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              ' *. • • • ' *" • if*. l5l.« - ' » ; _ %taming J®: (Ea-jette. r- ' KTTMEXR 1807 Satabllahad 1800- f PITTSTON, PA., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUABY 2. 1887. i rwoolun J Tan 0*ntaP*r Wasfc AN ARMY IDLE. FIGHTING IN THE 80UDAN. NATIONAL FINANCES. . NEW ENGLAND AGRICULTURISTS. MARRIED BY PROXY. THli AFtEftNOON'8 D1SPATCHE8 The Italian and Abyssinian Troop* Ct- Th» Annul Mae tins Bald and K*hlhl- NEARLY 8IXTY-FIVE THOUSAND MEN INVOLVED IN THE STRIKE terly Houted. THE SECRETARY URGES IMMEDIATE tlon Provided For. A QUEER POINT OF LAW RAISED BY Pom Office Bokkerjr. Ron, Feb. S.—Premier Depretis informed the Italian chamber of deputies yesterday that there had recently been severe fighting in that part of the Soudan whose occupation was being attempted by Italy in understanding with England. He said this fighting had resulted in almost complete disaster to tho Italian forces engaged in conjunction with the Abyssinian troops In the work of attempting to release Hassala, w hich has been besieged by hostile Arabs ever since the beginning of the Soudan war by the late El Mahdl. (Join® into details the premier said that Rasolula, the general commanding the Abyssinian troops, accompanied by a small number of Italian soldiers, attacked Saati on Jan. 25 last. A hotly fought battle ensued. It lusted three hours, and the army of Rasalula was repulsed. The Italian loss was trilling and that of the Abyssinians was unknown. Next day three companies of Italian troops left Monkullo to carry provisions to Saati. The Abyssinians again made an attack, and a desperate battle was waged. The Abyssinians were defeated, and the Italian troops were simply annihilated. Only ninety wounded reached Massowah after the battle. This statement made a profound sensation in the chamber. Premier Depretis tlieu added that the Italian commander recalled the' troops from the advance and concentrated them at Massowah. The Radicals laughed ironically at this. The government now proposed a bill for an appropriation of $1,000,000, with which to send Italian re-enforcements to Massowah. The chamber at once approved the bill by an almost unanimous vote. Some Radicals having cheered sarcastically in allusion to the valor of the Abyssinian troops the whole house rose and cheered the government The Radicals cried out "We must retire." The majority rejoined with cries of "Never," "Cowards," etc. The city last night was in a state of excitement bordering on freniy over the news from the Soudan. ACTION BY CONGRESS, Boston, Feb. 8.—The annuel meeting of the New England Agricultural society was held yesterday. President George fl. Loring, in hit Introductory address, stated that Massachusetts, although a manufacturing state, has nearly 40,(DO farms, worth nearly •150,000,000. It was voted that the annual exhibition for 1887 of the society be held at Worcester, in connection with the Worcester Agricultural society. AN EXAMPLE. Jersey City, Feb. f— m'sked burlilirii attemp ed to rob llii' postofflce here last olarbt. Th«y bound and gagged llie one armed watchman, and tke janitor and his family. The burglars worked at tbe bank safe Ave hours, but did not succeed in opening tbe safe, They took forty dollars from the cash drawer and a lot of mail matter. In ud Around Hew Tork City Alan*—A General Movement Along tho Atlantic Coast Talked Of—To Kefuse to Fay Which He Argues to be Neeessary to Prevent a Serious Contraction at the Currency—He Wants to Pay the Oreea- V Marriage Is Simply a Civil Contract Then It May be Conducted by Prosy, So Thinks an Illinois Justice —Tan back Debt. Znndt-Sples. Kent. New York, Feb. 2.—The army of strikers wu increased yesterday by the strike of nearly all the railroad freight handlers ia this city. Jersey City and Hoboken. The number was put down at 5,000, but fully as many men were thrown out of work in consequence in this and neighboring cities. The strike practically placed transportation at a standstill. In the area affected by yesterday's strike about 80,000 men are usually employed, but there does not seem to be 1,003. Washington, Feb. 2.