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              * . w _ — • -• * NDKBKB 838. I Wwkljr Established 1830 | PITTSTON, PA., MONDAY. JULY 13, |885. . J TWO CENTS. j Ten Cant. F«r W««k. THE DOLPHIN DECLINED FIERCE BATTLE IN MAINE. IN AND OUT OF WALL ST AH HONG ARRESTED. ABOUT GEN. G0KDON. who were cursing me !ut HcoUf ooinfl today to shako bands. I am perfectly satisfied with the reception of theee revelations. You may say (row nw that I am Convinced that similar iaagMpsset W evwy great city in Asurfc* would yield  not nearly wD extendva or flreedful, but enough to startle 14* Christian God-fearing communities of America quite as muoh as ours have been." The sensation in Paris Is almost as great as here.  THE Mil'KETS A Party of Preaeliinea Attacked by Btvei Driver* on the Keawebec. *'»« teo's llntdmr Flay* the ComrM Heathen in Iowa. THE GOVERNMENT 8AID TO HAVE REFUSED TO RANSON HIM. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DECIDE8 AGAINST THE DI8PATCH BOAT. Augusta, Me;, July la—Particulars have Just reached here of a fierce battle, ia which about seventy-flv* man were engaged, and which took place on the afternoon and eveifc tag of the 4th, some miles above tbe fork, oi the Kennebec river. A cavalcade of team) belonging to a large party of Frenchmen was moving northward along the river road. The wagons were loaded with produce, liquor, tobacco, etc., and the men, fifty or sixty in number, were on an expedition which had both trade and temporary employment in harvesting the hay crop as its objects. At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon "the train was suddenly attacked by a gang of thirteen river drivers, who were celebrating the holiday. Toe assailants made a sudden rush, with clnbe for weapons, drove off the Frenchmen, upset the wagons, and seized such of the contents aa they considered of value. SPECULATORS BUY 8TOCKS, BELIEV- ING PRICES WILL ADVANCE. Rome, N. Y., July 18.—Among* lot ol old paper* crammed in am old olothea basket was found the knife, er dagger, with which Fong Ah Hong undoubtedly did his terrible butchery upon Sing Lee, the Chinese laundry man. It 48 a fearful looking Instrument, encased In a sheath the handle of which It yet spotted with clots of blood. The blade, which Is free from blood, although stained and rusty, is six inches long by one and a quarter in width, and sharp as a razor. A telegram has been received from Montreal, purporting to be from a Mr. Vien, a reformed Catholio preacher, who is the bondsman of the three Fong brothers in Montreal, who were arrested for kn attempt to murder Sing Lee, of the same city, saying that Fong Ah Hong was not the murderer, because the Fong brothers showed him a Chinese letter said to be from Ah Hong, in Burlington, la., oD July 3. FINANCIAL AMD COMMERCIAL AT NEW YORK AND CHICAGO. Deficiency In Speed, Power md Strength. Tim* Government can Beoover the Honey Already Paid to John " Bunch, the Contractor. Negotiations Between the New Toifc Central and the Pennsylvania Bail road Bllll Pending—Efforts on Both Sides to Get Oat of the Difficulties. Railroad Stock*—Chicago drain and Provision market*, and Petroleum. ■' War «30,000 K1 Kahdl Would Have Saved Him—TtM Story Hot Credited In England—The Pall Mali Gazette's Disclosures. NE'Y YORK STOCK [As r. ported by Judd, Nye & Co., Brokers, Scran ion, Piitstou and Wilkes-Bar*, over their private wire, enabling them to execute orders inptantly. ] Nsw York, July 18.- Stocss sold to-dar at toe New York Block exohanfte as Collars: Stock* Open- Clos'g Steele* Open. Clot'a _ „ ino Bid inf. Bid R' . St ' ",J Nor. West.. 9i 95U 2" V/? i "fit Nor West pf 1MU 1»2 N. J.Central 40 4(U M„ If. & f. isK igrS W Union . 6l£[ Mich. Cen.. Ml? St Paul, com 75M PbUa&Bed. 16 ie2 or. C.&1, ask asD2 NYOIW ll« 11)| 5-rJ® ''k Canada 8... S2 32 lake Shore. 60 Hi N..Y. Otm„ »t »i« Te*. P cifle I2U ISfci D. & B. #. ili at Union Pae:. Big L. ft Nash. I - MK N Pac.com 179S '''U H. Inland... 118 lis p£f i!. 42D* ln- Central. 12rD 135 ' Cen. Pacific 3| chlo- & q STP.,Xniv. MU C.AO.pref 71« 7t$ °*'V i'acl'lc "!4 0., B. A O. 1 Wab. Pacific 4 4 8t P M C* M. 9SU 9#2 W Pacific pf 8 8 NYC&8tL 7« 76 Ore*. Trans. 18J6 14U W. 8. Bds.. 40 '0 arte 2nd... 5# 57% Pac. Mail... 48H 5u Londom, July 18.—M. Heart Rochefort't paper, L'Intranslgeant, of Paris, has a sensation which is expected to send a thrill of horror through toe civilised world. It amounts to a charge that the British government deliberately allowed Gen. Gordon to b* slaughtered when bis safety could have bem guaranteed for a payment of £60,000. The charge is made in the form of a letter from Baron • de Billings to M. Rochefort The baron declare* that he was in constant communication during the siege of Khartoum with certain authorized agents of El Mahdi, who bad tbeir headquarters at Paris and were engaged in promoting the interests of the Mahdi In a vaiiety of directions. Notwithstanding the warfare in thefkmdan and the allegad impossibility of obtaining intelligence ironi Khartoum, of which Gen. Wolseley was constantly complaining, this Parisian agency was in receipt of direct oommunioatious from El Mahdi at least once a wet, which detailed tbe progress of ■ tho campaign, told of El Mahdi's plans for thj future, and gavo directions as to what should be divulged and wha', should be kept secret Lose summer, whim Gen. Gordon was securely cooped up in Khartoum, the false prophet sent a very important dispatch by a spy who went in a variety of disjui es all the way froid Omdurman to Cairo, whence the dispatch was transmitted in a telegraphio cipher to Paris. This dispatch stated that the city of Khartoum, with Gen Gordon, CoL Stewart, the Egyptian garriaon and the inhabitants were at the mercy of tbe prophet; that the relief expedition which Gen. Wolseley was bringing up the Nilj woj a foolish enterprise, because Khartoum could be captured at any moment, and would be taken just before tho expedition could get there. The Hahdi pro. fessed a desire to avoid the wholesale slaughter which would be involved in tho sack of Khartoum, wherein be said ho could not restrain the enthusiasm of his faithful followers. He was therefore willing to come to an agreement with the British government, by which he would guarantee tbe safe conduct of Gen. Gordon and Col. Stewart down the Mile as far as Assouan, if necessary, in consideration of the payment of £50,000. 