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ITALY IS A DEAD ISSUE.
ILAIN’B not ready to reply to
RUDINI YET.
jbe Report of the District Attorney
cn the New Orleans Matter
WUI Be Sent to the Premier—
raron Fava Sick in Bed and Hopeiul
That fcis Recall May Develop Into a
Leave of Absence.
W ashington, April s.—The excitement
ever the Italian affair has almost completely
subsided,and it was not a topic of sufficiently
live interest to engage attention in fashiona
ble drawing-rooms to-day. Secretary Blaine
is not yet prepared to make public any
thing throwing additional light on the
situation, and unless there should be, con
trary to all expectations, another bombshell
as sudden and startling as the recall of Baron
Fava, it is probable that the Italian en
tanglement will not again be the subject of
all engr using public interest, and that it
will take the usual tedious course of
diplomacy.
blaink’s reply to rudini.
Some desire is manifested to know the
nature of the reply Secretary Blaine will
make to the message of the Marquis di
Rudini, but ti e Secretary evidently pre
fer that there shall be less haste in con
ducting this diplomatic affair, for he sent
word down to-night that the e was nothing
new in the situation, and that his reply to
Marquis di Rudini was not ready for pub
lication. Baron Fava is much better to
night, and will probably sail for Europe
next Saturday.
THE MONITORS.
The rumors of war of the past week pre
sented to the navy department the problem
of the capacity of the service in a moment
of emergency, and inquiry developed
power in a direction hitherto despised, ap
parently, for none of the recent
reports emanating from the head
of the department has reckoned the
“old monitors” as a part of our protective
navy. Of the thirteen low free board single
turret iron monitors built in 1883, ail car
ried on tne navy register as “in ordinary
it is found that six could be put in lighting
order wittiin thirty days at an average ex
pense of SIO,OOO. These monitors are the
Tantucket, at the New York navy yard;
the Nahant, Jason and Montauk at Puila
deiphia, the Passaic at Annapolis and the
Wyandotte in the James river.
Secretary Blaine has given Minister Por
ter instructions to inform P. emier Rudini
that as soon as the report of the district
attorney at New Orlea s is received here he
will transmit it to Premier Rudini, who can
then act upon this official statement of the
facts.
Baron Fava is sick in bod bewailing his
sad fata as the only man who has suffered
in the Italian imbroglio. He may not re
turn to Italy for some weeks, or he may not
return at all. He is not without hope that
his “recall” may be developed Into a
‘ ‘leave of absence.”
ITALY’S REPUBLICANS.
Paris, April s. —The conflict between
Italy and the United States continues to
*ttr ct attention. Signor Raquem a former
Garib'aldmn, now editor of th o Epoque, the
organ of the Italian colonv here, said in an
interview to-day: “Of odurse there will be
no war. The republicans in Italy, who
form a powerful minority, entertain a
friendly feeling toward America, and
would consider a war with the United
States simply an attempt to discredit,
iu the eyes of the Italian people,
republican institutions. A recent meeting
of Italians in Paris discussed the New Or
leans affair; and, while everybody repro
bated the conduct of the lynehers, nobody
approved the action of Premier Rudini.
Baron Fava was greatly blamed for creat
ing the difficulty. The Evoque faithfully
reflects the feeling of the republicans of
Italy in advocating arbitration. Accord
ing to our view, nothing ought to be done
to embarrass Secretary Blaine in his efforts
to effect an early aud pacific settlement."
TOO HARD IIP FOR WAR.
Signor Raquem’s views of the situation do
not cover an important factor which has
given the Italian government good reason
to pause in its hostile negotiations. F nan
cial houses here having the cl sest
relations with Italian houses state
that in Italy widespread commer
cial troubles, long chronic, are becoming
critical, and that, anart from Italy’s over
whelming public debt, which would disable
her in an attempt to go to war unless
backed by other European powers, any
measures imperiling the peace would pro
duce a general financial crash. Already
the effect of the American-Italian difficulty
is fel in the hesitation of French financial
houses to proceed with negotiations pending
for the prospective Italian loan, in which
German houses are also concerned.
CONSULS URGED TO BE CALM.
London, April 6, 5 a. m.— The Chron
icles Rome correspondent says that the
cabinet has telegraphed to all the Italian
consuls in the United States instructing
them to act with calmness and prudence.
The Times' Rome correspondent fays:
“The arrival of the text of Baron Fava’s
first note showed that the misunderstand
ing was due to Secretary Blaine’s interpret
ing the demand for trial as a demand for
conviction. The ministry is indisposed to
push the matter beyond a demand for rec
ognition of the principle of international
justice. The excitement has entirely sub
sided.”
AMERICAN PAPERS TAKEN TO TASK.
Home, April s.—The Opinione, referring
the iNew Orleans lynching imbroglio,
protests against what it terms the "alarm
ist statements” of the American press. It
says theso statements are intended to excite
reeling against Italy and to obsoure the
real international question at issue, which
concern the whole world equally with
Italy.
AM, DANGER PAST.
London. Agril 6. —The Rome corre
spondent of the Daily Sea s says that owing
to the moderation of Italy’s demands the
>ew Orleans dispute has entered a quiet
Phase, and that all danger of complication
w ill be avoided.
A Criticism of Our Cruisers.
London, April 6, sa. m.— The Timm de
motes a critical editorial to the new Ameri
can navy, dwelling mainly upon the likeli
hood that when American ironclads are
carrying a full coal suppiy their speed will
be laigely reduced.
