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Siwaiuuil) Simes, VOL. 6.—NO. 20. OVER THE WIRE-. THE V. S. JUDGESHIP. Speer’s Appointment Considered Certain. Special Dispatch to Savannah Daily Times. Washington, Jan. 17.—The Attorney General has endorsed favorably the appli cation of Emory Speer for United States Judge for the Southern Circuit, and his ap pointment is now considered certain. AGITATION MEETING. Workingmen Confronting the Bank of England. London, Jan. 17.—Henry George’s meet ing this evening, with agitator Miller as proved a great success. It was the workingmen confronting the Bank of England, the mansion house and all the country’s wealth, but they were peaceable and determined. George said : “I have been alluded to as a turbulent foreigner, but I face you as fellow citizens of the great Federation of the people. I say to you as Gracchus said to the Romans, ‘they call you masters of the world, yet you don’t own an inch of land.’ I call on you to assert yourselves; to fight for your rights.” DASTARDLY ATTEMPT To Blow Up a Shop With Dynamite. South Norwalk, Conn., Jan. 17 Shortly after 11 o’clock last night a das tardly attempt was made to blow up with dynamite one of the ha’ shops here, known as Crofut and Knapps No. 2. The authors of the act are unknown. The striking hat ters deny any knowledge of it. TERRIFIC BOILER EXPLOSION. Five Men Killed. Tremont, Pa , Jan. 17.—Five men were killed by the explosion of a saw mill boiler near Good Spring Station, between this place and Tower City, this afternoon. The explosion was caused by a defective boiler The killed are, Alford Ernst,Henry Collier, Jacob Gehres, and two others, names un known. All the bodies were terribly man gled. The explosion was heard at a dis tance of five miles. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. A Boiler Explodes With Fatal Effect. St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 17. —A terrible ac cident occurred at Laclede, a small station on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, early yesterday morning. A freight train west bound was standing on the side-track, when another freight train pulled in on the main line east bound. The engine of the latter was about to come to a standstill, when the boiler exploded. Engineer Charles Leappart and his fireman, name unknown, w-re scalded severely, and the former’s life is despaired of. Engineer Daly and a brakeman who were in the cab of the other engine were completely envel oped in the escaping steam. They were horribly scalded, and their recovery is hardly expected. A SOCIETY OF ASSASSINS. Murder of a Flo Ida Postmaster. New York, Jan. 17. —A special says that C. E. Abbe, Postmaster and U. S. Land Commissioner at Sarasota Bay, Florida, was murdered a few days ago by Charles Willard Dr. Hunter, according to the dispatch, has confessed that there is a secret organization at Sarasota, composed of about twenty members, whose object is the remov al of obnoxious persons in the councils of this socity, and it was decided that Abbe must die. Hunter, Edmund Bacon and Jo seph An lerion, have been arrested for complicity Abbe’s murder. Willard has escaped. THE FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Proceedings of Doth Houses Yesterday. Washington, Jan 17.—Tn the Senate, at 2 o’clock, the Senate Inter-State bill was taken up. Mr. Brown Concluded his speech in opposition to the bill. Mr. Allison moved to increase the number of commis sioners from sto 9. Agreed to. The bill, as thus amende !, was ordered printed for the information of the Senate on Monday morning, when the Reagan House bill will betaken up and the Senate bill inserted as a substitute for all the provisions of that bill after the enacting clause. The Senate st 5:10 adjourned. After unimportant business, the House to-dav resumed and concluded considera tion of the consular and diplomatic appro priation bill. An amendment, offered by Mr. Townsend, of Illinois, asking the Presi dent to invite a Congress of American countries with a view to the establishment of reciprocal free trade and the adoption ■ f a uniform system of weights and measures to faiiiiule com merce gave rise to a hot tariff debate, and was then ruled out of order. Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, reported the river and harbor bill and asked that it be printed and rec immitted. ’ On motion of Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, the House went into committee of the whole oa he Indian appropriation bill. After the first reading at 3:25 p. m. the House ad journed. ROUGH ON PAIN. Cures colic, cramps, diarrhcea; externally for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neural gia, rheumatism. For man or beast. 