Evening Gazette

              im m— 1090. ( vImUj Kstabllsbeo 18SO f PITTSTON, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4,186b. J TWO OKMTS | T»n OMi p*r Wa*k ON THE GROUND FLOOR THE STATE PRINTING. GLADSTONES MINISTRY. ORGANIZED LABOR. SATINS IN A CELL CULTURE AT YALB. tka Judloiary CommltU. Hmr IHtt fc **r»l Flush CtMto Oat Four Klgktl ROMR8 TALK8 FREELY OF Hlii Alb AWT, Feb. 4 —The judiciary committee of the bouse ud ntti held * Joint h» sloa to consider the state printing matter. Mr. Hamilton Harris and Mr. N. C. Moak were present as counsel for Weed, Parsons to Co. 8. W. Rosendale and Judge Hamt appeared for The Argus company. Secretary ot State Cook testified that he had signed The Argus contract because he wa« informed that it* figures were the best He did not personally know that they were the lowest figures. He had not seen them until after he had learned of the different contracts being signed by Messrs. Carr and Chapin. Deputy Comptroller Benedict testified that the original bids, four in number, were in his office. He admitted that he showed Mr. Cook, at the time of the signing of The Argus contract, other papers containing figures besides the bids. They were made by clerks in his office. Possibly Mr. Carr never saw them. They were the result of computations made by Mr. Chase, a clerk, who is a practical printer, accustomed to estimate such matters. He could not say whether any bids except those of Weed & Parsons and The Argus were examined Ho knew that the law required the contract to go to the lowest bidder. Weed & Parsons' was the lowest lump bid, but not for composition and papar. In explanation, he said- that 75 j-er cent, of the state printing was work of the latter kind, and for this The Argus bid was the lowest Tb? detailed bid of ihe Argus, if accepted would make the state printing cost $20,000 less than during previous years. A .COMPROMISE WITH THE WHIGS AND RADICALS. BaooKLTK, Feb. 4— A Washington dispatch to The Eagle says: Reports coming to Washington from all parts of the country rikow that the great army of organised labor la quietly preparing for the 1st of May next, whan from Maine to California there will be a concentrated demand by all laborers for the limitation of a day's work to eight hours. There is every indication now that this will be a movement of vast proportions. In the manufacturing towns of New England and In other sections of the country capital is reported as awaiting this demonstration on the part of labor with fear and trembling. In New York, whose manufacturing iuter-sts are larger than thoee of any o; her city in the land, the eight hour movement is said to ba causing much distress of mind to capitalists. If every workingman in the country unites in the movement, and if, on the 1st of May next all shall join in making the demand that eight hours constitute a working day, the effect must be prodigious. It R not expected, however, that all laborers, even those who are raembe ■ of unio is, will enter effectively into the movement La or is well organ zed only in ceriain sei.'iion and certain tr ades. It is not expectod. t erafore, that the movement wil. ba an entire success. But even under these conditions it is one that uius'. cause a great industrial di tur ance. This, at unv rate, seems to be the opinion of many capitalists as well as labor agitators. The statistics of orgaulzed labor are imperfect or else are carefully concealed from the outside public, but the army must ba an enormous one. The Knight) of La nor, which Is the leading and most conssrvative organization, has a membership of from 750.000 to 1,000.000 men. Eight Hoar Hal*. MARRIED OR NOT MARRIED, THAT'S THE QUESTION. OATEN, Feb 4—The biggest poker N' Wd at Yale of late yean was the other tight ia a game liatween flv» student*. The Han who won laid down a straight flush on tDades. with an ace at the head of It, and ■cooped is the rery nice little (Do: ot rhe man who "stayed" with hiui, mid who Inally called him, had bet on four eight*, which he held pat. •a a Jark Pot. DREAM OF WEALTH A Little Bit •* a Beoadal Ha ported from the Wast la Whieb a Much Mixed Matrimonial Question Is Involved.■e Thought Ha Was Doing Statesmen • Favor by Publishing Thai* Letter*. Why "Harry" Sought Appointment. Comment on Garland. Ntw Tobx. Feb. A—A Washington special to The World says: Many Member* Wore Disappointed end Accept Smaller Berths Than They Wanted—All Foreaata Were OS-Oerman Unification Problems. London, Feb. A—Mr. Gladstone's appointments of cabinet .ministers and heads of departments in his new government, have been officially announced. The principal offices are filled as follows: Prime minister and first lord of tbe treasury—Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone. Lord high cbsfljoellor—Sir Fairer Herschell, Q. C., formerly solicitor general. Lord presllent of ihe council—Right Hon. Earl Spencer, formerly lord lieutenant of Ireland Toledo, Feb. A—The detectives are wild with anger at the uncovering of the Chicago