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Columbus
VOL. XXX—NO. 16.
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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1888.
KEWS OF THE DAY FROM WASHING
TON AND OTHER POINTS.
What Conurau Will Do TliU Week-The
Northwestern Bli/./.ur.t Still Hagiug
Th«< Situation of AfTairM in
the Keading District.
Washington, Jan. 16.—The senate is
expected to go into secret session after the
morning hour to-morrow, and enter, at
oiiue, upon the consideration of the nomi
nations of Lamar, Vilas, and Dickinson,
and to continue in secret session until these
are disposed of. The assumption
that there will be written
reports upon the Lamar
case, and that the injunction to secrecy
will be removed in whole or in part from
the proceedings, can be traced to nothing
which the members of the judiciary «
mittce have said or done, which commit
tee rarely confides its purposes to even the
senators, and never to the public.
If Chairman Crisp of the house commit
tee on elections can complete his report
upon the Thoebe-Carlisle contested elec
tion case by noon to-morrow, the matter
will at once be laid before the house,
and as a question of the highest
privilege will command immediate atten
tion. «
Death of Consul-General Tale.
Washington, Jan. 16.—George Walker
Tate, late consul-general of the United
States in Paris, died of pneumonia at his
residence in this city this afternoon in the
sixty-fourth year of his age.
THE HEADING STRIKE.
transaction now stands, the syndicate has
loaued the company $6,000,000 upon securi
ties of ample marketable collaterals.
Had the short-holders authorized
the issue of this preferred stock
the proceeds of its sale would have en
abled the company to repay this loan and
release the securities pledged, which could
then have been used for the purpose of im
proving and developing the railroad, for
which purpose the syndicate were willing
to purchase the stock. It is stated that as
the share-holders had not seen fit to vote
on the question of the stock issued and
thus permitted the sail, the syndicate is
quite satisfied with ita present position.
THE DEFEATED SYNDICATE.
> Gut tliu
i of lialtl-
Keading, Pa., Jan. 16.—Two meetings
were held in this city to-day of the Head
ing railroad employes. The employes’
convention, which met here over two
weeks ago and ordered the present strike
met first. About 150 delegates were pres
ent, aud reports were received from a
number of delegates, the substance of
which was that the company’s
business was badly crippled at
Port Richmond, Pottsville, Hhamo-
kiii, and Gordon and Mahoney
planes. The coal traffic, it was stated, was
at a standstill. Visitors to the mining
regions, upon invitation, reported that the
strikers were with the railroaders, and
would not go biok until all their diffieul- ,
ties were settled. Coal mining, it was re- |
ported, was completely tied up in the
Hchuylkill coal region. A meeting of tho
new Heading railroad employes, district
assembly, No. 224, which will ultimately
include all the hands employed by the
company, was subsequently held. P. W.
Bowman, of this city, presided. A num
ber of assemblies were admitted, but a
permanent organization was postponed
until the next meeting in Pottsville, some
time in April. Impartial observers of the
proceedings to-day believe that within the
coming week a break in the strike will
come. Not a coal train passed down the
road to-day.
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 16.—For sev
eral days there has been under considera
tion by leading men in the order of
Knight < of Labor, the advisability of bring
ing suit by the commonwealth, through
the attorney-general, against the Phila
delphia And Reading railroad, aud the
coal and iron company, to compel them
to do certain things, which it is alleged
they are obliged to do, under their charter
aud various privileges granted by the
state. One charge is that the companies,
by refusing to settle with the
men, are “cornering” coal and
other necessaries for the purpose
of enhancing their values aud extorting
exorbitant prices from the community.
Another charge relates to the responsi
bility of the companies os common car
riers, it being alleged that on account of
the companies’ action, men are employed
who do not give the best of service, and
whose efforts result lu delay and loss to
the community. There are other charges
which have been discussed, and it is said
that some legal proceedings will shortly
be instituted.
The Howling Bllssard.
Helena, Montana, Jan. 15.--This morn
ing the thermometer registered 45 degrees
below zero. The highest point reached
during tho day was 25 degrees below. At
Belgrade, east of here, it was 59 below on
Friday night. Special# from northern
Moutaua show some abatement in the
cold, with westerly winds. Railroad
traffic is still suspended.
St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 15.—Mrs. Bautzen
of Rushmore, was fouud frozen to death
within forty feet of her own door. Her
husband was absent and she started to look
for him.
Canton, Dak., Jan. 15.- The following
deaths from cold have been reported, but
it Is thought there will be more. Reports
come in slowly • Two men at Prenghar,
Iowa, two school children at Ernwood,
Iowa, two men between Marion Junction
and Bridgewater, one man uear White
Lake, two boys aud ninety-live head of
cattle near tarchwood, Iowa, four school
childreu near tannox, Dakota. Oue of
the last named boys was alive when found,
after being In tho snow for thirty-six
hours, but soon died.
Hitchcock, Dak., Jan. 15. Lewis M«t-
riman, aged sixty, and a son, living four
teen miles north-east of here, perished in
Thursday's storm.
St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 15. The Manitoba
and Northern Pacific roads stmt out regular
trains on their main lines to-night. Mani
toba officials report their line clear to the
boundary, and the Northern Pacific is
open beyond the Missouri river. The
Minnesota and Northwostein train from
Chicago arrived to-day, after being four
days on the road.
