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ESTABLISHED AUGUST 24, 1852. WHEELING, WEST YA., TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24,1885. VOLUME XXXIV.?NUMBER 80.
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olice I Not. 95 and 97 FoartemiUi Street.
1 r llulgaria and Serrit don't mean it
the; uugbt to atop before somebody gets
hurt.
I'urATOU! have gone up? matter of
little moment to those who couldn't reach
them when they roosted lower.
With natural gss Pittsburgh sees the
millcnium dawning^ Shall Wheeling have
no slight foretaste of the same?
West Vibohu manufactured last year
57,51)5,701 cigars. She made no cigarettes,
but she contributed her own share to the
apport of that rising industry. The fatal
cigarette is on the boom.
Mr.. Kiii.iv, who is described as "late
Minister to Auatna," nu taxen up ma
household goods, shaken off his feet the
dust of his beloved' Richmond, and settled
down in Sep York. And so there is
mother shrine set up in Gotham.
Aixtx 0. Minna in lecturing on Judas
Iacariot, whom he finds to be a mnch
abused man. Judas, according to Mr.
Myers, was ambitious?only that. That
is a very low and aordid ambitiqn which
tola its goal in thirty pieces of silver.
Judas is not particularly fortunate in his
eulogist, long ss he has waited for him.
Tub trials of 1'ish and Ward, particularly
that of the latter, pointed very strongly
to Work and Warner as good men to join
with Ward in a trial for conspiracy to defraud
the Marine Bank. This has now
been done by indictment If the trial
goes to the bottom one or both of those
worthies?Warner almost certainly?will
go to keep Ward and Fish a lonesome
company. The suspicion has been very
strong that Warner could if he would
point to the hiding place of a large part of
the plunder.
That Wisconsin woman who is bewitch
ing crops, infecting hogs with cholera ?nd
practicing her dark art on defenseless persona
ought, first of all, to reform. But if
she hardens her heart and stands out, hci
neighbors will naturally think of the ducking
stool and the pillory; or they may clip
her ears as a jolly retribution. To burn
her for a witch would be to do her up too
quickly for her to enjoy the fun. The
witch herself can be dealt with, but what
is to bo done with the grown men and women
who believe that she has an occult
power to do all these terrible things?
Is New York it is taken for granted that
the B. Jc 0. has now plain sailing into New
York via Staten Island. In Philadelphia
it is thought that the Company may have
dilliculty in obtaining the franchises to
build the link of eighteen miles from
Bound Brook to iSlizabethport and to
bridge the Kill von Kull from Elizabethport
to Staten Island. It is reasonable lo
suppose that the B. & 0. has not taken
hold of a railroad on an iiland in the sea |
-without knowing how it is going to get to
it. The main point was to get the water
front in New York habor. This secured
so near the main land, it may be taken for
granted that so powerful and pushing a
company will find a way to utilize its good
fortune.
""This New York, outlet for the Balti- j
morn A Ohio ouahttobeof great advan-|
tage to Wheeling. It 1b not only that It
jfi vea OB another means of reaching the
great market of the country, bnt it raises
up a competitor for oar favors who will
not only be desirous of getting our business,
but will incline other, people to be
more than ordinarily solicitous of our'good
graces,
A Philadelphia judge, in charging the
jury in a libel suit against the Pros, exhibited
a queer notion of the. law of libel.
He said that the matter complained of was
a privileged communication, but added
that the jury was permitted to infer malice
from the article, no proof of malice being
required.
If the judge is right a newspaper need
not bother itself to know whether a contemplated
publication is oris not privileged?it
may as well take the chances of
au ignorant or evil-dispoeed jury cutting
malice out of the whole cloth; or, having
no protection in the law and its ministers,
the newspaper which does not desire to
run risks will sever print an article which
mny bring about a libel suit, no matter
how much the pnblic welfare maj require
each publication. The mult ol tbia l'hiladtrlpUia
judge's law would be that only
the very rich or very reckless newspapers
would dare to ventilate pnblic wrongs
ami hold np raacala to the public contempt.
We have a distinct recollection of a
queer charge delivered by the same judge
in a newspaper libel suit about fourteen
yours ago. The judge wit thoughtful
enough to inform the jury that the wrong
rasn had brought the auit, but with equal
presence of mind he added his clear conviction
that somebody had been libeled
and somebody ought to be puniahed; and
so strong an Improasion of his vlewadid
he leave on the jury, that nine of them
M out all night for conviction. The
shivering culprit waa saved by three obstinate
men who couldn't appreciate the
judge's law. In the present case the
I'rru is mini to make further lnqniry to
?ee whether the learned judge has not
erred.
Thajr War* on eh* LUt.
Nik Yo.UT, Not. 23.?William 8. Warner,
Ferdinand Ward and J. Henry Work
were Indicted to-day by the United Statee
grand jury for conspiring to defraud the
creditors and atockholden of the Marine
Bank. Several witneases wen before the
grind jury to-day bnt Mayor Grace was
not aiming them. Warrant! bare been issued
lor the arreat of Warnar and .Ward
and it is expected that they will be taken
into custody.
HrsiUlaa Mot* Fora?r.
Sr. Loi-ts, Nor. 23.?Lucius A. White,
who was arrested here about two montha
ago, charged with tb* forging of BrailUan
svurities. wu tried In the United States
District Court this morning on three in Jirttuents.
By agreements between the
attorneys on botb aides White entered a
plea of guilty, snbject to the constitutionality
ol the iaw under wheh tbe Indictments
of forgery of foreign aecoritlse waa
(rained.
GET THERE ELI!
The Baltimore & Ohio Bailroad's
Master Stroke
In Outwitting the Pennsylvania
and Getting into New York.
The Kill Yon Kull Dilllculty Yery
Easily Bridged.
The Particulars ol' a Great Stroke
* in Bailroad Diplomacy
Unequalled In the Annals ol Bailways?Various
Opinions.
Special Dispatch to the hiuillgtnccr.
Philadelphia, Nov. 23.?The following
will appear in the Kecord to-morrow morning:
The published interviews with President
Depew, of the New York Central
and with a high official of the Pennsylvania,
who declines to permit his name to
be used has recalled here the situation
just prior to the time the Baltimore &
Ohio appearod before the Councils with ,
its ordinances. Indeed the same tactics
of decrying the announced plans of the
Baltimore road have been employed since '
the very inception of the Baltimore & Ohio j
scheme for its own line through to Pbila- j
delphia and New York, Pennsylvania offi- i
cials have all along declared that the Bal- I
timore & Ohio -fb&iti not do this or <
that, and repeatedly assured the J
public that tho game was one I
of bluff. However the big bluff ap- J
pears to be on the opposition hand. It is <
the general opinion that the impersonal <
official of the Pennsylvania road, who i
this morning discusses the matter of the i
Baltimore A Ohio absorbing the Staten i
Island Company is nonv other than Vice l
President Thompson, and the criticism on j
uis utterances expressed hero to-day are r
that he has overleaped himself and placed I
che cause he so vehemently espouses, in (
anything but a favorable light. At least <
this would appear from the opinions |
freely expressed in business circles. i
AS "IMPKBSOXAL" OFFICIAL.
