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VOLUME II.
WASHINGTON, N. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1887.
NUMBER 32.
DIRECTORY.
MAILS.
Korthcm and Oreermlle Due
daily
t s p. ni. Closes at 1U p. m.
1 Vorth and South side river mail
Due
Monday, weanesaay ana rnaay at
Closes at 7 following mornings.
fi n m.
Office hours U a. m. to 10 p, m.
Honey Order and Registry Depart
STATE GOVERNMENT.
Governor Alfred M. Scales.
Lieut. Governor Chas. M.
Secretary of State "William
Stedman.
L. Saun-
der
Yutor- r . x . nuueus.
TIT Ti T
Tro:urer-
Donald W. Bain.
5Uj,t. of Public Instruction S. M.
Attorney General T. II. Davidson.
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
(Vmmisioncr John Robinson.
Secretary T. K. Bruner.
Chemist Charles W. Dabnev, Jr.
General Immigration
Patrick.
Agent- J.
T.
COUNTY.
Sheriff and Treasurer, R. T. Hodge
s.
Superior Court Clerk G. Wilkens.
Ri'riter of Deeds Burton Stilley.
Surveyor J. F. Latham.
Commissioners Dr. "W. J. Bullock,
clnir'n. J. T. Winfield, F. P.
F. B. Hooker, II. X. Waters.
' Bo-Mil of Education J. L.
rh-iir'n. P. H. Johiason and F.
VTnrl nroc
A. -A. V j
Winfield,
B. Guil-
fori
Superintendent of Public Instruction
-Rev. Nat Harding.
Superintendent of Health Dr. D. T.
Tavioe.
city.
T.lvorc. M. Brown.
Clerk John 1)
Sparrow.
Treasurer . L. JUorton.
Chief of Police M. .J. Fowler.
Ceun lilmen C. M. Bron,
W. B.
M-utui
W. II.
, S. H. Fowler, Jonathan Havens,
Howard, Alfred D. Peyton.
CHURCHES.
Episcopal Rev. Nat. Harding, Rec
tor. Services every Sunday morningjand
nigat. Sunday School at 3.30 p. m.
Rev. Nat. Harding. Superintendent.
Presbyterian Kev, 3. M. Smith, pas
tor. Service? every Sunday morning and
niszht. Sunday School at 3.30 p. m.
Superintendent. Jas. L. Fowle.
5lethod:st Rev. "W. R. "Ware, pastor,
Services every Sunday morning and ev
cmn. Superintendent, "Warren Mayo.
Sunday behool, 3.30 p. m.
TEMPERANCE MEETINGS.
Reform Club Regular meeting every
he-sdav
night at 7.30 at Club Rooms.
vr. c. t
U. Regular meetings
every
Thursday, 3 p
m..
at Rooms of Reform
C uH and Union Prayer Meeting every
Su - lay, in Town Hall, at 2.30 p. m.
M:o Meeting in Court House every 2d
Thursday night in each month.
LODGES.
Orr Lodge, No. 104, A. F. and A. M.
Eietts at Masonic Hall, 1st and 3d Tues
day nights of each month E. S. Hoyt,
V"! M R. T. Hodges, Secretary.
Phalanx Lodge, No. 10, I. O. O. F.
Meets every Friday night at their hall
Gilbert Rurnbey, P. N. G., J. R. Ross,
Secretary.
Washington Lodge, No . 1490, Knights
of Honor. Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday
nights at Odd Fellows' Hall A. P.
Crabtree, Dictator, J. D. Myeis, Repor
ter, J. R. Ross, F. Reporter.
Chicora Council, No. 350, American
Legions of Honor. Meets every 2nd and
4th Thursday nights at Odd Fellows'
Hall C. M. Brown, Commander, Wm.
M. Cherry, Collector.
Pamlico Lodge, No. 715, Knights and
Ladies of Honor. Meets 2nd and 4th
Monday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall
Wm. M. Cherry, Protector, T. B. Bowen.
Secretary.
Excelsior Lodge. No. 31, O. G. C.
Meets 1st and 2nd Tuesday nights at
Odd Fellows' Rall-C. TV". Tayloe, Com
mander, Win. Cherry, SecreUry.
The Mutual Live Stock Insurance
Company, of "Washington, N- C
OFFICE, CORNEfi MARKET & SECOND STS
Opposite the Court Hou-e,
Washington, n. c
Washington Mutual Benefit Insurance
Company.