scandal and mystry upon which they have been engaged In the hope of oK.i iug up and conoealing from the public. The victim is George W. Phillips, aged about TT «tD rs, a grain merchant, of Calcagn. One year ago Mr. Phillips was prostrated by a severo illnes at one of the leading hotels there. The pbysi lans despaired of saving his life. Opportunely a beautiful ycung 1 idy guest heard of his dangerousoondition, and volunteered to nurse him To her attention and nursing he afterwards ascribed his restoration to health. He offered her bis band and home. She accepted aud they were married without de'ay. "Yea, it was the biggest band I ever saw liald in a poker game," said a young collegian present, "and the excitement among the bovs was great. Five of us had foramenced ths play early in the evening. At 10:30 we agreed to close after live jack pots. Pour were uneventful. The tilth put up to aces, and tlu beta ran up till a 1 but two Df us dropped out. There was a Rood pile Dn the table when the fellow with four lights put down a $50 bill and sailed He thought the pot his to a lead certainty. Then came (lie fun. •8orry for you, old boy,' said the holder of ;he royal flush, 'but I'll have to take the money,' and on the top of the heap of bank Botes ha pi a red the aire, king, queen, jack and tan of spades. By Jovel you never law such excitement. Charlie threw iris four eight* on the tab e aud turned as pale ts a slleeu 1 believe be would have fainted if we hadn't given-him a di ink of brandy. He wbh so completely unnerved that we bad to carry him home. You can bet ou oue thing, be won't play poker any more for umu time to come." Dr. Rogers, the promoter of the Pan Electric scheme, said that the publication of so many let'ers from bis books bad annoyed some of his friends exceedingly. He contiuu ri: "I, conscious of my own innocence, supposed they would all be pleased by my l lirowlng open to the world the hundred odd le tors which I thought woul I vindicate tbem from all the aspersions cast upon them, myself and my son Harry, the inventor. No private social correspondence could ever have been violated by me, but the exhibition of let ers referring to a public cnte-p i-e which I relieve to be legitimate would be the best pro if of its luwfulnes em! of ihs hones y of all mv a.-soeiato=. Secretary for the home department—Right Hon. Hugu C. E. Cbilders, formerly chancellor of tbe exchequer. Secretary for foreign affairs—R'ght Hon. Earl of Rosebery, formerly lord president of the council aul lord privv seiL Secretary for the colonial dooartraent— Right Hon. Earl Granville, formerly secretary for foreign affairs. . be honeymoon was spent at Toledo, the lady's former home. Upon returning to Chic igo the couple sett ed down, lie to resume his busine.s cares, she to enjoy the wealth to wb cb her marriage gave her access. Dari ig the last year Phillips expeuded on bis romantic wife, it is said, $M • U,0 in sa l.fying her extravagant demands for dress and luxuries. List week sh, deserted him in Chi 'ago, taking $2,000 in cash an 1 valuable j-welry. A day later Mrs. Phillips arrlvesl in this city with a man named G.-orge H. Rice. They registered at the St James hotel as "George H. Rice and wife, Fort Wayne.' Mr. Phi lip* arrived from Chicago in search of his recreant spouse, but Rice and tbe woman had disappeared, leaving tbelr trunks in tbe room which they together occupied. The trunks were attached and warrants quietly sworu out for the arrest of the gulltv pair. •'1 ws uufnr u-iate in mv eff- r.s to defend Mr tinrlaiid in ray leuer to The Trit une aonie. months ago He got angry with me then, nut yet when lie was force! to explain to the r'v. fi lent, he reproduce*" my very arguments 1 do not understand him; if Ceesar ha I fed on some meat which common peop.e never ea , that argument made by bim may l« more potent lhan when the Fame argument was presen e I by me." The doctor here sud lenly changed the subject, and, in response to cer ain inquiries rotating to the letters of introduction given by Senator Garland .o him and bis son, addressed to Mr. Hewitt and Mr. Cox, said: ' Well, these g n lemen were never so immaculate as t hey have been reported to be. The fact is. Mr. Hewitt expressed no condemnation nor saw any impropriety in the enterprise, l.ut. declined going into it solely on the ground that since Mr. Peter Cooper's death bis occupation was increaaed; that being in poor health, he could not undertake it* Secretary for inula—Right Hon. Earl of Kimberler, reappointeL Secre:ary for war—Right Hon. Henry Campbell-Bannerman, formerly chief secretary for Ireland. Chancellor of tbe exchequer— Hon. 8ir William Vernon -Haroourt, formerly secreiary lor the home department. 