The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • 1

b-0---- I a I Aa0 0 7 NAsIIVILLE TEN THUItSDAY MORNING DECHmumu Imt44 WHOLE NEL fL( Viol it fit an 4 trittan 0 kjfr 11111 4k '14 0 0 4 4 '2 i 1 Vi)14 NASTIVILLE TENN TERMSDAY 51()ILNINO )ECEm mcit 5mm4 WHOLE NIL B( 9 4 1 1 THE SPRIAO RACES WASHINGTON FORKINN FIRES I THE SPRING RACES WASHINGTON FORKINN FIRES up with dynamite The wheel and table 'WPM shattered but the gamblers stood guard over ihe reatmre No plunder aim obtaintd by the dsnawiters up with dynamite The wheel and table 'II shattered but the gamblers stood guard over Ilia reimira No nt tinder A Faris on the Leiden Bridge Jul) Both Houses Adjourn Until the Fifth of January kindly and agreeable as many well-wisher' could denim Mrs Clark principal of the college accompanied by most of the members of her faculty and a few of the boarding pupils leave to morrow for the World's Expoellion at New Orleans They will cat course and profit by this pleasant but brief vacation kindly and sgreeable as many well withers conk! denim Mrs Clark principal of the col Rich Stake' effrtd et the St Louie led LiiiiII Meetiegs thriy per waii below those of 1883 Coneerning the general iron business in their respective cities nearly ell report it dull er upon reduced time durtng the year As to the outlook there is a gratifying nukhority on the favorable Octet Only ten think the prcapect bad fourleen are undecided but hopeful for the beet and thirtyone thing the business situation is promiviog some believing the upturn has already begun and none putting it further oft than April illirtY per tient below those of 1883 Conoerning the general iron business in their respective cities nearly all report Destruction of the Masonic 'row pie in Cincinnati i Serious Loss to the stealth lie la Yalu- able Scenery 1' Terrible Siete of Affairs in Cleaning Elp--11 be Canal Women to Be Admittad to Columbia Modical College Inotig It for Ivory Boras Now in Training to start For ALAB IMA GERMANY Dec 24 William accorded to Pr-mei-Bismarck an extended audience yesterday with reference to the German colonial police BNOLAND'S ZOTPTIAN raorosam Beaux No National Gazette hays the re have tacitly agreed to regard Etiglaad's proposals remactit Egyptian finances as disposed of unless England 6101 expressly demand an an 'we' 94 WASHINGTON Dec 24 board of trustees of Columbian Universitis this city at a special matting upon the unanimous recomtueudation of the faculty of Its medical department to admit women to the study of medicine in the institution with all the privileges of instruction accorded male students 1 "nu NAVAL MILL THE NAVAL BILL NSW YOIK Dec Spirit of the Timm' Chrietutas number has the ing items of interest to the horsemen and breeders of the West: The Louis sine Jockey Club spring meeting begins )(ay 13 sad edultsues until the 23th 14 addition to the Derby Oaks and Ilk stakes already closed the Club how offers a superb lot of stakes with the conditions so drawn that it affords every horse in training a fair chance of winning tonlethIng There are six stakes for two years olds the Ladles for two year-olds 'Sates Alexander for ERINSDORT Till SOCIALIST PARIS Dvc says that Heinsdort told his fr ends during his trial at Leipsic if sentenced to death be would refuse to ask for grace He desired to manifest his principles by death and wished only that his destruction should not be delayed TES TWITTED (MNOO TERRITORY BERLIN Dec 24 Ceross Gagette says hesotistiotia beineen nailed and the association to regard to the disputed territory On the soutn bank of the Congo will shortly he resumed lhe noblerence alonrned owing to the illness of the Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs and becauee a desire of the -Powers to RiVO the Aftican Association a chance to push its negouations with the Powers which have not recognized it Negotiations will be especially pushed with France Christmas to how Orleans Special to the American MONTOonnaT Dec 24 have been etst crowds of Christmas purchasers all the week Oue mammoth dry goods establishment alone sold $23000 cash this week and other houses have done big business Montgomery continues evidently on a solid steldy upward turn Stringfellow and logrand attorneys for executors of Sullivan of Penmcola vs the Louisville Nashville Railroad revived the suit for recovery of said road at the Federal Court yesterday McKenzie Eufoula wholmale lignors have sold out 3 Springer CoatTalledega have The bwa excursionists en route for the exposition visited historical Montgomery to-day Hill mechanical and constructing engineer of the extensive Montgomery Iron Works went to the New Orleans Exposition to represent the above works Prof Hansburet of the Money Detective Department went to New Orleans to-night Ex Editor Whitehead ex-candidate for Congress from this district writes the Greenville Advocate that he will not contest Herbert's seat for want of funds Director 8 Trapp of the Railroad now with Legend Hall left for Georgia to-night On important business General MaLager Gabbett of the Weetern Railway of Alabama will pat some new boudoir cars on his limited exposition trains colts five furlongs Fairview for tillies Pb-three quarters of a mile: Runnymsde or cone a dllies tho Elmendorf for coltsand three quarters of a mile 1 Fur three-year-olds there is the Wood burn Slakes nine furionge Tobaccl I Stakes for those which have not won )11 Prior Whin 1 mile heats Fleetwood one mile and half a furlong the Moet I and in one mile and furlong For all ages Ti ere are live events Mantua one mile and half a furlong the Swigertr one mile merchants one mile and a fur long turf one mite aud a quarter Louis- 1 ville cup two miles and a quarter at 4 special weights At the sums data the 11 great American stallion stakes to be i :1 1 I I 1 l' 