CHARTERED BY THE LEGISLA
TURE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Issues Policies on Life, Health and
Accidents risks; also Fire risks taken,
a General Insurance business done.
Office, Opposite the Court Housa
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
TOBAGGO STORE
H, WIEiLlAMSjProp'r.
Sale Agent for Ralph's Sweet Snufl
All Brands of Snuff Cigars
and Tobacco,
Everything in the Tobacco line, and New
Goods constantly on hand' 7 :1 :ly
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.
The National Rubber Company, of Provi
dence, R. I., has failed for upwards of $900,
000. Forest fires on the Blue Mountain range
in Pennsylvania have been devastating valu
able timber lands.
A Gloucester (Mass.) schooner's captain J
reports having fallen in with a French hsh
ing sloop waterlogged on the Grand Banks.
He boarded her, and found ten men drowned
in the cabin.
A lockout of 5,030 shoemakers has taken
place in Philadelphia.
A fire in the business section of Syracuse,
N. Y. destroyed property valued at 400,000.
Henry Schafner, of Pottsville, Penn.,
seventy-one years old, in an insane tit of
groundless jealousy shot and killed his wife,
aged fifty-six years, and then put an end to
himself with a pistol ball.
A sawmill boiler exploded at West
Brownsville, Peun., killing two brothers
named Kelly and wrecking the mill.
Senator Frye, of Maine, spoke before the
Convention of the American Shipping and In
dustrial League at Boston, saying that Con
gress should "put its hand into that big sur
plus and pay for sailing merchant ships under
the American flag." Ten States were repre
sented in the Convention.
South and West.
Three hundred citizens started in pursuit
of a gang of robbers who murdered the Rev.
Thomas P. Ryan, a Methodist minister, near
Walton, W. Va. The robbers were found in
a fortified house. The result of a right was
the shooting of one robber, the capturing
and lynching of another, and the wounding
of five of the citizens.
Arizona's population is stated in Governor
Zulick s annual report to be 90,000.
Governor West's annual report estimates
the population of Utah at 200.000. There
are 2,000,000 animals of all kinds in the Ter
ritory, aud the mining output last year was
$7,031,729. The Governor opposes them ove
ment of the Mormons for Statehood.
Mrs. Lax, the woman who threw a pan
cake at Mrs. Cleveland in St. Louis, was fined
50.
The twenty-fourth annual Convention of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, at
Chicago, was welcomed by Governor Oglesby
and Mayor Roche. Chief Arthur, in his an
nual address, spoke strongly against strikes
and in favor of abstinence from drink. The
Brotherhood now numbers 25,000 men.
The twenty-first annual convention of
American Architects has just been held in
Chicago.
The General Assembly of the Knights of
Labor at Minneapolis has adjourned. NVtt
year the Convention wiil be held at Indian
apolis. The Anti-Horse Thief Association of Mis
souri has been hokling its annual convention
in the town of Mexico. The deliberations
were secret.
Governor Gray has urged the Federal
Court officers to undertake the prosecution
of the night marauders and whippers of men
and women in Southwestern Indiana, known
as the White Caps.
Violent winds and heavy rain have leen
demolishing property in Southern Louisiana.
Colosel A. H. MoNToMKRY,President of
the Memphis Jockey Club, fell dead of apo
plexy a few days since on the race track.
Extraordinary precautions were taken
to protect the Chicago jail, as an outbreak
and attempt to rescue the condemned Anar
chists was expected. A large body of police
were placed in and about the prison.
Washington.
General Greely, Chief Signal
recommends that a trial be made of
pigeons in the service.
Officer,
homing
The Treasury Department recommends
that United States attorneys, marshals and
clerks be paid salaries, and the fe3 system be
abolished.
It is stated that the Government will pro
tect American seal fisheries in Alaska's waters
from foreign depredations at all hazards.
Messrs. Oberly and Edgerton, two of
the three Civil Service Commissioners, do
not agree upon some constructions of the
Civil Service law. The former opposes
political organizations of officeholders at the
National Capital; the latter thinks they have
a right to exist.
Counsel for the condemned Chicago
Anarchists appeared in the United States
Supreme Court and applied for a writ of
error in behalf of the condemned men.
Roger A. Pryor made the argument for
the prisoners. The other counsel were
Beniamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts: ex-
Congressman J. R. Tucker, of Virginia, and
Messrs. Black and Solomon, of Chicago.
