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              '(■[ « • ' 0 ; r • 4 . i  Icucnutci jyiBk HUKBBB MS. " T Weekly Bstabllshed I860 j PITTSTON. l'A.. WEDNES 'AY, MARCH 12, 1881 S Twocmwm t Ten Cent* Par Week MORRISON'S TARIFF BILL A RESISTLESS FIRE. OSMAN DIGMA ATTACKS 8TAR ROUTE INVESTIGATION. AN ELOPEMENT STAYED HOBOKEN'S MISSING COLLECTOR I lmve used ' Kutzner's Sore Threat Cult" for myself and family for over six yearn, and haye found it the best remedy for sore tliroat eve£ used, and I would not be withe mil. Truly, it ia what its name purports—a "Soro Throat Cure. U. P. Joiiw, , ' Attorney at Lnw. Shamokin, Jan. JG, 1883. Tut DeHrnotlon of Property la But IBr. Cook's Examination by the Com- His Safe Found to Contalu but $8 — The Beports on the Hew Bill B"to- st. Loots For Winl of Water. The English by Night, and is mittee Concluded. Three Men Shot While Tntprcept- Jersey City, March 18.—'The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Tax Collector McMahon; of Hoboken, ia aa deep as ever, but the feeling that he did not abscond because of any defalcation In his trust seems to liare grown stronger. Many of his friends express their fear that Mr. Mc- Mahon has been foully dealt with. He was of a very social and convivial disposition, and has been known to absent himself from his home and his office before this last disappearance. His son, who has reached home, Jays that, although he visited Buffalo and Other places where he thought bis father was likely to go, he could And no trace of him. He said he was confident that his father had committed Ho defalcation, but expressed a fear that he had met with foul play. * HIs Son la Charge. mitted to Congress. St. Louis, Mo., March 12.—On Monday evening a million dollar* worth of property was destroyed by flc« In East 8t. Louis. That city hasniQ fire department whatever, and wfian flames were seen issuing from a barber shop on the levee, no attempt was made to quench them. A neighborhood of ■mall frame buildings was as tinder to the Are, which spread rapidly, igniting a lot of freight cars, then reaching out to the grand elevator known as "Advance A." In fifteen minutes the huge building was aflame. It contained 300,000 bushels of No. 2 mixed corn; 60,000 bushels of oats and several thousand bushels of wheat. The lire attracted a great throng of people to the bridge top, and illuminated the river for miles. Some ha~dred freight cars mostly loaded, were burned. The people of Bast St. Louis were panio stricken, believing their oity and the big bridge doomed. A high wind carried showers of sparks long distances, Inporiling all surrounding property. The fire department of this city responded hurriedly to the appeal for aid. The rough roads of Bast St Louis made It dangerous traveling for engines; many accidents took place, several firemen w-re injured Tery seriously and one was killed outright. Only one f engine was sent over at first, on a ferry boat. This engine, with a large force of men, prevented the Are from burning elevator "B." The structure destroyed was valued at (350,000, and was insured for only $100,000. The grain was owned by St Louis dealers, the majority of whom held insurance on tbeli* lots. The elevator itself was Owned by R. McCormick. Bepulsed. Washington, March 12.—After recess the sxaralnation of Mr. Cook before t&e Springer committee was continue 1. tag a Buna-way CouPle^ The Law of 1883 Pronounced Little Better Tlian tbe Old One—A Ml- Cordon** Shrewdness—Fish ling; at Zeteba—Bismarck's Health—The French In China—Suicide of Shaplra. The witness thought the Star route prosecution selected the weakest Of the cases for trial "Had you been thoee twelve men on the jury what would have been your verdict?"Perforating a Pennsylvania Pater* Camillas and Xwo Neighbors—The » CUrl Care* for the Wounded While Her Lover Bssayes. norlty Report Opposing the Bill, and Why. Xutznor's Sore Throat Cure is perftctljr harmless, therefore it can bo taken without any fear of a serious result from its :use. "My verdict would have been that tbe men indicted were not proven guilty." He gave no advioe in the prceecatiog after Brewster became attorney general, because he did not think it would have availajl anything."Did you return to the government officers the papers belonging to them, and which Were in your possession!' "I did, and here i t the attorney general's receipt for them." Witness produced the attorney general's receipt Washington, March 12.—The tariff quoetion is now before congress. In the house Mr. Morrison, from the committee on ways and means, submitted a report on his bill to reduce "import duties and war tariff taxes." The report finds that in the first six months ending Dec. 81, 188.1, under the act of March 8, 1884 (the new law), dutiable merchandise was imported iuto the United States valued at 1235,898,109, on which duties were paid amounting to $96,514,138, being 40.91 per cent of the value thereof. In the corresponding six months of the year 1882, under the old law, the value of dutiable imports amounted to $260,856,273, and the duty paid was $111,266,507, or 42.65 per cent, on the value. It thus appears that tbe average cost of importing goods valued at $1000 was only $1.74 less under the new law than under the old. The report continues: The nominal reduction made by Che proposed bill is twenty per cent, or one-fifth of the present rates. With the Morrill tariff limitations in the bill and the liquor and silk schedules omitted as they are, the actual reduction on the basis of last year's reports will i.ot exoeed 15.74 per cent oo the whole importation of dutiable goods. Together the average reduction made on the tariff commission bill and tha( to be made by tlie proposed bill do not equal the reductiou at which the commission. * * * * * Suakiv, March 12.