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NEWS OF NEBEASKA
&TATB VETERINARIAN AND LIVE STOCK
COMMISSION. Lincoln special to the Omaha
Herald : The state veterinarian and live
stock commission started this afternoon
on a trip to the northern part of the state.
Complaints of glandered horses have come
in from Jackson , Ponca and Dakota City ,
and these points will be visited and the
cases examined , and if they are fonnd to be
glanders in fact , tho animals will be con
demned and killed.
The prevalence of the disease among the
horses of the state is far greater than has
* ' been imagined , and it is evident that the
* establishment of tho commission and the
K appointment of a state veterinarian came
none too soon. The commission has been
traveling almost constantly examining into
complaints and condemning and destroy
ing stock , but they have found it impossi
ble to keep up with the demands upon
them , and there are now eighty-one com
plaints that havo been reached.
An interestingcxperimentand one fraught
with a good deal , of importance , if any re-
eults at all are obtained , will be tried soon
at the college farm. Dr. Gerth has ob
" tained a supply of hog cholera virus , and
proposes to try the merits of it as a pre
ventive of the disease by inoculating a
number of hogs at the college farm. He
will inoculate fifty head with the virus , and
then turn in with them ten uninoculated
animals to see whether the disease in its
mild form from inoculation is communica
ted. When tho inoculated hogs have re
covered some of them will be exposed to
the disease in order to test the efficacy of
the process as preventive.
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A HIGHWAYMAN KILLED. "Give me that
cash box , " were the words which were shout
" . ed intothuears of an Omaha street car dri
: - i - ver. The result was a duel with revolvers
at short range , terminating in the death o
an audacious desperado who has been car
rying ou the business of a road agent along
the line of the street railway for two weeks
past.
Last evening at G:4S o'clock H. L. Wool-
dridge , driver of street car No. 10 , of the
green line , shot andkilled a highwayman
who attempted to rob the car of its cash
box , near the corner of Eighteenth and
Lake streets. The coroner was summoned
and when the spot was reached a crowd of
curious spectators were found surrounding
the body of the desperado , which lay out
stretched on the sidewalk. The eyes were
partly open , but glazed in death ; the lips
were slightly parted , stained with the last
life blood ; the arms were rigid and cold ,
the fingers of one clutching tho butt of a
revolver with which the robber had at
tempted to shootthedriver. Theshirthad
been torn open and the bloody spot on the
breast showed where the unerring bullet of
Wooldridge had "pierced the heart. The
face as evidently that of a young man
not more than twenty-one or two years of
age , bearing lines which showed its owner
to be a bad , desperate character.
The driver of the car tells th < ? story tluib :
"I was driving along Eighteenth street at a
rapid gait , as I was a little behind time in
making the switch where I was to meet the
car going in the opposite direction. 1 saw
a man standing on the sidepilk , about ton
feet from the Lake street crossing. He sig
nalled me to stop , and walked toward the
cav. I slowed up. and as I did so I placed
my baud on 1113' revolver , which I was hold
ing between my knees. I thought perhaps
lie might be a robber , and remembering my
experience of ten days ago , I determined to
be prepared for him. He came to within
three feet of me , and in a threatening tone
of voice said , "Give me that cash
box , ' at the same time raising his gun. I
pulled mine at the same time , but he fired
the quickest. I wasn't much behind him ,
though , and just as his gun was discharged
mine went off. His bullet whistled past me
pretty close , and I knew he meant busi
ness. There were two ladies and a man in
the car. and I called to the man to come
and hold the horses. By this time the rob
ber was running down the street. I jumped
9 > "J , him. When he
F ' from the car and ran after
B. saw me coming he turned and . red at me
twice. I blazed at him once between his
two shots. He then ran on to the side
walk and turned and was going to shoot
again , when I took a good aim and let him
have it. He dropped over on the sidewalk
and never moved. When I got to him he
was just alive and that was all. He didn't
speak a word. In a minute or two there
was a big crowd gathered , as tho people
heard the shots. Just what happened then
I don't know. Pretty soon somebody said
ho was dead , and then I got on the street
car and drove to the barn. [ Omaha Bee.
31ISCEI.LANEOUS STATE JIATTERS
Two PRISONERS broke jail at Kearney the
other evening , between 6 and 7 , by sawing
off their cell door. They were taken from
Adams county , one charged with burglary ,
the otherhorse stealing. Both the escaped
men are bad characters.
THE three-year old son of J. S. Nichol-
Eon , of Ainsworth , was kicked on the head
by a horse , fracturing the skull. It is
hardly possible that the little one can
live.
live.J.
