after brooding over financial troubles killed himself. He leaves a wife and seven children. On the night of the 25th Mrs. John Carroll, of Green Ridge, Pa., was taken from her house, assaulted and left in the woods, where she was frozen to death. Bandits entered the house of a Catholic priest in Galicia for pillage. Failing to get money they tied the priest in a heap of straw and burned him to death. On the 20th the steamer Vint Shinkle burned on the Mississippi, below Cairo. She was owned by the Cincinnati & Memphis line, and was valued at $15,000. A sixteen year-old boy named David McGinnis shot and killed Jerome Gay at Burgin. Ky., on the 26th. The fight was forced on McGinnis by the victim and his brother. On the 26th Rainwater & Starn’s large elevator at Dallas, Tex., burned, causing a heavy los%. Two men were burned to death, and a boy was also missing. On the 26th Joseph A. Kuhn, cashier of the Hotel Moser, St. Louis, Mo., left for parts unknown, and is charged with having takdh about $1,000 belonging to the hotel, and also $700 belonging to his wife, to whom he had been married only four months. On Christmas Day William Lyons, of Gloucester, N. J., while in a drunken stupor, went home to whip his wife, and when his brother Thomas interfered William dealt him a blow behind the ear witli his fist, knocking him down, his head striking a stone step. He died instantly. William was arrested by another brother, Bernard, who is a policeman. On the 20th James Collins, ticket agent of the Pan-Handle Road at Cadiz Junction, O., disappeared with $10,000 borrowed from friends and belonging to the company. Josee Zekari, manager of the Discount Bank of Caraney at Labache, Austria, who defaulted for 10,000 florins, killed himself in the bank on the 20th, when about to be arrested.

MISCELLANEOUS. The supply of wheat visible on the 34th was 48,117;000 bushels; corn, 3,(Mi9,000 bushels; oats, 2,481,000 bushels. The United States Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the Court of Claims in the case of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company (General Butier’s) against the United States for damage to its water power by the aqueduct operations of the Government. The Great Falls Company got $15,000 in that case. The Supreme Court gives the Company the same amount. On the 23d the general passenger agents of the Ohio River pool lines met at Indianapolis, lad., to consider differential rate matters, but ttere unable to agree. The International Sanitary Conference •will meet in Rome in February or March Boulware, alias John Rosaline, wno broke jail some six months ago at Hamilton, la., where he was confined on a charge of rape, was arrested at Chillicothe, O., on the 23d. France is understood to have rejected England’s proposals with reference to the financial difficulties in Egypt. The steamship Oregon, of the Cunard line, was sighted off Crook Haven on the 23d, six days and six hours after heir departure from New York. This is the fastest eastward passage ever recorded. The Premier of the Government of Victoria has invited the governments of the other Australian colonies to unite in a protest against the seizure by Germany of portions of the coast and islands of New Guinea. A Madrid dispatch of thd 23d stated that a great storm was raging on the Peninsula. Several ships and railway trains had been wrecked. There had been no telegr. phic communication with Europe by land wires for three days. “Pennsylvania Day” at the New Orleans Exposition, has bean set for March 10th. Mortality amesg the French troops in I'onquin is said to bp increasing.

