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1IRKVITIKS.
. Old friends are best. King James
used to call for his old shoes, they were
easiest for his feet. Sddens Table Talk;
Humility is a virtue all preach, none
practice, and yet everybody is content to
hear. The Master thinks it good doctrine
for his servant, the Laity for the Clergy,
and the Clergy for the Laity. Seldens Ta
lk Talk, 108'J.
Gillhooly I tell you that Mose
Schaumburg is a tricky fellow. Hostetter
McGinnis Yes, you bet he is. After he
shakes hands with you and takes his
leave you ought to count your fingers to
see if he hasn't got away with some of
them. Texas S flings.
Psychologically Distant. Citizen
"JIavn't you got any relatives at all?"
Tramp "Yes, sir; I have one, but he is a
distant relative.'"' "Who is that?" "It's a
brother, sir." "Well, you don't call jTour
brother a distant relative, do you?" Why,
yes, sir; you see he's dead, sir." -Yonker's
Staff snutn. -.
One of the speakers at Worcester yes
terday said: "The prohibitory party is the
"child'of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union." This seems to be one
of those rare and exceptional cases where
the child is older than its mother. The
prohibition 'party is like the Irishman's
pig, "little but old." Boston Traveller.
First Omaha Girl Clara Stuckup's
father gave her a magnificent diamond
ring for her birthday present. I suppose
she'll be around with it putting on airs.
Second Omaha Girl She won't put on
any airs over me. I have a new ring, too.
See here.
. "But her ring is diamond." i
"No matter; she'll feel sick when she
frees this. It's an engagement ring." Om
aha World.
It was in a second hand store on Kear
ny street some time ago. It must have
been some time ago, but I only heard of
it last night. It was a , rippling hot day
and the poor artist wanted a drink very
badly. He shouted into this second-hand
store, one of those with the three time
balls over the door. The party of the
first part -was singularly friendly. "Hello!
Ike'' he said. "Hot, isn't it?" "It vas
kind of warm." "Warm! Geewhilikens, I
was just over there in Uncle Moses's place
and the thermometer wa3 OS." "In Uncle
Moses's store! Thermometer 98. Yot
a schwindle! You joost valk right in here.
I sell you the same thermometer for 95
cents." San Francisco Chronicle.
Senator Ransom passed through
Greensboro .Sunday for the mountains.
His health has been somewhat impaired
working the cotton fields on the Roanoke.
He is supposed to be tenant by courte
kv of the U. S. Senatorship from North
Carolina. The Senator has probably heard
some bad news from the West, and has
tens out to mend the breaches, if possible.
He is now among the farmers. We can
imagine him slapping the old fellows on
the shoulder, and explaining how it was
he got mixed up in the Jim Reid-Webster
right last fall, and came to make his last
speech at that ominous place called Kill
tnick.
"Good morning, beautiful rain, must
be excellent for the crops."
"Whftt crops?"
"Well the yes, very good for the crops."
"Crops are all right, anyhow, except to
bacco." .
"Well the beautiful white frost ought to
help that. Frosted cake is always good,
frosted tobacco ought to be sweet. It
will give it a rich color, you know."
"Know nothing; no, I don't know. I
know it has killed the tobacco crop."
"But then the rain you know, that is
good "
"Yes, good to soften the ground for
ploughing, and pulling stumps."
"Oh, yes, rain is good for pulling
stumps, I had f orgotton that. Yes, our friends
must begin to think of keeping the repub
lican party out of office next year. There
is danger of their return. I thought I
would come out and see about it. They
say Jarvis is coming home to help out; he
' has been away from the country a long
time, and don't know the needs of our
people. If I can get back to the Senate
one more time, I can get everything our
people want. Write me if there is any
thing you desire. Will answer by return
mail. This is my year for writing letter?,
you know."
Judge not between two friends, but rather
see, ' '
If thou canst bring them friendly to agree.
So shalt thou both their loves to thee in
crease, And gain a blessing too, for making peace;
But if thou shouldst decide the cause, i' th'
end,
Howe'er thou judge, thou, sure, shalt lose
a friend. TJlos. Randolph, 1643.
