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TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.
COUNCIL BLUFFS DELUGED
SEETHING TORRENTS RUSHING
THROUGH THE STREETS.
Many Hairbreadth Escape* from
Drowning—The Water Waist Deep in
Parts Far Distant from the River Bed
—Merchants Cut Oil' Homes
—The City Coder a Pall.
Council Bluffs, lowa, June 2.—At
0 o’clock las’ evening one of the worst
'""Vain storms that ever visited this vicinity
set in, and for four hours it poured in tor
rents. Indian Creek, which runs through
the heart of the city, overflowed and the
damage is roughly estimated at $200,000.
Seven iron bridges and two stone culverts
belonging to the city were swept away, as
were also several dwellings and barns.
All the business houses on Main street
and Broadway were flooded. Several
liies tire reported lost. The water in the
streets, one block from the creek, was
waist deep, with a swift current.
Cries for help could lie heard in every di
rection, but the swiftness of the current
rendered assistance impossible. At 12:05
o’clock it was still raining in torrents.
The flood rose so quickly that many busi
ness men found it impossible to reach
their wives and children, and a number
narrowly escaped death from drowning
while endeavoring to get to their homes.
The gloom and mourning in the city is
universal.
The .Vonparito will say in its issue this
morning: "A most frightful calamitv oc
curred last evening after six o’clock. It
had been threatening rain during the
entire day, occasional showers,
but when evening came it seemed as
though the very heavens fell. Dark por
tenllous clouds swept around to the east
ward and charged their torrents into the
head watersof Indian creek, and the flood,
w ith constantly increasing volume, pour
ed through Council Bluffs, sweeping
away bridges and culverts from one end
of the stream to the other. Many build
ings were swept away. All that part of
the city lying between the bluffs and
Broadway, on the north, was inundated
by the rushing and boiling waters.
The sight was awful to behold.
At midnight a general gloom spread
over the city, which was increased by
the continuance of the rain, although
the creek seemed to have spent its fury.
The water in the western and southern
part of the city is rapidly rising and
many people have been compelled to take
to boats to escape. It is impossible at
this hour to give the facts as to the ex
tent of the devastation by the storm, but
the loss to the city alone will be hundreds
of thousands of dollars independent to
that of private parties.”
The rain storm last night was unprece
dented in force. It began shortly before
ti o’clock, and continued until 8:30or!)
o’clock. During much of the time rain
fell with such force that its effect to those
exposed to it was similar to that of
a heavy shower, but such was its
force at times that it would almost
take a person’s breath away. There was
no wind. A number of persons were re
ported drowned last evening, but it turns
out to-day that no lives were lost, although
some hairbreadth escapes are reported.
The rear wall of the new opera house in
course of erection has fallen. It was over
M feet high. The side walls are cracked,
and are liable to full as they settle.
All the bridges as far down as Eighth
street are gone, including two stone
bridges, which alone eost nearly $20,000.
Hundreds of families living adjacent to
the creek were driven from their homes,
which were more or less damaged. A
numtier of houses were dashed to pieces
jis they floated off.
One heavy iron bridge, with a 50 foot
span, was carried most two blocks, and
the heavy iron girders and stringers
were bent and waxed as if they had been
wire ropes. The damage is now estimated
at $300,000. The citizens have done
everything in their power to relieve
those in need of help, and all are
* now comfortable. Mayor Bowman has
received telegrams from various surround
ing cities asking if aid is needed, ami has
replied that Council Bluffs will be aide to
take care of the suffering without assist
ance. Every citizen is doing his whole
duty, both financially and by personal ex
ertions.
New Orleans, June 2.—A Crystal
Springs, Miss., special says: “During a
terrible thunder storm this evening Mrs.
Mary Fields’ store was struck by light
ning. Miss Clara Cook was killed. She
was surrounded by several ladies, all of
whom escaped.”
COKE PRODUCERS ALARMED.
Results of Enormous Development and
Small Demands.
Pittsburg Special, 38th.
The coke producers seem to be destined
to low rates, inferring from the fact that
they cannot muster in sufficient force to
confer over the situation with the view to
improvement of the trade. An attempt at
a meeting some days ago was a failure,
and another meeting was called to con
vene at the offices of A. A. Hutchinson &
Co., Fifth avenue, this morning. There
were some who responded, but too few to
.make a quorum, hence nothing more was
done than to pass time away in desultory
chat.
'[’he coke trade is now going through the
reaction which an enormous development
in the production on the one hand and a
rapid shrinking in the demand on the
uther have made inevitable, it is shown
that Pennsylvania produced in the fiscal
vear 2,317.148 tons of coke from 4.360,110
tons of coal in 1882. According to returns
collected by the Secretary of Internal Af
fairs of Pennsylvania, 10,003 ovens in the
Stu,‘e j'ielded 3,211.543 tons of coke.
Beginning in 1882, with an active de
mand In the great Connellsville region,
prices k at the oven ranged between, say
$1 70 and $1 75 per ton. In June of that
year prices fell off to $1 40 and $1 50. and
in September the prices reached $1 1.5 anil
$1 25. Rallying after the settlement of
the troubles in the iron trade, the price
moved along steadily till thecloseot the
vear up to $1 30 and' $1 35, but the begin
ning of the present year witnessed w sud
den decline to $1 20 and $1 25, and the
cutting of rates continued during the
month. February opened with $1 15, and
during the month coke was obtainable
by close buyers for $1 per ton on cars at
oven.
Transactions based on $1 fojl 10 were
made during March, and the reduction of
freights toward the dose of April did not
,’inprove matters perceptibly. Cutting
begun in May and sales as low as ninety
cents are reported. The coke makers are
alarmed and propose to lake steps toward
restriction and the scaling down of wages.
This was to have been the proposition to
day, but in the absence of the great ma
jority, of course no action could betaken.
Tammany Hall Favoring Peace, at Least
for the President.
-Veir York Special.
TamCtany Hall’s declaration that it de
sired peace ami harmony, and was tired
of warfare, ceems to have been made in
good faith, ana apparently this unusual
condition of thing!? among the Democratic
factions in this city C'ill he continued if
the leaders of Tammany Hall can keep
their unruly cohorts in ffiai.'d. The reso
lutions adopted by the County .Democracy
lauding Gov. Cleveland for his coarse and
denouncing three Tammany SeiiAtor® for
their action concerning the Governor’s'
nominations at the close of the session,
were intended as a gage of defiance to
Tammany Hall. Several of the speakers
at the meeting of the County Committee
so declared when the resolutions were
adopted. Tammany Hall, usually quick
to accept a challenge, has made no sign
that it will try conclusions with its De
inoerai.ie rival’. The Committee on Or
ganization of Tammany Hall met Friday
evening and nothing «a» said directly
bearing on >he matter. It deemed
advisable to keep quiet, fora time at Least,
and see what new developments there
might lie. The general committee will
meet this week. Nothing will be said
concerning this nnWer or the action of the
Tammany Senators.
“What" is the meaning of Tammany's
silence?” a prominent leader of that or
ganization was asked to-day.
“■Tammany Hall has had enough of use
less lighting,” was the response. "So
long as it was a question of existence,
we were forced to fight, and we will do it
agaiu under like circumstances. But
‘Cuums.’iy Hall is in good condition. We
Wt xe admitted to the State Convention
last ’aH; placing us on an equality, so far
as regi.''l lM W is concerned, with the Coun
ty DcinoCGtoy. There is a certain amount
of prejudice’ against Tammany still ex
isting among Mie liWen element ol the
Democracy in Hw interior of the State.
If there is'a shai?’ Bght between the tonn
tv Democracy and Tammany I Hall this
tall it will be forced o’B u» by the former,
and we cannot then be held responsible
for what may happen in tin 1 loss of •■sena
tors and Assembly men.
“Rough on KaU.”
Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies,
ants, bed-bugs, skunks, chipmunks, go
phers. 15c. Druggists.
©)£ ‘ ■ iwrnmg Sd ccjrani,
MARRYING A MARQUIS.
A Rumor Current in Reg-rd to a Promi
nent Lady's Matrimonial Intention.
Neu York World.
A rumor current in this city asserts
that Mrs. Frank Leslie, widow of the de
ceased publisher of that name, is aliout
to marry a person known in New Y’ork
society as the Marquis de Leuville.
Diligent inquiry among Mrs. Leslie's
friends has failed to elicit any corrobora
tion of the rumor. Most of Ifrr recent
associates, however, protest that it is im
possible for Mrs. Leslie to take such a step.
