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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.
ESTABLISHED 1823.
WE HAVE IN STOCK A CHOICE
BABY
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This Piano has been from
the factory about seventy days,
being the last of a lot of six
shipped us. We will give special
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strument to any one who will
purchase within the next five
days.
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M'KENZIK'S INDICATIONS.
MONDAY.—CoIder, cloudy weather,
with rain or snow, stationary or higher
barometer.
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OLD FRIENDS MEETING.
A man from Kokomo, who had been West two
years ago and saw a few Indians there, was in
the city yesterday morning, and passing near
the ololhlng house of J. A. McKenzie, discover
ed an Indian cigar sign, approached it and skid:
“Oeod morning, Lo.” (He wanted to be friend
ly.) ,4 I say. good morning; don't you hear? Do
you belong to (hie) Sitting Bull’s tribe! Are you
waiting to see a (hlc) frieud! Have you stood
on that (hlc) atone all night!”
Still the Indian was silent.
“Will you step in and (bic) take a smile! Well,
if you ain’t the doggouedest Indian I ever saw’d,
to refuse a drink: I never hearn tell of such a
thing afore. Will you shake hands with me?
Your hand is as cold as a door knob. Mr. Lo,
that ’ere bow and arrow won’t keep you warmer
than a paper collar. I’ve tried the collar, but
, rever tried a bow and arrow. Bee here, old
/ndian, if you want to make friends in this
Clearin’ you must be a little more (hie) social,
and not stand there on that stone on your dig
nity in this way. 9ay, Lo, will you loan me ten
cents until (hie) I see you later! I have a mind
to massacre that Indian for his impudence to
me.”
CRIMINAL RECORD.
Diamonds Worth #3,000 Offered for 875,
Leads to an Arrest.
Philadelphia, Jan. 6.—George Seymour,
alias Stiles, colored, entered a pawn office
and offered as pledge for $75 a breast-pin'eon
taining thirty-five diamonds and valued at
$3,000. Being promptly arrested, he was
searched, and a memorandum found on him
nowing that he had pawned a very valuable
diamond at another place. While in the
prisoner’s dock he was recognized as a former
waiter at the West End Hotel at Long
Branch, where last summer Mrs. Carr, of
’’Pittsburg, was robbed of about $30,000 worth
of diamonds.
Railroad Robbery.
Philadelphia, Jan. 7.—Herbert F. Gye, of
the Mapleson Opera Company, boarded a
train at the Broad-street station, last night,
carrying a '-raveling bag. which he placed
upon a seat. A trifling accident stopped the
train, and Gye, with other passengers, went
to the platform to inquire the cause. When
he returned the bag was missing, and also a
well-dressed man who had occupied the op
posite seat. The bag contained* checks for
$4,550, SIOO in bills, and some articles of jew
elry, among them a pearl pin and diamond
pin and studs. Gye returned to this city and
notified the authorities, and the payment on
s 4 he checks has been stopped.
A Governor Requested to Offer 850 for a
Murderer’s Arrest.
Petersburg, Pa., Jan. 7.—John Mauck
killed John Corden during a quarrel at Lin
den. The Governor is requested to offer SSO
reward for the capture of Mauck.
Fatal Stabbing.
New York, Jan. 7.—ln Brooklyn, Sunday
morning, John Murtha probably fatally
stabbed John Lynch.
Failure of a Book Firm.
Chicago, 111., Jan. 7.—A Davenport, la.,
‘ special says. R. Grampton & Cos., of Jlock Isl
and, have made an assignment. Their lia
bilities are estimated at $41,000, and the as
sets are claimed to be nearly as much. The
‘affairs of the firm are said to have been in a
had condition for two or three years. The
firm dealt in books and stationery.
> Priestly Advice.
, New Haven, Conn., Jan. 7.—Father Fitz
'p'atrick of St. Patrick's Church counselled his
congregation to-day not to patronize in any
way a newspaper which appeared
with a report of the fire in the church during
the service Friday. The priest says that the
. story was unreasonably exaggerated.
Earthquake in Ohio.
