Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 January 1885 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Is the Senate on the 6th the tutor-State commerce bill was the principal measure discussed. Mr. Wilson favored the bill, and spoke in strong terms of the benefits he thought would accrue to the country were such a law to be enacted. Mr. Sewell opposed the bill. He thought the clauses to prevent pooling- and to require railroads to charge no more for a short than a long haul were unjust provisions.In the House a resolution was offered requesting the President to Inform the House under what limitations American representatives were sent to tho African Conference at Berlin. A bill was introduced providing forau assistant signal-service officer with the rank of Colonel of infantry, which It is understood is to filled by Lieutenant Greely. Mr. Uiscock moved to suspend the rules to take up the bill to repeal the Internal revenue taxes on cigars, tobacco and certain liquors. After a lengthy debate the motion was lost. Similar motions In reference to the Mexican pensions and the Lowell bankruptcy bill were also lost. A bill was introduced appropriating $7,bXi.00i) for the Improvement of the Mississippi, which was referred. In the Senate on the Gth Mr. Hawley introduced a bill to establish International copyright. Consideration,of the Oregon Central land-grant bill was resumed. Mr. Morgan offered an amendment similar to the one In the.Atlantic A Pacific forfeiture bill, provUUng a method of judicial proceedings for the ascertainment of rights of any parties claiming under the grant. Messrs, slater and Dolpb opposed the amendment, which, after a lengthy discussion, was lost by a vote of !»to 15. The bill was then passed without division. Mr. Morgan gave notice of a motion to reconsider.in the House a bill was passed appropriating $50,000 for the relief of destitute Indians in Montana. In committee of the whole, Mr. Rogers (of Arkansas) In the chair, the pension bill was taken up. It appropriates |5i',97ti 000. Amendments were added to check the many alleged swindling schemes of pension claim agents. During the debato several Ohio members had a lively spat, but finally the committee rose and the bill was passed. In th#Senate on the 7th Mr. Plumb presented a petition from Oklahoma settlers, claiming that the land they occupy has long since been bought from the Indians by the Government, and protesting against being removed. Mr. Dawes said that the committee had already reported that In the proseut condition of the titles theso lands could not bo .opened for settlement, sud the .Senate had; adopted the report. Mr. Morrill made a speech on his resolution declaring that reciprocity treaties with nations of Inferior population and resources should be regarded with disfavor. When the Inter State commerce bill was reached Mr. Bayard suggested that as a similar measure was before the House the matter should be laid aside until some decision was readied in the House.lu the House almost the entire day‘was consumed by a discussion of the inter-State commerce bill. Au amendment was adopted giving United States Courts power to issue writs of mandamus - compelling railroads to forward freight; also another amendment providing that no case brought under the act in anv State Court of competent jurisdiction shall be removed to any United States Court. Tho matter then went over.

is tne senate on the sth Mr. Allison introduced a bill In relation to the fees of pension claim agents and attorneys. A general discussion followed, in which several participated, anil it linatly drifted into » criticism of the appropriation and conference committees of the Senate. The action of tho pouse was also criticised, and tho debate turned into a wrangle as to which branch of Congress had the stronger backbone. The bill was finally icteiied. Mi. tauivlc. „«oreJ a resolution requesting the President to furnish the statements recently tiled in the War Department by General Sherman concerning the Confederate Government during the late war.In the House the inter-State commerce bill was taken up. Mr. O'Neill (of Pennsylvania) offered as a substitute the bill providing for a commission. Lost. A motion to recommit was also lost. The bill wasthen passed by a vote of 15s to 75. Mr. ltandall reported a new bill, making an appropriation lor the navy. The Alabama contested election cuse of Craig vs. Shelley was decided bv * he seating of Craig, Republican. Is the Senate ou the 9th a bill was passed transferring one of the Greely [relief vessels for service in Alaska waters, ami to use the olherjfor a surveying vessel. When consideration of the inter-state commerce bill was resumed. Mr. Garland called up the House bill on the same subject In order to move to recommit the Senate bill, with ail its amendments to tho House bill, jto the committee on railroads for further consideration. Mr, Cuilom preferred to liavo the bill debated m the Senate instead of in the committee. After further debate, participated in by Messrs. Dawes, Bayard, Cuilom, Harrison, Ingalls, Slater, Maxey and Jones (of Horida), the motion to recommit was lost by a vote oi IS to 24. Mr. Wilson’s amendment in relation to discriminations against localities -and individuals was added to tho bill. Mr. V ancc offered an amendment making It unlawful for railroads to charge small shippers higher rates than large shippers. Bending mn her action the Senate adjourned until the 12th.'.In the House, by a vote of «7 to SO, that body refused to postpone private business to take up tho naval bill. Resolutions in favor of the passage of the l.owell bankruptcy bill were reported from the Philadelphia Board of Trade. A number of private lulls were passed. An evening session was held for the consideration of pension bills

