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Mm M VOL. XXI. BOLIVAR, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1886. NO. 38. TOriCS OF TIIE DAT. Hows from Everywhere ri:RiOAt AND POLITICAU Jojtax Most, the New York Socialist IradiT, ho n discovered and arrested t the rooms of a disreputable woman, was held to answer the charge, of unlawful as lembly and inciting to riot and bloodshed by Recorder Nmythe oti the 12th, and was locked up in the Tombs. This health of ex-President Arthur is aid to be improving. THK Governor of Ohio lias purchased for Ihe use of the Stnta forty of the famous Rpencer magazine shot-guns, known as the "riot pun." Francis T. Hord, Attorney-General of Indiana, has been declared insane. The bank swindler, I'eck, who was ar rested at Toledo, 111., escaped from the officer. AcroRDlNfj to Mr. Crane, Liberal, 102 Liberal members of the British House of Commons have agreed to vote against the Homo-Rule bill, while thirty-four others are undecided. General Uohecrans has sent to the Benate ooinniitteo on finance a written tatement in answer to the charge that he was connected with certain alleged land frauds in California. He does not deny the transaction, but says he did nothing which wns not, according to the advice of his lawyers, perfectly legal, and that his action has since been sustained by the courts. A W a k n I x f i to x rumor says Jesse D. Abrahams, a H'diool-foaiher in a private Mlucational institution in Washington, lias been selected by the President for the vacant position of chief examiner of the Civil-Service Cuminis ;ion. Secretary Manninu progresses in his convalescence, and hjs friends consider his recovery a certainty. He has not vet de cidod when he will leave Washington. Ho drives out daily when the weather per mits, and is generally accompanied by Mrs. Manning. Secretary I5ayari has received a pre liminary report from I'on.ul Urigham at Paso del Norte, Mexico, in regard to the killing of Captain Crawford, U. S. A., by Mexican soldiers in" January last. He says there is no way of obtaining definite in formation, owing to the absence of wit nesses to the tragedy, but adds that it is conceded on both sides that the attack was made by irregular Mexican troops em ployed by the Htate of Chihuahua, through an unfortunate accident and without malice. wuvehnor .-iwixKroun, in advocating a Territorial government for Alaska, told ' some wonderful stories of the resources of the country to the Hous committee on Territories on the 12th. He says there is gold and timber in abundance, and salmon tishing of nlmost unlimited extent. He wanted the commit tee to go bade to Alas ka with him, promUin g to show them some eye-openers. Rev. ( haki.es II. Sit rheox, the emi nent English diviii", has the gout. The French minister sailed from Athens for France on the l:!th. The Governor of Indiana will not yet attempt to vacate (he office of Attorney General, the present occupant of which i insane. It is ("aid Sir Frederick Roberts is to bo recalled from Indii to take the command of English troops in Ireland. Chamiikiu.aix's strength seems to be growing, as indie ited by n strong meeting of the government opposition at his house on the l-"!h. Mr. Miitii.vv and Lord Spencer, liiem Wrs of the English Cabinet, nro making strenuous opposition to any concessions to Chamberlain. H. V. Pkmis, the Chi ago brewer, has beenexpelb'd from t he Nat ionnl Trotting A ssoci.it ion for violation of rules. O.v the l:;ih John 1". Rogers, the husband of Minnie Palmer, was bound in heavy suret ies at. Lon Ion to kep the pence anil jifrain fro'ii killing, or challenging to a duel, Mr. ("hail's Arnold, the actor, whom Rogers challenged to mortal combat. Ox the b'lth the Queen returned to Win l sorCas'le. Sim i.'x;i;,m.-ii I herself highly pro titled by the reception extended to hot at Liverpool. Her Majesty sent costly presents to Mayor lt.idi-1 i H". at Liverpool and to his wife, mil nU).."iil.l to bo dis tributed among the p.ior. Herr Most, the New York Anarchist, has been ruleased oil bail. Steimikxs, th" English bicyclist, was ar rested recently wliiL tossing the Afghan front ier.' Kmmv 1'i.K.KTWonii, who has been on trial at Charleston, 111., charged with the mur der of her parents, has been acquitted. The trial of Father Galeste, who assas sinated the 1'ishop of Madrid, has been set for the end of May. H.AKTL.1Y ('ASirni l.l., the dramatist, has been oi'icially declared insane, and will be sent to an nsj In n. A LoMiox dispu'ih or" the lath said Queen Victoria was suffering from nerv ous excitement caused by fatigue conse quent upo-i her front tiip to Liverpool. FntNCK AirertYh r it, eldest son of the Frince of Willi's, poes into the House of Lords as the I uk- of Kmit. Chami'K.iu ain U said to be really am bitious to sin ed Gladstone as the loader of the Liberal party i: Knglaud. Ax iminens:' meeting of hcniit-riile op ponents was held at London on the l.'ith, at which L'rd Salisbury recommended emigration us the lost remedy for Ireland. H. K. Hiiio. the R:i :lish chess player lias challenged Herr Steinit. to play a match game in New Yi k. TlIK Ohio Senate adopted a resolution requesting the I'nited Mates Senate to prosecute the inquiry rclitive to the seat of Senator Pay ne. G l.MisiTox v, it is said, hns fully resolved, in the event -r defeat, to demand an im mediate di s lut io:i of Parliament. Mr. John W a i i i:r, of the Lon lon Times, has written n 1 !t r on Irish-American sympathy fori cl.ind. Is the suit brought in Now York by the widow of lr. John t'. llnunouto recover from Mary Irene Hovt l2.tHK for services of Dr. Hannoii us med: al expert in the contest over th-will of the late Jesse Hoyt, a verdict of .r.'.'KMi awarded the ) 'In i lit iff. PiiKsmrxT Ci.m i i a xn goes to New York and lr okl yn u lk-oration Dav. The conres-i na! Ul.r investigating committee lias returned to Washington. Ox account of book -bet ting being pro hibited at the lAi!svi!i. (Ky.) race course, J. R. Haggiu, of California, has canceled his engagements Ili(d transferred his stable to Latonia. CHIMIN AM C'AxrALTIlS. Ox the 121 h Wiliiamsport and Attica, lad., were sti u -k by a cyclone which de stroyed several bridges, buildings, etc. A large number of people are supposed to Lave been killed. H. E, Ash en by Las been arrested and will be trie i May 21 for unlawfully cutting timber on t he Crow Indian reservation in Montana, and for defrauding the Crows. I'aul Von Lorn has been arrested for the n.inie offense and will be tried at the same time. A. Am.kr comirlttv.J suicide at Omaha, Jleb... on til bit U. On the 14th Corporal Schorder, of the Fourteenth regiment, was drowned atCia natl while bathing. Ox the 14th Benjamin Hannon, a farmer of O'Neill, Neb., was poisoned with strych nine, and charges his wife with the crime. The police of Chicago claim to have un der arrest, beyond perad