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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 188G.-TWELVE PAGES. RECORD OF THE YEAR. | 2. Dvnamite explosion on underground [railroad in London; earthquake shocks de stroy Albania, Spain. T C. Governor Grover Cleveland, of New EYork, resigned; the steamer Bello Shreve- ort, with 100 passengers aboard, sftik.s in he Mississippi at Island 0:1. ft. Attempted assassination of Thomas Phelan in O’Donovan Hcssu's New York Bee. 11. Cyclone passes through Alabama and reorgia. 14. Senafa passed Grant retirement bill; bouse passe 1 Froach spoliation claims and ^^jhinesc indemnity bills; Panama engages in I civil war. ■ 18. Seventeen lives of inmates lost in asy- I lam fire at Kankakee, 111. H 2ft. ViUftw* in Italv and France destroyed t by avalanches; great loss of life. 24. An attempt to blow up the houses of y \Parliament and the Tower with dynamite; ^Sixteen persons injured, including a itum- t *pcr of children. M 20. Deaths of General Gordon and Lien- tenant-Coloncl Burnaby, at the full of ^Kbartoum. BE 30. Falling of a railroad train through a bridge near Sydney, New South Wules; forty lives lost. Mb 31. Three explosions at Pittsburg of nat ural gas; many injured. FEBBUABY. B l. Store front of Gurry Bros., Now York, molished by uynaume. hm 2. O'Donovan ltoHsa shot by Ysenlt Dud ley. 7. Bailway collision, causing $500,000 at New Brunswick, N. J. jsJ 10. Senate passed pension appropriation bill. ■ 11. The election of Cleveland and Hen dricks fonuely declared Bn 12. Sixteen lunatics burned to death in {Philadelphia alms-bonse; Senate passed army appropriation bill. . - 13. Alto. Utah, buried by a snow-slide: Thirty men killed. ■■fj 1C. Senato passed Indian appropriation bill; the explosion of a powder magazine at Gibraltar lulls seventeen men. 21 The Washington Monument dedicated. 27. Six officers killed by an explosion at ^^fchoeburyness, England; burning of Nation- 41 Theater at Washington. MARCH. © 2. Senate increased New Orleans appro priation bill to $400,000. ■ 3. Explosion in Unsworih colliery, Sun derland, England, thirty-six men killed. 4. Grover Cleveland inaugurated Prcal- lent. 5. President Cleveland’s cabinet an nounced. G. Colliery explosion at Korwin, Aus- rian Silesia, kuuug 147 men. 'J. Outbreak of Asiatic cholera in Java; rer 12,000 minors in the Pittsburg district rike. II. San Salvador declares war against Inatemala. I 18. More than 150 miners k lied by au •jKplosion of fire-damp at Camphaasen, Prussia. .22. Araks surprised British troops near Snukim, but were repulsed with loss of 3,- t)Uft men; British loss GOO. In 25. Music Hall, Buffalo, N*Y., destroyed by tire; breaking out in Northwest Canada ftf ltiel’s second rebellion; French forces ©pulsed by Chinese in Tonqain. 27. Explosion of coal dust at McCollister, I. T., eleven miners killed; thirty-five men tilled by gas explosion in Chillian mines. 31. Tne Panama insurgents burned As- binwall, to avoid capture by government troops; the town of Battleforu, N. W. T., I was pillaged and burned by Indiana, M. de Frevcinet tonus a new ministry at Paris. 3. Fire-damp explosion in a mine at Mar- tinullo, eighteen men killed. 5. A now cabinet in Franco under M. rishon; ten men buried by fall of a coal ino at Haven Bun, Pa. ti. James D. Fish, president of Marine tuk of New York, convicted of erabezzle- ent 13. Collapse of eighteen unfinished tene ment houses in New York; several work men injured. 15. Treaty of peace signed by Central American Bepublics. 21. Town of Wischnitz. Austrian Galicia, burned; 150 houses destroyed. 23. Twenty lives lost at Vicksburg, Miss. 21. American marines entered Aapinwall, and Aizporu made prisoner; engagement between Canadian troops and Kiel'* forces at Fish Creek. 2G. Eleven men buried under a sno' slide near Hoincatako mine, on Eagle Kiver, Col. 28. Tho Prince snd Princess of Wales concluded Irish tour, and returned to Lon don. 2. Tho Japanese village exhibition and Humphreys’ Hall, Hyde Park, London, burned; fight on Chief Poundmakcr’s re serve between Biel’s Indians and Canadian troops. 3. Eleven persona burned to death in a ew York tenement house; explosion of •Her of Tremont House, at Galveston, ’ex , four killed. Collapse of factory In Stato street, •rooklyn, followed by fire, ten persons ’Hod. 8. Sixty-eight persons killed by an ava- ncho at Lake Van, in Armenia. 1). Battle of llatouche’s Crossing, between lei’s forces and Canada troops—Biel rquted. 10. The King of Dahomey made a raid on the villages under French protection near Porto Novo, and captured a thousand men and women to be sacrificed at the cannibal istic feasts. 12. News of avalanche in Iceland in April confirmed-fifteen dwellings swept into the a, and twenty-four persons drowned. 13. Biot in London around Nelson Monu ment, Trafalgar Square. 14. Xitro.glycerine factory at Somerset, Pa, blown to atoms. 