'i'ne winner and the loser *are both sons ot wealthy men. The former is from Mew England and the latter U a western man with an allowance of tl,5U0 a year. Unless bis father supplies tbe shortage ho wilt lxD obliged to restrict his expanses for tlie nuxt month or so. Mr. Parsons, of Weed Parsons & Co., next testified. He presented calculations to show that even I y detailed bids the cost, according to his firm's bid for 1883 and 1884. would have been only (82 000 as against t88, 200 by The Argus. That contract was tbe one which the comptroller bad based hi*argument on, and, therefore. Mr. Parsons referred to it "But later bids showed even greater differences in favor of his firm. First lord of the admiralty—Marquis ol Ripon, formerly viceroy of India. President of .he local government board- Right Hon. Joeeph Chamberlain, formerly president of tbe board of trade. MASONIC GRAND LODGE. Secretary of state for Scotland (a new office)—Right Hon. George Otto Trevelran, formerly chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.COLLISION IN A SNOWSTORM ■election of Officers for tbe Ensnlng Year. An AustrlHii (ilc Upset aad Fire Men President of the board of trade—Right Hon. Anthony John Mundella, formerly vice-president of tbe council. Nbw York, Feb. 4 —The following officer* were rhoseu by the Grand Chapter of Roval Arch Masons, in session at Albany: M. El, RichirJ Huntington, of Adams, grand high priest; R. E, Willian Sheerer, Brooklyn, deputy (*. H. P.; R. E, Richard I'ouker, Syracuse, grand king; R E J.. L-ivitt Lambert. Hooeick Falls, grand scribe; R K., Herman H. Ross, Albany, grand treasurer; R E, Christopher Fox, Buffalo, grand secretary, and R. E, James B. Murray, Waverly, grand chaplain. 'Ilia grand high priest then announced a number of appointmenss, and the convention adjourned.Phillips says Rice is the woman's legal hmLand, that ihey were married before she met Phillips, and that the nursing of Phillips was part of a conspiracy between the couple to gat into his contt Jence and plunder him. The presumption is that Rice has enjoyed a li eral share of he $30,000 which Mrs, Rice- Phillips has procured from her second husband during the year. It appears that she admitted having been married to Rice, but assured Phillips that she had been divorced. After she had fled the records were examined, and no trace of such decree could be found. Nkw York, Feb. 4L — While the tugboat Blanche Page, Capt. Herbert, having in tow a railroad float, mC proceeding up the North river to the foot of West Thirty-third street, she came in collision with a gig belonging to the Austrian corvette Donau, opposite Twenty-sixth street. The gig, which contained eleven men, and midshipman Karsh, was upset and all were precipitated into tbe river. The captain of the Blanche Page and another passing tug immediately went to the assistance of the drowning men, and succeeded in rescuing ■ix of the Donau's crew. Drowned. Assemblyman McCann, of Brooklyn, s&id ha appeared on behalf of the workingmen. He wished to interrogate Mr. Parsons from the labor point of view, bat it was decided that the committee was not authorized to go into that branch of the matter. Chief secretary for Ireland—John Morley, M P., not in any former government "Neither did Cox show any greet Roman ▼irtue in the way of spurning a bribe, for he states in his letter that not receiving the p-tiuphlet he could not understand the matter, and therefore returned the stock for further information, which I never sent him. It was the same way with Mr. RandalL He wanted further information before going into it Mr. Carlisle alio entertained it, but expressly stated that if the enterprfce waC to be involved with legislation he would not touch it, I pressed none of these gentlemen, for the first of the senators and congressmen—scores of them—were anxious to gut in on what they called the 'ground floor,' and I only let in those whom I deemed fit.. Lord high steward of her majesty's househol—Earl Sydney, reappointed. The committee then went into executive session. Patronage secretary to the treasury— Arnold Morley, M. P. Attorney general—Charles Russell, Q. C., M. P. Comptroller Chapin has been subpoenaed as a witness, and has been ordered to produce all documents relating to the contract. The announcement of these appoin tments has caused general and intense surprise. It oontradicU almost every prediction that has been made during the past we k, the only names which have been fitted to the right offices being those of Sir Farrer Heracheli, the Earl .of Kimberley and Messrs. Morley and Mundella. The list bears palpable marks of a compromise between the Whigs and Radicals. At least four of the new appointeee have been obliged to take smaller offices than they wanted and expected. These are Lord Granville, who wished to return to the foreign offloe; Sir William Vernon-Harcourt, who aspired to the lord chancellorship; Mr. Chamberlain, who had an ambitious eye on the exchequer, and I*Drd Spencer, who Wanted to be secretary (St India.  