venture, the man ho threw the bomb on the night of the haymarket riot when so many of their comrades were killed and wounded. Ox the 14th, while trying to break np old iron with dynamite at Pittsburgh, Pa., a terrible explosion took place, shattering several houses and seriously injuring one man. O.v the 14th an expressman named Bies committed suicide at Chicago by hanging, and although discovered before he was dead, the bystanders made no effort to save him. At Vicksburg, Miss., on the 14th, eleven negroes were sentenced by the Federal Court to thirty days' imprisonment and fine of $100 each for aiding by perjury the procurement of fraudulent pensions. Ox the llth a destructive cyclone struck the northern part of Shawnee County, Kas., and a portion of the town of Meri den was swept away. Ox the 14th, while in a fit of despond ency, caused by continued ill health, Smith Debbidge, a brilliant young attor ney, shot himself at Dulutb, Minn., pro ducing instant death. He went to Duluth from Brooklyn, N. Y., four months ago. His home was in Oswego, N. Y. At Can Creek, I. T., on the 13th, Simon Solomon received fifty lashes for horse stealing:. His cries and appeals for mercy could be heard for half a mile. Another prisoner, who was to undergo the same punishment, made a break on bearing Sol onion's cries and escaped. Ox the 14th a cyclone struck Colfax, near Lafayette, Ind., completely demol ishing the residences of W. t). Clark, Isaac Derkes, James Leslie and Jasper Hill, and badly wrecking those of J. E. Milburn and J. L. Reckard, the latter occupied by John Thompson. Quite a number of barns and other outbuildings were blown away. No person seriously injured. Bai'm, of Volcano, W. Va., fed his wife and c hildren on dog meat, and his neighbors discovering it came near lynch ing him. A cl:rk of Sweilzer, Peabody & Co., at New York, who disguised himself and at tempted to rob the vault, was overpowered anil jailed. The body of Franklin Rupert Reed, of Grinnell, la., a student at Yale, was found floating in the Hudson on the 15th with a bullet wound in the head. , As accident happened to the train carrying Forepaugh's circus on the Lack awanna road in New York, on the morn ing of the lath, by which a number of per Arms WftA iniiirAtl tb. McDoxai.i and five companions, of Indianapolis, Ind., were caught in the act of incendiarism on the Kith and were landed in jail. MISCELLANEOUS. Ox the 1,1th, in the M. E. General Con ference at Richmond, Va., the committee on episcopacy reported in favor of elect iug four new bishops, and the report was adopted. Ix the neighborhood of Big Rapids, Mich., hlaek diphtheria continues to rage with unabated violence, and the State's health authorities will make investigation as to the cause. The last of a family of eight, who have died from the scourge, passed away on the 12th, and Henry Tan nery, whoso six children have preceded him, also died. The disease baffles the local physicians. Coxtixi'ed rains were reported in the north of England on the 13th, causing riv ers to overflow their banks. Sheffield, Doncaster and other towns were partly in undated. At Rotherham the railway steel works, many houses and thousands of acres of land were submerged and 2,000 workmen temporarily thrown out of em ployment. The strike of the Indianapolis bricklay ers lor nine hours' work ami an increase of five cents per hour in wages, has been successful and the men have returned to work. The total values of the exports of bread stuffs during ten months, end "d April 00, 1SS, was ,aVi4S,7.S ainst .PJ5,031,42!) the same time last year. Ox the 14th a slight shock of earthquake was felt in Scotland. Every thing is quiet at Cincinnati, and the militia has been sent home. Mccil damage was caused by heavy rains in Derbyshire, England, on the 14th. Work has been generally resumed in the lumber yards at Chicago and at the Pullman car-works. Indictmknts have been found against ninety-one striking coal miners in Wash ington County, Pa., for conspiracy. More evasions of the Canadian fishery law by American vessels are reported from Nova Scotia. Ox the 14th a meeting of Lord Harting ton's followers was held for the purpose of cementing tha Whig and Radical opposi tion to the Home-Rule bill. Grasshoppers have appeared in Adams County, Ind., in vast numbers. A rkimiesext ativk of a British syndic ate of capitalists is at Baltimore making proposals for building the Chesapeake & Delaware ship canal. Ox the 14th a secret meeting of Parnell ites was held in the House of Commons to consider communications from Gladstone regarding further modifications of the Home-Rule bill. Illinois) is pronounced free of pleuro pneumonia among cattle by the Live S; -ek Commission. A rEW mahdi recently appeared in the Seud;.n and defeated a Turkish detach ment, but was subsequently ovt rthrown, and seven of his followers-were beheaded. Oxk of tha I'lster (Ireland) manufactur ing firms has concluded arrangements for the transfer of its mills to Germany. DrRixo the w eek en l-d the 14th the im ports of dry good at the port of New York were valued at l,t;:?2,120 and the amount thrown on the market at Jd,60.,- The annual meeting of the American Bibbi Society was held in New York on the 14'h. The overage of the year were .V2;l,!10; expenses, ."MW.VW. There had b-en 1,4 T;44'I Fibles, Testaments, etc., is sued, of which .Vl.tiD-J went to foreign lands. The Department of State will probably make no further investigation of the kill ing of Captain Crawford, for the reason that the cousular office! s have no facilities for obtaining information on the subject. Drtuxu the soven days ended the 11th, the business failures occurring throughout the country number f-r the United States l.V!. and for Canada 2 , as against a total of 1!2 the previous week, and 207 the pre ceding like period. The loss by tiu storm iu the vicinity of Kenton, O., will reach into the hundreds of thousand 1 of dollars. The British yacht Galatea sailed for New York on the lith to compete for the American cup. PiAr-rTrs had a debate in New York on the evening of the l.V.h on the relative power for happiness of the male and fe male mind. AnriTRATioN was trie I by printers and pnbiHhi-rs -f Wafchm.4t.in, to settle differ ena, uud the trialer lost, The American Fishing Union has em ployed three able lawyers of Halifax to fight the Adams seizure in the Admiralty Court. France and Germany have been yisited by violent storms similar to those which have swept over this country. Many vine yards were destroyed and a number ox lives lost. Mrs. Wright, in jail at Neillsville, Wis., on suspicion of having poisoned her husband, has made a confession implicat ing Daniel Allen, her paramour, and he has been arrested. The Orangemen of Australia have Bent a cable dispatch to the Loyalists of Ire land promising to aid them in their en deavors to prevent the adoption of the Gladstone Home-Rule scheme. A society for the prevention of cruelty to animals has been organized at London upon the plan of such societies in America. Lord Mount Temple is president and Car dinal Manning one of the directors of the society. A large contingent of the Salvation Army sailed on the steamer Assyrian Monarch on the 15th from New York for London. Among the party were five In dians of the Onondaga, Seneca and Mo hawk tribes. Considerable opposition has developed in Congress to the division of Dakota. In a faction fight between Protestants and Catholics in County Tyrone, Ireland, on the l.'ith, many heads were hurt. The total imports of merchandise at the port of New York during the week ended the 13th were valued at $0,428,978, and to tal imports of dry goods were valued at $1,002,126, and the amount thrown on the market at $l,60r,06. Crop reports from the Northwest indi cate a splendid prospect for wheat and corn. The cigarmakers are leading the fight of the trades unions on the Knights of La bor. