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THE WHEN
SHOT DEAD BY OFFICERS.
A Murderous Assauit on a Colored Family by
a Numbe: of Armed Law Officers,
Dallas, Ter-, Jan. 30. —The shooting affray
reported from here yesterday proves to be a seri
ous affair. Orly three persons were shot, but
the developments are sensational, and attracting
almost universal attention. All the parties shot
were colored—Jesse Bonner, a middle aged man;
Margaret Young, his seep daughter, aged fire
years, and Henry Johnson, aged eighteen years.
Bonner was instantly killed, and the other two
fatally wounded. Detective Dnncan, of Dallas,
and Deputy Sheriff Seely, of Freestone county,
who did the killing, will stick to the statement
made by them, that they went to Bonner’s house
to arrest him as a horse-thief, and were fired
upon by parties inside with shotguns and pistols,
and that they returned the fires; that the killing
was done in self-defense, but the remarkable
feature of the tragedy is that neither of the offi
cers received a scratch. Officers who have made
a thorough investigation of the premises assert
that all the bullet-holes found in the house show
that they were made from shots fired inward
from the door of the cabin, through which the
officers entered, and that no evidences were dis
covered of shots fired outward by the occupants
of the cabin. The evidence taken before the jus
tice is voluminous, and the jury returned a ver
dict that Bonner's death was caused by gunshot
wounds inflicted by shots fired from weapons in
the hands of one Seely and two other parties, to
the jury unknown. Duncan admits being with
Seeiy, and shooting, but the witnesses from
among the occupants of the house only
identified Seely. Who the third party
was is a mystery. The story of the
negroes, with surrounding circumstances, makes
it appear credible, and is far different from the
Statements of Duncan and Seely. Robert John
son said he had just returned to the house from
work with his brother Henrv, when two men
rushed in and began firing, without saying a
word. Bonner fell, as did also the little girl.
Johnson and his brother ran outside, and there
Hemy was shot down by another man. Joseph
ine Davis, who was in the house at the time of
tbe shooting, testified to the same effect. Dun
can and Seely are still in custody at the county
jail, and the grand jury, now in session, is in
vestigating the tragedy. The opinion prevails
that indictments for murder will be returned
against Duncan and Seely. Public opinion, as
expressed on the streets and in public places, is
not complimentary to them in connection with
the tragedy.
Another report says: “A good deal of excite
ment was created here to day on the announce
ment of anew and horrible theory touching the
killing of Jessie Bonner and other negroes.
Thursday night, by Deputy Sheriff Seely, of
Freestone county, and Detective Duucan, of
this city, who surrendered themselves. A visit
to the scene of the shooting shows that Bonner's
five year old child was shot through the fore
head. and Robert Johnson, colored, was hot in
the knee. The evidence at the inquest thus far
tends to show that the shooting was entirely
unprovoked. Bonner was sitting in his cabin,
with his child on his knee, when the officers
burst in and began shooting. The negroes had
no weapons. Witnesses testify that there were
three white men in the party. One
stood outride and shot Johnson as he ran
away. The belief is growing that the killing was
cold blooded murder. The colored population are
agitated. Constable Miller says that the state
ment of the negroes ie corroborated by the ap
pearance of things. The officers have ascertained
that just before Duncan and Seely gave them
selves up, Duncan took a breech-loading shot
gun to the Brothers saloon, at Main and Syca
more streets, and requested Joe Black to keen it
until called for, remar king: “I guess we’ve made
a bad killing.” Late last night the sheriff ar
rested, as the third aggressor, a detective of
Jack Duncan’s corps known as “Loosely.” Dun
can and Seely are locked up in one cell, and
“Loosely” in another. It is the impression that
“Loosely” will turn State’s evidence.
* Municipal War at St. Louis.
St. Louis. Jan. 30.—A highly exciting scene
occurred in the lower house of the municipal as
sembly last night. The bouse was in a wrangle
over the gas bills, which have been bones of con
tention before it for several weeks past, and in
the height of a discussion over a motion to refer
the correctness of the form of a certification
upon one of the bills to the city counselor, the
speaker, Mr. Fox, declared the House adjourned
and left the chair. This produced a great com
motion, and the minority, or the Fox men, left
the hall. The majority then reconvened, elected
anew speaker and clerk, and one or two minor
officers, and adjourned, after sending for a squad
of police to take charge of the hall and prevent
the minority from meeting there. Three police
man were stationed at the hall after midnight
but the excitement had then subsided. The po
lice still hold possession of the halL
Crook’s Objectionable Scouts.