—Firing has began at Zereba, Oen. Graham, CoL Stewart and the whole'force have at once gone thithor. A guard of 730 British troops and 600 Egyptians remain behind. Gold Mink, P«l, March 18.-Three men were shot new here in an affray growing out of a love affair. The shooting atom red while Bzekiel Henry, a young farmer, was trying to elope with Mary Chusterman, daughter of John Chuoterman, Another farmer living eight miles from Qold Mine. For two yean Henry (paid court to Miss ChustermAn. About year ago her father, who had conceived a Ch*Uke for Henry, ordered hind to discontinue btt visit*/1 Until two weeks- ago it was thought that the love affair was at an end. At that time, bowever, Chusterman discovered a boy carrying • letter from Henry to his daughter, in which, Henry said he had everything toed for an olopement, and added that her father had no right to interfere. ■The father swore he would' HIT Henry if he caught him. He kept a'strict natch on his daughter's movements, never permitting her to leave the house unless accompanied by som* member of the. family. Sh», however, managed to eln4e his vigilant*. The father learned, that ] his daughter had met Henry, and that they were last Been driving ' own the road rto Lebanon. Hitching' his horse to a light wagon, and aocompanied by Isaac Swepe and Israel Mqyer, ho started in.pursuit. He overtook the couple about ten mifcMretn hen. They were, leisurely along, apd when Chusterman called upon them to stop CH*nry laughed and lashed his horse into a gallop. Chusterman soon overtook them, and, jumping out, the old farmer grasped Henry's horst by the bridle, and brought Win to a short stop. He launched into a tMHbnt of abuse against Henry, who sprang" from the carriage and struck Chusterman id the faoe. Both men then grappled aud fell: to the ground, Hoary on top. The latter, broke away rand ran as if to Jump UgLttie can. riage, but Chusterman drew a revolver and ftred, the ball grazing Henry's forehead. The latter turned and fired At Chusterman, striking' him M the right leg. Chusterman tell and Moyar and Swope rushed forward, Moyer with a revolver in his band. . » Wholesale agents, Johnston, Hollowav i Co., 602 Arch street, Philadelphia; H. K. Warn pole A Co., 418 Market street, Philadelphia. '*■ Tbe Highlanders, while working on the intrenched fort at Zereba, were attacked by Osman Digna's advance at 6 o'clock this evening. Only 483 marines defend the forta at Suaklm. Scouts from the direction of Tamanieb report that Osman with 7,000 men Is moving toward Zereba, in the hope of destroying the British stores of water in a series of night attacks. Osman retains as adherents the great,tribe of Haddridowas, whose sheik urged that night assaalts were the best kind of strategy against England's arms of precision. London, March 13.—There is an ominous dearth of news from the scene of the conflict in Egypt which is causing no little anxiety throughout the city. The result of the next battle between Gen. Graham's little band and the horde of rebels acting under Osman Digma's instruction is awaited with deep interest There is a total absence of the confidence which existed a fortnight ago. _ A Sua 1dm dispatch says Osman Digma's savage reply to Sheik Morghani has aggravated the feelings of the British soldiers, who, since the bsttle of El Teb, had desired to spare so brave a foe. The reply is signed by twenty-one sheiks, representing 10,000 combatants. Owing to tbe "broken nature of the ground, a square formation of the troops is impracticable. Orders have been given to a detachment of marines at Chatham to proceed immediately to the Soudan. A Fair Offer. The Voltaic Bolt Co, of Marshall, Mkh„ offer to send Dr. Dye's Celebrated Voltaie Belt and Kluctric Appliances on trial, for thirty days, to ni6n, old and young, afflicted with nervous debility, lost vitality, and many other diseases. Mayor Tlnkem, City Treasurer Tenke and Expert Sackett went to the office with an expert safe lock workman and the safe was opened. One inner Compartment, separately looked, was not forced, but the son of the collector, who is now in charge as deputy, said he was certain thit it contained no money. There were the books of the collector's office and |8 in cash in the safe. "Did you mall copies of the papersr "I did not" "Could anyone have made copies' of the papers in your officer' See advertisement in this paper. "Not that I know of." Witness stated further that no papers bolonging to the prosecution ever readied the defendants through him. "Did you see tbe article recently published in The New York'Sun in Star route matters!"They Lore British Cold. Washington, March 12.