Evening Gazette

              *lSP*K"»v«-'.rv 5 A.  r * ■ L/ • -X L VnKlf kMMMdl ISM. [ PTT8TON. A., SATURDAY. MABCH 3. 1888. Is not all Scripture Ten by Inspiration of n t;tD If * W VDC God, and profitable?" Yes; so nic all the VTIlilllll All I i medicines in the apothecaries shops good ami useful; but they all have different uses, and are to be administered in different circumstances. There are aloes and arsenic and opium and Peruvian tiurk PRINCE." BANQUET!NO CHAMBERLAIN. WHL NOT obey ord: . HOUNOEO TO HEft DEATH.' lo Bald Hn. Mnnloe ta H»r Fumll to DISCUSSING- THE MEASURE DR. TA IMAGE'S MAiL OFFICIAL DAILY til* Hill Commluioner Entertalnsd by the Canadian Clnb. N«w Tome, March &—The long delayed dinner by the Canadian club to the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain took place last evening at the Hotel Bronswfck. Upward of 300 oovers were laid, and at 0:90 p. m. the guests ware seated. Hon. Erastus Wiman, ~ president of the club, presided. At his right sat Che guest of the evening, and upon his left Hon. George E. Foster, Canadian minister of marine nnd fisheries. Among those present were Consul General Booker, Jonathan A. Lane, president of the Bceton chamber of commerce. Gen. Joseph chamberlain. Horaoe Porter, ex- Governor D. H. Chamberlain, Conrad N. Jordan, C. J. Canda, Rev. Robert Collysr and Gen. Schuyler Hamilton. President Wimau, in his opening speech, highly eulogised Mr. Chamberlain's • career, uid anerted that the majority of the people In Canada and the United States desired the ratification of the treaty. Mr. Cbamberlald, replying, said that the greater knowledge be had acquired of the country by his visit here had strengthened the kindly feelings he had always cherished toward it Referring to the fisheries dispute, he asserted that it was the matter of greatest importance between the two nations, and said that the amicable adjustment of the controversy would be welcomed by the Canadians. Speeches were also made by Hon. George E Foster. Canadian minister of marine, G«l Horace Porter, Mayor Hewitt and others, and a letter of regret from Secretary Bayard was read. ENGINEERS, WE8T AND EA8T, WILL the World. j Kjt? . bome curious letters received Lelarid hotel, la still lying M the undertaker'*. The real motive which drove the unfortunate woman to suicide waa made plain by a letter which aba left for her attorney, David Sullivan,' in which aba wrote: "They have hounded me to death." THE CESSATION ( buLL FRAMED BY THE WAYS AND MEANS STAY ON THEIS ENGINES. COMMITTEE. BY THE GREAT PREACHER. —nil gooii in their places; but in one condition of the system this medicine may cure yon, and in uuother it will kill you. Now, I say that tbe ninth chapter of Romans, which is a glorious tonic to a strong Christian, is to you. in your prcsept con- I —- . _ dition, arsenic. And if you don't stop I London, Marc.1 8.—The cenatloA of tl* taking it—at any rate in such large qunn- daily bulletins, and the strict prohibition oi titles—it will kill you. You have asked all authentic information regarding the co» me to prescribe, and now, in the name of dition of the crown prince, has caused lathe Great Physician, I ask it you D711! tuke tense excitement in Berlin and nolittle inthe prescription? You will never reason , diguation. Tho Germans in general are ventyour way out of these perplexities. ing their spleen on Dr. Mackenzie, and it If you had been sailing in one direction I would not be safe for that gentleman to make for five years for Liverpool and uot found ] his appearance in Berlin Just at present, for it, you Would think it time to try another | should he be seen and recognized on the direction; and now that you have for 1 streets he would undoubtedly be mobbed, so thirty or forty years tried to find the great is the feeling against him. This recent harbor of peace and have not como in j suppression of news of the royal patient is at sight of port, any Christian sailor would the command of thto emperor, who was grievtell you to let go the jib sheet and brace offended at a report which appeared in round the head yards, taking another Berlin newspaper, containing an account tack. In your present spiritual in- that came too the truth to suit the aavalidism you cannot digest strong meat thoritiee. The reception of this order for You can take nothing but the "sincere concerning the crown prince carries milk." How dare you risk yourself now with it a gloom that is felt both on the oonln the ninth chapter of Romans? You go ant' here. out to contend in that Held where strong jt i» considered on all sides that this Is but Christians of forty years' standing have prejude to tbe fatal end, and that official been confounded. In other words the will give way only to the official anfirst time you take a musket in your hand nouncement of the sufferer's death. Many you try a Waterloo. The devil has had other fat toacrifd, which seemTno^ hl wlth /on long enough. He ha. ta darkness to be not far ott. robbed you of the peace of a whole life- (or remain ungivw, time, and is now trying to strangle yout pcrtponansn* those already pllnned Immortality. n, are announoed Even the preparations for the siivar wedding of the Prince and Princes* Christian people to sacrifice on this sub- 0f Wales, which occurs on the 10th of this £* proceeding flowly, and hug fire, no such Wretched couilBel. Hold your ar- kwaitw the result of farther developments gumenthtion in reserve. The Infantry " «* march Into the fight on the plain. The . S. .. _ , ... n.„ batteries are on the will, in due R^0 of Emperor William, time, be unlimbered. So go into this dis- .7, nL.T. , . i7~ri' cusBion with your heart. Hold your logo £?