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ESTABLISHED 1850. , j 13. ESTILL. Editor and Proprietor. AN ASTOUNDING SUICIDE. . FRIEND of ARTHUR AND CONKLING THE VICTIM. found Dead In Hiss Office by Hig Mig tre.g—l'tlca, N. Y., Hig Home and \rtliur 15-'Jobnson Hig Name—A Start - Hoc Chapter on the Penalties of Illicit Cove. I ri< a. N. Y., Nov. 3.—Arthur B. John .,n a lawyer and well known politician, aH found dead in his office this forenoon j , ut b a pistol ball in his breast. He was I a n uncle of Johnson L. Lynch who was i • by E. N. Rowell, in Batavia, on Tues ,|.(v ni"bt lor seducing Rowell’s wife, and (j./.y occupied the same office. Johnson I ably committed suicide while suffer* ‘ |l2 from depression caused by the shoot ing of Lynch. I'h<. Evening Post's special about the _ 'i.b of Arthur B. Johnson at Utica -‘No doubt is longer enter tained that it was a case of suicide. It > I set the community in wilder commo-j t ‘i', in than did the shooting of his nephew, ; neb. The deed was done in his private <• in the Tibbits block, but at what I ~i can only be conjectured. Johnson g.-en on the street last night at 11 ~k. He was not at his home during the nizht. This morning at 9:45 Miss j,. na Bender, a woman with whom his intimacy has been notorious for years, .■ntcred his private room by means of a uui.licato key, which she carried. She ~iw tlm dead man, and ran into the hall, sbri'-king. im, he’s dead! My darling’s dead.’ ••Gentlemen having offices on the floor hurried in, and the news flew over the city like wild-tire. The office and street in front were quickly filled with men. The woman in the present case is not more than 25 years old. Her home, just across the Mohawk river, in Dariield, has been bis retreat during the debauches in which he not infrequently indulged. He hud a wife and four interesting children, the oldest of whom is under 20 vears. Johnson was about 55 years old, and in recent years has been conspicuous as a Stalwart Republican and a close friend of Roscoe Conkling. President Arthur appointed him commissioner to examine a section of the Northern Pa cific Railroad. His death is a shock to this community, but is not entirely a sur prise. He was a brother of the late I Judge Alexander S. Johnson. The Commercial Advertiser's dispatch i from Utica says that Johrtson was a friend ' of Conkling and President Arthur and has aiwave been prominent at political con ventions. He never held tiny political : office from the people, but his influence has always been great through this sec tion. The Johnson family is one of the | oldest and best in this community. I Arthur B. Johnson’s wife, who survives him, is an only daughter of Justice Ward j Hunt, retired, of the United States Su preme Court. It is claimed that the John- j son family comes from the Adamses, of 1 Massachusetts. 11 is scarcely two months ; since the youngest sister of Arthur B. Johnson was followed to the grave. The I sudden death of George B. Alley, who married Johnson’s sister, made another rent in the family’s ranks. Then came the startling news of the tragic death of young Lynch at Batavia, and last of all the shocking end of Johnson. The most painful feature connected with the tragedy is the anguish of the mother who has suffered these successive bereave ments. Johnson was devoted to Conkling, j and while in active politics each relied uponthe judgment oftheother. Conkling’s retirement was followed by Johnson's withdrawal from active politics, and the i party lost not only an influential friend, but a liberal and constant contributor. Johnson was one of the richest men in this city, and held more land in Utica titan any other citizen. The effect of his death upon Judge Hunt, whose condition is such that he removes to Washington every winter, is regarded as dubious. Judge Hunt only left on Thursday for Washington. The story of Johnson Lynch's tragic death is still fresh in tne minds of the public, it having occurred but a few days ago. He was a well-known lawyer of i Utica, and his slayer was E. N. Rowell. ! of Batavia, N.Y. Lynch was infatuated with Rowell’s young and beautiful wile, ' and although frequently warned that the ■ boldness of his visits would surely expose j him to danger, he assumed the risks and [ met his death at the hands of an infuriated i and dishonored husband. They were | formerly neighbors in Utica, Mr. Rowell ( removing to Batavia 10 years ago, where ' he is a member of the firm of Palmer ■ Rowell, paper box manufacturers, who formerly transacted business in Utica, j On the night of the tragedy Rowell, who had become suspicious of his wife's | faithfulness, left home, telling her I that he was going West on a business j trip. He proceeded directly to the Na tional Hotel, where he remained in seclu- ' sion until a few minutes before 6 o’clock, at which time the train was due from Utica, upon which Lynch arrived. His wife was at the depot to meet him. Rowell hastened to his home, which was vacant, I his children having been sent by his wife ( to visit a friend. Rowell secreted him self, and watched Mrs. Rowell and Lynch enter the house and sat doo n at the tea ; table. After the meal they went | to the room up-stairs usually ' occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Rowell. Rowell was bidden up stairs. After < Lynch and Mrs. Rowell had entered the I room Rowell stepped noiselessly into the I hall. Through an open door he saw the i man and woman in the commission of a | crime. The bed stands within six feet of the door. Rowell fired two shots in quick I succession. One ball passed between the I face of Lynch and Mrs. Rowell, clipping a piece out of the door-easing and striking a chimney on the opposite side of the room. It was found on the floor. The ball came ■ soelose to the faces of those in the bed that j it discolored their faces, and on Mrs. Rowell’s left temple it grazed the scalp, j The second ball was buried in the pillow. ; Lynch started up quickly, and ran out of the room and down stairs. Rowell fol- | lowed and fired two more shots, one strik- ' ing Lynch in the back, penetrating 1 through the lower edge of the right shoul- : der blade behind and passing diagonally through the body, severing the aorta at the base of the heart and lodging in the j muscles of the left chest. It caused in- i slant death. Those who heard the shots and arrived j early met a shocking sight. Upon cross- | ing the threshold Lynch lay' dead on the | carpet at the foot of the stairs. He was < iu his shirt-sleeves, and was divested of hat and shoes. His feet were toward the ! street door and his head reclinedin a pool of blood. Rowell, his murderer, stood calmly at the side of his victim. “What is the matter?” asked a neigh bor. “I found this man in my house, and I shot him," answered Rowell. “He be trayed my wife, and I caught him in the act.” Mrs. Rowell was pacing up and down the stairs, sobbing violently and wring ing her hands, "See what you have done,” she said to I her husband’ "You will have to be ■ hung.” “Well. 1 shall have to suffer, and not you." responded Rowell. "1 warned you time after time about this man.” Coroner Lozier soon arrived, being fol- , lowed by Under Sheriff South worth and Officer Robson. By this time Rowell had gone up stairs and was conversing with his wife. When the officers approached him be submitted quietly to arrest. After he had put on his overcoat ami hat he turned to his wife and said: ““Well, Jen nie. 1 have got to go to jail. Good bye. Won't you kiss me before I go?" His voice was tender and compassionate, and her reply was breathed between sobs and sighs. "Oh, how can 1; oh. how can I. I after doing such an act?” she. piteously asked. His wife did not kiss him, and he ! accompanied the officers to the justice’s office and thence to the jail, having been : committed for murder in the first degree. Two letters from Mrs. Rowell were j found in Lynch’s pockets. The first, writ ten a week ago to-day, began, "Dearest John." The second note was w ritten on Monday afternoon, and is as follows: "I am alone; R. went away this morning. He will be absent two weeks or longer. If agreeable to you I should be glad to ■ see you some evening this week, say Thursday or Friday. Can you not get here at six, and come up to tea soon af terwards? I will try and have the chicks in dreamland by seven.’’ Mrs. Rowell has been a subject of interest and con versation for many gentlemen susceptible to her charms. Her anguish is heart rending, and she cries out wildly, "What "ill mother say?” and "Oh, my child ren.” ’Revelation suggests the idea that from woman comes the power to "bruise the serpent’s head.” The words take a new meaning to-day since this is precisely what Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Remedies do for the physically diseased patient. Her Vegetable Compound reaches the ultimate sources of the evil. Its action is gentle and noiseless, but it is more powerful than the club of Hercules.— Bazar. W Hlormiw 31 cus. COLOMBIA’S EXCITEMENT. Disturbances Feared Over the Elec tion—A Town Sunk from Sight. Panama. Oct. 28.