Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 January 1885 — Page 10

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CHAPTER/TIL THE MISSING LINK.

IT had been easy for Helen Elwood to find Ruth Warneford, for, happily, the people with

whom

George Warneford had once

lodged were still in the same bouse, and knew whitlior the child had been taken. Also, the position of the place suited them better than any other could have done, for they were near the docks, and it was at the docks —either of London or Liverpool—that they hoped to find some clue to the men of whom they were in search. Where Mercantile Jack mostly finds his way, there Ben Croil told them they would some day or other light on one of the mutineers of the "Lucy Derrick." "Granted," he said, "that they got safe ashore —which isn't likely for a set of drunken swabs—they would make for the diggins and, after a spell there, get back one by one to the port of Melbourne, and. so on board again, make their way to London. It was a Blender chance, but it was their only one and so old Ben.* went down regularly every day, and hung about, boarding the ships as they came in, ana stepping forward for a look but he never found any of the "Lucy Derrick" men. When Ben was not hanging round the St. Katherine, the Victoria, or the London docks, he was to be met with in the neighborhood of Limestone, Stepney, or Poplar, and, in the evening, he would be seen as far afield as Ratcliff highway, always going round with his cake of tobacco in one hand, and his knife in the other, whittling away, and lookabout with his mild blue eyes, to see how they get along on board without him. Oh board the ships he always asked after a roll of names, which he carried in his pocket, but knew by heart. The list ended with the name of Boston Tom. Some of the men were known, but they had not been seen or heard of for two years but no one knew anything of Boston Tom.

One day, as Ben was cheapening a bandana in the High street of Whitechapel—the part of Loudon where that costly article can be most readily obtained—there passed him a long, lean and slouching lad of sixteen. The boy was going slowly, with eyes bent on the ground. Ben dropped the bandana, and and seized Rupert, who generally accompanied trim in these excursions, by the arm. "Now," he said, "if you want to do a gdod turn for Miss Warneford, you've got a chance. Step behind, and follow me. I know that boy and he won't, likely, tell me what I want. If I leave him, you follow him quietly. Find out where he goes, and where he livea Don't let him out of your sight for a moment and if it's a week, you go after him, and you stay with him." "Ay, ay," said the mercantile-marine aspirant "I understand." "Got any money?" asked Ben.' "How should I have any?" returned Rupert the penniless. "Did I ever have a shilling in my whole life?" "Five shillings will do," meditated the the sailor. "There would be a suspicion if it was more. You follow him up, and stand drinks to the extent of that five shillings and find out somehow—without asking, you know —where Boston Tom may be. 'Boston Tom,' mind—that's the name you've got to stick to. That's the important thing. Now drop behind, and watch."

The old man hurried after the youth, who was now a dozen yards ahead, and catching up with him, put his hand upon his arm, holding it tight. "Ship-boy of the 'Lucy Derrick,' Dan'l Eizen. I've lighted on you at last."

The lad turned ashy pale, and tried to drag his arm away. "You—Mr. Croll! Oh, Lord!"' "Ay, my lad, and glad to set eyes upon you again. No, Dan'l Mizen, you dont get aWy from me. See that bobby over the way? I've only got to call him and it's murder on the .high seas." "Oh, don't, Mr. Croil 1" he whispered "don't talk in that awful way. I was down below all the time, I was and I give you information, I did." "You did and what I always says to myself is this: 'Young Dan'l,' says I, 'give that information, and it comes in handy. When the trial comes on, if I'm there I shall up and let 'em know that the information was given, nnH how handy it come in.' Your neck's safe my lad, if I'm there. If not, why, then, o' course, you'll have to swing with the rest." "The rest!" echoed Mr. Mizen, with a half laugh. "There ain't any rest." "What! All gone but you?" "All gone but me and Boet—and one other of the crew." "Swear to that, boy and if you tell me lies, I'll rope's-end you till you'll wish you'd never been aboard any ship in all your life, that blue you'll be all over."

