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LEXICONS FOK HARBISON. Two Bier Dictionaries Received "yes-: terday by the President r-jj Tne Foraker Grosvenor Affair in Ohio Interests Indiana i -t- 1 A Fee Una that It Will Keep Buckeyes Out of tne Next Cabinet. THS PRESIDENT ELECT. Indianapolis, Dec. 20.

President Elect Harrison passed rather ft quiet Saturday, seeing about the usual number of callers, but there were no distinguished out-of-town politicians among his visitors. He put in good share of the morning at his desk in the library, and the afternoon be spent ft couple of hours out walking, going down street, stopping at his former law office for ft time, and making several other calls. The slight Inflammation which affected the lid of his right eye early in the week has entirely disappeared. Among his visitors to-day was Judge Le Baron B. Colt, of the United States Circuit Bench of Massachusetts, who called with Noble a Butler, of this city.

Judge Colt is in this city on private business of ft non-political character. Other visitors of note were ex-Lieutenant Governor Will Cam back, of Oreensburg, and Judge Alfred Thomas, of Craw fordavUle. A couple of gentlemen from Dakota and Arkansas and ft large number of people from interior Indiana towns called merely to pay their respects. There was an unusual number of ladies and children among the day's visitors, which was doubtless due to thx kexaxxabu wxathxb that prevailed throughout the day. The thoroughfares were crowded, and for several hours during the day it was quite comfortable outdoors without overcoats or winter wraps.

Some days since General. Harrison received ft copy -of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, handsomely bound in Turkey, morocoa It was gift from the publishers. To-day's express brought copy of Worcester's Unabridged, bound in half morocco. A well-known gentleman, when he heard about this surplus of lexicons, remarked that it looked as though the American publishers "were equipping the new administration for innocuous etymological exploits." Mr. Bussell Harrison is expected to return from New York about Sunday night No arrangements have yet been made at the Harrison house regarding New Year's reception, and it is doubtful if the General and Mrs.

Harrison will hold a formal reception. New Tear calling is not as generally practiced in this City of late years as in many larger cities. There is very little to be chronicled to-day of ft strictly political charactar. The most interesting political theme wbioh is being talked of a good deal is the apparent outbreak of hostilities In the Ohio Republican camp. That is the way the most astute Indiana politicians regard Governor Foraker's practical dismissal of General Charles B.

Grosrener from the honorary office of trustee of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Xenia, Ohio. The crisp correspondence between the distinguished gentlemen has been A 8UBJICT or SPECULATION and some politicians profess to be unable to diagnosis the case, in view of the fact, which is beyond aiapnte, that General Grosvenor quite recently while here, spoke in the kindliest terms of Go rorn or Furaker, and even recommended and suggested his name for a Cabinet position. General Grosvenor's well-known intimate personal and political relations with Senator John bherman adds additional interest to the matter. Eaid leading Indiana politician, to-night: "You may put it down when any one slapa at General Grosvenor he hits John bherman. The fire has been smoldering ever since the Chicago convention, and it looks to me as though it had broken out now, and I look for a pretty fight between the friends of the war-like Governor and the veteran Senator, We Indiana fellows can look on with complacency.

We are all harmony no factional fights in sight" This same gentleman is regarded as something of an authority on Cabinet probabilities, and keeps ft private slate which he declares has never been published. He concluded the interview by stating that he was going home, and would rub the name of a distinguished Ohio man off his slate. This quarrel, said he, "lets Ohio out of the Cabinet; of that I feel certain." THE INAUGURAL. BALL. Indianapolis, Dec, 2y.

The Journal will to-morrow devote a column editorial to the coming inaugural, especially with regard to the inaugural ball, and the clamor that rtain ministers of the gospel are making. through the press, over the "sin" of dancing. After reciting with what pomp and circumstances General Washington was inaugurated 100 years ago, the Journal concludes: "But the ball; there's the rub. Preachers that is, some sort of preachers are in dreadful distress about that; and ire urging General Harrison to rise to the occa sion, and place the seal of his disapproval upon the dance the awful, the wicked, the demoralizing dance by either forbidding it or SMt gracing it with his presence. General Har alson is pronounced Christian man.

His Christian character is of a fiber strong and sturdy," and yet. we believe entirely courteous and Christlike. We do not believe General Harrison will led the german," or march with some leader of fashion in a stately minuet. as did General Washington, whose memory is not anaethema tired because he did so. But General Harrison is not likely to repeit the folly of attempting, as President of the United States, to dictate or to regulate thr social customs and manners of sixty-five millions of people.

His official and personal influence will be on the aide of good morals of sound life conducted on sound principles. The evils oi the dance and the ball-room, whatever they may be. would not be lessened by any action on the part of General Haariaoo, or of any one else, which would smack more of boormhness than of morality. Tnere is a time for all things, and there is ft time, possibly, for preachers and others to inveigh against the modern dance: but for any body or society to ask General Harrison to interfere impertinently, by deed or act, with a custom that has obtained from the foundation of the government, and a custom which many good people belie ve be entirely proper, simply showa how faryet some otherwise wall-meaning people are from knowing as much as they should know, or of even acting np to the light they have." VICWS Or PBXSBTTKKU.lt ICnnSTBBS. Nxw York, Deo.

2U. Special Telegram. The Presbyterian ministers from all parts of the country are just now holding a conference here, and a reporter called on some of them to-day to see if they approved of the action of their Methodist brethren upon the question of dancing at the inauguration bail. The Rev. Dr.

Thomas, the Moderator said: "I don't think that Presbyterians feel as strongly as the Methodists about dancing, aud had rather not say what I think in regard to the Methodists of Indianapolis attempting to do away with the inaugural baU. I don't know that Presbyterian ministers dance themselves, but It may be for the very good reason that most of them don't know how to dance, which, to my mind, is a very good reason for not indulging in that Xhe inaugural ball is a National affair, long honored by custom, and I guess that there is pq particular, 4 barm in TrT The Rev. Dr. Marquis, of mat no aid. not snow mucn about dancing anyhow, and, did not want to express an opinion.