Chicago, Jan. 30.—A special telegram pub
lished here this morning from Tucson, A. TANARUS.,
fcays: Mexican citizens just arrived from Na
cori assert that the reason the Mexican
troops fired on Captain Crawford’s In
dian* scouts was that they are equally
as objectionable in Mexico as the so
ealled renegade Apaches. They claim it can be
proved that Crook's scouts have committed dep
redations in Mexico and then laid the blame on
the renegades. This being the case, they say
the Mexican officers find it bard to restrain their
men from firing on Crook's Indian scouts where
ever they come in contact with them. Respon
sible Americans residing in Mexico confirm the
representations of the Mexicans to a certain ex
tent.
Mutiny on Board an American Vessel.
London, Jan. 30.—A dispatch to the Daily
News from Madeira states that a German vessel
which arrived there from St Helena reports that
& terrible mutiny took place on board the Amer
ican ship Frank N. Thayer, Captain Clark, from
Manilla, Oet 31, for New York, which, as be
fore reported, was burned at sea. The mutin
eers are said to have murdered some of the of
ftud then to have set fire to the ship.
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL.
A CBUSADE AGAINST TIGHTS.
A Sharp Outcry Against a Certain Class
of Improprieties on the Stage.
The Well-Behaved Members of the Profession
Scandalized by the Exploits of Partially-
Dressed Comic Opera Actresses.
The Pleasant Side of Joaqnin Miller’s
Variegated Matrimonial Life.
An Italian Who Is Astonished to Learn that
Wife-Murder Is Illegal—The Yander
bilt Public Art Gallery.
Undress on the stage.
legitimate Managers Inaugurate a War
Against Short Clothes and Tights.
Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal.
New Yoke, Jan. 30.—Sharp warfare has
broken out between art and burlesque in theatri
cals. Not since the original “Black Crook”
shocked and entertained the New York public
has there been so loud an outcry against stage
improprieties. The managers of the three legit
imate stock companies, Wallack, Palmer and
Daly, have banded together in an onslaught
upon indecorously costumed burlesques and
comic operas, and the first battle is set down for
next Thursday afternoon. They have prepared
benefit matinee performances for the Actors’
Fund, and from the entertainments, which will
be given in their own theaters —Wallack’s, Daly’s
and the Madison-square—unskirted actresses are
to be rigidly excluded. “Engaged,” “The Rivals”
and “Love on Crutches” will be performed, but
the companies will go the round of the three
houses, giving one act of their plays on each
stage, so that an audience will get a third of
every comedy. Between acts there will be sing
ing, but all in conventional clothes, and the
-three leagued managers will make addresses, in
which they are expected to define their posi
sition as to what they have already characterized
as pernicious amusement. Palmer and Wallack
have in published interviews denounced the cur
rent taste for actresses in tights, and this pecu
liar matinee is under the personal direction of
Daly. That they have suffered from tbe compe
tition of the entertainments which they con
demn is mentioned as a selfish animus of their
present proceedings; but circumstances have
combined to create much sentiment on their side
of the question. Exploits of a small but very
conspicuous minority of burlesque and comic
opera actresses have lately scandalized the well
behaved majority, and the more notorious the
persons became the more they were forced for
ward, because their value as attractions to the
dudes was thereby enhanced. At tbe annual
meeting of the Society for the Suppression of
Vice, which is Anthony Comstock’s organization,
the subject of risky stage costuming was dis
cussed, and the heavy backers of Comstock—
the element from which he gets his potent moral
and financial support—agreed to sustain him in a
crusade against tights. He is, therefore, likely
to do something radical if not effective.
A diverting side-issue is the discussion of
Henry Ward Beecher's presence at the Academy
of Music, last Monday afternoon, when a mixed
show was given for the benefit of H. A.
Thomas, an artist. Beecher was a friend
of the beneficiary, and he volunteered to
make an address introducing a party of draughts
men, who made sketches on the stage. He did
that service happily, and then took a place in a
proscenium box, where two young ladies of his
family sat He seemed to enjoy the vocal and
acrobatic doiDgs that ensued. At length the
time came for au Amazon march by the chorus
from “Evangeline.” It was out of this troop of
carefully selected pretty girls that Sadie Cortel
you recently retired into disgrace and death; and
it was with them that several hundred Produce
Exchange brokers lately had a famous guying
time, after the manner of the historically humor
ous manner of the Count Joannes tragedies.
Beecher did not quit his box, but he retreated so
far behind the draperies that he was visible to
only a small portion of the audience, and the
best obtainable ovidence is that he turned his
back on the parade of the twenty unclad girls.
