' wqg horning news .
I arr.aijsHZD 1861. IseotpoiUTM. 1686. V
] H. ES'fUX .President. |
BATTLES WITH THE BUCKS
nSSCB FIG HT TEN MILES FROM
1 GORDON.
, B umor at cmcago that Gen. Milea
Cag ant With a Heavy Lobs— None of
Carr’s Command Killed in His
snraeement With the Hostiles-The
dumber of the Redskin Warriors In
ozetDinS Hourly.
OkaHa, SBb., Jan. 4. —A special to the
froal ’ Gordon. Neb., last night, says:
i battle is tow raging about tea miles
northeast of this place. Booming cannon
' be distinctly heard. The wildest ex
dement exists. A company of state troops
t expected to-night.”
IHE BATTLE NEAR GORDON.
, Jreeled to the Bee from Rushville says:
from Gordon, Nab., says that two
' „ won have just arrived confirm the
Lrort ifl.'de last night of a battle north of
STplara Tne fight was between Indians
Isda da acbment sent out by Gen. Miles
SL the Rosebud agency to bury
£ dead Indians killed at the Wounded
r r . battle of Dec. 29. The hos
tfe Sioux objecting to the burial of their
i*d*by their pale-faced foes, opened fire,
*T. at-rr ihe desperate and sharp firing of a
Hotchkiss gun were forced to return to the
protection' of the friendly ravines. No
deaths are reported.
OIN. CARR’S BATTLE.
LIXCOLS, Nkb., Jan. 4.—Last night’s
mecabto the Journal from Pine Ridge
eonflrm the report of an engagement be
tween Gn. Carr’s command ad the In
dians on White river. It is believed that no
oce waskilW, though several Indians were
wounded- An India a courier brings a mes
jage from the hostile camp, the sunstance of
which is that a demand will be
made that all soldiers witbdraw
from the locality; and further,
that the Indians will treat with no one for
peace but the President of the United
States or a commissioner of Indian aft'a.rs.
This message came direct from the hitherto
supposedly friendly Red Cloud. Roving
hands continue to scout the country in the
•vicinity of Pide Ridge. Many persons
coming in tell of narrow escapes. The In
dian training school at Pine Ridge was
burned last mght. No loss of life resulted.
STANDING ROCK BUCKS IN THE FIELD.
Yates, N. D„ Jan. -L—A large number
of young warriors of the Standing Rock
ageaev have gone south to join the hostiles
in ihe’Bad Lands. The discovery was made
on the issuing of rations that many did not
come to the agency, and one of the friendly
Indians seal -1 that the absentees bad armed
themselvei and gone to joiu tne bonds in
revolt. How many have gone is only con
jectured, but the indicatio s poiut to at
least 1,000. The Ora ad river Sioux have
teeo fomenting troubl • ever since the kill
ing of Sitting Bull, and they have not been
slow iu manifesting taeir intense anger to
■Agent McLaughlin. Most of them regard
the taking off of the old medicine man as a
murder outright, aud it has beea common
talk for three weeks that the reds would ac
cept the tint opportunity offered to mas
sacre the whites.
CAVALRY TO MOVE.
A detachment of the Eighth cavalry
under Capt. Fountaiue will move rapidly
southward, and Company H of the Twenty
second infantry, now near New England
City, will come to this point and move
thence southward to aid iu quelling the up
rising. Troops are also in readiness to taka
tne field from Fort Lincoln, and a detacii-
M:it of the Twenty-fifth infantry at Fort
Keogh is expec ed to march in a south
easterly direction. Every hour increases
the number of hostiles.
TO FIGHT TO THE DEATH.
Denver, Col., Jan. 4.—A special from
Fine Ridge to the Rocky Mountain Neivs
v,a Rushville, Neb,, savs: "Tne army of
Indians now surrounded by Geo. Miles’
* > l^ ers on Clay creek numbers over
hOOO men, women and children, most of
them from the upper Dakota reservations,
hundreds of the crowd are crazy
Iran ghost dancing, and will
7“] " s % Foot’s men fought. Shots were
wed by pickets hero nearly every hour last
tight, banishing sleep from all eyes. Fire
arrows were thrown into the ag-ncy about
jWdmght from a ravino near bv. but for
tuna ely fell harmie-sly. Tin, half-breeds
ltd squaw-men are leaving for the railroad,
}mg they know what is coming and do
wt propose to remain. This war will not
be ended except by one of tho bloodiest bat
net in the history of Indian wars."
MILES’ ALLEGED DEFEAT.
rvs? C V^’. Jaa - 4 -~Assist. Aajt. Gan.
~ ®for the Indian country at 6
ecioci to-night over the Chicago and N’o. th
,* tern railroad. Capt. E. L. Huggins is
T„JV bar S 8 of tbe “'■my headquarters.
Sh w U J t i' lo ' clock ’ in nn interview, he
. ‘ S, 9 ha ' l , heard the rumor to the effect
.''■ lien l - -'1 lies 1 command nad met the hos-
K „; L that Cion, lliles had lost heavilv,
rL and!( vI K f“ t,eliove it, and was positive
, „ D - titles could not have been within
any nines of the locality where the fight
-ail to have taken place.
Corbin’s place in the field.
c * t , before Col Corbin left to-night he
as asked if ihe order transferring h.m to
seat of war meant that the situation
ip-iH o r ?° r oT SeriOUS tfaai ‘ was supposed. He
,I th.nk nqt It is not at all
] that I am ten” for, and probably
-ught to have been there before.
oL,~ rtu ® of , m .V rank lam chief
is V a ,|! a! ( ' ,1 i w heo the general in command
thorn ■ h!s cbief oC staff should be
• e a.to. Furthe than this I cannot say
“yihing about the matter.” The only
3 received at the headquarters tnis after
a f! l' ort message from Lieut Maus,
th, X en ' Miißß ' it "as to the effect that
Jsrr s h caV!, lry. under command of Capt.
oil' “ a3met a ba,ld cf indians at Clay
Orn I , a short engagement followed.