—Two men were arretted here while loitering around tlio residence of tho British minister. One of the men says he has received 11,000 from the minister for information as to dynamite plots, and that the minister still owes him $8,000, and he wa» after It. The men have on several occasions bean,seen to enter the British minister's house after 1 o'clook at night, and they state have Lad . audiences with Mr. West himself. There is much mystery attached to the matter. The men were released on their personal bonds. "Wsre those papers »v«r in your posses slonl" never were." "I did." % (Those are the papers reflecting Oonp-a—nian Etli«. of Louisiana). The rereiajnler of tbe testimony of Mr. Cook relaOed to details of StaijroiitH matters well known to the country. Adjourned.  PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRE88- Ratification of the Mexican Treaty TbB reduction of revenue receipts under the bill reported is estimuted at (31,000,000 on the basis of last year's importations to tbe extent of tbe $31,000,000. Jlie bill will relieve the people of unnecessary taxes. To that extent taxes will be reduced directly as admeasure of justioe to consumers and indirectly in largely increased proportion. A statement from tbe bureau of statistics is appended to tbe feport, showing that under the new law duties have been decreased on some aid increased on other articles o( imported goods. Tbe report proceeds:by the Senate. BOYNTON8 STATEMENT., Washington, March 13.— During the executive session the Mexican treaty was ratified by a vote of 41 yeas against SO nays. Senator Van Wyck, who previously voted against the treaty, abstained from voting, and it is understood that Senator I'ike, who opposed its ratification before, voted for it. The only important change made was the addition of a clause which provide* that tbe treaty shall not take effect until after congress shall have passed laws to carry it into effect Six or Kelffcr'a Wttneaaee Said to A mammolli Breaker. Have Been Convicted of Crimea. Wilkesbariib, March 12.— One of tha largest and best-equipped breaker* in the anthracite coal field belongs to the West End Coal company, and In Its construction 200,000 feet of lumbur were tiled. It is fitted up with the latest maofehiery and .has a capacity of 800 toiyi a day. other new breakers lyfll be put in operatic n shortly, and everything bespeaks unusual activity in th« ooaltrado this snmmer. *aki Washington, March 12. — Ex-Speaker Keifer, before the special committee, contradicted flatly the testimony of Mr. Barrett, who sworu that Mr. Keifer made use of the expression: "I don't care a — tor the press." He also denied knowing anything about any contemplated action on the part of any members to kill tho tariff bill, except by votes. Several witnesses from Ohio testified to the general reputation of Chas. 8. Garfield, one of Speaker Keifer'i witnesses, for truth and veracity, and that i t was very good. Paris, March 12. —Advices from Tonquin report that the French column advancing upon Bac Niiih from Haidsuong has had a successful engagement with the enemy. Admiral Courbet has taken an ironclad to Quinhon, and declared that part of the coast blockaded. POWDER Absolutely Pure. Thia powder ne»er varies. A marvel of purliy •trooutL and wholesomeuvse. More *conomir«l than the ordlbhry kind a, and cftnnot be Sold In competition with the multitude of low teat, khi-rt w«J*litrattim or phosphate lowders. Sold ml C• it cans., Royal Baking Powder Co., 100 Tf..l ■ureet. K. V. General Gordon's choice of Zobehr Pasha to succeed him as governor of tbe Soudan is a further proof of his shrewdness. Zobehr is one of tbe most powerful -of the interior chiefs; his long career as a slave-dealer has made him known and feared throughout the Soudan, and his hostility to the Mahdi will prevent or at least delay the latter's victorious march. Gordon boa apparently come almost to tbe end of bis usefulness in Khartoum, and is prepared to leave that ulace immediately if the English agree to tbe appointment of Zobehr. While this is true, there has been no increase of the rates of wages in any, but a reduction of wages in most instances. At 6:30 p. *. tbe doors were reopened and the senate adjourned. Worn* In P«*w»«Iob. In the house Mr. Bingham criticised the postal appropriation bill, and submitted statistics to show that the appropriations for nearly every branch of the service were inadequate for the duty required. Albany, N. Y., March 12.—The fifteenth annual meeting of the New York State Women'* Suffrage annotation U in session. Rev. Amasa Oliver opened tho convention with prayer, and President Lillie Devereaux Blake delivered the opening address. Addresses were made by'litis. Abigail Scott Duniway, of Oregon, Mrs. Henrlca ll*h»n and Miss Susan B. Anthony. The convention will last three days. £ Extracts are introduced in the report from the annual report of the American Iron and .Steel association for 1883 to show that the calamity of a four-month strike in the rolling mills of Pittsburg and the west fell upon the workers and not upon the capital invested. Xn conclusion the report says: Gen. BoyAton here rose, and by perm is sion of the committee, said he was unabli to bring out by cross-examination of thest witnessc« facts which be wished to establish, and believed he could prove. This Uprfleld, he said, he could prove was connected with a gang of burglars who operated in Indiana; that his son was convicted