Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 January 1885 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. TiriM Sources. , CONGRESSIONAL HtOCEEDUIUI. In the Sona ta on the 19th Mr. Coke introduced t bill to establish and regulate quarantine for a Btc stock trail. Mr. Aldrich offered a tribute of respect to the late Senator Anthony of Khode Island. The balance of the session was devoted to eulogising the character of the deceased Senator, many of the most prominent members speaking. The resolutions were adopted and the Senate then adjourned...... in the House n resolution waa offered requesting thePresldent to Inrnish the Hone* copies of ^correspondence relating to the so-called Oklahoma lands of the Indian Territory, together with information as to the present condition of the controversy growing out of the occupation of snch lands. Among the new bills introduced was one to establish a uniform rate of pensions for pilots who served on United States gunboats during the late war. Also one to enforce the collection of taxes on distilled spirits In bonded warehouses. Motion was made to suspend the rules and pass tbe Senate bill relative to the exercise of the Jurisdiction conferred on the United States in places beyond their territory and dominion, and repealing certain of the Revised Statutes The motion was lost, and, after many dilatory motions, the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 20th Mr. Plumb offered a resolution in reference to Oklahoma and calling upon the President to advise the Senate a»to the status of the land on which Brsons claim they have the right to settle. e Inter-State commerce bill was taken up, the question being on the motion of Mr. Cuilom to strike out ail of the Reagan or House bill after the enacting clause, and to insert instead the commission bill as already debated and agreed to lu the Senate. A debate occurred which was cut off by the reading of a message from the President relntive to the trade of the United States with certain foreign countries.In the House a bill was reported prohibiting aliens and foreigners from owning tana in the United States. In committee of the whole, the .ndian appropriation bill was taken up and discussed. The question as to whether Oklahoma was open to settlement was debated, Messrs. Ryan, Perkins, Outcbeon and Q'Neitl (of Missouri) speaking. Pending action tbe committee rose, and titting tributes were paid to the memory of the late Congressman Evins, of South Carolina, before adjournment. In the Senate on the 21st Mr. Vest offered a substitute for Mr. Plumb's resolution in reference to Oklahoma, providing that It be ascertained upon what terms the Creek and Seminole Indians will convey to tbe United states ait tueir rights to tbe Oklahoma lands; After discussion the matter went over. The biii was passed authorizing the construction of abridge across the Miaslssippi north of the city of St. Louis. Mr. Coke spoke upon the inter-State commerce bill, tavoring the Reagan measure. Messrs. Morgan, Harrison and McPherson took part in the discussion without committing themselves. Tributes were paid tojjthe memory of the late Congressman Kvlns, of South Carolina, Messrs. Hampton, Butler and Frye speaking; and as a further mark of respect the Senate adjourned.In the House Mr. Kelly reported a bill in the interest of the export trade iu tobacco, which was referred. When the Indian appropriation, bill was taken up Mr. Burnes spoke, and vigorously affirmed that in the present condition of affairs the Oklahoma land were not open to settlement by white eitizens; and he offered an amendment releasing the United States from the seeming trust created by the treaty. There was a lengthy discussion, after which eulogies were pronounced upon the late Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island. In the Senate on the 22J the bill to encourage the Ame kart merchant marae, and to promote postal and commercial re* iatious with foreign countries wJs lavorabiy reported, .n the discussion of the Oklahoma question un ter Mr. Plumb's resolution Mr. test declarel that as tie laws n^w stan t ti at !an t was not open for seitlement. Mr. Pin ub'a re-olu.ion merely ca led for Informatlot. Mr. Vest re-of-fered his own resolution to inquire under what conditions the Indians would surrender all their remaining rights to the land in question. At his request it was laid over until Friday, The Senate then went into executive session upon the Nicaragua treaty .In the RHocse the conference report on the Oregon Central forfeiture bill was agreed to, The Indian appropriation bill was discussed. Mr. Reagan wanted to know wV.y it was that the Governmeiitiohld always ln 1 m< an* of apptoprinting money for la ty ant vagabond Indians, but coiitd ne ver hud tl e means of putting them t> wotk. The bU-was tinally pn iswL -*-J—giv“s t _ _ iilHB Juris i chon over the five trib s in the Indian Territory. In the Senate on the 2A1 a Bag was received from tbe Woman's Silk Culture Association of the United States, together with a memorial asking Congress to aid hi the development of the industry. Mr. Beck offered a resolution receiving tbe flag and commending the work and the ladies. Mr. Vest s resolution in reference to the Oklahoma lands was taken up. Mr. Plumb o if ere t a substitute requesting the President to enter into negotiation with the Indians as spec lily as possible, with a view to obtaining the .-urplus lands for actual settlers. After debate, both resolutions were referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.In tbe House a flag from the above named association was received with a resolution of thank:,. Mr. Hurd offered a preamble reciting that certain bills appropriating money lrom tbe Treasury, originating In the Senate, were on the Sneaker's table, and claiming that these bills are in violation of the privilege of the House to exclusively originate bills to raise revenue. He claimed also that this was t aking power belonging to the House. Messrs. Herbert, J. S. Wise and Willis did not agree with him. The motion was laid on the table, and a motion to reconsider was tabled.