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Ix the Senate on the lltn Mr. Hoar pre sented a memorial of the Kepublican cen tral committee of the State of Ohio charging that the election of Hon. Henry B. Payne to the United States Senate was secured by bribery, fraud and corruption, and request ing thHt tiie frenate Investigate the matter. Referred to the committee on privileges and elections. A number of petitions were pre sented and referred praying Congress to en act legislation anainst oleomargarine. Con sideration of the Interstate Commerce bill was then resumed. The bill waa nnaily ordered reprinted as amended. ...The Mouse- went into committee of tlie whole on the bill provldlnft lor the appointnrent of a commission to ascertain and settle private laud claims in the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona and the State of Colorado, and when the committee arose the bill waa passed. A bill from the committee on com merce authorizing the construction ot a bridge across the Mississippi at St. Ioui4 was placed on the calendar. Consideration of tne Army Appropriation bill was re sumed, and, pending discussion the House adjourned. In the Senate 'on the -th, Mr. Edmunds' bill for settlement of land claims In the Ter ritories was favorably reported. The amend -merits for the Klver and Harbor bill were submitted. A concurrent resolution for modification of the Chinese treaty was re ferred to the foreign relations committee. The Inter-State Commerce bill was consid ered at lengtli and passed In the House during the morning hour the t hi nese indemnity proposition was discussed, after which the Armv Appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole and passed. A correction was made in the Kecord to show that Mr. Wheeler spoke of Kdwin M. Stanton as an orcft-consp rator. The Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill was then taken up. Ix the Senate on the 13th the bill creating a new iudtclal circuit was passed. Then the General Pension bill was placed before the Senate, and a lively discussion ensued In the Honse a resolution was adopted asking the President what had been done in the matter of the seizure of the American vessel David G. Adams. The Chinese indem nity matter was debated during the morn ing hour, but a vote was not reached. After a little wrangle the bill oreatlug the depart ment of agriculture was taken up. Ix the Senate on the 14th a petition from Iowa was presented, asking for the abolition of the American house of lords. The bill passed for another railroad bridge over the Ohio at Cincinnati ; also bill for improve ment of the custom-house at Kansas City; also several public building bills, and at two o'clock the General Pension bill was taken up and debated during the rest of the ses sion In tlie House a bill w.ts passed for completion of the public building at Wichi ta, Kas. After disposing of some routine business tlie prlvat calendar was consid ered in committee ot the wuoie. Thk Senate was not In session on the 15th ......In the House a bill was passed au thorizing the Kansas & Arkansas Valley rail road to construct a railroad through the Indian Territory. A bill to estabbsh a sub-treasury at Louisville, Ky , was passed alter a lengthy debate. The bill for the appointment of a commission to inspect and report on Indian affairs was considered. Resolutions relative to the death of Repre sentative liahn, of Louisiana, were passed. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Near Port Dickarson, N. Y., on the l.V.h, ihe traiu with Forepaugh's circus oa Kiard met with an accident, which result d in the serious injury of seven men and ihe destruction of circus property. Dan and Lon Mann, charged with mur ler, were lynched at Partow, Fla., on the .6th. The Orangemen of Australia ha ve sent l cable dispatch to the Loyalists of I re am!, promising to aid tliem in their n leavor to prevent the adoption of Mr. Gla4 itone's Home Rule scheme. Tdk total values of the exports of the roducts during the sixth months ended pril lftf, were 17,8.19,191, against !47,740,1S8 for the same time in 1585. At New York on the 15th the jury in ,he Jaehne trial rendered a verdict of guilty." A committee from the Knights of Labor vaited upon the President on the 15th and isked that actiou be takeu on the charges igainst Mr. Edward Clarke, architect of ;he Capitol. kTHK total imports of merchandise at the ort of New York duriug the weok euding n the loth were valued at i,4.S2,y7, aud ,he total imports of dry goods w ere valutd it $2,;t2.12. Thk Congressional committee which was lent West to investigate the strikes and ,he labor troubles on the railroads, re amed to Washington ou the 16th: Frank P. Gray, a leading lawyer of tlanta, (4a., was shot and killed on the fith by Town Marshal Jones. The tragedy irose out of a dispute about a cow. Robert Hart and Dave Rums, two col red men, while at work iu a cotton fi.'ld ear Canton, Miss., oa the 15th, plowed ip three tin cans containing fiooo in gold ind silver coin, supposed to have beea uried during the war. Richard HuiGixa and Thomas Ban ett vere drowned in the river at Tuscumiia, tfo.,outhe 15th. Their wives and children, lelpless ou the bank, witnessed tlie sal iffair. Dcrixo the wind and thunder storm in Jhio on the night of the 14th, J. V. Thorn p ton and Charles Packett had t e bed on bich they lay takeu bodily up aud car ied five miles. According to the crop reports sent cn' '.om Washington, a large proportion of iie cotton planters of the south are a: e&dy in debt for supplies furnished. Frosts are reported in oil parts of tlichigan on the lfiih, iesultin;in much lamage to fruit and vegetables. IiOCis Kiel's wid. w lies at the point of leatb. It is said she rever. rallied frt m 1 e fchock of her husband's execution, and it s I re t: i-n-h edited. SOUTHERN GLEANINGS. Judge Howell E. Jackson, holding