< W ) J. uili.-tft I TT T ? df OMAHA DAILY BEE. THIRTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA , NEB. FRIDAY MORNING , DECEMBER 28 , 1883. NO 103. THE EVIL DOERS. Seine Sensational Testimony in the Emma Bond Oaso. An Auditor Discovers a Tax- Swindling System , A Murder for a Paltry Sum of Money. Two Murderers Eiponinc for the Bopoi CHIME AND omailNAIjS. THE EMMA BOND TUIAL. ST. Louis , December 27.A Post' Dis patch , Hillsboro special says : When court opened this morning , Judge Thorn ton of the defense announced that either this. afternoon or to-morrow ho would have Miss Bond put on 1'i the stand again. John 0. Mont * gomery then " "testified _ ho waa 33 years old , married , had a wife and throe children , loft the house between 10 and 11 o'clock on the day of tlio outrage .with hia wife and family , visited Mrs. PottuB and took dinner there. Leo Pottus and Clomonti were present , loft directly after dinner , wont to his father's house three hundred yards distant , mot Sherman Yanokoy there , left his father's house at 1 o'clock wont down the road past the school house saw little Charley Masters there. Didn't stop there ; wont to Joseph Yonkors. Mr. Yonkera and his sister wont down to the field with Josopli and George Yonkers to look at a now binder ; then wont to the cornfield , talked awhile about Guitoau , who was hung the day before. Mot John Margert there then all four of us wont to the wheat Hold ; looked at the cradle , tried to work it but couldn't. Was in the field proba bly an hour and a half , then all wont to the house of Margort , and George Yon kor and wife ; then left for homo and ] started for Mrs. Pottus' house , sun nbout an hour high ; mot Shor wan , Yonkers and my father h the road ; on arriving at Mrs. Pottus house saw Lee Pottus'mowing ; Clement was there ; got out my team , took aup per , left with wife and children for home sun then down. Saw John Campbell as I was driving homo ; also John Margcr on horseback , got home at dusk , put U ] horses , wont to the house ; shortly afto wont to bed ; was never in the sclioo house loft till next morning ; never pore my too nail there. The morning afto the outrage was in the loft with others some ono asked mo to cut a pipco of wooc from the hole inside the boardine ; cut ou a piece of board ; am. right-handed ; cat use knife easily with right hand ; hac nothing whatever to do with the ontrag or attempted outrage of Emma Bono stopped at the school house three-quo ] tors of an hour ; big crowd there ; lei with my cousin , wont south to Grpv City ; big crowd there also , and excite ment about the rape ; stayed at Grov City till four in the afternoon , then wen home. I was arrested after dark ; , " ' brown ted ; and a little white stripe ; had worn it a the week ; wore boots ; didn't wear shoe ' that summer ; were overalls of dull atee color. When I saw dementi and Le Pettus on the day of the outrage hot 'vroro without coata and both voro dar colored ahirts. Montgomery gave an a < count of his actions subsequent te hi arrest and then answered a number o questions put by his counsel for the pu : pose of getting denials and oxplanatioi of little circumstances upon which th prosecution placed value. Among othi. things Montgomery denied that ho eve told Hoinlein or Swick to tellLeePottu to stand firm and give nothing away , o that ho said when told that Pettus an 'Clomenti had bpo'n arrested and th former made a written confession impl eating him : "My God what shall I do didn't remember saying any such thing never told the crowd that people were i too great a hurry to arrest mo , that they had waited awhile they would hav got something out of mo but the wouldn't got anything now. The examination lasted an hour and half. Instead of being a narrative was iu the form of short answers questions. Joseph Yonkor was the next witnos Ho testified that John C. Montgomorj was at his house most of the aftornoo on the day of the outrage and fully co roborated Montgomery's testimony as ' how the afternoon was spout. Ho wa cross-examined very closely aa to all th circumatancea of the day and proved the best witness the defence has yet had , his evidence being very clear and convinc ing. George Yonker testified to the same facts as his brother Joseph did. Ho was minutely cross-examined but his evidence was unshaken. Both were good witnesses and the alibi for Montgomery , so far , is very strong. Mrs. Sarah Yonkors. wife of George Yonkers , then testified and her evidence created a great sensation. She testified to being at the house of Joseph Yonkers with her husband , and to events , cir cumstances , etc. , given by the Yonkor brothers and John C. Montgomery , but insisted that it was on the day following the outrage and not on the day of the outrage. She said she first hoard of the outrage from Mrs. Jos. Yonkers on the day of her visit , that she had not boon there or soon Mra. Yonkera for some days before , and did not BOO her for three weeks