The Times concludes: “If the greater
boldness of American designers is really
based upon sound judgment, we need not
regret it. We shall equally profit in the
long run by their experience, whether it
results in failure or success. We may there
fore watch with keen sympathy associated
friendly workers on the same problem.”
Falk Fails in Charleston.
' harleston, 8. C., April s.—Falk &
Bentschner, retail clothiers, have made an
assignment. Their liabilities are |50,000
and their assets $40,000.
A Pittsburg Banker Dead
Pittsburg, Pa.. April s.—John Harper,
president of the Pittsburg Clearing house
and of the Bank of Pittsburg, died to day,
aged 8a
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FREE COINAGE CHAN3IB.
The Question Not to be Made a Party
Measure In the Next house.
Washington, April 5. —Eastern and
western democrats have been conferring as
i to the silver policy to be pursued in tie
next House. While there has been some
| difference of views. It has been practically
settled that free coinage will not be made a
, par y measure in the next House, no caucus
will be held to bind individual
members, a free coinage bill will be passed
by a combination of democratic, farmers’
I alliance and probably some republican votes
j also, and sent to the Senate early in the
| session. It is by no means certain that such
: a bill will pass the next Senate, although
that body lias been reinforced by new silver
senators.
DEMOCRATS CHANGING FRONT.
Several of the democratic senators who
voted for free coinage last winter are dubi
ous now as to the policy they then voted
for. They say that the financial panic had
the effect to stampede the country on the
currency question aud that the direct results
predicted as certain to occur in case free
coinage was refused have not been seen. It
was said recently by a prominent republican
senator that the silver question would be
settled so far as the Republican party was
concerned long before the meeting of the
national convention next year, by the adop
tion of a policy something like tnat
proposed by the iato Secretary Windom,
only that the present volume of the
coinage would not be Increased, but that
silver certificates would lie issued as against
all silver bearing the stamp of American
production that might be offered at the
treasury. A straw whiob may show the
direction of the wind at this time is a re
mark attributed to Senator Gorman, who,
when asked if an anti-free coinage demo
crat could be elected on a free coinage plat
form, said that it was yet too early to iay
down the issues for 1892, aud that the silver
question might be practically settled by that
time.
HER DRY HAS GONi.
The Government Dispatch Foat Dls-
Datch Condemned.
Washington, April s.—The Dispatch,
long celebrated as the “presidential yacht,”
is to be abandoned on account of the report
of her rotten condition by naval experts.
Orders have been sent the Dolphin to go to
Norfolk for repairs, and it is generally un
dent iod th .t this vessel will take the place
of the Di-patch. The Dolphin’s repairs
are estimated to cost $4(1,(100, to be
principally expended in the erection of a
spacious cabiu. The Dolphin is a larger
vessel than the Dispatch, and enjoys the
distinction of being tbe first of the steel ves
sels of the navy, having been built in 1882
by John Roach at a cost of $315,000. Hhe
is 240 feet long, or 50 feet longer than the
Dispatch. She has a l readth of 32 feet, a
mean draught of feet, aud is
oi 1845 tons displacement. Her single screw
two cylinder vertical direct engine has a
horse-power of 2,240, and gives a speed of
15bj' knots. The Dispatch is of only 580
tuns diplacement, ana has a speed of 12 6-10
knots per hour. The Dolphin has the rig of
a three-m .sted schooner. Her complement
Is ten officers, eighty men and eighteen ap
prentices. Commander Yates Sterling has
been in command of the vessel since March,
1890. Whether ha will be retained in
charge, or Lieut. Cowles, the commanding
officer of the Dispatch, will be transferred
to the Dolphin is a question to be decided.
A CO- CESoION IN HONDURAS.
Americans Given Land to Make Pub
lic improvements.
Washington, April s.— The following
information is furnished by the bureau of
the American republics: The government
of. Honduras has granted to E. W. Perry
and F. M. Imbodeu, both citizens of the
United States, a concession of iand covering
the entire region known as Mosquito, pay
ment for which is to be made in the con
struction of expensive public works, includ
ing an army road from Tegucigalpa to the
coast of the Caribbean sea, more than
300 mile-f in length; and a canal twenty
miles long, twelve yards wide and five
yards deep to connect the Caratasca lagoon
with the Quayapa river. Activo measures
will at once be taken to induce immigrants
to settle upon the lands of the concession,
and liberal inducements are offered. The
government of Honduras has issued a de
cree continuing for another 'term of years
the steamship company maintained by
Messrs. He Leon and Alger, between Puerto
Cortez, Belize and New O. leans.”
SUiKS CAITLK SCARE.
Animals Intended for Immediate
Slaughter Can Be Shipped.
Washington, April s.—Secretary Rusk,
of the agricultural, department has issued
the following: “N tice is hereby given that
the regulations made Feb. 5, 1891, for the
transportation of cattle from the"
arena designated by said regulations
as infecied with the contagious
disease known as splenetic fever do not ap
ply to the movement of cattle from the said
area north for immediate slaughter. Tians
port ition of cattle trom said area for feed
ing or for any other purpose except lomie
and ate slaughter is prohibited by the act of
congress of May 29, 1884.”
NAMES OF THE WARS HI P3.
Eighteen Requests That One of Them
Be Ca.led the Lexington.