J. C. HOLLIS , ol Keya Paha county was
going out to work on his farm , and had
placed a shotgun in the wagon with a lot
of tools. He was about to start when he
espied a spade that was needed , and pick'
Ing it up tossed it in the wagon , when it
struck the hammer of the gun , discharging
the weapon , the contents taking effect in
his abdomen. He died shortly after.
BLAIR has now a lite'rary society in full
blast.
LASTAugust a young man was at Lyons
a few days and gave his name as A. T.
West. Soon afterward a horse was stolen
Irom near Waterloo anda man answering
the description of West was suspected. Re
cently he was again at Lyons on horse
back , on a different horse , however , from
the one said to bo stolen. This time ha
gave his name as Theodore Spaulding. The
constable told him to remain until he could
get word from Wahoo. He remained ap
parently contented for a few hours , when
he gave the officer the slip , and has not
been seen since. He left his horse , saddle
* tnd bridle in the care of Mr. Parker with-
tut making arrangements for the keeping.
The animal Tras undoubtedly stolen and
West is a horse thief.
DIGGING of the trenches for the Blait
water works hns been let Tor $115 per roiL J
JOHN QDINN , a promising young attorney
of Omaha , died in Davenport lastweek
from diphtheria. A sister and brother also
fell from the same/disease.
HASTINGS * system of water works are on
a scale for tho accommodation of 20,000
people.
AT a political meeting recently held at
Waterloo a charge was made that pauper
bodies had been sold for dissection by the
superintendent of the poor farm of that
county and that there was a ring in the
court house cognizant of this. It is now
demanded that all parties shall como to
the surface with not only proof , but with
any information that * may lead to the ap
prehension of the guilty parties , or to the
origination of this charge.
M. E. LUSCHER , a former watchman at
tho jail at Lincoln , ha been arrested for
disposing of § 200 worth of furniture that
did not belong to him. He is also sus
pected of being implicated in th jail de
livery at Lincoln "about six weeks ago ,
when seventeen prisoners escaped.
0. H..SMITII , tho champion heavy weight
prize > ghter of Nebraska , has been put in
jail at Omaha on the charge of vagrancy.
THE female base ball club disbanded in
Omaha. Some of the members returned to
their homes in Chicago , while others , whose
finances are low , will remain in Omaha.
HASTINGS will make an effort to induce
tho Fort Scott and Bismarck Railroad
company to build their line through that
place.
NATHAN B LAKELET , of Beatrice , is the
oldest settler in Nebraska.
JOHN MOORE , of Cortland , who has been
serving a one-year sentence in the peniten
tiary for forgery at Plattsmouth , and wh < ?
was released a few days ago , has been ar
rested for a similar offense committed at
Beatrice several years ago.
THERE is a huge pelican on exhibition m
Thompson & Co.'s drug store in Kenesaw.
1 he bird was recently shot on the Platte.
It measured eight feet from tip to tip of
wings and eight feet from tip to tip of
wings and five feet from tip of beak to toe.
THE postoffice at Fairmount has been
moved into more comfortable and commo
dious quarters.
Ciir MARSHAL FRED CAMPBELL was acci
dentally shot and killed at Pierce by Ed.
Staggs , his partner in tho livery business.
Staggs was loading a gun , when the weapon
accidentally slipped from his hand , and ,
falling to tho Soor , was discharged , the
contents striking Campbell in the back of
the head , tearing away part of the skull.
Death was instantaneous. Staggs is nearly
distracted over the terrible accident.
Two INSANE persons were taken to the
asylum from Ponca last week.
THREB Omaha thugs are in jail at Bis
marck , D. T. , for the attempted robbery of
a safe.
CHARLES STKOTTP , ot Albion , had his
whole hand , except the thumb , crushed
and torn off in the cogs of a thrashing
machine.
MRS. MAT , of North Bend , a lady rf 85
years , reads the daily news with an evident
relish , and without any glasses.
WITH the machinery used , it only re
quires twenty minutes to feed 3,500 head
of cattle , at the Gilmore stock yards.
THE Paaillion Times says that the hog
cholera has opened for a whiter campaign
in that county.
THE new Catholic church at Burada was
dedicated last Sunday.
A PARTT of Falls City hunters have re
turned from a hunt in Wyoming. They
captured quite a number of elk , deer and
antelope.
OSCEOLAITES are rejoicing that they are
soon to have a full-fledged passenger train
as one of the results of the new time card
of the Union Pacific.
A WASHITGTON dispatch says a patent
has been granted to George F. Schwertzer ,
for a tanning process.