On the fall of the curtain he went into the corri
dor, and stayed there talking with acquaintances
during the encore reappearance of the bur
lesquers. He declines to be drawn into talk on
the subject for publication, but intimates that
he will soon define his position regarding theat
ricals in a sermon.
THE MILLERS.
The Pleasant Side of the Family's Matrimo
nial Complications.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
New York, Jan. 30.—Matrimony, in the Joa
quin Miller family, was long ago—in the Minnie
Myrtle matter, and now aeain in the case of
Maud Miller—exhibited to the public in unpleas
ant aspects. But a sight of happier wedlock for
the poet can truthfully be given. With all his
eccentricities of nature and affectatiop, he is high
in some phases of character and conduct, and
quite romantic in his love of his present wife,
who is a member of the Leland family of hotel
keeping fame. In tbe summer season at Long
Branch, six years ago, a benefit entortainmeut
for charity was given by such professional and
amateur volunteers as happened to be within
reach. A hotel parlor was crowded by the au
dience, in which sat the poet of the Sierras, long
of hair and peculiar of costume. Song and rec
itation succeeded one another, until a Leland
girl went on the stage to declaim. She gave a
narrative poem by Bret Harte, entitled
“Luke,” in which a simple, heroic
frontiersman is made to tell, without himself
comprehending the truth, how a dainty young
lady has romantically permitted herself to fall in
love with him. Miss Leland fcas • strong, musical
voice and a clever command of the right dialect.
I was interested in watching Miller as he listened
to the rhymes of a rival poet in something like
his own lino of composition, but he betrayed
neither intense admiration nor jealousy. The
elocutionist was recalled, whereupon she gave a
floridly descriptive passage out of Miller’s “With
Walker in Nicaragua.” Then the impression on
him was palpable enough, and he beamed on the
fair performer in open adulation. The selection
was accidental, for she did not know of the au
thor’s presence; but it led to an acquaintance,
and tho upshot was the marriage of the couple.
The union has been blissful, so their mutual
friends say. The establishment of himself for a
part of the time in a Washington log cabin
means no estrangement, though his wife never
lives with him there, but has a residence with
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her relatives here in New York. That the wife
has a powerful influence over the husband is
proven by the fact that his hair has been reason
ably shortened since they mated.
AN ASTONISHED ITALIAN.
A Mistake That Is Likely to Take Andrea
Depolido to the Gallows.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
New York, Jan. 30. Andrea Depolido is
astounded to learn that a man can be hanged in
America for killing a faithless wife. He under
stood that such a homicide was legally justifiable
in the country, and his mistake is pretty sure to
take him to the gallows. He is an Italian,
with the aspect of a Sicilian bandit, and he sub
stituted a very small amount of Americanisms
for bis native characteristics during about a year
of residence in the squalid Italian qnarter of
Mnlberry street. A woman noted in that neigh
borhood for beauty, though her loveliness re
quired Italian eyes to see it, was Gaetana di
Stefano. She lived with a fellow-countryman,
Jean Bncci, until he decided to bring his own
wife from Italy. It was amicably arranged,
months beforehand, that she should be trans
ferred to Depolido when Mrs. Bncci arrived, and
that was done, with a regular wedding to make
her Mrs. Depolido. Eleven days ago, she was
deliberately shot to death by Depolido,
because she had maintained an intimacy
with Bucci, who was younger and
comelier than her husband. The murderer was
arrested, and, owing to the usual difficulty m get
ting testimony from Italians against their com
rades, all the witnesses have since been kept in
the House of Detention. They agreed that
Depolido announced his determination to slay his
wife; and now it transpires that he thought he
had legal advice to do so. He became desper
ately jealous and revengeful. The Tombs is close
to his abode, at 65 Mulberry street, and shyster
lawyers abound there. He went to one of them,
and in half-understandable English inquired if
maritally wronged husbands were punishable for
taking the lives of their wrongers. He had his
ragpicking bag on his back, and was an outre ob
ject His inquiry was treated jocosely, and the
remark was made: “No, we don’ hang husbands
who kill their wives’lovers.” Depolido took that
to mean seriously, ns he had previously believed
that he had a right, under our laws, to punish
his faithless spouse with death. He told her so,
as a warning, but she derided him and went to
keep an assignation with Bucci. Her slaughter
ensued. Depolido has rested easily in prison
under bis delusion, until his counsel has unde
ceived him.
VANDERBILT’S BENEFICENCE.
