Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 January 1885 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources* CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate on the 12th a petition was presented from Mrs. Belva Lockwood asking: that Congress count the votes cast for her The resolution of Mr. Hawley In reference to the papers .filed by General Sherman concerning Mr. Davis, ex-President of tpe Southern Confederacy, was taken up, and was the occasion of a very warm debate, in which Messrs. Ingalls, John Sherman and Hawley a participated, on one side, and Messrs. Vest, Lamar and George on the other. The matter was finally laid over until the 13th, and the Senate went into executive session, after referring the House naval hill to the proper committee......In the House, among the bills introduced vras one by Mr. Rogers (of New » ork) providing for the better protection of the Northern and Northwestern frontier and to facilitate commerce and to diminish the expenses of exchange between the States. Progress was made with the consideration of title consular and diplomatic appropriation In the Senate on the 13th Mr. Hale n - •ported the last House naval appropriation hill with all provisions for changes in the existing laws stricken out. The House bill repealing the pre-emption timber culture and desert land acts and modifying the homestead act was reported favorably. Mr. Edmunds offered a bill which, lit passed, will place General Grant on the retired list. The Hawley resolution In reference to the Sherman-Davis matter was taken up* and after further debate was adopted, there being but ten negative votes. The inter-St at o commerce bill was resumed. Mr. .Vance's amendment relative to charged bn large and small shipments was rejected; ns was also an amendment offered by Mir. Slater making ail rebates unlawful.In the House Mr. Stoekslager had read as a question of privilege a'report in the New York Sun charging the Committee on Public Buildings with log-rolling to pass hlHs, which provoked a spirited debate. Hazing at the Naval Academy was discussed. A number of new bills were introduced. Mr. Browne (of Indiana) announced the death of Schuyler Colfax, offered a tribute to his memory, which was passed, and out of respect the House then adjourned. In the Senate on the 14th the first matter of importance considered was the bill offered by Mr. Edmunds,qjyroviding for the placing of General Grant on]the retired list .of army officers in a round-about way in order to overcome the objections that have heretofore been advanced. The bill was passed with but nine votes in the negative. The .Senate committee's amendment to the naval bill was concurred in and the bill passed. The inter-Stat© commerce bill came up and Was further discussed by Messrs. Cullom, Hoar, McPherson, Jackson, Allison, Slater and Van Wycfc. Mr. Harrison offered a tribute to the memory of the late lion. Schuyler Colfax, w hich was adopted, and the Senate* adjourned out of respect.L,...in the l|ouso Mr. MHls introduced a: bill to create a revenue commission, which is similar to the measure introduced in the Senate by Mr. Beck. Mr. Weller offered u bill to refund the bonded debt of the United States at two and onehalf percent, interest,to reduce taxation in the circulating bank libte currency, and to secure such currency against unnecessary disturbance. The Chinese indemnity fund bill was passed. Also the Senate French spoliation claims bill. The Senate held only a Irief legislative session on the 15th. A bill was introduced for the relief Of the Tallapoosa sufferers, and another to increase the pension of the widow of the late General Geo. II. Thomas. There was a long executive session, devoted principally to the discussion of the Nicaragua treaty.In the House the McPherson funding bill was taken up. There was considerable opposition to the measure, those opposing declaring that it was solely in the interest of the National hanks. On the other hand those who supported it declared that it was in the interest of the people, and not in the interest of the banks. Mr. Potter (of New* York) gave notice of a motion to recommit the bill with instructions to the Committee on Banking and Currency to report back a bill which ho submitted, tnc title of which is as follows: To refund the bonded debt of the United states at two and a half per cent, interest; to reduce taxation upon circulating bank-note currency, and to secure such currency against unnecessary disturbance and fluctuationT>y applying the National revenue economically to the payment of the National debt. The Senate amendments tp the Naval bill were non-concurred in and anew conference committee was appointed. In the Senate on the 16th petitions were presented asking for the improvement of the Monongahcla River, and the protest of 3.000 cigar-makers of Philadelphia against the ratification of the proposed SpanishAmeriean treaty was received. The inter* Sjtate commerce bill was discussed at great length, Mr. slater's amendment in reference to freight charges 6ou long ana short hauls being the principal matter debated. Air. George finally offered an amendment »providing that Mr. Slater’s amendment shall noube construed to legalize charging as much for a shorter as tor a longer distance in any case. This was agreed to as a modification, and debate on the Slater amendment continued. No further action wus taken.In the House a bill was passed uuthorizing the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi at Memphis. The Senate amendments to the Oregon Central laud grant bill were not concurred in. The House then went into committee of the w hole on war claim bills, but no final action was reached.