Reports of the 25th stated that traffic on the railroad lines in Oregon was still blocked on account of the heavy snow. There was rather a small attendance Christmas Duy at the World's Fair in New Oileans on account of a cold, drizzling rain. On the 24th the Laporte (Ind.) Savings Bank closed its doors. Liabilities, about $15,000; assets estimated at $90,000, A panic was caused in a New Haven (Conn.) museum on the 25th by a drunken man yelling “fire.” No one was seriously injured. Christmas was dull in Vienna, owing to the depression in business. The liabilities of the Bohemian Credit Company are 23,000,000 florins. Many small banks are involved and some are ruined. The lobbyists in Washington bewail the fact that their occupation is about g me and they have had no chanco to make any money this season. On the 24th the New York stock brokers spent the day in athletic sports, using silk hats of the members for foot-balls. Fishhorns furnished the music. In commenting on the Nicaragua treaty, the London Times says that England holds a position of impregnable strength, and will protest against any policy t hat violates the rights covered by the Clayton-Bulwer-treaty. A Boston lady of a benevolent turn proposes to give $59,000 toward a fund to be used for tho care of the teeth of children in public schools. Upward of three hundred men and boys are thrown out of employment by the burning of the machinery and enginerooms of a colliery at Mineral Springs, Pa. Advices from Sanghai state that 85,000 Chinese troops are massed at the Pei Ho fort, at Port Arthur, Gulf of Pe Chi Li. The works are mounted with heavy guns, and the entrance to the port is guarded with torpedoes. On the 24th Burt Seaboldt, <;onductor, and H. C. Osterwaldt, engineer of the work train of the Denver & Rio Grande Railwa^ in the recent collision, were held at Salt Lake City, Utah, at the conclusion of their examination, in $1,000 each for criminal negilence. Rumors are rife of another corn corner at Chicago, At Philadelphia, Pa., the shoemakers’ lockout has ended, and many of the men are returning to work. The exhibit, of live stock at New Orleans promisos to be one of the greatest the world has ever witnessed. The Russian naval headquarters in the Black Set, are to be transferred to Sebastopol. The cost will be $7,000,000. i f The Mechanics’ Bank of St. Louis, Mo., obtained a new certificate 'of incorporation on the 20th, its old charter having expired. On tho night of the 25th two violent “shocks of earthquake were felt in Spain. At one place two persons were killed by falling vails, Spain will not object to haying the proposed treaty with America modified, but would like to have sugar admitted free. The hew Orleans Picayune strongly favors the Nicaraguan Ctfnnl project, and thinks the United States should acquire Central America. 'i he Sultan of Moroccolays claim to sovereignty over Timbuctoo, and desires to annex to his dominions the coast country south oi Morocco. A ME3TING was held by a committee of Chicago citizens on the 28th to take steps to prosecute vigorously the people connected with the election fraud in the Eighteenth Ward of that city. j • It has been ascertained that the St. John’s Orphan Home iu Brooklyn was set on lire by one of the boys, lvho claims that it was purely accidental. A reporter w-as recently detailed by the New York Herald to investigate the condition of affairs at Fall River, Mass. It was found that the factory operatives were not in such bad conditiou as had been reported. Bradstreet’s review shows that trade was generally quiet during Christmas week, owing to the holiday season. There were 278 failures during the week, as compared with 305 during tho preceding week. A number of citizens of St. Louis, Mo.p have interested themselves in the work of providing employment for the poor men by having the streets cleaned. They met on the 2tith and formed an organization to be known as the Sanitary Aid Association of St. Louis. A committee was appointed to raise funds.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Kiri: destroyed the Blake Opera-house block at Racine, Wis., on the 28th, and three lives are reported lost. Thb loss by the Indianapolis cotton mill fire is placed at $100,000. A demonstration by the idle workmen of Paris is being arranged for January 15th. Thi: body of Alonzo K. Jones, of Boston, Mass., was found in Charles Haver on the 28th with every indication of suicide. It was rumored on the 28th that France had taken the last decisive step in severing her relations with China by calling home the French Minister. A controversy has been raised over the citizenship of Congressman-elect Romeis in the Tenth Ohio District. The Commissioner of Navig ation, in his annual report, makes the surprising statement that our merchant marine is second only to that of Great Britain. China has lodged a complaint about the sale of several English vessels to France, and Earl Granville will take measures to prevent the consummation of the. transfer. Tee victims of the Brooklyn Orphan Home fire were buried on the 27th with impressive ceremonies. Dit. George H. Atkinson, a leading physician of Brooklyn, N. Y., is at the point of death, as the result of bloodpoisoning contracted professionally. The earthquake in Spain was more disastrous than at first reported. Several towns were partially destroyed, and nearly a thousand persons were killed in the province of Malaga and Granada. The Keystone Bridge Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has closed down, throwing 600 men out of employment. Lobbyists are gathering in great numbers at Washington to work for and against the treaties pendihg. 1 General Wolseley having changed his route, the relief of Khartoum is two months further in the future than was expected. Two hundred and fifty operators are thrown out of employment by the burning of Egbert’s knitting mills at Cohoes, f(. Y. A rupture is reported to have occurred in the Congo country between the French represehtative and the African International Association, and a fight is imminent. The business failures during the year up to the 27th numbered 11,000 lin the United States, or 1,800 more than in 1883, and more tha& double those of 1881. Their aggregate assets were $130,000,000, and their aggregate liabilities $240,000,000, showing actual losses of $110,000,000. The National Gazette says that the Reichstag intends to place a new check on Bismarck by rejecting hi t demand for a credit to conduct f»<> explorations in Africa. 1

CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON. Th« Denizens of the National Capital ’Enjoy a Days Excellent Sleighing—lion the President Spent the Day—A Homily on Cabinet Making by An Old Politician. Washington, D. C., December 26. “This is the finest day I ever sow in Washington on the 25th of December,” said one of the oldest inhabitants yesterday morning. The day was .bright and cold, with bnt little wind stirring. The asphaltum pavements, which were covered with ice when the last snow fall began, made sleighing within the city limits very fine, while on the country roads it was very poor Those who had horses made good use of the day, all sorts of contrivances on runners being used for sleighs. Many handsome turnouts were also to be seen. The sport was confined principally to Pennsylvania avenue, between the Capitol and Treasury l)»partment—ia mile stretch. The policemen made a nnmber of arrests for fast driving, and the usual fine was imposed. Services were held in all the churches, and the charitable institutions were well cared for by clubs and associations formed for the purpose. The President spent the day very quietly at the Executive Mansion. In the morning he attended divine worship at St. John’s Episcopal Church. The remainder of the day was spent with his son Allan, daughter Nellie, and niece Miss McElroy. Ex-Secretary Blaine and his family also speut the day ^quietly at home, having but one or two .visitors. With the exception of Emmons and Mrs. Coppinger, the members of the family are all here spending the holidays. The only disturbance of any importance reported was the killing of a white man named Rollins in Georgetown during a drunken brawl. ’ Oue of the oldest and most sagacious politicians of the Democratic school here in speaking of Mr. Cleveland’s contemplated cabinet, said: “Cabinet-making and conjecturing as to who will form Mr. Cleveland’s Secretaries until the 4th of March next is all leather and pruenella. As to Bayard, his ambition for a place in the Cabinet is not as strong as his desire for the Presidency, and in my opinion, he would show a great lack of discretion and prudence to let go the substance of a Senatorship for a seat in the Cabinet. Garlaud has no such ambition, and it is more than likely that he will be the next Attorney-Geueral. McDonald has very high claims which cannot well be ignored,” and he would make a good Secretary of the Interior or PostmasterGeneral. The most difficult position to fill, I .think, is that of Secretary of State. This office requires a man of not only the highest ability as a statesman, but a man of fortune to entertain and maintain the dignity of the office. Georg:: Pendleton has all these requisites. His term iu the Senate expires on the 4th of March. He is very wealthy and has one of the most magnificent dwellings in the city. The gentleman ventured no prediction respecting the Treasury portlolio, and was much in doubt as to who would receive those of the War and Navy Departments. Cleveland’s Christmas. Albany, N. Y., December 26. According to custom Governor Cleveland spent Christmas quietly and in the enjoyment of home comforts. In the morning he listened to a sermon appropriate to the day at the South Presbyterian Church, of which he is a regular attendant, accompanied by his sisters Mrs. Hoyt and Miss Cleveland. After a light lunch at noon, the Governor gave himself oyer to pleasure of a social nature, a few personal acquaintances calling during the afternoon to tender Christmas greetings to the President-elect. Political talk was eschewed altogether, the topics discussed being purely of a private or conversational nature. Early in the .evening the Governor, after his usual habit, Yisited the Executive Chamber, remaining at his desk for over an hour inspecting some important State papers. Before returning to the Mansion he took a constitutional walk of half a mile unaccompanied save by a tiny black and tan dog, to which he has lately taken quite a fancy.

