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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.
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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.
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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.
He actually forced Mahone to buy up all
the edition he could get hold of, and to
have another “Life” written, entirely
different from the first.
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I FRANCO-CHINESE AFFAIRS
THE FRENCH PREPARING FOR
WAR WITH ALL HASTE.
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. Besides the elephant, the
ancient American horse, and Ibe
mastodon are well represented,
r creek are also
found bones of deer and a tew fragments
ot human Gines. These may not belong
to the same matrix as the others. In
fact, from the appearance of the selection
it is scarcely probable that they are.
And here lies the difficulty; That matrix,
or bed of clay and limo, from which the
true fossil are derived, has not
been satisfactorily made out. Everything
has been much disguised by changes in
the bed of the creek an ! by the immense
itißux of sand, which generally covers
everything, except at the few points
where the water has cut down to the
rotten limestone. When the clay marl
is f<**md which contains these bones, it
will probably prove valuable as a local
manure.”
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