Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 December 1885 — Page 1

VOLUME XVI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1885. NUMBER SI.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources* PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Mrs. Cornelia Winfield Scott, widow of Colonel H. I*. Scott and daughter of General Winfield Scott, died at Baltimore, Md., on the 22d. The Marquis of Lome, speahing of Lieutenaut Greely’s Arctic expedition on the 21st, said that sooner or later England would rejgbqusr the first honors in Arctic { discovery,'but that England was as proud of Greely as if he were an Englishman and had started from London on his polar expedition. Eva L. Gilson, formerly of Kirkdale, Mo., and a daughter of Major Gilson, of the Confederate army, died on board tho schooner E. G. Irwin en route from New York to Norfolk, Va. Minister Curry presented his credentials to Queen Christina of Spain on the Sid, and discussed the subject of commercial relations between Spain and the United States. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland under Gladstone, denounces the scheme attributed to the latter for Irish home rule. Mr. Cox, the United States Minister at Constantinople, has begun negotiations with the Porte for a naturalization treaty, by which the citizens of Turkey aud the United States will have equal rights in both countries, i Edwin Goode and William Wheeler, two farmers of the vicinity of Jackson, N. C-, fought a duel ou the 22d, in which both were mortally wounded. F. O. Ross, confined six years in a New York prison on account of a business failure, has been released by Mr. Erasius Wyman paying off tho debt. Secretary Lamar is spending the holidays at his home in Mississippi. Earl Uoseberry, who was a member of Mr. Gladstone’s Cabinet, writes thabhe is willing to concede home rule to Ireland, on condition that tho Union be miintaiued. Colonel 8, A. Merritt, of Salt Lake City, ex-Delegate in Congress from Utah Territory, had a loug interview with the President on the Sid regarding Mormonism and the present trouble in that Territory. Tue It^mblique FYoneoise, at Paris, denios the truth of the report that M. Ferrj is about to become the editor-in-chief of that journal.

GENERAL HENRYJJRVJtMOND WOLFF, the British Commander in Egypt, has elaborated a scheme for reform in the management of Egyptian affairs, which will enable the Egyptian Government to dispense with the domain administration. Hon. Allen G. Thurman has been selected as umpire before the Mining Arbitrators’ Board at Coiambus, O. The Judge was suggested by the miners and readily accepted by the operators. The committee appointed to wait on him reported that he would accept. M. Fhanccus Marie Theodore La Brosta the well-known French architect, is dead. He waj born March 31,17'SI. In 1827 ho carried off the grand prize for architecture iugfie School of Fine Arts. . Mr. Parnell has sent a letter to his colleagues with reference to the party’s programme. Ho says that it would be unwise at present for the Nationalists to formulate their demands, and that they will therefore play a waiting game, and watch the course of events. Thomas M. Clark, father of Miss Jessie Clark, who was shot and kilted by Edward McGhee,,of Concordia, Miss., at McKenzie, Tenn., a few days since, will uot prosecute McGhee. It is understood he accepted as true the statement made by McGhee that the killing was accidental. McGhee exhibits great remorse, and it is feared he may attempt his own life. It is asserted pretty positively that General Horatio King, Jr., Judge Advo-cate-General of New York under Mr. Cleveland and the present Governor, will be appointed Judge Advocate-General of the army. On the 22d Aunt Lydiu,a colored woman at PhiUipsbnrg, N. J., died, aged HO years. P. Westin, a Scandinavian, was found dead on a farm at Cedar Mills, Minn., on the 23d. It is thought the m in died from starvation. Speaker Carlisle is spending the holiday recess in arranging the House committees, Petkb Ksiffkr ha sued the St. Paul Pioneer-Prei*s for $8,000 for alleged libel. Mobkhtar Pasha,Turkish Commissioner to Egypt, started for Cairo on the 28d. Queen Victoria has sent a sword of hon6r to King John of Abyssinia. Michael Davitt says Gladstone's alleged proposals are a good basis for the settlement of the Irish question. The bodies Of Hovey and Skates, who were buried in a snow-slide near Silverton, Col., have been recovered. J. H. Hanlenkb, formerly proprietor of Godey's Lady's Book, has been arrested at Philadelphia, Pa., charged with obtaining money under false pretenses.