—Great excitement exists throughout the interior of the Re public. Troops are being moved in dif ferent directions, and although no out breaks have occurred fear appears to be generally entertained that trouble is im minent. It is certain that the Colombian guard has been employed to prevent a vote being obtained,and there-seems no reason to doubt that all the coast stations would have gone for Wilches, and that hardly a vote outside of the government circles would have favored Nunez, had it not been for the preser.ee of Federal troops. General Rafael Aizpura, ex-President of the State, ex-Senator and Deputy to the State Assembly of Panama, is at present in the common jail here, where he has been put by his political enemies. He is the leader on the Isthmus of the Liberal party, which declares that Nunez has not been elected President. Panama, Nov. 3. — La Consigna, a news paper of Medillin, says: “Rumor declares that the town of Quibdo, on the bank of the Atrate river, has sunk into the earth. This news was received by telegraph by way of Cartego, Canea. If true, the catas trophe must have occurred some weeks ago.” FOLGEK IN NEW YORK. No More Bond Calls Probable in the Near Future. Washington, Nov. 3. —Secretary Fol ger left Washington this afternoon for New York. He will leave New York on Monday morning for his home at Geneva, where he will remain until after the New York election. Before leav ing the city to-day Secretary Fol ger said that a caretui estimate showed that the surplus or reserve fund of the Treasury on December 31 would not exceed $137,000,000. In consequence of this, unless the receipts for November prove to be greater than it is expected they will be, it is not probable that another call for bonds will be issued very soon Up to the close ot business to-day there had been received for redemption but 150 United States bonds embraced in the 122 d and 123 d calls which matfire De cember 1 and 15 respectively. MR. MOREHEAD AT BOSTON. The Zeal of the Indefatigable Worker , Not Flagging in the Least. Boston, Nov. 3. Commissioner General Moreheard,of the World’s Exposi tion to be held at New Orleans next year, . arrived here to-day and met a large num- I her of the exhibitors at the American j exposition, who it is expected will dupli ; cate their exhibits at New Orleans. Mr. Morehead will visit the Governors of the ! New England States for the purpose of . organizing and perfecting exhibits from these States. Mr. Morehead, who is also President of the National Cotton Planters Association, requests the Governors of the cotton manufacturing States of New England and the President of the New England Cotton Manufacturers Associa tion to appoint delegates to the conven tion of the first named association to be held at Vicksburg November 21. KILLED HIS WEALTHY MISTRESS Kate Townsend Punctured Five Times with Bill Sykes' Knife. New Orleans, Nov. 3.—Kate Town send, a wealthy' and notorious keeper of a bagnio, was killed this morning by Wil liam Sykes, with whom she has lived for twenty-fiye years. lie stated that he had learned that she intended to discard him. Sykes gave himself up. There were five wounds about her chest, each of them being an inch and a half wide and eight inches deep, a knife having been driven to the hilt every time. She had also re ceived several scalp wounds and one on the arm. Kate Townsend is reported to have been worth about $200,000, mostly in real estate. Business Embarrassments. Cincinnati, Nov. 3. —A dispatch from Clyde, Ohio, says: “The Clyde Bank closed its doors and suspended payment yesterday. About $600,000 was held on deposit. D. A. Heffner was anpointedre ceiver. E. H. Southland, a hardware dealer, assigned to G. P. Huntly in con sequence of the bank’s failure. The assets and liabilities are not known.” Clyde, 0., Nov. 3.—Cashier P. W. Parkhurst, of the Clyde Banking Com pany, left here last Wednesday and has not returned. The other two’partners, A. Richards and D. E. Harkness, are ex pected to make good the deposits, which amount to from $60,000 to $75,000. The suspension is thought to have been caus ed by the bank’s carrying too much un safe paper. No defalcation is suspected. Chicago, Nov. 3.—The liabilities of Culver, Page, Hayne & Co., stationers, who failed this week, are stated to be $556,000 and the assets $327,000. Montreal, Nov.3.—Daigneault & Co., bark dealers of St. Hyacinthe, have as signed to William Farrell, manager of the East Township Bank, for the benefit of their creditors. The liabilities are $250,006. Liverpool, Nov. 3, 1:30r. m.—The cot ton market is duller, owing to the failure last evening of Hollinshead. Jetley & Co. It is now believed thatany further failure will be comparatively unimportant. London, Nov. 3. —The Manchester Guardian's Liverpool correspondent states that Hollinshead, Tetley & Co. have 90,- 000 bales of cotton uncovered, and that their liabilities are estimated at £130,000. At the State Capital. Atlanta, Nov. 3.—At noon to-day the jury in the Barrett-Mason murder’ case brought in a verdict of not guilty,after hav ing been out since 4 o’clock yesterday. Barrett’s aged mother, who sat by his side, embraced him and wept freely from joy. It was a deeply impressive scene. It will be remembered that Mason was shot a few weeks ago and after lingering several days, finally died. Paul, son of Rev. Dr. Kendall, of Trinity Church, fell and broke his wrist this morning in the gymnasium at Pro fessor Means’ school. Major Smyth hesitates to take the At lanta post office unless the government provides more help and less responsi bility. A Floridian’s Horrible Fate. Mount Carrie, Fla., Nov. 3.—An ac cident happened Thursday about two miles beyond Lake City, resulting in the killing of Janies Sturges. Mr. Sturges, who is section boss, was at the depot in Lake City with his pole car, and when the west bound passenger train came in he concluded to hitch his car to the rear passenger coach and let it pull him and his car up six miles to his home. When about two miles from town the engine gave a sudden jerk, throwing Sturges ofl - . His head came in contact with a cross tie. and it knocked the whole one side of his head off. killing him instantly. He leaves a wife and wo or three small children.t Labor Ejects Anarchy. Paris. Nov. 3.—During the supple mentary meeting of the International La bor Conference last evening, a brisk scuffle occurred between a number of delegates and some 30 anarchists, princi pally Italians. The latter were forcibly ejected from the hall. One of the principal features throughout the conference has been the prominent attitude of the English female orators. Mine. Van Zandt Attacked. Paris, Nov. 3.—While Mme. Van Zandt, the American prima donna was returning home from the Opera Comique last night, a man armed with a revolver made an at tack upon her. The police heard Mme. Van Zandt’s cries tor help and arrested her assailant, who proved to lie a person named Merlac. He had previously threatened Mme. Van Zandt. The Convict Murderer to Die. Chicago, Nov. 3.—A verdict was ren dered in the Mooney murder ease at Joliet to-dav, the jury finding Mooney guilty of murder in the first degree and affixing the penalty at death. Mooney is a con vict and murdered his cell mate, named Anderson. The case was made doubly sensational from the fact that the victims body was exhumed. Starting to Kun to the Fire. It was in Lowell, Mass. An alarm of tire was sounded, and the engine was rap idly driven out of the engine house. One of the horses took fright, pranced wildly about, and ran the engine against the brick door frame. Chief Engineer Hos mer was severely bruised and two of his ribs were broken. For three weeks the phvsicians doctored him. Then a friend brought him some Perry Davis’ Pain Killer. On being rubbed with this, he was soon well. Best liniment in the world. a ' A BATTLE_OFTHE RACES. WHITES AND BLACKS FIGHTING AT DANVILLE. Five Negroes Killed and Two White Men Wounded—A Petty Dispute Pre cipitates the Conflict—The Negroes Kun—Troops Called Out and Peace Restored. Danville, Va.. Nov. A conflict oc curred between a crowd of white and col ored men this evening, in which Walter 8. Holland, a son of C. G. Holland, was shot in the head and is supposed to be mortally wounded, and Thomas Seward was shot through the body. Five negroes were killed, and it is supposed that many were wounded. The beginning of the j conflict was the beating by one of the i citizens of a negro, who abused another ' negro for apologizing for an apparent ■ rudeness and spoke, roughly about the i citizen. Some of both colors inter fered and a pistol was knocked . out of the hands of one of the white men and exploded. Just then | a report reached an assembly of white i citizens, who were in session about politi | cal matters, that a conflict was going on ■ in the street, and they came out in a body. As both classes formed in separate j crowds, some of each crowd being armed, i a number of negross approaching the I white crowd called out : i “Shoot, d —n you! We had as soon set ' tie this thing now as at any other time,” Just then somebody in the white crowd called out “fire,” and tiring began. The negroes returned the fire and ran off, some firing as they ran. All the stores were closed immediately and the alarm bell was sounded and the people came out with arms. The Town Sergeant came out soon after with one of the military companies and commanded the people in the name of the Commonwealth to go home and the streets ware soon cleared. The city is now under the supervision of one of the military com panies and mounted police, and the Town Sergeant, in response to a message from the Governor offering assistance if needed, has telegraphed that all is quiet, and that no further trouble is apprehended. No arrests have been made as yet. WHITES AND BLACKS. ■ Interesting Incidents of the Conflict for Social Equality. Galveston, Nov.3.