—Secretary Manning link nent a communication to Speaker Carlisle in reply to recent resolutions of ilio house of representatives respecting the reissue of treasury notes and tbe debt reduction of United States notes, etc. The first of these resolutions inquired whether any money appropriated to the sundry civil bill or any other government money had been expended for the purpose of issuing treasury notes of large denominations in lieu of notes of small denominations canceled or reissued. Secretary Manning, after observing that he finds no authority to reissue treasury bonds, says that if a more patient scrutiny of the statutes at large disclosed such autyoitry he would not, except under fresh instructions from congress, conceive it a duty to expBiid money for such a purpose; and then adds that none of the appropriations referred to, nor any other money belonging to the government, has been expended for such purposes. The secretary then goes into a long argument in favor of paying the greenback debt, and a rejfeal of the compulsory silver purchase law. That another species of our outstanding indebtedness, namely the legal tenders or greenbacks, known in law as United States notes, are equally with what the law designates as treasury notes, beyond any need or excuse for reissues, that temporary notes, which are a debt of principal only, likes notes which are a debt of principal and interest, should alone ba cashod and cancelled from abundant and superfluous coin in hand not now capable of being applied to any other use. This is so obvious a principle of sound finance, such as a prudent citizen would apply to his private affairs, that any secretary of the treasury would- be subject to just reproach for departure therefrom by reissues were it not that the act of May 81, 1878, seems to require of him that fiscal misstep. And I beg leave to submit to the house the question whether, among many other reasons for its repeal, the contraction of the currency sought to be averted by that act can now in any other and better way be prevented than by its repeal. The fact that Ihe $346,681,016 of greenback debts Is a greenback currency is so far from being a reason against its payment that it is tbe reason which makes its payment and destruction necessary—not without a better currency to take its place, but such a currency is at hand. But also a contraction of tbe currency should be avoided. The substitution of a better currency for the greenbacks runs no hazard of contraction. But the oonsequences of not using our coin surplus thus are serious. For in currency of some sort will tbe year's taxes be paid, and the excess of receipts over the authorized disbursements of the treasury would be the measure of the contraction of the currency. This contraction can be avoided by appropriations for an extravagant reckless outpour and expense like that of war. It can also be avoided by the payment of debt. The first remedy need not be discussed; it is of course a remedy the most unworthy of the people's representatives. The second remedy is all that remains. Chicago, Feb. 2.—The Star-Telegram, organ of the Labor party, and said to be the mouthpiece of the Anarchist*, prints a remarkable story. It says that when Sheriff Matson about two weeks ago iiw»-l t!Dr nH«r to the officials of the county j.i i iu. to uJiuit Miss Nina Van Zandt to see her lover, August Spies, it was thought that the matter of the proposed marriage was settled. Miss Van Zandt, however, remembered the sheriff's utterance, that if she were Spies' wife she might be allowed the same privileges that were given to the wives of the other prisoners. So she had looked up the law about marriages by proxies. Justice Engelhardt, of Jefferson, who has denounced the verdict in the Anarchist trials in public speeches, was consulted, and he was of the opinion that a marriage by proxy would be binding in law if the proxy was made out in due legal form. He was commissioned to draw np a form of proxy, and last Friday it was ready. The following ware chosen to fill vacancies in the board of trustees: New Hampshire, K. C. Shirley, of Goffstown; Greenleaf Clarke, of Atkinson; Jesse Gault, of Hooksett; C. Hiram Hayes, of Portsmouth. Connecticut, T. S. Gold, of West Cornwall; H. N. Weed, of Stamford; J. A. Kirk ham, of Newington; W. R. Hurd, of Bristol. Vermont, F. L. Houghton, of Putney; T. 8. Drew, of Burlington; George W. Hooker, of Brattleboro; John B. Meade, of Randolph. Mains, Z. A. Gilbert, of Greene; H. Strickland, of Bangor: J. R Bod well, of Hallowell; JohnM. Adams, of Portland. Massachusetts, J. A. Harwood, of Littleton; Heram Saunders, of Haverhill; George Noyee, of Boston; Francis H. Appleton, of Boston. The Rhode IAand members remain unchanged. THE HAWAIIAN TREATY. Tbe Peealdent Krpiles to n Inquiry Foi Washiikvtoit, Feb. 2.