"I don't kbow that dancing is the worst thing in the world, bat as a rule church members don't indulge in it, and I think the question is rather one for a person's conscience to decide. The inauguration bail has become a feature of each incoming administration, and I suppose General Harrison will do as he pleases about having I Dr. Xonng, of Kentucky, said that personally he did object to tha inauguration ball, and that it ni a matter concerning Mr. Harrison alone. And suen aeemed to be tha general opinion of all the gentlemen present Nobody liked to ay that the Indianapolis ministers were over, stepping the limits attempting as prevent the ball, bat at the same time Bone of them aeemed to object to the ball, nor did they utterly condemn dancing.

-it. i ti JTCiTlifG ra ISSI05 The Brotherhood of LoMmntlT. Eitlucn Holdinc Daily Sessions aad Coll tine Im- The mysterious conference of brotherhood engineers and firemen was resumed yesterday at Prosperity Hall, on South State street, and notwithstanding the place of meeting had been discovered, the men who are in attendance are as ratioent as ever, and it is apparent that every man's lips have been pad-locked. The central figure of the gathering is the committee of nine appointed at the convention. of which Cavanaogh is Chairman, and in these nine men is vested the fate of the Very important measure being considered.

They are sitting as a kind or jury, and the brotherhood men who. come from far and near, and who assemble at the sessions of the committee, are summoned for the purpose of giving information that the oommittee mar act more wisely. It is almost useless to approach any of the men who have been called before the com niittee with ft view of obtaining information. It is really astonishing how muoh great many of the delegates know about farming interests. "Why is there ft meeting of the brotherhood? I did not know anything about it," they would say.

lm a fanner and come to this city with ft couple of car-loads of stock." Soma of the members of the oommittee, however, take particular pains to state that the meeting is for the purpose of deciding upon some plan by which the brotherhoods of the Western roads can be more olosely brought together. Many of the delegates have oome from long distances, there being members present from as far East as Jer sey City and as far West as Oregon. It is stoutly denied that the meeting has anything to do with the Burlington Road strike, but extra ear was taken yesterday to deny the report that had crept into the papers that the brotherhood would withdraw its financial aid from the striking engineers. The strike is not to be declared off and, it is said. is not going to be, but whether or not the offi cers of the road will be approached with a view of obtaining concessions was not satisfactorily answered.

The Burlington strike seems to have been productive of one thing among the mem bers of the brotherhood, and that is ft realization of the fact that it would be better for the knights of the cab if the mileage system was in voge on ail the roads of the country. At present 0O per cent of the railroad companies of the United States use this system. Said a prominent ttrotbernood man last evening: "This is the only correct way to pay the en gineers and firemen, and many of the roads have even adopted it for train men All the finnoes of a road are figured on the mileage basis. Every thong is figured down to the coat per mile, ana there is no reason why engineers and firemen should not be paid in this way. Then a man is paid according to the work he does, and all men are paid alike.

A man who runs ISO miles a day gets paid accordingly, and does not receive the same par as the man who only runs 110 miles. Then another thing: If business is heavy and it is necessary for an engineer to make more miles he gets paid in proportion. If business is good a man a wages increase accordingly, ana it is poor it ooeu the company that much leaa." This was one of the points of contention between the officials of the and the brother hood, and there is little doubt but that the question is the burden of the business now being considered by the committee. The large number or delegates from various parts of the country hare merely been called to give their experience in the matter, and after all 1. 1 i li a the information possible has been collected the members of the committee will 4 decide upon ft nlan of action! "You know just as much about what the committee will agree upon as I do." said ft brotherhood man to a reporter.

"No one knows what will be the result, and it may take several days to settle the matter. All the delegates from ft great distance were examined by the committee yesterday and permitted to leave for their homes in the evening." Ah'D NOW THE FIGHT BEGINS. Opponents af the Melga Ordinate Still Claim It Was 1J loft-ally riHMl. "Alderman Campbell told the truth for once in his life," said an irafe property owner yester day. "He said at the meetinof the Judiciary Committee that the Council passed illegal ordinances every day.

It isn't so bad as that, thank goodness, principally for the reason that the Council don't meet every day. But Campbell, Hammer, and the rest of them have mado their record, and it isn't a savory one. The way the Meigs ordinance was railroaded through Friday night should have warmed the cockles of every monopolistic heart in the city. Why, they wouldn't hear the report of their own Judiciary Committee. It is a good thing that the rights of the citizens do not rest entirely in the Council's hands.

General Benjamin F. Butler and the other fathers of the Meigs system should be posted on Constitutional law, and they should kuow whether their ordinance is equivalent to a fee simple or not. but the courts can as easily decide against elevated railroad ordinances as the Council can pass them, and. luckily, the courts do not maks illegal decisions every day. The facts are aim-ply that the Meigs petition had not a majority of the frontage on the first three miles of Its proposed line when the ordinance it prays for was granted, ids eumctency oi revocations has been so clearly proved that there be no they had the- effect in law of erasing the signatures previously appended, and of counting the feet opposite each against the company.

But it was a very obliging Council the Meigs people had to deal with. Tber claimed the illegality of revocations from the teennicai point of superpluaage; and the Aldermen voted the revocations as nn-worthv of consideration, without bothering their legislative heads as to their contents. It was not a question with them ss to how best to prove the revocations uiegat, nut to now oast avoid anv consideration of them. What the Mayor will do with the ordinance is now the Question. It seems hardly possible that he will approve it, after calmly considering the facts of the case.

No parliamentary quibble-can prevent him from careful examination of the docu ments bearing on the question, and ha can not have the excuse of doing that in the heat of de bate which be would regret in cooler momenta. The Meigs corporation has still a very rough road to noe." TV'S FOB THK BOTS. Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 28. A Commercial Gazette special from Sabina, Ohio, says a fox drive took place near there in which nearly 4,000 men and boys participated.

Men on foot and on horseback from three counties High land. Fayette, and Clinton engaged. Having formed a circle which included several square miles of country, they began to eloee in on the center, blowing horns and beating tin pans. Only two foxes were scared up, and both escaped. BBAKEIaX KILLED.

Ufpkb 8abtubxt, Dec. 29. Special Telegram. T. M.

Farihoffer, ft freight brake-man on the Pennsylvania line, was instantly killed hare at noon to-day while making a coupling. He has a wife residing at Fort Wayne. KILLED IX 1 BIJTE. De Iowa, DeaXSa SpccUt Td- Sfram. This morning, the- Phillips eoel mine near Ottumwa, Charles Johnson, a mule driver, fell from his and was ran over and instantly killed.

c'. A i THE IISSOtTBI CLOSES. CHAJfniKLAlN, JX Deo. 29. Tele gram.