15. Louis Biel captured by Gen. Mid dleton’s forces north of the Batouche; new version of the Old Testament given to the public at London. 18. Cunningham and Burton, dynami ters, sentenced at London to penal servi- udo for life for causing Tower of London iplosion. *ft. Robert E. Odium killed In jumping ~>m the Brooklyn Bridge; Gen. John A. elected United States Senator by the » Legislature. 21. Fifteen working women suffocated i a burning building, Cincinnati. 25. French fishing bark Georges Jeanne nk off the Banka of Newfoundland by iteamer City of Borne; twenty-two men 28. Sinking of bark George Jones off Newfoundland, and twenty-three lives lost. H 3. Thirteen miners killed near Durham, .^PgbiPd. [flC -8* Gladstone government defeated on the I xcise bill; Lord Salisbury summoned to or a new cabinet; a water-spout destroyed he town of Paso da Curaenta, Mexico, 170 ives lost. 9. A treaty of peace signed between 'ranee snd China; Dubuque, Io., swept by cyclone 10. At Thiers, France, during a murder trial, many persons killed by the falling of a stone staircase in the court house. 11. Six men killed by th 3 caving in of the walls of the new river tunnel above Chat tanooga, Tenn. 12. Gladstone’s resignation accepted by Queen Victoria. 1G. General Grant taken to Blount MacGregor; recurrence of earthquake shocks in Cashmere, 3,081 persons in all perishf*!. 18. Nearly 200 miners killed by au ex plosion in Pcndlebury colliery near Man* Chester, England. 19. Bartholdi’s statue of “Liberty En lightning the World,” received in New York. 21. Biot at Madrid; soldiers stoned and mob fired upon. 22. Cyclones in Missouri and Dakota. Aastria refuses to receive United States Minister Keiley. 3ft. Yseult Dudley a?qmtted of shooting O’Donovan Bossa on ground of insanity; Chieigo street car employes strike. JULY. 1. Strike of Chicago street car employes, rioting begun; snow falls in Tazewell county, Virginia. 2. The Ohio prohibitionists uominatcM 1 for Governor Kev. A. S. Leonard; twenty villages in Austria ignited by lightning and burned, six lives lost. 9. Cyclones in Iowa, Wisconsin and Min nesota. 11. Ten citizens of Blinneapolis, includ ing ex-Mnyor Band,drowned by the sinking of a steam yacht on Lake Minnetonka; At torney-General Gurland decides that Secre tary Whitney cannot accept the Dolphin on the report ot tho examining commission. 18. Orange riots at Waterford, Ireland. 15. International lteservation at Niagara Falls formally opened. 1G. The Virginia ltepublicans nominated John 8. Wise for governor; V'ashington Post building destroyed by fire. 23. The Princess Beatrice, Queen Victo ria’s youngest daughter, and Prince Henry of Battenberg, were married at Wipping- ham, Isle of Wight. 2ft. Tho Virginia Democratic State Con vention nominated Fitzliugh Lee for gov ernor. 31. Ex-8nrgoon General Wales suspended for five years for neglect of duty. AUGUST. 1. Louis Beil convicted of high ereoson at Winnipeg, Manitoba, and scutenced to be hanged September 18. 2. Half a mile of buildings burned at Toronto, Ont.; less $1,000,000. G. News of tho loss in tho Arctic regions of the bark Napoleon, of New Bedford, with twenty-one sailors. 8. The funeral of General Grant at Kiver- side Park; eight guests burned to death in the Montezuma hotel, Las Vegas, Hot Spring*, N. M. 12. British Parliament thank army and navy for services in Egypt and the Soudan. 14. British Parliament prorogued; Fore- laugh’s circus train wrecked at Eddy ville, 18. Don Pedro Preston, the destroyer of Colon, was hanged at Aspinwall. 20. Ohio Democratic convention nomi nates Hoadly for Governor. 23. Seven persons kiiled in collision on London Underground railroad. 24. Anti-German demonstration in Mad rid over Carolines Islands difficulty. 25. Cyclone at Savannah and Charleston wrecked many buildings, vessels driven ashore and several lives lost. 26. News ot the Hoods in China in June last received, villages swept away and 10, - 000 porsons drowned. HKPTKtfUIXL 2. The white miners a Mtock Springs, Wy. T.,,ay«iultod (fill) lliMloes minors and drove tlibfu to the mils, Milling fifty of thoni. Excitement at Madrid over the seizure by Germany of tho Island of Yap; 24,000 Christians iuAHsn« red in Cochin, Chinn. 8. The town of Washington, Ohio, swept 3. Be volutions in Mexico and Pern; Tht- J baw’s surrender; five men killed by boiler explosion, East river. 5. Biots at Derry; steamer wrecked on Ohio, six lives loct; prairie fires in Kansas collision on East river bridge. 7. Troops ordered to Soudan; Massowah annexed by Italy; Congress meets; fire in Lexington, Mo. 8. General amnesty in Spain; cholera in Brittany. ft. Peace negotiations begin between Ser- via and Bulgarin. lft. Alfonso’s funeral; Servians and Bul garians resume holities. 11. Vanderbilt’s funeral; union of Bulga- riaus rei ognizrd. 12. Battle between Servians and Bulga rians. 