Cleveland, 0., Jan. 7.—Word was received
here to-dav that a violent earthquake was
felt In different parts of Northern Ohio, be
tween 2 and 3 o’clock yesterday morning.
People were aroused from their sleep by the
shock, and cases are reported of chimneys
toppling over.
Fatal Fall.
New Haven, Conn., Jan. 7. — J. Burton
Hine. president of the Hine Land Company,
who lost his feet by becoming frozen while
surveying in Michigan, slipped on the icy
.sidewalk to-day, leaving church, aud fatal
results are feared.
Perhaps neuralgia is the most aggravating
form of pain. Mr. Harry Keitly, of Wells, Fargo
A Cos., thus speaks of It: “I suffered horribly
tHltb the neuralglain the face and head, but three
applications of Bt. Jacobs Oil cured me/'-Marys
ville (Cal.) Appeal.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Action Likely to Affect a Prominent
Indiana Industry.
Department Clerks Unhappy Over Results
of the Civil-Service Bill Affecting;
Their Lunch Hour.
How Secretary Schurz Set a Country
woman Up in Business.
Very Little Hope for Republican Electoral
Votes ft’om Dakota in the Next
Campaign.
TARIFF LEGISLATION.
A Prominent Indiana Industry in Great
Danger.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Washington, Jan. 7. —Representatives of
Eastern and Western manufacturing enter
prises are gathering here to urge such tariff
legislation as their respective industries de
mand, and senators and members are being
continually appealed to in the interest of
constituents to urge this or that change in
the proposed tariff bills. The great obstacle
in the way of satisfactory and equitable tariff
revision and reduction at thi§ 'session of Con
gress is the lack of sufficient time. The in
dustries of the country are so vast and*
so interlaced and interacting that it is
difficult to estimate how far in its general ef
fects unjust or injudicious legi station upon
an industry may affect a score of others.
The work of the tariff commission, while
it is generally commended in its
entirety, has been severely criticised
for crudities and inconsistencies which the
commissioners themselves frankly attribute
to lack of sufficient time, and the hurried
manner in which much of their work was of
necessity done. If this was the case with the
commissioners who were appointed as ex
perts, and gave their undivided time and at
tention to the investigation of questions
under circumstances far more favorable to
correct conclusions than can possibly be en
joyed by the ways and means committee of
the House, it is hardly to be wondered at if
the committee, in their efforts to improve
upon the work of the tariff commission,should
fall into greater errors. A noticeable case in
point is the act of the committee in fixing
the rates upon plate glass, which, but for the
earnest protest of Representative Steele,
might have resulted in seriously crippling
if not destroying an establishment of which
Indiana may justly feel proud (the De Pauw
glass-works at New Albany.) After years of
low and disco u rage two nts which would have
proved fatal to an enterprise backed by less
capital and pluck, the New Albany works
have at last taken the front rank in this
country, and have earned an enviable repu
tation in successful competition with the
best products of similar establishments
abroad. When the subject of plate-glass was
under consideration tnis industry was rep
resented before the commission, and after a
thorough investigation the commission de
cided to recommend no change in the ex
isting rates. The ways and means commit
tee, however, for some reason decided to re
duce the rates 30 per cent, upon all cast pol
ished plate-glass. Representative Steele ob
tained leave to appear before the committee,
and after full argument, in which he
urged the retention of the rates recom
mended by the tariff commission, he was an
swered that the committee would revise its
action.
PURE REPUBLICANISM.
Justices of tlie Supreme Court as Street-Car
Conductors.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Washington, Jan. 7.—ls anyone entertains
a lingering doubt as to the changes which
twenty years have wrought in this city, in
the assimilation of Republican ideas, he
would have been undeceived by a sight
which was witnessed recently in one of the
three-cent cars on Pennsylvania avenue.
Three Justices of the Supreme Court, Brad
ley, Matthews and Harlan, were seen hang
ing onto the steps, while every seat was
occupied by negro workmen from the Navy
Yard. The Justices passed up tickets, made
change and played conductors for the work
men with gF eafc amiability.
DAKOTA
Not Likely to Be Made a State by the Pres
ent Congress.