Cornelias and William K. Decide to Estab
* llsh a Public Art Gallery.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
New York, Jau. 30.—Cornelius and William
K Vanderbilt, inheritors of their father’s mill
ions to the extent of over seventy each, have de
cided to jointly carry out his desire to establish
a public art-gallery. His intention was to buy
the block of ground opposite his residence in
Fifth avenue, on which stands a Catholic or
phanage, and build theron a magnificent edifice,
in which to place his great collections of paint
ings as a beginning of a permanent and un
rivaled art exhibition. He was thwarted by the
fact that the land had been sold to the Catholic
church at a nominal price, under the proviso that
it should never be diverted from use as a site of
an asylum for orphans. The testy millionaire,
characteristically resentful of hindrance in
what he deemed a public spirited meas
ure, and especially angered by a pub
lished intimation that his object prima
rily was to make an agreeable view across
the way from his mansion windows, gave up the
project in disgust. The sons aro more even of
temper and persistent of purpose, and they are
agreed upon devoting enough of the money left
by William H. indefinitely for beneficence to the
erection and endowment of a Vanderbilt art
gallery. “It is true that we are going to carry
out father’s design,” said Cornelius, when asked,
“and my brother and I are in accord as to how
to do it; but the plan is incomplete, and 1 may
say that it has gone little further than a fixed
intention. No site has been chosen, nor any
fixed sum appropriated. Father was always de
sirous of giving the public the benefits of view
ing his pictures, and he opened his private
gallery on stated days during two winters.
Much intrusive annoyance ensued, but the priv
ilege seemed to be appreciated by the great ma
jority of the visitors, and he was encouraged in
his idea of establishing an art institution. In
that, as in everything else, the heirs are harmo
niously disposed to obey his will.”
The Henderson Manslaughter Case.
Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal.
Brazil, Jan. 30.—The Clay Circuit Court
has just disposed of an interesting case
in that of the State vs. City Marshal Hen
derson, the charge being manslaughter. Last
October Henderson arrested Aaron Varner for
carrying concealed weapons and for provoke.
Varner, while in custody of Henderson and in
search of friends to go on his bail, made an at
tempt to escape. Henderson fired at him twice
without aiming at effect, other than to stop him.
Failing in this, he took more deliberate aim on
the third shot, mortally wounding him, though
not intending to do so. He was indicted by the
grand jury for manslaughter, and the caso occu
pied the attention of court yesterday and to-day,
Prosecutor McGregor appearing for the State,
and Messrs. McNutt and Carter for defendant.
The jury was out seven minutes, and returned a
verdict of acquittal. Mr. Henderson is a
worthy young man, and deported himself be
comingly in his treatmeuo and care for Varner
until his death, some days after the shooting.
Public sympathy sustains the verdict.
Western Indiana Fair Association.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Crawfordsville, Jan. 30.—A meeting was
held at Crawfordsville, last Thursday, to take
preliminary steps towards forming a fair circuit
for western Indiana. Among those present were
R. C. McWilliams and David Strouse, of Rock
ville; W. H. Duncan and C. C. Oakey, of Terre
Haute; H. E. Hadley, of New Ross; M. H. Bel
knap, of Frankfort, and Paul Hughes. F. L.
Snyder, J. J. Insley, Joseph Grubb and Eli Ar
mentrout, of Crawfordsville. The object of the
association will be to harmonize the workings of
the different fairs, and secure special rates for
the shipment of stock. It was decided to have
bicycle-riding at each fair, and the prizes will be
cups and medals, in order to allow only amateurs
to enter the contest. Another meeting will be
held at the same place on Thursday, Feb. 18.
♦
Fight Between Cowboys and Mexicans.
Durango, Col., Jan. CO.—The mail-carrier
from Farmington, N. M., reports that a pro
trACted fight recently occurred between Carlisle’s
cowboys and some Mexican sheep-herders on the
lower San Juan river, near the Navajo reserva
tion. The trouble grew out of an effort of both
parties to occupy the same range. The sheep
herders drove their flocks where the cattle were
feeding, and the cowboys attempted to drive
them off. The Mexicans proved too strong for
their assailants and forced them to take refuge
in a cabin. They then burned all the other
buildings belonging to the cowmen and held the
latter as prisoners in the cabin for two days,
during which time they drove their sheep away
and then left One Mexican was killed during
the affray.
Ohio State Trades Assembly.
Columbus, Jan. 30.— The State Trades As
sembly, before adjourning, adopted a resolution
favoring the enactment of an eight-hour law to
be observed by corporate companies. It did not
indorse the action of the National Federation of
Trades, held at Chicago, proposing a strike, Mav
1, for the eight-hour system, but recommended
legislation on the subject.
THE BOYCOTT IN GERMANY.
Polish Merchants Making Arrangements
to Boycott German Traders,.