14. Sacred Burmese elephant dies; Prince Alexander acknowledges sovereignty of the Sultan. 15. Aerolite fell near Naples, Italy; coal mining troubles in llovier, Mo.; cotton- laden steamer burned Havre; Flench victo ries in Annoin. 1G. England and Italy take action in Egypt; Turkish delegates arrive at Phillip- popoli*. 17. Carolines treaty signed at Borne. 18. Flood iu Pennsylvania coal mine, twenty-four lives lost. lft. News of cyclone in Philippine Islands: dynamito explosion in Siberia, 1,(100 lives lost 20. Corean revolution; cholera breaks out in Italy. 21. Distillery boiler explodes at Dayton, Ohio, several lives lost; Congress adjourns to January 5th; socialist trial concluded at Warsaw; protocol between Servieo and Bul garia signed, armistice till March. . 22. Cholera appears at Venice; peace concluded between Franco and Madagas car. 25. Six boilers explode in San Francisco water works; Christmas treo iu Chicago asylum takes live, 11 HI persons injured; great insubordination among Servian troops. 2G. Ketnru of B>dgari»u troops to Sofia. OT ViiJit nn Knrviim fnmtior luitWAni 2T. Fight on Servian frontier between Servians and Bulgarians. 28. President Grevy re-elected; steamer collision at Houcn, ten lives lost. 2ft. Pirot plundered by Bulgarians; diph theria epidemic in Montreal; fires at Chat tanooga, Tenn. CREMATED ALIVE AT HOME. ■J. IU»U Ul H UUIU. n»r nwrny by n tornado, several persons killed. 11. Cbanning, adopted eon ot Tadoc, ex- Emperor, proclaimed King ot Annum. 15. Jumbo, believed to be tbe lnrgent elephant in the world, killed by a railroad tram near St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. 18. Seventeen live* lout by tbe colliaion in tbe Nort Sea between the iteamer Dren- da and Dolphin: the people ot Phillippo- polis, the capital of Houtnelia roae in re bellion, proclaiming the union of East Honineliaaml Bulgaria. _ 23. Ira Davenport nominated by tho New York Repnblicana for Governor; seventeen persona crushed to death at Christine Nil son’s concert a Stockholm, Sweden. 24. David B. Hill nominated for Gover nor by New York Democrats. 28. Anti-vaccination riots in Montreal. 21). Disastrous floods, covering an area of 3,500 square miles, reported in Bengal, British India. ocTonmt. I. Beginning of special delivery system in post-office; six-penny telegram avstnni begun in Great Britain—twelve words for sixpence. 3. Conflict between Bulgarian and Ser vian ontposta. i. Hobinaon’a circns train wrecked on tbe Northern Paciflc railroad—live men killed and forty injured. 10. Flood rock snceessfnlly blown np at Hell Gate, East Biver. II. Eighty Ashing vessels lost in a storm off Labrador coast; 300 men lost. 13. Ohio elects J. B. Forakor Governor snd the rest of tbe Republican ticket; Welsh Baptist Church at Wilkesbarre, Pa., blown down by a gale. 10. Servian troops advance to Bulgarian frontier. 17. Seven thousand Christians massacred in Annam. 22. Princess Mario, daughter of Dae da Chartres, married to Prince Waldomar of Denmark; troops of British India invade llurmah. 27. President Cleveland annonnees that he will grant no more interviews to persona seeking office. 28. Ferdinand Ward convicted of larceny at Now York. XOVUMES. General elections throughout the conn- try; Andre monument at Tappan, N. Y., blown np; 131 Chinese driven from Taco ma, W. T. 4. A. P. Edgerton snd W, L. Trenhoira appointed Civil Henrico Commissioners by President-Clevehmd. 6. Cyclones in Alabama and Texas; eigh teen persons killed and much property de stroyed. 20. Eight thousand buildings snd twenty- two Uvea destroyed in Pnillippine Islands by a cyclone. 22. Two thousand persona dmwnod and 160 villages submerged by • cyclone in Odessa, East India. 24. Servians driven across Bulgarian fron tier; earthquake shocks in Spain. 25. Prohibition carried by 225 majority at Atlanta, Ga.; King Milan, of Bervia pro poses peace to Prince Alexander, of Bul garia. 20. Thanksgiving day. 27. King Tbebaw, of Bonn ah, abandons Mandalay and British forces take posaes- on. 28. At miotic* concluded between con tending force* of Servia and Bulgaria. 30. King Thebaw, ot Burmah, surrenders to British forces under Geo. Pondcrgnu.t. i. Funeral of Vioe-Prsaident Hendricks; riots st Dundalk, Ireland. The Horrible Death of m Klch Illinois Farm- rr anil hie Wife* Seneca, IU., Special. The details of tho mysterious death of Mr. and Mra. Patrick Rooney, who were found Christmas morning, the one suffocat ed and the other cremated, make a horrible story. Foal play was suspected, but the circumstances scarcely justify the suspicion. Hooney won seventy-three years old and the wealthiest farmer in Central Illinois, his estate being rained at $200,000. By his first wife he had four sous, nil of whom lire married IIo never was known to give them so much aa a cent. Twenty-five years ago he married his second wife, a childless widow. Khe wan twenty years