—An Austin special says that Adjutant General King reports that the negroes are dissatisfied with the plan of exclusive cars for their accommo dation, and says that, train men on the Texas Central, whose system has just been inaugurated, have been compelled to take colored people out of the cars as signed to whites. Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 3.—A large meeting of prominent colored citizens held last night adopted resolutions ex pressing regret at the decision of the Supreme Court in the civil rights case, and asking the people of the State to join in petitioning the Legislature to repeal all its acts discriminating against colored people and protesting against confound ing social and civil rights and favoring the encouragement of colored people in habits of economy and intellectual cul ture. They also compliment Judge Han lan. Addresses were made by Congress man Casey, Young and others. Birmingham, Nov. 3.—At a meeting here to-day of a large number ot the rep resentative negroes of this section, called to express the sentiments of the colored people on the decision of the United States Supreme Court on the civil rights act, resolutions were passed denouncing the court and condemning the act as a deception to the colored people. J. 11. Welch, chairman of the meeting, in a speech advocated the cultivation ot more friendly relations with the whites of the South. He said that he believed that the Southern people, without regard to party lines, would prove the last refuge of the colored people, and would help them to reach a higher and nobler manhood. Stocks in' England. London, Nov. 3.—The Economist of this week says that the rate of discount tor bank bills from 60 days to 3 months is 2% per cent., and lor trade bills from 60 days to 3 months and 3 per cent. In the first half of the week the threatening aspect of the Chinese difficulty and the failures in the cotton trade in Liverpool caused a fall in the leading securities and consols. Prices again receded on Friday on the withdrawal from the Bank of Eng i land of bullion which was for shipment to America. The Economist also says that it is remarkable that with all this gloom the actual fall in prices has not been greater. The Central Pacific shares, Denver and Rio Grande, Anglo American Telegraph and Wabash preferred have fallen 1 per cent., Louisville and Nash ! ville IX per cent., and Lake Shore 2. St | Louis and San Francisco common have | advanced 1 per cent, and do. preferred 2. Starving on an Island. Key AVest, Fla., Nov. 3.—Captain Adams, of the schooner Henry Dennison, reports that on passing Swaii Island on October 24 his vessel was boarded by a boat seeking provisions. The island peo . pie, fourteen in number, had nothing to subsist upon but cocoanuts. There are wild hogs there, but no ammunition with I which to shoot them. Captain Adams I supplied them with provisions, probably enough to last ten days. This compelled j him to put in here. The people were ex pecting a vessel from Baltimore with pro visions, but she was very much overdue. If no sail passed since the Dennison left the island. Captain Adams says, the peo ple must be nearly starving. ♦Jacksonville Notes. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 3.—lt is currently reported and believed that Sir Edward Reed purchased the 2,000,000 acres of Disston lands disposed of to some English syndicate. The directors of the new company, headed by the dis tinguished English nobleman, have sailed for this country and they are expected shortly. These extensive sales indicate a continued growing interest in Fiorida lands. Three of a gang of burglars who com mitted several robberies have been ar rested. One is seriously wounded. William Astor, of New York, is in the city. Mrs. Gibbs’ Antecedents. Baltimore, Nov. 3. —Mrs. Elizabeth B. Gibbs, who threw herself from the New j York limited express train, three miles , east of this city, yesterday afternoon, died j this afternoon at the City Hospital. Mrs. | Gibbs was the widow of Dr. B. F. Gibbs, ■ of the United States navy, and had been ! to New York to meet herchildren on their ■ arrival from Europe. Mrs. Gibbs was a ; daughter of Dr. Kellogg, of Washington. Dr. Gibbs died at Trieste a little more 1 than a year ago. Mrs. Gibbs had shown I evidences of an unsettled mind frequently ■ since her husband’s death. Telephone Wires Cut. Sioux Falls, Dak.. Nov. 3.—By direc- i tion of the City Council the telephone I poles and wires' in the principal streets were cut this morning by policemen—the order for the removal ot the poles to al levs having been disregarded by the com pany. The plant is the property of the Erie telegraph and Telephone Company. Notice was served at the same tune on the Western Union Company, and was also disregarded, but their lines have not yet been interfered with. Marietta and North Georgia Wins. Atlanta. Nov. 3.—To-day Judge Hani- I mond, in Siqierior Court Chambers, de cided the injunction suit of the lessees of the convicts of the State against the Ma rietta and North Georgia Railroad. He decided that the principal keeper should deliver convicts to the road in accordance with the resolution of the Legislature, ex cept that be should not discriminate by . giving all infirm and old convicts to the lessees. Both sides will carry the case to the higher court. Sentences Passed in Chicago. Chicago. Nov. 3.—Elery H. Andrews, a clerk in the Northwestern National Bank, who confessed tnree days ago to < the embezzlement of $9,500, plead guilty this morning and was sentenced to three I years in the penitentiary. Judge Hawes this morning sentenced a man named ■ Zimmerman to six months in the county i jail tor an attempt to bribe a juror in the interest of the Northwestern Railroad, which was being sued for personal dam ages. Germany as a Mediator. London. Nov. 3. —A Berlin dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company states that the German Government has offered its services to settle the dispute between Russia and Bulgaria, and has advised Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, not to be rash in his actions. Mr. T. G. Hutchins, Jeffersonville, Qa„ i says: “Brown’s Iron Bitters cured, me i of weak stomach and sick headacne.’ SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1883. ON THE FIRE KING’S ALTAR. Thousands of Dollars Worth of Proper ty Offered Up to the Flames. Macon, Nov. 3.—A dispatch says that a fire at Rockvillage, in Upson county, has destroyed a row of business houses. It originated in a cotton gin. The loss is $15,000. There is no insurance. Dayton, 0.. Nov. 3.—The round house and repair shops of the Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad, were totally burned this evening. The buildings hail i been completed only two weeks and were not insured. Paris, Ky., Nov. 3.—A fire this morn ing destroyed R. B. Hutchcraft's four story warehouse, filled with hemp, wool, blue-grass seed a.id grain. The loss is $50,000. Richmond, Va., Nov. 3.—The plaster, bark and sumac mills and lime and ce ment warehouse of Warner Moore, in this city, were burned to-day. The loss is $30,000 and the insurance $15,500. Glasgow, Nov. 3.—The upholstery warehouse of Wylie & Lochhead and the | buildings adjoining it were burned to , night. The fire is still raging, and the premises of the Herald are threatened. The loss is from £150,000 to £200,000. A Blaze at Eden. Eden, Ga., Nov. 3.—At half-past 9 o’clock last night an alarm of fire was sounded, and the Central Railroad’s en gine house was found on tire. The whole of one side of the roof was in a blaze, but by the hard work of Agent Terrell and another man the fire was soon con quered. If the house had burned ten minutes longer there would have been no chance for it, and the warehouse would probably have been lost too. The cause of the tire is attributed to the careless ness of the engineer, an old colored man. Man’s Fight With Kum. Chicago, Nov. 3.—An attempt was made before Judge Rogers, in the Circuit Court to-day, to test the validity and scope of the State high license bill pro viding the minimum license ot $250 for beer and SSOO per year for whisky sa loons. The suit was In the form of a mandamus to compel the Mayor to issue to saloon-keepers $lO3 licenses, under the local ordinance in effect prior to the pass age of the State license law. The court held that the State Legislature enactment was binding, and denied the petition. The matter will now go to the Supreme Court without delay. Cuban A (Fairs. Havana, Nov. 3.—Seventy deaths from yellow fever occurred here during the past week. The late rain storm at Santiago de Cu ba did much damage to property, fifty houses being destroyed. L' Voz de Cuba has information that the Cubtuis at Key West and a number of bandits have entered into a conspirocy to make a descent on Cuba. They also con template assassinating the Spanish Con sul at Key West. Kansas Pacific's Claims. Topeka, Kansas, Nov. 3.