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VOL. XXVIII—NO. 296 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, 1886. TRICE FIVE CENTO ALL AW ATLANTA. General Philips Denounces Bisamer as a Perjurer. • flea. Gordon's Pardons on Yesterday—Some Ugly fact* About the Treatment of Convicts-Hon They Whip the Poor Follows—The Drummers fixing for “A Sight of It.” Atlanta, Ga., December 11.—The ses sion of the legislature to-day was the longest yet held, despite the fact that it was Saturday, the house adjourning i«t 130 and the senate at 2:05 p. m. The entire session of the house was consumed in a continuation of the debate on the general tax bill, the section,being the rate of taxa tion. Messrs. Berner, Arnheim, Harrison and Gordon were the leaders in the dis cussion, and when the vote Anally came Mr. Gordon carried the day by getting through his rate of 2 <30-100 mills for 1887 and 1888. The message of Gov. Gordon, in refer ence to the convict lease was, on motion of Mr. Gordon, of Chatham, referred to the penitentiary committee. Tli© -Senate. Atlanta, December 11.—In the senate, after the preliminary exercises, Mr. Smith moved tc reconsider the bill providing for teaching physiology and hygiene in the public schools. The motion prevailed. The committees on education, railroads, special judiciary, banks and penitentiary made reports, recommending the passage of certain bills. The report of the peni tentiary committee was from the joint visiting committee to the convict camps and was an interesting document. It made certain recommendations as to the treat ment oj convicts; recommended executive clemeney for same and advised the dis charging of the whipping boss, Kilpatrick, at the Dade coal mines. It also recom mended that the governor examine into the charges against the whipping boss at Rising Fawn furnace, whore it was alleged that he had whipped convicts with a heavy leather strap with shoe pegs driven in it, the points of which were above the surface of the leather, and penetrated the skin of the convict when whipped. The report stated that the committee had had only time to visit two camps, and em bodied a resolution providing for sub-com mittees, not exceeding five In number, to visit all the camps during the recess and report to the summer session. This called forth a spirited debate, but was finally adopted with the amendment that the committees should not be allowed pc- diem pay for sueli service. A resolution raising a joint committee to visit the lunatic asylum during the recess was adopted. ‘-.’5 The following bills werelpassed. To incorporate the Buena Vista and Ella- ville railroad. To repeal the act regulating registration in Elbert county. To amend the charter of the Macon street railroad. To authorize the wills of uon-residonts of Georgia to be admitted to probate in this state under certain circumstances. To regulate registration in Decatur county. A-nnmbsv of b-illa were read for the first and second time. The bill to make the comptroller-general insurance commis sioner and regulate the business of insur ance in the state, was made the special or der for Monday. The senate then adjourned. Tin 1 limsth-iitlm; Committee. Atlanta, December 11.—The sub-com mittee from the joint investigating com • mittee examined Gen. Phillips to-day in Marietta at his home. He denounced Bisaner and denied the truth of his affi davit. He had never paid a dollar to Fain or Rankin, and had never seen Fain but once during the session. He had met Rankin frequently as a member of the sub-committee, but never gave or oifered him either present or fee. He was employed ’ os the counsel of Mr. Harrison, to urge a change of build ing material in the capital, but bad never used any but legitimate arguments ad dressed to the judgment. His employment and service had been entirely proper and legitimate. An enthusiastic meeting of the drum mers was held to-night, at which the com mittee reported that all the necessary funds had been raised, and everything was in readiness for a successful convention on the 16th, and a splendid banquet. Tan NefirottK l'lii-tloneil. Atlanta, Ga., December 11.—Gov. Gor don signed two pardons to-day, one of a negro named Judge Oliver, who was sen tenced to two years in tne penitentiary from Elbert county. His term would ex pire in January, but the evidence before the governor shows that he is weak-mind ed and that the woman whom he is charged with kidnapping testified that her own husband induced the negro to commit the offense. The other was a negro, Thomas Moses Groover, convicted of burglary from Liberty county, and was sentenced for twelve years in 1878. The pardon is based on the fact that the evidence was circum stantial and the law prescribing the pen alty for burglary has been changed so as to reduce the minimum since his incarcera tion. witnr«« h ,L r ght cross examl,le various Witnesses from whom the government had nrntinnii th ? l i fflda y its "pun which the prosecution is largely relying for its tosti- T o e A 1 ® 3 ® was adjourned to give oFfhese n w f tnesses 8e0Uring the nttenda,lte England. THE ANTI-RENT MOVEMENT. < ijWi December 11.