the preliminary examination of John Magee and wife, charged with sending threatening letters to the Prince of Wales, resulted in the aequittal of the woman and the committal of her husband for trial. The Hendricks Monument Association of Indianapolis, Ind., will not ask help from the Government. On the tilth William Giles, champion wing shot of England, arrived at New York; aud extends a general challenge to American marksmen. Minister Pendleton has been notified by Germany that certain Germans who have become naturalized .Americans will be expelled from the Empire. The Indian chief Roman Nose, who has been in prison at Port Leavenworth, is to be tried by the civil authorities for murder. A marked improvement is reported in the condition of the Archbishop of Armagh, and hopes are entertained for his recovery. 'The Atlanta (Ga.) Prohibitionists have won their election injunction case in the Georgia Superior Court. On the 21th Brigham Young Hampton was found guilty, at Salt Lake, of conspiring with lewd women to compromise prominent anti-Mormons. Captain Nordepelt of the Swedish barkentina Karman, wrecked during the recent storm at Colon, has arrived at New York and gives a graphic description of the disaster. CHINKS AND CASUALTIES. Two men were killed and several seriously wounded by a boiler explosion on the 21st in a distillery near Dayton, O. The rescuing party searching forthe entombed miners in the Nanticoclce Mine, in Pennsylvania had nearly reached their comrades on the 21st, whom, from answers to signalB, they had reason to believe were still alive, when another cavein, worse than the first, occurred, by which two of the rescue party nearly lost their lives. The French gunboat Chamois was reported on the 21st to have foundered in the Toulon Roads, having just sailed for Tonquin. No further particulars. There was serious fighting among the miners at Elkhoiw, Pa., on the :i2d. Wm. Moore ana John Ridgeway were killed by a ooaj train at Pittsburgh, Pa., on

H. D. Frisrie was seriously Woauded in a street encounter at Cynthiana, Ky., oa the 2id, with J. K. Lake. Wa. Graham, a bachelor, living five miles south of Clinton, Vfis., was cddfronted by a pistol hold by a masked man on the night of the 21st and contpolled to surreal sr $1,001 Which bo had in his house. Harry Lawson, a neighbor, has boen arrested, accused of the robbery. i. D. Laxa, night watchman at the Henderson cotton mills, at Evansville, Itid., white making his rounds oh. the inoruing of the 22d, fell down the stairway, breaking his arm and receiving what his physicians say are fatal internal injuries. A sure broke oat in the Chenango llaase at Greeno, Chenango County, N. Y., on the 22d, and destroyed nine buildings. Three men wero injured, one seriously, by un explosion. Loss,$10,000; .insurant, $10,000. Mvrpuy & Daw’s saw mill and about 8,000 barrels of salt located in sheets adjoining on au island in tbe Saginaw River near Bay City, Mich., wore totally con- , smaed by fire on the 22d. The lire origi- , nated in the engine room. The estimated loss is $80,000, oa which there is an insurance of $35,000. S. E. Brows, of New York, attorney for several Eastern railways, was relieved of $200 by pickpockets at tbe Union Depot at Kansas City on the 22d. Robert Ssjth, a coal minor of Coal Valley, 111., was ran over and killed at that village on the night of the 21st by a Rock Island & Peoria«train. He had just returned from Rock Island was badly intoxicated. Lilly Mack, eolored, of La Junto, Col., has been arrested for tbe horrible butchery Of her niue-year-old daughter. Latest developments in the Knock murder near Detroit, Mich., show that the victims’ heads were split open with an axe. Ox the 22d Isaac Stoddard, a soldier, killed Agnes Farrel at Winona, D. T, Jealousy prompted the deed. Miss Fnrrel was known as a woman of shady character, and Stoddard was her lover. Ox the 22d a snow slide occurred in the San Jnan Mountains, near Clement Creek, Col., flUiug up a shaft in the Prodigal Son mine, and burying Burke Hovey and J. M. Skates, who were working in the mine. <

IUO iUU I IUV5UUW, 1UU.( UtlU 0. IMi 14- | ble visitation of tiro, several large business buildings having been destroyed up to last accounts and the fire still raging. Terre Haute was appealed to for help and promptly responded. On the 2;td Frank Ricketts and his son Frank were caught under a falling wall at the Blind Asylum at Columbus, O. Tho boy was instantly killed and the father seriously injured. The Indianapolis wife-murderer, Phillips, was sentenced on the 23d to hang on the 8th of April. A B011.EH exploded at the Lochiol Rolling Mill, Harrisburg! Pa., on the 23d, and six persons were injured. On the 23d the Colonial Cordage Company’s Rope works, at St. John, N. F., the largest in the world, were destroyed by fire. On the night of the 22d burglars at Milton, Ontario, made a clean sweep of everything in Ramsey & Co.’s jewelry store, using a cart to carry off the goods. On the 23d at least fifty men were killed and a great many more were terrible injured by an explosion in a coal mine at Pont-y-Pridd, Wales, in which 72) man were at work. Jacob Hammerstein, of Indianapolis, Ind., committed suicide on the 21th. John R. Elmore, a Baptist minister, committed suicide on the 24th by drowuing near Clayton, Ind. On the 25th Hugh Sherman, a merchant, shot and fatally wounded his wife at Buffalo, N. Y. Wm. Sheehan confesses at Dublin to the murder of his mother, brother and sister. On the 24th Richard N. Hotchkiss, a school-teacher at Prospect, Conn., assaulted a scholar so brutally that death was thought probable. On the 25th, in a fight between negroes and tramps at Johnstown, Pa., one tramp was fatally and another seriously wounded. Firs in the hold of the British steamer Petriaua, at Leith, from Hew Orleans, on the 21th, badly damaged her cargos On the 25th six boilers of the San Francisco (Cal.) Water-works exploded, killing two men and dangerously wounding two others. On the 25th John Dennis was shot in the abdomen and his brother William in the arm duriug a street fight at Wellsville, O. On the 25th D. J. Begqhs, a prominent merchant at Clinton, O., was roblrod and left for dead iu his room with several cuts in his neck and face. .MISCRI.L ANKUCS. The fortv-two shoe factories at Brockton, Mass., which have been silent for so long a time, opened their doors on the 22d for work under the terms of the award made by the board of arbitration between the manufacturers and employes. The Chief of Engineers reports that the celebrated Long Bridge over the Potomac at Washington is an obstruction tcmavigation, and outrht to be removed.