Dispatches from a dozen places in north
ern Texas say the blizzard reached that
part of the state yesterday afternoon, and
the mercury fell from forty to sixty four
degrees, reaching almost to zero at some
points. A high wind prevailed, and fleet
and snow fell in an unprecedented man
ner. Advices from the Pan-handle say
that the mercury fell to two degrees above
zero, and that cattle were drifting before
the storm and suffering badly.
FROM FOREIGN SHORES.
Baltimore, Jan. 13.—The apparent suc
cess of tiie local interest, in defeating the
syndicate’s project to issue $5,000,000 of
third preferred Baltimore aud Ohio stock,
while unexpected, has made Baltimore
quite happy. The general comment is
that the syndicate has had enough return
for Its favor® John A. Hambieton A Co.,
the bankers, expross the popular opinion
in their circular, published here to-mor
row:
“The |6,000,000 preferred stock, if sold to
the Drexel-Morgan syndicate, together
with the stock which they now control,
would give the New York syndicate a
larger interest in the stock of the company
than would be advantageous to the inter
ests of the state and city, and, secondly,
the issue of the preferred stock is unneces
sary, aud if issued would increase fixed
charges to the disadvantage of the holders
of the common stock. The Baltimore and
Ohio company still owe the syndicate $5,-
000,000, secured by the 50,000 shares of
Western Union telegiaph stock and other
collaterals, and the syndicate pro
posed to take the $5,000,000 third preferred
stock at par in settlement. The total
amount advanced the Baltimore and Ohio
company by the syndicate was f10,000,000,
upon which amount the syndicate charged
1 commission of 5 per ccut aud deducted
be same at the time the advances were
nadu. For $5,000,000 advanced the syndi
cate received in payment $0,000,000 consoli
dated mortgage 5 per cent bonds at ninety
cents on the dollar, so that the profits of
the syndicate have been so far $500,000 com- France anil AmerL
missions and whatever profit it may make Paris, Jan. 15. Mr. McLane, United
the $5,000,000 bonds. | states minister, iu a letter to Marquis
l'he agreement to issue the third pre- . Itoehambeau, regroiling his inability to
furred stock was subject to tho ratidcation j attend the banquet in celebration of the
ot the stockholders, ami as the stockhold- . battle of 1 orktowu, says lUe celebration
too refuse to endorse the agree in ant made iocalls for the French their glorious p-’st,
by the representatives ol‘ the company, the j and for the marquis a remembrance of a
stock cannot be issued. There is no had I soldier whose name he bears, and the debt
faith in this refusal to carry out the agree- of gratitude America owes his comrades,
ment, as no such agreement could be made He continues: “It is to the ancient asaoci-
without the consent of the stockholders j ation of the French and American soldiers
The majority of the stockholders of the | on the battle fields in the new world, that
NEWS OF THE DAY FROM ACROSS THE
DEEP BLUE SKA.
Stories of the Persecution of the Parnellitea
Uluni Permitted to Wear His Over
coat- Affair* Between Russia
and Austria, Etc, Etc.
Dublin, Jan. 16.—The freeman’s Jour
nal says: Mr. Wilfred otunt, being per
sonally persecuted, and fearing that he
will be removed to a worse prison, feels
bound to state the grounds upon which be
fears that the Parnell leaders were to be
imprisoned. While staying at the county
In the south of England In September, he
met Mr. Balfour, who made a state
ment that he Intended to imprison
six of the physically weakest of the Par-
nellits, adding: “I shall be sorry for
Mr. Dillon, as he has some good about
him. He will have six months, aud, as he
has bad health, he will die in prison.”
After the Mitchellstown affair Mr. Blunt
went to Ireland and warned Messrs.
O’Brien and Dillon. “Mr. Balfour,” says
Mr. Blunt, “became aware of this, to
whioh I attribute his virulence in tho
preliminary trial. I feel unsafe iu Bal
four’s hands. Unless protected by those
responsible for the direction of prison dis
cipline, I should incur the risk of iil-treat-
ment, or, perhaps, far worse. In re
sponse to an inquiry, Mr. Balfour said:
‘Thestory is a ridiculous lie. I do not be
lieve that Mr. Blunt made the assert ion
tributed to him.”
Attacked by Orangemen.
London, Jan. 15.—A party of Orange
men attacked the Irish league meeting at
Everton, a suburb of Liverpool to-day,and
wrecked tho hall where the meeting was
held. Councillor Byrne, one of those at
tending the meeting, was seriously Injured
during the affray, and is in a precarious
condition.
Blunt’s Overcoat Returned.
Galway, Jan. 15.—Mr. Wilfred Blunt
has been removed to a warmer coll in the
prison, and his overcoat has been returned
to him. To-day a band tried to serenade
him, but was prevented by the police.
The people are excited and a row is feared.
CLEVELAND’S BOYHOOD.
ment and oelebrstlon, to be held in this
city May 14 to 19, Ln connection with the
dedication of the new capitol building.
The principal prizes will he, for the beet [ reminiscences of him early life
infantry compeui***, $5000; second best,
$2500; third beet, $1000; for beat cavalry
company from outside of Texas, $2000; best
Texas cavalry company, $500; best artillery
company, $1000; aeoond best $500; best
zouave com pan/, $1590; second best, $750.
Many badges and prices are offered for in
dividual competitors. Every dollar of the
prize money will be deposited in bank to
the oredit of the army officers, who will
act as judges of the drill.
AT CLINTON.
