Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 35, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 January 1885 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL, AND POLITICAL General Grant’s premises and effects in New York are in charge of a DeputySheriff. Chief Engineer William Lorens of the Philadelphia & Beading Railroad died suddenly on the 29th while seated at the dinner table at his residence, Chestnut Hill, Pa. Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause. Benj. F. Bingelow, who was cashier of the National Bank o„f the Republic in Washington, D. C., in 1882, and convicted of embezzlement, was sentenced on the 29th to five years in the Concord (N. H.) Penitentiary. The Secretary of War has recommitted to the Chief Signal Officer the charges preferred against Sergeant Holtnorth of the Signal Service of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, in having tampered with the private mail of Lieu- . tenant Greely, with instructions to detail a court-martial for his trial. Uejjebal Hazkn, Chief Signal Officer] has submitted'to the Secretary of War the charges against Assistant Adjutant-Gen-eral SleKeever far having made derogatory remarks concerning the management of the recent Arctic expeditions. The charges relate entirely to General McKee- * ver’s Alleged comments on the course pursued by Lieutenant Greely, and no reference is made in them to what General McKeever is alleged to have said of the Chief Signal Officer. On the 39th Special Examiner Bowman, of the Department of Justice, left Washington for a tour through the Western States and Territories on official business. President Arthur is said to have already secured twenty pledges for the New , York Senatorship. ' It is announced that the Duke of Buckingham, a widower sixty-one years old, is to marrjr Miss Alice, youngest daughter of Sir Graha m Montgomery, long a member of the British Parliament and for a short time a Lord of the Treasury. On the 29th the Wyckliffe quincentenary was celebrated in England. Address^ were delivered in which the principles of Wyckliffe and Knox were applauded and prelacy denounced. On the 29th the steamer India, having on board the body of John L. Hart, of Kentucky, the sculptor, reached New York. The remains were forwarded to Kentucky for interment in the State Cemetery at Frankfort. *? President Arthur has approved the act detaching Grundy County, Tennessee, from the Southern Division District of East Tennessee and attaching it to the Middle District of the State. Prince Bismarck will go to San Remo with hisJfamily to remain six weeks. The Chicago Tribune intimates that according to its canvass 100 members of the Illinois Legislature are for Logdn for Senator, as first chbice. Queen Victoria is reported to" have an- , nonneed to the Privy Council the betrothal of Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of Battenberg. On the 39th Hon. Samuel J. Randall and party arrived at Nashville, Tenn., and were tendered most hearty receptions, both public and private. In the evening the ex-Speaker addressed a large audience in the Ope^a-hous.:*. Mr. Bland, who has recovered from his illness, is now in Washington. He says he will vigorously oppose the Buckner bill to stop the coinage of silver. He believes in the measure providing for the free and unlimited coinage of hpth silver and gold. President Eaton of the Civil Service Commission is much pleased over Governor Cleveland’s letter to the Civil Service League. In commenting upon the subject in general, Mr. Eaton slaps the Republican party right and left. In Washington, D. Ck, three hundred “society” ladies joined in an agreement not to present-liquor to their New Years’ callers. Mrs. Secretary Chandler headed

vuc my v. President Arthur’s New Year’s reception was an elaborate and - recherche affair. Os the 1st Lord Plunket, Lord Bishop of Meath, was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin. Senator Frye’s father died at Lewiston, Me., on the 1st, in his eighty-second year. Mr. Bland does not think the bill to stop the coinage of silver will be reported fa-> vorably. General Wolseley on December 3dh received a piece of paper with General Gordon’s genuine seal on the back, dated December 14th. El Mahdi not lodg since threatened to march against the Mudir of Dongola, but afterward told his chiefs that the Mudir was a saint, against whom it was useless to fight. The Randall party arrived at Birmingham, Ala., on the 1st. A public reception and banquet were tendered the visitors. Prince Bismarck denies that he has any' personal enmity toward Gladstone. However, he could have relied more upon Lord Beacons field to keep England in accord with the rest of Europe. On the evening of the 1st the remains of Russell Hancock, son of General W. S. Hancock, arrived in St. Louis, Mo, The \ funeral took place at the Church of the Messiah on the 2d. After her marriage to Prince Henry oi Battenburg, Princess Beatrice will reside with Queen V ictoria. The Prohibition National Committee meet at New York on the Tth, and a conference of the leaders will follow. On the 31st Rev. F. G. Nikander, a Finnish priest, arrived at Portland, Me. He comes to establish a colony of .'yXJO Finns in Michigan. The Grand Jury in Philadelphia found true bills against Wm. T. and Lewis J. Dadner, the suspended bankers, charged with embezzlement. Tbs man Jones, accused of having robbed a [Montreal jewelry store of $10,000 .worth of goods, is an extensive owner oi real estate in Chicago, where he is known as Jimmy Carroll. In ofreditoral the Washington IStar says: “The feeling of antagonism between the Senate add the Honse has greatly increased. Representatives think the Senators are disposed to usurp all the powers belonging to the House. The Senators think the Housa arbitrary and dictatorial.” j' ^ On the 2d theSwaimcoort-martialrecon-vened at Washihgton, D. C. Tib plap to raise $100,000 for the reliel of General Grant has taken definite shape. Governob Clevrland, in answer to an inquiry emphatically denies that he it President of a Free Trade club. Bismarck says England is solely responsible for the Egyptian troubles. On the, 2d Hon. Samnel J. Randall and party inspected the wire-drawing works al Birmingham, Ala. At White Plains, N. Y., on the 2d, an Arab tramp was arrested who had $10,00f in English gold on his person. I:r took $150,000 to pay the expenses*: oi the National Democratic Convention al - Chicago. A OovxRNMisirr official is authority for the statement that physicians declare General Grant to fee completely broken ^ down In health,