JOSEPH PRICE , of Holt county , Irom half
a bushel of seed of the white elephant
variety , on one-sixteenth of an acre of
ground raised 21J bushels of potatoes.
At this ratio one acre would produce 344
bushels.
PARTIES using the special letter stamp
want to bear in mind that the regular
stamp is also required to insure prompt
delivery.
THE "Indian industrial scho'ol at Genoa
has 140 pupils. Nearly all of them can
speak English intelligibly. An effort will
soon be made to turn the institution into
an entirely English speaking school.
LANCASTER county votes on the adoption
of the township law at this fall election.
PETER SWEIGAKT suicided by taking
strychnine Sunday afternoon , at Blair. He
was 17 years of age.
DURING the month of September the Be
atrice Canning company put up goods the
wholesale value of which was $40,000.
SEVERAL wealthy citizens of Blair have
decided to establish a savings bank in that
city. The capital stock will be $100,000.
DR. P. G. COOPER , * of Washington coun
ty , fell down stairs last week , receiving in
juries which soon resulted in his death. Hej
*
was 58 years old and Tiad lived in Nebraska
thirty years.
No COMPLAINTS were made to the state
railroad commissioners at Ewing on the
occasion of their passage through that
place.
The Westerville mills are kept running
night and day to meet the public demand
FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED head o !
cattle were received at the Omaha stock
yards one day last week , the largest arrival
yet recorded.
THE remains of Dr. McNamara , who died
at North Platte , were taken to Geneva ,
Wis. , fur burial.
QUITE an enthusiastic and well attended
meeting was held in Omaha a few night *
ago to raise an Irish parliamentary fund.
About $1,500 was pledged.
THOMAS DOBBINS was bound over to the
iistrict court at Lincoln on charge of re-
cciving and concealing stolen property.
Dobbins was a partner of F. L. Wilson ,
who was indicted on the same charge a
year ago in connection with the finding ol
& large amount of cutlery stolen from E.
T. Duke , of Omaha , and he has long been
suspected of running a fence.
SUPERINTENDENT ov CENSUS LANE was
very much gratified the other morning
when he received news from Washington
that Nebraska's claim for $34,759.12 from
the United States government , for its pro
portion of the expense in taking the semi-
decennial census , had been allowed and
ordered paid. Nebraska is the first and
only state thus far which has had her claim
allowed.
NEARLY § 150,000 havo been expended in
building improvements this year in Fair
mont.
FAIRMONT'S water tower , when completed ,
will be 116 feet high.
A MOVE is about to be made to secure
the proposed Wyandotte and Dakota rail
road to Hastings.
J. B. HEARTWELL , president of the Ne
braska Loan and Trust company at Hast
ings , is building one of the finest residences
in that city. The cost of the building will
bo over § 20,000.
THE business of the Omaha stock yards
hns been steadily increasing for alongtime ,
and already there is talk of enlarging the
facilities for cattle in order to keep up with
the rush of trade. Not long ago the re
ceipts qf 2,000 head of cattle was concid-
eredja big day's business. During the last
few weeks , however , these figures have bean
greatly exceeded. On the 2Gth , 6,500
heads of cattle were delivered , the largest
number evervreceived since the yards
started.
THE Congregational association of Ne
braska was in session in Beatrice last week ,
an important and interesting meeting being
held.
held.THE
THE printers of Omaha are arranging for
a grand ball on Thanksgiving eve.
A LARGE elevator is going up at Guide
Rock.
AXEL EKICKSON , a 12-year-old inma.te of
the blind asylum at Nebraska City , died
suddenly last week of heart disease. This
is the first death that has occui'red in this
institution.
FncEPORT (111. ( ) dispatch : Rev.Emanuel
Wilter , of the Rock River conference of the
United Brethren church , arrived in the city
a few days aro * and is making an effort to
secure a legal separation from his wife , to
whom he was married at Lincoln , Neb. ,
July 5 , 1885 , by Rev. R. U. M. Kaig , a
Methodist minister.
A MEMBER of the stock commission who
has visited every county in Nebraska
makes the following statement to the
Omaha Republican : Complaints of hog
cholera are coming in in large numbers , but
the disease has already gained such head
way that the board find themselves almost
powerless , with their limited means , to
cope with it.
A MAN has been landed in the jail at
Boone , the charge against whom is that he
was implicated in a recent burglary at St.
Edward.
THE West Point Republican says a new
departure in the stock shipping business is
about to be inaugurated by the F. E. & M.