'ilie money was to be pqt into the hands of trustworthy and confidential agents and was not to be paid until Gen. Gordon was delivered, »a.e and sound, within the British lines. The garrison and inhabitants of Khartoum were itUu iharmed, but wer» to be converted to the Mahdi's faith and be subject to his government The Hahdi authorized his Paris agents to open negotiations to this effect with tbe British government. The Pari* agents asked Baron de Billings to conduot the negotiations, and he consented to go so, being actuated, as he says, by a desire to avoid bloodshed and to save the life of the heroic Gen. Gordon. The baron broached toe proposal to Lord Lyons, the British ambattador at Paris, who referred the subject to the British government A special cabinet council was held to consider the proposal, and it was rejected. Lord Lyons was instructed to reply to Baron de Billings that tbe government looked upon the proposal as a A-ap and refused to enter into any negotiations. Boon after this reply was sent to El Hahdi Geo. Gordon sent CoL Stewart down the Noe to make his escape, tho general being resigned to sacrifice his own life .but wishing to have his sole English companion and friend. CoL Stewart was (iromptly killed by El Mahdi's soldiers, and the otfor of ransoming Gen. Gordon for £50,- 000 was renewed to Lord Lyons. It was again reforred to the British government, and again relused on the same grounds as before—that the offer was a trap and that tie Mahdi could not fulfill his proffered coutract GEN. GRANT BETTER. Washington, July IB.—Attorney General Garland's opinion upon the questions submitted to him by the secretary of the navy in regard to the dispatch boat Dolphin was given to the presi. The attorney general holds that while the contract between Mr. Roach and Secretary Chandler contains no express covenant as to the speed of the vessel, s:ill tbe covenant requiring the contractor to construct a vessel in oonformjty with the plans on the advisory board, wttcb called for a vessel "to have a sea speed of Nbw York, July 18.—Tbe stock market behaves in such a way that It beooinas most diffloult to speak about it except in the common clerical way of recording its fluctuations. It is useless to argue «r to attempt to draw any conclusions from existing facts. Tbe investor does not want to hear of Wall street Nine-tenths of the speculators know that stocks are not worth anything like the prices they aro selling at. Tet prices advance as if a general revival of business had set «n; aa if magnificent crops had been assured, and an Immense export demand for them created. Nothing at the kind has oocurred, howevf, and the market is being put up on the prospective settlement of the differences between the managers of two railroad corporations, the New Torlr Central and the Pennsylvania. The speculators believe that if these differences are settled all the other competing lines will be whipped into a brotherly pool, which will be able to establish extortionate rates for transportation and to secure brilliant profits to the holders of stock. Of course, all this ts absurd. As long as there is not traffic enough for all the reads no brotherly pool is possible, and an advance of rates can certainly not increase the traffic. But Wall street does not care about that Ihe speculators buy stocks because they believe that prices will be made to advance, and that there will always be ample time to Jump out with profits. So far they have bee.i right But as the short interest must be very nearly eliminated by this time, and as tho out-idu public is less than ever disposed to bring its money to Wall street, it is very difficult to see how prices Can be sustained any longer unless all the banks end bankers of the country are going to make even the most worthless Wall street securities their only in vestment. Parson Newman Preaches to an Andlenee Mt. McGregor, July 18.—'When Gen. Grant awoke Br. Douglas congratulated him on bis improvement over night The change was siight, but the general seemed at last about to mend after a weary waiting of three days and that was a hopeful sign. He spent the morning in his room. Hie train that came up before noon brought 900 visitors from Saratoga. They filed slowly up from the station, many of them lingering near the cottage. Governor Hill and J. W. Drexel were among them going in to pay their respects to the sufferer. Chainraaarly filling one siao of the hotel porch had been set out lefore the train came, and when the visitors reached tho hilltop there was an audience for the Rev. Dr. Newman of about 300 persons. It had been intended to hold service at some place so that the gonoral might overhear, but on acoount of his condition Dr. Newman chose a place on tho hotel porch furthest remote from the cotage. A choir