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VOL. XXVIII—NO. 304
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER
IS,
1886.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Two Legislators in a Fisticuff Fight.
■r.Oirdnersnd Hr. Murnliy Junt do for K«rl,
Other—The Hill to Extend the Corporal. l,| m l !s
Of Columbus Passed—Other Items About At.
Usta.
Atlantja, December 21.-The Benate met
at 10 o’clock and was called to order bv
President Davidson. Prayer was offered
by the chaplain.
The reading of the journal occupied
more than halt an hour.
Mr. Powell, chairman on the part of the
senate of the conference committee on the
tax bill, reported, recommending that the
senate recede from its amendment fixing
the rate of taxation at 2 4-100 mills and that
the house concur in all others.
Upon the adoption of the report of the
committee the yeas and nays were called
and the vote stood yeas 27, nays 4. ’
REPORTS OP STANDING COMMITTEES.
Mr. Powell, chairman of committee on
finance, submitted a report recommending
that the bill, providing payment for di£
abled confederate soldiers, be laid upon
the table until the summer session and
that 100 copies of the bill be printed for
use of senate.
Reports were submitted by the spenia]
judiciary and the railroad committee
recommending passage of certain bills.
On motion of Mr. James the senate took
up the bill to incorporate the Salt Springs
and Northwestern railroad company, and
concurred in un amendment offered by the
house relative to branch lines.
BILLS FOR BECOND READING.
On motion of Mr. Roberts the rules were
suspended in order to read house bills a
second and third time.
A number of bills for a second reading
were read.
Mr. Dean offered a resolution allowing
the special joint committee appointed to
investigate the propiety of rearranging
the judici il circuits in the state to sit dur
ing the recess lor the purpose of collect
ing information. The resolution was
adopted.
BILLS READ THE THIRD TIME.
The following bills were read the third
time and disposed of:
To extend the corporate limits of the
city of Columbus. Passed.
To authorize the mayor and council of
Greensboro to issue bonds for school pur
poses. Passed.
To incorporate the Thomasville Street
Railroad Company'. Passed.
To establish a system of public schools
in Newman. Passed.
To incorporate the Austell Fire Insur
ance Company. Passed.
To incorporate the Exchange Bank of
Athens. Passed.
To amend the charter of the Americus,
Preston and Lumpkin railroad. Passed.
For the relief of the Provident Savings
Life Insurance Company of New York.
Passed,
Under a suspension of the rules Mr.
Davidson, president, introduced a resolu
tion providing for the appointment by the
chairman of the senate and the hou-e
finance committees of a joint committee
to prepare and report to the summer
session a bill looking to the correction of
defects in the tax assessments of the state,
So as to buhject to taxation
matters now neglected and to relieve bur
densome tax upon real estate, said com
mittee to collect information trom the
comptroller during recess and to receive
no remuneration for such service. Adopt
ed.
The reading of hills resumed.
For the relief of the iEtuu life insurance
company. Passed.
Two bills to amend the charter of the
Rome aud Decatur railroad. Passed.
To amend the act creating the city court
of Columbus. Passed.
Adjourued to 3 p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The afternoon session of the senate had
nothing to do and did it. The senate had
disposed of all business before it at the
hour of the morning adjournment, and
there were no bill3 left lor firs!., second or
third reading. The reports of several
standing committees were submitted and
several messages from the house were re
ceived announcing the passage of certain
bills and the concurrence in senate amend
ments. The Bennie Mien adjourned.
House i'roi'. f din nn.
Atlanta, December 21.—The house met
at 10 o’clock, Speaker Little in the chair.
Mr. Gardner, of Pike, rose to a question
of personal privilege. He said he desired
to state some facts lor the consideration ol
the house, and which be desired bis con
stituents to be made acquainted with, we
referred ton difficulty in the heinpeianci:
committee of tlie house last night- between
himself and Mr. A. A. Murphy. Hcwa
before that committee on a bill of,
to his county. He mot there Mr. MuiphJ-
Mr. Murphy stated in the committee tunt
he (Gardner) and his colleague were in the
house by a small majority of seallan■
and negroes, and that, he (Murp.n) rep e
sentod the intelligence ot the county^
This statement he had denounced a has-
falsehood. Mr. Murphy said ! c „
hold him (Gardner) personally respons blc.
Mr. Murphy left the comm ttee room
first. When ho (Gardner) 5 >1 J°"5h
Murphy struck him in the face w ,
warning; while he was trying to gt
his overcoat in order to defeud aims-l -
Members of.-the committee ^eHtriui.