Special to the Indianapolis journa*.
Washington, Jan. 7.—The continued op
position of Senator Hale to the admission of
Dakota as a State will prevent any further
agitation of the subject at this session.
Without his co-operation the Republicans
cannot pass the bill, and it looks now as if
they would be compelled to let the matter
go over. The next House will be Demo
cratic, and no bill creating anew Repub
lican State will be likely to receive its ap
proval. The Republicans will have to get
along without any electoral votes from Da
kota in 1884.
A CLERICAL WAIL.
Clerks Compelled to Work During Office
Hours Causes Grief.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Washington, Jan. 7. —The civil-service
agitation in Congress has reacted upon the
departments and finds expression in more
stringent rules as to hours and work. The
War and Treasury departments seem to take
the lead, and the mutterings and complaints
of those affected would lead one to suppose
that the lot of a government clerk, just at
this juncture, “is not a happy one.” The
War Department clerks, who have heretofore
been allowed a half hour at noon, with free
dom to leave the building for lunch, recrea
tion or exercise, have, by a recent order, been
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8, 1883.
debarred from so doing in the future,
while a mourning wail will go up
from the neighboring restaurants in
consequence of diminished reeeipts.
There is one poor soul who
had no complaint to offer. The old colored
auntie who dispensed bread and milk and
cookies under the main stairs in the base
ment. This recalls a story of the former
Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Schurz. A
countrywoman of the Secretary who was
struggling to support a large family, ap
pealed to him for assistance, and with such
success that he awarded her the exclusive
privilege of selling lunch to the clerks in the
building, and gave for this use a space in one
of the lower corridors. A t first, however,
her sales were few and benefits correspond
ingly small. She explained this
to the Secretary for the reason
that the clerks passed her by, preferring to
go outside. A few days after a general order
was promulgated, prohibiting, under the
penalty, any clerk from leaving the building
during office hours. The effect upon her
business was immediate and wonderful. A
few days before a single basket sufficed to
bring her store of eatables. Soon it was nec
essary to employ a half-dozen assistants to
supply food and drink for several hundreds.
To-day the thrifty German lady owns and
manages two of the largest boarding-houses
jn the city, beside her lunch business at the
Patent Office.
THE TARIFF.
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The Ways and Means Committee Complete
the Free List.
Washington, Jan. 6.—The ways and means
committee to-day struck from the free list
borax and boracic acid, on the representation
of the borax-producing interest of the Pacific
coast, where deposits have been discovered,
but cannot be successfully worked without a
protection rate of ten cents a pound recom
mended for borax.
At the afternoon session the commit tee on
ways and means completed the free list,
striking out the following items: Regalia
and gems, statues, statuary and specimens
of sculpture, where specially imported in
good faith for the use of any society incor
porated or established for philosophical, let
erary or religious purposes or for the en
couragement of fine arts or for the use or by
order of any college, academy, school or
seminary of learning in the United States;
root flour, sago, sago crude and sago flour,
skins (dried, salted or packed,) soap stocks,
terra alba, albuminous tapioca, cassava or
cassada and yeast cakes.
The committee also turned back and be
gan a revision of the chemical schedule, and
taking all mineral waters, natural or artifi
cial, from the free list, placed them on the
tariff list at 25 per centum ad valorem for
bottled waters, with three cents per bottle or
jug on all holding a ouart, and three cents
additional for all holding more than a quart,
and a tax of 30 per centum ad valorem on all
mineral waters imported otherwise than in
bottl-esci* Jugc.
WITNESS WALSH.
He Gives the President Advice Relative to
Star-Route Prosecutions.
Washington, Jan. 7.—John A. Walsh, wit
ness for the prosecution in the star-route
cases, gives “to the public” his unanswered
letter to President Arthur, which letter he
says became necessary, owing to a communi
cation to the Attorney-general not meeting
with any response. He charges upon special
counsel Bliss the failure to indict United
States Senator Kellogg, against whom Walsh
says his testimony before the grand jury bore
in an especial manner, rather than
against ex-Postmaster-general Brady and
Mail-contractor Price, who were indicted,
and recommends that the prosecution of
Brady, Dorsey et al., be confided to another
than Bliss, and concludes: “Such has been
the weak, halting character of the prosecu
tion. as a whole, that men knew not on
which side the government was arrayed.