of burglary, and is now in the penitentiary, and that C. 8. Garfield wuH for some time under government surveillance as a counterfeiter, having been knonn aj such by officers of the secret servioe. He made this statement believing in his ability to prove that in at least six instances six witnesses, who had been gathered here by Mr. Elder for ..Gen. Keifer, and who bad appeared here to swear away his character, bad been indicted and some of tliom bad served terms in the penitentiary for heinoui offenses. The committee decided to afford Gen. Boyntou, later on, an opportunity to prove this, and then adjourned. Miss Chusterman nays that, Meyar fired at Henry, but Moyer deuios it.,, A bullet from Henry's pistol lodged in Moyer's right shoulder, and he fell. Swope turned to run, but Henry fired two shots at him, both of which took effect, dhe in the shoulder and the other near the heart Miss Chusterman did what she cookt for the wounded men, while Henry jumped into his carriage and drove away. He was captured near Lebanon, but released on bail to await the result of the injuries inflicted.Miss Chnsterman is a handsome but uneducated girl. She is twenty' and her lover is twenty-nine. Mr. Holman followed in defense of the bill, attributing the criticisms of the bill to political partisanship. It is believed that the condition of the Iron and etcel industries and of the workers in them has not much improved since 1883; that tbe eondition of other industries is not unlike and differ only in degree from iron and steel; that the calamity of frequent industrial embarrassment and enforced idleness is insepaiable from the enormities of our protective system, and that the calamities of such a system always fall upon the laboring poor. The majority therefore report the bill with the recommendation that it be passed as a measure of partial rolief to ithe )*ople from unnecessary tax; as a Measure of Justice to consumors aud conducive to the general industrial prosperity. Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, submitted the views of tbe minority objecting to the passa,e of tbe bill, on the ground that congress made a general revi sion of .the tariff at its last session, warranted by the fact that there had been no general revision since 1860, too .short a time to have given it a tufllclent practical test. The bill proposed by the majority jroposes a reduction of twenty per .cent, and not a single interest in the United (States has asked for it. On the contrary, ttrery interest represented, manufacturing, laboring aud agricultural, has protested against it The free trade clubs of New York and Brooklyn, represented by a number of so-called political economists, have encouraged not this reduction, but tbe entire abolition of import duties which in any way discriminate for American products. While all unite in opposing reduction, some interests see the necessity of an increase of dutiea for the maintenance of the, industry and the labor employed therein. The wool-growers, representing every state in tbe Uaion, demand the restoration of the wool duty of 1867. While the miuority have sought to respond favorably to the demand of more than a million persons, the majority, not content with a refusal of this request, deliberately propose to reduce the duties still lower. While opposing a general revision, Abe minority think there are irregularities whieh ought to bo corrected. The bill, the (minority speciously argue, is not proper at ithis time because, first: It will disturb business; second, It will force down the price of labor in the Unit-id States; third, It is preiended that the proposed reduction will inevitably increase foreign importation, aud as a consequence increase our revenues, to which every interest of the country is .opposed. D After a prolonged argument in this strain, the miuority report concludes as follows: The first formal amendment was proposed by Mr. Horr, to increase the item for compensation to postmasters from 910,500,000 to (13,330,000. He said the percentage to postmasters was fixed by law, and even this amendment would leave a deficiency. Aftei discussion, and without disposing of Mr. Horr's amendment, the committee roae, and the house at 4:45 adjourned. Fancy Groceries, CRFAMERY BUTTER, CHOICEST DAIRY BUTTER, Lord Tennyson D'Eyncourt took his seat in the house of lords last evening. He wore the robes which had belonged to Lord Coleridge, his own, which were recently lost in a rai.way carriage, not having yet been found. Discrimination 111 Tkeatvleala. Ottawa, Out March 12.—The thoatrical managers visiting complain of having ta pay thirty per cent, duty on ail scenery thoy carry. They also claim that a discrimination is made in favor of wealthy combinations. It is stated that Ilenry Ir? ring's scenery, value.l at $10,(MX), was a imittod free of duty, utiHalsi that the customs laws were abrogated in the interest of Col. Mapleson. Tbe Congregational Council. Cairo, March 13.—All the available English infantry left Suakim for Zereba and the cavalry will follow. Tbey will bivouac at Zereba on Wednesday night, within four miles of Osraan Digma's camp, and will attack the rebels Thursday morning. miM Harvejr Reported Bring. Minnesota Patent Flour, New York, March 12.