He regretted the occurrence. He and ms
colleague were elected fairly X • , r .
majority aud were representing tl - - .
eats of their county t0 tl } e n ^
ability. So far as personal nmtU rsi. _eie
rned they .wore ah^to take cam of
o!° kb* 1 incorporating the
Athens and Jefferson railroad^ "
r Incorporating the Deep Water lall-
atmeTJ-aUrond S ““ Atla " ta and Ed * ewood
drawfhi,”,?J jh - e p , 1 '!i, nti . ir ‘b “tion to wlth-
»I* f original lifa in claim cases,
court L 1 * Judges ot the supreme
court to appoint a stenographer.
outslde°the Btate. 6 Pr ° bate ° f WiU raade
Sli A onTu 1 efailr h oad Charter ° f the Darien
so&li?& t milroar nah a " d Jack ‘
neorporatingthe Grillln, LaGrange and
Western railroad.
Amending the charter of the Maeou
street railroad.
Incorporating the Commercial telegraph
company. 1
The. senate resolution authorizing the
committee on the reorganization of judi
cial circuits to 3it during recess was lost,
. “onator Davidson's resolution appoint
ing anoint committee to investigate the
question ol taxation during tho recess was
passed by unanimous consent,
i , Johnson, of DeKalb, introduced a
bill to repeal tho act establishing the agri
cultural department.
^Paaker Little presented a petition from
the Columbus knights of labor asking the
passage of a bill regulating tho hours of
labor.
The house then adjourned.
Atlanta Sulimieumll.
Atlanta, Ga., December 21.—Tho Capi
tol commissioners met to-day in regular
monthly session. All were present hut
Gen. E. P. Alexander.
They directed the payment of $14,136.01
for work since the last meeting. This
makes the cash to date $369,922.20.
Judge Van Epps was commissioned to
day-judge of tho city court.
Cupturlng Counterfeits rti.
CniCAGo, December 21.—For several
months not only Chicago but Minneapolis,
St. Paul, Milwaukee and the smaller cities
of the northwest have been flooded with
spurious silver dollars, so closely resem
bling the genuine article that even experts
were deceived. Secretservico officers have
at last discovered that the coins were made
on a small farm sixteen miles southeast of
Pullman ar.d shipped to Milwaukee to a
phy'sician who distributed them in quanti
ties to suit retail shovel's. The doctor was
arrested. The officers hastened to the
factory but were an hour
behind the counterfeiters, wfio
had hastily' thrown away the greater
part uf their implements and fled. Some
of their tools were found and a consider
able quantity of different metals, platinum,
steel tilings, silver leaf, and composition
while metal. The counterfeits correspond
in weight exactly vitli the United States
dollar and have the genuine ring when
tested. The metal of which they are made
is nn entirely nc.v aud dangerous composi
tion, whose constituent parts and work
manship is almost perfect., the only defect
that is readily discernible being that the
letter ‘‘D” iu the motto “In God we
Trust,” starts like an italic letter.
Tlio Louisiana Hum.
New Orleans, December 21.—To-day
was the first day ulTlie winter meeting of
the Louisiana jockey club. The atlend-
anco was .satisfactory, and the track heavy
First race, jj of mile; Little Joe won by
three lengths, Peacock 2d, Jim Brennan
3d; time l:09j.
Second race,.? mile; Bonnie S. won by' u
length, Elsie li. 2d, Burr Oak 3d; time
1:26.
Third race,.? mile; Gulnare won by two
lengths, Bill Smith 2d, Nokomis 3d; time
1:263.
Fourth race. 1 mile; Osceola won by a
length, Geu. price 2d, Bonanza 3d; time
L:5i.
rile Court is Right.
Montgomery, Ala., December 21.—A
decision bus just been rendered by the
supreme court of Alabama in tho case
which involves the title to several million
dollars’worth of lands originally donated
to the Alabama and Chattanooga Railway
company by congress. Beit was brought
by Jefferson county in chancery court to
compel the trustees to make a lega.1 title to
forty acres of land, in sight of Birmingham,
worth $60,000. The supreme court decides,
ou appeal, that all sales made before
the * completion of the road are
void except 120 sections of
land on the first t'.veuty-nine miles of road
near Chattanooga, and unless they were
made in strict conformity with the act ui
congress of 1858 donatiug the lands. As
none of the sales made for the completion
of the road did conform to the act all are
void. Ail the sales made since tho com
pletion in 1871 are good. As the road runs
tUro.n'h the richest mineral districts ot
Alabama—from Chattanooga to Meridian
—the void sales amount to millions of dol
in';. tho lands having within the past few
yours increased enormously iu value.
MBS. SHlNNiCK WAS NOT VIRTUOUS.
Our Solons Arc Fixing for the Holidays.
And Perhaps Stw Lied About the Harder.