An official dispatch from San Btutalome, Peru, on the 22d, reported that Agfa l ing was going on at Ocatara, between Colonel Relays and the Government forces. The Richmond Wkig, which has been published continuously since 1824, has suspended publication, aud the receiver is authorized to sell the paper and its establishment. The Northern Pacific Directors are negotiating a sale of 4,'HX),000 acres of land east of the Missouri River to a syndicate. This is in addition to the 80,OX) acres sold for $400,000 net last woek to a parly headed by Senator Sabin, of Minnesota. A Blt.li to prohibit newspapers from publishing details of suicides is under consideration iu the Uruguayan Congress. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce has adopted resolutions that the commercial and industrial interests of the Pacific coast require the early completion of the California & Oregbn Railroad Line, connecting the chief metropolis of the coast with the Northern Pacific system of railroads. With the advance in the price of steel rails a revival of the foreign steel-rail trade is made possible. As an indication of this the Chicago, Burlington 41; Quincy Railroad has placed an order with a foreign firm for 90,000 tons. Three letter-carriers were discharged from the Omaha Post-office on the 23d upon an order from Washington. A few weeks ago they preferred charges against Postmaster Content, and the charges were investigated by Inspector Robinson, who found them groundless. On the 23d a mob of masked strikers made a riotous demonstration at the Old Ragle Mine near Monongahela City, P*. They farced Superintendent Young into the mine and made an attack on the houses occupied by their opponents, smashing things generally. A Dobsrtt Underground Conduit agent has sold out to an opposition company in i Milwaukee, Wis., and that city will do without the Dorsett patent. The authorities are indignant. * Six men have been convicted at Kirkwai, in the Orkney Islands, for assaulting John Pender, M. P., the telegraph magnate, during the recent election excite- ;

A REMARKABLY warm spell has been experienced at St. Paul, Minn., and vicinity. The Irish land-holders have adopted a new move to checkmate the National League. When asked to reduce rents they innocently reply that if they make a res duction they will have to suspend all work and discharge their men. Quinn BoHannan, convicted of murder at Lincoln, Neb., has been granted a writ of error by Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, the man having been tried fdr manslaughter previously Bohannan was to hang January 15th. An attempt was made at Cedar Rapids, la., on the 'dJd, to born dp the Salvation Army and their barracks. Many of the prominent manufacturer* are preparing to leave Paterson, N. J., and locate in Pennsylvania. The Cork Steam Packet Company, which was boycotted by the Nationalist cattle dealers, has made a complete surrender to the cattlemen. The Coshocton (O.) Iron and Steel Works have shat down, owing to their Inability to do work at present prices. ApromISE has been made to the Sultan by the Marquis of Salisbury that England will defend Turkish interests in the Balkans so long as they accord with those of Europe. The New York book-makers think they Uow know the telegraph operators who swindled them so artistically on the New Orleans races. Three Western Union messengers, after becoming acquainted with the interior of a large number of houses in New York, became professional thieves, and are now under arrest. In New York the mad dog scare is on the increase. Cholera is reported to be raging in Cayenne, French Guiana. A heavy bank-swindling scheme ha,a been unearthed at Toledo, O. Germany and Zanzibar have concluded a treaty of commerce. The steel rail workers at Pittsburgh Pa., want fifteen per cent, advance in wages. As a remedy for the Irish troubles, the London Times suggests exclusion of Irish members from Parliament and martial law During the seven days ended the 21th

