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THE The A Bays VOLUME XXIV. FIRST EDITION. THE MAINE BUBBLE BURST. ATTEMPT TO STEAL FAILS UTTERLY. A STATE The Court Refuses to Recognize the Fusion Legislatare The Ramp Greatly Disgusted Mr.

Smith "Will Give Up Playing Governor and Go Home How the Republicans Take the News THE FIASCO IN MAINE. Fusionists Government Collapses "Gov." Smith's Determination. dispatch of last night from Bangor The unanimous decision oi me ou rjreme Court declines to recognize the sionist bodies at Augusta and declares the Republican Legislature the legal one. The justices say that these questions "Were fully answered, and by the answer it appeared that the acts and doings of the Governor and Council in issuing certificates of election to certain men as Senators and members of the House of Representatives who did not appear to be elected and declining to issue certificates and summonses to certain men who appear to be elected were in violation of their legal and constitutional obligations and duties: The decision continues "We cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the Governor and Council then in office disregarded the opinion of this court, given in answer to the Governor's questions; that they omitted to revoke the summons illegally issued to men who did not appear to be elected, or to issue summonses to men who did appear to be elected. We know that the officers who presided in the conventions of the members elect of the Senate and House on the first Wednesday in January recognized as members ot those bodies men who were unlawfully introduced into them by the unconstitutional and illegal method pursued by the Governor and Council, and refused to recognize men who appeared to be legally elected, and refused to permit any appeal from the legal decisions to the bodies over which they were temporarily presiding." The judges do not recognize that there was a quorum in the Fusionist Legislature when it organized without counting men who appeared to be elected under illegal modes pursued by the Governor The Senate was also illegally organized.

The opinion then goes on to consider the organization of the Republican Legislature and the decision is that it is the legal one. A dispatch from. Augusta says Word has been received from Bangor that the court refuses to recognize the fusion body as a legal Legislature and will not answer questions submitted, but goes into a detailed statement of reasons why the Republican Legislature i3 legal. Tbe news is received with evident satisfaction by the Republicans. They are inclined to be more gracious to the Fusionists than at any time during the last fortnight.

Governor Davis wa3 not in the least surprised by the news, and said he thought there would be no occasion for harsh measures. He believed the Fusionists would have the good sense to give up the fight, accept the opinion as final and take their seats in the Legislature, or at least a majority of them would do bo; also that the Fusion State officers would gracefully accept the situation. Gov. Smith preserved his usual calm demeanor and was very gracious to all who accosted him. He said he did not know just what the decision of the court was, but he understood it declared the Republican Legislature legal.

In this case he was prepared to accept the decision as final, and he made up his mind to return to his home to morrow. He could not accept the opinion previously rendered as final, he said, because it was based on the assumption that the statement of facts submitted by the Fusionists themselves was correct, and if they had unanimously decided that the Republicans had a legal Legislature it ended the matter so far as he was concerned, whether he agreed with the opinion or not. Smith and Lew Barker, of i)avis' Council, met in the reading room at the Augusta House during the evening and chaffed each other pleasantly. Lew addressed Smith as "Governor," and he took the badinage which fol lowed with the greatest good, humor. As the conversation became serious he expressed himself substantially as in the interview quoted above in the presence of ten or twelve witnesses.

A CLERGYMAN'S ROMANCE. A diispatch of last night from Baltimore says: St. Wenceslaus's Bohemian Catholic church has been having a sensation, which came to a crisis to day by the publication of letters to the Austrian Consul here, which led to the suspension of the priest, Father Ilojda. Father Hojda was a Catholic priest in good standing until, a year ago, he became intimately acquainted with a wealthy young Protestant lady, Miss Liehman, in Prague, through whom he embraced Protestantism, only to renounce it on his arrival here last June, when he became pastor of St. Wenceslaus.

He was much beloved by his charge, and when, in November, a young lady came from Prague to keep house for him, he represented her as his sister, and no suspicions were aroused. Mis3 Liehman's sister, however, had written to the Austrian Consul here. He had conferred with Archbishop Gibbons, and when their suspicions were confirmed by the condition of Miss Liehman, the priest was suspended. OnfThurs day Father Hojda embraced the Evangelical Lutheran faith, joining Trinity church. The pastor, the Rev.

Mr. Pister, soon after united the ex Priest and Miss Liehman as man and wife. It wa3 supposed that the couple had gone to New York, but Mr. and Mrs. Hojda were found here to day, being compelled to remain a few days longer.

Miss Liehman who came here solely to reconvert and marry the cx priest has accomplished her purpose. She brought $10,000 to start him in life. SOUTHERN EA I LWA COMBINATION A dispatch of last night from Nashville, says: President E. W. Cole, of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.

Louis Railway, has been tendered the presidency of the Cincinnati Southern company, and it is generally believed he will accept it with a view of perfecting a through line from Cincinnati to Savannah via "Western Atlantic and Georgia Central railroads. It is understood that if the Louisville management were to ratify the lease of the Georgia Central, it would make an amicable adjustment between it and President Cole. It is believed that it is hardly probable that they will now do so, and that the consequence will be the completion of the combination between him and the Cincinnati Southern as stated. A dispatch of the same date from Atlanta, says: Mr. Clements, president of the Cincinnati Southern railroad, arrived here to day.