I'EltSQXAL AND POLITICAL. On the 13th Speaker Carlisle appointed Andrew Devine official reporter of the House of Representatives, to till the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Lord. Devine was once the official reporter of the committees, but was displaced by Speaker Keifer. *' The impression prevails that Archbishop Gibbons of Baltimore will be created a Cardinal in May next. The Karlof Aylesford died at Big Springs, Tex., on the 14th. The remains will bo sent to England. * ■* The Connecticut Republican caucus on the J4th renominated O. H. Platt for United States Senator. • On the 14th General Hatch was all ready to inarch oh the Oklahoma “boomers” at Stillwater, and a battle was imminent. The police of Sheffield, England, declare that Captain Phelan lived there in 1883, openly avowed himself against Rossa, wore new- clothes every day and had plenty of money while there. Prof. Benjamin Silliman, of A'ale College, died at New Haven, Coun.,|the night of the 14th. ON the 14th J. H. 1‘ittenger, a prominent lawyer of Tiffin, O., and at one time Mayor of th<fc,.town, died, as it is supposed, from an overdose of morphine. Prime Minister Ferhv, in the French Chamber of Deputies in a long and interesting speech on the 14th, went bluntly to the point by announcing that the Government intended immediately to increase its energies in Tonquin, and would not stop until the entire country up to the frontier of the Chinese empire was occupied. The French military strength at home would not be compromised. > On tho iuth Thomas Farrell died at St. Paul, Minn., at the advanced age of 111 years. In a speech on the 14th Bismarck decllared that the Government would require, in order to meet the demands of farmers, that the duty upon wheat be increased to three times the present rate. On the 15th John J. Cisco & Son, Wall slireet (N. Y.) bankers and brokers, made an assignment. <, Secretary Aversion of the Duluth (Minn.) Board of Trale, mysteriously disappeared on the 15th. On the 15th the body of -the late Major Charles B. Brady, of St. Louis, Mo., was cremated at Lancaster, Pa., with Masonic honors. ON the loth the Democratic members of the House of Representatives held a caucus at Washington to agree upon a plan of work during the remainder of the session. AN open letter has lroen written by Geo. Tjf Downing, a well-known colored man. to piDminent New York Democrats, In reference to his race. He thinks tho election of Cleveland a happy event. An interesting correspondent is going on between Bishop I,ee of Delaware and Bishop Potter of New York, In reference to the admission of Hr. Huntington into the Order of the Holy Cross, the venerable Biishop of Delaware taking issue with the New.York Bishop on Ids action.

Dot Cameron received the Republican caucus nomination for United States Sen* ator from Pennsylvania, to succeed him* self, on the loth. Rear-Admiral Powell, United States Navy, is dead. Frankie Roberts, the midget, died at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 16th, from the effects of the Caesarian operation. On the 14th Senator Z. B. Vance was renominated by the Democratic caucus at Raleigh, N. C., by acclamation. The British Court ofAppeals having dismissed his appeal, Edmund Yates of the London iVorid is to undergo four months’ imprisonment on the charge of libeling Lord Lonsdale. Hon. Wm. M. Evarts now appears to have a clear race for the New York Senatorship. Russell has withdrawn, and it is said the friends of Minister Morton will advise him to do the same thing. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has prohibited the circulation of the last number of O’Donovan Rossa’s paper, received in Ireland. Kino Alvonso of Spain has conferred upon Mme. Christine Nilsson the Cross of the Royal Civil Order of Beneficence, as a recognition of her deeds of charity. On the 16th General Robert Morton Brinton, the “Hero of the Roundhouse,” -during the Pittsburgh riots in 1877, died at his residence in Philadelphia, of neuralgia of the heart. The House Committee on Military Affairs on the 16th practically killed the Edmunds bill passed by the Senate intended to place G eneral Grant on the retired list of the army. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. On the 12th the flour mill of NatPaliher, at Strong Point, Cumberland County, W. Ya., burned with a loss of $10,000. Fire destroyed the Post-oSlice, four stores and two other buildings at Farwell, Mich., on the night of thollth. Loss, $12,000. . Further details of the terrible Alabama cyclone increase the list of casualties and the amount of damage done. At Locltport, Ind., ou the 13th seven buildings were burned with a loss of $30,000. A larue party of Polish employes in the plow works at South Bend, Ind., struck on the 12th and there was a riot which almost required the calling out of troops. The cause of the riot was because ono hundred of the men refused to quit work. There was some bloodshed. A terrific dynamite explosion near Somerset, Pa., on the 14th, resulted in the death of two men. The offices of the American Legation in London, Eug., were slightly damaged by lire on the 14th. On the 14th Ben F. Tait, clerk of theCinciunati Police Department, was arrested on a charge of embezzling $4,000. On the 14th Matthew Brown, a prominent citizen of Toledo, O., was run over and fatally injured by a team of horses. Police Councilor Rumpff was fatally stabbed at Fraukfort-ou-the-Maiu. It is thought to be the work of unknown Socialists. 4.

• too mgnt ot the loth a farmer sixty years of age, living near Howell, Mich., who had mourned only nine weeks for his deceased wife, when he took unto himself another, was given a tin horu serenade. A shot was tired into the crowd and one of the serenaders killed. Fire destroyed an elevator and 6,000 bushels of grain at Big Stone, D. T., the night of the 13th. Loss, $14,000. By an explosion of tire-damp forty-eight men were entombed in a coal mine in France on the loth. On the loth the bodies of four infants, ranging from the age of one tothreeyears, were discovered .buried near Big Rock Bridge, Franklin, Pa. Great excitement was occasioned by the find. The todies were encased in rough boxes, and one, at least, had been recently buried. A pike in the dwelling of Abel Kitcharn in New York on the loth, burned the owner to death before he could be taken out. He was over eighty years of age. On the loth Matthew Brown, for many years a prominent grain merchant of Toledo, O., and at present a Director in the Second National Bank of that city, was run over by a runaway team and received injuries which were supposed to be fatal. He is about eighty years old. Earring, la., was almost wiped out by liro on the loth. Ten business houses, und tho hotel and eating-house were destroyed. Loss, over $50,000. On the loth Richard Olds, at the bottom of the Star of the West Mine, at Butte, Utah, gave the wrong hoisting signal. The bucket turned with him and he fell out, alighting on an upright drill, which ran into 4its body, causing his death in a few hours. The Adams Express Company’s office, at Greenville, Conn., was robbed the night of the 14th of $200 in money, taken from four C. O. D. envelopes. Prank W. Brewster, agent,of the company, was arrested and made a confession, returned tho money and gave bonds to appear for trial. On the 10th Weight Leroy was hanged at San Francisco, Cal., for the murder of Nicholas Skerret. On the evening of the 10th five employes, of the Philadelphia Oil Works, located at Point Breeze, were dangerously and probably fatally wounded by the explosion of gas in a tank on which they wer« at work. They were taken to the University Hospital.