—It is asserted that the Irish loyalist, league of land own- :» number of counties are forming an association to compel the anti-rent move- merit They propose to put the leading tenants who refus^ to pay judicial rents into the bankruptcy court, and thus force a disclosure of where their rents are de posited. Karthqunke In Turkey. Constantinople, December 11.—An earthquake to-day was felt in Smyrna and throughout the island of Chios. The dis turbance made fissures in the walls and in the fronts of houses in all parts of the ter ritory affected. REMARKABLE STORY. Strange Treatment of n New York (llrl liy a liana ot‘ Young Mon. New York, December U.-Ciara Ben nett, an innocent-looking girl of 17 years was sent to the Westchester county jail yesterday for four months by Justice Con- nolly, ot Rye, on a charge of vagrancy, •‘‘me says that about a month ago she went, with her father’s consent, to Port Chester in charge of Capt. Samuel Davis, on an oyster schooner. On last Saturday evening a young man friend called and took her to a meeting ot the salvation army. During the evening a man, whose name she after wards learned, but whom she did not know, tapped her on the shoulder and told her the friend who liad taken her to the meeting wanted to see her outside. She went out, but did not see her friend. Her conductor took her around a corner, where she noticed there were seven or eight young men. She then became alarmed, but a hand kerchief was bound over her mouth and she was dragged along the street to a house, said to be the bachelor quarters of a man too old to interfere with the will of the young men of the village. When she recovered consciousness, she says, she found that she had been deprived of her-’ clothes and that nine young men were holding an orgle around the bed on which she lay. They tried to make her drink, but she refused, because she laid never tasted beef or liquor in her life. They tried to force it down her throat, but she would not swallow any. She says that the handkerchief put over her mouth in the street had some thing strong on it, and she thinks she was drugged. She says some of the men are married, for she heard others joke them about their wives. She was kept a prisoner in the house three days. She gives the names of several persons living in Port Chester as those of her tormentors, but it is said that some of them are known to be innocent, and it is conjectured that the young rnen called each other by false names in her presence. Tin- National Cotton Report. New Orleans, December 11.—The No vember report of the National cotton ex change gives the gross cotton movement of the United States for the three mouths ending November 30, 1886, as compared with the corresponding period in the year 1885-S6 as follows: The Work of Congress on Yestorday. Mr. I'hjkoii lines Into a I,anil Compim,’ IT It him I Ills(llnves—Thr Pliolocmpli of a So-Called Kail- Hoad—Thi' New Silver Certlfleiiten. Bales. ——— 1886-87. 1885-86. 1884-85. Port receipts 2,583,242 2,541,776 2,5-43,718 Total overland ship ments 396 562 382,791 287.069 Of which to mills 266,746 294.529 179,894 Of which to ports 58,889| 44,893 56,417 [)f which to Canada.. 13,665 30,738 5,785 Transit overland 57,282 j 35,631 44,978 Total takings north ern spinners G17.887 655,126 479,947 To sea Between ports 36,840 45,362 35,907 Exports to Great Britain 920,595 711,768 8:3-1,089 Exports to France 154,0261 135,965 135,403 Exports to continent nnd channel 331,348 518,014 463,561 Tot il exports 1,408,969, 1,365.747 1,438,053 Stock at U. 8. ports.. 95-1,970; 899,558 896,426 Spinners’ askings for 239,090 November 343,031 317,595 Overland shipments for November 157.021 167.075 OVER THE WATERY WASTE. The French Ministry and the Irish Troubles. Paris, December 11.—Goblet has fin ished the formation of the new ministry, which is announced as follows: Goblet, president of the council and minister ot^ the interior and adinterim minister oi foreign affairs; Dauphin, finance; Bertbe- lot, instruction; Surrieu, justice; General Boulanger, war; Adiniial Aube, marine; Granett, posts and telegraphs; Lockeroy, commerce; Milland, public works; Devillc, agriculture. Goblet, in announcing the composition of the new government in the chamber or deputies, read a statement declaring that he relied upon concord among the re publicans in the chamber to enable him to continue in the work of the government. He said he would follow DeFreycmct s foreign policy which the chamber had ap proved and promised to submit early next session bills for such internal reforms as the chamber desired. He asked the depu ties to vote his government provincial budget and to adjourn discussion until Tuesday. Ireland. MR. DILLON’S CASE. Dublin, December 11.