his Srst court at his home, Jackson, Tenn., had a novel experience recently with jury. A damage suit for $25,000 had been brought against the Illinois Central rail way. After the evidence was heard the jury was peremptorily charged to find for the defendant. Retiring to the jury -room a verdict was quickly agreed upon, giving the plaintiff $3,000. The court Bet aside the verdict. A fire engine was sent up from Birming ham Ala., a few days ago to fight fire in one of the mines of the New Castle Coal & Coke Company, on the track of the Louis ville & Nashville railway. Before the flames could be stopped three hundred feet of the wood-work was destroyed and a good part of the pipes connecting with the pumping machinery. The coal caught from the timbers, and, at last accounts, was still burning. The worst disaster will probably be the necessary suspension of work. Charles Jacobson, a colored youth of twelve,.died at Eufaula, Ala., a few days ago from injuries received by a lamp ex plosion. He was endeavoring to light one lamp with another, which caused the ex plosion, the burning fluid saturating his clothing. He rushed wildly into the street, uttering heartrending screams as he ran. When overtaken he was a living mass of flame, which, being entinguished, left him a blistered sufferer, in which con dition he lingered for twelve hours, and then died in great agony. Franklin Gaston, a colored man, con victed of criminal assault upon a lady,has been sentenced at Salisbury, N. C, to be hanged on July 2. A fire at Gainesville, Fla., a few days ago, destroyed all the buildings and con tents on-the south side of the square. The aggregate loss is about $-70,000, with very little insurance. At a Shelby (N. C.) court a short time ago, the case was tried of a boy who had been fined by the mayor of the town for climblnra tree, there being a town ordi nance forbidding the climbing of trees. The boy appealed, and the judge reversed the mayor's decision, declaring tree-climbing to be an inalienable right of boys, over which municipal authorities have no juris diction. A resident of Eastman, Ga., has a twenty-five-cent piece which has just returned to him after an absence of seven years. J. J. Haywood, the collector of Marion County, Tex., in the commissioner's court rosm at Jefferson, a few days ago, shot Captain John T. Roots, killing him in stantly. An inquest was held and Mr. Haywood, after a preliminary examina tion, was released on a $3,000 bond. While Rev. Win. Moore (colored) was delivering a sermon at Cole Ridge, Tenn., recently, an enemy attempted to assassin ate him. Moore received a bullet in the thigh, the shot coming through a window. While superintending blasting opera tions in a sandstone quarry near Lam pasas, Tex., a few days ago, Antonio Val dez was crushed to death by a mass of loose rock and dirt which slid down upon him. Robert Ray, eighteen years of age, was killed in Walton County, Ga., a few days ago, by Sanford Manning. The latter claims the killing to have been accidental, but bis story seemed to have a somewhat piscatorial flavor. A goose owned by a citizen of Telfair County, Georgia, is twenty-five years old, and up to three years ago laid eggs as regular as the day came around. Since then her lay ing propensities have failed her. Occasionally she will build a nest and set on it for three or four weeks and then come off as proudly as if she had raised a brood of goslins. A reign of terror is reported as existing at Osceola, Ark., arising from recent de velopments and altercations caused by the alleged defalcation of Sheriff Haskins. The town was reported as practically in a state of siege, the members of each faction being ready to fight on the slightest pro vocation. Mr. Engelke, of Lula, Ga., is an ardent naturalist, being particularly partial to snakes. In the fall he buries his snakes in the ground and unearths them in the spring. The other day he dug up a fine, large rattlesnake, which recovered from its torpor quickly and then struck Mr. En gelke on the head. The fangs went through the man's fur cap and gashed the top oi his head. Liberal doses of corn whisky saved the snake fancier's life. An unknown white man was found mur dered at a point near Redwood station. Miss., a few days ago. He was filled with buckshot. He bad in his possession an express receipt, dated New Orleans, for a package sent to Julia Warren, of St. Louis. No clew as to his identity or that of the murderer. He was plainly dressed in dark clothes, had mustache and lighl whiskers, and was apparently thirty-five years of age. Uncle Billy Day, of London, Ky., who is over eighty-one years old, the father ol thirteen children, and who has seventv six grandchildren and 182 great-grandchildren living, is noted in his neighbor hood for the ability to read by "firelight'1 without spectacle-, and to jump up and crack his heels together twice before com ing down. The Governor of Louisiana, in his an nual message to the legislature, suggests that criminals be executed by some means niore humane than by hanging. Jefferson Davis is ill at Beauvoir, Miss, with fever and neuralgia of the bead, from which he suffers severely. Mr. Bud Johnson was shot and killed by James Cartwright at Woodberry, Ga., a few days ago. There was no witness to the shooting. It seems that Cartwright has been under a sort of religious craze for several days. He and Johnson were sitting on a fence talking, and -without the least warning or provocation Cartwright drew his pistol and fired, instantly killing Johnson The murderer claimed he was commanded by God to kill Johnson. Mississippi navigation is dying. Rev. Isaac Wilkes dropped dead on the street in Montgomery, Ala., a few even ings since. His home is in Brierfield, Ala., and he was attending the Southern Bap tist convention. Death was caused from heart disease. He was about forty-five years old, and a minister well known throughout the State. Governor O'Neal of Alabama has issued a pardon to Robert Wiederkeerhr, who was tried in the city court of Mobile in 1S77 for murder, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life." Wiederkeerhr is a native of Switzerland, and has re turned home. Cold weather delayed cotton planting oa Ihe Atlantic coast. The Baton Rouge (La.) prison will here after be closed to visitors. A party of ight-seers entered it one day recently and got into a row with the prisoners. Pistols were drawn, and a serious disturbance was mly prevented by the prompt action of the guards. 