Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1879 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

Prom Washington. Tn Treasury Department In Washington Km notified the Bub-TTea»ury In Chicago, that two naw flve-dollar counterfeits hive recently wade their appear an on the Globe National Bank, of Boa ton, and the otbw on the Dedham National Bank, of Dedham, Hast Tbeee counterfeit* are prononneed photograph* of genuine note*, and are likely to deceive, the work being well done. They differ from the genuine In that they are of a rather dark color, the numbering la clumsily executed, and the green tinting la pat on carelessly, taring a smeared appearance, and la entirely omitted In the space at th* top on the back where the words •* National Currency" occur. The Department also reports a pew photographic counterfeit one-dollar note, which I* of a dark color, the vignette being of a dingy brown; the numberin' i* coerce, and of a reddish brown, and the green tinting on the face of the note has a smeirrd look; the seal. Instead of being red In color, is nearly a light brown. This counterfeit la pronounced a very dangerous one by Mr. Daniels, the expert connected with the (Sub-Treasury In Chicago. PumuDiHT Hares' Cabinet on the 22J dlscuasei the question of arrears of pensions to inmate* of Boilers’ Homes, bat laid the matter over to penult a closer Investigation by the Attorney-General, who was inclined to the opinion that the Managers of the Homes should be the custodians of the funds. It was claimed by some that, at the Arrears-of-Pen-sions bill was passed subsequently to the law for the support of soldier* at the Homes, the money thereby appropriated should go directly to the pensioners. General Walker, Superintendent of the Census, was said on the 2&1 to be vigorously pushing forward the preliminary work of Ms office, and completing a* rapidly as practicable the dies ficalion of subjec's to be confided to a; ecialists. Tux Commissioner of Pensions announced on the 23d that he had disbursed #12,000,000 of the 12V 00,000 appropriated for arrearages of pension*, wad thinks the rest of the appropriation will be absorbed by the middle of October.

The East. A vert ftverc and destructive wind and rain storm prevailed along the Atlantic coast on the iSth. Great damage was done to shipping and to property in New York City and at other points. The rain-fall at Balti more, Md., was over four inches. The velocity or the Wind at Atlantic City, N. J., Wilmington, N. C., etc., was reported at over sixty miles an hour. The heavy rain extended into the interior, and much damage to the crops was feared. The New York Timet of the 19th publishes a dispatch from Narragansett Pier, to the effect that ex-Governor Sprague and wife were then at peace, and a reconciliation between teem was not improbable. He thought himself outraged by nnzentlemanly conduct on the part of Senator Conkling, and wanted satisfaction. A statement was expected from the latter gentleman. It was stated by the New York Tribune on the l#th that Mrs. A. T. Btewart’s phj siclan, D-". Minor, had said to a reporter that Mr*. Stewart had known'all along that the body ol her bpsband had not been recovered. The thieves first asked #250.0X1, but came down to *2 0,000. The Montreal Mew was examined without success. It had been found that several reputable meu lo New York were connected with the robbers. Their names would startle the community. Judge Hilton had refused to compromise with the thieves. Mus. Jons Tillixgh.*.st was fatally burned at Ctica, N. Y., on the evening of the 30th, by the explosion of a quantity of kerosene which she was using to light the kitchen fire. A swimming match came off at Newport, R. L, on the 231 between Boy ton and Webb—the former to make twenty-five miles to the latter's twenty. Webb was taken sick while in the water, and Boy ton easily won the race and the st,ooo stakes. The American Social Science Association will meet this year at Saratoga, N. Y., on tje 9ih of September. The session will continue our day a The following were the closing quotations for produce In New York, on August 231: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, #1.01(31.01)*; No. 2 Milwaukee. #1.0101.01%;. Oats, Western Mixed, 28%032%c. Cora, Western Mired, 440«!%c. Pork, Mess, *8.50a8.90. Lard, #5.00*8 02*. Flour, Good to Choice, 14.50g6.25; White Wheat Extra, #1.7535,25. Cattle, *7 50010 25 for Common to Extra. Sheep, #3.7 £5.25. Hogs, #3.70(34.25. At East Liberty, Pa., on August 33d, Cattle brought: Best. #5.0005.;5; Fair to Good, #4.6004.91; Common, *3.0.103.30. Hogs sold —Yorkers, #[email protected]; Philadelphia, *8.90® 4 00. Shetp brought #3.0004.75 according to qualitv. At Baltimore, Md., on August 33J, Cattie (nought: B :«t, #5.06(85.25; Medium, •3.2504.37%. Hogs sold at #4.7505.50 for Good. Sheep were quoted at #3.0304.50 for Good.