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL Mbs. Langtry reappears! on the London stage on the 30th. Last Georglana Fullerton, sister to Lord Granville, died in England on the 20th. Thomas Barbour, until January 1st last, President of the Barbour Bros. Thread 4 Manufacturing Company, New York, died at his old home in Ireland on the 10th. He leaves a fortune estimated at from *8,000,ooo to $10,0)0,00 >. fm Os the 21st the jury at Washington, D. C., in the case of Kirkwood and Walton, char ed with presenting false Touchers to the Nary Department, returned a verdict of gnilty. Os the 21st Hon. Henry M- Teller was elected United States Senator from Colorado. Emperor William o! Germany is recovering from his illness. Os the 21st Sister Theresa, niece of James G. Blaine, died nt St. Mary’s Convent, Wflkesbarre, Pa. At Madison, Wis., on the 21st the Republican caucus nominated Colonel John C. Spooner for United States Senator. The President gave his first state dinner of the season on the 21st in honored members of the Cabinet. Mrs. Elizabeth Ca»t Start on was elected President of the National Woman Suffrage Association. A NIECE of Thomas Cprlyle is about to publish a life of the great writer, controverting James Anthony Fronde’s me-Postmaster-Genebal Hatton has sent to Congress the draft of the bill to reduce the rate of postage on newspapers. , General Augur has been instructed by Uie Adjutant-General to remove the “boomers” from Oklahoma. The Legislature of Kansas favors the enactment of a law by Congress opening the Oklahoma lands to settlement. On the 21st a resolution waa introduced in the Michigan Legislature asking Congress tq pass the Keagan iater-Stiwe com- . In an address to the electors of Cork, on the 21st, Mr. Parnell said the Irish party would oppose every government that refused to concede Ireland’s rights. It is proposed to postpone the dedication ceremonies of th 3 Washington Monument until about the time of President Cleveland’s inauguration. » The last will and testament of the late ‘ Schuyler Colfax has been admitted to probate. The estate is valued at JMOjOOd, unMrs. Colfax and Schuyler Jr., are the sole beneficiaries. Dhuctob Genxbal Burke of the New Orleans Exjiosit ion is said to be inseparably ruined in health as the result of tin connection with the enter

| Or the 2ftl the wife of Hon. Stanley Mathews, of the United States Supreme Court, died in Washington, D. (X James Sti'eah Farrell is reported as seriously ill at Cork. __ The British War Office oa the 22d telegraphed congratulations to Generals Wotseley and Stewart oner the recent victory in Kgyp:. Da. J. J. Mooumar, President of Roanoke (Va.) College for forty-four years, died on the 23d, aged eighty-four years. President Dowd of theNewerk iS. J.) Savings Bank has been indicted .for making illegal investments. Emperor William of Cieromny has entirely recovered from his illness. Caftair Fhelah declares he w ill prosecute all those concerned in the recent murderous attack upon him. M. B. Locust, on one time a meet prominent citizen and politician of Pennsylvania! died in an insane asylum near Philadephia on the 23d. The latest news from General Stewart is that he is intrenched in the desert near Metanmeh, and is surrounded by the rebels. The latter did not retreat in the disorderly manner at first reported. Johr Kelly was again elected Chairman of-the Tammany Hall Committee on Organisation. A committee was appointed to> attend fir. Cleveland’s inauguration. Nathar H. Cole, the oldest man in Rhode Island, died at his residence at East Greenwich, the evening' of the 23d. He was 101 years old on the 23th of- August last, attended town meeting last November and voted for President, sine* which time he has not been upon the street. The funeral of Bister Theresa, niece of James G. Blaine, took place on the 23d from St. Mary’s Cathedral, at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Two thousand persons were present, including the Bisters of St. Mary’s and Malinkrodt Convents. The remains ; were taken to Pittsburghfor burial. J. W. Phillips of Bt. Louis, Mo., is at Indianapolis to enter suit in the State Court against the Wabash on behalf of the Central Trus t' Company of New York and James Cheney. The demand is for $00,COOjOOO. CRIMES AMI CASUALTIES. A slice swindler with several aliases and representing himself as an agent of the Standard Oil Company, is traveling around the country, and has had several i drafts on that concern cashed. Or the 19th George and Ray Sweet, two little boj-s of Kalamazoo, Mich., “played doctor,” and Ray died from the effects of poison which was given him by his fci-other. A supposed incendiary fire completely destroyed the town of Hong Ham, near Hong: Kong, Cochin China. No details are furnished, bat it is believed many lives were lost. The steamer Charles Townsend Hook, which sailed from Saigon for Hong Kong, is thought to have been lost with 259 souls aboard. Or the 20th Thomas Parry was hanged at Galway, Inland, for the murder of a young lady to whom he was eagaged, but who discarded him. 1r a tumble-down tenement at Des Moines, la., a poor woman who had been deserted by heir husband was found on the 20th, almost frozen to death by the side of the tody of her .week-old babe, who had perished from cold and exposure. Ir the reesnt battle in the Soudan the losses were: British, seventy-four killed, including nine commissioned officers, and ninety-four wounded; rebels, 800 killed and about 2,000 wounded. Among the British losses was Colonel Burnaby, of the Royal Horse Guards, one of the most accomplished and fearless soldiers in the service. Or the 23d S. IX Scott, ex-County Clerk of Council Bluffs, la., was arrested on a charge of embezzling $M,9<X>Jro. T. O’Ktcepe. of Oleau, N. Y., killed ; himself while standing at the grave of his | daughter, who died three years ago, oa the 22d. As avalanche buried a number of people in the department of Hautes Alps, France. Captair M. J. Farrell, one of the best known detectives in the United States, died on the 23d at New Orleans from aconite poisoning caused by a druggist’s mistake. Wolves recently caught and devoured an old hunter in the lumber region near Metropolitan, Mich. Before being overcome he shot thirteen of the beasts with his repeating rifle, the Itodies of which lay around his remains. Orro Fuse was arrested at Chicago ca the 23d for taking bool:, from the Public | Library. Among his effects were found a dozen boxes of dynamite, in one of which was an infernal machine. Thomas J. Chapman. murderer of Nicholas Hubbard at Humbjidt, 111., was hanged at Charleston, lit, on the 23d. He had nothing to say on the scaffold, and his neck was broken by the fall.