— In answer to Mr. Wallace's resolution calling for Information about the extension of tbe Hawaiian treaty by the senate the president sent to the house a communication in whioh he say* that no convention or treaty whatever has bean ratified and agreed to by the senate "and- president, as cited in the resolutions. He also transmits the draft of the supplemental treay which was submitted to the senate providing for the extension of the terms of the Hawaiian treaty for seven years. Accompanying this is a report of the secret proceedings of tbe senate showing the supplemental treaty was adopted by a two-thirds vote with an amendment ceding to the United States Pearl river harbor for a coaling station. Information. Accurate figures as to the number of men out on strike, or who are idle in consequence of the strike, cannot be obtainad, but the foJ lowing table is believed to be correct: Bayonne and Bergen Point  Brooklyn  Brooklyn, E. D  Hobokeu  Hunter's Point  Jersey City  New York  Perth Amboy  Port Johnson  Btaten Island.. South Ambo" Weehawker Yonkers 5,000 10,030 8,000 MX) 8,000 4,000 .35,000 . 000 500 CONGRESSIONAL. Miss Van Zandt and Gretcben Spies, the lister of August, went to Jefferson on Saturday and got the proxy from Justice Eugelbardt Then they went to the county jail and met the wife of Spies' brother Ferdinand, who. with Mrs. Wendland, witnessed the signature of Spies to the document, by whiefa be gave full authority to his brother, Henry W. Spies, to represent him at the ceremony. The party, reinforced by Miss Van Zandt's parents and Henry and Chris Spies, brothers of August, returned to Justice Engelhardt's office. It was. after 8 3'clock h»y that time, and the justice took another look at (he law to convince himself .that a marriage in this form would be legal Then the ceremony was performed, Henry Spies answering to the name of August Vincent Theodore Spies, and thus by proxy Spies was married to Miss Van Zandt. The House Loses a Senate Bill—Against Mrs. Logan. 800 2,000 aoo Washington, Feb. a—In the senate the (object of the loss in the house of the Northern Pacific land forfeiture bill came up. A statement of the proceedings of the conference committee up to the disappearance of the bill and the replacing of it with a copyfurnished by the senate conferees was read; also a letter from Mr. Oobb, chairman of the house conferees, stating that he had not seen the bill since he reported it to the bouse at the last seesiofi. Mr. Dolph, of. the senate conferees, stated that as soon as the Mil was missed he directed a thorough search to be mado, but failed to find any trace of the missing bill He understood that there was no difficulty in substituting a copy at this stage of proceedings and he proposed to take this course. As the senate has agreed to the Amendment it now remains for the Hawaiian government to do the same before the treaty can be ratified, which fact explains away the apparent contradiction in the statement made by the president and the action of the senate in secret session. Estimate.! total In that vast army are 'longshoremen, freight handlers, clerics, and coal handlers and trimmers, grain handlers and trimmers, bag sewers, boatmen, engineers, firemen, dock and deck hands, coopers and oil yard employes. It was expected that the employes on the eastern divisions of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Central railroads would strike. 54,60(1 The Wages of Sin. Winnipeg, Man, Feb. 9.—In the preliminary examination of Btackstone, the Portland defaulter and forger, Charles Allen, Blackstone's successor in the bank, was examined. He swore to bogus entries in the account book as being In . Blackstone's handwriting, and identified the prisoner's handwriting in a letter which he wrote to President Thomas last December confessing to having stolen 175,680, which, he lost in mining stocks. The letter concluded: "ihey say I stood high in th.. church. That's a lie. I have not attended church for two years. I have had too great a weight of sin on my conscience. Let no man tell me that the wages of sin is not death. Instead of being an exile and a fugitive from justice, I might to-day, if I had not done wrong, been a bank cashier." Since incarceration Blacks tone has grown pale and haggard. His wife and child have gone to St Paul. The prisoner is likely to be extradited. Tbey did not strike, however. District Assembly No. 40 did not order them to strike, hence the matter of striking devolved upon themselves. While willing to talk about the general strike they could not be induced to say a word about a strike on their roads. District 48 says they can be depended upon if a crisis should come. CABINET GOSSIP AT WASHINGTON, KreMwan Scott and the Treasury. Mr. Whitney, Minister Pendleton, Con* It is said by one very intimately related to the contracting parties that the ceremony was performed at the earnest and pressing desire of Miss Van Zandt, and that August Spies simply let her have her own sweet will about it Her main object was that she might be able to see her lover, or rather her husband. The same-person is authority for the statement that Mr. Van Zandt thinks very highly of Spies, but is too seriously affected and nervously excited just at present to give any opinion of the matter. Mr*. Spies, the mother of August, is also well satisfied.Wabington, Feb. 2.