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs reported favorably to the executive session on the 7th the Nicaragua treaty. The Legislatures of Missouri, Illinois, Connecticut, Colorado, Maiue, Massachusetts and Michigan met on the 7th. Henry C. Haarstick was elected President of the St. Louis Merchants’ Exchange; Seth W. Cobb and D. P. Slattery, VicePresident/, and D. R. Francis, Matthias Backer, Charles A. Cox, Henry Sayers and Thomas Akin, Directors. State The a si'her Wright, of New Jer- , died on the 8thi sey, The Illinois Senate was organized temporarily on the 27th, as per programme decided upon in the Republican caucus. There was a hitch in the temjwirureorganization of the tyuse of Representatives, and an adjournment was taken until the 8th. It is officially announced that the Prince of Wales will not ask Parliament to grant an allowance to his eldest sou upon his coming of age. The legislature of Indiana, Democratic in both tranches, met on the 8th. Cyrus W. Field has returned the money subscribed to relieve General Grant. According to the Albany Keening Journal Wui. 51. EvartJ is almost sure to be the next Senator from New York. Opdykk & Co., the Wall street bankers who recently failed, announce their ability to pay in full. On the 8th President-elect Cleveland arrived at Buffalo. He opened the charity ball in that city on the evening of the 9th. The Indiana Democratic editors, at their annual convention on tho 8th, were addressed by Vice-President-elect Hendricks. At Boston, Mass., on the 8th, Major Nutt, the midget was married to Miss Clara Carfleld, who is eighteen inches taller than the groom. On the 8th Rev. Dr. W m. Par ft was consecrated Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese pf Maryland. The venerable Bishop Allred Lee, of Delaware, presided. Ex-Senator Thurman made a speech at Columbus, O., on the 8tb, which was well received, and the “Old Roman" was lo ud • ly applauded. General Sante Domingo Villa has been elected President of the State of Panama and installed. The Democrats of Ohio had a high time at Columbus on the 8th. Members of the Legislature called on Senator-elect IPayne, and there were a number of congratulatory speeches. Prince Bismarck proposes that the duties on corn be raised because Germany lis a nation of farmers. Mme. Clovis-Husues, who murdered -Deputy Morin at Paris, was aegnitted on llbe 8th, her trial resulting in a verdict of not guilty. Governor Rome of Maine in his inaugural address recommended the adoption »f-civil service rules. • Hr- Gladstone, it is understood, will retire from party politics at the end of the eoMkm of the British Parliament, ^ Mb. G retire fr gllfesfct II

Mark Hopkiks’wMow proposes to build iu Massachusetts the most expensive residence in the United: States. The house and grounds will cost $$,000,000. On the 8th the Illinois Legislature transacted no business except to organise. The Senate was organised by the Republicans according to the caucus plans. Itn the House Mr. Haines was elected tem]>omry Speaker, and other temporary officers were chosen. ' On the 8th the National Committee of-the Prohibition a party met at New York. Resolutions were passed complimenting St. John, and denouncing the attacks on his, life and character by the opposition party, and especially the charges made by Clarkson, the Iowa member of the National Republican Committee. Ok the 8th both branches of the Missouri Legislature organized according to the Democratic caucus plans of the previous night. In the evening a joint caucus of the Democratic Senators, and Representatives was held and the naime of Hon. George 6. Vest was the only one presented for United States Seuator. The choice was therefore unanimous. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, of New Or? leans, died on the night of the 9th. Robert W. Wright, the journalist and author, died at Cleveland, Q., on the 9th, iu his sixty-ninth year. John McBride, of Massilon, was elected President of the Ohio Coal Miners’ Association. Princes Edward and George, sons of the Prince of Wales are writing an account of their voyage around the world. In a letter to the Conservatives the Marquis of Salisbury condemns the British Government for its vacillating foreign and colouial policy. ! Senator Jones was 'nominated by the Republican caucus at Carson City, Nev., to succeed himself in the. Uni ted States Senate. Mr. Gladstone is said to be suffering from catarrh, lumbago and insomnia, but there is a fair prospect of a speedy recovery of his health. A dispatch from General Wolseley on the 9th stated that he would march for Khartoum January 24th. He advises the Government to dispatch 3,000 picked troops to Suakim. Tns Board appointed to investigate the cehduct of a number of naval cadets who visited Washington during the holidays, have recommended the dismissal from the Navy of Cadet George B. Tennant, of Michigan, who, while intoxicated, accidentally discharged a revolver, the bullet wounding Frederick 11. Sparling, an excadet. Chief Signal Officer Hazex, in an inview regarding the alleged carelessness of Lieutenant Garlington, said: ’‘Before a court-martial I can show that Lieutenant Garlington disobeyed orders, which, if obeyed, would have brought the Greely party back to us safe and sound.” On the 9th King Alfonso and his Ministers started for the scene of the earthquake in Andalusia,* The Queen and other members ot lue i i§’al family who bade goodbye to the King at the railway depot, were much agitated by apprehension of possible mishaps. The Queen wept profusely.