West and Sontli. The Minnesota Democrats will bold tficir Bute Convention at Bt. Paul on the 25th of September. At Fish .Creek, near Eureka, Nev., on the 18th, a conflict occurred between a Sheriff’s posse and a band of Italian miners, which resulted in the killing of five of the latter and the wounding of six others. The Italians were engaged In eoal mining, and had struck for higher wages. Their demands were not met satisfactorily, and they began a wan lon destruction of pro pert). It was to quell these disturbances that the posse was sent. As account of an interview with “ Adirondack” (Rev. W. H. H.) Murray is published id the Ban Francisco Call of the 20th. That gentleman says he visited the Pacific coast to intro-, ducc the buckboard and see Jhe country. When he left home be thought his business affairs were In ► snug condition; the troubles were caused by a personal friend suing on a small debt and attaching his property, when the usual rush of creditors started; his entire indebtedness did not exceed *19,000, and the property, if sold under the hammer at once, would pay it all off and leave a handsome surplus. He intended td’ return East in a few da\ s and put affairs iu shape. At Yazoo City, Mias., on the 19th Henry M. Dixon, Independent candidate forßberiff of Yazoo County, waa ahot, and died in the evening. One account says Dixon, while passing down the west aide of Main street, was hailed by" J. H. Barksdale, Democratic candidate for Chancery Clerk, who at the same time advanced to the "middle of the street, armed with a double-barreled siMtgun. Dixon halted and drew his pistol, when Barksdale raised hi* gun to his shoulder. Seeing this, Dixon moved toward a stairway, •ken Barksdale fired, tour buckshot taking effect in D'xon’s back. Dixon then fired several times at Barksdale, without effect Barksdale missed the second shot Dixon bind internally, and died aa above stated. The difficulty is represented by Barksdale’s friends a* of a personal nature. Ait Independent Convention, composed oj whites and black*, met in Yazoo City, Mia*., •n the 91st, and nominated a full County ticket Captain Dixon’s funeral, at Vaugben'e .Station, was largely attended. BarksrPM*. ; *ho *bot b'm, wis admitted to bail in the sum of *15,000, without examination. , Tub Second Annual Beotolon of the Veterof the Northwest wee held *t Aurora, Jli,

on the 90th, 91st and 22*1. A large number of ex-soldier* were present, and on the last day there wei% from 40,000 to 50,030 spectators. On the first and second days tho organisation wa* effected and speeches were made bv General John A. Logan, Governor Cullom, Hon. J. C. Shrrwln and others. The third day was devoted to military maneuvers, speeches by ex-Governor Beveridge, General Stephen A. Hnrlbut and others, and to i grand sham fight, during which the supposititious Confederate Fort Wadi was captured. There was great excitement In San Francisco on the 24th over the shooting of Rev. I. 8. Kalloch, the Workingmen's candidate for Mayor, by Charles De Youmr, one of the proprietors of the Chronicle of that city. It scents that for several days the Chronicle had been assailing the private character of Kalloch and of hfa father, wbo bad also been -a minister, and had reproduced the charges of Immoral conduct Against him while in the pulpit In Boston and Kansas. On the night, of tbe22d Ktllocli, In a public speech, replied with an equally bitter assault la which he applied the moat obeecne epithet to the I>c Young Brothers, the proprietors of Ihu Chronicle, and reflectinjsuion '.he character of their mother. The next morning Charles l>e Young drove In a covered coupe In front of Kalloch’s study-room and ’ sent In a messenger asking him to come out. Kalloch, not knowing who had sent for him, immediately appeared on the sidewalk, wben De Young shot him In the breast. A .Crowd speedily gathered and severely handled Dc Young, who would have probably been killed had not the police rescued him. Kalloch -was shot lu the left lung Just above the heart, and also received a tl< sh wound in the hip. He was alive on the night of the 24th, and might possibly survive the wounds because ol his strong constitution. lit Chicago, on An rust 23d, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 88%@80%c cash; 87@87%c for September; 80%057c for October. Cash Corti closed at 33 ® > 3%c for No. 2; 3*1%03H%c for September; 83% S/j33%c for October. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 32%022%c; 22%<,t22%c stiller September; 23%c for October. Rye No. 2, 49%c. Baqley No. 3, o—c.0 —c. Cash Mess Fork closed at #8.3548 27%. Lard, cash, *5.82%05.05. Beeves—Extra brought 15.00® 5.25; Choice, #4.5034.75; Good, #4 15® 4.40; Medium Gtjtoea, #8.0504 10; Butchers’ Btock, #2.3003 00. Stock Cattle, etc., #2.30 03.00. lloga—Good to Choice, #3.15(33.80 Sheep—Poor to Choice. 2.50*34 35.

Tlic Yellow Fever. The National Board of Health has decided not to furnish rations to those who remain in Memphis or other Infected cities, and to furnish rations to .(icrsoua in camp und‘T supervision only for a limited time and under exceptional ciicumstances. Twentt-six new cases (nineteen colored and seven white) and six deaths (four white and two colored) were reported in Memphis on the 31st. At a meeting of the llowa'd Association, held In the even ng, ft wasdetormined to withhold an appeal to the charity of the Nation until every dollar of money in their treasury had licen expended. There were nine new cases In Memphis and four outside the city limits on the 23d. The number of.deaths was twelve, four of which were outside the city lines. The depredations of thieves had become quite numerous and daring, and vigilance committees were talked of. The Minute Mcu were receiving daily accessions to tbelr numbers, and the police force was being strengthened. A little child died of yellow fever In New Orleans on the 23d—the first death from that disease m that city since July 31. and sa'd to be the only authentic case. . There were four cases of yellow fever reported in Starkville, Atiss., on the 23*1. Their origin was attributed to Memphis refugees. There were thirty-one yellow-fever deaths and 148 new casts in Memphis during the, week ending on the 23d, Seventeen new case* (ten colored) and eight deaths (six colored) were reported on the 23d, and the number of new cases recorded on the 24th was nineteen (twelve colored); -deaths, eight (four colored). The. fever seemed to be spreading in every d recti on. There were six cases in Chelsea, and several cases were reported in North Memphis, which portion of the city was exempt a week before. A yellow-fever death occurred at. White Haven, Tenn., on the evening of the 23d. A Memphis refugee was taken with the fever at Louisville, Ky., on the same day, and a ease was also reported at Jersey City, N. J., the victim being a fugitive from Memphis. The Vicksburg authorities re-established quarantine regulations against New- Orleans on the 23*1.