He is confident and assured regarding the railroad situation, but will say nothing. The Southern railway and steamship association meets here to morrow at three o'clock. The Southern railroad situation will then be decided. A BIO MIX. Henry L.

Clinton, the principal counsel for W. H. Vanderbilt in the Vanderbilt will case, has sent in his bill to his client. The bill Mr. Vanderbilt is called upon to pay amounts to $2 30,000.

It la made up in items and each particular service is specified. Mr. Vanderbilt has refused to pay it, and it is said that Mr. Clinton has given the millionaire just one week to make up his SECCXND EDITION. mina.

THE VERDICT IN THE KENO CASE. Washington dispatch to St. Pul Pioneer Tress, Th record in the recent court martial ot Major Reno, of the Seventh Cavalry, has been received by the Judge Advocate General. This is the second time Reno has been court martialed for serious offenses within two years. The sentence of the former court was dismissal lrom the service, but the President commuted it to suspension and loss of pay.

Reno was not back in the service two months before he was court martialed again, and the sentence this time is also dismissal. It is not probable that the President will modify the sentence this time. ESSENCE. Oub sea coast defenses are in a bad condition. "Governor" Surra, of Maine, yields meekly.

The Bennett Smith murder trial is making slow progress in Jersey City. The Government will insist on its rights in the matter of the Isthmus canal. The "big tree" district in California will probably be reserved as a public park. The Australians are testing the feasibility of shipping fresh meat to England. Moke trouble for the Afghans.

Persia and Beloochistan have united against themv The foreign imports for the past week were the largest for a long time past, aggregating $11,062,634. A New Yokk music teacher has lost his wife and six children, and is anxiously prosecuting his search for them. King Al.foitso'8 latest would bo assassin has been adjudged insane. Lucky escape for the assassin. Perhaps his craziness accounts for his bad aim.

The Senate passed a bill yesterday giving the President the power to settle the Fitz John Porter case. Wonder what the rebel brigadiers in the House will say to this TnE Democratic cat did not succeed in pulling the Greenback monkey's chestnuts out of the fire up in Maine, but it got its fingers badly burned in the attempt. Now that the Maine difficulty is settled, couldn't the clerk of the weather favor us with a little bit of ice weather? This is the great difficulty which confronts the country now. The Philadelphia boy who manifested some of the symptoms of hydrophobia, snapping and barking like a dog while suffering from convulsions, is in a fair way of recovery. The Porte has suppressed the English newspaper published at Constantinople for expressing its opinion too plainly about current events.

The Porte must have a desire to become a dependency of the British' crown. In the recent uprising in Peru, by which Pierola became dictator, two hundred thousand rounds of ammunition were fired and less than three hundred men were killed and wounded. There's a fine field for target practice among the Peruvian soldiery. No wonder the Bolivians and Chilians "got away" with them so easily. The New Orleans Times predicts that the exodus of the colored population this epring and summer will be much greater than last year.

This is a safe prediction, but the confidence with which the Times utters it may be accounted for by the fact that it sees clearly the cause of the exodus, and can calculate the effect of that cause upon those who are anxious to enioy all the rights and privileges of free men. That job of Garceloning np in Maine has come to a conclusion at last, and the next step should be the arrest, trial and convic tion of the parties to the infamous plot. As was expected from the first, the job ended in the disgrace and humiliation of those concerned in it. If the Democrats had any sense, they would learn from this to leave the Green backers severely alone, as their counsels, followed, are sure to lead to shame and confusion. But the Bourbons never learn, so they may be expected to tumble meekly into the next trap set for them by their wily associates.

JUDGE HENDERSON'S LKCTUKE. Tbe True Elements In the Development of a national Character. ihc third lecture in the members' course was delivered in Association Hall last even ing by Hon. R. M.

Henderson, of Lebanon, on "The true elements in the development ot a national character. The audience accorded him close atten tion throughout the evening, evincing their high appreciation ot the able euort. In opening his lecture the eloquent speaker said that if, in addressing an asso ciation whose every aim is to be useful whose every effort is generous, just and no ble, he could thereby advance its work and cause the young men to aspire" to a higher and nobler life, his ambition lor the evening would be met. He did not propose to ad vance new theories nor claim a chanze of view, but rather desired that each should form his own opinion and maintain it. In this connection he cited the names of men who had formed and maintained their own opinion, though not without a struggle, thus ultimately raising themselves from a lower to a higher plane of life.

The speaker remarked that the character of the individual man affects that of the na tion, and by elevating the former you lm prove the latter; hence in the development of a. national character he claimed the two elements, education and labor, to be para mount. If at any time in the history of the world these subjects have demanded the attention of the people, and especially tbe educated classes, they certainly do at the present, and he commended the efforts ot the Government to elevate the masses by a free and liberal system of instruction, there by not only strengthening the nation, but also enabling its people to meet the ever increasing demand of capital for educated intelligent labor. The eloquent lecturer then briefly referred to the vast resources of our noble country, and to the ease with which an individual can obtain an acre of land upon which to found a home, for by the remuneration ot one day's labor the same can be purchased, hence he concluded that for an able bodied person to remain in poverty and pauperism is indeed a crime. In closing the speaker again urged the young men to be progres sive and to have high, noble aspirations, for "the lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime." We do not hesitate in pronouncing the lecture a great success, not only as an intellectual treat, but likewise for its sound practical advice to young men.