* HOCILUHim French troops lor Tonqoin are being rapidly dispatched. A batch o£ bones of the Saints and other alleged sacred relics procured by Mgr. . Faore, Bishop of Montreal, on a visit to Rome and dispensed among the faithful, have been pronounced fraudulent by the Pops and crdered to be destroyed. News is revived that General Stewart’s column mst and defeated a large force of El Mahdi’s forces at Metemneh. It is reported that large numbers of men art) drilling near Longstreth, in the Hock* ing Valley, and trouble is feared in the near future. The widely circulated rumor of the failure of the MeCatmont Oil Company, one of the largest oil firms in Pennay1naiuia, is denounced as a malicious false* hood. The workmen in the Myaradals coke regions in Pennsylvania are on a strike, ISnroant are being vigorously pat forth at Cedar Rapids, la., to enforce the Prohibition law. The- British flag has been hoisted over several islands lying off the eastern point of New Guinea. ' On the :Mst the British Cabinet met and further considered the French proposals regarding Egyptian finance. The idea seemed to ijrevail tlrnt the Continental powers wise getting too previous. Bevebal of the Trenton, (N. J.) potteries have weakened and hove taken back their man at the old irate of wages. RarnESENTAnvn Oates claims that English noblemen now own about 21,000,000 acres of land in the United States. His bill, if passed, win prevent aliens and foreigners from owning land in this ooantrr. On the SUsfi the National Association of baggage agents met at Baltimore, Md. i J. 1). Maintain, of the Rock Island Rood, | was elected President. ISHVEnaii of the Pittsburgh nail factories : and copper-works resumed operationa on ! the 21st, after lying idle for several weeks On the 21 id the Boose Committse on Railways and Canals decided to report favorably the bill providing an appropriation for making a survey of the water route to connect the waters of Late Michigan with Detroit River. The cost of the proposed water route wUi be«t,7ftW5>. At Jamestown, Pa,, n savings hank was forced to sonpend on the 21st an account of a defici t of $40,00) by one of the officer*, i

Thx troop* under General Hatch aa route to the Oklahoma Boomers’ Campon the Stillwater, on reaching the Salt Fork of the Arkansas Hirer and Sadias the ice too thin to mss upon, performed the unprecedented feat of building aa ice bridge strong enough for tha command to pass orsr upon by pouring water upon the frosen surface of the river with tin-cups and backets until a sufficient thicknes bad been secured. TM Receiver of the Bank*?* & Merchants’ Telegraph Company issued ebooks for tbe December salaries of the Hew York employes on the 21st, and thus averted a threatened strike. According to reports to the Jfoau/acf. urers’ Record, 140,000 men bare gone to work in manufacturing enterprises since January 1st. Tub recent sale of nnmailabte articles at tbe Dead Letter Office in Washington, comprised 12,000 articles, lettered in3,278 lots. The Garfield Memorial Hospital at Washington is sadiy In need of funds. At tbe Mt. Washington (N. H.) signal station on tbe 22d, the thermometer indicated fifty degrees below aero, with the wind blowing at tbe rata of 110 miles an hour. The Piute Indians are said to be starving on their barren reservation in Nevada. Os the 22d the Western Hail Association advanced the card rate about five percent. F amine is said to prevail in some of the Russian provinces. The troops under General Hatch are reported to have surrounded the Oklahoma “boomers^ with the intention of starving them out. England and Italy are said to have formed an agreement in reference to tha occupation of Tripoli. On the 22d n United States cavalry company arrived at Yuma, Art*, with twelve Mexican bandit prisonersMoss earthquake shocks were felt in many of the Spanish provinces on the 22d. A bill having been introduced in the Missouri Legislature to allow the sale of oleomargarine as such, the Butter Dealers’ Association of St. Louis has determined to fight it and all similar measures. On the 22d the weather was intensely cold throughout Canada, the temperature ranging from twenty to forty degrees' belovr aero. The American Tinned-Plate Association held its annual meeting at Pittsburgh, P«-, on the 22d. W. J. Lewis, of that city, was elected President. Bismarck’s colonization schemes are making rapid progress on the west coast of Africa. The German flag has been raised in Sierra Leone, long held by England. This news, if true, may lead to serious complications. The old L berty Beil was shipped from PhQadelph.a on tbe 23d to New Orleans. Heavt snow falls were reported throughout the Northwest on the 23d, trains were all several hours behind time. An epidemic of diphtheria at Haaet Green IVis., has necessitated the dosing of the public school. The German Reichstag has appropriated $37,500 to be used in exploring Central Africa. A run was commenced on the New Huven (Cona.) Savings’Bank on the 23d, but the concern promptly