Kine law points were made in the appeal
Foreign,
Particulars of a disastrous fire at Han
kow, China, have just been received. One
thousand lives were lost, and an immense
amount of property was destroyed.
Unemployed workingmen had a pitched
battle with the London police. Many men
were injured, and twenty arrests were made.
The dedication of a jubilee memorial
fountain in honor of Shakespeare, presented
by George W. Childs, the Philadelphia editor,
was made the occasion of impressive cere
monies at Stratford-on-Avon, the great poet's
birthplace. There was a procession, a dedi
catory speech by Henry Irving, an address
hv TTnitod States Minister Phelps, recitation
of a poem written by Oliver Wendell Holmes,
trad a banquet.
Several members of the Canadian Parlia
ment are accused of bribery.
The Disconto Geselleschaft, a Leipsic
banking institution with a capital of 9,000.000
marks, has failed in consequence of unlawful
speculations. Two of the directors have ab
sconded with an enormous amount of spoils
and all the bank's stock.
nwctnrms. accompanied in some
. parts by a hurricane, are reported from Italy.
Crops and animals were greatly injured a
number of houses were unrooiea at risa, uuu
several persons drowned in Lake Oomo.
The carpenter of a Russian schooner mur
dered the Captain and five of the crew, and
then threw their bodies overboard.
Heavy inundations in Cuba have flooded
large districts and rendered many people
homeless.
The Australian steamer Cheviot has been
wrecked. Many of the passengers and crew
were drowned.
Scenes of violence in connection with the
eviction of tenants on Irish estates are still
reported almost daily.
Mrs. James A. Garfield and her
daughter Mollie have arrived in England.
The biggest steamer in the world, the
Great Eastern, has been sold at auction for
$105,000.
The steamer Upupa collided with and sunk
the German bark Planteur off Beachy Head,
Great Britain. Out of fourteen persons on
the bark only two were Saved.
Tohn Dickerson, a Calif ornia capitalist
has been murdered inMexico by bandits.
Many wish tis good morning that were
the cause of our having a bad nijzht.
j
TWENTYSIX PASSENGERS INJUR
ED IN WEST VIRGINIA.
DEADLY
COLLISION
CAROLINA.
IN SOUTH
Shortly before noon Thursday the fast
express on the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road, six coaches, going west, met with an
accident twelve miles below Charleston, W.
Va in which twenty-six passengers were
more or less injured. None were killed but
several were severely hurt. The railroad
authorities sent for surgical aid. The acci
dent was caused by a defective switch, over
which the engine, baggage, express and
mail cars passed unharmed, But the three
middle coaches, all well filled with passen
gers, were thrown from the track. Two of
them were turned completely over, one turn
ing twice.
The following are the sufferers so far as
known:
Wm. F. Simmon, cooper, 238 West One
Hhndred and Twenty-sixth street, New
York, right forearm fractured and body
slightly bruised.
Lewis Baker, colored. Columbus, O., badly
bruised about body and legs.
O. P. Watson, Taylorsville, Ky., concus
sion of the brain and tempray paralysis.
John Kelley, Indianapolis, Ind., scalp cut,
wrist dislocated and shoulder bruised.
Mrs. Catherine Miller, New York City,
head cut ond spine badly injured. Mrs. Mil
ler will soon become a mother.
W. F. Hiscock, Kansas, clavicle fractur
ed, head cut and leg bruised.
Charles James, colored, Charleston, W.
Va., cut and bruised in the back and body.
Dr. Wm. Fowler of New York City, badly
bruised about the spine and hip joint; a met
al flask iu his hip pocket imbedded itself in
the thigh.
Mrs. Fowler, had a foot mashed an 1 sustain
ed painful bruises.
Otto Levi, peddler, New York City, badly
bruised and injured internally.
Gen. Bobinson, tobacconist, ' Maysville,
Ky., sustained painful bruises-
Marion Smith, United Stites Pension
Agent, Ch rleston, W. V., bruised right hip
and both legs.
Two passengers whose names were not
learned suffered with broken backs, It was
fortunate th .t the lires had gone out in the
stoves or the loss of life would have been
great. The train was several hours late.
No blam 1 is attached to the employees, and
the company is doing al! in its power to care
for the injured, many of whom were able to
continue tneir journey. inose wno are
worse hurt are at St. Albans, but a few hun
dred yards from the accident.