11 1 1 -III fill i '-'-'f' i i 1 I i 1 I I Loewe Dec 24 Paris onrrespondnt of tbe Times devotes considerable space to an account cf the preunt stets of Russia He says that Count Tolstoi Russian Minister of the Interior is chiefly engaged in tleeldiecovery and pievenbon of Nihilists No sooner is one Bociety of Nihilists suppreased than another springs up Count Tolstoi is inundated with threats of death Hs rarely attends meetings of the Council and whoever be stirs out it costa 600 roubles for extra police protection While Nihilism is snore dengerous than over the persecution of the Jees is as tierce as a few years ago when the European press boiled with indignation at the an tiPInitic outrages which dirgreced Russia The great bankers especiatly thou of German nationality wbo were previously intkresed in giviag wide publkity to the outrages with a view to prevent the investment of in Russia now in- cline to subsidize the press to preserve silence They take this coume for the purpose of preventing the impairment of European coutidence in Russia ll nuance condition which at preeen is not bright suffering from difficulty experienced in collecting revenue from persistent American competition in the grain and from the ruinous expense of the Russian advance to Merv Furthermore the protection system which Moscow manufacturers obtained Biter-pato coutpetiton has caused the Sitesians to establish a hundred factories in Bowden Poland In these tortes German oleratives are and the bilesiats thereby enabled to supply the Altiecow market with goods at prices from five to ten per cent under the prices demanded by Moscow manufacturers for precisely similar articles Despotism is increasing and the press is coerced into silence Russia is more and more ignoring liberal ideas and paving the way to a tremendous exploeion vue CRIMiNAL C011itState Moscow Dec Frenchman confesses to the murder of Sarah Brecker tbe Jowish girl for whose order a man named Mironowitch was Last week sentenced to seven year imprisonment at bard labor and a supposed accomplice named Bezak exiled 4 1 THE WEATHER ModerdAtios Im the mictrem Wrist but Saeslag Hard Ato ad Chicago SAS FRASCiECO CAL Dec eight days past teleg lc lints from lb this city were intern to some extent The greatest trolible was on the overland wires between pere and Ogden which have suffered many serious interruptions since Dec 15 The wires between here and 01den and Washington Territory were down for three days and over twenty miles of line prostrated hetWeen Yreka Cal and Portland Ore Last night all the lines were reported in working order- The rain has now continued almoat steadily for a week and is still falling It is confified chiefly to the northern abd middle sections of the State the average fall being about five inches It has done but little harm and much good The farmers butt and grape growers ate juhilant Some small disaaters are reported but 'nothing serious In the Sierras snow has fallen oontinuously for fourteen hour Owing to the snow blockade on the Northern Pacific Railway Superintendent Welder of the Railway Mail SPrvite bee ordered all the accumulated wails at Boland Or for tbe East to be sent to this city by steamer whence they will be forwarded by the Centrist Pacific route Railroad cottpunication between this city and ortland is blockaded at Redding Cal Mail tor Onion and Washington Territoty from the Lest and this city will also be gent by steamer Overland mails on the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific due here to-day will not arrive till to-morSALT LAKI CITY Dec 24 are heavy snows in the mountains and on the plains it is drifting seriously Pacific trains are deloyed six or Wren hours and Denver tit Rio Grande trains are also considerably delayed PORTLAND Oa Dec enow has ceased and snow plows '-succeeded in moving to-day Should there be no additional snowfall the blockade in the Northern Pacific will be broken Thursday afternoon CHLCAGO Dec began falling heavily at 10 o'clock to-night and at 1130 it bee increased in Jolene with every prospect favorable to a heavy downfall Trains are considerably delayed in every direction and if the snow continues to tall till morning there wilt be blockades i 1 raikrace PARIS Dec Republican Union gave their annual dinner in honor Of tbe tnettuiry of Ganibetta last night Five hundred gutsts participated! ALBAN' ROBBED PAM! NC 24 residence of the known centralto Albani at Ville D' Avaray a Parisian suburbs was robbed last night of a quantity of souvenirs of her career specially valued by the great Binger CINCINNATI 0 Dec 24--A fire started this mond gin the cellar of Mills Cos statlohary arid leeroautile print" establishment situated on Walnut stri above Third in the northwest corner Of Miami lo Temple and extended rapidly into other portions of tn temple' which is a large building fronting on Third street and extending to an alley midway between Walnut and Main The first portion of the temple to burn included the most valuable scenery organ and other property belonging to the Soottish rue frateraity and koown to be the most complete in the West It' Was largely the remit of the lifelong labort of Mr Rood) Carson who basdonated much time and study as well as rooney to making this cathedral the most complete of its kind The loss to the Masonic fraternity will be -heavy Mills Co's Eel abliehment is necresarily 4 a total loss as the water debtroys what may be left by the fire The total loss must reach about t100000 Two firemen ere severely iijured by a falling wall By 11 o'clock the fire was fully under control and wee confined to Masonic Temple and mainly to its north bait the ouilding being divided by a wide ball running from mist to west Temple is the property (It Nava teeares Lvtige of Masons and wax built at I cost of $200C00 It