—At the evening session of the Congregational council at Dr. Hiscock's church, Lexington avenue, Dr. Dexter, the moderator, announced thai iw council was a legal one and properly Called and that the proceedings would be continued.Nkw Yobk, March 12.—Miss Maggie Harvey, who was bound and gagged and otherwise illtreated at the Sloane flats .pn Saturday night by the negro,. Jesse Wiljjams, is ropertedtobe dying. After leaving oourt on ftonday Miss' Harvey became prostrated frota nervous shock. Mini I 41 assistance was summoned, bat she rajpttlly grew worse, until htr symptoms assumed an alarming form. Coroner Martin was sent for to take her anterjftortem statement, but.on reaching the bouse he found her delirious and unalble to speak. The physicians in attendance say there is very little hope of her recovery, as her nervous system has been completely shattered. MM MS, Union Club Cigarettes, til Tobacco, It la reported that firing began Monday evening at Zereba, and the British troop* not yet there ware urged forward to take part in the engagement. It la supposed that Osman Digraa commands 8,000 men. Suakiro is held bj 650 marines and sailors, 80 artillerymen and 600 Egyptian troops. Eabt Hampton, Mass.-, March 13.—A few of the strikers at the Williston mills have returned to wort at the ihree per oent. cut Tb« men were driven through want of food and fear of being evicted from their house* M resume. A sheriffs posse had to be oalled to prevent the returners from being thrown into the river by the strikers. There are 250 strikers who say they will not return. They Host WorK le live, Mr. Austen, of counsel for the Rauney party, opened the session by reading a report of tbe financial condition of the church from 1881. The report showed that the runuing expenses of the ohurch in 1881 were $13,910, in 1883 they were $30,509. The mortgage on the building had been reduced to $85,000 at the beginuing of 1881, and in that year 15,000 was paid off, reducing it to $80,000. S.nce that time no reductions had been made, and it bad been proposed by Dr. Newman and his friends to sell the church and build another elsewhere. A Dishonest Postmaster. DOMESTIC CIGARS, Bkchikotoh, Vt., March 12.—Special Postal Agent Bassett began the examination of Postmaster Tiffany's office Monday morning. Tiffany acknow!edged a shortage and the investigation was adjourned for dinner. Upon Bassett's return he discovered that the money and some valuable paper? had gone. Tiffany had taken them, hired a livery team to go tq Pownal, and whether he took the train there for Boston or went to Canada is unknown. Tht sheriff and posse are after him. Tiffany's accounts will show a shortage of C8,000. His flight renders criminal proceedings unavoidable. Packages and letters in the office and safe ware found mutilated, and registered letters months old not yet delivers! Tiffany was treasurer and clerk of the school district, and bis books have not yet been found by the trustees. IMPORTED CIGARS, STANDARD JAVA COFfliK, choicest liias. Bbrlin, March 12.—The state of Prinoe Bismarck's health has again given rise to considerable anxiety. He has recently lost forty pounda In weight, owing chisfly, it ia believed, to the worry and annoyance resulting from the Lasker incident. Dr. Schvteininger is in frequent attendance upon the prince at Friedrichsruhe, and has found it neocssary to prescribe far him an entire change of diet Bismarck Loses Forty Founds. Believed of Hie Watch by a Woman. Chicago, III, March 13.—Edwin Bording, a Tremont house waiter, was walking down State street, near Poljc, las* night slightly intoxicated. He sobered up sojn'j what when a woman rushed up to him and with a drawn revolver pointedHt*his head ordered him to give up his froficfrty. She then relieved hioi of an open-faced silver watoh and escaped. Saffron, Pa., March 12.—Seventy-five coal cars on a Lehigh Valley train were derailed by. a broken axle above Mauch Chunk. The cars were scattered on both tracks and delayed travel both ways nearly two hours. Coal Trains Wrpeked. • ~ FULL LINE "■ FANCY AND STAPLE ./GR'MlSS. LARGE STOCK Mr. Ives Washburn, also counsel for the Rauney party, followed with a short address, in which he said that the oburch was in such a difficulty as to threaten its very existence. He closed by asking the council to lay down such laws for the future guidance of all Congregational churches. Cash Still In the Swamp. Eleven freight and eight coal cars were wrecked on the Jersey Central at Lebanon, N. J., by a loose wheel, oansing a delay oi travel for one hour. CANNED GOODS, Columbia, a C., March 13.—Tbe chief oonstable and his posse in search of W. B. Cash hare returned from Chesterfield county without their man. Tbey prosecuted their search in the Peedee swamp up to 7 o'clock last night, but found no traces of the fugitive. The governor and the attorney general are now in consultation. It is believed that the governor has recalled the posse, and that the murderer will, in accordance with the wishes of his father, make his way out of his biding place In the swamp to tbe county seat of Chesterfield county and surrender. • Obituary. MaIiOHB, N. Y., March 13.