A solid of ice formed on the Missouri River at this point last night, being oxaotly one month later, than last jeac, THE STJXDAY INT-EIl OCEAN, DECEMBER 30, 18S3 TTTENTT PAGES. ENVY OF FEHIUiNE EYES. Mrs. Carter's Costly Clonic Coveted by Fashionables of A Queen and a' Grand Ducness Signing' for Its Posaes- Description of tne Garment Cost Seventy Thousand Francs. tnat SO NEAR AND TBT BO FAR.

Nxw Tobjc, Deo. 29. Special Telegram A dispatch from Paris to tha World says that in the show-room of a well-known mantle-maker's window, within a stone's throw of the ft place beloved by the ladies but bated by the bill-paying sax, there is now on exhibition, for private sals, a garment near whioh Joseph's coat of many colors would pale, and the wonderful pelisse of the Queen of Shaba, when she went to consult Solomon, appear shoddy. American ladies by the score have come to look at it, and gone away with the regret that their "babbies" had not been on the right aide of the wheat corner, or wishing for none to be Mrs. "Hutch." Queen Pia, of Portugal, cried her pretty eyes out because her impious husband refused to raise a national loan to make the purchase and have it carried off to Lisbon on the Portuguese frigate, and the Grand Duchess Vladimir could not refrain from saying before Vladimir and bis friends that the next time she got married it would certainly be to a poor Americas, as thay seemed to be the tronser-wearing bipeds appreciative of pretty wives.

The mantis is a relio and souve nir of the brief and unhappy marital life of Mr. and! Mrs. Leo Carter, of Chicago, in which Kyrle Bellow appeared, and whioh onoe again under the illustrious patronage of Wirt Dexter is to be ventilated in the Chicago divorce court Carter is a comparatively poor man, but bis wife came to Europe last Spring and scattered several hundred thousand francs. Seventy thousand franca were paid in Sash for this the most expensive cloak- that ever was con structed. It ia of imperial Russian sable.

trimmed with the fur of the blue fox, which. fleeing the approach of civilisation, has retired to the snowy fastnesses of Thibet The buttons are of precious stones, the lining of the most recherche material, and the whole is worth many times it weight in gold. This week the garment will be taken to America, but whether because it is found that none of the crowned heads of Europe have enough money to figure in the divorce court as exhibit No. 2, after Kyrle Bellew. could not be ascertained.

In addition to the statutory offense, Mr. Carter, in his petition, also charges insanity. WHEN MATT QUAY WAS A BOT. How He IatTodneed a Ooose Into Behool. act Traded Katva-s with Harry VThJto.

HaJUUSBUBO, Pa, Dec, 27. New York Sun "There never was a sharper, more miischevous schemer, as a boy, than Matt Quay," said a resident of Western Pennsylvania, who was a schoolmate in Indiana County of the now fa mous statesman and politician. "He was continually-doing things that no other boy would ever think of. I especially recall one of bis pranks tnat was as bold as it was original. "There was a green in the rear of the school house where we went to school, and Matt had a seat near a window that overlooked the green.

One bot summer afternoon a flock of geeaa were pasturing on the green, Matt sat at the open window, looking at them plucking away at the grass as only a nock of geese can pluok. when a brilliant ide took possession of him. He had ft half-eaten apple in his desk and a-bail of kite-string. Biting a big piece off the apple, he quietly tied it to one end of his string, and, edging up to the window, gave the bit of apple a quick Jerk and sent it several feet away on the grass. One of the geese saw the tempting morsel, and, waddling over to where it lay on the grass, gained it down, and indicated its satisfaction by two or three self-congratulatory cackles.

"In swallowing the apple the goose had also engulfed a foot or so of Matt Quay's kite string. and Matt at once proceeded to complete the scheme he had planned by hauling the gooes, hand over hand, off of the green and up tha aide of the school-bouse, in spite of the idiotic bird's frantic struggles to g2t away. THX OOOSB WAS rCIXEB IX at the window in a twinkling and the next second was flopping and waddling here and there about the school-room, trailing and twisting the kite string about tha legs of a score of sur prised and mgutenea scnoiars, and squawking at the top of its lungs. "When the scholars recovered from their surprise and took in the situation, a roar that almost raised the roof went np from their combined throats. The gooes was finally penned up in one corner and caught by scholars and teacher, the string cutoff, and the bird dumped out of the window.

Matt Quay was bidden to the teacher's platform to receive punishment for his wild breach of deoerum. It was the practice in those days for school teachers to renew their stock or switches, of which they made liberal use, by sending out such or such a soholar to out the gads ss the supply ran low. The day before Matt Quay's a-anaa eniaode. Matt had been despatched as tha rod collector, and had brought in a bundle of nice, long, slender gaoa that made the teacher's eye glisten. Matt was tne first boy they were used on, and the scholars noticed that the first whack the teacher gave with one of the switches broka it In dozen pieces.

Thia Beamed to bo gratifying to the teacher. as be apparently regarded the thorough break ing of the rod as evidence or we telling roroe of his blow. He splintered four switches orer Matl's back, and from tha way Matt squirmed and yelled we thought they had surely out deep, but when he walked back to his seat there was a queer grin on his face and not a trace of tears, and he sat down with a wink and grimace that wo knew meant a good deal. We found out later what it meant When Matt collected the rods for the teacher the day before, he bad considered the possibilities of their being first brought into use on himself, and he had taken bis Jack-knife and neatly run the blade around and around each switch, from butt to. tip.

making the incisions ft few inches apart and deep enough to so weaken tha gads that the first blow would break them into splinters and destroy the force of the blow. The teacher didn't discover the trick, and matt' rxoooiNO was as harmless to him as the tiokle of a fly. "Matt was always lookingforadiokar of some kind when we were boys, and he never traded a knife, a handful of marbles, or anything else that he didn't stick the boys he traded with no matter how much the advantage aeemed to lie with the latter in the preliminary negotiations. 1 remember his great knife trade with Harry White, who is now President Judge of this district Matt had a jaoknife onoa that was the particular euvy of Harry White, who had made all sorts of offers to Matt for a trade, one of which included a knife that ha owned, a half dozen marbles, a ball of twine, and a tin squirt gun. But Matt didn't think tha dicker was worth enough to him.