afterwards. Witness was very closely qu&stionod by the counsel , but she firmly maintained it was the day after the outrage that she and her hus band were at Yonkers1 , and on which the events occurred as testified to by Mont gomorj' and tlio Yonkers brothers. This evidence created a marked sensation , and is regarded by some as destroying Montgomery's alibi. Some express the belief that the alibi in his case has boon constructed on his actions on some day other than that on which the outrage was committed , The next witness waa Mrs. . Joseph Yonkers who tostiGod substantially the same as the Yonkers brothers and Mont gomery , os to what occurred at her hoiiEo and giving Thursday as the day , aaid it was that day she told Mrs. George Yonkers of the outrage. She also testified that Mrs. George Yonkers was at her house Friday and brought her children to go to a picnic. Miss Laura Yonkers , daughter of the proceeding witness , testified to about the same thing as her mother , but on cross- examination failed to remember several things she stated at the preliminary trial. John Morgan testified to being at Joe < Yonkors' Thursday afternoon , Juno 28 ; saw Montgomery there and was in the wheat field with him and the Yonkor brothers. Sherman Yonckoy testified that ho passed Joe Yonkors' house between 5 and U o'clock Thursday afternoon and saw John S. Montgomery there. James Kline testified to the anmo thing and John Campbell testified to meeting John 0. Montgomery and fam ily in n wagon on the road going homo about Sundown. The Republican's liillaboro special says : Mr. Bond has received numerous loiters the past four weeks from various parts of the country in which the writers offered to furnish any number of men to lynch Montgomery , Pottus and Clomonti. Ono letter postmarked al n town near Gftlvoston , Texas , states that the writer is chief of an organizotion for the pun ishment of crime , and that ho would bo pleased to furnish forty mon on short notice to hang the three defendants if Bond desired. Bond has destroyed all these letters , and gives no countenance whatever to such communications. THllKE YRAKH TO URFLKUT IN. Lout.sviu.Kt December 27. George W. Levi , ox-chief of , the Louisville fire department , was to-day conyictod pf defaulting - faulting the city of its rovo'uuo while ho was in the tax department and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. AND HKl'UIBVKD. HELENA , Mont. , December 27. A Bozeman special to The Herald says : John 0. Clark was hanged in the jail yard at 11:30 : this morning for the mur der of Thomas Ilpgors in Juno last. Ho died protesting his innocence. Frank Young , who was to- have been hung to-day , has boon reprieved for GO days by President Arthur , to allow hia case to conia before the supreme court. MUUDF.Il AND HUIOIDK. AI.IIANY , N. Y. , December 27. Pri vate dispatches from Hanover , Germany , atato that Colonel Henry II. . Ilathbpno killed hia wife and committed suicide. They were connected with thomost prom inent families hero. She was the daugh ter of ox-United Stoles Senator Harris , IIUKU1IAHD AnHESTKD. SAN FUANCISCO , December 27. Fred erick Burchard , who testified yesterday in the Hill-Sharon divorce case "that in April , 1881 , ho became engaged to bo married to Miss Hill , " was this afternoon arrostnd on complaint of Miss Hil' charged with perjury. Burchard was released < leased on bonds. A TAX SWINDLE. CINCINNATI , December 27. County Auditor Browstor says ho has discovered a million dollars fraudulent increase evaluations valuations of property for taxes on th books , made for the purpose of getting ; fpo for procuring the refunding of excessive sivo taxes. Ho says this has been don since 1883. AFIKIt A BIGAMIST. NEW YOUK , December 27. Two Peru Indiana , detectives arrived to-day with'i requisition for Walter E. Kidder , arrest ed recently charged with bigamy ' " * CIIOKED TO DEATH. CINCINNATI , O.- December 27. Th body of an unknown man , sup posed to bo fifty years old was found among the willows aloii ] a little stream near Cumminsvillo , in th suburbs of the city. There was a rep about the nock , and the tongue protrude aa if choked to death. There were mark of blows on the top of the head. The body has been since identified a that of Win. H. Kirk , a dealer in sam who lately has boon dealing in horses Ho lived on Elizabeth street , this city , and was undoubtedly murdered fo ; money. His wife aays _ ho left hem < Monday to go to Chovoit to bu/a'horso He had $200 with him. She had no since heard from him. When the nowi of the finding the body was published she visited the morgue and found it wa her husband. There is nothing mon than a suspicion as to the murderer No arrests have been made. John Noill , a teamster , having a stabl adjoining Kirk's waa arrested on susp cion as the murderer and a largo amoun pf money was found ou him , correspond ing with that taken away by. Kirk Kirk's cap and some other articles wori found hidden in the , kindling