A Sold Robbery. Des Moines, Lv„ December 26. A bold and successful robbery was perpetrated at Panoa, Guthrie County, Wednesday night. The Des Moines & Northwestern Kail way agent at that place is also United States Express agent, and last night he received a package of $3,000, sent by the Valley National Bant of this city to the Guthrie County Bank. The railway safe has been blown open several times recently, and it has since been the agent’s custom to take home at night money coming in after banking hours. About nine o’clock he started home with the package in his pocket. On the way he stopped in an outhonse, when an unknown man came in upon him, grabbed the package from his pocket and fled. The agent Whipped out his revolver, when the robber turned and fired, shooting- him in the arm, which caused him to drop his revolver. The robber then escaped. The agent doubts his ability to recognize the man if he should see him again, but the Express Company is confident of a snre trail, and the proper arrest will be made. A Murderer Arrested. New York, December 26. Sanford Sisco, the negro who murdered Abram Gurnee at Hillsdale, N. J., was arrested yesterday in the depot at Paterson, where he had just bought a ticket for Bloomdale. The ticket-sellers’ attention was called to the man by his frightened and anxious appearance. On being arrested Sisco admitted his identity, but declined to say whether he killed Gurnee or not. He had a revolver, a slung-shot and $156 In money on his person. He was taken to Hackensack and locked up.

A Sad Knitting. Nsw York, December 26. The girl who jumped from a ferry boat Into the North River Wednesday night and subsequently died in the hospital from the effects of the plunge into the icy water, has been identified as an unfortunate woman known in the dives around Chatham Square as Carrie Stevens, ller real name, however, was Eliza Dangorden, and her parents are said to be well-to-do residents of Waverly, N. Y. She was brought here a year ago hy a young man, who abandoned her to a life of shame. -■« • *--., Run Down at Sea. Nkw York, December S6. The British steamer Cornwall ran down the full-rigged ship Loutey at noon yesterday off the battesy. The vessels were going at good speed, and the Lontey was cut almost entirely in twain, and sank Immediately. Her crew of thirty-live men, after struggling in the icy water for some time were rescued by the life saving station, and the men taken to Castle Garden. The vessel is a total loss. She was valued at #160,000. The steamer was but slightly injured, and though the accident caused a panic on board, no ona was hart. The responsibility for the collision is disputed between the captains.