the imports or dry goods at Wow York were valued at $1,167,543. For the seven days ended .the 26th the failures in the United States numbered 193; for the year up to date, 10,964. The French Chamber of Deputies ha: adopted the Tonquin credit by a vote ol 274 to 270. ,, Small-pox continues to: rage at Montreal, Quebec and other Canadian cities. On the 34th fifteen thousand miners in mass-meeting near Elisabeth, Pa., resolved to continue the strike. A delegate convention is to be held at Fargo, Dak., on the 12th of January, to discuss the Statehood question and other public matters. When President Cleveland’s appointee presented bis credentials at the Post-office of Ripon, Wis., as Postmaster, he was kicked out of the place by the old incumbent. A misunderstanding has occurred in the settlement of the trouble between tin Cork Steam Packet Company and the ca ttle dealers, resulting in a renewal of th« boycott. A temperance campaign under the management of the W. C. T. U. is being carried on in the colored churches at Washington D. C. It is reported that a revolt among thi Servian troops is not improbable, and thal King Milan’s life is constantly threatened CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate on the 21st a bill In reference to polygamy in Utah was favoraby reported ; also to establish a uniform system ol bankruptcy; also for a National cattle trail: also several bills In relation to the army. Senator Vest introduced a resolution on the Klely case, and spoke In defense of religions liberty. A resolution for an investigation of the Pension llureau was introduced. A resolution for investigation of the New York Custom-house was adopted. Mr. Beck called up the resolution ill relation to the special fund for payment of low interest, anl it was referred to the Finance Committee. Adjo irned to oqnuary 5th.In tho Ifo.ise u ider the call of States for bills, Mr. B irns (.of Missouri) Introduced a bill for a bridge across the Missouri River at St. Joseph; also a number of resolutions of the Missouri Legislature. Mr. Wheeler (of Alabama) introduced a batch, mnong them one for the relief of .General FiU-John Porter, and one to amend the civil-service law. Mr. Henley (of California) introduced a number of laud-forfeiture bills. A great number of other bills were introduced relating to a variety of subjects, the total number being 1,001. House adiourned to January LATE NEWS ITEMS. John Bigelow, who was recently appointed Assistant United States Treasurer at Hew York and confirmed by the Senate, has resigned. One-halt of a $300 legal-tender note was received at the Treasury Department on the 26th in an envelope postmarked Hew York, with the following letter: “Restitution, internal revenue; publish receipt. Keep record of number of bill. More later.”

on the 26th. The Pope is suffering from a kidney complaint, and has been ordered by his physician to take a complete rest. The thirty days of mourning for VicePresident Hendricks having expired, the emblems of mourning have been removed from the public buildings at the National capital. The President will be assisted at his New Tears’ reception by Miss Rose Cleveland and the wives of the members of the Cabinet. Tbe President has approved the bills granting a pension to Mrs. Grant and removing the disabilities of General Lawton, of Georgia. The Second Comptroller has decided that soldiers honorably discharged for promotion are entitled to the bounty provided for in the act of July 22,1661. The Irish Nationalists in the British Par - liament are said to be solid for Gladstone and home rule. There are eighty-six of The office of the Detroit (Mich.) Hwtdaii Sun, a scandalous publication, bas been seised by the police and the further issue and sale of the paper prohibited. Sir Ambrose Shay has been appointed Governor of Newfoundland, being the first native and Catholic Governor since the days of Cabat. A general election has been decided upon in Canada, Sir John Macdonald fearing to meet the House, owiag to the hostility of the French in the Riel case. A EIRE occurred at Newbury port, Mass., on the 26th, involving a loss of fully $80,000. Thirteen business houses were burned, throwing 150 persons out of employment. Two men were killed by a falling waltl and several were injured, among them some of the firemen from neighboring cities who had responded to a call for assistance. Two of tj|ie Cleveland tO.) roller-skating rinks, the Casino and the Legrand, the latter a $17,000 structure, have gone into bankruptcy. Dr. Wiluah NcOasui., who lecently married a Miss Gate, at Baltimore. Md., the former being seventy lour and the latter seventeen years of age, has becotne insane and hgs had to be confined in aq wylmn. ^ v t , ,.A I

PAT (tick EGAhl. The President or the Irish National Laa|«t la America Gives Expression to His Views »t the Irish Sltuatlou—A Sensation Crestedln England by Their PnbUeationThere. tilNCOLS, Neb., December 38.—Mr. Patrick %an, President 'df the Irish National League of America, oh being id* tendered as to his views on rite present phase of the-question of home role for Ireland, said: “I consider the question of the principle of home rule for Ireland as virtually settled, both. English parties admitting the necessity for such a change, I am of the opinion that it will be accomplished by a juncture of the Parnell forces with those of Gladstone, when the critical time comes, not by an alliance as so frequently stated, as it would be contrary to the principles of the Irish party to ally themselves with either of the English parties, but by independent action in the same direction. Ireland does not look for anything from Gladstone or any other Bnglish leader, from love but from their fears. The power to protect aud foster Irish industries must also be conceded to the Irish Parliament. Some of the ablest men In England expect to see a deadly struggle between Russia and England for possession of India within two years, and it is policy of England to settle the Irish difficulty before that time comes. The movement of the last six years,uniting,as it has done,every element in Ireland outside of a little knot of loyalists who call themselves Orangemen, and backed up,as it is, by the sympathy of the liberty loving people of the world, but more especially of the people of America, has tau$ri>t England, that, in the words of Mr. Gladstone: “ Only an Irish Parliament will meet the case.’ I believe nothing short of the right that Canada possesses should be or will be accepted by Irish people. The control of the police and the courts by an Irish Parliament is absolutely indispensable If the settlement is to be permanent. The poliee in Ireland at present are armed and drilled as a military force and regard themselves not as servants of the people who pav them, but as their masters. As to the loyal minority, about which England is SD KolirMi.mi1 A tliAV will lto ovantlv a a