Richmond, Va., December 21. There
have been no new developments to-day in
the case of the supposed murder, an ac
count of which was telegraphed hence
last night. Tho workmen, under the super
vise of the police, continue tncir search
of the premises on which the alleged mun
der was committed an d where the bouy of
the vh tim was supposed to lie buried in an
old well. It is now thought that lftne
murder was committed b.v Bhinmck, an
his dying wife states, he made
way with tl.e body by some other
i means or knocked the man down, robbed
; ill'll, -and I hen put him out of the house.
Motions'was found by searchers to indi-
' cat- that a murder h-ul been committed or
that there had ever been a well on toe
premises, although a few 0 -'4‘sMri, a
z&mssa Ta f H
ISf US
fact, that She is a woman who tod not bear
i i pood character before her marriage. It
ifeWiSRSW-KStf
j orderly conduct.
It Was An iucen'ilnrj.
I st I,oris, Mo., December 21.-A special
! from L ^ ti ^ L v/tanim»'nd a 'iniand‘town of
’iT/imer county- in“ib s* tate, to the effect
gffigtesyjrss?
b i • « . on lire and burned to the ground.
eously set on urnamt outhouses
ineluri"’' ho i ! l ,';%[ r 'rho.aas Har-ls, a-
o! Messrs. G ol„ j- roin Vitani.
siding about h: -, n( j t jj e Harris
din favor of Hon. Einerj, v--“i.Ucd N-.Unities of corn, tod-
ton, keeping his seat in U m lirotevi ' 1 , (1 'h - vetc., they being coil-
on from Houston. The report d( cotton ^ . . |t t , K .
sidmvil the "'L about $150,000.
county. The total loss suspicion
to a one e or two suspicious efiarac-
cornea ; <i.j u ..vniatia-
mselves, but he thought this ex Maua
i due the house and his cons ituent J'
is colleague endorsed hiS ,., - ■ lo
ir. Calvin moved to take up o „ {
i providing for a co'nnin.te .
irmation about the convict y - ’
>. Atkinson, of Coweta introduced a
ilution attempting in anoUus^hnf i
up Ms committee to nuesti ate tne
icultural department. I- r
mons, of Sumter, eugah w ‘rc-b
X^b^teKULuays
“W?. WblWold,'-poke .ln fa«J
the senate resolution authorizing the
ernor to appoint a c r °fj!position
isit the Ameiicau-Loudon exposn.
^Harrell, of Webster, opposed the
ilution, which was lost,
he house adjourned. o , r .i 0 -k. The
he house reassembled at 3 ° *- g
imittec on privilege J p lt ., u i of
ted in favor ot Hon. Elbe; c ,„i
ted.
following senate biHs we'
I'norating the naltBpinigs
■re pns--e(t:
ant: Bow-
kethia railroad. . returns of
lending and governing tho rcturn | u ,
rlc property.
Short SpsnIous unit Speeches—The Nun’i! lilt', st.
Louis it ml Chattanooga Hiillroad Compromises
With the Government—Other Notes from the
Capitol.
Washington, December 21.—Mr. Mor
rill, from the timuioe committee, reported
back favorably the bill to fix the charge
for passports at $1, and it was immediately
passed.
Mr. Allison, from the committee on ap
propriations, reported back the house bill
making appropriations to supply the de
ficiencies for the public printing, with an
amendment requiring that the money be
expended ratcably. The amendment was
agreed to and the bill passed.
Mr. Morgan offered a resolution calling
on the president for tho correspondence
with the government of Nicaragua relat
ing to the Nicaraguan ship canal or treaty
on that subject which was pending in the
senate ou the 4th of March, 1885. It was
adopted.
A concurrent resolution for a holiday re
cess from to-morrow to January 4 was pre
sented and agreed to.
Mr. Cullom called up the conference
report on the interstate commerce bill.
He said that he did so for the purpose of
giving the senator from Iowa. (Mr. Wilson)
an opportunity of making some re
marks upon the bill, alter which,
(in accordance with the suggestions of
many senators on both sides ns to the im
practicability of action on it before the
holidays), he would let the bill go over
until after the holidays. Ho announced,
however, that when the senate resumed
its sessions he would again call up the con
ference report and insist upon its consider
ation from day to day until disposed of.
Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, then proceeded to
address the senate in favor of the adoption
of the report. At tho conclusion of Mr.
Wilson’s remarks, Mr. Camden inquired
iron) Mr. Cullom as to iiis intention in re
gard to the management of the bill.
He said that he regarded it as a
wise and conservative measure; that the
country demanded the p:usage of some
such bill, and that it was the duty of con
gress to act upon it. A large portion of
the time of the session after the holidays
would be taken up by the appropriations
bill, and unlesv this bill was acted upon
promptly, and in the early part of the ses
sion, it was liable not to be acted upon at
all, and would fail for want of time.