MISCELLANEOUS. Aluama, Spain, was again violently shaken by earthquake shocks on the 13th, just as the King and suite were leaving. Thk Governor of Ohio issued orders on the 13th lor the military to prepare to go to the Hocking Valley when called, as serious trouble was expected. The English army enroute to Khartoum thus far has conducted its march without opposition. Thk principal of one of the Louisville (Ky.) public schools recently lost $1,000 of the s:hool money at faro and has gone to join the Louisville colony in Canadas Thk House Committee on Ways and Means has authorized a favorable report on the bill providing for the establishment of export tobacco manufactories. Ox the 14th the annual meeting of the Western Iron Manufacturers’ Protective Alliance was held at Pijdsburgh, Pa. It is said that many retired German officers have gone to China to instruct the celestials in European tactics. An agreement has been reached by Frauen and Germany regarding the Egyptian, Chinese and Congo questions. No further rioting occurred at South Bend, Ind., on the 14th, although the trouble was likely to be renewed at any moment—a sort of armed truce, as it were. Great excitement exists in Australia over the recent German annexation of New Guinea and£djacent islands. On the 14th more earthquake shocks were felt in the provinces of Spain recently shaken up. The storms continued, and the suffering among the people reported as terrible in the extreme. Thk freight yards of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Road at Fort Waj*ne were blocked with trains on the 14th, which the strikers would not allow to go out. Mail, express a«d passenger trains were not molested,

AT Lynchburg, Va., four large tobacco factories, employing over 2,000 negroes, have re turned work, and all other»are preparing to start again. A cos tract has been made by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway with the Mexican Government which will benefit United States trade on the west coast of Mexico. A resolution was adopted by the Pennsylvania Senate on the 14th, requesting the Congressmen from that State to use their influence to make the trade dollar a legal tender. The Eastern Pig-Iron Association met at the Fifth Arenue Hotel, New York, on the 15th Germany is reported to have rejected the projtoeals of England regarding Egyptian finances, and is disposed to coincide with France. The Pennsylvania Road has sultstantially refused to enter the coal combination. The Dublin Freeman's Journal has paid $3,000 to a clergyman to stop a libel suit be had instituted. At Birmingham, Eng., a bread riot is threatened by five thousand men. who are out of employment. The Union Base Ball Association undertook to Isold a meeting at Milwaukee, Wis., on the 1 Hh, but only two clubs were represented. It was decided to disband and form a new league. The Erie and other trunk lines have reduced the emigrant fare from New York to Chicago to $S. At Lyons, France, an Anarchist plot was discovered on the 15th, by which arms wore to'be seized and a revolution declared. Panama advices are to the effect that an alarming condition of affairs prevails in the ent ire Republic, aud a general war is regarded imminent. War is already under way in Cuudinamarca, Boyaca, Santander and Magdalena. On th s 15th the exteusive wire and steel manufacturers, Oliver Bros. & Phillips, of Pittsburgh, Pa., suspended, and asked for an extension. The liabilities are roughly estimated at between $3,000,000and $5,000,000.

Last year Michigan shipped 2)580,201 barrels of salt. The British troops in Egypt !are reported by General Wolseley to be in good health. At Buenoa Ayres the commercial, situation continues uncertain, and the premium on gold is rising. i 'l8 The Indian appropriation bill was agreed upon by,the House comihittee on the Kith. The amount provided is $5,604,130. j In Philadelphia, money has been subscribed to take legal measures to preveut the old ibilierty Bell from l>eiug taken to New Orleans. On the 10th trains were delayed many hours on nearly all the railroads on account of the heavy snow drifts, and in some instances were totally abaudoned. In the United States of Colombia a serious revolution is in progress. The rebels have captured Barranquilla. The Department of Agriculture, in itai annual report, places the yield of corn for 1804, at 1,795,000,000 bushels; wheat, 318,000,000 bushels; oats, $583,050,050 bushels. These aggregates are the largest ever recorded. The blockade of freight trains Ion the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago ltoad was uubrokon on the 16th, and the strikers continued to prevent the moving of trains. The situation at Fort Wayne was a very serious one. The Secretary of the Treasury isent to the House on the 16th a draft of ithe bill prepared by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to amend the law relating to the entry of distilled spirits in distillery and special lionded warehouses, and the withdrawal of the same therefrom. The eirort to establish a female college in Baltimore, Md., under tho auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has so far progressed that $135,000 of the $200,000 requisite is already subscribed. The indications tire the remainder will soon be obtained. The Lancaster Watch Factory, of Lancaster, Pa., is to be removed to Chicago, its managers haying accepted a bonus of $350,000 for so doing. On the lttth another shock of earthquake was felt at Grenada, Spain, and caused a revival of the panic among the inhabitants. .During the seven days ended the 16th, there were 445 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet’s against 418 in the preceding week, and 321, 318 and 210 in the corresponding weeks of 1884, 188S and 1883 respectively.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. lx the Senate on tue 17th Mr. Allison presided. The communication of General Sherman to the War Department concernin" the policy of tho Confederate executive department was received and laid on the table. A bill was introduced for the eucouragement of the American merchant marine, and the promotion of postal and commercial relations with foreign countries. iVheu the inter-State commerce bill was taken up Mr. Slater’s amendment in reference to freight charges for long and short hauls was lost by tho decisive vote of 32 to 11. Mr. Allison offered an amendment to provide nine commissioners instead of five, and that they bo selected from each of the nine judicial districts of the United States, and that not more then five shall belong to one political party. Agreed to. Also In amendment limiting the powers of the commission to the powers specifier l]y given by the bill..In the House Mr. Gibson made a statement denying that he meant any reflection upon Mr. Randall in his remarks at the Wheeling Conference. Ho had the greatest respect for the Pennsylvania member. The business before the House was mostly of a routine nature. There is a dead lock in tbe Arizona Legislature. The wife of Justice Mathews, of the United States Supreme Court, eras lying at the point of death on the 18th. The premium on gold has risen twenty per cent, at Buenos Ayres. TnE B»y State Sugar Refinery at Boston. Maes., was badly damaged by fire on the 18th. The Saltan of Turkey has ordered 6,000 men to tie sent to occupy Suaklm. Harrison Tweed dropped .dead In church 11 Taunton, Mass., on the 18th. John Lenahan, a prisoner in jail at Providence, K. I., committed suicide On the 18th. Twelve Chinese vessels have Ijeen sent to Foo Chow to take troops to aid in the release of Kee Lung! A bister of General Phil Kearney was found dead in her room at Washington, D. C., on the 18th. Judos Duefy? of New York, in said to have felt highly indignant because he was invited to attend the Sullivan-Ryan glove contest. Three highly respected young ladies were poisoned at Charlestown, Vl. Va., on tbe 18th by using water that lad been poisoned with arsenic. No clew. The N sw York police closed tho saloons and arrested many proprietors on Sunday the 18tb. Five hundred saloon men met and deci ded to Assist the officers in an impartial enforcement of the laws. The recent storms have been unusually severe upon the telegraph service