CRIMES AM) CASUALTIES. John Maxwell, who poisoned his three children recently near Springfield, O., hanged himself in jail syith a towel. On the oth Jacob Michaels, a prominent church member at Hardeuburg, lad., having been discovered in forging an order by which he got $101, shot himself dead in the presence of the constable sent to arrest him. One church, a convent and fifty houses were destroyed by an earthquake at Motril, Spain, on the ith. On the 8th Stoweriugs & Fleming’s Iron Works at Cleveland, O. were damaged by fire. Two brothors whose mother was recently murdered, made a desperate attempt to take the life of a Paris editor, on the 8th, whose paper had attacked the memory of their mother. They were overpowered by the newspaper men, and one of the assailants dangerously wounded. While skating, four boys broke through the ice at Pottsville, Pa., on the Oth, and were drowned. Fire destroyed a large tobacco storage warehouse at Durham, N. C., on the Oth. On the Oth Thomas F. Phelan, of Kansas City, Mo., was stabbed in O’Donovan Kossa’s office in New York by Richard Short, and the latter was afterward shot in the leg by Phelan when supposed to be in a dying condition. The trouble grew, out of Fenian matters. When asked if he wanted a priest, Phelan said-he did not, as he was a Bob Ingersoll follower.

MISCELLANEOUS. A Bkitish protectorate has l>eau proclaimed over the whole of the Pondo land in Southern Africa. The North Chicago rolling-mills, which employ 2,000 men, have announced that they will soon resume operations On the 6th an investigation of Indian land cases was begun by the Senate Committee on Indian affairs. On the 6th the visible supply of wheat was 47,992,000 bushels; corn,4,024,OOO.bushels; oats, 2,006,000 bushels. A party of four hundred well-armed men are reported at Camp Russell, in Oklahoma, and they say they will resist the Government troops. A circular has been issued by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in reference to the assessment and exportation of Bpirits. The Illinois Central Road has reduced the rates on grain from Dubuque to Chicago, and on oats from Dubuque to New Orleans The Mississippi River Commission transmitted its annual report to Congress on the 6th. The available fund is about exhausted. ■ Another war over county records has broken out in Dakota, this time at Forest City. France has ordered 12,000 additional troops to Tonquin from Algeria. It is intended to close the campaign before the rainy season. Several merchants and manufacturers at Chicago who have been interviewed say there are real evidences on every hand of a good business revival. In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, on the 5th, the renting of pews realised $27,256, as compared, with $34,639 last year. Mr. Beecher wasxiheerful at the conclusion of the sale. ] The Ohio State Convention of Coal Miners met at Columbus on the 7th. It is announced that France and Germany have reached an agreement in regard to Egypt. Auents of Hocking Valley mines are at Lynchburg, Va., to secure negroes to take the places of-the striking miners. Between 3,090 and 4,009 men are affected by the order reduoing wages, issued iy Oliver Bros. & Phillips, of Pittsburgh, Pa. The lease of the Eastern Railroad by the Boston & Maine Road has brought to light in embezzlement of several years’ standng, the amount being $12,000. Durino last year 1,665 new enterprises were started in the Southern States, with in aggregate oapital of $103,269,000, dlvidsd among fourteen States. The heaviest nvestments were in Kentucky, Alabama ind Virginia,

Japan is chartering steamer* to convey troop* to Cure*. Reports from ranges all over Wyoming show a most satisfactory condition of stock, despite the recent cold weather. Thb tension of relations fcotwesn the English and German governments is said to be lessening. In his speech at the reopening of the Reichstag on the 8th, Bismarck expressed friendship fog England and her people. The report of the Missouri River Commission was sent to the Senate on the 7th. Jt recommends substantial appropriations for the great stream, and is full of interesting statements. On the 38th inst a National stiver convention will be held at Denver, Cal. The West African Conference has agreed upon the proposal that no part of the guaranteed territory shall be allowed to be nsed as a market or means of communication for the slave trade. A convention of representatives from the leading collages add universities *.rthe country was in session at Philadelphia, Pa., on the 8fch. At Lexington. Ky., on the 8th, the four year-oid colt, Alcantara, was sold to Elesur Smith, of Lee, Mass., for $26,000. Rates have been reduced by the Transcontinental Freight Association on iron and glass products from Pittsburgh to Calnainte