Mr. Cullom replied that his own prefer
ence would be to proceed with the consid
eration of the bill until up to recess, but
there seemed to be a unanimous desire
that it should not be pressed to a consid
eration at this time in view of the fact that
congress would adjourn to-morrow and
that many senators desired to go home
this evening; that ho had only thought it
wise and proper to ask for its considera
tion to-day so that the senator from Iowa
might make some remarks on tho subject;
he appreciated the fact tlmt the bill might
e isily be allowed to fail for want of time,
but so far as he was concerned it should
not do so if ho had the power to prevent it.
He would ask the senate to resume its con
sideration immediately upon reassembling
after the recess. The bill then went over,
and the bill to establish agricultural ex-
perime .its in connection with the agricul
tural colleges was taken up ns unfliiishe 1
business, and it was arranged thalit should
retain its place on the calendar.
Executive session, then adjourned.
The House.
Washington, December 21.—After the
reading of thcjournal the speaker called
the attention of the house to the vote on
the question of adjournment yesterday
evening. As the result was handed to the
chair the vote tood yeas 124, nays 121,
arid thereupon the speaker had declared
tho house adjourned. An examination
showed that the vote was really yeas 121,
nays 127. The error had occurred by rea
son of the great confusion existing in tho
hall during roll call.
Mr. Reed, of Maine—“Then we are still
in session?”
Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, contended
that as the house had refused to adjourn
the legislative day of Monday must now be
continued.
The Speaker—“The chair thinks the
house did adjourn.” [Laughter.]
Mr. Morrison, from the committee on
ways and moans, reported hack a concur
rent resolution ior a holiday recess from
December 22 to January 4. Agreed toby
132 to 25.
On motion of Mr. Buchanan the senate
atneudmeut to the bill for the relief of the
survivors of the Artie exploring steamer
| Jeannette was concurred in.
Mr. Dinglcy presented tho remonstrances
of the boards of trade of Pensacola, Fla.,
and Portland, Ore., against the free ship
bills, also a memorial of the vessel owners
and captain’s national association for the
passage of the bill to place coastwise sail
ing vessels oil the same basis as to pilotage
as coastwise steam vessels. Referred.
Mr. Wellborn, from the committee ou
Indian affairs, reported ttic Indian appro
priation bill, and it was referred to the
committe e of the whole.
Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, from the com
mittee on military affairs, reported the
military academy appropriation bill, und
i it was referred to the committee of the
1 whole. The house went into a committee
I of the whole on tho army appropriation
1 bill. There was no general debate, and
tho bill was immediately read by para-
graphs for amendments,
j On motion of Mr. Bnurg, of" Wisconsin,
: an amendment was adopted providing
I that, '.v i '.'i illy officer travelling on duly
! travels on any railroad on which United
| Ststes troops are untitled to he transported
free of charge, he shall he allowed only
i 4 cents a mile as a subsistence fund. The
J committee soon rose and reported !
j the bill to the house. Other amendments
i had been adopted in tho committee, but
1 tho above is the oniy one in which the
s house concurred. The bill then passed.
Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, from the
committee on appropriations,reported the
i invalid pension appropriation bill, and is
j was referred to the committee of the
! whole. It npproprate3 $7,025,498, the exact
| amount of the estimate being$179,300 more
i than the appropriation for the current
year.
i Mr. Morrison, from the committee on
! ways and means, reported a resolution for
the distribution of the president’s message,
end it was referred and tho committee of
the whole.
Adjourned.
Clmland'a Pardons.
Washington, Decembe. 21.—‘The presi
dent has pardoned T. Z Simmons, of
Georgia, who was convicted of a violation
I of the internal revenue laws and sentenced
i to three mouths in jail and to pay a tine of
$200 and costs. His term of imprisonment,
tins nearly expired. The preaid mt h i
also pardoned Joan Spencer, who was sun
teheed to five months imprisonment in
Georgia, and to pay a line orflOl) and costs
for a violation of too interna) revenue law.
Cleaving to lt : n Nlsy-w.
! Washington, December 2t.—The pres:-
, dent, to-day, nominated Jas, G. Matthews,
of New York, to be recorder of deeds for
the District, of Columbia. Matthews is the
Albany colored man who has once been
rejected by the senate, but who is now t he
1 .cumbeut oftheoflhe, by appointment,
during the recess of congress. In tho
secret session Matthew’s nomination was
referred to the committee on the District
of Columbia. It is said to have been
accompanied by a message by the president,
giving tlio reason for sending In the second
time the name of n man whose nomination
the senate lmd once rejected. It is report
ed that tbo message, after reciting the fnct
of the first nomination and rejection, states
that a large number of persons in the dis
trict had conceived n prejudice against
Matthews, which fact doubtless influenced
the action of the senate; that Matthews
had now been in oftieo several months niul
lmd proved his capacity by rescuing
the records of the office from loss
and illegibility and that bis management
of the office had the effect of removing
much of the imposition which formerly
existed. For these reasons, and professing
nn earnest desire to co-operate in securing
for colored men n just recognition, ho ven
tures in the utmost good faith to send iu
tlio nomination again, disclaiming, how
ever, anv intention of questioning the pre
vious action of the somite in tho premises.