The Argus' counsel did very little crossexamining. They take the ground that the contract signed with them by the state i* unquestionably valid. Later in the day Mrs. Rice-Phillips was arrested at another hotel, where shs had gone into hiding under a new name. Rica is supposed to have returned to Chicago. Mrs. Phildps, arrayed in satin, sealskin and 'ilamonds, was imprisoned in one of ths police station cells. She la a beautiful brunette about 83 years old. To the correspondent she said: Midshipman Karsh and four men are still mining, and it is feared that they have perished. The oollision occurred during a blinding snows'orm, and up to the present time it has not been settled who is to b ame. The harbor police arreste.l Capt. Herbert, and he will be held to await an investigation as to the cause of the collision, aad to aeoertain who is to blame. Ths following appointments were announced: Wm. J. McDonald, New York, G. C. H.; Erskine H. Dickey, Brooklyn, G. P. S.; Ulysses Baker, New York, G. R A C.; Willard 8. Bradt, Rochester, G. M. third veil; Andrew Tromblee, Port Henry, G. M. second roil; Puillip M. Nash, Jr., Hornellsvil.e, G. M. first veil; George llcQo vn, Palmyra, grand secretary; Win. H Gladding, Albany, grand tiler. The officers were installed by Most Eminent Jatm E Pollard, with Most Eminent T. C. Cassidy as marshal. Messrs. Darius A. Ogden, Henry K. Opp and William H. Grey were named the committee on foreign correspondence. Grand Chaplain Murray delivered the annual address. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. When my son sought reappointment it was for the sole purpose of advancing th» Pan Electric Telephone company in securing a place where experiments could be made at the expense of the government, and at the same time advertise to tho world and future subscribers of the company the advantages of the various properties owned by the company. Manning Recommend* Mare Careful In- Washington, Feb. 4.—Secretary Manning addressed a letter to Representative Wilkins, chairman of the house sub committee on public buildings, having charge of the bill appropriating an additional $300,000 to complete the public building at Rochester, N. Y., in which he says that it appears the building if completed according to the original contract will be of little use to the government, because It will not afford sufficient space for the proper transaction of even the postal business alone. Atter stair ing that with this additional appropriation there will be a larger expenditure of money for the needed alteration in the present plan, the secretary thinks it better to do this than to complete a building which, when finished, would be useless for the principal business of the government at Rochester. Hr closes his letter with the following criticism of general public building aots: vestlgatlons. "Phillips is persecuting me. When I was Mr. Rice's wife I nursed Phillips during his illness and afterwards ha tempted me with promises of luxuries if I would consent to divorce proceedings against Mr. Rioe, who was a poor man, but a good hunband to ma I did so. and when Phillips tired of me ha told me to go. I did go and here I am, cast into a filthy celL Oh, how manly of him I He ought to be proud of himself " Annapolis, Mo., Feb. 4.—In the senate, Mr. 8h river, of Carroll county, introduced a bill to incorporate the American college of tbe Roman Catholic church of the United State*. The incorporators are: Archbishops Gibbons, of Baltimore; Ryan, ot Philadelphia; Corrigan, of New York, and Williams, of Boston The object of the college is tho education of young men for the ministry of tbe Catholic church, the principal office to be in Baltimore Incorporating a Catholic College. The doctor said upon the question of legislation for the company: "Tfcey never needed any legislation or wanted any for the Pan Electric company, and if anything was ever done in that way 1 never heard of it. except perhaps a bill mentioned to me by Casey Young for an appropriation for underground telephone line?. He said that be had so shaped this bill that the Boll people could not monopolise the wire*, and requested me twice to go up to lb# hou«e and look at the bill, but I was indifferent to it, and only know what I have stated. I wanted the Pan Electric inventions to stand on their own merits. I wanted a company honestly managed, organized xaith names of well known men, under a great charter, something like that of the East India company, and floated by stock which would make all who bought it rich. Austro-Garmaa Unity. London, Feb. 4.