younger than he. It was assumed in all the coun try that she would inherit the major por tion of his estate. He had made no will, but won expected to call in a lawyer after Now Year’s. Two years ago he caused a great sensa tion by engaging a Chicago architect to de sign tor him n residence which should be not only magnificent in all respetts but nir-tlght from foundation to garret. He little knew that he was carefully preparing for the frightful death of himself ami wife, os the sequel shows. Hooney had n horror of fire, and it was to provido against the fate which befalls so many unprotected country homes that he directed the archi tect and contractor to spare neither time nor expenso iu making the building as close as a portable refrigerator. The neighbors all agreed that the tottering old man was Rung his mind when the structure was completed. The artisans had done their work bo well that with all the interior doors open (the house had sixteen rooms) feather-weight tests iq all parts of it failed to show that there wus the slightest draught. Hooney and his wife had a sociable fond ness for whisky and often brewed their evening punch with tho favored hired man, who also was allowed a room in tbe new mansion, and was their solitary guest. He was a deaf 8wede and spoke few English words. His room was over thokitenen. Christmas evening Hooney came into the village and bought a hutf gallon of whisky. After the supper dishes hod been cleared away he sat down with his wife in the kitchen, with tho little jug between them. How loug they remained there is not known. Just before tho Swede retired he was in vited to join the old folks and had two punches with them. When he left they were merry but not intoxicated. In tbe morning the hired man awakened with a headache. His pillow was covered with soot and a sickening odor pervaded the atmosphere ot hi« room. Descending to the lower hall, the stench increased. Ad joining tho kitchen was the old gentleman’s bedroom, and uext to it that of Mrs. Bou ncy. The door of Hooney*s room was open. Peering in, the hired man haw his master prone upon the floor, his clothing undis turbed. Upon slmkiug the prostrated form the Hwede found it limp ami lifeless. Over the face of the dead, aud dinging to every thing in tho room, was a black, stikoy sub stance. The hired man then looked into Mrs. Hooney’h room and the kitchen, and failing to find her in either, walked to the house of one of the sons, half a mlb* away, and related os best he could the nature of his discovery. A party of neighbors, including a physician, returned with the hired man and a more careful investigation of the premises was made. On the centroda- ble wa« the half-empty iug and tho gtaras. At one side there was a hole three feet long and two feet wide burned through the floor. Near by was a caudle, half burned, aud at one end of tbe black-rimmed aperture stood a booted foot nprigb^ a charred remnant ot the right leg protruding from the shreda of blistered 1esh and muscle. The tall, old- fashioned clo^k in the comer was open and the key wax on the floor. The hanging fringe of the cloth had been burned up close to tho circular edge of the table and then smouldered out, as had the small patch od the floor, within which a human form bad writhed in all the agonies of living cre mation. In the cellar they found a handful of white ashes, a calcined skull and part of a vertebral column. It was evident thst Mrs. Booney was winding np the clock when the candle ac cidentally ignited her clothing. She waa doubtless weakened by the liquor the had drunk, and sank to the floor in fright. She was a large woman, weighing 29ft pounds, or more. Once prostrated she was unable to rise.und the flames rapidly eating through her clothing to her body, soon began the work of incineration. Afire canty was formed beneath her in the floor and as the concave furnace burned slowly through to the cellar the remains were gradually melted into the handful found on the cement floor beneath. Apparently one leg was extended at length, and burning off just above the ankle, at the outer rim of tbe fire, the foot righted itself when dismembered. Booney was suffocated to death. Tbe hired men u , now a-bed and no*, expected to live. Tb*; property will probably be divided among the four sons without inquiry or c< -nt*st. BUREAUCRATIC GOVERNMENT. Office-Holders Eating Out the Substance of the People. New York Commercial Bulletin. The time is gone by when we can afford to indulge our wit at the expense ot the Old World monarchies, the administrative machinery of which, au everybody knows, is made up of a bewildering network of bu reaus, extending from the door-keepers of the palace to the King or Einperor on his throne. Germany ami Austria h\ve afford ed some curious exemplifications of the bureau system pushed to an extreme which presented it finally as