One gentleman, well known as one of the
foremost merchants and prominently
identified with the movement favoring the
granting of the Baltimore & Ohio entrance
into Philadelphia, talked very freely upon
che policy of the Pennsylvania as outlined
oy it, and who is believed to bo one of its
Vice Presidents, said: "I do not know
nrhen g more arrogant assumption of absolute
power has been witnessed than this
ivould'be impersonal otficial's declaration
to the interviewer than by his authority
tie could say that the Pennsylvania railroad
will tight every inch of tlie way from
Bound Brook to the Kill von Kull." Some
jne gravely suggested yo?us ago that New
Jersey should be calied the Mate of the
Pennsylvania road, but "later yearj have
shown the citrus of that State the unwisdom
of putting themselves exclusively
ander the charge of that benevolent organization.
The threat by the Pennsylvania
managers that that company will
prevent the construction of a line of railroad
from Baund Brook to -tilizibethport
will be as effective as the attornpt of the
ciaxon king to chain the waves. The
&me official states that the Lehigh Valley
and the Jersey Central will
join the- Pennsylvania to prevent the
construction of this new line. Now it is
quite cortain that neither this ofiicer nor
che Pennsylvania Company ever had the
slightest authority to speak for the Lehigh
Valley road, nor for-the Jersey Central,
yet he undertakes to spread himself
over the entire State of JFew Jersey, act
for the commonwealth and the other two ?
companies whose oilicera ho has never t
consulted 00 well as for his own corpora- j
tion. t
GREAT ASSUMPTION*.
He is quite evidently under the impres- [
t? .
310H iuat tUO i Oiua^nauia wuuip?uj ?? ,
himself can set at defiauce the laws of New (
Jersey as they did the Constitution of (
Pennsylvania in the purchase of the South ,
Pennsylvania and Beach Creek roads, and ,
in this esse the Pennsylvania Company I
will seek to do it by preventing the cor- i
poratiou from organizing under the gener- i
al laws of New Jersi-y, and from doing
exactly what those laws authorize, and J
also from acquiring such rights su can be
aecured under the present acts of the leg- i
islature of the State. I
THE OFFICIAL KA.IJJJARK8. |
This same official, who is so desirous of ,
concealing his identity, fcbut whoso ear- (
marks crop out In every expression, Bug- <
gests that the Baltimore Ohio won't
dav. and says the gross receipts of the en- .
tire line from New York to Baltimore will 1
[not exceed ono million dollars, and farther i
coutinuea with the declaration that tho coet <
of the Baltimore A Ohio new line will be 1
from twelve toAlteen millionsof dollars, Including
the Htaien Island Rapid Transit
Company Honegloctstoaddtbatthecoetto
the Pennsylvania companrof (he Philadel- 1
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore, between I
Philadelphia and Baltimore alone wa* ,
twenty-three millions of dollars, and the
Pennsylvania were so anxious to purchase 1
it that they paid trne hundred and sixty <
lor the stock In order to keep it from fall- >
ing into the hands of theBalUmore & Ohio. I
It is curious for Mr. Thompson to smile, '
as he certainly does, oyer Mr. Garrett's t
bankruptcy of the Baltimore & Ohio Com- i
pany, ana then forthwith demonatrate <
his exceeding Joy over this proceeding by <
most vindictively announcing the Penn- >
sylvania's unalterable determination to <
continue fighting it, not only in Phila- '
delphia but every inch of tho way from *
Bound Brook to Eliiabethporu It is
somewhat odd, aa well as humorous, for <
this official to talk as he does about this j
new line connecting Baltimore, Phila- t
delphia and New York, together with a <
really insignificant coat to be incurred by t
the Baltimore and Ohio, when the Penn- ?
aylvania is willing to pay live million ait c
hundred thousand dollars for President >
Depew's "holes in the ground," otherwise I
the South Pennsylvania road, and six '
millions more for the Beach Creek road, >
-i.inh mv oarmilels their own system. (
7UK OLD STOBV Or M18IKV. 1
The lut that the Pennsylvania manager j
10 qnickly echoes Ihs tone started by i
President Depew in his interview pub- 1
liahsd on Sunday, is suggoetive at the old '
story ol misery liking company. When ,
the Pennsylvania railroad sought to pur,
chase the South Pennsylvania railroad, [
which was a competing line, and whose <
purchase wss forbidden by the eonstitg- |
Uon ol Pennsylvania, there wu an interr ,
view with Uhauncey Depew publiehed (
limnltansously iu tilt New York and ]
Philadelphia pipers.
Mr. Depew having formerly been a law- ,
yer naturally look a legal view of the [
case and gravel; eoggeaUd as his legal i
opinion that the South Pennsylvania ,
eouid not be called* parallel or competing |
line, because, to use his most expressive
way of patting It, it wss simply * few
holes in the ground, for these game .
jiolee the PennaylvtnU Company proposes
to pay upward! of Ave and a half
millions of dollars.
Thompson smiles and explains why we,
meaning his company, all (mile. Depew i
I grew positively hilarious and in his characteristically
off hand, after dinner style
treated the important transaction and the
constitution of Pennsylvania more flippantly
than he would the moat trifling of
toasts. Now when the Baltimore & Ohio
acquires the Rapid Transit Company he
again appears in the newspapers in an interview
with the same comedian airs as
upon the previous occasion. Both transactionsareof
unquestioned importance and
Reserving of serious consideration. Mr.
Depew treats them as if he were the end
man in a travelling minstrel show, wbere
old jokes were ever fresh or he the aecorid
trombone of the railroad president's
troupe. It suggests that Mr. Depew, being
universally conceded to bo the best
after-dinner speaker in the country, brings
to tho consideration of railroad questions
not a knowledge of them, but the peculiar
conception of things which has served
him so well in his post prandial efforts.
IMPOBTANCE OP T2IE U. A O. MOVE.
Tho securing by the Baltimore and Ohio
of the Staten Island line is, as none can
deny, a perfectly legitimate transaction.
It is simply attending to its own budnees
and connecting the best facilities in New
York. It is not a thrfeat to Mr. Depew's
line, but* on tfieeontrary, had Mr.JJepew
looked at it from a proper standpoint, it
has certain elements of advantage even to
him, as it makes the Baltimore and Ohio
a permanent factor of New York,
and not subject to the complications
and fluctuations arising from periodically
being driven from the Pennsylvania line.