A Roue paper denies the report that Italy intends to occupy Tripoli. On the 3th the Jackson Democratic dubs and associations and other organizations celebrated in many parts of the country. It it claimed by United Ireland that the result of the convention at Thuriea is the' death-blow to the cowardly enemies of Ireland, who reckoned upon Tipperary as an ally. Rates for round-trip tickets to the inauguration have been fixed by the ra ilroad companies of the West. Moke earthquake shocks were felt on the Sth in the Province of Malaga, Spain. Several houses were damaged. On the Sth another verdict was ren dered in a St. Louis (Mo.) court to the effect that option dealing is illegal, and that there can be no recovery on margins put tip for a third party. A man with a glass eye, who went from Detroit, Mich., to Toronto, Out., has left his creditors to the tune of $10,000. It is reported that the Mexican Central Railway Company has called for a loan of $3,000,000. 1 A Lima (Peru) paper declares that the Peruvians in their desire to become Europeanised are losing their politeness. , The debt of the State of Indiana is $4,. 87«;008, all of which is due the State school fund, except $007,825. The glass manufacturers of Pittsburgh, Pa., have inaugurated n movement to have the factories close down two or three months earlier this year than usual. The Government Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad submitted their annual report to the Secretary of the Interior on the 9th. • 1 iiu.vDoTP-KET’s weekly review, based on special telegrams from all par*» of the United States, contains evidence of an Improved feeling in Commercial circles. At Dover, N. H.$ a Salvation Army Captain defies the Mayor on the ground that he gets his orders from Heaven, and would not allow earthly powers to dilate. The Captain has sent for reinfor^Bents, and the Mayor is getting his forces in order to assert his authority when the real test comes. The financial situation at Buenos Ayres is becoming very complicated. The Central Council of the Irish National League, at Belfast, has dissolved because it could not indorse the action of Parnell in connection with the electoral contest in Tipperary. The iron rolling mills at Wyandotte, Mich., after being shut down several months, will start in a few days, giving employment to between two and three hundred men, who agree to acoept the reduction of ten per cent, proposed when the' mill shut down. | News was received on the 9th that the German corvettes off the Cameroons coast had fotight a battle with the natives, the latter being routed with great loss of Jife. The' marines landed and burned several native villages. Only one German was killed and eight wounded. Duriku the seven days ended the 9th there were 448 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet’s against 3iM> in 'the preceding week, and 345, 342 and 293 in the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883 and 1882 respectively.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The Senate was not, in session on the 10th.......In the Souse there was quite a warm debate on the proposition to pfit aside other matters and take up tiie naval appropriation bill, Mr. Randall making a strong point that unless the appropriation bills were passed an extra session would be necessary. Finally the naval bill was passed as reported, with the excption of a few minor paragraphs. The bill is for half of the fiscal year, and appropriates something less thian the estimates. The consular and diplomatic bill was next reached. Messrs. Burns and Towushend spoke on (he question, and tho latter incidentally called attention to the great importance of building up a larger trade with the Central and South American states. Mr. Robinson (of New York) made a speech in reference to sending ministers to foreign courts. No definite conclusion was reached. Several members of the Salvation Army were arrested at Dayton, <)., on the 11th. The only son of the late Secretary Folger d|ed at Geneva, N. Y., on the 11th, of consumption. A MEETING is called at Cincinnati, O., on January 24th, of advocates of the proposed Irish Parliamentary fund. SpANisn Americans of New York have taken steps to relieve the distress^! sufferers by the earthquakes in Spain. . The reports recently printed of wholesale freezing to death in Northern Nebraska are now pronounced utterly false. One of the mines of the Hocking Valley Coal and Iron Company was se t on lire on the 11th, supposably by striking miners. i By the explosion of the boiler of the steam tug Dougherty at Elizabeth, Pa., on the 11th, two of the crew were killed and several wounded. According to the report of the Director of the Mint the total coin circulat ion of the couutry January 1st, 1885, was $827,000,000. A fkahfvl storm raged all day of the 10th in the west and south of England. Telegraph lines were prostrated and communication impeded. It was thought much damage had resulted. The agents of Mary Anderson, in London, are seeking to obtain ground upon which to build a theatre. A petition in favor of the Spanish treaty, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, has been circulated among the merohunts and manufacturers of New York, receiving many signatures. The Imports at the port of New York for the week ended the 10th, wero $8,774,C00, of which $2,008,000 were ,dry goods and $6,100,000 general merchandise. The announcement of the desire of New Zealand to annex Samoa has caused a sensation in Berlin.