uu ingenious inven tion for providing snug places, chiefly sine- cares, for court favorites at the public ex pense. But, we begin to thing that our country can beat the Old World monarchies in the manufacture and multiplication of official bnreaus. This manufacture and multipli cation is going on in every branch of the public service, from tbe capitolat Washing ton and the '.State governments down to the city halls of our municipalities. It trans cends anything of the kind ever before witnessed, even in a country which, as the reader of revolutionary history will remem ber, commenced its career in a memorable protest against the “creation of new offices” and tbe “swarms of officers" that were har assing oar people and curing out their sub stance. Take a single branch of tho Federal ad ministration as a specimen of all the others; we mean the Navy Department, According to Secretary Whitney, eight bureaus sup ply stationery to ships; three bureaus sun- ply ships with lamps aud lanterns. To the sama ship one bureau supplies electric lights and the light far general illuminat ing purposes; another supplies electric search lights, and a third oil aud light for the engine and fire rooms. Tho faculty of these bureaus for getting rid of the public money is something really wonderful. As is well known, the law requires all pur chases to bo made by contract after ad vertisement, except in emergencies. But the Secretary says: “The open purchases of the Nnvv Department for the year ending June 30, 188o, amounted to $841,285.84, while the purchases by contract amounted to only u little over a million. A large proportion of the open purchases consist ed of articles of either comparatively small value or more or less difficult of classifica tion, but $138,000 of the amount was spent by the seven bureaus, each acting inde pendent of tho other, for coal bought, not in one lot, but at 1GG several open pur chases; 2ftft different open purchases of stationery verc mode by eight dif ferent bureaus, $121,315.66 was spent for lumber and liardwuro by bit bureaus in 490 separate open purchases; seven bureaus spent $16,000 for oils and paints in 26ft sep arate purchases; 117 different open purchas es of iron and steel were made at an ex pense of $41,524.48; $68,881.5ft was spent far hemp and corduqo in 45 different open purchases.” What is all this but a “canco- turo” of government, or rather, what is it Irfit a sample of the excessive officialism with which every department of the gov ernment machine is overweighted, and fa maintain which the peopic arc remorseless ly taxed? It furnishes a key also to the waBtefufa'*** and extravagance v/hich have especially disgraced the Navy Department daring the post fifteen or twenty years. If wo descend now to the municipal govern ments. we aro confronted with bureaus and sinecures on almost every hand. Wo do not propose fa go into details as regards the city of New York, as a single illustration will answer for the whole. Iu his testimony before Iho Senate investigating committee yesterday, the deputy commissioner of tho public works department informs us that there nn eight bureaus under his charge, and, from the general tenor of his testimo ny, we aro led to infer that tho principal business of these sevorol bureaus is to 'look after the patronage.” Even the street laborers arc appointed through tho operation of this bureaucratic machinery, not because of their fitness for their places, but simply as a matter of obligation to the politicians: [Extract from the Uttimony.] Question by Senator MUler—Yon have Mid that you made tbo supointmeiiU up to three mouths aso. Hoar many appointment*, approximately, w«*re made by yon? A.—Bet wen 400 and Sno. Q — Mostly lalrarem? A.—Yea. there is very little patroLftire out*lde of laborers. I know very I'ttle about the laborers peraonally. Half of them at work thla auramer were reappoin ed. They work from spring to fall. .—Until Just after election? A.—Sometimes un the the fourth Cheney vroa himself sent through the ropes by a Tex ua upper-cut. The sixth round was short, sharp and de cisive, Quinby eli*aing Cheney ali over the room, finally set 1 ng him with two stinging right-handers on the nose that m ule the blood flow freely down upon Cheney’s face aud breast. At this Cheney threw off his gloves and gave up the fight and the girl. ADDICTED TO FEMALE GARB. KcuiarkabU Case ami Very flood Clothe* otm Chicago Carpenter, Chicago Hperlal. Joseph Pei tide wicz is a medium-sized, slight man, with his head closely shaven and his face as smooth and white as wo man's. Tuesday tho rail a wordrobo rich and fashion able enough to satisfy a belle's fancy. There were among tho collection an elegant littlo French bonnet, a fur trimmed silk cir cular and a close fitting tailor made dress. There were corsetsandn-ddinp and HnyerU from top fa bottom. Tno prisoner stood in