£££ and argument in reserve for a later period of the conflict. Before you get through your earthly battles you will need not JSJSS? only minie rifles, but columhiads. nJhLSS Does not this letter tear off all the gloss ■"?? *° J1"?™? £ and fascination of skepticism? There is • »d it is up« in tte Ught of time in a young man's life when he *"£■"«£ fa, «?*■ His opinion, thrusts "his finger in the armhole of his is anxiously awaited.  vest, tosses his head and gives a Byronio be2?5fce  laugh at Christianity, or asks Tom Paine's * states that Prince Frederick Willquestions about the serpent in Eden, or l am's oase has asromed aa alarmtog a^eet the miraculous conception of Jesus Christ Inconsequence the queen has directed the But it lfl a good deal easier to get lost in erf all proposed lervees and fe» the jungles than to get out of the woods. „™"'_  Skepticism mauls a man to death. It Is a Rm»°, March 8.—Arrangements an Hindoo hook thrust into the flesh to swing b~g privately made to transporttbe crows Its victim Into the air. The wretch dying he will be tatas of smallpox, half tended in the hospital, is "hortly. Prinoe William, who arrived yartier not so much to be pitied as the man who lay; Is superlntendtag fee arrangements tm has caught this vile, polluting, agonizing •» lathers removal distemper of the sonL Take my right eye,  yea, take both eyes, and leave me in midnight all my earthly days, rather than blast my vision of that Gospel truth which Is my comfort for time and my hope fa' eternity. - From San Re mo Ordered by the Knv. peror—Bitter Aplnit Dn Mackenzie In Berlin—Many Sign* That Point to ■ Grist*. The CompromlM Wan Sought by Chief Arthur—An Order from the Brotherhood's Chief Which May Mean a Oon- DUDnlil Opinion# of National Statesmen on the noposed Meoeore—Southern Members Wont the Tobacco Tax Ke- One Man Calls 01m D Scoundrel and a Cheat, and Another Want* Money to Pay for a Wedding Tour—Many Welcome Letters of Encouragement. eral Strike on Western Roads. pealed—The right on Wool and Sugar. Chicago, March a—If the leaders on both ■idea mean what they say, the great "Q" strike has resolved itself into an bane of strength-or of strategy. • "Ho surrender" is the motto of the railroad, and the policy of the Brotherhood is precisely the same. Between the two there is no middle ground. 'I would rather not «ho» the letter," s*U . Wa**1*OTO!», March &—The Mills tariff bill was natarally • subject at considerable dientAkm at the Capitol A good many i»»ni»ssimiii declined to talk about its merits or demerit* They had not read it critically and in comparison with aristing tariff schedules, and in order to discuss it intalligantly wanted more time in which to compare it with existing laws to understand many ot the proposed changes. One general criticism passed by some Democratic congressmen from the southern states Is the hiiImIiiii of any internal revenue reduction. Tbsy say the people in the tobacco producing ■tales are mors Interested in the repeal of Die tobaooo tax than in tariff reduction. These eoogrsasmeo do not talk as though they were willing to postpone oonsiderat on of that ' question until after the revision of the tariff is attended to, and if the ways and means . committee do not soon bring in a tobaooo re' ductton bill will no doubt propose it as an amendment to the tariff bilL Mr. Randall, it is understood, hasameasure ef his own which embodies a plan for considerable internal revenue tax reduction, and , with whiich he will antagonize the Mills bill. • Ohio Democratic congressmen are slow in criticising the Mills bill, though In a general way they all deprecate the free wool clause. Some of them will fight the bill as long as that clause is in it The Democratic members of the ways and means committee, and most Brooklyn, March 2.—The Rev. T. De Witt Till mage, D. D., pastor of the Tabernacle, said in his Friday night talk of this date: Yesterday I received a letter from a stranger In Nebraska, saying that he had bought a large tract of land and had got in trouble about It, and he wanted me to loan or give him $15,000. I told my wife to sehd him the $15,000 right away, but as she did not happen to have that money about her the probability is it was not sent. Recently 1 received a letter from a young man saying he would get married If I would send him money enough to pay for his wedding trip. A man in New England wants to become a lecturer, and won't I write him two or three lectufes. Two letters from people who are desperate, and if I don't send them relief they will jump off the Brooklyn bridge. A man writes me for my autograph, enclosing a postage stamp. Not getting an answer to that he writes me: "Yon scoundrel, you stand there and preach the Gospel, and yet dare cheat a man out of a postage stamp." Letters through Brooklyn postoffice, and New York postofflce, and handed in at my door, and left for me at the church, until my pockets are full, and my tables are full, and the shelves arc full, and the closets full, and one of my ideas ot the loveliness of heaven is that there will be uo morning or evening mail. I have piles of letters of good advice telling me how to preach and how not to preach, and the poorer the syntax and etymology the more urgent the oounseL Letters discussing theological points, spelling the word God with a small "g." Multitudes of welcome letters of encouragement, which aae to me perpetual and everlasting help, and which go into the very fiber of my immortal nature, and will be something to be glad about for all eternity. Letters through which breathe * tenderness, and a