met ' all demands. It is believed in London that the English lost more heavily in the engagement in Egypt than tha War Office gave out. The report, it is charged, has been colored. Ax Alexandria dispatch of the 23d says that the rebels are strongly intrenched at Metamneh, which fort it wilt be necessary for the English to occupy before they can proceed to Khartoum. . Indianapolis people interested in the bonds of the Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway duty that Judge Gresham has rendered a decision that gives tha (Juigley committee control. Secretary Chandler is informed that instead of proceeding to Congo the officers of the vessel Lancaster are abasing Kim, and are holding receptions and having n high old time at Nice, France. The Minnesota Senate on the 23d passed . a bill authorizing the city of St. Paul to issue bonds to the amount of $SW),000 toe the purpose of enlarging and extending its water system. Bradstrket’s weekly review shows that the severity of the weather had s most unfavorable effect upon trails in the West and Northwest. Failures for the seven days ended the 23d were 334, as compared with the 145 in the preceding week and 310 in the corresponding week of 1894.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. lx the Senate on the Nth Mr. Edmunds introduced a blit, which is intended as a law, to put a stop to the operation of dynamiters who make their headquarters in the United States and plan their schemes to be carried oat in foreign countries. In speaking upon the matter, ha called attention to the alarming state of affairs that has arisen, and said that the time had come for vigorous ae» tion. The bill was referral to the Committee on Judiciary. Attgr pousid-~ ing a House Mil the? Senate , went into executive session, ahA the Nicaragua treaty was again discussed at length. The London explosions were informally discussed, and Mr. Bayard 'offered a resolution condemning the perpetrators..In the House very little business was transacted. The agricultural appropriation bill was passed, after which Mr. Townshend endeavored to call up the Mexican pension bill, but was unable to accomplish his purpose, and after several motions an adjournment was taken. Taxx* explosions from dynamite occurred in London on the 24th, the first in the crypt of Westminster Hall; the second, in the strangers’ gallery of the Hoose of Commons, and the third at the White tower, a wing of the Tower of Lbndoa. The lobby in the House of Commonf was - completely demolished. Thirty-four persons were officially reported injured, bat only three or four dangerously. The damage is great. The city was in a frenzied slate of excitement. N OTHiNG had been heard up to thePKhf from the Stadan since the battle of Aha Klee Wells, and the anxiety in England eras intense. Unautfaenties ted rumor* stated that General Stewart’S entire command had been annihilated. Chicauo Socialists have been pat in high feather by the London explosions. Their regular Sunday meeting on the SMh was cbaracteri£ed;by speeches of a remarkably bloodthirsty and incendiary character. One arrest has been made in London in connection with the Parliament House and Tower exptoeions. Roswell Guant, an uncle of General Grant, died at Charieshon, W. Vs., on the 24th, aged eighty-five years. Tbe report that the French troops had been defeated at Kee Lung is confirmed. Kica.au. Roach, of Cleveland, CX, on tha 24th, murdered his wife and then cat his own throat. Tax ran on the New Haven (Conn.) Savings Bank was continued on Uto Nth. All demands wore met. The Bultan ot Turkey has sent Queen Victoria and the Frisco-of Wales bandjiontte presents O’Donovaic Rossa expressed satisfaction at hearing ot tha London explosions, hut he refused to be further intervuwW

IS IT CHOLERA? t» Dwlhi m M. LhI>, «kt Symptom* tn WlkMn Han All tta Apraamcw at IHallaCMwa iMltary fmaiHmii Sr. Louis, Vo., January 21. The Health Department la in a state at excitement over the discovery .at what seems to he the appearance at cholera in the city. Last Sunday morning, Wolff Piekner, a Russian Jew peddler, who had been in y»e city ten days, was taken sick with Tomiting, cramps and diarrhoea at 608 Wash street. The police telephoned to the Dispensary, and * Dr. Dorse tt sent the man to the City Hospital, where he died in a boot two hoars. The attend* ing physicians say that ail the symptoms of the cholera were present, the dejects and different stages of the disease being well marked, bat to allay public fear a certificate of cholera nostra, or native cholera, was returned. By order of the department, Pickner’s pack and clothing were burned. The cushions of the ambulance that conveyed him to the Hospital and the clothing of the amboianee-driver, which was soiled by the vomited matter of the sick man was destroyed, as was also the bed* ding used by him at the hospital. No public funeral was allowed, the remains being taken direct from the hospital to Mount Scherish Cemetery tor interment.Little is known