The boy, whose face showed him to be what he really was—the most arrant cur and coward in existence—burst out blusterously, "Rope's-end me, will you, Mr. Croil? Wait till you try that game on." "Ay, will II 'And I'll begin on the spot, if you jaw me. Why you dirty, measly There, go on with your story! All the pirates is drowned, then? Pity, tool" "I'll tell you all the truth, Mr. Croil—s'help me, I will. We lost in the fight—that is, they pirates and mutineers lost—eight men in all out of five-and-twenty that left seventeen, and six of them were wounded that left eleven. Well, they used me orful, they did. All your latherins, Mr. Croil, was pancakes and plum-duff compared to the latherins I got all round from them devilish murderers. Things went bad with the navigation too, and they couldn't keep her no course nohow." "Lubbefs all!" said Ben. "Go on, my boy steer as truthful as you know." "Then we gtot weather and then, you see, we had to take to the boats. There was two boats, but one stove in then there was only one left. We hadn't time for any provisions and after the fifth day they began to eat each other. Gawspel truth, Mr. Croil!" "Sarved them right! Worse than being hanged. But I'd rather ha' hanged them." "Last, there was only left, four of us." "One of them four was Boston Tom?" said Ben. The boy hesitated. "Well, one was—I remember now—one was but he was nearly dead when we were picked up and he was one of them that died two days afterwards." "That's a lie," thought Ben, but he said nothing. "So now, only two are left?" He asked, after a pause. "Who may the other w.

"He was Maltese Dick, Mr. Croil," the boy replied, very quickly. "Him with the black haii- and the arm tatooed all over and where he's gone, I don't know, and can't tell you." "Ay, ay! Aud where do you live now. you Mizen boy?" "I've left the sea-faring trade, sir. I'm just come up to London to look round like got no home to go to yet."

There was a malicious twinkle in the young man's eye as he spoke. Ben looked up quickly—he still held him by the arm—a&d watched him. "Then you don't live anywhere handy about here?" "Laws, no, Mr. Croil! Certainly not not by no means. Whatever made you go for to think that I would live about here?"

They passed, at that moment, a low sort of lodging-house and sailors' tavern, with a bill in the window^ "Lodgings for single men and mariners."

Unless Ben Croil was grievously deceived, the lady at the door of this hostelry made a sign of recognition as the lpd passed. "So," Ben thought, "that's the crib, and that's wheraBoston Tom is to be beard of." "Well, Dan'l Mizen," he said aloud, "you'll find me matt days down at the docks. You mind, come to see me and no harm shall happen to youi* you forget to come, and as sun as my namA Ben Croil, youll swing for your shape of the 'Lucy Derrick' mutiny. Swing is the word* Dan'l Mizen."

He mad« mental note of Hie house and number, and turned back. Mr. Mizen looked after him, with countenance full of perplexity and dismay and, after first scratching his troubled head, and then shaking it ruefully, pursued his own way in the opposite direction, with a dejected, not to say a hangdog, expression in his very shoes. Presently there passed him a lad of about his own age, dressed in blue flannel, and looking—although the flannel was shabby —a gentleman. He had long legs and a springy walk. As he went along—sometimes a little ahead and sometimes a little behind Mr. Mizen—he stopped occasionally and looked about him, as if in search of something. Mr. Daniel Mizen contemplated this waif—a gift of Providence, evidently fallen quite into his hands—for a quarter of an hour or so and then, Mr. Croil being well out of sight, he shouldered up to the stranger, and jerked out, looking the other way: "Lost your bearin', mate?" "That is it," replied the stranger? "lost my bearin'. I was told by a party in the country that I was to come to a house in the Whitechapel Rood—but I've forgotten the number —where they'd take me in and do for me, and find me a ship." "That's lucky, now!" said Mr. Mizen. "Why, I'll take you to the very place, and it's close by. You come along o' me."

Daniel Mizen led the way. Oddly enough, his steps took him to exactly the very house where Ben Croil had noticed the lady at the door, and had remarked besides that she seemed to know his young companion. It was, indeed, the truth that the ex-ship-boy lived in this place of resort How he lived, on what honest industry, or by the exercise of what native wit, was not immediately apparent.