Foreign Intelligence. According to a London dispatch of the 18th the recent announcement of the death of Nellie Grant Sartoris was untrue. It was Mrs. F. W. Sartoris, formerly Adelaide Kemble, who died. ,i Fifteen persons were killed and thirty-six injured by a recent collision on the Argcnten <te Greenville Railroad, in France. Tue Egyptian Ministry, formed by Cbcriil Pasha on the accession of the present Khedive, has resigned, and a new one has been formed under the of the Khedive himself. '4. It was stated on the 18th that t he ex- Khedive of Egypt had fixed upon Genoa as his permanent place of residence. Mr. Welsh, the United States Minister to Great-Britain, left London for home on the 19 th. According to SL Petersburg telegrams of (he 19th the Nihilists hasl removed their headquarters from St. Petersburg to Kieff, the latter place being best adjptfll for concealment. The Khedive has formally notified the Powers that he will hot be responsible for consequences If Wilson and Powers and De Bllgnieres return to Egypt. v ” It was reported from Washington oa the 19th that advices from diplomatic representatives and special agents in Europe continued to favor the opinion that the efforts of‘this Government to bring about the joint reconsideration % America and the leading Europeat Powers of the bi-metallic standard question would prove successful. According to London telegrams of the 30tb the Russian Minister ol Marine had just signed contracts with several American shipbuilding firms for the construction of several oce«n coivette cruisers. The contract price was about *17,000,000:

The Turkish War Office at Constantinople closed it doors on the 30th, the employes refusing to work until their airearages of salaries were paid. The United Statcs' has made a claim upon the British Government for *103,000 damages on account of illegal-interference with American fishermen in Fortune Bay, and to nbtaiu some security against the recurrence of similar offenses! o,the future. The labor troubles In Quebec. were settled on the afternoon of the 30lh by an agreement, on the part of the French aud Irish members Of the Ship Laborers’ Benevolent Society, to separate and foriu two societies, each to conduct its affairs aa it sees fit, and also to abstain from future public processions. The Turkish Government has made reclamation for several places ceded to Servia through mistake. . The sittings of the English and Russian Commissioners for the rectification of the Busso-TurKfeh frontier in Asia have been suspended, each party complaining of the inaccuracy of the other’s maps. The Pope received an anonymous letter from Baltimore ou the 31st, wsrntng*him against certain attempts to poison him. - - AucsnaatJn the London Timex of the 33d says the authorities bad decided that the evidence before the South Africa court-martial did not justify the conviction of Lieutenant Caroy for deserting t{H» Prince Imperial, the

proceedings bad, therefore, teen qu „i.*U and Carey restored to Ida rank In the army. AN article In Im IMterU, of Paris, on the morning of the'23l says the Russians bad crossed tlu- Chinese frontier, aud that war between tliff two powers was Inevltablq. ~s Early on the morning of the 21st. an earthquake shock wa* felt at Port Dalhousle, Tanaila, widt h was attended by a loud clap resembling an .artillery discharge, and which' sensibly shook several *< lid telck buildings. At Tborold ~TIHr shock was vlotont, at Welland severe, and at Allensburg, Bcansvllle and Port ltohinsou a rumbling noise aceompanlad the eat thutiukc, which was also distinctly felt st St. Catherines snd Niagara., According to a London telegram of tlie 221 the ljucen had conferred the order of Knight of the Grand Cross of the Bath upon Lord Chelmsford, late commander of the British forces In South A'rlca. The announcement was trade on the 23d that Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith) was about to lie made an Earl, and tbit Lord Duff* rln, late Governor-General of Canado, would succeed him as Viceroy of India. Ri'hma lost projicrly valued at 8,01.3,330 roubles from fire dtirlngtlic month of Ji.ly. A late dispatch Irom Pietermaritzburg, In South Africa, says the Boers would 11 lit unless tlicir independence were acknowledged. The Rome correspondent of the London Stniulari w rites that the Pope has received a letter from the Czar of Russia expressing Ids willingness to make peace with the Catholic churches In Poland. The Asiatic cholera lias appeared at Ostend and other places in Western Flauders. CoxKTAXTixofi.Rdispatches of the. 24th stay the Sultan had Issued an trade reducing his army to 100,000, for the rcafon that he was unable lo (iay more-men. The plague has made Its appearance on the Turco-Pcrsian frontier, at Kcrmanshah.

The Sprague-Conkling Ditticulty-The ex-Governor’s Version.