20 and 50c. MONEY AND STOCKS. The Movements in Wall Street Yesterday. New York, Jan. 17.—Money closed easy at IE per cent. Exchange closed quiet; posted rates 54 82%®4 86%; actual rates S 4 81®4 82 for 60 days, and S 4 Governments closed firm; currency 6s JI 25 bid; 4 s, coupon, SI 21% b d, 4%’s do. SI 12% ’ bid. The excitement and apprehension in ; connection with dealings on Stock Exchange so prevalent yesterday had entirely disap peared at the opening this morning, and matters had settled down to the ordinary routine. The general market, although un settled, was well sustained, prices showing a fractional advance over yesterday’s closing. Throughout the afternoon the market was r unsettled and weak on adverse reports re garding the probable stand the Pennsylva nia Railroad Company would take in the matter of passenger rates from New York to Chicago and St. Louis. This precipitated con siderable unloading, under which the whole 1 market closed weak at about the lowest fig ures of the day. The decline in the general 1 list for the day ranged from %to 1% per cent, r Nothing was done in the specialties of mo ment, and the fluctuations were slight. The i sales aggregated 228,u00 shares. Closing bids: Union Pacific 48N I Missouri Pacific 93% , Western Union Telegraph Co 56% Pacific Mail 55% I.ake Shore , Louisville and Nashville 22% . Texas Pacific 12% Denver and Rio Grande 9% Michigan Central 60% Delaware. Lackawanna <4 West'n 86% Northwestern 88% St. Paul 73 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 117% Oregon Transcontinental 13 Northern Pacific 16% Rock Island 107 Jersey Central 35 Memphlsand Charleston 27 East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 3 East Tennessee, Va. & Ga. (pfd) 5% Philadelphia and Reading 15% Omaha (com) 21% Omaha (pfd) 85% New York Central - 85% Kansas and Texas 16 Erie..-. 13% L & N 25% Wabash M & C N & C 33 C & 0 5% O& M Adams’ Express 130 Central Pacific 33% C & A 130 R & D 44% li&WP 19 R&A 2% N & W, pref 22 OUR GREAT STAPLE. The Colt >n Movement at Home and Abroad. Liverpool, Jan. 17.—Spot cotton dull and in the buyers favor; middling uplands 5%; Orleans 6d, Sales, 6,0(K) bales. Arrivals lost Ito 2-64, and closed quiet but steady. It is telegraphed from Liverpool that Ellison, in his forthcoming annual circular, will prob ably express the opinion that an American crop of 5,850,000 bales will be sufficient for the world’s requirements, Europe being well supplied and trade unsatisfactory. New York, Jan. 17—Nothing is known , about port receipts to-day, as the wires don’t < work Yesterday's receipts of the week f were 130,081 baits, and at the interior towns j 40,028 bales. For the week begun to-day port receipts are estimated at 115,000,against 103,000 ! in 1881. Spot cotton is quiet, at ill-16, with ' sales of 100 bales for export, 145 bales to spin nersand 000 bales delivered on contracts. Ah i regard- future deliveries it can hardly be I said that there was any marked activity at all, transactions being limited to 16,000 bales, the smallest ever known, Nevertheless, as operators wisely object to going short, prices for the near months closed 1 to 2-100 higher than yesterday. Closing prices: January, 11-09 all-ll; February, 11-80; March, 11-14; April, 11 -25a 11-26; May, 11-37a11-38; June, 11-49a11-s': July, 11-59a11-60; August, 11-62- all-70; September, 11-33a11-35, October 10-40-87. Galveston—Cotton firm at 10 9-16; re ceipts, 240 bales. New Orleans—Cotton quiet at 105-16; re ceipts, 4000 bales. Mobile-Cotton quiet at 10%; receipts, 400 bales. Charleston—Cotton quiet at 10%; receipts, 159 bales. Norfolk—Cotton steady at 10%; receipts, 1.010 bales. Baltimore—Cotton very quiet at 10%; re- 1 ceipts, New York Produce Market. New York, Jan. 17.—Flour dull and un changed; superfine at $2 70a3 25; Southern , ! quiet; common to choice extra at S 3 50a5 90. , Wheat options unsettled, irregular and clos ing steady; spot lots quiet without change; spot sales of ungraded spring at 94; ungraded I • winter red at 88a95; No. 2 red at 92a95%. No. 2 red winter February at 92%a93. Corn options i irregular, closing easy and %c to %c lower: i spot lots firm r at %a%c higher; spot sales oi | ungraded mixed at 51 a53; No. 2 mixed Janu ary at 52%a53%; do Feb! u u*y at 55%a55% . ; Oats, options irregular, closing quiet and firm; spot lots firm at %a%c higher; spot sales | No. 2 white state at 38 and No. L medium at t 36% Pork dull: mess at sl3alß 25. Su.-.'ir in moderate demand a d firm; fair t' good re lining at 4%a4%. Chicago ’Change. Chicago. Jan. 17.