Washington, April s.— There have been
eighteen petitions received at the navy de
partment in favor of naming one of the
new naval vessels Lexington in honor of the
historic Massachusetts town. Five re
quests were received on Saturday from
Gov. Boyd of Nebraska, Gov. Fleming of
Florida, Gov. Winans of Michigan. Gov.
Hovev of Indiana and Gov. Tuttle of New
Hampshire. It is likely that one of the
gunboats building at Bath, Me.. will be
named Lexington. The secretary has con
sented to name the other guuboat Machias,
in houor of the adjacent Maine city.
RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA.
The Leaders from Ottawa to Confer
With Blaine To-day.
Washington, April 5. Sir Charles
Tupper, the Canadian minister of marine
and fisheries; George B. Foster, minister of
finance; John 8. D. Thompson, minister of
justice, and C. C. Chipman, Sir Tupper’s
private secretary, reached Washing
t >n at a late hour tonight
from Ottawa. They will call by,
appointment, on Secretary Blaine to-mo. -
row and informally discuss with him a
proposition looking to a renewal, with m d
ifications, of the reciprocity treaty of 1854,
covering the Atlantic fisheries and coasting
laws of the two countries.
An Editor Shot
Osage County, Kan., Apnl s.—George
Hoover, edit r of the Oxaye County limes.
was fatally shot last evening by James 51c-
Nales. The shooting resulted from personal
trouble of long standing.
COKE STRIKERS LAY LOW.
THE DAY A QUIE r ONE THROUGH
OUT 1 HE REGION.
No Change Made in the Disposition
of the Troops —A Confer nee Be
tween the Miners end Their im
pioyers Among the Probab.lUles of
the Week—Atttempti to Resume.
Pittsburg, Pa., April 5.—A special
from Scottdsle, Pa, says: “The utmost
tranquillity prevailed throughout tbe coke
region to-day. It is reported that several
of the coke companies iu tbe region will
make strenuous effort- to resume this week,
and that an attempt will be made to do eo
in tbe morning. It is stated that the
Clarissa and Nellis plants are partly in
operation, and that the Cora works
of Newmyer & Son are in full resumption.
It consists of only forty ovens, however.
The Coal Brook plant of the McClure works
continues in full blast. Coke is being
shipped from the Adelaide plant of the
Frick company, and seventy-five deputies
are on duty. The labor leaders state that
they are fully fortified for a continuance of
the struggle, and that the strikers are re
ceiving liberal contributions fiom the de
fense fund.
A CONFERENCE PROBABLE.
"A conference of tbe operators and miners
to ad iust the vexed difficulties in this regiou
is one of the probabilities of this week.
There have not been many developments
yet to warrant the statement, but some de
cisive steps will likely betaken iu that direc
tion in a few (lays. Master Workman
Wilson, who is here, said to-day: “I hope
there will be a conference. We are always
ready and willing to meet our employers
aud discuss complex questions.”
NEAR ITS NINTH WEEK.
"The strike is approaching its ninth week.
A number of strikers’ mass meetings will
be held at different points this week.
Master Workman Wise and Vice President
Pem a must keep away from the Frick
works, as an injunction has been served re
straining and enjoining them from in
terfering with those employed."
TROUBLE FEARED AT MOREWOOD.
It is the intention of the Frick company
to resume work at Morewood to-morrow,
and several companies of militia will be
Flamed about the works. Trouble is feared,
t is reported that the women will try tteip
hand at the non-union men to-morrow, as
they say the soldiers will treat them more
leniently than they did the men.
The operators are to hold a meeting in
Pittsburg to-morrow or I uesdav, in order
to settle the wage trou Ls, if posable.
Inter date S’cre a y F. 8. B ooks of Co
lumbus, 0., is here. He says the operators
ca inot grant an advance, but rather need
a reduction: that they will fight to tha
bitter end, and If forced thev will repudiate
all agreements and run their works to suit
themselves without consulting their men.
MESSAGES TO THE GOVERNOR.
Harrisburg. Pa., April s. —This morn
ing G iv. Pattison ltCiived tho follow
ing telegram from Gen. Wiley: “No change
has been made in the location of the troops
since the last message. Squads of people
were wandering around all night. They
were quietly sent home or dispersed by tbe
troops. I am under obligations to Gen.
McClellan for valuable assistance.” This
evening Gen. Wiley sent this message:
"Matters are tbe same as at the last report.
Though there are many discomforts, the
health of the troops is excellent.”
SLAIN BY A PUGII,IBT.
A Brutal Negro Kills His Paramour
With a Luster's Hatchet.
Jersey City, N. J., April s.—Edward
Hollinger, better known as “Big Hollinger,”
a colored pugilist, brutally murdered his
wife this morning by fixating her on the
head and face with a laster’s hatchet. Hol
linger was arrested throe weeks ego for au
assault on his wife, but was release! on
promising that ho would live apart from
her. This morning at about 6 o’clock he
called to see his wife, who with her two
children had taken her abode in a shanty.
Mrs. Hollinger said she did not want to see
hirn, but he forced his way into the room
wher she and her children were in bed.
“You don’t wont me,” he growled. “Be
cause you’ve got another man, I suppose.”
Then he drew a laster’s hatchet trom bis
belt and struck his wife on the
head. The blade stuck in her skull. He
puiled it out ana struck her two more
blows with the hatchet. They had lived to
gether under an agreement, but had never
gone through the marriage ceremony.
BOYS START A BUAZE.
A Spark From a Bonfire Drops Into a
Business Firm’s Cellar.