—William Andrus, ex-sheriff of Franklin county and exassemblyman, died at hii home on Monday*. Baltimore, March 13. — Mr. Wendell Rollman, aged seventy, di nl at his residence alter a protracted illiio**. lie *u« for man)' years proprietor ot Iron works, and was a well-known t ridge buildjr.' D Purchased since the decline. They were never so chfeap D as now. Trustee Hopkins stated that the present receipts of tbe church were $15,000 and the expenses about $30,000. At a recent meeting of the board of trustees a resolution was offered asking that Dr. Newman's salary be reduced from $10,000 to $4,000. Railroads Snowbound, Montreal, March 13.— Railway men all declare that the storm of the past two days has bad a more disastrous effect on railway travel than all the previous storms this winter. The railroads from the south converging in Montreal are now open. The Montreal and Sorrel road is still blocked, and traffic is at a standstill. The Canadian Pacific road is partially open, and the first train since Saturday reached here from Ottawa last night. The snow between St. ThereW and St Augustin is piled neady twenty feet deep. The North Shore continues blockaded, and the train has beeu snowbound since Saturday at T«retto. The storm is still raging, and fears are entertained that railway traffic will be still further and more ssriously interfered with. Canadian Snow Storms. Phillips, Me., March 12.—The railroads are now raising the third snow blockake in two weeks. There has been no mail sines Friday. The snow is four feet deep on the level hero, and no trains can reach Farmlncton before to-morrow night. HURLBUT & C& » Trustee Foster, who appeared at counsel for Dr. Newman, said tbat it was folly to talk about the Methodists wanting the property. It was Congregational and w ould remain as such. If they allowed Dr. Newman to retire he said the church would closed, as there would not be enough people left to fill the two first rows. He closed by saying that1 a petition asking that Dr. Newman be retained had been signed by 173 church members. Adjourned till to-morrow. Annual st \TkMKNT of tub fuiajici at. CONDITION OF THE SOBOOTB OF Buffalo, N. Y., March DS —A train on the Michigan Central railroad struck a broken rail about 190 miles from here, which completely overturned the sire pel "Garogan." There motj flfiein passengen aboard, including Carrie Swain, the actress. Nearly all were bally bruised, but nof seriously injured. Passenger* Tumbled Ont. CONDEN8ED NEWS. Tbe application for a writ of habeas corpus for the release of old Mr. Cash will be argued on Friday. Meantime the colonel is taking the matter coolly, and he is making the best of the situation in his comfortable quarters in the county jail. An incendiary fire at Clebnrne, Tenn., destroyed four stores, causing • lass of (2,500. I Theodore Hart, Ir., for di luting Auditors' rrport aud t3iD letter lieade ♦ 12(0 3. P. Williams, for malting tin box ....... , S 00 O. D. Hosier, for pacingCounty Surveyor for run tag-lines between Huahettown and HUston "boroughs JJT"VM » (4 Patrick Kerwiu, for assisting County Surveyor. is I Do Henry McCracken, for assisting County Surveyor.. . ...T.' 1 io Charles Tyrrell, for assisting County bur- The Schenectady locomotive works have started up after being closed for nearly ten weeks. . s, Giuseppe Giomlni, an Italian, was hanged at Ore., yesterday, for the murder of a countryman. Fearing Fenian Plots. A dispatch from Cheraw aaya that Bosjan Cash was seen at a point about two miles from hia father's houae. He was mounted on a gray horae, and was armed with a rifle and two pistols. Three colored men met him. They gave him a supply of provisions and a -package of newspaper! and letters, after which he rode off rapidly in the direction of the Feedee swamp. Vermont Republican Conventions. Toronto, Ont, March 12.—The plot to blow up buildings of the Ontario legislature, now in session here, has just been made known to the government, from friends in Buffalo, where the idea was oonceived, it is claimed, by Fenians. Considerable uneasiness is manifested by the members, and some of the permanent residents in the parliament building have moved out within the past few days. A strong guard has been placed on the buildings and grounds, as well as at the governor's residence, With instructions to arrest any susploious characters found lurking about it. Mrs. Grace Slum, of .Chicago, accidentally phot herself on Mondttf night while playing with her brother's revolver. Montpelikh, Vt., March 12.—The Republican state central oommlttee has voted tu hold the state oonventlon for the choice oC delegates at large to Chicago at Moutpelier, April 30, and the state convention for th« nomination of governor and other state officials at Burlington, June 10. The Commercial Advertiser Sale. veyor  D. D. M osier, for surfs ting County Bur- 1 SO In the belief that the late tariff legislation would remain without material change for a period of years, business has adjusted itself to it and the producers have entered into contracts and generally arranged ttyeir business in character and volume in oonformity with it. All classes of our people have relied upon its reasonable permanence and freedom from immediate radical changes so that every consideration appeals to congress to let the present law alone and permit the business of the country to proceed without legislative disturbance. What the C-ountry wants most is relief from congressional agitation. Ail of the industries of the country are extremely sensitive, and just at this 'time, «ben business is more or less depressed in every brunch, the threat or tear of a change introduces an clement of aincertaiaty and disturbanoo throughout *the country, the evil effects of which none can foresee. '' 'V * ' '1 New York, March 12.