safe and have their rights just as much respected in Ireland as a simitar minority in Illinois. The probabilities in favor of Salisbury dissolving Parliament are very remote, as that would not better in any way the position of his party. Mr. Par* nell, at the early stage of his career in 1877 and 1878, worried.the House of Commons with only six followers. In the last Parliament, with about twenty workers, he broke up the Gladstone Government, with its majority of 120. Now, with eighty-six followers, he can simply make Government in England impossible unless whatever party may be in power comes to his terms. Then, in the event of a failure on the part of Mr. Parnell and his party to obtain, through constitutional methods, recognition of Ireland’s legitimate rights, England would have to deal with the Irish revolutionary element, embracing the most daring and most intrepid, the most devoted men of our race in Ireland, in England and here in America. This section of our countrymen want to see the National question settled peacefully and constitutionally, if possible; but if constitutional methods should fail, I believe there are no leugths to which they will not go to accomplish their purpose.” Mr. Egan wished it distinctly understood he did not say this in any sense as a threat, but only as an honest expression of opinion.* Mr. Egah says the League has forwarded to Parnell during the last two months about $30,000. London, December 24.—Great interest was aroused yesterday among politicians of all classes by the publication of Hie utterances of Mr. Egan, of Nebraska, which were cabled over here by the special cable correspondents. While the Irish National League of America, of which Mr. Eagan is President, is an entirely separate organization from the Irish National League in Ireland, and has no authority to dictate the latter’s policy, yet the wishes of the American League have all the weight that is implied by the fact of its being the source whence comes the major portion of the funds upon which Mr. Parnell and his Nationalist coadjutors depend as the means of carrying their political schemes to a successful issue. An Irish member of Parliament, who for reasons of political prudence wished his name withheld, said to your correspondent, when asked what he thought of Mr. Egan’s remarks: “I am serry Mr. Egan has thought it proper at this juncture to express such views. The tendency of too much contldence and too great demands on our part just now is to strengthen the incipient movement for an alliance of Whigs and Conservatives as against Parnell and Gladstone. We can udt afford to do anything to further that alliance. You will notice that Mr. Paruell has avoided as far as possible making any demands that would arouse the fears of the Whigs as to the permanency of the union. Mr. Kgan’s talk about the revolutionary element, which embraces the most daring Irishmen in Ireland and America, being ready to light England if Parnell fails, is the worst thing that could be pnt forward now by an official who is regarded, whether correctly or not, as occupying a position hardly less than second to Parnell’s in the practical control of our race. I don’t want to claim to speak for Mr. Parnell. He is in an embarrassing position. It would be suicidal for him to disavow the official voice of the American League, and equally fatal for him to confirm it. He has beeu placed in similar positions before, especially when the London Times challenged him every day for a long period to avow whether he favored the so-called “outrages” upon land agents in Ireland. I think, however, that we can trust now as then, in his diplomatic instinct, to bring his party through difficulties such as inevitably come up from time to time to harrass any statesman and leader of -a people.”

Whore the Money Went To. Cincinnati, O., December 24.—Dm* iiig the investigation ol John B. Mannix, the defaulting assignee of Archbishop I’urcell, yesterday afternoon, receipts vere shown from a broker Arm for bonds md money aggregating $36G,62t>.69, which was lost in speculating on stocks in New fork. Mannix professed not to know .vhat stock it was lost on, except that Western Union, New York Central Railway, St. Paul aud other stock was dealt in on margins. He had destroyed all records of speculation, which extended from August, 1882, until 1885. ■ '-O-O-Oi .. - ■ Accident in a Rolling Mill. IIakiusbubg, Pa., December 24.—Poi some time work has been in progress at the Rochiel Rolling Mill looking to an early start of the works, which have lieen idle for years. An attempt was mage yesterday morning to try the rollers, when one of the boilers exploded and scattered steam and debris in every direction. Half a dozen men near the boilers were injured by flying missiles. Thos. Welch had his head badty cut, aud was terribly scalded-flbbQt the legs from the waist doi*^ His 'puditian is considered dangeio&v Win *Pi<jkens was struck In the stomach wltl/a heavy piece of iron, and was bO'Hj’ injured. / l

A SEASON OF ¥>Eflit» Accounts by' Eye-Witnesses of tit* HMtt of the Recent Terrible Norther at Aspih-^ W»U—Twenty-Two Vessels Wrecked and Tlfty-Three Lives Lost--Heroic Conduct In Efforts to Save Human Life. Nkw York, December 35.—The Pacific Mail Steamer City ol Para arrived here yesterday, having on board parts oi the crews of five of the vessels lost at Aspitt* wall In the terrible norther that swept that port beginning on December 3d, and cansing the loss of twenty-two vessels and at least fifty-three lives. In talking about thedisastrons effects of the gale, Captain Oxholm, of the Bark Douglas Castle, said that he arrived in port on November 6th with coal. He had beeh waiting for an opportunity to discharge his cargo, and on the forenoon of Decern ber 2d was on shore talking with his consignees about getting a lighter alongside. The weather was beantiful, and the water perfectly calm. There was nothiug in the air or sky, or about the barometers, to indicate anything but a continuance of fair weather, but at noon those who hap* pened to be looking out to sea saw a curious wave with a sheet of foam behind it, making into the harbor at a terrific speed, although there was not a cloud to be seen. At once there was a stir on the decks of the steamers lying at the piers, and evidences of an attempt to get up steam were apprrent. The captains of sailing vessels who were on shore were obliged to stay there. The officers on board as the vessels keeled before tiie blast, hastened to clear away the anchor and make things snug in hopes of riding out what seemed to the strangers there to be a sudden squall that would soon blow itself out. Within half an hour the sky was overcast and the rain drove down before the wind so that none could face it, while the howling of the blast made communication between officers and men possible only by means of signs. The harbor was full of huge rowel's as far out as Polut Chagres. When the ships began to go