at Pickner’s history, bat he is said to have come to St. Loals from New York by way of New Orleans. He was thirty-five years of age, and leaves a family in New York. Every place in the city where he was known to have been has been thoroughly disinfected. The second case is that of George W. Evans, a colored man residing at 1610 1-3 Gay, who was taken sick in the same manner. Dr. Mudd was ealled to see the case and pronounced it cholera, bnt wishing to have his judgment confirmed aent for Dr. Domett to examine the ease, and his diagnosis was confirmed. Evans died the same afternoon and was bnned in haste and his clothing and bedding horned. IN THE SOUDAN. Lord VToboley's Advance Column, Under General Stewart Meets the Enemy la force nnd Achieves a Signal Victory, Ket Without Serious Lots, However. Canto, January A The report received yesterday of a victorious encounter with the rebels by General Lord Wolseley (Stewart) is confirmed. The battle took place twentythree miles north of Metemneh. The English troops were greatly outnumbered, bnt fought with admirable discipline, keeping up n deadly fire on the enemy. The rebels also fought bravely, and at one time succeeded in breaking the English guard on. one side of the hollow square in which the troop were advancing. They tailed to retain their advantage, however, being quickly driven back. At no time daring the engagement was there evens momenta^ cessation of the English fire, the troops seeming to be as cool and deliberate as U an parade. The rebels, on retiring, left on the field 800 deed and about 3,000 wounded, oat of a force estimated at 10,000 men. The English lorn was sixty-five killed (among whom was Colonel Fred Burnaby, author of the “Bide to Khira”) and eighty-five wounded, including Lords St. Vincent and Alrlie, and six other officers. The enemy had thrown up quite extensive works on General Stewart’s right flank daring the night preceding the battle. These the British captured by a movement on the rebel left. Alter the battle, the British took their own and the Arab wounded to the wells of Shebacas. As described by an efe witness, the battle toward the last became a desperate band to hand encounter, . mostly with shortened swords and bayonets. Colonel Burnaby was killed by a spear thrust, which severed the jugular vein. General Stewart’s horse was shot, and in tailing carried the General down, bnt he quickly extricated himself, and mounting another horse, again led the attack. The English were without supplies of water or food during the entire fight.

THE BUZZARDS* WORK. Old Cltiseo Brutally Beaten for Haring No Money. Asstillk, Pa., January 2L Late last night a terrible crime was committed by three robbers, members of the famous* Buzzard gang, on the Annvilie Tike, about seven miles from this place, which may cause the death of a well-known citizen named Jacob Fox, aged - . sixty-eight. The masked robbers ordered him to stop and hand over his money . He replied that he had none; that he was "h poor man and needed all the money he earned tor his family, whereupon one of the men felled him to the ground with a dab and maltreated him in a frightful manner, after which they rifled his pockets, and, not’ finding anything, gave him halt a dozen Mows on the limbs and then left him for dead. They then crossed some fields and disappeared in the mounAt an early hoar this morning some termers found Fox lying in a fence corner in an unconscious condition. -They took him to the nearest dwelling and medical aid was summoned. An examination showed that Fox’s left leg was broken near the thigh, and his right arm broken at the wrist. His head and face presented a sickening sight, while his clothing was almost torn from his body The physician gave little hope of his recovery. It is supposed the* worst injures are internal. Fox saye his assailants belong to the Buzzard gang. Up to this writing there have been no sn Tucson, Amzoria, January SL Boswell 6. Wheeler, an Indian Agent, SMfcted by, a troop of cavalry from Ft. Lowell, yesterday forcibly ejected J. M. Berger and family, residing on the Papago reservation, from their home. The Fapngoea under Wheeler’s instrnctiors, pilteged Berger’s house. Bergef; claimed that he was living on the reservation by tee right of Spanish title, which had been twice recomme nded for approval by the Government by John Wasson, Sur-veyor-General of Arizona, and teat the are now in Washington. Bakton Landing, Vt., January 12. A Frenchman mined Louis Googar, suffering from delirium tremens, jumped from n train qp the Passnmpsic Railroad white on hit wsy from Montreal to New Mew lights ago, and lay till morning York, the intense cold, being too hudly hart to in seek shelter . When picked up at daylight, hia hands and feet were so badly frozen that all ol them bad to be amputated alter he arrived at the hospital here. He is still livfufc and htoenfis exit Interest on account «f his reenduraned- and the grievous of hla injuries. Hi* recovery to still very uncertain.