Bouton, Mash., Anguat 16. The Globe has the following dispatch from Narragansett Pier: Senator Sprague has been in consultation with his lawyers, and absolutely declines to make a statement for publication directly, but an Intimate friend relates the substaucc ot what oc*urred between Mr. Sprague 4nd Senator Conkdng on Friday, AugustS, as the story came from the lips of Mr. Sprague himself. Its publication would not be permitted even now but for the letter of Mrs. Sprague. Governor Spi ugue’a yersjon of . MiC affair is iisToltows: “He TiaffliecnTlown fti Maine on a business trip, expecting to be absent until Saturday night, lie finished bis bus.ness beiore he expected to, and returned late Thursday night, but did not see Mrs. Sprague, although he knew she was present 111 the house. On Friday morning be learned for the first lime, and down at the pier, that Senator Conkling was up at his bouse aud had been more a day or two. The Governor was angry beyond measure, and the cause of his anger, he said to his friend, was the intimate rcia ions between Senator Conkling and his wife, which liai long been highly obnoxious to him. The existence of these relations was no secret to him. He had seen the scandal growing and becoming more and more public, and he spoke bitterly of the conduct of Senator Conkling toward his wife at Washing ton. Bitter wurds had often been spoken between Ills wife and himself because of that inwmacy. She was fully aware how obnoxious to him was that intimacy, and what were his feelings toward Senator Corkling. But in spite of this, said Mr. Sprague, in spite of all the scandal and the violence to his tcclings, that she should invite Senator Conkling to be a guest at bis bouse during his absence, and that Cfflikling should have the brazen effrontery to come there at incensed him beyond all measure. As ne exp eased it, Senator Conkliug was trying to do for his home in Rhode Island what he had already done for his home in Washington, and he had determined to put an end to it at oners aud forever. With this deliberate intention lie hurried back to Canouchet as soon as he heard Conkling was there. Near the house he met Linck, the German Professor, but he declared Eositively that he had no row with him, and ad no idea of Bbootmg him. He did not even have his gun with him at the time. He did order Linck to leave the house, aud was opposed to his being there, not, however, because he had anything against the man himself, but because he could not afford to have such an attachment to his establishment, and he felt that the display of such extravagance at Canonchet was injuring him in his efforts to save the wreck of his vast property interests and to get on his feet again financially. But he hardly give Linck a thought Probably he did speak angrily, he said, for he was very angry; but his indignation wasagainst Conkling, and not against Linck. lie found Conkling in the house alone, and ordered htm outon tne Instant. Conkling reins dto co. A lew high words ensued, and then he Weut up-stairs to pet his shot-gun. ,He found that he had no percur-eion-caps for his weapon, aud, went otf to the village to get some. As soon ns he could protur.; them he huirleiFbacfc, and Conkliug way rti.l mere. He again ordered him to leave, and Conkling refused to go, ai d tr.cd to mol-, lify Spracue ami excuse himself from leaving :o suddenly on the ground that he lial tio cairiuge lor himseU or his baggage, which wag not even packed. Thereupon Mr. Sp-ague drew oat his. watch snd toid Conk-, ling that he would give him thirty seconds to get out, and that if .he was not out by that time he (Sprague) would blow his Lrains out.

At that moment a carriage appeared in Right, which had evidently been sent for while Senator Sprague was absent in his search for caps. At any rale, Conklirg Immediately got into it and dr -vc away, leaving life baggags behind him. W'liat happened afterward in therhouse is not related, except that Conk--8» WM would quit hanging around the place, and determined to make him fully understand that he- (Sprague) was thoroughly in eamest, and that it was not a mere passing tit of rage, the Governor, as soon as he had said his say at the house, and ordered Conkling’s luggage out. jumped into his own wagon, and drove off toward the Pier to find Conkling, and t>* carried bis gun with him. He found Con\ ling pacing up and down iu front of a case. Jumping from his carriage, he beckoned Conkling to come to film and said, curtly: “I want you.” Conkling cams, aud another scene ensued. Conkling spoke low and mildly, evidently seeking to avoid attracting observation, and tried again to pacify the Governor. This only enraged Mr. S; rague the more. He denounced Conkling violently, aud told him plainly that be had had enough of hie Intimacy wlih Mrs. Sprague. The Governor reminded Mr. Conkling that he had broken a promise he once made In Washington to give up his acquaintance wiih Mrs. Sprague. Finally, the Governor cut Conkling short in an attempted reply, by asking him abruptly If he was armed. Conkling, bristling up, replied that be was not; that if he was he (Sprague) would not goon as he was goiug. Without noticing this threat, Sprague repl led: “ Then go and arm yourself, and hereafter go armed. I don’t intend to shoot an unarmed man; but I tell you now that If you ever yross my path again I will shoot you on sight.” With that threat Governor Sprague jumped into his carriage again and drove off, and Mr. Conkling returned to the case. This is undoubtedly a substantially correct story of what actually happened between Senator Conkling and cx-Senator Sprague.

—A Boston correspondent has discovered a queer thing about Nah ant. He says that among the merchants spending the season there, wholesalers never associate with retailers, and this unwritten law is carried so far that a certain retail merchant and his family are not welcomed into the circle in which his son, a wholesaler, moves, notwithstanding the father famishes the cash'with which the son carries on his business. *■ The average of mortgages upon the fanning lands of France is but 5 per cent. In England it is.sß. The United States lias but 3,000,000 proprietary agriculturists. France, with a vastly smaller area, has 6,000,000, 5,000,000 of whom are small farmers. England has but 25,000 landholders, and 12 per cent, only of the people till the soil; the rest are engaged in manufacturing and other pursuits. One million are paupers.,

Another Tornado on the Atlantic Coast.