He conducted Rupert to the door, and introduced him to the landlady—a woman with a red face, and dressed in a cotton gown, looped up so as to show a rich amplitude of petticoat underneath. She stood, with arms akimbo, contemplating human nature as it passed with the eyes of hungry defiance. Men and women walked hlong, children ran by, but they were not her prey. Of all kinds and conditions of men, Mother Flanagan—not an Irishwoman by birth, although of illustrious Irish descent—loved a sailor, and especially him of the mercantile marine. She extended her affection beyond the narrow limits of party and country, embracing in one comprehensive sweep, and gathering to her breast, Englishman, American, Negro, Lascar, Malay, Greek, German or Norwegian. All alike were dear to her, and she was dear to them—in the long run, very dear. She housed her favorites she provided them with food, society, amusements, and drink and when they left her hospitable house, it was, the censorious said, with empty pockets, and with "coppers" so hot that it took a week of sea-breezes and compulsory temperance to cool them. "Yes, I can take him," said Mrs. Flanagan, "if the young gentleman, will pay a deposit" ri* "I've got five shilling," said Rupert. "Hand it over," sa£d Mrs. Flanagan. "Mrs. Flanagan," called a voice from the inside room, "send that boy in here, five shillings and all."

The voice was hoarse and strained. It was followed by a chest cough which lasted long enough to tear the patient to pieces, and also was followed—a thing which was quite natural in that horrible den—by a volley of oaths.

Iiupert Lemire thought himself in very queer company, but he reflected that they would not probably murder him for the sake of five shillings, and he obeyed the invitation to enter the house. By the fire, in a low room, reeking with tobacco, there sat in an armchair a man of singular appearance. He was decorated with a scar on the right side of his mouth, which made it look as if it had been twisted up on that side. He had bright eyes, very close together, and a long, receding forehead his face was smooth and hairless, and Iiis cheeks were hollow and sunken. His empty pipe lay beside him on the table, whioh was also graced by a half-emptied glass of rum and water. "Come in, youngster. What's your name? Where do you hail from? What do you want? Now, then!"

Rupert thought of the initiate on his handkerchief. vit "My name is Robert Lttftiley," he'replied, with a little hesitation, taking the name which belonged to the family butcher—an importunate person, who was always bringing sorrow upon the household by demanding payment. "I come from—from Manchester, and I want to go to sea." "How much money have you got?" f? "Five shilling." avisis "Give it to me to keep for you. I live here. This house belongs to me, not to Mrs. Flanagan. I'll take care of your money for you. I hope it's honestly come by. We're very particular in this house, ain't us, Dan'l Mizen?"

Daniel made no reply. "And if we can't get you a ship all at a day's notice, young shaver, I suppose you could find some more money by writing for it, couldn't you? Guess you'd better come to me for advice. Five shillings, you see, it wont go fur. Two days or thereabouts, if drink. To be sure, there's the 'longshore clothes you can make a good swap out of them, and nick a trifle into the bargain."

He had another fit of coughing, followed by another volley of oaths. Then he proposed a game of cards, and they sat down to a friendly hand of all-fours, in which Mr. Mizen took a hand. Rupert was not astonished when, after half an hour or so, he was informed by the man with the cough that he had kwtrall his money,

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'"Mve shillings," said the host, jingling the two half-crows. "It's a trifle but there, it's something to pass the time. Young feller, you've cleaned yourself out pretty sharp, you have. You'd better write that letter for more money at once: nothing like coming to the point. You, Dan'l Mizen, go and fetch the ink and some paper. S'poee you've got a father?" "Yes."

a mother? Yes? That's good. I like

a mother. We'll pitch it strong. You just write what I tell you, and nothin' else." The paper having been brought, Mr. Pringle —for this, Rupert had learned in the course of the game, was the gentleman's nameproceeded to dictate: 'My beloved parents.' Got that down? 'Beloved and justly offended.' No easy a bit. Let me think. Now, then, 'My beloved parents, I made my way up to London after leaving home, and arrived here yesterday. I am deeply sorry for the trouble that 1 have caused you in running away, which I intended for to go to sea, but am now fully persuaded of the folly of my oonduct, and will go back home, to do what you please. I am staying with truly Christian people, and have spent my all. If it were not for their charity, I should now be starving. I owe them two pounds already, and shall want three more to get my clothes out of pawn, which I am in rags, and to get home again— third class Parliamentary—which is better than I deserve. So please send me a postoffice order for five pounds, payable to Thomas Pringle, at the Whitechapel Post Office, the game to be called for. Your affectionate son, Robert Lumlsy.'"

This was Mr. Pringle's dictation. The following, however, Is what Rupert LemJi* really wrote: "DEAR OLD BEN: I'm in the queerest crib. They've robbed me of my five shillings, and a fellow here thinks I'm writing for five pounds more to my parents in Manchester. What a game! My address is 1944A, High street, Whitechapel, and my name is Robert Lumley, but you must not write to ma The name of the proprietor of the crib is Thomas Pringle.