STEWART'S VICTORY. Loxdok, January 33. The recent battle in the Soudan Saturday, was lor the possession of the Abn* Klea wells, twenty-three miles northwest of Metan neh. The rebels comprised only a part of the Mahdl’s forces amr were drawn Rom Khartoum, Kordofaa^ and Berber. They numbered from 8,000 to 10,000, overwhelmingly superior to the British, who were under General Stewart and numbered bat 1,500. When the English column came in sight of the wella Friday evening TBS SIBILS BEGAN' A OESULTOBT FIRING, keeping it up ail night. Saturday forenoon the Arabs, in two divisions numbering about 5,000 men each, waving flags and beating drums, swept down upon the European columns. General Stewart had formed his- troops into a hollow square, the artillery, provisions and Invalids being in the center. Upon this the rebels charged with such fury that at the onset the tine held by the hussars was broken. Some of the camels got burned and became so unruly that some confusion was caused, and this added to the weakening of the line. The Arabs took advantage of the disorder and penetrated to the center. The fate of the entire British army was settled in the those few moments. Most of the Arabs were armed with spears and protected by spiked shields, and with great ferocity 8WAR3UU) OVER THE BODIES OF HIE DEAD, engaging the British fat bund to hand conflict. The Hussars quickly ceased their firing, and with their swords forced the Arabs back, and managed to reform the line. The discipline of the troops waa admirable, the other three sides of the square maintaining an unflinching fire upon the swarthy lines STRUGGLING TO OVERPOWER THE HCS- ' SABS. After this first assault was i-epuised, the artillery became so effective that the Arabs siowly fell back, leaving 800 killed on the field and carrying off about 2,000 wounded. The British loss was seventyfour killed, including nine commissioned officers and ninety-four wounded. The space in front of the right flank was thickly strewn with the^enemy’s dead, where they hail been.plowed down in whole lines. In the interior of the square where the brief fight af close quarters took place the British lost most heavily. . BURNABV’S.^JfATII. It . was there tjiaUjBcatenant-Colonel Frederick Burnaby, the famous member of the Koval Horse Guards, met his death from an Arab’s spear thrust,' which severed his jugular vein. Hewvas found With- his hand rightly clutched around the Arab’s throat. Burnaby was the. pride of the British army, -Standing sir feet six inches, and tjpibg noted fop his immense strength and daring deeds. General Stewart’s, horse waa killed under him. One of the Immediate effects of the victory is the submission of a number of wandering tribes. The British column held the wells, and is now iparching on MetamnehHELPIN6 WOLSKLEY.

. JtiOKM, January 23. The Sheikh of the Kabbablsh tribe came to Korti to-day. lie heard of the British victory. He promised Wolseley to provide him with plenty of camels. London, January 23. In view of the anxiety ol the public for details of General Stewart’s engagement at Abu-Klea wells, the news service in the London papers is exceedingly slow and incomplete. Neither the 3T»*e*, Daily Telegraph or /Standard has yet received its special report of the battle, although it is known that they all had special correspondents in the field, and it hi undoubted that the reports have been sent, but have been interrupted and deI layed for revision by the military censors ; of press dispatches. The general belief is that the special - correspondents have indulged In strictures upon the breaking of the British square 19 the Arabs, and they may have given somu additional facts that would show the British troops to be in a more dangerous plight than is now supposed. In this case the dispatches would certainly be held hack for revision, in parsurance of the long-established usage of the War Office of withholding disagreeable news at first, and allowing it to ; leak out slowly, so as to weaken its effect. Some of the blunder made by the papers in presenting news* are remarkable. The condensation of General Wolseley’s report contains discrepancies which no soldier of General Wcisei ley’s literary skill could have .been guilty of in the original dispatch. The /Standard has Its lists of killed and wounded badly mixed, and publishes a number of names under the astonishing head line, “slightly i killed.” The fall Mall Gazette this ; evening publishes a portrait purporting to be that <1 Colonel Fred Burnaby, bat which is really of Baker Tasha. METESLNEH OCCUPIED BT TUX BRITISH. London. January it General Stewart is said to have eccu- ; pled Meteioneh. This lacks confirma- ! tion, but Is generally believed, as §tewart pushed forward with the greater part ol his forces immediately after the victory on Saturday near Abn-Klea wells. ' It: is highly probable also, that all the rebels who had been stationed at Metemneh had left that point i to take part In Saturday’s engagement, and It is thought unlikely that they rallied and made a station at Metemneh ' so soon after the decisive defeat. The i Government has telegraphed public congratulations to Wolseley and Stewart. —- A Irak in the Bnb. Shawnkk, O., January Si. Much dissatisfaction exists among the miners of this place, owing to some forty of their number having accepted the Baltimore A Ohio Company’s terms and : gone to work in the Bristol tnnnel. A meeting was held yesterday afternoon, and It Is understood an effort will be made to prevent the men from working. They say thatsas they are not digging coal, the miners have no control over their act ions, and that they will continue to work regardless of the action of the meeting. ---— An American Honored Abroad. Nxw York, January 28. Allan:Danvers, the Manager of the Telephone Company of Lisbon, has received the Honor of-Cavalero de Covisto from I the King «T Portugal. Not tong ago the K!**a aik his family were prevented from , attending the first performance of a new opera by the death of a relative, and the consequent formal mourning of the Court. Mr. Danvers provided each member of , the royal household with a telephone m the palace through which both inupie and words are said to have been satisfactorily heard. The result of this American enterprise hut personal honor for himself | and an adfertisemegt for company. j