Bnmblebeei in January. Mechanlcsburg Ind. oar. Monday last, as Mr. George Heilman was removing several stumps in one of his fields in Silver Spring township, he wakened up a bumblebee nest, and the bees, which, ac cording to the oldest inhabitant, should long since have been non est, flew around and buzzed to the discomfiture of the workme n.

With a first class thunder storm, bumble bees and what not in January we are led ix remark, "When will this cruel winter be The Elder Street Presbyterian Church. The congregation of the Elder Street Presbyterian church are determined not let the loss of their building scatter them. They will continue their prayer meetings every mgni tuis ween, meeting at tbe houses of the members of the con ere cation. This evening it will be held at the house of Mrs. Carlisle, on South street The con gregation will worship in the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association Sabbath morning and evening.

PENNSYLVANIA NEWS. ENDS IN FIGHT, BLOODY In "Which the Ancient Order of Hibernians Figure Prominently They Assail a Man, and He fires in Self Defense Philadelphians Assail the Tariff Notes from the Keystone BLOODY FIGHT IN A PENNSYLVANIA VILLAGE. A dispatch of last night from Pleasant Vallev. savs: The Ancient Order of Hibernians of this place cave a ball last night which terminated with a tragedy. When the enjoyment was greatest the sociability gave way to a startling sensation in the shape of a fight, durine which several pistol shots were fired.

The fight was renewed on the street this morning. At four o'clock several members of the Ancient Order attacked a man named Jas. Haley, and threatened to take his life. Haley drew a revolver and fired into the crowd. The shot took effect on Michael Lynott, entering his left breast and taking a downward course.

His death is expected every minute. Several other persons were wounded. Haley is in custody awaiting the result of Lynott's injuries. DELEGATES TO T11K KKfUBLICAN CONVENTION. The Republican committee of Lancaster county met in Lancaster yesterday, and selected the following gentlemen to represent the party in the State convention: Senatorial delegates, Washington L.

Hershey, Andrew M. Frantz; Representative delegates, John E. Wiley. Jacob S. Witmer, Colin Campbell, T.

B. Cochran, Nathaniel Ellmaker, Amos L. Eshelman. The Republican convention of Chester county also met yesterday and selected the following delegates to represent the party: Delegate to the National convention, Win. Waddell.

Delegates to the State convention: Richard Darlington, Senatorial, and George M. Rupert. Joseph T. Pearce, Joseph G. King and Henry Cope, Representative; alternate to Chicago, Colonel II.

II. Gilkyson, Phcenixville; for Elector, Dr. R. L. M'Clellan.

The Republicans of Clearfield county have selected Thomas II. Murray, to represent them in the State Convention. CONSIDERING THE TARIFF. At a meeting of the textile manufacturers of Philadelphia last evening, a resolution was adopted endorsing Senator Eaton bill for the appointment of a committee of nine to investigate the subiect of the tariff laws. At the annual convention of the Drug Ex change held yesterday, resolutions were in troduced protesting against the repeal of the duty on quinine and salts of quinine, and calling upon Congress to so amend the tariff that all American manulacturers may od tain East Indian as well as South American chinchona barks free of duty.

KEYSTONE NOTES. Matthias Powers, a miserly old man of Philadelphia, whose estate is valued at a quarter of a million dollars, has been ordered to pay fifteen dollars a week for his wife's support. She brought a suit, complaining that she had been compelled to subsist on potatoes, mush and sour milk, and was ill treated by her husband and daughters. She claimed a comfortable subsistence out of the estate, as she had helped in its accu mulation by attending the markets tor years, rain or shine, and selling the produce of their truck farm. In the case of Mrs.

Coia B. Myers at Bradford, who died from the effects of an abortion on Saturday last, the coroner jury returned a verdict implicating Charles Myers, her nusoana, Airs. j. iioain, her mother, Ella, her sister, and Dr. Read, who has fled.

Arrests will follow. At a conference in Philadelphia, yes terday, of representatives of the Lehigh and Schuylkill Coal Exchanges, the discus sion indicated that on account ot the existing dullness and the continued accumulation of stock a reduction in prices is inevitable in the near future to obtain an outlet for the heavy surplus. Frederick Kyss, a miner ot JNanticoitc, was assaulted on Saturday night near Kingston by three men, who kicked his head almost into a jelly. He died yester dao. Condy M'Gee, one of his assailants, has been arrested.

Sam A. Logan, a prominent citizen and member of the Bradford health board, has decamped, leaving heavy debts behind. He also left two wives with large lamines. The wives arc sisters and live in the same house. Logan was a former resident of Brooklyn.

In the matter of the seizure of a portion of the property of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad for taxes on scrip issued at Philadelphia, a preliminary injunction has been granted against the collector, restraining him from further proceedings. Mrs. C. II. Green, the mother of four children, committed suicide at Itexford, yesterday.

Her husband has been ill and unable to provide for his family. The grindstone of the Scranton file works at Providence, burst yesterday, instantly killing Wm. Farries, a grinder, and completely shattering the building. A IIAUUISRURGEIl'S DISGRACE. The Trap Lalil by the Postal Detective to Catch Jamni Mt.