and orchestra from Canajoharie began the service. Several of the Grant family came up to the hotel, and by the time the sermon began there were enough other arrivals, who bad come up the hill from the surrounding region, to make an overflow audience, which reached out on the lawn In front The preacher spoke on tbe value of character. In the course of the sermon, speaking of happinoas proceeding from what was in a person rather than from outside influences, Dr. Newman referred to Gen. Grant as an illustration of nobility of character In these words: "Oh! Ulus» on the Mountain. Of course, the story was laughsd at by the authorities here, who have reliable witnesses to show that Fong Ah Hong, or a man answering his description, was Been at Rouse's Point, in this state, buying a ticket for New York. From June 30 to the morning of July 2 Fong Ah Hong was here working with Sing Lee, the murdered Chinaman, so he could not have then been in Iowa. fiftcon knots," bound the contractor as eifoctively to make a ship of the speed of fifteen knots as though he bad agreed to do so in express words. The question of speed, in wh.ch the Dolphin i» reported deficient, the attorney general considers an important one. It was to tbe qualify of speed mere than any other that congress was looking. With a full knowledge of tie statute authorizing the construction of a dispatch boat of a designated speed, and no other, and with the plan* and specifications under which tne work was to be done, laid before i.i.» that he might bid with intelligence miCi safety, the contractor, if he had misgivings whether a vessel planned like the Doipniu would make tne required speed, should have abstained from sending to projyniB, knowing as 'he did or ought to have done that a ship defective In point of speed could not be accepted under the statute, whatever her merits might be In other resnects. The Prenchmen were not well armed, but they spon rallied and made a savage charge. One of them had a revolver, and he handled it so well that three of its five shots took effect, mortally wounding one man and crippling another. The river men then produced oi*e or two pieces of firearms. A shotgun in their hands did some executions, but the wounds it inflicted were slight The next man to fall was Robert Bean, a lumberman, whose head was split open with an ax wielded by an infuriated Frenchman. He will probably die. Another river driver, pursued at point of pistol, leaped down a bank twenty feet high toward the river, receiving fatal injuries. The fight continued, with varying advantage and occasional lulls, until 10 o'clock at night The overturned wagons were used as barricades, and the fort was several times captured and recaptured. The river men fought most desperately, but the Frenchmen were not so courageous. As the force of the enemy was roduced, however, their courage increased. Before the last attaek was made ten ut the lumbermen were stretched on the fleid with wounds either fatal or completely disabling. The remaining three fought as desperately as at the outset, and the struggle did not end till only one remained on his feet Ha and his wounded comrades were made prisoners, and are now in custody at the Forks. Besides those whose injuries are described above, another still lies insensible and in a critical condition from the effects of a blow on the bead with a club. Dispatches received here announce the arrest of Fong Ah Hong, the alleged murderer of Sing Lee, at Burlington, la. District Attorney Mattheson will apply to Governor Hill for a requisition, and with Chief Byrnes will start for Burlington. CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. As received over private wire hv Judd, Nv« St Co., Brokers, 1«t Nntlonal Rank Building. Hcranton, Brown'* Building, Pirtston, and 7 South Franklin Street, Wllken-Barre, Pa. July. Aug. Sept. 3 » a . 1 1 Whuat—Opening. Highest..-  Lowest  Closing  Ah Hong was playing the converted heathen at Burlington and was advertised to spealc to-night at the First Congregational church, on "China and Her Customs." He had won the confidence of the pastor of that church, who had advanced him money and books. Last week Fong swore out a warrant for ths arrest of a retail liquor dealer in Burlington. He is a fluent talker and was taking in that city. On an—Opening. Highest  Lowest  Closing  Oats—Opening. Highest  Lowest  Closing  46 46 "Under any other view," the attorney general says, "the most imperative requireof congross would be liable at all .tmics to be evaded upon one pretext or another. 1 cannot conceiva how it could be seriously urged that the States is bound under the law in question to accept from the contractor any other sort of vessel than the one ordered by congress to be built, namely, a dispatch boat or clipper, of a sea speed of fifteen knots, and the Dolphin having been found not to be a ve sal of that description, an I must assume, it would seem to follow that nothing short of an aot of congress could authorise her acceptance." To the objection that the Dolphin is wanting in Aba necessary strength and stiffness the utlornoy general says: This defect ii fatal, whether due to thi plans upon whfcl the vessel was built or not, because in thC contract it was stipulated that the Dolphii should be sufficiently strong to carry thi armament, equipment, machinery, etc., pre ■cribod by tbe advisory board. In a word, tho contractor makes the plan of the advlBory board his own, and agrees ti construct a vessel of sufficient strength ac cording to those plans. Tbe third objection to tbe general charac ter of the workmanship of tne vessel the at torney general dismisses as unimportant merely remarking that It can be readily deal with, the contractor being ready and willini to make the Dolphin satisfactory in this rc spect. — Pore—Opening. Highest  Lowest  Closing  f.Aap—Opening. Highest......... Lowest  dosing  10 2* to 10 10 00 10 4au 10 16 10 87X 10 45 10 BiW 10 85 10 10 10 20 10 40 0 15 10 Vl% 10 40 10 «TH 9 60 « t2U 170 a 7M4 1 «C• 6 #72 6 77% I VT ) «0 8 642 #70 « 77U I 80 # «7jJ « 75 a 00 nrru trious sufferer In yonder cottage, THAT CHICAGO ROBBERY. Vwirtnn thou art touching to rulers and statesmen of the world, iind to the youth of that country wliici thou hast saved by thy own band. Thy silent and heroic suffering commands the admiration of mankind and fills the hearts of angels with delight." Mrs. Smith Now Itetrurta Her Story and Chicago, July 13.