A SENSATION IN CHICAOOt Twelve Bom* ef Dynamite Ik tke City Hall u4aaIab»IMMkH(iwa(rt TUeiu Sa4dMBTacattlM of the Tt—hll tf Officials and Clwta-A Cool MnUocIIow It Cum There. Chicago, Iix., January il. A sensation was created in the Detective Department of the new City Hall yesterday when it was discovered that among the hooks that were stolen from the Chicago Public Library there was enough dynamite to blow ap the whole of the immense building. The wildest confusion prevailed among the officers when it was first discovered, and Lieutenants Shea and Ripley, and their subordinates vacated their quarters. Twelve boxes, each a loot long, eigut inches wide and six inches deep were found to be filled with dynamite. Among them was one with a thirty-two caliber revolver piaeed inside with a crank to make it explode. The report that a large quantity of dynamite was in the City Hail spread like wildfire through the building and neighborhood, and as fast as the occupants could they left the structure in a panic. They could not be prevailed upon to enter again, until Detective James Bonfieid ventured to take the box with the crank attached from the building. The box was placed between the County Building and the City Hall, and all parties retired to consult what should next be done. A crowd collected in the hall, a sale distance from the remaining eleven boxes, which were in Shea’s office. Bonfieid again volunteered to open the box containing the revolver. This was received with much agitation, and the crowd retired three blocks distance and watched. Slowly he went to work, and in half an hoar the box was opened and the revolver and apparatus removed, it was found to contain glycerine and sawdust, which, if ignited by taming the crank, would have caused the dynamite to explode. The prisoner, who stole the books from the public library, and whose name is Otto Funk, said he was merely experimenting with the stuff, and had it for no evil purpose. He being a student had prepared it himselfi-Otte admitted that the preparation in the boxes was genuine dynamite, bnt it was learned that he has a father liviug ou the West Side, who is a shoemaker, and also three married sisters in the city He is about twenty-seven years of age, five feet five inches tall, with full beard and is of German descent. The books consisted mostly of works on science and chemicals, and number 3,000. Funk has been fifteen - months removing them from the library one by one, concealed under his coat, amt had them stored in a bam. Several theories are advanced as to what use Funk intended making of the explosives. One is that he was in league with the Socialists, and another that he intended to blow himself up if it was discovered that he had stolen the boosa. He admits that if anybody had turned the crank in the infernal machine containing the revolver while it was near the other bones, the whole City Hall aud many other buddings would now be in ruins and hundreds of lives jpst. That a catastrophe was averted is considered miraculous. The dynamite, with the books, were removed yesterday from the barn to the City Halt iu a hoodlum wagou, which drove through the crowded streets at the usual headtoug pace.

HIGH-TONE J SLUGGERS. A Co»tl» of Se» Iwrk Bloolt H»e a Uout With Glotm-Knwlnl Oat la Three Hounds. The sparring craxe has invaded the New York clubs. Last might Mr. John Roosevelt,of the Union Club, and Mr. Van Brunt, of the Knickerbocker Club, had a bout in a large room on Madi son avenue. Roosevelt has just returned from abroad, and was considered the best sparrer at Oxford j College. Mr. Van Brunt had the j same reputation at Harvard, and has kept up his practice ever since. The natch was to be friendly, of course, no stakes, and to be four rounds, Marquis of Queensbury rules. In the first round each man got a point, when Roosevelt slugged Van Brunt on the ear. He asked the referee if slugging went, and upon being told that everything went so long as they kept within the rules, pitched in to spar in earnest. Roosevelt brought first blood, and Van Brunt blacked Roosevelt's eye. In the-thirJ round each more or less punished the other, when, just at Its close, Van Brnut lifted Roosevelt wader the chin and knocked him down. Both men being exhausted here, the match ended ft» a draw. MORE DYNAMITE. An Infernal Marti lue Said to Hava Beau Thrown From i 1Mb By FmIm Krais* •nry Kn Route to Australia* A story Is published in a morui#?1baper concerning the discovery of a^jtanferasi machine at the east end of the Hannibal and St. Joseph bridge In this city, it was found by n railroad laborer, who discovered that It contained twelve pounds of dynamite. A reporter had a conversation with an English detective, who told him that the package was thrown from last night's Wabash train from Chicago by John Meehan, an Irish conspirator, whom he and another detective had been shading for four weeks, since he left England iadfce steamer Bothnia. They were on toe point of arresting him last night, when he threw the dynamite out of the window. They made noatt.- .t to arrest him, but one of tine detectives followed hint on his way to San Francisco. The other, who remained behind, said that Meehan’s mission was to go to Australia and blew up the prison where the Fenian prisoners are confined. The story is generally looked upon as very fishy. A Canadian Forger Traced to Chicago. The confidential clerk of the Standard Clothing Company, who came from Chicago abont ayearigo, forged the name of the manager of the company cm drafts coming from customers outside, drew the money at the bank and decamped. ills defalcations, as far as gnown, are #3,000, but it is thought there are more still to come. The absconder has been traced! to Chtengo, and detectives have been sent after him to bring him lock under the extradition treaty. Thrown Front Their Wage* and Kitted * WiixisuroBJU, P*.; January 9S. Yesterday an express train on the West Chester Road frightened a colt drawing a wagon containing three young men. The horse became unmanageable and dashed down the road. The front wheel of the carriage broke throwing the occupants out. Two of them, Juo. Quinn and a man named Baldwin fell clear of the Sxw Vqbk, January 3. Kansas Cttt. Mo., Jam Montreal, Can., January 28.