THE, COMING SCOURGE. rtM KqmM TUt «f Chol«n> To Ooi Shom-ln|M>rtun of Preparing; for Its KMoptlon In • Way That Will Bob It at S«M of ltl Terror*. St. Louis, Mo., January "■ At a meeting ol the Medico-Chirurgical Society, bald in its noma oo Washington avenue, the subject of cholera in Hs local connection wan discussed eshaaalively by lire. James M. Leete, Holimiin, Hardaway, Moses, Kngelinan, Scott, Briggs, Bryson, Bean aid Baumgartner with special reference to a sanitary il which the society is,tends to push before the City Connell at its next meeting. Br. Leete, who Is a cholera specialist, having gained much of his experience in the St. Louis epidemic of 1866, replied very pointedly and frankly to the- first question of the reporter who called upon him this morning. “Yes, sin there is every reason to believe that the cholera will invade this sountry this year from Europe and sweep the land as It did In 1832, 1849, 1854 and 1866. St. Louis will lie directly In Us path when It comes, and it is the duty of the city authorities to begin at once' to »dopt precautionary and prcvcntfvo measures.” “Why do we believe that the cholera Is joining here?” he continued. “Because ive judge by the past, and in every instance that the disease has ravaged Europe it has reached the United States and passed through the States, ft is now in t rance, Italy and Spain—that is very near as—and we can expect to be reached during the spring. The city must begin to provide against the spread of the disease right now.” “How?” “Not by street draining. 1 wouldn't live a ceut for such a sanitary precaution, i'he wells and cisterns in the city, so far »s their use for driukiug water is concerned, must be abolished, and the 25,000 privy vaults most be destroyed or rebuilt according to the municipal bill which we are urging. The city should use the river water below the bridge, which is purer than that from cither wells or cisterns, and as for the vaults, why they are more to be feared than an enemy’s army should cholera once reach the city. But the water should be attended to first, fhere is no pure well or cistern in the city. Here is an analysis from a well on the corner of Locust and Twenty-Eighth street. Why, if the cholera once reached St. Louis people drinking that water would die lixe sheep with the rot.” “Was the influence of drinking watex made evident by the St. Louis epidemic of >66?” “Certainly. When the cholera attacked its first victim here, the city authorities fid nothing. From a population of 200,J00 cholera took 3-,572,. Jh New York, then with 800,000 people, every preparation had been made ami every precaution with regaad to water and stercorat'cous that vve are urging here, and only 1,158 people died. Brooklyn prepares! before the cholera came and lost only 517. Glasgow, Scotland, with 4V0,0C0 people, prepared and dost only sixty-eight lives, while in 1854, with* a much smaller population, when no precaution had been taken, 3,880 people tlied. Don’t'thesc facts point a moral for the St. Louis City Council? Wc intend to press the matter upon the authorities until we force them to provide protection tor the people here, even though they rion’t rofinwRiYi* ihAmcolvoc **

THE CARRYING INTERESTS Discussed By Chief of the Bureau of Statistics Muimo. Washington, 1). a, January 8. Chief of the Bureau of Statistics N immo, iu his autrial report on internal corn* rnercc, says that the average rate of freight charged on railroads in the United States during the year 1884 was less than half the average rate charged in 1883, and that concurrently there was an enormous increase in the volume ol traffic. Mr. Nimmo discusses the subject of pooling very fully, and iu speaking of the discriminations which such contests engendered as betwecu shippers and rival pities, he says: Falsehood and deception were the rule and fair dealing the exception. This state of affairs was utterly demoralizing to trade, for it was in contravention of the great fundamental law of ethics that iu the competitive struggles of life men shall be permitted to live and labor in an open Held and in a pure atmosphere. lie does not assume that no better expedient than pooling can be adopted for the protection of the commercial, industrial and transportation interests of the country against the destructive and demoralizing effects of wars of rates, but that they are, at the present time, the only known expedient that seems to be available for accomplishing that purpose. He thinks, however, that it is easier to regulate the great pools ■ than to regulate the roads separately.

HE WANTED MONEY, &nd Adopted Means to the End of SecurlrK It. Vincennes, INK., January'7. A robber appeared at the home ol Mrs. Beebe, near Duff’s Station, south oi this :lty, Monday, and demanded her money. She declared that her husband had taken it all with him to Hazleton. The robber left and went to the next neighbor, SoderiDan, and thrust his head in the door and tskod it Mr. Soderman was at home, finding that he was, he walked into the rouse and, drawing a revolver, told Soderman he must give up his money or lose his life. Soderman ;ave him 93, which only engaged the villain, and he took a club ind knocked the old man down and beat llm until he was senseless. Mrs. Sod:rman was sick in bed, and the villain raised his clnb at her and declared he would kill her if she did not get him some money . She managed to get upi ind cross the room, securing $15 and landing it to him. The scoundrel then lepartcd and has not been captured. Soderman was dangeronsly injured. “Bismarck's Missionaries." Hose Konc, January S. The Finance Committee have refused to lanctlon expenditure for defense^ of the stand, owing to the incompleteless of the scheme, audJ its loubtfnl utility. German offlee/s are locking to Pekin, where they seek smployment In the espeditldns against be French. The ChiaeWsjja/l them Bisnarck’S missionaries. The German Minster is said to be indignant at their conluct, which Is attributed here, however, nerely to a desire to better their peenuiary sondition. Apparent Death Caused by Grief. New Yoke, January 7. Amelia Schaefer* living near New Durham, received a letter New Tear’s Kve., informing her that her betrothed over had been killed by au explosion In a nine. She turned pale and rcluv.d to led. The next morning her mother found ler stretched on the bed, her limbs flexble and her body warm, but otherwise presenting all the appearance of a dead ierson. AU efforts to aronse her have since proved futile. Her eyes remain staring wide open; the flesh has a bluewhite tinge. Physicians pronounce it a mse of catalepsy and exneot her reJOverjr.