.VETERANS OF THE WAU
WARMLY RECEIVED BY THE PEOPLE
OF ST. LOUIS.
"If Too Bee Anything You Want, Ask
for It, and If Yon Don't See Anybody
to Ask, Take It" Everything Looking
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St. Louis, Sept. 23. If thai pastor of
many of the city churches preached to
smaller auiiences than usual yesterday
morning, and if there 'were a great many
empty benches at the Sunday schools in the
afternoon, it was solely because the ieople
of St. Louis, both young and old, were obeyj
ing the scriptural injunction to give welcome
to the ctrangers that came within their gates.
Right foyal indeed, despite the proverbial
sanctity of the day, was the receptiou ac
corded to the advance guard of the veteran
ex-soldiers of the republic, who crossed the
big bridge between daylight and dark.
Huzzas from thousands of throats greeted
them a3 they alighted from their trains, and
the march to their respective headquarters
under numberless arches and through miles
of gayly decora red streets, was one con-
tinual ovation. It was a great Sunday fori
St. Louis and h memorable one for those of
its guests who bad fought and bled that the
Union might be preserved.
The train that carried the Wisconsin dele
gation was the first to arrive. The clock in
the city ball was striking 8 when it came to a
full stop in the Union depot. There were
thousands iisid, and as many more outside.!
Seventeen of the boys in blue, forming the
special escort to Governor Rusk, ulighted
from the forward car. Nine of them were
minus on arm, five had but one leg apiecej
and two more were on crutches. Back of
them appeared the towering form of the
governor himself, and as the eighteen formed,
in, witii Robert Chi vers' post, of Milwaukee,!
and its' life and drum corps at their head, d
volume of cheers went up that fairly shook!
the structure. The ovation was repeated
when the delegates arrived in front of the
Lindell, and three times three was given byj
the occupants of the crowded lobby as the
veterans marched through, in single file.
In the ladies' rarlor a local committee
was iii waiting to welcome them. . "If you
see anything you want, ask for it," uid Col.
D. P. Dwyer, its spokesman. "If you don't
see anybody to ask. take it." !
Six hundred boxes of wine and two car(
loads of fruit and agricultural products were
in the baggage cars on the rear end of the
train that brought in the California delega
tion yesterday afternoon. The ! posts not
only of California, but of Nevada, Arizona1
and a solitary one that has been brought into
existence on the Sandwich Islands is repre-j
sented in the delegation, and a jollier crowd
could scarcely be imagined. Headquarters
were at once established at the Laclede.
Four "hundred boxes of the wine were con
veyed to the anteroom, and a committee was
dispatched to notify the posts at the other
vbostelries that the Californians were keeping
open house. : !
There are nearly 300 comrades in the dele
gation,) together, with 150 members of the
Women's Relief corps, the largest delegation!
of this order from any department There
was a caucus last evening of the Californians,!
and it is reported that it had reference to a J
nominee for commander-in-chief. This, how-j
ever, was denied by Department Commander j
G. S. Salomon and Assistant Adjutant Tay
lor, who also gave an emphatic denial to tfce
statement telegraphed from San Francisco,1
that the majority of the delegation had de
cided to support Gen. Sherman for the
position. The question, they suid, had not
been discussed, either before leaving home
or en route, and the delegation is entirely
unpledged, i f
About 500 of the Kansas and Nebraska
veterans came in last night, and 1,500 from
the same regions arrived before daylight
to-day. Their badges are attached to a
silver grasshopper with a ilic-tal sunflower
pendant.' I j
The Californians' insignia is a gold pitted
grizzly bear. j
STARVED TO DEATH. j
Horrors Disclosed by a llaji on a 1'auy
J ', j Farmer! House. j
Rochester, Si?pt. 20. A woman named
Cynthia McDonald is in. jail here, arrested
yesterday on the charge of mrder in the
second degree. Early in the morning officers
made a .descent upon her house an I found
four children in it. Two were dead, appar
ently f-om i starvation, as they were merely
skeletons.