—Mrs. Thomas Smith retracted the statement she made to Detective Halloran about giving 11,000 to "Dutch Jake," who lost it for her on the races, and reiterated her first sensational story of ■ robbery. Her husband calmly expresses unbounded faith in her, and when she says that her confession was extorted from her by the detectives be says he has no doubt it was. Mrs. Smith talks volubly on this as on most other subjects. Tells Another. As regards tho report of the negotiations going on between the two above-mentioned corporations, there can be no doubt that efforts are being made on both sides to find • way Out of existing difficulties. But the negotiations are in their embryo, and both partiee acknowledge that the obstacles to be surmounted are extremely serious; that a multitude of antagonistic interests and even of -personalities are involved: that there will necessarily be many slips between the cup and the lip, and that in any ease the negotiations, even if thoroughly fortunate and favorable, will require considerable time for their conclusion. This Is the opinion of gentleman who have actual charge of the negotiations, and who would certainly be glad to give more positively favorable information if they.could conscientiously do so. The mere fact, however, that these negotiations are going on was sufficient for a set of bankers and capitalists to take a little turn 1b the market on. We shall .probably not be far away from the truth if we say that the hooae of Drexel, Morgan ft Co., and their correspondents in London, are the leaden of the apparently crazy bull speculation which set in last week and promises to be contfnned. Oil City, July IS,—Opening. . Highest  PKTROLKUk. Lowest „ 05 Closing. The preaoher made a touching reference to the general in his prayer. When service was over and the people were guii-g away the general came out on the porch, sitting ■with a shawl over his shoulders for oVer an hour. He coughed soniowhat in the afternoon, but toward evening was out again. Dr. Douglas thought be had passed a remarkably good (lay, and expects to-night will be a comfortable one. How young old people look who have never been aerioutly sick, and who never worry and fret How old people look who fret and stew and suffer pain—all at osce. But we can't altogether help our disposition, and we will sometimes get out of sorts in spite of all our oaution. Then we need the best, the simplest and the safest medicine known, whioh is Dr. Kennedy's' Favorite Remedy. Purities the blood and renews vitality in old and young. Besides the damage to wagons and personal injuries received, the Frenchmen lost ICO bushels of oats, thirty gallons of liquor, and a quantity of tcbacoo. "A ad to think," she moaned, 'that 1 should have been induced to wreck my dear husband's happiness and consent to such a falsehood simply to screen some 'levee' saloon-keeper."SAD END OF A YACHTING RARTY. Ex-Mayor Hand, of Minneapolis, and Bis Wife and Two Sons Drowned. UNJUSTLY PUNISHED. Minneapolis, July 13.—A heavy wind and rain storm passed over Lake Minnetonka, and the small steam yacht Minnie Cook, with eight persons on board, was capsiced and tjrery one was drowned. Tho news of the accident spread rapidly and created the wildest excitement wben it became known tint all the victims resided hers. The names of the unfortunate party are as follows: D She added that she thought the officer knew who "them robbers" were, but he wanted to protect them because they were some of the gang that bung around McDonald's. "I never saw a -horse race; I never gave Mr. Bass (Dutch Jake) any money; I Sentenced to a Louk Term of Ittirlwii- " Troubled with asthma for eight year*. Not quite two bottles of Thomas' Kclectrio Oil cured me completely, after spending over $360 without the slightest benellt" This is what August Trubner, of Tyrone, Pa., saps. Threw Away $380. Sprinofield, Ills., July lit.—Governor Oglesby granted pardon to lionry G. Crews, confined In tho penitentiary at Chester on a fourteen years' sentence from Jackson county, where, ill 187sl, he was. together with his brother Jonathan, convicted of the murder of John Armstrong. The pardon was granted on the personal application of Judge Barker, who presided at the trial of the case, and who no believes the man to be innocent. The judge related that the two men, Jonathan and Henry G. Crews, were tried for the murder of Armstrong, who ha 1 his head crushed in with an axe. The jury found them guilty, and sentenced them to thirty-three years' imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary. ment for a Crime Not Committed. was never criminally,intimate with him, and I was bound, gagged and robbed in this house," she concluded. Lieut Shea laughed when be heard thii story. "Why, Ducch