wood 01 Noill'a promises. TO BE HANDED. EMPOKIA , Kas. , December 27. Roc and Pearce , murderers of W. IJ. McMi" Ian , vrorp sentenced to-day to remain i the penitentiary . ono year and at sue time thereafter aa the governor shall set they filial I bo liangod within the prison walls. Corn ICoport. WASHINGTON , December 27. Profea- ser J. H. Dodge , statistician of the agri cultural department , lias just completed a preliminary estimate of the principal crops for 1883. It shows that potatoes , all roots and oats have grown unusually luxuriant. Of corn the professor says the avorrgo yield par aero the present year ia nearly 23 busnols , which in 12 per cent less than the average yield for a series of years , or 1,551,000,835 bushels stands for the quantity of the present crop. It is doubtless true that the qual ity of corn in the north parallel is 40 per cent worse than for many years. As n whole the corn grown in 1883 in Michi gan , Wisconsin , Minnesota and Dakota , added to half that grown in Ohio , Indi ana , Illinois , Iowa and Nebraska , would inako 400,000,000 , only one-fourth of the whole crop , and that a possible depreci ation of 40 per cent in all of it would bo equivalent to a 10 per cent reduction in the value of the entire crop. One feature of the corn growing in 1883 should prove a lesson to the farmers of the country about growing seed corn in the west. Nebraska seed in Illinois has demon strated the folly of attempting to accli mate southern maize in more northern districts. Much loss from frost would have been avoided had seed boon care fully selected from the best corn grown in the immudiuto neighborhood. The wheat crop is slightly in excess of 400- 000,000 bushels , and the cotton product , as shown by the December roturusabout 0,000,000 bales. There will bo another investigation after tlio close of the cotton harvest and shipments of a largo portion of the crop , when the precise results will bo approached more nearly titan is possible now THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. A Governor Who Ought to bo Modalod , The Doorcase in Internal Bovonue Oollootibns , Testimony Given in the JProtous Investigation , ' ' . Mr. Morrison's ' Views on Tariff Legislation i CAl'lTAtj NOTES. THK mOTKUS INQUIRY. WASHINGTON , Docolnbor 27. ThoPro- tous inquiry was resumed to-day. Oapt. Richard Pike , master of the government atoamor Proteus , testified : There was no disagreement between himself and Lieut. Garlington. Ho expressed the opinion that ono or two moro boat-loads of supplies could bo gotten off the ice to Capo Sabine after tlio wreck , and sug gested it to Garlington , but the latter de clined to lot his boats co. In regard to leaving Payer harbor , Pike said that ho told Garlington the water ho saw north was "no good. " Ho ( Pike ) was not ready to go. Ho wanted coal in the bunkers. Thereupon Garlington said : "I can BOO open water and want to go. You shall have my mon to help you in the bunkers. " Upon that witness said ho would go and try it. Liout. Col. Wolla was called and 11 ally contradicted the evidence given by Pike. Ho said ho hoard no pxprcssion of opin ion on the part of Pike that the water was " 110 good. " lleforring to Piko'a statement that moro supplies could have boon saved , but Garlington objected to letting his boats go , witness ( Wells ) said that when they were on the ice lloo ono of Piko's boatn , which had boon to the shore , came along side , and Pike , with ono of his officers , clambered over into the opening of broken ice , got into hia boat and pushed it off , leaving some of his own crow on the Hoc. The men thus abandoned cursed Pike for leaving them. Ho spoke of keeping one of Garlington's boats and keeping along the east coast , to the south , not going ; ashore at all at Capo Sabino. When Pike afterwards , at Capo Sabine , pro posed to Garlington to take ono of his boats and got moro stores off thoicofiooo , witness , remembering the throats ant mutinous proposals of tlio Protons crow , advised Garlington not to allow the boat : to go with the Proteus crow , feeling i unsafe to trust them. Ho said the stores which it was proposed to save , were some ho ( Wells ) had thrown out of his boat to inako room for the mon Pike abandoned In response to Pike's proposition , six o Garlington's men and as many of thi Proteus crow manned two of the Proteus boats and brought in a portion of tli supplies. Witness estimated the amoun of supplies saved from the wreck of _ th Proteus , loft in cache at Capo Sabine at 700 full rationii , and clothing fo twenty-throe men for , six months. MTZUEHALD H SUITM. N. W. Fitzgerald , the suspended pen aion attorney , appeared in court to-da. in the suit of Cohen & Sons , against him but , on account of the sickness of counsel sol , the case wont over. Immediate after , C. W. Grant , attorney for Fit ! gerald , wont into the clork's office , ant by direction of his client , dismissed th suits recently brought against the SI Louis Globe-Democrat for libel and $50. 