THE SPANISH TREATY. Letter From Secretary Frelinghnjsen To the Senate Committee on Foreign Relation* On the Subject—Hi* Defense of the Executive and the Document—The Mexican Treaty. Washixgton, n. C., December 27. Secretary'Frelinghoysen, in a letter written yesterday to Hon. John F. Miller, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, respecting the treaty, says: The Convention now before yon in its political aspect is of importance. Some have thought that there is a disposition in the United States looking to the annexation of Cuba. Such action would be unwise for reasons which are apparent to your Committee, for, even could it be accomplished by general consent, our; institutions would be engendered by this beginning of a colonial system, or by an ^incorporation into our body politic of a large population not in entire sympathy i with our governmental aims and methods. The treaty removes the clause of complaint as to the treatment of our citizens and their property In Cuba and *orto Kico, which have heretofore led to serious discussion between the twb governments, and by bringing the islands into close commercial connection with the United States, confers upon us, and upon them all benefits which would result from annexation, were that possible. The convention with Spain is one of a series of international engagements, following the reciprocity treaty with Mexico. It opens the markets of Cuba and Porto Rico to our products. The treaty with Santo Domingo opens those of that Republic, and the pending negotiat ions with Central America and with Colombia tend to the same object. In connection with these, the treaty with Nicaragua for the construction of an inter-oceanie canal, while bringing the most distant parts of our own country into closer relatioMfeopens the markets of the west ooixstvitli America to our trade, and gives«ji|f;.our doors a customer able to absorb abirge portion of those articles which Ife produce, in return for products which wo cannot profitably raise. 'The Secretary then refers to the objections made to the Spanish Convention as follows: It is s«aid that we thereby give up a revenue on sugar from twenty-five to thirty-five millions of dollars, in return for a reduction of duties upon our products imported into Cuba and Port Rico estimated on the basis of the existing traffic at from three to five millions. The relinquishment of revenue, when for* the public good, is in the line of the National policy. Hitherto it was done in the case of tea and coffee, which by the act of May 1st, lg?2, were placed upon the free-list without any'attempt to obtain therefor any equivalent-whatever, and solely in obedience to the popular demand for a “free breakfast table.” Ry this measure the Treasury of the United States has lost during the last twelve years a revenue of some $144,000,000 on coffee alone; and besides, let us not forget that Brazil availed itself of the action of this Government to impose au export tax vpon coffee, which deprived the people of this country of the benelit of our tariff reduction. Article 5 of this’ convention prevents similar action by Spain, The treaty now under consideration tends to cheapen the cost of the necessaries of life by reducing the cost of a staple of daily consumption,0 of which we are obliged to import each year nearly one hundred millions in value to make up for the inadequate production of our own soil, which amounts to only about twelve per cent, of the whole consumption, and at the same time we secure a growing market for otir products in the Spanish Antilles coupled with especial 0 privileges to our merchant marine. It is also said that the importation of free sugar from Cuba and Porto Rico, wrhen added to our domestic production and to the importation from the Sandwich Islands, will fall short of the quantity needed for home consumpiion, and prices will be ruled by that of the port remaining liable to dmy, so'tliattlie prolit from the ♦_ uovai of duty will go to the Cuban at^not to. the consumer^ in tins country. If tills argument be true, tire treaty will not affect the price of sugar in Louisiana. The price of a commodity is lessened by the supply being greater than the demand. Rut it is frank to say that other conventions have been negotiated, or are in process of negotiation, which will provide au adequate importation from sugar regions. Again, the privileged introduction of tobacco at reduced duties has been objected to as reducing the fevenue and removing protection from the American product and manufacture. As to this, it seems enough to say that the -convention leaves a discrimination against the imported article of from four to live times the internal revenue duties on the American product, and secures a market hitherto denied jor the special manufactures of tobacco in which we excel, and which command a protitable market wherever ' tlieir importation is permitted. A reduction * * * * is urged, in many quarters, of the internal revenue tax on the manufacture of tobacco, and this would be! a loss of some twenty-five millions of dollars annuallj’ to the pubiic treasury. Tj^£reaty, taken with tlie others of our general export our nn

Continuing, These convent; foreign market f J which it is the l and they stimuli tions and our to our ve^ the priviieg The claim uneonstitution nue and did nd ltepresentativfl did so origins Gov eminent i appropriation and expensesj a commercia The preceded that negotiatf tutional. which the in the negotia awaiting the"f best interest, deavoring of the purp have served [ ish treaty dd the legislativ the represent^ not fail, I l'resident has i move from the contention, as ? to secure lasting] our agrieuituraq mercial interests. Union full proted property of our cit^

Noted Countei MKMPHI8,1 Henry Ogles oy, well dozen other aliases, was ai tcrday with §2,000 in counterfoil the Third National Bank of Cincinnal his pockets. The detective approached him on the street and put a pistol before his face before he was aware of his presence. It is believed he has plates and §20,000 in counterfeit bills concealed in a ravine in the southern suburbs. United States Detective Bauer has been in pursuit of Oglesby since August last. He is declared to be the prince of counterfeiters in the United States, and has killed at least two men who have attempted to arrest him.