The suggestion .of Mr. Depew that the
Acquisition of the Staten Inland line is expensive
to tbe Baltimore & Ohio and such
additional expenses would make the Baltimore
Jc Ohio Company more conservative,
is a wise one. It naturally sug 1
jests that the New York Cen- 1
tral haying lust guaranteed fifty mil- 1
ions of new expenses, the Baltimore Jt 1
Ohio guaranteeing one and a half mil- '
lions, the New York Central ought to be
:hirtv or fortv times as conservative. The 1
New York Central recognizes the value ol 1
jlose connections with the street and 1
jlevated railroad seryice in New York, 1
md it is a lit le surprising that Mr. Depaw 1
orgets that a branch of the elevated has by '
lis earnest wish been constructed direct i
;o the Forty-second street depot. This is 1
rom one elevated line, while the Baltimore
& Ohio will land passengers at the '
Battery, where they can step from the J
:ar s on the steamer's dock to take any one 1
>f the four elevated lines in the city, or 1
ake the Broadway or other street car '
ines which termiuate.or pass at that point, j
Oppoaluuti aiuiomwnt. j
New York, Nov. y.'i.?President Chaunr
?ey M. Depew, of the New York Central, J
laid last night, referring to the Baltimore I
k Ohio's Staten Island deal: "A railroad ,
jridge across the Kill von Kull cannot be
milt the same as stock operators bridge 1
Iry streams that never existed, in twenty j
ainutes. We railroad presidents don't <
righten worth a cent. Mr. Garrett has t
)ean very emphatic in his assertions 1
ibout the trunk line adjustment bain.?
ine qua non with regard to the earning oi
lividends and the interest on bonds, still
! feel confident that the trunk line presi- j
ients will be equal to attending to the ad- .
uatinent of the Baltimore & Ohio's relaions
with this part of New York. What- 1
jveris done by the Baltimore & Ohio, the j
ither railroad companies?the Pennylvania,
the ?rio, the Grand Trunk and <
lie New York Oentralr-wiil be fully able *
o take care of themselves.
Lt O X mm a luuro wm uo a war vi iiiivo ?
tfo; not for at leas:. a year from January,
is Mr. Garrett has signed the' trunk line
lontract, which is binding for a year, and
lannot be departed . Irom until three
nonths' notice has been given at the
rear's end. I think the Baltimore <&
)hio'a new departure will tend to peace
ather than to war."Trunk
Llut suuAtton.
Philadelphia Nov. 23: The trunk line
litaation is not changed at all by the
iction of the Baltimore and Ohio signing
he agreement conditionally. The fact is
he Baltimore and Ohio never consented
0 the agreement originally, except condiionally,
a fact that was a well-kept secret
mtil the disagreement with the Pennsylrania
brought it out. The Baltimore and
)hio will maiutain freight rates like
>ther roads, and it will be compelled to use
;he Pennsylvania for its passenger service,
aa it bas done recently. The reason
why tho Pennsylvania Jjailroad objects
;o the Baltimore and Ohio's proposition
s not becauso the latter expects to build
1 line to New York, but because the
Pennsylvania'does not care to allow tne l
Baltimore and Ohio tu use itfl facilities in i
New York for the purpose of building an i
i bi]fljne?fl for the proposed new road, li i
;he baltimore and Ohio will make a con- <
ract for any length of time it is likely the <
Pennsylvania would agree, but it does 1
lot wish to be put in the position of a mere |
:onvenlenco to assist a rival build up a <
jompeting business. [
The following is Mr. Garrett's reserva- i
ion i# signing the trunk line agreement: I
That the Baltimore and Ohio will be (
jound by Ihe provisions of tho contract,
10 far as it relates to passengers traffic, j
)nly in case it becomes a member of the *
runk line passenger division.
A f onnaylvftni* View.
Philadelphia, Nov. 33--The Preu to- ,
lay aays: Despite the signing of the con- I
xaots which piye the absolute control of '
;he Staten island ?Bapid Transit road to j
he Baltimore A Ohio railroad, thereby .
tecqrjng to the latter terminal facilities at I
S'ew Vork, the details of which were fully I
>ublished in the Prtu of yesterday, there |
?ems still to exist an element of uncer- t
flinty in the success of the proposed (
ilan. A number of rftilroad officials and 1
ithera connected with the difiercnt inter- 1
ists concerned were seen yesterday, bat I
ill were cautious in the expression of their 1
ipinions, and all agreed that President i
iarrett bad not yet cleared his path into t
s'ew *orx. <
A gentleman largely Interested in Jersey c
;?ntr?l said: "If Mr. Garrett succeeds in {
oining his disconnected links, I'll admit
hat it is a bad thing for the Oentral, bat 1 f
!o pot think he can do it The line be- c
ween Elifibethport and Bound Brook i
an eaaily be made, bat then he moat (
toss the Kill von (Coll before It, or his r
eceot acquisitions on Staten Island will r
? of any uso to hjm, and herS is where he i
rill meet his greatest obstacle. Bridging r
i navigable strum cannot bo lightly done.
JUiar interests are to Ijb consulted beeldte r
hose of > raliro?j, U>4 a bridge where he
irapoeea to pat one?where it is an fl!;so- i
ate necessity 'or him to hsye one?will t
njnre, i ( net destroy, tome of these. Of t
:ourse, they will oppose big), and hare I
load ground on which to make their light, c
"1 don't know what tbe Central people t
(ill do in the premises," continnsd the c
VOtlemsn in anawer to a question, "but I
ihould be great! v surprised if they did not
indeavor to prerent hit scheme. As to
he Pennsylvania, sound bosinees sense .
nust lead them to oppose the matter. 1
Competition already has cat down their ?
jasiness and their tools, and if another i
ival is sdmitted to the Held, their profits
nqit be still farther reduced. Then there
slhe State of New Jersey Itself. It is '
jardly probable that it will fancy diver- i
ilon of business and tisfflo from within >
ts limits to that of another State."
TBI WOHKXOUg PU8BXD.
ra* Blttit to Build th? Bridge Umdr s? I
oortd?Uuw the IdM D?v*lop?d.
Eiltuo?*,Nov. 43.?Today's Sun saya; ]
While tbe trunk-line passenger pool was ,
ittracting public attention last wetk the :
Staten Island deal was going on, and the
' fact is now made known definitely that
' the Baltimore & Ohio will not use either
the Pennsylvania or the Jersey Central
tracks to New Yoik. The Jersey Central
managers have been persistent in the endeavor
to break their lease to the Heading.
It is now among tne probabilities that the
Reading will not be unwilling to let the
lease go, and may prefer to deal with the
Baltimore & Ohio from Bound Brook. |
The Baltimore <fc Ohio agreement with the
Heading is very comprehensive, but in the
event that in any future time the management
should become hostile, its line could
be paralleled to Bound Brook. The scheme,
in all its formulated details, is said to com-1
prehend all such contingencies.