The hero and heroine of the report arc
both more than usually interesting peo
ple. Mrs. Leslie has long been consider
ed one of the prettiest women in New
York. Although close upon forty years ot
age she does not look to be more than
twenty-eight. Her hair is of a beautiful
golden hue, her complexion fresh and
changeable and her eyes of the purest
blue, she has a most delicately charming
expression and her figure is almost fault
less. Moreover, she possesses an unsually
active and accomplished mind. She writes
very good verse, has perpetrated a book
of Cuban travels and is a thorough wo
man of business—all the affairs of the pub
lishing house being personally conducted
by her. She is omnipotent as' well in the
literary department as in the counting
room. When at home in New York her
little dinners are enjoyed every week by
some of the brightest and cleverest ar
tists, authors and public iqeq
Just before saiiuJtflffr Etirope Mrs. Ues
lie was awarded by the courts the entire
and absolute control of her late husband’s
estate, which, it is estimated, vields her
an income of about $50,000 a year. She
was accompanied to Europe by'Lady Duf
tis Hardy and her daughter. Miss Iza
Hardy.
The sol disant Marquis de Leuville is a
rather handsome person who suddenly
burst into social view winter before last.
He was not recognized at all by-the real
society of New Y’ork, but made quite an
impression on the upper strata of Bohemia
by his appearance and his professed abili
ty to do everything under the sun, from
fighting a duel to trapping a lobster. He
got into Mrs. Leslie’s dinner-sob,- but no
body ever dreamed of coupling his name
with that of his fair hostess.
His rather sudden departure for Europe
is said to have been related more or less
closely to the publication of a newspaper
paragraph which accused him of not being
either a Marquis or a De Leuville, but
instead a son-in-law of Madame Tussaud,
of wax works tame in London, and that
the sobriquet conferred upon him by his
English acquaintances was “Young Wax
works.”
The “Marquis” was urged to go abroad
and obtain refutatory evidence or to stay
there. So far he has stayed.
THE MT. VERNON REIiENTS.
How the Mecca of America Improves
Under the Laities' Care.
Special.
The annual council of the Regents and
Vice Regents of the Mount Vernon Asso
ciation convened yesterday at Mount Ver
non.
There were present: Mrs. Laughton, of
Pennsylvania, who is Regent, and the fol
lowing \ ice Regents: Mrs. Sweet, who is
Vice Regent for Maine; Mrs. Yulee, Flori
da; Mrs. Herbert, Alabama; Mrs. Eve,
Georgia; Mrs. Townsend, New York; Miss
Alice “Longfellow, Mass.; Mrs. Chase,
Rhode Island: Mrs. Brodwell, Ohio; Mrs.
Harper, Maryland; Mrs. Halstead, New
Jersey; Mrs. Coinegys, Delaware; Mrs.
Ella B. Washington, Virginia.
The grounds and the mansion are re
ported by the Regents in excellent order.
The current year it is expected will see
the restoration and repair of the various
rooms in the manor* house fully accom
plished.
As is already known, each State takes
some one room under its patronage, so far
as the number of rooms in the house will
allow, and restores and furnishes it in
style as nearly contemporaneous with
Washington’s time as possible, and
in many cases the original fur
niture has been secured and
replaced. The room where Mrs.
W ashington spent the last eighteen months
of her lite in afflictive retirement, is the
especial charge of W isconsin. New Y’ork
has the banquet room, Massachusetts the
library, for which Miss Longfellow, Vice
Regent, has, within the past year, secured
additional to the store already there as
follows: Antique andirons, tongs and
shovel and miniatures of General and Mrs.
Washington, presented by Mr. Appleton,of
Boston.
South Carolina has raised funds for fur
nishing the family dining room precisely
as it was originally. Two of the upper
rooms are being restored and furnished
by the Vice Regents of North Carolina
anil Florida. Georgia has restored the
walls of Mrs. Washington’s sitting room,
and contributed paper and appropriate
furniture. Alabama, under the Vice
Regency of Mrs. Herbert, has selected
the hall for her special work, repainted
it. restored the crumbling walls and
added furniture.
The association meets for its annual
council in the “River Room,” Pennsyl
vania’s special trust.
The Pope to Convoke a Plenary Council
in the United States.
JVeic York Sun, May 31.
There is reason to believe that an event
of great importance to American Catho
lics is impending. It is, we learn, the in
tention ol the Vatican to convoke at a day
not distant, a Plenary Council for the
United States. The great ecclesiastical
assembly will probably be held in the city
of New York, although the place of meet
ing has not been irrevocably fixed. The
scope and purpose of the council will not,
of course, be definitely settled until the
views of the American hierarchy have
been elicited; and to that end
several influential members of the
episcopate will, it is said, be speedily
invited to Rome, It is expected, how
ever. that whereas Archbishop Spauld
ing officiated as apostalic delegate at tfie
Council of Baltimore in 1866, Leo XIII
will be represented on the coming occa
sion by a Roman canonist of extensive
erudition and experience, selected from
among the most distinguished prelates of
the Curia. Attended, he will be,
doubtless, by divines of unquestioned
competence and ripe learning, the Papal
delegate should bo able to enlighten and
invigorate the labors of the Council so as
to permanently allay the troubles growing
out of infractions ot church discipline and
of canonical morality.
Those who have hot closely observed
the proceedings of the Catholic episcopate
and priesthood in the United States dur
ing tlie last seventeen years may fail to
see the need of summoning a new plenary
council at this time. The acts and de
crees of the council which met at Balti
more in 1866 were approved by the propa
ganda in a decree dated January 4,
1868, a;ul those persons who are merely
conversant H’jjh the text of the injunc
tions and ndtuojjil;*>ns then formu
lated might not unreasonably sup
pose them adequate for the guidance end
discipline of American Catholics. Un
luckily, not a tew of the warnings and
prohibitions uttered at JJeltimore have
been unheeded, and the authority of that
Council needs so be powerfully and
promptly reinforced, if the most’ esen
tial and salutary portion of its teachings
is to Lie saved from Incoming a dead letter,
and if grave occasions of reproach and
scandal are to be averted.
He Lived and Died in One Ward and
He Shouldn’t Vote in Another.
lienecr Inter-Ocean.
In one of those grand Western tow ns
where liberty is as boundless qs the
“peraries,” it is not usual to remove a
voter's name from the registry merely
beeause he should dis or change hi’s
domicile. This was done with a yiew of
accommodating any newcomer with a
name under which be can vote. But in
every community, no matter fiow young,
there are cantankerous prigs, as wag
shown ata recent election in the town
referred to above.
•*What is your name?" asked the Judge
of a would-be voter.
“Philip O’Rafferty;” w as the replv.when
up jumped a big Irishman, exclaiming-
“I object; I challenge the vote.” ’ ”
“On what grounds?” demanded the
cou rt
“Ou the grounds of non-residence." re
turned the challenger. "Philip O’Raf
ferty lived and died in the Fourth ward,
and. begorra. he’s not going to vote iu the
Sixth.”
Knife Against Pistol.
Quitman, Ga.. June 2.—The quiet of
the town was broken yesterday by a street
tight. J. Alderman, who was very much
in whiskey, attacked M. Brice and fired
one shot from a pistol, but missed his
aim. Mr. Brice caught the pistol in his
left hand and Stabbed Aiderman in eight
places. The wounds are not considered
dangerous, and it is believed that Aider
man will recover.
The Death List.
Macon, sujie 2.—E. P. Taylor, of the
firm of W. & E. I’ Taylor, large furniture
dealers, died this mor'uing at 5 o'clock of
paralysis; aged 47 years.
SURROUNDED BY INDIANS.
NACO II I WAITING EOR THE SAV
AGE ONSLAUGHT.
Men and Women Determined to Sell
Their Lives as Dearly as Possible—
The Sky Lighted by Burning Build
ings—A Captive Child Among the Red
Skin Apaches.
Tombstone. Arizona, June 2.—Ad
vices to the Epitaph from the Mexican
headquarters at Oposura say that, on May
28, couriers arrived there bringing the
alarming intelligence that the In
dians had appeared in force at Na
cori on Thursday last. The authori
ties there had asked for reinforce
ments. They were afraid of being
attacked at any moment. Only thirty sol
diers. consisting of State troops under
Lieut. Jesus Maria Morence, are at pres
ent stationed there. AV hen the courier
left the Indians were killing cattle within
six hundred yards of the town. The' In
dians were nearly all dismounted and had
evidently fled from the Sierra Madres to
escape from Gen. Crook.
The savages appeared to lie well armed,
and it is surmised that their departure
fronrthe mountain partook more of the
nature of a stealthy retreat than a posi
tive rout in battle. The flame-lit sky
some distance from town betokened that
Illi’ •■• ■ r- burning ull ioe uuuses
and barns in their path after massacreing
any hapless inmates whom they might
have surprised, and appropriating every
thing of value which met their fancy. An
officer reported seeing, with the aiil of a
spyglass, a flaxen-haired lioy in the
midst of the renegades. If’ so, the
child was doubtless the captive
survivor of exterminated parents. The
braves seemed to be loaded down with
plunder, and their antics furnished ground
for the belief that most of them were
tired with liquor. If such was the case
their onslaught would be all the more fe
rocious and difficult to repulse. Every
body in the town was under arms and de
termined to sell their lives as dearly as
possible, if worse came to worse. Con
spicuous among these stoical defenders
were several women, who seemed not a
whit abashed and as resolute as the men.