pathos, and a beauty, and a power which, put In type and disseminated, might bless aU the world. The deal between Chief Arthur and the representatives of the Beading Knights, and which was the result of overtures first mad* by the former, had a tendency toward making the local strikers unusually buoyant. They looked upon it as being practically the beginning of the end of the fight, and as placing the Burlington at their mercy, and they waited all day for news that the behest had beetf obeyed by the Brotherhood men now in the Beading road's employ. But the Knights of Labor who are running engines for the C., B. and Q. deny the right of their officials to call them out, and assert that they will stick to their engines. MBS. MAlflCX. Mr. Bqllivan, "hut she said she did not want them to have anything to do with bar body, and that is why I refused to let the New Yoric lawyer meddle. She closed the letter by saying: Oh, I cannot stand it. I am broken down. This will be the but time 1 shall ever Trite my name.'" Chief Arthur last evening made a fresh move, and one which, while not unexpected, has more practical interest to the public than a docen truces with the Knights. The chief sent out an order which bore the official beading of the Grand Lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Eng neers, and ran as follows: To the Chairman General Grievance Committee A new develoomsBt la the cass was the discovery that Mm Manioe leaves a child, whioh, if living, must be about 4 years of age. Brotherhood of Looomotive Engineers: Dear Sir and Brother: You are hereby authorized and ordered to oome to the city of Chicago at once and report at the headquarters. There are many Important matters to consider in connection with the Ohicaco. Burlington and Quincy strike, and your Immediate presence is imperative. Be prepared to' convene your committee from here at a moment's notice. A FORTUNE MI88ING. of the members of their party, look upon the measure aa wi*e and proper, and express the ' opinion that it cannot be defeated, and that it will receive the approval of a great majority ot the people at large. The Republican members of th« committee, liewm. Kelly, Reed, Browne, McKinley and Burrows, and a majC**ity of their party expreeB a contrary opinion. The measure receives their unqualified condemnation, and they are prompt to declare that it can never pan the bouee in its present form. There is » an air of uneasiness observable on both sides, and members are trying to ascertain just how their colleague* will stand in the impending contest in the house. The Star, commenting on the situation says: "The key to the situation lies in the hands of a small minority. It may be accepted aa certain that Mr. Randall and »Dme of bis former followers will fight the measure with determination. The greatest friction witbia the Democratic party will be, of course, over the proposition to put wool on the free list, and the sugar item is another element of discord. The wool men and the sugar men are greatly dissatisfied with the condition in which they find these products in the bill Their efforts will be to have them stricken from the bill. Failing in this, they are not sure themselves probably of bow thoy would act "The committee on ways and means have calculated at each step how much each item would strengthen or weaken the measure, and Attempted to offer compensation in f iotber particulars fOr the objections certain ' foatdfss aroused. They calculate upon the redaction of the duty on woolen goods, which tfaay olaftn will reduce their co: correspondtagly to the consumer to more tban compensate the fanner for the loss of proteCrtion co wool. YEelwaof protection on wool amounts, according to these calculation*, to'(6,000,000; ■ thu saying op clothing to $14,000,000. "OeMng tjwssrae of the house as well as i they luive bf*B abie to the Democrats of the committee wiK— the opinion that they will - have * filrly good majority for the measure aftar it has passed through a very tierce fight. Tbs majority of the committee expect to get the bill before the house in about ten days. '* Meanwhile the internal revenue features will have bean taotidered, and the two will go in together, either as two propositions or combined. Which method will be adopted has Heirs ml a Montreal Kstate Claim a De- ficit of *950,000. Moittmal, March a.—A defalcation of big proportions is now the topic of the town, and more interest is taksn in the matter by the public than is usually the case, as the ownership of a large tract of the Mountain park will likely be in dispute in the oourte in a few lays. The heirs of the Hall estate claim that there Is a shortage of 1*80,000, while it is admitted by the accused parties that &e shortage is over $100,000. The whole blame Is cast on the management of the estate, and Mrs. Ahern, of Vandreuil, and Mrs. Fenner, the heirs, have retained R. Tiaflamma, Q. C., and Strachan Bethune, Q. C., ae counsel. Mr. Chamberlain sailed for Liverpool on the Umbria this morning. A similar notice signed by Grand Master Sargent was sent out to the chairmen of the grievance committees of the firemen. These orders were seat to the chairman of the eoginemen of every road west of Chicago and in any way competing with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. The list includes the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, Chicago and Alton, Chicago and Northwestern, Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul, St Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, Wabash, Wabash Western, Kansas City, Fort Sott and Gulf, Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern, Central