The Weekly Democrat from Natchez, Mississippi • Page 1

4 fvV tin1 J. W. LAMBERT, Pboprietoe. NATCHEZ, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22,1886.

New Seeies Vol. XXV. No. 43 nil II not yet formally sanctioned the present 1 Washington Notes. Telef-ipb to the DiHOcr it.

A Mew national Bank. Washington, Sept. 14 The comptroller of the enrrencey hat authorised the First National Bank of Douglass, Wyoming Territory, to begin business with a capital of 75,000. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. bmUI tM atakM DntoauT.

Jackson, Sept. 14. The late B. O. LIndsey, who killed New Orleans la the battle between the dilcem and the metropolltaa police Kill remembered by hit surviving oom-rtdes of tbe Crescent City Rifle, who lent to-day 14t aanlversary of the tittle and of bit death, beautiful Sowers to decorate his grave.

This sooton has prevailed at every adversary syaeisdlag the battle, and It greatly aatmtstnd by Mm amy friends FOflEIGX NEWS. By Telegraph to the democbat. Beach Wlas the aeolllog Match. London, Sept. 18 Beach to-dav defeated Gander in the sculling match Retaroa to Coaetoatloop le.

Loa POM, Sept. 18 Sir Edward Thornton, Bnlish ambassador to Constantinople, has just returned to that city. The Leader ef the Bagllsh ahokoro Deed LORPOK, Sept. 18 Mrs. Girling, the leader of Ibe Shakers ia England.

Is dead. Her sect are very destitute at tbe present. Kew Oeveroer far too Worth weotoro Territory. MoaTMAI Sept. 18 It la understood that Judge Brooks, of Chseshreek, One, was appointed governor of tbe northwestern territory.

The Itallaa Pastor Aeeosrsllehee Mis shouU take place in bit presence. To this request the reporter assented. The letter was read within beariug of them both. "Now, Mr. Partoas, tell us what you know about lliia ater, and let us have it settled." demanded his wife.

I will," answered tbe prisoner. "Will yon phase let me see tbe picture of Gatblnjs" The likeness was passed in to him. and after careially aeanhlngit he said "Yea, that Is Gttthings; I know him. I was raised in Waoe, aad in those daya waa verr popular among the eolored people there. I had something to do with bis wife, er the women he hwd with.

Well, It was a sot of eastern in that town In tbeae days. I was wild when I was yoanc, and bad many escapades with tt? girls i of eearfe Gethlngs did not tike what I did." Mrs. Parsons "Now don't go beating about the boshes. Tell tbe whole story aa it Is. I won't rest under this false imputation any longer." Thus adjured, Parsons said that be bad lived with the woman who was kaown as Gathlngs' wife, but rbat he left her some time before meeting tbe present Mrs.

Parsons In Austin. He said such affairs were vety common in Texas, aad rbat no one paid any attention to them In those days. This waa positively all there was to it, and his wife knew no more of Gatbings than tbe child unborn. GENERAL HOME NEWS. By Telegraph to the DikocaAT.

For CoDgross. Memphis, Sept. 18 The democrats of the 10th district nominated Jos. Fhelau, proprietor of the Memphis- Avalanche, for congress, by acclamation. WllkMbam-s HIhm WlLKRtBARBC, Sept.

17. The democratic congressional convention of the 11th district met here tbie morning aiid nominated et-U. 8. Senator Charles B. Buckae, Bloomsburg, for con-gress.

tim ataaam mm rwtataia. PirrtBtmoa. Sept. 18 John L. Snl-Ihran and Frank Hear Id arrived here on the early morning train from the east and were at sHsoa driven to their hotels.

Tbe former going to the central hotel and Hear to tbe Moaongahela boese. oaif Potrro Mew vetneiv. Niw Tom. Sept. 18 Tbe Baltimore aad Ohio Railroad gtvea notice that they will meet the Trunk line eat to Southern polats on Monday.

The Chariest so relief committee of the chamber ef commerce recorded today making a total 670,86. neaoralaOmodLooaoofOMFellaiwa. BOSTOsr, Sept. 18 Tne members ef Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, with their ladies, making in all a party of 00 or 600 are out enjoying a harbor excursion at the Invitation of Mayor O'Brien. Among the patty are many city officials and prominent Odd Fellows.