and he wouldn't trade. One day though, much to the surprise and Joy of Harry, he met the latter and said he guessed thay might get up a trade. 'I haven't got my knife with me, said Matt, and if we strike a bargain you'll have to go after it' 'All said wbat boot do yen want? "Well, if you'U give me your knife, the marbles, the twine and tha squirt gun, and throw in that horse-hair fish line of jours, TU said Matt. 'I'll di It, exclaimed Harry, and be handed over all the articles. 'Where'lll go after the "Matt stowed Harry's knife and tha.

other things in his pocket and said: -t 'Go np to "the tannery. -T-1 was fooling around there thia morning, and dropped nay knife in th vat. Me and some of the bova fished two hours and 'couldn't find it But it'a in-there. Go up, and maybe you can find it' i "Harry kicked, but there wasn't any use. Ha never found Matt's knife, and it'a in that vat yet, for all I ksow." SHOT BI 1 DE8PIK1D0.

Hiawatha. Deo. 29. Jacob Yanxia, a wiser in, tha Kietvuri Psoifla akeps. who til 7 bad reputation and has been in tha courts fre quently, fatally shot BoatoniHendricks at 4 V1.

nnln. ITl, Bk.n. iluniliu are in pursuit 'r THE SERFESra BITE. A fratewaJUfs Emparlance Told Setaatlat'a Accuracy asad a ytetorasqaia.a. New York limi Knowing that my search for birds In Southern woodsand swamps waa aver attended by a possibility of meeting his majesty tha "Diamond-black," I had mado it a rule to exercise all needful caution in forcing my way through palmetto scrubs and dense grown Ciicketa, hia favorite haunts, and In ad dition to the heavy leggtna I constantly wore, never took the field without having with mo the antidotes considered by taxidermists as tha onea most liksly to effect a euro.

Thus my "snake box," aa I called it, and to which I undoubtedly owe my Ufa, contained a lance, an easily adjustable ligature, a hypodermic syringe, and ft small vial filled with the prescribed 1 per cent eolation of permanganito of potash. It is. perhaps, necessary to add I was amply provided with the popular remedy known as "snake poison." Tkua armed, for years I had followed my favorite pursuits, meeting occasionally venomous reptiles, and having, it ia true, several rather narrow escapes, but until the day of which I am about to writ arrived I had never been bitten by them. It was a delicious afternoon of the Southern spring. A heavy shower at noon had cleared tha sultry atmosphere of morning, and the freah, moist air waa laden with the perfume of flowers.

Mounted on a favorite pony, I bad ridden to the hummock at the border of the lake, and here tied him, dismounting to wander at will in search of the specimens I desired. The path waa comparatively open, and in fancied security I gave slight head to my footsteps, indeed, paying more to the trees overhead. A probable specimen soon absorbed my attention, and in endeavoring to determine its identity I moved alightly forward in order to obtain a mora advantageous rition from whioh to observe it. fallen tree lay across tha path, and I thoughtlessly stepped upon it to pass over, when the sound of the warning rattle fall noon my ear, and a single glance showed the dreaded form of the serpent lying coiled at my feet But the step was half taken; too late did I attempt to draw back; tha threatened danger above him rendered rattle and strike almost simultaneous, and with horror I felt the blow upon my ankle. THXBX IS A MULVK BKKB, my mind waa in a whirl, and it ia difficult for me to tell exactly haw I acted: tne reptile's fangs became fastened in my legging, and 1 have a dim impression of pushing him from his hold and firing aa he fell from me, the charge striking his hexd and blowing it literally into a thousand atoms.

With a aickaning sense of fear I hastily tore off my useless leggings; my loose hunting trousers were quickly rolled to the knee. Hope was almost abandoned when 1 saw the two faint punctures of the serpent's fangs already alightly discolored, burning like heated needles in the flesh, and sending fiery darts of pain throaghout my system How many times nave "Areiived that moment with all its intense agon vfVhonght followed thought with lightning-like rapidity. Go aid I retain possession of my senses, I repeatedly aaked myself, long enough to employ the remedies with which I was provided? Drawing my flask I swallowed half its contents ss though it were water, then wltn trembling hand took from my pocket my "snake box" and extracting a lance, made without flinching a deep incision across the fang marks; the blood gushed forth, but far from causing faintnees it produced exactly the opposite result, and I not only experienced no pain, but regarded with aauefaotion this loss of blood which, at any other time, would have.oecaeioned alarm. The ready ligature was now placed above the wound and tightened, the syrhige filled with the prescribed ten drops and injected into and about tee wound, the flask aam resorted to. My feelings during tais period I can not adequately describe, and I shudder even now when 1 recall the almost paralyx-ng seaso of fear which possessed me.

While the application of the antidotes, incision, in reality occupied very few minutes, certainly less than Ave from the moment I was struck, it seemed to me I lived years, and I experienced In full the sensation of the drowning man, here prolonged to a maddening degree, my life history passing through my mind in a urging wave of thought, long-forgotten incidents returning vividly and following each other with a rapidity wuicn was marvelous. XBBVBD TO ACTIOS BT HOFB Or UTB. I had thus treated myself on strength derived from intense exoitement Knowing now 1 had done all in my power, the mental stimulus of self-preservation deserted ma, the reaction name, and i sank to the ground. A feeling of numbness, which I tried in vain to overcome, crept over me, almost stilling the sev srity of my sufferings; once, twice, I aroused myself to loosen and readjust uva ligature noon my leg, the ankle and foot below were suffused with restricted blood, whose presence threatened to burst the veins which confined it, and alight relief waa afforded by allowing portion to pursue its natural oourse and enter, my system the access ion, too, of comparatively pure blood in the poisoned part prevented the appearance of gangrene, whioh a loo long impression was sure to cense. A third time I eesayed to arrange It, but the exeennon was more than I could bear, and as it loosened in my grasp, 1 exparienood a frightful sense of suffocation a mutt blurred my vision, I tried to move, but my limbs were set in the rigidity of death, and the thought that I waa dying was the last I can remember.