A physician made an examination of the
food that had been administered to the in
fants and at once pronounced it unfit for use.
The two other children were found lying in
Ited, reduced almost to skeletons. Their
little limbs and arms were about as large as
broom handles.
Dr. Mulligan gave it as his opinion that
these chi'dren would not probably survive
twenty hours longer. He said that the little
ones showed unmistakable signs of most
cruel and wanton neglect. The claim is that
Mrs. McDonald had admistered cordials to
make the infants sleep. The woman, it is
learned lias conducted a laby farm at the
place for several years. j,
Mc A ul lire's Explanation.
New York, Sept 20. Jack McAuliffe, in
an interview last evening, flatly denied the
story published in a morning paper to the
effect that his match with Jem Carney for
the light weight championship was off. The
final deposit of 1,000, he said, would be
made at the office of The Boston Globe to
day, and, although he was far from well, he
would meet Carney in the ring on the ap
pointed day in October if be had to crawl
there on bis hands and knees. He was com
pelled to leave his training quarters at Mys
tic park because the climate did not agree
with him, and did so upon the order of his
physician, who is with him almost con
stantly.! The fact of his leaving there gavs
' rise to the story that he had given up the
idea of fighting, but he would fight, never
theless, if he should be able to stand on his
feet on the day set for the contest.
Allen Meyers, a ranchman near Bozeman,
M. T., j accidentally killed his 10-year-old
daughter while handling a rifle. A younger
daughter was seriously injured.
I Puster & Co.'s furniture factory, of
Evansville.i Ind., was burned Thursday
night jLoss on furniture and stock, $75,000;
intnmnftj. 440.000
MINERS HOPEFUL-
Granting the Advance Demanded Urging
Concessions.
Wilkesbab.ee, Pa., Sept. 26. There is a
break in the lines of the operators of the
Lehigh. E. G. Cuyle & Co. have granted
the ad ranee. This firm is stripping at Milnes
ville for the Stout Coal company and em
ploy about 100 men, who have been receiving
$L10 a day and will hereafter receive I. SOL
Mr. Pardee still feels and talks stubbornly.
Yesterday he said:
"1 will say that I have not been consider
ing any plan of compromise or arbitration in
this matter, and don't propose to, either.
The men have shown remarkable general
ship in this fight, and many things hare oc
curred to give them- hope of success. The
number of Hungarians and Italians who have
left the regions will run up into the thousands.
Of a colony of 500 at Slabtown, not one re
mains, and the exodus from other places has
beeu lare. A regular 'plan of campaign' has
been adopted. Supply stores have been or
ganized. Work is being secured for the
strikers outside the mines. More than 100
men have ! found employment on improve
ments making by the Diamond Water com
pany in Hazleton. Representative of the
managing committee will be int h Wyoming
aud Lackawanna districts early tUs week to
solicit aid, and they have assurance by
mail that the responses will be general and
liberal.! Advices from Philadelphia an.1 New
York are jthat dealers in the coal of this
region are making strenuous efforts to influ
ence the ojierators to yieM.
Setamokin, Pa., Sept. '.JO. Au agreement
has been promulgated ty the Uniou Coal
company, by which its miners will receive 8
per cent advance, and its laborers an ad
vance of 15 per cent., together with other
concessions, and the company's collieries re
sumed to-day. All the other collieries are
working except those of the Mineral Mining
company, which has not yet made a settle
ment with its miners.
CONNECTICUT ELECTIONS.
The ''No-I icense" Fight Opened with
Vipor-i-Interest In Naturalization.
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Hartford, Sept. 2(5. The little town elec
tions wilj furnish all the political excitement
that Connecticut will have this year. With
l he except ion of New Haven and Bridgeport,
all the fowns of the state elect seletmn and
other officers on Monday, Oct. o. Caucus
cab's for mot of j the towns have l
ready (appeared, and the coming week
will be h lively one. The interest, politi
cally, is cooliued to the choice of selectmen
as the making of voters is entrusted to these
board s. j As at present divided, the Republi
cans have dootrol of eighty-three towns, the
Democrats fifty-two, and thirty are divided
letween both parties. The subject of pro
hibition will come before the people under
the local option clause, and the ''no license'
fight in the towns has already opened with
vigor. In a great many places the Prohibi
tionists have united with the temperance
Republican to bring out a large "no license"
vote, and good speakers have been secured to
stir up the ieople. Senator Colquitt of
Georgia being the most prominent. He has
leen holding successful meetings in the east
ern part of the state.
