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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.