• WAR IN IRELAND. Oaf) af the Originators of the Irish Shir. ■eHhlng Fund Fatally Carved in O’Dono. aha Bojj.'s Office in New l'ork By One o the Latter's Friends—The Supposed Reward of Treachery. New York, January It, Yeiterday at about s p. m. several men rnslfed out of No. 13 Chambers street, in which building Is located the office of O’Dhbovan Rossa and the ! United Irishma». In a few seconds afterward a man covered with blood tottered down the st§lrs to the hallway and sank on the front,stoop, while his blood covered the sidewalk in a stream. The most intense excitement at once took place, and crowds flocked to the scene. Several officers rushed up, and seeing a few men making toward Chambers street and City Hall Plflce, followed them. One of them, a talTniau, was captured and brought back to were the dying man was lying. “Is this the man who stabbed you?*' asked the officer. “Y'ee, that is the man,’’ said the bleeding man, “but by Heavens, if I’m going to die I’ll die game, and there will be two of us.” With that, and before the bystanders could realize his intentions, he drew a revolver and fired two shots ta rapid succession at the man standing before him. One of 'the balls took effect in the thlgb of hts would-be murderer. This still fnrtber Increased the excitement, and the neighborhood became wild with all sorts of rumors. The man who liras stabbed proved to be Captain Thomas B, Phelan, aged forty-nine, of Kansas City, and his assailant, whom he says stabbed him, gave his name as Richard Short, of 8G1 Tenth avenue. An ambulance was summoned, and Phelan was taken to the Chambers street Hospital in a dying condition. He is stabbed in the neck and breast and several other places. Thew were rumors that he gave away some of the secrets of the Fenian organization. The police claim to have a letter from Rossa to the wounded man, telling him to come on to New York to his office, tbat.be had Important business for him to attend to. Phelan was asked if he wanted a minister or 8 priest. “No,” he replied, “I don’t want anybody. I don’t believe ln any religion. I am a follower of Bob Iugersoll.” The news of the stabbing and shooting spread rapidly, and Inquiries were made on all sides as to who Phelan and Short were. Phelan appeared to be known to many men identified with the Irish revolutionary movements. Rossa was condemned by a number of his compatriots for giving publication in his paper this week to the interview printed in the Kansas City Journal, purporting to be had with Phelan, giving a detailed account of the operations of the dynamiters In England. Throats were made against Rossa’s life, and it was said that his Immediate friends had determined to form a body-guard to protect him. * J*helan was one of the originators of the skirmishing fund, and was at one tings suspected of being the famous “Number One” mentioned by the informer Carey in his evidence. He has been an Irish Nationalist all his life, and has always been promiuent in Irish revolutionary movements. Short is said to be one of the Irishmen who was driven to America by the treachery of James McDermott, of Brooklyn, who is now believed to be in the pay of the British Government as a spy. On reaching the hospital Phelan became very weak from loss of blood, and Coroner Martin was summoned to take his antemortem statement. In answer to the usual questions the wounded man said his name was Thomas Phelan, and that he lived In Kansas City, Mo. He then made the following statement": On last Sunday week there was an Interview between myself ami the local editor of the Kansas City Journal published In that paper, a copy of which, containing the interview. Is now in my coat pocket and which I am willing to give to the Coronor. I received a letter from John F. Kearney, of 432 West Twenty-ninth street. N*w York, and telegraphed 1dm that i would come to New York on January 8th. i arrived to-day. January 9th at twelve o’clock, and called on Kearney at Ids place of business In Twenty-ninth street. Kearney and 1 went to O’Donovan Rossa's office, liossa was not in. A man named “Rocky Mountain,”O’Brien, came in They shook hands with me and asked how I wasicellng.O’Brien tbeu lefttlieofflee. A man whose name, 1 think, is Barker, came into tile office with a knife in his hand, lie struck at me and tried to stnbme in the cliest while I was sitting. I wauled off the blow, and he made several cuts at me. and succeeded in stabbing me several times. 1 then ran down stairs, and he followed me, stabbing me several times on the’wuy down. I ran into the street and Barker was brought before me on the sidewalk. 1 recognized him as the man who stabbed me. 1 w as introdnced’to Barker on my return from Europe at Rossa's office, and met him once since at the same place. While I was lying on the sidewalk I supposed that Barker was going to stab me again, and I shot at him. Kearney was present when Barker stabbed me. Besides those I have named, there were two men in Rossa' office at the time I was stabbed whom 1 do not know. i Phelan received six terrible cuts, two In the back, one in the back of the neck, ouc in the left arm and two In the left breast. The doctors at the hospital are of the opinion that his injuries will prove fatal. O’Donovan Rossa was seen shortly after Phelan had been removed to the hospital. He appeared greatly astonished at what had occurred. He said he knew nothing of the causes which led to the stabbing of Phelan, and refused to make any statement. Barker was arrested, while trying to escape. He was taken to the Fourth Precinct station house after being identified by Phelan. At the station he gave the name of Richard Short, He denied "all knowledge of the stabbing, but when asked how his hands and face became bloody, he became silent and refused to answer further questions. He was locked up and will be taken to the Toombs this morning. Kearney, who accompanied Phelan to Rossa’s office, Is one of the men mentioned by Phelan in the Interview published in the Kansas City Journal as having been implicated in the plots to blow up the steamer Queen and the Glasgow railway station.'