their attention to saving the men from the ships, but little or nothing could b,e done. No life-boats could launched, and none launched from the stlips could hope to make a landing in safety. Nevertheless some of the men who tried to swim ashore were picked out of the breakers and saved. Captain Beutzen of the bark Holden said that at ten o'clock at night he was standing on his forecastle watching a little schooner half a ship’s length away. A boat from a three-masted schooner had come alongside with four men, who boarded her and undertook to help the master clear his vessel. The men in her were at the pump, and the men from the boat found that the discharge ports in her bows were open, giving the waves a clean sweep through her hold. Still her Captain refused to go into the big schooner’s long-boat with his men, and the four men went away. They came alongside the Holden which seemed to be in pretty good shape, and were taken on boanl. A few minutes later, the little lnmberhooker keeled over and lay helpless on the rocks, with her weather-rail out of water occasionally The crew cluug to it for a time, but one by one they dropped off and were lost. About four o’clock on the morning of the 3d the Holden went ashore. “I told the men,” said Captain Bentzen, “that we would die if we stayed, and that we had a chance for our lives if we took to the water. Mr. Jacobsen, the mate, went first, and fortunately landed in safety. I had been washed from the forecastle, and had my head split opeu, so that I was weak from loss of blood, but f determined to try it with the rest. I let myself over the nide, but I was too weak to swim and sank to the bottom. It seemed a long time that I was under water, but I felt a big wave lift me np and hurry me along. Then it left me on the rocks. The coral was as sharp as knives. Yon can see the scars on my hands and arms here where 1 was cut, but my legs were cut worse. I was utterly helpless, but I called for my mate, and he saved me. All of my crew were saved, but in snch a condition as you never saw. My trousers had been cut away, so that only the waistband remained. My coat was in sheds. Some of the men were almost naked. I had one shoe on. I got a pair of trousers from a black man, and then an officer from the Canal Company, a Frenchman, came along, took ns all to a hotel, fed us, gave ns clothing and made ns comfortable. He wonld take no pay. “The heroism of the sailors in port yas particularly shown in the efforts to rescue Captain Lindego of the British ship Linton, with his wife and two children. One of the children was a girl of three years and the other a babe in arms. The'Captain of the French steamer Fonrnel, seeing their danger, got a lifeboat manned with volunteers, his chief officer going in command^ The boat was swamped, but all hands were saved except the mate* Captain Oxholm of the Douglas Castle was among those trying to "rescue the women. The boat was cleared out aud sent again with a hresh erew, the chief engineer of the Fonrnel taking charge. She was rolled over by the breakers, and the engineer was lost. The third trial was successful and the woman

«u« uu uauj *1 CIV UlUUglU SiUC ijsuure, but the Captain and Ms littie girl, and all of his crew, were lost. The bodies of the mate and the engineer were recovered, and with the body of an American, who lost Ms life while trying to save others, were buried with military honors.” Captain Oxholm said that over sixty lives were lost, and twenty-two vessels were wrecked. “You can tell how completely my ship was wrecked,” he added. “She was sold at auction for 913, and her cargo of 921 tons of coal brought 910.” Among the vessels lost was the brig Stella, loaded with dynamite. While the storm raged no one stopped to think what would be the effect if her pounding on the rocks should happen to set off her cargo, but, when all was over and everybody had time to get scared, few would venture near the wreck. 0Lh Undisciplined Army. London, December 26.—The Post publishes a letter from its Belgrade correspondent, revealing a lamentable state of affairs in the Servian grmy. It seems that there is almost a total absence of military discipline. It is difficult, the correspondent says, to say where most of the blame is to be laid, whether upon the inefficiency of the officers or upon the natural insubordination and unteachableness of the men. King Milan’s life is being constantly threatened, and several attempts to assassinate him have actually been made. ' ■ Eleven Savages Killed. Er. Paso, Tax., December 2S.—Southern and Central New Mexico is wild with excitement over the ravages of the Indians, and in numerous localities the people are discussing the propriety of putting local troops in tb£.fleld. A number of volunteers, well trained, are already out, and it is now learned that in a raid upon an Indian encampment early yesterday morning eleven savages rrpK killed and tMrty of their horses were, captured. The party was mainly composed of Mexican lysidents and acred under the guidance ol “Big Jim,” la colored Deputy-Sheriff. The raid todk place before daylight f