In Retaliation for the Arbitrary Action of
Bismarck in Ordering the Expulsion of
Poles from Prussian Territory.
The King of Greece Wearies of His Sub
jects, and Threatens to Abdicate.
The Dilke-Crawford Scandal and Its Relations
to Politics—Lady Dilke’s Asssistauce of
Her Lord in His Campaign.
AFFAIRB IN GERMANY.
Tlie Recent Debate on the Polish Expul
sions—How the Poles Will Retaliate.
Berlin, Jan. 30. —The debate in the lower
house of the Landtag, on Thursday last, on the
subject of the expulsion of the Poles from east
ern Prussia, was listened to by an immense audi
ence. The box reserved for royalty was occu
pied by the princes of the royal family.
Prince Bismarck gave a masterly historical sur
vey of Prussia’s relations with the Poles. The
allusion by the Chancellor to the government’s in
tention bf expropriating the land of the members
of the Polish nobility who live in Paris and Mon
aco, caused a tremendous uproar. On Friday,
when the discussion was continued, there was
less interest manifested, and the galleries were
not so crowded as on the preceding day. The
debate savored of party recrimination. Herr
Stablevski made a violent speech in which he
accused the government of waging a war of ex
termination against the Poles.
Prince Bismarck, in controverting the state
ment of Herr Windthorst, tho Clerical leader, re
marked that he wished that Herr Windthorst
bad his (the Chancellor’s) place, adding that he
had sounded the Emperor on the subject of such
a change, but that the latter had declared that
he was too old to try such an experiment This
hit of the Chancellor was greeted with loud
laughter.
The lower house of the Landtag, after eight
hours’ debate, adopted Herr Achenbach’s motion
for tbe adoption of the resolution expressing sat
isfaction at the passage in the speech from the
throne promising measures for the protection of
German interests in eastern Prussia. The an
nouncement of the result of the vote was greeted
with tumultuous applause. The members of
Centre, the Polish members and the new Ger
man Liberals left the Chamber before the dis
cussion.
Herr Richter submitted a motion to refer to
the budget committee the clause in Herr Achen
bach’s motion offering to grant funds to increase
German educational advantages in the Polish
provinces. Tbe motion was rejected by a vote of
234 to 15a
Replying to Herr Windthorst, General Yon
Shellendorf, the Minister of War, declared that
there question of with the
promotion of Catholics in the Prussian army,
into which, he trusted, the Kulturkampf would
not be dragged. Promotion in the army, he
said, depended solely upon military ability.
The Bavarian Chamber is opposed to the
spirit monopoly bill. The government will ab
stain from voting in the Bundsrnth on the meas
ure, in order to avoid thwarting a project the
principle of which it approves.
The Polish merchants are making arrange
ments to boycott the German trade, as aD act of
retaliation for the Polish expulsions.
The Vossische Zoitung, speaking of the pro
posed appointment of a nuncio to Berlin, says
the Pope personally originated the idea. When
the appointment will be made is a matter of con
siderable doubt, as there are many obstacles to
prevent the immediate realization of the project
A TIRED KING.
The Ruler of Greece Wearies of His Bellicose
Subjects, ami Threatens to Abdicate.
London. Jan. 30.—The Times’s Athens cor
respondent telegraphs that the IviDg of Greece
has become tired of the politics of the Atheni
ans, and especially of their. present bellicose
attitude respecting the Bulgarian question, and
that his Majesty will likely soon abdicate and
retire to Copenhagen,
The King of Greece.has refused the request of
Sir Horace Rumbold, the British minister, to
cancel all the alleged fanciful accounts in the
semi-official newspaper, which stated that the
British minister in imparting to the Greek gov
ernment Premier Salisbury’s note informing
Greece of England’s attitude, used language
tend'.Dg to break the relations existing between
England and Greece. Sir Horace denies having
made any offensive remarks on the occasion, and
has referred the matter to his government.
DILKE AND RADY DILKE.
Issues Involved in the Crawford Divorce
Trial—lts Political Side.
London Letter in Philadelphia Press.
More defends upon the issue of Crawford vs.