Lowell, Mas*., April 5. —The worst fire
Lowell has had in many years occurred this
afternoon. Boys set fire to a box of waste
paper in an alley back of the Ed
son block and fire dropped into H.
C. Church & Son’s cellar. It spread
rapidly. The Eds on block, owned by
the Wiman heirs of Baltimore, valued at
$15,000, was completely wrecked. Church
& Son lose $6,000, fully insured; C. J. May
nard, dry goods, $29,000, insurance $15,000;
Simpson & Rowland, grocers, $5,000. in
sured; tenauts on the third and fourth floors
from S3OO to SBSO each, they being compelled
to abandon everything. The city’s public
reading room and various municipal offices
were in the building. The lire spread to
tne Masonic temple ad joining,ani (1 maged
it to the extent of $7,000, also damaging
the Goodyear rubber store and the city’s
public library in the masonic buildiug,
where there are over 41,000 volumes.
A WAGES SETTLEMENT.
The Agreement to Hold Good at Least
Two Years. .
Joliet, 111., April 5. —The many confer
ences that have been held between the steel
company and their employes have resulted
in an arrangement of the wages question, at
least until the close of 1892, after which six
mouths’notice must be given of a desired
Cuange by either sid“. A sliding scale is
adopted. Supt. Pettigrew expects to begin
work next AVodnesday.
PR OCT JR C3M.NO EAST.
He Denies that Hlb Start is the Result
of the Italian Affair.
San Francisco, Cal, April s.—Sec
retary of War Proctor states that he will
start for Washington to-morrow night.
He said his sudden de[>arture had nothing to
do with the Italian matter. He intimated
that Gen. Roger, who is uow in command
oi the deparim nt of Dakota, would succeed
Gen. Gibbon as Commander of the division
of the Pacific.
Printers Carry Their Point.
Washington, April 5. —The strike of the
printers in the j *b offices here is ended, the
employers concedi. g 42 corns per thousand,
wita extra rates for more than nine hours a
day.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1891.
A BOGU4 WIDOW SET UP.
Bold Scheme to Gain Possession of a
Millionaire’s Estate
New York, April s.—lnspector Byrnes’
detectives to-day arrested five of the con
spirators who are charged with having
plotted to gain possession of tbe great estate
left by tbe millionaire leather merchant
Ixiring A. Robertson. The method said
to have been employed by
the alleged conspirators was to
foist a fraudulent widow upon the
estate in the person of Ca-ete Helen Brooks.
The prisoners are the Brooks woman, Law
yer By ion W. Cohn, James Daskam, a
speculator of St&mfo and, Conn : Edward L.
Stud well and Mrs. West. Cohn, Daskam
and Studwell were charged with suborn
ing, while Cassia Brooks was charged with
perjury. Daskam is said to have had a
talk with Studwell about finding a woman
to personate tho widow of a wealthy man
who had recently died.
MRS. WEST rejected.
Studwell, it is said, agreed and produced
Me*. West. The two, so the story runs,
took her to Lawyer Cohn’s office, but de
cided that she was too old. Studwell then
learned that Robertson us the dead mil
lionaire. Anc’her Stamford man furnished
the Brooks wooiau. She was tasen to Cohn’s
office, and was, it is declared, found by
lawyer Cohn to be suitable. Cohn in
structed Cassie Brooks, so it is said, ho v
to act her part as Helen Robertson. The
lower is said to have told her of many of
Robertson’s as abnormal
inquisitiveness. He said*he heirs would
gladly compromise the case. She was to
claim the c inmou law marriage. A week
ago Saturdav (awe Brooks became
frightened aud told her story to the attorney
for the heirs. The prisoners will he brought
before the general sessions court to-morrow.
SIABPED FOURTEEN TIMES.
A V/oman Goes for Her Foe With a
Butcher Knife.
Chicago, April 5.— A murderous fight,
the result of a long standing feud, between
two Italian women, Mrs. Jesio Gallio and
Mrs. Congetto Vallone, occurred to-night In
a State street tenement house. Mrs. Gallio
this evening sent a message to Mrs. Vallone
ostensibly offering overtures of peare
and inviting her to make ft call und settle
matters amicably. Mrs. Vallone on arriv
ing was cordially greeted, but while she
was taking off her shawl and hat Mrs.
Gallio locked tbe door, and placing the key
in her pocket went to the closet and secured
a large butcher knife, the edge of which
was whetted as keen as a razor.
PROVERBIAL TREACHERY.
She then coolly informed Mrs. Vallone
that she had invited her to her apart
ments for the purpose of settling the trouble
existing between them in the true Italian
fashion. Mrs. Vallone shrieke 1 for help,
aud attempted to make her escape, but her
frenzied assailant pitilessly plunged the
keen blade into her victim’s face, neck and
body fourteen times, and only desisted in
her bloody work apparently from sheer ex
haustion. The police at tUis junoture broke
open the door.
TAX ON RE-IMPORTED WHISKY.
A Suit to Test a C lause of the McKinley
Tariff Bill.
Louisville, Ky., April s.— The Louis
ville Public Warehouse Company has
brought suit to secure the Interpretation of
the clause of the McKi dqg tariff bill under
which re-imported whisky is taxed. At
present the tax is paid on the quantity of
whisky in the barrel at the time
it is entered for importation. The
clausa of the McKinley bill says an import
withdrawn from a bonded warehouse shall
pay duty on its weight at the time of with
drawal. But whisky pays by the gauge
and not ny weight, aud the question is,
whether being so reckoned, it will come
mirier the clause referred to. As whisky
usually loses several gallons while lying in
the government warehouse, the difference
means several hundred thousand dollars
annually.