Soikerlof at at, Leals. St. Louis, Sept. 18 At noon to-day the St. James commandery of Philadelphia arrived.

The.e have also arrived the following officers of the Grand Na-slonal Encampment; Thos. S. Parvlo.of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Grand Recorder; Geo. C. Betts, of Louisville, Grand Prelate; Hugh McCotdy, of Cornnna, Grand Captain General.

Ae Immense EzeanloB to Boa too. order of things in Bulgaria and that their sanction can only be acquired oy prudence and moderation in Ibe present government, aud in the members of the future great assembly. Russia never protected any party. Russia desires harmony among you all, and she especially desires that your government shall be above all parties. Tbe Russians In Bulgaria deny all complicity in the sciaure and deposition ot rune Alexander, out Dave aoviseu a moderation In the treatment of those who were implicated in order to main- Um quiet and prevent discontent from spreading.

The Russians say they "consider that now tbe object of the plot is removed, no one can proceed against the aoys la the plot-" Tnrheyaswl Bolgaris Coxstartikople, Sept. 30 Its stated hete that England, Austria and Germany have invited Turkey to occapy Ronmelia if Russia Invades Bulgaria. The Emperor's Famroll. Strasburg, Sept. 90 Emperor William, in bis farewell order to the German army here, says I leave tbe fiftieth army corps with feelings of the liveliest satisfaction and with a firm belief that tbe corps will always show jhe world how firmly tbe German people are united and how all are animated by the same spirit.

Blots la Belfast. Belfast, bept. 20. All was quiet in tbe city this morning; at noon, however, a large body af the Queens Island Ship yards workmen, all orangemen invaded ostentatiously through streets on tbeir way to and from dinner as if to provoke a fight. A Cory Hill they were attacked with volleys of stones and a desperate fight ensued, which is still in progress.

Many men on both sides have been wounded. Tbe poblice are outnumbered and powerless. Reinforcements are hurrying to the locality. STATE NEWS. Couple oi Honrs With Onr State Exchanges.

Port Gibson wants a creamery. There are seven candidates for circuit clerk of Clark county. Wolves are troublesome in portions of Lauderdale county. The Herald is trying to get up a boom for Hamburg. May it succeed.

Cotton is going into all the Mississipdi towns at a pretty lively rate. The State and county tax rate in Copiah is enly twelve and a half mills. Col. ThouR. Stockdale is to speak at Woodville on Meodiv 6ot.

lltto. The Moss Point Rifles are again under orders to go into camp at Pass Christian. A cvclone passed over Port Gibson one day last week, but it did little or no harm. Meridian hopes 10 be to Mississippi what Atlanta is to Georgia. She aspires highly.

The second delegated State Convention ef the W. C. T. U.will be held at Jackson Sept. 24, 25 and 26.

A negro woman was arrested In Cea-hoiaa county for poisoning her husband. She put Ibe "pizen" in his greens. A negro man kiiledanother in Coahoma county the other day, and it being a eold-blooded murder the murderer was at once lynched. The Meridian News has been enlarged and otherwise improved. If it onlv published the press dispatches the News would be a really arst-class newspaper.

A negro man in Calhoun county offer ed the county Superintendaut of Education fifty dollars so give biui a first-grade certificate as a teacher. Of course the bribe was not accepted. Louisville Signal An old colored man living near. Ben Head by name, ho was once owned by Rev. Mr.

Head, got on his horse the other day to come to see his old master ho he heard was sick, and as taken sick and fell from his horse and died the same day his old master did. Coffeeville Times: A farmer living not more than a thousand miles from this place sent a dollar for a lightning potato bug killer, which he saw advertised in a paper, and received by return mail two blocks of wood with directions printed on as follows: Take No. 1 in the hand. place the bug on No. 9 and press them together.

Remove the bug and proceed as before." Gloster City News: An inteesting case was before the mayor lass week. A colored woman on the plave of John F. Cassels was charged with having poisoned her husband with "rough on rats." The suspicion was preltv strong, but owing to the fact that no post-mortem ex- mination bad been made, the corpus de licti could not be proved, and the woman was discharged. Clay county Leader: Capt. F.

M. Abbot is otic uf the progressive men of our county. We understand that he has cut up his land into blocks, which he is going lo sell alternately to a colony of omigrams on ten years time, with no payment the tirsj year. Thisis business. If our large laud-owners would all do the same, our couutv would soon teem with thrifiy farming class of people who would make it "blossom like the rose." This is ih iiest and mont practicable-way to jsoive the problem of "hard Washixotow, gent.