Jake came here sad admitted that he got the money," he said, "but was apprehensive of the trouble that the exposure would create between the husband and wife. He brought his wife with him and said to me: 'My wife has me by the lugs about that Smith affair, aad I want you to square ma if Iron can.' I went my way, and he took his wife to Mrs. Smith and said: 'I told my wife that nothing ever happened between you and I, and I want you to say the same.' She did, and his wife went heme happy." Ex-Mayor A C. Rand, Mrs. Rand, Harvey Rand, Frank Rand, J. R. Coykendall, Mrs. Coykendall, Kate Coykendall, Engineer McDonald. Say, Mr. will you please, Qive me oae of those T. T. Tb. ? The attorney general holds that tha government stands unaffected by any acta of acquiescence, approval or acceptance oi work on the Dolphin, by the advisory board or others. A few days ago reference was made in one of the leading articles of this journal to the recent speech of Mr. Qoechen and bis views on tbe gold and silver question. This was, however, bat one of the points he touched upon. His speech deserves the attention of business men In many other respects. It was delivered before the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, and had for Its subject • general review of the condition of trade. His argument* and the facts which he produced were extremely weighty, and by no jneans encouraging. As a matter of oourse, his speech referred mainly to the trade of Great Britain, but Its deductions are applicable to the trade of tiie whole world, and especially to that of this country. & declared at the very outset of his speech that tbe depressed condition of trade Is likely to coottniie for a considerable time to 00ma. and gave very substantial reasons in support of 'his vie wb. Bat he showed that the depression has mainly affected the great manufacturers and capitalists who were formerly accustomed to making fortunes speedily, and who have now a hard struggle to make both ends meet. On the other hand, he showed that the consumers, that is to say, the laboring and working people, have only gained by the fall in prices of most of the commodities of life. Tnat the country at large has not suffered by the depression, la demonstrated by the pauper statistics, which show a considerable decrease in the number of people falling to the charge of the poor rates. Not only the skilled workman, but even the common laborer, is much better off than he was a few years ago, for he gets much more value for life money, as the fall In wages has by no means been in proportion to the fall in the prices of commodities. When the manufacturers and capitalists are cutting each other's throats by competition, the workmen do not cut down each other's wages. On the oontrary, by means of strikes, they have been steadily sustaining them, and the increased facilities and cheapness of communication between the different parts of the globe have' tended everywhere to improve the condition of the labor market Mr. Ooschen showed also that the progress of the co-operative principle has done a great deal for improving the position of the workingman; but the co-operative principle has but little application in this country, and is, so far, of secondary interest. Twenty years of suffering from Catarrh and Catarrhal headache I never found anything to afford lasting relief until I tried Ely's Cream Balm. I have used two bottles, and now consider my catarrh cured. I have recommended it to several of my friends with like good results.—D. T. Higginson, 14S Lake street, Chicago, 111. Two bodies have been recovered. The storm is described by eye-witnesses on the larger boats as something appalling. The Waves rolled high and rain and hail filled the air. The larger steamers pat in to shorn with great difficulty, and it was impossible for the small craft to live in the terrible sea. Other boats and lives are believed to have been lost, but it is difficult to get details. The storm was .also severe at White Bear, bat no lives are reported lost from there. The provisions of the contract binding th« United States to acaept the vessel on the approval of the naval advisory board are, in the opinion of the attorney general, "void and inoperative as shifting a high trust aad duty from the secretary of the navy upon whom the fall and ultimate responsibility of carrying ont the law and building the Dolphin rested to the naval advisory board." A petition for a new trial was granted, and a second trial resnlted in conviction and a sentence of fourteen years. The judgo was still not satisfied of the guilt of both the brothers, and would have given them another trial but that be was afraid they would receive a severer penalty. In April, 1881, Jonathan Craws died. It has come to light recently that before his death he made a confession, in which bo acknowledged committing the crime, and said that his brother Henry was not guilty, and was not with him during the night ofl which the crime was committed.  jwUmi KdlMtt In Hew York. A. C. Band was mayor of Minneapolis for two terms previous to the Ames Incumbency and was a wealthy' and welMcDtfwn citison. John Coykeadall was a member of the firm of Coykundall Brothers & Co., dry goods merchants. NbwTosk, July 18.