It Knileil in ii <tniii|ir»inlKS.
Washington, December 21. — Acting
Berretnrv Fairchild has accepted tho offer
of the Nashville, Chattanooga miff St.
Louis railroad company to pay tlio sum of
$153,001) in compromise of the claim of the
United States, now in suit against that
company in the middle district of Tennes
see, founded on certain matured and un
paid interest coupons of bonds issued by
the company and hold by the United
States. The bonds in question, 512 in num
ber, and secured bv a mortgage, were
transferred to the United States by the
state of Tennessee as security for certain
Indian trust funds held b,y the United
States and loaned to the state. The un
paid coupons were those duo from January
1, 18(16. In 1830 the United
States brought suit to recover tlio
amount of those coupons as well ns
the interest which exceeds the faco value
of the coupons. The defendant interposed
the pies of statute of limitations and the
court sustained tlie plea. This decision
was, however, reversed by the United
Ststes supreme court on a writ of error
and the case was remanded to the court
below, where it is now pending. The offer
toco npromise contemplates tho piyinei t
of the' total sum In six months’ install-
monts of $23,800 each. Its acco.pt nice was
recommended by the United States attor
ney and by Judge McCue, solicitor of the
treasury.
They'll Adjourn,
The senate adopted a resolution to ad
journ from to-morrow to Jnnnury 4.
POWDFRLY GETS THERE ELI.
Chicago, December 21.—An important
secret circular h.is been received by district
assemblies 24 and 67 of the knights of labor
of this city from Master Worktnui Pow
derly concerning Itae factional quarrels
which have existed in the organization for
4Ana time. Tne circular touches upon
several topics, but the most important arc
the political questions and action of the
knights in reference to tho condemned
anarchists. When the order is promul
gated, it is claimed that, the conservative
clement of tho organization will
be pleased with Povvderly’s commands,
while they will greatly displease tlie rad
ical wing. Row derly has ordered the mas
ter workmen of district assemblies 21 and
57 nut to allow any money to bo collected
for the condemned anarchists and instructs
that if any funds have bn ill colli eted that
such moneys lie returned to the assemblies
and psr9om wh > contributed it. The gen
eral master workman’s action, it is con
tended, settles the question of the relation
of the Knights of luioor and the anarchists.
It also explains why, in a joiut meeting of
those district assemblies last Sunday, the
sympathy matter was not brought up when
the meeting was for that purpose.
More About the Murilorcr.
New York, December 21.—Late last
night a dispatch was received nt police
headquarters from the mayor of Ralegh,
N. C., directing the arrest of Walter L.
Bingham, a deaf mute, describing him and
stating that he was suspected ot the mur
der of a girl. W. B. l’cet. a teacher at the
New Yoik deaf and dumb asylum, at One
hundred and Bixty-sccond street and Tenth
avenue, called at police headquarters just
before midnight with information about
Tito Irish, the English and the French.
Will linnet mi'iitii quiet A nary Men I—l.nril and
laid) Campbell Are Nut Hulltjrt—Wlmt n l,le to
Film in tho Tooth of tho World—Other Forolitn
Items.
Dublin, Dooembor 21.—'Tho Press (tory)
makes the following statement: An in
fluential wire-puller, belonging to tlio
Ulndstonian section of tho libers! party,
was recently asked what ho expected from
Parnell. Ho replied that ho expected Par
nell to repudiate the plan of campaign and
to Induce the Catholic clergymen of Ire
land to withdraw their support from the
plan forthwith. ‘'Otherwise,” ho added,
“wo are ruined and will ho powcrlcsH ana
in a ridiculous position when parliament
meets.”
WILL JOHNNIE COME MARCHING HOME?
Dublin, December 21.—Tho court to
day refused John Dillon's application for
a stay of order against him to furnish
bonds in tho sum of £1090 with two sure
ties in the sum of £1000 each for future
g ),id behavior, pending tlio outcome of un
appeal from the sentence.
The End of the Filth.
London, December 21.—Judge Butt this
morming formally dismissed the petition
for divorce presented by Lady Colin and
Lord Colin Campbell in view of the ver
dict rendered by the jury yesterday had
ing neither of the parties guiltv of ndultry.
The Judge granted Lady Colin £150 costs
in her suit against her husband and full
costs of defence against her husband’s suit.