—The answer of the Kansas Pacific Railway in petitions on quo warranto proceedings pending in the Supreme Court has been filed. It al leges that it has received no warrants under the State, but has all its authority from acts of Congress. It denies any right of the State to forfeit its franchise, and claims that paramount control over it ex ists solely in the Government of the Uni ted States. The Cause of the Indian Troubles Deming, N. M„ Nov. 3.—Now that the Chiricahuas are coming to the reserva tion, it has become known that their breaking faith with General Crook was due to the influence which thrives on the Indian disturbances. On two occasions the Indians crossed the line, but were in duced to return. General Crook is now conducting military movements between Wilcox and the line. Half Breeds on the War Path. Chicago, Nov. 3. —A special dispatch from Fort Buford, Dakota, says that the Camp Cree half breeds are creating trouble at White Earth, fifty miles south of Buford. Many ranches have been plundered and a number ot cattle driven off and killed. General Whistler has been appealed to for aid, and he has re ferred the matter to Department head quarters in St. Paul. An Exposition’s Success. Boston, Nov. 3. —The great exposi tion of the New England Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute closed to-night with an extremely large attendance, at least 30,000 persons being present. The exhibition has been the most creditable of its kind ever seen in New England, and the profits to the managers will aggregate at least $20,000. No National Bank for the Indian Terri tory. Washington, Nov. 3.—Comptroller Knox says that he Will decline to grant authority to operate a national bank in the Indian Territory. His declination will be based upon the ground that the applicants are not citizens, and hence are not entitled to privileges under the banking act. An Exciting Day Anticipated. Jackson, Miss., Nov. 3.—An exciting time is expected on Tuesday (election day), especially in Madison and Hinds counties, where the contest will probably be close. The political excitement has been growing more and more intense during the present canvass for members ot the Legislature. A Victory for the Chinamen. San Francisco, Nov. 3.—Judge Hoff man, ot the United States District Court, in hearing the Chinese habeas corpus cases to-day, intimated that he would de cide that all Chinamen, formerly resi dents of San Francisco, who left prior to the issuance of return certificates are en titled to land. Banished from St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, Nov. 3.—Prince Gebeleff, wjio originated the device of a wreath with broken chains which was one of the floral offerings at the funeral of Tourgenieff,the Russian novelist, has been expelled from St, Petersburg and placed under police surveillance. Mississippi at the Fair. Jackson, Nov. 3.—The first State fair held in Mississippi in the past seven years, closed here to-day. There were tine exhibits in all the departments. Clear weather and a vast crowd of visitors made it a great success. There will be an annual fair hereafter. Stabbed with a Pocket Knife. St. Louis, Nov. 3.—ln a row at a dance at the house of Alexander Brown, at La mar, Mo., Brown cut a young man named Banner with a pocket knife, severing his jugular vein, and killing him instantly. The murderer, who is a son of Hon. Rob ert Brown, surrendered. A Great Kailroad Lease. New Orleans, Nov. 3.—A dispatch from Corpus Christi, Texas, says that the Mexican National Railway has effected a ninety-nine-year lease of the Texas Mexican Railway. It will hereafter be known as the Texas division of the for mer roa<L Anarchy in Afghanistan. St. Petersburg, Nov. 3.—The latest accounts from Afghanistan show that the country is in a state of complete anarchy. The exchequer is "Without funds and the troops are demoralized. The Ameer is a mere plaything in the hands of Ghilzais. Peasants up in Arms. Belgrade, Nov. 3.—The peasants at Cerna Reka are making violent demon strations. and refuse to surrender their arms. Troops have been sent to the scene to suppress the disorders, and mar tial law has been proclaimed. Death of the Oldest Editor. Charlestown. W. Va.. Nov. 3—P. N. ' Gallaher died here this morning. Mr. , i Gallaher oas perhaps the oldest editor in I the United States, having been at the | helm for two-thirds of a century. Au Impostor or a Lunatic. Berlin, Nov. 3.—The German press . generally regard Protrowski, who says he was sent by Russian Nihilists to kill Prince Bismarck, as an impostor or a lu l natic. Alabama’s Homestead Entries. Washington, Nov. 3.—Another lot of twelve homestead entries in the northern part of Alabama were held for can cellation by the Commissioner of the Land Office. Found After the Fire. In making a search through the ruins in Yamacraw yesterday a very curious and supposed to be very valuable iron box was found, and a large crowd col lected to witness the opening, which, after considerable trouble and the use of an axe, was accomplished. Upon the inside was written on parchment: “Always smoke Myers’ cigars; they are the best and cheapest in the city, and you can get i them at 35 Whitaker street.”— Adv. RIOTINGIN LONDONDERRY HUNDREDSOF FACTORY WOMEN PITTEIF AGAINST A MOB. The Females Fight With Furious Des peration—A Heterogeneous Mob of Orar.gemor, Nationalists and Non descripts Playing Havoc in the Streets, and Great Anxiety Felt. Dublin, Nov. 3.—Lord Mayor Dawson returned here from Londonderry last evening. He was received with great en thusiasm. A procession with bands of music and torches was formed, and es i corted him from the station to his resi dence. where Mr. Sexton, memtier of Parliament, addressed the multitude and denounced the treatment of the Lord Mayor in Londonderry. Londondeery. Nbv. 3.—Several hun dred factory women in this citv struck work because the proprietor refused to discharge a man who moved that the cor poration of Londonderry rescind its reso lution granting permission to Lord Mayor Dawson, of Dublin, to deliver his lecture in the City Hall. The striking women paraded the streets shouting: “God save Ireland!” The) were attacked and stoned by a mob which they fought des perately. The police finally dispersed the mob. The disorders arising from the hostili ties between the Orangemen and the Na tionalists continue, and the breaking of windows is general. A Nationalist was stabbed to-day, and rows and the beating of persons are frequent on all sides. Re volvers and other weapons are used. Great anxiety is felt by the authorities and reputable people lest more serious troubles should occur. O’DONNELL’S DEFENSE. Frelinghuysen Promises to Protect bis Rights as a Citizen. Chicago, Nov. 3.—At a meeting of Irishmen, on the 15th of last month, reso lutions were passed instructing the chair man to communicate with the State De partment, with a view to securing the sending of instructions to the American Minister to England to use his influence toward securing an impartial trial for O’Donnell, as an American citizen, on the charge ot murder of the informer Carey, and to ask a modification of the rules of practice before the British courts to the extent of allowing Americans to act as O’Donnell’s counsel. Secretary Frelinghuysen re plying says: “In the event of its being ascertained that Patrick O’Don nell is an American citizen, he will.re ceive from the Executive Department of this government all the. protection to which he is entitled in harmony with the resolutions you inclose. It is not within the province of this department to ask a modification of the ruling of the courts in a particular pending case.” He adds that if the English court should need as surance of the high standing of the coun sel from this country, the American Min ister will be instructed to give such as surance. An Explosive Package. London, Nov. 3.—A dispatch from Londonderry states that a man handed a parcel to a dock policeman there last eve ning and requested the officer to deliver it to another constable. The parcel was placed in the dock yard and subsequently exploded. A TALE FROM THE SEA. A Dozen Monsters of the Deep Pay Their Respects to a Becalmed Vessel off South America. Brunswick Advertiser. The American bark Ladoga, Captain Cowell, from Rio Janeiro to Brunswick, in ballast, arrived in our port on Monday last. Iler Captain reports an experience which is strange indeed. When about 50 miles off Rio the vessel was becalmed four days, during which time several whales were noticed a short distance away, sport ing in the water as is their wont.’ On the fourth day of the calm the water was very clear, it being possible to see many fathoms below the surface. Twelve or fifteen large sperm whales now came in their sport right up to the vessel, around which they played for some time. They would rub themselves repeatedly against the vessel, and ever and anon rise per pendicularly out of the water to a height of 10 or 12 feet, slowly look around as though attempting to read the vessel’s name or peer upon her deck, and then fall backward into the water and disappear. This performance was repeated again and again. The Cap tain states that it was indeed a wonderful and frightful sight to see those gigantic heads, sometimes ten feet across, and covered with enormous barnacles, rise slowly out ot the water and into the air, sometimes in front, sometimes astern, and sometimes by the side, leisurely inspect the vessel, and then sink out of sight with a tremendous splash. They were several times fired at with a revolver, but without the slightest apparent effect. The sailors were very much excited by this strange phenomenon, and their fears ran high indeed. A previous commander of the Ladoga had, upon leaving her, cursed the vessel and every soul that should sail in her, and this they construed as a pre cursor or premonition of the verification of this man’s curses, which they expected would soon come upon them in the shape of a terrible hurricane, a waterspout or some other dread calamity. The doom which they feared failed to over take them, however, and they entered Brunswick harbor in due time without mishap. Captain Cowell has, he tells us, been at sea for 40 years, and this is the first time that it has ever been his lot to wit ness such queer performances on the pai t of a shoal of whales, the natural in stincts of these fish being, apparently, to give a vessel as wide a berth as possible. He says that it was many times possible to Save struck them with a boat-hook, and had he been provided with a whaling outfit, he could with great ease have reaped a harvest of many thou sand dollars. A WOMAN’S CRIME. Nellie C. Bailey Held for the Murder of an English Nobleman. WicJ.itu (Kan) New York Times Special, Not. 1. Nellie C. Bailey, charged with the mur der of Clement ISothemly in Indian Terri tory on October 7, was held to-day I by ’ Commissioner Sherman for appear- I ance at the next term of the United I States Circuit Court at Wichita. ; The prisoner, who is 21 years old, is a i handsome brunette. She is well educated and has moved in the best society of New York city and New Jersey. She met Bothemly, a rich Englishman and a mem- | ber of the British Association at St. Louis, and arranged with him to go to ! Texas and start a sheep ranch. Before they started Miss Bailey got a deed for Botbelmy’s lands in Kansas. | valued at $20,000. and while passing i through Indian Territory, en route to Texas, she shot Bothelmy through 1 the head. She then took posses- ; sion of his trunk, containing ■ diamonds and jewelry worth $7,000, to gether with his outfit, consisting of sheep : and stock worth SIO,OOO. She buried the i body at Skelton Ranch, and started south, but was arrested about nine miles from where the murder was committed, ®40,000,000 for Peusions, Washington. Nov. 3.—lt is estimated by the Commissioner of Pensions that $40,000,000 will be required for the pay ment of pensions during the next fiscal year. The Connaughts Not Attacked. London. Nov. 3.—The journey of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught from i London to Dover was accomplished with ' out any extraordinary incident. Frankfort-on-the-Main Under Siege. Berlin, Nov. 3.—A minor state of I siege is proposed for Frankfort-on-tbe- Main in consequence of the recent explo sion in the office of the Chief ot Police. Bandits Rob a Stage. Sonora, Cal.. Nov. 3.—Highwaymen stopped the Milton stage this morning, and took the Wells-Fargo Express bag, containing $4,700. A Paper’s New Enterprise. Cincinnati. Nov. 3.—The Times-Star, an evening paper, begins to-morrow the publication of a Sunday morning edition. Rabid Reformers Refused Rectification. The rabid reformers of morals are con stantly urging the authorities to attempt to invade the well secured privilges en joyed by the Louisiana Slate Lottery un | der special agreements by direct legisla ; tion; but they might as well attempt to swim against the current of Niagara , Falls. The public know that al! itsdis i tributions are fair and its promises ful filled. M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La., will give all inlormation relative to the matter on application before the 162 d Grand Monthly Drawing, which takes place November 13, 1883. C i MAYNE REID IN MEXICO. How He Gallantly Led the Forlorn Hope at the Storming of Chapultepec. J.T. Trowbridge in November St. Nicholas. The castle ot Chapultepec. commanding the great road to Mexico, was success fully stormed by our troops on the 13th of i September, 1847. Reid was in command , of the grenadier company of New Y’ork Volunteers and a detachment of United States marines, with orders to guard a battery which they had thrown up. The morning of the 13th was fixed for the as sault. The batteries were ordered to cease firing at 11 o’clock and the attack began. Reid and the artillery officers, standing by their guns, watched’the advance of the line with intense anxiety, which became apprehension when that about half way up the slope there was a halt. "I knew," he says in his account, “that if Chapultepec was not taken neither would the city be, and tailing that, not a man of us might ever leave the valley of Mexico alive.” Asking leave of the senior engineer offi cer to join the storming party with his men, he obtained it with the words, “Go, and God be with you!” He was off at once, with his volunteers and marines. After a quick run across the intervening ground, they came up with the storming party under the brow of the hill, where it had halted to await the scaling ladders. “At this point," says Lieutenant Mar shall, of the Fifteenth Infantry, “the tire from the castle was so continuous and fatal that the men faltered, and several officers were wounded while urging them on. At this moment I noticed Lieutenant Mayne Reid, of the New York Volun teers; I noticed him more particularly at the time on account of the very brilliant uniform he wore. He suddenly jumped to his feet, and calling upon those around to follow, and without looking around to see whether he was sustained or not, pushed on almost alone to the very walls.” Reid’s action was not quite so reckless as this account of an eye-witness would make it appear. The outer wall of the castle was commanded by throe pieces of cannon on the parapet’, which, loaded with grape aad canister, fearfully deci mated the ranks of the Americans at every discharge. To advance seemed I certain death. But death seemed equal- I ly certain whether the assailants retreat- j ed or remained where they were. Such i is his own explanation of his conduct. “Men!” he shouted out in a momentary lull of the conflict, “if we don’t take Chapultepec the American army is lost! Let us charge up the walls!” Voices answered: “We will charge if anyone will lead us!” “We’re ready!” “Come on! I’ll lead you!” shouted Cap tain Reid, as he bravely leaped over the scarp that had temporarily sheltered them, and made the charge ’already de scribed. There was no need, he says, to look to see if he was followed. He knew that his men would not have been there unless prepared to go where he led. About half way up he saw the parapet crowded with Mexican artillerists on the point of discharging a volley. He avoided it by throwing himself on his face, receiving only a slight wound in his sword-hand, another shot cutting his clothing. In stantly on his feet again, he made for the wall, in front of which he was brought down by a Mexican ounce ball tearing through bis thigh. Alltbe testimony goes to show that he was first before the wall of Chapultepec. Reid’s Lieutenant, Hypolite Dardonville, a young French man, mounting the scaling ladders with I the foremost, tore down the Mexican flag from its stafl. Before that, however, Reid was observed by Lieutenant Cochrane, of ihe Voltigeurs. Cochrane was pushing for the castle with his men, when before him, scarcely 10 yards from the wall, an officer of infantry and a comrade were shot and fell. “They were the only two at the time,” he says in his statement, “whom I saw in advance of me on the rock upon which we were scrambling.” Reaching the wall, Cochrane ordered two men “to go back a little way and assist the ladders up the hill.” As’ they passed the spot where the wounded officer lay he raised himself with evident pain and sang out above the din and rattle of musketry, imploring the men to stand firm: “Don’t leave that wall!” he cried, “or we shall all be cut to pieces. Hold on, I and the castle is ours!” Cochrane answered to reassure him: “There is no danger, Captain, of our leav ing this! Never fear!” Then the ladders came, the rush was made and the castle fell. “The wounded officer,” Cochrane con tinues, “proved to be Lieutenant Mayne Reid, of the New York volunteers.” Lieutenant Marshall, to whom we are indebted for that vivid glimpse of the young officer in “his very brilliant uni form,” describes the effect produced by the exploit—ail those who witnessed or ) knew of it pronouncing it “without ex ception the bravest and most brilliant achievement performed by a single in dividual during the campaign.” WHY THEY REMAIN AT NEW PC RT. New York Society Ladies Who Linger j by the Sea to Procure Easy Divorces. ' Newport Special to New York Times, Oct. 3M. It is generally believed that several well known New York ladies are residing here for the purpose of securing divorces from their husbands under the very len ient laws of this State, which simply re quire parties to be residents of the State before securing a legal separation. Many , names are freely used at the Casino, the I clubs, and upon the street, but as yet ( none of the ladies have officially made | known their