—Few features.of interest entered into to-day’s markets, which suffered greatly during the early hours from a lack of telegraphic advices from the Eastern centres. Wheat opened heavy and %c lower. Corn opened steady and higher than yesterday s official closing. Oats show decidedly more activity and a somewhat higher range of prices. Provisions were inclined to dullness early in the session. Closing prices: Wheat, No. 2 February, 80%. Corn, No. 2 January, 38%. Oats, No. 2 ary, $1212%; short ribs, S 6 10. BiVEk AND HARBOR BILL. Apprcp iattons for Various Southern Rivers. Washington, Jan. 17 —The River and Harbor I ill, as it goes t » the printer, appro priates $50,000 for continuing the improve ment of the harbor at Norfolk, Va, by videoing the channel of Elizabeth river to the port warden’s line on the eastern side, between Lambert s Point light and Norfolk, commencing at Lambert’s Point light. Other appropriations are as follows: Appimatox, river, $12,000; James, $150,000; Mattaponi, $2,500: Rappahannock, $12,500; Staunton, $10,000; York, $7,000; New, $5,000: and Dan, $5,000. Two thousand dollars each are appropriated for continuing the improve ment of the harbors of Beaufort and Eden ton, N. C. Murderer Recaptured. Oswego, N. Y, Jan. 17.—Wm. Munken, the escaped murderer, was captured about 5 o’clock this evening, by Amos Livingston, who found him covered up in the straw on his barn. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, JANUARY IS, ISSS. MEDIAEVAL CUSTOMS. IN THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL [ CHURCH. . Admission of Rev. Mr. Huntington, of New > York, to a Religions Brotherhood in i Which He Takes a Vow of Celibacy, i Purity and Obedience Spicy Correspondence Between Bishops. New York, Jan. 17.—The ceremony of ’ admission of Mr. Huntington, by Assistant 1 Bishop Potter, to the Order of the Holy ■ Cross, which made a stir among the Epis ‘ copal Clergy and Laity several weeks ago, ' acquires fresh interest from the publica tion of correspondence on the subject be tween Bishop Albert Lee, of Wilmington, Delaware, and Dr. Potter. Bishop L'-e writes with the utmost re spect and affection, but with plainness and candor, of the astonishment and distress oc casioned by Bishop Potter’s unexampled act, “in requiring of him (Mr. Hunting- ■ . ton) well known Romish monastic vows.” ‘ In regard to the ceremony and its bad in i finer ce on the Church at large, Bishop Lee writes: “In that service not only the whole monastic system is sanctioned by yon in your official character but attributed to di vine inspiration, the solemn language of our ordinal being adopted. This system is no untried experiment. It has been on trial hundreds of years, and with whatever of sin , cerity and zeal started under in different i forms the fruits hare been evil and 1 pernicious. It was utterly repudiated ■ by the Church of England at the reformation, and has been since rejected : with loathing by several Roman Catholic ■ i countries. Sacerdotal celibacy has a history j ' of shame, suffering and sin traced in indeli ble characters. The corrup morals of the ; ■ I priesthood where Romanism is in the is ceniancy is a notorious fact, and a frightful ' I comment on the attempt to override God’s | ;I laws, and to set up a purer standard than I the Holy Scripture. No attempt, however specious, to introduce the system in our ■ ' church can fail to awaken earnest and in ! dignant condemnation.” I The letter goes on to entreat R ishop Pot ; ter not to repeat the act, and wishing that it might be undone. In his reply Bishop Potter regrets that he should have occasioned his friend alarm and distress. The ceremony did not com ’ mend itself wholly to his taste or judgment, ■ but facts did not warrant the inference, that ; implied his “sanction of the whole monas tic system.” The young man had taken the vow of celibacy, poverty and obedience to the rules of society which he united him- ' self, being in substance the same vow taken by every woman who joins the sisterhood. As the sisterhood had the sanction of the | Cburch, he did not see why brotherhoods might not exist for the same purposes. ’ Then Bishop Potter continues : j “But what is the situation in the case of 1 the two young men who nave been admitted i to brolherhood, to which your letter refers ? ! | Here are, first, one young man and then : another, who feel profoundly moved by the ; condition of godless thousands and tens oi thousands who crowd our tenement houses in New York. Do you know, dear and hon ored presiding bishop, what a tenement : house in New York is ? “Do you know