Mr. Clevalainl Looked
Grandma Garfield Kinking.
Mentor, O., Jan. 15. “Grandma” (Jar-
field is constantly growing weaker, and it
is thought she can live hut a few day*.
She takes a lively interest in her surround
ings, and makes frequent inquiries about
the family.
Tim Baltimore and Ohio.
Philadelphia, Pa.. Jan. 15. —The Public
Ledger, in to-morrow’s financial article,
will « “We .re Informed th.t the •**«!. ‘he *»■* Abjwinnl. h»
failure of the Baltimore »nd Ohio -hare- unmmoned Rawalal. and other chief* to i
bolder* to authorize the tame of 15,000.000 council at Ad.way to arrange lor a for
of prafarred took doe. not affect the *yn- j ward movement when the main body Join
dicata’a poaitlou lu any way. Aa tba | Raaaalala’* fa
Baltimore aud Ohio and many of the direc
tors claim that there is no legal or moral
obligation to issue and sell to the syndicate
the additional $5,000,000 stock, mid that
thesAid issue would be disadvantageous to
the interest of the company aud unnec
essary, as the Baltimore and Ohio com
pany is now in condition to manage its
own finances and meet its obligations.”
To-day there was no quorum at tbe ad
journed meeting of the stockholders. Only
227 shares out of the 198,567 were repre
sented. Tho absence of tbe syndicate’s in
terest was much commented upon, and
many fear that tho syndicate will work up
the stockholders quietly and carry their
point to-morrow, when the final effort
will be made.
When the Baltimore and Ohio is fully on
its feet, it will in all probability mako a
fight for the restoration of its differential
rate from Chicago.
oath
-Ho
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan.
Oscar B. Hord, once attorney-general o
the state, and a prominent and widely
known lawyer, died to-night, aged fifty-
eight.
An Interesting Case.
is duo the strong current of sympathy
which has never ceased to draw France
and America together. I greet the French
soldiers present At the banquet, represen
tatives of the French army, and president
of the French republlo, a toast to whom I
desire you to propose in my name.”
Gravy Attacked by Apoplexy.
Paris, Jan. 15.—Ex-Preaident Grevy suf
fered a stroke of apoplexy last Sunday. He
has since been confined to his bed and his
physicians have been visiting him twice
daily. His condition was kept a secret aa
long as possible. This is the second
apopletic attack the ex-presldent has had.
Meverely Wounded.
Paris, Jan. 16.—While hunting at KaiH-
bouillet yesterday, General Brugere was
severely wounded in tbe hip by tho acci
dental discharge of a keeper’s gun.
President Carnot waa one of tho hunting
party.
Defeated by the Turks.
Constantinople, Jan. 15.—Two bands
organized to cause a rising in Bulgaria
were defeated by the Turkish soldiers be
fore they crossed the frontior.
Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 15.—The Times, to
morrow, will publish a two-column article,
Churchill In Russia.
Bt. Petersburg, Jan. 16.- Lord Ran-
of which Che following to a condensation: I dolph Churchill met (Jan. Igoatleff and
Shortly after tho Franeo-Pruaafan war, ' ““ he w "» ha PW make tbo acquaint
nine choir nun* camo to PiUeburg from j ° f “ •‘•teaman repreMutative of the
Franco to catahltob a ochool for young la- | K.u«elan n.tlouai party. Qen. UnatletT re-
dies. Tho nuns contributed money
plied that, properly speaking, tJere were
no political parties in Russia; that he
rather represented a national sentiment.
from their own purses, purchased
land and erected buildings there
on. They secured a charter from
the state of Pennsylvania for an educa
tional institution. No mention of religion
was made in the charter, but the incor
porators are described as members of the
Ursuline Order of Nuns. These ladies,
by teaching, have made a great deal of
money, and tho property is now worth
over $300,000. Thero has all along been a . . . .. „ - . .
conflict of authority between thehtohopofl l»«m«»d at tho police for making «.buro.
A Conllld With the Pollen.
Dublin, Jan. 15.—A conflict occurred at
Quecdare yesterday between the peasants
and a party of police collecting rents. A
woman was stabbed witn a bayonet, a girl
wounded with a bludgeon, and other per
rons wore more or less seriously injured.
Two arrests were made. The people are
hile tenants are in bed.
At Bkippereen to-day, Bishop Ross
preached a sermon violently denouncing
the coercion act. He said that the time
would come when no halt measures would
suffice, and that if strong and good men
were not taken from them, he did not he*
Rate to say that the dawn of liberty and
Independence waa at hand.
Hllflkls MIDI Aiinlikhb.
Vienna, Jan. 15. -It Is *t iled that Count
Kalnoky, in his reply to Prince Lobanoff,
Russian ambassador, who has given an in-
erclae their legal rights to I lunation as to the movement of Russian
•eds of tbe sale? Addi- 1 troops, said that he had taken note there-
tional interest attaches to the case from of He could res (Kind by stating that
the statement made by a lady member of ‘ Austria cherished equally peaoeful inteu-
of the oldest Pittsburg families that tlons, but it would be for the military
Madam Alphonse is tbe duchess of France, j council to judge of the situation created
" - by the advance of troopa. A report la
f current that a second Caucaasian army
corps has been ordered to proceed
] to the Austro-Rouinanisn frontier. It Is
stated that the government has decided to
this diocese and the sisters, the bishop
claiming spiritual authority and the sisters
Insisting that the property was the result
of their own labors. The lawyers eon-.