“ la n "83 reported kided and one
troop. Ther ° Were n ° c sualtiea to the
IN A WILD FRENZY.
p’j’l' i9C a l to the Inter Ocean from Pine
“Last night was one of fever-
Sn S n Clt9ment to many at the agency. For
r.J u ' st tlmo the squaw-men and half
Ll, r ers alarmed and stayed up all
£ l ' fearing that an attack would
mane before morning. The
& 13 , too well guarded to
tiro C a ?y large force to approach very
Lrs . wa hout discovery, but it would bo
cremi Prevent a few daring Indians from
td ~n “ U P s, tne of the numerous ravines
i-tv.-, ,? W ‘ nK , flre arrows on the barns or
lr ; aclr9 - Friendly spies say that there
s' a large number of warriors in
6 °® m y camp who have
fr.CL 1 themselves up to a condition of
co m sin ?Har to those who
minuted suicide at Wounded Knee. They
*kji ■?}’ wan t to die, and are going to die
tw i klll ‘ n K the white men. It is also said
KrL , UCKS escaped from the Wounded
*jßht who swear that thoy will set the
i e ; Ves J ° a hre, and kill the agent tbem
-1 ,i r blood y battles inevitable.
i!ea has his troops all around the
hav„ y and could throw all in any day and
Prevent tremen< d°ua battle, but could not
then, tand3 escaping here and
-, which would have to b# followed up
tHje IKflfning
by the soldiers and which would place the
lives of many settler* in danger. By hold
ing his troops until a much larger force can
be thrown around the Indians the trouble
can be confined to the neeerre. Tl
end cannot be reached without one or
more battles and bloody ones, as there are
too mauy of the crazy ghost dancers who
want to follow the example of their Big
Foot relatives. Gen. Miles sent out a letter
yesterday asking for a hearing. The In
dians tors the letter into fragments and
threw them into the tire, saying: 'We want
no treaty; we are to fight.’ Last night
several shots were fired by our pickets aud
a couple of arrows w ere thrown into t e
yard. Surgeons are co atari 7 ly arriving,
there being no less ttiau fifteen here, with a
large corps of assistants. A delegation of
friendlies ask that large party be sent out
at once to aid those who desire to e cape
from the hostile camp. They claim
that 700 or 800 warriors wish to return;
that they either fled through fright
at first or were forced to go with the rest.
To let the friendlies go would undoubtedly
precipitate fight and consume several days
of valuable time. No decision in the mat
ter has been made yet.
“The day is w arm and clear, and the
wounded who are on their way to the rail
road will suffer no discomforts.
“The Indians in the hostile camps number
over 4,000 men, women and children, a: and
represent every agency in the two Dakotas.’’
SCOUTS NOT DESERTING.
Washington, Jan 4.—The commissioner
of Indian affairs having, iu response to a
telegram, sent to Agent Royer at Pine
Ridge agency, Inquired as to whether any
of the Indian Scouts or police had joined the
hostiles, received the following reply from
the agent, dated Jau. 8: “None of our
enlisted scouts have joined tho hostile*.
Capt. Seward gave three Dermission to go
into the nostilo camp after their f unifies,
who have not yet returned. The police aid
scouts are rendering good service, and by
their vigorous firing prevented the hostiles
from burning the agency buildings.”
FOOD SUPPLIES OF THE BUCKS.
A reporter to-night called the attention
of the commissioner to the reports from
Pine Ridge agency saying that Gen. Miles
had recommended the removal of the Indian
agents at Pine Ridge and other places, and
to the statements that the Indians were
slowly starving to death. The commissioner
said that so far as the agents
were concerned there was no evidence that
there had been any dishonesty on their part
in distributing tho supplies. He said he
was preparing for publication a full state
ment of the amount of supplies voted by
coi gress and distributed to the Indians.
The commissioner lias submitted to the
President a statement covering the ques
tion of the charge made that tho agreements
made with the Indians have not beea ful
filled.
CAPT. WALLACE’S REMAINS.
Nashville, Tenn., Jau. 4.—C01. R. M.
Wallace of South Carolina passed through
this city last night from the west, having in
charge the remains of bis brother, Caot.
George D. Wallace, of the Seventh United
States cavalry, reoently killed iu a battle
with the Indians in South Dakota. Capt.
Wallace’s remains wifi bs buried at York
viile, S. C., his native home.
BROTHBaS PR >ZE 4 TO DEATH.
Their Sister Burled U nder the Snow
and Her Life Saved.
Medicine Lodge, Kan., Jan. 4.—Two
brothers named Bell, aged 22 and 9 years,
and their sister, 19 years old, attended a
meeting near here Wednesday night and a
blizzard arose as they started for home at
10 o’clock. When 900 yards from their
home the elder brother remarked that they
could not make the distance against tbe
storm and would have to go with the wind.
They drifted south about a quarter of a
mile and took refuge in a canyon where
tney were soon covered by the snow.
BOTH FROZEN TO DEATH.
Thursday morning the elder brother
crawled out of tho snow and attempted to
get home. He called out to his sister that
he was so stiff he could not travel, and in a
short time was frozen. The younger
brother was also frozen to death under a
drift. The parents started out Thursday
morning to find their children, and in
a short time a searching party
was organized. Friday morning the body
of the young man was found, aud then the
searchers found the girl, who was concealed
beneath a drift. They had been out thirty
six hours. The girl did not know her
brothers were dead. She is in a fair way to
recover.