V. Railway company. They will shortly
put on a new kind of a stock car. They
will be constructed that each head of stock
will stand in a stall by itself , enabling it to
lie down at will. A feed box and watering
trough will be in front of the animal. This
will do away with the necessity of unload-
loading the stock en route , and will save
much valuable time. This is certainly a
great advance step in the"cattle shipping
business. It is not only more humane ,
but will prove a great saving in shrinkage.
THE GRANT MONBMEJiT.
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Correspondence Hctwet-n tlio ITIayor S
of Now lorkandlttrs. Grant.
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The following corresj ondcnce between e
Mayor Grace , chairman of the Grant Monu ec
ment Association , and Mrs. Grant , has been
made public : e
NEW YOKK , Oct. 16 , 1S85. My Dear Mrs.l
Grant Monument Association , to whom was
entrusted the honored and patriotic task of
collecting funds for a suitable national mem
orial to the memory of jour distinguished
husband , finds itself seriously hampered in
Its work and to a great extent embarrassed by
utterances which appear from time to time
In the daily press , often purporting to come
from your family. Our committee is much
concerned in the reports quite industriously
si read abroad and persistently reiterated that
on the assembling of congress , a preconcerted
effort with the consent and approval of your
family would lie begun to have the body of
General Grant removed to Washington for
Bnal sepulture. Our fund has already reached
i generous sum nearly S90C03 and will be
? 100,000 soon , but it must be obvious that any
loubt which the public may have , as to the
lesire of the family in regard to lliversido
Park as a permanent tomb and the site of
; he proposed national memorial as a deter-
ent to those who would otherwise freely
; ive. May I ask from you and j our family a
dear and emphatic expression of your wish
md preference may I add , determination
or the use of our executive committee. Very
espectfully yours , Wsi. R. GRACE ,
Vice-Pres't Grant Monument Association.
NEW YORK , Oct. 29. Dear Si. * : Your letter
if the IGth came during my absence ,
ind was received on my return from
Jranch. Riverside was selected by myself
ind my family as the burial place of my
msband , General Grant , first , because I be-
ieved New York was his preference. Sec-
md , it Is near the residence that 1 liDpe to
iccupy as long as I live , and where I will be
.ble to visit his resting place often.
have believed , and am now convinced , that
he tomb will be visite J by as many of his
ountrymen here as it would be at any other
ilace. Fourth. The offer of a park in New
rork was the first which observed and unre-
ervedly assented to the only condition im- in
osed by General Grant himself , namely , in
hat I should have a place by his side. I am , trh
Ir , very sincerely. h <
JULIA D. GRANT. re
'o Wm. R. Grace , Mayor or the City of New sc
York. laol
ol
olh
Alderman John Staples , P. 8. A. , ha h :
leen elected lord mayor of London. ai
ANOTHER GREAT GENERAL GONE.
Gen. Gco. Ji. McCleltan Dies Suddenly at JEHi
ZToijie in Hew Jerseil.
Gen. Georgo B. McClellan. ex-commander
ol the army of the United States , died
suddenly on the morning of the 29th at
Orange , N. J. , from exhaustion produced
by repeated shocks of neuralgia of the
heart. Though ho had completed his fifty-
ninth year , he had preserved not only
bouyant spirits but a buoyant , youthful
agility. Therefore , when he began , about
three weeks ago , to feel pains of the heart ,
neither he nor his medical man , Dr. Sew-
ard , of Orange , nor any of his family , re
garded it as serious. 'Ho and every one
else believed that the troublesome malady
was either gone for good or at least for a
long time. In that belief the general or
dered his carriage and drove to Orange , ac
companied by his only daughter. He saw
several gentlemen on business and made an
appointment with one of them for 11
o'clock the same day. He returned home
in excellent spirits , ate heartily at his meal
hours , and retired to rest. About 11
o'clock the pains returned and a mes
senger on horseback was dispatched
down lull for tho doctor , who came
back with tho least possible delay.
When he entered the bedroom.of the gen
eral he found his patient in extreme agony.
Paroxysms returned with a rhythmical
frequency that was alarming and the
homeopathic remedies which the skill of
the doctor suggested were no more eiiicient
than those which had boon supplied by the
intelligent affection of Gen. McClellan's
wife and daughter , who had ministered to
him unceasingly from the fir t alarm. For
four hours he suffered most excruciating
agony. About 3 o'clock there was a change.
The eyes of the patient began to grow
brighter and his face , that had been white
with pain , began to recover its usual ruddy
hue. He gave a long deep sigh of relief ,
smiled faintly and said : "I feel easy now ;
thank God , I have pulled through. " Then
he sank back upon tho pillow as if ex
hausted , closing his eyes. The doctor ,
who was watching his face with extreme
solicitude , saw unerring signs of approach
ing collapse , and whispered to Mrs. Mc
Clellan : "I fear he is dying. " It was but
too true. General McClellan raised himself
up on one hand , half opened his eyes , and
fell back dead.