—Mr. Manning is not going to hurry in his leaving the cabinet. It is not his present intention to go out until after congress adjourns, and the president has not as yet given the subject of his successor very much attention. The house committee on invalid pensions reported adversely the senate bill granting pensions to Mrs. Gens. Logan and Blair. THI FREIGHT HANDLERS. Cregaa Calls It Victory. The 800 freight handlers employed on pier No. 14 were on strike when working hours began yesterday. The men employed by the Pennsylvania road on piers worked up to 12 o'clock, when they sent a committee to wait upon Superintendent Bowman. They had already learned that the company had refused to raise their pay from seventeen cents to twenty cents an hour, but they wanted to know directly from the company. Mr. Bowman announced the company's decision and then the men announced theirs, which wits that they would strike. Nicw York, Feb. A—The Republican county committee met last night and received the report of the sub-committee which has invested the ohargeu that Mike Cregau sold out Allen Thorndike Rice in the Tenth congressional district and secured Oen. Spinola's election. The report found dregan guilty There is nothing in the story that Mr. Whitney may be offored this place, although he was the president's original choice for the position. Mr. Whitney is carrying out a certain work in his own department and desij'os to finish it rather than take up the work of a new department duringthe last half of the administration. his expulsion. The vote on the report was: Yeas, 315; nays, 95; but as 401 votes are necessary for expelling a member the vote has no practical effect. Cregan's friends claim a yictory and argue that if it had been thought advisable to expel him a quorum would have attended the meeting.  Lawyer Zeisler, attorney for Spies and the ither condemned Anarchists, was astonished when asked about the marriage. "I do not believe it," he said. "Certainly I never Ireamed of any such thing, and had It happened I should certainly have known *bout it" Asked as to bieDopinion on the legality of such a marriage in Illinois, Mr. Zeisler consulted the statutes for fifteen minutej and then answered: "I incline to the belief that such a marriage is legal, although the statutes are silent regarding any such thing. Bat marriage is a civil contract, and a man can-make a civil contract by bis ageut, who is his proxy in the transaction. Just bow the courts would decide on such a case, in the event of either of the parties to the contract attempting to wriggle out of it, I am not prepared to say." Will Governor Foraker Resign? Minister Pendleton's presence in New York lias connected his name with a possible appointment in the cabinet. Those who ore close to the president say there is no prospect of Mr. Pendleton'* being appointed. It is said by those who Bhould know that the president inclines to promote Mr. Faircbildr llie assistant secretary. If he should go outside of his administration circle he would be inclined to apponit Congressman William L. Scott. There is no thought at present upon the pnrt of the president of making any other cabinet changes. Columbus, O., Feb. 9.—Governor Foraker publicly announces that on account of professional and business interests he will under They all went out except about twenty. Clerks, ohecker* and other employes went out. Mr. Bowman said he would have no trouble whatever in filling the strikers' places. Several hours after the men struck the Pennsylvania Railroad company notified Its shippers that It would be impossible to forward freight consigned to the eastern steamship lines owing to the strike. be a oandidato for re- election. His declaration causes considerable interest in political circles. An effort will be made to have him reconsider hfcr determinar tion. The most startling rumor is that he may resign to take advantage of the removal of Judge Hoadly to New York and go to Cincinnati at once. The governor denies the report that he has lost a large sum of money through Tennessee land speculation. The Old Colony Harassed. Nxwpoai, R 1, Feb. Si—1the Old Colony steamer City of Brockton was delayed here nearly twelve hours getting coal. When the steamer arrived from Fall river tta regular coal handlers were busy working on the repairs of the steamer Bristol and the freight handlers were asked to load her with coal They refused, saying it was not their work and left the boat. Coal stoovelers from Fall river were brought here, but they also refused, and it was not until 5 o'clock last evening that the company could secure men. The company intend, it is said, to order the steamers Old Colony and City of Fall River brought here, fearing trouble at New York. Work progressed on the Erie piers until noon. Up to that hoar the freight handlers had not received an answer to the demands for twenty cents an hour. Committees called upon the superintendents and were told that the company could not afford the advance asked, as it would increase the expenses tflO,- 000 a year. OF INTEREST TO CANADA. Carrying Ocean Malls. The American Government Experiment- London, Feb. 2.