—It is gsnerally understood that about (2.000 a share was the price paid by the syndicate who have purchased a controlling interest in The Commercial Advertiser. The syndicate is composed of Maes re. Godwin, Sedley, Marquand and others, who own eighty-one of the 144 shares of stock. It is understood that Parke Godwin will be editor-in-chief and Sedley managing editor. Commodore Upshur will be dined on the 20th inst by the BMOklyn club, before his departure for the South Paciflo. " i veyor ?•••/• John Gordon, for audi tine borough and school accounts t. John D. Reynolds. for auditing borough and school acoouuts.  Erneht ttmalts, Street OommUsiuner, for work, etc , 414 tl Hail feistices an Secretary -.. J. Martin Hinderle, Uucksmitbing ...... Conrad Moss, posting notices, repairs on pound, etc  William Kan mer, for services ss Secretary1 50 t CO In Everett hall, i New York, the grand masquerade and civic Purim ball of the Rfgower society was held last night. 8 00 Iks Fast man. ▲ Courageous Feat. OxjjUl, Nab., March 13.—The fast mail train from Chicago arrived here at 7 o'clock last waning. Under the new system of running the fast mail will leave Chicago at 3 A. X., catching up with the regular train leaving five hours before at Ottumwa, or failing at that point, proceed until it does overtake it The run of 281 miles -from Chicago to Ottumwa was made in seven hours, Including all stops, one being of thirty minutes at Burlington. The poetal authorities returned east from this point Cardinal Sacconi has been appointed dean of the 8«nd college, to fill the vacancy caused by'fne death, of Cardinal Pietra Worcester, Mass, Match 12.—Geo. K. Brigham, of this city, a sailor, when one ol his shipmates fell overboard, leaped from the yard arm, a distance of thirty-three feet, aud swimming in a heavy sea rescued him, both being nearly dead from exhaustion when picked up. 6 75 Peter Schmidt*, the carpenter who foiled his wife recently.was foiyid dead in his bed, strangled with a piece of cord. Gtn. A. C. Barnes has accepted tbe cololonelcy of the Brooklyn Thirteenth, made vaoant by the resignation of CoL Austin. • 7.1 A Connecticut Village Excited. Whr Jsmei Silk Shot Hlmaelr. Total expenditures .Uro iT New Havxn, Ct., March 18.—The town of Camden is greatly excited on account of the arrest of Allen Sawyer and his wife, Mis* Jennie Pillbrough and a boy named Irving Russell, charged with having procured an abortio 1 on Annie Curtis, who wa* a boarder at Sawyer's house, hut whose real name, she says, is Maggie Campbell. She says that 0. W. Keeler, of this city, is the father of the child, whose dead body waa found buried in a vault. The young woman is in a very critical condition. New York, March 12.—After a trifling quarrel with his father James Silk, a Hungarian, aged eighteen, wAs, found by his stepmother bleeding from four bullet wounds in the head. The young man shot himself because his father bad threatened to idle* charge bim from bis employ. An elder brother of Silk's shot and killed himself a year ago in Central park. ; , Lewis Welscarger. 'Collector of Borough Tax for the year 18S3. , DR. NBW York, March 12. —At the meeting of the Republican county committee John J. O'Brien, after an animated discussion, wa« elected permanent chairman by a vote of 142 against Marville W. Cooper, who received 100 votes. O'Brien Holds His Grip. The towh of Whitaide, on the Nashvills and Chattanooga railroad, was stnwk by a tornado yesterday, and several booses wtts demolished. D - u fj To duplicate..'........... To additional assessment I 514 74 IS 2» Another Vetera* of ISIS Dead. Total amount of duplicate. CK. $640 93 Flubbikq, L. I., March 12.—fn the death of Ashley C. Baker l.ere another veteran of the war of 1818 has paseed away. He was born in England in 17B5, and came to this country in the early part of the present century. When the war broke out he enlisted in the Eleventh regiment of artillery, along with Abram 8. Dal ley and other comrades. The interment will be at Greenwood oemetery. Several of the veterans of 1813 will attend.  for selling pistols to bays Ignatz Ichie, toy seller, Brooklyn, was held for the grand Jury. This is the first case in Brooklyn under the law passed last year. By- exonerations and commissions! 48 04 t By cash paid D. IX Mosier, Tr» a»- urer, Twenty per cent reduction, or any reduction, however slight, following so close upon the reduotlon made last winter cannot be defended as to a single schedule of the tariff, and as to many It can be shown R- His Wife Pre Tested tela Suicide. Two Train Robber* Killed. 492 U  D. D. M#3ler, Treasurer, in account with If Qgheiitowu Borough. DR. Jekskt Crrr, March 18.—When tbe wife of William Valentine, of No. 44 Monrcra street, Hoboken, entered his bedroom yesterday morning she found him hanging from a peg on • aids wall near tbe oeiling. She cut him down before life was extinct He had been drinking heavily for some time, aud it is thought that he was suffering from delirium when he attempted to take his life. Silver Crnr, Ari*., March 12.