16 The postmaster general to-day baaed advertisaments invltlnr propatals for Usa performance of service on all tbe aUr and steamboat routes, aggregating about 8.600, In the States ofOblo, Iadlaaa, IlHaota. Miohl-gsa, Wltooatln, Minnesota, Iowa aad lilssooil, from Jul 1887, to Jnae 10, 18l. Prnpatali will hsj reoolvot) natil fdv a'etswh p. m. Jan.

1 f. Awards wi4 ba skauao at Wm b. S3, 1887. ptfcaatawj WWsWb flfett" CfctSaWSsfcltrtitelwV" WMtlHTMf gapt, l(xhe secretary of state soma tUoa agw transmitted to tba tiaasm depai taneait a eomplaint atade by the Chinese minister that cer-tala females who arrived at 8aa tbastaaoMrSaa Pablo, were oo i heir landing searcaed all over their per-soas by male customs ofSeers, at the wbsrf In tbe presence of many spectators: and that of them had to take off their outer dress reluctantly by compulsory orders. After aa examination of tba facta a reply was to-day made to the secretary of state, stating that the females were searched by mala custema officers In tbe the temporary abenca of a female inspection.

That no personal search was made, but that tbe females were compelled to remove from rbelr bodies certain aew and unworn ovarooata which they wore in addition to tuelr usual raimeat, for tbe evident purpose of smuggling the same lato the United States. Furthermore tbe report state? that although It was plain from external view that these females bad on their bodir large quantities of other nnnecessary clothing or material believed to be smuggled goods, yet the surveyor did net order their persons searched for tbe reason that there was no female Inspectress to perform that duty. Clamblm' New TarlsT Schedule. Washingtoh, Sept. 16 The U.

S. conjul at Bairanquilla. Colombia, has sent to the secret. ry of State a translation of the new tariff schedule of duties for that country, which goes into effect on October 1st. Various Items tram the national Capital Washington, Sept.

16 Consul Ste vens at Victoria, B. 0.. In a report to the department of State calls attention to the fact that merchandise In quantities from San Francisco, destined for Chicace and New York is being shipped over the (Janadlnan facmo K. K. A warrant for 645.000 has been Issued the assignees of John Roach in final payment for the Dolphin and for the care of the Monitor Puritan.

This is ac cepted In settlement of all claims of Jno, Roach against the Dolphin becomes in law what she long has been in fact tue property oi tne government. Hp Id to Hmar National Bank Clrealatloa, Washington. Sept. 18 Of the 615. OOil.060 three per cent, bonds included in the 142d call abont 61,000,000 are held to secure national bank circulation.

Cholera Rasing In Corra. Washington, Sent. 18 William Parker, the American minister to Corea, reports to the secretary of state, under date of Aug. 2d, that the cholera is still raging thronghont No reliable statistics are kept, but it is estimated 60 died Inside the walls of Seoule and that so far 12.000 have died.No foreigners have yet been attacked either in Seoule or Chemnlphe. The disease is said to be worse in the coimtry than In Seoule, but tins the Minister can hardly Delieve.

A Report to Secretary Bayard. Washington Sept. 18 The follow. ing report has just been teceived at the stale department: Legation of the United States, Pekin. July 26, 1886.

To the Hon. Tho9. F. Bayard, Secretary of State, Washington Sib I have the honor to report that on the Mill I received from Mr. Consul Seymour at Canton the following dispatch: Canton, July 11, 1886.

Minister Denby, Pekin Stone and pile work is renewed viiror ousiy to ruin tbe South channel. Frater and myself remonstrated against the unfriendly act. Joint action of the le gallons and consulates la desirable. oiirnro) Biiauva, uwn. I sent a copy of this telegram to Sir John Walsham, H.

B. M. minister. He had already received a similar one from her inaiestv'e consul. He furnished me a copy of his protest which is herewith enclosed.

I also addressed to the yamen a dispatch of which I enclose a copy. Tkls question nas oeen repeaceaty fullv presented by all tbe ministers, my. self included. The yamen seeroe deter mined to adhere to the suicidal policy. I did not anticipate such action at Uan ton as has been taken.