Such feelings, doubt and distrust have been
engendered by this vacillation, that, in the
opinion of many law-abiding citizens, noth
ing less than your active and positive direc
tion in these cases, Mr. President, will insure
a result commensurate with the gravity of
the occasion.”
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.
Tariff Discussion.
Special to the Imlianapolis Journal.
Washington, Jan. 7.—The discussion of
the tariff will probably begin in the Sen
ate Wednesday, but it is not expected that
the House bill will be considered in that
body before the lGth, previous to which the
whisky bill will be called up, and notwith
standing the vigorous opposition which it is
aid will be made, will probably be passed.
The $80,000,000 of taxes which it will enable
the holders of whisky in bond to avoid pay
ing would have nearly paid the pension bill
reported to the House yesterday.
Senatorial Contests,
Special to the Indianapolis JonrnaL
Washington, Jan. o.—Much interest is felt
here in the various senatorial contests
soon to be inaugurated. General llaum, who
is now in Illinois, telegraphed to a friend
here yesterday that his chances of election
are good, and that he will have between
thirty-five and forty-five votes on the first
ballot,
Prom the Land of Ice.
Washington, Jan. 7.—The Navy Depart
ment to-day received from Minister Hunt
the following telegram from St. Petersburg:
T have just received from Ensl&rn Hunt the
following telegram: Please inform the Secretary
as follows:
Kierinsk, Deo. 31.
Aneguin is seriously ill in the hospital with
Inflammation or the lungs. Myself, Manbon
and Bartlett remain here. The probable delay
will be two weeks. Leach, Lauterbach and
Thoms precede and await me at Irkutsk. The
Russian government has not yet ordered its au
thorities to permit and assist in removing the
bodies.
National Bank Notes.
Washington, Jan, 6.— Receipts of national
bank notes for redemption during the week
ending to-day were $1,279,000; bonds held by
the Treasurer to secure national bank circu
lation, $300,469,050; to secure public moneys
in national bank depositories, $16,344,000;
bonds deposited to secure circulation during
the week, $1,234,200; to secure circulation
withdrawn during the week, $1,929,200;
national bank notes outstanding, $302,313,-
899; lawful money on deposit to redeem
not es ii national banks reducing circulation,
$23 ,931 251.50; liquidating banks, $14,085-,-
624.40; failed banks, $1,068,402.20.
Signal-Service Bill.
Washington, Jan. 6. —The bill Introduced
in the House by Beltzhoover, provides for the
discharge of enlisted men employed in the
traKSer service to the Interior Department.
It presides that there shall be one chief
signal officer of the army, of the rank of colo
nel, Witu an assistant of the rank of major,
whoea Unties shall relate solely to military
signattf g, and provides that lieutenants of
the signal service be assigned to regiments of
the lii* .
The Tobacco Trade.
Wash tngton, Jan. 7.—A convention of
manufacturers and dealers in tobacco will
meet here to-morrow night to represent to
Congrgp* the state of trade and to urge a re
duction .of the tax on tobacco and a rebate
upon stock upon which duty has already
been pail. The convention represents all the
tobacco-oroducing States. There will also be
in atten iance a number of delegates from
the No*mi.
Appropriation Bills.
Washington, Jan. 6.—The fortification ap
propriation bill is ju9t completed. It appro
priates $175,000, SIOO,OOO of which is for the
improvement of harbor fortifications.
The pension appropriation bill has been
reporter to the full committee on appropri
ations. It appropriates $81,000,000.
Notes and Personalities.
Special R. the Indianapolis Journal.
Wash(ngton, Jan. 7. —The agricultural
committee of the House agreed to recom
mend ai) appropriation to send representa
tives to ibe Hamburg cattle fair.