A BLAZ 3 AT MEMPHIS.
Three Buildings Occupied by Business
Firms Dams gad.
Memphis, Tenn., April s.—Fire to-day
destroyed the new seven-story Abstract
building and the Franklin hotel on Adams
street and did considerable damage
to the Follows building at the
corner of Main and Adame streets.
The loss to R. Dudley Frayser on
the Abstract building is $75,000, aud
to Thomas R. Doyle on the Franklin hotel
$20,000. Ex-District Attorney John R.
Fellows of New York loses $13,000 on his
building. Harpinan Bros., dealers in cigars
in the Fellows building, lose slo,oou. 8.
Slayer & Cos., tailors, lose $30,090. The in
surance is not known.
VtTE AANs TO OHGANIZE.
Men of the Regular Army and Navy to
Have a Society.
New York, April s.—About 200 honor
ably discharged veteraus wuo have served
in the United States army and navy met in
this city to-day and adopted resolutions
favorable to an organization to be known
as the United States Regular Army and
Navy Veterans. A copy of the resolutions
were sent to the various orga izations, with
a request for their indorsement.
A GLUT OP BHICK.
Trenton Manufacturers to Cut Down
Wages.
Trent*n, N. J., April s.—Twelve brick
manufacturing firms of this city announce
a reduction of wages, beginning to-morrow
morning, of 15 to 29 per cent. The reason
assigned is tne falling off in the demand for
brick. There was an over-supply last year,
and the prospect it not good for this season.
The employes are considering the advisa
bility of striking.
Murder at a Negro Dines.
Magnolia, Miss., Aprils.—At a negro
dance about one mile cast of this place last
night an oid and respected negro named
Philip Prescott was killed and four other
negroes were severely cut with a knife. No
ariestb have been made.
Dropped Dead In His Room.
Lansing, Mich., April 5.—J. H. Buck
ingham, treasurer ar.d general manager of
the Chicago 8 eel IVonts, drop.ied dead of
heart disease while conversing with frieuds
in his room at the Hudson house this morn
ing.
Women Ruled Out.
Baltimore. Ms., April s.— The East Ger
man conference of the Methodist Episcopal
onurch voted—4l to I—against admitting
women as delegates to the general confer
ence.
BaltchefTß Assassins Arrested.
• Sofia, April s,—lt is oilk-ia ly announced
that tbe assassins of Minister Baitcheff have
!>een arrested.
AMNESTY FOR IRELAND.
A DEMONS RAT ON IN PHCENIX
PARK AC DUBLIN.
Messrs. Kenny und Parco 1 Among
the Speakers—Parnt 11 Indulges In a
Tirade Ag-rlnat the Liberals -He
Charges Them With Imprisoning
Celts, and Credits the Conservatives
With Liberating Them.
Dublin, April 5. —Notwithstanding tbe
steady downpour of rain, fully 2,000 per* ms
assembled in Phoeuix park to-day to assist
in the demonstration of tbe amnesty asso
ciation aud protest againt the continued im
prisonment and alleges! inhuman treatment
of Irish aud Irish-American political prison
ers by the British government.
After speeches had been made bv Mr.
Kenny, Mr. Parnell and others, resolutions
were passed calling upon Irishmen at h -me
and abroad to put forth every effort to se
cure the release of their friends, aud de
manding that the government hasten the
unconditional surrender of the prisoners.
PARNELL ATTACKS THE LIBERALS.
Mr. Parnell’s speech was a tirade against
the liberals, whom he accused of always
making political prisoners, while the con
servatives released them. The same tUiug
might occur again, aud John Daly and oth
ers convicted of perjury duriug the liberals’
tenure of office be liberated ny the con
servative government. Why, he asked,
did not Mr. Gladstone release these prison
ers in lt-86? He (.Mr. Gladstone) did not
hesitate to stoop and ascertain the opinions of
the dynamiters in America as to wbet er
they would accept his home rule bill of that
year, and even went so far as tureo- ive
some of those people at Hawurdeu. Why
did not he release tue prisoners at that time)
CRIES AGAINST PARNELL.
Here a voice exclaim®i: “Wbydidu’t
you make conditions?” while cries of "kill
him,” “lynch I oil,” were raised.
Iu reply to his quostioner Mr. Parnell de
clared that tbe iristi party never made con
diiions with the government. The prison
ers, be said, would rather rot in jail than
accept anything but their unconditional
release.
No (jo tit ion vnll be presented against tbe
election of Mr. Colliery, the Ktiooemful Mo-
Carthyite candidate iu the parliamentary
Contest in North Hligo.
RUBMA NUT HEADY FOR WAR.
President Carnot beconstdera His I
tention to Visit Moscow.
Paris, April s.—President Carnot will
not visit the Moscow exhibition, although
be has received u cordial Invitation to be
present. A high personage in the Russian
imperial council is opposed to the taking of
any step that might appear to confir> it. ‘he
current alarmist rumors, and it is for ue. s
reason that Pi esideut Curtlot has deep
not to attend the exhibition.
HUES!A NOT READY FOB WAR.