'Squire Dickson, of Clayton, Ga., kindly rose from his bed at midnight recently to marry Jeptha Littleton, aged eighty-two, and Hnthey Ann Thompson, aged seventy-five. Kathlin, a disease that resembles both measles and scarlet fever, is agitating tbt doctors of Macon, Qt JAEHNE GUILTY. The First of the Boodle Aldermen Cases In New York Results In a Verdict of Guilty of Receiving a Bribe The Prisoner In the Tombs Next. Nkw York, May 16. The trial of Al derman Jaehne for bribery was continued yesterday. Counsel for the defense moved that the testimony of Inspector Byrnes and Detective Cosgrove as to the alleged confession of the defendant be stricken out on the ground that they were made under the inducement of hopes and the pressure of fear. The mo tion was denied. Detective Rogers testified that he heard Jaehne confess to Inspector Byrnes in March last. His story was substan tially the same as that of Inspectoi Byrnes. John Scott testified that George W, Aller, Jaehne's former clerk, told him that the boodle had been kept in Jaehne'a safe over night. When he left the wit ness stand District Attorney Martine an nounced that the prosecution rested. Counsel for the defense moved that the indictment be dismissed, as the grand jury had been tricked into making a false presentment. It was fraudulent record and should be quashed; furthermore that there was no evidence of the receipt of a promise or agreement to receive a bribe, and, further, that no evidence that it had been been received in this county had been adduced. Judge Barrett held that the points were not well taken, and overruled the motion. Counsel for tlie defense then made the opening argument, holding that the pris oner had been coerced by threats and in timidation, and that the action of Police Inspector Byrnes and District Attorney Martine was taken in order to save them selves, because Alderman Jaehne, in his testimony before the Senate investigating commtttee, had implicated them in com pounding a felony. Jaehne waa placed in the witness-box and testified in his own behalf. He de nied that he ever received . a promise of money for his vote on the Broadway rail road franchise; that he ever asked a re ward for sucli a vote; that he was ever offered money for such a purpose, or that he ever received any. Coming down to the testimony of Inspector Byrnes in re gard to the several alleged conversations with the defendant, in which he was al leged to have acknowledged having re ceived money for his vote on the Broad way railroad, his counsel asked Jaehne regarding each of the alleged chats with the chief of detectives, if he had said what he was alleged to have said. In eah instance the answer was an emphatic de nial. At the conclusion of Jaehne's testimony the arguments of counsel began. These, with the instructions, occupied till eleven o'clock, when the jury retired to consult upon its verdict. At ten minutes after ten o'clock this morning the jury rendered a verdict of "guilty." Jaehne received the verdict with head erect, lips set and every fiber trained to paiuful tension. The jury was given a recess until Monday, it not being lawful to discharge it on Sunday. Jaehne was then taken to the Tombs. New York, May 17. Aldermau Jaehne passed a quiet Sunday in the Tombs. He feels much disheartened.over his convic tion and declined to speak except to in timate friends. It is understood that District Attorney Martine will move for sentence before Judge Barrett to-day. Jaehne's conviction, if not set aside, will forever disqualify him from holding pub lic office. Vague rumors of a hegiera on the part of the indicted aldermen were afloat to-day, but it is thought that their $25,000 bonds are large enough to hold them for trial. It is hinted that Jas. A. Richmond, president of the Broadway Surface Railroad Company, will be the next one for trial. Ex-Alderman Waite is still out in custody of Detective Frink, and, probably, will be until the Broad way bribery cases are disposed of for good. CAMPBELL'S COLLAPSE. The Popular Dramatist Following John McCullougrh Confined at Bellevue. New York, May 16. Bartley Camp bell, dramatist, spent yesterday in the pavilion for the insane at Bellevue Hos pital. He was engaged all the morning in writing on a play aud composing the incidental music. The manuscript dia logue was illegible and incoherent and the music score was written on a single line, the characters only dimly resem bling notes. The weather had a depress ing effect upon him, and at times he was fretful and petulant, and then again was cheerful enough. In the afternoon a for mer acquaintance from Pittsburgh, who did not leave his name, called with Dr. S. It. Elliott, of this city, and they were ad mitted to Mr. Campbell's room, where they talked with him for some time. Their visit had a bad effect, for after they had gone the patient became violent, tearing his hair and railing against his keepers. The doctors at Bellevue made an ex amination of Mr. Campbell's mental con dition on Friday, and Dr. Wildman says there is no question at all that he is suf fering from general paresis. This being the case, the result, he says, may be fore told with certainty. His death is only a question ot weeks and months. Under careful treatment with out-of-door exer cise, Dr. Wildman says Mr. Campbell's physical condition may improve tempora rily, but the case in all its bearings is a counterpart of the late John Mc Cullough's last months, both in respect to causes and effects. Mr. Campbell will, by special favor of the commissioners, be kept at Bellevue Hospital for a few days, and not sent to the pauper insane asylum of Ward's Island until the friends of the unfortunate man shall have had time to sisnify what they mean to do for him. Wdnthrop Parker, Esq., counsel for Mrs. Campbell, says that the playwright has absolutely no property. His wife owns a small house on Staten Island and her only means is derived from its rental. All 6f Mr. Campbell's property is in the hands of Ernest Harvier, receiver for his creditors. An Incendiary Caught. Indiasapoi.is, Ind., May 17. Butch McDonaid, a well-known saloon-keeper, was arrested yesterday morning for arson. Two weeks ago he Insured his stock for 8d,000, and yesterday morning he saturated the room with nine gallons of coal-oil and applied a match. The police had been apprised of his intention, and arrested him and his accomplices and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. All the stock had been removed. The locality is thickly settled, and a num ber of tenants occupied rooms over the saloon. An accomplice has confessed. Adjourned Prognostication. Washington, May 17. Speaker Car lisle is quoted a3 saying that it is possi ble for Congress to adjourn by the 2ath ofjnne. That is in less than six weeks from to-day. The prevailing opinion, however, is that Congress will not get away before August. The House is be hind, and independent of the grave differ ences of opinion between the Senate and the House on the ap-propiation bills, there are several question's of importance vet to be considered. Beid there b evident desire on the part of the Senate not t' hurry business, and b-.th parties want time ; make records for the up proachiug Congressional election. TAUIAGE'S SERMON. An Allegorical Discourse On Ths) Return From the Chase. The Ilcnt For the World and Its Pleas ures la the Morning of Life Th Peace of God tjie Only Kesult Worth Returning With. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage preached an allegorical sermon at the Brooklyn Taber nacle, recently, the subject of which he an nounced as "Return From the Chase," taking for his text: In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil Genesis xlix. 27. Dr. Talmage said: There is in this chap ter such an affluence of simile and alle gory, such a mingling of metaphors, that there are a thousand thoughts in it not on the surface. Old Jacob, dying, is telling the fortunes of his children. He prophe sies the devouring propensities of Benja min and his descendents. With his dim old eyes he looks off and sees the hunters going out to the fields, ranging them all day and at night-fall coming home, the game slung over the shoulder; and reach ing the door of the tent the hunters begin to distribute the game, and one takes a coney and another a rabbit and another a roe. In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at niht he shall divide tlie spoil. Or, it may be a reference to the habits of wild beasts that slay their prey, and then dras it back to the cave or lair and divide it among the young. There is nothing more fascinating than the life of a hunter. On a certain day in all England you can hear the crack of the sportsman's gun because grouse bunting has begun; and every man that can afford the time and ammunition and can draw a bead starts for the fields. On the 20th of October our woods and forests will re sound with the shock of firearms, and will be tracked with point rs and setters be cause the quail will then be a lawful prize for the sportsman. Xenophon grew elo quent in regard to the art of hunting. In the far East people, elephant-mounted, chase the tiger. The American Indian darts his arrow at the buffalo until the fright ened herd tumble over the rocks. Europe an nobles are often found in the fox chase and at the stag hunt. Francis I. was called the father of hunting. Moses de clares of Nimrod: He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore in all ages of the world the imagery of my text ought to be suggest ive, whether it means a wolf after a fox or a man after a lion. In the morning he shall devonr the prey, aul at night he shall divide the spoil. I take my text, in the first place, as de scriptive of those people who, in the morn ing of their life, give themselves up to hunting the world, but afterward, by the grace of God, in the evening of their life divide among themselves the spoils .of Christian character. There are aged Christian men and women in this house who, if they gave testimony, would tell you that in the morning of their life they were after the world as intensely as a hound after a hare or as a falcon swoops upon a gazelle. They wanted the world's plaudits and the world's gains. They felt that if they could get this world they would have every thing. Some of them started out for the pleasures of the world. They thought that the man who laughed loudest was happiest. They tried repar tee, ami conundrum, and burlesque, and madrigal. They thought they would like to be Tom Hoods or Charles Lambs or Ed gar A. Poe?. They mingled wine and music and the spectacular. They were worshipers of the harlequin, and the Merry Andrew, and the buffoon, and the jester. Life was to them foam, aud bubble, and cachinnation, and royster ing, and grimace. They were so full of glee tbey could hardly repress their mirth, even on solemn occasions, and they came near bursting out hilariously even at the burial, because there was something so dolorous in the tone or 'countenance of the nndertaker. After awhile misfortune struck them hard on the back. They found there was something they could not laugh at. Under their late hours their health gave way or there was a death in the house. Of every green thing their soul was exfoliated. They found out that life was more than a joke. From the heart of God there blazed into their soul an earnes'ness they had never felt before. They awoke to their sinfulness and im mortality, and here they sit to-day at sixty or seventy yewf s of age, as appre ciative of all innocent mirth as they ever were, but they are bent on a style of satis faction which in early life they never hunted; the evening of their days brighter than the morning. In the morning they devoured the prey, but at night they are dividing the spoil. Then there are others who started out for financial success. They see how limber a' man's hat is when he bows down before some one transpicuous. They felt they would like to see how the world looked from the window of a $3,03) turnout. They thought they would like to have the morning sunlight tangled in the head gear of a dashing span. They wanted the bridges in the park to resound under the rataplan of their swift hoofs. They wanted a gilded baldrick, and so they started on the dollar hunt. They chased it up one street and chased it down an nother. They followed it when burrowed in the cellar. They treed it in the roof. Wherever a dollar was expected to be they were. They chased it across the ocean. They chased it across the land. They stopped not for the night. Hearing that dollar even in the dark ness thrilled them as an Adirondack sportsman is thrilled by a loon's laugh. They chased that dollar to the money vault. They chased it to the government treasury. They routed it from under the counter. All the hounds were out all the pointers and setters. They leaped the hedges for that dollar, and they cried : "Hark away! a dollar! a dollar!" And when at last they came upon it and had actually captured it, their excitement was like that of a falconer who has successfully flung his first hawk. In the morning of their life, oh how they devoured the prev! Hut there came a better time to their oul. They found out that an immortal nature can not live on government bonds. They took up a Northern Pacific bond and there a a hole ia.it through which they could look into the uncertainty of all earthly treasures. They saw lome Ralston, living at the rate of $25,000 a month, lean ing from Han Francisco wharf because be could not continue to live at the name ratio. They saw the wizen and paralytic bankers who had changed their souls into molten gold stamped with the image of the earth, earthy. They aw some great ouls ty avarice turned into botnunculi, and thy said to themselves: "I will seek after higher treasure." From that tua they did not car whether they walked or rode if Christ walked with them; nor whether they lived in a mansion or a hut if they dwelt under the shadow of the Al mighty; nor whether they were robed in French broadcloth or in a homespun if they bfcd tha robs of the Baviour'a rthieou- ness; nor whether they wr sandaled with morocco