Representative Colerick, who has been
compelled to remain at his home in Fort
Wayne qn account of sickness in his family,
and, w*. was paired with the late Hon,
Godlov :f. Orth, has returned to Washing
ton, accompanied by his sisters, Misses Lizzie
and Gus-i , and also Mrs. Phil. B. Colerick,
and ha* taken rooms at the National.
Representative Heilman arrived last night
with his w ife and daughter, and has taken
quartersp.t the Ebbitt.
J. C. .“later, D. W. Rhodes and T. B.
Marche i(rc appointed by the Postmaster-gen
eral a committee to open bids for the perform
ance of' star route service. The letting will
embracekoutes in Michigan, Minnesota, Mis
souri, Illinois, "Wisconsin, lowa and Missis
sipi, andfr number of miscellaneous routes.
About 2*1.000 proposals were received.
A contribution from the King of Siam to
the Washington monument is on the way
here.
Charles Perry, of the dry-goods firm of
Hempstclie Sc Perry, killed himself to-night.
He was about twenty-two years of age, and
unmarriej. Dissipation was the cause of
the deed.
The Senate confirmed Varnam B. Cochran
register <if the land office at Marquette,
Mich.
PostnYAtersEli J. March, Chillicothe, Mo.;
James llv Lloyd, Liberty, Mo.; John J. Hei
sel, Brunswick, Mo.; George R. Buckner, St.
Charles, Mo.
The Secretary of State writes the Chinese
minister that the United States government
will permit transit through the United States
of Chinese laborers.
Secretary Folger designated C. C. Zinkley,
of Sherman, Tex.; J. P. Smith, of Fort Worth,
Tex., and J. E. Dillon, of Kauffman, Tex.,
a commission to select a site for the proposed
court-house and postoffice at Dallas, Tex.
l’he sub-committee of the house elections
committee will, on Tuesday next, report the
Missouri contested election case of Sessing
haus against Frost. The report will be fa
vorable to the contestant.
A dispatch from Springfield, 111., says
Raura’s chances for election to the United
States Senate are very good.
Thus far the candidates for the collector’s
office in Cincinnati are William Ampt, C. B.
Montgomery, Colonel Taggart and R. B.
Simpson.
The total receipts of the office of the clerk
of the Supreme Court for the past year were
over $44,000, the expenses about $i5,000, and
the net receipts about $29,496. The total re
ceipts for the previous year were|s2ol,ooo,
The past year he paid for clerks $8,340; for
messengers, $402; for printing opinions of the
court, $2,200; for miscellaneous items, $4,040,
He will be heard further on the subject.
The Senate committee on public lands re
ported a bill, Saturday, providing for the
just and legal determination of controversies
about the title to lands derived from the
United States.
A large number of heavy cattle men have
been here the past few days urging the In
terior Department to lease them large tracts
of land in the Indian Territory, with the
privilege of fencing them in.
General Comstock Saturday morning in
formed the committee on Mississippi river
improvement that, in his opinion, levees are
not desirable in connection with the work of
improving the navigation of the Mississippi.
One thousand dollars was received, Satur
day, as a contribution from the citizens of
Lyons, France, to the Garfield Memorial Hos
pital fund, by Treasurer Gilfillan.
Obituary.
London, Jan. 7.—Jean Baptiste Auguste
Clesinger. the distinguisned French sculp
tor, is dead.
Xenia, 0., Jan. 6.—James Moorman, an old
pioneer of this county, aged ninety-one years
and three months, died at his home, two
miles north of this city, last night.
Mt. Vernon, N. Y., Jan. 7.—William A.
Seaver, editor of the “Drawer” in Harper’s
Magazine, died to-day, aged sixty-nine years,
of acute pneumonia, after two days’ sickness.
Long Branch, Jan. 6. —William Barrett, the
famous jockey who rode Parole, in England,
for Lorillard, and who also rode many other
famous horses, died this afternoon of con
sumption.
Sidney, 0., Jan. 6—Yesterday, at 3 p. m., J.
R. Stewart, proprietor of the Burnett House,
died very suddenly, he having read his mail
matter in the morning. His remains were
taken to Troy for burial. He was seventy-six
years old.