Armed the titles of the sisters, but they did
not take thi advice, and the property is ad
vertised for sale. Recently the bishop de
posed Mother Alphouse, and appointed
another nun to be mother superior. Six
seven of the original nine nuns have de
cided to follow Mother Alphonse. It is
probable that they will return to France.
Interest centers on the que^ion, Will the
Ursuline
receive the pr<
is, Bistci
aud that another of tho nu
nel, la the Bourbon couutew and cousin of
le ex Empress Eugenie.
A Fin* In Berialia
Bkdalia, Mo., Jan. 16.—A fire at this
place yesterday morning, totally destroyed
Smith’s hail and consumed the boot and
stock of W. 8. Mac Kay, valued at $5,-
£00. The loss on the building is
No casualties are reported.
Clo
mI Under Attachn
Dallas, Tex., Jan. 16. Attachments,
aggregating over $100,000. were issued last
ning against the big clothing house of
J. Reinhardt A tfon and the store was
closed.
The Cose Decide*!.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 16. The su
preme court yesterday decided the rise of
Hahn vs. tbe Stale in fa\oi of the defend
ant. Hahn offered five state debt proper
bonds, which had been funded under tho
act of 1882. to the state funding board
The board offered to fund tncai on 50.3
basis, hut refused to fund them as state
debt proper bonds, uuder the act of 1883;
hence the suit.
begin the movement of troops at an early
day. It will send large reinforcements of
Iliingmian troops to Transylvania. The
Warsaw Journal ‘semi-official) announces
that barracks to the number of eighty
will be constructed i
on the Prussian frontier,
Kalvarya and Marytmpa.
Italy's Intentions.
Berlin, Jan. 15. -Several station staff
officers are here consulting with the Ger
man military authorities. It is reported
that their mission is in connection with
Italy’s undertaking to send 15,000 troopa to
Galicia in event of war.
• Trying to Cover the Deficit
Madrid, Jan. 15. The minister of
finance will propose in congress a bill Im
posing heavy and octroi duties on alcohol
and petroleum. He hopes thereby to cover
half of the next deficit.
HER JAW CLICKED MERRILY.
Miss Dunn Couldn't Laugh. Eat or Talk
Without Hearing the Click.
A peculiar case came before Judge O’Gor
man ln the superior court yesterday morn
ing. Margaret Dunn, a very pretty bru
nette, twenty-three years old, sued Ferdi
nand Hasbrouek, a Broadway dentist, for
$5000 damages. The Acts are these :
On the 18th of November, 1885, Miss
Dunn was auflering from a severe tooth
ache. She went to Dt^Hasbrouck’s office
aud had the two firstmolars in her upper
Jaw drawn by one of the assistants She
went home and lived oo a diet of tea and
milk for several days. After the swelling
had subsided she begun to eat solid food.
To her alarm she found that when she
went to chew her jaw clicked merrily. She
laughed, aud her laugh died away as the
click grew louder. The clieking opera
tion was accompanied by intense pain,
and at times it compelled her to stay in
in bed. Hence the suit for damages,
At the trial yesterday the foregoing was
practically Miss Dutin’s testimony. The
defendant testified that Miss Dunn had
come to his office and had two teeth ex
tracted. This waa two years ago. He did
not see her again until May of last year,
when she came and said she was suffering
intense pain. He made au examination,
but found apparently no trouble. Tiie
clicking might exist, be said, but it was
probably c&uaed by yawning, laughing or
biting some hard substance. It was prob
ably tbe latter, as, according to Miss
Dunn’s testimony, she was not troubled
with the olicking until she had eaten some
thing ln a down-town restauraut. This
part of the testimony excited u general
smile.
Then Dr. Frank Abbot, one of the de
fendant’s wltneascsa, went up to Miss
Dunu and requested her t<* open her
mouth. She did so, and after looking iuto
tho pink cavern, he asked her to work her
law. Click, click, went the eccentric
Joint, and Dr. Abbot acknowledged be
heard the mysterious sound. The jury
solemnly gazed at the pretty mouth and
then gravely whispered to each other.
Next, Dr. Edward T. Weed, a fine-look
ing young man with a silky heard, ex
plained that the mysterious noise was
caused by the stretching of the ligaments
of the jaw. He said that every time Miss
Dunn would laugh at a joke, or try to .mas
ticate a beefsteak, the jaw would click,
thereby causing much inconvenience to
the owner. It never oould bo cured, but
must click on forever.
This seemed to Impress the jury, and
they were so silent, that when a Juror
aaked Mias Dunn same questions, they
easily heard that fatal click.
looked like a verdict for the
fair complainant, but ponderous med
ical works were brought out by
the defendant’s lawyers aud passages
were read, showing that people
oould easily get a clicking jaw from
numerous causes besides having molars
extracted. Then, it was averred, it would
he a dreadful precedent, should a verdict
be found for the plaintiff, for everybody
who sat in a dentist’s chair might claim
they had a clicking jaw aud got big dam
ages. Then the judge explained the dif
ference between “click” and “clack,” and
tbe Jury filed out to consider tbe case.
Au hour passed and they did not return
The hands of the clock had traveled the
circuit of the hour several times before
they did oome In. They had considered
the case, and their decision was against
the girl with the clicking jaw. Dentist
Haabrouck smiled as the verdict was
given.