He is a cut-throat-looking villain, with a scar on his right lip, and two eyes close together. If he had any hair on his face he would be like a wolf. I like the fun. "Yours ever, R. L." "Is it all wrote?" asked Mr. Pringle. "Yes," said Rupert, quickly folding and placing the letter in an envelope, the only one on the table. s.,: "Let me look at it." "Can't, now it's folded and gummed up give me a penny for a stamp. I say, Mr. Pringle, what fun it 1st What shall we do with the five pounds?" ""V^e'll have a spree, my boy, you and me together, in this blessed little crib. Now go and post your letter, and come back when it's done. You can't get into no mischief, b»' cause you've got no momey."

That was true but Er. Mizen nevertheless seemed to think it desirable to attend him unobtrusively to the postoffice, and to escort him, after the letter was duly posted back to No. 1344A. There they found some sort of a meal in active progress, and two or three other guests, although the appearance of the food did not, as in some circles, cause the disappearance of tobacco. On the contrary, those who had fed, or who were about to feed, went on smoking those who were feeding kept their pipes by them, and between helpings attended to the preservation of the spark The cloth removed, so to speak, every man ordered what liked him best, and the evening sports set in with the usual severity. Other guests arriving, of both sexes, the tables were cleared away, and the dancing began.

Rupert sat quietly enough, watching and listening, until the fiddle began. Presently his legs began to twitch. An elephantine performer was occupying the floor with a step made up of the cobbler's dance, and the sailor's hornpipe. Rupert stepped up to him.

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"Let ine show you hoW to dance," he said, smiling superior. He did show them how to dance a hornpipe then he showed them the sword-dance with the poker and the tongues then he executed a figure of all his own invention, in which he lifted his legs over the head of every lady and gentleman present, to their unmixed joy and rapture and then, snatching the fiddle from the hands of the inebriate musician, he threw himself into his place, and played a country dance for them till they danced as if they had been the rats of the Pied Piper himself.

Never before had Mrs. frlanagan witnessed such dancing, such excitement, and such thirst.

Said Mr. Pringle to the worthy landlady, upon retiring to rest: "The' boy's worth a mint of money. We'll keep him. When he gets an answer to his letter, I'll fix him vp right away. There sha'n't be such a house as this not this side of Lime'us. There, old gall11

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Mr. Bites Goes Rabbit Hunting. [Harper's Bazar.]

Mr. Bites makes up his mind after a days* ill luck not to return empty handed, and meeting a native buys him out at the modest

price of 75 cents a pair.

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On the small boy's calling Mr. Bites' attention to the fact that the rabbits are snared, and that Mr. B.'s friends will examine his game to find shot holes, Mr. B. easily overcomos the difficulty, and returns home in triumph.

Meeting the Crisis^ [Rockland Courier-Gazette.]

"Bridget," remarked a Rockland man to the hired girl, "as the country, owing to change of administration, is a^out entering upon a period of grave uncertainty in busi ness circles, I must request you to cease re* galing your callers irom my private box of cigars."

She gave him notice then and there.

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THE SCHOOLS

Normal, Polytechnic, Commercial City and High Schools Besume— What the Normal Trustee*

Will Ask of the egislatare

Commercial College.

The Commercial opened yesterday with a good attendance. W. G. Isbfcll is able to be oat of bed. He expects to be down town in a week or ten days.

The teaching force at the Commercial now consists of: W. H. Whigan, A. A. Brewer, W. P. Newlin, M. C. Miller, Miss Etta Cunningham and Mies Lola Morrill

Polytechnic.

The Rose Polytechnic opened for the winter term yesterday afternoon. All of the old students are back. Mr. Windsor E* White, of Cleveland, a son of White, otf8ewin£ machine fame, has entered the Fresbman class. All ot the professors are here except Blake, who is detained in Massachusetts by the death of his father.

What They Will Ask For.