John McCullough, the tragedian, narrowly escaped being ran over by a railroad train, on the 2d, in Philadelphia, Pa. General Hatch and his command will more on Oklahoma immediately with forage for a fifty days’ campaign. * On the 2d the Springer committee started for Cincinnati, O., to investigate Marshal Wright’s action at the Ohio election. The late Dr. James H. Harris, of Indianapolis, Iml., left a will ordering that no funeral be held and that his body be sent at once to a dissecting. table. His wishes were carried out. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. On the 29th Catherine Millar was found in an outhouse in Baltimore, Md., where she had been for five days, nearly dead from exposure. Four toes of the left foot were frozen off, the right foot badly frozen and part of her nose also gone. On the 29th a terrible fire was reported raging in Pierre, Dak., and as the mercury was twenty degrees below zero and all the pumps frozen solid it was impossible to control it. The stores of Hollonback, F. ,Nasup Cavanaugh, R. D. Jones, P. H. Johnston, wholesale liquors; Samuel Y. Goodwin, same; Park’s Billiard Hall and a dozen smaller buildings were in flames, and buildings were being torn down to stay theprogress of the fire. On the New York elevated railroads two collisions occurred on the 39th, due to fog, but fortunately no lives were lost. 1 The recent earthquake caused the death of hundreds of people in some of the Spanish towns, besides injuries to great numbers. On the night of the 29th eight masked men lynched Pleasant Anderson near Blakesburg, la. He was tried for murder a year ago, and acquitted. On the 30th William Pearson, a spiritualistic crank, killed his infant child with a hammer at Cheholiis, Wyoming. He then proposed to his wife that they both cut their throats, which they did, but they were both alive at last accounts. In a railway accident in England on the 1st four persons were killed and thirty injured. On the 1st Representative Laird, of Nebraska. was severely injured at Washington while horseback riding. On the 1st a Baltimore & Ohio train was wrecked near Grafton, W. Ya. Two men were killed and a jeumber injured. At Ipswich, D. T., on the 31st, a number of business houses were burned. The total number of persons killed by the earthquakes in Spain Since Christmas will approximate 2,000. On the 31st Mrs. Mary E. Cody, stepdaughter of a prominent member of the Canadian Parliament, was arrested in Detroit, Mich., charged with forging her mother’s name. At Albama, Spain, one thousand houses are iu ruins, the result of the earthquake. One hundred and ninety-two bodies have been recovered.

Is a powder mill explosion near Xenia, ()., on the 2d, John Ginn was killed. Mrs. Robert Jexxetts was accidentally burned to death at Franklin, Ky., on the 2d. % > Os the 2d a mob, said to be locke<i-out miners, used dynamite on the Bristol tunnel on the Shawnee Division of the Baltimore & Ohio Road, causing 300 feet, to cave in. A dastardly attempt was made to blow up an underground railway train with • dynamite in London on the 2d. No’ passengers hurt. : Alhama, Spain, is reported in ruins as the result of the recent earthquake shocks. Many other towns are deserted, the people being panic-stricken, and living in the fields. Os the 2d Gustav Tell, of Lexington, Ky., committed suicide by cutting his throat with a butcher knife.