GERMANY GROWING GRASPING.
Plans on Foot to Seize the Gilbert
Islands.
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 4.—lnter
views are published hers with persons who
have recently returned from the Gdbert
Islands, which indicate that the German
residents there are extending their interests
and menacing the natives. It is said that
tho Germans have recently opened two
entry ports and closed a port which has
always been used by the American vessels
trading at tho island. Persons who were
interviewed state that the impression on
Gilbert Island and also among the natives is
that the Germans are laying their plans to
take control of the group.
WOMEN FIGHT W.TH KNIVES.
One of the Combatants Said to be
Fatal.y Injured.
PittsburcJ, Pa., Jan. 4. —A special from
Wheeling, W. Va., says; “Word comes
from New Martinsville, W. Va., that two
physicians have been summoned to go to
Ten Mile, Tyler county, to attend two
women who fought a duel with butcher
knives. The fight occurred without
spectators in the kitchen of one of the
combatants, named Wilson, and is described
as a most ferocious and desperate encounter.
Mrs. Wilson was terribly cue about the face,
neck and breast, and is fatally hurt. The
other woman’s name is not known os yet,
nor the cause of tho strange duel. ’
FLAMES ON THE JiM 39.
in t
An Old Brewary Buildto-g at Richmond
Burned.
Richmond, Va., Jan. 4.— The old Ying
ling brewery on the James river, just below
the city, was totally burned to-day, with its
contents. The building was the property of
J. T. Betz of Philadelphia, wbbso loss is
f40,000. The insurance is iu the north.
The Richmond CeJar Works, which used
the building as a storage warehouse, lost
810,000 in g nods. They are fully insured in
local companies.
A Wealthy Negro Slain.
New Orleans, La., Jbd. 4.—A special
to the Times-Democrat from Helena re
ports the assassination of Prince Maliory,
at Island 04, last night. Mallorv was a
colored man. and the richest man iu that
section. Three negroes suspected of the as
sassination have e oaped.
Twelve Steamers Ball In.
New York, Jan. 4. —Twelve steamers
arrived at this port to-day, the largest num
ber to arrive in one day tor a long time.
They landed 1,008 immigrants,
SAVANNAH, GA., MONEVY, JANUARY 5, 1891.
CONGRESS FAR BEHIND.
None of the Appropriation Bills Acted
on by the Senate Yet.
Washington, Jan. 4.—lt begins to be
apparent that the present unsatisfactory
state of affairs in the Senate must soon be
terminated. Fifty workiug days will end
the fife of the Fifty-first congress,
yet tbe first of the regular annual
appropriation bills remains to be
acted upon by the Henate. A feeling of im
patience which this condition of the public
b usine s has aroused has gathered strength
every dav, and significant remarks, uttered
in the debate last week by senators of
recognized influence, appear to have had
the effect of bringing the Senate nearer to
a change of programme than has held sway
since congress met in December last.
A CAUCUS.
A caucus of the republican senators is to
be held, probably Monday evening, and it is
confidently expected by most of the repub
lican senators tbut. as a result of it, before
the week enures a crisis will have been
reached with respect to the elections bill,
and the Senate will have arrived at a clear
u demanding of what course is to lie
pursued for tbe remainder of the
session. The lines of battle are narrowing
aud t: ere is a gathering of forces. Absent
republican senators have been requested to
return, aud preparations are making on
both sides of tbe chamber for a final struggle.
NIGHT SESSIONS.
Part of the campaign, it is believed, will
be a series of nignt sessions—designed to
test ths efficacy of the old methods of pass
tog a bill obnoxious to the minority as well
as to secure the adoption of the new oloture
rule, if it be decided to press this measure.
It is not expected, however, that this order
will be made before Tuesday, as a night ses
sion to-morrow would interfere with the
desired caucus.
In ths House.
In the House to-morrow, the first Monday
of the month, is “individual suspension
day,” and members wifi be given an oppor
tunity to pass measures of local interest.
Chairman Farquhar, of the merohant ma
rine and fisher.es committee, will call up
the shipping bill Tuesday. Its friends pur*
pose to allow two days for its considera
tion, but a determined effort will be mado
by the opposition to defer final action on
the bill as long as possible, in the
hope of defeating it in this
manner, without running the risk of a final
vote on the passage of the bill. There is a
prospect tha consideration of the shipping
bill may be antagonized by the appropria
tion bills, aud that tho former measure may
not secure the floor. Friday will be devoted
to bills on tho private calendar. It is ex
pected to fill in any time during the week
not devoted to the shipping bill
and to the special order with
tbe appropriation bills, four of which are
on the calendar, wanting consideration.
Chairman Cutcheon of tbe military affairs
committtee having the right of way with
the army appropriation bill.
HOAR'S UP HILL FIGHT.
Seven Senators Fail to Respond to Hia
Urgent Summons.
Washington. Jan. 4.—Senator Hoar
found on his return here to-day
that, besides Senators Squire and Pad
dock, five other republican senators would
probably not respond to his urgent invita
tion to return to W asbington by to-morrow
and stay in the Senate until the force bill
was dispose;i of. Their names, with the
causes detaining them, were given to him
as follows: Senator Pettigrew of Dakota,
at his mother’s funeral; Senator Moody of
South Dakota, looking after his fences;
Senator Pierce of North Dakota, looking
after his fences; Senator Far well of Illinois,
looking after his fences; Senator Blair of
New Hampshire, loosing after his fences.