It was almost impossible to form any es
timate of the strength of the savages, but
the band was believed to number over a
hundred. Incessant vigilance was main
tained, but there seemed hardly a doubt
but the night would be marked by one of
the most bloody encounters of the cam
paign.
No news from General Crook has been
received at these headquarters. Had there
been an engagement it would be known
here, as Colonel Bandola, who is com
manding, has scouts constantly reconnoi
tering the Sierra Madres. Reinforcements
have been sent to Nocori, and news is
hourly expected.
ATLANTANS IN JIACON.
Over Five Hundred Excursionists En
joying the City’s Sights.
Macon, June 2.—A train of nine
coaches and one baggage car to-day
brought down from Atlanta between five
hundred and six hundred excursionists,
under charge of Mr. Harmon, President
of the Young Men’s Library Association.
They arrived at 10 minutes before 12
o’clock, instead of at 2 o’clock, as was
expected. They were met by a large
crowd of citizens of Macon and escorted
to the park. In consequence of the late
arrival, public speaking was dispensed
with, and the excursionists scattered
all over the city sight seeing. Macon
had provided an abundant supply of
lemonade and ice cream. Kessler’s band
furnished the music. They dined at 2
o’clock, and the remainder of the day was
spent in dancing and other amusements.
Everybody seemed to enjoy themselves,
and many expressed admiration for the
beauty of the park. They left for home at
5 o’clock, delighted with their day’s expe
rience in Macon.
MEXICAN El> 1 T<IRS AROUSED.
The Lavish Railroad Grants Exciting
Adverse Comment.
Panama, May 24. —Mexican papers
printed on the Pacific coast are com
mencing to abuse General Diaz for his
friendship with General Grant and to de
clare that the autonomy of thej re
public will be threatened should
General Diaz become President.
In the poverty stricken condition of
the Treasury it is feared that paper
currency will take the place of coin and
the possible collapse of many railroad
schemes are subjects of debate, as are
also the grants of $150,000,000 in aid of
railroads, whilst public instruction is al
most forgotten. The Sinaloa papers, in
particular,write strongly on these points.
A BAND OF BOY’ BURGLARS.
The Romantic but Criminal Acts of a
Party of Canadian Youths.
Ottawa (Ontario) Special, 38th.
The existence of an extraordinary or
ganization in the village of Markham,
Ontario, has been discovered. It consist
ed of several young boys who, prompted
by yellow-back literature, formed them
selves into a band for the purpose of
burglarizing residences in the village. For
several months they have been emulating
the deeds of “pre'fessional gentlemen,”
whose evil careers they endeavored to imi
tate and they have been singularly lucky
in escaping detection and capture for sb
long a time, although a large number ot
houses were entered by them and a great
deal ot plunder obtained. They are all
sons of respectable, wealthy parents.
They used to meet near the Presbyterian
grayeryard in a cave. Each swore a fear
ful oatn to remain true to the band under
any circumstances, and incase a betrayer
was found among them he was to die the
death of a traitor. The father of one of the
boys was the first to receive a midnight
visit. This gentleman kept a hard
ware store, and from it were
stolen revolvers and bowie knives.
All the money and stolen
were carefully secreted so that no plun
der would be found upon any one of them,
in case of suspicion and search. Their
plan was to retire at night, as usual, and
as -soon as their relatives were asleep to
redress themselves, step out of the house,
and go to the point of meeting. At length
a young fellow employed in a banker’s of
fice was noticed by the banker’s Wife to
be acting in a suspicious manner. She
watched his movements, discovered him
hiding some of the booty, and then the whole
story came out. The stolen property was
recovered from the boys and returned to
the owners. Owing to the high social po
sition held by the parents of the young
culprits a compromise was effected
wherebj fije offenders were not prose
cuted,
A Maniac in a Church.
Hoelon Special,
A sensation was caused in the First
Baptist Church at Quincy Point yester
day afternoon. Just as the deacon an
nouiAc'd the first hymn the congregation
was horrified by H-e entrance of a lunatic,
who was pursued by several
He ran down one ot the aisles of the
church and mounting the pulpit, threat
ened his i-uemiee with a piece of lead pipe
which he held in his hands The women
rushed out of the church, and the few
men bra’-.e enough to remain entreated
the madman to leave the place.
He said that he would go *ith a Catho
lic clergyman At this point a policeman
arrived and ordered the pjan to go with
him.
The madman still retained his position
in the pulpit, flourishing his weapon, and
paid nc attention to th-' officer, who ap
proached bfiii ajid rec< ived a blow upon
the side of his head. A livtiy ccuflle fol
lowed, during which, by the aid ot six
members of the congregation, the maniac
was handcuffed and locked tip in the de
pot. During the »gi.< be severely bit two
men.
shoriij before the scene at the church
the man was driven from two houses.
He labored under the debusion that he
was being followed by several njea v.ho
Vt ’shed to kill him.
Possessed of this idea, the maniac had
»up from South Boston to Hingman and
thence to Quincy Point.
Stagnation in the Iron Qre Business.
Reading. Pa.. June 2.—The price of
iron ore at a number of mines has fallen
in sympathy with the drain in pig iron.
Aloi.g the East Pennsylvania Road ore
warranted to yield 30 per cent, was offer
ed at $2 25 and $2 per ton Ore which
sold some time ago at $4 is now soiling at
$3. with very little demand. At several
places wages have been reduced to 75
cents for 10 hours work, and some opera
tors will hereafter require the men to
work 11 hours under ground. There is no
difficulty yet.
Weather Indications.
Office Chief Signal observer.
Washington, D. C., June 2.—lndications
for Sunday:
'he South Atlantic States, occa
sional rains, partly cloudy weather, varia
ble winds, lower barometer a..d stationary
or slight rise in temperature. ’ (
SAVANNAH. GA., SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 3, 1883.
CHILI AND PERU.
An Anarchial State of Affairs in the
Conquered Country.
Washington, June 2. —Telegraphic ad
vices received some days ago reported
that a treaty of peace had been signed be
tween Chili and Peru, the latter as rep
resented by Gen. Iglesias. The following
from Panama, dated May 24, although
anticipated by telegraph, throws some
light upon the condition ‘ of affairs in
Peru: "The terms of peace are
still under discussion in Peru
and Chili. There is little doubt that Senor
Cavalie, representing General Iglesias,
has come to an agreement with Senor
Nouva, that the Chilian Government has
approved those terms, and their accept
ance by General Iglesias is all that is
needed to ensure their realization. Even
then there will remain obstacles to be
overcome, but in Peru a strong
party is forming which will throw over
the political, naval and military leaders,
and act as a popular party. A peace
club, numbering many thousand mem
bers, has been formed in Lima, and is
busy organizing a provincial branch.
New members have to declare that they
will do their utmost in favor of peace’.
Senor Monteros' Congress in Lima is
mostly made up of ignorant mountaineers.
It contains but a few educated men, who
follow the lead of Dr. Areiuu.. who is
practically the congress.
Senor Montero submits to his superior
knowledge, but in the scarcity of money
and in the city where everyone longs for
peace, the folly of the would-be warriors
is apparent, and their lives are far from
happy.
President Campero, of Bolivia, has de
creed that no Bolivian shall leave the
country without a special permit. The
reason for this decree is that many thou
sands Bolivians go to the territories oc
cupied by the Chilians, where they work
in the guano and nitrate beds at good
wages and avoid being ill treated and op
pressed in their own country.
CONKLING AND CARROLb.
An Amusing Story About Two Speeches
at a Recent Banquet.
New York Special, 3let.
The Press is entitled to a little story
which is just now affording considerable
quiet amusement to a great many gentle
men prominent in club life and political
circles here. It relates to the dinner
given four weeks or more ago by the Sat
urday Nigct Club, at which Mr. Conk
ling delivered himself of his celebrated
ten-year set-back speech in defense of
bosses and medals.
Howard Carroll, who was among the
last speakers, referred to Mr. Conk
ling as “the man whose great ad
vice, great strength and great pres
ence had, in years gone by, won for
his party its greatest victories,” and
wound up by protesting against Conk
ling’s retiring into private life, and call
ing upon him to resume control of the Re
publican party and become again its lead
er. This speech has been taken by out
siders as indicating the existence of a
friendly feeling between Conkling and
Carroll’, who, as a matter of fact, only a
few months ago shook hands and con
cluded to be reconciled to one another.