Boston. Mass., Angtut I*. Considerable (lainago was done by tbe storm last night along the New England coast. The yachting fleet at booth Boston was baalv us4d. At Portland;' Me., several yachts and schoon-, jers were tuhk. Other towns along the coast report a long list of disasters to local craft and property.. New York, August 19. Ncwburyport, Mass., experienced a storm this mortting, and it was the severest in teq years. The wind blew a hurricane, Wrecking four yachts, badly wreuchiug steamers and schooners in the harbor, and scattering about twenty small boats. The fruit trees were stripped, and tents on the beach were leveled or blown into the sea. At Newport, between twenty and thirty sail-boats are sunk or damaged. Three yachts h&ye sunk at the wharf, while others dragged anchors, fouled and were damagetL Tho velocity of the wind at Cape May was sixty-four miles. Total rainfall, 8 46-100 inches. Tho crew of a schooner ashore at Atlantic City were taken from the rigging at three this morning by a life-saving crew. The vessel will be a total loss. Norfolk, Va., had the severest rainstorm and tornado ever experienced. Many buildings are unroofed and flooded, trees uprooted, and shipping damaged. Many vessels are dragging anchor. The Boston Steamship Com pany’s warehouses have been Severely damaged. The wharves all along the river front and many of the warehouses have been flooded. The tide was higher than over known, and the vicinity of Water street was only accessible by boats, the sight being unexampled even to the “ oldest inhabitant.” The handsome spire of the Freeman Street Baptist Church was blown down; tbe slating of Christ Episcopal Church and the cornice and steeple ornaments of St. Mary’s Catholic Church were torn oft’, whilst the beautiful grounds of old St. Paul’s arc badly wrecked. Great anxiety prevailed during the prevalence of the storm, and the Mayor ordered out the entire police force and Fire Department. The toss is' estimated from *200,000 to $300,000.

Tho damage to growing crops in counties adjacent to Petersburg, Va., is very great. In Surrey County alone th« damage to corn is estimated at fifty per cent. Tho Ocean Grove camp-grounds, below Long Branch, suffered severely. At Gloucester, Mass., several vessels dragged ashore last night. At other points on the New England coast vessels were beached, but thus far no loss of life is reported. The storm at Morehead City, N. C., was the most violent which ever visited that place. At six a. m. it blew a hurricane from the southwest, a change which saved Beaufort and Morehead from entire destruction. The Atlantic House, the largest hotel in that part of the country, is entirely demolished, not a vestige being left. There were one hundred and fifty guests in it, and there was not a particle of clothing saved by any of them. The people did not begin to leave until the waves wore literally breaking the hotel to pieces—then there was a stampede. The young men saved all tbcladies and children at the danger of their own lives. All baggage, furniture, etc., went to destruction. John Hnghes, son of Major Hughes, of Ncwbern, lost his life in the wreck of the Atlantic House. The front street of Beaufort is strewn with lumber, trunks and goods, ana crowds of people, some barefooted, are trying to identify their property. The Ocean View House, the other hotel at Beaufort, is damaged badly, and many private houses are ruined. There is not a wharf left in Beaufort, and only two or three of hundreds of sail-boats are fit to sail in. Morehead City also suffered terribly. Norfolk, Va., August 19. The gale at Cape Henry was terrific, blowing out some of the glasses of the lighthouse, the first case of the kind on record. The damage to coasting-ves-sels is very heavy, also to crops along the coast. Fortress Monroe, August 19. A tornado raged here yesterday, and the rainfall from seven a. m. until tw* p. m. was five inches. Shade-trees in and about the fort went d#wn by hundreds.

Murdered for Not Being a Democrat.

A Vicksburg dispatch of yesterday says: Vicksburg, August 20.— The Yazoo County difficulty, growing out of Dixon running as independent candidate for Bneriff, has culminated in the fatal shooting of Dixon by James H. Barksdahveandklata fctr Chaaeoiy. Cleekr ...Di son rvaj. shot three times. Another telegram says: Vicksburg, Miss., August 20.—H. M. Dixon, late independent candidate for Sheriff of Yazoo County, was shot and died last evening. The affair is shrouded in mystery. We showed yesterday that Major Barksdale, Chairman of the State Democratic Committee of Mississippi, in company with Congressman Singleton, visited Yazoo County just previous to the culmination of the late difficulty, and ordered the suppression of the independent party organized under the leadership of the late Mr. Dixon. The result of that order was the assembling of the mob and the retirement of Dixon from his candidacy for the Shrievalty under threats of death. After this achievement the local paper announced that peace reigned in Yazoo County, it dia reign there precisely as peace once reigned at Warsaw. The peace enjoyed in Yazoo County was the peace of the shot-gun policy. But Dixon was not oontent with that sort of peace. He had been a bull-doggr of the most approved Democratic type for years, and he didn’t like to take his oyvn physic. Ho declared that an agreement entered into under duress was not binding, and that his agreement to retire from the Shrievalty contest was not considered binding by himself or his friends, and added:

"It was never my intention to abide b; it. and I am now free to say that I am still a candidate and will continue to be. and if elected, which I fully expect to be, I will take charge of the office upon filing my bond and oath of office, or teet my rights under the laws of the land.” i. This resolution of Dixon to resume the contest has cost him his life. He talked glibly forty-eight hours ago about “testing his rights under the laws of the land,” and now he is dead! “ Shot to death by a Democrat under orders of the State Democratic Committee of Mississippi” —this should be the verdict of the Coroner’s jury sitting on the remains of Dixon. “Rights under the laws of the land,’’indeed! There is no sffCh thing as “ the laws of the land” in the State of Mississippi! It may be vary disgraceful to the Republic, the Nation, but it is a fact nevertheless, and the people of the North hfu!"best consider how long the barbarism of the mob can be permitted to reign in Mississippi without communicating its poiflpn to every part of the body politic. Tfce l)emo-