I am, sir, your obedient servant, Chas. Dknbt. Miss Amelia Jackson, daoa-bter of Capt. Jackson, who shot Col. Ellsworth at the Marshall House in Alexandria, for pulling down the Confederate flag in 1861, was to-day appointed to a position in tne rateat umce.

win oe remembered that Miss Jackson's father fell at the same time, shot bv a member ef Col. Ellsworth's regiment. su i. World. The 'demon of unrest" possesses John nvder.

of Marlon, to such an ex- iDiir that, if Mr. Sovder ceases moving fur onlv a few moments, he Is tortured with real or imaginary cramps In his legs. 5 Hence, he keeps walking con- stmitly, cvei ing about" turee roues an hour. Specialists uan Tiimri icn relieve him, it is stated, but uMi Chicago to Boston It1 hours hv a that maawr vne inp iroiu BosN.a to Chicago 1m 30 hours, aad) the atl 'iVaaacrtpt wanrs swsne ssen. i el the JjezMV, Sept.

I. Aa latfavtMt land, war was argwad lo-dsy Smtgt Waattoa, riredtt judge, wMok tovelvaa directly the title to Ave thanes ad newt ef bud la Bolivar sooty, aad balreotly a aUlUoa aeret of tod parebaaal by tba O. T. aatf the Svera aad Watson Ibgllsh syndics from tba Hqaldatlag levee oommlesrooera. Tbe proceedings were by mandate to compel the auditor to oonvev to the pa tltloner tbe Stated title to toe same lands previously conveyed by the levee commissioners on the grounds that the lands having been sold to the State for taxe? prior to any tale 'made by the levee commissioners, were not liable to the levee taxes, and never having been re deemed or purchased from the 8ute were now subject to purchase as other 'State lands.

A demurrer to the petition was sustained and the court held that In the case of Green vs. Glbbs, the title of tbe State had been parsed to the railroad and other purchasers by the releases executed by the auditor under the laws of 1884. The attorney general represented the auditor as attorney and had associated with him as special counsel W. A. Percy, W.

L. Nugent and Frank Johnson. The petitioners were represented by Calvin Perkins and Ben W. Hlrschef memphls. Able arguments were made by the counsel on each side.

The case will be appealed to the supreme court. f.jk Green's bank to-day paid the sec mm Installment of toe receivers' certlfl- special to the Natchai Democrat. jACKSON.Miss., Sept. 17, 1886. The State Board of "Commissioners of Election" met here to-day and made the following additional appointments of County Commissioners oi Election: Clarke F.

B. Miller, E. Parker, A. Arrinfton. Jr.

Clay T. B. Dalton, T. S. Reed, Frank Strung- Copiah J.

M. Norman, D. 1. Martin, F.M. Bufkln.

Hancock J. J. Otis, James Martin, J. S. Collins.

Hinds P. S. Spann, P. G. Eilzbiem, J.J.

Spellman. Jackson Ed. Bloomfleld, Walter Biiboa, C. M. Cruaat.

Jefferson F. F. McCardle, J. M. Coffer.

M. Howard. Kemper Gully, F. S. Prince, a.

A. Hooper, Leake F. E. Wllltums, T. C.

Spencer, Hanrv C. Tate. Lincoln Prentiss Bowie, J. M. Hos ting, Jesse Taylor.

Lowndes P. Landrum, A. Payne, no. W. McKellar.

Madison Frank D. Coleman, T. Grafton. Marian W. F.

Ferrill, J. M. Ford, alias Brown. Newton James II. Kirth, Jno.

Roberts, Dr. Geo. M. Powe. Oktibbeha Isaac Winston, W.

C. Mc- C'ay. Z. K. Davis.

Perry J. N. McCay, O. H. P.Jones, Morgan.

Pike 8, A. Matthews, P. K. Simmons, Beth Collins. Preatise Benj.

F. Wright, G. B. Kim bell, L. L.

Brown. Sunflower Ruf us Mcleod, W. C.Brad ley, Jim King. Tallahatchie P. H.

Thornton, Sam D. Kay, George Lee. Tishomingo W. A. H.

Shackelford, K. 8. RenoTUrlah MuMaster. Wilkinson-Henry Habig, James H. Walker, T.