000 damages , and against General H. F Boyington and the Cincinnati Commor cial-Gazotto for libel and $100,000 dam ages , against Fulton , of Indianapolis , fo slander and § 20,000 damages , and agains Charles T. Murray , , of St. Louis , fo libel and § 50,000. Hardly had thos caaes boon so entered , when A. A. Lip scomb filed a suit against Fitzgerald t recover $2,500 on an Indiana judgemon fifVE HIS ! A MKDAL. N. C. Irwin , governor of Idaho torr tory , troturned to the treasurer of th United States a draft for $050 sent hii as salary for the quarter ended Octobo 30th , and declined also to receive th salary duo him for the quarter ondin December 31st. Ho states that ho ha boon unable to attend to the duties of tl office since July,1st , and docs not coi aider that ho can conscientiously acco ] pay. HKVKNUE COLLECTIONS. For the first five months of the prosen fiscal year the total internal revenue co lections were $51,27',438 ' , being ? 11 . ' (43,071 ( loaa than for the corresponding period of last year. In spirits the total increase in collections is $2,074,771 ; total docrcaso in the collection of tax on tobacco , $0,101,007 ; from banks and bankers , 81,008,202 ; miscellaneous taxes , $3,05i,231. ( MUH , UOSEtMANH1 I'UNKltAL. The funeral of Mrs. General Ilosocrans took place at St. Aloysius church. A requiem mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Cusain. Nearly all the members of congress now in Washington were present with their families. The casket was covered with flowers. The remains wore p aced in a vault at Alt , Olivet cem etery. A < ! I.BKKHUir. Morrison expect * to appoint Henry Talbot , Jr. , of Illinois , clerk of the waya and moans committee. TAIIIKF LEOIBLATION. The Post will contain to-morrow an interview with Mr. Morrison , chairman of the ways and means committee , in which ho says the committee will report a bill to inako a pretty general reduction in existing duties , and that in arranging the provisions of the bill the committee will look to the possibility of preparing a measure that can pass congress , but whether or not the bill can got through the liouso without being amended so as to dostrov its usefulness is a matter of mcro conjecture. Mr. MorriKon said ho was not in fnvpr of disturbing the tax on whisky and tobacco , Work wild Pm'Hiiunu , December 27. OQlcials of the local miners' organization pronounce - nounco the report that they intended to strike on the first of the year with 20,000 miners of West Moroland , Char , field , Bedford and Huntington counties , absurd. Tlioy say there are not that irmny miners in the district and the men are not in condition to strike as they have hnd but little work and have scarce ly money enough ahead to buy two weeks provisions. The amalgamated union minors only organized last summer and are too poor to stand such n strike. The miners of the Connollsvillo coke regions mot at Scottdalo to-day and after passing a series of resolutions denouncing Hunga rian sort labor , appointed a committee to prepare n petition to congress requesting the pftsiftgo of some restrictive law upon their wholesaleimportation. . The 3,000 employes of the National Tube Works company , of Koosport , decided - cidod to-night to accept a reduction of 12 J to 25 per cent on January 1st. The mills will probably continue operations all winter. Ohio liltiuor Men. COLUMIIUH , December 27. The state convention of liquor dealers assembled to-day , with delegates from aU the county associations , and organized with William Backus , of Cleveland , as chairman. The object is mutual relief and protection , with a view to securing desired legislation. Bfcckua , as permanent chairman , made a radical speech , demanding the repeal of the obnoxious legislation passed by the last legislature , and full protection of the tratlio free from all tax Meas ures were taken for uniting .brewers , dis tillers , wholesale. and rotaitdbalors , all in ono perfect atato organization , with aux iliaries in each county to begin an aggres sive campaign for the fullest rights and personal rights. HAIliROAl ) MATTKUS. ( iouM ) AND THI : i. UOAIW. NRW YOKK , December 27. Jay Gould has arranged with the Mercantile Trust company to purchase from the Manhattan Railway company the lirat preferred stock holders1 dividend , payabloi January 2nd , on assignment of their claims , ac- > mpaniod also by an assignment of their aims to n dividend from the Now York lovatcd railway company for a like .mount in case the , agreement between lie elevated railroad 'companies should o adjudged invalid' . FAILED TO OON.Sr.CT. Pirrsiiuuo. December 27. Nogotia- ona looking to the lease of the Pitts- -urg & Western railroad to the Jowott interests , it is stated positively by the tockholdora of the former , have fallen Jirough and that if the Pittaburg Ai Voatorn ia leased at all the B. it 0. will o the lessee. I NEW OULKANH , "December 27 The rut train crossed Atchafalaya bridge on lie Texas Pacific railroad December 2Gth. 