intentions to the clerk of the j court. Mrs. Henry Turnbull, of New ' York, who is a great favorite in ' social circles, arrived here yesterday | with her children and with’ no less I than twenty large trunks. She has taken 1 a year’s lease of the cottage on the cor- i ner of Kay and Bull streets, owned by i Mrs. E. AV. Howard. Mrs. Turnbull was 1 accompanied from New York by three 1 servants and by Colonel De Lancey Kane ; and Mrs. Kane and Mrs. Walter L. Kane, ! sister-in-law of Colonel Kane. It is al leged that Mrs. Turnbull will be allowed i to secure a divorce at the proper time, and that satisfactory terms have been agreed ; upon between her and the hero of the , Union Club scandal. Mrs. Turnbull is rich, while her husband is not possessed I of any means to speak of. Shortly after 1 the Union Club sensation he secured a position as clerk in one of the depart ments at Washington, but it is learned that he only retained the position a short time. It is also understood that he is heartbroken and has lost alibis ambition. Mrs. Turnbull was met at the wharf by her twelve-year-old son, who had pre ceded her. It is admitted that Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, nee Whiting, of New York, is determined to apply for a di vorce. Belmont is the son of August Bel mont, the banker, and resigned from the navy last year. He was married to Miss Whiting in December last. The wedding was a brilliant affair, and was duly chronicled in the Times. Mrs, Belmont is the mother of a daughter, born a few weeks ago. The trouble originated while the newly married couple were spending the honeymoon in Europe, and it is al leged that Mrs. Belmont has good and sufficient grounds for asking for a separa tion. Her case is in the hands ot William Sheffield, one of the ablest lawyers in the State. Mrs. Belmont, while abroad, resided with her mother, Mrs. S. S. Whiting, who is a daughter of the late Judge Swan, ot Ohio. Mrs. Whiting wtis so indignant at the unaccountable and prolonged absence of her three months’ old son-in-law and with his conduct that she packed up and took her family to New fork, arriving early in June, This step was determined upon while Mr, Belmont was absent from their apartments. Mr. Belmont returned to New York on the next steamer and caused to be published through the Associated Pi ess a denial of the report that he and his wife had separated. The Whiting family came immediately to Newport and took possession of their home here. Up to this day Mr. Belmont has never been permitted to call upon his wife or child. It looks as if he intends to show fight, as be, too. announces that he will “spend the winter here.” He is here now, and intends to reside upon his fa ther's farm, Oakland, in the town of Portsmouth, about five miles from this city. A relative of the family caused an announcement to be made in the local pa per to the effect that Mr. Belmont would "permanently reside here.” Other names are siven, but at there is no visible proof that they intend to ask for the untying of the marriage knot. Efforts will be made at the Janu ary session of the Legislature to reform the marriage laws of the State in a man ner which will not be relished by those who contend that Rhode Island is’ ahead of Chicago in the matter of getting di i vorces at short notice. Specie from Germany. New Y’ork. Nov. 3.—The steamship Main, from JJremen, brought 1,200,000 francs in specie for German bankers. Mr. R A Harvell, Godwinsville, Qa.. says: “I used Brown’s Bitters for general debility and improved at once.” LIFE IX THE METROPOLIS. LATENESS AT DINNER PARTIES NOW FASHIONABLE. Dangers Which a Prompt Arrival Pre cipitate—How a Gilded Youth in His Teens Hoodwinked His Pa—The Ba tavia Homicide—Anglomania the Ex planation of Irving's Popularity. i Correspondence of the Sunday Xurning News. New York. Nov. I.—What ten years ago would have been considered the height of impoliteness and what gentle-folk of the old school still consider unpardonable is now the proper thing to do. It is the fashion here this season to be late at a dinner party. A New Yorker who pays more attention to fashion than to good breeding—and what New Yorker does not?—makes it a point to reach the house where he has been invited to dine at least a quarter of an hour after the time named for the dinner. This results, of course, in the host and hostess not having the dinner served until half an hour after the time they have invited their guests, and to be invited to dinner at 7 o’clock, which is . the fashionable hour, therefore means that i you are to dine at 7:30. When this j is understood both by host and guests no inconvenience’ ensues from this fashionable folly, but a bad quarter ot an hour results If the rule is not kept by both sides. If, for instance, the host is ignorant of this ridiculous innovation, and expects his guests at the time named in the invitation, the dinner is spoiled by the delay. On the other hand, if any one ot the guests is ignorant of the mode, or too old-fashioned to subordinate what he considers a rule of good breeding to a foolish custom, he may arrive at the house where he has been invited before there is any one dressed to receive him. It is unfortunate to be young when the custom of to-day thus differs from that of our fathers. A Columbia college student who has an old-fashioned paternal progenitor made the mistake on Tuesday of announcing in the bosom of his family that he intended to reach the bouse where he was invited to dine at 7, at exactly a quarter past. “If you do not get there at exactly at ’7, you will not go to another dinner partv until you are 21,” declared his father. The youth ostensibly acted on the paternal hint, but whether he submitted to the ignominy of first at the dinner, or spent the intervening time in a convenient billiard room, his father is probably in doubt. IT SEEMS ALSO TO BE THE FASHION for the bridegroom to be tardy at the wed ding. John Henry Dorrity was the better part of an hour behind the time set for his marriage in St. Francis Xavier’s Church on Tuesday evening, and the bride, Eu genie Stephanie C. Parks, shivered at the church door in her thin wedding gown until he came. She had a look on her face when she at last stood at the altar that seemed born of a fear of his not coming at all. The guests marvelled much at the delay, but I have as yet heard of no ex planation for it. The shooting at Batavia of Johnson L. Lynch, a Utica lawyer, by an injured hus band who caught him in flagrante de licto with his faithless wife, affects an already bereaved New York familv. The victim was the nephew of Mrs. George B. Alley, who lost her husband, the well known turfite and clubman, but a few weeks ago. I have reason to believe that i Lynch was the tempted rather than the ' temptor, as Mrs. Rowell, before she was ' married, had no great reputation for good | conduct, and was supposed to be quite ' promiscuous in her favors. Her husband i is a partner ot a brother of Palmer, the | sculptor. THE ANGLOMANIA, which is so prevalent here, must be due I to the tremendous hit which Irving has i made, despite his many mannerisms. In no other wav can the universal favor with which he has been received be ac- | counted for. So far, indeed, as homage paid to their respective dramatic votaries goes, London and New Y’ork have become mutual admiration societies. This is what a private letter from London, dated Octo ber 19, says of Mary Anderson : “She is thought to be a great beauty. It is safe to say that her name is repeated fifty times oftener in a day in London than that of any other human being. All along the streets huge photographs of her hang in the ! windows, with crowds before them ex- | claiming with delight.” The letter quali- : ties the last part of the sentence with the I explanation that London photographs are | not what photographs have been defined j to be—justice without mercy—but that they flatter considerably. The political situation here is confusion worse confounded. Although attempts are still being made to unite the Demo cratic candidates for the Legislature in the doubtful districts, it is hardly likely that they will be successful, and there will accordingly be on Tuesday, so far as those offices and some equally important are concerned, a scrub race, with everv | man for himself, and the devil take the ! hindermost. THE RESULT WILL ALMOST certainly be a Republican State Senate, and accordingly a Republican suc cessor to United States Senator Lap ham. Nothing, indeed, but the apathy and division which prevail among the Re- j publicans will prevent the defeat of the ! Democratic State ticket. For, in accord- I ance with their usual custom, the local ! candidates here, who care nothing for the I success of the party, will bargain with the Republicans, who are alwavs more ■ than willing to make such bargains, for I votes for themselves in exchange for votes for Carr & Co. Carr, indeed, may be elected, even if the rest of the Republican ticket is defeated, for Maynard is under i the ban of the liquor interests because he is a temperance man. To partially offset this, Hendrix, if he is elected Mayor of I Brooklyn, will owe his success to the tern- ! perance people being down on Low. The Southern colony in New York, | among which are not a tew Gergians, read with concern this morning