Opposing the Treaty. Baltimore, Mu., December 27. At a meeting of the Tobacco Board of Trade yesterday U was decided to inemoralize the United States Senate regarding the pending Spanish treaty. It will be set forth therein that should the said treaty be ratified, one of the tuost thriving and important industries in the United States will be transferred to a foreign country, and with it millions of capital and tha ; 100,000 citizens will be thrown out of employment. The Senate is, therefore, asked to reject that part of the treaty telating to tobacco and cigars Hung Cliang Hung. Newark, N. J., December 27. Three Cliiuamen in American dress entered Hung Changes laundry, on Market street, last night and demanded the key to his monoy-tjox. On hts refusing to give it up, they strong him up to a rafter, and with a hatchet and knife hacked him all over the oody, until, wild with pain, he revealed the hiding place of the key. They took all the money he had and left without releasing him. His moans attracted attention, and the neighbors finally cut him down and attended to his wounds. He can hardly recover. He says he can not identify either of Ida assailants,

CREMATED IN ■> AN ELEVATOR. Two Lives Lost In a Burning Elevator at Dallas, Tax,—A Boy-Missing and Supposed to Have Also Ferished—Loss on Building and Grain S80.000. Dallas, Tex., December tl. About eleven o’clock yesterday morning the cry of fire was heard on Lamar street, and volumes of smoke were seen to roll heavily from the elevator of Rainwater & Starns. The vicinity was soon packed with humanity and the fire department. It was found that the elevator was on fire to an extent which from the outside precluded the idea of suppressing the flames. Freight cars of tee Central Railroad within a few steps of the bniiding seriously interfered with the handling of the hose. It was soon noised about that two men were in the building, and scarcely had this started before a hat was thrown from a window in the top, story. This was conclusive proof that there was a man in the house and that he asked for assistance, and the excitement became intense. Mr. Dave Rainwater, who was confined at his home with rheumatism, was quickly on the ground in spite of his condition, and offered? $2,000 reward for the rescue of each of the men'Supposed to be in the building. He slid he knew they were in the building because John Keller, one of them, had lived with him for years and would be at the fire if he had escaped. lie explained the manner in which the elevator was built, and said if the fire cut off egress by the stairs there was no way of, escape. The windows were fourteen feet from the floor and could not be reached without a ladder from the insidie. so HOPE. A ladder was run up to the window from which the hat came, but the man who went to the window was driven away by the flames and smoke. The. ladders were lowered and work Commenced towards the suppression of the fire. It soon enveloped the whole inside, of the building, and all efforts towards suppression were unavailing. ■ It roared through the lower apartments on the wheat, corn and oats, burning away thg, supports of', the second floor, letting down the whole bulk of grain, which ponred out the door. When the fall came and the grain commenced pouring through -the doors, the charred form of a man cable with it. It was quickly taken up, placed on a blanket and taken to the Morgue.' Soon another body came through the same door, but it was quickly covered by the grain, and the tottering second story/ prevented its removal. The body recovered was charred beyond all recognition. The feet to the knees and the hands to the elbows were burned off, and there was not a vestige of skin to tell whether the man was white or black. WHO THEY WERE. The two men in the elevator wer John Keller and Joe Evans. Keller w i an unmarried white man twent* f >- years of age and had been in the e ' of the elevator for years. He wa it when Abo .slgyator—Awmeriy X, ddwn. He was an industrious a: emplary young man, and lived i. lri Rainwater’s family. The family n.e much affected over his death. Keller was also a member of the Dallas Rifle Company, and will be bnried with military honors. Joe Evans was a colored man thirty years of age, and had also been with Mr, Rainwater for years. He was industrious and faithful, and well liked by all who knew him. He was a married man and had one child. This evening a boy, abont twelve years of age, named Dean, is missing, and is believed to have been also burned np, as he was generally about the elevator, and was in the building skmtly before it canglit lire. ™ The insurance and losses are not entirely made up. The grain loss is esti^ mated at