Iowa, and the St Louis Bridge and Tunnel company. From the wording of the notice the danger of a general tie up of western roads is made mere menacing than ever. The committeemen are Instructed oD arrange for communicating promptly with the bodies they represent, if necessary, which is interpreted by railway men to mean that if the delegates settle on a general strike their decision can be put into effect without delay. Two chairmen of grievance committees, representing the Brotherhood men on the-Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul and the Chicago and Alton, are in the city now, and the others can get .here in las* tban thirty six hours. Chief Sargent, of the firemen, declined to say what are the important matters to be discussed by the meeting. When plied with questions as to the prospect of a general strike, and the Brotherhood's deennination to prevent competing lines from ■tiding the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy in any way, he briefly remarkod: "Draw /our inferences," and turned away. REFORMED BY A GHOST. Convicts In Alabama Tell Strange Stories Birmingham, Ala., March a—There is a marked religious revival among the prisoners confined In jail here, which owee its existence to the superstition of the converts. The jail is filled with criminals of the worst class, brought here by the wonderful stories which have gone out concerning the place. On the 1M of last December George Williams, who had murdered a fellow convict, was executed In the jail yard, and the gallows, with the rope hanging in the air, was l&ft standing for future use. The prisoners, ISO in number, crowded to their cell gratings to witness the final plunge of their friend George. nf Midnight Hangings. It baa been discovered that • great deal of the securities counted u iiiti are worthless Including $190,000 worth of North Carolina bond* and 110,000 worth at (took of the dofuoct Maritime bank. A Mr. Lindsay, the curator of the estate, now in New York attending to the settlement of the caae with the Maritime bank, is involved, and haa offered bis property to square the account. The Mountain Park ie concerned became of the limbedience of the executor* of the will of Benjamin Hall in gelling the park property outright to the city. I say these things for two reason*—one to excuse my unfaithfulness In postal correspondence, and the other as an Introduction to the following suggestive communication:"Dkab Sib—I do not believe much that yon preach, bnt I am certain that yon believe it all. To be a Christian I must believe the Bible, to be trne. I do not believe It. I go to hear you preach because yon preach the Bible as I was taught It in my youth by a fatheswbo, Hke yourself, believed what, In the capacity of a preacher, he proclaimed. I have been for thirty-five years anxious to walk in the path my mother is treading, confident In her simple faith. I have lived to see my children's children, and the distance that lies between me and my real estate In the graveyard canr.ot be very great. At my age it would be worse than folly to argue simply to confound, or dispute merely for the love of wrangling. I feel my breath growing shorter, my st£p9 more totteriug, and I nm lost in the mlderiiess." A few nights later two or three inmate* who happened to be looking out at the midnight moon were horrified to see George again ascend, adjust the rope to his neck and fall through the trap with realistic effect The prisoners told the story as soon as they reoovered from their fright, and the next light others witnes ed a repetition of the dreadful spectacle. Since that time the ghost baaJwen a nightly visitor, to the terror of tht Irfm.tj*, who have gono to psalm singing and praying. The jail officials are not very an» lous to disabuse the minds ot the believer* ia the ghost, as it has the effect Of making them more tractable. Saw Francisoo, March &—CoL L. Ikng. attempted to shoot James McM. Shatter, aaD judge of the superior court, yesterday afternoon as the latter waa leaving the court hoon in Cherty Hill. Two shots were fired, neither taking effect Lanfee la brother-in-law of Judge Shatter's son, and has had a divorce suit pending for some time. Attempt to Harder » Judge* Lo After the Boodle. Washikoton, March a—A delegation of thirty Chippewa Indiam chiefs from Wisooolin and Minnesota called at the White Houss yesterday and had an audience with thD president The. delegation urged upon the president the payment of C118,000 due U. them from old treaties. The president promised to aid them in every way in his power, and to see that they received their just dues. The matter will be called to the attention of odngrees. ■ Will not some of these parents bo comforted in the loss of their little children when they read of those who hiDve grown up to reject Christ, notwithstanding early religions training? Better for us to pnt the forms of our little ones down where the infernal archer cannot strike them. How softly lies the sod on the breast, compared with the pressure of a destroyed spiritl Better have the little hands closed in death around the flowers that a playmate sends In, than to havo them opened for pulling down tbe last hope of a ruined world. Cremation of tha Innocents, Greenville, 8. C., March 8.—Wednesday night, five miles from town, a colored man's cabin burned down and tho bodies of five children, from 2 to 9 years of age, were cremated. The parent! were visiting a neighboring house. RUSHING BACK /TO WORK, After stating many difficulties In the ninth chapter of Romans, be Bays: The Lehigh Valley Miners Gladly Re- Reading, March 3.