Seven absentees from the city, with
such absentees as will be kept
away from the Senate chamber from time
to time by illness or inclination,would very
seriously interfere with Senator Hoar’s
attempt to sitoput the democrats, to Bay
nothing of trying to adopt a gag rule. All
the republican senators have received in
structions from Senator Hoar not to make
pairs with democrats without reserving the
right to break them to make a quorum. So
far as Senator Hoar can make it, it is to be
war to tha knife henceforth.
FOLITICS OF TdK ALLIANCE.
President Polk Disclaims Con nectlon
W Ith the Third Party Movement.
Washington, Jan. 4.—The headquarters
of the national farmers’ alliance have been
located in this city for oi.e year. Presi
dent Polk said yesterday in regard to the
report that he and Mr. Powde. ly met after
the close of the Ocala convention and de
cided to suppress “or call off” the call for
the meeting to be held in Cinoinnati in
February, with a view to forming a third
party, that he know nothing of the meet
ing reported to have been held. He was at
his home in Raleigh at tho tune the meet
ing was said to have been held, and Mr.
Powderly was not there.
THE ALLIANCE HOLDS ALOOF.
He could not have involved himself in
such an action, for the alliance as an organ
izutio i has no more connection with a third
party or a proposed third party than it had
with the Democratic or Republican party.
The individual members of tho alliance
were of course free to affiliate with the po
litical party of tbeir choice. Many mem
bers of the alliance were democrats and
many were republicans. If a third party
should be formed, unquestionably a large
proportion of tho alliauoema i would join
that party, from the very nature of the sit
uation. but the alliance os an organization
would not do so.
INCREASE OF THE ALLIANCE.
The alliance movement, continued Presi
dent Polk, was continually on the increase.
At the meeting at Ocala last month twenty
nine states were represented. At the next
national meeting it was confidently
expected that thirty-six states would be
represented, and perhaps more. The plans
for pushing the work of organization this
year were not as fully developed as they
would be, but the outlines were pretty well
settled upon. President Polk said he ex
pected to make two alliance speeches in
each state during the year, and
would do so if the duies of
his office would permit it. It was
expected to have a thoroughly organized
corps of lecturers in each state, A meeting
is to be held in Washington on Feb. 4 to
map out plans and work for the promotion
of such legislation as will meot tbe demands
of the Ocala convention.
BULLDLZ R IN CAGiS.
They Were Bound That Negroes
Should Work as Laborers.
Baton Rouge, La., Jan. 4.—A motion
for anew trial in the case of Beverly and
Millv O’Neill and Alexander Terrell, con
v.c ed of manslaughter and bulldozing
negroes, was overruled in the district court
yesterday, and they were sentenced to
twenty years’ imprisonment in tha state
penitentiary. Bulldozing was organized to
deter the colored people from liviag on
and working lands m3tead of working as
laborers thereon.
POVERTY STRIKES ERIN.
A DECLARATION Bt THE VICEROY
AND CHIEF SfRETARY.
Danger of Acute Distjss in Some Dis
tricts if Aid is Not irthco: uing -The
Only Question iaiow the Money
Ought to be Given in Insinuation of
Miarepresen ta tion,
Dublin, Jon. 4.— > Eorlof Zetland,
viceroy of Ireland, aj Chief Secretary
Balfour signed a deration which has
been issued on the coition of the poor in
the western part of Irind. The declara
tion says: “Povei is chronic in
some districts and >l, if the peoplo
are not aid and. reaoa stage of acute
distress during the winlaad spring. There
is neither resident gent nor a substantial
middle class to give djloyment, nor are
there charitable orgauttions to aid those
who are unable to aij themselves. Out
door relief, except in ses of emergency,
cannot legally be adpistered except to
persons holding over smarter of an acre
of land. Although nt acquainted with
the history of thi Irish po;r law
would regard nxing of this
rule as other iap a public
calamity, its mainhance undoubtedly
limits the capacity to >al with the periods
of exceptional distress The position thus
created leaves part olhe social organiza
tion sick at all times- iicken with a dis
ease from which, witht strenuous help, it
has no power to rally.
THE ONLY (pSTION.
“The question is t whether money
ought to be given, bufliw it ought to be
given, to what class a) for what special
purposes. Charity illiministo ed injures
the recipients everywre, but is especially
injurious in those parwith which we are
concerned. Elsewherhe Injury may he
confined to a claa relatively small,
hut in the worst por*t of the congests i
districts the whole Immunity may be
affected. All are pod all can plausibly
appeal for aid; ami hi recklessly given in
response may infeo whole townships
with the vices and weaesses of professional
mendicancy. We bavpoken of this matter
to mauy priests and iprs acquaiutsdj with
the condition of the fplet There was not
one of them, howet keenly they may
have felt the suffer|s of th so amongst
whom they lived, w did not admit the
permanent ill effectsjiUowing from much
charitable expenditi) within their expe
rience.
APPEALS iu HELP.
“Regarding the ajials for help, it is
needful to say the ta of distress need not
be taken Jas authenj Jbecause they are
couched in strong Ullage and seem to
come from well infilled quarters. A de
sire to stimulate flagig oharity has been a
fruitful source of exgeration. We do not
know that there is aifeason to suppose that
in Ireland thi* tendav is likely to be con
trolled by long estaobod habits of severe
and disciplined acchcy. It is nob easy
dequately to check 'oil statements, even
by personal aided by statistics,
however accurate. ■
FAILURE OF THtPOLTO CROP.
“In regard to the fjlurt of the potato
crop, small occupiers i th west seem, at
first sight, all to live : the same way.