When oonscionanasa returned night bad fallen and all was dark. I stretched out my hand, and it fell across the slimy body of the serpent beside me, recalling the events of the afternoon, and aa the thougbt I had survived them slowly took shape and became a reality, a feeling of de-vent thanksgiving arose ia my heart, and, lying there upon my back, the sort Southern moonlight stealing through the trees above upon me, 1 was froasesssd of a Joy ao ecstatic that for a few momenta I remained there passiveiy content with the glorious thought I lived, The urgency of returning to appease the anxiety of my friends now- forced itself upon ma. I was very weak, tha loss of blood and toxic effect of tha serpent's venom had robbed mo of every particle of strength, and only after several attempts did I manage aa reach my fast Then leaning on my gun for support, I walked unsteadily to my faithful little pony, whoso whinay of welcome as he saw ma waa tweet anusio to my ears. Painfully mounting I threw the rein across his neck. He aoemeq almost to be aware of my condition, for ha picked hia way very carefully, but, notwithstanding his caution, the exertion mo VXD too much roa its, and when, alter what seemed an endless ride, we reached home, only his low neigh of hunger brought assistance to the door, for I was too weak to call or even think of attempting to enter the house unaided.

Tenderly lifting me from the saddle they carried me within. An examination rendered unnecessary the explanation I could not then make. A physician waa at onoa summoned, whoso treatment completed the cure I had commenced, and ia a few weeks' time there waa left of my experience only a scar and an undying recollection ot tha agonies, mental and physical, I suffered that spring afternoon in tha South, OBITPABT. 1 BABBOWS. Ba enrx.

Deo. 2a Special Telegrmm. I- A. Barrows, aged 87 years, died this morning at hia homo in Some re, Kenoaha County. Ha waa a highly respected citixea, and had resided in thia section for forty-acven yearn, JACOB rsTX.

Louis VTU.B. Dec. 29. Jacob Peter, ex-Fresident ot tha First National Bank, died sud denly here to-night of heart disease. Ha was 74 years old.

and a native of Switzerland. BXM ATMS Or TUB BSTV. DX BOTCB. LotnsvxixB, Deo. 29.

The remains of tha late James P. Boyoa, President of tha Southern Baptist Theological School, will bo shipped by his daughter from Marseilles tomorrow. Tha interment will take place here. The Bev. John A.

Broads will probably auo-caed as president. Siri.BLOWIBS CAPTURED Dubuqub, Iowa, Deo, 29. Special Telegram. Two important arrests were made hare today. On Dec 22 the aafe in Nio Jnngtea' a tore was blown open $200 in cash and several hundred of dollars warth of extracted.

To-day Harry Banks and Ben Aloott, alias "Bed Winters" were "Both have only recently been released from the penitentiary and have served time for similar offenses, and had both been ordered out of the city the day before tha burglary. The polios claim to have ample crime. UPPEB EGYPT. Sketches of tne People and Country td wnlcfa tne Battle of Suaklm. i-r Calls Attention.

Tne Soudanese Fearless, the Ecjyp tlans Cowardly Eighty Houzis Apiece It Victorious. Egypt Sought More and More Winter Resort for In- -ralldg. Fntrr Catabact os thb Nrrn, Nov. 29, 188a New York Mail and Exvret: Thia town of Assonant, at tha First Cataract of tha Nile, has been tha scans of considerable military bustle and preparation for tha last two It ia one of the two chief military stations of Upper Egypt, and gives its name to tha military district extending from tha ancient quarries of Siiseleh. forty miles farther down theNila, to Wady Half ah, at the Second Cataract, 215 miles south.

Wady Halfah ia bald by a garrison of 2,600 native troops, under tha command of Colonel Woodhouaa, who ia also military governor of the Asaonam District The plaee is the southern limit of the Egyptian occupation. The Soudan begins a few miles beyond. Khartoum, where Gordon met his death January 28, 1889, ia 800 miles further up the Nile. The military preparations, to which I have referred, concern the relief of Snakim. That port on tha Bed Sea baa been invested for many months by tha "dervishes," as they are called.

Tha city is defended by a wall fifteen feat high and by four outlying forta. The enemy has become ao truculent and numerous aa to make it neoesaary. for tha, safety of tha place, to invite a decisive battle and inflict, if possible, a signal defeat Tha battle ia looked for within three weeks, and will, no doubt, havs been fonght before thia reaches the Mail and KrpreMM. kesterday tha last detachment of the army of re-en foroement left here, to the music of tha Egyptian band, by'boatav They go 180 miles dowa tha Nile to Kottcbee low Luxor; then cross the desert to Koesair(xm tha Bad gee (a journey of six days), and proceed by boat southward to Suakim. Tha troops, numbering 1,000 men.

are all Bondaneae, under the command of English officers. The Bondaneae are jet black, and a finely formed set of men. Many of them nave been lavas, and all are volunteers. They make excellent oldie ra, and are utterly fearless in battle. They will follow an English officer anywhere, and have won confidence by their courage and endurance.

thb xovtiahs maxx foob soldikbs, are conscripts, and are cringing ana cowardly at the side of the blacks. An illustration waa given of their cowardice on the 4th of March last before Suakim. Colonel Tabb, aa uncommonly premising officer of 29, waa leading a regime a I of Egyptians. To oonhrm the courage of hia troops he jumped from hia horse and cried out: "Stand, men. atand." but they flod ignominiously and left him to find a aolitsry and untimely death.

The Bondaneae ia not careful to disguise his eon-tempt for his Egyptian failow-aoldiers, and expresses his self-esteem in the stock phrase I am like the English." The government is anxious to get his service and gives him three times the allowance of the Egyptian private, or $5 a month, is careful of his prejudices and stipulates to carry his wife and children from one permanent camping ground to another. Seventy-eight women with their children ware taken down the Nile by boat yesterday and another detaebmeot ia to follow to-day to meet their husbands in Carta. A Welsh regiment of 400 men is on its way from Cairo to take, the place at Asaonam of the troops who have gone to Snakim The derviabes are in control of the Soudan. They are tha Arab aud Soudanese followers of the Mahdu who are inspired with his Mohammedan fanaticism and have survived him. They call the blacks in the service of the Egyptian Government "little infidels, to distinguish them from the Christians, who ars tne "big infidels." The leaders feed the aeal of their troops by the promise of five white women each if they roach Lower Egypt alive, and eighty wivea in case they are lulled in battle.