A Vessel Ashore Remote From Succor. Fortiand, Ore., January 9. The Signal Station at Cape .Hancock learns that a steamship is ashore near the entrance of Shoal Water Bay, twenty miles north of the mouth of the Columbia. The weather was very foggy and it is not likely that a tug can reach the stranded vessel ::'rom Astoria. The steamer may be the San Tedro, a collier, which left San I raucisco on the 5th inst. for Puget Sound.* It is almost certain that it is not a passenger steamer. The stranded vessel is twenty miles from the nearest telegraph station. Ld, til. Poor Indian. Washington, I>. C„ January 10. A delegation of Comanche and Kiowa Indians had an Interview with Commissioner of Indian Affairs Price yesterday in regard to‘the lease of grazing lands on their respective reservations to cattlemen. The Indiaus represented that a majority of their tribes were Opposed to leasing lands, but the cattlemen, despite their protests, had taken possession of the lands, and were now on them. The Commissioner said that if he was sure that cattlemen were on the lands without the consent of a majority of the Indians he would see that they were ejected, eVen tt force should be required to accomplish it. * « \ * /

OKLAHOMA. Cwpm and the President Becoming lm« pressed With the Keeessltj-for Some Do. eislre Action in Relation to This Territory —A Reflection I'foa the leaders of the • Boomers.** WASflnratoK, B. C., January M. Something has got to be (lone about Oklahoma, and there are evidences that Congress is being impressed with the necessity lor a definite and decided expression. As Senator Plumb said the other day in presenting a memorial from the colonists, a decisive policy most be announced and enforced. Either the lands must be thrown open or there must be such a declaration from the Government that people will stop going in and settling. On Wednesday a party of Congressmen, among whom were Senators Vest, Dawes, Ingalls and Plumb, called upon the President in relation to this matter. When the subject was broached, President Arthur said he was advised by the Department of Justice that any Invasion of the Territory of Oklahoma was an infraction of law. lie therefore issued a proclamation forbidding persons to enter that Territory for settlement. But men set that proclamation at naught, and defied the authorities of the Government. When expelled, they at once prepared for another invasion. They began to drill, provided themselves with sons, and so on. To keep them out was not only a matter of the enforcement of Governmental authority, but the President was satisfied that, aside from any such consideration, it was right and proper that settlers should not be permitted to enter the Territory. The laws relating to the GovernmcngfOf the Indian Territory term it the “Indian country.” This term has been used in the legal phraseology so long that it has come to be applied generally to Indian reservations. The law authorizes the Executive power to kedp intruders out of the Indian country and to employ the military force of the Government in so doing, if necei The President called attention to the thaf Oklahoma is included in the de nation of “Indian country” and is but a small tract, comparatively, comprising a few hundred thousand acres, * and surrounded on every side by Indian reservations. He said that if that tract is to be opened to settlement the Way must be prepared by the enactment of laws for that purpose. As the case stands there is no civil law prevailing in Oklahoma, and the President holds that should that land lie settled' by whites'under existing circumstances, collisions between the whites and the neighboring Indians wonld be almost certain. If the land is to be thrown open, he advises that a definite plan I and that such law tiers shall enter, etc., i trouble between i also, that a land ofi there. Until Congr opening Oklahoma prescribing how President holds it 1 Executive to kee| Territory.

MAKING THE It Is stated In the qulry Okl: menl Each' pay a sol to $t be paid at’ recruit = land and bad boomers does not by some Of those breaking up these ra really do not want to settlement, as their source of re The feeling strongly In ‘ throw the the appreh effects of tract righ country ci this course; the |

A BLOOC A Georgia Town Stirred \ ary Riot, the Result of i tion Quarrel—One Man j ltadly Wounded. AVGVVtH Last night Rutledge i riot which threatened lives, and as it was resn of one person and the j doxen more. Daring been an exciting contest^ elections, and altbon the closing of all bars, i bottles enough to make| feeling, which was son first, was fanned into^ frivolous quarrel betwe and Tom Estes, resultln H. Hardin threw himself in a peacemaker in behalf o: the Hawkins boys jumped i er. In an instant

were drawn. Hardin slas Bob Hawkins with his knife three probably fatal stabs Ins man named Churchill which was in Hardin’s hand latter turned around on the’ and drove his knife into breast. Then others joined iu^ less than twenty-five men were . in a mass, shooting, Cutting, cursing rendering the scene most hideous, man lost his ear by a clean cot, andj din's head was banged up so as to i him from the difficulty. A dozen otl were maimed, and it was not until j every one was wounded that the troub ended. Churchill died to-day, while of the Hawkins lies in a critical state.