MISCELLANEOUS. The Secretary of the Treasury held a conference on the 31st with the representatives of the whisky trade and those interested on the subject as to the best means of carrying out the opinion of the AttorneyGeneral respecting whisky in bonded warehouses. , Is the French Senate on tlie 29i:h Meline, Minister of Agriculture, announced that the Government would insist upon the adoption of the clause increasing the duty on cattle, which the committees had suppressed. He promised the Government would do everything in its power to improve the position of the farmers. The National Irish League demonstration af Belfast on the 29th, was presided over by a Catholic priest. The resolutions adopted were in favor of an Irish Parliamentary party and the leadership of Parnell, and make a fixed resolve to support the party; also, that land parcelled out to hireling pensioners as a reward for acts of cruelty must be restored to the cultivators. The Locust Gap and Locust Spring Collieries, operated by the Philadelphia & Heading Railroad Company, have suspended indefinitely. Two thousand men are thrown out of employment. The liabilities of Trainger & Co., the, London bankers who failed on the 27th, will,reach one million dollars. By direction of the President an army retiring board will convene on Monday, the 12th day of January, or as soon thereafter as practicable, at Omaha, Neb., for the examination of such officers as may be ordered before it. - The London Daily Telegraph declares that in the event of any attempt by a foreign power to annex territory contiguous to Australia, the commander of the British squadron has instructions tohoist tlie British flag over the entfi-e Louisiade and Woodlark groups, comprising over 100 small islands, and also over Long Island and Rook’s Island, adjacent to New Zealand. The New Orleans car lines and drivers have reached an agreement. The drivers will get an advance of 55 a month all around, but the other employes of the road remain as before. Fifteen hours will constitute a day’s work. This is what the strikers demanded and which was refused. Notice was nested at the Fort Pitt Iron and Steel Works, at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 29th that on and after January 1st there would be a general reduction on the wages of all men except those with whom the firm had yearly contracts. Sheffield, Eng., in 1881 exported to the United States $*>,9X1,090 worth of her manufactures. In the year just closed half that amount will more than cover the same trade. On the 30th it was reported that a French transport with troops from Toulon had been sank by a Chinese cruiser between Singapore ad Sai gon. There is a proposition before the Finnish Parliament to establish woman suffrage throughout that country.. The General Manager of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, stated on the 29th that all the collieries of the Company had been idle for weeks, and some for a longer time, and that twenty-one collieries in Schnylkili County will not resume January 1st. The Governor of Idaho has signed the bill prescribing an anti-polygamy oath of office for county and precinct officers. The Northwestern Traveling Men’s Association was in session at Chicago on the 30th. The French have again met and defeated the Chinese in Tonqnin.

For the week ended the 30th, the Tain* of exports, exclusive of specie, from the port of New York was $5,382,000, against £6,421,000 for the previous week. The Board of Alderman of New Yoik have been enjoined: from confirming the appointment made by the Mayor for Superintendent of Public Works. The millers of Minneapolis, Minn., are selling flour in Casada lor less than the price of Canadian wheat, and this has caused the large mills at Winnipeg to shut down. New Year’s callers in Washington he.d to go about in a drizzling rain. Ok the 30th the visible supply of wheat was 47,720,000 bushels; corn, 3,301,000 bushels: oats, 2470,000 bushels. The next inaugural ball is intended to eclipse anything of the kind ever at-* tempted in the country. Fifteen thousand guests will be accommodated. Ok the 1st, in many parts of Colorado, the thermometer registered thirty-four degre3 below zero, and it was growing colder. More vessels hs.v^ been engaged by the French Government for the transportati >n of reinforcements to China. The Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee, Wis., has decided to wage war on the railroads of the fitate through the next Legislature. Heavy snow-storms in the Northwest have blocked many of the railways. Hurikg 1S84 the Milwaukee mills turned out 1,177,676 barrels of flour, against 873,862 during the previous year; .an increase of 331,781 barrels. Ok January loti, the Fifth French brigade will embark for Tonquin, and on arrival will occupy Pakoi, while Admiral Courbet attacks C anton. 1 The claim is made by Jacob Greener, of Elmira, N. Y-, tl at he holds the patent on soft pedals in pianos, and declares he will hold all manufacturers responsible for any infringement. At Montreal, Can., ice fourteen inches thick is being hajrvested. A crisis is tliTeatened in the Turkish Ministry. The Sultan has accepted the resignation of the Grand Vizier. The Vanderbilt University announces the return of Ericke’s comet. Four, additional French men-of-war have been order 3d to proceed immediately to Chinese waters. The Reading Railway Company has ordered sweeping reductions in the wages of employes. The mines in, the Leadville District of Colorado yield*! better last year than during 18S3. The provisions of the Spanish treaty are approved by the New England Ship-own-ers’ Association. Ok the 2d.it was announced that within ten days all spa ce in the vast buildings at the New Orleans Exposition wonld be