B. Duncan. Winston W. J. Newsom, A.

H. Height, B. T. Webster. Yazoo C.

F. Emery, F. B. Stubble-eld, W. R.

Toeker. Appointments yet to be made In eighteen counties. "as! to Uw DaatocBAV. RuSTOK, LA. Sept.

17, 1886. Gen. C. Newton, of Morehouse parish, nomlaatad for congress from the 'b district on tbe sixty-seventh ballot, receiving 10U votes. The nomination ss then made unanimous.

Tbsvery best of feeling prevails, and all the delegates have had a royal food time. All tbe delegations will immediately for their homes. fcoston Jndgo having waited liber- tune for an expected remittance to turn up for J. L. Jetton." who rrw 'W fraudulently board at, a hotel in that ell v.

has latter to jail tor two months. ws failed to find anything eoncern-j wwe "an'a family or past record. Blalner who Is only eighteen old, aad net yet through with bis swrprtsast his parents tha Tr -eawatlow matrlanAf i Roue, Sept. 18 Succl, the "faster," has successfully accomplished his task of tasting thirty days without ordinary or mineral wateis, and extract from African root. He finished hi task without being at all exhausted.

English Gypsies Retimed. Lonpon, Sept. 14 Tbe Greek gypsies who went to Hamburg with tbe intention of taking passage there for America, were prevented from landing and have returned to Hull. The authorities at Hull have forbidden them to enter the town. Londonderry Benches Dublin, Sept.

IS. The Marquis of Londonderry, the new viceroy of Ireland, arrived at Kingston eatly this morning. His voyage across the channel was pleasant. The arrival of the lord-lientenant was signalled by a royal salute. He will not land until noon, when be will proceed in state to Dublin Castle.

The Steamer Wrecked In Belle Isle Strait St. Johns, N. Sept. IS All that has been ascertained of the wrecked steamship in Belle Isle Strait is that cattle, oak grained panelling and doors, spars, beadiug and cabin furniture have been driven ashore. The ship has not yet been identified.

There is no telegraphic communication with Belle Isle Strait. To Take Advantage of England's position Pacis, Sept. 18 The "Republic Fi aa-caiseM u.ges the French government to take advantage of tbe fact that England has hei hands full, to force tbe French protectoiate over Madagascar. "Otherwise," observes the paper, "England, when she becomes disengaged, will be come mistress of the situation." Workhoate Storing Them In the Face, Dublin, Sept. 16 The "United Ireland' suggests, that in view of tbe prob able rejection ef Mr.

Parnell's land bill. all tbe distressed tenants in Ireland wil resort to the workhouse. While it is dis graceful, says the "United Ireland" enter the workhouse as a loafer. would be In the highest degree honor- ante to occupy tne workhouse as an en campmeut against iSin'ish tyranny. Egyptian A 9k ire to be Settled.

Alexandria, Sept. 18 Jiobar Pasha Egyptian prime minister, has at the re quest of the British government started for London to assist in the settlement of tbe Egyptian affairs. The hostile Arabs of the Sondan here assembled in force at Dongala and now threaten the Egypian frontier. Tbe convicts employed by the Egyptian government at the Ujeoeizeit petroleum works mutinied recently and twenty-four of the mutineers had to be killed be fore the ethers could be moved into sub mission. Celebration in Honor or the Czar.

St. Petersburg, Sept. 16 The Offi cial Gazette publishes a dispatch from tbe Russian consul at Sofia, stating that on me czar lete oav (the least of St. Alexander, his Patron Saint.) delegates representing the ex-arch bishops, all the rueiuoers ot tne Bulgarian government and a large number of the deputies to tne sooranje went to the Kussiau con suiate and presented congratulations to the -ar. Mr.

Stambnloff, the presidei.t ot the regency, the dispatch adds, whtn he called he expressed in tbe name of the name of the regency feelings ot de votion to the czar. The Cholera in Austria. London, Sept. 15 Cholera is gaining rt'tiun iu atwinii. ii is worse at uvie.

a village neir Agrim. Of the 900 in habitants of the village ninety have been strickeu, and 28 of them died almost immediately. The people distrust the doctors and conceal the sick as long as possible. Doctors are frequently stoned iu the streets. In one bouse a mother and her daughter were found half naked on tbe bare floor, writhing in the agony of death.