the profound and wide spread apathy of the Christian community, concerning these schools of poverty, misery and almost inevitable vice? Do you know that our own church’s mission work has, thus far, but touched the fringe of this I awful mass of sorrow and sin ? All this these young men come to see and know by personal observation and actual contact, and then they said, and said, as I believe, rightly, “If we are to reach these i people we must, first of all, live among them. It will not answer to have home . and interest elsewhere, and then to walk j over to the Mission Chapel and go about among the tenement house population three or four times a week If we are to get close to their hearts, we must get close to their lives” Bishop Potter then enters into the question of the effect of his action upon the j church, and his right to administer the ; ■ vows, and then says that if the Episcopate decide that he did wrong, he will release Huntington from his obligation so far as he (the Bishop) is concerned, without, however, ; . surrendering “my own j idgment as to the expediency and propriety of my a tion until i convinced by arguments more sufficient and ' conclusive than have vet been addressed to | ‘me.” | . - COLLISION AT SEA. Sixteen Fers ns Drowned. Holyhead, Jan 17.—The ship Santa Clara, plying between New York and Liv erpool, arrived at this port last evening, having on board i-o passengers and twelve of the crew of the overdue steam packet Admiral Moorsome. The Captain of the Santa Clara reports that his vessel left Liv erpool Thursday last for New York. The weather was thick. When off Holyhead, the lookout discovered the outline of a vessel. The alarm was given, but before anything could be done, both vessels came together with a 'rash. The prow of the Santa Clara tore through the bow and side of the Admiral Moorsome, nea-ly cutting her in two. The vessel sank almost immediately. The Santa Clara lowered her boats and picked up twelve of the crew of the Moorsome and two passengers. The remainder of the crew, twelve in all, and four passengers, were drowned. The Santa Clara is but I slightly irjured, and will resume her trip to New York. LIFE PRESERVER. If you are losing your grip on life, try i Wells’ Health Rinewer.” Goes direct to weak spots. “ROUGH ON RATs.” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants i oed-bugs, skun.ts, chipmunks, gophers, lac Druggists. MACON MATTERS. j Excitement Over the U. S. Judgeship— Another Richmond in the Field— -1 The Macon Volunteers. I Special Correspondence Daily Times. Macon, Jan. 16. —The reception of the news that Farrow was out of the race for the District Judgeship created much consterna tion here. He was regarded as the man, I and his appointment was the question only lof a few hours. Colonel R. D. Locke tele f graphed him, inquiring if it was a fact that !he was out of the race. He replied that he ■ was, and that he was oppos’ng Speer. Col- I lector Johnson also wired that Farrow was I out of the race, and that he had not decided ■ I who he would support. ■ j District Attorney Darnell sent a dispatch . I to the President, making application for the | Judgeship. He is indorsed by the Chair ' men of the various executive committees. j To day Colonel Locke received a tele gram from the President, saying that he ’ would give the application careful attention. The Macon Volunteers have decided to open their new armory February 10th, with imposing ceremonies Wynton. THE GRANT BILL To Meet With Opposition in its Present Shape. Washington, Jan. 17.—The Grant re tirement bill was generally discussed by members of the House to-day, and it was developed that the Edmunds bill would have strong opposition because of the fact that it names no one, but gives the Presi dent the power to appoint any one. The truth is, the Democratic leaders, many of j them, are not disposed to let the President j down so easily as the Edmunds bill does from his position on the Fitz John Porter I bill. They are determined that if a bill is I ito be passed at all it shall be one with I Grant’s name in it. Then the President l will eilher be compelled to veto the bill, to be consistent with the Porter veto, or will have to back squarely down from his posi- J lion on that measure. If he adopt the latter ! I alternative a Grant retirement bill will be : i introduced in and passed by the Forty-ninth I I Congress, along with a bill restoring Fitz John Porter to rank and pjy, and both will ■ get Mr. Cle> eland’s signature. Some of the i leading Democrats will therefore urge that the first retirem nt bill in which Grant is named shall be passed