ISumbaugh Tbe Evidences of HIM Guilt. The Telegraph yesterday afternoon first gave to the people of Ilarrisburg the notice of the arrest of James 11. Bumbaugh, of this city, on a charee of robbing the mails. In the absence of full particulars it was not known how strong the evidence was ngain st Bumbaugh, but the following frpm the Pittsburg Chronicle explains it all Seven or eicht vears experience the railway postal service of the United States, during which time the shrewdest thieves have been detected, arrested and sent to the penitentairy. did not impress J.

11. Uuin baugu, ot ilarrisburg, witn tne utter futility of such practices to enrich depleted exchequers. Accordingly, Bumbaugh is in jail to day in Allegheny county, in default or 000 bail for a hearing on Monday next, on a charge ot robbing the mails, which charge, in all probability, will result in imprisonment on the the other side of the river. The circumstances of the downfall of Bumbaugh arc thU3 related by Special Agent B. II.

Campe, of the Postoffice Department. Bumbaugh's route lay between Harrisburg and Pittsburg, and his duty was to assort local or State mail. Through pouches passing through his hands were to be thrown to their proper places, and were so thrown, but when they arrived at their destination, were found to have been opened and letters abstracted There are two or three sets of employees on the route, and a half dozen men on each run; hence it is an exceedingly difficult task to fasten theft where it belongs. Bumbaugh managed to extract from packages he had nothing to do with, and expected to throw suspicion on the clerks whose duty it was to handle those packages. For over a year Special Agent Campe has been engaged on the case and finally settled upon Bumbaugh as the party who was purloining the letters, lie accordingly placed decoy letters in the mail east on Sunday, and west yesterday, and arranged with Chief Clerk Herrick, who has charge ot the cars leaving the Union depot for the west, to meet him on the arrival of the Fast Line last night.

When the train arrived, Mr. Campe entered one car and Mr. nerrick the other. The clerks were searched, and upon the person ot Bnmbaugh was found tha marked money which Mr. Campe had enclosed in the decoy letters.

Bumbaugh very coolly submitted to arrest without saying anything, and was placed in the lock up. Mr. Campe says he mailed five letters east on Sunday, and had four placed in hct mail west, so as to have the whole lot pass through the hands of Bumbaugh. Four of the letters sent east were purely local, that i3, from Pittsburg to Altoona, Ilarrisburg, and other points this side, and were handled only by Bumbaugh. They went through all right.

The fifth decoy letter was from Topeka, Kansas, to Crider York, Pa and contained a marked five dollar greenback. This letter was in a through pouch, which passed through so many hands that Bumbaugh felt secure in taking it, which he did. The greenback was found on him when arrested. All the letters west were scooped in by Bumbaugh, and fourteen dollars more secured, which was also found on him. In November, 1878, Mr.

Campe says he became convinced that Bumbaugh was rifling registered letters, and set up a job on him by having a letter to and from points in Ohio mislaid in such a way as to reach his car. The letter was put off at Altoona quite properly, and after that the rifling of registered letters ceased, so far as the run between Pittsburg and Ilarrisburg was concerned. This circumstance caused the Special Agent to set a closer watch on Bumbaugh, and when the reports of letters being missing between Chicago 'and New York, and other points in the West, to remote parts of the State, the suspicion grew stronger. It was Btill further increated by the fact of Bumbaugh assisting the through pouch clerk, a young man, and offering to assist other clerks, and also on account of him having confidentially informed Mr. Campe that it would be well to keep his eye open in a certain direction.

It is impossible to present all the details resorted to by the Department Officer in tracking the thief, in view of the fact that he had to watch two or three dozen men, but he at length became satisfied that it would pay him to exercise vigilance on the movements of Bumbaugh. That vigilance resulted in his detection. Bumbaugh is upwards of forty years of age, married and has a family. He was quiet in his demeanor, had won the confidence and esteem of his superiors, and no one outside of the Special Agent suspected him. His industry and steady habits made him a favorite with the department.

Nothing definite is known as to the extent of his operations, but the complaints of lost money on file in Washington are large, and it is presumed the aggregate is heavy. Mr. Campe is deserving of a great deal of credit for the persistency with which he has followed up the case, and congratulates himself that he has at length secured what he believes to be the last thief of the route over which he has supervision. ELI JACKSON'S SUICIDE. Continued Excitement in Primrose Alley No End to the Suspicion ot" Foul Play Testimony of the Physicians Who Performed the Post Mortem xauiinatlona JSefore the Coroner's Jury I Ids Morning A Clear Case Ot buicide.

The excitement in Primrose avenue last evening among the colored population wa3 unabated, all manner of absurd rumors being in circulation as to what somebody had heard Eli Jackson say of what he feared some one would do to him but in no case could the person with whom Eli conversed be found. Still the discussion all ran in the direction of foul play, and crowds pushed and jostled each other in the narrow, dirty avenue, all eager to be heard or hear sorce some one else express an opinion on the subject. At nine o'clock this morning the Coroner's jury assembled in District Attorney Hollinger's office to hear a report of the physicians who performed the post mortem examination. Dr. Hartman was sworn and testified to having made a general inspection of the body after it had been removed fmni the ice box and placed on the dissecting board.