snot bjt a nioou-aMpw. St. Louis, Mo., January 9. James Mauzy, a painter, was brought to the Four Courts to-day from the Union Depot with his right arm blown to pieces by a gnn-shot. Last Wednesday night he attempted to enter the residence of a grocery keeper named Emil Morschel in St. Paul, Mo., and was discovered by Morschel In the act of cutting the window slats. Morschel seized his shot-gun and blazed away. Mauzy denies the burglary and claims that he was shot for asking a free drink. He was sent to the cityhospital. .■« an-. Senator Vest to Succeed UiuucfX. Jkvfbrsos City, Mo., January 9. The Democratic caucus of the two houses of the Thirty-third General Assembly met last night and unanimously renominated Geo. G. Vest fora second term as United States Senator from this State. Lieutenant-Governor Campbell presided over the caucus. Mr. Vest was placed in nomination by Senator Edwards, of St. Charles, and the nomination was secouded by Mr. Shjele, of Pettis. In answer to repeated calls, Governor Crittenden made an able an eloquent speech. The caucus adjourned amid wild enthusiasm. The date for the formal election has not yet been announced.

A MUGWUMP'S OPINION. ft»» Idea of os ladopeudcut Newspaper of Blaine’s fwi-BteUss Harangue at A agnate. Had it been Mr. Blaine’s purpose to destroy the lingering trace® of the illusion, at one time quite general in the Republican party, that he was a statesman, he could not have gone about it in a surer way than in his Augusta speech. Had he also wished, with his reputation as & statesman, to bury his much better earned fame as a politician, he could not have done so more effectively. Whether we consider his amazing address as the review by a public man with a quarter of a century’s experience of the most momentous political contest with which he had to do, or as the programme of a political leader for an ultimate reversal of the result of that contest, it is a wonder of audacious folly and shallow falsehood. Those who have opposed Mr. Blaine’s election hardly expected that from his own lips, almost before the verdiet of the people hod reached the remoter regions of the Union, he would give them a complete and startling justification of their course. Nor could they have imagined that a candidate', whom a change* of a few hundred votes would Ijpve elected, would have made haste to utterly break down the confidence of the intelligent men among his followers in his honesty, his common sense and his political sagacity, so that the most zealous of them would never again dare to bring his name before a party convention. It was to have been expected, and miujht have been pardoned, that Mr. Blaine would seek to explain away the cause of his defeat, and would shrink from acknowledging that it was his own proved vices of mind and morals. Nor is it surprising that he should have vented his vulgar spite on the eities of New York and Brooklyn, in which fyonest Republicans balked the plans he had laid to win by the votes of the more ignorant Democrats. But it is incomprehensible that he should have presented a statement of the intluenee of the Southern States in the late election, and of the consequences of their snare in the result, which is not only unfounded in fact, but which is so stale that it has long since become a stench in the nostrils of thinking people. It was just four months before his Augusta oration .that he gave to the country his letter of ; acceptance, laden with phrases of honeyed sweetness for his baloved brethren 'and possible supporters of the South. 'Then he declared that “prejudices had yielded and wore yielding, while a generous cordiality warmed the Southern and the Northern heart alike.” Then ho asked; “Cm any one doubt titSTBe

him m the Presidency css bow not only rest satisfied with this proof bf the wisdom of their action, but may bo thankful that he has of his own accord taken himself into the grove which, sooner br later in American politics, opens for men like him.—‘AT. K Times (md.) APPROACHING DISSOLUTION. The End of the RepnhUeaa Party Clearly As the Democratic party, tom by fnotion ip 1861, went oat of power, so the Republican party, split into particles, goes out of power in 1885. The oao began life anew; the other goes into its grave- The one. grasping its eternal principles the more firmly, calmly awaited the time when those principles . would, as was inevitable, assume their sway; the other, torn, distracted and demoralized, concentrates all the energies remaining to it on its internal antagonisms, the sure presage of approaching death. History repeats itself. -lt will again in the politics of this country. The party in opposition to the Democratic partv has never survived defeat. When the federalist went down it was succeeded by the Whig party. When the Whig went down the Republican sprang up in its place. The Republican party has gone down to be followed by what? The preponderating political thought in this country is of the school of Jefferson. The Democratic party is the keeper of that school. The opposition never has and never will go into power purely as the advocate <3 the Hamil toaiah theorySome present issue espoused as a matter of expediency has given it victory. The issue of slavery lined the Republican party into power; the war fastened its hold and the memories thereof continued that hold long after it ceased to have reason for existence. The successor of the Republican party will be one builded up, upon some new issue, which the dominant party has not esponsejl and which will attract Totes^. from it. It will not, however, befho old Republican organization. That party is practically gone. It is already in the throes of dissolution. The end of the Republican party began when the revolt against the leadership of Rosooe Conkling took form. A strong man, he was a welding force in his party,, binding antagonistic elements together, suppressing factious rebellions and curbing disturbing ambitions. When his leadership was stricken down a great general was removed. Incompetency rushed in to take his place and the result was jealousy and Dickering among the woukl-be' leaders, upon whieh the army divided into . as many , parts as there were aspirants for lea*