BREWER’S LOVES. A Ttftcen Tear's siege to Poor loving Hearts Culminates In a Suit for Breach of Promise, With Others 11 Prospect. Cbeat Bvriunoton, Mass., January 15. The 910,000 breach ol promise salt of Miss Grace Whiting, o! Brooklyn, against J. H. Brewer, a wealthy merchant here, has created a sensation. Miss Whiting is a handsome brunette ot thirty, and belongs to one ol the oldest and most respectable families. Brewer is forty years old. He has the reputation of making engagements with four ladies, and of breaking all of them except the last, hence the popular feeling runs against him. It is said that sixteen years ago he was engaged to marry a widow, and that before the contract had been broken he had promised to marry Miss Whitiug, a lady now living in Brooklyn, and a lady whose residence is now a town on the Harlem Railroad, and who now seems to have the strongest hold upon him. Each lady kuew of the other’s engagement to Brewer, and each was in hopes of eventually cuttiug out her rivals. He had a talent for creating appearances, and so deftly implanted hope in the heart of each that he kept them all upon his string at once. If the lady on the llarlem Road complained of neglect, he would make it all right by becoming one of the chief mourners at her father’s funeral. . Wheu another lady found herself in danger of being cast out into the cold, she was the recipient of a furlined circular or some other pre sent that made her heart glad and caused her to look dowo ou her seemingly successful rivaj8'"with the spjrft of a victor. So these ladiesjiaye^, been kept “on the Tagged ctlgffof despair,” some of them forabotft fifteen years. Brewer, being engaged in a large business, and being liked by all acquaintances, was considered a good catch, and his faithlessness was not enough to make any of the ladies voluntarily abandon'him. One evinwent so far as to make up her weddiugtrousse.au, finding too late that she had no need for it at that time, slightly paraphrasing Goldsmith’s lines: “He cast off ills loves as a huntsman his pack, Tor he knew when he pleased he could whistle them bank,” Reports ot Brewer’s secret marriage to the lady, who^ we may call No. 4, are in circulation, but they are without foundation. The source of the report is the fact that he was in New York a few weeks ago, and that the lady i i question was out of town at the same time. There has been a rumor tor several months that there was a secret marriage between them, but it was mere gossip. Whether other breach of promise suits are to follow is not known. Miss Whiting’s engagement is supposed to be one of long stauding. The trial of the suit is expected to bring forth evidence of more than usual interest. The writ will be entered In February, and the trial can not come pfi until June. . -- i

A SOCIALISTS' VICTIM. Assassination of Police Councilor Kumpff at Vranhrort-on.thc.Main —The Crime Laid at the Door of Socialist Kminlssaries. IIkrlin, January 14. “A most profound sensation was created in Berlin this morning by the announcement that Ilcrr Kumpff, Police Councilor, had been murdered last night in front of his residence, in a prominent thoroughfare. Kumpff was actively connected with the recent prosecutions at Leipsic of the anarchists, Kcinsdorf, Uupsch, Kuceulcn, Holsraner, Bachman, Soehngcn, lteiubaoh aud Foellner, engaged in the Niederwald attempt to kill the Emperor, Clown l'rlnce and other distinguished personages of the Imperial suite, lieinsdorf, Kupschand and Kuechler were sentenced to death and Holsraner and Bachman to ten years’ servitude. The others were acquitted. The police arc reticent In regard to the murder of Kumpff, but state there is no doubt that friends of the convicted anarchists committed the deed. All kinds of stories are afloat in regard to the murder. Ouo is to the effect that, while returning home at about ten o’clock last uight, and when in front of his house, Herr Kumpff was struck a violent blow on the back of the head which felled him to the pavement, rendering him unconscious, and not giving him an opportunity to cry for help. Another is that death was produced by a stab wouud, causing almost instant death. All agree that the murder was the work • of an Anarchist in revenge for the part the Councilor had taken in securing the conviction of Kcindsdorf and his companions. The Emperor, when informed of the death of Kumpff, was visibly agitated.

FENCE CUTTERS AGAIN. Depredations By an Organized Baud In Mew Mexico—Ex-Senator I»< riey Concludes to Exercise the Better Part ol Valor. Las Vkgas, X. M., January ]£ A band ol fence cutters has commenced work in Colfax County, New Mexico, and already nearly a hundred miles of fence has been destroyed. Should the identity of the cutters be established, bloody times are likely to ensue. The cattle companies threaten to place armed patrols along their fences with orders to shoot down any person" detected in the act. The cutting is, attributed to the fact that the fences inclose public lands and prevent cattle on Government land from reaching water, as the water courses are Illegally inclosed, Ex-Sen-ator Dorsey has notified the fence cutters that he will take down his fence if it is demanded, preferring to save the wire from destruction. He has been told that such notice will be given in time to save trouble.