At the foreign office here no credit is
given to the rep Tts circulated iu Loudon
aud Beiliu regarding the czar’s alleged in
tentiou to precipitate war. On the contrary,
the fact is recognized in official circles
both here and at Hfc. Petersburg
that the Russian army is not
yet in a position to begin an aggressive
war. It is understoi and that the euteato
with France has been arranged for pur
poses of defense at piesent time uuil foi
offensive operations in the more remote
future. In tho meantime the czar devotes
his energies to the remodeling of th® in
ternal administration of his empire. Much
must be done internally before Russia will
be prepared to face a great European con
flict.
RUSSIA’S MILITARY REVIEW.
St. Petersburg, April 5. —Th® govern
ment censor has ordered the Ruslan press
not to reler to i he movements of troops woo
are to take part in tbe maneuvers on the
Polish and German frontier. The maneu
vers are of unusual magnitude.
ITALY’S FINANCIAL CRIBIB.
A Deficit cf $6,000,000 Repreesnted
by Two of the Failures.
Paris, Aprils.—The failures of Corradini
of Leghorn, the Ancona Sugar Refinery
Company, and the Laverello Steamship
Company of Genoa, have not affected
French houses. The deficit of Oorrudi .1
and the Ancona sugar roll tiers represents n
total of £1,000,000, part of which con
sists of uncovered balances amounting to
£201,000 due to London firms. Two of the
Leghor.t firms involved, tho-e of Mavroco
raiiato and Rodocai.acht, will obtain a pri
vate settlement. The Laverell. s tiaveob
tiined an extension of time for six months,
In which to rec .ver. The Bank of Leghorn
has been shaken, and its position is In doubt.
A general acute financial crisis in Italy can
only be averted by economy and prosuerity
witnin and without for a long period to
come.
STRIKE OF THE MINERS.
The Fight for Fight Hours to Begin In
Belgium in May.
Paris, April s.— Everything indicates
that the first great fight of
the miners for eight hours a day
will begin in May, the English, French
and German unions selecting Bel
gium ns the field upon which to decide the
conflict against the capitalists. The Belgian
miners’ congress resolved to leave the duty
of fixing the date of the strike to the gen
eral council, and to delay the strike pending
the settling of the suffrage question in par
liament.
PR.NCE LOUIS TO VISIT PARIS.
He Will Retain the Property Left by
Hie Father.
Paris, April s.— The government has de
cided to allow Prince Louis B< naparte to
visit Pans. The Bonaparte family council
ot San Remo resulted in Prince Louis re
taining the property loft by his father, ex-
Empress Eugenie gianting Prince V ctor a
sum to raise his annual income to $32,500.
Ex-Empress Eugenie is still wealthy, though
a i>artof her fortune was involved iu the
recent troubles of the Baring Brothers.
loului gar Living High.
Paris, April s.—Gen. Boulanger has
taken a palatial re idence recently vacated
by tee Austrian ambassador in the Quar
ter Leopold iu Brussels. He appears to be
plentifully supplied with mouey.
Renewal of the Dreibund.
Berlin, April s. —lt is reported from
Rome on competent authority that the re
newal of the dreibund is an accomplished
fuct, but that the treaty will not he pub
lished, Italy desiring secrecy.
To Issue Paper Currency.
London, April 6,5 a. m.— The Standard ’s
Buenos Aires correspondent says; “Presi
dent Pe ligrini authorizes the statement
that the government lias decided on a pope
currency issue on the metallic basis.”
MORROW EROKE HIS JIEART.
Capt. G. H. Prntt Kills Himself After
making His Wife to the Asylum.
Millepobville, Ga., April s.— Ons of
the most pathetic tragedlts that has been
enacted here was the suicide this morning
of Capt. George A. Pratt of Atlanta. Capt.
Pratt was an auctioneer. Yesterday he
brought his wife to the asylum for confine
ment. Hhc has been deranged stnoe Christ
mas, and recintly her condition became
such that her confinement here woe re
garded a uocesf.it y. Capt. Pratt brought
her down yosterday, reselling tbe asylum
at 11 o’clock. After he had given the at
tending physician all the information re
garding her malady, and had seeu that she
was given care and comfort, be returned to
the city, and took quarters with his mother
in-law, Mra A. J. Butts.
OVERCOME BY HIS SORROW.
He sat in the room with Mr. and Mrs.
Butts, talking of his great ulllictiou and
tenderly speaking of his wife, whom he
vowed be would never see again. About
3 o’clock he went to his room, and It is sup
posed took morphine in whisky, at both
whisky aud morphine were found ia his
sachet. When tho servant went to his room
this morning he found Capt. Pratt asleep,
breathing heavily betweeu bitter sobs. An
effort was made to arouse him aud medical
attention was summoned, but the efforts
wore unsuccessful.
Capt. Prntt was a native of Bridgeport,
Conn. He leaves two daughters, one mar
ried and one single, to inourn his death. Ho
will he buried to-morrow.
BlSdv.’P t IL.AIOUH BETTER.
A Strong Probability That Ho Will
Recover
St. Augustine, Fla., April s.— Bishop
Gilmour’s condition Father Uouck reports
docidmlly Improved. Dr. F, Frceinont Smith,
took charge of the case ou tho arrival
• f the l isbop, March 19, from Atlanta,
where he had stopped, but caught so neve e
a cold as to seriously aggravate
his malady, ninl he came to HI.