They are lodged in tudsan cabins, culti
vate the same kind o| hoings, and are
clothed with the same) kimof dre s. It
would be naturll o conclude
thut in all pllces where the
failure of the crop Is thi sairthe distress is
the same. But such is not bca e. In no
district does the bulk of e community
live wholly on the uotato. Very district
has a means of livelihoxi indenilentof the
cultivation of the potato, sh as fishing,
labor in England, cotta, industries,
kelp-making and sales of farm
stock. The degree of failure of
the potato crop is, therefs, by itself a
misleading guide to the degr of distress
existing among the people, her elements
in finding of the p sit ion of t people are
the amount of their savings it their debt
and credit with local tradesmen.
Furthermore, in the orgizaiion of
any plan of gratuitoi assistaike
caution is necessary in rder that
it shall not interfere with t system of
railway relief work. Several ousa.ids of
pounds weekly are already dribulod in
the form of wages in the disets most in
need. Those getting wages tough work
ought not to get charity witho it.
their deductions
“The conclusions we w i are that
charitable aid ought to be co.nfld, first to
families which are iu serlousvaut, and
which, having no üble-bodl person
among them, cannot derive ueflt from
the public relief works, second,) provid
ing meals in the schooli for ildren at
tending then; and third, tilupplying
clothes for children unable So peure them
elsewhere. These forms of astanca are
less liable to abuse than others.’
The declaration proceeds toscuss the
requisites for a good distrinun of aid
among the poor. Tue author' for such
distribution, it says, should be iglo; for
the vesiing of this authority in ore than
one person would cause co if usio* to areas
and inequality of resources, andauld lead
to no rational adjustment betwn needs
and means. A single Uistributintuthority
ought to command all availnbimeans of
information as to the condition olle people
throughout the country.
The declaration concludes: To those
who think that we who can obta the ser
vices of poor law inspectors, schi inspect
ors, rosi lent magistrates, police id others
reside t In the localities affectodhnd who
already are officially responsibl’or relief
works far exceeding anything tbaharity is
likely to effect, te those who thil that we
are better equipped for carryh out this
work than persons not having the advan
tages, we offer to undertake thenanage
ment of the distribution of anyunds en
trusted to us. We believe that e money
so spent will be well spent. All ssistance
in the shape of food or clothing
through this channel ■ any
other which reaches chilen anil
helpless persons will lighten or rerrve much
immediate suffering, without exjgerating
chronic evils requiring dilerenßnd con
tinuous treatme ,t f r a pormamt cure.
Subscription!) and c othing will iireceived
by the Countess of Zetland it theica regal
lodge, Miss Balfour at the thief icretiry’s
lodge, or by the viceroy or ur. Hfour.”
PARNELL’S MOVESkItTS
Dublin, Jan. 4.—Mr. Ftrnei and his
sister, Mrs. Dickinson, speuuHunay at ths
Marine hotel at Brano. ir. Israeli left
Kingston to-night for LoMois whithor
Timothy Harrington wilt ‘ollov him to
morrow. Mr. Parnell, acconpnsod by Mr.
Harrington, will start Tu#f*y for Bou
logne. where John RedcnOd and Mr.
Cla cy await him. It is aibfstood that
Mr. Parnoll ha3 placed himse! ii the hands
of his friends.
PARNELL CONDEMri).
Dublin, Jan. 4.—At a cou* convention
of ihe Gaelic leagues at Idoufellgo to-day
resolutions were adopted oclenming Mr.
Par ell and calling fer the etiroment of
Edmund Loamy, who repnents South
Sligo in parliament, on accourof his sup
port to Mr. Parnell.
SATISFACTION AND SHIB.
London, Jan. 5., 4 p. ml The Daily
News says it publishes the appeal of Dublin
Castle in behalf of the Irish poor with
mixed feelings of satisfaction and shatua.
While most anxious not to check the flow
of charity, it cannot refrain from recalling
the ignoble ridicule which a portion of
the tory press threw upon its re
peated warnings concerning the potato
famine. The response to the appeal from
the castle. It says, should he full, hearty
and immediate. "But the letter," it adds,
“demands from evsry thoughtful English
man serious examination ot and answer to
the question, 'Why is tha Irish government
dependent upon charity V ’’
GLADSTONE NOT TO RETIRE.
The Daily Telegraph (liberal) says It is
authorized to dany the report of Mr. Glad
stone’s intended retirement from the liberal
leadership.
The unionist dailies applaud the Dublin
Castle appeal, and express confidence that
it will meet with a hearty response.
Parnell’s demand.
London, Jan. 5.. 4 a, m. —The Paris cor
respondent of the Daily News says:
“Tnere are the strongest grounds to
believe that tho Figaro is well informed in
declaring that Mr. Parnell moists on the
resignation ot Justin McCarthy from his
leadership as a condition for his own
retirement till be mnrries Mrs. O’Shea.”
Galignani’s Messenger says it learns
from an intimate friend c* Mr. O’Brien that
it the negotiations with Mr. Parnell are
brought to a satisfactory conclusion within
three woeks, then Mr. O’Brien will Buhmit
to the sentence of Imprisonment passed on
him.
SAY CRITICISES AMERICA.
The Farmers’ Alliance and McKinley
Bill Both Denounced.
Paris, Jan. 4.—Leon Say, in on article in
tha Journal des Debats, severely criticises
the McKinley tariff bill aud American Far
mers’ Alliance. He says that America, not
withstanding its immense wealth, can
not carry out its industrial, com
mercial or agricultural enterprises
without European capital, and con
tinues: “The fact of the situation is
that they have destroyed their credit by
abusing It by maladministration of their
transport enterprises, aud by their even
worse administration of thoir local finances.