In ano.her room lay the body of the father, upon which had been thrown the corpse of a son. The villagers are too oiach frightened to help one another, The Only Obstacle Removed. SOFIA. Sept. 18 When the Russian agent here was presented with the telegram to the czar, praying for his friendship and protection, the agent said Prince Alexander's departure has removed tbe last obstacle to good rela tioas between Russia and Bulgaria, which was a source of great danger to the prosperity of Bulgaria, which Russia has at heart.

Russia cannot ail inn even the idea of Print Alexander returning to Bulgaria. This fact, therefore, is one guarantee of the happiness and internal independence which your telegram mentions. The other guarantee ou possess witbin yourselves, in moderation and in coiM-ord. The president of the Soeranfe then qjestiotted the agent regarding the identity of the new candidate for the Bulgarian throne. The agent replied that would entirely depend on the poweis.

In his piivate capacity the agent added he had no iufoiumion to give saying: 'tne turv when elected noes not know what it will have to adiudire. The as sembly must elect whom it thinks best I capable of representing tbe dlsrtiitv of Bulgaria." Kemember well that tbt powers have fair fl i if ,4 6 ii i1 1 if fi 4 xi THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. All the Arrange veals Mode to receive the Kalfku. By l'e'r5is'n to tbe Dshociuj, St. Louis, Sept.

18 All arrangement for the reception and entertainment of the Knights Templar who will attend tbe Triennial Conclave In this city have been completed. Quarters have been prepared for all visiting coniroandei ies and the Knights will suffer no Inconvenience for this event of room, unless many come who have not rotified the committee to-day. The reception commiitee of fifty from the various local commanda-lies will go into camps near the Union depot, where they will be stationed until the last of the visiiors arrive. Giving the Knights a pleasy nt reception and furnishing each company with a band which will escort them to their head-quarters. Yesterday there left in a special car a delegation from Ivanhoe Commandery and invited delegations for Kaosas City where they will meet Sir Knight Robert E.

Withers, Right Eminent Grand Master of tbe United States, and tbe California delegation, 1,000 strong and escort them to the city arriving here tomorrow mornintig. The conclave opens Monday. St. Louis, Sept. 20 It was after mid nighr when the last special train discharged Its load of visitors to the trien nial conclave last night and the day had not broken this morning when the pro cession uf arriving comtnanderies was renewed.

At an early hour bands were playing and cotnmandenes were march ing and tbe history of the forenoon has oeen out a repetition oi iiihiui tue mgiii. only on a much more extensive scale At the Union depot the tracks are crowd- ed aad one train is no sooner emptied than another takes its place Along the wharves on the river front a similar scene of actiyity Is witnessed, many comman- deriesfrom along the rivers having char tered steamers which will be used as combined hotel and headquarters during the week. The weatheT seems as if specially designed for the- occasion and in conse quence the streets are thronged wich sight-seers, while everywhere may be seen marching commamleiies making fraternal calls on local aud visiting headquarters. The work of decorating buildings for the occasion was only fairly begun this morning and thousands of workmen are engaged in the task. The preparations for the illumination which begins to night are complete and the apuaratus has been tested and found in perfect working order, assuring a display far in advance of anything ever previously attempted in this city.

Other arrangements, for the work of the encampment are perfected and nothing remaii but to receive the Knights and get them established in their temporary quarters. In the latter respect the triennial cm-mitiee is entitled to great praise for the excellent manner in which arrangements have been made for the bousing and feeding of the multitude. But very few at.emots at extortion by boarding housekeepers have been re- poied. and in every such instance the perpetrators have been blacklisted, and as' the-committee have tbe tender of vastly greater accommodations than are needed, visitors are being placed, prac tically at their own terms. It Is an utter impossibility at the present time to give an accurate estimate of the number of Knights who are already on the grounds, as Individuals, and in many instances commanderes' are slow in registering at hotels and reporting at head-quarttrs, while hundreds are quartered with friends or In sleeping cars and steamers.

Fully fifty martial and cornet Danas are already In attendance, and are heard on every hand. Kepresentatlves of every State and territory have reported, while three are present from Honolulu. The Most Eminent Grind Master, Robt. E. With-ens.