Angustmo. ’To-rtav Dr. 8rul: h reports the
bishop as having passed tho crisis and fairly
ii the way to rec very. This will
be good news to the people of the
Cleveland diocesa end throughout the
country, as the bishop has a national repu
tation. Bishop McCJoskey, of the diocese
of Louisville, Ky., is here to cheer his
friend of forty year*. Father H. L. Wright
of the Philde.phiu di ceie, who with
Bishop Gilmour entered the church
together Fa’her G. B Houck nnd
Franciscan Father Camillas and
r wosisiers of charity have attended Bishop
Gilue ur from Cleveland, 0.. nnd|ai e ever at
bis Imdtide at Mrs. Leo Vogel’s residence in
this city. Bishop MoCloskey is recover
’uz from a severe at’ack of' the grip and
ill, like Bishop Gtlmom', with Florida's
climate and good care, soon recover.
YACABI OJ UPHELD.
The King of ItoumanU Stands by His
Minister.
Bucharest, April s.— The King of Rou
maiiia has refused to accept the resignation
of M. Vaearosco as minister at, Vienna.
M. Vacareseo offered his resignation
in order to challenge tho Prince of
lieu s, the German ambassador to Aus
tria, for the affront which the latter's
wife recently off-red to the son of the Rou
manian minister at a ball given at the Ger
man embassy at the Austrian capital. The
German ambassador refused to accept, the
challenge, on the ground thnf, hi* wife was
justified in taking the courses!!# did. King
Charles has arrived at his decision to retain
Minister Vacarascn, after a thorough in
quiry into the quarrel.
FRENCH Ai TI VTB AT CHICAGO.
Tetter Guarante b Demanded Bjfore
Pictures Will Bo Sant.
Paris, April s.— lf Chicago aspect* to get
the best work of hading French artists for
the world’s fair, hotter guarantees than
any yet given at American exhi
bitions must b as'-sured. Benjamin Con
stant says he is not inclined to send other
pictures than tbo a already in the United
6talcs. Bougureau, whose opinion is very
weighty, ha being president of the society
of arts, says that while he is most kindly
disposed toward the art movement in
America, it is too grtat a t i-.k to expose
vuluulde works to xich a long absence when
it is difficult to get redress in the event of
irregularities.
A.S JAM’S MA' SAoaa.
Lieut. Grant Thinks Ho 18 the Only
European Tnat Escaped.
Calcutta, April 5.— A dispatch has been
received from Lieut. Grant, in which ho
says ho believes he is the only European
that escaped the recent massacre in the
province of Assam. The residency was
provided with Martini rifles, while eom
misaloner ijuinton’s escort m s armed with
Snyder rides. It whs on this account that
that tne ammunition gave out, tlie supply of
cartridges at Manipur bel g of no use for
Snyder rifles.
Australia’s New Constitution.
Sydney, N. S. W. t April.?.—The Austral
ian federal convention has adopted u pro
vision in the constitution regula mg powers
of parliament and fixi g the pat meat of
the member* at £SUO yearly, and also a pro
vision that a 1 appropriation and taxation
hills must originate in the House of Repre
sentatives.
A Big Coal Trust.
London, April 5.— -A movement has been
started to create a gigantic trust to control
the output of the coliierlts in Yorkshire,
Lancashire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
The avowed objects of the new trust are to
bring the cousumer in direct contact with
the producer and to place the profits on a
loss fluctuating basis.
Germany to Abandon Africa.
London, April s.—Gen. von Caprivi, the
Germa i chancellor, has notified Lord Malis
bury, the British prime minister, that Ger
many wifi abandon Southwest Africa un
less the Angio-German syndicate succeeds
in raising the proposed capital. It is doubt
ful whether the sum required can be se
cured. _____________
A Railway for Siberia.
Paris, April 5.—A number of French
capitalists liavo made an offer to the Res
s.an government to build a Siberian i ail
way from Tschelcabuisk to Vladivostok, a
distance of 7,198 versts, receiving payment
either in railroad bouds or by the loan of
300,090,900 ci edit roubles.
Enowlng in Alabama.
Birmingham, Ala., April 5. Hno* fell
here and all over North Alabama to-day.
The fall was slight, but it was the first
April snow iu this vicinity in over forty
years.
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•? 5 OitNTH AGO FT. >.
J WEEKLY, sl.ii A I'iAß (
PLAGUES OF THE CITIES.
TALMAGE SHOWS UP THE GREAT
SIN O? INFIDELITY.
Infidelity Furnishes No Substitute for
the Cons'..at.on it Woull Taks
Away -It’s a Religion of Don’t Knorv.
It Would Put Out All the Light
houses of Hope.
New York, April 5. Continuing bis
course of sermons on "The Ten Blagues of
the Cities,” Rev. Dr. Talmage to-day took
for his subjoot “The I’lsgue of Infidelity.”
Tbe discourse was delivered to large and
appreciative audiences at the Brooklyn
Aoademy of Mus.c in the forenoon and the
New York Academy of Music in th® even
ing. The text was Romans ill., 4: “Let God
be true, but every mans liar.”
That is, if God says one thing and tha
whole human race says the opposite, Paul
would accept the divine veracity. But
there are many in our time who have dared
arraign the Almighty for falsehood. Infi
delity is not only a plague, but it Is the
mother of plagues.