Umess a reaction occurs in public morals
American crodit c/umot recover from its
abasement; and its agricultural, like Its
other industries, will remain a prey to suc
cessive convulsions, for whloh transient
romedie; will be sought by the adoption
of experiments certain to fail, con
tinually leading tbe country to a
graver crisis. It is astonishiug that iu a
country of business men they have brought
themselves to believe that there are no
limits to money circulation. If Ame ica
turns its mines into coin, and raise* paper
currency in accordance with the ideas of
the farmers' alliance, no agreement wilt be
possible w ith Europi on the monetary ques
tion. Europe would be foolish to transfer
its capital to America in excuange for an
absolutely useless mass of silver.”
BOHLHCMANN’S FUNERAL.
Tho Obsequies Attended by the King
and Other Prominent Greeks.
Athens, Jan. 4.—The funeral of Prof.
Schlieraann took place to-day. It was at
tended by the King, Duke of Sparta,
Premier Deliannis, M. Tricopis, M. Dra
gourils and most of the cabinet ministers,
besides a host of scientific men. There were
also present the American and German
ministers and tho Greek political leado s,
Kavradias and Ranglge. A meeting was
hold in the house of Prof. Waldstein, direc
tor of American excavations, at wtnoh
speeches eulogistic of the deceased were
made.
FRANCS VOTES FOR SENATORS.
Dafreycinet and Jules Ferry Snow-
Under Their Opponents.
Paris, Jan. 4.—Elections for members of
the French Senate were hold to-day. In the
department of the Heine Premier Defreyei
uet received 579 votes out of a total of 065
ballots cast. Jules Ferry, in the depart
ment of Vosges, received 723 votes out of a
total of 997. Others returned include M.
llarbey, minister of marine; M. Arago-
Doutresne, Fouobor do C irail, Teisserne de
Port, Casimer-Perior and Bi kra.
M. Waddington defeated Pouyer Quartier
at Rouen. Iu the first ball ,ts the repub
licans have gained ten seats.
tC3TLAND'S STRIKE.
Michael Davltt Addressee a Trades
Unionist Meeting.
Lonuov, Jan. 4.—Michael Davitt tieliv
ered an address at the trade unionist)’ mass
meeting held hero to-day. He declared
that the London railway men were
determined to support the Scotch
strikers in their demand for shorter hours.
John Burns, the socialist leader, who also
addressed the meeting, called on the big
unions to forward *6,(XX) to Scotland for
the strikers forthwith. He said he wa)
going to Glasgow himself to-morrow.
At a meeting of the strikers held in Glas
gow to-Jay, Councillor Tait appealed to
those of the men who had been reinstated
to rejoin the strikers, sayi. g that if they
refused to do so they would find their posi
tion uncomfortable when the causo of the
strikers triumphed.
A CHI SIS IN THK FIGHT.
Glasgow, Jan. 4. —Both officials and
men consider that the coming week, when
a general rasa option of business after the
holidays Is expected, will be the crucial
period of the railway struggle. The outcome
of the light, it is believed, depends
on the ability of the companies to cope with
the large freight traffic which they will be
called on to handle. If tne companies fail
to handle the business successfully the men
hone to bo able to compel the cencosslon of
their demands.
PO3TAL CLERKS TO BTRIKB.
Overtime Work and Employment of
Women objected io.
London, Jan. 4 .-—The postal clerks have
decided to go out on a strike. The move
ment is nominally to to3t tho question
whether working overtime shall be volun
ta- yor not, but, virtually it is a protest
against the increased employment of female
clerks. Many clerks who have been dis
missed and their places filled with women
had been in the service twenty years.
An Irish Strike Collapses.
Dublin, Jan. 4. —Tho Waterford and
Limerick railway strike has collapsed. Tho
company refuses to employ any of the
strikers.
Higher Education in Germany.
BltlUJ.v, Jan. 4. —The Imperial Gazette
publishes an order abolishing Latin essay
and Greek versification as subjects for final
examinations in all the royal provincial
schools. The Gazette also publishes au
• rder nominating a committee to prepare a
bill for reform in the higher educatlos.
The list of committee men inoludes Dr.
Hui tzpe ter.
LOSS OF THE POLLUX.
Her Agents Finally Give Up All Hope
of Her Safety.
Philadelphia, Jan., 4.—The action of
Capt. Wilson of the British steamer Pollux
in refusing the assistance otTered him Nov.
35 bv the steamship Michigan in mid-ocean
is sevely criticised, since it has become evi
dent that by so doing he took the lives of
twenty-five unfortunates in bis own bands.
The Poliux at. the time assist
ance was offered was lying to
in the trough of the soa with her engines
stopped and her rudder disa led. Since this
time she bus never been seen or heard from,
and her agents here, who have always been
sanguine as to her safety, have abandoned
all hope, and now entertain the belief that
the ship has gone down. The Pollux was a
tank steamer chartered to carry molasses.
She sailed from Rouen on Nov. 18 for this
port.
GEN. SPiNNKR’S FUNERAL.
The Remains Accompanied to the
Grave by a Military Escort.
Utica, N. Y., Jan. 4.—The remains of
the late Gen. Francis Kilos Hpinner, war
treasurer of the United States, were received
at bis home in Mohawk, near this o ty, yes
terday afterncnu at 8:15 o’clock. The body
was met at the depot by a de
tachment of the I'birty-flrst Separate
Company, National Guard State of New
York, Capt. Budlong commanding. The
casket was borne to the hearse on the
shoulders of six non-commissioned otlleors
of the company, and tne soldiers formed
behind and escorted the remains to the
residence. The house was heavily draped
in black, relieved by the national ensign.