A Great Bore. New Hives. Cons., January IS. The Winchester Arms Company has abandoned work on the artesian well, which it began sinking two and onc-haif years ago, with the idea of obtaining an independent water snppiy. After the bore had been extended 2,400 feet, some one dropped some pieces of iron into the hole and they wedged into about fifty feet of steel boring tools. This was several months ago, and all efforts to clear out the hole have proved ineffectual. The only bore in the world deeper than the Winchester is a Pennsylvania oil well. -- The National Transportation Motor. Albany, N. Y., January 14. The National Transportation Motor was Incorporated to-day. The object of the company is for the applying and using and licensing others to use an appliance for the manufacture and generation of vapor fuel on steamships, locomotives, etc. Capital, 95,000,000. The incorporators are George 11. Morrison, W. H. Pulleys and Carroll Spriggs, of New York; Theo M. Nevlns, of New Jersey, and W. F. Ritchie, of Chicago. The capital of this company Is the largest ever recorded under the act of 1875, and touches the extreme lligjt of the law governing corporations.

THE ALABAMA CYCLONE. TheTraek of the Blast a Scene of Desola* tlon and Destruction—Houses Swept Away. Railroad Trains Overturned, Forests Leveled and Many Persons Killed or Injured. Sunday night's storm was almost unprecedented in severity. It arose about nine in the evening, and was accompanied by vivid lightning and heavy peats of thunder. Hale, Perry, Bebb, Chilton, Macon and Green Counties all suffered great destruction of property. The storm crossed the J^ouisville & Nashville Railroad fifty miles north of Montgomery. Near Calera, on the same road, a freight train was blown off the track and ditched, the engine overthrown and cars damaged considerably, but fortunately no lives were lost in the wreck. The cyclone’s path was half a mile wide, and traces of destructiveness are left on every side. Three men were killed at the camp ground in -Macon County. Trees, fences and houses were swept away like chaff. Among the debris of one house demolished near Calera the body of a man was found so terribly mangled as to render recognition impossible. Another man, name unknown, was killed near the Cahaba River, in the western part of the State. Forests were laid waste, trees several feet in diameter being torn to splinters. Wherever the cyclone struck the railroads the track was strewn with trees, telegraph poles and wires. In many places wagon travel is stopped. Honses several mites from the path of the storm were made to tremble as if moved by the upheaval of au earthquake. On several large plantations stock was killed and houses razed to the ground. In Green County cotton bales were blown hundreds of feet In the air, and near Eutaw a house was strnck by lightning and burned to the ground. The cyclone’s career was one of unabated fury and destruction. The people of Alabama have suffered a loss of property to the amount of hundreds of thousands of dollars, besides much loss of human life. Some three miles further off two other residences were completely blown away. In one of them were thirteen occupants, all of whom received more or less injury. Great damage is reported to farm property generally, owing to high water. It is impossible to obtain accurate information as to the full extent of the damage caused by the cyclone, but enough has been ascertained to report that, while it was very disastrous, it was not as severe as the storm which passed through Cherokee and Calhoun Counties last spring. During all of Monday and a greater part of Monday night IIKAYY RAINS FELL, J flooding all the streams and low lands and making it almost impossible to gain further information. The heavy clouds which accompanied the wind were seen from this place. There was a continuous roaring like distant thunder for some thirty minutes before the wind passed. One family became frightened before the tempest approached, and ran to a neighboring house a short distance away, which was blown away, while their own bouse, from which they had fled, remained standing. The track of the cyclone was about 200 sards wide. Eufaula, Ala., January H.

JIM KEENE CORNERED. The Rich Broker Attempts to Bulldoze a Railroad Conductor. New York, January 13. James K. Keene,the grain operator, lives ou the Long Island Railroad. Last Monday morning he left his commutation book at home. An imperative rale of the company requires conductors to collect full fares from any commuter who fails to produce his book. Conductor Mahoney, of the Rockaway line, demanded sixty cents. Keene refused to pay, and the conductor, rather than have any trouble with him, withdrew the rebate check and concluded to pay Keeue’s fare as far as Jamaica, where his duties endbd. At Jamaica conductor Randall took the train. Keene again refused to pay his fare and was told that he would be put off. lie guessed not. Conductor Randall signalled the engineer to stop. Keene clutched the conductor by the throat. The conductor’s fist was descending in the direction of the broker’s face, when a passenger caught his arm. Another passenger pulled Keene away. A third passepger paid Keene’s fare, and the condqctor signalled the engineer to proceed. The Company expected that Keene would repeat the scene in the evening, and bad an officer ready to arrest.hlm, but he purchased his ticket and went home peaceably.

YOUNG BUZZARDS. A Trio of lloy-Burglars Sent to the Penitentiary. Reading, Pa., January 14. The trial of Lebanon’s boy burglars, or “Young Abe Buzzards,” they styled themselves, Jerome Bright, Robert Moyer and Geo. Sargc, ended last evening and they were sentenced to four years and six months in the Eastern Penitentiary. They are' mere youths, but are familiar with crime. They belong to good families and took their first lessons from dime novels, recounting the exploits of Jack Shepperd and Dick Turpin. Then they left their homes and established themselves in a shanty, and robbed numerous stores, dwellings, etc. With the aid of a young detective, their capture was effected and they were sent to jail, from whicli they escaped and committed more burglaries. After a fight with the oflicers they were again captured. They broke their prison bars a second time, and were again taken, since which time they have been kept under the closest surveillance. The indictments against them were numerous, and when they learned of their impending fate they wept bitterly. Moyer was the leader of the gang, and was nick-namc‘d Jesse James. The lawyers made a strong effort to save Bright, but to no purpose. The jury was out eight hours.