The truth is, however, that they subse
quently fell out, and that Carroll’s speech
at the dinner in laudation of Conkling
was in reality a studied and merciless
sarcasm.
Carroll is a master in mimicry, and
when he got upon his feet to speak he
struck the pompous attitude so frequently
assumed by Conkling, with breast thrown
out full like that of a game cock, his head
tossed back with an air of contemptuous
defiance, holding one hand behind him
like a duelist, with the other resting upon
his bosom, half concealed beneath the
lappel of his closely buttoned coat. His
remarks were delivered in tones and with
gestures and periods so startlingly like
Conkling’s that the latter’s friends were
at first amazed, then indignant. When
there was a departure from Conkling’s
style and manner it was only to make
room tor a drawling monotone, half sneer
and half patronizing, and when Carroll
had finished, Conkling's friends sat and
gazed at him with mingled feelings of
anger and astonishment.
The audacity of the man and the com
pleteness of his mimicry excited a sensa
tion which did not abate until the club
adjourned. His reference to the greatness
of Conkling was emphasized by a manner
ludicrously like the ex-Senator; while his
protest against Cnkling’s retirement from
politics was uttered in tearful tones,
which implied a belief that if he did re
tire it would send the country on a quick
train to perdition.
Conkling has gone to Missouri to argue
a question of constitutional law before
the Supreme Court of that State, He has
his hands full of business, but some of his
friends say he longs to return to public
life. They are already at work to slaugh
ter Cornell, who is in the field as a candi
date for the Senate as successor to Lap
ham. Gossips have it that the pictorial
policy of The Judge, the rival of Puck,
is hereafter to be dictated by Conkling.
How true the story is will be demonstrat
ed by the future treatment of Howard
Car roll.
< TiEVER BI .AC K M AILE R C AUG H T
Writing Letters to Bank Detanlters in
the Hope of Getting Confessions.
Hartford Special, 31st,
Isaac AV. Lockwood was taken before
the United States District Court this
morning, charged with using the United
States mails for fraudulent purposes.
Last winter Lockwood mailed 5,000 cir
culars from Stepney Depot, Conn., to
bankers throughout the country. They
were headed, “A Practical Philanthropy,
$780,000, the bequest of a banker for the
benefit of the banking fraternity of the
United States,” The circulars alleged a
bequest of said amount as a trust fund
for the benefit of defaulting bank
officers and their families. It contained
a caution against allowing the circular to
fall into the hands of those who did not
really need such assistance, and invited
the recipients to personal interviews with
Lockwood. ttopHes were' leceiyeti from
all quarters, and wives and children of
defaulters, bankers and clerks, responded.
The authorities have a large number of
these letters, containing extraordinary
confessions and secrets. Lockwood’s cor
respondents embraced among others a
Boston editor, a delinqueuj lawyer, a Brit
ish Lieutenant and officials occupying po
sitions of trust. His game was to
find out the secrets ot such persons, and
then, on the strength of their written con
fession, io ei-tprt money fropi tjiem liy
threatening exposure, The cashier of tHe
Fourth National Bank, New York, re
ceiving one of these circulars, wrote the
Postmaster inquiring what sort of sharp
practice was going on through his office.
The Postmaster, George Page, who Is
thought to have been accessory to Lock
wood, has - escaped the officers and tied to
Dakota. Lockwood was bound over tinder
bonds to the August term’
New Name for Washington Territory.
Bois (Idaho) Statesman.
It is now proposed to change the name
of Washington Territory upon her admis
sion into tfie Union as a State to Tahoma,
which is said’to be the mopes ortb.Qgra*
phy for the name usually written Ta
coma. Tahoma is an Indian word mean
ing Y Imost to Heaven.” and was the
name ’given bv
Ranier on account of the great fieigtu. <j,
that mountain, which is put down 'at 14,-
000 feel above sea level. We feel inclined
to favor the proposed cjiapge of name for
many reasons. Nearly every State and
Territory has a county of Washington,
and also a town called AV ashington.
Should Idaho and AVashington be ad
mitted as States, with North Idaho as an
adjunct of the western sister, and with
names unchanged, we would have the dis
tressing aitensaiiijc.... u Washington <-oun
ty in Idaho add an Idaho' county in
AVashington. besides a town of Washing,
ton in Idaho county. State of
A Day with the Middies.
Annapolis. Md., June’2.—The Board
of Visitors to the Naval Academy met this
morning and organised Rear Admiral
Howell was chosen President and Senator
Lapham. of New Y’ork, Vice President.
After appointing the usual committees
the boatd adjourned to Monday. Naval
Cadet AV. R. Allen, of New Y’ork. has re
signed. ’
Failures .q Business.
London, June 2.—AlfreQ Weigel, a
merchant of 59 Mark Lane, E. C., has
failed with liabilities of £100,060.
New Y’ork. June 2.—White & Russ,
wholesale cfething merchants of No. 442
Broadway, to-day nlea Liscl’en’
schedule. Their ’liabilities are stated at
$137,022. the nominal assets at $181,333,
and the actual assets at $88,709.
Gentlemen—Tour Hop Bitters ha.e
been of great value to me. I was laid up
with typhoid fever for over two months
and could get no relief until I tried your
Hop Bitters. To those suflering with de
bility, or any one in feeble health. I cor*
dially recommend them.
J. C. Stoetzel,
683 Fulton street, Chicago, 111,
CAFFREY FORFEITS LIFE.
KILMAINHAM AGAIN UNDER
THE BLACK FLAG.
Only Fifty Persons Congregated With
out the Jail—The Little Knot Unde
monstrative—Wore Threatening Let
ters Sent by the Irrepressible Invin
cible*.
Dublin, June 2.—Thomas Caffrey, the
fourth of the Phtenix Park murderers,
was brought to the gallows and hanged
in Kilmainham jail at 8 o’clock this morn
ing. During the farewell interview with
his mother yesterday Caffrey broke down
completely. The crowd outside the prison
this morning was very small, numbering
only about fifty persons. Among these
were the mother and brother of the priso
ner and a woman who has been present at
all the executions of the inen convicted of
the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish
and Mr. Burke, and prayed for the con
demned men.
Caffrey was composed when on the
scaffold. His death was instantaneous.
Caffrey wrote a letter to his mother last
evening, in which he said: “1 hope you
will never have cause to blush for my
name. As lam paying’the penalty of my
crime in this world I hope I won’t have to
suffer for it in the next.”
A dispatch to thut.lfat'l from Rome says
that the Pope will, if necessarv, follow lip
his recent circular to the Irish Bishops in
relation to the agitation in Ireland and
the Parnell fund, by a suspension from
their functions of all ecclesiastics who
disobey the commands of the circular.
At an examination to-day of a prisoner
charged with participation in the Frock
murder conspiracy, the head constable
testified that P. J. Sheridan visited Gal
way in 1879 and tried to call a meeting,
and that he fled in time to avoid arrest on
on a warrant which had been issued
against him.
Mr. Curran, Divisional Magistrate of
the metropolitan police; Mr. Mallon,
Chief detective, and Juror Field, have re
ceived letters threatening them with ven
geance.
London, June 2.—The steamer Bel
gravia, which left Queenstown Thursday
for New York, took 700 State aided emi
grants, and the Phoenician, which sailed
from Glasgow May 30, for Boston, took
290 of the same class of passengers.
A special court has been constituted to
try the dynamiters. It consists of Lord
Chief Justice Coleridge, Justice Brett, of
the Court of Appeals, and Justice Grave,
of the Court of Common Pleas.
North Adams, Mass., June 2.—A
family of fifteen Irish emigrants, unable
to speak English, who were shipped here
from Boston recently with just money
enough to pay their fare, have been dis
covered on the verge of starvation, in a
miserable tenement wholly destitute ot
furniture.
AN EYE ON CRAFTS FROM CUBA.
Gresham Lays Down the Law to the
Easy-Going Post masters.
Washington, June 2.—lnasmuch as
the law of 1879 has expired by limitation
which gave the National Board of Health
supervision over consular ports, the Ma
rine Hospital officials have determined,
with the advice of the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Secretary of State, to
continue supervision over all vessels leav
ing the Cuban ports for the United States.
Advices to this effect were cabled to-day
to Havana. Dr. Burgess, who acted as
agent of the Board of Health in Cuba,
will be designated for this service. ' The
authority of the Marine Hospital service is
derived from the general law defining its
functions.
Postmaster General Gresham to-day is
sued the following order: “The Postmas
ters of the first and second class offices
will hereafter give their personal atten
tion to the business of their office and not
absent themselves therefrom without au
thority granted upon written application
to this department. Yiolation of this or
der will be deemed sufficient cause for re
moval.”