—The case of the government against John Dillon for agita tion In favor of the Irish national league s plan of campaign was brought up lor a hearing to-day. Dillon was absent. Right Hon. Hugh Holmes, attorney-general tor Ireland, in presenting the case for the gov ernment, declared that the so-called plan of campaign was illegal, and too a occasion to announce that l |e had never, as reported, otherwise. After a prolonged wrangi with tiie court and lawyers for tn~ , nrove crown, Mr. Healy, counsel for Dillon, se- | pioba > l Secretary Parker makes the following addenda: '“The above figures are exclu sive of any receipts at Newport News. The shipments over the Chesapeake and Ohio and Southwestern railways from Memphis up to November 26, were 67,117 bales, of which 9724 have been accounted lor as crossing the Ohio at Louisville, leaving -17,393 bales unaccounted for, which have probably gone • to Newport News. The shipments for the week end ing December 3 over that route were 12,648 bales. The railroad authorities at Newport News have declined thus far to give any information. The matter is being investigated with a view of speedy correction. KILLED HIS OWN CHILD. A Father Shoots Ills Daughter far a llurslor. Washington, December 11.—On motion of Mr. Peters, of Kansas, the bill passed extending the laws of the United States over certain unorganized territory south of the state of Kansas, known as the “pub lic land strip” and providing that this land shnll be subject to entry by actual settlers under the homestead law. Tiie speaker announced the appointment of Messrs. Morrison, Harris and McKinley as conferees on the fractional gallon bill, and of Messrs. Cobb, Van Eaton and Pay- son on the alien landlords bill. Mr. Randall moved that the house pro ceed to the consideration of tiie sundry civil appropriation bill, butthe motion was lost, yeas 119, nays 121. In the morning hour Mr. Payson, of Illi nois, on behalf of the committee on puhlic lands called up the bill declaring the for feiture of the Ontarngon and Brule river land grant. In detailing the circumstances of the grant, Payson declared that from the or ganization of the Ontanagon and Bride river company no step had been taken by it which did not indicate that the organiza tion had been purely speculative, effected for the purpose of getting land from the general government. It had been an at tempt at barefaced robbery from the com mencement down to the present time. Re ferring to the statement made by persons interested in the road that had been acccepted by the commissioners and reported upon as having been built In first-class style, lie asserted that miles of the road bad no other ballast than tee or snow, which melting in the spring left, rails held in suspension eight inches above the ground. In support of iiis assertions he produced photographs oi various sec tions of the road and commented upon them much to the amusement of the house. A bridge as depicted by a photograph he declared to be “humped like a camel and backed like a whale.” A situation of a mile in length showed but ono railroad tie, while 250 feet was shown as being filled with li gs and brush. Tiie bill was passed without division. It forfeits 384,600 acres. The house then went into committee of the whole on the sundry civil appropri ation hilt. In the course of the general debate Mr. Lao ham, of Texas, made an ap peal in favor of the redemption of the trade dollar, and alluding to the standard silver dollar, he declared that its coinage would never be suspended, no matter who might recommend to the contrary. Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, said that while the sundry civil bill appropriated less than the bill of last year, the de crease was attributed to the fact that the committee on appropriations had surrendered their juridisdiction over the items for the navy yards and the new naval observatory, maintaining that those items could be provided for in the regular naval appropriation bill. He contended, on the contrary, that the appropriations for the objects named, should be made in the sun dry civil appropriation bill, which would then, instead of showing a decrease, ex-F> ceed in the amount of appropriations the bill of last year. Mr. Randall argued that a naval com mittee had proper jurisdiction over the subjects of the navy yard, but pointed out that even were they provided for in the ynrd, cutting a gash through tiie skull eight inches long, and then going into the house knocked the old woman insensible with a stick of wood, threw a lighted lamp in the bed with her and skipped, sup posing she would bo burned up, but she revived, threw the lamp into the fire-place, put out the fire, and gave the alarm. Mub- sel got away with but 820, and there Is a clew to ids whereabouts that will pretty certainly lead to his arrest, as lie lias a crooked arm and a leg all twisted out of shape with rheumatism to Identify him. Mitry <'hiiitt‘k\ Trinl. Milwaukee, Wis., December 11.