—The question of carrying the American mailt ha* bean settled last, and contract# have been signed by the terms of which the White Star steamers will take malls on Wedneklay of each week, and the Canard line every Saturday, both calling at Queenstown. The contract with the Inman line provides that that line shall carry mails on steamers sailing each Tuesday. There will alao be a regular mail servioe from Southampton every Thamlay, if the project is sufficiently idorsed. , ■■f ing With Dynamite. "What debt then shall we payf" the secretary asks, and goes on to argue that it would be an inexcusable extravagance to dimiuish the bonded debt not yet due by anticipating purchase at a high premium when undor the operations of the sinking fund law. Every dollar of the national debt, greenbacks and all, can be cancelled by 1008. Anticapatory payment of funded debt at a high premium, the secretary says, while successfully getting out of the treasury its currency .tax surplus, and so preventing contraction in that form, is that method nevertheless which would contract the currency in another form by too suddenly diminishing national bank circulation based on the funded debt. It is, therefore, necessary now, not only to reduce taxation in order to prevent surplus tax collecting from being currency contracting again and again, but it is necessary also to employ our present and unavoidable tax surplus in the payment not of funded but of the unfunded debt. Great extravagance of needless ex- IKHise or serious monetary trouble can both so be avoided. The people** representative*, by action before adjournment, can relieve the secretary of the treasury from the bad choice between those now present alternatives. The surplus coin and bullion which will now remain in the treasury, after all the the bonds subject to call have been paid und before the Fiftieth congress will assemble, together with the proceeds of surplus taxation which will flow into the treasury before any possible reduction of taxes by the present congress can take effect, constitute a sum which can and will be got out of the treasury into the hands of the people, where it belongs, by the payment of the greenback debt. Coin certificates are a ready and superior paper money to the greenbacks. The substitution can be effected as a mere matter of treasury administration whenever two indispensible conditions are first fulfilled by congress. The repeal of the compulsory silver purchases is the first and indispensible condition, and the repeal of the compulsory poet redemption reissues of United States notes is the next and only other condition. These two repeals are together necessary, the secretary insists, to prevent on the one hand an extravagant expense, or on the other hand a considerable contraction of the currency. Boston, Feb. 2.—A Washington special to The Traveller soys: "There has been a series of dynamite experiments at the navy yard here, conducted with the greatest vecrecy, for alraosf three months, which bear significance. A prominent scientist cam* here from the west in November and asked to be permitted to conduct certain experiments at the navy yard for the purpose of perfecting a dynamite cartridge which could be used in ordinary ordnance and ship cannon. He was promptly received witli open arms and given the entry to the navy yard. Since that time experiments have keen progressing very satisfactorily, and it is said the development* will be brought to the attention of congress. The cartridges are for use in all kinds of guns, mortars and side arms, Ijesides upon rams. The secretary of the navy has secured the exclusive use of the invention for this government." "Why are you so positive in the belief that the marriage by proxy has not taken placer The men marched out. About ISO men had been eniployed at the foot of Chambers street and only twenty-flve remained at work. Superintendent Tilden said the strike seriously inconvenienced the company, but he thought he could get men to fill the strikers' place*. "Because," answered Zelsler, his face flushed and angry, " Spies well knows that his attorneys are utterly opposed to this silly marriage twaddle, and if he has given his consent to any such foolish scheme it ha* been given at