It —sms from what we hear on all tides,
that tee Christian religion is a huge blun
der , that tbe Mo-aic account of the creation
is an absurdity large enough to throw all
nations Into rollicking guffaw; that Adam
aud Eve never existed; that the ancient
Hood and Noah's Ark were impossibilities
that there never was a miracle; that the
Bible is tho friend of cruelty, of murder, of
polygamy, of all forms of base crime; that
the Christian religion is woman’s tyrant
and ma ,’s stultification, that th® Bible from
lid to lid is a fable, a cruelty, a humbug, a
sham, a lie; that tliemyrtyrs ® hod tod for Its
truth were mineral dupes; that the Church
of Jesus Christ is properly gazetted as a fool:
that when Thomas Carlyle, the skeptic,
said, "The Bible is a noble book,” he was
dropping into Imbecility; that wlien Theo
dore Parker declared In Musi' Hall, Boston,
"Never h boy or girl in all Christendom but
was profited by that groat book,” ho was be
o lining very weak-minded: Mist it is some
thing to bring a blush to the cheek of every
patriot that John Adams, tne father of
American independence, duelored, ’’The
Hibi# is the b-st hook in all tho world;” and
that lion-hearted Andrew JacksoD turned
lnt i u sniveling coward when he said, “That
tiook, sir, is tho rock on which our republic
rests;" and that Daniel Wetster abdicated
tiie throne of bis intellectual power aud re
signed his logic, and from being the
great expounder of the constitution
and the great lawyer of his ago,
turned inio an idiot wbn ho
said, “My heart assures and reassures me
that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be a
divine reality. From the lime that at rnv
mother’s feet, or on my futhor’g knee, I first
learned to lisp verses from th® sacred writ
ings, they have been my daily study and
vigilant contemplation, and it tbore is any
thing in my style or thought to be com
mended, the credit is due to my kind par
ents in instilling Into my mind an early
love of tho Horipturesaud that Wllllata
H. toward, the diplomatist of the oontury,
only showed bis puerility when he declared,
"Tne whole hope of human progress Is sus
pended on tho ever-growing influences of
tbe Bible;” and that it is wisest for us to
take th it book from the chrone iu tbe affec
tions of uncounted multitudes, and pat it
under our feet to be trampled upon by
hatred and hissing contempt; and that your
old father was ho (dwluked, and cajoled,
and cheated, and befooled, when he leaned
on this as a staff after his hair grew gray,
and hi® hands were tremulous, a id his step®
shortened asi he came up to tho verge of tbe
grave; and that your mother sat with a
pack of lies on her lap while reading of the
better country, aud of the ending of all her
nohes and pains, and reunion not only with
tnose of you who stood around her, but with
the children she had burud with infinite
heartache, so that she could read no more
until she took off her spectacles, and wiped
from them the heavy mist of many tears.
Alas! that for forty arid fifty years
they should have walked under this
delusion aud had it under their pil
low when they lay a-dyiug in the
lack room, and asked that sums words
from tho old book might lie cut upon the
toombstone under the shadow of tbe old
country meeting house, where they sleep
to-day, waiting fora resurrection that will
never come. This book, having deceived
them, and having deceived the mighty in
tellects of the past, must not be allowed to
deceive our larger, mightier, vaster, more
stupendous intellects. And so out with the
book from the court room, where it 1s used
in the solemnization ot testimony. Out
with It from under the foundation
of church and asylum. Out with it
from tbe domestic circle. Gather
together all tho Bibles—tbe children’s
Bibles, the family Bibles, those uiwly
bound, aud those with lid nearly worn out
and piigos almost obliterated by the fingers
long ago turned to dust—bring them all to
gether, and let us make a bonfire of them,
and by it warm our cold criticism, and
after tnat turn under with the ploughshare
of public Indignation the polluted ashes of
that loathsome, adulterous, obscene, cruel
and deathful book which is so antagonistic
to man’s liberty, and woman’s honor, and
tho world’s happiness.
Now that is the substance of what infi
delity projioseg and declares, and the attack
on the Bible Is accompanied by great
jocosity, and there ia hardly any subject
about which more mirth is kindled tnan
about the Bible. 1 like fun; no man was
ever built with a keener appreciation of it.
lh-re is health iu laughter instead of barm
—physical health, mental health, moral
health, spiritual health—provided yon
laugh at the right thing. The mor.iing is
jocund. Trie Indian with Us own mist bap
tizes the cataract Minnehaha, or laughing
water. You have not kept your eyes open,
or your ears alert, if you have not seen the
sea smile, or heard tbe forests clap their
hands, or the orchards in blossom week
aglee with redolence. But there is a laugh
ter which is deathful, there is a laughter
which has tbe rebound of despair. It is not
healthy to giggle about God or chuckle about
eheruity, cr smirk about the things of the
immortal soul. You know what caused the
accident years ago on the Hudson River
railroad. It was an intoxicated man who
for a joke pulled tbe string of the air-brake
and s.opped the train at the most dangerous
point of the journey. But the lightning
train, not knowing there was any impedi
ment in the way, oamo down crushing out
of tbe mangled victims tbe immortal souls
that wont speeding instantly to God aud
judgment. It was only a joke. He thought
it would be such fun to stop the train. He
stopped itl And so Infidelity is chiefly
anxious to stop the train of the Bible, and
the long train of the churches, and the long
train cr Christian influences, while coming
down upon us are death, judgment aud
eternity, coming a thousand miles a minute,
coming with more rorce than all the ava
lanches than ever slipped from the Alps,
coming with more strength than all the
lightning express trains that ever whistled,
or sheirked, or thundered across the con
tinent.
Now in this sentiment of infidel thinkers
I canuot join, and I propose to give you
some reasons why I cannot lie an infidel,
and so I will try to help out of this present
condition any one who may have been
struck with tbe awful plague of skepti
cism.
First, l cannot bo an Infidel because infl-