of the calamity | which has overtaken your city. That it i is no worse is at least a cause for thanks- i giving. A Tale of the Summer Time. Boston Advertiser. During the past summer a handsome ■ young man and a mischievous young lady were among the guests at a White Moun tain hotel. The young man was teased by his friends on account of his habit of lunching just before going to bed. One evening he found a large paper bag of crackers on his table. Rashly jumping to the conclusion that the mischievous young lady had made him the gift, he went on tiptoe to the door of her room and tossed a cracker through the open transom. The room was dark, but the cracker’s fall was followed by a slight scuffling. He paused a moment and then threw a second, and a third. Each time a rustling was heard, but i no one spoke. Having tossed the entire I contents of the bag into the room the I yountr man stole away, and as he left the corridor met the young lady coming ' to her room. Troubled,in his mind, be ; made inquiries the next morning as to i the effect of his lionibardment, and learned to his horror that the first cracker thrown | had landed on the head of the young lady’s grandmother, an infirm old lady of nearly 80, who was at the moment kneeling by her bedside engaged in her devotions. Much alarmed, she had risen to her feet, only to receive a second shot. She had then retreated to a corner, but being fur ther assailed and not being able to form any idea ot the nature and origin of the mysterious missiles, she had finally crept under the bed, where she was discovered in a forlorn condition by her astonished grandchild. A Fair Offer. Wall Street News. It happened in Illinois. A burying ground bad been sold by the town, and the time given for the removal of all cot fins. The purchaser finally took posses sion, and one day, while engaged in plow ing, be suddenly appeared before the vil lage shoemaker and said: "Henry, I’ve just plowed up the liones of your father, up there.” "Eh! Is that so?" “And what shall be done with ’em?” “Well, I dunno.” “I’ll tell you what I’ll do., Henry. I’ll box up the bones and bring ’em down here for sl, or I’ll plow ’em under as fer tilizer ana allow yoq 50 cents on what you owe me.” • •■Well,” replied the shoemaker, after taking time to think it over, "I guess you may credit me with 50 cents, but if you find the bones ot the old woman, too. I shan’t take less than 75 cents cash for the heap.” Sep. 14th, 1880. Hop Bitters Co., Toronto: I have been sick for the past six years, suffering from dyspepsia and general weakness. I have used three bottles of Hop Bitters, and they have done wonders for me, I alii well and able to work, and eat and sleep well. I cannatsay too much for Hop Bitters. Simon Robbins. WHY CRUM BAUGH WAS AC CUSED. A Singular Story Implicating Commis sioner Walter Evans. Louisville Special to New York Times, S'st. W. E. Hughes, of Bowling Green, a ' prominent Republican editor, who was a i witness in the trial of Collector Crum ' baugb. makes a statement of a sensa | tional character regarding Commissioner Evans’ connection with Crumbaugh’s case. He says: "Mrs. Burbridge was Postmistress at Hop kinsville some time ago. The father-in-law of Col. Walter Evans, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, lives in Hopkinsville, and Colonel Evans set about getting him the of fice. The only objection to Mr. John Gowan. Mr. Evans' father-in-law, was that he had a wild, dissipated son who was to go iu the office as Assistant PosturiFter. if his father got the appointment. Colonel Evans, by means best Known to himself, succeeded in having his father-in-law put in. Sometime last J une a registered package was put into the mails at Cadiz, Ky., and sent to Evansville, Ind. This package contained several hun dred dollars. Somewhere between Cadiz and Hopkinsville it disappeared from the mails. Revenue Inspector Porter, who is, I believe, a brother of Governor Porter, of Indiana, was sent to investigate the matter. He had i not searched long liefore he began to suspect j ■ young Gowan, Colonel Evans’ brother-in- I i law. The young man was seen to spend a : ' great deal of money about the time that the ' registered package disappeared. Other sus picious circumstances were found, and soon Porter became convinced that young Gowan had abstracted the money. "When he came to this' conclusion, ami be fore he took any irrevocable steps in the mat ter. he consulted a few of the prominent Re publicans at Hopkinsville. They advised against any exposure. One of tlieim a warm personal frienjl of Colonel Evans, Cmrk, now revenue agent, asked that Hie matter lie kept quiet, and said that all would be settled Mr. McCarroll, who was on Mr. Gowan's bond, came forward and made good the alleged de ficit. Porter was told that young Gowan was a brother-in-law of Colonel Evans, the Com missioner, and that anything made public now would disgrace Colonel Evans. A number of other arguments were used, and at length Porter consented to send a report to Edgarton. at St. Louis, his superior, which would hush up the matter. Clark then wrote to Col. Evans, stating the case to him fully. Clark afterward said that Col. Evans would see that Mr. Edgarton was sustained in any ac tion he might take; that he (Evans) was a warm personal friend of Gen. Gresham, the Postmaster-General, ifiid that, at all events, he would see that the matter was sup pressed and kept from the public. Porter made them promise hint that they would never allow Gowan to enter the jaist office again, ami that he should lie instantly dis charged. and this agreement was complied with. Mr. Porter left, and. whether by Col. Evans’ influence or not, the robbery was never made public. "Meanwhile another man heard of the trouble at the Hopkinsville post office. He was a prominent government oilieial, and as soon as he heard of the matter he wrote to Colonel Evans. That man was Major Crum baugh. He said in this letter that he was a sworn officer of Hie government and that he felt a conscientious desire to do his duty to that government. He then related the whole story, and said that he considered it his duty to tell lhe proiier officials of the sup pressed robbery. I don’t know whether Evans urged him to keep quiet or not. He did not make his secret public, but it worried him a great deal, and he kept saying that he would make a clean breast of it ami tell the whole’slorv to the proper authorities. Colonel Evans heard of tliis. Although the mere fact that his brother-in-law had abstracted money from the mails would not have injured him"mate rially, he well knew that the concealment of that fact by himself would be strongly urged against him, and he set to work to break down the influence of the man whom he re garded as being in his way. To this end he encouraged the prosecution of Major Crum baugh.” Anecdote of John Kemble. London Society. John Kemble was dining at my uncle’s one day, and after the ladies had reached i the drawing-room my aunt requested a . young lady visitor—a very distinguished i amateur of that day— to 'sing. This she j at once did, and was just concluding i Handel’s beautiful air, "Wise men flat | tering,” which she was rather celebrated : for executing with polished grace, when the gentlemen “joined the ladies,” as the phrase is. John Kemble, who, plain truth obliges me to say, had evidently taken far more wine than was at all good for him, came sliding up to the piano forte, and witli solemn politeness, said, as well as his thick utter ance would permit: “You’ve a beau ti-ful voish; butj’scuse me tor obsherving that you—you —don’t know h-ho w to shing. but I’ll—l’ll—teash you myself!” Con eluding that such an amazing offer must be simply irresistible, he desired her to play the accompaniment of a then very I popular and very fine song of (I think) { Battishill’s, “Let Ambition Fire Thy Mind.” As the lady happened to know i something of this song, she at once began j to play, when the illustrious John, in his new character of singing-master, to the intense astonishment of the now silent but amused company, after steadying himself against the piano, commenced with the utmost solemnity, in a husky, cracked voice: “Let amb-b-ition f-f-ire thy in-ind, Thouw-wert b-b-orn o’er k-k-kingsh to re re-reign 1” ' but when he had arrived so far he sud ! denly stopped short, rubbed his forehead, i and, amid the applause of his guests, com ; menced an elaborate apology, as if it was a great public calamity, that he could not just then recall the third line, but added with lofty and condescending gallantry: “You sheejush what I mean; that’s proper w-way to shing; and that’s w-w-way , you ought shing.” 