Interest !in naturalization is marked
throughout the state. The court in this city
naturalized thirty-one voters at oue sitting
and attended to a great many applications
for papers besides. Republican leaders be
lieve this movement will bring a perceptible
increase to the Republican vote in the state.
He Koved His Country.
AiTERiCCS, Ga , Sept. 20. Edmond Mont
gomery died in Nick Jordan's place, near the
county j line of Schley, aged 102 years. He
was an African chief of the Askari tribe, and
was taken to Virginia from .Africa in 1S07,
when he was a stalwartyoung roan. He had
a large family in Virginia, and when he died
he left his third wife and twenty-five childreu
in 'Georgia! His grandchildren and great
grandchildren are unknown and unnum-
lered. He had remarkably good eyesight
nnd health, and never took a dose of medi
cine in his life. . He had teeth like ivory "and
every one
was in his Lead at the time of his
death.
POLITICAL DOINGS.
Samuel li Avery, nominated Republican
candidate for mayor of Louisville Tuesday
night, voted for Cleveland in 1SS4, and is
classed as a Mugwump. "
Mr. Kilbride, who attended Mr. O'Brien
on his Canadian tour, has been elected to the
house of commons without opposition.'
The following names are mentioned as
probable candidates of the New York De
mocracy : Secretary of State Cook for re-
nomination; Judge W. A. Poucher, of
Oswego, for attorney general ; Senator Wem
ple, of Saratoga, for comptroller; John
Bogart,1 of New York, for state engineer.
Congressman Morrison say3 President
Cleveland is constantly growing in political
strength. : ' ;
At a i mass meeting of the United Labor
party in Rochester John J. Bealin bitterly
denounced President Cleveland and Gov
ernor HilL !
The New York Republican state commit
tee has organized, with Cornelius N. Bliss as
rhairman, Frank S. Smith as secretary, S.
V. White as treasurer and Gen. John N.
Knapp as chairman of the executive com
mittee, j
I Ex-Governor CarrolL of Maryland, says
his state will send a solid Cleveland delega
tion to 1 the next Democratic national con
vention! and that Mr. Cleveland -will then
receive an almost unanimous nomination;
Senator McPherson says he is tired of poli
tics, and will not seek the nomination for
senator. j
William S. Throckmorton, of Freehold,
N. J., announces that he is not a candidate
for state senator.
The Anti-Monopoly league of New York
state resolved to support the Democratic
ticket this f all.
The parliamentary elections in Sweden as
sure an absolute majority of free traders.
An assembly of electors was held at Sofia
on Saturday to nominate candidates for the
sobranje, but no candidates were selected.
CoL Ingersoll thinks that Mr. Harlan, of
Iowa, will be the Republican candidate fot
the presidency.
Timothy Mulally, aged 11 years, was found
drowned iu a cistern under The Herald office,
in Syracuse, N. Y. He had been missing
since Tuesday, and was badly decomposed.
He was a newsboy.
SOCIALISTS IX ENGLAND.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROGRESS
THEY ARE MAKING.
Trades Unionists Are Falling Into line
with the Social Democrat The Klght
Hoar Movement TTIdely Advocated.
The Becent Labor Cpngress.
Loxdox, Sept. 20. No doubt an account
of the Trade Union congress, which was held
at Swansea last week, has been received ia
the United States. It is possible, however,
that in view of the growing importance of
the labor movement in the United States,
and the last definite severance between men
of the Henry George school and genuine So
cialists, a brief review of the recent action of
trade unions in Great Britain and a few re
marks on the recent congress from a Socialist
standpoint may be of interest j to American
readers.