THE BON MARCHE.
A Wonderful Pry Goods Store of Paris.
Paris Cor. Fashion Courier.
Almost every one knows this wonder
ful dry goods store, but I think not many
knows that it is a benevolent work as
well as a successful business undertaking.
Mr. Boucicault, the founder, began life a
poor boy, and when able to have a little
store of his own his attention was direct
ed to the welfare of his clerks, and he
gave them, as soon as he was able, a
home in his own house. From this small
beginning the work has grown wonder
fully. Mr. Boucicault died a few years
ago worth millions of dollars, and to-day
the “Bon Marche,” carried on by hi’s
widow, employs 3,000 people,
Two thousand of these people live in
the building, and the 3,000 take their
meals there, The first thing to be noticed
by a party making a tour of inspection of
this great concern is a large hall filled
with desks, where a great many boys and
young men are studying bookkeeping.
They review all the books of the store,
and are paid a small amount for every
mistake they find. In the evening lessons
are given gratuitously to the employes in
English, German, instrumental and vocal
music, and fencing. Concerts are given
by the store in summer, in the square by
the side of the building; in winter, on the
ground floor; which can be cleared bvtlie
porters in twenty minutes of counters
and goods, when it is needed for that pur
pose or for balls. There are four dining
rooms, one for the men clerks, one for the
girls, one for the workwomen and one for
the porters, messengers and drivers. The
menu tor dinner of one day consisted of
soup, one kind of meat, oqe kind of vege
tables and dessert, and for each person a
half bottle of wine. Coffee is extra'; it
costs two cents for a small cup and three
cents for the large ones. Three hundred
people are employed in the kitchen and
as waiters in the dining-rooms. The ket
tles are immense, three feet high, and no
man could meet his arms around one of
them. Os cpqrSe, whenYbllafid hot, thej*
ate beyond the ability of man to move, so
pulleys are arranged which lift the kettles
from the fire and place them where thev
are wanted. For the clerks there is a
room for amusements, where there are
billiard tables, chess, checkers, dominoes
etc., but no card nlayipg.
The lady clerks’ have a pleasant little
parlor, where there is a piano, and where
they can spend their evenings when they
choose. Each girl has a room entirely to
herself, which is plainly but very eomfor
table furnished. There are riiles to be’
observed by all, but thev are not burden
some or oppressive; tlie doors are not
closed on week days until 11, and on Sun
days until 12:30 at night, but the occupa
tions and entertainments make it more
enticing to remain at home than to go
out. Every one in ihe service of the
“Bon Marohe”receives a certain commis
sion on everything sold or delivered, and
after a certain number of years’ service
ekeq aeqqire? aq Interest in th‘e store (hat
increases yearly. It is one of the most
complete works of benevolence known. It
would be almost impossible to think of any
details that are not attended to. There is
a barber shop in the building for the use
of the employes, a physician ip employed
by the ctoYe, and hfe services are free' to
all: moreover, there is an infirmary in an
nother part of the city where those who
are sick are cared for: a pair of boots is
macked fol every jpember f f the estab
lishment evert day. • W hen askbd if any
board was paid, tlie answer was “no,” but
I suppose,, at least, sonfe difference is made
in the salary ,
Crops iu the North.
St. Louis, June 2.—The report of the
Agricultural Bureau at Washington for
Northern Texas makes the following crop
report for June 1: “Wheat that was late
sown is not so good. Early sown, par-
Mediterrareai? a>’il Nicaragua
are fine, Tfieie is »*.me iiitie talk of rust
iu the bud, but the stalk is healthy, and
so long as this is tile Case iio injury is ap
prehended. The yield promises to be a
fair average.' They are now harvesting
Oats that were early sown are very good;
but the late sown are not so' "rood.
They are beading rather slowly, but the
average yield will be good Corr, is fine,
and has been well cultivated, and the
average is larae. If the season should
continue favorable the yield will be large.
Cotton is good, and stands well up. The
nights have been rather cold lately for it,
but it has plenty of time yet to make up.
The average U or >u per than
last year. All the crops are fifteen days
late, but the prospects are good for an
abundant harvest.”
’.rhai will Browr>’<= Iron Hitters cure;
It will cure Heart Disease, Paralysis.
Dropsy. Kidney Diseases. Consumption,
dyspepsia. Rheumatism, and all similar
diseases, its woridenul curative power
is simply beeause it purifies and enriches
the blood, thus beginning at fbunda
tiou.and by building up tfie system, tk-Ives
out all disease, For the peculiar troubles
to which ladies are subject it U invalua
ble. It is the only preparation of iron
that does not color the teeth or cause
headache.
WM. L. YANCEY.
An Old Citizen Recalls a Scene of Which
the Great Orator was the Hero.
“So Wm. L. Yancey is to have a monu
ment at last," said a gentleman to a C«u
rier-Joumal reporter yesterday. “Well,
it’s about time," he continued. “Yancev
was a remarkable man.’’
“What do you mean,’’ asked the re
porter, "by your remark? Was he more
remarkable than hundreds of other men the
century has produced?"
“In some respects, in many, he stood
alone. No man in the South was more
extreme in his pro-slavery views; in fact,
he was the antipodes of Wendell Phillips.
In 1848 I think it was; anyhow, it was in
the Democratic Convention which nomi
nated Lewis Cass for the Presidency,
Yancy offered a resolution declaring that
the doe-trine of non-interference with
the rights of slavery by any portion
of the people is the true republican doc
trine. This proposition created a breeze
in the convention, and after a long and
earnest debate was voted down bv an
overwhelming majority. Yancey fought
the abolitionists and gradual emancipa
tionists at every turn; he fought Clay’s
Missouri compromise, and as early as 1858
proposed the organization of committees
of safety all over the cotton States, de
claring -We can thus tire the Southern
heart, instruct the Southern mind, give
courage to each other, aud at the proper
moment, by one organized, concentrated
action we can precipitate the cotton States
into revolution.’ He was the boldest
leader of the extreme party south of Ma
son and Dixon’s line."
“Were you personally acquainted with
Yancey?’’
“NO, not personally, though I knew of
him well by reputation; and I shall never
forget the last speech I heard him make.
It was in Cincinnati, in Pike’s Opera
House, in 1860, just before the election of
Lincoln. The great house was crowded
from pit to ceiling to hear the eloquent
Southerner. He had talked as only Yan
cey could talk for two hours. Reaching
his peroration he said in substance: ‘We
ot the South ask you of»the North to let
us alone; then we will live together as
citizens and friends. We do not ask you
to be the owners of slaves, and you ought
not to insist that we shall give up that for
which we paid your forefathers our
money. If you continue your war on our
rights, we will resist with arms; and if
the worst comes to the worst, we will
march an army into your States and teach
you what the destruction of property
really means.
“The audience, for fifteen minutes, had
sat spell-bound by the magic of the speak
er’s words; the fall of a pin could have
been heard ten feet off, so still was that
immense throng. When Yancey had
finished the last sentence, there was a
general hiss from all parts of the house.
In the coolest manner imaginable he
walked to the footlights of the stage,
folded his arms across his breast and
faced his dissenters. For two minutes
the marks of disapproval continued, and
for as long a time the Southern lion stood
eyeing the people. He was the victor, for
suddenly the hisses at the sentiment
changed to cheers for the speaker’s
daring. Soon all was quiet and
everybody was anxious to hear the return
shot. Yancey, apparently without mov
ing a muscle, looking more like a statue
than an animated being, began his re
joinder in a tone hardly above that of or
dinary conversation. He said: ‘Nearly
one hundred years ago, when young free
dom dared not raise its head in the Vir
ginia House of Burgesses, when the im
mortal Patrick Henry demanded liberty of
death, there was a hiss, and it came from
the forefathers of those who have hissed
here to-night,’ The audience appreciated
the point and the house fairly shook with
the cheers that followed. I always recall
that scene when the name of Yancey is
mentioned in my hearing.”
Southern Domesticity ami Humor.
•fudge Tourgee, in the Continent.
There are tw-o phases of Southern life
which are but little appreciated at the
North—its domesticity and its humor.
The conventional planter of the ante hel
ium era was a careless, boastful, swag
gering tyrant; his wife and daughters
equally careless in regard to the home
life, its comforts and economies, as he of
the administration of his boundless acres.
Both ideas were almost equally incorrect.
The Southern planter, as a rule, was a
careful administrator of his estate,
not in the same snug and tidy
manner of which the Northern farmer
boasts—he did not w'ork and fuss
and worry over all the details of
tarm management as much as his compeer
of the North, nor was his sense of fitness
outraged by a lack of completeness and
order which would have driven the farmer
of the Middle States into an insane asy
lum, There was a sort of laxity about
his methods which was hard for the North
ern man to distinguish from slothfulness.