a pair of French heeled boots, and his figure suggested that he atill had about him a good deal of tho padding necessary to JEFF DAVIS’S NERVE. Cool as an Iclele When Ills Friends Were Greatly Disturbed* Kansas City News. I was in a restaurant tho other evening when a water-pipe on the second floor barst and the fluid spread over about ten feet of ceiling. A very angry man remarked that tho plastering would full some time and fill up the soup of somebody at the table. This was a very trivial remark, but it unwound a historical recollection of another. “In 185ft,he said, “I was a boarder at the Pea body House, in Memphis, Tenn. This vaa the Hotel where Jeff Davis always stopped. When it waa known that he was coming a certain table was spread in the dining- When he confronted Justice Mecch I room. This table had a seating capac- the officer brought in and ln:d Ou ify 0 f ten, for Mr. Davis always Q.—Uow Jo tho Uboron’ 'aottioo come to ,ou? .—A greet rainy were prentwi by Alilermt-u. A.- ■emblymcn .11 <t Mute Meu.ti.rA Q.—They wen lotcneteit ’ll baring their potltl- c.t adherent. ippoIntmlT A.—1 lure no doubt ol borer, .hould bo Appointed? A.. Q.—When thee ecnatora and A.M tubl> tnen came to yon. yon could uot know anything peruonully about the men to be appointed) A—No. Q.—Then, u a nutter of feet, the appointment of laborer, waa a favor to certain poUtlcUne) A.—Yen, we act on recouinieniUttonafrom the poll' Tbo taxpnyerM will thunk the deputy comtuiiMicmcr for bis fraukueaa. At tbe aiuue time it in to be hoped they wiU duly empbaaizn the fact—not a new one, how ever—that tbe street department, liko *11 other depurttnentH, with itn immense pat ronage parcelled ont nmon|| the bureaus, is administered entirely in tno interests, not ot tbe comnmnity, but of the wgrd states men, “tbe men that rnn tbe primaries’’ and the “patriots in pursuit of a pluco." Clearly, we hare too many departments, too muny bureaus and too tunny office holders in every division and Hnh-division of the Kovernment machine. They aro "eating out the substance of the people ’ quite us voraciously in their way hh the nine- enrist* of George III. “ate out the instance” of the colonists; and it ia high time that something was douo, in tbo interest* of economic administration, at least to arrest their moIUplication. If not, whim is tbe thing to atop? > SPARKING FORA SWEETHEART. Boston HpecUI. A beautiful blonde of twenty-Uiree yean, living near Tremont street and Sbawmut avenne, and who has Price crossed the continent and spent a year or more in the capital of China, has been the object of adoration on the part of a number of Harvard students, who are tbe ions of wealthy parents. Among her most anient admirers was a youth of about twenty yean, named Albert Cheney, the eon of a wetdthy New England farmer. Upon her he has lavished considerable money and ha felt secure iu pomaalug the enure affeo- Uuua of the young lady, until he discovered her in the embrace* of another student, Harry Quinby, ths son of a wealthy cattle ranch proprietor in the Lon* Star State. Cheney Insisted thst Quinby should ct plain his conduct and apologise. Quinby rafnaad, and yesterday afternoon Chancy determined that the former should explain and apolo gize or light Quinby agreed to fight, mak ing a proviso that!» ilia event of his prov ing the b' tter man Chern y .hould give th" girt up, Muinby agreeing to do th. it give his figure tho appeamucc of a woman’s. When IVithicwicz was arraigned bo was arrayed in female attire. His disguise was so perfect that nobody would suspect that be we* a man. He was booked on tbo charge of larceny and for assuming the guise ot tie fair sex. His wife was in court with her two children, Tbo prisoner confessed to sieuling about $2 worth of goods, and tho ehargo was ac cordingly onanged to disorderly conduct end the prisoner finod f 10 tor this offence. For the other offonse bo wss baud $40. At tho cloee of the case the officer took hold of the prisoner to lead him down stain, when tbe latter turned nronnd and mode an at tempt to kiss his wife. There was no kiss ing done, as she avoided him. Peithiowicz is tkonght to be insano. Tbo prisoner was the thief in woman's attire nebbed yesterday in the Boston store for stealing aud whoso person a Isdy clerk was at first set to searching. Tbe case is likely to prove a remarkable one. Tbe prisoner is a carpenter, and has boon in Chicago eight or nine years. At No. 571 Noblo street he has a very pretty young I-oliah wife and a very sweet little baby. The wife said that she bad never been able to explain her husband's fancy for woman's clothes. She admitted that when they were married bo bad on fomnle clothing. “I have lived with him for ten years,” aha said in broken English, “but we never could agree, liis female attire wss always tbe rock we split on.” “Did he wear your clothe*?” asked the