It is well known that the last Legislature failed to make the necessary special appropriation for the State Normal. In consequence of this the funds will run two or time thousand dollars short this year. It has been necessary all along to borrow money from the tuition fund, for the special purposes which the Legislature tailed tn provide for. •The board of trustees will meet at Indianapolis in about ten days and orgaoize their campaign. They will ask the Legislature to increase the annual tuition fund from $20,000 to $25,000. They will ask the following appropriations: For current expenses .$5,000 00 alsoFor deficiency in incidental fund ... 1,940 61 For library 2,000 00 For apparatus 1,000 00

A large number of members of the Legislature have already been seen and the Board anticipates little trouble in getting their wishes fulfilled.

State Normal School.

The State Normal opened yesterday with a good attendance. Prof, woods and Prof. Lucy Salmon visited the New Orleans Exposition during vacation.

Ten feet of the Normal School smoke stack was blown off about a week ago%

Notes.

Miss Elizabeth Solomon, of the Sixth District, is ill and Miss Lottie Longman is supplying for her.

Mrs. Briscoe, of the. Seventh District, is sick. The city school board meets next Tuesday evenin*

CORRUPTION IN NEW YORK.

Judge Cowing Points Out the Duty of the Grand Jury in Plain Language. NBW YORK, Jan. 8.—Judge Cowing, in charging the grand jury to-day in the court of General Sessions, said: "I have been informed that your predecessors had begun an investigation in regard to corruption in public life, which has not been finished,.and that it is your duty to com* plete it. It any official, be he high or low, has prostituted his office, he deserves to be brought before this bar. It is an easy matter to grab the street urchin, but his offense is light compared to that ot a public official who is a servant ef the people of this city, aud not their master, when her commits a breach of his trust. I hope the rnmors ot corruption are untrue, but any official has been bribed, if it is as common as some people think in certain localities ^franchises and offices have been put up and sold, then an ex. ample should be made. You are entitled to subpoena anybody and everybody in these matters such witnesses will have to testify, and cannot refuse on the groung of incriminating themselves. It is jour duty to investigate these rumors, which I, for one of the citizens of this grekt city, hope arc unfounded. You are not to indict on mere rumor, but on legal evidence."

THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING.

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A Petition For An Increase of the propriation. A petition has been prepared by Capt. A. B. Fitch, superintendent of the Government building at this point, asking for an appropriation beyond the original $150,000 proposed for the purpose. Of the original estimate ot the cost $75,000 has already been appropriated and it has been expected that the remaining $75,* 000 would be appropriated at this session. Should the building be completed in accordance \»ith the present plan, which was approved by the secretaries ot the treasury and interior and the postmaster general, it would of necessity be largely composed of wood where it ought to be of stone, in order to be fire proof, and would lack such adornment as the size and the dignity of the building would seem to demsnd. The petition also institutes a comparison between Terre Haute and other cities in point of population, which have had larger amounts appropriated for buildings. The petitien is in duplicate form, one copy to be sent to Senator Voorhees and the other to Congressman Lamb. It has been numerously signed.

POLICE PARAGRAPHS.

Scraps of News Picked Up Around Police HeadquartersChief of Polioe Yandever has instructed his men as follows:

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ask permission of a saloon-keeper to take a man from his saloon. Tou will then give him the impression that his consent in such cases is needed."

The patrol wagon was called yesterday to 118 north Third street where Henry Blubaker, a young man as deal as a post, was having a family jar with his wife. No arrests were made.

Officer Carey went off duty at 10:80 last night on account of sickness and Officer Branch went off duty on account of the sickness of a ehild.

THAT SHOOTING.

Theiad Boy Who Shot His Father Placed in Jail-

AMI Bamwlay's Dally.

Further particulars of the Ira Smith shooting in the lower part of this county are now at band.

On New Year's 'Eve at 1 o'clock young Clinton Smith, in company with his cousin. Nelson Smith,left the latter's home (Clinton's nnole's) and started for Clinton's father's house, from which place a few daya before he had lett on acoount of some trouble with bis father, Ira Smith. Clinton took with him a doable-barreled shot gun. When they reached their destination there were a home the father, his wife Elizabeth, and two daughters, Nancy and Mahala. Clinton asked for his clothing. His fatber told him the Sheriff bad come and taken the a away. A few hot words passed and the young man raised bis gun and shot bis fatber, the shot taking effect in the left luog and blowing the top of it off. When the shooting occurred they were six feet apart. The young man then left.