cratic leader* of Mississippi ordered the Democrats of Yazoo County to raise a mob and suppress Dixon as a candidate for Sheriff. The mob assembled with shot-guns and said: “ Dixon, retire from the canvass or we'll shoot you!” Dixon at first refused, but his wife and six children needed him, and, as the mob numbered six hundred and only one man in Ya-' zoo County offered to stand by him, he surrendered. Then Major Barksdale issued a circular ‘declaring that the campaign of 1879 should be conducted as those «of 1875, 1876 and 1877 were conducted,-namely: under the shot-gun policy. In a word, Major Barksdale directed the suppression of such independent parties as should be organized in any of the counties by Mississippi mobs! We wish it to be distinctly understood that Major Barksdale, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, speaking for the Democratic party of Mississippi, decreed the shooting of Dixon simply because he dared to become a candidate for office against the regular Demo-Confederate organization! And wo go further and say that the Democratic leaders of the North arc responsible for the assassination of Dixon! Here is an assassination inspired by the Democratic leaders, not of Yazoo County, but of the StaWof Mississippi. The foul deed is committed in the interest of a “-Solid South”; and the Northern wing of the Democratic party calculates upon holding the South solid by this means —assassination. Abolish terrorism throughout the South and several Southern States arc sure to go Republican. It follows that the Northern wing of the Democratic party consents to murder in order to win a party victory at the polls! How do you like to wear this brand of infamy—how do you like it, respectable democratsP There is a campaign in progress in the State of Ohio. Speakers—Democrats—from all parts of the North will participate in that campaign. What have you got to say, gentlemen, about this fiendish mtirder, instigated by the Democratic Committee of Mississippi! Dare you defend it? Dare you attempt to explain it? You, General Ewing; what do you think of shot-gun campaigning? What do you, once a brave soldier, now acting with that party, think of a Democratic State Committee ordering the assembling of a mob to threaten a candidate for office with death, and finally when he refuses to retire, ordering an assassin to sneak upon his tracks in the dark and shoot him dead! But we care not what Northern Democratic office-seekers and speakers think of the'Mississippi plan. We appeal from them to Democratic citizens, who love their country and hate cowards and assassins, even though Jhey wear the livery of the Democratic party management. They, as we, know that the shot-gun policy must be abolished in Mississippi as well as id Illinois, even though we have to fight for it!— Chicago Tribune, August 21.

The Yazoo Mob Ordered by the Democratic Party.

The more the Yazoo County (Miss.) mob is probed the more odious it becomes. It was hideous enough as a mere exhibition of violence on the part of the Democrats of a county famous for its record of bull-dozing. If it shall appear that the mob was actually instigated by leading Democratic politicians of the State, with a view to keep Mississippi “solid,” it will present an infinitely more hideous aspect. A New York Tribune correspondent charges this to be the fact. He says that Congressman Singleton and Major Barksdale, Chairman of the State Democratic Committee, visited Yazoo County and held a consultation with the local Democratic leaders. He says further: “ They represented to those leaders that it would never do to allow an independent j;arty to be formed in Yazoo; that it must be nipped in the bud; and that Yazoo and all Mississippi must be kept "solid.' Not many days passed before the advice eiven bore fruit in the Ynzoo uprising. On his return to Jackson. Chairman Barksdale issued a circular to the ' Democratic Conservative party’ of Mississippi, the concluding paragraph of which reads as follows: "Believed from the menece of organized opposition. majorities are apt to become indifferent in the maintenance of their own organization, and to divide among.themselves. It should be remembered that the reforms which lis.ve been inaugurated can be perfected and carried out only by a rigid adherence to the discipline and observance of the methods by which the victories of 1875, ’76 and ’77 were won!’ ’’ If this statement is true, and there is every reason to believe and none to doubt it, the mob-spirit was inspired by the ollicial representatives of the Democratic party of Mississippi. The Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, supported by a Democratic Congressman, goes to Yazoo County, holds a consultation with the local Democratic leaders, and ordets for the formation of the mob arc deliberately issued. In a few days the mob assembles and - forces Dixon, the Independent candidate for Sheriff, to retire from the canvass. Then follows the circular to the “ Democratic Con-

servative (?) party of in which Major Barksdale, the official head of the Democratic party, uses such language as would bo appropriate in the address of a General to his troops after a successful engagement. He defines the nature of the campaign to be oarried on—defines it so clearly as to leave no doubt that the shot-gun policy is to be continued. He actually says that “the methods by which the victories of 1875, ’76 and ’77 were won” are to be pursued “ rigidly.” Wo all know what those methods were. They were comprised in a single word “bulldozing” mobs, bangings, shootings, terrorism, intimidation upon the ballotboxes. The* Democratic party of Mississippi throws | off its mask. It declares through the Chairman of its State Committee that “ Yazoo and all Mississippi must be kept solid”! And by the side of Major Barksdaie, supporting and countenancing his threat against the freedom of suffrage, stands a Democratic Congressman! Mr. Singleton is it democratic lawmaker, but he coolly advises the local Democratic leaders of Yazoo County to defy all law, to crush out by mob violence freedom of speech and political action in a county of his district! All this is monstrous, infamous! But there as only one Democratic paper in Mississippi possessing honor and moral courage enough to protest against the infamous proceeding. That paper is the Vicksburg Herald. - It has taken a manly course, but it has also paid the penalty. At a “called’ meeting” of the democratic citizens of Yazoo County j* resolution was adopted wherein the I/eraW was denounced as “an enemy to the community.” 'ipia claimed by Northern Democrats that the Okolona States does not represent Southern sentiment. Dr. MfcKown, of Areola, 111,, with whom tbp Tribune lately had some controversy on the subject of the patriotism and political vir-, tne of the Southern wing of the Democratic party, treated with well-si miniated scorn the claim that the Okolona states represents anybody, put the