or calfskin if they were washed with the preparation of the gospel. Now you see peace on their countenance. Now that man savs- "What a fool I was to be enchanted with this world! Why, I have more satisfac tion in five minutes in the service of God than I had in all the first years of my life while 1 was gain-getting. I like this even ing of my day a great deal better than I did the morninz. In the morninsr I greedily devoured the prey; but now it is evening, and I am gloriously dividing the spoil." My friends, this world is a poor thing to hunt. It is healthful to go out in the woods and hunt. It rekindles the luster of the eye. It strikes the brown of the autumnal leaf into the cheek. It gives to the rheumatic limbs a strength to leap like the roe. Christopher North's pet eun. the- muckle-mouthed Meg, going off in the summer in the forests, had its echo in the winter time in the eloquence that rang through the university hall of Edin burgh It is healthy to go hunting in the field: but I tell you that it is belittling and bedwarfing and belaming for a man to hunt this world. The hammer comes down on the gun-cap and the barrel explodes and kills you instead of that which yon are pursuing. When you turn out te hunt the world, the world tur&s out to hunt you; and a many a sportsman aiming his gun at a panther's heart has gone down under the striped claws, so while you have been attempting to devour this world, the world has been devouring you. So it was with Lord Byron. So it was with Cole ridge. So it was with Catherine of Rus sia. Henry II. went out hunting for this world and its lances stuck through bis heart. Francis I. aimed at the world, but the assassin's dagger put an end to his ambition and his life with one stroke. Mary, Queen of Scots, wrote on the win dow of her castle: From the top of all my trust MIsIiud hath laid me In the dust. The Queen dowager of Navarre was of fered for her wedding day a costly and beautiful pair of gloves, and she put them on, but they were poisoned gloves and they took her life. Better a bare hand of cold privation than a warm and poisoned glove of ruinous success. "Oh," says some young man in the au dience, "I tolieve what you are preaching. I am going to do that very thing. In the morning of my life I am going to devour the prey, and in the evening I shall divide the spoil of Christian character. I only want a little while to sow my wild oats and then I will be good." Young man, did you ever take the cen sus of all the old people! How many old people are there in your house? One, two or none? How many in a vast assemblage like this? Only here and there a bald head, like the patches of snow here and there in the fields on a late April day. The fact is that the tides of the years are so strong that men godown under them before they get to be sixty, before they get to be fifty, before they get to be forty. before they get to be thirty; and if you, my young brother, resolve now that you will spend the morning of your days in devouring the prey, the probability is that you will never divide the spoil in the eve ning hour. He who postpones until old age the reli gion of Jesus Christ, postpones it forever. Where are the men who, thirty years ago, resolved to become Christians in old age. putting it off a certain number of years? They never got to be old. The railroad collision or the steamboat explosion or the slip on the ice or the falling ladder or the sudden cold put an end to their opportuni ties. They have never had an opportunity since and never will have an opportunity again. They locked the door of Heaven against their soul and they threw away the key, and if they could now break jail and come up shrieking to this audience I not do think they would take two minutes to persuade us all to repentance. They chased the world and they died in the chase. The wounded tiger turned on them. They failed to take the game that they pursued. Mounted on a swift courser they leaped the hedge, but the courser feR on them and crushed them. Proposing to barter their soul for the world, they lost roth and got neither. While this is an encouragement to old people who are yet unpardoned, it is no encouragement to the young who are put ting off the day of grace. This dootrine that the old may be repentant is to be taken cautiously. It is medicine that kills or cures. The same medicine given to dif ferent patients in one case saves life and in the other destroys it. This possibility of repentance at the close of life may cure the old man while it kills the young. Be cautious in taking it. Again, my subject is descriptive of those who come to a sudden and radical change. You have noticed how short a time it is from morning to night in the winter eight or ten hours. You know that a win ter day has a very brief life. The heart of the longest day beats twenty-four times and then it is dead. How quick the tran sition in the character of these Benjamin ites ! In the momlnjt they shall devour the prey and at night ttiev shall divide the spoil. Is it possible that there shall be such a transformation in any of our characters? Yes, a man may be at seven o'clock in the morn in an all-devouring worldling, and at seven o'clock at night he may be a peaceful distributive Christian. Conver sion is instantaneous. A man passes into the Kingdom of God quicker than down the sky runs the ziz-zau lightning. A man may be anxious alout his soul for a great many years; that does not make him a Christian. A man may pray a great while; that does not make him a Christian. A man may resolve on the reformation of his character anil have that resolution going on a great while; that does not maki him a Christian. But the very instant when he flings his soul on the mercy of Jesus Chris', that instant is lustration, emancipation, resurrection. Up to that point he is going in the wrong direction; after that point he is going i the rlfcht direction. Before that moment he is a child of sin: after that mo ment he is a child of God. Before that moment, hell ward; after that moment, heavenward. Before that moment, devour ing the prey; after that moment, dividing the spoil. Five minutes is as good as fire yaars. My hearer, you know very well that the best things you have done you have done in a flash. You made up your mind in an instant to buy or to sell, or to Invest, or to stop or to start. If you had missed that one chance, you would have missed it forever. Now just as precipitate and quick and spontaneous will be the ransom of your soul. This morning you are mak ing a calculation. You are on the track of oine financial or social game. With your pen or pencil you are pursuing it. This very morning you'are devouring the prey; but to-nijht you will be in a differ ent mood. You And that all heaven is of fered you. Yoa wonder how you can pet it for yourself and for yoir family. You wonder what resources It will