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 6.—C01. Ed. C. An
derson, ex-mayor, and president of the
Ocean Steamship Company, died this morn
ing. He was formerly an officer of the
United States Navy, and afterward a Con
federate colonel. _
High Water.
New Orleans, La., Jan. 7. —A Tuscoloosa
dispatch reports the Warrior river very high
and threatening the inundation of the low
lands. A train from Jackson, Miss., for
Natches was delayed by high water.
Skaters Drowned.
Toronto, Jan. 7.—Charles Smith, adult,
and Samuel Smith, a boy, were drowned
while skating. Four persons who broke
through the ice at the same time were sayed,
THE CLOSING SCENES.
Obsequies of the Dead Dictator of
France.
The Procession Reaches from the Place of
Starting to Pere La Chaise Cemete^-
A Statement to Dispel Falsities as to
His Wound.
The Government Accepts the Responsibility
of Speeches by Bresson, Peyrat,
Deves and Billot.
Paris, Jan. 6. —The car used in the Gam
betta funeral cortege is one especially de
signed by Bastien Lepage, the painter. It
moves on low, black wheels, streaked with
silver. On it will be placed the catafalque as
it now stands. Wreaths will be deposited
at the base of the catafalque, and at the four
corners vases will be affixed, in which will
be burning perfumes, shrouding the coffin in
vapor. Several cars will follow containing
wreaths, the number of which is moment
arily increasing. It had been proposed to
bear Antonin Marcere’s statue, Gloria Victie,
now in the Place de Lafayette, on an artillery
wagon before the coffin, as an allusion to
Gambetta’s services in 1870, but objections
were raised by the authorities.
Early as daybreak the aspect of the streets
was animated.
Flags draped with crape are everywhere
displayed, and troops are marching between
the Esplanade des Invalides and Palais Bour
boD.
The drapery on the statue of Strasbourg in
the Place de la Concorde, is particularly re
marked. The deputations from the various
departments are immense. They are massed
in the Place des Invalides, and along the Quai
d’Orsay to Petit Bourbon, an area of 25,000
metres. A dense mass of spectators, the ma
jority of whom have been in position half
the night, occupy the streets ail the way to
the cemetery. The remainder of the city is
deserted.
The funeral car has just arrived at the
Quai d’Orsay, in front of the Colonnade. It
is preceded by six horsemen in black and
white uniforms. The car is drawn by six
horses. The coffin is covered with black
velvet, which is again partially hidden by
tri-colors draped with crape, and two natural
palms, with wreaths of red immortelles.
The platform car is literally covered with
wreaths. The bearers carry batons, on which
are also wreaths. The regimental flag of the
escort is draped with crape. The body of
Gam betta was placed in the hearse at 10:20
a. m., amid booming of cannon, beating of
drums and the sound of trumpets, the troops
preeeniing’ arms. The started ct
10:30. It was headed by the relatives and
friends of the deceased, representatives of
President Grevy, the ministers, the generals,
including General Gallifet, the senators and
deputies, including Clemenceau and other
members of the Extreme Left. Brisson,
president of the Chamber of Deputies, and
Peyrat, Vice-president of the Senate, headed
the senators and deputies respectively.
THE PROCESSION
was nearly two miles long. The guard of
honor preceding and flanking the catafalque
was composed of the Republican Guard, with
the band playing a funeral dirge. It is esti
mated that 200,000 persons were in the pro
cession, conspicuous among which were the
Free Masons in their complete uniform, and
the advocates and students of Paris. An
English delegation from Boulogne was pres
ent.
At 12:30 o’clock the head of the procession
had reached the Boulevard de Sebastopol,
while numerous deputations were still wait
ing in the Esplanade des Invalides to take
their places in the cortege. The end of the
procession will probably be still at the Palais
Bourbon when the body arrives at the Pere
la Chaise cemetery. Numerous musical socie
ties are playing in the procession besides
military bands.
Deves, Minister of Justice, speaking on be
half of the government, said he saluted the
remains of a great citizen. The loss of such
a man caused national grief. The fatherland
mourned one who loved and defended it
passionately. The deceased had loved France,
and had had faith in her destinies even
when hope seemed to be in diliunce of for
tune.