—The order of Mr. Arthur and Mr. Sargent to the Brotherhood of Sngitieers and Firemen, who took the places of the Knights on the Reading road, to quit work in order to enable the Brotherhood to win its strike on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rood, has created no excitement in this section. There are about 800 of these Brotherhood men on the Reading who took the places of Knights, and they are not disposed to quit They say Mr. Arthur baa no right to order them off so hastily. Many of the men who took the places of the Knights are not even Brotherhood members in full ■tending, as the conlpany in many cases ttnployed any one who came along. Protecting the Public Domain. "I pray morning, noon and night because I am afraid not to pray. What shall I do that 1 have not. done so that I may see clearly? "One of the Congregation.'' This letter excites all my sympathies, for I have been in that qnagmire, and 1 know how deep It is. A man may get Into a morbid state of mind and may believe anything or disbelieve anything. A student of Dr. Witherspoon came and said: "I believe everything is Imaginary. I myself am only an imaginary being." Dr. Witherspoon said to him: "Go down and hit your head against the college door, and If you are Imaginary and the door is Imaginary it won't hurt you.'" When a car gets off the track you may find it next minute upside down or In splinters. I notic. there are no slurs at religion in this letter—the first letter of the kind I ever saw. The first thing a man generally does after turning his back upon Christianity is to Bpit in the face of Christ by caricaturing religion. But this letter is respectful and reverential. I congratulate the author of it on the fact that he had a pious parentage. While we want something stronger than our mothers' apron strings to save us, It is a grand thing to have had a good father and mother. A profligate broke forth, weeping, and said: "Oh, that tear of my mother that fell on my hand one night when I lay In the trundlebedl" A man never gets over having been prayed for. He is apt to come around all right. A celebrated theological professor of Princeton was asked by a skeptic: "Doctor, how do you explain this? You say that train up a child In the way he should go and when he is old he xvlll not depart from it.' Now how do you account for the fact that your Bill is such a dissipated fellow?" The doctor replied: "The promise is when he is old he will not depart from It Bill is not old yet." Subsequent yean showed the wisdom of the doctor's faith. Bill got old and became a Christian. HaZleton, Pa., March 3.—For the first time in six months the Laurel Hill, Hazleton, Stockton and Humboldt collieriee— four of the largest in the Lehigh region—were worked yesterday to their full capacity. ■nmlng Operations. Washington, March 3.—Acting Land Commissioner Stockslager during the month of February held for cancellation seventy-five land entries, and cancelled outright 145 entries upon the ground of fraud, thereby restoring public domain 16,000 acres of land. During the same period he reootnm ended the criminal prosecution of sixty one timber tresspassers and forty civil suits to recover $713,000 as damages for timber depredations A Big Monument for Brooklyn. Washington, March 3.—The bouse committee on military affair* has agreed to port favorably a bill appropriating $100,000 for the erection of a monument at Brooklyn, N. Y., commemorative of the revolutionary war. THE GOVERNMENT'S GAIN By Individual Louses of Cash by Fires, Railway Accidents, Etc. All day long there was a rush of men at the offices of A. Pardee & Co. and Llnderman & Skeer, to secure their old places in the mines and breakers. The most of them were taken back and signed an agreement to resume work on the same terms they were working under when they struck on Sept 10 last Washington, March 3.—The secretary of the treasury transmitted to the house yesterday a statement from the treasurer of the United States relative to the probable loss by destruction of legal tender currency. The treasurer says: To be Placed In the Cathedral. Dublin, March 8.—The bishop of Cork has given his permission to have the body of Stephen J. Meany placed in tho cathedral there, provided that no political demonstration be made. Tobacco Growing In Colorada. not joat bfioo decided. "There will probably be a caucus of the majority party held before the matter is called up in the house, for the purpose of discussing the measure and sscsrteukng with mm donee of certainly justhowttaeystand." ToiUC, March &-l§k WHJBam R. Milium, of minora, was |MMt the Fifth - Avanue hotel by a United Ftm report.* Speaking of the Mills tariff fcCl, J® said: "It ia a very good bill r il with the last tariff hill I. frjand, except that It goes fnrtbsr. it is a gooii bill lad I hope it win pass. I dcnDt think it will pass, however. Mr Randall and The only discriminations made by the operators were against those who have been most conspicuous as leaders of the strike. These men, the operators say, will never again be taken into their employ. Some of the foremost leaders have been exerting every effort to check the stampede of the men, but flo attention has been paid to them. Denver, Cola, March 3.