'ho ' structuro'is nowcomplotodand trains , re crossing it regularly. The bridge ia ,045 foot long and cost half a million. llufllncss Unfortunates. PICOVIDKNUE , December 27. Follow- ng is a statement of A. D. Smith & Co. 'a paporj hold by Providence banks : American National bank $175,000 , Na- .ional Bank of Commerce $105,000 , Poo- lie's Saving bank $10,700 , other banks if Providence $2)5,000 ! ) ; total amount of , paper hold by these banks $707,000. GnicAoo , Docombur 27. 0. A. Cou- tant & : Co. , fane 'Hmgoods and notions , have failed , liabilities $ l0l000rasaota , ' retail value , $50,000. NEW YOKK , December 27. The num ber of 'schedules of assignments filed in ; his city in 1883 was 343. The liabili- ics were $20,857,853 , actual aasoto ! ! ) ,374,451. BOSTON , December 27. In the in- lolvonoy case of Frank O. Nash , of iVoymouth , the liabilitiea ore $150,000 , assets $82,000. BOSTON' , December 27. 0. H. Ward , [ > oot and shoo manufacturer , who failed 'or $1,500.000 hat summer , has mort- ; aged his entire property for the benefit if the creditors. EAST WKYMOUTH , Mass. , December 27. Dizer t f'o. , boot and shoo manufac turers , have decided to stop business rather than accede to the demands of the itriking losters. Nearly 400 workmen will bo thrown out of work. A lirllllant Ilnccplion. DETJIOIT , Mich. , December 27. A re ception was given at the elegant rooms of the Detroit club this evening to Chief Justice Benjamin F. Graves , of the an- promo court , who retires voluntarily from the bench Monday noxt. The re ception , which was participated in by leading members of the bar from nil parts of the state and many judges of the circuit and municipal courts , waa a very brilliant affair. During the evening a brief testimonial address , beautifully on- gtavod on parchment and signed by about fifty loading lawyers of the state , wan presented Judge Graves , with a fitting address by Hon. G. Y. N. Lathrop , of this city. Judge Craves ! has been on the supreme bench fifteen years , and was on the circuit bench before his promotion twelve years. Till ) IJlHllOD'H Wlf < ! . DKNVBH , December 27. The marriage of the eminent Methodist divine , Bishop Henry W. Warren , of Georgia , and Mrs. Elix-aboili S. Hill' , of this city , was cele brated at the Evans Memorial church at noon to-day , lit. llov. Bishop Simpson , of Philadelphia , officiating. The recep tion at the palutiil residence of the bride was a very elaborate affair. Mrs. Iliff is a lady of rare culture and possessed of a princely fortune , and is widely known for her charity and liberality to the poor. The bishop and Mrs. Warren leave to night on a trip to Now and Old Mexico and Cuba. Ai-lluir Auulu OfT. WAHIIINOTON , D. C. , December 27. The president loft Washington last night for Now York for the purpose pf attend ing to private business and also to attend the reception given this afternoon by Stophoii B. French. Ho will probably return to Washington to-morrow. NKW YOHK , December 27. President Arthur was in town to-day and attended a reception at the house of Charles E. Miller. It was reported that ho would return to Washington to-night. AUltlUOHO IlljIlllUtlUII , SYIUCUHK , N. Y. , December 27.-"I the matter of the Now York ( Jlucoio company against the American Glucose ' company and' 0. J. Hamilton ot al. a motion for an injunction to re-strain de fendants from using a patented process invented by plaintiff , was granted. The injunction utlectu nine of the largest glucose > coso manufacture in the United States , \ FROM FOREIGN LANDS. The Bloody Eiots in Now Found- laud Not Yet Quelled , A Prospect of Still Moro Desperate ate Fighting , El Mahdi Loses Courage and Pre pares for the Worst , The Dynamiters Eoviving Their System of Warfare , GKNKHAIi FOUKIGN NKW8. T1IK NKWKOUNDI.INU IUOTH. ST. Joiuvs , N. F. , December 27. Ad vices from Harbor Grace atato that the Orange procession yesterday vrhilo pass ing Snijjshoad , waa fired on bytho crowd. ' At first the Orangemen thought the llring was from powder guns carried by their friends , until they saw their mon fall , Four men were killed , two Orange men and two Roman Catholics , eight are reported mortally and eighteen to twenty slightly wounded. Head Constable Doyle is among the wounded. There is a lull in the outbreak at Grace Harbor , but the neighboring town of Carbonoar is in a atato of wildcat fronsty. Over 1,000 men are parading the streets and preparing to march to Harbor Grace. Crowds are hurrying up from the whole extent of the north shore of Conception bay to the sceuo of the disturbance. All business places are closed and most pri vate dwellings are protected by bara and bolls. The police dispatched from St. Johns reached Harbor Grace last night. If thojiot breaks out anew the law otli- cora will bo po\yorlosa to protect life and property. It ia rumored that the gov ernment has cabled Halifax for troops and war ships. If