Miss Dunn is the housekeeper at the
Hotel Winthrop, on Blxth avenue, and
would not talk lost evening about the
trial. It ia claimed that the night air is
very bad for her peculiar malady. Dr.
Weed says that the disease is incurable,
and is a serious drawback for Miss Dunu. -
Now York World.
MAN-KILLER* ON TIIE DANl'BE.
Uumir«Mfs or Workingmen Reiuorsetessly
Hlaln for Their Money.
At Glurgevo, on tbe Danube, accident
has recently led to the dlst'overy of a scries
of systematic murders. Numerous peas
ants and workmen from the interior of
Rounmanla have been In the habit of
crossing the Danuta at the above men
tioned port for the purpose of seeking la
bor in Bulgaria, but on their return jour
ney with their savings, fearing the indis
creet questions of the Koumaniao customs j
officials, the travelers have long evaded
them by landing <»n * Ninall island in tbe!
Danube, whither they were rowed by
Turkish or Bulgarian boatmen, mostly
during the night.
From this island it is possible to reach
the Roumanian shore in different ways,
unnotioed by the authorities. Home time j
ago a soldier, accidentally walking on the
banks of the river, heard terrible screams. ,
a Boy,
“Yes,” said Assistant Postmaster of tbe
Senate Kellogg to a reporter, “I did prom
ise to tell you about Grover’s boyhood,and
I don’t kuow as we shall find a tatter time
than the present.” This was said while
the postmaster stood wondering why so
many people crowd and hustle each other
New Year’s day to try to get into the
white house to have a faint glimpse of,
perhaps a hand-shake from, th*|president.
“I was born and brought up ai (Hinton,
New York,” continued Mr. Kellogg.
‘ where the Cleveland family lived, after
leaving Fayetteville, Onondaga county,
and previous to going t*> Holland Patent.
It Is, or was at that time, thirty-five years
ago, one of the pleasantest places for s
home of such a family as that of the Clove
lands. The seat of Hamilton college, the
alma mater of Heuator Payne, Gen. Haw
ley, Rev. Dr. Bartlett, Judge Schofield, and
many others whom Washington kuows
and appreciates, And where the elder son
was then obtaining his collegiate edu
cation. It was also the seat of several
seminaries for girls and an academy for
boys. The college and a portion of the
preparatory schools were under the charge
of the denomination to whioh Rev. Mr.
Cleveland was attached. The air of edu
cation and religion permeated the little
village. Many families had, like that of
Mr. Cleveland's, made Clinton a home on
account of its educational advantages, and
the spirit of foreign missions was so strong
that many of the young ladies who grew
up there became, os did the elder sister of
the president, wives of foreign mission
aries, going forth to spread gospel truth
by precept and practice, to the uttermost
parts of the earth. No father or mother
in Clinton over refused consent to a daugh
ter who desired to marry one destined for
the foreign missionary work.
“It was a pleasant little village of soarcely
a thousand inhabitants, lying on both
sides of tiie Oriskeny, and surrounded by
soenery as varied and beautiful as New
York can boast. But Its rbiof beauty was
tbe high character of its citizens, and its
greatest pleasure was tho society and ac
quaintance of the hundreds of boys and
girls who collected there rom year to year
to attend the schools.
“Yea,”continued Mr. Kellogg, “(Hinton
was my home At the time the Clevelands
lived there, early in tho fifties. They lived
on Utica street, three doors from tiie cor
ner of Mulberry. My father’s house was
at the other end of Mulberry street, about
sixty rods from the residence of the
Clevelands. My father was also a minis
ter of the Presbyterian church, and our
families were brought into intimate rela
tions from their association Iri the same
church, aud church enterprises; were iu
sympathy in their views, their sentiments
and their hopes. A large family of chil
dren—some eight or nine—were in each
household, and our ages were about the
same as those of tbe Cleveland children.
My oldest sister wont away to a foreign
field about the sAine time that Anna Cleve
land married Mr. Hastings and went, to
Ceylon. My sister, her husband and all
her children, save one, are in theirgravos,
which are scattered from Smyrna to Chi
cago, while the family of Mr. and Mrs.
Hastings have been wonderfully snared,
when we consider the rate of death among
foreign missionaries. AU this is prelimi
nary to what I have to say about Grover.
He was nearest my Age only one year
younger -aud during the short lime we
were both in Clinton were considerably
“ He was at fifteen a large, broad-shoul
dered boy, who had then tils growth ; that
is, waa os tall os he is now, but was thin.
He made few intimates, perhaps none,
and os a boy he never niAdc any enemies.
I have no information as to how lie mas
tered his studies at the academy, as I won
not in school with him, but he was not
known as either the hiightest or among
tiie dullest, lie had hardly, at that time,
acquired the studious, persistent habit he
now has, or he would very likely have-
continued his studies, and though his
father’s death soon after this might have
prevented hitu from going through col
lege, os his brother did, It was not tho
cause of his abandoning his preparatory
studies for, I believe, Mr. Cleveland’s death
occurred a year or two after Grover left
tho academy. In all probability he felt,
though 1 do not think he ever said so to
me, that his father could not well stand
the exftenso of giving him a college educa
tion, with five or six younger children to
be educated and cared for. As ho had no
Intention of following his lather’s calling,
and if we blacked our ahoea
guess It waa more out of reaped to the de
mand* of the head* of the family, than
from any inborn idea of tbe fitness of
tblug*. What put the vain notion into his
head, I do not think l ever knew, but he
suggested to me that we should go to the
’reception’ on tbe hill. 1 thought it tbe
proper thing to do, and rather enjoj-ed the
idea of going with him, for, moderate as I
estimated my owu social qualifications, I
had no fears of being at a disadvantage
While be was along. 1 knew reasonably
well that he would not be apt to outshine
mo. We Were sixteen and fifteen, res|>ect-
lvely. Neither of us had ever keen to a
president's reception before, and I am safe
in saying neither of us ever attended one
since, till the despotic demands of society
required him to hold his first one iu the
white house.