—Professor Casslday, of the Colorado Agricultural college, Fort Collins, in his report on tobacco growing in the state, says from tests made during the post two years, he believes that tobaooo of any variety and superior excellence can be grown in Colorado. Eighteen varieties were grown last scnson, and all ripened before ths end of August Both manured and onmanured lands were plsnteri "When the outstanding circulation was Bled by law at $840,681,018, the discount for missing parte of notes amounted to $129,981, of which sum $101,866 had been covered into the treasury on May 11, 1875, leaving a balance of $28,115, by which the amount reported as outstanding on May 81, 1878, was not reduccd. The discount has now accumulated to $91,958, and not having been replaced by the tesue of notes the legal tender circulation has been diminished fo that extent." Conductor* and Brakemen Strike. London, March 8.—Mary Anderson requests that a denial be made to the repeated assertions that she contemplates' being married at an early day to a gentleman of this city. Our Mary Wot to Marry. Albuquerque, N. M., March a—All the freight conductors and brakemen on the Atlantic and Pacific railroad went out on ■trike Thursday night The new superintendent wanted to reduce wages nearly oneialf, which the men would not stand. Freight trains arriving here are abandoned, but everything is quiet Canadian Fishermen Satisfied. Snlelde of a Defaulting Postmaster. Ottawa, Out, March a—Dr. H. Cameron, M. P., the representative of one of the chief fishing centers in Nova Scotia and a government supporter, aays that he believes Canada has got the best of the bargain in the fishery treaty. He states that his constituents are all satisfied with the new provisions, which allow Canadians 100,000 square miles more fishing 0.tDuud than they enjoyed under the ' iterpretation of the treaty of 1818 from which American vessels are now debarred. There many large bays, such as Cbebucto bay, in rfhioh the Americans can now take no fish, where formerly they used to enter outside of the three-mile limit The Work of a Cjelone. After tracing the probable causes of the destruction of notes by fires, railway accidents, etc., the treasurer goes on to say that it may be safely argued that the gain to the government will be due mainly to the destruction of notes under the denomination of $50. The statement of the treasurer concludes: "As far as 1 am able to interpret the tables (elaborate tables are submitted with the treasurer* letter) the aggregate loss on all the issues up to Jan. 31, 1888, would seem to me not less than $8,700,000, and $6,400,000 of this sum may be regarded as having been destroyed and out of circulation prior to May 81, 1878." St. Louis, March. 8.—The Democratic pestmaster at Palmyra, Ma, hanged himself yesterday because he was qplled upon to maka good a deficiency of $700 in his accounts. Nxwton, Kan., March 8.—A terrible cyclone passed over this place Thursday evening, coming from the southwest It lasted only a few minutes, but it left behind a trail of debris and destruction which only too plainly indicated its awful forest. Two perioral are known to have been killed, and a number are reported injured. A number of dwellings wtrs wrecked, and many of the inmates sustained ssrioos injuries. Banqob, March a—Attorney General Baker spoke for nearly seven Uours in the Barron murder case. At noon yesterday Cromwell was found upon his knees in his jell, weeping and exclaiming: "I'm lost! I'm iostl But, help me God, I'm innocent" His counsel received a letter, unsigned and dated Boston, and written in a coarse, scraggly hand, saying: "Charlie Stain was the murderer of J. Wilson Barron. I was with him. He will reoognize this hand." The case will probably be given to the Jury to-day. A disagreement is expected. The Barron Murder Trial. his friends will defeat the bill by voting with the protection Republicana. The house refused to ocastder my boriaontal bill and it refused to consider my last hill. I'm afraid it triU treat the Mills bill likewise^" CONDENSED NEWS. Mrs. Annie Dean, aged 30, swear* that Byrtsel Dean, of Babylon, L. L, aged 18, ia her husband. He denies it. The courts will decide the question in a few days. Meanwhile young Dean ia with his mother. A Pennsylvania Millionaire's Death. Nrw Yowt, March a—Peter Herdic, the millionaire lumberman, of Wiiliamsport, Pa., died at the Oienham hotel, m this city, yesterday, from suffusion of the brain, resulting from injuries received by falling down an embankment while superintending the construction of water works at Huntingdon, Pa., •bout two months ago. He came here for treatment on Feb. 18, and was unconsious Jfpui last Suuday to the time of his death. Hr. Herdic was the inventor and patentee of (fee popular stylo of public conveyance bearing his name, and proprietor of the water tf«rkf at Wniiamsport and Huntingdon, Ph., Cipro, Ills., and other places. He Was 97 ysars at age. His body will be taken to Wjhtefnsport for burial. Will it be Sharp Again f The general belief of lawyers is that the grand jury should have found an indictment against Sage and Gould. New Yobx, March 8.—District Attorney Fallows said yesterday that he and two of his assistants were busily engaged preparing for the trial of another "boodler," and that one would be called upon to plead on April 3 at the court of oyer and terminer, Judge Fatterson presiding. Ma Fellows said that he did not wish any name mentioned, but there is reason to believe that ths defendant will be Jacob Sharp. , Tried to Snsffls Watehee. Langtry's Litigations. Four hay barges, one lighter and a canalboat were destroyed, with their contents, by fire at Wallabout basin, Brooklyn, a lossof$60,00a Lock port, N. Y., March a—Customs Officers Cuddabeck and Frear, of Husponsiou Bridge, detected a man trying to smuggle watch cases studded with diamonds over from Canada Thursday night The smuggler gave his name as L. Cumbermount, of No. 2 John street, New York city. He had on bis person in a bip pocket seven cases valued at $500. Cumbermount was brought to this city and arraigned before United States Commissioner Mark McDonough. After a hortng the prisoner was held in $7,000 bail to await the action of the grand jury of the Utica term of the United States district court He Remembered the Freedmen. Chicago, March 8.