The casket was opened and hundreds viewed
the body.
THE FUNERAL.
This afternoon at 3 o’clock prayer was
said at the house aud the pro ession moved
to the Reformed church, including the
Remington lUiles, Chismore Post of lllon
and iho drum corps. The church wus
crowded and hundreds were deuied admit
tance. The services were conducted by
Rev. H. M. Cox of tho Reformed ohurch of
Herkimer. The body wes buried
with military honors. Among those
present were: James M. Bcbumacber of
Jacksonville, Fla.; Assistant Treasurer
Witelpley of Washington; L. It. Tuttle,
assistant treasurer under Spinner; Hon.
Timothy Hurt of Toledo, Judge Hardin of
the supre me court, Hon. Warner Miller and
mauy others prominent in official life.
BUBGIDY BILL HOPSB.
Farquhar Etlll Predicta the Passage
of the Measure.
Washington, Jan. 4.—Representative
Farquhar still predicts, in spite of all con
trary prophets, the passage of tho subsidy
bill. He says that he will oall it up Tues
day, aud be thinks there will bo no opposi
tion to its consideration. He does not look
torwaid to antagonism from any appropri
ation bill unacted on. Representative
Farquhar thinks that two days’ debate
ought to be sufficient, but is
willing to have a night session Tuesday
night if It is considered necessary. Sdd he:
“We shall not press the substitute which is
now before tho House, but we may, for the
sake of avoiding friction, take tho Seriate
bill and amend it by striking out Its first
section and inserting the first section of the
substitute. Thou wo may adopt the rest
of the Senate bill, adding the
postal and naval clauses. The bill will not
thun be as complete and thorough as the
substitute, but it will lie a good law, and I
am willing to predict that In a year five or
six seaport towns of the south will have
built up a trade with Kuropean and South
American ports.”
BIRD SHOOTING CHAMPIONS.
A Series of Matches Between North
ern and Southern Clubs.
Chicago, Jan. 4.—Preparationo are in
active progress here and in New York city
for a grand championship contest at lire
birds, to take place between the north and
s iuth during tho first two wooks in Febru
ary. It was first proposed when the repre
sentative from the Dixie Gun Club of Flor
ida, H. W. Simmons, came to Chicago and
held a consultation with the local
shooters to make a match be
tweeo Florida and Illinois crack shots. A
chnilenre from the southerners resulted,
and arrangements were shortly after per
fected to take tho Chicago team with a
special train which starts south on the
afternoon of Feb 7. It will be captained
by Charles E. Willard, one of the best
known amateurs in tho west. After this
team had been chosen it was proposed to
send another team which would meet a
picked team in New Orleans, Mobile and
Pensacola for a challenge oup to be em
blematic of the championship, aud shot for
under the American shooting association
rules, tho representative winning the ma
jority of shoots to hold the cup for one
year. The matches will probably be at US
birds each per man and held under the
supervision of the local gun clubs.
STRYCHNINE IN THEIR FISH.
Two Negroes Poisoned by a Compan
ion hear Albany.
Albany, Ga., Dec. 4,—A double murder
by poisoning, ou William Harrison’s place,
three miles north of this city, has just come
to light. Three negroes —Joe Moore, Rich
ard Ileid and another called Bill, all be
tween 16 and 19 years of age—quit the Cor
dele railroad construction gaiu a few weeks
ago and went to work for William Harri
son, a worthy colored man. Last Thursday
Richard anil Bill stole and ate some food of
Joe Moore’s, and then, laughingly, told
him of their joke. Joe told them that them
that they might laugh, but would
never eat anything else of
his. Friday Moojre cooked some
fish, 'osing part of it with strychnine, and
asked tho boys to eat with him,and the.’ did
so. Moore immediately brought a load of
wood to the city tor il&Cfisoa, sold it and
took the 3 o’clock train for .Savannah and
has never been heard of. Bill died almost
immediately, but Reid lingered until 1
o’clock this morning. He told Dr. W. L.
Davis the history of tho villain’s crime as
above stated. ,
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MURDER IN THIS KIMBALL.
A Naprro Cook Fatally Plashed by
Another Culinary Employe.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 4.—Dock Lowe and
Lewis Matthews, two negro cooks, fell out
in the Kimball house kltcnen this morning
over the position of a lot of dishes, and
Lowe cut Matthews to death. The slayer
had placod the dishes on Matthews’ table.
The latter removed them, claiming tbat
they were in his way. Lowe repeatedly
put them back, and finally cursed Matthews
for interleriug. Matthews then shied a
plate at Lowe, but missed him. Lowe spra- g
upon Matthews lik9 a tiger, and out him
from the temple to the breast-bone, sever
ing a number of small blood vessels in the
negro’s neck. He bled to death in fifteen
minutes, Lowe es aped.
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TALMAGE’S BATTLE CRY.
A FORWARD MOVEMENT THE SCB
JEwT OF HIS SERMON.
The Time Declared Opportune For tv
General Religious Advance—Tbe Po
litical Parties on Their Knees Before
the Rum iug- Power From on High
the Need of the Hour.
Brooklyn. N. Y., Jan. 4. —Dr. Tal in age's
New Year’s sermon is a ringing battle-cry
to ministers aud Christians everywhere,
calling upon them to join in a combined
charge on the entrenchments of sin and
Satan. It inode a deep impression on the
vast crowds who heard it in this city this
morning and at The Christian herald
service to-night in New York. The on*
tbusiaara at tho lattor service was increased
by the effective aid rendured by a large vol
unteer choir which had been organized
from the audiences, who sang with a vol
ume and fervor seldom equa led. After
the singing of the hymn commencing—
Come Holy Spirit, Ileivenh Dive
With all thy quickening power,—
Dr. Talmaga preached the following sermon
from the text, Luko xxiv., 49: “Tarry ye in
the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued
with power from on high.”