yozoo mob followed tie teaching ofthe Okolona State* newspaper, and the citizens of Yazoo County in public* meeting assembled havo repudiate* the teaching of tlio Vicksburg Herald. And, as the mob was inspired by the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, it may be presumed that the repudiation of the tier aid was inspired by the same authority. It may be fairly charged that the Democratic leadership of the country, North as well as South, sympathizes with the acts of the Yazoo Democratic mob. They propose to carry the Presidential election by bulldozing and fraud at the South, and by wholesale bribery and ballot-box stuffing at the North. They have opened tneir preliminary campaign in Ohio on this plan. It is confidently stated that Tilden has engaged to purchase the election of General Ewing. It would seem that a great political party, for the second time in the history of the country, deliberately proposes to buy and force its way to supreme power—to buy and ballot-box-stuff its way at the North, and force and shoot its way at the South! We call the attention of the people of the country to this startling fact. What will free government be worth w'hen its control shall have been secured by such means? We ask the question in all seriousness. How long is the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution likely to stand as a bar against the payment of Rebel pensions, Rebel claims, and the Rebel debt after the Demo-Confed alliance shall have obtained power to reorganize the Supreme Court? Is it likely to be less scrupulous about accomplishing its purposes through the Supreme Court than it is through the agency of mobs at the South?— Chicago Tribune.

More Southern Democratic Sentiment.

The Southern Democracy don’t want and won’t have a Sherman at the head of the United States army after Thurman walks up the White House steps. The General-in-Chief must be a grand old Confederate. There is no leader of the Republican party for w hom Mississippi has less respect and fear than Grant, the Great Unhung. She knocked the spots off his pretensions in 1875; and she will do it again if he dares to become too insolent and oppressive on her hands. They would wipe our State lines, and make Mississippi a part and parcel of Massachusetts! Think of THAT 1 . Bnt swords will gleam, and riannon will growl, and the soil will drink blood, and the sky will redden with tire, for a tnousand years, before they will be permitted to accomplish their object. Remember, boys, that the Fourteenth Unconstitutional Amendment has never been properly ratified. Leaving out the force and fraud by which it was put through in the Southern States, we still have the little fact left that Ohio withdrew her consent to the infamous measure in 1868. That withdrawal is on file in Washington, and it will send the Amendment a kiting to kingdom come when it is used. And it will be used. Mississippi is ns much a foreign country as Spain.— WaskiuQtun (I). V ) Republican. Now you’re about right! Now you’re coming over on the Lord’s side. Yes! “Mississippi is as much a foreign country as Spain;” and your little old ginerai government up there at Washington has no more fight to regulate her affairs than it has to meddle with matters inside the jurisdiction of King Alfonso. Keep teaching this little fact to the Radicals, Mr. Republican, and you will do a world of good in your day and generation. The people are not to be misled. They know that the Democratic party fought for the Union, and they know it is pledged to maintain the results of the war. — Quack Democratic paper. Tush! We know that the Democratic party did not fight for the Union, for the biggest half of it bore muskets on our side, and a thundering majority of the other half staid at home, and voted for Vallandigham, Pendleton, Thurman and other sympathizers with our section. As for our party being pledged to maintain the results of the war—Bosh! Read the Congressional Record of last winter and spring, thou fool! and you wifTfind that it is the purpose of our party to rid the country of “the results of the war.”

When the war was over, we made a m istake that we did not arrest, try and hanir every leader of the Rebellion. L Prolonged and vociferous applause. | —Congressman Uurr>ws at Jtactical State Convention In Madison , If you had—if you had murdered a single one of our warriors or statesmen—it would have been the signal for a fresh uprising from Maryland to Texas—an uprising in which the black flag would have been spread to the approving breeze of Heaven, and the last one of your military and civic chiefs would have been spotted and shot. You fiends have cut a wide swath; but the day of your destiny’s over, and if you escape with your throats unstrangled, you may thank your stars, and the clemency of the very people whom you have so wickedly persecuted and oppressed. A local paper at Springfield, 111., says that the old home of Linkhorn, in that city, has “ become the rendezvous of low and criminal characters.” There is nothing remarkable in this. It always was the rendezvous of low and criminal characters. The paper we speak of urges the people to buy tbe house, repair -it, and “make it the Mecca of freemen for all time.” This suggestion may possibly be complied with if the society of Springfield is rotten and demoralized to its center; but if they are a moral, upright, Christian and civilized people, they will buy the house, bufn it, scatter its ashes to the four winds of heaven, plow up Hie site, sow it with salt, 1 hat green grasses and fair flowers may never sanctify it with their beauty, and erect a black monument to mark the spot as one accursed forever.— Okolona Stales.

A German paper publishes a column of Roman Catholic statistics for the world. The grand total is 216,000,000, distributed among the continents as follows: Europe, 153,444,000; America. 51,400,000; A5ia,'9,167,000; Africa, 1,695,000; Australia, 650,000. Of the countries, France leads with a population of 36,405,000. Austria-Hungary, comes next, 28,357,000; Italy third, with 27,942,000; Spain fourth, with 16,912,000, and Germapy fifth, vyilh 15,950,000. The United States is credited with 8,000,000 ( about 2,000,000 more than is claimed by American Catholics. Brazil has 10,800,000, British America 2,100,000. Professor Schem, of this country, gives the total of Catholic population at 209,000,000, some 7tOO<J,OOO less than the German statistician. Ho gives the total Protestant population at 113,700,000, and that of the Eastern chtirches at 88,000,000. From this it appears that the Roman Catholics still outnumber all other Christians combined. A little kerosene added to stovepolish improves the luster. Apply while the iron is

INCIDENTs AND ACCIDENTS.