ANOTHER CRUCIAL TESt, Ttw Some of the Republican journals that mppcrted Mr. Biaiaa ooaiinne their fierce attacks on Mr. John P. St John, the late Prohibition candidate. Mr. J. B MeCulingh, the editor of the St. Loins 0 lobe-Democrat, has boldly charged him with having offered himself daring the late campaign to the Republicans for a price, and of haring been finally purchased by the Democrats. Mr. St. John recently published a letter, which was referred to by the Argus at the time. It was a direct answer to the hints by some of Mr. Blaine’s supporters that he had opposed that statesman's candidacy for a money consideration. Mr. St. John's letter, instead of silencing his enemies, seems to hare irritated them. They finally selected the Glabe-Itemocrat as their mouthpiece. The great Prohibition leader lost no time in denouncing the allegation as false. He ehaBengfed Mr. McCniSagh to produce any proof in support of his charges. He" is out in a card in which he says the St. Louis editor would neither publish the alleged proofs nor the letter he wrote demanding them. He says, further, that any one who can furnish Ay proofs whatsoever of a bargain attempted between himself snd the Republicans, or of any compact between himself and the Democrats, ought to do so at mace. He reiterates his denial of all charges of the kind. Now, after raising sill of this dust, what does the St. Louis editor say? Shapiy Shis; “I myself have no evidence against him, but I know from men, in whom I bare the fullest confidence, that Sit. John was dickering with the Republican!!.” Abo, that “the Democrats, raising the sum demanded, got him.” Now, this is pretty feeble testimony onwhich to convict Mr. St. John, or any one else of a sale, or any other political misdemeanor. After raising the hoe and cry against the Prohibition candidate be seeks refuge behind a very thin screen. The public know full well that if any proofs existed to support the charges preferred against Mr. St John that they would be produced forthwith. They would be scattered far and near. Since the election St. John has not been idle, and the Republicans know it He has been organizing and encouraging , the I'rohifaition torces in many places. It is this fact which makes him so odious ! to the Republican organs, who realize now that with a Republican candidate for Governor, the party must submit to another crucial test next fall. This is where the shoe pinches. —Albany Argvs. DISGRUNTLED REPUBLICANS. Tfer «. Q. F. StUferiac from Extreme DeTH Republicans bore thei^defeat sullenly. Never were people more ’ aliaod than the supporters Rlaiub, w ho were Republican only they might get office or profitable Government contracts. But idler the "grand old party'5 recovered from the surprise* oslfc took eetnteftg

But they mar *3 well make up thetf minds to it. Tlte country is Democrat- * ic, and. being Democratic, it can nob longer be ruled on a Republican system. It b absurd to expect that Republicanism can be projected into a Democratic Administration, and that the ghost of the party shall rule after the party itself b dead. The people want to look into the administration of the last twenty years. They want to see the books and compare them with the figures which Republican officials have so marvelously manipulated in their public reports. They want to know where the public moneys have gone, and how it b so many ardent Republican statesmen and patriots have grown enormously rich on very moderate salaries. It w.ll certainly be hard for Republicans to vacate the snug offices they have held for so many years; but that was the decree of the people on the 4th of November, and there b no alternative but to make the best of it.— St. Louis BepubHcan. * PURIFYING THE G. a P. ‘ The Work of Weeding Oat JUpabUeaa* Vigorously froeeaete*. Thedferkof weeding out of the Re publican ranks the unfaithful members who failed to recognise James G. Blame as a great statesman and an honest public servant, and bteotipequeitce declined to support him as &e party candidate, if not going on as vigorously as it did some weeks ago, as appeared m the overhauling of the party clubs and associations in New York, may be snpposed to have been only temporarily suspended. This process of elimination for some time after the election afforded numerous eases of reprobation for infidelity to the party standard-bearer, which, however, was borne by the victims with a degree of resignation and equanimity that showed that they didn’t care a continental for Blaine, and very little for the party when it committed the folly of selecting a tattooed candidate. It is likely that weeding will go on until there is not- a trace of mugwumpbm left in the ranks and that point of purity is reached at which Blainebm, and the political morality it represents, will be the only elemeot'in the party. There b not the same field for pruning Pennsylvania as in New York, where the knife is being so freely used that after the faithful are entirely satisfied with the work of purgation, what b left' will be found to be of small account when the elections come off. President Arthur and hb friends, although ther protest against the charge of unfaithful ness in the late election, are evidently to be included in the elimination, the chief ground of opposition to the President's Senatorial aspirations being hb ^ alleged opposition to-the success of Blaine. From appearances it looks as if the policy of purification will be extended not only to the mugwumps who openly

THOMAS A. HENDmCKS. «**«• fcy the Vln-TmUN^l If They At* OtMfrut BepahUeM* WIU A Republican contemporary, of Philadelphia, which is giving itself unnecceeMff trouble about the cosm Cleveland will adopt in adminigcKUfc his poliey, is especially bothered to know what hmneans when he saws in his CiTitservice letter that manv oft. tavhr of their superiors. This style of official da oat of line with the id<* civil service, and an these ***** in it cone mute