is insured for $12500 much more than enough to cover the losa on the building he principal item boat is that cf the Scottish rive whose property was on the third and fourth floors the portim of the building first damaged by fire Their loss is estimated at $5000tr to $76000 many works being impossible to replace werc wholly lost and uninsured it will be sincerely regretted by Mr Carson well as all Mesons who knew ita char enter and value The losses to the other lodges are not eo heavy as much prop- arty was carried out The lawyers of- floes mainly in the Third street front of the building are chiefly injored by water and smoke Mills Co in whose establishment the firs etarted cannot estimate their loss but as the printing house was separate from the others and not burned it is thought 130(00 will cover the lose on which they have insurance of $10000 The total lose to the Masonic Temple build- ing is estimated at $60400 to the Scot- tieh rite $75000 Mills Co 130- 000 others 10000 The Scottish rite has insurance of 816000 The insurance I eines and banks on Third street ye-moved their property fearing its dtS traction but escaped with wetting? The revised losses and insurance ere ii follows: Masonic Temple building 000 insured for $125000 Soottieh Rite loss $40000 insuren fir 22000 J- Mills Co loss $25 000 insurance $12- 500 All other losses $5000 Total loss $150000 aggregate insurance $159 500 BELOIT WIS Dec was die covered in the parsonage of the Catho- lictIoniety of this place today and the flames were soon communicated to the Catholic Church adjoirting Both build logs were destroyed The loss on the church building is $7 000 ineuranee $0000 The lose on the dwelling is $4000 ideurance $1000 tad dly 8 -i'-- of ich ird ray' irst led 1 Ind Joh the the WY 113' 4 4 tat or1 1711111: IOU MC itf ids res cat 00 Lbo Pal WO i hug ing 088 00 Lee rill Non aer op- of- of by in ed the 'j the ght ic he ild- cot- 30- rite nell re- -9 The amended naval appropriation bill wee received by the House from the Senate to-day but no action taken in regard to IL The current appropriations for the Navy Department expire the illet inst coNriliNATIoNe Win Pilkinton Kansas Receiver at Public Moneys at Wakenry Ks Jno Leghorn jr Colorado Register of the Land nice Del Norte Cot NIVIS AND Matson cobileirrEr The n3embers of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors who will remain here during the recessa have been authorized kr continue consideration of the appropriation bill for risers and harbors so that it may be reported to the House as soon after the realsembling of Congress as posKible It is expecte(' that tbe bill will be completed by Jan 12 and that the appropriations will amount to about li00000760 No tonaiderotton has yet been given the proposed appropriation for the Mississippi River THIGUN CONMINION The joint commiesion of Congress appointed last session to visit various cities and take testimony relative to the manufacture of steel guns for the use of the Government have not yet begun the preparation of their report A member of the House who was a member of the commission says that in all probability no report will be made At no meeting of the commission he says was a quorum present The information obtained while valuable wu not suilicient he thinks to enable the Senators and Representatives to form such an opinion as the importance of the subject demands CHINNEZ INDINNITY FOND Senator Pendleton to-day favorably reported from the Foreign Affairs Committee the bill introduced by him to repay China the remainder of the Chinese indemnity fund now in possession of the State Department In this report on tbe bill the committee say the amount paid by China was largely in emus Gt all just demands against that Government and every administration since this fact was ascertained has earnestly recommended the repayment of that excess The committee concurs in this view and says 'it believes the wisest policy on the part of this Government is to deal with transparent juice and even liberality in its intercourse with all the nations especially those of another race and civilization" 1 si 17 KNOXVILLE MA1111) Dec 24 native chiefs proclaimed Spanish sovereignty over 1500 Pqnare kilometers of land on the Gulf of Guinea opposite the island ITALY Rows Dec Italian expedition muter Capt Ceectil will girt the last of this month from Genoa for the Congo 4-7 inn at 1- autumn meeting of 1887 also closes for slog The above stakes close I Jan 1 1885 In reward to the Ketituzly Trotting 1 Horse Breeders' Association it sets: lit But little over a week intervenes before 1 the closing of tho eatries for the various vs--'14a stakes of the Horse Breeders' Associa tion Tbe time will be up Jan 1 The associauon bits re-opened four stake l-amely: exington Kentucky blues-t-grass and sudlion pr oduce stakes The first If for foals of 1883 the Kentucky stakes for foal of 1842 the blue-grass Mak for '4 yearolds and the stallion produce stakes are sweepetakes for the get of stallons which have subscribed and paid the amount of $10 The num bar of stallions will be published Feb 151snd their get foals of 1882 will he etilible toentry on or before A pril 1 1885 The Thom says the St Louis Horse Fair Department makes to be run at the spring meeting June 6 to L't will close Jan L' Th rteml stakes are now op 16 Carriage Buildert? Stekesfor two-year-old illes three-quarters of a mile Horse Traders Stakes fort two-year-old eolts three-quarters of a mile Klis Wainwright Stakes for all ages Railroad and 't' Express Stakes lot all ages Street Rail- i waySkes forthree-yesoolds tit Louis Dtrectors' Stakes for two year-olds Bt Limbo Hotel Stakes' for tbree-year 'sideAnd upwards Welter weights one mu St Luis Real Estate Agen ta'Stakes for tilt ogee one mile and three-quarters II $1000 added