— From a gentleman who has just returned from extended travels through Germany and Austria it is learned that a strong sentiment in favor of Austro- Germaa unity is becoming appirent in those countries. The growing tendency of the A us tro-Hungarian government to extend its possessions in the south and east, involving the absorption of Slav races, with whose interests the Germans of Austria proper do not feel themselves identified, is a cause of deeper discontent than has yet become gen arally known to the outside world. As a contrast to the policy of their own govern- A Wedding that Failed to Come OIK Buffalo, Feb. 4—Several mouths ago- Fred. J. Milliner, n ght train disoatcher for tbe Lackawanna road, met Miss Annie Schirmer, of Mount Morris. Tbeir acquaintance ripensd into love and she promts d to become his wife. He saved his salary an invested it in a pretty cottage in tbis cl y, which ha I uruisbe 1 handsomely. She wore bis diamond ring and It was generally known that her wedding dresses were being made. About five hundred invitations were sent to relatives and friend*, many of whom assembled at the church to witness the tying of the nuptial knot. When young Milliner went for bis bride, who was stopping In the city, the mother announced that her daughter had deckled not to marry him Tbe poor girl waa in tears and explained thit she had not given him up from choioe, but in obedience to th» communis of her mother. The announcement was carried to the church, whan the friends took their departure. This evening the scandal was further complicated by the statement* of a gentle m tu whose name oould not be obtained, and Mrs. B. C. Franklin. The latter lived with her husband at a Wabash avenue (Chicago) boarding housa In rummaging through the o d closet of their room one night, Mr. Franklin found among tbe refuse a musty old package of letters and gave them to his wife They proved to be the correspondence of a wealthy man to a married woman offering her all manner of inducements in the way of dresC and luxuries if she would leave her husband and live with him. Mrs. Franklin now remembers that the names were Phillips and Kioe. Mr. and Mr*. Rice formerly oocapted the same room and Mrs. Rice inadvertently lelt the telltale correspondence behind. As a result of the conspiracy which Phillies is accused of having incubated, Mrs. Rice, who claimed to have been married to Rioe at Hockford, Ills,, in 18eD0, was divorced in a Chicago oourt on this ground of cruelty and at Phillip*' expense. Now comes the most startl.ng feature of this peculiar cine. 'ihe gentleman informant who appeared in the plot lias known Rice for nineteen yoars, and says he was never marred to the alleged Mrs. Rice-Phi Hips, uut that he has a wife in an Il.lnou own wiom he married in 18T6, and by whom he has three children. Ha has always fai.h-fuliy su| ported his family, thoug C he has not lived with them for years, if tun be truu Ms. Philips was divorced w.thout uaving bean married. She has failed so far to procure a bondsman, and Phillips Bays be v.-iii pro oc ate her to the end. He is a prominent me.nber of tbe Chicago board of trade and a noted c.ub man. C. F. Huntington Before Congress. Washington, Feu. 4.—Mr. C. P. Huntlog.on baa addressed a letter to tbe l ouse committee on Pac flc railroad* in which he ■ay* the Thurman met la a failure, and seems to him to have b«u conceived in pique and carried through by political ambition. He expresses a willingness of the stockholders pt the Central Pacific to submit tLelr case to a committee of disinterested persons, either as arbitrators or advisors of the government. * "I hare gone thus In detail that I might emphasize the unwisdom of enacting law* directing the construction of public building* without careful investigation to learn exactly what the preeent and prospective needs of the government may be as to a building at any particular place. This investigation can always . be made by the executive department in a short time and at small expense if bongress so desires, and would result in economy of expenditure and more satisfactory publio buildings than will be the case if the present system is continued."ment the Ausl dwell upon the evei^increating paternalism of the German government, as administered by Rmperor William and Prinee Bismarck. It 1s recognised that, despite hli harshness of me'hod, Bismarck in all his measures seeks alone to increase the safety and strength of his people. The many congratulatory letters received by the chancellor from Austrians since his recent speech in the landtag is a surprising Indication of the feeling just referred to. Tour correspondent's attention was called to one of these epistles, which was published by a Berlin paper, though the editor was not allowed to state that it had been addressed to Bismarck. The fact that it was permitted to be published at all Indicates that Germany is not inclined to frown upon tbe nascent aspirations for Teutonic union which It voices. The writer says: "Never had tbe house of Hapsburg such cause for alarm as when the great welder of German uni y gave terrible voice in the larltigto tbe sentiment: 'Germany for tbe Germans.' Tbe Germans of Austria sigh for the leadership of their great raee k.nsmin. Alas, that we cannon call him countryman. He it is who will open new provino.Cs, expelling the aliens, and giving homes to Germans. How different thi Hppsbur*, seeking new Slav prov.ncee in Bosnia Servla. Herzegovina. We are overwhelmed with these foreigners. Our brethren across the border have a father, we only a master Oh, uni&erl speak the word of pan-Ger- "The world is now so full of rascal* that any bold enterprise is looked upon with suspicion, while the very