A despatch from Greenville, S. C', says:
A disastrous collission occurred on the Rich
mond and Danville Air Line Rulroad
between Taylors's Station and Greer's nine
miles north of this city, between a north
bound passenger train and a south bound
freight train. The passenger train was
loaded with about five hundred people,
mostly excursionists returning from the At
lanta Exposition, and vaa four hours behind
time when it passsed Greenville. It had in
structions here to pass the freight train at
Greer's. The freight train did not stop at
Greer's, but came on, and the collision
occurred two and half miles this side of that
station, both trains running full speed at
the time. No attempt having be n made to
slacken either engine, there was a dreadful
crash when the two rushed together, and
the mangling of human bodies and destruc
tion of property was done without a mo
ments warning.
The two engines were completely demolish
ed and thrown from the track. Tre mail,
express and baggage cars of the passenger
train and the first t:;ree cars of the freight
were totally wrecked. The passenger con
sisted of nine coaches, including two r ull
man sleepers, baggage, expivss and mail
cars. Nine of the passengers in the Pullman
sleepers or passenger ears were injured. All
the injured were in ihe mail and express
cars. The following list of killed and
wounded is as nearly correct as can be ob
tained. Root Wall, engineer of the passenger train
killed.
Mrs. Hampton McDowell, of Ashevillo,
killed.
J. B. Erwin, of Atlanta, express messen
ger, seriously and perhaps fatally injured,
leg and foot being badly crushed.
J. L. Killian, of Greenville, mail agent,
slightly injured.
W. R. Wilson and S. N. Dykeman, mail
agents, badly but not seriously injured.
Phil. Black, negro train hand, badly in
jured. Louis Webster, fireman, arm broken and
concussion of the brain
Miss Mary Erwin and Nannie Erwin, of
Asheville, seriously injured.
Miss Quinn, of Washington, D. C, serious
ly injured.
Will Erwin, of Asheville, badly injured in
back and chest.
J. T. Parnell, of Charlotte, badly scald
ed. The passenger train was in charge of
Conductor C. F. Marshall, Engineer, Robt.
Wall and Fireman Ed Parnell. The con
ductor escaped without injury. The con
ductor and engineer of the freight train
jumped from the train and have not been
seen since. It is believed they were fright
ened and fled. There was a slight curve in
he road at the place of the disaster,
but the track was on a level surface. The
disaster was evidently the result of gross
and inexcusable negligence, and a strict in
vestigation will be made.
LABOR NOTES.
IIore than 10,000 electric motors are now
in operation in this country.
Twenty-five hundred to three thousand
miners are out on a strike in Southern
Indiana.
Tiie weekly BradstreeVs records 2,280
strikes throughout the country for the cur
rent year.
The production of pig iron has increased
in the Pittsburg district from 2,009 tons per
day last year to 3,0OD tons at present.
General Secretary Litchman says the
Knights of Labor on July 1, 18S7, numbered
5o5,o00, a decrease of about 195,000 members
during the year Z.
The London Iron says that American cheap
hardware is driving all European competi
tors out of the markets of that continent.
More than 80.000 dozen American monkey
wrenches are exported to Europe annually,
it is said, to suppiy the foreign demand.
The blast furnace report as published in
the American Manufacturer shows that on
October 1 there were furnaces, with a
weekly capacity of 144,638 tons, out of blast
On the same date the number of idle fur
naces was 243, with a weekly capacity of
50,009 tons.
The Emery Coal and Railroad Company
has been chartered in Tennessee with a capi
tal of $100,003. The company has acquired
100,000 acres of mineral lands, beside $150,
000 worth of property in the city of
Chattanooga. They will proceed at once to
build blast furnaces, rolling mills, and foun-iries.
RAM AD
WM
A FLASH OF FLAME.
An Explosion of Natural Gas Dam
ages Buildings and Hurts Many
People.
The first serious natural gas explosion in
Pittsburg in two years occurred in the Hotel
Albemarle and Bijou Theatre block on Sixth
avenue. The explosion was attended with
frightful injuries to a number of people and
great destruction to some of the finest prop
erty in the city.
The.omplete list of the injured, so far as
learn'" is as follows;
Jacvfo Dinner, a young man, employe of
the People's Natural Gas Company, hurt in
ternally and badly burned, and one leg and
arm broken ; will die.
Thomas Scanlan, employe of the People's
Natural Gas Company, badly burned about
the head, legs and hands ; injuries may prove
fatal,
Mike Mabranzi, employe of the People's
Natural Gas Company, severely burned
about the hands, face and back; may die.