The Baltimore and Ohio made preliminary
eurvevs last summer for a line between
Bound Brook and Elizabethport,
Under the general railroad law of flew
Jersey no legislation for securing a charter
is needed. The work can be commenced
when the company is ready to prosecate
it, which will be as early as practicable.
It is proposed to pat the work in the
hauds of the men who, with iUftfr WKMi
izi-d appliances, have built the row and
the bridges between Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Tho work w ill be of the same
class throughout, and by the opening of
apring it is (xpected will be in shatftfor
rapid pushing. The summer of 1880 will
probably see its completion.
Tho statement made at the Baltimore &
Ohio Central Building in this city on Saturday
whs to the effect that at the rccent
meeting of the stockholders the Staten
Island contract was presented and was
unanimously approved. The most thorough
examination has been made by Second
Vice President King, Mr. Cowen and
>thers of the ollicials, and the adoption of
this route has only been reached by Mr.
Robert Garrett ami his fellow-directore
ifter careful consideration and numerous
;onferencts with Mr. Krastus Winan and
tiis associates. Mr. Garrett and his friends
regard the new route as highly ad vantageous,
as not only solving a most difficult
problem, but making available facilities
under their own control of the moat
unple character in New York harbor.
Che terms of tho agreement are extremely
favorable to the Baltimore and Ohio
i>eop!e, who procure a controlling interest
n the Staten Island enterprise without
iny expenditures, aud with guarantee*
which are amply protected, not only by
Coexisting local and suburban traffic, but
by the through business which the new
route will immediately command.
A disnatnh from Trenton, N. J., to the i
Philadelphia Prett says the claim that the
Uaiuinuro & Onio people can bridge the
Kill von Kulj without furthor legislation
a with Rfirna doubt there.
Mr. Winaa says: "The privilege to
juild the bridge across the Kill voa Kali
vas obtained ia Albany bat winter. The
United States laws permit a New Jersey
iorporatiun to build the bridge, notwithitiuding
the Now Jorsey Legislature some
iime ago protested against it."
New York Central If J auction.
New York, Nov. 23.?It is announced 1
lere that an injaction has been served on
President Depow, of the New York Cental,
and also on the company enjoining
he seizure by the New York Central of the
iVest Shore property. The inj action was
ibtained by the holders of 200 shares ol
itock who reside in Syracuse.
TT
GENERAL GItA.NT'4 1IOOK.
it Lnaat 9500,000 to bit -Netted to the Eitat*.
Hoadly and Gonkllog Didn't Want It.
New York, Nov. 23.?Chas. L. Webster,
>f the firm which is publishing General
Srant'a memoirs, lias just retured from
Europe, where arrangements were made
or translating and publishing that work
n many languages, but his pet plan of
tale by subscription had to be given up.
)ne of the arguments made by some of
ieneral Grant's friends in favor of giving
he contract of publishing the memoirs
othe Century Company or the Appletons
their ability to put the book on the
narket. i
Tins was believed to be one of the
nost important parts of the publication,
md bad for a time great weight with the
author. Mark Twain, however, who has '
3r00HDiy raauo more muauy um tu uuuk- i
ipritinrf, than any other American author,
lad discovered a way of avoiding the book
rade entirely, and he imparted the infornation
to Fred Grant, who at once con:iuded
to follow Mr. Clemens' advice.
Clemens had gone into the business to
nake money. He did not propose to divide
his earnings with the news companies.
He settled on Charjes L. Webster,
who was a comparatively unknown print3r,
and made nim his publisher. The
Dookswere issued on the subscription
plan, and Olemens and his publisher di- i
rided the profit^ The task of putting a
aook like General Grant's on the market
s by no means an easy one. It involves !
;he organisation of an army of ten thouland
canvassers.
"I often think what a motley crowd this
irmy of mine must be," said Mr. Webster.
'What a spectacle it would be if I pould i
>nly get them togetherior a review. The i
ist of subscribers contains nearly all the I
urell-known names in the country. Presi- i
lent Cleveland has subscribed for a copy
round in Morocco. General Sheridan not i
>nly subscribed, but he caused the War 1
Jfiice to be ransacked for a month, hunt- i
ng for the original documontof Lee's sur- 1
ender, * fac-smile of which we have in
he second volume. Governor Hoodly, J
lowever. refused point blank when ap- <
>roached and asked to subscribe bv one of
tur general agents some time before the j
ieneral's degth. 'General Grant isn't a j
iterary man/ said he. 'I don't know that
! have any use for his book.' One-of our .1
ess trustworthy canvassers told me that <
>Ir. Conkling nearly annihilated him f
rhen he penetrated to his private office to
ry to sell him a copy; he said that the 1
ix-Senator fairly raved and swore. I t
an't vouch for the truth of the story, I
juwcver.
"I've ?ot to travel op to Cm?dn In a <
sw days to secure our copyright in that ]
ountry. Their lava are fearfully and 1
ronderfully made in Canada. 11 General '
irant were alive he would have to be c*ried
into the conntry to satiety the copvight
law, hot as he ia dead they kindly
ilTow me to repreaent both author and <
lublisher." I
"How much will General Grant's estate
ealiie from the book 7" asked the reporter.
"It ia now assured ol $500,000," was the
eply, "and if the tale of the second volime
equals that of the first, that will grow
o $700,000, all io the Ont year or two.
Liter that it will come along in amounts
lepeodent on the sale beyond the first
utch of subscribers. We count on fonr
>r five hundred thousand subscribers."
Tb? Bmi Uford Cam.
Ottawa, Out., Nov. 28.?The order in j
Council declining to interfere with the |
entence paseed upon the Battleford in- I
liana condemned to be banged on the i
I7tb instant has been withheld io the i
ims ol the two men named uh vie boll i
md Dreeayman, In order that an inquiry I
nay be made a* to the alleged extenoat- ]
OK circumstancee. Three men killed as
>ld aqoaw in the bell el that aha waa a
'windago" or witch. They were not in
inj way connected with the rebellion.
Mr. Korqnay, Premier ol Manitoba, haa
received through the Secretary of State by
in ord?r in Gotweil, a Oonlederation
medal in recognition of the valuable ierrict*
rendered oy him to Canada.
"THAT BACKBONE"
OF THE GREAT BIO PRESIDENT
Of Which wi Hur ao Much Aboat Broken
by the Wiles of tho Second District West
Virginia Congressman?The Fairmont
Postmniter Kicked Oat of Offlo*.
Special Dispatch to the Intelligencer.