Foreclosure proceedings hare been ordered by the bondholders of the Bankers’ & Merchants’ Telegraph Company. Within the v icinity of Baltimore, Md., all of the cotton mills but one havferesumed operations. The owners are much cheered by the brighter prospects. During the seven days ended the 2d there were 366 failures in the United States reported; 278 in the preceding week, and 282, 207 and 152 in the corresponding weeks of 1884, ’83 and ’82 respecti^Iy. ON' the 2d the thermometer registered 3<j degrees below sero at St. Paul, 50 at Stillwater, 45 at Bismarck, 55 at Winnepeg and 15 at Helena. At some points the wea ther was colder than ever known. It is thought by one of the heavy iron manufacturers of Pittsburgh, Pa., that the industrial depression has reached the lowest point, and that within a short time all the manufacturing establishments will be in operation. Comptroller Cannon- reports that the decreaso since January 1st, 1881, of National Bank notes outstanding is $21,104,250, and that the increase in the deposits of legal tender notes since January 1st, 1884, is $3,851,785. The committee of tfie Paris Academy of Science depul ed to inquire into the utility of quarantine measures will report against their continuance for the reason that they damage commerce and afford no protection during epidemics. Buadstreet’s reports the number of failures in New York city for 1881 to iiave been 528, the largest number for six years past, as agair.st 417 in 1883; 369 in 1882; 391 in 1881; 417 in 18S0, and 403 in 1879. I The ,total liabilities were $71,53,009, and assets, : $38,615,000.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Ex-Governor Coburn, aged eighty-two-years, died at Skowhegan, Me., on the 4th. A mob of iSX) attacked a Salvation jlrmy meeting at Dayton, O., on the 4th,. and the Army were compelled to disperse. Spain has informed the Powers of the annexation of certain territory on the west coast of Africa. The Hawaiian Minister at Washington says the proposed extension of the treaty will greatly benefit Americans. Senator Edmunds is in favor of the Nicaragua treaty and is taking a lively hand in the proposed legislation. Earl Granville declines to give his consent to the proposal to hold a formal conference cm the Egyptian question at Paris. The number of appointments made last year under the civil service rules was 135; ltm men and £1 women. The Connecticut Valley tobacco crop is a good one, according to reports received by the Springfield Republican. Additional shocks of earthquake occurred in the southern provinces of Spain on the 4th. The continuance of the shocks has caused a great panic among the inhabitants.. Emplo yes of the Keystone Bridge Company at Pittsburgh, Pa., have accepted the reduction in wages, and work has been resumed. The Hocking Valley miners are said to be tampering with railroad telegraph wires, and sending out false orders as to the running of trains. Three men attempted to rob Balthazar Kraus, a German barber, at Bellaire, O., on the 4th, and one of the rascals was fatally shat. A formidable railroad lobby is gathering at Washington, bent on defeating the Keagan inter-State commerce bill if such a thing is possible. - The Albany Express says that President Arthur is not a candidate for United States 'Senator, and that paper therefore favors Depew as its next choice.” Hon. Samuel J. Randall has received a letter from Secretary Chandler of the Navy Department! in reference to the bitch in making; the necessary appropriations for the service. In a fit of insanity on the 4th Dr. Rudolph Taustky, of New York, wounded seriously both his wife and himself. He has been an authority in medical circles on insanity matters. Bloodthirsty Socialists held a meeting in Chicago on the 4th. Some of the speakers favored, the liberal use of dynamite, and one ag«d, deerepid creature urged the slaughtering of several thousand capitalists at once. A violent shock of earthquake eras felt in Frederick County, Maryland, on the 3d,