What is often overlooked is that the Eng
lish trade unionists constitute but a small
minority, not more than one-twelfth at the
outside, of the total working class population
of Great Britain. Yet this minority has
been regarded for the last twenty or thirty
years as representative of the interests of the
whole of the workers, though as a matter of
fact during that period the unionists have
become more and more apathetic, and have
developed to a greater extent than ever be
fore the bad characteristics of an "aristoc
racy of labor. n Even where the rank
and file of the societies were sound on
labor questions, the paid secretaries and the
leaders generally were directly or indirectly
influenced by members of the landlord and
capitalist clas3 of this or that shade of poli
tics, with the result that the boldest middle
class competitive economy of the Ricardo-Chalmers-Malthusian
type was generally ac
cepted by the unionists as gospeL The
teachings of the fine old Chartists, the men
who forty years and more ago had stood up
in England with arms in their hands against
the shameful robberies and tyranny of our
upper and middle classes, were completely
forgotten, j
The memory of Ernest Jones and George,
Julian, Harney, of Harry Vincent, Stephens,
BalL Oastler, Lovett, Fergus O'Connor and
Brouterre O'Brien had faded away. Seven
or eight years ago affairs looked really quite
hopeless for the workers, and it did seem
most unlikely that the Social Democrats a
name first used by Brouteire O'Brien more
than fifty years ago to describe himself and
his friends who would now be known as
Revolutionary Socialists could ever make
head in this island.
Many circumstances have, however, helped
to change ; the tone of the Unionists since
1SS0. The Irish agitation has nbt been car
ried on for nothing. People slowly learned
that the fight which was being fought in Ire
land by the workers and the middle class
against the landlords would have to be waged
in England by the workers alone against
both landlords and middle class. But they
learned very slowly, and the shameful Lib
eral coercion acts in Ireland were supported
by the trade unionists, who themselves had
gained the right of free, combination by the
most violent means and by the most relent
less secret despotism. Times were still
pretty good for the artisan class here. They
had got, or, thought they had got, nearly all
they wanted, and they could afford to be in
different to the sufferings of the Irisii peas
ants as well as to the misery of a large sec
tion of their fellow toilers, men and women.
The president's address at the recent labor
congress was a distinct Socialist speech,
vigorous and determined. It was received
with ringing cheersj especially his declaration
as to the necessity for international action
by the working classes. Manifest favor was
Shown to an eight hour bill, followed up as
it was by a scathing attack on Henry Broad
hurst, - the i secretary of the parliamentary
committee and under secretary in Mr. Glad
stone's late cabinet. To make a long story
short, the Socialist party in the congress got
practically the upper hand, and its members
were so "bettered," to use the phrase of one
of the delegates, that they dared not oppose
an International Labor congress in London
next year, which previously they had vehem
ently denounced, and it was carried unani
mously I The majority at that congress will
unquestionably consist of Social Democrats.
WHISKY AND MURDER.
Knives and Pistols Used Over Cards In a
Texas Town.
McKjn-xey, Tex., Sept. 20. The little
village of Blue Ridge was the scene of a
bloody affray Saturday evening which re
sulted in the death of two men. It was
justice court day, and late in the evening
Coot Hacker, Albert Turner, Jim Turner and
Charles O'Brien were out in the bushes en
gaged in a game of cards for a quart of
whisky. Willie Hacker, Willie Dameson
and Bud Scrivener were spectators. The
whisky they, had was all drank up, and the
quartet differed as to who won and proceeded
to settle it with knives.
Bud Scrivener was cut in the back and in
the head, and died Saturday night The two
Turners are charged with causing Scrivener's
death. Jim Turner was badly cut in the
arm, and this is- charged to Coat Hacker.
Albert Turner was slashed in the head and
otherwise bruised. This was probably done
by Scrivener, who was left dead in the brush.
The assailants then came to this city.