Bankers' and Brokers' Stakes for tbree-year-olds one mile St I Louis Fair StaltIon Stakes for two-year' olds three-quarters of a mile $2000 added Mechanics' Stakes for two-year olde three-quarters of a mile $L000 for----tdded Brew Ts' Coo two miles and a sinertor $2 000 added Iterchante Stokes for all ages mile heats $1000 added Thug $13 000 is Offered an average of $1000 for each staka In addition to theme The club also offers for 1886 the Bt Louis D-rby ($3000 addrd) the St Louis Otko ($16 0 aided) Charles Green Btakes 0 added) tilt for three-tearolds now yearlings Also the St Louis lair Stallion Stakes for two-year-olds how weanlings which' closes for stallion with all the above stakes New Day 1 Iet ItSlo A 016 Carriage titles II Traders' three-gni wriebt 81 Express 1 i -way Sisk Pat nth St Loeb 'olds and mile St tor alf eg am i $1000 I Stakes f( I Lords Ira 1 olds 1131 added olde Oro toff------added loran ag Tang $13 $1 003 f's thee the Lunia 1) Louis (11 Stakes kS olds nu" Fair Stal now wt stallio n1'ear's lb Illi 4 4 LOCI( 00D8 LAST CSRISTMAIL Cowboys Celebrating Christmas SAN-ANTONIA Tax Dec 24--Yesterday eveningtas the east-bpund patsenger train on the Southern Picific was nearing the bridge croNting Peecos Rivers numter of torpedoes exploded on the track causing the engineer to atop tbe train Six eAmboys boarded the train with drawn revolvers and compelled the conductor to stop at Langtry the next station At Langtry twenty more cowboys boarded and took posaeasion of the train They were all more or less under the infiverce of liquor and amused themselvea by shootill out all the window lights and lamps and terrorising the pasiengers generally As the train passed the small stations the cowboys would shove their heads out of the broken windows and shoot and yell A passing freight train was saluted in a similar manner Several hundred shots were fired and the roof of the ears riddled They robbed the train boy of his stock of peannta and candies but so far as known nobody was shot Judge Felon United States Dietriet Attorney Evans and Shetiff White were among the paseengers but thought it best not to make their identity known The garg Jett the train at Uvalde after riding fver sixty miles roaTT-Elon Ill CO El i 1 rt 1 I i 1 i I 1 I Two Railroad Men Bizet With a Serious at to talned Special to the Amernian KNOXVILLE Tenn Dec 24 Tom Connors and fireman Newton Phillips met with a serious accident today on the incoming freight train near Careyville on the Jellico route The cars became detached from the engine while descending a grade and were left some distance in the rear before their absence was discovered While running to secure the fiats the latter collided with the engine leaving the cars a total wreck The eogineer's leg was broken and ether injuries inflicted on his body The fireman's leg was frightfully crushed necessitating amputation The latter remains in a critical condition George Hinds who stabbed Jo Mann last Saturday remains at large Mann is still alive but cannot recover Jack Lackey an aged negro waefound frozen to death near Concord Monday night A gang of sneak thieves have been operatine quite succeestally at different points along the railroad A storehouse and livery stable at Greeneville have been bruken into and a horse and goods stolen Bob Ingersoll has been retained as counsel for the defense in the Johnson-Henry murder trial which takes place at Greeneville in February LIATTANOOGA Bloody Double Stabbing Accident on the Queen 1 Cries flooat Road Special to the AmericiuL CUATT414000A' Dec 24 double stabbing affray oocured in the city this afternoon between i countryman named Smith and John Vander-grin' Smith's son was in a saloon playing cards with Vandergril Erie lather came for hint and severely reproached him for his dissips Sion This angered Vandergriff and an altercation ensued Vandergriff drew his dirk kpiklind stabbed Smith twice in the back the blade penetrating' into the caviy at each thrust Be attempted to --escape when Smith seized him' hough weakened by the loss of blood his strength remained sufficient to draw bin knife and plunge it into his antaeonist's throat Smith is probably fatally injured The terrible accident which occurred yesterday on the Queen CrescentRoad nearliferidian was awful in its copse quencee The engine was derailed by the wire brush in front of the wheel becoming displaced and the engine turned down an embankment carrying several cars along Dick Turner the engineer was instantly killed and a number of passengers injured Ceattanoogs begins the new year in splendid financial condition All the Boating debt is well nigh paid the interest and sinking fund is provided forand this year's eontracts for water tram etc are liquidatedTeaving about $30000 in the treasury' How Use Starving Gyve: 4Party Saved Their Scanty Battens tot Ono Grand 4 bait Wica Dee 24 he National Republican will print toporrow ex tracts from the diary of lent Lockwood of the Greely Motto Colony describing the manner 14 which the starving party spent get Christens at Cape Sahttlf in Region Lieut Lockwood 'kept a diary in shorthand which hos been transcribed by a member of his family and he appears to have made a full record of everything of importance which happened in the daily life of the party The extracta which the Republican will print relate bow as Christmas drew near the officers and men jtined in talk of home- and planned grand feasts for the time when they should reach the civilized world and bow they made preparations for the feast on the approaching-CW1gram by setting apart small portions of their daily 1ations On Dee 21 Lockwood writes: "By at effort I was to save one ounce of my bread and about two ounces of butter for Christman I shall make a vigorous effort to abstain from eating it before then" Be adds