Blake, colored man, injured internally,
will die.
H. T. Feick, injured internally and face
severely cut by flying glass; may not recover
John Feick, cut by glass about face and
hands, nose cut almost off.
Leon Kacharfki, employe of D. T. Reed,
injured in the back.
Gus Da$te, member of Engine Company
No. 1 , struck in the face by falling timbers ;
tniuries not serious.
Unknown woman, blown into the gutter
and seriousy hurt.
G. G. Nichols, editor Prop'cs Advocate,
blown into middle of street and severely cut
and bruised ; ot dangerous.
John Mulberry, a colored employe of the
People's Natural Gas Company, fearfully
burned about the head, face and hands; may
die.
Michael Mumphries, arms and head se
verely burned; will recover.
Charles Meyers, broken shoulder blade.
Joe Geading, Italian laborer, burned about
the head and shoulders, and injured inter
nally ; very serious.
A colored man, also an employe of the Peo
ples company, was slightly burned about the
hands and tace.
For several days p ?st workmen employed
by the People s Gas Company nave been en
gaged in repairing the pipes running into
the theatre and bote . The oder of escaping
g4S was noticed, but for some reason not yet
explained nothing was done to have the gas
turned of.
Three terrific explosions occurred simul
taneously in the cellirs of D. T. Reed, opti
cian, Hotel Albemarle and the Bijou Thea
tre. The concussion shook buildings for
several squares and broke every plate glass
window in the block.
Almost instantly flames shot up from va
rious parts of the block, but before they
gained much headway they were controlled
by the prompt work of the fire department.
A crowd quickly gathered to view the
ruins. The" Hotel Albemarle, the Bijou
Theatre entrance and the shops which front
ed on Sixth street between the hotel entrance
and Library Hall were terribly shattered,
and an investigation showed that the four
teen persons named above had been more or
less seriously hurt.
A careful inquiry made at the scene of the
disaster shows beyond a doubt that the ex
plosion was caused by the ignition of the
People's company's gas while workmen were
making a connection in the basement of
Feick's establishment.
The damage by the explosion will reach
$50,00). The greatest loss is to the Hotel Al
bemarle, which will exceed 82l,C0J. The
Bijou Theatre loses 3,500, D. L. Reed, opti
cian, $2,500, and Feicii Brothers, dealers in
artificial limbs, $4,500. Fully 8-3,000 worth
of plate glass was broken by the concussion
The auditorium of the Bijou Theatre was
not damaged anil the regular performance
was given. When the explosion occurred
the guests in the hotel Albemarle became
panic-stricken and several were slightly in
jured in making their escape from the build
ing. A number of persons, who were con
fined to their beds with typhoid fever, were
carried from the hotel to places of safety.
The exposure may seriously retard their re
covery. POLITICS IN A CONVENT.
Quarrel Among Nuns Over the Elec
tion ol a 3Iother Superior.
Convent politics have kicked up
among the French nuns who labor
a row
among
the fashionable catholics of Pittsburg. The
difficulty is in the -Ursuline Convent, which
was recently erected for $250,000 in the styl
ish quarter of the town.
The order had its origin in France, and in
the convent here a question has arisen be
tween the French and American element.
They have heretofore been operated under
the old French constitution, in which no
direct provisions are made for elections. But
it has been a rule of the order that no sister
can be elected as Mother Superior for more
than two terms of two years each.
Sister Alphonse came here seventeen years
ago, and was elected Mother Superior, and
ever since eas alwaj's been re-elected to that
position. At the recent election there was a
regular row, the nuns rebellel against the
election, and the matter was referred to the
Bishop, His decision was not satisfactory to
all concerned.
In order to avoid all disputes and bring
the ruattrr to an amicable settlement, a com
mittee of two lawyers was appointed, with
instructions from the sisters to prepare a
new set of ru:es and regulations to govern
elections.
THE PROHIBITIONISTS.
Their Cause at Stake Before the
Highest Court of the Land.
It is stated that there is a great deal of ex
citement among temperance people through
out the country owing to an apprehension
that the Supreme Court of the United States
will declare the prohibitory liquor laws
unconstitutional Seven cases are pending
before the court. Two of them come
from Kansas, four from Iowa, and one
from Atlanta, Ga. The Kansas cases
have already been argued in behalf
of the brewers by Senator Vest, of
Missouri,and Joseph H. Choate,of New York.