His resolution not to let her abdicate her
place among the nations, would be ever xe
membered, apart from his heroic defense.
His political principles and his profound
veneration for the will of the nation com
manded admiration. His life was employed
entirely for France and the republic.
Though he descended prematurely to the
grave, he left his country ‘‘re?, the master of
its destinies. Under a respected, popular
government, the republic at home is pacific,
and the dignity of France abroad is hence
forth beyond attack. The memory of Gam
betta will remain in the hearts of all pa
triots.
chaefaur’s remarks.
Chaffaur, on behalf of the Alsace-Lorraine
societies in Paris, said Gambetta was the life
and soul of the defence at Bordeaux. He rep
resented our distress after our mutilation,
and he remained the representative of our
invincible hope. He had truly declared that
the inhabitants of the lost provinces were
doubly Frenchmen. Generous workman, he
died trusting in the future. His work re
mains, both that which he accom
plished and that which was
the magnanimous ambition of his
life. Our tears for him are not the sterile
ones of despair. Our pain shall be only that
of men who return to work with fresh ardor.
The great friend of Alsace-Lorraine is dead,
but France lives, and will respond to the
appeals of her glorious destiny. Vive la
France.
Almost every member of the Chamber of
Deputies and Senate viewed Gambetta’s coffin
yesterday. When the gates were finally
closed against the public some persons en
deavored to force their way in. The wide
spread nature of feeling excited by the death
of Gambetta may be judged from the fact
that the Royalist Popular League postponed
for a week a grand banquet which had been
announced before his death for to-night. All
tlie markets, with theexception of the Bourse,
were closed. All the embassadors, including
Prince Von Hohenlohe, the German, repre
sentative, were present at tlie start of the
funeral procession, and sent their carriages
to join the cortege.
Tlie deputation from Alsace-Lorraine, met
with sympathetic demonstrations along the
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entire route. The spectacle of a formidable
army of sympathizers, members of associa
tions which followed and acclaimed the re
mains of the great Tribune and his adversar.
ies holding aloof and maintaining silence,
caused a vague feeling of uneasiness.
M. Falateuf said the honors paid to Gam*
betta were not to the man only, but were
the consecration of the memories of resist
ance to a triumphant invasion. They were
a mark of gratitude to all who, at Gumbetta’s
call, had died for their country.
Brisson. in his oration, dwelt on Gam
betta’s efforts to promote republicanism in
France. He concluded: “Let not our grief
be sterile. Over Gambetta’s bier, around
which arc grouped his friends, men of all
parties, representatives of the army and chil
dren of provinces so dear to us, we swear we
will labor to accomplish that union which
was Gambetta’s prayer.”
The Government decided this morning to
accept the responsibility for the speeches of
Mm. Brisson, Peyrat and Deves, and General
Billot. All the other speeches were of an
absolutely private character. The news
paper, Chat Neir, having utalized the occa
sion to attack Germany, was seized this
morning.
Gambetta’s father, after mature reflection,
decided not to oppose the convictions of his
son, but has concluded to permit the funeral
at Nice to be a civil one.
Reinach, an intimate personal friend of
Gambetta, publishes a detailed account of
the wound, intended to dispel various falsi
ties.
Gambetta, he states, was trying anew re
volver, when the breech stuck fast, owing to
one of the cartridges not fitting properly.
Holding the pistol by the muzzle, he endeav*
ored to close the breech forcibly, when the
cartridge exploded. The lady who has re
cently been prominently mentioned, so far
from being the cause of the accident, nursed
him devotedly for thirty-four days.
The Royalist papers describe the proceed
ings at Gambetta’s funeral as theatrical and
insincere. The extreme Radical press de
clare that the people were absent from the
funeral. Republican journals unanimously
testily to the grave, calm and patriotic de
meanor during the funeral. They express
the hope that the events of the past week
will produce concord among the Republic
ans, especially in the and that the
sentiments of unity v
oration will last 1* - t;>
strewn on Gambett j The
says it believes th • u< groiiuin;
majority in the Cii&mbc f ; it
bring about a parliamentary duel -
CJemencieu and J ules Ferry.