whisl _ nance. He employ of the company,' fullest'confidence of his empi could not imagine anything would him to commit the crime, because his circumstances were believed to be comfortable. His father left him property iu New York valued at #10,000 or more, and Mrs. Stephens was known to have a comfortable income. His habits were economical, even niggardly. • , An Indignant Denial. ^ ' Taunton, Mass., December 37.7 The manager of Taunton Asylum in* dignantly denies the truth of the charges telegraphed from Chicago} that paupers lunatics had been shipped from here ttf that city or elsewhere, except at the request of friends, or with the knowledg that they were not properly cared for. Ii the case spoken of, William U. Wi the man was sent at his own reqile his uncle in Pullman, 11V. This unci written to the asylum that Walsh a and was welcome; that it was, h " home. Death of Dr. Darling. NEW YORK, 1 Iir. Wm. Darling, promiueL^ the profession throughout States and England, died her© e terday momiug. Nine hours boll death, when in a condition of delirium he' delivered a eompletiflecturc on r " ’ which was perf death-bed rarely he a severe day he inred Spitzka, abrasions. Scotland. seen

THE NEGROES !N MISS. An Intelligent Correspondent's the Social Question in » 6 res if* State. MISSISSIPPI. dpa into cf mtoera Joaquin Miller, in a recent letter to the New York IndependeHt descriptive of a journey through the State of Mississippi, sperms very pleasantly of the State and its material resources, and indulges in some' hcpdtnl speculate as to its prosperity when its places shall be occupied and culti1 and the immigration, which the desire and expect, shall have become1 an accomplished fact. With respect to the social question Mr. Miller says: _ Here is a State with a tremendous majority of negroes. And yet this State insists on remaining tremendously Democratic. And because it does, the politicians, the political press, the North, almost in a body, insist that the black man is bullied; and ergo there is a race of bullies here. This foolish accusation does the black man a greater injustice than it does the white man. The negro is not bullied; and what is a most important fact he is getting to be too much of a man to be bullied. As for the white man here. I find them a raee of gallant Christian gentlemen. Let me call your attention to one fact., 1 have sat at many man’s tables here. I have been at dinner in a great number of houses here in the State of Sfihsissippi, that of the Governor in the Mansion House included; and 1 have sat at no man’s table where the head of the- house did npt offer thanks. Of course I suppose there are exceptions to this rule; but grace at the table is the rule here. In the North it is_the exception. “Tell me, Senator, how it is that the negro votes with you, who Were his former master.” ‘•Well, sir, it is because he is an affectionate and well-disposed fellow-man.” “He must be, else he had burned you out during the war.” ‘•True, sab; a fact, sah; a great fact, sail, and we will never forget It. The Southern men went to war and MT5 their homes, their wives and their children all behind them, and at the mercy of the blacks. This trust was -never betrayed. As for my own slaves, one of tiirntf-wits- wsimded fi°rht' my side, and there ids. living to-day that will No; you men of the North i negro justice. You think erous ingrate. You thi turn from us and against never do it.” Oli

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Democratic ascendancy year in anc year out; if the lilaefis' are to be per secuted and if the ballot is to be trod den under foot, the Democrats will ,g< out of power a great deal faster that they went in. But there will be noth ing of the kind. There willsimply b good government and good citizenship old prejudices will be sponged Out; tin people of both sections will learn tc know each other better, and there wil be such progress and prosperity as tbi country has not known during the pgs twenty years.—N. T. Graphic. THE MUGWUMP "CONTINGENT. An Embarrassing Quantity to tfi# Repub The gwUcmen who in the recen campaign came' out from the Repul) were recently njo^v -^tn their consciences thane'': , a Hng dicta* t^m whictjg'fr uj^uipted.