Another Dynamite .Explosion. London, January 15. The town hall at Westminster, in Wiltshire, was partially wrecked last evening, by an explosion of dynamite. Houses In the vicinity were also badly shattered. No person was injured. The report of the explosion was heard at a distance of two miles away. A search of the rnius revealed several pieces of tin and fuse, such as are used in dynamite bombs. Two strangers who had been loitering around the town during the day, disappeared just before the explosion. A Dul l on Horseback. Bainbmdge, G.V., January IS. News comes from Calhoun County that two men, Joel Shuman and Thomas Ginn, fought a duel ou horseback to settle an old quarrel. They met on the road. Ginn’s little son was on the horse behind his father, who told him to get down and rnn away. The men then begun firing at each other. Kach emptied the contents of Ills revolver. Shuman was wounded in four places and fell from his horse. He died within an hour. Ginn has three wounds, but may recover. The boy stood near a fence corner and watched the proceedings. ' He was terrified but unharmed.

A PRECIOUS PAIR. A Couple of Mormon Kalmriw Air Their Opinions On Iks Subject of the Surviving Relic—Polygamy n Tenet of the Church, nnd What Is Congress Going to Do About It? St. Louis, Mo., January 16. John Morgan, ol Salt Lake City, and John A. Groesbeck, of Springyil!e, Utah, are in the city the latter on his way to the New Orleans Exposition, and the former going to Chattanooga, Tcnn., where he expects to meet a party of 150 emigrants, men and women, who have been collected all over the South by Mormon missionaries. He will bring them west during February to colonize in Conejos County, Col., where already several colonies have been established durjpg the past four years by the Church of the Latter-Day Saints. Both men are intelligent, well educated, in good circumstances, and can be taken as fair representatives of the shrewd and influential Mormon worker. “The church is growing in power every day,” said Mr. Morgan. “lt’s colonies are prosperous and ifs people more (Irmly bound together to resist oppression than ever. Concerning the dispatches scattered over the East with statements of the violent intentions of the Mormons toward the Gentiles, 1 can say positively that they arc false. The Mormons are too sharp to kill any Gentiles. Some of those who are making themselves conspicuously disagreeable may get slapped in the face on the streets, but that is all. These talcs are the expiring efforts of the Gentile office-holders who go out March 4 th, and who have been hoping to obtain the management of our Territorial finances which we are managing for ourselves by electing our own Treasurer and Auditor.” *' Springville, the home of Mr. Groesbeck, is a large agricultural center. Discussing the attitude of the Mormon Church towards the National Government: VFolygamy,” said he, “is a tenet of the church and is upheld, practiced and taught just as much as ever, in spite of the efforts which have been made lately to cloud that fact. How is the Government going to stop it? Congress has tried it once and failed, hasn’t it? What is it going to do about it? The Government can’t interfere with our individual liberties.” Neither of the Mormons were inclined to praise Kate Field’s writings on the saints. “She has found out more about the church in the short time she was there than I have m my twenty-eight years of life in that Territory,” remarked Groesbeck, sarcastically.

DESPERATE BURGLARS. They Add Ferocious Assault and Probable Murder to Their Record—Two Brothers Their Victims. O.UKEXSBCKG, Pa., January IB. A terrible and brutal outrage occurred Wednesday night at Everson. Two brothers, Adam and Christopher Keck, are the proprietors of the Vance House in Everson and a store-room adjoining the hotel, of which it was a part. To carry an insurance on the store-room it had to be occupied, and on the second floor of the room Adam Keck slept. He had retired to his bed, and at 11:30 o’clock his brother heard a noise there, and started for the store, arriving at the door, which was open, he was knocked to the floor, and two men dressed in regular Indian costume with their faces painted red, feathers on their heads and blankets around them jumped on him and beat him cruelly. Had it not been for his wife, who heard his cries and rushed out into the street and cried murder they would undoubtedly have Killed him. When Mrs. Keck gave the alarm, the burglars fled, and in a short time a crowd Collected. Chris. Keck was carried into the house. Then inquiry was made about Adam. A party went to the store, and In the back part of the room found him lying on the floor gagged and bound. The gag was removed, and be was asked what happened. His reply was, “I don’t know;” after that he didn’t Bpcak again, and has since been unconscious. The burglars had, previous to their departure secured considerable properly, aud some money, but the extent of the loss Is not exactly known. The condition of Adam Keck is very serious, aud he will probably die.- His head was crushed on the back part, and his ribs were broken. A man who gave his name as A. Coffman was arrested yesterday between La trobc and Derry, charged with complicity in the lobbery, and is how In jail. He will be taken to Eversoh to be identified. Popular indignation is at fever heat.

PERISHING CATTLE. Texas Cattle Drifting and Dying From Kxposnre. '• Austin, Tex., January 16. Brinkley Otel, one of the largest cattle owners In the State, arrived here yesterday from the Sweetwater locality, where so many cattle are reported as having drifted lie says that the reports have not been exaggerated, and that against the wire fencing running along the Texas Pacific west of Port Worth there arc wer 100,000 head of cattle, and they arc dying at the rate of nearly 1,000 a day fromcold, hunger and thirst. The situation, he says, Is simply dreadful. '1 he cattle will not turn against the north winds and seek other sections for food, and there is not sufllcieut help In that locality to turn their heads and drive them elsewhere. At present no effort Is being made to drive them out, and unless something is done with but little delay the immense herds in that section must soon dwindle to nothing. Most of the cattle men at the meeting of the Live Stock Association in this cjty left for their homes this morning, and it is thought that they may make au effort to save the herds now In such sore distress, whether they own them or not. No effort at concerted action was made while they were here.