For a few months, In the providence of
God, I have two pulpits, one id Brooklyn
and the other in New York, and through
the kindness of the printing press an evsr
widening opportunity. To all such hearers
and readers I come with an especial mes
sage. The time has arrived for a forward
movement such as the church and tho world
have never seen. That there is a need for
such a religious movement is evident from
the fact t,,at never since our world was
swung out nulling the planets has there been
such an organized and determined effort to
overthrow righteousness and make the
ten commandments obsolete and tbe whole
Bible a derision. Mean bile alcoholism is
taking down its victims bv the hundreds of
thousands, and the political parties get
down on their knees, practically aiying:
“0 thou almighty Hum Jug, we bow down
before thee. Give us the offices, city, state
and national. O, give us t e offices and we
will worship thee for ever and ever, amen.'*
Tho Christian Sa bath meanwhile,appointed
for physical, mental and spiritual rest, is
boing seoulai ized and abolished. As if the
bad publishing houses of our own country
had exhausted their literary filth,the French
and Ru-sian sewers have been Invited
to pour their scurrility and moral slush into
the trough wherfe our American swine are
now wallowing, Meanwhile, there are
enough resorts of infamy in all our cities,
open and unmolested of the law, to invoke
the Omnipotent wrath which bu led Bo lota
under a deluge of brimstone. The pande
moutac world, I think, has massed its'troops
and they are this moment plying their
batteries upon family circles, church circles,
social circles, political circles and na tonal
circles. Apollvon is in tho saddle, and riding
at the head of his myrmidons would cap
ture this world for cork ness and woe.
T|t is one side of the confiict now
ragfiig. On the other side we have tho
most magnificent gospel machinery that
the world ever saw or heaven ever invented.
In the first place, in this country more than
eighty thousand ministers of religion aud,
take them as acla s, more consecrated,
holier, more consistent, more self-denying,
more faithful men never lived. I know
them by tho thousands. I have met them
in every city. lain told, not by them butt
by people outside our profession, people
engaged In Christian aud reformatory work,
that the clergy of America are at the head
of ail good enterprises and, whoever
else fail, they may be depended on.
The truth of this is dein 'nitrated
by tbe fact that when a minister of religion
does fall, it is so exceptional that the news
papers report it as something startling,
while a hundred men in otner callings may
go down without the matter being consid
ered os especially worth mentioning. In
addition to their equipment in moral obar
ao.er, the clergy or this country have all
that tbe schools can give.
All archaeological, rhetorical, sed-*
entitle, scholastic, literary attain
ment. So muoh for the Christian ministry
of all denominations. In the next place on
our side of the conflict we have the
grandest churches of all time and higher
style of msuiliership, aud more of them,
and a host without number of splendid men
and women who are doing tueir best to
hove this world purified, elevated, gospel
ized. But we all feel that something la
wanting, Enough hearty songs have been
sung, and enough earnest sermons preached
wi.hiutho last six months to save all tbe
cities of America, and saving tbe dues you
save the world, for they overflow all the
land either with their religion or their in-
faiuy.
Bur. look at some of the startling foots. 18
is nearly nineteen hundred years since
Jesus Christ came by the way of Bethlehem
caravansary to i-ave this world, yet tho
most of the world has been no more touched
by this most stupendous fact of all eternity
than if on the first Christmas night tho
beasts of the stall, amid the dealings of
their young, had not heard tbs b eating of
the Lamb that was to be slain. Out of tho
eighteen hundred million of the human raoa
fourteen hundred miUion are w ithout God
and without hope in the world, the camel
driver of Arabia, Mahomet, with his niuo
wivee, having half as many disciples as our
deseed Christ, and more people are wor
shiping chunks of painted wood and
carved stone than are worshiping the
living and eternal God. Meanwhile, the
most of us who are engaged in Christian
work—l speak for my soli as well as others
—are toiling up to our full capacity of
body, mind and soul, harnessed up to the
last buckle, not able to draw a pound more
than we are drawing, or lift an ounce more
than we are lifting.
What is the matter? My text lets out the
secret. We all need more of the power
from on high. Not muscular power, noB
logical power, not scie tiflo power, not
social power, not financial po .ver, not brain
power, but power from on high. With io
we oould accomplish more in oue week than
without it in a hundred years And I’m
going to get it, if in ans wer to prayer,
earnest and long continued, God will granß
it me, his unwortny servant. Men and
women who know how to pray, when you
pray for yourself pray for me that I mav
be end wed with power from on high. I
would rather have it than all the diamond
fields of Uolcauda, and all the pearls of tho
sea, and ail the gold of the raouutai is.
Many of the mightiest intellec s never
had a touch of it, and many of the less
than ordii ary intellects have been sur
charged with it. And every man and
woman on earth has a right to aspire to it,
a right to pray for it, and, properly persist
ent, will obtain it. Power from on tho
level is a goo 1 tning. such power as I may
give you. or you may give mo. by encourag
ing words and actious. Power from on the
level, when we stand by each otherin any
Christian undertaking. Power from on
the level when other pulpits are in acoord
with ours, Power from on the level when
the religions and secular press forward our
christiau undertakings. But power’from
on the level is not sufficient.
Power from on high is what wo
need to take possession of us. Power
staight from God. Supernatural power,