reporter. “No, indeed, he bought bis own. Why, only last week he paidgili for this dress,” sbo said, opening her husband’s trunk and pulling out Jm undergarment. “But that la not half. Bee here/' she added, jerking ont female unmentionable garments, with fringo and laoo on them, front other parts of the trunk, till the carpet wus strewn with material good enough to lit out a woman from bead to foot. “All tbe time he ia in tho house," contin ued the little wonmn, “be is dressed up in them. He stands before tbe gloss, ns vain as a peacock, and turns round and round, admiring liis slispe. I have scolded him and Hoolded him, but ho never answers a word. It's fun for him. but I don't liko that sort of fmi. I think ho is wrong here,' 1 she said, tapping her forehead. Tlio fam ily consists of hor two ohildren and an un married sistor. From all appearances thoy are in comfortable ciroumstancea. LITTLE MAIDS EDOM SCHOOL. Bar oj Ttiav l’ut Out Their Tongues at Iron and Get Stuck Fast. Butte. U. T„ Miner. Lost evening about nnpper time, while tho dining-room was crowded, tho guests at tbo Centennial Hotel were thrown into a stnto of consternation and excitement by hearing cries and shrieks coming from ap parently an unknown quarter. Home thought the house was haunted, snd others were satisfied that the erica were human. A speedy search waa made and it waa soon discovered that the balcony waa tbe point whence the sounds emanated, and the voice* belonged to two little pets of the household—Pearly Bate man and Boaaa—the daughters of 'be house keeper. When the crowd reaobed the spot tho girl* were found prisoners in a nidnncr that in familiar to the other folks, but waa something new to them. Together they had walked on the balcony, the rail of which is of iron, and r.« the frost looked so tempting Un y decided to lick it off. Tho result was, of course, that both wero glued to the iron and lnckilv, instead of attempt lug to release themselves by farce, thoy be- gau a series of shrieks. Br. Beall, who was on band, promptly procured :: pitcher ot hot water and soon, the iron absorbing tbe heat, the youngsters were released. ■ MURDEROUS ELECTRICITY. An Organ Grinder, Leaning on an Electric Light Pole, Is Htruck Bead* New Orleans 8|ietlal. At 7 o'clock to-night two Italian organ grinders, Vincent Muugelln and Salvador Torcicie were grinding their organ at tbe corner of Hi. Louis and Chartres street. Torcicie was turning tbe crank at the time Mongolia, awaiting bis turn, leaned against an electric light pole. There was a flash of electricity and Mange!)* fell dead at his comrade's feet. Torcicie dropped the or gan and stopped to pick up the dead mau. As soon as his hand came in contact with tho body of Mongolia be received a powerful shock, knocking him to tho ground. When be recovered, it was found that bis hand waa burned to a crisp. Investigation showed that MangeUn bad issued against a hoisting wire running along the pule from tbe main wire to the ground, and bis l>ody became entangled In it when be fell, hence the shock to Torcicie. Tbe wire is just being strung throughout lbs city, andnocurrcntlusyet been turned on, there being no circuit. It is supposed that it wss crossed by tbe wire of another company, thus producing the current. Mon golia was twenty-foor yean old. Getting I at of sight. California lfaterirk. “Talk about fast time," said agreyheaded ngineer, as the “gang” were sitting in a little room back of Handenon's grocery on McAllister street: “When I was runnin' an enqino out in Australis we acaired up a drove of kangaroos. Zip, whi" that's nil; oat of sight quir.ker than you could say Jack Robfnoon.” “Kangraroos hub; you never saw a jack rabbit out on tbe plains, I guess. Talking about gitting out of eight. A jock rabbitt takes the oake. None of your zip-whiz business; Us just a streak and bn's gone,” spoke np a little fellow who claimed to nave been with Cnster, “Hpeakin' about gettin’ out of night," cbimedln a tiili-colTc’lor;-T'vo seen men Therm 1 whipped. ify of ten, for Mr. Davis* always surrounded himself with a number of con genial spirits when he dined. I think hw was the most entertaining man at the tnble I ever saw. He hod company, and I want to tel! thst his company waa always com posed of men who were brilliant 'This ta ble was always kept spread when be woe at tbe hotel, fur ho was irregular in bia hours- of eating. Tbe cooka were always kept on duty when be was a guest There wero never less than a half dozen kinds of wine on tbe spread. There was an uceident at tho Peabody one day, precisely like this one, bat no one paid any attention to it. Sir. Davis occupied the seat of honor. General Breckenridge—he wasn't » general then; tho Governor ot Tennessee, whose name I have forgotten, nml several others of fame were about him. All nt once down came the plastering with a crash. Every man at tbe table except Mr. Davis jumped to his feet, some kicked their chairs over in their fright, snd one ran the whole length of tbo dining room. Mr. Davis sut unmoved, and didn’t let go his glass un till it wss emptied. Then, looking about him, be said to the bead waiter: ‘What seems to be the disturbance? Please request the gentlemen to reanmo their seals.’ I saw much of Mr. Davj-i in my lifetime, nml I never vet saw him when his equanimity appeared to be out ot balance. 1 ' rsohlon Novelties. Dull-red doth redingotes, very long and with no loopi, only plaiting down in the back, ore made jost Use a man's long c - sloshed from tho bottom to the waist l : ne, or, rather, to the turn of the tour- nurc. Deaden Astrakhan is one of the latest conceits for bonnets, and tbe combination of tbe rich, dark, glossy, beads and tho round little balls of wool in all of the deli cate shade of green, red and ocru is really lovely. The Amaxone, a tall, conical-crowned bat, with a picturesque brim looped up in the hack, snd trimmed with ostrich feather* fastened at the bock and nodding over the top of tie crown, is the coining novelty of tho season. Serges of various weaves ore in high favor. There are the self-stripod cotelle, Devon check, bonds, Indian coating canvas and Yunuton tweed serges, and different weaves and every shape of color. Handsome marquis coats of black silk velvet, elegantly embroidered in blnok silk on the largo Lonia vest, deep pocket flaps, collar snd sleets ends, aro to be worn far into the season over dresses of light wool in dove, beige, cream and ecru. Tbo new colors of Airicaine, a netiirul gray; Florentine, a deep dear bronze; viouxvert, old dull green. Old mahogany is a popular red brown. Hugo is tbe color of old leather. Sanrionne if moss-green. Ocean tens old dull red, like old brick. Fancy ornaments, such as leaves unknown to botanist or florist; feathers that no orni thologist world recognise, and other uiavels in millinery art, are dusted over with gold, siver iui,l colored metallite; powders, and also, with velvet powder, termed poudra Idas. A pretty sleeve upon one of Worth's snberb dinner dresses of velxet and mqK-d silk is cat to lit tbe arm snugly to the elbow. Here it flares a little, endin-' m 'five ranky- kee, each point being richly ornamented with gold and bronze bead-work. From iieneatn thia issue* a puff df veltet, "which ia gathered in to a velvet band just abovo tbe wrist, tbe band also decorated ^with bead ing. Beads are very fasbonable, not only for evening but also for town toilets. Thus, for a visiting toilet a silk bodice is trimmed from the nock by a pointed plastron of beads finished in a point. The lower put is arranged into narrow gangjns, and peaked in front aud tbe back. The sleov-s aro gathered at tb» shoulder, and tight in tbe lower part, with ret era stimulated by a bead-work pattern. This bedioe may be worn either with a skirt of tbs some silk or with one of brocaded silk or fancy woolen material. There is no continual ebange iu articles of lingerie as there is in other parts of the toilet, but some modification, particularly in the ways of trimming undergarments, urn frequently made. Chemises, for an instance, are now trimmed in fichu style. They are cut, os usual, with thoTolo object of taking as little space as passible. The trimming may be arranged in bands of in sertion, and lsce is taken from the shoulder down. Inside th* lace is gathered like a fichu and crossed diagonally on ths other side, of the chemise in a square end. Another way of trindng these front* is to have a lace drapery ou one side only and embroide- S r ob the other- These sro also squares of De-work embroidery on the chemise prop er, and trimmed around to produce tho ef fect of a tichu placed inside of a square-cat waist Some chemises are pointed tack nnd front an in the open put aro cross wise or lengthwise puffings, separated by Valenciennes insertion. Corset covers are made after the same pattern* as chemise*. Drawer* sro wide on the lower part, snd, instead of being battened, thoy are taken in aa much as required by mean/ of a ribbon shirring. Small under-petticoats aro alill trimmed with plaiting* and insertiuna. These are indications of s return to the use of muslin petticoat* irxtead of anrah, as the latter goods is only pretty when new. Giving Awaj Stolen Money. Gaidar HUtlon, X. T., Hpeelsl. A letter signed John R Swift, and doted September 17, baa been fonnd near Indian Ladder. The writer says that he murdered a man named Hailey and threw the body into a hole. He also says that he secreted in a cave $16,000 in gold and bills, which ha gives to the finder of the letter. The letter states thst his wife and himself snd Hailey committed a robbery in Kbowets- ville hut enmmer. Before and Arter. Pan ville Breeze. Dot vaa leedl* /aksy's ihtomack Yen da Kriaiaaa day befit*: Cod dot vas Jakay's sbftcttack