—Mrs. Langtry paid Mr. James Crichton's jewelry bill Thunday, and gave bonds in Miss Doree's suit Then she thought her troubles over for the time being, but she was served yesterday with a summons in McVictor's suit for $10,000 for breach of contract. She was terribly agitated, and said she'would fight the case to the bitter and. Portland, Me., March 8.—A decision by Judge Haskell yesterday on the will of the late Governor Coburn declares that certain bequests to charitable and other institutions in the state should be paid at once by the executors. The will bequeathed $300,000 to the American Baptist Home Mission society and (00,000 to Wayland seminary, one half at the $200,000 to be applied -to freedmen's schoola. Judge Haskell decides that ..the mission society shali take the whole $265,000, .and hold $16o,000 of it la trust for theDupport of freedtnetOs scbeols. - S j Frederick J. Grapy, a man under arrest at Richmond, Va., who accused himself of being the principal in the Rah Way murder mystery, has retracted, and is making very contradictory statement*. Jjjfr Counnva, O., ICaroh I—Mr. Owsn1* bill, which takes tram the city councils the right to permit the saloons to remain opto on Sundays, «n passed by the home yesterday by a vote of 70 to 20. Ths bUl abeolumy clow* salnoni ©Tory where in the stat* ao Sunday. The Hamilton county member* mad** gnat fight against the bill, bat the country Republicans combined with, the Democrat! and iMtottd it -  Ho ftttaday Druakeaaese In Ohio. . J congratulate the anthor of my letter on being the son of a minister. It is a wrongful impression that mlniaters' children are wone than other*. Dr. Hall, in his Journal of Health, says that In the biographies of 100 clergymen be finds they had 110 squs who were clergymen, and yon know that to be a clergyman means at least piously inclined. The man of this lettqr most have his mind full of sactecT reminiscences. The pictures on the wall of his father's parsonage were of •"Christ's Last Supper," "Rebecca at the .Well," the Egyptians mating a terrible failure of crossing the Bed sea. There was tscarcelya figure on the carpet or a board in the floor that had not been consecrated by the knee of prayer. The people who used to go and stay in that 'boose were mostly Christian. The talk was-full of good things, and cheerful good things, for there are no men in the world more fond of fun than ministers, nor any houses that ring with more sportfulness than theirs. Get a half dozen ministers together if you want lively times. Religion in the parsonage where this man was brought up was a happy religion. Some day a]l these conversations and prayers and preachings and blessed memories will charge upon his souf atad capture It in five minutes for Christ. That old Christian father, gone into glory, will yet greet this unbelieving son! - In this letter you ask mo for counsel, ami I give it. In one part of your letter vou show that your chief study of the Bibfe has been in the ninth chapter of Romans. My advice is that for six months 1 Of the eight national conventions of the yon stop reading other portions of the Republican party four have been field in i Bible and read only' the evuugelists— . Chicago, two in Philadelphia, one In Bal- Mark, Luke and John. "But ' (Umore and one Jn Cinoinmuj The police prevented the performance of a socialist play in New York, because the proprietor had no theatrioal license. All Sorts of Traits. Bostow, March 8.—Today's Advertiser says that the local express oompanies running from this city to the east are preparing to consolidate, and that at a meeting of representatives of nearly all the companies a few days ago the proposition to form a trust was considered and practically adopted, although the details are not yet fully agreed upon. Thereto no chaag* is the ship carpenters' strike in Milwaukee. Where Munler Is Fashionable. Trouble has broken out in the Schenectady (N. Y.) locomotive works, and the rlvetera and their helpers struck yesterday. ' Fob* Smith, Art, March &— Parti* just Ik from Dawson county, a remote district in the Cboetaw nation, report that Salomon Jones, a native Choctaw desperado, was met In the road by two unknown imisarinn. who completely riddled him with bullet*. There were thirteen distinct shot marks en his body. During the past three years Jones had murdered ibree men and one woman,, and it is supposed file parties who killed him were friends of the latter. Dawson has the wont rseord of any county in the nation, there having bam about sixty murders reported , imuu lj»ere'Cluring th» list twelve years. A Papal Celebration. Roxz, March a. — Yesterdsy was celebrated here -a the tenth anniversary of the coronaboa and tbe seventy-eighth anniversary ol tbe birth ot Popa Lao XXII In receiving the congratulations of the sacred college the pop4 lamented more than ever his present position, wmch he said was unbearable. Ha said that in not prohibiting the jubilee fetes recently celebrated Italy had acted from self interest, and nut from any respect for tbe holy tea rue!