men who noff clamor Against it would have been glad to gel in the back way to the ground floor, or wliat Col Loonev calls 'the bed rock.' The only thing wrong," said the doctor, "with the Pan Electric company is the failure of Garland and o*ier be t-rocked men to keep their contract to procure a charter, for the stoc'.: was chi fly given them for that purpose—for procuring a gre it charter, instead oi developing themselves into mere patent a outs and pocketing over 50 per cent, from all state righto. If they carried out this scheme, or would now carry oitc iha agreement, we would all have large fortunes. As it is, we have made only about $40,000 to (50,009 in caCh and hold in addition but a quarter of the stock issued to local companies, say about $2,000,000." Verdict Against an Insurance Company. Boston. Feb 4. —The jury gave n verdict for tbe defendant in tbe oaae of John Lifally against the Boy.stoj insurance comp my to recover $l,100on groceries and confectionery burned at Stockton, lie., in April, 18S4. This is the oase in which H VV. Colson, the notorious produce swindler, made nrtidavit that the building coiaiumg the s ock in question was fired to defraud tho insurance companies.  Advancing Wages to Spinners. Ignorlng tbe Conference. Fall Rivxr Mass , Feb. 4.— The many thousand operatives in the border city are rejoicing over a successful termination ol their several months' struggle for an increase of « ag* -i. NyaCK. N. Y., Feb. 4.—The Rev. George R Bristol" will preach ui Van Houtan s hall, Spring Valley, N. Y., ,Du Sunday next. A major.ty qf his members held a meetiug recently and decided to ignore tbe comerencs and run a Congregatfo ai church "on their own boon" as soon as s ttl -ient funds can be raided. 6Dteps are to tnken immediately to erect a church on u pi ) of ground on Main stree.. whicb »nD p e sen led by o le of Br is- ors ardent admirers who was racently off-red $S00 for the ground, wh.ch be refused, i.ut be willingly donates it for church Van Houtan 8 bad will seal 500 psrbon , and it is surmised that every seat will be niled Selling Impure Drugs. State Senator Howard, secretary of the Spinners' union, hai just issued a red hot circular, calling a meeting of the spinners for Saturday night to vote on «■ strive. At 2 p.m. ths board of trad) met and their committee reported favoring a 10 per cent, advance the first Monday in April, provided the difference between thj cost and selling price of clo.h is no leis thin now. After two hours animated discussion the board voted to a 1 vance wages 10 per cent unconditionally March 1. The ink was hardly dry on Howard's manifesto when the joyful news -pread over the city, causing i he greatest surprise and gladness everywhere. it is reported that manufacturers in New Bedford, Lowell, Lawrence and other places will lollow au t. Kiw Yobk, Feb. 4.—At the meeting of the state board of health at Albany the chen.itts from different portions of tbe state, to investigate thi matter, reported that many were ee.ling cr La in below tiie reguar scalj of purity. They were ordered to inform such druggists that by thus underselling these drugs they placed themselves amenable to tbe laws. 1 he gentlemen who e name-1 have been mi* 'd i.pin the Pau Telephone scandal privately have made efforts to justify them scivbs to t heir friends. They say now that the reasoul his trouble has come upon them is that iba Rogerse*, shortly after the or(tnizaiion of the company, secretly made eiforis to dispose of .he stock, and d.d sell s jme; that theyoppoed the sale of any of the stock end are not responiiole fur the action of the Rogerses. They are heapiug uniimi e I a-use on the head, of thj members of the Rogers family. At least this has been their policy. With the publicat.on of iheir interesting business corresp liiientv, ih y have bee i unusually quiet and have avoiaed as much as po sible any discussion, "'ihey are squirming fearfully." said one of the Rsi ub.ican senators, "and I do not blame them a bit.' A Democratic congressman, speaking of The World's acaon iu exposing the Pan company, said: "i admlra The World's pluck. The only salvation tor the Democratic party is for it to expose rottenness in its own ranks whenever it exist*. The action of the R publican press is all that saved the Republican party at tha time of the whisky ring exposure." Priests May Marry. Paris, Feb. 4.—The court of appeals ai Amie. s, has decided that Catholic priests may legally ma ry, and that the cuddren borne of such unions are legitimate, l'ne o jurt of cassation, iu 1S48, dec d d tbis quejton in exac ly the opposite way, but ihe French auu.or.tied h iv never yet interfered to prevent or nullify the marriages of priests. Cleveland, O., Feo 4.