A PRESIDENTIAL ••BOOM." How It Vi!> fie Met fey Brotherly *nil Helpful KepfltilieSrtS As wfe have before suggested, CeHeral lagan’s declination of the Presidency pro tempore of the Senate is aii Important part of the shrewd little garhe which he proposes to play “for all it is worth” from now until the meeting of the next National Republican Convention. Logan has his eye upon the Presidential nomination, and if he dogs not get his grip upon it the fault will not be his. Such being his purpose, it is easy to understand why he prefers to remain on the Senatorial lloor rather than be transferred to the ehair. In the latter place lid - would be virtually shelved; in the former, he will af ail times be as able as ho is willing to attend to Logan’s business. There will, of course, be many opportunities during the present session for him to “boom” himself, and it is quite needless to say that not one of these is likely to be neglected. Two thiugs, however, will receive his special attention: the soldier vote and the bloody shirt. He will be the seif-appointed champion of all those who have worn the blue, providing they are not Democrats; and as for the rights and wrongs of the oppressed colored Republicans of the South, neither decency nor the dictionary will prevent him from doing fall jusfjpe to his: favorite theme. Logan’s little game will not be interfered with in.the least by Democrats; on the contrary, they may give him valuable aid and comfort, for good and sufficient reasons. The only real opposition to him will eome from Republic ans. There are several aspirants to the Presidential prize in the Republican camp, who will be more than glad to insert a spider in the Logan dumpling. and outside of these is a numerous class who are heartily tired of his political tactics, and ready and anxious to sit down upon him. If We may trust the wrathful statements of leading Re

^uuuvau iiuu il» U1UUUJ shirt gave New York to the Democracy at the iveent election; while Lee undoubtedly rode into the Governorship of Virginia over the political corpse of Mahone, on “the treason-stained saddle” of Logan’s invention. With such unfragrant feathers in his cap, Logan is liable to' have more brickbats than bouquets flung at him by Republican hands in his Presidential campaign, and though this will Be “fnn for the boys”, it may mean “death to the frog”. And, as if to make his political perdition sure, Logan is about to publish a book. Biaino did the same thing —everybody knows what happened to Blaine.—St. Louis Bejmblican. THE PRESIDENT’S CHARITY. How He Spent His Honey While Governor > —Late Characteristic Incidents. President Cleveland is worth about $100,000, and he owns considerable real estate iu Buffalo, which is fast growing in value. He made about $25,000 a year at his practice before he got into polities. He is not an extravagant man in any of his tastes, and has never been so. He had a class of eases at Buffalo which paid well, and he was often the counsel for corporations in big cases. While he was Governor of New York he gave away the whole of his salary in charity, save that which he used for his personal expenses aiid for the support of his mother. I have seen many instances of his charity. One night I was with him in his private office at the Albany Capitol. It was af£ er he had been elected President. He was opening his mail, and many of the letters contained requests for alms. 1 saw Governor Cleveland answer fully a half dozen of them by inclosing five, ten and at one time a twenty dollar bill in an envelope with a kind word, and Sending it to the beggar. One case was especially touching. It was that of an old man in Southern New York, who had lost his home by death. He had a little garden-patch of a farm, and this horse was his sole means of making a livelihood upon it. He had raised some money by contributions from his neighbors, but still lacked enough by twenty dollar to buy tin horse which was to serve as the support of himself and his gray-haired wife. Some of the neighbors heard of Cleveland’s charity, and had suggested that he write to him and ask him to help him. From the'teuor of the let^ei you could see that the old man was very proud of its composition anil handwriting. He said that he had written it himself. With his own hand, and the appeal throughout was that of a simple-minded, unsophist icated, childlike person. Cleveland’s eyes filled with tears as he lead it, and he pnt a twen-ty-dollar bill in an envelope and sent it to him with a few kind words.—ITasAington Cor. Cleveland Leader.

An ^Honored State. Although Mr. Carlisle is only the fourth Kentuckian who has held the Speakership of the House of Representatives, that post has been filled by Kentuckians for a longer period than is comprised in the combined terms of the Speakers from any other State. Massachusetts and Virginia have each had four Speakers, but the combined term.--* of the former amounted to but ten years and those of Virginia to but thirteen years, whereas at the expiration of this Congress Kentucky will have had the Speakership for twenty of the ninety-eight years that will then have elapsed smce the establishment of the Federal Government. Henry Clay was elected Speaker of live successive Congresses and after a retirement of tl.ree years he was again elected in his old age and served through both sessions of the Eighteenth Congress. Owing to the fact that Mr. Clay resigned the office on two occasions his entire service in the chair comprehended a period of ten years only. ' John White held the gavel for one term and Linn Boyd for two terms. Mr. .Carlisle now enters on his second term, thus rounding on! the twenty years for Kentucky in the Speakership.—Chicago Herald. General Vilas' Rebuke. Postmaster-General VUas administered a rebuke to a certain Indians Congressman the other day that he will probably never forget. The honorsjftlt gentleman had, it appears, a candidate whom he was pushing for a two-thou ! sand dollar post-office in an adjoining 1 district represented by a Republican ' There were several other candidates, one of whom was indorsed by anothe. Democratic Congressman. The first named Congressman called at the Postofflee Department a tew days ago am was informed by General Vilas that hi had decided to 'appoint the other Con- (