* 8am to Investigate Traits. A mas of rock oone down in the main engine shaft of the Quincy mine at Hancock, Mich., Thuraday, catching tout men. John Mahoney had a leg and arm broken, and Christian Too# had his skull fractured and sustained other injuries. Those two will die. The other two wm bkdfy hart, but will recover.W. W. James, Jr., a prominent merchant of Bristol, Tenn., committed suicide auThtredey night by shooting himself. Charles Fnltnwa was strode and killed at Little Falls by a west bouDdonigrant train on the Central Hudson road. ■ Wi 8HiNOTO.x, March &—The house committee on manufactures will oh Thursday next begin the formal examination of witnesses to the end of investigating the various trusts. During the past week tbe Individual members of the committee have been; busily engaged in collecting data relative to the matter. This course, it is believed, will save - the full committee a great deal of time awl trouble. The committee deems it unwise to state which of the trusts will be taksn up 001 Thursday nefct. - The Ttapmaw QdhUo* at Wuhlafton. -.Washikotok, March 8.—At* —itlng ot theeenate districtoookuIMma billpnrkUtig., Woman Suffrage in Iowa. Dm MoufES, March 8.—The lower house of the Iowa legislature, by a vote of 60 to C2, last evening ordered the engrossment of a bill conferring municipal and school suffrage open women. It requires fifty-one votes to pass a bill, but as there were eight absentees there is no question of obtaining the additional vote whan the bill comes up for passage. for prohibition in the district of Co&mhla wa» rejected bf .a'vato 0/ 0 to 8, IngslU, RiddWMrgCr and- Chaoe roofer prohibition.. AroUof ftto.l to faycrffceal option was than taken, with the uixUntaad- if prohibition aiaa not adopted by voU, high Jioen* would beinaO- it with tbe government was possible until the independence of the papacy was recognised and restored. Tks'|«D is Coast! tn tlooui. Brmit, Marsh 1—The supreme court at thte state, after mature deliberation, has declared the new state liquor tew in tbe main constitutional. The decision is a terrible disappointment to the liquor men, and the temperance people are proportionately elated. Mt.Verkon, Ills., March St—Reached here Thursday. While reports have been correct, it lias not been possible for words to adequately describe the situation. The destruction, loss and needs are far greater than is realised by the public. Everything is needed, and every aid ind welcome should be tendered. A cold, har*1 rain falls on l,00u houselessandhomeiessprcpta. C The Bod Cross Appeal* Cor Aid. The lYaneklyn-Cnnanl Case. i \ N«w Your, March a—When Mr., Charles (i. Francklyn was sued some time ago by his oousin, Sir Bache Cunard, for (3,000,000 for alleged conversion Francklyn pUfr in an an- - swer to tbe effect that the money was placed ■. -■ .in i mrn^ilk BiUmon, MarohAMlaorge Fcater, who live* near; the. Scheutwn park, in Brooklyn, went to Florida ajtew months ago to w#rk oh • railroad. A few days ago, while asleep, he was bitten op the by a soorpion.- The wound became so serious that he waa ordered to return home. « Ha arrived here last night en.route to Brooklyn. The ease is likely to prove fatal. ,■ .. . A Railroad Manager Re»l*n«. * ' ?w Death of Garrett Boach. In the district c Puller, the "call" ting fire to tho lui was acquitted. ■ X- - Nsw York, March 8.—Garrett Roach, son of the late John Boogb, died at his residence in this city yesterday. His death resulted from pneumonia. He was 40 years old, and formerty a partner of his father in the shipbuilding business. He leaves two sons, nged 8 and 10 years. k ■ i The trial in Phflade alias English Bill, foi Lewis in a stable wh ployed, in November diet of guilty of man His counsel made a m And rDrdlnaud Must Go. in his hands for joint i; that there CcsraffAXJINOK*, March &—The Russian ■overnmeut Ims sent the porta a second and piors decided note, requesting them to intimate that Prince Ferdinand's position in Bulgaria is illegal It is reported that Germany supports Russia's aotion in til* matter. had been losses, and that the balancing ot aocounts showed Cunard to be entitled to only (606,800. Cunard obtained an order for a bill of particulars, and the order wap affirmed by tbe general term of the supreme court yesterday.  'Washinotok, March 3.—The house at last evening's session passed twenty-five pension bills, together with btfls removing the political disabilities of Gen. Noble, Horace A. Browne, Paul Faison and Andrew J. Lindsay, and at 10 o'clock adjourned until kAlay. Congressmen Working Overtime. Mitchell Gives Bonds to I «ep the Peace. Mrs. Lizzie Kuggel awarded J5,000 dami action of h lander - Hanlan, of Marietta, porta affecting her had circulated a rem lea's hotel being licet The president has i [zing the purchase a Loudon, March &—Chai ey Mitchell, the pugilist, was sum mooed beftra a local magistrate at Chertaey yesterday, to answer to the charge of arranging (or a prize fight witli John L. Hullivaii. Mitchell, accompanied by Charts* Roweil and Jake Kilrain, appeared and disavowed -any intention to break the peace in Knglapri H* was bound ov*r in MMk . ' ' Pittsburg, ] A. Baldwin, ttf", has tendered hb 8.— Manager William Biinsy 1 vania' company, ajgonto Vice-President Aa A *eCl Bohemian's Crime. CHU4jMCi||Arch, a—During a family row Mnk Ktocobate, k Bohemian aged AO yean, ■hot awl fatally wounded Mb attjano, WUiam Q*w*» aged 8BL* fcocohata mrrendered &*mnX tlD* Wa«t CfcioMro afWUM station. D The Champion Pedestrian. Bostom, March 8.—James Albert, the champion pedestrian, arrived in the city at 9 o'clock this morning. He was escorted from . the depot to the Creigbton hoito by a brass hand. He comes to act as roterw in next , week.1* seventy-two hour-rao* McCullougb. The known to a limited number of The new* created - v J ijL Baldwin was among the oldest M the Pennsylvania company. ■ 'i f y /j,. -j*