on the first suspen sion of the rules day, which is the first Monday in February, and thus put Presi dent Arthur to the tes'. Republicans say that if this be done the President will allow the bill to become a law without his signature. SCHUYLER COLFAX’S END. Farther Particulars of His Sudden Death. I A special dispatch from Mankato, Minn., j says: Ex-Vice President Schuyler Colfax j dropped dead in the gentlemen’s waiting room of the Omaha Railroad Station here at 10:35 o’clock this morning. He had just arrived in town by the Milwaukee road. j The Omaha station is three-quarters of a mile from the Milwaukee station, and Mr. I Colfax walked from one to the other, with a l bitter wind in his face and the thermometer ‘3O deg. below zero. On reaching the sta tion he asked the baggage man for the gen tlemen’s room. The “Thank you” he gave for the information were the last words he said in life. He walked to the waiting room seeming, as bystanders say, much out of breath, and after looking out of the window for a few min utes he sat down and crossed one leg over the other. A gentleman sitting oppo i site noticed that he looked pale, but thought nothing of it till Mr. Colfax’s leg suddenly dropped, his heel striking on the floor. At the same instant he fell forward | and appeared to make an effort to speak, | but only a groan came. The room was warm , ’ and close at the time. He was laid on a bench, and the windows and doors were in- I j stantly thrown open to give him air; but it i was too late, for he had already ceased to : : breath”. Drs. Warden and Jacoby were | sent for, and after an examination they ; decided that death was caused by apo- ; plexy. induced by the warmth of the heated room after the walk in the intensely cold I air. No one in Mankato knew l Mr. Colfax I or what his business hare was, so his body j was taken in charge by the Odd Fel- I lows organization, of which he was a mem- . ber, and was carried to the residence of Dr. ' Harrington, where it was dressed and kept i for icslructions. A telegram was sent I to the Messrs. S'udebaker, of South Bend, ' Ind. At 5 o’clock this answer was received: ‘ Piace the remains of the Hon. Schuyler Colfax in temporary casket and bring to South Ben ’ notifying us when they will reach Chicago.” In accordance with this dispatch two members of the order of Odd Fellows started with the body for South Bend by the 11 o’clock train on the Chicago and Northwestern Road. It was at firs sup- . posed Mr. Colfax was on a lecturing tour, but there has been nothing found to support the theory. Probably he was traveling on business. A letter was found in his pocket showing that he was in South Bend yester day. THE BURSTED PENNSYLVANIA BANK, i Sait for Damages Against the Directors' Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 17.--A lengthy de claration, containing -even counts, has been i filed in the case of the Pennsylvania Bank for the use of Henry Warren, assignee, against the Directors of the bank, in which the damages are laid at $6,000,000. The charges are that the defendants were care less, and did not exercise due diligence in inspecting the books, etc., and that after the [bank .became insolvent they fraudulently ' abstracted for their individual gain large I sums of money in fr .ud of their creditors. ATLANTA AFFAIRS. GOSSIP AT THE STATE CAPITAL Death from Morphine—The Deadly Roller > Skate—Furious Fight Over the Uuited States Judgeship—Hon. E. P. How ell Appointed Capitol Com missioner. Special Dispatch to the Daily Times. Atlanta, Jan. 17.—A woman of bad : character, who has passed here for a year ' under the assumed name of Lizzie McCor mick, died this morning from the effects of ' morphine taken last night with suicidal intent. In the same house with her was i another woman who very closely resembled s her, and when it became known that the woman would die, this woman fell across the form of Lizzie McCormick and called ’ her “Sister.” It then developed that the ! women were sisters, and parties who knew • them say they came of one of the leading ‘ families of Richmond, Virginia. The roller skate in Atlanta is as danger as the rusty pistol. Last night at 11 o’clock Miss Maggie ;Bullivan, a lively young lady aged 16, died from a concussion of the brain, the result of a fall received while ; learning to skate. Several years ago Oscar Collier, a young man, while skating here, ; became over heated and took meningetis and died, and soon after that a young lady named Solomon received a fall that pro duced her death in a few days. Miss Sulli ■ van is the second young lady of Atlanta who has died a violent