Ho also granted costs to the Duke of
Marlboro, Chief 9luiw and Dr. Bird, cor
respondents to Lord Colin’s suit against
his wife. Gen. Butler, another correspon
dent, did not apply for costs.
France.
WARLIKE PREPARATIONS.
Paris, December 21.—Uneasiness is felt
here over the rapidity with which the
government is working to place tho arma
ment of tho French in the completest con
dition possible. The state manufactories
of arms and ammunition nro all being
worked to their utmost capacity. It is re
ported from Romo that. Ilaly is arming.
Advices from Berlin state that Germany is
increasing her troops iu Alsace and Lor-
rai lie.
Mr. Waldron and tlio L.iU Erie and Wcatorn.
LaFayetth, Ind., December 21.—For
more than a,year there have been periodi
cal notices in the papers to the effect that
E. H. Waldron was likely o return to the
general management of i he Lake Erie and
Western railroad, a position lie held for tl
number of years. Mr. Waldron is now
in Chicago, and since the purchase of the
road b.y Samuel Thomas the talk of his re
turn has been re - . I ' d. S >inc of Mr. Wal
dron’s friends have written him on the sub
ject, and ho answers that lie knows nothing
whatever about tho purposes or intentions
of the new management, and that, sn far as
lie is concerned lie has had no intimation,
and has no reason Lo think that ho will bo
tendered any official position on tile road.
His ninny Lafayette friends, however, ad- I
here to the belief that Waldron will yel ■
placed at the head of the road. This city
is all the more interested in the matter
through the belief that if Mr. Waldron
should ha c died b lek to the Lako Erie and
Western, hn will order the return of the
general offices to this city, where they be
long. When Mr. Cheney, the receiver,
came in, he caused the headquarters of the
road to be moved from Lafayette to his
home at Bloomington, 111., und our people
are naturally anxious to get them back
again, if possible.
A BRITON’S fVLEOFWOE.
Pouml Out lu » Suit fur Dumugos Against u
t'hlragR Woman.
Chicago, Docembcr 21. —C. W. Beasley,
the young Englishman, said to be a noble
man, who was arrested some weeks ago
on com plaint of Mrs. F. M. Maitland for
obtaining money under false proteoses and
discharged December 2, after lying in jail
nearly a month, bus begun suit in the su
perior court for $25,000 for alleged false
imprisonment. He tells a pitiful story of
meeting tho defendant, and being Intro
duced to her on the steamer dunnythe
voyage from Sydney, Australia, L > Bail
Francisco. Arriving in port they journey
ed together to Chicago, and once here
Mrs. Maitland introduced him into tin
proved to bo incorrect, as he was returned
to jail yesterday. However, a party of 125
men surrounded the jail at an early hour,
battered down the door mu] took Sanders
to a convenient trpe, where they swung
him up. It has developed that Mrs.
Raohael Battsy, who lived in the neigh
borhood, was an accomplice in the crime
and that it was the design of herself and
Sanders to get married with the money
thus procured. The woman bus been put
in jnil mid there arc fears of another lynch
ing.
Fatal lUbblt II ant.
Logansport, Ind., December 21.—Yes
terday evening after school, Frank Roam,
tho sixteen-year-old son of 9ilns Ream,
living four miles north of t he city, together
with another smaller boy, took a double-
barreled sliotguti and went out to soino
brush pi os and tall grass to shoot rabbits.
Frank got upon a stump to get a shot
when the boy would scare one up. While
upon the slump he slipped, discharging
both barrels, the contents entering his
bowels just below the waistband of his
pants, passing up ami coming out at tho
left side of his nock, breaking the collar
bone. Ho was carried in the house anti
was still alive at midnight, hut cannot
possibly recover. Frank was a very
sprightly boy and well liked.
Bingham. He was in the institution four Mai land lntrotiueeu mm into u e
years, und when he left it, in 1833, he was circle* of society, where he ma le
sane, and intelligent. Nothing was seen warm.friends. He was, he says, but an m-
oi- heard of him until Sunday last, when he I experienc ed youth on his travels
appeared at the asylum, lie acted viol
ly, appeared to bo insane, and raved in in* |
I sane language about bis intention to kill, j
i lie did not say wlmt cause Ju: lmd for such
j enmity, and wont away after ho had in- I
j formed Poet that he was going to the
. Jersey City Klation of the Pennsylvania
i railroad to meet a wan and kiJi him.
An Awful Fire.