'I hey dreaa, aa far as there la material enough to go around, in white ahirta, decorated with round patches of colored staff. The defeat of Hicka Pasha and the surrender of Khartoum furnished tbem with an excellent supply of arms aud ammunition. Upoer Egypt is safe, Sim pi bacanae there is English protection over the land and English skill and firmness direct the movements ot the Egyptian troops. The country between Assouan! and Wadv Halfah ia constantly menaced by the dervishes. Within the last year some of the villages have been destroved and the telegraph wires frequently cut The boats on the Nile between these points, under the charge of the Postoffioe Department, are protected by a guard of eoldiera.

One of the boats that waa fired upon by the dervishes within a year happened to carry Dr. Schliemann, the celebrated discoverer of the Trajan and Greek antiquities. THB ABAK DOXaCXT OF THB BOOX AW, which Egypt, under too advice of England, found a military and political necessity, has entailed a large commercial loss upon the country. The products of the Soudan, ostrich feathers, acacia gum, ivory, and gold and ail ver, brought down the Nile, involved a few ears ago an annual traffic of 2.000,000 pounds, 'hat traffic ia at tha present time completely ceased. The opinion among Eogliah- officers in Egypt seems to ba that it was at least a mistake to give np Dongola (300 miles south of Wady Halfah.

and a general feeling prevails that some tune in -the future Egypt will ba forced to reoecupy the Soudan. In thia connection I 'may say that I have spoken ia the last few days with English officials of large experience in these parts who persist in doubting that Gordon fell at Khartoum. The reason given for this opinion, which it is difficult to entertain, ia that no man baa yet been seen who saw him dying or dead. Tha slave trade, whioh he waa ao anxiona to sea abolished, ia still carried on in a elandeetine way. Slaves are held to eon is extent In Upper Egypt, but thav nave aim-ply to announce the fact of their servitude to the authorities to obtain their freedom.

The slaveholders are greatly opposed to the enlistment of black troops, aa it Involves the freedom of slaves who may enlist The low Nile will not involve the loss and want which were predicted. The government baa famished water to flood 80,000 acres which otherwise would have been unproductive. From Luxor to the First Cataract, a distance of 140 miles, one-half of too land cultivated in years ia green with crop, Tha government has given some relief by removing the taxes for the ensuing year from all acres uncultivated. In spite of thia the catiTea are in dread of want and are aelling their cattle at one-half and one-third the usual value. The rush of winter tourists in Egypt baa begun.

In the office of Thomas Cook Bon, at Cairo, the number ia expected to be greatly in excess of that of preceding years. This travel will distribute large sums of money throughout the land, Egypt la being nought more and mora aa a winter resort for invalids aa well aa for travelers in search of pleasure and Information. Mr. John M. Cook, manager of the celebrated firm for arranging tours, ia in Egypt at the present time looking after hia business interests, and expects to bo here tha greater part of the season.

All hia dahabyahs have already been engaged. Hia steamer eervioe want into operation Nov. 20 and will conti-ne until April. The moat of tha staterooms are already taken for tha whole season. While TBAVaX OH THS VttM aa far aa tha First Cataract ia perfectly aafe, it ia probable that tourists will be advised to forego tha continuance of the trip to the Second Cataract, on account of tha disturbed condition of tha country beyond and tha possibility of irruptions from the dcrvib.ee.

An interesting illustration of the station of the people tha Nile attracts waa given a few days ago. The boatman who carried us safely i down tha First Cataract showed us, among other testimouiala, one from no lea a personage than hia honor, the former' Mayor of that far Waa tarn citv, Chicago. On the one aide of a card waa written: "Beis Alt Gohar brought myself and party tnrough tha cataracts in splendid style. I commend him to voyagers who wish to shoot tha rapida. Carter H.

Harrison, Aprd 4, Ou the other aide of the card was the engraved name and the words In "Late Mayor of of Chicago, U. S. Chieagoena will be glad to know that their fellow-citizen whom they honored ao often with their votea "did" the cataracts of the Nile, and that the dnaky boatman appreciated the dignity of hia paseeeger. He also showed me the sard of Prof eeeor lln-dolf Virchow, the diaunguisbed scientist of Berlin, who stated that the same service had been done for himself and Dr. Schliemann a ysy a-x gaa.vwe f- week at the temple of A boo SimbeL near the Becond Cataract Dr.

Schliemann expressed the opinion that much remained to be done in the way of excavation and discovery in Egypt The tombs on tha hill opposite Asaonam opened ia 1883 by Sir Francis Grenfeil, commander-in-chief of tha ifigyptian troops, are being rapully hidden again and covered with sand. General GrenfeU observed a atone step at the edge of the river, and concluded (hat it must be a part of an ancient stairway. Diggings revealed the truth of his conclusion and the stairway, with ninety-two steps, was found to lead np to a number of tombs, which the sand from tha desert bad been completely hiding from view for centuries. The chambers are capacious (one mesa area lOO by 50 feet), and richly painted. The aaud has encroached again ao rapidly that entrance can be had through only two of the portals except on hands and knees.

The bill is thought to ba honeycombed with tombs still unopened. Una of the spots near Asaonam recently made interesting, especially to tha Engliah and American tourist is the English cemetery. It is situated near the old syeuete quarries and tha great obelisk, which still clings on its under side to the native rock. A mud wall, whitewashed, eneo; passes 11 Hince 1884 140 graves have been dug and filled by Engliah officers and eoldiera. A white wooden cross or stone slab, inscribed with name, age.

birthplace and regiment of tha sleeper marks every mound. A TxrorB niuM -baa arranged on tha mounds ia tasteful designs fragments of variagated granite aad feldspar found in tha vicinity. I cannot refrain from copying one of these inscriptions. It reads: TiiI the morning breaks and the ahadowa flee away. Hare rests till the great reveille Private Oeorge Dobson, Company.

First Battalion, P. W. a. Yorkshire Begimect, who fell asleep in the 22d year of hia age. 11th June, Thy will be dona.

Erected by Cspt, John Parker aa a tribute of esteem to tha memory of a valued servant and friend. These far off graves have a tender interest, and this resting place for the dead, near the First Cataract, recalls the little plot of ground at Tel-el-Kebir, on the railroad between Ismailia and Cairo, inclosed by stone fence and iron railing, and containing marble alabs end a halts over those who fell in. the battle with Arabi Pasha in 1882. Some young cypresses and willowa there yield their shads and mark the spot in the midst of the desert aa cared for by the government in whose service tha brave fellows aleeping there fought aad fall. DKATH OF A VOTED CAUFOBXIA-.