—The case of Mary Chadek, charged with tiie murder of her husband, is still on trial in the criminal court. Some seven or eight witnesses were examined this forenoon. One of them, a Bohemian, testified that, lie called atChadogs store the evening before the shooting, and found Chadek and the defendant, his wife, quarreling. The de fendant pulled but a revolver, aimed it at her husband, and threatened to shoot him. Chadek bared his breast for the bullet and told her to shoot, but ft little son climbed up on the counter, threw his arm around his mother's neck, and pre vented her from shooting. Chadek told the witness at the time that be wished Ids wife would shoot him. Ben Spencer, an Anligo hotel keeper, testified that the de fendant and Charles San fin d, her alleged paramour, visited his hotel and secured a room there on two or < liroe different oc casions, claiming to bo man and wife The two physicians who examined Ohadek’s body immediately after Ids death gave eviilonce which was unfavorable to the dele use. MISS WINNIE DAViS. are in attendance. The technological do- | swallowed two ounces of mix vomica obtained by him from a druggist to lie taken in doses of ten drops for some tem porary illness from which lie said he was Buffering. Physicians were promptly enlied in and an emetic was administered and he was soon sufficiently well to stand the brunt of examination in court. On the way to prison, Garrett handed three letters to the police, to be delivered after bis death —one to Justice J. M. Patterson, one to the public, and the third to Mrs. David Gar rett, 40 Woodlawn avenue, Jersey City. Garrett did not die and the officer refused to deliver tiie letters. The justice also re fused to open his letter. Garrett hud prob ably learned that some very damaging evidence against him had been secured. Ilor I in p resslous (fiithereil Her lit Trip. New York, December 10.—Mrs. Jeffer son Duvis has just written a letter to a friend in this city in reply to one thanking her for the permission given to allow Miss Winnie Davis to visit t e north. In it Mrs. Davis Says that it was with great re luctance that her parents consented to Miss Winnie's visit, but that any snoriiice they may h ivo made in having her away from them for so loijg a time has been more than repaid by their satisfaction at the kind reception she has received in the north. As proof of her daughter's pleasure in the visit, Mrs. Davis quoted a paragraph from a letter bob had just received from Mi is Winnie: In il Miss Davis spoke of her astonish ment at the increase of enterprise, and ac tivity ns she inmte her way north. The contrast to Mississippi, where the nightly rubber of whist was the most exciting event of t he day, and where conversation was largely devoted to the subject of tramps, was iouml very marked, she was especially astonished by the changes in the capital of the southern confederacy. Her impression* of Richmond had been gained entirely of hearing her parents speak of it, and she was hardly prepared to find a place full of manufacturing insti tutions. New York, the objective point of tier visit, amazed her still more. She was pleased with the people, with the recep tion, with the places of amusement, and, above all, with tho way in which things ure rushed. lMporlout to KnlirhtN uT Lalior. Chicago, December 11.—A movement of considerable importance is going on within the ranks of the knights of labor, which will have great effect in lessening the power and importance of district assem blies. It is the formation of national trade district assemblies, which are essen tially after the plan of the various inter national unions. Machinists’ assembly No. 6134 voted last, night to withdraw from the district assembly, No. 57, to which it has been attached since its organization, in or der to join in the machinists’ trade district assembly, recently organized at Cincin nati, the recommendation of its delegate to the convention being concurred in. To make this change will require the consent of district assembly No. 57, but this will probably be granted. This week tho clothing cutters of the United States are endeavoring at Cincin nati to form a clothing cutters national trade district. The convention has three delegates from the Chicago assembly in that trade which will doubtless go into Ihe movement thereby withdrawing from dis trict No. 24. Tiie effect of this movement will be to give concerted action to the trades in all portions of the country, and withdraw them from local matters. Hi nt ll’s ( Poplar. Bluff. Mo., X)i W. Stead, an alderman supposed to have died last Sunday ing. His body was laid out and nil arrange ment* were made for tho funeral, which was to have occurred to-day. Yesterday, however, signs of resuscitation became ap- I parent, the face assumed its natural color, pending measure, the bill would still carry less money than that of last year. Pend- ing further discussion, the committee rose and the house adjourned. The New Silver Certificates. Washington, December 12.