—The Mexican editors who are visiting northern cities arrived hare this morning from Boston. They wen met by a committee from the New York Press club, who escorted them in carriages to the Hoffman house. After breakfast the party attended mass at 8t Patrick's cathedral, and in the afternoon they were driven through Central park. In the evening they attended the ooncert at the Casino. Tomorrow the editors will be received at the rooms of the Press club, and at noon they will be entertained at the city hall by the mAyor and board of aldermen. In the afternoon they will be taken to Coney Island and a banquet will be given in their honor at Manhattan Beach. The attorney general clossa his opinion with the consideration of an important question not submitted to him by the secretary of the navy, which is in short whether then was any valid contract at all between Mr. Roach and the United States, and reachet the conclusion that now exists. His discussion of this question is as follows: "AawC have seen the secretary of the navy had no power to contract for a dispatch boat thai would not make fifteen knots at sea, or tc accupt any boat not built in strict conformity with the contract he was authorised tc enter into." The story baa been eagerly seized upon by the Parisians as another proof of Albion's po' fljv and the British greed of gold, but it U only Just to say; that it tinda few, if any, believen in London, even among the bitterest enemies of the late government. A Bold Hut Bobbery. Pittsburg, July 18.—Two weeks ago police headquarters were notified by tbe ohlel of police of Covington, Ky., to keep dost watoh for bonk sneaks, who had suocesded in securing 915,000 in that city. Bank officials of this city were promptly notified. It has just become known that on Friday last 12:80 o'clock, two gentlemen drove to the Fourth National bank on Fourth avenue: one entered the bank, informed tbe olerk that tbe gentleman in tbe cab wished to set him on a business matter. The unsuspecting clerk, complying with the request, went to the Bldewalk, where he was detained a few moments respecting a sale of 800 trade dollars. In the meantime the party who summoned the clerk had made good use qf the opportunity, and with well filled pockets reentered the cab and drove away. On balancing accounts at the dose of businesf 18,000 were missing. The police are unable as yet to obtain any clue to the perpetrators of the bold deed. Tha Earl uf Carnarvon, the new viceroy -of Ireland, has advised the government that the extra police system in XrelanJ Li now '.uuneoeisary, and that the present peaceful •condition of the country does not warrant tlv) etponse or the menace Involved in ita maintenance. Philadelphia., July 13.—For months a bitter grudge has existed between Joseph Maguire, of 60S South Front street, a barkeeper, and "Charley, the Swede," runner for a sailor boarding house. As Maguire was washing the saloon pavement with a hose the Swede made his appearance, and without a word of warning plunged the blade of a clasp knife into the barkeeper's bqclc. Maguire fell to the, pavement, and the would-be murderer started on a rapid run toward the Delaware. Reaching Rne streot wharf, he stopped long enough to cast aside his hat and the knifo, and then plunge 1 headlong Into the dark water*. Richard McBride, the watchman at that point, saw the act and raised an alarm. In the meantime the Swede was swimming in the direction of Camden. His strength, however, soon failed him, and he disappeared. His body was recovered not far from the spot where he jumped overboard. Maguire is in a dangerous condition. The wound is five inches long and very deep. A Murderer Gets Drowned. But the ninth clause of the contract provides that should the engines of the vessel contracted for fail to maintain successfully on tbo trial trip for six consecutive hours a power of 2,300 horses, the vessel shall be accepted, nevertheless, if It appear satisfactorily that the shortcoming was not owing either to defective workmanship or mate rial In other words, it was to make no difference how much the engines should be wanting in power, and, consequently, bow far short they should fall of propelling a ship at the speed required by tha law, it bein| impossible to din associate power from speed, if there was no defect in the workmanshi; or materials. POWDER Basoball Record. Following is the record of the League cluta to date: The review of the past week's events in ]*Du4MMnay be summarized in three words: Pall'finll Oazette. Everything else, even the new ministry, has loon overshadowed by the general horror and indignation aroused by the disclosures in that paper of the whole- Mile and apparently aluioit unrepressed traffic iu the virtue of girls of tender ago, victims by purchase, arrangements with procureesee or by foroe to men of social standing and wealth. There was at first horror and indignation over the fact of the rovelations. A reaction is now setting in and the public is beginning to believe in the entire truth of the hideous instances of «ritno quoted by The Oazette. I dare not give your reader* even a faint outline of the details of these disclosures. They areindiecnUu.le.Chicago. Detroit.. Buffalo.. St. Louis. Woo. Lost. ,...89 IS New York, ....16 83 Prortdenoe ,...16 84 Boston  ....» 83 Philadelphia Totals.........tt lis Totals.... Following is the record of the American association clubs to date: Wqpu Lost 88 13 ....80 18 18 83 35 37 ,111 81 Absolutely Pure. WBSTB&* CLUBS. Won. Lost Won. Lost ...43 17 BaUlmore 33 33 ...34 27 Brooklyn 33 83 ...33 38 Athletic 37 83 ..83 27 Metropolitan 30 38 EASTERN CLUBS. The obvious intention of this was to release the contractors of all duty and responsibility as to tbo spsed and power of thC ship, and nake it ieutible to foroe upon th; United States a ship wanting in the prime quality of speed, and fundamentally different from what congress authorized and wot desirous to secure. It needs no further dis cussion to show that what was attempted was wholly out of the question. Will Not Oppose Senator Kdmonds. St. Loals... Pittsburg . Cincinnati Louisville. This powder never varies. A marvel of purity 4 strength ana w More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold In conpetition with the multitude of low teat, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold oniy in cans. Royal Baking Powdbr Co., 108 Wall St., N. Y. Montpemer, Vt., July 18.