—A small boy recently picked up a Searl on the Little Miami River, near larysville, Ohio. It was -sent to New York and sold for SBSO, that price having been set upon it by a large jewelry house. —A tramp scared Van Buren, Ark., out of its senses recently, by simulating yellow-fever. He pawned his valise for whisky, got drunk and was jailed, when he “ took siok.” He was turned out like a flash of greased lightning. —A little boy in Troy, N. Y., during a storm the other Sunday, was playing in the doorway with his kitten. He put it down for a moment, and while he was walking toward an adjoining room a stroke of lightning killed the animal. —W. A. Zimmer and y ife, of Gloversville, N. Y., rode out to the county house near that village. Mrs. Zimmer remained in the carriage 'while her husband went into the house. A monkey soon after took ,his place beside her, jabbering like a book-peddler. The lady attempted’to drive the animal oil', but accidentally struck thq horse, which ran away. The monkey clung tenaciously to the lady’s person until the team was stopped, biting at her arms and face. Mrs. Zimmer was taken home, and died in a few hours of nervous prostration. —A farmer found a board placed so as to cover an opening in a hillside at Raynham, Mass. Removing the board and crawling through the aperture, he entered an underground room, which was neatly boarded on all sides, and contained all the apparatus necessary for making counterfeit coin. The spot was a secluded one in the woods, remote from roads and pathways, arid the secret would not have been discovered if the wind had not blown a oovering of leaves from the board. The room proved to be the workshop of several young men of good reputation, who had never been accused of counterfeiting; yet they had used it for years. —A despairing tramp has written on a wooden shed at Dorsey’s Cut, on the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, tlie following bitter words in a fair, commercial nand: “Bound for Virginia in search of employment. Lodged here 'One night, and breakfasted on dandelion salad and peas- a delightful dish. The polite attention of the waiters at this establishment I cannot too highly commend to my followers. Edward H. Wilkins, of Bristol, England.” The sarcasm of this can be appreciated when it is remembered that the dandelions and peas had to be plucked from a neighboring field, and that nobody lives within half a mile of the station. —A singular incident occurred at the residence corner of Washington and Adams streets. A white servant of the family had a little boy who was very fond of a mocking-bird which used, to sing near a window of the residence. One day the bird flew in; parties tried to catch it, but it escaped through the window. The child would often ask to be permitted to go into this room to hear the bird sing. A short time ago the child fell sick and about the same time the bird ceased to sing. Yesterday the child died, and when the undertaker visited the room where its body Jay, the bird flew in at the window, and, after making a circle or two, dropped dead upon the floor.— Jacksonville ( Fia. 1 Union. —A special from Lin wood, Md. r where a camp-meeting of the Church of God was in progress, says a startling scene was witnessed at the altar the other morning. The members were holding the regular morning prayer and praise-meeting, and Hanson renn, of Winfield, Carroll County, aged seventy-one years, among others, gave in a very warm and feeling Christian experience, and had just taken his seat when Elder Sigler arose and asked him if he did not now regret his not having engaged sooner in the cause of the Lora, he having been converted only six years ago, to which he replied, with great emphasis and feeling, “ I do,” and as he uttered the last word he fell over, but was caught by the brethren and carried to a tent close at,hand, where he immediately expired.

The Fortune-Bay Claim.

Washington. August 20. The claim for $103,000 damages on account of illegal with American fishermen at Fortune Bay, which has been presented to the British Government, is not a claim for the restoration of that or any other part of the Halifax award upon the ground of non-fulfillment of conditions. The present claim is for specific grievances, and is to be considered without reference to the amount of the Halifax award, with which it has nothing to do. Mr. Welsh was instructed to base the claim for $103,000 upon the actual loss and damage sustained by American fishermen in consequence of the violent invasion of their treaty rights at Fortune Bay, and to obtain some security against the recurrence of similar offenses in the future. Advices received by the State Department from tty) North American coast represcnt that, although no actual violence has occurred this year, our fishermen are deterred by apprehensions of violence from approaching the shore and carrying on their busi* ness with the freedom guaranteed to them by treaty, and that wo are therefore deriving no benefit from our agreement with the British Government, and getting no return for our money. The state of feeling which prevails between our north coast fishermen and British American fishermen, who consider themselves justified in using force' to carry out local prohibitory laws, is regarded by our Gbvernment as extremely dangerous, and liable at any moment to lead to blood-., shed and serious international misunderstanding, and it is therefore very anxious that some steps shall be taken by the British Government to do away with the local prohibitory layvs of the Canadian Provinces, which now practically override and nullify the treaty provisions of a far higher authority. -T - 0 1 —X' ‘ jSgjy'Announecment is made that all soldiers who, during tbe late War of the Rebellion in this country, were prisoners of war in ftny Confederate prison can obtain - important information of interest" to themselves by reporting their postoffice address, com* pany, regiment, date of capture and release to the executive officer of the Andersonville Survivors’ Association, Room 7, No. 120 East Kandolph’street, Chicago, 111. The Cleveland Herald suggests that if Christians would charter it steamboat for a Sunday excursion, and then suddenly spring preaching on the crowd, they would reach a class of, people wiio never go to church, and who would be obliged to hear the gospel or j unip overboard-