that he put it in charge of Binderbeck as an additional ado On Deo 22 he writes: "We look forward to to-morrow and Christmas" and "I offered to give any one a roast turkey on reaching home for a single dog biscuit now but fauna no takers" He says on the next day "I saved nearly all toy bard bread for Christmas though I need it sorely" and that to make the Christmas dinner grander he made a tremendous efftirt and went without his rum in order to have it for Christmas to add to the punch On Christmes eve be added to his Scanty savings for the next day's feast half his bread and his piece of lemon and he wrote it in his book WASHINGTOI Dec 21--Afterdisposing of the morning business the Senate went into executive session and when the Anon were reopened the Chair announced his signature to the concurrent resolution providing for a holiday recess Adjourned until Jan 5 Rousts About 'fifty members were present when the bpeaker called the House to order Mr Randall called up the adjournment resolution and moved concurrence in the Senate amendmens which pro vides that the recess shall begin to-dav (Wednesday) and Dust until Jan 5 1886 Agreed to fat ifigtaker announced the following committee Elections Smith of Iowa Military Affairs Connelly Public Lands Campbell of Ohio Territories Hill Educe tion and Lebor O'Farrell Pension Laws Garrison Expenditures for the Treatirtry Department Wallace Printing Bretton Pensions Bounty and Back Pay Wallace Alcoholic Liquor Traffic EagUsh Adjourned till Jan 5 An a31-AlOr'll Libel bait IentemApoLia Iwo Dec 21--lievt Dennis O'Donovan ex pastor of the Catholic urch at Brownsburg Hendrmks County has brought suit against Felber Herman Alderirg of this city fur $50000 for libel O'Donovan was removed from charge of the church at Etrowneburg by the iliabopt and holmquently Aldering published a history of tt Catholic Church of the diocese of Vincennes in which was printed tbe following regarding the Brownsburg church: "Rev Dennis O'Donovan came next and remained in spite of the Bishop to the great scandal of the Catholics" This statement is the basis of the suit 1 1 CRS MMUS ZJq THE MAIM Jon? Butcher Vt with Each Other to Make Their Merchandise Attractive postal Features A stranger woo visited the Nashville market yesterday renoarked that be did lot know that it waS possible to dress beef and mutton and the vegetables in such artistic and attractive shapeAil pointed out the fact that every advantage was taken which could be obiained with colored paper and the many tricks known to the trade to make the ordthary and prosaic thing ap- pear beautiful The reporter noticed what he at fInst supposed to be a bpauti- ful bench of fluwers Upon asking whether they were hot-house plants the marketman who bad them on his showed how he bad cut them out of beets cabbages turnips and even The reporter believed what the marketman said when tbe rare bouquet was plaoed under his nose and he got a sniff at what Le supposed to be a tube rose but was really a young Bermuda onion The old lady who aells "soup pieces" bad a gooets dressed up in a coat and leg Rings while the shift neck ot the bird looked like a May pole there were- so many ribbons plaited around it The necks blacks and lege of the sheep were dressed with frills and rosettes of paper and ribbon as were the quarters and ch4ice cuts of the beef The fruit was piled in the mod at- tractive shapes and the oranges in many instances dressed with leaves from the tree Many Gf the butchers made presents of choice cuts p'gv turkeys etc to their patrons whore names were neatly writ ten on Christmas cards and attached to the gibs The sales were largo and the prices realized were MAIM) ly od and Abet -4 veal th reason that toe market men i were jolly ad van tag Lined wliii cks known he most lug ap- a noticed a a beauti- )n asking )Ianta the 3 his stall It of beets ions The iarketman aa plaeed iffat what but 'WU 1 tp pieces" st and leg- the bird It WIN 10 the sheep mattes of a quarters most at- 8 in many from the 0 rreeents of to their itly writ tached to be prima and that arket men SHARON'd BRIDE Released on Bad CHICAGO Dec '2 4 hearing of the application for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Gallagher who was indicted for forgery committed in Phil delphia and also wanted here for supposed complicity in the Eighteenth Ward election frauds has beenpostponed till next Tuesday Gillagher Teing released on bail in MI 00 A motion to quash the indictments against the other par ties indicttd for the Eighteenth ward crime was beard by Judge Blongett in the Federal Court to-day and taken under advisement l' fs I 7 I' 4 1 1 1 CANADA TORONTO ONT Dec 24 last wittier and spring' number of incendiary fires occurred in Ge rgetown and vicinity the sufferers be ng chiefly cers charged with executieg the provisions of the Scott temperance act lugpicion pointed to a notorious character Francis Sidey belonging to Syracuse Ir who confided to another party that be bad done the work at the thengetion of liquor dealers Sidey believing himself unsafe went to the States The Government detective got information of His return last week and suet eded in arreeting him yesterday at Lindeay He took him to Oakville to-day where he was Mulcted He is wanted at Cobourg and other places Should he turn Queen's evidence as expected there will be sensation ZNDLAND LONDON Dec dispatch from Roue to the Excbange Telegraph Company says that gland has secured It ly's adhesion to her Egyptian policy in return for the support of Great Britain italv's scheme for coloolzing on the Red Bea REPRESSING OUTSIDE likOKette LONDON Dee 24 mbers of the Govg Commitite of the Stock Excnange coalesced in the attempt to repress outside brokerage agencies by refusing to supply tape prices except to members of the Exchange to banks