Increased Customs. Berlin, January 17. Changes in the German customs duties by recent legislation include the following items: A duty ranging from 480 to 120 marks per 100 kilogrammes, according to quality, is , imposed upon cotton twist; a duty of three marks per 100 kilogrammes is fixed' on wheat: three marks per barrel on salted fish; twelve marks per barrel on other fish; four marks per 100 kilos on oil in casks, and ten marks per 100 kilos on hogs and iard. The tariff on candles is raised to eighteen marks per 100 kilos. Weight Leroy Hgnged. San FltANeisco, Cal., January 17. Weight Leroy was hanged yesterday at half-past twelve. On August 18th, 1888, he decoyed Nicholas Skerrett, an aged ^capitalist, whom he had personally knowr for a long time, into one of Skerrett’e houses on the plea that he wanted to reni it. While inside he told Skerrett that h( would kill him unless he gave him t check for a large sum of money. Skerreti refused. Leroy then knocked him down seized him by the throat, and while con tlnulng his threats, choked him to death He observed a firm demeanor on thi scaffold, and asserted his innocence to thi last.

EX-GOVERNOR CLEVELAND. The Nut PrMldeut’i Conduct In AU Respects Admirable. The admirable manner iu which Governor Cleveland has borne himself since his election to the Presidency has not escaped public recognition. Whatever may have been said of him earlier, he is now >o longer an untried man. Since the early days of November the eyes of the Nation have bees fixed upon him with a peculiar interest. He has been scrutinized closely by friend and foes. His every movement has been reported, his every utterance bearing upon public offices has been eagerly caught up and made the subject of comment He has lived in the tierce light of publicity. His official position as Governor of a great State has rendered him peculiarly open to observation; and his home lias been the resort of pilgrims from all parts of the Union, and representing all section's of bis party. The opposition has watched him with the utmost jealousy also. Every opportunity to find him making mistakes in action or in utterance has been searched for with the avidity of the hound upon the scent. The man who had successfully passed through this ordeal at any time would be regarded as evincing no ordinary circumspection. The man who succeeds in it in the present peculiar relations of parties has achieved a signal triumph. If during, that period Governor Cleveland has said a word or done one act inconsistent with sound good sense, or with a proper appreciation of the responsibilities of the positiou to which he ha? been elected, it lias escaped the public attention. His opponents, as well as his supporters, are alike unaware of it. There is not a little that Is instructive in the movements of the former class. Smarting under the bitterness of their defeat, and having just gone through a campaign in which they had studiously attempted to disparage the ability of the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, they were quick to find evidence to justify the positiou they had taken with regard to him, while" they might salve their own wounds with the spectacle of the partial discomfiture of the victors. They have been signally disappoin ted here. Governor Cleveland has not furnished them a shadow of the opportunity they sought. He has accommodated them with no mistakes whatever. He has not omited to talk frankly, and in one instance he has given to the public in writing a statement of what his policy will be in a most important feature of his incoming administration. In so doing, he has neither divided his friends nor furnished comfort to his foes. He- has had the good sense to preserve reticence on (mints where the indication of* his1 action was unnecessary, as in the case of his probable course in the formation of his Cabinet; for instance: while he has, at the same time, given evidence of the principles that are to guide him in a manner which has strengthened the confidence of the more disinterested and patriotic men of the Nation. He has neither been diplomatic nor evasive in these assurances at any time. These things have done much to assure the people that in President Cleveland they' are to have a sensible, sagacious and discreet Chief Magistrate. In the absence of qualities for the lack of which he was criticised by politicians in the late campaign bids fair to be found an important advantage. He is unfamiliar with the ways of Washington; he is unversed in the arts of the politician; but it looks now as if he might come into Washington like a cool breeze from the country, wh’ch is needed to purifv the sultry air of the capital. The Nation asks for a new era in its administration of .public offices, It is appropriate that business methods should take the place of the schemes of the political partisan in carrying on the Government. We require a- man who will put his mind to bringing the Government back to business practices. Governor Cleveland is not only, we believe, fully competent to, that task; he lias set his mind on discharging the duties of his office in just that spirit. He is better fitted to succeed in it than if he had been bred a politician. His alleged Weakness is in this point of view an important equipment. ■ If Governor Cleveland was not educated in his politics at Washington-, he has borne himself in the time of trial sinee'his election to-the Presidency with a careful circumspection which few men bred iu that school could have equaled. He has proved alike a satisfaction to his friends and the despair of his enemies during that period of testing. Better than all. lie has raised the best hopes of the Nation for his coming usefulness in office. -— Boston Herald (/ml.) :.

WHAT WAS EXPECTED. The President-Elect’* Declaration of Policy on the Subject of Appointment to Oftko Anticipated. The President-elect’s declaration of his policy on the subject of appointment to public office is just what might have been expected from him. The New York Civil-Service Reform League, with George William Curtis at its head, respectfully asked his support in behalf of the Pendleton reform act of 1883, and Mr. Cleveland makes a full and frank reply. He reavows his devotion to the cause of civil-service reform and holds himself “pledged” to the support of the Pendleton act And he goes even further. He refers to “a class of Government positions which are not within the letter of the civil-service statute, ami are disconnected with the policy of an Administration,” and declares that “removal therefrom of the present incumbents should not be made during the terms for which they were appointed solely on partisan grounds, and for the purpose of putting in their places those who are in political accord with the appointing power. ” So far in this direction. But he adds that “many now holding such positions have forfeited all just claim to retention, because they have used their places for party purposes in disregard of their duty to the people, and because, instead of being decent public servants, they have proved themselves offensive partisan.' and unscrupulous manipulators of local party management” This is phisn enough. Mr. Cleveland will strictly and scrupulously observe ‘the civil-service act which applies-ex-clusively to clerkships. As to those public offices connected with the Administration and in some measure sharing its policy, they will have to be tilled with Democrats—and this rale is inflexible. But there are other offices that are inerely ministerial aad have nothing to do with the policy of the Administration one way or another Where the present oejeupants of those offices have been “decent public serr ants,” confining themselves to thei