CHEAP ,TELffeRAPHY. The Baltimore Jt Ohio Line Hake Snb■tantial Cuts in Telegraphic Tariff—Tl>« .Service Brought Within the Reach of All Classes. NEW York, Janaary 1. The Baltimore A Ohio Telegraph Company has sat rates. A uniform rate of ten cents for ten words is established between New .York and Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington in place of the existing 15-cent rate; Bostqn, Providence, Hartford and Waterbary in place of the existing 25-cent rate; Fall River, Newport, New Bedford, etc.; in lien of the existing 30-cent rate, and Gloucester in lien of the existing 35-cent rate; the rate between New York and Chicago is reduced from 50 cents to 15 cents; between New York and Buffalo from 25 to 20 cents; between NewYorls and Pittsburgh, from 30 to 20 cents; between New York and Cincinnati, Cleveland and Coiambus, from 40 cents to 20 cents, and between New York and Indianapolis, St. Bonis, etc., from'50 to 20 cents. Between all the New England points, south and west of Baltimore and New York city, the 25 and 80-cent rates are reduced to 10 cents; to Philadelphia, from 25 and 35 cents to 20 cents; to Baltimore and Washington from 35 to 20 cents; to Buffalo and Pittsburgh from 35 and 40 cents respectively, to 25 cents; to Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbns, Chicago, St. Bonis and other prominent Western points from 50 to 25 cents. Between New York city, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington the rate is reduced from 15 to 10 cents; and between Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington and Boston, Chicago, St. Bonis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Coiambus, Indianapolis, Providence, Fall River, Hartford, Waterbary, New Bedford and other principal points, the* present rates, ranging from 30 to 50 cents, are reduced to a uniform rate of twenty cents; between Chicago and Cincinnati the 35-cent rate heretofore prevailing is reduced- to 15 cents; between Chicago and St. Bonis, Philadelphia, Baltimore,-o Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, etc., the old rates ranging from 35 to 50 cents are reduced to 20 cents, and between Chicago and Boston, Providence, Newport, Hartford, Fail River* Waterburv, New Bedford, etc-' they are reduced from 00 cents and 75 cents to 25 cents. The restriction of a minimum rate of twenty-five cents a night message^ hitherto prevailing with all the rfval telegraph companies is removed aojMbc night rate is fixed at fifteeir cents for fifteen words, or a cent a word to all points in the United States reached by the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph system. Ten cents is prescribed as the. rate for ten words between--the city offices of all cities.

OUR ALASKAN POSSESSIONS. Governor Kinkead of Alaska Desires Farther Legislation for His .Territory— Seward's Purchase Not Such a Terribly “White Elephant’* After AU. I?OsroX>JI'vSS.,.Jamiaiy 2. A Washington special says: John II. Kinkead, Governor of Alaska, is in the city. In conversation yesterday Governor Kinkead sai<9 that his mission here is to lay before the President and Congress proofs of the necessity of some further legislation in regard to the District of Alaska He said: “There is a great deal of legislation necessary to make the organic law of the district effective. The act of Congress providing a eivil government for Alaska is very crude, and farther enactments are necessary to open up the territory and develop its varied resources. The Territory comprises an area as large as ail the States east of the Mississippi. At present the only mode of travel is by water, and it is impossible to properly carry on the civil government'unless some provision is made for the transportal ion of the officers of the government of the Territory.” The Governor expressed his confidence that if proper facilities were afforded to the civil government, Alaska, through Sts rich mines, seal fisheries and timberiauds, would soon prone to be worth to the United States many hundred times the paltry sum paid for it. Mr. Kinkead will have an interview with the President and Secretary of the Interior soon, and will lay before them the needs of the Territory, lie will ask that a mail route be established, giving semi-monthly communication wi^i Port . Townsend, and that a monthly mail seryice be established between Sitka, the seat of government, and Onnalaska, a settlement 1,200 miles west of Sitka, which was made a judicial district with a resident Commissioner and Deputy Marshal. It at present has no direct communication with the seat of government. He will also ask that vessels be provided for the purpose of transporting tl>j officers of the civil government from one point to another throughout the Territory. Governor Kinkead will submit his first annual report to the President in a few days. It will give much valuable information regarding the Territory and its resources and requirements. The report of the Indian Commissions will also soon be forthcoming. . This report will give details of the work of educating and Christianizing begun by the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. The Governor complains of the neglect of the Attorney-General to comply with the provisions of the organic act requiring him to compile and puhlish and furnish the officers of the Territory with so much of the general laws of the United StateB as is applicable to their duties.

They “Play the I>evl!.” Cairo, January 2. General Gordon says, in a letter recently received here, that he has two gnns, one on the rtiof of each of the palaces, with which he “plays the devil” with the rebels when they attack the works. As a role, however, the rebels only venture to approach at night to inspect the fortillcations, while in the day-time Gordon has little else to do than to watch through his telescope the movements in the Arab camp.