and respectable 00oeompetitnra Thie step bee been taken becouse outsiders were getting a large share of the jobber's' blueness DYNAMITEH inxitavizwert LONDON Dec 24 James' Gazette prima an interview held in Perim with a dynamiter The dynamiter said toe headquarters of the copapirators wee Paris out the fu da came from America The explosion at London bridge was arranged at Paris three ennui htsgo by a man now in America Two men were sent from London to execute the plot September but delay occurred They returoed to Paris af Ler the exploaion and are now there 4 DISTRESS AT SHIPPING PORTS LONDON Dec 24 dietrees at Glasgow Liverpool and other ports attracted the attention of the Queen who desires open a subbed piton for the relief of the sufferers and has asked the Government for information on the subject It is reported that Gladstone I unwilling to admit the existence of distrets end opposea the Queen's proposition PRIIICE ALPERT LONDON Den 24 Prince Albert will join the grenadiers at Ike clone of hie studies in the university 7 be Prince of Wales has requested that no distinction he made between the duties of Albert and other officers 'ANNEXATIONS IN AFRICA' Loitenit Dec 24 German and Freech 131 merriment are discussing the form of the declaration of litniis of the feinre annex4tions in Africa An agreement here guarantees the success of the Coygo CoGference The recent inetructiou to the gunhoat Gonhawak dude raising the Britith fag at the Bay St Lucia and on the Coa81 of Amatongs By this means the entire country south of Delagoa Bay will be placed under British protection This action is naafi in consequence of the rumors of German designs to annex A natonga and open a route to the Transvaal weiw Canto Dec L-Gen Buller with lsty four whale boa's has arrived at gorti The Mudir of telegraphs that a Bedouin has arrived at Dagola from Out erman the headquarters of the Mandrs forces near Khartoum He was atteel) days in making the rarney He has beets a prisoner at with the Mahcirs uncle-- The man was sent with -a letter from the Mandi to the Mabdi's Amear at Berber The letter suited that at the request of the Alum In view of the English advance the Mandi had despatched seven corps to ther Kbaamil Mons whom Gen Gordon sent to Shandy has returned to Khartoum with the troops and boat PANAMA 4 PANAMA Dee' 24 le-putting itself in order almost for the first time to it existence the streets being cleaned and bygenia measurea adopted which should have been done long ago The health of the city fairly good The dry season has just On in SOO fevers are Oro along the line of the Canal wnrk No yellow trsr has been reported due the pest ten days An attempt has been made to plunder a roulette table In a saloon by blowing it 0 10114 awn me cione long vo raa health of the city fairly good The dry season has Just in anti fevers ars rt inus the line sne of the canal wurk 1141tebilecIpasw trilveenr lidaslysb711 rePlIrt'wI (tar'' An attempt has been made to plunder I rouletm table in a saloon by blowing it BRIEF TELEGRAMS Glove fighting is to be stopped in Hiss Hill Wins Her Divorce Suit Hach to the Surprise SAN Fatima' Dec celebrated Simeon divorce suit has been de cided in favor of the plaintifE The suit as brought by the plaintiff Miss Sarah although still clalining to-be the wife of ex-Senator Sharon was for divorce and division of the common property Judge Sullivan's decision is very comprehensive containing 26000 words After reviewing the teytimony he concludes that under the laws of Colorado the plaintiff is the legal wife of Sharon and as snob entitled to divorce on the ground of willful desertion and division of the common -property The latter is ystima'ed to be worth $10C00 000 The verdict Is a great surprise to the public it having barn generally supposed from the contradictory character of the testi mony that the plaintiff would have been non-suited It is believed that Sharon will appeal- if Ramey leading counsel for ex Senator Sharon in the Sharon divorce case says of Judge Sullivan's decision: "It is an entire surprise to the profesaion both ea to the law ind the facts The judgmentif it 'tends- will not be a serious pecuniary' injury to Sharon I don't think he bee $10000 wimth of property which could be made subject to the decision Mr Sharon is greatly annoyed by the present decision but haa not the slightest ides of submission and of course will appeal and we are confident of reversing the decision The suit brought by Sharon in the United States Circuit Court to have the marriage contract declared Invalid will be prosecutscl" Plaintiff's counsel In the Sharon divorce case will make application for counsel lees and 65000 a month alimony for fourteen months since the beginning of the case CLARKSVILLE -A Mysterious Double neraesinatios- The Enrrows and Dr Befierey eft for Naekrille ip i SPerial Su the American Jp CLARISTILLI Dro 24--Jacob 'Torten a worthy young mats living with Mrs Steger near Longview Christian County Ky and 'young Mr Adcock visitiog the familx were brutally assassinated lett night at 7 o'clock Torten was sitting by pi lamp 'reading when the atingain )4 tired throbgh the window the ball entering the right side and passing through his boiy lodged in the skin on Ithe left side the victim telling instantly ead Adoock sprang from his seat in ----4 time to receive the second shot the hall unterieg abovit the right nipple and lodg- log under his shoulder-blade making a glengemus wound The assiasin escaped andetec-ed leaving no clue to his Wen tit The bullet taken from Torian's fiddicated that it is front a Smith it W051011 Moroi Sheriff Collier antt deputies left lest night by steamer in charge of the Mor '5 mw primers and Dr Bellamy for Nash villa where the prisoners will await the decision of the Elapreme Court Big Morrow who