duties, they will be let alone till their terms of sendee expire. There aire not many such to be found. The majority, of incumbents have been “offensive partisans,” who have forfeited ail just claim to retention because they have used their places for party purposes in disregard of their duty to the people, and Si these will have to “go. No reasonable civil sendee requires a Democratic Administration to retain in office the offensive Republican partisans who usel their otficial influence against the * Democratic ticket in the late campaign. These gentleman have been in office long enough; it is time they were giving place to better men. The President-elect is singularly frank and explicit in defining his policy on this interesting subject—and it may be added that his policy is reasonablu and unassailable, and' will command the cordial approval of the Country.— St. Louis Hepubtiean. LITTLE* TO SAY.' Some of tho Keaaons Why the “IHume 1 Knight*’ Is Depressed. Mr. Blaine has had little t,o say i f late. His bitter and foolish harangue at Augusta after his-defeat was enough. It is well. But tho silent Plumed Knight, is sad over the thought of what might have been, and heaves a deep sigh from timo to time as the specter money kings around the banquet board at Delmonico’s rise up before, him. And he is particularly depressed when the shadow of Dr. Burchant falls before his gaze. -■ Seven months ago the future was roseate in Mr. Blaine’s mind. The ambitions statesman had been nominated for President by the Republican Convention. He had “served his people'1 for a quarter of a century in legislative hails, but tho great aim "of his life was to “serve” them in the Executive Deputs meat. He coveted the honor of ruling fifty-five million people. No Republican candidate for twenty-five years had failed to enter the White House. Surely he, with his magnetism stnd his audacity, was not to be defeated. A Republican nomination was equivalent to an election. So, acting on this pleasing theory, he began early to shape his plans for administering the affairs of the Government. Mr. Blaine had accepted- the aid of Jay Gould, the wily monopolist’. Mr. Gould's railroad syndicate owed. tho Government a vast sum of money which was to bo conveniently forgotten by the new Cabinet. Star-Route, Brady, StarRoute Dorsey, Whisky-Ring Jovee, and Navy-Ring Roach were, all ardent supporters of Mr. Blaine. These men were to be near the throne." Result: A rich harvest for Mr. Blaine. • Castles were built m tho air by all the millionaire plunderers on the basis of the Plumed Knight's power to conduct a successful campaign. But public sentiment was aroused against Republican rascality, and Mr. Cleveland, tho great political Reformer, the man who knew no ring, who would accept no personal gift, was elected instead of Mr. Blaine. And the Star-route gang, as well as Mr. Blaine, now sigh upon 'threshold of 1885, when thev realise what they have missed. The Star-route thieves alone robbed the Government of $4,000,000. Had the Republicans won this time, the robbing would liavo quadrupled' that amount in sC'single year. Naturally Blaiue and his friends are sad. Weil do the people rejoice. Blaiue hopes to be the candidate of his party again in 1888, but he will never more deeidve himself by thinking that a nomination means an election. The days of purchasing the presidency arc past—Richmond State.

AN UNFOUNDED ALARM. One (iood Result That Will lie Accom* pliahetl by Cleveland's Election. While the stories of negro alarm at the election of Grover Cleveland have been exaggerated for political purposes, thrre has certainly been Some apprehension on the part of t he most ignorant of the Southern blacks that the return of the Democrats to power meant in some manner the oppression of their race. , One of the best results to be accomplished during President Cleveland‘s term js the removal of the erroneous impression from the minds of the Southern negroes that Democrats are their natural1 enemies and Republicans their friends and protectors. Since emancipation and enfranchisement the Republicans have been in undisturbed possession of the National Government. For their own purposes they have deceived the colored people of the South with the story that should the Republican party be deprived of power enfranchisement would cease and slavery be restored. That so stupid and wicked a falsehood should be believed is a proof of the ignorance and ‘ superstition of a race recklessly endowed with the franchise by the Republicans immediately on the abolishment of the deplorable institution of slavery, which had deprived its victims of all education.

J ho Democratic party favored emancipation as a war measure, but would not have enfranchised millions of the released slaves and llooded the ballotbox with the most degraded Ignorance. Such an act was an insult to American citizenship. But now that the negroes are endowed with all the rights of citizens the Democrats would not, if they could, de- - prive them of one of those rights. The mission of Democracy is to educate the Southern blacks up to an intelligent and honest exercise of the franchise. The Republicans have no right to claim, as they do, that the negroes of the South are all in sympathy with that party, even now. The enfranchised slaves were given the ballot in order that they might become the political chattels of the Republican party. That is one of the crimes for whieh Republicanism has to answer. But the overthrow of carpet-bag and bayonet rule gave a second enfranchisement, politi- - cal enfranchisement, to the Southern negroes, and the more intelligent among ^ them already understand the impositions practised upon them by Republican politicians and attach themselves to the Democracy. Before President Cleveland’s term closes, the eyes of the colored people in the Southern” States will be opened to the knowledge that the Democracy is the party of even-handed justice to all and the champion of the oppressed of all races.—JV. Y.^ World. • - The average duration of life among well-to-do people is forty-five years; among the middle class it is twenty-five years; among the laboring class, twenty years. Among one hundred people the wealthy would not number more than i five, the middle tAass no more than fif- • teen, and the working class eighty.— * Boston Post.