This recalls the death of one of our own coun trymen who, bv a telegram: Just received, died yesterdnr MeCheaney, of Baft Jt had just completed a tour throueh Paletrttue. but achieved the dream of hia life "by thia death far away from hia home and family. Ha waa 83 years old, and ia said by guides and dragomen to have been the oldest man from a foreign land that they have aver known to make the Journey from Baalbek to Jerusalem. Mr. MoChesney waa at tha head of one of the oldest and strongest houses in San Francisco, and carried on a larger business with the Hawaiian Islands than any other firm of that city.

President Washburn, of Boberta College, predicted at Constantinople two months ago that the Palestine trip would either kill him or hasten his death. The prediction has coma true and should ba a warn- Our National Thanksgiving Day has not been forgotten by the Americana to-day ia thia far-off land. The caterer of our boat waa apprised of the National holiday, and enabled us to do honor to the occasion by partaking of a large turkey stuffed with rice and raiaine. One of tha courses of the dinner was fresh melons. The company did not have Mr.

Cleveland's proclamation to read, nor did it indulge in after-dinner speeches. But amidst the ruins of this ancient land we thought much of the native land, the land of the future, far out under tha western aky. CAPTAIN CHARLES 1X0, Author mf ttut Kew- Frontier TIm (iuaeai of itecllai (Milwaukee) Atr- Tha name of Captain Charles King has become pretty familiar to the readers of mags sine and aerial literature the past few years. Captain King ia a resident of Milwaukee, a popular society man, a gifted writer and a leading spirit in all matters military. Tha demand for hia literary work lately has been something remarkable.

The demand for hia storiea and sketches ia much larger than can be supplied. In view of tha wide interest manifest in Captain King's literary productions the Ainra presents herewith a portrait and sketch which will be of timely Interest Captain King first tried his prentice hand at writing when a subaltern of artillery, juat after tha war, but not with pecuniary euccees, if any other. He found publishers but no pay. In 1872 while on reconstruction duty in the South he began "Kitty's Conquest," aad triad several publishers with it No one wanted it, and ha pitched the MSS. into a trunk, and went out to Arizona, to join the Fifth- Cavalry for tha Apache campaign.

For six years ha and hia regiment were in one Indian war after another, and scouting all over the continent, from tha Missouri to tha Colorado. It waa while recovering from a aevera wound that ba began sketches of Indian campaigning, and they led to demands for mora- The Lippinootta read hia "Colonel's Daughter." aa it was being published aa a aerial lu an army magaxine that could hardly afford to pay' for the paper it waa printed on. They instantly offered to publish it in book form and pay him royalty and to take anything else ha had, including "Kittv." The Colonel's Dangnter" is selling yet and ao ia its while "The Deserter," and "From the Banks," have exceeded all the publishers' expectation, and astonished nobody more than the author himself. His largest work and considered by professional critics hia best ia "The Famous Battles of the World." an 800-page volume, published in Philadelphia, bnt he has written- several stories and sketches for Lippinoott, Harper and others, and for tha coming Tear, I am told by the Captain himself, he can, accept no more offers, for all that ba can possibly write ia be-apoken. In answer to a question aa to his method of work.

Captain King aaid that there had been only three months a year until 1887 that he could give to writing. The National Guard ia a thing in which he is deeply interested, and his duties have occupied coat of the time. When he doea write it is generally for several hoars at a stretch from or 9 o'clock in. the morning until 1, or aometima 2. He writes rapidly, and yet ha tea to revise aad correct; bnt no one ever sees his work, good or bad, until it is opened in the publishers office.

Everything ha has written since 1882, and mnch that he wrote before, has found its market. Captain King's military' history ia interesting. Ho was appointed to West Point in 1862 by President Lincoln, and graduated in 18GU. He was on duty in the Boutb after the war, and then aaw hard eervioe, er several years, in the far West, fighting the Indiana Ha waa retired at a comparatively early age on account of wounds received in the service oat West. He baa been actively identified, for several years past, with the Wisconsin National Guard, and ia now a eoloael on the Govemor'a staff and ia also an officer of inspection.

Captain King, as almost every one knows, is a son of General Buf us King. He is about 40 veara of age, a man of family, and resides in this city. (Tha first installment of Captain King's new story, "The Queen of Bedlam," will appear in Tum Suxdat IrxB Ocxax, Jan. SKIT SrBnronxxD, III, Dec. 2a Tha Secretary of State to-day issued certificates to tha following oompanies: Commercial Travelers' Loan and Homestead Association, Peoria; capital, incorporators, B.

H. Green, John Birks, L. Ballenberg. William H. Lang.

Henry Maver, aad Charles D. Clark. Chicago Shirt Manufacturing Company, Chicago; capital, 10.000; incorporators, Julius Bchwerxer, Henry Kennedy, and Bernard Smith. Snvdar Land and Investment Companv, Chicago; capital, to raiae stock and manufacture sugar; incorporators, John M. Phelps, Charles F.

Harding. J. D. Xrerett, F. F.

French, and Frank Burnam, I SO TO WASBISfiTOX. TOPEXA, Dec. 29. Si-ecial Telegrmm, Tha famons Cowboy Band of Dodge City, after having propositions mado from a number of organisations and State oommiiteea, have accepted the proposition from the- Denver Club to attend the inaugural ceremonies at Washington. They will leave Denver with a special train, and tha entire dub of about 200 will bo costumed In the cowboy's full regalia.

BUI FRKglBEST rAKALTXKB. PrrTSBtJxo, Dec. 29. William Carr, one of the wealthiest men in the city, and President of the Mechanics' National Bank, was stricken JP'gfrt, ad, wiU PIy NEWS PEOil NEW YOUE. An Alleged Chum of Vanderbilt and Depew Defrauds His All Hope for the Safety of the Steamer Samana Now Few Claimants for the Honesty Fund The Cruiser Chicago.

ALLEGED EXTOETIOK. Kxw Tobx, Dee. 2a Special TeUgrmm. James McNabb Clark, a railway promoter, with, office at No. 65 Broadway, who waa arrested bat evening on a charge of extortion made by hia cousin, Mrs.