give yoa now and hereafter. Yoa are dividing peace aud comfort and natinf action and Christian reward in your soul. You are divldin? the upoil. On a Sabbath night at the close of the strvioe. I said to some persons; "When dM you first become aeriooa about your soul?" And they told mat "To-night." And I said to others: "When did you give your fcs.rt to God?" And they said: "To-night." And I said to still others: "When did you resolve to serve the Lord all the days of your life?" And they said: "To-night. n I saw by their apparel that when the grace of God struck them they were de vouring the prey ; but I saw also in the flood of joyful tears and in the kindling rap tures on their brow, and tn their exhll arant and transporting utterances, that they were dividing the spoil. At night, with one touch of electricity, all these lights blase. Oh, I would to God that the darkness of your souls might be broken up, and that by one quick, over whelming, instantaneous flash of illum ination you might be- brougt into the light and the liberty of the sons of God ! You see that religion Is a different thing from what some of you people supposed. You thought it was decadence; yon thought religion was emaciation; yoa thought it was highway robbery ; that it struck one down and left him half dead; that it plucked out the eyes; that it plucked oirt the plumes of the soul; that it broke the Wing and crushed the beak as it came clawing with its black talons through the air. No, that is not religion. What is religion? It is dividing the spoil. It is taking a defenseless soul and panoplying it for eternal conquest. It is the distribu tion of prices by the king's hand, every medal stamped with a coronation. It is an exhilaration, an expansion. It is im paradisation. It is enthronement. Re ligion makes a man master of earth, and death, and hell. It goes forth to gather the medals of victory won by Prince Em manuel, and the diadems of heaven and the glories ot realms terrestrial and celes tial, and then, after ranging all worlds for everything that is resplendent, It divide the spoil. What was it that James Turner, tho famous English evalgelist, was doing when in his dying moment he said: "Christ is all! Christ is all !" Why, he was enter ing into light; he was rounding the Cape of Good Hope; he was dividing the spoil. What was the aged Christian Quakeress doing when at eighty years of ajte she arose in the meeting one day and said: "The? time of my departure is come. My grave-clothes are falling: off." She was dividing the spoil. She longed with wings to fly away, And mix with that eternal day. What is Daniel now doing, the Hon. tamer? and Elijah, who was drawn by the flaming coursers? and Paul, the rattling of whose chains made kings quake? and all the other victims of flood, and firo, and wreck, and guillotine? Where are they? Dividing the spoil. Ten thousand times tea thousand. In sparkling raiment bright, The armies of the ransomed saints Throng up the steeps ot light. TIs finished, all Is finished, Ihelr fight with death and slaj III ft high your golden gates And let the victors in. Oh, what a grand thing it is to be a Christian 1 We begin on earth to divide the spoil, but the distribution will not be completed to all eternity. There is a poverty-struck soul, there is a business-despoiled soul, there is a sin-struck soul, there is a bereaved soul why do you not come and get the spoils of Christian character, the comfort, the joy, the peace, the salva tion that I am nt to offer you in my master's name? Though your knees knock together in weakness, though your hand tremble in fear, though your eyes rain tears of uncontrolabla weeping come and get the spoils. Rest for all the weary. Pardon for all the guilty. Labor for all the bestorraed. Life for all the dead. I verily believe that there are some who have come in here outcast because the world is against them, and because they feel God is against them, who will go away to-day saying: I came to Jesus as I was. Weary, and worn, and sad; I found in him a resting plaoe. And lie has made me glad. Though you came In children of the world, you may go away heirs of Heaven. Though you were devouring the prey, now, all worlds witnessing, you may divide the spoil. A TRAIN-TELEPHONE. A Chicago Man Claim to Have Invented 8uch an Instrument. Chicago News.) Cornelins Sptllane, a stationary engi neer, living at W2!i Dashiel street has in vented a device for telephoning between moving trains anl railway stations. The invention is an extremely simple affair, consisting of a circuit wire resting on an insulated slab between the railway tracks. On this wire rests a circuit-rod made of a strip of metal roller making a continuous connection to all stations and all trains on the line of route. The return circuit is gained by means of the rail-wheel and axle and up through the frame-work of the engineer's cab to the telephone. A wire runs through the train connecting all the cars, so that conversation can be kept up from all parts of the train to all stations on the road and between all other trains on the line. Mr. Hpillane thinks the adoption of his device on railway trains would rertder needless the employment of telegraph operators at railway stations, and would afford direct means of communication be tween any one train and all other points, so that in the event of an accident the in telligence would be promptly communi cated and relief summoned. It would also, he says, prove an absolute check on train robbers, and were any deed of violence at tempted on the cars the authorities would receive prompt notice of it in time to ar rest the guilty parties. SAVED BY A DOG. Providential Reaeue of a Four-Year-Old Child From Coder a Strwt-Cer. Cincinnati Kn'julrer ) Strange things occur In this big city every day. An incident happened ths other night at Hixth and Plum streets which showed the almost human intelli gence and courage of a dog. The four-year-old child of John B. Baclgalupo wan trying to cross the street railroad track on the south side of the market-houne when, frightened by the near approach of a car, the little fellow in turning fell directly across the track. The horses panned over the boy without injuring him, and be fore any Injnry could be done a dog, sit ting with his master at the corner of the market-house, rushed toward the child and pulled it from the track by its clothes juxt as the wheels were atioat to crunh It. Every one was astonished at the act ol the dog, which was remarkably wise aud intelligent. He is owned by Thomas Clay, a colored man. The rescue of the child by the canine was observed by a large num ber of people. The brave dog is four yean oi l, and answers to the name of Jumbo. 11 than become quite a hero, aud his ne W had several offers for him Ur the Jo-i-ideut, but Mr. Clay, who is only a pool waitowtiun , refused to part with Juubc at any prlco,