George Brinton McClellan was born in
Philadelphia , Dec. 23,1820 , and was a son
of Dr. Georgo McClellan. He graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania in
1842 , and from West Point in 184G. leav
ing both institutions with distinction , his
commission from West Point being that ol
brevet second lieutenant of engineers. HiE
first actual service of note in the army
was during the Mexican war , and for his
dashing gallantry at the siege of Vera Cruz
and in the battle of Cerro Gordo , Con-
treras , Churnbusco , Molino del Roy , and
Cbapulptopec he received tho brevets oi
first lieutenant and captain. At the close
of the Mexican war and his brilliant share
therein ho returned to West Point. He re
mained there until 1831 , when ho was
iissigned to important duty in the con
struction of Ft. Delaware , and subsequently
in his engineering capacity , to an expedition
tor the purpose of exploring the sources ol
the Red River of the North. He was again
placed in charge of a largo undertaking in
the preliminary survey of the Northern
Pacific railr < a I. In 1855 he was promoted
to be captain , and that year was detailed
to Europe as a member of a military com
mission to visit the seat of war. As a re
sult of this very important mission he pre
pared an official repoit upon ' 'the Organi
sation of European Armies and Operations
in the Crimea , " which was published by
order of the government , and which , even
in those earlier days , whowcd remarkable
: oinprehension not only of military affairs ,
lint wonderful prescience and skill in the
inalysis of diplomatic inaneuvrcs , together
ivith a deep-thinkingobservjition nf human
lature. In 1857 he resigned from the
irmy and accepted the position nf chief
mgincor and vice-prcbident of the Illinois
Central railroad , which position lie cniitiu-
icd to fill until ho was chosen president of
, he St. Louis and Cincinnati railroad in
: he latter year. At the outbreak of the
: reat trouble between the north and smith ,
iow over , hit , really large qualities of soul
ind his phcnominal energy and reach oi
cleas first gained anything like commeiiHU-
ate scope. In 1SG1 his services were en-
isted by the governor of Ohio in oryaiiiz
ng the volunteers called for by the first
> roclamation , and he was given commune !
> f this department of the Ohio , and com-
nis&ioned major-general of the Ohio volun-
eers April 23 , 1861. May 14 following ,
he president appointed him a major-
; ener.'il of tho United States army and or-
lerid him to disperse the confederate force
iccupying and threatening to overrun West
ffrginia. By a movement displaying tin-
inest military tactics combined with cner-
etic _ action , he met and defeated the
nemy one of the most memorable of tho
iarly battles of the rebellion and July 14 ,
xactly one month after receipt of his
irders , reported his task accomplished
nd West Virginia cleared of disturbing
lements. For these notable services the
batiks of congress worn publicly tendered
Sin , and after tho great battle of IJull Run
c was specially summoned to Washington
o receive command ( July 25) ) of a division
omprising thedepnrtmunts of Washington
, nd Northeastern Virginia. This eminent
ecognition of his woith and ability as a
oldicr was followed three weeks later by
he still more honorable honor of beins
laced in command of the department of
he Potomac , and August 20 following be
- as still more flatteringly , though none the
; ss deservedly , given control of the army
f the Potomac.
The president sent the following telegram
f condolence to Mrs. McClellan :
"I am shocked by this news of your hiis-
and's death , and while I know how futile
re all efforts to console , I must assure you
f my deep sympathy in your great grief ,
nd express to you my own sense of afilic-
ion at the loss of so good a friend.
GROVEK CLEVELAND. "
The following executive order was also
isued :
EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , Oct.
9. The death of George B. McClellan , at
no time major-general commanding the
rmies of the United States , took place ai
n early hour this morning. As a mark
f public respect to the memory of this
istinguished soldier anJ citizen whose
lilitary ability and service virtues have
lied lustre upon thehistoryoihis country
is ordered by the president that the
ivtional Hag be displayed at half mast
pon the buildings of the executive depart-
cnt in this city until after the funeral
mil have taken place.DANIEL
DANIEL S. LAMONT ,
Private Secretary.
GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES.
.titters of Interest Touched Upon by Prest
News Gatherers.