—In an interview Judge Poland denies emphatically the report that he is intending to oppose Senator Edmunds. Speaking of the statements recently made in a dispatch from Burlington to New York and Chicago papers, to tbe effjet that he was in the field against Mr. Edmunds, and that he moved from St. Johnsbury to Waterville, on Senator E Imund*' side of the state, so as to be elig.blo on the ground of locality, Judge Poland says: Totals. 138 93 Totals. 88 134 Tlio Pennsylvania and Mew York Central. The uvowed object of The Gazette is, by tue pub; cat.on of theso shoe tin; ileta 1-, to force parliament into adopting a luoajui'e now before it whioh increases toe legal limit :«t which a girl can oonaent to criminal intercourse and, par contra, making it a pun ishaUe offense for any man to have such -relations with a girt under the statutory •*«?• . _ _ Philadelphia, July 18.—The Telegraph says: "One of the chief executive officer* of the Pennsylvania Railroad company was asked whether there was any foundation for the reports that negotiations are in progress between his company and the New York Central railroad with a view of settling the existing differences which have been the leading element in the long-pending breach between the two great trunk lines. He replied that such negotiations have been begun anJ tliat favorable progress toward • settlement lias been made, but that the Subject is one of such magnitude that hasty steps cannot be taken. 'I would have no healfafrftoq,' continued the official, 'in giving yon Qpy details of arrangements if a basis of settlement had been reapbod, but any publication at this time might be injurious. You seo. therefore, that while some progress has been made it would be nothing more than conjecture to say what the basis of an agreement is to be.' " Boston, July 13.—The will of the late Joseph W. Torrey contains the following provision: No Faith In Widows* Weeds. DYSPEPSIA But the contract is an entirety, and doe! not admit of being broken up into fragments so as that what is good may be en forced and what is bud rejected. The stipulation which was inten ted to relieve the contractor of responsibility the power 01 the engines, aiul, as a necessary consequence, for the speed of tho ship, forms a large and most important pare of the consideration moving to him from ths government. It is impossible to say what was its bearing on the whole contract, nor k it material to dc N, Inasmuch aa it and the other covenants el the government constitute one entire and indivisible consideration, the invalidity or illegality of any dement of which must necessarily vitiate the whole and abrogate the contract "I desire that none of my family will make any parade over my funeral or waste any money in the purchase of mourning apparel, fully believing, from observation, that widows' weeds are frequently a badge of hypocrisy, and the more conspicuous the habiliments of woe the more marked tie insincerity.""uD to pnvani ujD'w*f "What fool started that? The whole thing is so ridiculously absurd that I have thought a denial uncalled for." Last Uaaday, true to its word, The Q»- aette published the first instalment of its re headed "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon," accompanied by a leader iheaded "We Bid Yon be of Hope,''- in which It said the report would be read with shuddering horror that would thrill throughout the world. After this awful picture of crimes committed under the regis of the law, arJJ Tho Gazette, doubtless the commcna ■Would raise the age during which girls are protected frqm inexpiable wrongi. If chivalry is extinct, if Christianity is efete, there is still another enthusiasm to : ppeat to. 'ihe future belongs la Urn combine t forces i f democracy and I socialism, wWch when united aroirrosistlbio. D.vidod ol. ' vuny points they would oapi_ bno in protehbu* against the continue 1 7m- HDolation of the daughters o the people as a Ipacriflce to the vice? of the rich. Socialism K would be stlmuiatoi by the re vela t on of tho ■Melon lsD which tho wealthy ara able to txfircise all the worst abuseH of power which Mlsgraced the feudalism of the middlo ages. Bbere can be foon I no more shameful abuse BC the pow r of weal i h than that by which Hk the nineteenth century of Christian civili- Btioo pruaces, dukes, ministers, judges—the Hit ol all classes—are purchasing for dani- HUkm, temporal if not eternal, the as yet daughters of the poor. t , fctead wes warned by the polioo that &cki on his office were threatened and Kb must have police protection all the Maxwell Will Arrive la 4»lCut. The judge declined to say anything further on the subject at present, and closed with the following signidcant remark: "But I thall have something to say later, and it will be something sharp, too. Underhand, I am entirely out of politics. I shall say just what i pleas;, and I don't care k copper for the result." Ban FRANCISCO, July 18.—The steamer Australia, which left Auckland June 23d, has arrived. Maxwell, since his capture, Is each week regularly remanded, and theit will be bo trouble. He will arrive here on the Zealandia August 0. A Constable Fatally Auaulted. ? of priM« for roctoML  o*p*.jb*C»-. cCyo »wy by «JJ Xwlrriin nwdkiim, or York, Pa., July 18.