The neck bore slight marks of the rope, but no bones were broken. After removing the scalp a clot of blood was discovered on it3 under surface, corresponding with the locality on the upper surface; the wound on the head was a mere indentation no bone fracture no abnormal swelling, iand evidently a post mortem wound an njury sus taincd alter death. The right side of the heart was filled with blood, und the lungs were empty, showing that he died from suffocation. If he had not died from suffocation the heart would have been empty no blood whatever would have been in the heart. He was frothing at the nose and mouth when I first saw the body alter it naa ucen cut uown; no nau inaue an attempt to vomit; the eyes bulged and the pupils were dilated.

Dr. Orth, sworn and testified, in the main agreeing with the facts as presented by Dr. Bartman. The condition of the heart showed that death had resulted from sufio cation. Had made the post mortem exami nation in connection with Dr.

in a careful examination of the wound on the head, the condition of the scalp and indentation decided it to be a post mortem injury. Dr. Orlh then described the effect of suffocation on the blood vessels leading to the heart, as well as that produced by a sudden, violent termination of the functions of these organs, the result of which was clearly to show that in this case death had been produced by suflocation, and that the wound on the head had been inflicted in some manner, which he was not prepared to say how, after death. Ralph Williams was recalled. When he cut the body of Jackson down it full on one of the steps, producing the sound that was heard up stairs.

From the manner in which the body lurched as it fell was certain that the forehead struck the step. District Attorney Hollinger conducted the examination of the witnesses. After a shoit deliberation the jury found that Eli Jackson had caused his own death by strangulation. Too much credit, cannot be given to Coroner Shindler and District Attorney Hollinger for the promptness and thoroughness with which they pressed the investigation in this case, as a means of allaying the impression tint Eli Jackson had been foully dealt with, and now that all doubt as to his suicide has been removed, the public ought and will be satisQed. Unpaid Employees.

The employees of the Water Department of the city have not yet been paid their December wages. There is no money in the City Treasury and the appropriation for that department has been exhausted. As a consequence no orders for pay cm be issued, and tho Water Committee of Councils is in a quandary as to what shall bo done. The only hope is to pay the wages out of the appropriation for 18S0, but tho collectors have not returned any money for this year. The committee on water exceeded its appropriation for last year by $3,000 in useless expenditures, and but for that the men would not be deprived of their wages.

Prnycr for College) To morrow being the day of prayer lor there will be service in the Pino Street Presbyterian church in tho morning at eleven o'clock and in the evening at half past seven. These meetings will be addressed by Rev. Dr. Norcro.su. of Carlisle, and J.

II. Shoemaker, Ph. of Cham bcrsburg. These services arc held in connection with the visit of the committee of the Presbytery of Carlisle to this church. Dr.

Norcross will also preach on Friday evening at half past seven. HARRISBURG, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28. 1880. THIRD EDITION. A MURDER BY FOOTPADS.

A CITIZEN OF KVOXA, DOWN, LATE MKWS. N. SHOT And the Body Robbed Officers on the Trail of the Murderers To day's Proceedings of Congress Death of a Proprietor of the Boston TravellerA Postcfficfl Burglarized MURDEROUS DOINGS OF FOOTPADS. Elizabeth, N. Jan.

28. Joseph Wolf, aged cineteen, was shot down and robbed last night in going along the street at Evona. Tbe murderer escaped, but several suspected persons have been arrested. 40TH COKGKt S3 REGULAR SESSION. House.

The following bills were passed by the House this morning: Granting a pension to the widow of Lieutenant Hiram II. Benner; giving the consent of Congress to an agreement entered into Ly the States of New York and Vermont inspecting the boundaries between those States appropriating $4,100 for the erection of a monument to Gen. Herkimer. The Housa then proceeded to call committees for reports. BIAJ.

MORROWS OPERATIONS IN NEW MEXICO. Washington, Jan. 23. A telegram dated Sata Fe, January 23, announces that Major Morrow, who is" pursuing Victoria's band of Apaches, was forced to go into Ojo Caliente from the San Mateo Mountains for rations The command had been in the mountains without rations for two days, and was fighting daily. In the last two daj's' fight Major Morrow captured one hundred horses and mules.

The Indians abandoned large quantities of property stolen in Mexico bolts of calico, cotton, cloths, Major Morrow is reported as having punished the Indians severely. It is thought, judging from the number, that the band is composed of all the Indians who have been living in Mexico. The mountains are spoken of as being very rough, with scarcely any morass. The loss of the troops occasioned by horses becoming disabled has proven to be quite severe. Gen.

Sherman has not received any official information regarding the alleged killing of Chief Victoria. He says, however, that he has no doubt that it is a fact. DEATH. OF A UOSTON JOURNALIST. Bostoh, Jan.

28. William H. Brewster, ono of the proprietors of the Boston Traveller, died at Newberry port, last night. He had been in ill health for some time. GOV.

VAN ANDT 'S Providence, R. Jan. 28. The General Assembly opened its adjourned January session in this city yesterday morning. Governor Van Zandt delivered the annual message, showing a satisfactory condition of the affairs of the State.