Dilke than is generally supposed. Should Sir
Charles fatl to vindicate his character by nega
tiving satisfactorily the aspersions of an hyster
ical woman his retirement from the political
arena must naturally be the consequence. Since
his marriage the salon of Lady Dilke has re
vived the memories of the days when titled
ladies were even more active politicians
than their husbands. In Lady Dilke’s
drawing-rooms in the somewhat dingy-look
ing mansion in Sloane street, Chelsea,
may he seen gathered, particularly on
Sundays, the men of light and leading in the
Liberal and Radical camps. As Mrs. Mark Pat
tison, the gifted and beautiful hostess occupied
a subordinate position, but her courage in rais
ing Sir Charles from the dust in which, -without
due reason, he had abased himself, has reflected
favorably upon herself. In a word, she has
leaped into notoriety. From the breath of scan
dal she has diligontly protected her husband
from the moment she telegraphed from Nice
authorizing the publication of their engagement,
and she consented to the marriage taking place
just before the general election, by which she
obtained the right to assist him. as the first Lady
Dilke had done, personally in his canvass. No
donbt she saved his seat.
Since then she has found the columns of re
views open to her, and she has aspired to the
character of a woman who can talk. In this
ambition the newspapers are helping her. Sir
Charles himself takes pride in having east off his
former labored style or public speaking in favor
of the debating method; that is to say, he now
speaks, except on set occasions, extempore, in
stead of reciting carefully prepared harangue*.
It is the latter system, however, that he recom
mends to his wife. Her speeches are thought
fully composed, written and then committed to
memory. It does not matter much whether the
lady adheres to her brief, for the manuscript is
handedxo the reporters, and tbe public is duly
furnished with the neatly turned pe
riods Lady Dilke meant •to de
liver, if she did not actually utter
them., Sir Charles has already found it con
venient to use her as his mouthpiece fora declar
ation of his religions belief, the necessity of
which the turn of election events made appar
ent, and he is so shrewd as to keep silent him
self on an occasion when his wife is talking, for
he knows very well that newspapers concern
themselves with considerations of space alone.
The attitude of Sir Charles and Lady Dilke
indicates that they do not mean lightly to give
up the struggle. The Right Hon. Baronet is a
clear-headed man. He has the reputation, shared
by the Prince of Wales, of never forgetting a
name he has once heard, or the face of any indi
vidual to whom he has been introduced. He
moves amongst his constituents, and, as an
example of the attention he considers their
due, I may quote the following: During the re
cess, since the elections, journalists have been
very active in interviewing the leaders of both
parties with respect to the Irish question. When
they have been inaccessible to callers these poli
ticians have been bombarded with circulars.
Sir Charles has been proof against both attacks,
and he will not be drawn into a declaration of
his policy. Even in his public speeches he has
lightly skipped over the Irish problem. The
reason for all this is his desire not to offend
the Parnellites, for he knows that were
they in possession of his views they would/
at once be alienated. In proof of this assertion!
an instance of his courtesy to his constituents
may be cited: A day or two ago he was present
at a strictly private ward meeting composed of
hardly fifty nobodies. To them he expressed a
full exposition of his opinions ou the Irish diffi
culty, speaking with a freedom and directness of
speech which is quite unusual to him. Espying
a solitary reporter taking notes, he asked hina to
desist, saying that if his sentiments were tof be
printed he would not reveal them. In hjouor
bound the reporter laid down bis pencil, an/d has
ever since been bitterly repentant, fofr Sir
Charles gave a magnificent speech.
In brief, he declared himself utterly opposed to
home rule, and expressed a belief that y 4 would
be better to have a foreign country ast a next
door neighbor than an Ireland under sufeh gov
ernment. He indicated the scope of a,> concili
atory measure for elective boards, he had
submitted when in office to his colleagues, but
which they declined to approve, and frdiin other
hints it was clear to his auditory thatt in this
and other matters Sir Charles is at direct vari
ance with the Liberal leaders. In fact, he out
lives the obloquy which an adverse verdict in the
coming cause celebre will bring, Sir Chafrles will
presently disassociate himself from thta heads
of his party. C’adstone gone, the jleader
ship will be secured either by Hart/ington,
Chamberlain or Dilke. Hartington, so vthe last
named considers, is not sufficiently eiaergetic,
Chamberlain is rather too advanced, arid there
only remains Dilke himself to lead the'/Liberal
hosts. This is his aspiration, and in tnxs pur
pose Lady Dilke is rendering good service. ?There
is a vein of sentiment in this campaign, fo*r are
not the lady and gentleman first lovers yinited?
So, at any rate, it is said, and better latie than
never. Rhr the way, it is not generally linown
that Sir Charles is a much-traveled ma(n. He
has been twice round the world, and has {visited
Russia five times. ?
ENGLISH POLITICS. }
Parnell!tes Fear that the New Cabinet Will
Be the Result of Compromise.
London, Jan. 30. —Mr. Gladstone, wfio has
been summoned by the Queen to form a Cabinet,
will visit Her Majesty at the royal palace at
Osborne on Monday.