Does Not Fear Investigation. Washington, d. C., January 2. Assistant Secretary of the Interim ■Joslyn says the investigation by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee into the leasing of Indian lands for grazing purposes can not develop anything not already known, because nothing has been concealed. He says the Interior Department did not make the leases, but simply authorized the Indians to make them il they deemed it best for their interests. Secretary Joslyn added that he regarded this plan of leasing the lands for grazing purposes as advantageous to the Indians. Who Shall Be First Lady. AYashisgtok, D. C., January 2. The unsettled question in society circles as to who Should be considered first lady of the Republic when the President is t widower or a l«chelor, was somewhat emphasized by the facts that Mrs. Carlisle and the Speaker did not return from Kentucky to take part in the reception, and that Mrs. Edmunds, wife of th« President of the Senate and ex ofitcic Vice President, though first on the list ol the President’s invited guests, did not arrive until after the reception was fairly under way and then was plainly attiret in mourning. She was invited to the poai ofjtonor at tho right of the President,

A TOWN ISOLATED By the Destruction of a Railway Tunnel In C hio—-I.ocked-Ou t Miners Accused of Com- , posing the Mob Which Caused the Mischief. . Newark, O., January i. The Bristol Tannel oa the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, three miles from Junction City, is oa fire. A fire engine from this city has gone to the scene, o! the conflagration. AH'trains are delayed. t Si&'vsee. 0., January 3. The tunnel' Is on the branch of the Baltimore & Ohio that rims about fifteen miles due south want from Junction City to tap the coal region at Shawnee. The tunnel, which is several hnndred feet long, leads the road through the heart of one of the ragged hills with' which thiscoai and minevai region of Ohio abounds. There is a vein of coal in the tannel itself, and that feeds the fury of the flames. The tunnel watchman gives the following account of the discovery of the fire: “■I heard a noise in the tunnel. As I approached to learn fbe cause of it, I saw a number of men. When I demanded what they were doing, I heard one of them say: ‘Let him have it.’ The voices came from the dark cavern, and the com- 1 mind was followed by a shot at my. lantern. After I heard the ballets whiz- _ zing past me, I thought it time to get out ’ of danger. They kept up their fusilade until I had reached the'mouth of the turn nel. I then watehed their movements, and after a short time f heard a deafening explosion. I then gave the alarm.” From other sources it was learned that the burning of the tunnel was the work of about 150 Straitsviile strikers. About 300 feet of the tunnel has caved iu, aud~ the tire is raging with increased in^y. The tiremeu can not reach the flames, afci it now appears that the fire can not be extinguished tiil the entire tunnel shall have been ruined. This will cut off Shawnee from all railroad connection with the outside world. t °TWICE WIDOWED. 4*- **-* .* A Remarkable Duel on Horseback With -Fatal Result^—The Wile of One of tho Victims a SAo>uil Time Ipreaved by Violence—The Result of jin Old Feud, AlbaxT, Ga., January a. News has just reached he^ from Col- ‘ quitt County ‘of a duel on horseback-.'-in which one--of the combatants was shots Jtkad, and -another was mortally wounded: There hadAcqb jr reception at the house of Mr. Lake, at which the leading families of-' the comity 'were present. /About rfliffnigbt several of the guests were monnliwg their horses for the pur_pose of retumirfg ya their respective homes. Among the number were Homer and Elijah Carter and two’Chastain brothers: As they rode by, Wright Weekly, who was in the act of mounting, enrsed at them and threatened to follow up and shoot it ox<. rutting spars to their horses, the yoang men challenged him to follow. In an instant Weekly was upon his horse, and fired a pistol shot after Itou. party as he Bnrsucd tu four men immetUaipjyfetumed the fire, and a .rcgiriffF 'ttuei on horseback in the tfarFTook place, the location of the combatants being marked by pistol flashes. ■Weekly’s brother rode np to hfm, and grasping the reins of his brittle begged him to give np the fight. Just at that moment« a balled sped through Wright’s brain, and his horse turning bore his dead rider back to the door of the house- from which the guests had been watching the deadly encounter. The Carter party rode off one of them, it is said, mortally wounded. This tragedy grew out of one equally as bloody. Some years ago Alfred Carter, a brother of those who took part in this encounter, was assassinated by Richard Baron, as he was returning home one dark night. Alfred Carter’s widow subsequently married Wright Weekley, much against the will of her late husband’s hrothers, Elijah and Homer. They have frequently attempted to draw the lady’s second husband into ambush, and have at last succeeded in making her for the second time a widow by murdering her husband.