The body of \ lola Hungerford was found
the Schuykill river at Reading , Pa. , after a
) dy of men had been engaged all morning in
agging the river. The young , lady , who
oved in gool society , disappeared after hav-
g acted stransely for about two weeks. She
formed an Intimate friend that she was
oubled about a love affair. She was always ,
TCtofore , of a cheerful disposition , and i
gnlar attendant at church ana Sunday
hooL The young man with whom she wsa
tcly keeping companv Is said to be the cause
her trouble. Mias Hangerford was 21 , of
mdsome figure and prepossessing appear-
ice , J ai
in the compilation of his annual report ,
Treasurer Jordan is preparing what he be
lieves will be a deadly assault upon the sil
ver dollor. lie has a number of clerks look
ing up tho cost of transportation and cart-
Ins for a period of years , and he will show
what an enormous expense It has been to
the country to maintain this money. The
fieures , It is said , count up a heavy total. He
will attempt to prove that the silver dollar
has not a place whatever in the monetary
world.
Richard Worrell.one of the crominentbotel-
keepers In Monmouth county , N. J. , com
mitted suicide Oct 26th at his hotsl at Haz-
letata. He placed his watch on the mantle
and as the hands pointed at 13 o'clock he shot
himself through the brain. The only reason
knowo for the act is Ill-health.
t
John Hamilton arrived at Baltimore as a
prisoner from Galveston. Tex. , where he was
arrested by detective Wm. B. Lyon , on a war
rant issued by United States Commissioner
Roger. The warrant charges Hamilton wiih
having conspired with Capt. Alfred Brother-
ton , and Mate Geo. W. Brown to sink the
brig O. B. Stillman , aboard which vessel he
was employed as cook. Hamilton la now
locked up at Central station. Brotherton
anJ Brown are lying In jail awaiting the ac
tion of the United States grand jury. The
crime with which the three men are charged
Is a capital one.
John Jeffreys , aged 29 , a noted desperado
who murdered his companion , Marion Hun
ter , at Calkoun , Ky. , about a month agoand
for whom a reward of $300 waa offered , waa
captured at Evansville , Ind. , by Capt Newltt ,
of the police force. Jeffreys Is now in jail
awaiting the action of the Kentucky authori
ties.
ties.Rev.
Rev. Lester Williams , who was struck by a
switch engine and knocked from Dry Bridge
last week , died at Springfield , Mass. He prac
ticed law at Knoxville. Tenn. , from 1816 to
1818 , and in the latter year was a Baptist
pr aher In Tennessee. In 1S65 he was su
perintendent of the colored refugees' home ,
Camp Nelson , Ky. , and was chaplain of the
Mississippi constitutional convention in 1S63.
He has been settled over several churches in
Massachusetts , also at Oswego and Fredonia ,
New York.
Tourists to Florida and the South are inter
ested in knowing the best aud pleasantesi
routes of travel for reaching that portion of
the couutry. We feel no hesitancy in rec
ommending the greatQueen & Crescent1
route to all tourists from the northwest.
Passengers ride from Cincinnati to Jack
sonville In In either the new e'egant
Mann Car ( buffet an 1 sleeping ) or" the Pull
man palace ' ( also buffet ) ; and beyond'Chatta-
oooga 'have the choice of two routes the
East Tennessee , Virginia & Georgia , and the
Western te Atlantic. The service from either
Cincinnati or Louisville to New Orleans Is
the finest in the whole South. From Cincin
nati the "Queen and Crescent" is the shortest
lino to New Orleans , as also to all points in
Florida , and through time proportionately
less than that of other lines.
A duel in which bth participants were
killed occurred at Fishomengo , InJIan Ter
ritory. An Indian policeman named Brown
and a Texas cowboy quarreled in a saloon.
They agreed to go outside In the presence of
un assembly of Indians and whites. Several
shots were exchanged. Both fell pierced
through the heart. The cowboy expired a
few minutes later.
Excitement in Canada over the fate of Kiel
continues to increase. The French elen.ent
are leaving no stone unturned toforcc a coin- ,
mutation of sentence. But Sir John McDonc
aid is said to be fully resolved on the execu
tion taking place on the llth of November.
Wm. J. Best was arested in Boston , charged
with embezzling § 70,000 , trust funds belonc-
inc to the estate of Francis Carrult. He
1 leaded not guilty , and in default of ? 2,50J
was committed to jail.
The citizens of Flndlay , Ohio , are excitedly
organizing to prepent the pipe line companies
from carrying off gas and oil. The farmers
ire also excited over the manner m which the
agents of the companies have secured the
right of way.
Henry Grow , the superintendent Qf archi
tects of the Mormon temple , has been ar-
icen eluding the officers for some time.
Che polygamists who have been discharged
rom tne penitentiary after serving their
icntences out , declare their Intention to live
vith their wives according to their religion ,
ind advise others to do likewise. It Is evi- n
lentthat serious trouble is ahead for the
; overnment on this matter.