Yet he watched with care the develop
ment of the crops, the progress of his
work, and was, no doubt, a better direc
tor of labor than could generally be found
upon the Northern farm. With ignorant
labor and crude machinery he achieved
good results. It is especially with regard
to the domestic life of the South, however,
that false ideas prevailed at the North,
The planter’s family has always been
credited with hospitality of a lav
ish, careless kind. but a very
small proportion of the people of the North
have ever supposed that the planter’s wife
was very generally a Martha of the most
anxious and troubled variety. The differ
ence of method betwixt the Northern and
the Southern housekeeper has been so
great that the former has very often been
inclined to elevate a dainty nose in scorn
of any professed acquirements of the lat
ter. So too the hurly-burly of our North
ern life; its sharp competition and the
constant influx of the outside worlg |iaye
been such as to predispose us to under
estimate the charming domesticity
of the Southern home. It is not
often as strictly ordered or adminis
tered with that anxiety with regard to de
tail that characterizes the Northern
household, yet there is rarelv to be found
a more faithful purveyor 61 ‘comforts than
the mistress of’ a Southern plantation.
The very isolation of plantation life; the
rarity of strangers’ visits and the care
with which even the most distant family
ties are remembered and acknowledged
in that section, all tend to make tub ‘ do
mestic |ifQ pf the better class of the South
very charming and delightful.
SMITH-WARREN.
A Card from I); Vuureu Bey, of Paris.
Yorif .Special.
Ur, Warren Bey, of Faris, has sent the
following card to the New York Times:
“My attention has been directed to a
telegram in a recent number of your pa
per, which states that ‘Dr. V'ar+eu, of
Paris,’ has been engaged in a love affair
ir. the city of uhicAgO. As lam the only
person of that name and profession re
siding in Paris, the conclusion
seems irresistible that I am thb
individual . alluaed to by vour
correspondent, I must ask permission,
therefore, to say through the columns of
the Times that this statement, so far as it
relates to me, is false in every particular.
This is a case of mistaken identity, the
party really concerned being a brother of
mine who re-ides in New lOYl*, who asks
no explanations on his account from Mr.
Perry H. Smith, Jr., and who at the proper
tune will make a full statement of all the
facts relating to the matter with which he
has had so disagreeable a connection
M Vrlmn (BdyM. D,
“No. 15 Rue Caumartin, Paris,”
Dr. Llewellyn Warren, the gentleman
who was engaged to Miss Emma Smith,
of Chicago, Is now visiting relatives in
Virginia.
Bat and Ball.
Games of base ball were played yester
day as follows:
At Providence—Clevelands 6; Previ
dcnces 1
At Boston— Bostons 2; Buffalos 1.
At New York—Eclipses 7; Metropoli
tans 6. New Yorks 22; Chicagos 7.
At Pittsburg—Alleghenys 10, Cincin
nati 8
At Philadelphia—Athletics 6: Colum
bus 8. Detroits 5; Philadelphias
At Baltimore —at. Louis 5;
4. Ten iufu'ngi were played.
No Time to Talk to Gould.
Mn A ntonlo Timet.
At the International depot the five Pull
man cars, containing Jay Gould and
party, were left on the track near the
regular ;,ue e.,g , nuiu uoulq, it’is said,
stepped from ijis car into the regular
train, and began poking all sorts of
ridiculous questions about the road to
Conductor Marshall, the P"lln.«a con
ductor Aai»nah aid not know- who
Gould was; of course, but answered him
politely for some little time, although he
was very Vinaltv," however, he
said. “1 haven’t got time to talk to v OU
now. sir, as I have work to do.” and he
left >|r tjould to pursue'his inquiries by
himself. Marshall, it is sai. . was greatl'v
surprised later when he leu tied to wfiom
fie had beep talking.
We don't know how all partnerships are
built, but it’s good, stout binding which
makes a book firm, *
NEW YORK’S LAST HORROR
1
THE CURIOUS VIEWING THE
BRIDGE’S DEATH TRAP.
, Visits to the Architectural Jumbo All
the Rage in Society—Decoration Day
in the Metropolis—Pink Eye Among
Mortals A Lunatic's Check The
Hugenots.
New York. June I.—The Brooklyn
I bridge has had its baptism of blood—so
• much you know* already-. I can give you.
• however, a characteristic feature of the
' great disaster which has probably been
omitted trom your telegraphic dispatches.
, The dead and the wounded had hardly
been removed when the bridge was throng-
1 ed again, by foot-passengers as well as
' vehicles. Men, women and children went
. gaily along the path where a frightened
[ crowd not many moments before had
1 struggled with death. Jests and jokes
were bandied about by persons who
, ascended and descended the fatal stair
t way almost within half an hour trom the
1 time when more than a dozen dead bodies
were piled up at its foot. To-day, too, the
bridge is crowded, not by. persons who
cross it in preference to the ferries, but by
the morbidly curious who wish to see, and
. to boast that they have seen, the place
where strong men and little children met
the most horrible of deaths.
The curious have formed by far the
greater part of the patrons of the bridge
ever since it was opened. More than half
■ if not two-thirds of the 100,000 people who,
on an average,have passed over the bridge
every day during the past week, have
crossed it merely to say that they have
• done so, and to see what could be seen
from its elevated platform. Every stranger
in town for the day feels obliged’ to walk
over it, and even fashionable people make
up bridge parties in place of theatre par
ties and drive to the bridge in the evening
instead of going to Wallack’s or the Madi
son Square. That the travel over the
bridge is principally made up of sight
seers. is shown by the comparatively
small falling off in the receipts of the
Union Ferry Company. People who have
once satisfied their craving to cross the
■ bridge prefer to be ferried across the East
river rather than walk a mile and a quar
ter, especially if the walking costs as
much as the riding. That the
bridge will in time become an old
story is shown by the fate of the
foot bridge which was built over Broad
way at Fulton street about twenty years
ago, because of the difficulty in crossing
the crowded streets. For a week or two
tens of thousands of people crossed it
daily, so that it was continually thronged.
In a few months it was deserted, and after
a while it was taken down as useless.
Decoration day here was rendered note
worthy this year by the presence of the
President and Governor, and by a
parade of unusual dimensions. The chief
features of the latter were a couple of
companies of United States troops and the
seamen and marines belonging to the
North Atlantic squadron, who took part,
under command of Rear Admiral Cooper.
The marching of the Federal soldiery con
trasted by its greater precision with that
of the militia, as dftl their plain uniforms
and manly bearing with the gaudy garb
and holiday demeanor of the carpet knights
belonging to the Seventh regiment. At the
head of the Brooklyn rival to the Seventh—
the Thirteenth—rode Beecher, attired in
full uniform and with a cocked hat on his
head. He was the observed of all observ
ers and cynosure of all eyes, and was
greeted with continual cheering. Alto
gether, the Chaplain of the Thirteenth
Regiment proved a “bigger man” than
the Colonel. An object of greater inter
est to those who knew who he was, how
ever, was the single occupant of one of
the two foremost cariages of the proces
sion. It was Policeman Mackenzie, who
is one of the few simon pure, real, genu
ince survivors of the famous Six Hun
dred, that at Balaklava, charged an army
while all the world wondered. The Vic
toria cross which he proves
that he did his share or tiie charging.
For obviously politic reasons MacKen
zie affects to think little of his participa
tion in that immortal episode whose glory,
even the criticism, “It is magnificent, but
it is not war,’’ acknowledges, and boasts
as ot greater worth his services as a Fede
ral soldier during the civil war, which en
titled him to a place in the procession. In
spite of himself, however, he is known to
all the police force as "Balaklava” Mac-
Kenzie.
The latter part of Decoration day was
rendered frightful by the exaggerated re
ports ot the bridge disaster, which rumor
with her thousand tongues spread over
the city. The reality proved to be bad
enough, but it seemed little after hearing
that the bridge had given away and that
several thousand people were drowned.
These exaggerations of course caused the
“extras” to sell like hot cakes.
Pink eye is an ocular disease, whose
symptoms are swelling and soreness,
which is usually confined to horses, but
for the past month it has also shown itself
one of the thousand ills to which human
flesh in New York is heir to. It is quite
an epidemic here, and is no respecter of
persons. It affiicts equally the old and
the young, men and women, the rich and
the poor, Searle, Wallack’s leading ac
tor, had it so severely that the swelling
around his eyes was visible, without the
aid of an opera glass, whenever he ap
proached the footlights. His continuing
to play doubtless aggravated the com
plaint; for light—especially the glare of
artificial light—is injurious. Patients
suffering from the disease in a severe
form fire obliged to remain in h dark room
and give M.p nil use of their eyes. Rest
and water applications effect a cure in
about a week.