RUSSELL HANCOCK, The Last Child of General W. S. Hancock, Preceefes Him to the Grave. St. Loris, 310., January 2. The remains of IiuSseil Hancock, only eon of,General W. S. Hancock, arrived last night from Clarksdale, Miss., in charge of Fielding Gwynn, the deceased’s broth-er-in-law,and were placed at Lynch’s. Mrs. Kussell Hancock, the wife, and her family, consisting of Mrs. Laura Foster, Miss Ada Gwynn and her three children, arrived at the Southern last night, where they were met this morning by General Hancock and her father, who arrived from New York. Mrs. Hancock was not acquainted with her husband’s death until her arrival here. She bore the news with fortitude. General Hancock was prostrated with grief, as Kussell was his last child. Tb6 funeral took place this afternoon. Leaving the Southern at 1:30 the carriages proceeded to the Church of the Messiah, where the ceremonies took place at two o’clock. Rev. Hr. Elliot preached the sermon, and the choir sang by special request, “Jerusalem, the Golden.” Dr. Snyder conducted the ceremonies at the family vault in Bellefontalne Cemetery. The pall-bearers were of this city, being friends of the deceased. They were: Edward Wickham, Robert Lyle, Thomas, Rudd, J. 1>. Stevenson, Jr., L. D. Picoto John >1. Glover, John E. Mnlford and ji C. Normile. * A

Snow-Bound—A Terrible Experience. 1 1’okt hm>, Oke., Januaryj This morning lour Canadian voyag employed by the Government to the mail to the city from the bio train, arrived in Portland after sence of sis days. They had a experience, but brought in the lett the first received from the East middle of December. The train remains imbedded in snovi and the united efforts of a thou thirty engines and live snow-plj accomplish much. The snow-1 sengers have .been provisioned^ for. The storm is the '.vorstj on the Columbia River.

Beaten by Burgl j PHlLU>ELPHb,j A special from VYilmii^ OnNow Year’s eve tws the house of a widow ; Wilmington for the $3,000, which they received. Not being money and thinking] house, the villains subjected her to After being given Mrs. Rooney is very < the rough treatment probably result fatally.1

Extensive fire at Sel New Oi leans, i This alteration the tstafl Theurer & Becker was damaged insured. The fire started in Mrs. Jaqu3 furniture factory on Perdedo street, de-' stroying that building and Sharps & Llgoostejr’s stables, Mrs. Byan’s board-ing-house, and two three-story brick buildings on Pryades street; The wind changed, and notwithstanding the entire fire department were at work, the flames swept across Penn street, completely gutting Kern’s extensive dry goods establishment, and damaging the buildings and contents adjoining, The total loss will reach $145,000,

HE SAVED THE TRIAN. A Train Load of; Passangers Saved From Destruction By the Presence of Mind and Strenuous Endeavors of a Poor Boy. Marlbrocsh, X. Y., January St The New York & Northeastern Express on the West Shore Road left Albany yesterday afternoon full of passengers, and five minutes or so late. When near Milton the train escaped a worse fate than befel the' Atlantic Express on the same road a few days ago. The passengers owe their lives to. a poor Irish boy from New York, named Thos. Gould, lie was tramping along, and jost after he had passed Pegg’s Point, where frequent slides ha\4 occurred, he heard a loud crash. He dropped his bundle and ran back. He found tons of rock and debris on the fads. The boy started up the track yelling as he went. One of the patrolmen who walk up and down the track all night heard the boy’s voice in time to bring the rapidly approaching express to a halt before it crushed into the rocky boulders. In a minute or two the passengers learned the story of how the wayfarer had saved them from death, and every man and woman had his anti her pocket-book ont in a moment. The obstruction was cleared away, and the train jiassed on, after being delayed two hours. A passenger stated that boy was as modest as he - was brave. A DANGEROUS PLAYTHING. Five Children Terribly Injured by the Explosion of a Can of Giant Powder Which They Touched OlfFor Fun. York, Pa., January s. A terrible explosion of giant powder occurred op New Year’s day at the home of -Andrew Hershey, living near Spring Grove, this county, in which five children, were injured. Mr. Hershey and his wife were absent from home, and daring that time*two of his children and thfee of his neighbor’®-, Michael Hoke, the youngest seven years old and the oldest eleven, fouud a tin can containing about a pound of giant powder. To .this they applied a match, and an awful explosion followed, in which the children were terribly lacerated by flying fragments add their clothing set on fire. They went to a*, pool of water where They bathed one* another and tore the burning clothing off. The pool was red with blood and their tracks were spattered with blood. Wilson Hershey, who ■ held.the can, had his right hand severly lacerated, his face and left hand bnrned. Andrew Hershey received three or four cats In the faee and a flesh wound on one- of the arms, and Harry Hoke a gash on forehead. The other two were slightly burned. In the wash-hoose, where the explosion happened, a fragment of' the can was found driven 1 1-2 inches in the tujt _ ^nothpr piece pehetrated a"window sash,J and went through the ceiling. The window, panes were nearly all blown out. A MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY. A Young; German Immigrant Woman Kills Her Babe and Attempts to Take Her Own Life. Rochester, S. Y-, January 2. The town of Macedon, eighteen miles from here, is the scene of a tragedy mysterious in its nature. A young German woman named Anna Dickhof,-arrived the village on Wednesday afternoon op an emigrant train. She conld not speak( a dgMbg^yndsalin thej Sti

e couch and a mother al and blood her throat the floor near the blade blood. The of recovery. In April las wife and ch‘ to this cou borer in ber he se to Come t miles fro one wait! was did the insane.