—A mixed wrestling rtuuch uetween M-rvine Thompson and Thomas Canuon. chain -ion of illino.s, lUok place at the Academy o: Music. Tue match was lor the ue»t three iu live falls, o e collar and e bow, two Grasco-Roman and two catch-as-catch-ca:i. Cannon won tue first iu fifteen m nutes, Thompson the second. The third, collar an i elbow in harness, was won by Canuon iu two and one-half minutes. i he fourth, catch-as-catch can, was won by Cannon in a bout, giving him the match, ihe contest was for the gate receipts. Wrestling: for Gate Receipts. CONDENSED NEWS. Governor Forak r has abolished tbe pol'C* commission of Cincinnati for appointing liU.iko steerers on tbe fores. luauUm." Seven families at Cornnelisville coke region were put out of houses occupied wnicb be.oug to the operators in tbe coke industry. Ejecting Strikers. This letter is accompanied by an editorial condemnation of its exlxavagani language, tnis evidently being thought necessiry in order to avoid any unpleasant inquiries from Austrian authorities. But its utter anc -s will nevertheless have their due effect. There are indications in Bismarck's pist bi-tory of a 'atent desire to even.ually bring all the German speaking races into the German confederation, and any policy looking in that direction would certainly receive the secret aid of tbe czar, as it would weaken one of the strongest opponents of Rusda's progress toward pan-Slavism and a southern coast line. Uniontown, Pa., Feb. 4.—Twenty writi of ejectment of as many families from the house* of H. C. Frick, at Leitb, were placed in the hands of the sheriff. But thro - families have been evicted. A number ol others were allowed to remain, promising to yield possession at once. Collision With a Hand Car. 1 he New Jersey senate, by a vote of 16 to 4. opposed congressional action on the question of a radroad bridge across Staten lalauJ sound. Rochester, Fob. 4.—A freight train on the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia railroad ran into a hand car propelled by a party of sectiou hands, near the city limits. Ail the men except one, John Butler, jumped in time to escape injury. Butler was caught b.-tvre n tue hand car and the locomotive pilot and crushed to death. She sheriff and his posse have gone to the Trotter work-*, where they will eject a number of families. The weather is intensely cold. The sufferings of those already evicted are painful to witness. Some of them have been taken into the houses of neighbors, while others are huddled together, with their few effects, in the snow, their only protection from the wind and weather being a few bed clothe?. Tue February term of the United States e«iurt opened at Fort ti.nith. Ark., wi.h 163 3i iininal cases on the docket, of which riue.y-nine are for murder. Stove Manufacturers. Louisville, Fe.i. 4 —The iourteenth annual meeting of the National associa.iou of siove m inufuuturei's nut in this city. One hundred an.l fifty delegates were present from ali parts of the United Stages. President George Band*, of Aioany, N. Y., delivered the annual address, after which the following officer.; were elected for the ensuing year: 1'resident, J. L. Smyser, Louisville; vice-presidents, Jesse Orr, Reading. Pa; D. 8. Ramsay, New York; treasurer, H. T. Peck bum; secretary, W. L. Bridgeford, Louisville. A powder house oonnected with the con- J true lion of the Croton aqueduct exploded, njuring Cornelius O Brien, Emma Edwards, m l killing a man name unknown. Chattanooga, Fob. 4. —The heaviest iinow storm known lor years prevailed throughout east Teuneuee. At Oienmary it is imported three feet deep, and all trains on the Cincinnati Southern radroad are blocked. Two feet of snow fell at Tuscumbia, Ala., and no train i are moving on the Memphis and Charleston railroad. Snow Blockade In the South. Another Democratic member said: "I don't know what to think of Garland; every one admij-ed him, I think, more than any other member of Cleveland's cabinet. He seemed go s.raightforward and honeat. The love of money, though, has ruined better men than he. I think the opinion is growing fast that Mr. Garland ought to resign." The New Has Refuse to Work. A mar1 dog at Canons, Kan., bit A. W. Diggs, flour merchant, and Mr. Hoke, miller; also several horses and dogs were bitten before the dog waa killed. ScOTTDALK, Pa., Feb. 4.—The phase of the coke strike has entirely changed, and the quiet during the past few days has been broken. The plans of the operator* to import new laborers, and then evict the striking tenant* from the companies' houses, and filling their places with fresh arrival*, have met with a backset. Forty-five of the forei*:' laborers who were brought on and put to work at the Standard mine have thrown down their picks. Guards have been placed around the pits, who refuse to permit any one to come out or to enter the mine. A lew of the fresh arrivals at the Valley work* are at work, but the others refuse. A secret meeting of Hungarians, said to be of a communistic nature, is now in session at this place. Socialistic circulars are being distributed throughout the region. A proposition is about being made to a member of the coke syndioate that tjhe miners will each donate him one, two or three days' wages to secure his withdrawal Jfcroa the fyndicate. A Monument to Patnaiu. Tue religious quarrel at Trenton over the kind of services to be held at the Reform school will be resumed before a joint committee of the house and senate next Tuesday.Hartford, Feb. & —The resolution &p-propriating $10,000 for the erection of a monument to the memory of Gen. Israel Putnam came up in the bouse of representatives. Speeches eulogistic of the soldierly qualities of Gen. Putnam and of his K™*' services during the revolution were nwb by Speaker Tibbetts, Representatives Searles,oi Putnam; Hammers!