A queer story is told of William Alli
son, the editor of a trade paper here de
voted to drugs. He recently became in
sane, and he is now an inmate of the Utioa
lunatic asylum- Before his insanity was
suspected, and when he was still at large
his disease assumed the form of jealousy
of a valued servant in the family of a
friend, and he took this costly means of
removing him: He gav c hiiu his check for
SII,OOO on condition that he would sail on
the next Steamer for Europe. The man
willingly accepted the condition, and was
in such a hurry, after getting it cashed,
to leave the country that he \\eut away
with only a hand bag. containing hardly a
change pi Hrfeff. His giving a check for
so large an amount to a man in humble
circumstances caused some suspicions of
Mr. Allison’s condition to arise, and
he rendeied those suspicions a certainty
by threatening to shoot the fnlftud whom
he had, at so rqyai, expense to himself,
deprive m a servant. The lunatic, by
sortie means, was induced to confess the
connection of the check with the servant’s
disappearance, aud, consequently, when
the latter arrived at Uqceuetown, so the
story guCq, he was arrested in pursuance
ot a telegram, sent by the New Y'ork
police, asking for hie detention. It will
be a more difficult matter, I fancy, to
recover the SII,OOO if the man chooses to
be recalcitrant, and to insist that the
money is rightfully Lie, as he has ful
filled the condition on which it was given,
A clever lawyer, certainly, ought to
preserve for him both his liberty and
money.
Ihe Huguenots’ Association of Ameri
ca, which was organized hero on Tues
day, ought to jjnq many persons eligible
to mwnber»lup in the South. On' its
books thus far, French names are ludi
crously conspicuous by their absence.
For example, Mrs. Smith writes herself
down a Huguenot without explaining in
what way sho has French blood in her
veins. A son of Park Benjamin was so
conscious that his name was more Jewi- h
than French that he only signed himself
“William Romaine.” omitting his pa
tronymic.
'Hie theatrical season practically ends
with the month. Both of Wallack’n thea
tres close on Saturday, nnj exceptat the
Madison Square Theatre and the Casino
there win be no regular company playing
here for the next three months Irregular
organizations front the provinces, how
ever, will keep some of the other theatre,
open until the heat becomes unendurable
if not longer, y. p
Meeting of the Bridge Committee.
New York, June 2.—The committee Cu.
organization of the bridge ti usteesJ to
whom was referred the matter of the late
disgij'.ei, met' to-night, and declared it to
■ be unwise to allow pedestrians on the
; roadway assigned for horsey vehi
cles. The committee .«eeived many sug-
. gestions from all 'quarters in regard to
preventing recurrences of the disaster.
A Tbqr,; I r?nq Christ's Cruivu,
xt -VSHingiox, June 2,- It asserted
that one of tjie thorns of our Saviour’s
crqwn has been discovered at Reqni Pa,
Peru. The alleged discovery was followed
by grand religious ceremonies, and the de
\out ar--i donations on
the church where it was found.
“Mother Swan’s Worm Syrnn ”
Infallible, tasteless, fearpAle.l,, cathart
ic; for restlessness, worms,
l constipation. 25c. 1
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS.
DEATH OF A NOTED VIRGINIAN.
James R. Grant, the Slayer of H. Rives
Pollarrt.
Richmond i I’a., Special, Nfth.
James R. Grant, recently ot New Y’ork
city, and the son of Mr. iVm. 11. Grant, a
former wealthy tobacco manufacturer of
this city, died yesterday at the residence
of his brother-in-law, in Gosehland county.
He belonged to a family of high social
standing.
In 18f>9 he became notorious for having
killed H. Rives Pollard, the great tire-eat
ing editor of the Richmond Examiner.
Pollard at that time was publishing a
weekly paper known as the Soitl/ierii
Opinion, in which a slanderous article ap
peared assailing the character of Grant’s
sister. <>n the morning the paper appeared
containing the libelous article. Grant
seereted himself in a room in the
third story of a building diago
nally opposite the entrance
to Pollanl’s office, on Four
teenth street, near the corner of Main.
The editor, accompanied by his local re
porter. J. Marshal Hanna, got out of a
wagon at the street corner, and, taking
the lead of his companion, proceeded to
ward the entrance to his office. He had
scarcely moved a dozen paces up Four
teenth street when there was a puff of
smoke, followed by a loud report,
and Pollard fell dead, pierced through
and through with some eight or ten buck
shot. Hanna, the reporter, was close
behind him. but escaped unhurt. A large
crowd soon gathered and fearful excite
ment prevailed. Grant was found in the
room from whence the smoke came, and
also a double-barrelled shot gun with one
barrel empty and still warm from the re
cent discharge. He was arrested, and
when brought out of the building was
cheered by a large portion of the crowd.
He underwent a long and tedious tHal.
Edward A. Pollard, the author, and
brother of the deceased, published several
memorial numbers of the Southern Opin
ion, in which he urged the vengeance of
the law upon the murderer of his brother.
The late Governor Henry A. Wise defend
ed Grant, and he was filially acquitted.
While many approved the killing ofPol
lard under the circumstances, tlie manner
in which it was done was generally con
demned. Soon afterward young Grant
left Richmond and wen to New York,
where he joined the minstrels and be
came noted as a baritone singer of su
perior merit, under the name of James
Russell. He was well known in musical
circles throughout the North and the
West. He frequently visited this city
during the past twelve years, and was
always well received by his old friends.
He died of general debility, in the home of
the sister he [defended.' He was about
forty years of age at the time of his death.
He will be interred in Holy wood Ceme
tery, near this city.
‘“HOWARD’S" LAST ADVENTURE.
An Encounter on a Sound Steamer and
Wluit Came of It.
New York Better to Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Joe Howard, the journalist, looks older
than he feels, and a great deal more
sedate. He is very bareheaded, indeed,
when he takes his hat off, and his mus
tache and goatee are full of gray hairs.
His lace is shaped like Shakespeare’s, his
glasses impart an aspect of austerity, and
good clothes combine with a dignified
liearing to complete a solidly impressive
figure. Howard was coming home from
Boston on one of the big Sound steamers
the other night when he was surprised to
be taken in hand by a three-card monte
man.
He carefully concealed his knowledge
of such wickedness, and listened calmly
to the gambler, who put it in this way:
“Now, sir, this is a swindle, and I
frankly tell you so. Here are three cards.
One is a jack, and the rest are scattered.
I lay them face downward, thus; and
what I offer to bet is (hat you can’t pick
out the jack.”
“But the odds would be against me,”
said Howard.
“Then I’ll bet you SSO to $25,” said tlie
gambler.
All ibis time b<“ was lari up and relay
ing tbe three cards in a row, as though by
accident, so as to make Howard believe
that the right card could be surrepti
tiously identified. IVell, having placed
them finally, with the bent card seem
ingly the jack, while of course it wasn’t,
he said: “There they are, I will not touch
them again. You think you know which
is the jack, but I’ll bot two to one that you
don’t. Here’s my $25.”
“Too small an operation,” said Howard,
lazily.
“Make it any sum you please. Say $590
to $250.”
By this time a group of interested pas
sengers had gathered round the two men.
“All right,” said Howard, as he counted
out $250 from his wallet, and laid the
money down.
“And there’s my $500,” said the gam
bler, putting ten SSO bills on tb.e pile;
“understand, sir. that if you, pick out the
jack at one trying the money is yours,
and if you fail the money is mine.”
“Exactly so,” was the response,
The spectators thought. “What a fiool,”
and expected to see Howard pick up the
bent card, So did the gambler. Buthe
didn’t, He was perfectly familiar with
the trick, and therefore aware that, by
avoiding the bent card, the chances were
even that he would hit upon the jack. His
luck proved good. He turned over the
jack.
“Young man,” be remarked, as ho pock
eted the stakes, “I did feel resentful to
ward you, for it struck me that I ought
not to have been .mistaken for a mere gul
lible millionaire. But 1 forgive you. Let
there lie no animosity between us. Wo
will even drink a bottle of wine together,
And let me tell you how (o work a man
like me successfully Just k-nd the cor
ner ol the right card instead oi ihe wrong
one sire to and let him Ixximerang himself
with his own smartness.”
ARRESTED FOil NOTE RAISING.
A Little Boy’x Pev«ce t<i Purchase Fire-
Yiac.* ami Ammunition.
Washington Post.
A little boy named Charles Newton,
thirteen years old, was arrested and
locked up at the F ittt, precinct station
last evening on the charge of having
raised a one dollar bill to represent SSO,
U* pasting in each corner of the bill
the figure fifty cut from the tohaeou
stamps used on cigar boxes. The boy
went into the Remington arm store
of E. L. Stevens, on Market
space, and presented an alleged order
signed by John L. Conned for one Smith
& Wesson revolver, two styles of rifles,
one a rat and eat rifle; .‘J, (XX) cartridges for
the last named weapon, n parlor target,
ajnunition for tb/y revolver, cleaning ap
paratus., etc,, the whole amounting to
$43,75. When the boy tendered the bill it
w as al once rejected and he was arrested.