Washington, Nov. 23.?Two important
appointments were made by the President
to-day, which will be of interest to your
readers. In the first place I wrote a few
days ago intimating that President Cleveland
had "backbone"?-the regular, ordinary
backbone of commerce, in the
matter of the Fairmont postoffice. He has
been quoted in these dispatches as saying
that he would reappoint Mr. Heed as a
Compliment to ex-President Hayes, who
requested Reed's retention. The pressure
was too great. Tho West Virginia Democracy
swooped down upon him in all
its terrors, and the President's far-famed
back bono, on which the late Lewis Baker,
At th? latfl lamented Rtaiticr. invoked the
Blessings of Providence, weakened, and I
to-day he appointed Newton 8. Barnes to
succeed Thomas Heed, the inenmbent,
whose commission has expired.
Marshal Butan'a SneceMor.
Washington, Nov. 23 ?There has been
a bitter fight for the United States Marshalship
for the Western District of Pennsylvania,
held by James A. Rutan. The
President settled the fight to-day by appointing
Hon. George Miller, of Washington,
Pa.
TROUBLE rOKCLKVlCLAXD.
More Opposition From Democratle Senator*
Than From the Republican.
Washington, Nov. 23.?Evidence crops
oat that the President will have more opposition
to his appointments from Democratic
Senators than he will have from the
Republicans. The Republican Senators
will make no factious opposition. "Factions"
is a word frequently heard nowadays,
and by it is meant that so long as
ih j President does not deliberately turn
3ut a Republican whose term of office has
not yet expired and give his place to some a
Democrat for no other reason than partv
tain, the Republicans of the 8enate will
aot make any fight againBt confirmation (
jf the nominations. Where the tenure of
office law has been violated it may be depended
upon that the nomination will
aot be easily confirmed. On the other 6
laud, some 'Democratic Senators, Vor- o
heee, of Iudiana; for instance, have boldly I
announced their intention of devotiog r
:heir energies to secure a repeal of the
Civil Service law on the ground that it is 1
unconstitutional in limiting the power of ?
'.he President in dictating ms nominations t
for office.
Democratic Sonators do not like it because
the President is likely to consult the &
views of Republicans somewhat before J
sending nominations to the Senate. It is 1
uis purpose to request any Republican J1
Senator who knows of any objection to a J
lominee appointed during tne recess of JCongress
to come to the White House and 1
state why the nomination should not bo P
made. Any charge the Republican Sena- }
tor may make will be duly considered and [
investigated, and if found to be true the J1
nomination will not be sent to the (Senate. J
The President has stated to the Repubii- *'
jan Senators that he will try to select the
oest men in every case, and to that end J
ue wants the advice of Republicans as *
well as Democrats. This intention on the F
"? + nf Ho ProaiMnnt rniMtlln ?hfl ninrffiAinn C
jf Mills, of Texas, in the House last winter, F
when he described AJr. Cleveland as the J
Democratic-Republican president It is J
svident that the feeling of those who op- b
i>obo the civil service law cannot long be ?
kept under after the session of Congress ?
begins. ^ J
"LITTLE PLEVNA." F
The Final Strangle?'The Great Powers may j
Interfere, B
BiLOEim, Not. 23.?An official report r
says that King Milan has brought hifl main i
force into operation with the Drina and *
Moravia divisions, and that a decisive at- e
tack on Slivnitia is imminent. It also
states that it King Milan ia victorious he
trill agree to an armistice so as to allow c
the conference oi the powers to settle the c
terms of peace. t
Belgrade, Nov. 23.?Only trifling akir- t
mishes took plage to-day between the c
Servians and Bulgarians, as both sides are t
awaiting reinforcements.
The iierviana are preparing (or a power- '
[ul movement prior to an attack by infant- 1
? CI! . unnn. ?r Anal I
IJ uu UU|U1|?B| UU|IVU ui uuni IIUWVI j r
we lading and there ia much depression. *
Foreign intervention ia eagerly hoped for. 11
On account q! the strength of the forcee at *
Slivnitia and their obstinate reaistance J
the Servlana call that tovn "Plevicia" or
"LitUe Plevna," 11
The foreign diplomatic repreeentatire*
here are of the opinion that the powers
ire abont to intervene between Servia
ind Bulgaria, believing that both aidea 8
have suffered enough, while the results (
ire indecisive. Austria alone heaitates. ,
London, Nov.L'4.?A dispatch from Bel? :
Side to the Ttjtyraph says: The Servlana Jj
ve evacuated all the poaitiona hitherto ?
occupied by them. Dragoman, fireenik, b
Pernik and Ixvar are in the hands of the *
Bulgarians. The Servana are still retiring. P
It is stated that the Bulgarian cavalry have "
Kcupied Taaribrad. "
Co.NSTAKTinoPLi, Nov. 23. ? Prince 1
Alexander has requested the Porte to
joetpone sending a commissioner to East?n
Koumelia until the termination o( the
far. He. says 'that, aa a soldier, be can o
inly propose an armistice when within ai
Servian territory. h
Darustaut, Not. H3.?Frinoe Alex- .
mderhaa sent a dispatch to hla father, "I
hanking him for bia gift of clothing, etc., ,
a the Bulgarian troope. The diapatch
tlao says: "We fought all Sgndyr and Z
ipenl (he night on Dragoman heighta, ,
ihich ve carried by storm. The fight- "
ng continnea to-day la the direetlon of J
riaribrod." J
Bit JoltlaU R?mo*?!. n
8t. Pajxasacao, Nov. 23.?The removal
if the initlala of Prince Alexander, of Bultarla
bom thi officers epaulettes of the
hirteenth rifle battalion baa bein decreed. '
Prince Alexander wia an honorary colonel c
if the battalion and hla name waa ex- i
slnded from the rolls of the Rusaien t
""? nwla* nf tka Hhi" TK? htUlll/tn
raa known u the thirteenth noble battal- j,
on of his blgbnea* Prince Bulgaroky, 1(
ind la now simply the thirteenth rifle .
jattalion. 0
VrltUhOnla Tr*d*. ''
London, Not. 33.?The Mark Lane ?>
irni in Its weekly reriew of the British
train trade sajra; The clear weather has v
Stored wheat sowing. The trade show* e
no material change. Salsa of Engliah 1
irheat during the past week wen 58,000
)oarteri at 30j against 68,663 quarter* at
11a Id daring the oorreapondlng week .
last year. Foreign wheats are sluggish J
with trade in cargoe* duller. There were j
four arrlTala and two sales; three cargoe* 1
wen withdrawn and three remained, t
Trade forward is In a cdmatose oondition. 1
Flour 1a rather lower. At to-day's mar- i
kit than was * small attendance; only * i
little buainea* was done in wheat American
ooro waa weaker. JBouu wen aU- 1
ponco chwftfi |
an appalling MURDER.
A Wall known Pcuniylranlk Quaker Murdered
la Oold Blood.
CutsTiR, Pa., Hot. 23.?John Sharping,
one of the most prominent orthodox
Frienila in Delaware county, was moat
foully murdered at hia farm abonttwo miles
from this city laat night. Hia farm is a
part of the original tract of the pioneer
named Sharpless, of whom he is a lineal
descendant and is located on a lonely
road. At nine o'clock last night a strange
colored man called at the houso while in
was raining. He found Mr. Sharpleea
sitting with his family, hia wife
-_.l * I-.!!.- n ...1 . ?? ., II,.