the Carbonoar con- "ngont marches to Harbor Grace the iault will bo terrible to contemplate. AN AI1HOOATKH TllKATY. MADKID , December 27. A decree is azottod abrogating Article 5 of the do roe of March,12 , 1808 , whereby goods : om the United States pay u duty in uba iis if they had been brought in for- ign ships , oven when arriving under the panish ilag. The decree becomes opera ivo thirty days after publication by the panish consuls in their respective locali- us. CHINAMEN NOT WANTED. TOUONTO , December 27. The Trades' ongress unanimously resolved that the uturo welfare of the working people of 10 dominion requires the prohibition of 10 importation of Chinese labor. THE C'ZAll IS 1IBTTKU. ST. PinT.jwituun , December 27. The oalth of the czar is improving and the iains and inflammation caused by hia re : ont accident are rapidly subsiding. A MONEY rilNALTV. PAIUS , December 27. The chamber f deputies discussed the bill granting ; rodit of 2,000,000 francs for the proposed x > Umiztion"bfAlgor . * * Ai- , v. The National and Temps ( newspapers' ) oth state that Franco will exact sonv ocurity for the duo discharge of tin ecuniary responsibility incurred b China's aggressive attitude in connoctioi ivitli the Tonquin question. COUKIIEI'H > IOVJMKNTH. : PAULS , December 27. It is roporto ; hat the government has tolegraphec Admiral Courbot , urging him to follow up hia victory at Sontay with the utmpa1 promptness and energy compatible will prudence. It is reported that Admira Courbot will make an attack upoi Horlioa before inarching against Bac ninh. KI.KK1NO Till' < JUAKK. . Bohemia , December 27. A so ore shock of earthquake waa felt hero causing the inhabitants to lloo to th leighboring fields. HAVANA'H iiKAT.ni. HAVANA , December 27. The sanitar ; r condition of Havana is improving. On ) , en deaths from yellow fever occurre j during the week ended yesterday. Th < 3 cases are scattered among the populatio i and not confined to shipping and military , iospitala as they are usually. THE PAUSE niorilKT ALAllMED. CAIUO , December 27. Ono thousan throe hundred troops have arrived Khartoum from Fashoda. They mot n resistance on the way. The garrison Khartoum now numbers 4,000. A foinal slave captured by El Mahdi after slayin tlio Kabobish chief , liar master , rocontl escaped from El Oheid and reports I Mahdi in great fear and that ho has BOH his family to a place of safety. The noigli boring tribes refused to help him. A emissary of El Mahdi was arrentod ii Minich , forty miles above Cairo. H . declared it was his intention to procoo * to Cairo and Mecca. AN OVKUDUK HTKAMKll. LIVERPOOL , December 27. Some anxiety ioty is felt regarding the steamer Celtic , which is overdue , The Coltio sailed from Now York December 15 for Liver- pool. Hl'ANIHIl 1'DI.ITIL'H. MAHIIID , December 27. At the cab inet council the minmtors explained the political situation to King Alfonso , and expressed their fears that an agreement between the ; ninisterialista and support- era of Sagaatn is impossible. HI : WAH HII.KNT. BRKI.IN , December 27. It in euid that during tlio visit of the crown prince to the pope the latter repeatedly referred to questions concerning the church , but the prince declined to commit himself on that subject. lU'NAMITKHH IN 1II11TAIK , LONDON , December 27. There is n revival of attempts to destroy life and property by explosives. Besides the explosion ut Birkonhcad on the night of the 25th , a dynamite cartridge was ex ploded in Barrack street , Strabane , county Tyrone , Ireland , yesterday , de stroying the roof of u house , A box of explosives and fuse were found and attached , on the track of the Great Wes tern railroad near Axminuter , BBLI.IUK1IK.ST fcTODKNTH. PAUIH , December 27. Two hundred students , fooling offended by nn article in the communist journal , Cri du Pouple , besieged the oflico yesterday evening and demanded retraction. The editor ru- fused , and the students dispersed , but will moot to-night to determine what course to pursue. HOGS AUHOAD. TUB KRKNCH I'UOHIIUTION. PAUIH , December 27. The government has decided to prohibit the importation of American salted moats until the chain , bora have pronounced upon the bill which the minister of commerce will in troduce at the beginning of next session. The prohibition will not apply to the ports of Havre , Nantes and Bordeaux , wherehoweverarrivals will bo subjected to rigid scrutiny , the chamber of com merce to boar the cost of inspection. IIUUT'8 FAME STATEMENT. CIIIOAUO , December 27. The state ment made by M. Paul Bert , contained iu a Paris dispatch published this morn- intj , in which no professes to quote from tlio report of Dr. A J. Dotmars , of tlio United States bureau of aqricultnro to the olfoct that diseased and dying hoga passed through the stock yards at Chica go daily , and were sold cheap and ship ped to Bordeaux and Havre , has drawn out a letter ot protest from Dctmars. Ho declares the statement of M. Bert not only a perversion