Robert J. Cook , Treasurer of tbe Philadel-
> hia Press , was attacked by Stephen McPher-
; on. the colored janitor of the building , and
itruck on the head w ith a hatchet His skull
vas fractured. The iniured man , who it is
bought will die , was removed to a hospital
ind his assailant was captured. McPherson
s a large , muscular negro , and had Lecn cen-
; ured by Cook for allowing tUe pas to escape.
! t is thought that Cook struck McPherson
irst and that the latier then used the hatchet
rhe victim bad a national reputation as an
itblete , having been captain of the famous
xew of Yale College and the trainer of the
College's crew for several years. *
In the Walkup case at Emporla , Kansas ,
let 23th was spent in examining witnessps
in
or the defense , all of whom testified volun- tl
arily as to Walkuu's notoriously open and tltl
aily as ociation with lewd women , and to his tlP <
ab.ts of taking arsenic to reinvigorate hira- frm
elf. The fact of his having been several m
imes treated for private diseases was also es- oi . .
ablished.
I"
THE BALKAN TROUBLE. tli
tli
In Interview With the Jiulttarian Minister. di
St Petersburg dispatch : The Novoe Vre-
aya publishes an interview wihch its corres si
londent at Philippopolis had with M , Kar- sitli
oloff , the Bulgarian premier. Karaoloff de- in
ied that Bulgaria had any agreement with
England or Austria before the Boumelian
ebellion respecting the union of Bulgaria hr
nd Roumelia , and that they acted on their sii
\\n responsibility in bringing about the litBi
nion. "If there were any instigation in the Bi
natter , " said the Bulgarian minister , "it was as fn
Russia , whose consul general at Philippopolis Cc
rst agitated the union and hoped to start a CO
aper at Philippopolis , devoted to the cause sp
f the union , with Bulgarian money. When hi !
entered the ministry , believing the game al
angerious , I stopped the subs'dy of the Bui- ad
arian government tj the newspaper and also in
jrbade the meetings of the Unionists in Bui-
ne
aria. " The Prince reaffirmed the statement wl
lat Prince Alexander had notified Russia of ur
le Intention of Roumelia to unite with Bul- RO
iria and that Roumelia was willing to con- Ire
nue the Turkish suzerainty , but wojild not ea
: de such territory. In conclusion the Premier do an
ild : "If Turkey declares war we alone are
Die to raid Maccedonia in three days. AEu-
> pean war is none of our business and we
: e not alarmed at the armaments of Greece ne
i her army Is far from be.'ntj terrible. " de
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CHROJfKXES BY CABLE.
iK.
IRreellancous 3fatter of Interett Pertaining K.
Stead editor of the P D
The trial of Mr. ,
Mall Gazette , and other defendants In tht
Armstrong abduction case , began in Londoa ,
Oct 23d before Justice Lopes , at the central
criminal court A largo crowd assembled to
hear the trial The prisoners plead not guflty.
Sir Richard a Webster , attorney general ,
opened the case for the crown. His addres *
of Mr. Po
covered the same ground as that
land , who waa attorney for the crown at the
preliminary proceeding : Witnesses' testimo
ny so far fa merely arepetitlon of the 6yfdence
given at the preliminary cxamipatlon. Th
trial will probably last a week. The defend
ants are charged with misdemeanors In
stead of felony , so as to enable them io tes
tify in their own behalf and be liberated on
bafl dnrlnjr the progress of the triaL
Lori Randolph Churchill , secretary for IB-
dla , speaking at Birmingham admitted that
the conservatives were responsible for Gea-
eral Gordon's mission to Khartoum , but not
for his abandonment and death. He consid
ered that the war with Bnrmah must result
in the annexation of that country. He devo
ted a larjie part of his speech to upholding
the necessity of a good foreign policy as op
posed to a radical theory that a foreign policy
Is useless. Aside from this he vouchsafed
no exposition of the conservative programme ,
and his speech was in the main disappoint
ing.
ing.The
The speech of Emperor Francis Joseph ou
Oct. 21th ha shad a gloomy effect upon the
peor le In Hungary , where It is thought to
portend a continuance of the alliance , a.Ainst
which the lower chambers protested in 18&L
The reply cf thSpanish government to tin-
protest of Great Britain against thorrccnt *
outrage on the British consulate at Havana
was considered evasive and unsatisfactory In
oilicial circles in London.
Political correspondence says the porte has
effected a loan from the Ottoman bank of § 3-
ToO.OOO.