UUU fcWVJ IOUICD auu a uutuvi us
induced Mr. Sharplees to go to
the barn with him for some straps,
under the pretext that a carriage, in which
were tnree ladies, had broken down in the
road. When in the stable the negro
struck Mr. Sharpless in the back of the
head with a hatchet, crushing his skull
and killing him instantly. A iter talcing
his watch, the negro put out the lantern i
and returned to the house for the purpose,
it is thought, of killing all therein. In
reply to a question he said he wanted
money, and advanced towards one of the i
women, at the same time, asking what
had become of - the young girl whom he i
missed from the room. Upon learning i
that she had gone out, and the colored i
servant being sent for, the villain left, i
He went across the fields in the direction i
3f John Lindsay's farm adjoining and it is 1
mpposed fired the barn, to distract atten- c
lion, for it was burned down a short time
ifter the murder with all the crops, farmng
implements and four head of horses, i
jntailing a loss of $5,000.
The body of John tiharpless was found
n the stable where he nad fallen. Ue j
was a very plain, generous, honest man, a
well-to-do farmer without an enemy in the
world and his murder is appalling. He *
was about 07 years old. lie was president *
>f the Sharpless Bi-Centennial Associaion
and took an active part In the affairs J
if his community and his religious society, o
The post mortem examination shows
bat the back of Mr. Sbarpless' skull was t
ractured in fire places, ar.d that the <j
sound must have been inflicted with e
ome heavy blunt instrument. The counry
around is being carefully searched for j
he murderers. Ibe county authorities t.
iave offered $500 reward in addition to a /
ike amount offered by the family for the
rrest of the murderers ,
,,t c
AN INDIANA SENSATION C
0
bj the Arre?t of a Probable Mar*
derer la a Graveyard.
Lodisvillb, Kt., Nov. 23.?On Saturday J
yening, about0 o'clock, a shooting scrape *
ccurrtd at ilenryville, Ind., in which o
'eter Schaefer, a butcher, was shot and
trobably fatally injured. James II. jj
lurcher, a young man 23 years of age, 0
rent to the meat store of 8chaefer to- pay 1
lis weekly bill. A quarrel as to the
mount ensued, aud BurcUer struck his J1
ntagouist ih tho face. Schaefer picked J
Ea cleaver and made a savage plunge. :j
e latter nimbly dodgod the blow, and J
rawing a small 22-caiiber revolver from
lis pocket, firod, the ball taking effect in
Ichaetor's forehead, iust oyer the left eye.
'be skull was slightly fractured, but the J
ihyeiciana hart no difficulty in extracting J
he bullet, whicii was found imbedded in ?
be skull. Just how seriously he is in. ^
ared cannot be estimated just at present, J
lthough it is leared the hurt will result b
ft tally.
o 1 ? J~: iL. _l?.1! fl?1 4.
jDuruuor, &iwi uuujk wo suuuuug. ucu *
o the grave-yard in the outskirts of the li
own, and hid among the tombstones. A ti
iosse of citizens was formed, and a search o
ommenced. Att U o'clock his hiding tJ
ilace was discovered, and he surrendered, i
lis hands were tied with a clothesline
rom a neighboring fence, and tho Consta- B,
ile, Mr. Huckleberry, hustled him off im- r]
oediately to Jeffersonville to prevent his J
icing mobbed. He was placed in the q
Jounty Jail in that city, where a reporter e
ailed upon him to-day. He denies em- 0
ihatically that ho struck the first blow, d
.lthough several witnesses say he did.
Sorcher is a slim, wiry fellow and has
hrewdnees stamped upon his face. His ?
elatives lived at Evansvllle, and he walked ?
to Henryville, a tramp, somo months ?
go. and was given employment at Metz- *
are saloon. ^
A Veddl.r Mulcted. *
ZiKtsviu-B, Q., Nov. S3.?A bold anil J
taring robbery was committed in Holmes t
ounty, not far from Millersbnrg, by two
lighwaymen, the victim being a peddler a
lamed Honfield. About 8 o'clock Satnr- 1
lay evening in a dark and lonely spot in *
he road two masked men appeared with h
evolvers and demanded his money. He \
landed over $1, which was not satisfactory a
o the robbers, when one of them com- fa
elled him to hold up his hands while tj
be other went through his pockets, secur- j,
ng about $1,000. They then selected
bout the same amount in silks and other
ne goods and jewelry fronuhis wagon,
.'be peddler drove to Millersbqrg and
aade known th$ robbery.
Anticipating the Law* d
Das Moines, Iowa, Nov. 23.?George *
tevenson, the mulatto who shot C. Wlutler,
a white man, dead, near Fonda, |j
owa, on the 19th inut, hanged himself in
is cell in the Fort Dodge fail, yesterday, t
tevenson was a tenant of uutler, who fa
oarded in Stevenson's family. Stevenon
charged Cutler with making indecent
roposals to Mrs. Stevenson, and ordered
im from the house. A row followed in
rbich Stevenson seized a gun and shot
lutler. .
?? D
H?;d for Sorcarjr. ri
St. Vivl, Mikk.,Nov. 23.?Mary Hartel, m
f Westford, Wis., has filed a complaint
gainst a neighbor, (or attempting to kill J*
er by lorcery, and the defendant has '
een held for trial. The complainant b
[aims in all sincerity that the woman is a
itch, and attributes the hog cholera preailing
in that vicinity to her animosity,
"wo years ago this woman was in similar
nnhlfi In an ndtainlnir ennhtv. The neo- P_
le thought that their bid crop* and dissees
among the cattle vera earned by her
lcantatlona, and they became so wrought ,
p that they attempted her lite. "
Diplomatic lufual. d
N?w You, Not. 23 ?A Washington *
peclalto the Port says: The report i* J
arrant in diplomatic circle! that the *
Luatrian government will not aend a new o
.mbaaaador to Waahlngton until the *
ucceaaor ot Mr. Kelly shall be appointed *
i Vienna. Baron Ton SchaeQer who 0
lit here (or Austria on sick leave soon
Iter the Kelly Incident, haa been placed
n the retired list, aa be haa served his
ill time in the Diplomatic Corps. ii
oh, Did a>i
Edudcho, Nov. 23.?Mr. Gladstone nn- 0
lied a cross in this city Unlay and join- 5
din a hearty manner in the singing ol
he one hundredth psalm. 7
NMinU Ou ud 1U I'm 1
WiLusiuui, Pa., Not. 23.?Natural ,
;sa hu been discovered in large qoantl- ,
lea near Wilkeabam. It haa been lonnd
n small quantities lor eome years, and on 1
he Kingston lata blqw hole* have been 1
>uming lor a long time. At the Staunton '
nine* a lose hole, filled with a nix-inch
ilpe, sends up s flame six leet high. 1
Lately this gaa had made itaeil apparent i
n large quantities In the basement ol the <
9*noeck street public school, tod the 1
directors have contemplated using it to
fire the boilers for heating the school.