—Limited quantities of the $2 silver certificates have been put in circulation. So far they have been issued by the treasury only in re demption of $1 and $2 United States notes. When the supply is sufficient they will be distributed among the sub-treasuries and put in general circulation in the same man ner as was adopted in the case of the one dollar silver certificates. Work on tiie new certificates has been very much de layed. The five dollar certificates will not be ready for some time yet. JEEMS IN JOURNALISM. An Item ns Ik nil Item, All tin- Way fro in (tin PonthltlK of the Allcglii-nli'K-He Made It the Find Whirl. St. Louis Republican. Inasmuch as the following dispatch got here and has been charged up by the tele graph company, we print it: the item. Pittsburg, Pa., Dee. 7.—Jos. a. Blaine, Jr., took his initial stop in journalism to- , , - . _ . day on tho Pittsburg times. Ilis first as- t '” temperature of the body becaino dis- signment was to report the Ladies’ Homo.*- ^ Fugher, arid opened and pathic Hospital fair. The assignment is se vcral tunes. He was spoken to, considered mi important one for a b gin- ! but J? av - e «>»«>.heard or under mu., ...li.ember 11.—W. alderman of Iliisc.it much space to it, owing to the prominence of the Indies connected with toe affair, it being tiie cream of Allegheny county socie ty. City Editor Gramer informed the embryo journalist that the value of the item depended solely on the way Pittsburg, December 11.—J. C. Hill, a prominent resident of Edgewood, a subutb of this city, mistook his daughter for a burglar last night and shot her through the neck, inflicting a dangerous, and it is feared fatal wound. Hill made collections yesterday ot about *5000, which he took to his home to keep over night. His daughter who had the toothache, rose early this morning and ... went down to the library to the fire to reading he felt justified in pronouncing the warm herself Her father hearing a noise [ item a thing of beaifty and a joy forever, thought burglars -were in the house and | and thinks, after the young man has had takiiiT his revolver followed her down j time to recover from the exhaustion neces- stuirs° When he readied the door of the sarilv resulting from such a herculean ef- library he fired, the ball striking his j fort he will give him another assignment- it was written, and expressed himself per fectly satisfied with Mr. Blaine’s produc tion. The report went to the composing room without a word being changed. The editor asserts that he showed no favoritism to the talented youn^ man ; that he would nm. n.u ...... have made changes in the copy if it had this morning and been necessary, but after most careful daughter in the back of the neck and pass ing through to the front. Tiie young lady is in a critical condition and her father almost crazed with grief. Fair Forgers. Lafayette, Ind., December 11.—This afternoon there came to light a series of forgeries committed by a couple of dabh- iug females of this city, Who worked a number of stores on orders purporting to tie signed by highly respectable people of Lafuyette. The girls are Clara and Flora Jones, sisters, and prepossessing blondes, who have been conspicuous at all the masquerade balls given hero by Company C and who have been the talk of the town. By order of Adjutant-General Koontz the company was to-day disband ed The girls succeeded in working their scheme on a number of well-known boot and shoe dealers, who will prosecute them he brought back to life, although th: forts of tho physicians to accomplish that end have so far failed. In the meantime the funeral has been postponed. Kill imped Ills Child. Milwaukee, Wis., December 11.—Au gust Buetow has been separated from his wife halfayear, and made repeated threats that he would liuve his youngest child, which remained in possession of the mother. Tonight lie drove up in a wa gon, ran into the house, snatched the baby from its carriage and disappeared. The grandmother of the child had followed him, however, and jumped in front of the horses when he started them up again. With a wild outh he applied the whip, and the wheels rolled over the desperate wo man. Fortunately she suffered no severe injuries. Nothing lias been heard from the man since. South Georgia Conference Proceedings , of Y sterduy. Iti'portK from Ctilli'Ui'K mill Schools—l>r. Illnton Fleeted Prcnldont of the l.rgHl College- Konie KeiuliilHccHccHaiiil ii l.llttc History of the Con ference. Special to Kncjuihkii-Sun. Cuthbert, Ga., December 11.