bis peril" Justice Englehart, of Jefferson, said that The Star-Telegram story is true, and that the marriage by proxy took place precisely as described above. The justice declares the marriage legal and binding in every way, and says that he ooly performed the ceremony after carefully asoertainiig that the law would uphold such a marriage. No Plnkerton Men to be Allowed. Madison, Wis., Feb. a—In the senate last night bills were introduced making it a felony punishable by from four to eight years' imprisonment for any person, corporation or officer to hire armed Pinkerton men to guard property or suppress riot, the penalty to be visited on both employer and employe. The Milwaukee labor senator, Theodore Frits, introduced the bill and also one to prohibit a judge from punishing a prisoner for contempt who may publish a criticism of the court. There wero about seventy-five men at work ;at the Old Dominion pier and they had all the -work they could do. There were piles of freight in front of the pier entrance. Some .of It, particularly a pile of loenst wood, has been there a week. The company had a gang transferring the freight from the Ghiyandotte to the Seneca, which may leave to-day. THE OLD DOMINION BLOCKADED. PATSHSOir, N. J., Feb 2.—The expected strike of the 1,700 dyersrli&d helpers in the silk mills here did not occur. . Efforts are being made to compromise the differences between the employes and the mill owners, but a strike is still not impossible. Silk Dyera May Strike. A curious point is raised as to the relation of Spies' proxy, his brother Harry, to Miss Van Zandt in case the proxy should be declared void and the courts bold that the man and not the name was married, as has been held in cases where men tried to deceive women by marrying them under an assumed name and to shirk their responsibilities. Superintendent Bourne said the Guyandott* would be ready for sea in ten days. The company has seven boats, the principal one* being the City of Richmond, Old Dominion, Roanoke, Seneca and Guyandotte. Ocean Vemel Movements. Washington, Feb. 3.—For New England and middle Atlantic states, rain or snow, easterly winds, slightly warmer. Weather Indications. Qcrcnbtown, Feb. 8.—Arrived, Alaska, from New York. Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 2.—Mr. Zabriskie, of New York, has been in communication with the customs department concerning a project to estnblifb on Province island, in Lake Memphremagog, through which runs the international boundary line, an institution where worthy poor boys from crowded cities might enjoy summer recreation without cost to them. He has purchased about forty acres of land on the island and Is building a flue residence there. A New Yorker's Charitable Project. Hamburg, Feb. 2.—Arrived, Rhatea, from New York. Tho Lehigh Valley railroad men also ■truck. Agent K. S. Whitman told them that they would never get back again. Then he had the gates closed. The New Jersey Southern road freight handlers on pier No. 8 •truck. So it was on other piers and depots, except the New Tork Central men. London, Feb. 2.—The steamship Belgenland, from New York Jan. 33, for Antwerp, hi is passed the Scilly islands. J. X. Patter«on * Go's New York, Feb. 8.—The jury in the trial of ex-Alderman O'Neill for bribery in connection with the Broadway railroad fracbise returned a verdiet of guilty last night, after being out an hour and a half. Another Boodle Conviction. All orders left at J. E. Patterson A Co.'* re oeive prompt attention by ekilledrworkmen and satisfaction is guirsnteed to t{ie purchaser. This establishment ha* achieved a high reputation for the (futliiy of work sent out aud the prices charged are as low.aa the lowest GLA80OW, Feb. 3.—Arrived, State of Pennsylvania, from New York. Nxw York, Feb. 2.—Arrived, Auranla, from Liverpool; Edam, from Amsterdam. They met last night and decided to ask twety cents an hour. Should tbey fail to get • satisfactory answer they will probably join in the strike. Koyal Arch Masons. CONDENSED NEWS. Albany, Feb. 2.—The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons held their ninetieth convention in the Masonic temple last night The report of Grand Secretary Fox showed 189 chapters, with a registered membership of 15,256. The order of high priesthood was conferred on over fifty companions. Grand Lecturer George McGowan delivered an addrees.Capt William Gardner, Inventor of the Gardner gun, is dead. Excepting the French and Cunard lines the ocean steamship companies bad a hard time of it iu getting their freight on or off the vessels. There is no scarcity of men. The companies get more applicatious for work thau they can readily attend to, but the applicants cannot handle freight or do longshoremen's work. York, Feb. 2.