No one appeared for the Prohibitionists, to
their great astonishment, and the blame is
charged against Attorney-General Bedford,
of Kansas, who had charge of the case, but
failed for some reason to appear.
As is well known, says a Washington
special, hundreds of millions of dollars are
invested in the manufacture and sale of
liquor in States where prohibitory laws nave
been enacted and enforced, and if such a de
cision as is expected is given, the States will
be compelled to pay immense sums in
the shape of damages to those
whose investments have been idle. The cases
are regarded as of as great national import
ance as the famous. Dred Scott case, and the
entire temperance movement will be par
alvzed unless the Court decides in its favor
SPEECH BY GLADSTONE.
DEMANDING A STATUTORY PARLIA
MENT FOR THE IRISH PEOPLE.
The British Minister Severely Arraigned !
by the Ex-Premier.
The Congress of the Liberal Federation
opened the other day at Nottingham, Eng
land. Ex-Premier Gladstone made a speech,
in which he reviewed the situation in Ireland
and denounced the British Government for
the manner in which it was dealing with the
Irish question. His rising to speak was the
signal for loud and prolonged cheering.
Mr. Gladstone said he would tell them
plainly that he was not there to say smooth
things. It was a deplorable fact that the set
tling of the great Irish question, might have
been settled last year had their been a dispo
sition to discuss it in a spirit of candor and
fairness, had been again sat aside and was still
pending, its difficulties aggravated and its
prospects uncertain. He had always told the
Conservatives that the choice lay between
coercion and home rule. The Conservatives
had told them that home rule was an idle
dream, but events had shown that it was
not.
A coercion bill had been passed against
combinations, against the liberty of the press
and the right of public meeting, and not
against crime. The Irish spectacle was now
a grave and serious one, and if it continued it
would drive Ireland into such a state that
the difficulties of the Government would be
come almost insurmountable.
Mr. Gladstone denied that he proposed home
rule simply to advance Liberal interests. It
was doubtful, he said, whether the Tories ac
cepted home rule in its broad principles
in the same way that they accspted his
proposals in 1872 and "in 1S83. He
wanted a statutory Parliament in Dublin,
subject to imperial control. There was
nothing to prevent any reasonable man from
agreeing with the Liberals' Irish proposals
without reference to this or that particular
or detail. The immediate necessity of the
day was to watch the way in which Ireland
was now governed.
If the government persisted in their rash
and foolish policy it would naturally lead to
political demoralization, and render it in the
highest degree difficult, even for Englishmen
and a Parliament truly representing their
best and most enlightened conclusions, to deal
rapidly and beneficially with Ireland. Only
one word could describle the present system
of Irish government. It was "impertinence."
The events of the last few weeks in Ire
land would not have been tolerated in Eng
land. He condemned the action of the
authorities at Mitchellstown. He admitted
haviug used the words, "Remember Mitch
ellstown!" The affair must and would be
remembered. The country had an account
to settle witn tne government in con
nection with that affair. The Mitchellstown
authorities were undoubtedly wrong, yet Mr.
Balfour, in behalf of the Government, un
equivocally assumed th9 responsibility for
their acts. The worst feature of the
Mitchellstown incident was that the action
of the authorities there had become a model
and pattern for the whole of Ireland.
The whole system of government in Ireland
required to be thoroughly ref ormed,root and
branch. There had been a break down in the
Government in all essentials. A radical
change was wanted, and such a change an
enfranchised nation alone could accomplish.
Mr. Gladstone drew a glowing picture in
defence of his administration of the law in
Ireland and elsewhere in the Empire. He ex
pressed himself as perfectly confident that if
a general election were held immediately it
would result in the return of a Parliament
resolved to do justice to Ireland.
AN INCENDIARY SERVANT.
She Stole the Jewelry, Fired the House
and Has Run Away.
Soma time ago Charles J. Roe, took up
his residence in his fine house in the valley
between Sharon and Norwood, Mass. He
took as a servant a girl named Kate Agnes
Gleason. Shortly after hiring the girl, in
May last, stones were thrown through the
windows at night, three valuable Shetland
ponies were poisoned, money and jewelry
taken at certain times, and finally on J une
19, the house was set on fire and burned to
the grou- d, entailing a loss mi $20,000.