—The business of the conference is rapidly pro gressing. The body will likely adjourn Monday at noon. Despito tiie rain, thero is a large attendance. L ist night the an niversary of the Church Extension society was held. Rev. W. A. Candler made a very entertaining address. Dr. Hopkins this morning presented iiis report on Emory college. A large number of students purtment, which lias been in operation a full year, lias a large increase of students. A department of printing will bo establish ed. Dr. D. C. Kelley, missionary lecturer, delivered a masterly address. Dr. Jas. W. IlintoU was elected president of the legal conference in the place of Dr. J 8. Key, a high and deserved compliment to one of the purest and ablest men i:i Georgia. Tiie Columbus preachers are unable to leave before Monday. The south Georgia conference is a fine body oi men,composed ol all traveling and snperanuatea ministers with four represen tatives of laymen in the sovoy districts, which arc embraced in the couterouoo. a little history. At the session of tiie Georgia conference held in Americus in 1860 tho state was divided into two conferences, the lino run ning east and west, making the north and south Georgia conferences of to-day. Tho southern conference was organized in the Sunday school room of Trinity church, Sa vannah, on December 11, 1.367, with the late Bishop G. F. Pierce in the chair and the late Rev. J. Blakely Smith as secretary. It consisted of 102 ministers and twenty- eight lay members. The machinery of the new conference was put into operation successfully, and the ’'•embers went fort Ii to their appoint ments wilh consecrated hearts and hope ful minds, determined to succeed. One of the peculiar features of that session was the appointment of a number of colored preachers to take charge of tiie colored people belonging still to the Southern Methodist church. There were eighteen charges under their supervision. Since then the Methodist Episcopal church south set up these colored people into ail organization of their own, with bishops of t heir own color, under tho name of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church in America. MARKED improvement. There has been a marked improvement all along tiie line since that day. The number of members reported at. the first session was 17,026. Last year there were reported 39,293. At the conference, 1867, the collections for domestic missionary purposes were as follows: Savannah district $ 64(1 IS Macon district 63 V, Columbus district 6.17 :(i Lumpkin district 108 So Americus district 7sa to Itaiubiidge district 7A #5 Brunswick distiiet 145 00 Total $2,330 23 111 1885 the whole amount collected for. home missions was $4,453.22. In Savannah district, $1,1X1.35; Macon district, $1,103.70, where tiie greatest gains were made. There has been greater advancement in foreign missionary sentiment than in any other particular field. In 1807 Savannah district $ 20 50 Macon district 12 oo Columbus district 3» no Amc-ricusdistrict 174 83 And in nil of the other districts only $103.15, making tho total for tiie entire conference $310 00. Ill 1885 tho total collections for foreign missions amounted to $7,221.28, tiie Savan nah district contributing ol this amount $1,880.05, against $20.50 in 1888. TWELVE DIFFERENT BISHOPS. At these twenty sessions thero have been twelve different bishops in the chair, but only three different secretaries. There have died during that time iorty-tliree members, almost one-half of the original number composing the conference. Only one died during tile past year, Rev. It. M. Lockwood, well known in Savannah. He was compelled twoyears ago to retire from active work because of failing health. He was a true man am) a faithful minister. Memorial services will be held by the con ference during iliu session. Bishop Hendrix comes as a new man to Georgia, but is well known in the went for Iiis scholarly attainments and devoted piety. He was elected bishop at the late session of the general conference at Rich mond last May. lie lias been cordially re ceived, and will no doubt win I lie affec tions of all before the close of the session. Bishop Hendrix has iiis family with him. They are charmed with the appearance of southwest Georgia, and especially Cutti- liert. They will go from here to Florida, where they will spend Some time. Many visitors are in the city. The hos pitality of the city is unbounded, yet it is taxed to its utmost to entertain all who come to attend the session. On Sunday all the pulpits will be filled by distinguished ministers, and it is thought that each church will be packed to overflowing. CRASHING AND FLAMES. inter. Several of the inen|received slight injuries in the way of bruises and cuts, lint ot those who have reported none are seri ously hurt. Tho firm dealt largely In sporting goods, pistols and small ammu nit,ion, arid during the fire there was a very aet.ivo fusilado by exploding cartridges, which created some alarm in the crowd present, but nobody is known to have been hurt by stray bullets. The house carried a heavy stock, valued at the present time at about $500,000. What part of this, if any, can be saved is not known, but tho proba bilities are that it Is all ruined. The insu rance amounts to $.300,000, divided among 100 companies—chiefly eastern nnd foreign —tho sums ranging from $25,000 to $5000. A lawyer Attempts] Suicide. New York, December 11.