General Fonsonby, private secretary to the
Queen, presented to Mr. Gladstone her Majes
ty’s mandate this morning. The Secretary and
Mr. Gladstone had a consultation which lasted
half an hour.
The Parnellites fear that Mr. Gladstone will
be compelled to form a eompromse Cabinet. Mr.
Gladstone had conferences this evening with
several prominent Liberals. It has transpired
that General Fonsonby railed upon the Marquis
of Salisbury before visiting Mr. Gladstone, and
has since consulted with Lord Hartington and
others.
The Standard learns that Lord Hartington
will be a member of the new Ministry.
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
Prominent Churchmen Assert Their Fealty
to the French Government.
Paris, Jan. 30.—The archbishops of Paris,
Lyons and Toulon, have written to President
Grevy. asserting their devotion to the father
land, and condemning the isolated electoral mis
deeds of a few priests, who, they say, persist
in harping upon the religious gravity of the
present situation. The archbishops assure M.
Grevy that the monarchical and republican
forms of government are equally acceptable to
the Roman Catholic Church, provided the affairs
of the nation be wisely administered.
Military Does.
Berlin, Jan. 30.—The Minister of War has
ordered that a number of dogs be trained for use
as night sentinels. The idea was suggested by an
incident of tho war in the Soudan, in which the
experiment of substituting dogs as guards was
successfully tried.
Killed by i'allins Houses.
London, Jan. 30.—Six houses on Halloway
road collapsed to-day. Six passers by were in
stantly killed, and a number of others badly in
jured.
Cable Notes.
M. Armand Raschet., a French author, is dead.
The British authorities in Eeypt are endeavor
ing to raise a nnmber of native battalions to
garrison Snakim and replace the British and In
dian troops now stationed there.
Emperor William, Empress Augusta, and a
great number of the imperial family attended
the annual ball de l’opera on Friday night, and
the Kaiser danced with the Crown Princess.
Mr. .James F. Lee, secretary of the American
legation and charge d'affaires at Vienna, was
presented to Emperor Francis Joseph and the
Empress, on Friday evening, at the imperial
court ball.
Twenty of the iron-workers of Do Cazeville,
France, who recently went on a strike and mur
dered the manager of the works, have been ar
rested, but the authorities so far have been una
ble to obtain any direct evidence aeaiust them.
Steamships in Collision.
Jersey City, Jan. 30.—The Red Star lino
steamer Nordland, Captain Nickels, for Ant
werp, was run into this afternoon by the steamer
Servia. of the Cunard line. Tho Nordland had
just backed out from her pier and was lying
helpless in tho stream, when the Servia came
down the river and struck her on the starboard
side of the stern, cutting through her three
decks, smashing her turtle back, and making a
large triaugular gash. A dense mist hung over
the river at the time of the accident. The ex
tent of the damage to the Servia is not known.
She proceeded down the stream, but, it is re
ported, laid to at quarantine. The Nordland
was assisted to her dock in this city by a fleet of
tugs. It will take several days to repair her
damages. No one was hurt
A Convict’s Substantial Christmas Gift
Joliet, 111., Jan. 30.—Burt Coalman, a cow
boy convict, serving a sentence of three yean at
Joliet prison, from Wyoming, was released this
afternoon, having served his term.
When Coalman was bronght into the
clerk’s office to be discharged, the
clerk handed him a package of bills amounting
to nearly SI,OOO, and informed him that the
mouey had been sent to him as a Christmas
present by one of the cattle kings of Wyoming.
The ex-convict was nearly paralyzed with aston
ishment at his good fortune, and left the
srison doors with a light heart.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
EULOGIES AND THEIR USES.
A Style of Congressional Oratory Which
Is Growing Very Unpopular.
Speeches to Which Nobody Listens, and Which
Are Intended Solely for Outside Consump
tion —Talk of Abolishing the Custom.
A Free-Trade Advocate W T ho Is Always
Ready to Express His Opinions.
How President Cleveland Deals with the Seek*
ers of Autographs-Theatrical Attractions
at the Capital—General Gossip.
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'EULOGIES OF THE DEAD.
Perfunctory Orations Which Congressmen
Consider an Unmitigated Gore.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Washington, Jan 30. —1 tis seldom that a re
spectful audience is given in Congress when the
eulogies upon a dead member are being deliv
ered, and it is not often that very many remain
to hear them. Usually the floors of tha House
or Senate are deserted, but the galleries often
present an interesting scone. There was a large
crowd in the galleries of the Senate on Tuesday
last when the eulogies upon the late Vice-presi
dent Hendricks were delivered, but scarcely
twenty of the Senators could be seen. Most of
them remained at their residences all day or
went about their business in the departments.