The receipts of the General Treasury for 1879 were 970, 072; payments, $703,211, and the bonded debt, less sinking fund, is $1,833,462. The Governor recommends tho extension to women of the right to vote on school questions. The Governor recommends a pro hibitory instead of the present liquor law; the abolition of the tribal authority of the Narragansett Indians; a modification of the insolvent laws and the enactment of a law creating the office of fire marshal in cities and the larger towns. POSTOFFICE HUBGLAUIZLO. N.

Jan. 23. The post office at this place was broken into and robbed last night, but to what extent has not yet been ascertained. ANOTHER AMERICAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Washington, Jan.

28. Preliminary arrangements have been made for a new American Arctic expedition, under the direction of Dr. Emil Bessels, late chief of the scientific staff of the Polaris. The expedition, which is to be fitted out by private cnterpris, will sail for tho north next year, via Jones' sound, where Dr. Bessels intends to establish a meteorological station to co operate with those of the International Congress.

At this station a yacht will be left to maintain communications, while the principal ship of thecxpedition a powerful steamer will explore the unknown regions to the northward and westward. A POLICE OFFICERS SUICIDE. Norfolk, Jan. 23. Chielt of Police Benson committed suicide this morning by shooting himself.

Interesting Items by Jlfait ami Telegraph from Ml A dispatch from St. Louis sa3's the tide of negro emigration from the South has set in again. About a hundred arrived there on the steamer Scudder on Sunday, and left for Kansas. As many more came by the steamer John B. Maude Monday night." All have some money, and are chiefly from East Baton Rouge, Washington county and Grenada, Miss.

They say there are hordes to come. Numbers are waiting on the bank of the river for transportation as thick as rice birds. A colored man, acting as agent, has sent to the relief committee a list of nine hundred families who, he says, wish to come North. Mrs. Williams, wifeef James Williams, a laborer, was found dead in New York yesterday morning, under suspicious cir cumstances, in her dwelling on the top floor of a tenement house on First avenue.

Her husband is under arrest. He was found in a beastly state of intoxication in the room with the dead body of his wife. Blood was spattered around the body of the deceased, and also on the walls. Gov. Simpson, of South Carolina, issued a proclamation yesterday convening the Legislature in extra session on February 10, to remedy blunders in the Supply act, declared invalid by the State Supreme Court, Efforts will be made to extricate unfinished business from the chaotic condition in which it was left at the close of the regular session.

Special pressure will be employed to force a Rcfristration bill through. The New York Central Committee held a meeting in Albany yesterday, with closed doors. It is reported that petitions from the Irving Hall organization and from Nelson J. Waterbury were presented, asking the substitution of certain names for members of the committee, and that the requests were granted. Last night Alva Cork and Wash.

Holmes engaged in an altercation at a temperance meeting in Vorhcc's school house, ten miles from Covington, and Cork shot Holmes in the abdomen, mtlicting a fatal wound. Both men had been drinking. Yesterday the Catholic clergy of Cincinnati held a meeting and determined to fight the application for the sale of the church property to pay the debts ot Archbishop Purccll. A committee was appointed to assess and collect from tho different churches funds sufficient to pay the legal expenses. One hundred and twenty five night weavers at Riverside mill, Olneyville, R.

struck for an increase ot wages Monday night. Some of them were paid off yestcr day. Probably the others' will resume work soon. There is no disorder. The mill employs eleven hundred operatives.

The new 6teamship Louisiana, of the Cromwell line, from New York for New Orleans, grounded on Monday morning, off a small island twenty miles north of Pass a Loutre, La. Tugs have gone to her assistance. It is believed she will be gotten off. Yesterday Charles Ponder, a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, committed suicide by hanging four miles west of New Albany, Indiana. The cause of his suicide was insanity, brought on by religious excitement in relation to santifica tion.

It is stated that wight B. Steere, now serving a life sentence in Connecticut prison for killing Fred. White, at New London, in 1873, was also the murderer of Joseph Wood, in Oxford, eight years ago, and that he confessed it when he expected to be hung. J. G.

Baugh, the Richmond, letter carrier, was yesterday convicted of steal in a letter from the mail in November last, with a recommendation to mercy. He was held to bail for his appearance on Thursday to receive his sentence. George Ransom, while cleaning a pistol yesterday afternoon at Weytunk, N. accidentally discharged a chamber, the bullet piercing the brain of his seven year old son, killing him instantly. The trial of Henry Moett for the murder of his wife and Abel and Jacob Proper, at Taghkanick, New York, last September, was commenced on Monday at Hudson before Justice Osborn.

A jury was obtained yesterday. A duel between Majors Burke and Ilearsey, two journalists, was fought yesterday afternoon on Metairie Ridjre, near New Orleans, with pistols, distance ten paces. After firing two rounds each friends interposed and the difficulty was amicably adjusted. The New York Court of Appeals yesterday at Albany rendered a decision in favor of Police Commissioner Nichols vs. the Mayor of New York.

Pierce M'llenry, a butcher of Brooklyn, was arrested on Monday night for the murder of his wife, she having died at the hospital from the effects of wounds inflicted by her husband. Seven illicit distilleries were destroyed and fifteen moonshiners captured in Tennessee last week. DEATH PIT SAKAil IETKOW. Additional Facts and Circumstances Connected with the Death of Sarah Fctrow. A reliable correspondent writing from New Lisburn, Cumberland county, in relation to the death of Sarah Fetrow, gives additional facts which greatly extenuate the course of the physician in attendance, and relieves him of much unfair comment heretofore made on his action.