“We put on our beet and started. Old
Prex. North’s house was near the college
buildings, a little more than a mile from
the center of the village where we resided.
Half of the way ia across the ‘rtp.ta' the
broad interval which skirts the Oriskeny
—the other half up a hill so steep that a
port! a of the road makes a zigzag; but
even with this relief the hill is very steep
for either pedestrians or carriages. It is
fearfully hot iu July in CMntou. Tbe
'oldest inhabitant’ says that the hottest
day of the year may always be expected
during commencement week, and few In
stances are on record where It tailed to
appear as advertised. We started out
afoot. We scorned the apparent effemi
nacy of hiring a carriage to climb the hill.
Before we had tolled up that hill our stand-
up collars were limp as dish-rags, and our
handkerchief^, from frequent use, were
little better. By tho time we got into the
house our faces were red as beets from
heat and the violent exercise. I tried
to compose myself. I don’t know what
he tried to do, hut I do know that as I
wildly sailed out from the room where we
had deposited our hats, across the wide
hall, to make my presence felt in the great
reeeptlnn room, and take my initiation In
society behavior, I cast my eye back, and
there went Grovsr, hat In band, out ot the
front door into tbe darkness, at a rate
which, if kopt up until he reached tho vil
lage, would have niAde a record. He
couldn’t stand the nonsense. It was thirty-
five years ago, and 1 recollect it ss well as
though it was to-day. I stood near the
door of the reception room, talking with
his sister Anna, who was hanging on the
arm of Rev. Mr. Hastings, whom she soon
after married and accompanied to Ceylon.
I had managed to keep up my courage till
| then, but every bit of it oozed out o: the
linger s eua wbeu i saw Grover t exit, hi
I soon followed suit, but if I had gone down
the hill on the wiugs of the wind I caul
not have overtaken him. That reception
cured us of a desire to enter iuto society.
“Ijost summer the little village held the
celebration of the close of the first century
of history. I could not be present. I
ought to have been. My grandparents
were among the first settlers who came
into C’H'iton from New England, There
my father whm born; it was the place of
my birth and noar by was the birthplace
of my older children. Mr. Cleveland, on
invitation, waived his strong natural disin
clination to become the center of a gaping
crowd, and accepted the invitation to be
present at the centennial exercises. I
doubt whether at any time in his life he
ever enjoyed a public occasion as much hh
he did that at (Hinton. His short speech
wai a model, und every word showed that
he felt the memories of his boyhood days
pressing fast and pressing faster. He
was pleasantly entertained by the
widow of O. 8. Williams, the uisn
who, of all others, who ever lived
there would have been by force and
inclination at the head of the procession
when a democrat le president was coming
to town, if he had been alive. 1 believe I
sin the only (Hinton boy now iu Washing
ton who was a Clinton boy with Grover
Cleveland. There’s Walter Blocking, up
at tho patent office, who was there then,
but he was ln college at that time, and
won, of course, a little ahead of us. Dau
Hheperd may have been there also. I
don’t know whether his visit to tiie presi
dent’s house had any weight in turning
Grover’s head from undertaking a college
course or not, but he soon left (Hinton, and
after a few years spent in some educa
tional labors went to Buffalo, where lie
fell in with his uncle, tawis F. Allen, of
Black Rock, and the world knows the rest
pretty thoroughly.
“There is tine other thing you may put
in, if you’re a mind: Rev. I)r. Burchard,
whom Mime of us have cause to remember,
was frequently at Clinton during com
mencement week. 1 do not know that ho
was there that year, but 1 have frequently
seen him there. He was related to, or was
one of tho Burchard family of that county,
a member of which was the director of
the mint here when Mr. Cleveland became
president. Dr. Burchard was a man of
fine personal figure and elegant tastes,
bother he was over much
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
GOSSIP ABOUT MR. LAMAR
SENATOR WALTHALL TALK8 OF HIM
AS A LAWYER.
Hood Work In
ent, and How
Cases—HU P
Interior Depart -
Hrlefed HU
i and How
he preferred to give up going to college
rather than to burden and then disappoint i Plough I d
his parents. '0 11 politician.
“Mr*,. Cleveland was a most happy com i “ Tho president may have Improved, by
bination f»r a minister’s wife. 1 seem to ! • nd «»*porlence, bis taste* for the gor-
ruinemher her appearance much better I "urroundings of 'reception day,’ hut
than I do that of Mr. Cleveland. Hhe was i I d *uht whether at bottom he takes much
of medium height and size,with a pleasant, j nu,re »t*>eW In them than he did thirty five
b mt-vole t fare, and always Interested in year# ago.” -Washington Star,
her family and church matters. 1 believe Death of an old Lady.