Shortly after reaching town Charley
O'Brien and Thad Brown began a quarrel,
and Lewis Martin, a constable, who was said
to be drunc, took a hand, ostensibly to keep
the peace. When Joe Webb attempted to
quiet Martin, who was adding materially to
the confusion, Jim Griffith also took a hand
in the effort to quiet the disturbance. This
involved Martin and Griffith in a quarrel, and
Martin, pulling a revolver, opened fire on
Griffith, who knocked the weapon aside, but
received the shot through his hand. At this
juncture Ben Eakle ran up and was cut in
the back by George Martin, a brother of
Lewis, who then escaped. Eakle died short
ly afterward. Albert Turner was arrested
but made bis escape. Eakle and Scrivener
were both, married.
Mrs. Hiram Alouiter. ot rayeiwsviiie.
N. Y., was found dead in the dyke at that
place. She had on only her night dress. She
bad been ill for some time, and is thought to
have taken her life while suHenng irom aei
ancholia.
A veteran of the war attempted tne tour
der of a comrade's widow, and failing, killed
himself at Middletown. N. x.
MATTERS OF GENERAL. INTEREST.
H. E. Mack, of South Amboy, has bees
appointed judge advocate general of the De
partment of New Jersey Sons of Veterans.
Another rate war on eastern bound passen
ger traffic from Chicago is expected.
The Delaware peach crop w as equal to but
half of that realized last yevr.
According to a consular report from Ger
many the vring girls can obtain but a bare
subsistence for their labor, and thousands are
being crowded into paths of vice.
Maj. Bartelott, whom Stanley sent to Stan-,
ley Falls, fiuds the Arabs who captured the
pest last winter unwilling to submit to the
Free State authority even under Tippoo Tib.
Mr. Harrington complained at the Mitch
ellstown inquest of a newspaper's suggestion
to throw him into a pond. He had a tilt
with the coroner and Sergeant Ryder.
The Commercial club, of ; Louisville, Ky.,
dined 1,000 commercial travelers, and Presi
dent Knott made an address rivaling the wit
Of his Duluth speech. j
The street car drivers of Cincinnati ac
cepted a compromise of twenty-one cents per
hour, with a guarantee of ten hours work per
day. i .
Capt Black, chief counsel of the con
demned anarchists, has arrived in New York
to confer with Gen. Pryor.
The steamers Assyrian Monarch aud Gre
cian Monarch are to have their names
changed. The former will ibe known as the
Tyrolean and the latter as the Pomeranian.
A sensation was made at Brooklyn bridge,
on the New York side, Friday morning, when
a young lady slapped a masher w ho purose-
ly trod on her dress. The fellow sneaked
away.
The captains and pilots of steamboats ply
ing alfout New York harbor have organized
a new branch of the American Brotherhood
of Steamboat Pilots iu Brooklyn.
There was a slight change for- the worse in
Jacob Shar's condition! yesterday.- He
assed a very restless night and was suffer
ing from diabetes.
Charles Woods, having !been cleared at
Bismarck, D. T., of the murder of George
Flury, will be reinstated in the United States
army.
The National Council of New York Amal
gamated Building Trades, in session at
Chicago, have declared the Haymarket thea
tre a scab job.
O. E. Collins, general agent for Minnesota
and Dakota of the United States Dealers'
Detective association, has been missing a
month from St Cloud, Minn. He leaves
many creditors and some checks on bank
where he had no money.
Gen. Pryor and Capt Black are confident
that a writ of error will be granted in the
Anarchist case. S
The steamship Adriatic, from Liverpool,
brought C05 immigrants to Castle Garden
Saturday; the India and: Australia, from
Gibralter, 258. '
"Lotus and Jewel" is the title of Edwin
Arnold's new volume of poems, which will
soon aprear. i
Archdeacon Farrar ii engaged on a work
on Christian history, and has also written a
small volume called "Everyday Christian
Life" I
The New York and New England Railroad
company has leased the Milford, Franklin,
Providence and Hopkinton railroad from
Ashland to Franklin for ninety-nine years,
and will assume control Oct 1.
Assistant Secretary Mayhard has decided
that animals imported for breeding purposes,
though the importer announces his intention
of selling such imported animals for such
purpose after importation, are entitled to
entry free of duty.