received the death seri- oil with so much indifference broke wn crying Irks a child on leaving 4 if i i a an emic" The' Watilmontat troves Iteging Irma a balediteeent Inetweeee-Te New Orleans 4' Soestal to the intentifin 7R4NtL it Tags Dec mattrilet rimonial fever still rages hereabouts i 'without symptoms of abating' The -number of cases throughout the county A Das largely increased in the last few i'''''''' --day in that it in very difficult to keep 'op with them Many others are apfroaching the last stages it is said and will so doubt succumb before New Year's Among the more prominent that occur to mind just now are that's of Mr John A Itttcliffe and Miss Ma' tie pliteliy whose nuptials were eilebrated this afternoon at4 o'clock at New Hope det -Church seven fillies south of town on 1 the Lewisburg turnpike in the presence i of a house lull of their trends The solemn rites were administered by the it Rev Dr Cayce in his mull grace Jul and imprreive style Hek is a gener al favorite with those couple who have the fever Mr Ratcliffe and his bride received the congratulations of the large circle of kindred and friends at the bride's father's home in the neighbor howl and they stoat on life's journey Inih bnght auspice Among Ilia at lendante was the groom's brother Mr Ratcliffe formerly of your ity but now a well-known business man el Louis MG ()apt Theodore I tenter prominent member of the and Waverly harm took unto himself a helpmeet this vetting at 6 o'clr cc in the person of Miss Maggie Braoley of this county The ceremony took pnice at the none of her kinsman Mr: Emilie in flonth Nesh -wills and the loopy pair 1ft at 7:30 for their home in Waverly This is the see and time this gollent Missourian has ittirrendered vo our Williameon county fair ones and all who know the lest one predict that his captivity will prove as The cevemonY togle 'Pelmet the home of her kinsman Mr: Evaits in flonth NPsh- villa and the barmy pair 1ft at 7:30 for their home in Waverly This is ibe see- gig on anti all whn know tne last one 1t imonfred tindmpendthitos oortrilowntilitimasoloottrio aconunhtuy predict that his captisiv wia prove its A Ilya te II sok ir i CLARII a wort SIcteygiewr family night by a 4 fired 11 tering throng a let $dead --'---1 time ic ow- antorir log ual eisager tindete tit 11 Wean? Sheri night I 5 TOW pri villa 11 elecielo i Morro' es a wn I 4 lix II baled Jo I r7 i 1 1 i 1 I i I 1 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 1 1 1: 4 Grievanoos of tito gostootors BT Lanni Mo Dec grievance Committee of the Brotherhood of Low-motive Engineers who have been in secret session here several days have waited upon Col Rolle Third Vice President of the Gould esteem to know the intentions of the road in regard to reducing wages It is understood the Gould system wishes paseenger train engineers to lav offceriain trips and permit freight engineers to talte their places so that the latter whose Ilay has fallen off 000akklubly tiodet the depteeeiee 1st business miy earn better wages The suggestion -has eaueed-trouble Chief Engineer Arthur will arrive here tonight from Cleveland hi presence being Recovery to solve the ditilculty railroad authorities say there will be no strike but the enteneers say one is very probable as they claim that their wages are to be reduced Jan 14 BlEmPHIS Special to the American MRIPBIII Dec steam cotton gig of Frank nanners on the comer of Seednd and Keel streets in Chelsea buratd thid afternoon- together with several loads of loose cotton The Joel 1 is about $3500 insuranoe $1800 The I cause of the fire la unknown In the Circuit Court of Shelby County' today Ida Wells a colored school teacher was awarded $500 damages against the Chesapeake 0nio South western Railroad for having been eject from a coach which was reserved exclusively for white pastiengers This was a' civil rights case although not under the federal well rights bill The se developed were that the plaintiff in Sept 1883 took passage from Memphie for Woodsuck Tenn She was provided with a first class ticket and was seated the rear coach the one set aside exclusively for whits passengers When the train reached the lint station north of Memphis the conductor tried to make her go in the forward roach in which several passenger! both white and colored were smoking The plaintiff refused to Ito and was ejected fmm the coach She brought snit for $5000 but was awarded $500 In the charge of Judge Pierce who quoted the statutes of the State hicb prevents railroad companies s-0 Which collect firetclass fare from colored passengers from compelling them to occupy second class care where smoking is allowed and no restrictions are enforced to prevent vulgar or obscene language the defend ant having failed to pmvlide for the plaintIfin the forward car the acoom Mations to -whiok she was entitled bad no right to require her to ride to it nor to remove her from the rear car sod such removal was a wrong for which she Is entitled to damage Judge Pierce thatged that the plainOtte light to re cover would be equally good at common law if there were no State 8state on the subject Oen W-T Bierman addreosed the Military Service Institute at Govemor's Island NY yesterday aftererein on "Toe Militaty Necemities of the United States" Gen Hemlock Capt Bedford Pyre of the British army and other distinguished soldiers were prevent Gen Bierman Addremed the Military Service Institute at Otivemor's on Island yeserday aftern tmet 147abtes 511ecentoctlickuneotlpttbeBedtrnflotardd Fps of the British army and other dis- tinguished soldiers were prevent 118 CAM (JONI Cincinnati Enquirer of Yesterday The Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser uys Mr Randall is the greatest econo- mist in this country and bas saved the people and the Treasury his weight in gold many times