Some time after the fire the Gleason girl
went to Mrs Roe's sister, who lived with him
bringing certain pieces of jewelry which she
said she found in the ruins. The articles
bore no trace of injury, and suspicion was
aroused against the girl. It was found that
she had thrown the stones, poisoned the
ponies and stolen the valuables. She did
not confess, however, to setting fire to the
house. A warrant was obtained for her
arrest, but owing to the girl's promising to
return some of the jewelry if she was allow
ed time it was not served, and the girl
fled.
She was traced to Cambridge but disap
peared before the officers arrived. The story
had been kept quiet by the officers, who
hoped to capture her. She is about nineteen
years of age, tall and raw-boned, with a
prominent nose and red face,
CHALLENGED BY A DEACON.
Missflre in
a South Carolina Affair
of Honor.
In the court of General Sessions for Ches
ter county, S. C, when Judge Wallace called
the case of J. Harvey Neely, who was indict
ed for challenging J. E. McMurray to fight
a duel, the State's Attorney announced that
the case had been compromised, whereupon
a nol . pros, was entered.
Neely and McMurray ar well-to-do farm,
ers, and both are members v.' the same Pres
byterian church McMurray being a dea
con. Their quarrel grew out of a dispute
over church matters.
Neely's challenge was to fight at ten paces
with shotguns. Neely went to the appointed
place prepared to fight, but instead of finding
McMurray he found a constable with a war
rant for his arrest. The church people to
prevent the evil effects of a trial in a crim
inal court, took the matter in hand, and
through the instrumentality of a prominent
Presbyterian minister, and with the sanction
of the State's Attorney, effected a compro
mise outside the court. Immediately after
the famous duel in' 1880 in which Colonel
William Shannon was killed by Colonel E.
B. C. Cash, anti-duelling societies were estab
lished all over the State and the Legislature
passed an act requiring all officials of the
State on taking the oath of office to take an
additional oath neither to send nor to accept
a challenge to fight a duel and making the
act of sending or accepting a challenge a
felony. Colonel Cash was tried for murder,
but after several mistrials the case was dis
continued. The stringent law is still on the statute
book, but nothing has yet been accomplished
by it
THE LONG TOUR ENDED.
Return of the Presidential Party to
Washington,
A sad incident of President Cleveland's
visit to Memphis was the sudden death
of Judge H. T. Ellet, of the Chancery
Court, a few minutes after h had delivprrfd
Hhe address of welcome to Mr. Cleveland
from the crowded stand in Court Square.
The President was responding to Judge Ellet,
when that gentlemen was suddenly taken sick
and sank to his seat. Although attended by
Dr. Bryant, the President's physician, and
local doctors, Judge Ellet succumbed to par
alysis of the heart. The exercises were closed
on the stand by the announcement that there
would be a reception later at the Merchants'
and Cotton Exchanges,and the crowd hurried
away. Both the President and Mrs. Cleve
land were much affected bv th6 sad event
At Nashville the President and Mrs. Cleve
land were the guests of General W. H. Jack
son on that gentleman's magnificent stock
farm, Belle Meade, six miles from the city.
There Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland spent a quiet
Sunday their first in the South. During
the day they were driven to Nashville and
called on Mrs. James K. Polk, widow of
President Polk, and lady of the White House
forty years ago.
On Monday morning the Presidential party
were driven through Nashville to Vanderbilt
University. The streets were crowded with
people, and decorations and mottoes were
plentiful. At the University Chancellor Gar
land made an address of welcome. Then the
march through the city's principal
streets to the Maxwell House was re
sumed. At the hotel Mrs. Cleveland -alighted
and held a reception for the ladies
of Nashville. The President continued to the
Capitol, and frcm a stand was welcomed by
Governor Taylor. President Cleveland re
sponded in a speech complimentary to Nash
ville and its people. After the address the
President held a public reception in the ro
tunda of the Capitol. Shortly after noon
the visitors left for Chattanooga.
The city of Chattanooga was reached in
the afternoon in a heavy rain. The train was
greeted at the depot by an immense crowd.
The President's carriage was followed by a
mounted escort and lou carriages, containing
leading citizens. Many private nouses were
decorated. The party stopped about an hour
at Chattanooga, and then departed for At-
lanta, Ga.
The train reached Atlanta at 5 r. m. The
j party were received with belching cannon,
the illumination of Kennesaw mountain, and
the roar of thousands of voices in greeting.
A reception committee, which inclnded Gov
ernor Gordon, Senator Brown, Henry W.