. There was frost near Lynchburg, Va., Sat
urday night, and there are fears of great loss
in the tobacco crop. j
The case of the Chicago Anarchists will be
discussed in Faneuil hall, Boston, to-morrow
evening by the Central Labor union. George
Schilling will speak. ;
A committee of coke operators, of Pitts
burg, are in Philadelphia to confer with Gen
eral Master Workman Powderly on the
threatened strike of the miners in the Con
nellsville coke region. An amicable settle
ment is ex pet-ted.
Emperor AVilliani is on his way to Baden-
Baden, jj
The Columbia bank, of Philadelphia, is
shown to be a total wreck' by the report of
the examiners. I
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Charles E. Clindist and George M. BoJell,
carriage manufacturers, ? who absconded
from Staunton, Va., leaving $50,000 to ? 00,
000 in forged paper, hav been arrested iu
Canada. :
An incendiary fire at j Raw son, O., de
stroyed a saw mill and about 300,000 feet of
lumber belonging to Edgar Hill, with 520,-
000 loss. !
H. B. Mitchell and James Atkins quarreled
at a dance near Clinton, Mo., Tuesday night,
and Mitchell killed Atkins.
Forest fires are again raging about Bram-
erd, Mich.
The fire Wednesday at Negannee, Mich.,
damaged the Pioneer furnace $20,000.
Mrs. Isabella Davis, widow of "Tom
Davis, the gambler who was killed by Hol
land, the Texan, two years ago, was sent to
Ludlow Street jail for contempt of court by
Surrogate Rollins, of New York.
The engineer and fireman who are held re
sponsible for the Midland railroad disaster
in England have had a!; verdict of man
slaughter rendered against them by the
coroner's jury.
The business portion of Sanford, Fla., was
burned down. ;; - - .
Ella Stevens, colored, stabbed Katie Betz,
both of New York, five times. She was
committed to the Tombs and Katie was sent
to the house of detention, j;
An unknown man was instantly killed at
the Spuyten Duyvil station of the Hudson
River railroad by being; struck by an en
gine.
The criminal courts of Philadelphia are
unable to keep pace with j the accumulation
of indictments.
Pallidona; the Bridgeport (Conn.) mur
derer, will be hanged Oct. 5, 15&S.
Several cases of ' smaHpox cause alarm
among the inhabitants of Stapieton, S. I.
At McKeesport, Fa,, Thomas McKenna,C7
years old, murdered his wife by striking her
on the bead with an ax. after which . he
plunged a knife in heart.;;
SENATOR HAW LEY
YTin Wed si EaclUh Nurw Who Has a
Romaatle History.
Hartford, Sept. CC The go-wir of thl
town have had plenty to keep tbcm bty
tely over the announcement of the engage
ment and prospective early marriaf c f Miss
Edith A- Horner, recently of Eugland and
now of PhiUdoIphia, to Unitl States Sena
tor Jc?ph R. Hawley, of Connecticut
Gin. Hawley and his fiancee met on ship
board during Mhu Horner's journey on tbe
way to visit her relatives in England during
the summer, and it was at the constitutional
festivities of week before last that the en
gagement was arranged and made public
Tbe wedding will take place in November.
Miss Horner is a well torn, well bred
English gir!, and the history of her life is
full of romance. She has devoUxl much of
her time to the alleviation of human suffer
ing, and from a home of luxury crossed the
a to enter the public hospital of Philadel
phia to help make It a pleasant abode for
the neglected sick of a great city.
Miss Horner is now about SO years ot age.
She has led an active life, taken plenty of
outdoor exercise, and as a consequence,
like many English women, dos not lxk her
age. She is above the medium height, with
a good, rather full figure and well poised
head. She has pleasant features and a
charming manner, and with light chestnut
hair, slightly inclined to curl, Mis Horner is
recognized wherever she goes as an attractive
woman of the highest typo. She is a plain
but handsome dresser, and shows a prefer
ence for blue.
Although tierfectly fearloss while going
about alone, often returning from long walks
in the lonesome . neighborhood of the hos
pital, she has had for protection as her al
most constaat companion a faithful blood
hound of immense ' size. At the aemblies
and other social entertainments, on the street
and wherever she has appeared. Mi Horner
has attracted attention and been admired.