of facts , but a falsehood , In his official reports to the commissioner of agriculture are contain ed all ho has had to oiler concerning the transportation of diseased or dead hogs and there ho simply called attention to their transportation to rendering tanks entirely distant from the packing houses , as affording moans of spreading hog cholera prevailing in 1878 and 187 ! ) , Dr. Dotmars declares the regulations of the Chicago stock yards are such as to ren der it absolutely impossible that dead hogs should bo smuggled into them , and should any animal die in the yards , it is at once delivered to a apap grease render ing establishment , outside the yards , and cannot possibly got into the paoldnp house. Dr. Dotmras says , that during the last four months ho has examined fully 40,000 hogs without discovering the slightest trace of disease , on ho certainly would if any had oxiated. During the last two years very little swine plague lias existed anywhere , and , as far as ho lias been able to learn , no diseased hogs liave been shipped , nearly all small ren dering tanks having boon closed , hia ex posures five years ago having contributed largely to that result. Dotmars declares Bert must bo n true demagogue , other- he would not resort to falsehood to please lim constituents. A Sound Principle. Nisw YuiiK , December 27. Aboul forty professors of modern languages from the principal institutions of learning in the country convened at Columbia college , with n view to establishing an association to promote the study of modern orn languages in American colleges President Carter , of Williams , was chosoi chairman. A committee was appointee to draw up a plan fora permanent organ ization. The afternoon was spent in the discussion of a resolution to the ollpc that it was the dontimont of the mooting ihat no college should grant the dogro B. A. to a student who could not root with facility French and Gorman. Tlio TcauhorH of lown. DBA MoiKH/Ja. , Docoinbort27 , AtUi 'second T'day's f p"roooedirig'bftKeMoW ; State Teachers' association , tlio attendance anco was largely increased , numborin over 400. The work of the day was don in three sections , college department graded school department , work am county superintendents section. Interesting osting papers on different phases of edu catiomu work woroj presented. In th evening , the annual address of Presidon Klinofoltcr was delivered and the annua lecture before the association was give byll. A. Burroll , editor of The Wash ington PrcsH. Mr. Snblii'a Denial. MINNEAPOLIS Minn. , December 27. Senator D. M. Sabin , recently olecto chairman of the national republica central committee , arrived home to-daw In n letter to The Tribune the senate explicitly denies the authenticity of contly published interviews wherein 1 is represented as using disparaging lai guago in reference to prominent ropubli cans throughout the country , especially Now York. Ho utterly repudiates the language in such reputed interviews. BoBtoii CranlCH , BOSTON , December 27. A mass moot , ing waa hold in Tremont temple to-day and considered the constitutional prohi bition of the manufacture and sale of liquor. About two hundred persons were present. , The case of Ilev. William Mitchell , the clergyman arrested for stealing a book from a store , hus boon dismissed , Ho is now in a private asylum. Stamping Tun Hark. Niw : YOUK , December 27. Tlio Turf , Field and Farm says : Madison Square garden i engaged for a six days race , for which Charles Itowell and Alderman Fitzgerald have already signed articles i , at a rent pf $5,000. The start takes place at midnight February 24th , the stakes being $500 a sido. Tlio Ijost Charley MuCoiuaa. , WAHHINOION , D. 0. , December 27. Lioutenant-Gonoral Sheridan reooived a telegram from Major-general Pppo , at Fort Leavonworth , Kas. , saying ho thought the white buy Charley McCo- mas is with a band of Ohiricahua In dians daily expected to roach San Carlos agency , Uophoolcu' Will. BOSTON , December 27. The will of Professor Sophocles , after several private bequests , gives the rest of the estate tc Harvard college as a permanent fund , to be known as the "Oonstantinua" fundin memory of an uncle of the deceased. Against Clionp Imlmr. RKADINO , Pa. , December 27. A pot' ' tion requesting congress to prevent lion importation of foreign laborers under con tracts made abroad has received many signatures of workingmon. Hulled Out. KANHAH OITV , December 27. Orth atoin was released on S7f > 00 bail to-day Tlio now trial , for the lulling of Goorgi Fredericks , ia bet for January 10th. I'M Mnlull'H Mnvonioiilu , HUAKIM , Deo. 27 , It ia atatoo tha rebels are menacing lUnuyoh. Egyptiai gunboat embarks garrison and inhabit ants. ON SEA AND LAND. Details of the Loss of the Steamer Plantyn , 1 * Horrible Deaths Mot tiy Colorado Minors , Condition of the Frozen Japanese Sailors , General Grant Sustains ft Severe Injury , OP TUB SKA. WHItl'R OP THE LONDON , December 