General Billot’s Remarks.
Paris, Jan. 7.—The following is the text of
the remarks made by General Billot at the
grave of Gambetta: “On this day of public
mourning the army, deeply afflicted, unites in
sentiments of admiration, respect and pro
found regret for Gatnbetta, who, amidst our
greatest disasters, did not despair of the
safety of the country, and was the soul o£
national defense, and for General Chanzey,
who was its most glorious soldier. Do not
the names of Washington, Jefferson and
Lincoln shine on to glory in the American
republic like the bright stars in their ban
ner. They, too, were the very soul of their
country.”
Demonstrations at Pere la Chaise.
Paris, Jan. 7.—An enormous throng of
. people are vidling the tomb cl G&uibct.a. A
demonstration was made at the grave of
Blanque to-day. About 200 persons laid gar
lands on the grave, and speeches were made.
One speaker protested against the honor paid
to the memory of Gambetta, and other mani
festations followed at the tomb by the Fei
erals of 1867. There are many signs of
mourning for Gambetta in Bordeaux, Cher
bourg. and other towns.
Pere Hyacintlie, preaching at the Galician
Chapel, said the funeral of Gambetta was
not only national but religious in its charac
ter, despise the absence of religious rites.
“It is the immortal soul of the great patriot,
whom we deplore, to which homage is paid.
I pray that our German brethren may be
better inspired chan hitherto, and that they
will so act as to cause the nation’s of
tlie north to become reconciled to those
of the south.” Pere Hyacinthe then com
pared the advantages of the constitutional
monarchy with those of a wise republic, such
as that of Washington. The papal nuncio
did not attend Gambetta’s funeral.
VIVE LA REPUBLIQUE.
The Cercmouies as Reported to the London
Press.
London, Jan. 6.—A Paris dispatch says the
spectacle there is unexampled. From 8
o’clock this morning traffic has been stopped
on the south side of the river. Deputations
of the special Commissionaires of Police gave
direction to the ever-increasing mass of depu
tations which came up, each anxious, to se
cure a good position. From the Place des
Invalides the scene presented was of the
strangest imaginable aspect. Above the
swaying mass of crowds which covered it are
banners, wreaths and enormous masses o!
flowers, borne on men’s shoulders. In the
Rue de l’Universite, from the square up tc
the Esplanade, are deputations who are un
able to find standing place in the Court ol
the Palais Bourbon. The whole front ol
the building was draped in black, with
large silver candelabra between the pil
lars, giving a greenish flame. A whole corps
d’armee was drawn up here. Towurds this
.point a kind of shudder seemed to pass
through the crowd, and a formidable demon
stration seemed about to break out from
time to time. Cries of “Vive la Ropublique,”
“Vive la France,” and even “Vive Gambet*
ta,” were raised by the compact crowds as
sembled on the pavement, which were
echoed by the people at a distance. Upon
the railing of;the garden of the Tuileries were
men two or three deep, standing on the
stone-work in attitudes of torture, which
they had occupied for several hours, while
on the opposite side of the railings the nar
row ledge swarmed with others clinging to
the railing with one hand, the other being
free, waiving their hats.
The windows in the Hotel Continental had
been hired at fabulous prices, even thirty
guineas being mentioned. The crowd along
the Rue Rivoli, and the spectators in
windows in the fashionable neighborhoods
appeared cold, and much more influenced by
the motives of curiosity than the bulk ol
the populace.
The Times correpondcnt says it was a re
markable historical event.
All along the Rue de Rivoli flags bound
with crape were flown, but they were not
very numerous. From the Hotel de ViUo
they became thicker, and appeared on every
story. The churches were not called on tc
share in the celebration,and shut their doors.
The new Hotel de Yille was bare of flags oi
crape, though it cei tainly would have gone
into mourning, had it been the funeral of
Henri Rochefort, instead of Gambcttd. By
the time the end of the procession had
passed through the Rue de Rivoli, the heat
was nearing the Cemetery l’ere la Chaise k
which was reached at 1:30, when Deyes spoke