The statement that he was arrested by a Prairieton constable was untrue. Yesterday afternoon Deputv Sheriff Grimmineer arrested young Smith at l'rairieton and brought bim to town last night and lodged bim in jail. He is 18 years old, is just sporting his first crop oi hairs on bis upper lip, and wears his hair long like Dr. Carver's cow-bo, who were here. He is tall. The youm man takes things pretty eooUy and does not seem to be greatly concerned over the condition of his parent, who, it is said, cannot survive the wound intlioied by his son.

A MEAN TRICK/

The Bronnenbergs, Miser Like, Refusing to Pay the Reward They Offered. M. A. Murphy, of the Express, was summoned this week to Anderson, lnd., to appear as a witness in the suit of Marshal Coburn against the old miser, Bronnenberg, who refuses to pay the reward he offered for the conviction of the murderer of bis sister, Mrs. Nelson Mr. Murphy testified to a coaversation he heard between the Marshal andBron nenberg about the matter. The Bronnenbergs are perhaps the meanest and miserliest set of old frauds that ever lived in the state, and a popular subscription fund ought to be started to send old Bronnenberg to JeffersonviUe, where he can work in a striped suit alongside Perry Manis. There is no doubt at all that of the two Manis is much the better man, barting, of oourse, the faot that he is a murderer.

TRAIN ROBBERS.

This Tine In Maryland, My Maryland. WILMINGTON, Del., Jan. 8.—"Two men, unknown, boarded the Oxford accommodation train on the Baltimore Cen tral railroad last night. The robbers entered the traia at the rear and passed through the last car without molesting the passengers. They passed into the forward oar and pointing a revolver at the head of each passenger in turn and demanded "your money or life." When the brakeman entered the car and was about to pull the bell rope, a revolver was pointed at his breast ana he was told "if you move an inch I'll blow your heart out." Meanwhile the other passengers concealed their watches and other valubles in their boots and were beginning to recover from their demoralization. The robbers noticed this and suddenly left the car and jumped from the train while it was going at full speed.

A Physician'* Strange Request. Dr. James H. Harris, who resides and had his office in the Iron Block, died there very suddenly at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. He was afflicted with heart disease, and, anticipating the fate thateventualy hefellhim, he had expressly stipulated in his will that there should be no funeral services over his remains and that his body should be given over to a medical college for a subject. He bad also made the same request of his wife, and, in striot accordance with his wishes, the body will be sent to the college this morning, and no services held. He leaves a widow and two children.—[Indianap olis Sentinel.

Hurrah For Hulman!

Yesterday Mr. H. Hulman did a creditable act characteristic of him. A %ell known dealer feeling that he ought collect a claim ot about $1,000 against a firm, gave them notice that unless paid yesterday be would sue to protect himself. They paid f300, but couldn't raise the rest. When Mr. Hulman, also a creditor, heard of the circumstances, he loaned the balance to help them out. They area most worthy firm and this timely assistance will tide them over all right.

Smith & Rader's Assignment. Smith 4k Rader, shoe dealers of south Fourth, have made an assignment to Frank A. Horner, an attorney of Clay City. Their liabilities amount to between $10,000 and $12,090, mostly in Cincinnati and the east.

Ihey had two houses* one here and one at Clay City.

Not a child at the Bose Orphan Home is,sick. Many of the children had never seen a Christmas tree or received a pres. ent till last week and their delight was unbounded. Supt. Alden says in all his experienoe he never saw euch exhibitions of joy. Hext Christmas, of course, will not be such a gorgeous novelty to the children, except to the new arrivals, but it is safe to say the day will never fail ot joyful celebration by the children at the Home.

Struck With Paralysis.

Mr. James Simons, father-in-law oi Joseph Fisher, was struck with paralysis on his left side on Wednesday evening and is still afflicted. He is 03 years old is a member of the Order of Chosen Friends.

The Normal Kindergarten opened yesterday with a good attend

ANEW CI.

Asbnry E. Church Decides to Build a New Edifice at a Cost

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$50,000.

A Building Committee Appointed Last Hight—The Present Church Property to be Sold.