27. Intelligence is received of the arrival at Oporto , Portugal , of fifty-throo men belonging to the steamer Plantyn , Captain Scott , from Now York November HUi for Antwerp , and not since hoard from. A dispatch state * that the fifty.throo mon were brought to that place by the brig G. D. T. , which rescued them. THK MISrtINO KinilT. NKW YOUK , December 27. French , Edyo vt Co. , agents of the Plantyn , state that the vessel was inspected just previ ous to the departure from Now York , and waa furnished with rafts and boats sulliciont to carry . ' 100 persons. She hod provisions for 120 persons although she had only twouty-ono passengers and a crow of forty. The agents are of the opinion that the fifty-three persons landed at Oporto were all tlio brig G. D. T. could carry and that the remaining eight will bo heard from aboard some other Vessel. Her werealmost passengers were- ex clusively Italians. THE FKOliT IIITTF.N .SAILORS. Niw HAVKN , Conn. , December 27. A largo number of frost bitten sailors were landed at the marine hospital hero yesterday. Most of the sailors are Japa nese. Pliyaicianastatothatthoywillboun- able to toll for the next forty-eight hours whether amputation will bo necessary in the cases of nineteen of the effected sailors. Gi.oueKSTEHMass.Docombor27. The bark fif from Tra- Paragon , ty-tivo days - pain , has arrived. The crow are badly frost bitten. 1'KUILS ON IiAND. nuoKr. THRouou A iiiunaK. CIIAULOTXB , N. 0. , December 27. A freight train broke through n bridge on , the Cheater & Lonon Narrow Gauge rail road. Joseph Henderson , fireman , and William Simmons , a brakeman , were killed. A KRinilTFUt. RUNAWAY. ABHLAND , Pa. , December 27. Tha horses attached to a sleigh containing four couples from Roaring Crook , ran away at Ilooktown last ight , dragging the sleigh over a precipice. Jos. Smith had his leg and arm broken , Henry Green had an arm broken , Mary Kroh- GiuAiinviLLE , Pa. , December 27.J Three mon digging coal near hero were buried by falling earth. Ono was fatally and the others seriously injured. A TERUIFIO KXl'LOHION. BUFFALO , December 27. A terrific gas explosion occurred iu the French res taurant to-night. Workmen had been fixing a leak in a street main , and ono of the stopcocks under the sidewalk wua loft loosely closed. The gas collected was iglijted by a lamp. Head Waiter Purcell was knocked senseless , and in ternally injured. .Charles Rohard , cook , * was seriously cut on the hood and body. rf , Two waitresses were also badly out in the herd. The dining room , bar and J fixtures were badly demolished. Loss , * $ ! ,000. COLORADO AVALANCHES AND 8TOHM3. DKNVKH , December 27. Following is a list of the killed by tlio snow slide at Mondota mine , near Telluride , on the 24th : J. H. Bond , 0. H. Herrick , Thomas Duncgan , William Taylor , John Davis , William Applewhite , F. Slater , Lewis Huckius. At Silvorton a terrific wind storm sot in on the 10th , raging furiously for six days. It proved the most disastrous to life over known. Of five parsons ser iously injured at the Virginia mine , on Friday , three have since died , making nine in all. Yesterday a minor named Brett Wal lace was buried in a snow slide at the head of Clement crook , and uinnot bo found until spring. . Yesterday two men , names not learned , were caught in a snow slide , near Iron- town , and carried 15,000 feet down the aide of the mountain. Whtm extricated ono of them was frozen from the waist down , the lleah.opening in scums. Ho cannot recover. A train of twontyfivo cara , at Monument ment , were overturned by a high wind on the 25th , and u number of cattlu killed. General Grunt's Fall. NEW YOIIK , December 27. General Grant on leaving hit homo to-day slipped upon the ice and fell , receiving n aeyoro shook and seriously injuring his thigh. Frederick Grant , his son , says ho had soon the HUrgeons who attended hia father , but they were unable to deter mine whether the injury is dangerous. They said , however , that the limb wo uld be paralyzed for the time being. Another account says : It seems that General Grant , while alighting from hia coupe at his residence on Monday evening - ing , slipped and foil on his loft aido. , re ceiving oorious injury to his leg about four Inches below the hip joint. The surgeons say no bones are broken , and the supposition is that a bruise of the - Eciatio nerve was sustained. The general immediately after the accident was as sisted to bed , whore lie has remained over since , lying in ono position on hia back. While the injured leg ia most painful , the guaeral's health otherwise ia - good , and ho is oven comparatively cheer- . lul undar the circumstances. The surgeons - . geons anticipate nothing uerioua , but at the same time they predict thrt , it will bo several weeks before tha general will be able to leave the house , General Grant's injuries nra IMS pain , ful to night. At a iato hour ha was rest * - ing comfortably. Hit leg is vury umoU swollen.