He claimed that a man w hom he met on
Seventh street gave him the order, but the
police are inclined fQ think that he has
been reading some trashy boys’ litera
ture aud was preparing to fight' “the In
i dians.’’
N'u Discount There,
Mill Street
X few weeks since a railroad collision
on one of the reads leading out ol New
York killed, among others, a passenger
living in an interior town. His remains
were sent home in good shape, and a few
days after the tuner;*,l the attorney of the
road called ty>Qa the widow to effect a set
tlement, She placed her figures at S2O -
000.
“Oh! that sum is unreasonable," re
plied the attorney. Your husband was
nearly 50 year. v ld.’’
“Yes, sir.”
“And lame?”
“Yes.”
“And his general health was poor?”
“Quite po«r.”
“And he probably would not have lived
over five years?”
“Probably not, air.”
“ t’hen it seems to me that two or three
thousand dollars wonld be a fair compen
sation,”
“Two or three thousand!” she echoed.
“Why, sir, I courted that man for ten
years, run after him for ten more and then
had to chase him down will* a shotgun to
get him before a prumtier! Do you sup
pose that I'm going to settle for the bare
v o»i of shoeleather and ammunition ?•”
What the London Tildes Came From.
The Daily Universal }{e<jist<--.\ out of
wbicii the London Times sprang, was a
dingy little sheet, about twice as large as
a sheet ol foolscap, without a “leader,”
and containing a small number of well
selected paragraphs of news. It had oc
cas;uv<aify a short notice of the plays of
the night before and a few iteiiys Os what
we now call fashionable intelligence
The advertisement*, after the paper had
been in • t <.«scnce three years, average.*
filly a day, most of them very short.
Its .price was six cents, Tbo paper on
which it was printed was coarse and
cheap. In the third year of its existence,
on the Ist of January, 1788, the name was
-nanged to the Times.
Mr. J. I. Leta.eis, Mclntosh, Ga., says:
“Brown's Iron Bitters relieved my sister
Cl general debility and dyspepsia.”
FETE IN RUSSIA.
A MILLION PEOPLE SWARMING
PETROFFSKY PARK.
One Hundred and Forty Wagon Load,
of Beer Drunk by the Throng—The
Czar aud Czarina Greeted With Deaf,
ening Cheers—No Sign of Nihilistic
Vengeance.
Moscow, June 2.—The fete at the Pet
roffsky Park to-day was on a colossal
scale. The land upon which the enter
tainments were given embraced about
100 hectares. There were four immense
theatres in which performances were
given. Circus performance, ballets, pan
tomime and processions ofhorsemen were
included. It is estimated that fully
1,000,000 ;>ersons were at the fete. One
hundred and forty wagons loaded with
barrels of beer arrived on the ground
during the morning, and by noon all this
supply of beer hail been exhausted.
The t’zar and Czarina, on their
arrival in the park during
tiie afternoon, were received with deafen
ing eheers by the multitude. Large num
bers of peasants hail walked trom distant
provinces to attend the fete. One of the
features of this immense gathering was
the lack of disturbances, the people
throughout the day behaving in the most
orderly manner.
At the ball given by General Von
Sehweinitz, the German Ambassador,
last evening, the Emperor and Grand
Dukes appeared in the uniform of German
officers. They also wore their German or
ders.
It is stated that the Mayor
of Moscow intends to resign
in consequence of the disapproval
that has been expressed of a speech which
be delivered at the banquet given to tho
Mayors of cities. Thecity is almost empty
of people to-day, owing to the greater
part of the population having gone to the
Petroffsky park, to participate in the im
mense fete there in honor of the corona
tion of tht* Czar. According to the pro
gramme for the fete, the Emperor will
visit the park at 2 o’clock this afternoon.
Tiie editors of the foreign newspapers
represented at the coronation of the Czar
have been requested to forward to the
press bureau at Moscow copies of their
journals, to aid in preparing a history of
the coronation.
St. Petersburg, June 2.—The Em
peror has granted the Roskolnik Sects,
dissenters from the Greek Church, liberty
to change their domiciles, to engage in
trade, to hold office and to perform
their religious rites, but they are pro
hibited trom having public processions.
FRANCE’S WARS IN THE EAST
Challamel Lacour Not App.-«heiiHive >l*u
a Serioua Rupture with China.
Tamatav, June 2.—Merchants here are
sending their goods to the interior for se
curity in ease the French bombard Tama
tav.
London, June 2.—Malagassy envoys,
in an interview to-day, stabs! "that they
have received no fresh instructions from
home since the recent attack by the
French on Madagascan territory. They
expressed the lielief that the property be
longing to Americans must have suffered
during the bombardment of Majunga, as
there are two large American houses in
the town.
Toulon, June 2.—Tiie French trans
port Mytho has sailed for Tonouin, with
1,600 troops.
Paris, June 2.—ln the Senate to-day M.
Challamel Lacour, Minister of Foreign
Atlairs, replying to a question of the
Coinpte de St. Vallier, said that all neces
sary measures would be taken to ensure
the success of the expedition against,
lonquin. By the end of the month, he
stated, there would be a small army there
capable of coping with the difficulty. The
government, he said, must endeavor to
smooth the difference with China. There
was no reason to believe that thatcoun
tp' Would seek a rupture with France or
that she would intervene where she bad
no right or interest.
A MONUMENT TO GARIBALDI.
Italy’s Sons Paying Tribute to the Dead
Liberator’s Memory.
Bomk, June 2.—The Chamber of Depu
ties has adopted unanimously the pro
posal to appoint a commission to discuss
a report upon the bill for erecting a na
tional monument to Garibaldi on Jani
culum hill, the site of Garibaldi’s defense
of Rome against the French in 1849.
~ Tl ? e anniversary of the death of Gen.
Garibaldi was commemorated to-dav
throughout Italy. The Syndie of Rome
unveiled a bust of Garibaldi in the capi
tol. A nunilter of persons formed in pro
cession and marched to the capital to
witness the unveiling ceremony. In pass
ing the Austrian embassee’s the proces
sionists shouted “Viva Overdank!”
1 lie < hainber of Deputies to-dav passed
a bill providing for the erection of a
national menument to Garibaldi on Ja
niculum hill.
Spain Itching for Portugal,
Madrid, June 2.—At a banquet to the
J ortuguese and Spanish statesmen given
iTi I*?? i“ ,gh r k ythe . Vi< * I’residfnt of
the Chamber of Deputies, Honor Castelar
m;ule a speech m which he advocated
union between spain and Portugal. Vis
count Almendinh, a Portuguese, in reply
oe.uded out the obstacles to the union be
tween a tranquil nation like Portugal and
an agitated country like Spain.
Uniting Against England.
Loxixjn June 2.—The Vienna corre
spondent of the central news reports that.
1 ui key is seeking a coalition with Russia
against British influence in Egypt.
English Men-of-War Going to China.
PoirisMOL iH, Eng., June 2.-It is re
ported that the men of-war Shannon and
Bi:i>ert will proceed to China to reinforce
the British squadron there.
ratt *h €>rav<?.
Letter to the liditor of the London baity h’ewt.
. to look for Grattan’s tomb
tn Westminster Abbey. Knowing that it
consisted ot a plain blab near the more
majestic monuments of Pitt and Castle
reagh. I examined the floor, and after
some difficulty found it so placed that it
could not possibly attract attention, and
could only lie discovered by a dilligent
IT’ . ~ no under one of the seats
which, with their footboards, now cover
many of the plain-slab monuments in this
part of the abbey. In these davs, when
not a sow Englishmen look back with lin
gering regret at the crushing out of the
hofies of the great Irish patriot, who al
ways aimed to avoid arousing “an alien
or distrustful spirit toward England,” we
might surely nay as much respect to the
memory of Henry Grattan as to let his
simple tomb lie open to the public gaze
when this needs merely the removal of
the last, or at most the last two seats of
the series which now covers it.
A cool and charming dress for morning
in the country is of pale gray nun’s veil
ing, with the skirt in five lengthwise plait
ings from belt to foot in front, but only
halt that depth behind. The gracefully
festooned polonaise is caught up very
short on the front and hips by bows of
nrirow gray and garnet Ottoman ribtion,
and liows to match are on the tournure.
Pain Siller.
CAUGHT
a BAD COLD I
The SUMMER COLDS and
Coughs are quite as dan
gerous as those of
midwinter.
But they yield to the same
treatment and ought
to be taken in
time.
For all diseases of THROAT,
NOSTRILS, HEAD or
BREATHING AP
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