The regular quarterly conference of Asbnry M. E. church convened last evening. The project for building a new church edifice was acted upon and adopted. The following ouilding committee was appointed: EM Walmsley, Ben Blaochard, Geo W Faris, Jno W Roberts and Will O Patton. This committee will go to Danville, Ills., next Monday to look at some work there and ac some plans. It is expected to begin work on next April 1st, and it is hoped to have it completed this year. The estimated cost of church, phrsonage and church organ, is $50,600. The property they now occupy will be said and the funds put in the new cburcb. It is said to be very valuable property. The com* mittee has not definitely settled upon the new location. Several are in view. It is generally thought that the southeast corner of Sixth and Swan will be the site chosen.

THE NEW CEMETERY.

Louis Mc-Pherson the First Purchaser of a Lot in It—Report of the Commissioners-

In tbelr report to the city council the cemetery commissioners say: "Tbe work tor the quarter haft been principally preparing tbe grounds for interments, in tbe way of gravelling tbe avenues, building a front fence in tbe place or the bedge, which bas been removed, laying drain tile and catch basins in the avenues, and seeding down the lots in grass. Little can be done during the coming quarter except to repair fences and perhaps plant out trees and trim out the underbrusb. This will only require the services of the .superintendent and one or two assistants. The grading and marking off ia lots of four sections is complete and lots in these are ready for aale and occupancy

The first sale ot a lot in the new cemetery was maue to Louis McPberson. Tbe other purchasers of lots up to tbe present are: J. W. Cruft^ James Coordees, B. W. Thompson, James R. Duncan, Joshua Glover, Alex. Aikens. Ira C. Smith and Joseph S. Glover.

The New Orleans Exposition. NEW OftLBANs, Jan. 6.—Director General Burke states that 2,000 men were at work day and night in the rain and mud during last month at the Exposition grounds. Our laborers fiave been paid up to last week's rolls and a large part of these rolls have been paid, the balance being paid to-day. Beginning with the first of January all re* ceipts are applied to operatirg expenses which have been reduced to low figures. The surplus is applied to back indebtedness. The receipts are ample for our rent expenses even durine tbe bad weather. With fair weather tbe revenues will be ten times tbe amount of expenses. When asked if the Exposition management would apply to ongress, Director General Bnrke said the board expressed no such intention. The board will apply to our own people to increase their subscriptions and pay tbe amounts due and tbat the Exposition he thinks will be perfectly able to carry itsalf without aid Jrom tne government.

CONGRESS.

A Dull Day in Both Houees. After several minor bills were introduced Ingalls proposed that the committee be discharged from further consideration of his bill to amend *he arrears of pension act. It weut over until Monday and th the Senate considered the Oregon Central land forfeiture bill.

In the House a joint resi lution op. proprjatiug $50,000 for tbe support, of destitute Indians in Montana passed and then this House went into committee of the whole on the pension appropriation bill.

Reduced tirain Rates.

DUBUQUE, IA., Jan. 6.—The Illinois Central road announced yesterday that hereafter rates on grain from Dubuque to Chicago would be reduced from one to three cents tbe hundred weight. Tbe rate on oats from Dubuque to New Orleans has been reduced to 33 cents and from points between Fort Dodge and Lemars to New Orleans to 45 cents with the privilege of stopping here to be sacked* free. Grain operators in this city feel that injustice bas been done them in tbe fact that while the reduction has been made on rates on grain from all points west of here to Chicago, no reduction bas been made on grain shipped from those points to this city.

The Illinois Legislature.

CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—The Daily Hews prints a Springfield, Ills., special which intimates that Senator Bager, classed as a Republican, will act with tbe Democrats and that be aims at tbe presidency of tbe senate, and the statement is also made that General Logan bas been asked to go to Springfield and that he will reach there next Thursday.

Too Much Smoke.

LITTLK BOCK, Ark., January 6.—-An old German at Texarkana, while drunk, tried Sunday night to enter his lodgings, and finding tbe door locked, tred to crawl in the iue which was smaller a few feet at the bottom than at tbe top, and he stuck fast, head downwards. There waa a small fire in the hearth and he was smoked to death before any one found him.

Aged Irish Woman Burned to Death. MARSHALL, Jan. 6.—The body of an old Irish woman, named Murphy, was found in her house, laat evening, horribly burned, She lived all alone. It io not known whether her clothes caught Are by accident or she had been murdered for what little money she was known to have.

Clerical Contest.

XOOIUEFIKLD, W. Va., Jan 6.'—The trouble between the Loeb and Wilson factions has ended by the parties agreeing to submit to Judge Armstrong the question whioh is tha legally elected olerk.