—D. Garrett, the lawyer who is held in $10,000 bail on a chnrgeoi'having fraudulently appropriated $12,000 while acting .is legal adviser of Mrs. Carpenter, of Now York, just be fore leaving Jefferson Market prison this morning in custody to attend tiie examina tion in the ease at tile Essex Market court, ON ’CHANGE. Till) .Mnrket In Possession (if till) Ileum. New York, December 11.—The stock market to-day was la possession of the bears from beginning to end, although (Innl figures are somewhat better than the lowest of yesterday. Thero was noth ing new in the way of advices to cause the break but tiie bears used tile material al ready at hand—the tight money market, tho interstate commerce bill, and late in tho day tiie unfavorable bank statement. The most was made out of these and the afternoon saw prices materially lower, though purchases for foreign account pre vented the decline from assuming large proportions. But later in the day heavy sales ol long stock induced by frightening off’weak holders, produced another decided slump. Support was ac corded tho market by the leading bulls in the Inst hour, and a better feeling then prevailed. There was no stock which es caped attack and declines differ only a do- . greu, though some of the securities snowed very wide fluctuations ami small business. Missouri Pacific was conspicuous among tiie active lists for its weakness which started with advices from the west that there would be another issue of stock and bonds. Tiie opening was weak, the first prices being down from Jfqi3i per cent, generally, though Louisville and Nashville was up #. The course of prices was downward iu early trading, and after a slight rally was resumed before noon. After that time the demand was accele rated, and was not cheeked until the last hour, when a material recovery took place and the ma ket closed active and firm. Tiie sales were 559,000 shares. Almost everything is lower, including Chattanoo ga, Reading, East Tennessee, Lake Shore and Kansas and Texas. home by his father after three days’ Coasting Tmraril Heath. Staunton, Va., December 11. 11 arry something real hard. Meantime young Blaine bears his honors with becoming m0de3t y-: — | lllrmers on a BoyeotL Heath of Signor Operti. j Philadelphia, Pa., December 11.— 1 The Leadvii.le, Col., December 11.—Signor ' executive board of tee green gins, blowers Operti, the groat composer, impreseario, j district assembly No. 149 were, iu sc.-sion and leader of the Clio orchestra, died here here yesterday discussing the situation in | last night of congestion of the lungs. De- j the New Jersey factories, as reported by ceased composed the music of the “Black District Master Workman Coffy. Steps I Crook,” was the leader of tho orchestra at i were taken to array the whole force of the ! the Centennial exposition, the author of entire order against Ihe six factories ioca- 1 several French operas, and prior to com- ! ted at Mellville, Clayton, Glassborough, | ing to America was pianist to Victor ; Williamstown, Salem and Woodbury 1 Emanuel, king of Italy. His remains will ! which arc not working under the regula- be shipped to New York. Signor Operti ; tions of the knights of labor, was also at one time leader of the orohes- j At the suggestion of the general execu- tra in the Boston museum. tive board, a trade mark is being prepared ■ ■ 1 to be used in the molds in ull union fae- A Horrid Murder. j tories to designate the goods made by the Richmond, Ind., December 11.—A most | blowers working under the knights’ reg- revolting murder was committed about j ulations. A .lust IleoiHlon. iOUIsville, December 11.—Tho court of fflrmod the circuit court’s decis- and decided that lawyer John viously worked on a farm in Preble county, i J. Uorneflson, who oowhided Judge Iti i d, Ohio, about iifteen miles from this city. j of the superior court, at Mi. Sterling, Ky., Christman was 76 years old, and was alone for making an adverse decision against with his wife. He being a very extensive Cornelison, would have to go to jail fo: An Immense Building Itri-itkK imd Then Hums. St. Louis, December 11.—About half- past 2 o’clock tli is afternoon the upper floor of the A. F. Sbapleigii & Cantwell hardware company’s extensive establish ment, occupying tiie stores numbering from 414 to 422, Nortli Main street, fell with a great crash. This floor was covered with heavy agricultural machinery and its fall carried down the third floor, stocked with shelf goods, and the second floor, A Future City. Nashville, December 11 —The Tennes see conference between the Louisville and Nashville authorities and the Sheffield Land and Iron and Coal Co., of Alabama, lias concluded its work ana a basis of an agreement 1ms been arrived at by which the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. will at an early day extend its line of road from St. Joseph, in Lawrence county, Tennessee into Sheffield as its southern terminus and establish at Sheffield general