United States consul general at Hong Kong came all the way from that place, arriving; yesterday, be was made quite ill by his trip and Is confined in his room. At noon the rush of visitors was sill! nnabared and if anything increasing. Fully 10,000 Knight had arrived by 12 o'clock and more than an equal number are expected this afternoon and tonight. All trains are more or less layed by the Immense traffic; a Wabash tiain from Kansas city is many hours la.e.owing to a freight wreck. An incident of 'his morning, causing much, amusement and some temporal annoyance, was a strike by the waUers in several hotels and restaurants.

They demanded $25 per week dn'ring the con-elave and in nearv every Instance carried their point and returned to work. There will be bat one abort session on change to-moreow and Wednesday aoee. Chicago. Sept. 18-More than 800 Odd- Fellows, many of them, acco.a panled by tbelr wives and friends, left tor Boston over tne urano lrnnlt k.

k. this a. to attend the meeting of the Grand Supreme Lodge which begins next Monday morning. It took more than ope hundred and seventy cars to cany them, and trains started every 30 minutes, after 9:30 o'clock, from the Polk street depot. There were repre sentative on the trains from every lodge In tbe West and Northwest, many coming from as tar Soath as Texas and West as far as San Francisco.

There were even car loads from Denver and 17 from Minneapolis and St. Paul. A WoII-Kmwb America. Fainter Dies. New York, Sept 18 Asher B.

Dur- and, perhaps the oldest American painter of note, died yesteiday at his home in Soutn urange, a. J. He was born in 1798 at Jefferson, N. J. His first noticea ble work was the engraving of Ti um- bulls we'J known picture, "The Declaration of Independence," which occupied him 3 years.

In 1S35 he abandoned the graver for the brush, having before this uecotne a irequent contributor or portraits and landscapes in the oil to the National Academy of Design exhibitions. At first be devoted himself to portraits and figure subjects, but he turned his attention to landscape painting in later vears, and and fur this be is chiefly known. His rendering of mountain scenery especially was much admired, and he counied among hie best works "Fraucena Mountains," "A Primeval Forest." and "Tbe Rainbow." His studies of trees and foliage are also pleasing in sentiment and execution. In 1854 his portrait of William Cullea Bryant, afterwai ds enjraved by himself, was painted, while his hlsrorlcal subjects are "The Capture of Maj. Andre," and "The Wrath of Peter Stuyvesant." Mr.

Bui and was elected president of the national academy of design at the death of Prof. Morse, and this honorable position he held for many years. His brush had for some years been idle, and he bad lived in retirement at his country 'me. Few among his tellows were per- i son.tlly held in higher este both as an nst and a man than Mr. Durand.

His ninetieth birthday was celebrated by the of bis friends at South Urange, and congratulations and tokens of esteem were showered upon him. No arrangements have vet been made for his funeral. An Official Charged With Emnexxlemeot New York, Sept. 18 A few davs be fore Mr. Hedden vacated the collector's hair to give place to Mr.

Magone. Dep uty Collector Douglas Smith, examiner of mails, and who is stationed In tbe postualce, was dismissed from the cus toms service. Col ector Magone has since discovered Irregularities in Smith's ac counts, and yesterday papers were sent to U. 8. District Attorney Stephen A.

Walker, charging Smith with rmbeixle-ment. The investigation to far places the deOcienry near 65,000, aad Collector Magone does not know How much more. if any, will be discovered when tbe returns from other cities are overhauled. It was Smith's duty to collect the duties on books coming through tbe mails horn curope. emeu tne books were for peo ple living in other cities, a ticket with the amount of tbe duty was enclosed and sent on with them.

known amount was taken from the duties oa books de livered In this city. The collector is waiting for out-of-town returns. ABarehlat Porooa Iatervlewed. Chicago, Sept. 18 Anarchist Parsons has been Interviewed several time re cently regarding the statement made in the dispatch from Waco, Texas, to ibe effect that his wife was formerly the mistress-, of a full-blooded negro named Garbing, Whom she deserted for Parsons.

Ttiin statement has been flatlv denied, by Parsons, who said bis wife was of Spanish Indian -origin, end that she had never been In Waco. Mrs. Par. sons has until now refused to speak on the subject. A letter which has reached here ftoro Waco reiterates the charge In the telegram.

A picture of Gtthmge came with It. Armed with the letter; a reporter Palled upon Mr. Par- sons, aad Went with her to jail upon tbe oci-snbla of haw iraoJ eUt an anr ha. baad. preferred tbauhe tuterrhtw A-.