—Quito a sensation was causal here over an assault upon Coostable Noah Stump by a saloon keeper named John Myers. Meyers and three companion* were carousing in the woods near Stump's house. The party began fighting among themselves. When Stump tried to arrest them Moyers drew a knife on.l out a terrible gash in Stump's throat, inflicting a fatal wound. He says the cutting was accidental. CONDENSED NEWS. Mr. Packard, ex-United States consul at Liverpool, sailed for New York on thC steamer Anrania. Omluou for the Kmperor, Ems, July IS.—While the emperoixws on his way to the theatre on Saturday evening a heavy earthen flower pot waa thrown at him. The m ssila struck the imperial car? riage with great force and waa shattered. The person who threw it Is supposed to be a lunatic. The frequency of simitar outrage by real or pretended lunatics is regarded by the people as being ominous. • • It la expected that the pope's communications with China will lead to the appointpaent of a papal nuncio at Pekin. It follows then that no contract exists between Mr. Hoaoh and tlje United States, and that the large sums of money which have boon iwiid Mr. Roach have passed into hands without authority of law and are held by him as so much money had and received to the use cf the United States and may b« recovered from him, and not only so, but tho money thus paid him by officials holding a judiciary rotation to the government hav ing gone into the ship Dolphin. A court ol equity will follow it there, and for that purpose on tor tain a proceeding against the shi[ itiOlf. Two Hen liurned to Death The Berlin Tagtdatt says that the coming visit oil Crown Prince Frederick William tc Brussels and Antwerp has a direct political object Belfast, Me., July 13,—Fire broke out at 1 a. in. in a fa table of tho Belfast Livery company aud two young men, Wesley Twomblcy and John Casey, who were sleep ing in the baru, were burned to death, and a third man, James McCtbe, byrely escaped. Tho fire consumed l he remaining stables, the American house, two blocks in tho rear, and tho teiegi aph Llock. T» euty of the thirty horses of the livery company were burned. Tho fire probably caught from a cijar or pipe in the possession of one of the victims. Is the test of fortitude among the Indian tribes. But we defy any Cherokee, Sioux or Comanche to endure the twinges of rheumatism without wincing. These, indeed, are slight at Bret, but grow in intensity until they become unbearable. No malady is more obstinate in its maturity than that which gives rise to thorn. - The more need, then, of attacking it at the ontset. Foremost among remedies for it is Hostetter's Stomach Bittors, safer and Infinitely more effective thaa colchicum, veratrum and dux vomica, all remedies which might prove distruetive of .'ife ma slightly excessive doee. Mineral derurents, also, when not positively mischievous, are far inferior in remedial power to this salutvy botanic medicine. It entirely expels from the blood the acrid impurities which originate the disease, and enrich as well as cleanse it Constipatiou, liver complaint, dyspepsia and othor ailments also give w«y to it. The Ability to Bear Pain Bishop McQoaid in St. Patrick's cathedral, Rochester, celebrated the seventeenth anniversary of his consecration. Beventeeu Men Held for Murder. Toledo, July 18.—The preliminary examination of the Polish prisoners chanted with complicity in the murders which occurred uui-iug the church riot on June i£ was corn- Dieted in the police court. Seventeen wen bound over cn the charge of murder in the first degree, thirteen on the charge of assault with intent to kill, and six were discharged. The building and stock of William B. Bertels, dealer in stoves and tinware, Wilkesbarre, were burned yesterday. Loss, $20,- 000; insurance, $16,000. WASHINGTON NOTE& Joseph Qaffin. collector for the Metropolitan Life Insurance company of Jersey City, who a short time ago embessled n large •mount of the company's money, was arrested and taken to Jersey City. sawEis'sssrs szz. Ills Name Saved HJta. Secretary Endicott, Oona. Be net and Newton and Capt. Smith, of tne ordnance department, left Washington for Mew York, to attond a meeting of the fortification board, Secretary Endicott will preside at the meetings of the board. WM. GRIFFITH, Chicago, July 13,—-The rioters during tha street far strike were dealt with in court. Sixty-eight were dismissed, and forty-one were fined $1 each and costs. An I'Valian, in whose name there were twenty-two letters was discharged because from the way be pronounced his name no one oouii tell whether he was the man or not A Novel Suicide. Bslvtdirs, N. J., July 18.—A maa named Heintaman, who lived in Harmony township, Warren county, committed suicide in a novel way In a manger In his barn. He fastened- a string about his neck, and tying the loose end to a spike lay down and strangled himself, China eontfnnsa making preparations fa war on the Coraan frontier in view of Russian aggression. It is said that China and Japan are jointly acting tor that Fjrnoee. The Japanese minister to Chin a is s trying at Tientsin, and has dally inter views with Li Hung f huno■ 1 • OIV1L BNOXNEEB, Broad St, SURVEYOR Plltston. Pa. » course of a long conversation with (M, be said: "I have never, known t|»lnii to tan so sharp. FeopU Dispatches received here from Wllming ton, Del, state that then hfts been ng material change in Mrs, Bayard's condition. qsobos • rauua, AITOBNETAT-LAW fmnoii, Pi.