—Interviews with leading bankers develope the fact that banks now generally require that demand notes be nmde payable In legal tender other than silver. This is understood to be a precautionary measure, in view of possible disturbance of coin values in event of war. Katlier Premature Alarm. The Monarch Insurance company, of Des Moines, la., has »;usj h ilded. ■Before the Usssi, - I* the time to buy real estate. I have several good bargain* in lot% dwellings and i Mines* places worth from $200 to $40,000, an 1 paying big return* on thp investment. Gall quick. G. B. TH0MP80*, Ag'«. The new Greelc i on Thursday next nuent will be opened Ci;ig George in person. The earnings of ti:e Mng Sing prison for January were $10,91)1.00; expenditures, $10,- 894.17. A member of District Assembly 40 said last might: AN ATLANTIC COAST STRIKE. Want to be Keleased. The Knlfhto Offer a Howard. Four members of Frank Morris' family, at Ithaca, N. Y., were poisoned by eating pickles. • That hacking cough can be so quickly cured iy Shiloh's Cure. We guarantee it. For sale by J. K. Fleming. Philadelphia, Fob. 'i —The sureties of Sheriff Rowan, of Philadelphia, have petitioned the legislature to be released from responsibility on their bonds. A committee was appointed to investigate and report. Rowan has been in an insane asylum for some time past. Nxw York, Feb. 2.—The Knights of Labor offer a reward of $500 for the detection of the person or persons who attempted to destroy the Old Dominion steamship Guyandotte. It being a question affecting the treasury it cannot oomu up for action before next Sunday, when the resolution to offer the reward will be adopted. ''Our Intention is, if a settlement ia not effected, to extend the strike along the whole Atlantic coast It is very likely that we will follow the policy recently adopted by the Nat'oual League of Ireland. It the strike ia not settled by Saturday thousands of Knights of Labor in this city and New Jersey will refine to pay rent Instead of paying landlords they will pay their money into the strike fund. A meeting of retail dealers will lie held to-inorrow to see if they can not force the strike to a close." The president, it to now sai.l, will make a general change in the cabinet when Secretary Manning retires. flOTAl Sam Bevins, a boy of 17, of Macon, Ga., murdered two boys, aged 8 and 10 years, In the woods near that city. He has confessed his crime. Tempestuous Sailing. Philadlphia, Feb. 3.—Incoming vermeil report having encountered very sever* weather. The German ship Fidelia reports losing one of her seamen on Jan. 24, and colliding with an unknown Italian bark on Jan. 80, during a dense fog, when fifty miles oil the Delaware capes. « Butler, Pa., Fib. 2 —Phillip* No. 8 watt on the Heids farm, quite a distance in «d-varce of present production, was drilled Into the sand this evening and started off at • 1,500 barrel a day gait There Is much excitement and a second Thorn creak expedeaoe is predicted. Aa OU Fever. The Eitglisb shareholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad company adopted a resolution at a meeting in declaring that the company should pay larger dividends on its net earnings. . Trenton, Feb. 8.—According to the conclusion of the Republican caucns the senate yesterday organised. Senator Fish was made president and Richard B. Reading secretary. Nothing was done, except to organize and adjourn. The house committee on the strike met at Elizabeth port to-day to investigate the causes and other features of the present coal handlers' strike. From here they will go to Pevth and South Amboy, Bergen 1'oiut, Jersey City and Weehawken. Evidence will be taken on both side*, from -the employers and employee, in order to And the attitude of each. They will submit a report on Monday night, and probably ask for more power. Mr. McDermott introduced a bill to pcotect the health of thoee employed in the manufacturing establishments and workshops of the state. To-day the contested election committee will meet at Trenton to take Important testimony in the W alter- Jones case. New Jersey Legislature. PRIVATE SECRETARIES. Secretary Bayard lias not yet transmitted to the senate the correspondence between his department and Geo. Jackson, late minister to Kexico. His slowness of action is causing unfavorable comment. A Measure Proposed to Increase the Number. Pittsburg, Feb. 8.