Grady and others conducted the party to
the Kimball House. Five Governors of
Southern States welcomed the party.
On Tuesday morning the Presidential party
were escorted to the Governor's room iu the
Capitol at Atlanta. There they were received
by Governor Gordon. The visiting Govern
ors, the Supreme Court of the State, the
United States officials, the municipal authori
ties, and the members of the Legislature were
presented to the city's guests. This ceremonial
over, the visitors, escorted by Governor Gor
don, Senators Brown and Colquitt, and ac
companied by the visiting Governors, and
many other people of note,proceededto Pied
mont Park, which is the exposition ground.
A national salute was fired as the proces
sion entered the gates of the inclos
ure and proceeded to the speaker's
stand. The formalities of welcome to the
President were begun with a prayer by the
Rev. Dr. Bartlett, of the Presbyterian
Church, after which Mr. H. W. Grady.
Vice-President of the exposition, in a brief
but eloquent speech extended a welcome to the
President Mr. Clevel and respondedin a speech
in which he referred in complimentary terms
to the growth and enterprise of Atlanta.
Governor Gordon followed the President in a
short address. Then there was a public re
ception in the exposition grounds. In the
evening the gentlemen of the visiting party
dined with Governor Gordon. Mrs. Cleve
land and Mrs. Vilas were entertained at din
ner by Mrs. R. N. Porter. Later the entire
party attended a card reception ty the Cap
ital City Club.
The exercises at Atlanta on Wednesday in
President and Mrs. Cleveland's honor were
marred by a heavy rain. The Presidential
party breakfasted with Senator Colquitt at
10 a. m. 1 here were about thirty other guests,
including most of the people of note
in town. The President and Mrs.
Cleveland entered their flower-bedecked
carriages at 11 o'clock, and, with an
escort of cavalry and artillery, made their
way through muddy streets to the Exposi
tion grounds, three miles away. There Mr.
and Mrs. Cleveland viewed the military pa
rade. In the afternoon the President
was entertained by Hon. Julius Brown,
son of Senator Brown. At the
same hour a reception in Mrs. Cleveland's
honor was given by Mrs. Henry W. Grady.
At night the President reviewed a torch
light procession of the Young Men's Demo
cratic Leagues of the State, and made a
speech. The party left at midnight for
Montgomery, Ada.
The special train containing the Presiden
tial partv reached Montgomery, Ala,, at 8
o'clock Thursday morning, the visitors
were greeted witli booming cannon and the
cheers of a great crowd. The military
presented arms as the President and Mrs.
Cleveland entered their carriage. After
breakfast at the Exchange Hotel, the Pres
ident reviewed the military parade, and
there was a presentation to Mrs.
Cleveland of a handsome solid sil
ver jewel casket, representing a cotton
bale, and bearing an appropriate inscription
indicative of the visit to Montgomerv. A
sctin copy of the day's edition of the Mont
gomery Dispatch, consisting of thirty-three
pages, elaborately and expensively trimmed
and enclosed within a handsome crimson
plush roll, bearing on a silver plate an an
propriate inscription, was al-o irewrA-i! r
the President and Mrs. Cleveland
Editor Fitzgerald. After a drive througt
the principal streets, the partj
were taken to tha Fair grounds
where, in presence of an immense crowd,
Governor Sleav delivered an address of wel
come. Mr. Cleveland responded, speaking
words of praise for Alabama, its people and
its industrial growth. After a drive around "
the Fair grounds the party again took the
special train and started on their journey for
Washington.
At Calera, a junction point in Alabnma.
where the special train stopped to change en
gines, 3,000 or 4,000 persons were assembled,
'and among them 503 workmen from Birming
ham, who had come on a special tram witn
cars gaily decorated. Here threa cheers were
given for Mrs. Grover Cleveland and the
President. Mrs. Cleveland remarked sotto
voce: "They have got it wrong end first,
but the President thought the people knew
what they were about.
At Asheville, N. C. the party stopped an
hour and were escorted through the city in
carriages. From Asheville the train pro
ceeded on its way without further stop,
reaching Washington Saturday evening.
Both the President and Mrs. Cleveland ex
pressed themselves as well pleased with then
journey. The Spanish Queen Regent has signed a
decree authorizing the construction of six
ironclads of 7,000 tons each, which shall be
caoable of attaining a speed of from sixteen
to twenty miles an hour; also four large and
sixty small torpedo boats.