In her heart she would rather have seen I Nkw Orleans, Jan. 15. A special from
her son in the ministry than in the white !
house. I do not know how long she sur- '
vlved her husband, for I lost trace of the
family after they left Clinton. As a hoy, i
issuing apparently from some reeds near Grover was rather stubborn in his views, j
the ta'and. After a silence of several hut not contentious, or much disposed to
hours, similar screams wero again heard | press his opinions upon others. His dis- j
by persons whom the soldier bad called to I position was equitable, ami his temper well :
r knew of his at- j
smaller hoys. I |
ved Justice tatter I
tot a dissembler. I
vas not profane or !
conti
tempting impositions .
think os a youth he
than power. He was
While not religious, In
e at Asmara.
Tha Texas Drill.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 15.— The military
committee, comprising Gov. Boas, Col.
Btever of the United Btates srmy, Adju
tant-General King, Attorney-General Rob
erts, And others, yesterday formulated a
programme and a list of prizes, to be
aw arded at the grand inter-state eucamp-
the spot. On tiie police proceeding
hither, they found that on both occasion*
persons crossing tbe river and landing on
the Island had been murdered by their
own boatman.
A comprehensive Inquiry was now insti
tuted by the Roumanian fiscal-general, M.
points | Populeano, the result of which has estah-
Buvalkl, I lUhed with certainty that hundreds of
| workmen or peasants have been murdered
on the island at the moment of landii g,
and were then robbed of the money and
goods they had with them, their corpses
being either buried ln graves already pre
pared for them, or thrown among the
reeds in the Danube.
In all cases the murderers were Turkish
or Bulgarian boatmen from Rustchuk, who
carried concealed under their clothes tho
knives and daggers with which they dis
patched their victims, one after the other,
as they set foot in the dead of night on the
lonely island in the Danuta. Vienna
Paper.
Dsrtmjrsd by Fir*.
Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 15.--The Uni- behave in Sunday
versaliat Church of the Redeemer, this whose society we w
city, was deetro\ed by tire to-day after the whom we liked to
vulgar. He was a well-behaved tay, with
indinations right, hut had not the deep
religious sentiment which so grout I y gov
erned the family when I know thorn.
“You know that in all colleges it is the
custom for the president to hold a recep
tion one evening during ‘commencement
week.’ This, like the affair, we see hero
to-day, is the great event of the year in a
village like Clinton, where 'society’ is not
very exacting in its demands, and where
‘swallow-tails’ were unknown, except os
a regulation black of a minister of the
gospel. Commencement week could no
more pas* without a 'president’s reception’
than can holiday week in Washington.
‘ Neither Grover nor I was, as you may
well believe, very high lu develops
as a society young man. Both of in
received g«>od ‘bringing lip,’ knew how to
4, had sisters,
listonn-d to, and
party, but it is
Biloxi, Mississippi, says: Mrs. Martha
Payard died near this place yesterday, of
cancer. She was 1<IH years of age, and had
ninety liviug descendants, some of whom
are prominent men.
Ix»st Their Game.
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 16. A special
to tho Age from Vernon, Lunar county,
says: This morning Pinkerton detectives,
accompanied by the sheriff of the county,
went to the home of Janies aud Reo',* n
Barrow, to arreat them for robbing a trsi
near Texarkana, Texas, on the night oi
tie ember 10, 1HSH. The detectives bed
requisition for the men and were su •
that they were tho right parties. Tbe
house wan surrounded and James
Barrow was found to ta alone.
He was ordered to hold
hi 1 hands, hut when the officers began
closing in on him, ho inode a hold d>-sh for
liberty. About filly shots wero fired at
Washington, Jan. 14. Senator Wal
thall, of Mississippi, was Secretary La-
mar’s law partner just after the war. The
two practiced together until I*amar took a
legal professorship at Oxford, and Wal
thall says there is no doubt as to I^mar's
fitness for the supreme bench, from the
standpoint of legal ability, or learning.
He says that Missiairippiaiis are surprised
that such a question should he raised, and
they all regxrd Lamar as a great constitu
tional lawyer.
The interior department has giveu M r.
Ijiimar a chance to show his power in the
mastery of cases, and he has such a system
that he kept hia work up to tho times.
By tho reading of a paper he could take
the gist out of it, and condense a dozen
pages Into a sentence. He briefed all the
ouaeathat went to President Cleveland,and
it was from these briefs that tho president
got some knowledge of I dinar’s fitness
for the supreme court, lie kept the en
tire run of the department, and each
bureau and division had to give
him a brief of each matter which had
been before it, so that tamar could see aL
a glance just what was being done. Lamar
knows how to make others work, and ho
has order for others though he lias not
the practicable ability to take care of his
papers himself.
He is like Beck in this, and he keeps his
most precious documents in a barrel or
leaves them sca'teredj over his desk. When
he wants a paper he stirs up the pile until
he finds it, and he shakes his inane In a
rage it any one ties up his papers in bun
dles. Ho works like a cart horse, or,
rather, liko a blooded mare in a tread-mill.
He will Jump at his work and rush along
until he almost drops from exhaustion.