I Galveston, Tex., December 21.—A di.x-
I astroiH tiro broke out at 3 o’clock this
morning in tho rnsidenuu portion of the
I city on avenue K, between Twenty-iirst
and Twee y-second streets. This section
of the city is composed almost exclusively
of wooden buildings. The llruspread witn
great rapidity owing to the water in the
cisterns in the vicinity becoming exhausted,
and before tho fl lores Were controlled they
had swept over tne greater portion of two
squares ham r.tvnwj I to Broadway,
bounded ny Twenty-first and Twenty-
second streets. Piventy-eight dwelling
homes and two grocery stores wore burned.
Much household furniture- w is saved. The
total loss is estimated from $39,000 to $100,-
000. Insurance about $j'),030.
Later estimates place the total loss at
*120,000. Tho total ii
$75,000.
und running short of cash borrowed
a small sum from the lady
and went to New York to wait a
remittance from England. She sent him
u telegram which induced him to return,
and he no sooner set foot in Chicago than
he was arrested and lodged in jail on the
charge named. He tells sadly how he was
exposed to the gaze of the vulgar and
curious while in jail, and had to subsist on
coarse food, consort with outcasts and
listen to low and blimp heinous language
like a common felon, until his sensibilities
and self-respect were so hurt that thev
may never regain their wonted tone. To
stive these wounds and enable him to con
tinue his travels, as well as to forget that
the Ohicigo pipers held him up during
the d irk days of his imprisonment to the
rldculo and canto nipt, as he says, of the
whole world, ho asks judgment against
Mrs. Maitland for $25,000.
ON CHANGE.
A Day ot I'ulsutioiis nml FoTorlshuon,.
New York, December 21.—Tho stock
market to-day offered some violent con
trasts, changing in an hour from extreme
activity to midsummer dullness, and from
a decided weakness to great strength. *
Nearly one-half tho total day’s business,
502,000 shares, was transacted in the first
hour, after which a period of extreme
dullness was succeeded l>y n moderately
active market. Liquidation for European
account was renoivod tills morning, but
heavy covering of short contracts after
tho Iirst few minutes gave a remarkably
strong tono to dealings. Liquidation was
also largely indulged in by tho Reading
pool, and in the curly decline that stock
was the heaviest sufferer. Foreign selling,
however, ivns brought, to a close before
noon and the pressure being removed tho
improvement in values gained forco. The
postponement of the consideration fff tho
interstate commerce bill ulso gave ro-
liewed conffilenco in buying in the after
noon. Loudon sold a large number of the
active stocks, among which were Reading,
Erie, Louisville and Nashville, Vanderbilts
and Northern Fuciflcs. The opening
was again extremely weak and
declined from last evening’s figures rang
ing from J\ to It. Transactions were very
large and a further decline was established
in early dealings. The decline was check
ed in the Iirst few miuu'es, however,and a
strength as decided as t lie former weakness
was soon displayed. Material advances
over tiie opening figures were estab
lished in the iirst hour. There was
a decided lull in the activity shown
upon t he culmination of tho Iirst. advance
and the market became positively dull in
the afternoon, prices remaining steady to
tlrm in the meantime, but toward 2 o’clock
tin - upward movement was again resumed,
aeco npj.uicd by a larger business aud tho
market finally closed strong at about the
best flzui.cn of the day. Everything on
bit active list is showing a gain this even
ing- |t . T
III - Will I'ny is Full.
Minneapolis, Minn., December 21.—
The private banking house of V. IIusli &
Co. suspended payment, this morning. Tho
liabilities arc not yet known. The cause of
the failure is said to be the necessity of
Hush to carry the paper of Jackson A Col
lins, owners of the Puritan iron mine, on
which ho was endorser to the extent of
#100,(Hit) or #100,000. The bank itself is said
to lie solvent and Hush himself is worth at
least *150,000. It is believed he will be able
to pay lu full.
Slilmilrk, You’re (June.
Cincinnati, O., December 21.—Colonel
Deiticb, chief of police, to day discovered
Richard Sbinnick in the Cincinnati work
house, where he had bean placed two
months ago for disorderly conduct. A
dispatch had been sent to Dcitch to‘arrest
Sbinnick for the murder, white Hhinnick’s
wife on her death bed at Richmond, Va.,
said ho had committed there last fall.
Sbinnick will bo held for the Richmond
authorities.
Tlie Fata) Feuil.
Fort Smith, Ark., December 21.—In tho
Cherokee nation, Saturday, Sam Starr and
Ben Foreman Chunker tired at each other
simultaneously and each was killed, ono
shut through tiie hc.u t and the other’s
neck was broken Tills ends ono of tho
oldest and bloodiest feuds of many that
have existed in the Cherokee nation. It is
a feml that has lasted for fifty years, and
has resulted in the death of many men on
both sides.
Fe
Wellhvtllk, Q., December 21.—Judge
Nichols to-day scntcuci d John W. Macki
naw to four years in the Ohio penitentiary
for setting lire to the barn of Dr. J. W.