—The train rubbers wbo were imprUoned here broke Jail and wore pursued and overtaken by a sheriff's posse. The robbers resisted arrest and two of tbera were killed ar.d another was wounded. The others were captured. Arrested as Ha Landed. The Tennessee river reached a height of forty-three feet at Chattanooga yesterday morning. Immediately after it began to fail. About 160 houses have been* submerged.be wholly disastrous. We believe that after a sufficient trial of the effect of the last revision it shall appear that the industrial Interests of the country can be maintained'with, and that the condition of the treasury will justify a further revision, such action would be wisely undertaken by the friendB of the protective system and with less disturbance to the puhlic prosperity that if done now by the avowed advocates of the destruction of the American system of protection. Nkw York. March 12.—Carl Hutchausen, a nephew of Herr Hutchausen, the comptroller of the duchy of Braunschweig, Germany, robbed his uncle of 9,000 marks— about $2,500—and fled to this country: 'He was captured on the steamship Amsterdam, from the Netherlands, yesterday. He l»"i in his possession a'draft for 81,200 and a revolver and a knife. He confessed the crime and was held, Burglary of government funds Is an extraditable offense. To balance on hand from last settlement.! t's 94 To cash received from l/Dwla Weiscarre., Collector, 1183 ni To cash received from Dattun Morse, Burgess, fines, etc 10 45 '  $?8l » An Robert Smalls, colored, has been nominated at Sumter, B. p., by tbe Republican convention in Congi —men Black's district to succeed William Mackey, rtsosaaqri, in congress. Sank off Delaware Light. Killed While Resisting Arrest. Port Royal, March 12.—The San Antonio, of the MaDory line, collided with and sunk the brig Addle Todd eight miles off Delaware liglft on Saturday last. The crew wore saved. Tucson, A. T., March 11— A special to The Star from Silver City says: "The train robbers who were imprisoned here broke Jail last night They were pursued and overtaken by a sheriff's posse. The robbers resisted arrest and two of them were killed and another was wounded. The others were captured." Not Prove* to be a Fagln. New You, March 13. — After a trial lasting three days Mrs. Rebecca Solomon, who was charged with teaching little girls to steal and receiving their booty, has been acquitted by a general stations jury. The little girls are In the charge of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, and will bo placed IP suitable institutions. The Standard ft Windsor Glass oompany's works, at Woodbury, N. J., have been stopped, owing to the fact that the company cannot get blowers enough to keep the works in operation. 'f » By orders paid.. By commissions. ♦ 4t0 67 # 41 47 J 93 The Cat For Wife Heaters. Pennsylvania Railroad's Earning*. Philadelphia, March 12.—The t.tocklioldi-rs of the Pennsylvania railroad have held their annual meeting, when the net earnings for the past year were shown to be $80,736,478. Balance In hands of Treasurer, dab1 ' Borough ,...f 101 eC The minority report is signed by Repreaentativee Kelley, Kaason, McKinloy, Russell and Hiscock, comprising all the Republican members of the ways and means committee. Boston, March 12.— The house, by an overwhelming voto, bat passed a bill providing that a man convioted of beating liia wife should be sentenoed to be punished by flogging on the bare back, the instrument of punishment to be wielded by the keeper of the almshouse. We, the undersigned Auditors of the llorou.-li of llughestown, have examined the abore accounts, and find them correct. JOSH Gordon, I .„  Jons D. Reynolds, | Auditors. Monday was the csar's birthday, and Gen. Von Schweinits, the German - ambassador, presented bis majesty with an autograph letter from Emperor William congratulating him on the event Pim.SWM.F1*, March 12.—Fannie Coon and Lisais Bieagenwaid, aged respectively seventeen and nineteen years, who ran away from their homes in Baltimore Saturday last, ware captured at the Bread street station.by detectives and retained to their threats Returned to Tlteir Psnals, Washington, March 12.—The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph company opened up a "market wire" between Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, pi"*rg markets of the four cities in direct communication. ■ Steadily Extending Itself. Crrr or Mzxtoo, March 18.—The first through train over the Maiicaa Central road from tbe United States fa expected here on Satuday next Tbe City of Zacat*- cas is a three dy* celebration In The Baxleu Central Bsllroal. % Landlady Commits Suicide, WN.GRIFFITII, The funeral of William F. Perry, son ol the '«t« Commodore Perry, who died on Saturday last at Constabl*vilie, Lewis county, took place in Jfew York this morning la tbe Church of the Asnensinn. i ■ j. j ,, il"i I !D•—Mr.-. The* KaMeuny, ltuitl;aaj oD at Luzerue hotel, at West Pitti-ton, lias commit ted suicide. Her husband committed luicldo three yian ««D CIVIL AND MINING ENOlfjEER, Attorney General •'Hrlen'e Condition Albany, March 12.—Attorney OeneraJ O'Brien is gradually growing worse. Office next to l'resbyterlan Church, nrraroN, pa Lands, mines, farms, Ac, carefully survey rl.