gressttlSn's man, whereupon the partj of the first part asked permission to withdraw the application he had made for his own candidate and write another letter, placing it on file, in favor of the lucky man, his intention being, by antedating the letter, to create the idea that he had given the latter his support before the appointment had been made, and thus gain what credit he eouid for bringing it about. General Vilas told the lndiauian that he regarded snch conduct as infamous. “Be a man,” said he. “and stand or fall by your colors. It is no refleetiou upon you to be beaten in this contest, but your proposition to make me a party to your duplicity is a direct insult which I will only excuse upon your promise not to repeat.” The Congressman gave the promise and left the Postmaster-General's presence as speedily as possible.—Cltitujo News; L. Q. C. LAMAR. Suniethlug About His Family, as bfe»u*f from an Inscription Found on the Tmabstoue of a Revolutionary Soldier. The following inscription was recently copied from an old tombstone on the “Vale'! Farm, near “Pompey Smash,Allegany County, Md. It relates' to an old Marylander of revolutionary fame: “In memory of Colonel William Lamar, a soldier of the Revolution. At the tap of the drum in Ms native State, Maryland, to the standard of his country he flew, nor left until she was acknowledged free and indopent amongst the nations of the earth. At the battle of Harlem Heights, White Plains, Germantown, Monmouth and Staten Island, in the North; at Guilford Court-House and Entaw. at- Camden, the capture of Fort Mott, C'arnby and Wateree, at the seige of Ninety-six, in the South, he was present and actively engaged, and by his coolness, bravery and skill,' lie gendered most signal and important services to

me army. at vruuumi ure iiwj/vum. charge of the American troops, which turned the scale of victory in their fttvor, was ordered at his suggestion, which was communicated to General Green through Major Anderson, and the plan of tiring Fort Mott, which was successfully adopted, and which occasioned the immediate surrender of that fort by the British, originated exclusively with him. In the disastrous battle of Camden he was foremost by the side of Do Kalb when that brave officer fel?.In the siege of ’96 the immortal Kosenisko was his fellow-soldier, and served under him for awhile. The noble conduct of this brave Pole was the fond theme of his praise and admiration through life. He Entered the. army at the commencement of the revolution, and continued with it, engaged in actual service, until the close of the war. ••During the contest he made hut one visit home. He married early; had sons and daughters, the most of whom he lived to see begirt with glowing infancy, lie possessed a heart full of Kindness, and a temper almost proof against anger. He was respected in all the relations of his life. He was born in Frederick County, but for thirty years previous to his death resided in Allegany county, where he died January 8, 1888, aged eighty-three.” Tim stone also contains the following; ‘•Also saered to the memory of Margaret Lamar, his wife. She' was beloved and esteemed by all who knew her for the many virtues that adorned her character. She died universally lamented, March 17, 1821, aged fiftyfour years.” Secretary Lamar is descended from » branch of the old Maryland Lamar family, and is a distant relative of the: above-named Colonel William Lamar. Colonel Lamar left an immense landed estate in Maryland, adjoining Pennsylvania, near Bedford.—Chicago Herald MILITARY PROFESSORS. Mow » Certain Class of Colleges ljupost*: upon the Government and Obtain lii* st ruction by Misrepresenting Their Con* ditlong. tr The law authorizing the detail of army officers to act as professors of tactic* and military science in colleges, requires that any institution to which such a detail is made shall have the capacity to educate simultaneously one iiundred and fifty male students. Details are now made to thirty-seven institutions; but two-thirds of them have not one hundred and fifty male pupils, and many have not 4ven seventy-five. Out of the whole number only twelve have an attendance of one hundred and fifty; and perhaps not all of their students are of an age justifying the detachment of an army officer from his limnnanv in nrrfort.n

Tbits state of things results, as Gen. Drum shows, from the careless use in the statute of the words, “having a capacity for educating not less than one hundred and fifty male pupils,” instead of some phrase requiring an actual attendance of that number in any given quarter or term. Institutions that have thirty or forty scholars can send to the War Department certificates showing that they “have a capacity” for educating five times* that number. They might add that they would be glad to get them. Thus they comply with the letter of the statute requirements, and receive their details, which are sometimes, apparently “secured to obtain the services,” says Gen. Drum, “of an ollicer proficient' in mathematics as a professor in that branch, while his value as a military instructor is appreciated purely from a disciplinarian point of view.’’ It seems increditable that this system of sponging has been going on for years; but the annual reports of the Adjutant-General show conclusively that it iffso. As the abuse of the privileges granted by statute could be obviated by an easy emendation, Congress has no excuse for not making it The matter should receive attention at Washington this winter. No confidence games on the Government should be allowed, even when played by institutions of learning!—N. T." Sun. An Unprofitable Honor. Logan’s determination not to accept the Presidency of the Senate has fessNmerit in it than at first appeared. It sect .led at first that Logan knew more about his fitness for the place than his friends, and had concluded not to submit himself to the criticism which would inevitably follow the discovery of his unfitness for the place. Gut later developments show that it was the determination, erf the Senators to pass a law which would put it out of the power of politicians of the Logan stripe to profit by such a situation as the present, which revealed to Logan the ematienss and unprofitableness of thV' been grasping.