—The executive board of the Miners' National assembly has arrived here to investigate the strike of Honongahela river miners. They say the strike was ordered without authority, and will try to induce the men to go to work. Nearly 6,000 men are out. Strike Wlthoat Authority. lUnnuunM to ke CI en*. Washington, Feb. a—The report ia favor of the bill providing clerks for senators and representative* who are not chairmen of committees oomments on the fact that many members are obliged to employ secretaries at titeir own expense, ami says: "Many of the representatives especially from the southern state*, are poor men and cannot maintain a luinily in Washington cn a less salary than that allowed by law. It is not to the intercut of the public at large that poor men ••f a high order of talent should be driven ami kept out of congress because of the meagrenem of the salary, and thus the business of legislation be intrusted to millionaires and men of wealth." Bath, N. T., Fab. a—The superintendent of the insurance department of the state baa recommended to the attorney general that the Union Mutual association of Bath be closed up, and that a receiver be appointed. Its assets are only $4,S4S, membership of 800, and unpaid death losses $40,000. The proprietor and publisher of Life, a London publication, has been arrested for libel on dQinplalnt of Dr. Bird, Lady Colin CampbelT# physician, because of certain articles reflectteg an Or. Bird published in the paper during the trial of the divorce suit WlH6 POWDER Absolutely Pure. Mr. Pendleton Wants a Change. An allegedplpt to save Spies and bis fellow Anarchists from death on the gallows has baan discovered by the Chicago polioe. The Bocialfcte in that city were preparing to dig a tunnel reaching to Spifls' cell. Drawings revealing the plan have been seized by the oolio*. Washington, Feb. S3.—There are reports that Mr. Pendleton desires to resign the German ministership and that he would like tc go upon the Interstate commerce commission. Sold for •«,OOO.OOA. Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 2.—Tbe entire streetcar syrtem of Minneapolis has been sold by Thomas Lowry to a syndicate of eastern capitalists represented by Lta, Higginson Cfc Co., of Boston. The consideration was #3,000,000. Capital Punishment in Maine. Augusta, Me, Feb. 2.—In the Maine legislature a petition has been received and signed by thousands of people In the eastern part of the state against capital punishment Dr. Augustus Rosenthal. a physician, of international reputation, baa been sent to the poor house in Dedham, Mass. At one time ha had n fortune which he spent In alms giving and works of oharity. Blindness and lorn of the use of his lower limb-; caused his poverty. Floods In Mow Hampshire. Prohibition la IMaa Nxw Yowc, Feb. 2.—Kara Miller, owner Of the Miller patent railroad car coupling, has commenced unit in tbe United States .•imiit court against the Pennsylvania Railv.*d company for (300,000 for lnfringment -of patent  Heavy Salt for lnfringment. Contocook, N. H., Feb. 2.—The mills here are unable to run, owing to the rise of water by the recent thaw. The ice has partly broken up At West Hopkinton the road on the rirer bank is several feet under water. The Contocook paper mills are stopped, the basement being a foot under water. Austin, Feb. 2.— In the lower house of the legislature tbe joint resolution proposing a prohibition amendment to the constitution came up on its third reading, and after some technical amendments waa passed by a vote of 80 to 3L A Publisher Dead. This powder never varies. A marvel of puntj strength an I wboleaomeneas. More economk a than the ordinary kinds, and eatmot be sold In conpstltiou wilh the multitude or low ts*t, short welttht alum or phosphate povden Sold unit in cam IIotal Bakjno Towns* Co., 104 Wall Nbw York, Feb. &— Francis & Smith, one of the proprietors of The New York Weekly, is dead of apoplexy. He was 78 year* old.  Governor McQlll, of Minnesota, in a Bpeech favoring high license, virtually stated that the legislature of that state had been oorlwptly influenced by the liquor dkn. The Republican and Democratic members of the Howe who favor low lic«n»e now demand Uiat the governor substantiate his clw.rg.is, and threats of Impeach mint are made against Declined a Nomination. Manning's Sneeessor. Philadelphia, FWb. 9.—The coal handlers a. H»rt Richmond to an agreement - u. the consignees of the British steamer and arranged to load her. Agreed to Load One Vessel, Austin, Tax., Feb. 1—On the last ballot Reagan had 71 rotes, Maxey 0B, and 0 scattered. Bwprt tewntnatilon was thou modi Reagan Wins at Last. Philadelphia, Feb. a—Henry G. CMmstead, recently nominated by the Democrats for the offloe of city solicitor, has declined the nonlnAtion. New York, Feb. a—A Washington special to The Commercial Advertiser says: Secretary Manning said in conversation that he thought Mr. Fairchild would be his soooesesr whan he retired. For Sale One swell body cutWr, one one horse s luare bo* flehrh, or wiu relit same bfcthe da;, week 01 seavtn. R SUTHERLAMJ. West Pittaton, Jan. 14,1887.