King Milan has Informed the re resenta-
tlves of the rowers that he Is willing to await
the decision cf Europe expressed by the con
ference now assembling , and pledces
himself to the maintenance of peace
if the "status quo" is restored.
Prince Alexander has received as
surances from the representativesofEngland ,
Italy and Austria that his deposition will be
resisted in the conference if he places himself
unreservedly in the hands of the rowers , on
the basis of a reconsideration of the clauses
af the treaty of Berlin , dealing with Eastern
Roumelia. Reinforcements are going from
Sofia to the Servian frontier.
Advices say the powers nre unable to agree
in a common basis , for the conference , and
inch of the sfcrnatories to the treaty of Berlin
inters the conference unfettered. The situa-
; ion in Bulgaria anJ S ; rvia is most j.rave.
ting Milan and Prince Alexander ate alike
I reateued by the party of action in each
lountry. The military clique in Servia is re-
olved on forcing the king into hostilities , no
natter what the conference may decide.
ihortof ylelJing the territory demands , Bul-
: aria will consent to nothing whatever under
he union. The revolutionary committe insist
n maintaining the faits accomplis , and are
agcr for war with Servia.
Owen Denny , formerly American consul
; eneral at Shanghai , has been appointed for-
iiin adviser to the king of Corea , toreplace
lerr Molendorff , formerly German consul at
'ien Tsin. vi
A flotilla with troops , heavy guns , etc. , has S
eft Rangoon for the Burmese Jrontier. A
teamcr carrying fugitive Europeans to that
lace has been fired uron by Burmese troops
rom King Thebaw's rorts.
THE PRESIDENT CALZS SALT.
SeeJers Monopolising too Much of Uta
Time A New Departure Inaitijunited.
ATTENTION , OFFICE SEEKERS.
The following has been promulgated by
he president for tho information of the
ublic :
EXECUTIVE MANSION , October 27. For
early eight months a large share of tha
ime of the presidsnt has been devoted to
lie hearing of applications for office and
etermination of appointments. Much of
ic time thus spent has undoubtedly sub-
jrved the public good , some of it has been
xcrificed to the indulgence of the people in
icir national insistence upon useless inter-
lews , and some of it hasbeen unjustifiably
asted. The public welfare and due re-
ird for the claims of those whose interests
i the government areentirelydisconnected
ith officeholdirg imperatively demand
iiat in the future the time of the president
liould bo differently occupied , and he con-
dently expects that all good citizens will
cquie&ce in the propriety and reasonablo-
ess of the following plan adopted to that
id :
After the first day of November the presi-
; nt will decline to grant interviews to
lose seeking public positions or their ad-
ocates. Mondays , Wednesdays and Fri-
ays during that month from 10 to 11
clock in the morning he will receive such
jrsons as call on strictly public business ,
id on the samo days at 1:30 in the after-
aon he will meet those who merely desire
> pay their respects. On all other days
id times during that month he will re
ive only cabinet officers and heads of do-
irtmcntd.
SOUTHERN CONSULS TO REMAIN.
It is understood Secretary Bayard cloe3
> t contemplate making any changes in
ie consular service in countries south of
ie United States for some time. It is the
ilicy of the state department to cultivate
it-ndly relations with Mexico , the South
id Central American people , and extend
ir commercial intercourse in that direc-
[ > n. For this reason the consuls who
ive already secured tho good will of the
ople with whom they have to deal , it is
ought , will be of greater service just now
an would new men who would have to
vote much of their time at first making
quaintances and winning confidence. The
lay in filling consular and diplomatic po-
: ions is due no more to a desire to respect
e tenure of office law than to wish to
aintain high standing of tho service.
TOR ALABAMA CLAIMS.
An unusual amount of public attention
.s been directed to the court of commis-
> ners of Alabama claims. That tribunal
.s just received sin answer from Secretary
lyard to the inquiry of two months
o. The secretary recedes somewhat
> m the extreme position at first taken by /
introller Durham , and says that the
urt shall be fairly treated. Expenses for
ecial counsel willnotbe allowed hereafter
t all expenses of that nature will probi
ly be paid to tho
up date of the summer
journment of the court. U he attorneys
: erested in the pending claims are still
nishing the money § 300 per week
cessary to pay the court employes
lose salaries were shut off by the treas-
y officials. Walker Elaine , associate
vernment counsel , is drawing his salary
im these sources and is making efforts to.
rn the money. The court is working day
d maht and will positively clear tha *
cket by the end of December.
Dr Samson had but possessed the-
rewdness of a bald-headed man he
ver would have sufiered shame and
feat by having his hair cut.