slioiis for line of road running from Co lumbia, Tennessee, tq Sheffield, This line will he about eighty-five miles long and will be known as the Nashville, Florence and Sheffield railway. Woolen Mills lliirned. Clinton, Mich., December 11. — The Clinton woolen mills were burned this morning. Th ions is $180,000, insurance $10,000. The building was lighted by gas made from gasoline. A pipe laid bursted and tilled the ore room with gas, which I exploded when a boy entered at 6 o’clock with a lantern. Only two persons were in the building, they having entered it to light up and prepare for work. They ! were both badly hurt, but will survive. I A11 hour later 10!)' people would have been t in the building, and great loss of life would have resulted. _____ A Mi'xvj Failure. Cincinnati, December 11.—The business public was startle d to-day by the announce ment of the failure of John and W, F. Jlowe & Co., manufacturers of blankets, flannels and commission merchants, at 130 West Pearl street. They made an assign ment to J. Chandler Harper. They esti mate their liabilities at $125,000 and their assets at nearly the same, claiming that they shall be able to pay 100 per cent. They are owners of the Carrolton woolen mills at Carrolton, Ky., nnd the Madison woolen mills at Madison, Ind. A Strito In I'i'iiiinjJranlit. Shamokin, Pa., December 11.—A Htrike of the miners employed at the Bear Valley shaft, owned arid operated by the Phila delphia and Reading coal and iron corapar ny, wies inaugurated this’morning in con sequence of the reduction of 10 per cent, in the wages of the millers working certain veins. The local assembly of tho knights of labor ordered the miners to continue work pending an arbitration, but the men refused to obey the order. As a result 01 the strike 000 men and boys are idle. A Fatul ).xillusion. East Cambridge, Mass., Dccemberll.— An explosion occurred in the fuse room 01 the large factory owned by J. A. Wood- and shoe dealers, “ . aensa tj on i 9:30 o’clock last night by a fellow named j One of the girls c fc oj. p h j] a . I William Mussel, who had just returned! last summer a , ' ‘ ( , r who ^ent crazy | after a long absence in the pineries of the j Lo delphia, leather i finallv being taken northwest to the home of the victim, appeals afl and took in tlm town, finally being christman) for wholn he had pre : ! j( * n - to-day filled with sample goods. In a moment or bury and occupied by several wood work- two the debris caught fire and with start- ! ing firms for whom Woodbury furnished ling rapidity the Humes shot up through [ power fuel. The room was a large room the broken timbers to the roof. There I with brick walls and full of shavings. A were tire wails between the different store , spark is supposed to have got among the rooms, but ull had openings in them, and shavings and smouldered until the door in a very short time the entire building ! opened and let in a rush of air, which was a mass of flames, and every window ! caused an explosion which tore down the and door was belching iorth greut clouds I walls, wrecked the engine and badly in- k smoke. Shortly after this 1 jured eight persons—one fatally. R” n*Grandson of Prof. Hintz, whilst farmer, who had just sold hiB hogs, Mussid I three years in addition to paying a fine. It said ; Htntz, J f-r a heavily loaded ! supposed he had a large sum of money that \ will lie remembered that Cornelison ,; vic- gle : coas ing lo-a y, injuries which will he could obtain by kilflng the couple. He 1 tim, Judge Reed, was so mortified at the tho : team, aim [ brained the old man with an ax out in the ! cowhiding that he committed suicide. of heavy lilac tiie roof over No. 422 arid the north wall on Vine street fell. Then a part of tiie front or Main street wall toppled down, tho interior fl mrs of the whole building following in rapid succession, and by 4 p. m. nothing was left but the broken walls and a great mass of burnt and ruined goods and twisted and destroyed machine ry. Tiie Ure was confined to the Shapleigli building and tiie surrounding property, which was, before the walls fell in, in im minent danger, but was only slightly dam aged. At the time of th ‘ ' employes were scattered through the niKgustnl Immigrants. Pittsburg, December 11.—Fully ono hundred foreigners were at the Union sta tion yesterday on their return from tho west to their former home3 in Europe. The majority of them were Germans, though a few were Irishmen. Said ono or them: “These people are nearly all from St. Paul, Minneapolis and other points in Minnesota. Some of us have been in this country two and a half years, but we did b some fifty : net get along well. Too many people irnugh tiie ] without capital have been emigrated to building, but so far as can now be learned the west. The majority of us have barely all but two of them are accounted for, and enough money to get back to the old eouu- it is thought tiiat these two will turn up try, where we will remain.”