Then he goes to sleep and rests like a baby
for len or twelve hours at * stretch, and
awakes as fresh a- a d ilsv. 11c has tired
out all the men a*--und tne d< pnrtmcnt
and kopt several seen tartes busy. Some
times he would think he was sick, and
then he would retire to his house and have
himself denied to all callers. Hia papers
would be sent thero to him and his short
hand man would ta with him. llo would
wo r k lying down, and, his secretary tells
me, would do more f mi. at the office. At
*’•0 interior department ho nan a little
. > u <n a secluded part oi the building
• hi. *s he often slipped to get away
from h callt. -, and It wr*, here that his
hardest work was done. He was a good
dictator, and he rattled off his opinions
und letters »t 20C words a minute, walking
up and down the floor aa ho did so. Now
and then lie would tear the air with his
hands, as he gestured In accordance with
the thoughts that he uttered, and some of
tainar’s best speeches wore thus made to
his stenographer.
Lamar once told me that he could not
write easily, and his fingers turned into
thumbs when ho seizes the pen. He loses
himself in dictation, ami hia decisions as a
judge will be worded in the purest of
Anglo-Saxon. Ho is a good story-teller,
and he has a reminiscence between every
two bites of his dinner when he eats with
a friend. He Is not a gourmand in his
tastes, but his stomach is large and uot
dainty. He lunches on hard-boiled eggs
with as much gusto as on pato de foie gras,
and lie Is irregular as to his meals. Ho
sometimes takes his lunch at 10 o’clock iu
the morning, and ho often puts it off until
2 or 4 o’clock In thy afternoon, and thero
have been cases when be has forgotten
both lunch und dinner in tho absorption in
work or in thinkiug.
Outside of his family and the classics,
Lamar has a hobby and that bobby is Jer
sey cows. Ho has a hord on his farm in
Mississippi, and he sold Senator McPher
son the hull that took the premium at the
New Jersey fairs. Thi* bull was named
“Heuator Vest,” and one of Lamar’s cows
is named after Mrs. Heuator Palmer. A
picture of this cow in oils hangs in ta
mer's dining-room. Lunar lives at Ox
ford, and his residence is surrounded with
trees. I have soon a painting ot it with
the cows and the calve* gambolling before
It, while Lamar, with a hook in his Imnd,
sits on the steps and reads. Lamar is
worth from $15,000 to $20,000, and not any
more, I am sure. Much or his money is in
his Jerseys, and he is not a man who has
measured his lite by his dollars. He lias
not the accumulative bent, and, though
not a great money-spender, he is uot a
money-maker or saver.
He is more of a scholar and he reads
many languages, lie likes to talk of the
poets and is foml of newspaper reading.
He thinks there is no one like Byron, and
he quotes at times from the verses of even
“Don Juan.” He is a good quoter, and hi*
big hood is packed with gems from tho
newspaper*, lie roads many papers, aud
he watches tiie journals of tho cross-roads
of his state. The only real failure of lus
life, he thinks, was iu newspaper work,
and this was at the close of the war, *\ lion
ho thought to set tho country on lire by
editorials for the Oxford Falcon. lie
carved them out by the yard, and the Fal
con printed them for a time. He looked
for quotations, • ' ' c* to id me in sadness
that the papers u. -i • • m lor edito
rials, and they vi : I f by h»* three-
column articles re. .imdrai-word
net tences on the “Lin Rations of the In
finite,” and pick up the ;*.u»ty little squibe
of tho editor and copy them inaU>ad. After
a while Lamar’s writing* get into the
waste basket, and, in his own words, ho
.jclndod that he was not fitted for an
edit.* r al writer, and I i mgine the editer
* ough' ro, too.—Frau*. G. Carpenter.
Fir* In New York.
i . York. Jan. 15 ' hree five-story
brick '■ ail lings, numbered t>l, 56 and 58,
Warren street, were completely gutted,
ami uHimdu
idjo
him as he i
through ills clothes, but he escaped. The I
U P badly damaged by fin
discovered st 4G» o’clock a. in., ami it
not until the afternoon that tho fire-
got the Haines under control, the he
id ntivural bulloto piltaod *, Kr6 «t tha! they could nut
ugh to rto effective work. The to
two younu ">vn went toTexiuifrom l.ni.r t|| „ „ lbout footol, *n,l on the
ounty several yoi
id returned f<
the first time about Christmas,
have always borne a good charac
their native county, hut the detectives say
that in Texas they are known as desperate
had G*!' 1 rohtars, and big rewards have been
v k, offered for their capture. Thu Pinkerton
detectives will make another effort to
capture them.
Twelv* I.
ok* of the eighteen firms occupying
They J them about $100,000. The principal lo
er in were \ Warren & Co., Ried Bros., K. S.
m Ha >' Vanhorn A Co., A. J. White, N. B. Bass,
" ,rata ! J. Einstein, Feck A Snyder, and F. Fulanki.
firemen had fought thcilanaee all day long very mild to say that n<
in a temperature ranging from 22 to 30 d# - lng limits of (’lintos «v
frees below zero. The loss is $70,000; in u* of being a dude,
serenes $60,000. | many valuable uioi
Death of an Kx-C*»ngressman.
i Fomkroy, ()., Jan. 15.—V. B. Horton,
I ex member of congress, died here yester
day in his eighty-sixth year. He was the
within visit-' Hr. Louis, Jan. 16. A fire at Dennison, father-in-law of Gen. John Pope,
accused either of I Missouri, yesterday, destroyed the round him Is given the credit of having placid
Neither of us wasted house of the Missouri Pacific railroad and on the Ohio river the first steamboat for
nts over our toilet, t twelv* iouomolivea. Ths loss u $(U),0UU. i tow mg the canal.