Miss Horner comes of a fine ol 1 English
family. In Essex, near the town of llahuead.
where her relatives and ancestors have Leen
living for many years, they are regarded as
people of importance and distinction.
At considerable sacrifice she passed the
s m -
necessary cours or training, ana alter a
service in leading hospitals in a lew
years was so highly qualified that
she was chosen one of the direc
tresses of nurses to accompany (Jen. WolstS
ley's army in the Zulu' war. It was in this
service that she distinguished herself in such
a manner that upon her return she was given
the Victoria Order of the Red Cross. At
different times she has also len given other
medals and honors. In ths Zulu campaign
her bravery and gentleness and wonderful
endurance and self sacrifice are said to tave
fully entitled her to the character of a
heroine.
Three years ago Z. F. Hoffman, then presi
dent of the board of guardians of the Block
ley Almshous hospital, Pailadelphia, went
to England for the purpose of procuring
competent, trained lady nurses, for the pur
pose of correcting some of the abuses which
existed in that institution. Through the
recommendations of the leading physicians,
Miss Horner, together with Miss Alice
Fisher, were engaged. They did such noble
work that hundreds of ladies of influence,
who never thought of it before, were led to
take an interest in hospital work.
"Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, United States
senator from Connecticut, who has made
such a happy selection, is a historic Ameri
can. He is a widower and has no children.
A familiar figure in national conventions.
be presided over the convention that nomi
nated Grant in 18GS. In two conventions
since then his name has been prominent as
a possible candidate for the presidency.
Should the Blaine and Sherman forces ia
the next Republican convention be irrecon
cilable Gen. Hawley is by no means a "dark
horse." In such an event the popular nurse
of the Blockley hospital stands in the road
to the White House. 1 -
Neat Dow and Dr. JIcGljnn.
New York, Sept 20. The Manhattan
Temperance association held a meeting at
Cooper Union yesterday, which served the
double purpose of welcoming Neal Dow and
of greeting Dr. McGlynn. Mr. Dow Fpoke
of prohibition in Maine, and said that those
who claimed that the prohibition movement
in that state had failed knew nothing about
the matter. ' Dr. McGlynn, in the course of
his remarks, said that the United Labor
party and tbe Prohibition ists 5 were both
working for the same end. They might differ
as to the means, but the ends were identical.
A. startling Declaration.
Dallas, Tex., S4pt 20. E. G. Bow&r,
county judge of Dallas county, has made
the following announcement, which will be
startling to the northern holders of East
Dallas bonds: "After a full and thorough
examination of the records of this council I
declare it to be my honest opinion that there
never has been a legal corporation In Eaxi
Dallas, and that there never has been a dollar
of taxes legally collected." This opinion is
based on the facts that none of the legal re
quirements under the general incorporation
laws were complied with.
Express from fcan Diego to New York.
Sax FRANCISCO. Sept 2 Tbe statement
Is made here that John D.1 SpreskeLs, presi
dent of the Oceanic Steamship company, had
made an agreement with the Atchison, To
pe ka and Santa Fe to provide for a through
express from San Diego to New York in four
days. The train is to convey passengers and
mail through, with but few stops, ami the
Oceanic company steamers, if pushed, will
cross the Pacific from San Diego to Sydney,
rtopping at Auckland, in seventeen or eight
een days. The total time from Sydney to
Liverpool will be reduced to tweoty-eight
days.
Shot on the German Frontier.
Pasis, Sept. 20. The Temps publishes a
telegram from Epirai. faying: A lieutenant
of dragoons, accompanied by a jramekeeper,
while out shooting at Raon-sur-Plaine, near
the frontier, was fired at by invisible marks
men in German territory. The gamekeeper
was killed and tbe lieutenant's thigh bone
was fractured. Surgeons nSrm that the
shots were fired by military, and say that
the lieutenant's thigh will have to be ampu
tated. It is believed the shots were fired by
stozns officials.
A young man on a tet took twenty-two
drinks of whiskey at Dayton, O. He died
after swallowing tbe hut drink.