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POST-ELECTSON fJBY. Hard FkeSa Mscae ‘I'amnplciioos, Wklek a Store Tempevite JPoUty Would Hun The post-election fury with which a few Republican papers hare kept op a vicious campaign, with Jame» G. Blaine as their imaginary leader, has had a tendency to bring out conspicuously: hard facts, which under a judicious and decent course might have remained in comparative dormancy. Tne some-time accepted proposition that Mr. Blaine, notwithstanding his defeat, was the strongest candidate the Republicans could have put forward, finds its most earnest opposition now among thinking Republicans. The ranting editors and small politicians who are now carrying on a political warfare after the people’s verdict has been rendered, with the name of Blaine as their text, afoe not in line with the best Republican tpiaght or the best Republican managhi^ehi of the country; and they have vioiated those principles of political decency which ought to be common to ail parties. . They have forced to the front the fact Blaine had not uiiring the campaign even the half-hearted support of the real leaders of the Republican party, and is wholly without their friendship"or sympathy now. There is no doubt fchat John Sherman, J. Donahl Cameron ^and Roscoe Conkling, and many ether Republicans almost equally prominent, are glad in their hearts that Blaine was defeated. John Shersuan his„ openly rebelled - against the effort to maintain Mr. Blaine as the Republican hero of the hour, and he has done so in such a manly way that he has commanded the respect of ill Republicans w ho have stopped to think. He has refused to subordinate his private or public action to the Blaine boom. He has declined to accept the Augusta key-note as a signal for assault on the - Santh. He has indicated his purpose, as a Senator of the .United States, not to enter into any mean-spirited scheme to rejeet the President’s nominations and embarrass the affairs of Government. He has defied the men who propose to react out of the party every person who does not bow tne knee to the Maine god. •• Mr. Sherman was deprived of the support of the Ohio delegation in the Chicago Convention of I>180, and probably cheated oat of the Republican, nomination for President that year by the dirtiest trickery and basest treaefi- 1 ery in his own State. .In 1884 he again failed to receive the unanimous support 4>f. his own State, which was due hint as the representative Republican of Ohio; follows were strong enough, under tfie enwm*?'S8fiB§illi4hrtniC^ agognes as Vest/of BeRefoml break the delegation and. send __ Chicago divided. The substantia/ Republicans of this State wer*. for Sherman, and they are for bbo-yp they know he was beaten By blustering, boistarcat# Blaine men. They hhve only a party perform now they do not time the leadershi his last unite tl

hit ompose a jury of his own .partisans, which the sourt would not permit. Probably be is not wrong in his opinion; but not for the uncharitable reason he alleges— namely, that all men in Indiana, excepting those of Mr. Blaine's party Sahel, are so “blinded by |ndiee,” and filled with “ fc< party venom,” that they “ utterly unable” to consult fence impartially. It is opinion that the inhabitants are not divided by different names into classes of human different moral character! Blaine’s language implies, without doubt, altogether blindness of party prejn^C solidated party ywK\vv,N but the plain truth is pleased to ignorejr eated moral deficiencies pretty equally among tlier one party label being neithe han those of an .fidine has made anotherstat which candid criticism is all compelled to discredit It is that whti he brought his .notion of Jibe! he he lieved that, the libelou*- pMncation be ing of a personal and domestic character, the case “could be fairly tried with* out undue influence of political (party) considerations.” And he professes to have been “profoundly amazed to find the matter' at once taken up, and the libel reproduced with all possible exaggeration, by all the organs and orators” of the other party. It is simply incredible that Mr. Blaine, “the foremost statesman of the country” (according to his admirers), was the very innocent and unsophisticated neophyte that he pretends- It is- much more credible thathe thought alibel suit would be a good auxiliary of a'“magnetjc” and sensational “stage effect,” such as,in the spectacular drama, is often infc-o-dueed merely to “bring down the house’ ’ with applause. Knowing the facts that he subsequently disclosed upon hisodtb. it was not necessary that he should possess much knowleiigo of law in order to know', when he Began his action, that he could not expect any intelligent and impartial jury on earth to giveblm a verdict. When the country rcadjiis sentimental epistle to Mr, William Walter Phelps, and his sworn answers Id the legal interrogatories, an_exg—