over The Nashville American speaks kindly of Mr Randall's trip to the South Toe Frankfort Yeoman Baja "tilers is DM a Southern man who do-s not owe him a debt of gratitude and who would not be willing to recognize the The Atlanta Constitution says be is a Democratio leader and stands high in the party and that the Kentucky bead er he bac attuned bis journal skainst the trip is an 881 The Mobile glitter says Mr Randall is the most conspicuous man a of the House" an that no very Shp taut day he will be Pr-sident of the United States" The Naeliville Demo-credo Committee adopted resolutions rectignizicg in bim the pure patriot snd eminent statesman whom the nation honors and the Southland reveres for is patriotic services in her behalf in hours of trial when her peed ass abe IllOrtin!" A committee citizens Louisville aquested the directors of the Board of Truitte arratle for a public reception of Mr Randall On the whole we think Mr Randall may go 8 'nth and even under the soanow of George Treatise's statue without being 114-- klazed" arday ldvertiser eat econo- saved the weight in Nashville Randall's fort Teo- hern man of grad- willieg to I Atlanta emocratio arty and who hos be tripis says mr oJoull tOntl 0 very dia int of the le Demo- solutions a patriot he nation for behalf in I was the lizena ill Dre of 'the a public ha whole loath and of George ing elEtt- Stocks were quiet and irregular yesterday The celebrated Sharon divorce case bas been decided in favor of the plaintiff Major Brothers dealers in groceries end general merchandise Plymouth Po felled The Lake Shore directors yesterday derided not to pay the dividend for the current quarter At Abbeville John Ferguson murdered Arthur Benedict in a quarrel over a bill Renewals of the riots between Orangemen and Ribbonmen at Conception Bay are expected The strike at Soddy coal mines is ended All the three hundred miners have returned to work Abrem Guonee grocer at Park Ridge was shot arid killed in his store last night by Son'ord Siaco a negro The steamer Faraday has jost repaired the Bennett-Mackey cables and sailed last night for London There wu considerable disturbance during the elections in Panama and several persons killed and wounded There are extra guards at the princi- pal prisons in London a precaution against the operations of the dynamiter John Eno the New York fugitive entered the billiard tournament at the Merchants' Club at Strochs Quebec and won the gold medal valued at 00 Tbe eighty-nit Di birthday of Prof Von Ranks the -historian wu recog Weed by testimonials from all parte of Germany In a drunken fight at Montana Pa George modeowis was fatally shot and Michael Barmy-lab and Michael Brill-sky probably fatally stabbed Tbe California Southern Railroad has ordered an extension of -their road to connect with the Atlantic Pacific Road at Daggett Fiveliundred men wilt be set to work at once The brokers of the New York Stock Exchange spent yesterday -in athletic pports silk bate suffering most of them being used as footballs Fish horns fur-Dialed music al trvilau alrumu at Daggett' Flea htmdrett men Will be set to work st once in otaththeistmic The brokers of the New York Stock eEpozchrtean eigelkalhatantanYffest-rt7gdamost being used footballs Fish horns fur- Dished mute I I Penasylvaata Day 4 FL 01s 24aGo Pat-Upon to-day mot notification to Director General Burke of the New Orleans Exposition designating March 10 INS as "Pennsylvania Day" His reason for ea-looting this date is the fact that March 10 1683 the first Pmvinmal Conned presided over by William Penn was held in Philadelphia I America Irom Industries Dec 24-i-Tbe rron Trade Re ViIt will publish Saturday the responses received from a forge number of manufacturers of machinery and other branches of the iron trade in Sew York Pennsylvania Ohio Connecticut and other States In regard to the pest year's buttons eleven firms report it better than 183 twenty-four found it substantially the gamer- five experienced rood trade during the first half of the year and dullness the remaining six months and fourteen my they had a worse bosineva year then 18'43 Thirty-six have run continuously during the yea r4 Ding over time eleven nearly NIL Twelve say they have received about the same Pr eee in ISM and the remainder report lower vices ranging from Ave to 1 num) the remaining stx immune a and fourteen say they had a worse bail wee year than 18q3 'flirty-0z have nivedeari run coatinnonaly during the yeaTv4 DIng about the same pr as in 1883 and the remainder re- port lower strices ranging from live to A lissetbl Deeo ton eilesno Dec 24 Biodgettthis afternoon ruled tnat the Board of Trade bed control of Its own If It telt-aid to let the Wes eni Usion Tdograph Compeny the telegraph dbuipany could not be top lied to fur- Dish thvm to "buck I-shops" or to any irtles not designated by the Board of IBLICILIMPILI FIALCU gob sue posing ut Lraue had control of lie own quoations If ft telt-mid to let the Wes eni trolon Tle- dbolembpathnyrocotooldbauntckbetechnoopirJleed to fur graph Company have theta the telegrah parties not designated by the Board of Trade dgettthis I of Trade ma lilt in Tole-- telegraph ad to fur- Dr to any Board of Plow Orissa IIMpeettio16- NI One Axe ter- World Exposition monde a steadily Increased attendance There were fresh arrivals to-day both of visitors and oxhibits Tbe visittoir school teachers came to-day and towards evenina lanre numbers were on the fronnda In the wsy of exhibits Maximo has received a beet instalitnent -7 Exposition records a ateadi---' ty increased attendance There were fresh arrivals to-day both of visitors and exhibits The the In the wey of exhibits reto-dwapyresnond maxim) has received a heat installment Sj I MysiP OW I 1 I I I 1 I 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