1 need hardly add that ! so important and striking a lesson was I not lost upon the fair vocalist, who was | remembered afterward as the one and only i “pupil” to whom the great tragedian ever i deigned to give a singing lesson. Mlle. Van Zandt's Narrow Escape. Paris Figaro. The other evening, after the perform ance of “Laknie,” as the carriage contain ing Mlle. Van Zandt, the young American prima donna, her mother and maid, ap proached Rue L ncoln, Mlle. Van Zandt noticed a coupe standing at the corner of i the street, and a tall man, who had the appearance of watching tor some one, | trying to hide himself in the shadow 'of the houses. It was then near 1 o’clock in the morning. Mlle. ; Van Zand’s carriage stopped at her resi : dence and the maid alighted to ring the i bell. Suddenly a tall young man, wear ing a summer overcoat, approached the | carriage door and, leaning forward, put | one hand in his pocket. The young song stress, frightened, could not repress a cry , of terror, but the mysterious unknown drawing from his pocket a letter handed it to her without saying a word and dis appeared. The contontsof the letter proved that its author, who had signed his full name, was insane. He threatened to kill Mlle. Van >*mdt or disfigure her with vitriol it she did not reply to his letter, and if she | did not lower the response to him from her I window at the end of a cord. Then he ac cused the young lady with being the cause j of his incarceration in an insane asylum, ’ where they had poisoned him with ar | senic, etc. The unfortunate young man, who l>e j longs to one of the best families ot the ■ foreign colony resident in Faris, has recently come out of an insane asylum, evidently, however, without being cured. ; Mlle. Van Zandt has placed the letter in the bands of the police, who doubtless I will take all necessary measures to pro tect the charming diva from further ad-, ventures and menaces of her insane ad-' inirer. The Virginia Campaign. York Sun Washington Letter. People from over the Virginia line say nothing like the present state of feeling has been known there since 1869, and men. j tion, as an instance, that when the jieople are reminded that the whole machinery of election, the State Board of Canvassers, the county Judges who appoint the judges of election, and so on, are in the hands of : Mahone, and that the voters may be cheated in the returns, sober citizens, solid, staid fanners, talk about a hundred thousand men surrounding Richmond and forcing a fair count. The Virginians are i slow and somewhat stolid, and are hard f to rouse, but they are formidable enough when aroused, some time ago Mahone bad a highly-colored “Life” of himself . written by one of his lieutenants. It was so full of falsities about well-known citi zens that a dozen men were ready to | jump on him at once, Gen. Jubal Early : claimed the right to settle the question. 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Bac Sinh to Be Attacked by Admiral Courbet—The Minister of War Pre paring a Reserve of 10,000 Troop*— Malagassy’a Envoys Reported Stran gled. Hong Kong, Nov. 3.—Admiral Courbet has assumed command ol the French forces at Hanoi and will make an attack upon Bac Ninh with 3.000 men and 30 , guns. It is expected that Dr. Harmaud, the French Civil Commissioner, will leave Tonquin. Paris, Nov. 3.— L'Gattloig says that the Minister of War is preparing a reserve ' corps of 10.000 troops for service in Ton I quin. Challemel Lacohr, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will start to-morrow for Cannes Prime Minister Ferry will direct the work of the Foreign office during his absence The government will move in the Cham bers next week for a supplementary grant of money for the Ton quin expedition. The amount to be asked will not exceed 100,000, 00q francs. Admiral Lespes has l>een ap pointed to the command of the French naval division in Chinese waters, replac ing Admiral Meyer, who has completed his term of service on that station. The report that the staff of the Chinese Lega tion were preparing to leave Paris is Explorer Deßrazza Not Deul 1 ov - 3 *“ h wa ® «twted n i the lobbies of the Chamber of Deputies » v-dav that the report that M. Deßrazza, the Af rican explorer, had been killed tn the < ongo country was untrue. His brother had been killed, and this fact gave rise to the report that the explorer himself was deml. Malagusav's Envoys Strangled. Paris, Nov. 3.—A lettei from Tamntave, Madagascar, dated October 4. which was published in a newspaper printed on the Island of Bourbon, asserts that the Mala gassy envoys, who recently returned troin a visit to Europe and America, and the 1 rime Minister, have been strangled. HOODWINKING CUSTOMS OFFI CERS. The Tricks of Clever Smugglers—An In spector’s Recital. Xftc York- Tribune. “The trouble about Mr. Irving’s pron. ertiee,” said a custom house official the ‘ other day, “reminds me of a curious » • • which came under my notice sour ‘ years ago. 1 was an examiner Ip ? r days and cultivated that six ; which all capable examiner 1 f whereby they can tell at a glam m or not the homeward-bound ti < , trying to ‘beat* the governim iTMRine ” day my attention was called to a remark- n ably well-dressed and rather attractive looking woman who arrived on a Cuuar der. No, sir! lam a married man, and it was not her looks, as you suggest but her trunks which attracted me’ They were numerous and capacious ami when opened disclosed garment alter garment of the richest materials ami most fashionable design. To my mute glance of astonishment at her dec laration that no dutiable articles were among them, she calmly took the ground from beneath my feet by saying that she was an actress, and her wardrobe was therefore exempt from duty as ‘tools of trade.’ I must confess that I still felt dubious, but my doubts were disripated when, with much indignation at my re peated hints, she produced a contract signed by one of the leading New York managers engaging her for a season of forty weeks. I apologized as well as 1 could, and she departed with an indignant whirl of her petticoats, which spoke vol times. ■ “That night 1 chanced to he standing E ' in the lobby of the threatre owned by the B< manager whose signature waAat the bot- ,r " tom of the contract I had scanned in the,"*?' morning. ‘Fine looking wjman, vour , new actress,’ said 1. ‘What neW netressV’r I said he. ‘Why, Miss » said I men ’ tioning the name ol the lady with th trunks. ‘What are you giving us” r - r» torted the manager. ‘1 never heard-’ I name in my life.’ I turned hot amt W by turns tor a humiliating sense-’ plan by which I had been done so-- across me. 1 went behind the sect saw the manager’s partner to mat; <. t and then I started off—lo o’clock ai A ’ * and raining cats and dogs. “It would not do to tell vou tin* I used to obtain my ends,' forth ‘7 official secrets; it is enough to t-L; shortly after midnight I had all th f ’ eHr in the custody of one of mv men* i wni lady herself safe under lock at yr was one of the leading dreJfc ■ this city, and would have netted <-h-yer little scheme a good many hundred dollars if it had only worked, but it didn’t *"•’ so she got six months and a tine of $5 000 inst ad. She didn’t pay the fine, because she couldn’t, but she was ruined all the same, and has since left New York. “A man gets pretty sharp, but we slip up occasionally. For instance, we re ceived word from Europeabout two years ago that a man, of whom an accurate de scription was given, would leave England on a certain steamer and probably would attempt to smuggle a large quantity of diamonds over here with him. He would travel with a female companion, we were * told, but her description was not sent to us. The case was one which promised good results, so I and an inspector went >t down on the revenue cutter and boarded the ship at quarantine as private citizens U e soon spotted our man and kept an eye on him, and watched all his move ments and the movements of the fair haired damsel whose shawls he was carry ing, as a cat watches a mouse. When we landed every article was turned out of his trunks and closely exam ined. The trunks themselves were meas ured and prodded and tapped, and still no diamonds appeared. In spite of his struggles and far from Biblical language he himself was searched in the most thorough matter, 1 hen came the lady’s turn, and she was put through precisely the same process, with the same ungrati fying results, though the language she used, it as pointed as his, was less strong ly compounded. As no diamonds or any thing else ot a dutiable nature was found we had to let the pair go, though 1 was convinced that tn some inscrutable man ner he had succeeded in hoodwinking us. So, indeed, it turned out. We had done all we could, and save for trifling error as we afterward discovered, would have prevented jewels worth |*5,000 coming into this country free of charge.” “What was the error*” “We searched the wrong woman. His real companion had slipped quietly away unrecognized by him, while we had sub jected to, from her point of view, unparal leled indignities the wife of a prominent actor whom our smuggling friend had shown some slight attention to on tho voyage.” “Did you hear anything more of them “Aes; her husband threatened to bring suit.” ® ‘•Of the diamonds, I mean.” “Oh, yes; I am wearing one now. The jeweler I bought it from told metbewholQ story alter I had made my purchase!” F ogMilft in Alabama. Selma (Ala.) Timet, -Judge Lawrence Johnson, of the United States Geological Survey, was in the city yesterday, having returned from his in vestigation of the fossil deposits lately de velop'd in Bogue Chitto Creek. Dallas county. He called at the Times office to report his discoveries, in answer to an inquiry on the subject ho said: “I found no phosphatic lied on Bosue Chitto, as rumored. Ihe assemblage of mammalia bones aud teeth is very interesting, however. 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