It appears that on last Sunday, between 3 and 4 o'clock p. Sarah Fetrow and her sister repaired to the office of Dr. J. W. Trimmer, who is a physician and not a dentist.

She was suffering from toothache and wanted a number of teeth extracted. Dr. Trimmer first made a thorough examination of Miss Fetrow, but found no traces of heart disease. At the request of Sarah and acquiescence ot her sister, the doctor administered one dose of chloroform. Mrs.

Greenfield is the name of the sister. Four teeth were extracted. After the fourth tooth had been taken out Miss Fctrow suddenly sprang from the chair and ran into the parlor, adjoining the operating room. Dr. Trimmer and Mrs.

Greenfield immediately followed the girl, and the doctor at once discovered that she was dying, death ensuing in a few minutes. The father of the dead girl says she had been subject to heart disease several years ago. Mr. Fctrow lays no charge to the doctor, and believes his course in the case was proper, and that he did all in his power to save the unfortunate girl. It is the opinion of the Fctrow family that Sarah died from fright.

We repeat, that it is due Dr. Trimmer should have the public benefit of these facts. WOMEN'S CURIST1AN ASiO CIATION. A Want Supplied and the Needy Relieved. In many households in this city the labor of making home comfortable would be materially lightened by having outside assistance lor an hour or two during the day, when longer service would not be needed.

If 6uch persons will call at the house of the Women's Christian Association, 400 Market street, they can be directed where to find several women anxious to work in that way for the compensation of ten cents per hour and thus a mut ual benefit be received. No'chargc is made by the Association for giving information where labor of this kind can be obtained, but from all persons who secure help for tho week through their employment office, the payment of ono dollar per year, or twenty five ccnt3 for each person engaged, is required. onituAitr. Mrs. Sarah Iluchler.

Mrs. Buchler, who died this morning, had been in declining health for more than a year, with a disease of a complicated character. She was born in Ilarrisburg, June 10, 1810, the daughter of Samuel Hoover. In 1835, she married Charles Buehler in Philadelphia, and lived there until 1837, when Mr. Buehler removed to Ilarrisburg, where he has since resided.

Dcscascd was a member of the Lutheran church from her confirmation in early youth to the day of her death. Her life was that of a faithful wife and mother an humble Christian, delighting in good works and benefits to all around her. Their Work Finished. County Auditors finished their arduous duties yesterday, and their report will soon be set before the public It will show a gratifying exhibit of the management ot the county's finances, and it will be seen that, compared with former years, there is a larger balance in the county treasury, with less taxation and, of course, less outstanding taxes. There is much to commend in this, as it shows that level headed men are in charge of the county's interests.

FINANCIAL ANI COAIJIIERCIA 1'niLADELviiiA. Jan. 2S. Stock are firm: Pennsylvania sixes third issue, loo bid; Philadelphia and Krio. 1 Heading railroad, 34'; Pennsylvania railroad, 52 Leuigli Valley railroad, United Companies of Now Jersey, 13j Northern Pachlo common, $4i Northern Pncillo preferred, 5i: Northern Central, Lehigh Navigation, s7yg: Norris town, Cen I nil Transportation.

4ftJ bid; Pittsburg, Tltusvlllo and Buffalo, lbys Little Schuylkill, 51 Nkw Yokk, Jan.S. Stocks arc strong; money. fifi; ew ioik Central and Hudson River Uailroad, 1314; Krio Railroad, 47i Adams Kxpress. lOVJi; Michigm Central UI Lake Shore. 103: Illinois Central, 103; Cleveland and Ptlt sburg, Kock Island, Pittsburg and fort Wuvno, li: Western Union, loaji; Toledo and WabaaU A'ew Jersey Central, 81.

Philadelphia, Jan. Flour ia firmly held; su pel tine, 50(5 00; extra, SI 75 Ohio and ludinna tamilv. $1 25; Pennsylvania family, $'J feu Ixuis family, $7 00j)7 Minnesota family. $t) 75 patent and hlh ciades, 7 J5fiiS 25. Wheat is dull; No.

a Western red, $1 41 Pennsylvania red, $1 41; amber, $1 41. Corn is dull hut llrmer; steamer, 65c yellow, 55c mixed, 65c. Oats are dull; Southern and Pennsylvania white, Western 47lHc; Western mixed, Hyo la dull; Western, provisions are pork, 5U; beet Hums, flti mii iikiih mesa Uer, lineoii binoKeasnoumera, I. .1.. i i al a.

I I 1i 1 inokedshoutdera, Rl5 finoked lUkilb'Z Bill! 1 ii. lianis. pickled Lard kettle, Innim itiit iiKti' 7' mi inn Htmm. 7'i he; loose imtcaets', llc; prime steam, 7Ja ltitter is dull creamery extras, 32ft3io: 15 rad io rd County and Mew York extras, Wt stern Reserve extras, 23JJ25c: do good to choices rolls are dull Pennsylvania extra. Western are quiet I'ennaylvanin, 104ii7c: West ern.

Cheese ia firm; New York tac "tory, Western lull cream, 14 uUc; do lor il, 13llc Petroleum la dull and steady rcllucd, tc Whisky, $1 10. A NUMBER 95. FOURTH EDITIO AT THEIR LAST GASP. T11K MAINE USIONISTS MOKE. HS OSCE.