Hammond, of this place, which was burned
last winter. Mackimer lived in a shanty-
lmat ou the West Virginia side of the river
for some time, and was anested and con
victed mainly on tho testimony of his son,
a lad of 13 '
Louisville, Ky.', December 21.—At a
congregational meeting of the Central
Presbyterian church this afternoon, (lev. j Juiltri.
W 0. Young’s salary was raised $1000, | Ju ,, Ure
which may induce him to remiiui. It is ,„n,
insurance aggregates
may
rubable he will refuse, the presidency
Center college, at Danville. This wil 1 be a
grout disappointment to tho whole blue
grass country. •
It is understood to-night that Lieutenant
Win. E. Griustead, of the Louisville
Legion, will resign rather than submit to
the proposed court-martial. Lieutenant
O,'instead is tho young soldier who is
charged with h iving refused to allow his
company to participate in a battalion drill.
If Lieutenant Griustead should resign his
company will attend the national military
encampment at Washington in May. The
... ... ... ... papers in the case have been sent to the
tney wui bcgin wont to-day. it has about ’ ,. rn ., r . Lieutenant Grinstead bus also
been decided, on the solicitation of Shelby £ , a j cn
Tin* Ij » itsvi»;« mtliprn.
LoursviLLTC, ICv., December 21.—Work
on the Louiss ihe Southern Ihiilroad will be
extended this week into Shelby county,
and promises to bt* pushed forward more
rapidly there Limn in JefFerstui. Sixty-four
head of mules and supplies ol every kind
worn received to-day and yesterday by the
Mnson It Foard company, who have the
contract for most of the Shelby joun >y
portion of the rood, and it is understood
they will begin work to-day. It has about
people, to carry the road through the
southern limits of Shelbyvillc instead of
further south where the original survey
was made. __ ______
hut riiny W«*nl.
New York, December 21.—The [ms-
pension of J. If. MeOoon is announced
day on the stock exchange. Tl»i
sunt a lengthy stutomu
Oidwittnl Hi.’ OifJ folks.
Nf.WARX, Ohio, December 21.—The ser
vices of .Justice of tho Peace J. F. Pane
wi re dommded to-day to quickly marry
Elislm J. Casa and InuB. Speer, from Hart
ford, who had escaped the vigilance of
It WiU lhin< Him Yet.
Winchester, Va., December 21.—Tho
counsel for ititenour, who is charged with
the murder of Bray, Inis decided not to ap
ply for it writ of habeas corpus. The pris
oner will be held in jail for tho grand jury
of the county court, which convenes early
in January. The chain of circumstantial
evidence tightens around the accused.
(jrcKliaiu nml tin* Railway.
Judge Gresham does not receive tho
talk about running him two years hence
for president with any degree of favor.
The other day, a few hours before he de
livered his now famous opinion in tho
Wabash receivership case, .he wan sitting;
in his room, when ex-Senator Doolittle
spoke about the boom that was growing
for the judge in the east. “Well,” said
the bulge, 4, I don’t think much of this
bootfr business. I have not said 1 was a
candidate for president, anyhow, und even
ir 1 was it is too early now to talk of what
will happen two years hence.”
“J don’t think,” said a bystander “that
Gresham cares about being elected presi
dent. lie has said u-j much. He hits his
wife and his daughter, a charming young
lady, to support; his only son, Otto, is
practicing law in Indianapolis. Gresham
is a great man for home life, and the cold
est night that ever blew he can be seen
p lo ag b i ng h is way t b r. j ugh the sn o w o a
his way home. I ran into him on tho
north side near Ontario sir
houses reported i" trouble in the panic
last Wednesday, but which tided the
trouble over till to-day.
Juiit. » (.itlie While.
New York, December 21.—Judge Pratt,
of the suoreme court, sitting in Brooklyn,
to*dav grain• d an order to .slow imus • why
a stay snoukl not be grunted to McQuadc.,
returnable to morrow at iuu. m.
f their parents nml eloped. The
sued t
purs:
lllll.ut (
and Utica by the po
of the bride arid groom, nut they
them aud came lu re, where they
led in getting spliced before their
vs could stop the ceremony.
cold evening two weeks ago. He was
pur- limping against, tho wind, with his collar
up and his head down ar.d his face was as
rosy as u school boy’s. Walking is one of
his favorite am use men te.”-~ Chicago News.
Tlioy IIuii^ Him Anyhow.
T -ceoA, G i., December 21.—The report
ed burning of Frank B aiders, themuraen r
of the members of the Swilling family,
$*2000 fur Dinner.
Milwaukee, December 21.—While the
cashier of the First National bank was at
din nor to-day un unknown thief stole about
^2000 iii $5 notes. About half of them
Were signed.