death this week. Miss Lizzie Thomas, of Atlanta, who was | buried yesterday, died a few days ago in i Orange Court House, Va., from a terrible burning. S. A. Darnell has come into the ring as a candidate for the Southern District Judge- I ship. Cunningham says it is between him self and Speer, and Speer seems to think it is between himself and Chester A. Arthur. I The contest is as hot as fury. Speer is hang ing on like grim death and it is believed ! here that he will be appointed. The Governor to-day appointed Hon. Evan P. Howell, President of the Constitu i ion Company, to fill the unexpired term of Major B. E. Crane, Capitol Commissioner, I deceased. Captain Howell is in Macon to night, but telegraphs that he will accept. He was not an applicant for the place. Bell & Pitts’ gentlemen’s tailoring estab lishment was put in the hands of a receiver [ to-day on application of Mr. Pitts, of that firm. The partners disagreed, and the court will administer on the assets. THE LAST TESTAMENT. The Will Made by One of Greely’e Men in the Arctic Region. Washington, Jan. 17. —The last will and testament of George M. Rice, a member of : the Greely party who perished from starva tion, was recorded to-day. It is addressed to Lieutenant Kislingbury, who also died. The will is dated February 1, 1884, and Lieutenant Kislingbury and Sergeant Brainard are named as executors. The notes cover several pages of brown paper, one of which reads as follows: Camp Clay Ellesmere Land, ) February 1,1884. J My Dear Friend Kislingbury: In the event of this journey resulting fatally for me, I desire that yourself and Brainard act as my executors in conjunction with W. P. Rice, of Washington, D. C., who, from his acquaintance with my relatives and par ties herein named, will be able to assist you much in discharging any melancholy posthumous duties for me. After a number of minute directions about the disposition of his personal effecte, he concludes, saying: Hoping that we may joke over this in the sunshine on Littleton Island, I remain your much obliged friend, George M. Rice. The other notes include these by Kisling- j j bury: Upon my friend Rice returning from the I I attempt to cross to the Greenland coast I j asked him if he wished me to return this j memorandum book. He replied: j “No; keep it until I ask you for it. I i have another trip in my mind.” Fred S. Kislingbury. I Again, a week before he started on his ! trip to Eskimo Point, which resulted in his i death, he asked me to keep this, and to ! . bear in mind all instructions and wishes he ; and I mutually exchanged. Fred S. Kislingbury. Brainard and W. P. Rice petitioners for ! letters testamentary. THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION. An Effort to Settle it Finally. i Berlin, Jan. 17.—The National Gazette to-day, publishes a statement that Austria and Russia, have joined France in an effort which is being made to settle the Egyptian j question finally. They accept the French proposals as being the most equitable of fered by any of the Powers. THE SOUDAN REBELLION, Submission of One of the Mahdi’s Allies. : London, January 17-—The war office has received a dispatch from General Wolseley stating that tlxe Kabbabish tribe, forming the greater part of the Mahdi’s forces and heretofore looked upon as among his staunchest adherents, have submitted. The General does not give the terms on which the tribe has been induced to surrender. Gilded five cents are going for flve-dollar gold pieces, but Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup needs no gilding to make it go. HEART? AiNS. Paljpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizzi ness, Indigestion, Headache, Sleeple ssnest cured by “Wells’ Health Renes er.” S6OO A YE UR ELECTRIC SPARKS. Caught Over the Wires from all Quarters. Baltimore, Jan. 17. William Montague ' Connelly, aged 67 year", editor of the Wood t | bury Time-, died to-day. He was a well I known journalist. Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 17.—The banking house of Amos J. Henderson, in this city, failed to-day. The institution is believed to have been wrecked by speculation. Paris, Jan. 17.—Edmond About, the 1 celebrated French author, is dead. r Sharon, Pa., Jan. 17.—About 8 o’clock. - last night James Crutch was killed in a f wrangle by James Hilliard. The murdered man leaves a wife and son. Hilliard has ' been arrested. 1 Brussells, Jan. 17.—8 y the breaking of 1 a flange, the express train from Tournai, > was thrown down an embankment at j Bierghes, to-day, killing two passengers. I Twelve were severely injured, and many . others slightly. r Des Moines, la., Jan. 17.