Within the past few weeks Charles Williams.
proprietor of the Planesville Hotel,
has discovered it issuing from the ground
on bis premises, has collected it, audit
lights and warms a portion of his new
house.
AN INDIAN FEUD
Between two Members of tho Choctaw Nation?Terrible
Mistake.
Ft. Smith, Ahk., Nov. 23.?a horrible
crime was committed near 8antoe, Choctaw
nation, Saturday night An old and
bitter feud has long existed between Sandy
Walker and Sam Fulsom, both prominent
Choctaws and desperate and dangerous.
They have both sought an opportunity
to kill each other, and a short time ago
while Walker was at his home playing on
a lounge with his little child a would-be
assassin, supposed to be Lucas fired upon
him through a window, but succeeding in
only inflicting a flesh wound. With the
intention of killing Fulsom, Walker
went to tho house of Lucas, where
Fulsom stopped Saturday night, and
creeping up l<j iuu ucu nuwo ue
wrh supposed to be sleeping, opened fire
upon a prostrate form in the bed,thinking
it was J- ulflom. He fired several shots in i
rapid succession, two o( which took effect i
n the bod; of the sleeper, who was Lucas' wife,
and one shot seriously wounded a i
i ve-year old child, sleeping by its mother's S
lido. 'After this Walker disappeared. i
THROUGH TUB STATE.
UddinU and Incident* In Wait Virginia {
nod Vicinity.
There were three cases of elopement in !
lefferson county last week.
Bellaire glass manufacturers will make '
nhibits in the Liverpool International Ex- '
libition. [
Hon. John A. Bingham will lecture on t
apan at New Philadelphia the latter part t
if this month.
The jiew M. E. church at Romney is to s
>e dedicated next Sunday. Bishop An- b
IrenB, of Washington, D. C., will be pres- r
nt and preach the sermon.
Two public artesian wells are being
rilled in the town of Buckhannon in the ],
lopea of sccnring a good supply of water ,,
jr fire and general purposes. '
The Shenandoah Valloy railroad is now
!oing a large business in the shipment of ?
otton from the houth to the city of Balti- 1
lore. The cotton ia chiefly for export. u
A young man named Simpson, aged ?
bout IS, was fatally injnredat Leverbid's !!
iiill, Wilsonia, this State, last week. Ho r
ras struck across the abdomen by a piece
f board that was being sawed.
Services in commemoration ol the one *
mndredth anniyersaiy of the bells be- j
inking to the German Reformed church
f Hagerstown were held last Sunday,
'hey were cast in Rotterdam in 1785.
R. B. White, of Doddridge county, left
is home to shuck corn. Not returning in "
tie evening his neighbors went to hunt F
im; they found his body in the woods, o
rhere he had committed suicide by stab- b
ing himself thrice in the throat and once h
1 the abdomen. o:
The latest additions to the inmates at {j
tie Moundsville Penitentiary came from ?
\Tood county Friday evening. They were, *
tuy Green, sentenced for burglary for *
bree years, Dick Callahan, highway rob- H
ery, five years, and William Williams, J
urglary, five yeore. k
First it was snake stories, then big potass,
corn, turnips, pumpkins and other
irge garden truck that the average counry
editor wrote about and flattered the c
wner. Now he tells his readers about
be big hog Mr. So-and-so killed that ?
reighed go much and then says "Next." ci
West Virginia soldiers are requested to h
end their names, company, regiment, '
ank, amount of service and poetoSice a<l- *
rese to Capt. J. M. Itife, West Jefferson, ?
Ihio, Secretary ol the West Virginia Vet- ri
ran Association. The object of this as- e
ociation is to complete a roster of all sol- rj
iers of West Virginia troops. tl
Kev. Samuel Young, of Waynesburg, jj
ied a few days since. He was born in "
'ocahontas county, thli State, and until
ecently was a citizcn of West Virginia,
le was a colonel in the Union army;
fter the close of the war became prom- 0
sent as a preacher and politician. He
raa once a member of the Board of Keouta
of the West Virginia University, o
nd served several terms in the Legisla- r
are o( the State.
Two or three gentlemen from New York
nd Boston were in the great gaa and nil |
own of Little Waahington last week with *
view to looking up a site for a glass K
rorks. If they locate there they agree to 2
iave 300 hands, mostly boys and girls of *
Washington, at work within aix months, 0
nd 600 within a year. A party of Pitts- J
urgh capitalists are also in communica- "
ion with some of the business men look- *
jg toward the same object.
BKLLAIKB. jj
rtonal Boycotting?Oolor Blind T?aU q,
Bad Bwiand Ojpaiai. j]
Christian Sohmidt fell at the Ohio Hirer
epot, Benwood, and broke one of his I
nklea. fi
Miss Mary Pelky-died Sunday evening E
1 the twentieth year of her age, of pneu- ?]
lonia. " * " U
There Is talk of a pronouncing match or J
wo here, bat no announcement* have yet ?
een made. J
The choirs of the churches are to meet* ^
lis evening to arrange music for Thanks- a
Iving services and practice singing the A
jngs selected. ^
The car of the examiners for color o
lindnesa on the Cleveland & Pittsburgh n
lilroad was here yesterday submitting a
Dme of the employes to a second test a
The Firemen are considering the adrisa- f<
ility of securing City Hail and keeping it h
I repair for their own uses. As ft is at P
resent it is of little practical use to any- *
Odjr.
Boycotters occupied the pavement Sit- ~
rday evening around H. Roemer's dry
Doda store, notifying thoae who offered to
o in that he waa boycotted by the work- ?
igmen. Mr. Roemer denies the cbargea ,
a which thia action is baaed.
A number of exceptionally "hard look- 0
it" gypsies were tramping about in the [,
lud yesterday. Two men, each with a .
andng bear, and a girl with a monkey [,
irned the money that a woman collect- d.
She bore a baaket on her back in j,
rhich waa a young baby, baaket, baby and ?
II dripping with the snow and rain. One >i
f the bears struck a little girl on the face n
1th its paw at the corner of Thirty-fourth tl
ud Guernsey street, and cut quite a gash ?
u her face. ?
NBWH IN BKIEr. "
Geo. 8. Darling, a prominent machine U
iventor, died in New Haven, Ct,, his n
ome. c
John Marshall, agricultural implements, '
I Mansfield 0.. aseigned, Liabilities 17,- J
00; asssts $4,000. b
Lorenzo Snow, one of the Mormon
'welve Apostles, has been arrested lor ,
llegai cohabitation. He haa seven wires.