/, of Hartford, Lucas, of Goihen. Representative King, of Naugatuck, made a vigorous opposition to the resolution. The resolution was passed with one dissenting vote (King.) A Big Oil Well Opened. T.nti O., Feb. 4 —The largest oil well in the Ohio field was developed on the Moor* Sc Brotnertoa territory. Oil (hot into the air to the height of seventy feet when iha tools were withdrawn. They were replaced to keep the oil down. This well will exceed ISO barrels a day. United Order of Workmen. Washington, Feb. 4.— Secretary Manning has draftedja letter in response to the st (iute resolution asking for the papers conne ;ted with the appointment of D. F. Bradlei m internal revenue collector in South Carolina. The secretary stale* that by direction of Che president, be deoiinee to furr nish the papers requested, as. they contain nothing which, by being made public, would subserve the public good. Bradley was appointed by the president last April on the recommendation ot Senators Hampton and Butter. Alannlng's Keply. The Ohio senate conference committee have designated Judge Thurman and R. A. Harrison to decide ad questions,of law that may arise during the investigation of the Hamilton county oontested seat*. SYRACUSE, Feh. 4. —At the morning session of the grand lodga of the United Order of Workmen the report of the finance committee was read. It recommends appropriations for the fiscal year aggregating fl8,eiaia Grand Master Workman Donnell appointed a special committee on subordinate lodgj by-laws. The grand lodge then elected Isaac B. Barrett, of Albany, grand mwr workman, and J. H. Meech, of Buffalo, grand foreman, both unanimously. ' The board of supervisors of Richmond coun y, Stamn Island, have adopted strong resolutions /vDn/f*mn^ng the action of the New Jersey legislature in opposing the proposed raiiroad bridge across the sound. St. Louis, Feu 4 — ihe first game in tb« St. Louis series of the world's C ham. e obese match between Mr. Zaekertort ant) Harr MeDn!tz was played at the Harmonic club yesterday afternoon. The game »ai won uy Steiniis. The score bow standai bteinita, 3; Zaekertort, & The Chees Match. Providence, Feb. 4.—The dedication ol the new MasC nic temple took plaice in th* presence of an immense concourse. Th« ceremonies consisted of the regular dedicatory usual with an oration, by Rev. Brother George McClellan Fide, A. M., rector of St Stephens church, of thisoityL Dedicating a Temple. Patrick Walsh arrived from England. His brother was hung for killing Sergt. Cavanagh, of the Irish constabulary, ana he was sentenced to penal servitude for lite, but after Ave /ears' service it was discovered that be waa innocant and be was discharged. \\ a HIVOTON Feb. 4—The president has sent to ie s nate the loilowing nominar Uom for postmasters: Silas L. Erwin, New MUford, Conn.; John -Icilin W. Campbell, Glen, Cove, N. Y.; Sam„. i E. Lipplncott, Burlington, N J.; Wllijra W. Rankin, Lockhaven, Pa.; Darius Il eh-r Ktrandaburg, Pa.; John A. McButh, Postmasters Nominated. After the Oevinsr. A Mas* Botood. Earthquake Shocks In Shore Towns. Boaroir, Feb 4.—Cyrus W. Field. II W. Pearsall and James 8. Wormser, of New York, petitioned the legislature to investigate the governor's sale of the state bonds ot the New York and New England RalYoad, and indemnify them tor their loss in failing to secure the bonis au 1 for tin injury raftered on account of the governor's ''false is ports and representation about them " Four armad men boarded a train on the Missouri Pacific railroad at Hillsboro, l ex.. Mid amused themselves by drtving the passengers out of one car and firing around promiscuously. One was fluilly too drunk to get away, and his arrest revealed the Identity of the outlaws, who proved to belong to the traditional "Bast families, safe." Rapid Citt, Dak., Feb.4.—Thestege trojs Dead wood was robbed of its regJetered mail. Mew Gas Supply at Washington. Bridgeport. Conn., Feb. 4.— At midnight a distinct earthquake was felt in ail shore towns between here and Port Chester. At 2:20 a. m. two moro severe shocks were felt, which shook building} and rattsed windows and dishes. They were preceded by a low tumbling.  Washington, Feb. 4.—A bill is to be introduced for a new gas company in Washington. It is understood that tUs Equitable Gas company, of Nm York, is tsshmd |ths Weather Indications. Washisoton, Feb. 4—For FrUay, fair weath r is indicated for New England, ilia middle Atlantic and south ttlantlo states end the lower lake ngl—.