—The City ; Council of Oskaloosa, a town which voted strongly for prohibition, has passed unani . mously a preamble and resolution declaring : the prohibitory law a failure - ’ Cincinnati, Jan. 17.—The flour mill of s David Keeler & Sons, at Covington, Ken s lucky, was burned last night. Loss, SIOO,- ‘ 000; insurance, $60,000. > Shanghai, Jan. 17. —The news from Pekin is that the Chinese squadron has been ordered to relieve Kelung. London, Jan. 17.—The King of Spain has t conferred upon Mme. Christine Nilsson, the cross of the Royal Civil Order of Benificence . as a recognition of her deeds of charity. New York, Jan. 17. —The United States Trust Company, through Stewart & Board man, have begun an action to foreclose the first mortgage on the West Shore Railroad’ for $50,000,000. Reading, Pa., Jan. 17.—The Philadel phia and Reading Railroad Repair Shops, at Schuylkill Haven, have been closed until ; further orders. The rolling mill at the ! same place has also stopped. I Pottsville, Pa., Jan. 17.—There are j now 32 idle collieries in the Schuylkill coal i region, which gave employment to over : 12,000 persons. General distress prevails. I New York, Jan. 17—The Pennsylvania Railroad to-day entered the Western Trunk L : ne Railroad war. Baltimore, Jan. 17.—A terrific gale blew here all the morning, and damage to the amount of thousands of dollars was wrought. The telegraph lines are badly prostrated. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 17 —President-elect Cleveland and Gen. Farnsworth returned from Buffelo last evening. Mr. Cleveland t spent to day at his residence. Mr. Farns worth said they had an agreeable visit at Buffalo. New York, Jan. 17.—The ocean steam ship lines to day announced a reduction in rates for steerage passage to two dollars. This is the lowest point yet reached. London, Jan. 17.—A Brussels dispatch states that a man, closely watched by detec tives, arrived at Antwerp yesterday. He re mained there a short time and then pro ceeded to Brussels, where he was arrested. No definite information can be gained from the police authorities, but it is rumored he is the assassin of Police Counsellor Rumph. Glasgow, January 17 —A destructive fire broke out this afternoon along the large warehouses on Virginia street in this city. Owing to a high wind the efforts of the fire • | men were ineffectual. Loss $150,000. Huntington, L. 1., January 17.—8 y the I burning of their residence to-day, Abial Ketcham and wife were burned to death. Probabilities. Washington, Jan. 17.—For the South Atlantic States, fair, colder weather, fol lowed in the southern portion by slight I rise in temperature, northerly winds in the | northern portion, in the southern higher j barometer. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE. His Condition Improving. I Washington, Jan. 17. —Chief Justice I Waite is rapidly getting better from his recent illness and will most likely be able to administer the oath of office to Mr. Cleve land on inauguration day. Though his improvement has been all that his friends could expect, they will have him make a tour of the South in the hope that the milder climate may the more surely tend to his full recovery of good health. JAY GOULD SUED. He Meets it With a Counter Suit. New York, Jan. 17.—Notes for $43,000 given to ex-President Kneeland, of the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad Company, for salary last November, and which he dis counted, fell due to-day. They were pre sented to Jay Gould as President, who re i fused payment, claiming that Kneeland was i not entitled to a salary. Suit against Gould ■ was thereupon begun. Mr. Gould retali ated with a counter suit for that amount against the old Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Company on the ground that i even if Kneeland was entitled to the salary, | the notes .-ued to cover it were given after ' the Metropolitan Company had signed a meagre agreement with the Manhattan s and the New York Elevated. ,T Pay Up Promptly. s Os every twenty persons who, when a bill 1 is presented, almost involuntarily exclaim, “Leave it; I’ll examine it,” at least eighteen , , says an exchang?, know the bill is all right, and of the eighteen probably sixteen could I pay ti e amount just as well at one time as r ‘ another. It is quite as often the rich < I th us thoughtlessly make a man run twice or more for his money, as people of moder ate means. “I never make a man call twice , for his due,” remarked a gentleman a few ; j days since, and he was eighty years of age. , Imagine the amount of happiness this man I has contributed to this world.