Janet Conger, was at tha Tombs Polios Court to-day. Mrs. Conger charges that Clark owed bar sums of money aggregating nearly $7,000, and when aha demanded payment ia April last and told him aha would bring suit against him if bo did not pay, ba threatened that if aha did ao bo would publish certain letters In his possession which would bring disgrace on her and bar family. The complainant told bar story thia morning. She said: "My husband died three years ago at Toronto, and a year Uter I cams to thia city, but shortly after locatedat Greenville, N.

J. I came here on tha representations of my cousin, Mr. Clark, that 1 would oo well bare aa a correspondent of Canadian papers. Previous to that, while on a visit to Canada, ba borrowed $1,500 from ma, and on another occasion $1,000 mora, i He waa soma years ago a physician in Toronto, and on hia visits from thia city ba gave tha moat exaggerated storiea of bis success and inflnenoe. Among other ridiculous stories be said that ha had often played poker with William H.

Vanderbilt, and that Chauoeey M. Depew owed him hia position aa President of tha New fork Central. He also aaid that he gave no medical practice in Chicago because ba could only make $18,000 a year. While be waa stopping with ma he induced ma to make over to him a mortgage for which I held against property in Canada. Ha gave ma an -acknowledgment of it.

but baa never paid either that or tha loan I made hi as in Canada, I do not care so much for the money aa 1 do for the threata ba baa made to disgrace me. I have heard that be has traduced my character, And I want to punish him for that When the case waa called tne accused stated that ha had no chance to get a waa not prepared to go oo with tha examination at preeent Judge O'BeUly held Clark in $1,600 bail for examination on Jan. 3. DISBURSING THB HONESTY FUND. Nxw Yoxx.

Dec 29. Special Telegram, Ono of the interesting incidents of the last Presidential campaign waa the "honesty fund," Early in October, just before tha registration of voters began, the Bepnbliean newspapers contained an annonnncement of a reward of. $25,000 for falsa. registration. The' affaira of the "honesty fund" have jut been settled up, and at a meeting bald today the rewards were distributed to those who had been instrumental in detecting and vanishing eases of false gistraiion.

Only ton convictions for falsa registration were brought before the committee. Only twelve claimants appeared, and two were disallowed. This involves an expenditure of only $3,250, or not mnch over one-fifth of tha fund. THB MISSING SAMANA. Nxw Yoxx.

Dw. 29. Special Telegram. Tha steamship Prina Maurita, which arrived from Port au Prince to-day, brought ao tidings of tha ill-fated steamship Samana, which left bora on Nov. 22 with a cargo of provisions, bound for AuxCayea.

Tha agenta of tha Samana have now lost all hope of the vessel, and say that aha probably foundered oft Cape Hatteraa on Nov. 23. during a terrific gala. The Samana had a crew of eighteen men besides the captain and his wife. Tidings of bar have been anxiooalv looked for day after day, both in thia city and Aux Caves, but no word came.

The Samana was built and ia owned in England. She Bailed under the Englian flag aad ia fully Insured, Her cargo ia insured in various oompanies in thiaciry. FO PRESBYTERIAN UNITY. Nxw Tobx. Deo.

29. Special Tha committees of tha Northern and Southern general aaaembliea of the Presbyterian Church had two sessions to-day. An early afternoon session waa at tha Presbyterian on Fifth avenue, and an evening meeting' at the Park Avenue Hotel. The results of tha conferences appeared to be satisfactory, though tha committees preferred not to give the do tails of the proceedings. The Bev.

Dr. W. E. Moore, who waa secretary at the afternoon sees ion, said, in answer to an inquiry aa to the nature of the work, that it was in regard to co-operation in certain tinea of work. He aaid that it waa the drift of sentiment at the meetings that co-operation waa auppoaed to be practically on the lines of foreign and home missions, education, evangelising, the freedmea.

etc. To-monow the ministers of the coinmitteea wiU preach in tha Presbyterian churches of the city. THE CRUISER CHICAGO. Nxw YoBX, Deo. 29.

Sjtecial Telegram. A. report has been sent to Secretary Whitney by the officers assigned to get tha new cruiser Chicago ready for sea that she will not ba fully equipped for active eervioe mnch before tha end of January. All of her guns are nearly in position, except one of tha eight-inch breech loaders, which is now undergoing testa at tua Annapolis ordnanoa proving ground. HIS REASON DETHRONED.

Nxw ToaX, Dec 29. Special Telegram. The Bev. Bernard J. Donnellv.

a voonsr aaaistant to -he Bev. Dr. alnrtaell. at too Church of the Epiphany, in thia city, haa gone era from brooding over tha MoGlyan ease, and haa been placed in an Father Donnelly imagined at times, it waa' aaid, that ho was Vicar General of the archdiocese, and talked queerly about settling certain matters of ecclesiastical discipline. The case of Dr.

MoGlynn seemed to trouble him mora than anything else. Dr. Bnrtseli, aa ia well known, ia a warm friend and admirer of Dr. MoGlynn, bnt Father Donnelly developed a hatred to the former pastor of St Stephen's which appeared to. affect very seriously his mind.

Recently Father Donnelly concluded that ba would settle the MoGlynn difficulty himself, and ao communicated tha fact to Archbishop Corrigan. He also, it is said, imagined that there waa noma trouble between jtonaignor Preston and the Archbishop, and proposed to settle that, too. Father Donnelly made several calls on the Archbishop for tne Surpoee of nettling all tha affairs of tha arch-iooeee that needed ssttlament SPINOLA DEFEATED. NxW Tobx, Dec 29. Special Telegram.

1 the Tammany Hall primary election' Congressman Spinola ha of the big shirt eoUar was badly beaten for leadership in hia own district by Assemblyman General Spinola ha held tha leadership for twelve year. Ther waa aimoet a riot at tha polls, and tha polioa bad to be called in to prevent blood-had. mmmm- roa FASsma fobcis checks. ArATaTTB, Deo, 29. Special Telegram.

Had Newton, a young farmer, who Uvea south, of thia waa arrested to-day while attempting to paaa a check for $125 on the Fowler Na- tiooal Bans of thia city. Newton had been successful in parsing's forged check for $20 on tha same bank about a month ago, and the officials were on tha look-out for him whan ha attempted It to-day," The na tea on both checks were the same, the one forged being the name of Q. W. House, a wealthy farmer. There ira others imDhoaied, bat iUwlon will sot Lr their r-,.