For years it has been considered a bore to lis
ten to eulogies. Often a Senator or Representa
tive speaks of a deceased colleage for half an
hour without a single person listening, and most
of them speak in low tones and without interest.
The eulogies are only intended for publication.
They appear in the daily Record of the congres
sional proceedings and then are printed iu large
type on fine book paper and are handsomely
bound, each member and Senator securing twen
ty or thirty copies. These they seud to constit
uents. The bound copies usually appear about
six months after the eulogies are delivered.
They are also accompanied by a steel engraving
of the deceased. This precedes the title page.
' During the delivery of a eulogy on the late
President Garfield by Mr. McKinley, of Ohio,
in the House the other day, there was a con
stant uproar. Members stood around in the
aisles or clustered about the desks of prominent
men, told stories and talked so loud that, al
though Mr. McKinley has a strong voice, it sel
dom arose above the din. There was laughter
with the words depicting grief from the speaker,
and stories with the quotations
.not considered.?TnVrjt ofTTisrespect to Mr. McKin
ley, for he is one of the most popular and brill
iant members of the House, but it was evidence
of the geueral lack of interest iu eulogies.
Asa general rule, members of Congress show
little regard for anything sacred. Only about
one-fourth of them rise at their desks when the
Chaplain offers prayer, while many write, talk
or smoke in an unconcerned way. Since the de
livery of eulogies has become so unpopular,
however, there is talk of having them simply
submitted and published.
HON. FRANK HURD.
A Public Man Who Has All the Courage ol
His Convictions.
Special to the IndiAnaoolis Jocrnal.
Washington, Jan. 30 —Frank Hurd, Ohio’s
great free-trade exponent, is probably the most
courageous statesman who has served in Con
gress for many years. His friends say he never
had a conviction that he feared to state any
where at any time. He would express an opin
ion if he wished, though he were in a campaign
and it was antagonistic to every element of hia
success. He is a fine lawyer and one of the rAost
brilliant orators in the country, and all of the
powers of those faculties are riven to the ex
pression of his views upon all subjects he enter
tains.
When Mr. Hurd made hi3 great free trade
fight in the last Congress, his district was large
ly for tariff protection. Ho never heeded the pe
titions and appeals sent him to desist from his
work for the repeal of the tariff law?, and strange
to say, he spent most of his time in fields of labor
where his constituents toiled not He made a
campaign on a free-trade platform in a protection
district and then worked iri the face of the fact
for free trade. Strong efforts were made by his
family to change him in his tariff work, to no
avail. He is never selfish, and in laboring in a
public capacity even fought his private interests.
Hurd’s sister married the son of Columbus Del
ano, the ex Secretary of the Interior. Columbus
Delano and his son are the largest wool-growers
in this country, and the father is at present
president of the Sheep raising Association of the
United States. The Delanos havo millions of
sheep, and sought to have Hurd cease his war
upon wool; but the more they begged him to de
sist the stronger became bis zeal, and his speech
for free wool, delivered in the last Congress, was
tho strongest blow the wool interests ever had.
Mr. Hurd’s zealousness, however, does not in
terfere with his pleasantness. No man is more
popular here. Ho is kind, generous and oblig
ing. He is a bachelor, about forty-four years of
age, and was educated at Kenyon College, Gam
bier, 0., where Rutherford B. Hayes was edu
cated. He is a converted Catholic, and a mem
ber of the Cobden Club, the free trade organiza
tion of England. But his political career is said
to bo blighted. He opposed the Paynes of Ohio,
and tho coal oil influences were turned against
him. Hurd inherited a large fortune, but it is
said he has disbursed most of it.
PRESIDENTIAL AUTOGRAPHS.
How Mr. Clevelaud Deals with the Seekers
After Signatures.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Washington, Jan. 30.— A person outside of
Washington has no idea of the immense amount
of time the President and his Cabinet are coni'
polled to waste almost daily in writing auto
graphs. The Senators are comparatively free
from this nuisance, when one oompares the re,
quests made of the President and his Cabinet- '
It is almost a system, the making of autgraphs. j
at the White House, and the President has been ■
compelled to adopt some method, or otherwise he 1
would have to refuse the requests altogether, or
else be interrupted every hour. The door--''
keeper at the Cabinet-room is made the custo
dian of all autograph books sent to the White
House. He piles these dainty little volumes on •
a shelf of his big desk and lets them rest there
until about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, when he
opens each one at the proper page and then car- N
ries the pile to the library for Cleveland s
specticn. The President rarely looks over the j
books, but takes up a pen and dashes off hi