They Hold a Secret Session No Easiaes Transicttd The Fusion Members 'Will Go Into tie Republican Legislature The Greenback Organ Gives It Up Gracefully ADO UT THE LAST OF IT. Tbe I unionist Members IlMt Once What They Will Do. More Augusta, Jan. 23. The Fusion Legislature met this morning in Union nail.

No business was transacted ia the House. That body took a recess until four o'clock. All persons, including the reporters, are' excluded. In the Senate Mr. Gibbs moved that all newspaper reporters be excluded.

The general expression of opinion on the part of the Fusion members is to go into the body at the State House. Probably they will meet for the last time to morrow, as that will be the day set for them to be all together, when they will dissolve siac Cie. The Greenbackers Submit to the Inevittble. Portland, Jan. 28 The Xeva Em, the leading Greenback organ, submits to the decision of the Supreme Court, and appeals to the people.

It also calls upon the Press to publish the declaration of piinci ples of the "Brick Pomeroy Leagues," thus admitting their connection with them. Proceedings of tho Legislature. Augusta, Jan. 28. In the Senate the Committee on Judiciary was instructed to inquire as to amending the Constitution by abolishing the Council, providing for the election of an auditor and constituting the heads of departments the advisors of the Governor.

In the House Messrs. Hill, of Corinth, and Millikcn, of Burnhsm, Fusionists, appeared and took seats. BEHEADED ON THE RAILROAD. Provieexce, R. Jan.

28. A man named Haggerty was beheaded on the Worcester railroad last night, probably by a freight train. He had been in the Woon socket police station for drunkenness, but had been discharged when thought to be sober enough td get home. He reached Blackstone, and probably became again intoxicated. THE STRANDED STKASISHIP OF LOUISIANA.

New Orleans, Jan. 23. A dispatch from Captain Gower, of the stranded steam Bhip Louisiana, says he has thrown overboard two hundred and fifty tons of cargo to lighten the ship. Lighters can be used only in calm weather. The propeller is broken.

The passengers have been sent to Port Eads. The ship will be saved. A YOUNG CLERK SHOT DEAD. Stracuse, N. Jan.

2S. At noon today Elias Gebhardt, sixteen years of age, a clerk in a hardware store, was accidental! shot an! instantly killed by a customer to whom he was selling a pistol. In the excitement the customer, who gave his name as Costello, from Wayne county, uisap peared. The revolver, which was thought to be unloaded, contained three charges. AN AGED LADY BDUSED TO DEATH.

Halifax, N. Jan. 28. Mrs. Joseph Epholen, a widow aged seventy eight years, was burned to death yesterday while alone in her house at Little KaTcn, Yarmouth county.

It is supposed that her clothing became ignited while she was attempting to light a fire. SUPPOSED CASK OF sUItlDP. Halifax, Jan. 23. County Counsellor Donovan, of Ingonish, Victoria county, C.

who has been missing for ten days, was found dead in the woods near iddock. lie is supposed to have committed suicide while insane. NEW JERSEr'S REPRESENTATION AT CU1UAUU. Newark. N.

Jan. 28. The State Committee has called the Repub lican convention to meet at Trenton 3Lay 6th to convention. LET LOSUOS KEJOICK. Loxdox, Jan.

28. The Taris on elect delegates to the Chicago corrcs pondent of tho Times states that the manager of the theatre Fraucaise has refused permission to M. Coquelin and Sarah Bernhardt to play in London during the coming summer. Q. A.

K. AT UKAUING. Reading, Jan. 23. The Grand Army of the Republic met at the Opera House here to day.

Three hundred and fifty delegates are present. The encampment is held with closed doors. A POINT ULANK CONTKAIJICIIOX Wheeling, W.Va., Jan. 23. There is no truth in special reports sent hence about fires and fire bugs.

Personal We regret to learn that Mrs. John J. Ilargcst is seriously ilL Cashier Walters says the State Treasurer's report will be out next week. Gov. lloyt, Adjutant General Latta and Secretary Dunkel are in attendance at the Grand Army meeting in Reading.

Mr. GaniewelL the inventor of the fire alarm apparatus, is expected in Ilarrisburg to morrow to see how his invention is working here. Mr. John Till, why has been confined to his house for was compelled to take his bed the other day, but we are glad to learn is improved to day. Mr.

Till is seventy five years old, but although prostrated for a long time with illness his brain is clear and his wonderful. memory of past events is ISlshop l'eclt Coming. Bishop Jesse T. Peck, who will preside at the Central Pennsylvania E. Conference at Altoona, beginning on the 10th of March, has arranged to spend Sabbath, the 29th of February, in this city, lie will fill the pulpit of the Ridge Avenue church at a Union service between that church and the Fifth street church at x.

and the pulpit of the St. Paul's II. 11 church at 7 p. m. Bishop Peck is one of the great preachers of the church, and a grand intellectual and spiritual feast may be Attention, City Grajs Cadet.

The Cadets will meet in the armory this evening at seven o'clock for drill, after which a inectiug will be held, a committee on uniforms will be appointed, president elected and other business of importance transacted. It is requested that every member be present..