Tho mining jewels belonging to John
tcCnllough have been (onnd in a valise
A the Olympic Theatre, St. Louis. '
Mr. Bandall Is reported to have a tariff ,
>U1 in preparation, which is deemed of ]
Ugh Importance if trne, aa It wonld com- (
nand considerable Republican support ,
Prof. A. E. Boledon, a native of the Fiji t
[aland, and a reformed cannibal, haa beein I
lent to jail at Alexandria, Va., for being i
trunk and disorderly. He wuona leo- i
luring tow, i
THE TENEMENT FIRE
IN NEW YOltK WAS 1KCBNDIABT.
A Bohemian Cljar Hik? Sate Fir# to a
Ftre-etory Tmmtnt Hons* to gat a Paltry
Iaeoraace on hla own Prop arty.
Whola Family Loat In the Flamae.
Niw .Tore, Nov. 23.?The accidental
upsetting of a kerosene lamp in the rooma
olOtto Matobeck, on the third floor ol the
Are atory tenement, 404, East Sixty-fourth
street early this morning wu the signal
for agonizing scenes of terror and death.
The house and the one adjoining wero
filled with Bohemian cigar makers, employed
in a neighboring cigar factory.
One hundred and fifty people slept soundly
when the cry of fire was raised. The
flames communicated to the floors above
through convenient air shafta. A scene
of wild confuaion and panic ensued. The
(Tightened tenant* took to the fire eecapo
with all haate. They were gives shelter
by the neighbors while the firemen were
fighting the tlamea. This woh not an easy
task as the upper atorlea and the roof were
blase, and the flames bad spread to No.
tOtl. Reinforcementa were summoned
ind the fire was quickly subdued. About
(15.000 damage waa done to the buildings
ma the property of the tenants.
KHOLl FiUlLY SMOTllgllXD.
There had been some narrow escapes,
ind two women with their children were
sported to have been seriously burned,
>ut the firemen were not prepared to find
i whole family smothered to death.. In a
ear room of the top floor of No. 404 they
:ame upon Mary Tealka, a widow 40 years
>id, ana her children?Mary, axed 7 and
Innie aged 0 years, lying dead. It was
bree hours after the outbreak when this
liacovery waa made. A second and closer
earch waa made, but no other bodiea had
>een discovered up to 8 o'clock in the
uorning.
A FIEND S DEVICE.
A report spread early among the home383
tenants that the house had been deiberatoly
set on Are by one o( their num?r.
Henry Kohul, a Bohemian cigar
uker, was pointed out as the guilty one.
Iu hail disappeared and did not ahotr up
.ntil later in the morning, when he was
rrested. By that time the police had eolscted
evidence enough to make a charge
f arson and murder against him. The
xcitement of the Bohemians had become
furious rage, and threats of lynching
rere made. Kohul is insured lor $90t>,
rbile his furniture is scarcely worth $75.
'he charge is that be set lire to the house
} get tho money.
HELD ON A CHARGE OF ARSON.
The fire marshal began taking testimony
iter concerning the origin of the fire,
rom this it appeared that the fire broke
nt in Kobnl's room, and keroseno oil had
een poured over the bed and floor. The
allway and stairs were in flames, and the
nly way of escape for the tenants was by
i? lire escapts in the front and rear.
;ohul was identified by one of the tennis
as the man who threw something like
'ater out oi a pail on the burning stairs.
l Diaaeu up iae nrnuie 11 Biruca mo siaira
nd then the witness thought it .woe
eroeene. Kohul was arraigned In court .
3-day and heid on a charge of arson.
Colored Orphan Asylum Barnod.
Chattanooga, lTkss., Not. 23.?-The
Jolored Orphans' Home in'this city was
Jtally destroyed by fire yesterday. The
hildren, fifty-tour in number, were at
reakfast when the fire was discovered,
t had made considerable headway and
ras rapidly enveloping the entire bnildjg.
The matron and her assistants by
ire presence of mind and perfect deeipline
prevented a panic among the terified
children and marched them (rou
ae building without a single accident.
J1 the clothing, and most all the fumiire
were burned and the building is now
heap of ruins.
NATIONAL CONVENTION
it Cattla and Hurt* Growar??ThaProooodlogs
of tha Maetlog.
6t. Locis. Nov. 23.?The second annnal
[invention ot tlio National Cattle and
lone Growers' Association was called to
rder In the large Music ball of the Exosition
building at 11:20 to-day by Col.
t. D. Hunter. There were large deleations
present from all the cattle growing
tates and territories, Utah, Colorado and
'exae being especially strong. There were
n the floor about 600 delegates, the rereeentation
from the Eastern States being
omlnal. Mayor D. R. Francis delivered
n address of welcome, in which he spoke
f the wonderful growth of the cattle in?rest
as Instanced by the export dnring
be fiscal year ending June 1, 1884 of cat-,
le, of $18,000,000 and beef products, $28,00,000;
and concluded by tendering to
be association the freedomDf the city.
Gen. J. H. Brisben, U. B. A., first Vice
'resident ot the association responded
ttingly to the welcome. Gen. Curtis, of
lew York, second Vice President also reponded
to the welcome upon behalf of
be eastern wing of the association. Col.
L. D. Hunter, President ot the aesociaion,
delivered the annnal address in
rhieh he recommended a consideration of
be diseases of cattle, the improvement of
reeds, transportation and discrimination
gainst shippers of stock, the formation ol
n international government commission
a consider the guestion of restoration
f American beef in Enrope, the
eceuity of substituting some mcchanical
ppliance to designate cattle and thus do
way with hide destroying brands, the
jrmation 01 an especial association 01 vie
one growing association, the hecesaity of
ractica.1 national legislation through
rhich alene eziating local troubles can be
sttled; and, finally, the consolidation ot
tie several national associations devoted
> the cattle Interests of the country.
Prof. E. H. Moore, of Colorado, read an
laborate paper upon "The Cattle Indosry
of the United States," highly descript*
re and abounding with statistics of all
mda. Strong grounds were taken in favor
f national quarantine laws, the point bell
warmly applauded. Touching the
object of the illegal fencing of the pnblic
in da the speaker said: "This is as much
ondemned by the ranchmen as it would
e by Connecticut farmers. We only want
rhat the law gives us, the right to occupy
bese land* until the settler comes, and
ow that we can oome from our ranchee
j the Convention in palace cars, it is
lain to see that the days of the ranges
re numbered. As the Indians gave
ray to the pioneer, so most the Cowboy
ive way to the settler, and the rancher
ike the place of the ranger, until the eight
lillion acres of land now roamed by
attle shall teem with villages and model
arms for the cultivation oi refined cattle,
ired for not by ^cowboys with revolvers,
mt by cowboys with brains."
The Chair was authorised to appoint a
ommlttee on credentials, and a recess
ras taken until 3 o'clock.
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